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[[An Aesop|Aesop]]: [[Be Careful What You Wish For]], though obviously the granting of the wish isn't really caused by the wishing, most of the time.
 
See also [[ItsIt's All My Fault]]. If a character says this out of grief for a third party, see [[You Should Have Died Instead]]. Can be a [[Parting Words Regret]].
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* Alice's wish in ''[[Alice 19th]]'' for her older sister Mayura to disappear causes Mayura to be transported to another realm where she [[Face Heel Turn|becomes the minion of evil forces]]. For people like Alice, words are [[Words Can Break My Bones|literal powers]]. We also find out near the end that {{spoiler|Kyo wished his father would die.}}
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', after being irritated once again, Keiko shouts at Yusuke, "Why don't you just ''die''?" Shortly thereafter, Yusuke gets hit by a truck while saving a child; Keiko's resultant breakdown is part of what convinces him to work his way back to life.
* Variation in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'': Yumei shares the story of how her parents died with a boy from a fishing village. When her tears turn into a cerulean lapis, a gem that grants wishes, the boy wishes that Yumei could be with her parents again. Naturally, this means sending her to the next life, but Lenneth [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|cannot wrap her head around it.]]
* In a series where bad ends are the norm, one arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' takes this trope to a [[Kill 'Em All|near-superpower level]]. To clarify, the hero, Keiichi, had decided to murder the abusive uncle of one of his friends, and soon after wishes death upon a nurse who suspects his involvement in the crime, a police officer who is a jerk to him, and the doctor whom he confided in when he realizes that {{spoiler|the doctor thinks he's crazy (he is) and is planning to sedate him}}. All three are soon reported dead. At the end, after things get even more out of hand, as he falls from a bridge into the river, he wonders how things went so wrong and wishes {{spoiler|for the destruction of the entire town}}. Cut to a TV screen detailing the {{spoiler|Hinamizawa Gas Disaster; the entire village died in one night, leaving Keiichi as the sole survivor. TIPS reveal that after that, Keiichi has basically lost his mind and believes himself to have God-like powers. When he feels that a reporter is being rude, he tells him that he'll die in water. It's noted that, years later, the reporter died in a fishing accident}}. The twist? {{spoiler|It's all coincidence. Keiichi doesn't have God-like powers, and one of the first three people is [[Faking the Dead]].}}
* Somewhat subverted in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' when Teru Mikami's past is revealed: after being bullied to increasingly dangerous levels, his mother tells him to give up his high views of justice out of concern for him. {{spoiler|Mikami, in turn, stops thinking of her as his mother and wishes that this new obstacle to justice would be taken care of. What happens? She gets run over by a stolen car that the people who bullied him were driving; she dies, and they all get life sentences.}} Instead of being miserable over this, Mikami is delighted, thinking that a higher sense of justice has prevailed and eventually linking the event (perhaps wrongly) to Kira.
* Near the beginning of ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'', Dr. Tenma vents to an apparently unconscious patient after the hospital directors [[The Last DJ|screw his career over for disobeying questionable orders that would likely have killed his patient]]. Among other things, he angrily claims, "''They're'' the ones that should die." The patient turns out to be awake and thoroughly agrees with this sentiment. Murder ensues.
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* In ''[[Sakura Gari]]'', Masataka wishes for his boss Souma's death (by then he has ''a lot'' of reasons to want it, since {{spoiler|Souma was forcing him to work off his brother's debt with sex... but said brother was dead, [[Kick the Dog|and Souma hid that from him]].}}). Souma, who is madly in love with Masataka (but [[Rape Is Love|very bad]] at expressing it), takes it literally and [[Driven to Suicide|slashes his wrists]], much to Masataka's dismay.
* In the manga ''Subaru'', the titular character yells at her mother that she's sick of all the attention being given to her [[Littlest Cancer Patient|twin-brother]] and "wishes he weren't there anymore"! Shortly afterwards, his condition turns critical and he dies. Subaru thinks it's her fault, {{spoiler|although [[The Rival|Mana]] thinks it's ''her'' fault, as Mana kept Subaru away from him with dancing.}}
* ''[[End of Evangelion]]'' has the [[Psychological Horror]] variant: [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Shinji]] gets so [[Freak Out|depressed]] that when [[Apocalypse Maiden|Rei]] asks him what does he want, he goes on an almost whispering rant about how [[Nietzsche Wannabe|it doesn't make any difference whether he lives or dies]] and summons this trope ''against the entire world'', [[Death Seeker|himself included]]. Unfortunately for everyone else, Rei takes this statement literally and promptly [[Apocalypse Wow|annihilates mankind]]. Afterwards, Shinji mulls about and realizes that this isn't what he wanted because in a world without pain, there's no happiness and [[Mind Screw|if there's nothing in there, he doesn't exist and therefore no one does]]. He decides (without the slightest sign of regret) that he wants everyone back and Rei obliges, killing herself in the process and dumping Shinji with a catatonic [[Empty Shell|Asuka]] into a [[Crapsack World]]. [[Gainax Ending]] at it's finest...
* In the third volume of [[Drama Con]], we see Beth talking to Christie and Matt, and at the same time, we see Beth's mother who is driving down the road...
{{quote| '''Beth:''' I hate her.<br />
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* Aishiteru has a character wishing her little brother would die. If he didn't, there wouldn't be a show.
* In ''[[Little House On the Prairie (TV)|Little House On the Prairie]]'', Laura Ingalls's jealousy over a newborn baby brother turns to guilt after said brother dies. Thinking she was responsible, Laura runs away from home and climbs a mountain -- and we are not talking here about a childish exaggeration of 'hill' -- to get "closer to God." She hopes that she'll bring about a miracle by doing so. (The ''true'' miracle may be that [[Television Geography|she was able to]] ''[[Television Geography|find]]'' [[The Mountains of Illinois|a mountain in Minnesota]].)
* Played with in ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' when Lucille prays to {{spoiler|keep Buster from going to Iraq}}, and {{spoiler|a seal bites off his hand}}. When she says [[ItsIt's All My Fault|it's all her fault]], Michael simply responds, "God's not going to listen to you." GOB then says it's ''his'' fault for {{spoiler|releasing a seal that had tasted mammal blood when he fed it a cat}}; Michael says he makes a better case.
* On ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', Basil was always making comments like this to his wife specifically in the hope that some tragedy would befall her.
{{quote| "Try not to drive over any land mines on your way over, dear."}}
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* Subverted on ''[[Seinfeld]]'', of all places, in the episode "The Betrayal" when Kramer spends the entire "backwards" episode finding ways to protect himself from Franklin Delano Romanowski's birthday wish, which was for Kramer to "drop dead."
* This troper recalls an episode of ''[[Greys Anatomy]]'' that Kay Panabaker guest-starred in, where she and her sister that apparently cannot stop fighting for more than a few seconds are brought into the hospital. Something is apparently more wrong with the older sister than meets the eye, and she is wheeled off to ICU. The last words her sister says to her? "I hope you die!" A short time later, blood starts coming out of the girl's nose and her eyes are shut. So...
* ''[[The X Files]]''. A man dying of yellow fever in the 19th century captures a glimpse of Death and avoids its gaze, hoping it will take the nurse who's been trying to help him stay alive. It does so, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|cursing him with immortality]] because he missed his chance. "People should be careful what they wish for."
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' did this in an early episode. Fortunately for Cory's conscience, Mr. Feeny recovered.
* Slight inversion of the 'My parents got divorced because of me' version, Zoey of [[Eureka]] is visiting a retirement home (as community service), and two former scientists are trying to explain nuclear fission (I think). She asks them to dumb it down (just for the trope apparently, since she does belong in the town) and they use the analogy of her parents' divorce. She processes this for a moment before asking if they intended to imply that she was the cause. They glance at each other and fervently try to convince her that wasn't their intent. It's never brought up again.
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