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* A variant in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Kurama, a demon who masquerades as a human, turns out to have stolen one of the three treasures of Spirit World so he can wish for it to save his human foster mother's life at the cost of his own. Yusuke, being a good-intentioned [[Idiot Hero]], leaps in and tells the mirror to take his life instead. The wish is granted, and ''neither'' one dies: it turns out that two people trying to sacrifice themselves for the same wish nullifies the cost of making one.
** It ends up doing that because the force behind the mirror makes it so. Presumably he could have taken either or both of their lives. Said force was just so impressed with them it spared both.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For|Deconstructed]] in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. It's something of a theme in the series that there is ''no such thing as a selfless wish''. Everyone who makes a wish for someone else's happiness is also unconsciously hoping that it will also benefit themselves, even if only
* Quite a few times on ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Sailor Moon uses the Silver Imperium Crystal to make selfless wishes. She wishes Fiore could understand love. She wishes Luna could be human for one night. Her first wish was that all her friends were alive again and that they could all just be normal schoolgirls. She had to take back the second part of that wish when she realized it wasn't completely selfless, since it left the world open to attacks by outer forces, so Luna had to undo Usagi's [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] and later the other girls's.
* In ''[[Anatolia Story]]'', Yuri is taken by the Black Prince as a prisoner of war, along with a good many other Hatusu soldiers. The Black Prince makes a deal with Yuri: if she can defeat a lion in combat, he will grant any request. If she succeeded, he expected her to request her freedom, with the plan that he would send soldiers to kill her in the desert as she was returning to Prince Kail. Instead, Yuri guesses his plan and instead requests that he treat the prisoners of war humanely.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111228181423/http://www.spiritworldfiles.com/xovers/c/cj-batman-wish.html A Wish for Batman]'' had [[Batman]] receive a wish in a crossover with ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''. After considering wishing for his parents or Dick's to be brought back to life, Batman ultimately wishes that his work as Batman would be complete and successful, and that Gotham would become safe under his watch. Following the reality warp that allowed his wish, Bruce discovers that not only has {{spoiler|Gotham become a safer city with more policemen, to the extent Bruce is now free to act largely on a global scale, but he is now happily married to fellow vigilante Selina Kyle, and that Harlequin is now sane. However best of all Bruce and Alfred [[Tear Jerker|discover that in this new world Thomas and Martha Wayne are still alive, and Bruce breaks down in tears seeing them again]]}}.
== [[Film]] ==
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*** It's because he was a good person who wanted the world to be better. The only way to make him the most spiteful, mean and self-centered man on earth without changing him is to make everyone ''else'' less spiteful, mean, and self-centered than a man who was willing to give up a wish to make the world a better place for everyone. That would make a much nicer world, meaning the Devil not only has to go back to hell, but also has to contend with a much purer planet Earth.
*** Or the Devil could grant his wish by [[Fridge Horror|killing everyone more spiteful, mean and self-centered than him.]]
**** In most variations of that story, the Devil is able to subvert any wish that is selfish, but must follow the intent of any selfless wish. So he has to make the world better.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Waku Waku 7]]'': the profile of [[Robot Maid]] Tesse states that she wants to use the power of the Waku Waku Balls [[To Become Human]], but her ending has her making a wish to heal the scientist who created her from his illnesses.
* Deconstructed in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]''. In what is considered either the saddest or [[Narm
* In ''[[Puzzle Booble]] Galaxy/Space Bust A Move'', Bub and Bob's fairy assistant Snown performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop the [[Big Bad]]. Having used up most of her magic to save the day, she starts to fade away in exhaustion though grants Bub and Bob one final wish of their choice in her dying breath. As they think, she notices she's stopped fading away. Bub and Bob take pride in their wish as the fully recovered Snown dances happily.
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* In ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', there was a wishing well guarded by three extremely powerful masked archers. After Jack defeats them, and is about to wish to return home, the archers tell him that the well is cursed: they wished to become great warriors and the well forced them to become its guardians. Jack then wishes for the well to destroy itself and not endanger anyone again.
** In another episode Jack attempts to rescue a trapped fairy that can grant any one wish ''(Including sending him home).'' When he is unable to free her ''(and himself as well)'' he says "I wish we were free".
* Parodied in [[The Simpsons]]:
{{quote|'''Lisa''' I wish for world peace.
'''Homer''' Lisa! That was very selfish of you! }}
* In ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', Jake makes the selfless wish of saving the day rather than seeing [[Love Interest|Rose]] again when given a magical transportation device. ''Really'' driven home when two portals
* A version of this also features as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]. A short called "Seven wishes" features a girl named Jenny being given a magic flower that grants seven wishes, and each wish takes up one of its seven petals. Throughout the short, she teases a kid named Victor who is sitting on a bench reading a book instead of running around and playing. After several small wish-related adventures, she finally is reduced to just one wish and taunts Victor one time. Victor gets tired of her teasing, finally closes his book, then pulls out a pair of crutches from under the bench and starts to walk home. Jenny then uses her last wish for Victor to be healthy again.
* ''[[Rick and Morty]]'': In one episode, Summer goes to the back room of Mr. Needful store to show him that the one artifact they were, ironically, unable to give away was the Mokey's Paw, only to find, to her horror, that he's hung himself. She first tries pushing his desk over so she can climb up to him to cut him down, but it's too heavy; then she remembers what the Paw does, so she wishes the desk was lighter. Then she can't untie the knot, so she wishes it would come undone. Mr. Needful is now unconscious and not breathing; Summer does ''not'' know CPR, so she uses the final wish to wish she did. She revives him, and he sadly says that was a waste of a good Monkey's Paw. (And he's right, as this quickly becomes a case of [[The Farmer and the Viper]], seeing as [[Save the Villain| he's, well, the Devil]].)
* In a [[Valentine's Day Episodes|Valentines Day Special]] starring ''[[The Smurfs]]'', a selfless wish was used to prevent a rather catastrophic selfish one. The [[Wicked Witch]] Chlorhydris wanted to use a special wishing well to purge the world of love (and yes, [[Woman Scorned| she did have a motive for this]] [[Runaway Fiance| which was explained in a later episode]]). The well could only be used [[When the Planets Align| when there was a full moon on Valentines Day]], which only happened once every thousand years, and she needed to offer it a cat. Not just any cat would do, and apparently, Gargamel's cat Azrael was perfect (for some odd reason). Of course, taking Azrael from Gargamel caused him to find out about it, and naturally he wanted to use the well's powers for himself (to catch the Smurfs, of course). The Smurfs themselves got involved, and after the well's power was activated, the two villains got into a struggle to use its power. While they were doing that, Smurfette briefly considered using the well to find true love, but after realizing how crazy all this had become, she told it, "I wish we were all back where we belong!" sending Gargamel to his hovel, Chlorhydris to her observatory, and the Smurfs to their village. And as a bonus, preventing the well from being used again for another thousand years.
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