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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Goddesses from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' are explicitly dispatched from Heaven to Earth to reward worthy mortals with a wish for being good people; they grant these wishes generously and with as favorable an interpretation as possible. Fortunately, the selection process for those so rewarded automatically filters out those whose wishes would be... troublesome.
* Shenron from [[Dragon Ball]]. He may not be all that polite, but he grants you anything you want, no strings attached, so long as it is not outside of his power to do so.
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== Films -- Live Action ==
* Fakrash al-Amash (Burl Ives) in 1964's ''[[The Brass Bottle]]'' is a djinn who is so grateful to architect Harold Ventimore (Tony Randall) for freeing him from his bottle, that he is continually making extravagant gifts to him—alll of which only complicate Ventimore's life and make him miserable. [[I Dream of Jeannie|Barbara Eden]] is featured in this film, though not as a djinniyah.
* Josephus in ''[[Bernard and the Genie]]'' befriends the much-harrassed former art dealer Bernard and grants him ''unlimited'' wishes. Although they as expected mess things up at first (Bernard gets arrested for having the Mona Lisa on his wall, not to mention stabbing a policeman with a sword), Josephus later reveals that he can just turn back the clock, and they set everything straight. They then decide that since it's Christmas, they should make a few Christmas miracles and spread good cheer. (This includes getting back at Bernard's cheating ex-girlfriend and ex-best friend, as well as his ex-boss, who is played by Rowan Atkinson.)
** Josephus only became one after the wish "I wish you would stop trying to kill me", however. Before that he was more 'pissed off former thief with a large scimitar who had been trapped in a bottle for thousands of years'.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The eponymous [[Magical Girlfriend]] of ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' tries to be as useful as she could, although her attempts rarely go particularly well.
* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', Snow White is one of these.
{{quote|'''Snow White''': You may ask for one wish, and I will try and grant it. But be sure to ask for the right thing.
'''Virginia''': Okay, I wish... I wish that Dad's bad luck was over. Oh! And that his back wasn't broken anymore.
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** A different episode featured a benevolent "genie" surrounded by jackasses - it's a little fuzzy creature that grants the wish of whoever scares it as a defense mechanism. [[Pet the Dog|Iago befriends it]], and at episode's end, shows it a mirror while screaming. "Squirt scared himself", so its own wish is granted - to return to the homeland of its species.
* The genie in the Hanna Barbera cartoon ''[[Shazzan]]'' does this, promptly doing whatever the protagonists want. Except taking them home, which is ostensibly the whole plot. Mostly, he just answers wishes of "save us from this evil guy who wants your power". In the one cartoon where the bad guy succeeds, he uses a [[Literal Genie]] interpretation of his wish to [[Children Are Innocent|keep from killing his]] "real" masters.
* Cosmo and Wanda in ''[[The Fairly
** It also seems that sometimes they ''have'' to be literal, or at least, can't undo something they've already granted literally. Or something; it kind of [[Depending on the Writer|changes with the plot]]. They pretty much always ''mean'' well, though.
* [[Captain N]] once had the heroes stumble upon a genie who granted their wishes pretty much as they intended them. It was pretty much a critique of the newly-developed patch devices; Kevin wishes for enhanced skills, and quickly realizes [[Victory Is Boring]]. [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] wishes for enhanced strength, and nearly ''knocks down the palace.'' Princess Lana immediately wishes that "no one had made any wishes", returning things to normal for the moment so they can get on with the plot.
* [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] once briefly obtained a treasure that included the services of a genie who really wanted to help him ... but Daffy, [[Jerkass|being who he is]], attacks the genie as a rival for his treasure. The consequences are not good.
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