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** In another Zero example, Schniezel winds up obeying Zero in the end because Lelouch geassed him to "obey Zero" rather than "obey me"

* {{spoiler|''[[Inverted Trope]]''}} in the Suruga Monkey arc of ''[[Bakemonogatari]]''. {{spoiler|The rainy devil [[Deal with the Devil|grants its host three wishes in exchange for the host's soul]]. However, it follows the ''spirit'' of the wishes, ''not'' the letter. Suruga's true desires just happened to be ''much'' darker than the way she worded them.}}

** Yuuko, early on, grants a wish for a woman to stop using her computer, so she cuts it in half {{spoiler|''with a red baseball bat''}}. It was even stated that she's free to buy another.

** In one episode, there's a woman who buys a monkey's paw from Yuuko. Even when warned of its danger and reminded that the original story ("[[The Monkey's Paw|The Monkeys Paw]]") ended badly, she carries it around and uses it to her convenience. On wish number two, she wishes for an antique mirror that the owner wouldn't sell to her. It's granted by {{spoiler|giving her the mirror, but without anything to cover for the fact that she effectively stole it.}} On wish number three (of five), she wishes for help writing her thesis, and it gives her {{spoiler|someone else's research, which ruins her chances of getting published once the plagiarism is discovered}}. On wish four, she finds herself late for an important day of work and casually thinks about how her lateness would be excused if {{spoiler|the train system had an accident}}. Naturally, the paw interprets it as a wish and causes {{spoiler|a passerby to be thrown in front of a train}}. On wish five, shaken up from the last two, she basically wishes for {{spoiler|her ordeal to end by "erasing everything"}}, so {{spoiler|the paw kills her}}.