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== [[Literature]] ==
* One of the vignettes of ''[[American Gods]]'' (After a fashion): A beleaguered businessman sleeps with a cab driver who turns out to be a djinni, and awakens to find that the djinn has left and taken with him all the businessman's clothes, identification and money. The djinn left behind his own drivers license, clothing and keys to the cab and his apartment. After a brief consideration, the businessman sees this as an improvement over the miserable life he had been living. {{spoiler|He gets killed when [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|bridges start getting dropped]] on all the supernatural creatures.}}
* ''Time In A Bottle'' short story by P. Andrew Miller, published in ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine #208 used it as the happy ending. The genie in question is found by an aspiring scribe. His first wish was to visit a place no human had ever seen before. His second is to hear all the stories she knows, so he may record them. By the time she finally runs out of material, he is an old man, a successful anthology writer, and they are long-time friends. His final wish is to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|join her in her bottle forever as another genie.]] She's glad to oblige.
* Another "happy ending" example, albeit a variation: ''[[Winni Allfours]]'' wants a pony more than anything. When her parents won't give her one, she eats all her vegetables to turn herself into a horse.
* This is the curse of the Lamp of Lakash in [[Jack Chalker]]'s "Dancing Gods" series. People assume they can get three wishes, but in fact the lamp only grants two, and only the first is free; the second will replace the current genie with the wisher automatically (although the wish must still be fulfilled).
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Akinator]], a genie who loves to play "twenty questions" games, threatens that anyone who plays the game dishonestly will take his place in his lamp.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* There's one episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' where Fat Cat tries to get his hands on a lamp with a genie in it, but Monterey Jack gets the lamp instead. The genie tricks him into wishing him free, which in this case results in them swapping places: the genie is freed (and gets Monterey Jack's outfit in the deal), while Monterey Jack ends up a genie. It's not long before Fat Cat gets the lamp back, and mayhem ensues: only a [[Reset Button]] [[Wishplosion]] (''"We wish none of this ever happened!"'') puts everything back to normal.
* A non-genie example occurs in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' with Freakshow, one of the few human villains. Freakshow finds a magic gauntlet and gains the power to [[Reality Warper|warp reality]]. Danny exploits Freakshow's envy of ghosts and tricks him into using the gauntlet to become one. Predictably, Freakshow is promptly captured with the Fenton thermos.
* In one episode of ''[[The Fairly
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