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Compare [[Cue the Flying Pigs]] and [[Be Careful What You Wish For]], where the unexpected thing is a [[Deus Ex Machina]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* There is a State Farm commercial that runs like this; one of the characters sitting around wishes they had reliable insurance, and a State Farm agent occurs. They then proceed to wish for a variety of increasing luxuries such as a sandwich, a pool table, and a hot tub, which all appear. They then wish for a woman (the girl from 4b). The original had the typical version inverted: a group of girls wish for a hot guy with consecutively more exotic qualities. One of the follow-ups has a fighting couple wish for new partners, when the man and woman transform into more attractive versions of themselves. Of course, the woman berates the guy for wishing her more attractive, ''[[Double Standard|when she did it to him first.]]''
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* Happens in the ''[[Blue Beetle]]'', as mentioned in the page quote.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* From a ''[[Zits]]'' strip:▼
{{quote|'''Jeremy:''' WOULD IT BE SO TERRIBLE IF SOMETHING INTERESTING ACTUALLY HAPPENED DURING THIS STUPID VACATION?!▼
'''Hot Girl:''' ''(appears out of nowhere)'' Hi!▼
'''Jeremy:''' And as long as you're at it, would it be so terrible if I had a million bucks, too? }}▼
* The author of ''[[The Perishers]]'' confesses to playing with this trope after noticing that he invariably came into possession of things resembling things he had recently introduced into the comic. This was his entire motivation in creating the character of Fiscal Yere, an incredibly rich child. It didn't work.▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne Abridged]]'' has it... Then later a callback to Lampshade.
== [[Film]] ==
* From ''[[Robots]]'':
{{quote|'''Rodney:''' Crank, the idol of millions is gone, and no one seems to care. There should be an angry mob out there!
''(angry mob runs past the window)''
'''Fender:''' Wow! That was great, psychic friend! Now say, "Money should be falling from the sky!" }}
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* ''[[Dogma]]'': "Guys like us don't just fall out of the fuckin' sky, you know!" Cue man falling from the sky right in front of them. "Beautiful, naked, big-tittied women just don't fall out of the sky, you know!"
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[Discworld]]'':▼
▲== Literature ==
** From ''[[
▲* ''[[Discworld]]''
▲** From ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' comes the closest thing to deconstructing this trope:
{{quote|'''Susan:''' You're calling things into being.
'''The Dean:''' Things like the Give the Dean a Huge Bag of Money Goblin? }}
** During the play near the end of ''[[
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Triangle":
{{quote|'''Willow:''' I wish Buffy was here!
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* From ''[[Not Going Out]]'':
{{quote|'''Lee:''' Honestly, who do you know who could break a passport?
''([[The Ditz|the cleaner]] walks in)''
'''Lee:''' Honestly, who do you know that's a beautiful nymphomaniac rich widow?
''(nothing happens)''
'''Lee:''' Oh, so it's just the one wish then. }}
* Shortly after [[
{{quote|'''Jon:''' I had no idea that if you wanted a show cancelled, all you had to do was say it out loud. So, uh... ''[[According to Jim]]'' is hurting America?}}
* In the episode "[[Chuck]] Versus the Gravitron":
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'''Ethan:''' What? Last time I did that, it worked. ''(the missing characters appear)'' See? }}
▲* From a ''[[Zits]]'' strip:
▲{{quote|'''Jeremy:''' WOULD IT BE SO TERRIBLE IF SOMETHING INTERESTING ACTUALLY HAPPENED DURING THIS STUPID VACATION?!
▲'''Hot Girl:''' ''(appears out of nowhere)'' Hi!
▲'''Jeremy:''' And as long as you're at it, would it be so terrible if I had a million bucks, too? }}
▲* The author of ''[[The Perishers]]'' confesses to playing with this trope after noticing that he invariably came into possession of things resembling things he had recently introduced into the comic. This was his entire motivation in creating the character of Fiscal Yere, an incredibly rich child. It didn't work.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* From ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'':
{{quote|'''Guy 1:''' You know what? It would suck if an airplane randomly fell out of the sky and crashed into us.
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''(a shoe kicks his head off)'' }}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html This happens] in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''.
{{quote|'''Roy:''' I really wish we had someone who could fly us out of here.
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* In [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1543 a strip] of ''[[Questionable Content]]'':
{{quote|'''Marten:''' Dear universe: If this is really how you work, may I please have a 1952 Telecaster?}}
* Used in a ''Little Dee'' strip [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620092800/http://littledee.net/archive/20100125.html strip]:
{{quote|'''Vachel:''' We're gonna land before Henry-Henry crashes us!
''(Henry-Henry crashes them)''
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'''Ted:''' I don't suspect that's gonna work.
'''Vachel:''' Hey, it was worth a try! }}
* Perfectly set up in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120628161630/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=684&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&page=1&check=1 this] ''[[Drowtales]]'' strip... but with no extra person to make the second wish.
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' did this a while ago [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/02/16 right here]. They never did get those doughnuts, though.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* On [[The Nostalgia Critic]] review of ''[[Snick]]'', he declares that [[Hypocritical Humor|anyone who shouts all the time]] should be shot,<ref>He is shot in the forehead.</ref> unshot,<ref>The bullet hole disappears.</ref> and given a big bag of money.<ref>Unusually, he immediately receives a bag of money.</ref> He then asks for and receives some lounge music too.▼
==
▲* On [[The Nostalgia Critic]] review of [[Snick]], he declares that [[Hypocritical Humor|anyone who shouts all the time]] should be shot,<ref>He is shot in the forehead.</ref> unshot,<ref>The bullet hole disappears.</ref> and given a big bag of money.<ref>Unusually, he immediately receives a bag of money.</ref> He then asks for and receives some lounge music too.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': A man tells his wife to imagine "a happy healthy baby boy at play. Now put him in a magic bubble and release him into the universe." When Stewie, in a bubble, rolls by, the man tells his wife to imagine Lindsay Lohan naked and doing a backwards crab walk. Later on, Lohan appears at Peter's door doing just that.
* First episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'':
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''(talisman detector glows)''
"I wish I had a million bucks!" }}
* ''[[The Fairly
{{quote|'''Wanda:''' I sure hope the boys get home soon. I miss Poof!
''(Poof comes flying through the window)''
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** [[Brick Joke|And later, he's still waiting.]]
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The standard way of saying "Speak of the Devil!" in Egyptian Arabic is to say (translated) "Would that I had said 'a million pounds'!" (or some other large sum of money). This is occasionally turned into "Would that I had said 'a quarter-pound piece'!" (either as an insult or jokingly with friends). (For those not in the know, a quarter of an Egyptian pound is worth slightly more than four cents.)
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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Retroactive Wish]]
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