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The Fisherman and His Wife

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The Fisherman and His Wife	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Fisherman and His Wife is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. It is notably one of their few stories to have a Christian theme, given the tale's ending.A kindly but poverty-stricken fisherman catches a magical fish. The fish begs him to let it go, claiming to be a prince. The fisherman lets it go and tells his wife all about it. The fisherman's wife is overbearing and greedy and she demands that he go back and ask the fish to grant him a wish out of gratitude. The fisherman does not have any desires, so the wife tells him to make the fish give them a nicer house, which is what she wants.The fisherman meets the fish and asks for a nicer house, the fish obliges. When the fisherman returns home, he sees his wife in her dream house. A few days later, the wife loses interest in their new house and demand that the fisherman wish for a castle. The fisherman reluctantly does so, noting that the sea becomes less welcoming every time he asks for a wish.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The fisherman's wife can not be satisfied. After gaining her castle, she demands wealth and political power. The poor fisherman is sent to ask for everything she wants. Each time, the sea becomes more turbulent and stormy. It gets to the point where the fisherman risks his very life to have his wife's wishes granted. When the wife demands to have power over the Sun, Moon and stars, (and be more powerful than God) the fish refuses to grant this wish and undoes all the other wishes. The fisherman then goes home to his now humbled wife in their meagre hovel.It is perhaps one of their more well-known stories, and has its own number in the Aarne-Thompson folktale classification system.In the original Grimm collection, this tale is in Low German (Plattdeutsch); it was written by the painter Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810). For another Low German fairy tale by Runge, see "The Juniper Tree".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: The wife's increasingly powerful wishes sees her going from a peasent to a rich woman to a princess to a queen to a lord to the ruler of the entire world. The fish draws the line when she asks to be greater than God.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The wife is never thankful for anything her husband does for her, or whatever the fish gives her. All she ever does is demand more and more of them.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: In a way, the fisherman. He doesn't have to risk life and limb to keep getting his selfish wife wishes anymore and gets his shack back when he never wanted any of the lavish houses his wife wished for.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: In some versions, the fish was originally a human prince who had everything (including his own species) taken from him and must serve the peasants he originally looked down upon. Could be seen as Foreshadowing.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_4b220918	type	Godhood Seeker
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_4b220918	comment	Godhood Seeker: The fisherman's wife ultimately wishes for this.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In one version, this is what the fisherman wishes for when asked by the fish. It's implied that the fisherman would keep doing this whole routine if the fish didn't step in when he did.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: With every wish, the sea gets increasingly turbulent.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The fisherman never gets a say in any of the wishes. He doesn't even want anything from the fish.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_a6c97a15	type	Benevolent Genie
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_a6c97a15	comment	Benevolent Genie: The fish, until the fisherman's wife demands to have the powers of a god. In some adaptations, the fish asks what the fisherman's wish is, and the fisherman says he wishes his wife would be happy, upon which the fish makes the wife happy with what she already has. In one version, the fish tells the fisherman to wish for something for himself or the fish will turn his wife into a jellyfish. The wife doesn't believe this, and guess what happens...
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: The wife could not care less what her husband has to go through for her wishes. She believes that as long as she gets what she wants, the world is a better place.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The fish and the fisherman. Played With concerning the wife as in some versions she's not named; in others she's called "Isabelle" or something similar.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: The ending. Apparently sick of the wife's selfish desires, the fish reverts everything back to the way it was before the wishes, much to the delight of the fisherman.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: The fisherman never refuses his wife's growing demands of him, continues to brave the sea no matter how turbulent it grows, and doesn't make a wish for himself until the very end. In some versions of the tale, he even goes through with carrying his wife's wish for godhood even while knowing how blasphemous it is, and it comes down to the fish to solve everything either by reinterpreting her wish, urging the fisherman to make a wish for himself, or just forcefully undoing everything.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_eb252637	type	Wealthy Ever After
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_eb252637	comment	Wealthy Ever After: Subverted. The fish takes away all the wife's wishes and her and her husband go back to living in their shack.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The wife. She never does any work to get the wishes herself and treats the fisherman terribly even after all the work he does to keep her happy.
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The Fisherman and His Wife / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Fisherman and His Wife / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Inverted. The fisherman has to risk life and limb to grant his wife's wishes. The wife meanwhile, gets to stay in her increasingly lavish home wondering what else she should wish for.
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