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Literal Genie

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Literal Genie	comment	You have to Be Careful What You Wish For, because oh boy are you gonna get it. More often than not, a wish-granting entity (genie, vengeance demon, holodeck, leprechaun, and so on) has some sort of contractual clause stating that they have to give you exactly what you ask for — but maybe not in the way you were thinking of when you made the wish. Ask for a ton of money, and it will appear. Right in front of you, weighing exactly one ton (and if you're lucky, it might even be in your preferred denomination). On the other hand if you ask for X-ray vision, your eyes might start shooting harmful radiation, or you may end up being able to only see in the X-ray spectrum. In other cases, you may have wished for one half of something; wishing for the knowledge to cure all existing illnesses will be rendered null and void if you didn't wish for the means to access the medical ingredients that may or may not exist yet. The entity wasn't trying to screw you over, it's just that your understanding of the wish's words and theirs didn't match. If you're lucky, they may give you a do-over. Otherwise, you may have to burn another wish to undo the damage. What makes this worse is how characters in this situation are now ten times as likely to make a Rhetorical Request Blunder and blurt out a "wish" without meaning to, while the Literal Genie is around. It's almost a mystical effect, as people who have never uttered "I wish" prior otherwise will do so. And you definitely do not want to use Malaproper. In various forms, Literal Genie wishes are very old; specific examples (e.g., immortality without eternal youth, as in the case of Eos and Tithonos) go back to Greek Mythology, while the actual genie trope was known in Arabia by the 10th century. A more modern variation is when the wisher asks for something using slang, colloquialisms, or Ambiguous Syntax, and the Genie, having not been outside for at least a century, grants it literally because that's the only way they can understand the wish. In this regard, even a Benevolent Genie can become a Literal one. So you can only blame yourself when the genie gives you a Dryocopus martius that's a foot tall. While the genie claims that they're being literal, or even that they're Just Following Orders, in practice, it tends to come off as if they're simply always choosing whichever interpretation of your words is the most disruptive, the most likely to teach the character An Aesop, or at the very least what you least wanted to happen. If this goes beyond the point of plausible interpretation, they become a Jackass Genie. You get around this by wording your request as carefully and explicitly as possible. Or wish for the genie to grant the following wishes according to your interpretation, if you are allowed three wishes. Of course, there's remarkably little plot conflict when things can go this well, so don't expect very many characters to actually think of this. Not to be confused with Exact Words. A more mundane version is Literal-Minded. A highly specific, villainous version is Unhand Them, Villain!. Compare Zeroth Law Rebellion and Blunt Metaphors Trauma. Super-Trope to The Genie in the Machine and Gone Horribly Right. If a genie goes out of their way to fulfill the spirit and intention of a person's wishes without any careful wording required, they're a Benevolent Genie. On the opposite end, if they always make a terrible interpretation of your wish, no matter how absurd that interpretation or how well the wish was worded, they're a Jackass Genie. See also Reality Warping Is Not a Toy. Generally involves some form of Double Meaning. If the wisher decides not to play the game, and wishes for no wishes (or some other paradox), it's Wishplosion. May overlap with Balking Summoned Spirit.
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Literal Genie / int_100d4e39	comment	In the Aladdin: The Series episode "Some Enchanted Genie", Abis Mal forces Eden to grant some pretty nasty wishes aimed towards the regular cast — but he never uses the word or concept of "forever", enabling her to include built-in Achilles heels in everything. (Eden is usually a Benevolent Genie, she just acts like a Literal Genie here to help the heroes.)
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Literal Genie / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In the episode "Finn the Human/Jake the Dog", the Reality Warper Prismo is like this. When Finn wishes that The Lich never existed, he is transported to a post-apocalyptic Alternate Universe where the Lich never existed, but in that alternate universe, Finn becomes the Ice King instead of Simon Petrikov. Prismo tells Jake that he also has one wish, and Jake says he wants a sandwich. Prismo tells him that since wishes are literal, he should probably wish for something like saving Finn, and be very specific about it. He even describes it as a "Monkey's Paw kind of thing"; even when he'd rather be straightforwards or benevolent his powers explicitly work like this. When Jake still doesn't get it, Prismo ends up spelling out the wish Jake should make. In another episode, after the first Hot Dog Knight wishes for a box, the Second Hot Dog Knight's wish fits this trope: In "Mystery Dungeon", Ice King desires to throw his Fionna and Cake fanfiction into the Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life-Giving's flames because anything that touches them comes to life. When he does, the flames bring his book to life and not the characters inside.
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Literal Genie / int_1331990c	comment	Played with in Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Kyubey grants everyone he contracts with one wish in exchange for becoming a Magical Girl, and so is in a perfect position to be this. However, there is a strong theme through the anime that there is no such thing as a Selfless Wish — Kyubey doesn't twist the wish, it's that the girls didn't ask for the right thing in the first place. Kyubey's granting is actually fairly benevolent in and of itself, but the consequences of the wish are usually rather nasty, which conveniently serves to drive them to despair and turn them into witches, which is what Kyubey wants. Sayaka wished that her crush Kyousuke would get better, but becomes extremely depressed when he starts overlooking her and Hitomi confesses to him, because what Sayaka really wanted was for Kyousuke to be grateful to her and fall in love with her, and to be able to think of herself as a noble, selfless person. It doesn't help that Sayaka is also beating herself up over having transformed into what is essentially a lich, which she thinks makes her unworthy of Kyousuke's love. The despair brought on by these two things, and her refusal to cleanse her Soul Gem, ultimately causes her to witch out. Kyouko wished that people would listen to her father's teachings and resulted in them being supernaturally driven to do so. This drives her father insane and he murders his family before killing himself. Kyouko never gives any indication that she didn't get exactly what she wished for. The problem was not with the wish itself, but with her father's perception. People were listening to him in ever increasing numbers but because it was due to his daughter's loving wish for him instead of his own rhetorical skill, which led to his breakdown. Not to mention the fact that he was a religious man and his daughter used dark magic to promote his religion. Mami made her contract to survive a car crash. She didn't know she could have saved her parents with the same wish so she didn't include them. Therefore Kyubey didn't include them either, and so they died while Mami survived. This is not out of any real malice on Kyubey's part — because he is a Starfish Alien with a Blue-and-Orange Morality, it didn't even cross his mind to mention to Mami that he could save her parents too. Homura wished to 'redo her meeting with Madoka' and protect her. Thus, she becomes a Time Master and while she becomes powerful enough to aid Madoka, she is never able to save her from dying or witching out. After all, her wish stated "protect" Madoka, and not "save" her. Madoka wished to retroactively kill every witch ever born in both the past and future. This is precisely what she does, at the cost of ceasing to exist as a person and transforming into a godlike concept destroying Witches for all eternity. Also the Witches are immediately replaced with a new type of monster because otherwise Kyubey wouldn't be able to stave off entropy after all.
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Literal Genie / int_135faa14	comment	In Eric, demons try to give people who summon them "exactly what they asked for and exactly what they didn't want". This would also make them Jackass Genies, except that they don't need to stretch very far to make Eric's wishes backfire.
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Literal Genie / int_136469af	comment	In Pact and Pale, magical practitioners and Others cannot lie or they will lose their power, with the amount of power lost proportional to the severity of the lie. In the worst case, if you break an oath and are called out on it, you will become Forsworn and will not only be permenantly depowered but the universe itself will be actively hostile to you. As a result literally everyone who is awakened to the supernatural becomes both a Literal Genie and a Rules Lawyer, as failing to adhere to one's Exact Words would spell disaster.
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Literal Genie / int_1409f1e9	comment	Real Life Comics spent an arc on this, when Ben finds a ring of three wishes playing D&D. Unfortunately for him, his DM is... not nice. He wishes for "more gold than he knows what to do with," and gets a giant slab of gold that crushes him to death. Then he wishes for "a million gold pieces;" the pieces he receives are so tiny that the whole pile is almost worthless. Finally, he makes an elaborate, foolproof wish and gets a million normal-sized gold coins, which do not crush him. And then a dragon eats him.
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Literal Genie / int_1670bd19	comment	The Wish Granter in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. If you tell it you want to be rich, golden coins rain down from the ceiling — which are actually just the rusty bolts which were the only things holding the decaying roof in place. If you tell it you want the Zone to disappear, it turns you blind. If you tell it you want to rule the world, it will absorb you into the Wish Granter monolith. And if you want humanity to be destroyed/controlled, it will place you in a black void devoid of everything but the player. And if you tell it that you want to be immortal, it will turn you into a crystal statue.
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Literal Genie / int_1beda93b	comment	While other more obvious examples in Sluggy Freelance are more in the lines of Jackass Genie, we get this once with an alternative Riff from the Dimension of Lame, apparently out of genuine confusion. Lord Horribus orders him to devise a way for his demons to enter the sewers in spite of the smell of flowers therein (It Makes Sense in Context). All his attempts end in disaster until Horribus realises what the problem is.
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Literal Genie / int_1cabb78d	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Defied in the short story "The Wishing Game". Clubfoot and Mirandee go to great pains to make sure to give Kreezerast the Frightener very precise instructions, and continually frustrate him when his attempts to twist the wishes turn out to be what they actually wanted (though in the end, he takes some consolation in knowing that they will probably run into trouble later because of the wishes he granted).
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Literal Genie / int_1d699932	comment	One of the weirder chapters of Black Jack has the titular doctor operating on an alien. Black Jack asks for his usual large fee, but since the aliens don't understand money, he takes out a large banknote and asks for more of them. At the end of the chapter, Black Jack is arrested for counterfeiting because the aliens copied the bill exactly, down to the serial number.
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Literal Genie / int_1e1f03c7	comment	Jambi from Pee-wee's Playhouse behaves like this at times. In one episode, Pee-wee says, "I wish I knew what to wish for." Jambi grants him that wish, but not what he actually wished for. When Pee-wee learns his mistake and calls Jambi out on it, the genie simply holds him to the rule of only one wish per show. Cue a Big "NO!" from Pee-wee. In another episode, Pee-wee wishes that someone would come over to alleviate his boredom. Jambi grants his wish and someone knocks at the door, but it turns out to be the annoying Salesman. Pee-wee scowls in Jambi's direction afterward.
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Literal Genie / int_1e81abe7	comment	In Aladdin (2019), Genie is just as literal and just as benevolent, pointing out that Aladdin's wish "Make me a prince" could mean either "Turn me into a prince" (what Aladdin actually intended) or "Make a prince appear for me" (which he did not). In the climax, he uses the grey area in Jafar's wish to be "the most powerful being in the universe" to turn him into a genie.
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Literal Genie / int_227431b6	comment	The Staff of One from Runaways functions like this Depending on the Writer. Sometimes it does exactly what the wielder wants, as a freeze spell did not turn the victims into ice, but other times, it seems to gleefully misinterpret the user. Upon being faced with a horde of zombies, she tries to undo the magic by saying "Zombie Not!" The result? The zombies formed together into a massive beast — a zombie knot.
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Literal Genie / int_22c338ea	comment	In The Lathe of Heaven, George Orr has the uncontrolled ability to alter reality (often retroactively) through his dreams. His psychiatrist attempts, through hypnosis, to use this ability to "improve" the world. But Orr's subconscious frequently operates on the Literal Genie principle and subverts these attempts. For example, in response to the request for "peace on Earth," Orr dreams up a space war with alien invaders; when asked to end racial violence, Orr dreams up a world in which all human beings are gray.
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Literal Genie / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons. Homer Simpson attempts to avert this in "Treehouse of Horror II"; after the family's first wishes on a Monkey's Paw have unforeseen consequences (thus playing the trope straight), Homer decides to "make a wish that can't backfire. I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, and I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises." Surprisingly, this mostly works, except that the turkey's a little dry. Of course that part didn't work: after all, he asked for no weird surprises!
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Literal Genie / int_28486597	comment	In the sequel Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, Jafar does this with Abis Mal to cow him into wishing exactly how Jafar wants him to. Abis Mal wanted treasure, so Jafar takes them to a sunken treasure ship in the middle of the ocean. Jafar being Jafar, he's also a Jackass Genie.
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Literal Genie / int_28d1c451	comment	Kidd Video: The fat one with the glasses got one wish from The Sphinx, and he wished for he and his friends (who were teetering on a mountainside rock about to fall) were safe at home. Suddenly, his friends are next to him, but not home! The Sphinx declared he only got one wish, and since his friends were in peril at the time, he and his friends were safe, thus his wish was granted, and with that, the Sphinx went back to sleep.
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Literal Genie / int_28dc76a9	comment	This bites him in the ass in the fourth, and final, movie. The Waker wishes that she could "love him for who he really is". The literal definition of the wish means that he can't just make her "love" him; her love has to be freely given knowing that he's a hideous Djinn bent on bringing Hell to Earth. The Djinn also realizes to his dismay that he is falling in love with her as well. The lovestruck Djinn spends the rest of the movie desperately trying to win her love.
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Literal Genie / int_299db5c7	comment	Bruce Coville's Book of... Monsters: The sword Arthur gets in Merlin's Knight School. He wishes he could fight something with it... and a monster promptly appears for him to fight. (Luckily, a second wish enables him to actually beat the monster.)
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Literal Genie / int_2b7257cd	comment	In the New Series Adventures novel The Stone Rose, the culprit behind all unusual events was a genetically engineered lizard/platypus hybrid with the ability to grant any wish spoken aloud starting with "I wish...". The ability of the GENIE is limited by the laws of physics. He can Time Travel, teleport, and transmute matter, but it required enormous amounts of energy, which it took from any available source, including people. Transporting a person from the 24th century to Ancient Rome is easy, since the GENIE is able to use the 24th century power grid for this purpose. Going back is a different matter. It should be noted that any wish that was impossible to fulfill would be interpreted in its own way by the GENIE. For example, wishing for something "never to have happened" would be impossible to fulfill, as the GENIE is unable to alter the past. Instead, he might create an illusion for the person as if the wish was actually fulfilled.
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Literal Genie / int_2b727723	comment	Reddit: r/TheMonkeysPaw (named for the story), has users posting wishes that are deconstructed with this treatment. r/MaliciousCompilance has users posting stories that exploit the trope, with some also crossing into Loophole Abuse, mostly out of spite for the requester. One of the most popular stories of all time involves a co-worker being required to show security the last five pictures taken on his phone, to which he gave them five pictures of his butthole.
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Literal Genie / int_2d9c9b6f	comment	In The Wishing Maiden, Asha is one of these. It isn't on purpose.
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Literal Genie / int_2db80c56	comment	The Empire of the East novel The Broken Lands features a literal Literal Genie. That is, the wizard Grey summons a djinn that does exactly and literally what is asked of it. Grey and Rolf don't get anywhere with it until they start asking questions instead of giving commands.
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Literal Genie / int_2e7ed09c	comment	In the short-lived show Special Unit 2, their version of a Genie (using the original pronunciation of Jinn) only has the ability to turn itself into mist and hide in objects (bottles, lamps, and cans, for example). It was still required to grant wishes, though. For example, when one of the Jinn's masters expressed a desire to be with a famous celebrity, the Jinn had to physically kidnap the celebrity, which led to the master's arrest.
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Literal Genie / int_2f9517bf	comment	In D.Gray-Man, The Millennium Earl promises good folk to reunite them with their loved ones by just yelling their name. The downside? They get turned into evil Akuma, and are forced to do the Earl's bidding, normally by stripping the skin off of their loved one who brought them back to wear, so that they blend in with humans.
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Literal Genie / int_300a42ec	comment	Near the end of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie2nd As, Hayate tells The Book of Darkness to "give her family back" when it has them tied up (due to viewing their inability to defeat Nanoha and Fate as failure to protect their master). The book proceeds to drain their Linker Cores to finish powering itself up (killing them in the process due to their nature as magical constructs) and "return" them to Hayate in core mode.
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Literal Genie / int_30253f6b	comment	After Alex in The Outing put on the bracelet that marks her as the jinn's keeper, her wish is its command. Unfortunately, it is the one that she made during with a fight with her dad.
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Literal Genie / int_30963b69	comment	In one of the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books, a cluricaune has to grant the patrons of the bar three wishes, but they're savvy enough to avoid the word "wish". The cluricaune gets around it by granting a wish when someone says something that sounds like she's making a wish, even though she isn't. For the record, the dialogue is a woman saying she'd like to show her husband Isham a repaired table. "I show Ish that table repaired" was transposed into "I sho' wish that table repaired." The protagonist later realizes that the cluricaune was actually offering him a great gift, since even "Wishes I will actively try to make go wrong" is a truly incredible gift. It isn't the cluricaune's fault that the protagonist can't come up with good wishes.
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Literal Genie / int_309d7300	comment	In Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic wishes for "A few" handkerchiefs for his cold after a brief bout of sneezing. Shahra seems too eager to serve her new master, resulting in Sonic being buried up to his head in handkerchiefs.
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Literal Genie / int_327f503	comment	Eden of the East has Akira ask Juiz if he's the kind of person who could make the Prime Minister cry uncle. She responds by having him do just that. On national TV. And it only cost 60 yen. It's clear, though, that she was just being a smartass, as she's not as literal with other requests.
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Literal Genie / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist the apparition known as Truth grants power to whose who attempt human transmutation, but takes prices from them without telling them. However, in the final chapter when Father is destroyed and finds himself once again before the Gate, Truth promises to give Father exactly what he wished for: Despair for the conceited. Father is sucked into the Gate, screaming in horror.
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Literal Genie / int_33e8c894	comment	Green Box: Sena notes that Green Box is giving him items as he imagines them, not what would technically count. Him wishing for a "futon" also gets extra pillows because to him, they often go together.
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Literal Genie / int_3558eaa2	comment	Lampshaded by Community: When Britta wishes to end all wars, Troy warns her that any wish containing "all" is guaranteed to end with ironic consequences. Wars probably won't be missed, but as Troy points out, a literal genie could get rid of Star Wars, thumb wars, Storage Wars...
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Literal Genie / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: In Volume 8, team RWBY encounter the spirit Ambrosius, who is is very upfront about this being the case; as the Spirit of Creation, he can create anything he is asked to make, however not only will he need blueprints and instructions on how to make it, he makes it very clear that he will give the heroes exactly what they ask him for, going as far as to tell them not to complain if it's not what they wanted.
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Literal Genie / int_3651bc0c	comment	The Princess and the Frog: Doctor Facilier actually has some things in common with a Literal Genie, although verging on Jackass Genie. For example, he got Prince Naveen to agree to the deal by saying things like "You want to be free, hop from place to place." and "When I look into your future it's green that I've seen." Naveen, naturally, agrees to this, and... becomes a frog. Literally speaking, Facilier didn't lie to him.... It doesn't really matter if he did or didn't, as Facilier was actively trying to screw Naveen over. Facilier is only bound by one rule in the film: He had better hold up his end of the deal to his "Friends". He really doesn't care if he lies, cheats, or steals to get what he wants.
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Literal Genie / int_37656fc1	comment	Given a hilarious twist in The Last Wish. Geralt and his friend find a Genie who they accidentally unleash. Geralt tries to banish him by saying the words of an "exorcism", in a language he doesn't understand. The Genie indeed leaves, only to later return, as noted by the characters, furious beyond words. It turns out that the "exorcism" is just a prank someone played on Geralt, and roughly translates to "go and fuck yourself". The Genie had to go and do exactly that.
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Literal Genie / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Strip 807. Because this is not entirely clear: in the first panel a boy gets a chemistry question wrong by saying hydrogen has two valence electrons instead of one. His wish of the genie is that he'd gotten that question right. Giving hydrogen two electrons has dire effects on the world as a whole.... A genie (of the same species, but different hat) pops up in strip 3042, as a sort of Economist's morality tale. And another one in strip 3742, with a man who wishes to "outlive all of [his] enemies", only to realize how finite that wish actually is. It backfires on him when his efforts to keep his enemies in good health endears him to them and makes them no longer his enemies, and his attempts at making new ones all fail, partly because of his earlier kindness. With no more enemies to "protect" him, he goes insane and leaps off a building to his death, his body outliving his own mind. 2014-07-08: "I wish my parents were still alive." The genie brings back his biological parents, who turn out to be his mother... and uncle. 2012-09-20 has a man (implied to be a lawyer) wish for unlimited wishes by using two wishes to create a legal loophole around the word "wish", making the genie's rule against wishing for more wishes literal.
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Literal Genie / int_391713ea	comment	The plot of "The Monkey's Paw" is simple. A family comes across a magical preserved monkey hand with three fingers extended, representing the three wishes. Their first wish is for money, as soon as they wish it a member of their son's labor union knocks on the door to inform them that he was killed at the factory and to deliver condolence money. The mother decides to use the second wish to bring him back from the dead, which leads to a second knock at the door. Before the mother can get to the door, the narrator senses that something horrible must be about to happen, and uses the third wish presumably to undo the second, though we never actually hear what the third wish was or see if it had any of its own negative side effects. In at least one version of this tale, the son died when he fell into moving machinery. Thus, when he came back, it was as a horrible, mashed-up corpse. The narrator unwishes the resurrection before the mother can open the door and see it.
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Literal Genie / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: The Eternal Dragons, while sometimes rather rude, are actually quite accommodating when dealing with ambiguous wishes. In Dragon Ball Z for example, when Krillin's body gets wished back to Earth so that he wouldn't get revived in the vacuum of space where Namek used to be, and then revived on Earth with a second wish, Porunga takes the liberty of also repairing the damage that had been done to his corpse when the planet exploded. But sometimes this trope still comes up, simply because they're not capable of changing a poorly-worded wish. Every wish they grant has to be in a way that's a reasonable interpretation of what was actually said, even if the dragon would actually like to be more generous about it. A rather famous one comes up at the end of the first arc of the original Dragon Ball due to the line being bowdlerised. To stop Emperor Pilaf from making a wish to Take Over the World, Oolong rushes in and makes a wish first. In the original dub, he just wished for a pair of women's panties. In the English line he wished for "the world's most comfortable pair of underwear", which just so happened to be lady's underwear. On Planet Namek, Gohan and Krillin have Piccolo wished back to life, and then to Namek, but they're confused when Piccolo doesn't show up. Dende (who is making the wishes for them) realizes they screwed up; while Piccolo was sent to Namek, they didn't specify where on Namek to send him, and Piccolo ended up half a world away. It ended up working out for Piccolo, as he wouldn't have met Nail and performed a Fusion Dance otherwise. And Dende suggested that they used the third wish from the Namekian dragon to send Piccolo to their exact location, but Vegeta and Frieza showing up put a stop to that, too. Earth's Dragon has his own moment in the same arc. When the heroes wished back everyone killed by Frieza and his men, they saved almost the entire Namekian species — except for the village Vegeta slaughtered to get their Dragon Ball. Since he had gone rogue from Frieza's army by that point, he wasn't one of Frieza's men, thus those deaths were outside the parameters of the wish. Vegeta finds this amusing, everyone else shoots him a Death Glare. This gets enforced in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and Dragon Ball Super when Frieza's henchmen ask for him to be wished back to life. Since Frieza has been dead for much longer than a year, he's unable to do anything about the state of Frieza's body, and Shenron has to go out of his way to point out that he'd be returned to the cut up pieces of flesh Trunks left him in when he died. Luckily Frieza's men had healing tanks at the ready. In Dragon Ball Super, Granolah uses the dragon Toronbo to wish to be the strongest warrior in the universe, which is granted. However, several people point out he is only the strongest at that moment, plus he only has strength and not training or experience. Goku and Vegeta are able to hold their own with their greater skill and eventually surpass his strength. Then Gas uses Toronbo to wish to become the strongest in the universe and he surpasses Granolah, Goku, and Vegeta. But then Frieza shows up and is much more powerful than Gas. He explains that he had been training in another dimension, so he wasn't technically in the universe when Gas made his wish.
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Literal Genie / int_3b7e691d	comment	In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the Oracle of the staff answers Iago's rhetorical question about what she is, ticking him off when he hears each questioner only gets one chance. (And also the Oracle being the Oracle, she probably knew exactly what Iago is like.)
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Literal Genie / int_3c40c503	comment	In Castle in the Air, the main character acquires a genie who states right from the beginning that he swore that all the wishes he granted would "do as much harm as possible", out of pure petulance. A good deal of the book deals with the characters having to come up with wishes that the genie can't mess up.
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Literal Genie / int_3de72036	comment	The Wish Giver: A mysterious man gives the narrator and three children one wish each. The wishes are granted on his own terms, so the girl who wishes to be the "center of attention" winds up croaking like a frog and attracting stares and laughter whenever she says anything nasty (which is very often). The other girl who wishes for her love interest to "put roots down" is treated to the sight of her love interest transformed into a tree in her backyard, and the boy who wishes for "more than enough water" on his family's perpetually dry farm ends up with the farm completely flooded. It takes the fourth wish to repair all the damage.
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Literal Genie / int_3e1e745c	comment	The Enchanted Forest Chronicles novel Dealing with Dragons has some fun with this one after Princess Cimorene and Prince Therandil accidentally free a jinn and (after narrowly avoiding some Jackass Genie shenanigans) persuade it to give them each one wish. Therandil wishes to slay a dragon and win a princess's hand in marriage, intending to fight the dragon who Cimorene is voluntarily working for. Only after the jinn has returned to his bottle does Cimorene point out that Therandil was promised "the next dragon you fight, you will kill him," and that Kazul, the dragon she is working for, is female. Whether the wish would actually have failed to help Therandil against Kazul or not is never proven; Cimorene uses the logic of this trope to persuade Therandil to go fight a different (male) dragon and rescue the Alpha Bitch princess that dragon had abducted.
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Literal Genie / int_3f6c7a68	comment	In Cold Days, because of a deal with Queen Mab, Harry gained the temporary service of one of Queen Mab's top assassins and allies, Cait Sith, a powerful and dangerous feline-type fey, who is honor bound to do anything Harry asks of him. When Harry tests this by asking for a coke, Cait Sith vanishes and returns promptly with an open but room-temp drink because Harry didn't specify the temperature. Harry gets the hidden message too. Cait Sith hates him, doesn't want to do this, and will go quickly into Jackass territory if Harry makes stupid requests.
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Literal Genie / int_3f8ca165	comment	In Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning, Ukkomon is one, making any wish of Lui come true. However, he does so without regard to the free will of others, which eventually led to a breakdown on Lui's part when he believes that his wish for friends led to the creation of an entire race of subservient, freedomless sentient beings.
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Literal Genie / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall, this is one of the main concerns which led Dr. Bowman to give his synthetic intelligences (like Bowman's Wolves, and also every AI on Jean) actual intelligence and free will, instead of just making them simplistic and heavily restrained. When robots outnumber humans by a factor of 10,000, you don't exactly want them misinterpreting how to serve man, and three-laws compliance is fundamentally broken.
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Literal Genie / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin is falling from a great height and while searching for some way to save himself, finds his Transmogrifier Gun, which can turn anything into whatever he's thinking of. He gleefully proclaims "I'll just point it at myself and transmogrify! I'm safe!", at which point he turns into... well, a safe.
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Literal Genie / int_426a7572	comment	In the Animaniacs special Wakko's Wish, the Warners Brothers (and Warner Sister) try to convince the Big Bad that the Wishing Star is one of these. They succeed, but get sent to the death row when he gets fed up with their antics. Naturally, they escape.
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Literal Genie / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-294 is a vending machine that will give you whatever you ask for in liquid form, by taking the raw material from somewhere else (usually; sometimes it claims that the drink is "Out of range"). Some of the ensuing mishaps involved "A cup of Joe" (Agent Joseph [REDACTED] made a complete recovery in the infirmary after four weeks of rest and intravenous hydration), "Whatever the next person orders" (Unfortunately, beverages were delivered simultaneously. Cleanup took two hours.), and "Surprise me" (superheated water that exploded in his face... which did, indeed, surprise him). This even extends to abstract concepts such as "a cup of music" or "my life story". One incident suggested that the machine has a certain level of intelligence: when a disaster happened at the facility it is stored in, one staff member, in desperation, asked it for "a cup of relevant medical knowledge", received it, and was able to save the lives of several critically injured people. Later requests for the same under controlled circumstances received "Out of range" as the response. The researchers speculate that 294 only granted the initial request out of self-preservation. A recurring character in the wiki is Dado, an amateur "parapharmacologist" with a poor grasp of the English language who produces anomalous items. On one occasion an employee of Marshall, Carter & Dark Ltd hired him to make "blow up dolls" for them. The result? Exploding sex dolls. A man asks him to make him a doll for his daughter? He makes him into a doll.
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Literal Genie / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural has a wishing well, cursed by a chaos god's coin, so that every wish made on the well is granted literally and also goes horribly wrong somehow. For example, Dean's wish for a sandwich gives him E-coli, a little girl's parents wished to go to Bali and so were teleported to Bali...
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Literal Genie / int_43c2e491	comment	Stargirl: This is how the Thunderbolt operates. He's not a bad guy, but he is an extradimensional imp. He warns all his masters to be very careful how they word their wishes. When needing the Thunderbolt's help in finding the Shade, the JSA composes a long-winded paragraph full of clarifications and specifications, to make sure that, for example, the Thunderbolt doesn't just point to the nearest shadow in the room. Later on, after the pen passes to Jakeem, Jakeem is also having trouble with this. For example, he'll ask for a large burger and get one the size of a car. He'll ask for Chinese food, and the Thunderbolt will be gone for hours, probably on his way to China. Jakeem will ask for the bullies demanding him and Mike to give them their lunch money to be nicer. So the bullies will nicely ask for their lunch money or else they'll have to pound their handsome faces. When striking the final blow on Eclipso, Jakeem wishes for him to toast the demon. After the blast, Jakeem finds a burned toast where Eclipso was.
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Literal Genie / int_43d17229	comment	Asuka Hybrid has multiple instances of this regarding the same "genie", in this case a mysterious mage: The series is kicked off with Asuka, a guy who accidentally got assigned to the girls dorm. While in the park depressed about this, the mage lands on him, and as an apology, she agrees to grant Asuka a wish. Asuka then says "I'm a boy, but I'm supposed to move into a girl's dorm...", so the mage fixes the problem by turning him into a girl. Later there's Akira, who also reveals he got hit with a misinterpreted wish. He originally used to be a girl that was training to do battle with a rival martial arts clan, and the mage interpreted his desire to become stronger by making him a very well-toned man. Unlike Asuka, he isn't at all bothered by becoming male — if anything, he's upset she didn't make him even more manly and muscular. Then there's the much older Hitomi, who in her adolescence also made a wish to be turned into a Magical Girl by the mage, but ended up in a (relative) Blessed with Suck scenario. She got the costume, but it's very skimpy and she doesn't think it looks flattering on her in her thirties. She has a few magic powers, but are supremely limited and bordering on a placebo (she can also transform into her outfit magically, but has to change out manually). She was also given a blue outfit (which she insists makes her second banana to a nonexistent Pink Heroine that'd be the protagonist) and was given no villains to fight to justify her powers.
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Literal Genie / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: This is based on an even older joke about the same subject. More mature versions involve the person being a drunk who is turned into a mixed drink at a bar. Another classic Sesame Street story had the Cookie Monster about to clean his teeth and as he squeezes the toothpaste tube a genie appears and states that he's been trapped in the toothpaste tube for "three and a half weeks" and so he'll give Cookie Monster three wishes for squeezing him out of the toothpaste tube. Cookie wants a million cookies, but he realises he has no way to carry them, so he wishes for "a truck" and the genie gives him a tiny, almost matchbox-sized toy truck (aka a utility vehicle, with a two-person cab at the front and a load tray at the rear). Cookie realises that he needs a bigger truck so he asks for "a bigger truck" and gets another toy truck which is about one foot (30cm) long. Cookie then decides to wish for "the biggest truck of all" and finally gets a full-sized vehicle. Then he asks for "a million cookies" only to have the genie explain that there are "only three wishes to a customer" and Cookie has already used up all three wishes. Cookie comes out ahead though, because he's an Extreme Omnivore and decides to simply "Eat Truck!"
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Literal Genie / int_466c9ad9	comment	The ditzy Bottle Blonde from Princess Pi grants wishes exactly how the wisher worded them. This tendency eventually becomes her undoing. After Princess Pi frees Bottle Blonde, so no-one could ever use her powers for evil, Bottle Blonde decides to grant one of her own wishes: "I wish to make me a sandwich!" She subsequently turns into a sandwich, which Pi proceeds to eat before it goes to waste. (Bottle Blonde doesn't really mess up any of the wishes other people made in her comic, but it seems hard to do so.)
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Literal Genie / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The golems in the novel Feet of Clay "rebel" by doing exactly what they're told. "No-one wants them to think, so they get their own back by not thinking." Subverted in Wyrd Sisters when the witches summon a demon who agrees to answer three questions and takes great delight in giving technically accurate but completely unhelpful answers to the first two, no matter how carefully the witches try to phrase them. For the third question, they decide to try a different approach and ask it "Just what the hell's going on? And no wriggling about trying to get out of it!" — which works far better. The fact they threaten him with being boiled alive and hit with a large stick helps some. In Eric, demons try to give people who summon them "exactly what they asked for and exactly what they didn't want". This would also make them Jackass Genies, except that they don't need to stretch very far to make Eric's wishes backfire. Tiffany Aching has to deal with this from two sources. The first is the Nac Mac Feegle, who just want to be helpful. While they can't actually do magic, they are determined, numerous, and immensely strong. She reflects that while never actually likely to say "I wish I could marry a handsome prince", the fact that if she did, she would probably quickly find a tied-up prince and clergyman at her door makes one wary of voicing one's desires out loud. There's also the Hiver, a creature which possesses people's bodies, then tries to make all their wishes come true. Even the ones they don't say, don't really want except for a fleeting urge, or wouldn't work towards because things like conscience or sanity hold them back.
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Literal Genie / int_49b587be	comment	The Canterbury Tales: In "The Knight's Tale", two soldiers are praying the night before a tournament, where the prize is the hand in marriage of Emily. Palamon prays to Venus that he will be the one to marry Emily, while Arcite prays to Mars that he will claim victory in the tournament. Both men have their wishes granted; Arcite is able to win the battle against Palamon, but during his victory celebrations his horse becomes frightened and rears, throwing Arcite to the ground. When Arcite dies of his injuries, Theseus declares Palamon Emily's rightful husband by default.
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Literal Genie / int_4c300a8c	comment	Lilo & Stitch: The Series. In the episode "Wishy-Washy", an activated experiment is activated, designed to be a wish giver that grants any wish he hears, but the wishes are granted literally and don't turn out as expected for the wisher. For example, when Jumba wished to be the greatest ruler in the world, he was turned into a literal ruling stick. And when Pleakly wished for "all the powers" of his current idol, a superhero, Jumba then explains he didn't get any powers, because said hero wasn't real.
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Literal Genie / int_4ca80f59	comment	In The Man Who Could Work Miracles, Fotheringay has no understanding of how his powers work, and learns that he must be careful when issuing commands or they may come true in a very literal fashion. For example, his telling Constable Winch to "go to blazes!" results in the unfortunate policeman beings sent to a Fire and Brimstone Hell.
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Literal Genie / int_4cb94f7f	comment	The Traveller in Black: The Traveller is a (implied) supernatural being who appears as a young man who wears a black robe and carries a staff (made of "solid light"). One of his quirks is that he is obliged to grant the first wish which someone expresses in his hearing. The speaker does not have to use any particular wording, making "if only..." just as dangerous a thing to say as "I wish..." while in the Traveller's hearing. The Traveller in Black is not a Jackass Genie. It's just that most people don't make wise wishes so Be Careful What You Wish For. Most wishes he hears are very unwise and so turn out incredibly badly for the person who made the wish (not usually for anyone else). Very occasionally, someone will make a wise wish and those turn out well.
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Literal Genie / int_4dda88e0	comment	Unusual example in Absolutely Anything in that the genie isn't actually an entity. Protagonist Neil Clarke is a Reality Warper who can make anything happen by requesting it of no one in particular, but the results are often too literal, sometimes bordering on Jackass Genie. Some quick-fire examples from when he was getting used to his powers: "Give me a really big dick!" [grows large enough to cause him pain and fall over] "Ouch! Not THAT big, obviously! Dick, return to the old size." [shrinks back] "Let me have a penis that women find exciting." [changes] "Yeah, it's g- Yeah. Can I have it in white?" [changes] "Let me have a really great body." [changes into a sexy woman's body] "No, look... Give me the body of a great man." [changes] "What the feck?! Not Albert Einstein! Let me have the great body of a man." [changes into a buff body-builder]
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Literal Genie / int_4f57b33a	comment	The manga Only One Wish of Mia Ikumi (also author of Tokyo Mew Mew) features an 'Angel' (as the characters call her) who, granting the single wish she concedes to Humans who find the cell phone to talk with her, straddles between this and Jackass Genie, depending on the Human ability to actually do it on their own (she hates when people cry for help without even trying): The protagonists of the first chapters are three friends with what appear to be a deep friendship. The first to wish, Rikako, wishes that Yamaguchi, the boy her friend Ai likes, would like her back: it's granted, only for Ai to neglect their friendship and Yamaguchi later admit he used to like Rikako. When the consequences of the first wish make Rikako demand Ai uses her wish to restore the previous situation, Ai shouts she wishes Rikako and their other friend Mai, who was trying to avoid a fight, would disappear: cue Eldritch Abomination, that doesn't eat the girls only because Yamaguchi, who was passing by, gets the situation explained by a remorseful Ai and wishes the previous wish annulled. We don't know what Mai wished, but given she made it when the others were away and the scene reveals she was in love with Yamaguchi and was feeling betrayed by her friends (for whom she was willing to give up on Yamaguchi) and tells them goodbye...; The protagonists of the second chapter, Misa and Akio, are dead and have separately wished themselves back to life, with both wishing only themselves back alive because the shock of death made them forget the other died with them. Both have to kiss the person they love before midnight to make it stick-And while Akio loves Misa, Misa has a crush for another boy, and Akio decided to not tell Misa he too was dead. In the end Misa finds out that Akio's dead too and his condition to return to life, so she kisses him... And the 'Angel' keeps them alive both, as Akio's wish had been to stay with her the following year (plus they couldn't resurrect themselves); In the third chapter a girl wishes the boy she likes would become small so she'll be able to care for him in her home and he'll fall for her, fulfilling her fantasy. The 'Angel' does so and enjoys the show of that fantasy getting deconstructed as Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs, as the boy is initially terrified and then gets pissed when he finds out who had caused his situation; The fourth chapter opens with a girl crying she didn't want what the 'Angel' did while looking at someone lying in his own blood. We don't know what happened, but it's implied it was again this or the 'Angel' being a jerk.
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Literal Genie / int_4fc1c922	comment	In Wicked, though not a genie, Elphaba's spell in "No Good Deed" comes true quite literally. When she commands that "Let his (Fiyero's) flesh not be torn/Let his blood leave no stain/When they beat him/Let him feel no pain/Let his bones never break/And however they try/To destroy him/Let him never die" this all comes true when he gets turned into the Scarecrow.
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Literal Genie / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess: Gabrielle's enchanted scroll (Hilarity EnsuesTM) works this way in "The Quill is Mightier". Only by writing what is actually occurring instead of using metaphor (thank you, piscine weaponry) is she able to break the spell.
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Literal Genie / int_5286ec36	comment	In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie goes to a club with a Toon service staff. A penguin waiter asks him what he wants, and Eddie orders "scotch on the rocks". Then he remembers he's talking to a Toon and shouts "I mean ice!" after him. Naturally, the Toon brings him a glass of scotch with pebbles in it. Truth in Television, though, as some bartenders put cooled cubes of stone or metal in drinks in order to avoid diluting the beverage with melting ice water.
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Literal Genie / int_52bfc9f0	comment	In Spinning Silver, the young Tsarina Irina offers the fire demon Chernobog the king of the Staryk to consume in the hopes of staving off Endless Winter, and when the prisoner is freed by her co-conspirator unleashes him upon the realm of the Staryk, all in return for nothing but an oath to leave her and hers alone. When the severely depleted demon is driven and barred from the realm of the Ice Fey he tries to devour Irina only to find his flame extinguished at her touch, then he goes for the old woman that more or less raised her with the same effect, and when a random scullery maid that walked in at the wrong time proves no more vulnerable:
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Literal Genie / int_53a0bd32	comment	Any number of plots on The Twilight Zone (1959). "But you only said you wanted to look younger, not actually be younger"; "You said you wanted to live forever, not that you wanted to stop aging"; etc. A specific example: in the episode "The Man in the Bottle", an old couple uncork a genie who can grants wishes, but warns of the price to them. When the couple figures out to carefully word their wishes, the husband wishes to be a leader for life in a modern European nation, but he still messes up when the genie gleefully turns him into Adolf Hitler at the fall of Berlin. Understandably, he quickly uses the last wish to turn himself back to normal. The episode ends on a bittersweet note, with the husband telling his wife that all things considered the lives they have now isn't that bad (the episode opened with them facing bankruptcy), and that as long as they have each other they can try to overcome their problems themselves without relying on magic.
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Literal Genie / int_54b1edff	comment	Although not from a real genie, rather his own friends, Juan in Altar Boyz finally found out where his parents (Who left him on the stairs of a church in Tijuana) are...buried in a cemetery.
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Literal Genie / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): Although well-meaning, Bungling Inventor Gyro Gearloose has a habit of following instructions a little too close to the letter, then being honestly confused when someone complains about the results ("well, you asked for..."). When told to make a SciFi show set "as real as it could be", he constructed a fully functioning spacecraft that launches the cast into orbit. When told to build a guard robot that wouldn't let anyone near Scrooge's money bin, he failed to include the obvious exception of Scrooge himself. Inverted when Scrooge tells him to pick "Some kind of nonsense" as a password for the newly-built Gizmoduck armor, and that it be an obscure one that nobody uses. Gyro uses a thesaurus to literally find an obscure synonym for "nonsense" and selects the most antiquated and unusual one he can find, "blatherskite". This by all means should have worked, but in a Million to One Chance, "blathering blatherskite" is the catchphrase of Scrooge's newly-hired accountant Fenton Crackshell, who ends up accidentally activating the armor and becoming Gizmoduck. Speaking of which, Fenton had earlier dumped Scrooge's entire fortune in a lake when he told Fenton that he wanted "liquid" assets, he then suggests "freezing" his assets as a way to get them out, meaning freeze the lake into a giant ice cube and haul that back to the vault.
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Literal Genie / int_569093cc	comment	The Papyrus of Binding in DuckTales (2017)'s episode "The First Adventure". When it is found, the previous owner, notorious pirate Yellow Beak, has written a will declaring the various misfortunes the Papyrus had brought upon him and his crewnote asking for escape from his pursuers stranded him on the top of a mountain on a deserted island and asking for water drowned his crew and he used the powers of the Papyrus to Mercy Kill him. The Papyrus also takes the users' own definitions into account as when Black Heron tries to use it to kill off young Donald and Della, it doesn't work because she wrote "sidekicks," but Scrooge considers them family, and it's not a "mission," but an adventure. It all comes to a head in the Grand Finale "The Last Adventure" when Bradford spent 30 years trying to Rules Lawyer a Magically-Binding Contract using the Papyrus in order to stamp out any Loophole Abuse in order to prevent Scrooge from adventuring for the safety of his family. He succeeds, but Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby realize there is one loophole Bradford never considered: "Family is the greatest adventure of all!" Upon this revelation, the contract breaks and the Papyrus disintegrates.
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Literal Genie / int_571a5bd7	comment	One of the fictional season two Challenge Of The Go Bots episodes described in the posts of Renegade Rhetoric, which was a Character Blog for main GoBots villain Cy-Kill, was "Babysitting", where the Renegades agreed to look after a huge toddler from another dimension with magic powers under the reasoning that they could use the child's powers to get rid of the Guardians. Unfortunately, because the child is well, a child, he completely misinterprets Cy-Kill's wishes. When told to blow the Guardians away, the child produces a wind that sends their ship away. When overhearing Cy-Kill instruct Cop-Tur to be quiet as a mouse, he turns the dim-witted Renegade into an actual rodent. The final mess-up is when Cy-Kill states to not care what the child does, so long as he doesn't have to see the Guardians ever again. It initially appears that the Guardians are vaporized by this wish, but Cy-Kill later learns to his ire that the Guardians were merely turned invisible.
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Literal Genie / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Subverted/inverted in "For the Future": the Oracle answers one question. Because he tried to screw him over before, Roy phrases his question in an extremely convoluted way with many backup clauses to avoid this — but without realizing it, ends up phrasing his question in such a way that the oracle (who wants to give him a useful answer this time) can't, because the actual outcome is a possibility Roy hadn't considered. Used straight in "I Think They're in One of the Rulebooks, Right?", where Grubwiggler takes advantage of the fact that golems are technically constructs and not undead. It's quite possible that it honestly hadn't even occurred to him that he would have a customer who wanted their departed boyfriend brought back to life as a PC again. Roy blows it on the wording again in "The Last Laugh", this time with a speak with dead spell.
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Literal Genie / int_58907201	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_58907201	comment	In Sinfest 2012-12-24: Dear Satan Claus, a prayer to "Please bring me hot bitches" results in angry female dogs with tails on fire appearing at someone's door.
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Literal Genie / int_5a2a2a83	comment	Inheritance Trilogy: The enslaved gods in The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms are required to obey any imperative statement made by the noble Arameri while in their presence. One of the first things the protagonist learns is that one must be extremely careful not only when giving a command but saying something that could be interpreted as giving a direct command. "Have you ever said to anyone in anger: To the hells with you?"
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Literal Genie / int_5c66fff9	comment	Subverted in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer: A devil has given a man a series of favors in exchange for performing evil deeds and also gaining the man's soul when he dies. Unfortunately for the devil, interpreting the man's wish, "I wish he was gone" means killing him (and fulfilling the last condition) and this blows up in his face because the contract's laws require that each condition cannot be coerced, and the literal genie interpretation of the wish counts as such.
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Literal Genie / int_5cdddc09	comment	Duumvirate: The control implants in Billy and Howard work this way. Anyone who can't avoid the obvious pitfalls is considered Too Dumb to Live.
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Literal Genie / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Black Butler: Sebastian cannot directly lie to Ciel, but nothing stops him from deliberately withholding critical information from him or deliberately leading Ciel astray by following his commands, such as in the Jack the Ripper arc.
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Literal Genie / int_5d844f37	comment	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Alice cites this reason for why wishes can't be trusted. Although it's worth noting that it's the magic that interprets the wish, not the genie.
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Literal Genie / int_5d908c85	comment	An episode of Archie's Weird Mysteries has Veronica wish "everyone was exactly like her" within earshot of a wish granting idol. The result is everyone in town one by one slowly becoming more like her, ultimately transforming into exact clones of her. It turns out the idol itself isn't even sentient and the day is saved when Veronica figures out what has happened and wishes from it for everything to be back to normal, but not before getting a good harsh look at just how annoying and whiny she is and learning to be a better person.
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Literal Genie / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Demon summoning in general works this way. When you manage to summon and bind a demon, you have the choice between assigning it a task with a potentially unlimited duration, or making the demon your devoted slave for one year and one day. The first option especially has endless potential for abuse, problems and loopholes. If you command a demon to "prevent anyone from entering my house when I'm not inside, forever", congratulations, you have just locked yourself (as much as anyone else) out of your own house until you (or someone else) manages to kill the demon. The Akuma can also be subject to this. They are demon worshippers that were "remade" by their demonic patrons in a way that both empower them and obliterate all of their personality, desires, goals and emotions, replacing them with an Urge chosen by the demon. And some demons were rather unthoughtful in this choice. For example, the akuma chief of the dreaded Lintha pirates has an urge to "serve the Sea that Marched Against the Flame" (another name of the demon prince otherwise known as Kimbery). Which means that at any time when Kimbery is not actively giving him orders, he just does nothing and waits.
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Literal Genie / int_5e59ce49	comment	Elantris: While not a genie, Sarene promises to get the Elantrian leaders anything they ask for, then finds it a fun game twisting their requests. They ask her for 20 sheets of steel: they get 20 sheets of steel pounded so thin as to be useless. Next time they ask for steel by weight: they get boxes full of broken nails. They ask for knives, stipulating that they be sharp, and receive them sans handles. (Though they do beat her sometimes — for instance, when asking for fish, which they expect will be half-rotten, which is exactly what they wanted, since they were actually looking for fertilizer.) The Geometric Magic from the same series can fall under this trope, since a given Aon will do exactly what it was written to do, just like a programming language. The classic example of this is Aon Tia, which teleports you instantly from one place to another...even if this would, say, put you inside a wall. Another example shows up in the backstory: An unfortunate man brought his wife to Elantris to be treated for her disease. The healer in question misdrew the healing Aon, but instead of creating an invalid Aon (which would have just vanished and done nothing), he accidentally created a totally different but still valid Aon, which basically turned the poor woman into a zombie. This touches off the book's plot.
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Literal Genie / int_5f205391	comment	In "The Bizarre Batman Genie!" in Detective Comics #322, Batman is transformed into a genie and trapped in lamp by criminals - unable to return to human until he has granted Three Wishes. (It Makes Just as Much Sense in Context.) The criminals attempt to use the Batman-Genie to commit crimes. Unfortunately for them, he is fairly literal in his understanding. Ordered to plunder the mint, Robin and Bat-Girl are able to thwart him by placing a truckload of mint plants inside the mint building. Batman 'plunders the mint' by stealing all of the mint plants.
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Literal Genie / int_5f29da1d	comment	Modern Faerie Tales: In Tithe, Faeries can be commanded by the power of their true name... but the obedience thus compelled is limited to the Exact Words of the command in question, as the protagonist discovers after discovering the true name of one Rath Roiben Rye and addressing him by it while telling him to "Kiss my ass." Later, and more deliberately, the big bad gets Rath Roiben Rye's true name and orders him to grab the escaping heroine. Roiben promptly grabs her arm... and then lets her go again.
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Literal Genie / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: One strip of is a reversal of the punchline of a popular Literal Genie joke. A guy walks into a bar, that includes a piano player that's less than a foot tall and a piano to match. The bartender shows him a very old beer bottle and tells the guy that he can use it for one wish. The guy makes his wish, gets screwed over by the Literal Genie, and complains "hey! I didn't ask for [result]!" The bartender's response? "Yeah, and I didn't ask for a ten-inch pianist." Now re-read the xkcd strip. Implied in this strip, where we see Black Hat's eyelash wish log, after he realizes that it works. On one of his many attempts to game the system, he asks for "unlimited eyelashes". Since his next wish is about defying this trope, it seems it didn't turn out as he intended.
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Literal Genie / int_642de4e1	comment	In Fafnir The Dragon, the title dragon acts like this because he is, simply put, not very bright. So word what you want from him carefully.
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Literal Genie / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Sarah Jane Adventures: In "The Mad Woman in the Attic", Rani gets angry at her friends and shouts, "I wish they would just leave me alone!" Later on, a sentient alien spaceship is grateful to Rani for helping its passenger and grants her wish, making all her friends disappear forever. Fortunately, fifty years later when Rani is a lonely old woman living in Sarah Jane's attic, she gets the chance to take it back.
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Literal Genie / int_68237790	comment	In the "Legacy of Fire" adventure path for Pathfinder, the antagonistic genie delves into this occasionally when not playing Jackass Genie or attempting to dig up an Eldritch Abomination so he can steal its power. For example, one of his minions in the final adventure has wished for skin as hard as diamond, so she's literally been turned into living diamond. Fortunately, since she's one of his minions, she is still allowed to move, and gets things like a +4 natural armor bonus from it.
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Literal Genie / int_691be369	comment	In The X-Files episode "Je Souhaite", a female genie takes very literal interpretation of wishes she must grant. She's frustrated with people in general, and says that everyone she's ever been forced to grant wishes to (which include Mussolini and Nixon) want stupid, selfish, or destructive things like money, power, or popularity. She tries in vain to convince the two idiot brothers she's in the employ of at the time to wish for reasonable things like talent, brains, or for the paralyzed one to have a pair of functioning legs, but instead their poorly-thought out wishes wind up getting them both killed. Mulder gets his three wishes as well, and he tries to prove the genie wrong about humanity by making an altruistic wish to have peace on Earth—which she grants him by making all living things disappear. After all the world is very peaceful when there's nobody there, and she points out that Mulder bringing world peace is hardly less egotistical than the other wishes she's granted. Mulder's second wish is of course to reverse it back, and he decides to write his last wish in legalese to make it unambiguous and without any loopholes. But Scully posits that it shouldn't be up to one man to change the state of the entire world by circumventing the human drive for betterment and progress, and he changes his mind and wishes that the genie can have what she's longed for for 500 years -- to become a human again.
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Literal Genie / int_69d15cc0	comment	In the Marvel Cinematic Universe AU fanfic If Wishing Made It So, HYDRA finds Bucky as a genie in a bottle. They use the Tesseract to alter his powers and force him to obey any order his master gives him to the exact letter, instead of just granting three easily twisted wishes, so that he suffers the negative consequences of this trope instead of the actual wisher. Steve learns about the full extent of this when he tells Bucky to "stay here" after he unwittingly releases him from his bottle in his apartment, and Bucky is rendered unable to leave his apartment even after Steve clarifies that he can move around until he gets specific permission to go outside.
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Literal Genie / int_69fa7496	comment	One Donald Duck Comic by Carl Barks has an interesting variant on this. As an April Fool joke, Huey Dewey and Louie trick Donald into believing that the rocks on an island in the Southern Sea grants wishes. Donald immediately drags them along to the island to test out the rocks — and due to a number of contrived circumstances, every wish Donald makes turns out to come true in a Literal Genie fashion, because Donald won't stop using slang when making wishes. For example, the natives of the island are worried because the ship that usually comes by to buy coconuts from them hasn't shown up, and their coconut stock is getting too big for their storage rooms. Hence, when Donald stops by, grabs a rock and loudly declares "I wish for a million coconuts!" (meaning, of course, a million dollars), the natives are all too happy to give him all the coconuts he wants. At the end of the story, Huey, Dewey and Louie are confused as to whether the rocks actually were magical or not — though all the granted wishes were easily explained away by coincidences, the fact remained that all the wishes did, after a fashion, come true.
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Literal Genie / int_6a8aff51	comment	Discussed and defied in The Stormlight Archive. Two characters are having a conversation about the Nightwatcher, a powerful magical being who will grant anyone who seeks her out one wish, but also curse them at the same time. One character thinks that he could avoid being cursed if he worded his wish so that there weren't any loopholes, but the other, more knowledgeable one says that the Nightwatcher doesn't work like that — she gives you a curse she thinks is appropriate, which might be an ironic twist on the wish, but just as often is totally unrelated. Wording your wish really well won't get you out of it.
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Literal Genie / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In the 2nd Edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, casting a wish spell ages your character 5 years, and requires the caster to spend 2-8 days in bed recuperating. So, this handy-dandy guide to being a 2nd Edition AD&D Munchkin recommends you phrase your wish as: "I wish Asmodeus were dead and I got all the experience points from killing him and all his treasure, and that I were de-aged 5 years and didn't need 2d4 days of bed rest."
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Literal Genie / int_6c31c39f	comment	Beetleborgs has Flabber the phasm, who according to the producers was based on Elvis, but to some resembles big-chinned talk-show host Jay Leno. As a reward for freeing him from the pipe organ he was imprisoned in, he gave the kids who did so a wish. They wished to become Beetleborgs, using a comic book to show Flabber who they are. Flabber, seeing rats on the cover, assumes the rats are the Beetleborgs and turns the kids into rats. After pointing out who the real Beetleborgs are, Flabber successfully turns them into Beetleborgs...without removing them from the comic book. Fortunately, Flabber is a benevolent example of this trope, as he corrects his mistakes, rather than letting the kids stick with a badly executed wish.
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Literal Genie / int_6e57117e	comment	In Weird Science, Wyatt wants to be the chess club president and accidentally wishes for it in front of Lisa, although she doesn't hear the whole story, and he forgets to mention the "chess club" part. So, she makes him the President of the United States. Gary's mismanagement and Wyatt's obsession with the chess club results in Wyatt's impeachment.
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Literal Genie / int_6e939b21	comment	In Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, the exact wording of how wishes work is that it's like having the wish written directly into the setting notes - when you wish to be a pirate, it's like rewriting the setting (probably temporarily) so that you being a pirate is a reasonable thing. One possible backstory event had Chuubo himself wish to have an ice cream, meaning that "Chuubo has an ice cream" became a temporarily irrevocable thing - he couldn't eat it, because then he wouldn't be able to have it, and the sun began to go dark to prevent it from melting.
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Literal Genie / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In an episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, in an attempt to defeat the bad guys, Jade orders the Monkey Talisman, "Turn this log into a death-ray!" The talisman turns the log into a manta, also known as a death-ray. (It turns out the Talisman's power is only to turn people/things into animals.)
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Literal Genie / int_6f734712	comment	Inverted on Smallville, where Chloe's mother has a power that forces meteor-freaks to do precisely and literally what she tells them. She books herself into a hospital when she tells her daughter to scrub her hands clean and she does so until the room is covered in blood.
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Literal Genie / int_71a2d83d	comment	In The Vampire Diaries Damon has some tendencies towards this. Elena does pick up on it pretty quickly, and when asking him to put the mind-whammy on her brother she makes a very specific request to circumvent it, but Damon loves a loophole.
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Literal Genie / int_72f19882	comment	The Flash once fell victim to this trope in a big way. Wally West had never bothered with a Secret Identity, thinking it was more trouble than it was worth. But he changed his mind when his nemesis Zoom attacked his wife and killed their unborn child. In his grief, Wally summoned the all-powerful being known as The Spectre and asked him to make the entire world forget the Flash's real identity. Spectre agreed... but since Wally said he wanted everyone to forget, HE FORGOT TOO. The next issue began with Wally as a down-on-his-luck nobody who had no idea he even had superpowers.
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Literal Genie / int_7385bc4d	comment	In one of the chapters of a Doraemon manga, Doraemon introduces a robot that tests the purity of the heart of a person and grants the person 3 wishes if they're worthy. Gian and Suneo finds out when the robot grants Shizuka three wishes, and arranges to trick the robot into thinking them worthy. Greed then overcomes the boys and both uses their final wishes to turn each other into anthropomorphic pigs during a heated argument.
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Literal Genie / int_7458f1bb	comment	The Princess Planet: "Genie 1"; "Genie 4"; "Genie 5"... plus the page picture. Two other examples are found in "Shadows of Dooooom! part 5". Though it's bordering on Jackass Genie there.
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Literal Genie / int_750b817	comment	The premise of Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life? has God pull this trick on the protagonist. As the title says, she asks for "average" ability in her fantasy-world reincarnation (because she hated the stress and isolation of being a Child Prodigy in her previous life). Instead of average human strength, she gets the average magical power of all creatures, including ridiculously powerful elder dragons. An Exposition Fairy calculates she has 6100 times the power of a normal human.
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Literal Genie / int_75bd5686	comment	Shining Time Station: The wishing star. It doesn't seem to realize that Schemer is being sarcastic when he wishes he and Stacy could switch places or when the mayor is speaking metaphorically about "ascending" and "rising above".
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Literal Genie / int_7616a253	comment	Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC: Yuuko, early on, grants a woman's wish to be free of her computer (because she's become so addicted to the Internet that it's interfering with her ability to take care of her family). Yuuko grants the wish by cutting the computer in half with a red baseball bat. Yuuko even points out afterwards that she's free to buy another computer, so — as with most of Yuuko's clients — whether her wish will ultimately be granted or not is up to her. 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") 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 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 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 the train system had an accident. Naturally, the paw interprets it as a wish and causes a passerby to be thrown in front of a train. On wish five, shaken up from the last two, she wishes for her ordeal to end by "erasing everything", so the paw kills her. Another example was when a girl comes to the shop, terrified of her house since strange sounds are heard throughout, unattended things are moving around and sometimes she is touched by the presence of people when no one was there. Yuuko asks her if her wish was that "[her] house was not frightening", which the girl said yes. Yuuko grants her wish by causing the girl, who was actually a ghost, to create more disturbances around the house so the alive tenants would exorcise her. Since now that ghost was gone, the house was no longer frightening.
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Literal Genie / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 has this in effect with The Catalyst. In the Extended Cut ending, it's revealed the Leviathans created an A.I. to find a way to stop conflict between organics and synthetics. Its solution? Merge them all together into mecha cthulhus, thus shifting the various biology-versus-machine conflicts into once-an-era civilization-destroying everyone-versus-Cyborg-Titans.
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Literal Genie / int_76885dcf	comment	Are You Afraid of the Dark? example: Two kids who live on a farm find an enchanted scarecrow that comes to life and obeys your orders, which is great, until the boy, within earshot of the scarecrow, accidentally says he'd "like to kill" his cousin for taking his baseball glove...
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Literal Genie / int_76feae04	comment	Jenji in Power Rangers Mystic Force uses this tactic to get out of granting any wishes at all. When the villains has captured him, he escapes by tricking Leelee into releasing him but wasting her wish: she winds up saying "I wish I'd never started biting my nails," to which he gleefully responds "done!" Once he disappears, the girl then finds her fingernails to be long and blackened. Screamlarity Ensues.
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Literal Genie / int_77b815a1	comment	In All You Need Is Love when Duck convinces Shidoh to do his bidding...
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Literal Genie / int_7832b74c	comment	Rose's Room in Steven Universe is a more benevolent version of a trope. It's essentially a holodeck that will create whatever the holder of the Rose Quartz gem (in this case, Steven) wants, though the items are actually solid clouds (for example, the food can't be eaten). In its first episode of focus Steven says that he wants to go outside, and the Room simply creates an illusionary version of the town. In the second episode Steven accidentally says that he wants to see Connie (who's currently out of sight), and the Room produces a fake which Steven mistakes for the real one. In "Catch and Release," however, he wants to get to the basement from the Room, and it shows him the way once he specifies that he needs the real basement.
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Literal Genie / int_79328e7	comment	Dick Dastardly employs Bubu, a genie, in the Wacky Races episode "The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby". He's not very bright and tends to take Dastardly's commands too literally. ("Put me out in front of the other racers!" Dastardly commands — Bubu puts the Mean Machine in front, all right. In front of the other racers facing them.)
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Literal Genie / int_7981ca33	comment	WarGames: The narrowly-averted extinction of humanity doesn't occur becuase the AI Joshua had any malevolent intentions towards the human race, it was simply doing what it had been instructed to do by a Playful Hacker: Win a game of Global Thermonuclear War. It can't comprehend that the consequences of fighting a simulated nuclear war are vastly different to the consequences of fighting a real one, in either case the death toll is just a number in a memory address as far as Joshua is concerned, and in either case winning is better than losing so it tries to win by any means necessary. Just like Steven Falken programmed it to.
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Literal Genie / int_79ce18de	comment	RPPR Actual Play: In Caleb's scenario "Revelations", Yog-Sothoth answers a priest's wishes to live in a time of biblical truth as literally as possible. Later, a player wishes for things to "go back to the way it was yesterday"... bringing a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
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Literal Genie / int_7ae78fc7	comment	In the Suruga Monkey arc of Bakemonogatari. The rainy devil grants its host three wishes in exchange for the host's soul. However, it inverts this trope by following the spirit of the wishes, not the letter. Suruga's true subconscious desires just happened to be much darker than the way she worded them.
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Literal Genie / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In an episode, the eponymous pair build a super computer that can answer any question with 100% accuracy. Candace asks it how she can get Mom to see what her brothers have done and it gives her the solution. It works, but not in the way she wanted. Linda does see what they did, but doesn't know they were the ones who did it. Another level to this: Candace meant "what her brothers did" as the Supercomputer that they had built, but the computer interprets it as the nice thing they did for Mom (fixing her bad hair day by exploiting the show's use of Contrived Coincidence) that they had built the computer to get the idea for. One non-canon Halloween Episode has Doofenshmirtz get three wishes. The first wish he uses as a test; the second gets interrupted when Perry drops a bookshelf on his foot, giving him power over snack foods; and the third, despite his attempts to be careful, winds up with him as a giant floating head.
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Literal Genie / int_7e5fd3cb	comment	The Monster of the Week strip based on "Je Souhaite" is actually a follow-up in which Scully complains that Mulder got the wishes and she didn't, so the genie gives her a shot as well. She wishes that there were fewer silly storylines, that she was the main character, and that there was some kind of follow-up to that bit in "all things" where she and Mulder apparently slept together. The genie grants her wishes, and tells her to wait for the next episode, at which point Scully realises she may have made a mistake...note The conspiracy goes into overdrive, Mulder gets abducted and basically stops being a series regular, and Scully discovers she's pregnant.
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Literal Genie / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	A variation occurs with Mab herself in that no-one asks her for a magical gift, but she is granting it because as Christmas falls in the time of Winter and giving gifts to people is the tradition, she sees it as an obligation she has to a servant. And to say no to Mab would be an injury to her pride and that is never a nice ending. So, she gives Harry Dresden's daughter Maggie an ornate ring that will grant the wearer temporary magical powers over Winter matching the powers of Elsa from Frozen, and play "Let It Go". This includes the power to freeze a person's heart and turn a person into an ice statue. When she is asked about the ring granting the those last powers, her response is:
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Literal Genie / int_7f640c57	comment	The Genie NPC in the original The Sims—he's not a Jackass Genie so much as... erratic. The player can summon him and gets a choice between two wishes. If you guess "water", you're either gifted with a new hot tub or a flood to mop up; if you guess "money", you get either a pot of gold or a stack of bills; if you guess "fire" or "love"... the list goes on.
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Literal Genie / int_7fd98e23	comment	In Be Careful What You Wish For (which has also been adapted for TV), Samantha Bird is an especially Genre Blind victim of a wish-granting witch, never realizing that her words are being taken literally. Her wish to be the most talented basketball player on her team (she's a big klutz) causes everyone else to be weaker, her wish for the Alpha Bitch to become her friend turns said girl into an insane stalker, then she wishes for the Alpha Bitch to have found the wish-granting crone instead. She ends up as a bird thanks to the other girl's wish.
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Literal Genie / int_7ff3216c	comment	Garfield and Friends: In the "Rainy Day Robot" U.S. Acres short, Roy gets conned into buying a voice-activated weather-making robot, though the salesman does tell him that the robot will "do the appropriate rain dance, snow dance, or whatever". It works fine during the demonstrations, but then idles whenever Roy specifically demands rain (perhaps because it only does each type of weather once). In his frustration, he then makes the mistake of saying things like "bucket of bolts", "overgrown vacuum cleaner", "horse", "tree", and "safe" (in which is a Shout-Out to Wile E Coyote as he holds up a sign that says "ouch" and an umbrella), in front of it (or within earshot as he tries to escape), prompting the robot to drop one of said things on top of him. Roy later uses it to thwart Orson's brothers by tricking them into repeating his would-be last words, "27 pianos", so that the robot drops the required amount on them. The episode ends without them getting it to properly rain, though, and one has to wonder how the robot interpreted "trade jobs"... In one quickie, Wade sang "Home On The Range", and the words in the song appeared before him. In yet an episode of Garfield proper, "Dogmother 2," a wish-granting fairy loses her notes, remembering only the address, so she goes to Jon's house and puts it under a spell that grants any inhabitant any statement that begins with "I wish." It's Jon luck that he happens to sing, "I Wish I Were in Dixieland" in the shower that day.
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Literal Genie / int_817acecf	comment	In Fairest, a spin-off of the well-received Vertigo series Fables, Fiery Redhead "Briar Rose" is depicted as another variation of the Sleeping Beauty character, including the part where she's showered with magical gifts and wishes by her Fairy Godmothers. To her everlasting displeasure, every wish got played straight, so only a few of her gifts are shown to be beneficial, or even remotely useful. While in the end she managed to receive supernatural beauty and allure (including a certain degree of sexual prowess by explicit wording in that sense), and the ability to excel in songwriting and playing musical instrument, having the "Wit of an Angel" means she that she lacks guile, and she's easily conned or tricked, and the wish for "the singing voice of a nightingale" actually stripped her of the ability to sing, as she can merely screech as a bird. Thus to her immense displeasure, while in the human world she was known as an accomplished songwriter and guitarist for an all-girls rock band, she never managed to took the lead, as her "blessing" was just a form of mystically induced selective mutism.
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Literal Genie / int_828dc5cc	comment	In Pixel Pinkie, Pinkie tends to a fairly literal approach to granting any wishes she is given; partially as a result of having being imprisoned for centuries and not really being up on modern idioms.
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Literal Genie / int_8334114a	comment	The title character in the ABC/BBC children's drama, The Genie from Down Under, was one of these — sometimes bordering on Jackass Genie. The spoiled English girl who released the Genie from the opal needed reforming pronto, and the genie set about this by annoying her constantly. Any wish that could be fulfilled by teleporting her back to Australia would be done in that manner, where a new adventure would begin.
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Literal Genie / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: In "The Mirror," Demona captures Puck and forces him to spend the night granting wishes. First she orders him to get rid of Elisa, followed by every human in the city. Puck responds by turning them into gargoyles. When she demands that she turn them back, he misinterprets it so that she leaves them as is but turns Goliath and the others human instead. And at the end, he responds to her desire to no longer turn to stone during the day...by making her turn into a human instead. Another example is the Cauldron of Life, which legend states will make anyone who bathes in it live "as long as the mountain stones." Xanatos hopes to use it to achieve immortality, but is also not stupid, and plans to test it out on Hudson first. After the old gargoyle escapes, Owen unhesitatingly offers himself as the test subject, and subsequently spends the rest of the series with a literal stone arm after he dips it into the cauldron's brew.
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Literal Genie / int_843d1304	comment	In Anansi Boys, Fat Charlie asks the Bird Woman to get rid of his brother Spider. At least that's what he thinks she's agreed to do. The Bird Woman never promised that she'd get rid of Spider specifically; her exact words were that she wanted "Anansi's bloodline", which includes Spider and Charlie. Yikes.
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Literal Genie / int_845f501d	comment	The Djinn displays this Terrordrome the Game: Rise of the Boogeymen, just like in the movie series featuring him. When four people (who share the identity of Ghostface) use their first wish to become the most notorious killers on Earth, he complies, giving them the strength to defeat the thirteen other fighters in the game. Come the ending, where he presents them extra-terrestrial killers (as in not from Earth), forcing the four use their second wish to undo the first one.
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Literal Genie / int_84c6fd45	comment	In Iznogoud (written by RenÃ© Goscinny, the writer of much better-known Asterix), there is an episode with a genie which is summoned by rubbing a pair of slippers. He fulfills not only every wish, but every statement that the summoning character would pronounce. Hilarity Ensues, especially if the statement is a curse of surprise.
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Literal Genie / int_859f63e3	comment	Dragon Ball Abridged: First, the series makes blatant note of the DBZ example above, when Deadpan Snarker Dende points out their failure to bring Piccolo right to them. Nappa gets wished back to life because it hasn't been a year since he died and Vegeta was still (technically) one of Freeza's men when Vegeta killed him (an often cited plot hole in the original series). At the end of the Cell Saga, King Kai, Bubbles, and Gregory aren't brought back to life after Cell self-destructed on their Baby Planet because Yamcha specifically wished to revive everyone on Earth killed by Cell. King Kai calls Yamcha an asshole for wording his wish that way.
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Literal Genie / int_85ac65dc	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_85ac65dc	comment	Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies is a great example, as much of it is in a prison full of people wishing to escape. Cue people being forced through the bars, or down a pipe.
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Literal Genie / int_86c3beca	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, the protagonist owns a sentient castle. It must always obey any order she gives it (well, the parts that even recognize her anyways) but it loves to interpret those orders in very interesting ways. She learns very quickly to be extremely exact about what she wants, else the castle will ruin whatever she may be trying to do.
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Literal Genie / int_870b2a7f	comment	Savatage's album Dead Winter Dead treats God this way in the song "This Isn't What We Meant". The people of Bosnia had prayed for a change from Yugoslavia's cruel regime and to their distress, God's response is a brutal civil war destroying the newborn nation.
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Literal Genie / int_87173599	comment	In Ashes of the Past, Jirachi's wish-granting abilities sometimes work in strange ways. A wish that they could find an Electrike who liked Wattson ended up transporting Max's Electrike a few feet to his side, while Jirachi's own wish (yeah, they created a loophole where it can grant its own wishes) that Max "wouldn't go splat" when the group is suddenly falling from a cable car ends up stealing a Remoraid from a Team Aqua Grunt so that Max's Mantyke can evolve into Mantine.
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Literal Genie / int_88363fe	comment	Subnormality's take: I would like everything I could ever need.
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Literal Genie / int_8ac3894b	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_8ac3894b	comment	Used briefly in Spellbinder. When Kathy irritably tells one of her android toys to "pull your head in" it attempts to oblige, though it can't get a proper grip on its skull.
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Literal Genie / int_8ea0d226	comment	On Knight Squad, Ciara is the Princess of Astoria whose father prevents her from being a knight. She uses a magic ring to disguise herself to attend Knight School. Finding a genie, Ciara wishes her father would let her be a knight after all. She and Arc (with her when the wish is made) find themselves in an Astoria where Ciara's father is "king" of a local pub and the selfish Sage is the princess. The genie states that because the king would never let his daughter be a knight, the most obvious solution was to not have him be the king anymore.
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Literal Genie / int_8f8c88cf	comment	In Ella Enchanted, Ella has to follow any direct order she's given since birth. She quickly learns to be a literal genie. For example, she will hold the bowl for her nurse when she's cooking, but the nurse didn't order her to stand still.
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Literal Genie / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, when Mat is in the Tower of Ghengei bargaining with the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn, he asks (among other things) that "you snake people" let him and his friends leave without harming them. The Finn eventually agree to his terms... and then Mat realizes that the deal protects him from the Aelfinn (snake people) but says nothing about the Eelfinn (fox people). They barely manage to leave alive.
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Literal Genie / int_91c1f60b	comment	In The Wish, a girl is granted a wish by an old lady she meets on a bus. The old lady offers to give her a permanent place in the in-crowd, but the girl insists on wishing to be the most popular person at her school... not realizing that the wish will then expire when she graduates a few weeks later.
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Literal Genie / int_920fd3e0	comment	Another example occurs in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. Here the good genie is forced to grant whatever wishes his owners give him, even if they are bad ideas. Fortunately Scrooge is smart enough to put everything right with his second wish near the end, saving one wish for freeing the genie.
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Literal Genie / int_9229262e	comment	An interesting inversion occurs in the Dutch Douwe Dabbert comics, where the title character has a magical knapsack that always contains what he needs. Whether he knows what he needs or not. More than once, he gets the item with which he can solve his current problem in the first half of the comic, but he still needs to figure out exactly what to do with it.
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Literal Genie / int_927963ad	comment	Another example of God as a Literal Genie: The Great Divorce portrays Him as someone perfectly willing to say "Thy will be done" to an unbeliever, effectively condemning them to a Self-Inflicted Hell.
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Literal Genie / int_928f959d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, Granolah uses the dragon Toronbo to wish to be the strongest warrior in the universe, which is granted. However, several people point out he is only the strongest at that moment, plus he only has strength and not training or experience. Goku and Vegeta are able to hold their own with their greater skill and eventually surpass his strength. Then Gas uses Toronbo to wish to become the strongest in the universe and he surpasses Granolah, Goku, and Vegeta. But then Frieza shows up and is much more powerful than Gas. He explains that he had been training in another dimension, so he wasn't technically in the universe when Gas made his wish.
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Literal Genie / int_939cf436	comment	The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder: The trailer opens with a brief gag where Wanda asks Cosmo to show "our new trailer" to the audience. Cosmo immediately obliges, only to reveal a horse trailer with the show's logo on it instead. When Viv wishes to be taller in the trailer, Cosmo & Wanda end up making her so tall that she ends up pressed against the ceiling.
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Literal Genie / int_93a07966	comment	In the Fate/Apocrypha spin-off, one character brings up the example of a mage who wishes to be the most powerful mage in the world, but in his mind his idea is that everyone better than him should be dead, thus resulting in the Grail killing everyone better than the mage in order to grant that wish.
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Literal Genie / int_977c980a	comment	In One Good Knight, a dragon is summoned to ravage the land until presented with routine virgin sacrifices. The dragon is a noble/knightly sort, and while he cannot fight the spell he is able to limit the ravaging to destruction of property and decimation of livestock... and finds the spell does not require him to devour or even harm the maidens he carries off. Imagine the surprise of the Dragon Slayer and the princess more or less rescued by same when they track it down and find the "victims" arrayed in defence of the "monster".
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Literal Genie / int_98744614	comment	The witch in Brave apparently grants wishes this way. A prince wished to have the strength of ten men? She turned him into a bear. Merida wishes her mom would change? She turned her into a bear. Was she an actual witch, or is that the only trick she could pull off?
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Literal Genie / int_9aac12df	comment	In the "Rainy Day Robot" U.S. Acres short, Roy gets conned into buying a voice-activated weather-making robot, though the salesman does tell him that the robot will "do the appropriate rain dance, snow dance, or whatever". It works fine during the demonstrations, but then idles whenever Roy specifically demands rain (perhaps because it only does each type of weather once). In his frustration, he then makes the mistake of saying things like "bucket of bolts", "overgrown vacuum cleaner", "horse", "tree", and "safe" (in which is a Shout-Out to Wile E Coyote as he holds up a sign that says "ouch" and an umbrella), in front of it (or within earshot as he tries to escape), prompting the robot to drop one of said things on top of him. Roy later uses it to thwart Orson's brothers by tricking them into repeating his would-be last words, "27 pianos", so that the robot drops the required amount on them. The episode ends without them getting it to properly rain, though, and one has to wonder how the robot interpreted "trade jobs"...
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Literal Genie / int_9bb5aad4	comment	In Season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the fake Big Bad, Professor Cobra, makes a deal with the Sealed Evil in a Can, who promises to "reunite him" with his dead son — ultimately, not by bringing his son back to life, but by killing him.
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Literal Genie / int_9c70eb82	comment	Cheeky Angel: Inverted when the lead, Megumi, gets the opposite of what he wished for from a spirit in a book given to him by an old man. He wished to be the most "manly man" in the world, but now she is the most "womanly woman" (the spirit claims to have misheard the wish, but more is more likely just a trickster). In the manga, Megumi actually was a girl all along; the genie didn't mishear the wish, but wasn't powerful enough to make her male, so changed her memories so she thought she was male instead. The anime has a character suggest this without resolving it at the end.
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Literal Genie / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series, this is how Clavicus Vile, the Daedric Prince of Bargains and Wishes, typically goes about granting wishes. While he always holds up his end of the bargain, he almost always does so in a way the wish maker will regret. In Skyrim, he is separated from his external conscience, Barbas, and thus veers closer to Jackass Genie territory. When a wizard asked Clavicus for the means to cure his daughter of lycanthropy, Vile gave the wizard a magic axe. He was also petitioned by a group of vampires to end their suffering (i.e. they wanted to become mortal again). Cue the Player Character walking in and slaughtering them all. (Vile considers the wish granted in full.)
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Literal Genie / int_9fa025d	comment	In Mother 3, the game's Big Bad, the technically immortal Pig King, orders Dr. Andonuts to construct an "Absolutely Safe Capsule", which can protect him from absolutely everything in a pinch. Being one of the good guys, Dr. Andonuts chooses to take the Literal Genie approach regarding just how absolute the safety provided by the Capsule is. When the Pig King eventually faces defeat at the hands of the heroes and retreats to the Absolutely Safe Capsule, it transpires that while he is indeed impervious to any attack the heroes throw at him, he is also unable to attack them, making anyone outside the Capsule also "Absolutely Safe" as a result. The worst and most chilling part, though, is that "Absolute" safety, by definition, is impossible to compromise — once activated, the Capsule cannot be opened again. By entering the Capsule, the Pig King has doomed himself to spend eternity in isolation. Seemingly a Fate Worse than Death, but it's implied in the end sequence that this was actually a happy ending for him.
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Literal Genie / int_a2c37f38	comment	Planescape: Torment: Played with when the player can discover a story about this kind of wishmaking, though the game later implies the immortal amnesiac main character accidentally inspired the story. It goes something like this: A man finds himself sitting by a road, not sure of where or who he is. A hag comes up and, cackling, asks, "Are you ready for your third wish?" "Third wish," he asks. "What happened to my first and second?" "You've had two, but you used your second wish to undo your first. That's why you don't remember; everything is as it was before the first wish," she says. "All right," he says, "No harm. I wish to know who I am." The woman laughs and, just before vanishing, declares, "Funny, that was your first wish." Torment has another such tale: Once upon a time, a girl came to an oracle who was rumored to know many things and asked of it a boon. Her life was in need of direction, so she asked this oracle as to what would give her purpose. Now, the oracle was not evil, but it was vague and tended towards drink, which caused it to be obscure in many matters of judgment and focus. Its only answer to the girl's question was that within one story that she would hear in her lifetime was the truth that she sought. The girl went off and collected stories, which she chases to this day, not knowing which of the thousands hold the truth. For reference, that tale is told by a girl called "Yves Tales-Chaser", who you can exchange tales with (the first story is Morte "paying" her for another one). Now, think about it for a moment....
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Literal Genie / int_a3fcd166	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: Deep Thought could qualify, although it's more of an example of computer programming humor: Deep Thought gives the correct answer, it's just that the questioners asked the question wrong. Haktar has a similar problem. He built the Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax the "ultimate weapon", a bomb that would link together all suns in an enormous supernova and destroy the universe. "Ultimate", meaning the last weapon. Again, this one is mostly the fault of the creators. When he asked them what exactly they meant by "ultimate" they told him to look in a dictionary.
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Literal Genie / int_a49a890c	comment	Preacher: Jesse Custer is imbued with the Word of God, which means he can make anyone follow his commands to the letter. He doesn't always think this through, such as the time when he got rid of a sheriff by telling him "go fuck yourself", which resulted in him tearing off his own penis and sodomizing himself with it. A much more chilling example: Jesse instructs several armed men to "Fuck off," and they do, turning around and running away. One of them, as they run, looks to another with absolute terror in his eyes and asks, "Forever?"
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Literal Genie / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass R2: Magnificent Bastard Lelouch pulls one of these to his advantage in episode 8. While discussing the terms of his exile from Japan, he gets the Britannians to agree that Zero is not a specific person, but rather anyone who accepts his ideals. When things were set in stone, a million Japanese rebels appeared, all dressed in Zero costumes. As per the terms of their agreement, every single one of these people counts as Zero and therefore must be exiled -- giving Lelouch an army one million strong. Part of this banked on the knowledge that Suzaku wouldn't let a massacre take place, because anyone else would have just killed them all without a thought. Even Suzaku was waffling on that point. Also in season 1. Lelouch tells princess Euphemia that if he really wanted to, he could get her to do anything he asked for, and he mentions genocide of the Japanese people as an extreme example. Unknown to him, he has lost his ability to turn his Geass off, and it conveys the order to Euphemia. Euphemia initially tries to resist the order and briefly succeeds, but is soon overtaken by its power and Lelouch is forced to shoot her. All the times Lelouch's Geass backfires due to careless wording. His order to the policemen to shoot Mao rather than kill him leads to a Not Quite Dead moment, allowing Mao to kidnap Nunnally. "Live!" comes back to bite both Lelouch and Suzaku numerous times later... In another Zero example, Schniezel winds up obeying Zero in the end because Lelouch geassed him to "obey Zero" rather than "obey me". This is very significant, because Lelouch's master plan culminates in his own death at the hands of Suzaku, who's become the new Zero.
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Literal Genie / int_a5fec434	comment	Twisted Metal: In this series the winner is granted a single wish. Most of the wishes end up getting corrupted, such as a soldier who wishes for a young body but keeps his old head, or a couple of men who wish to be able to fly. Calypso tells them their wish is granted and they immediately jump off the building they are on, thinking they can fly, and proceed to smash themselves into the ground. Meanwhile, a rather surprised Calypso is still standing there, holding a couple of plane tickets. Usually averted by Needles Kane, the driver of Sweet Tooth. He almost always gets one over on Calypso, save for his ending in the 2012 reboot: he wanted to find the one girl who survived his killing rampage to finish the job. She committed suicide 10 years ago, so Calypso transported him inside her coffin, underground, where he suffocates. Similarly, the two who wished to fly in one game had "beaten" Calypso in a previous installment through sheer virtue of being so simple-minded: they wished for new tires for their monster truck, because it wore them out very quickly. After initial surprise, a bemused Calypso grants it, no strings attached. One ending in Twisted Metal 2 shows that the winner anticipated this. In the first game, the driver of Outlaw (a police officer) confronts Calypso and gets sent into space. In the second, his sister asks to be taken to her brother, which gets her sent to space... at which point it's revealed her car doubles as a spacecraft, allowing her and her brother to return to Earth safely. In the Darker and Edgier Twisted Metal Black, he noticeably didn't go this route when the racer wanted revenge on someone, in fact, he would often go above and beyond to make sure they would get their revenge with a dose of irony. He continues to invoke this in the 2012 reboot too. The first time is with Sweet Tooth, who wants to find and kill the daughter of Marcus Kane, his initial persona. But it turns out that his target, Sophie, was Dead All Along, having committed suicide because of the stress of having her own freaking father nearly killing her. So naturally, when Sweet Tooth demands he be taken to her, he does... inside a deep damn grave. Also, when Dollface gets to make her wish, she changes her mind, preferring to keep her mask if it meant wishing for instant fame without having to go through the murderous effort to get it. Although, the way she words it is ever so fertile grounds for this trope. Specifically, she wishes to walk down the biggest runway in history and to shine. And Calypso really does give her the runway. An airplane runway, that is. And the "shine" part? That happens when Dollface has an airplane light shining on her after her high heel ironically breaks.
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Literal Genie / int_a710a99	comment	In Radical Dreamers the group encounters a magical mirror that can answer any question it is asked. Serge can ask it for what are the "three measurements" of his female companion Kid, obviously meaning her chest-waist-hips measurements. He is rather confused when the answer he gets is 66, 5 and 9, which turn out to be her height, shoe size and ring size. Whether this is because the mirror genuinely did not understand the intention behind the question is left unanswered.
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Literal Genie / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: A Running Gag with Cosmo and Wanda. Some examples include the following: he wishes for a shrink suit, but the suit can only shrink, not return to normal size; he wishes that he had parents that couldn't care less, they end up not caring about work, bills, personal hygiene, etc., and it also affects Cosmo and Wanda, his godparents; he wishes to be sent to the comic book store while he's taking a bath, Cosmo and Wanda neglect to dress him before they send him to said store, resulting in Timmy having to make his way home across Dimmsdale completely naked. It's to the point that, in "Just the Two of Us!", he has to rephrase his wish that he was the last boy on Earth three times to get the results he wants. Lampshaded at the end of one episode. Having spent most of the episode shrunk down inside Vicky's body so he can write a report on the body's cells, Timmy complains that he now has to write a report on "the wonders of the big universe". Cosmo and Wanda immediately extrapolate his previous wish and turn him into a planet-sized giant, prompting Timmy to complain that "you guys take everything too literal". Norm the Genie is initially depicted as such in his debut episode. When Timmy makes a wish for an omelet, it falls into his hands and burns them, because Timmy didn't wish for an omelet on a plate. When he tries to be more specific ("I wish Trixie Tang loved Timmy Turner"), Norm makes it so Trixie loves everyone named Timmy Turner. It's the third and final wish that outs Norm as an outright Jackass Genie; Timmy wishes for his Dad to be a billionaire, and Norm makes Mr. Turner a counterfeiter.
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Literal Genie / int_abfcff6a	comment	The Rocky and Bullwinkle Fractured Fairy Tale short "Prince Darling" shows the fairy intentionally doing this, turning the eponymous prince into a monster, saying "Your father's last wish was that I make something out of you. That's something."
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Literal Genie / int_ac70897e	comment	In Stardust, Tristan pays a witch to transport him to a fair, providing food and bedding, and for him to be unharmed. She turns him into a mouse and keeps him in a cage before turning him back at the fair itself.
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Literal Genie / int_b067b820	comment	In the Heather Dale song Changeling Child, a childless woman bargains with the queen of fairies for a baby; this wish is granted, and she returns home with her new child to her and her husband's great joy. As the years pass, however, they notice that the child never grows and remains eternally an infant — as she'd asked the fairies for a baby, specifically, they'd given her that and nothing more or less.
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Literal Genie / int_b0fc9724	comment	Subverted in a Saturday Night Live sketch in which a fisherman catches a fish that grants wishes. Unsatisfied with the first several wishes that backfire, he hires a lawyer to make sure he gets exactly what he wants by drawing up a wish contract for the fish.
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Literal Genie / int_b29621f3	comment	The golems in the novel Feet of Clay "rebel" by doing exactly what they're told. "No-one wants them to think, so they get their own back by not thinking."
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Literal Genie / int_b30e67ae	comment	Rentaghost: The Perkins are given a magical amulet that grants all their wishes. They do not realise this and persist in expressing odd wishes, which the amulet then proceeds to grant, usually in a fairly literal manner.
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Literal Genie / int_b32c96fa	comment	In the original movie, one of the wishes of the main character was to "go down in history" and become "the President!": He was immediately incarnated as Abraham Lincoln... in the balcony of Ford's Theatre. The first movie also ends with the main character turned into a woman and now a member of a nunnery (which is implied to allow lesbian relationships) in the country with the woman he was attracted to.
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Literal Genie / int_b32ce8cf	comment	In the remake, as he starts to wise up to the Devil, his wishes start getting more elaborate. The devil keeps finding a detail he left out, and screws him over on that point. In fact, the very first thing he wishes is to be rich and married to the love of his life — only to become a rich cocaine baron whose wife absolutely loathes him.
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Literal Genie / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: This is discussed in the "Heart of the Monster" arc in The Incredible Hulks when Hulk and his team encounter a Wishing Well.
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Literal Genie / int_b5942ee6	comment	Timon & Pumbaa: Happens to the duo when they find a lamp near the watering hole, and each wish for a million wishes. In one Body Horror moment, after their desire to wish their own way of wishing sets them apart, they make up and wish to be together again, only for that wish to make them fuse together before they wish themselves separate. Another episode had one where Pumbaa saved a magical whale by throwing it back into the ocean. Telling Timon this, he gets him to go back and forth to make his three wishes, trying to be specific as possible, but all backfiring because Pumbaa didn't say it EXACTLY the way he asked it. The best example would be his final wish, when he wished for a fancy castle and just for kicks, a magical fire-breathing monster (which he expected to be a dragon and not a chicken) he can defeat. Pumbaa instead said "can't", so the episode ends with the duo hiding out from their fire-breathing fowl fiend.
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Literal Genie / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: "Through the Door" features a genie who will only grant your wish if you are very specific (if you wish for a perfect day, you have to describe every aspect of the day; if you wish for ice cream, you have to describe the size, shape, flavor, etc). The ponies decide he's more trouble than he's worth.
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Literal Genie / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: The Holy Grail when it's working properly is one of these. It's capable of granting any wish, but the person making the wish has to have in mind some way of making it come true. In the Third Holy Grail War, the Einzberns tried to summon Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian God of Evil, as the Servant Avenger, hoping to get an invincible demon, but instead got a weak human who was ritually sacrificed thus becoming the source of the legend. However, because he represented a wish for an embodiment of "All the World's Evil" that everyone could blame for their suffering, when he entered the Grail, the Grail tried to grant that wish and would have summoned such a being if someone tried to make a wish on the Grail. In the Fate/Apocrypha spin-off, one character brings up the example of a mage who wishes to be the most powerful mage in the world, but in his mind his idea is that everyone better than him should be dead, thus resulting in the Grail killing everyone better than the mage in order to grant that wish. Marisbury Animusphere wished to be rich and respected by his peers. He got... truckloads of money and the respect of his peers. This is notably the only wish we see that didn't backfire in some fashion, because it was so simple and straightforward that he could easily visualize what he wanted and the Grail could give it to him with no trouble.
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Literal Genie / int_ba28d8ce	comment	"Escape!": The Brain includes certain quirks in the design of the prototype spaceship because it went a little insane. The equipment is all recessed, and only opens under the computer's command. The crew has enough to eat and drink, but only beans and milk for weeks. Earth can contact the ship, but they can't respond. Technically it does everything they ask of it, just not quite the way they wanted/expected.
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Literal Genie / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Desiree of Danny Phantom, the ghost genie. The more wishes one makes, the stronger she gets. Eventually defeated by "I WISH YOU WOULD GET IN THE GHOST TRAP." Thus prompting the hero to regret himself being Book Dumb, since it took him the whole episode to come up with that.
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Literal Genie / int_bb444181	comment	In one strip of Tales of the Questor, Quentyn ends up being given three boons from a rather nasty fey of the Unseleighe court. However, he not only has to be very specific with his wishes, but has to phrase it in an obscure language, to eliminate double meanings and make it impossible to interpret the words in any way other than what was intended. And he still manages to mess up one of his wishes. He'd intended his second wish to be that Dolan had to return everything he'd stolen from Duke Sturmhold. What he actually commanded was that the Duke get everything Dolan had ever stolen from ''anyone''.
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Literal Genie / int_bc8539c3	comment	In The Collector, which is all about making Deals with the Devil, the Devil always finds some way for a poorly phrased deal to backfire. For example, the main character's lover dies of The Plague after his 10-year deal is up because he asked for "more time with her," not that she be fully cured and live.
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Literal Genie / int_beb6b6ad	comment	This showed up in the Shazzan episode "The Maze of Mercurad". Due to the laws of magic governing the Fifth Mountain, Shazzan couldn't just curbstomp Mercurad like he could with every other enemy of the week; the kids have to pay a toll to Mercurad. Instead, he defeats him by acting like a Literal Genie. When Mercurad asks for a fortune in silver, Shazzan fills the entire valley with silver coins; a fortune so huge that Mercurad can't guard it all from thieves. When Mercurad then asks that the fortune be made more secure, Shazzan turns it into a mountain sized block of pure silver that would be too difficult to actually spend. Giving up on money, Mercurad asks for the key to ultimate knowledge. Shazzan shows him a bizarre equation that encompasses all knowledge, but without the required background to understand the equation it's completely useless to Mercurad. Mercurad then asks for the power of a genie. Shazzan complies, but then mentions that all genies have masters. Mercurad's master will be his own monstrous gatekeeper. Mercurad immediately rescinds his desire to be a genie at this point. Finally, Mercurad decides that a simple payment will be enough: a loaf of bread, a piece of cheese, and some fresh water. Shazzan grants this wish with no problems at all.
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Literal Genie / int_c101f24e	comment	The bad guy controlling Lenny in Accidental Centaurs ordered him to immobilize Alex when Alex tried to attack him. He neglected to mention how long Alex should be immobilized.
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Literal Genie / int_c19c6efa	comment	Notch, creator of Minecraft, pulled off the trope with riding pigs. People wanted to ride a pig and Notch made it happen, except he didn't give players any way to control the pig. It wasn't until a year later where Jeb created a new item that would let people control the pig's movements.
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Literal Genie / int_c2ebb41c	comment	In the Close Enough episode "The Weird Kid", Alex accidentally wishes on his Viking pendant to be emotionally close to his offspring while telling Emily that she should have been more specific about her wish to be closer to Candice. However, because the vasectomy episode reveals that Alex has no offspring, it makes him emotionally close to The Offspring.
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Literal Genie / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Five Doctors": Rassilon gave Borusa the immortality he wished for â€” as a living statue. "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood": The Doctor gives the Family of Blood exactly what they wished for â€” in the most horrific manner possible. They wanted the immortality of a Time Lord, so they got imprisoned in chains forged at the heart of a dwarf star, past the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy, trapped in every mirror in existence and dressed up as a scarecrow to watch over the fields of England, frozen in time. Yikes. "Voyage of the Damned": The Hosts will answer three questions if the correct security override is used. However, as the Doctor discovers the second time he runs into them, they'll take rhetorical questions, and he quickly finds himself down to only one question before managing to leverage the situation to his advantage.
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Literal Genie / int_c51cb60a	comment	This is one of the fundamental tenets of Changeling: The Lost; though Pledges are more about intent, the Contracts (spells) and the reality-warping powers of the True Fae are based on extremely literal interpretations of fairly general ideas. Nonsensical catches in the contracts can allow you to call upon its power without cost- for example, smearing a mirror with a saliva-wettened tongue, being at a formal party of eight or more people, or using the contract purely to prove you can, depending on the contract.
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Literal Genie / int_c6dbe98e	comment	Monster: Johan tends to respond to requests in this manner, and this is when he's being nice (as opposed to being a straight-out Jackass Genie). As an example: General Wolf once asked Johan how he was feeling. Johan, who is extremely psychologically isolated, decided to show the General exactly how he was feeling by meticulously killing every single person Wolf ever had a personal connection with so he's now as alone as Johan is.
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Literal Genie / int_c717e9ce	comment	The 10th Kingdom: Tony's dragon dung bean fulfills this trope to a tee: his first wish of making his landlord and his family become his slaves included the phrase "and kiss my ass"... so every single Murray family member insists on doing exactly that with obsessive attention. The beer in the fridge is indeed neverending, to the point of making it explode, the vacuum he asked to "clean the entire house" follows the directions to the letter (including trying to vacuum up the curtains), and the beneficial wish of being able to speak to Wendell the dog is limited to only Tony being able to hear him, since he said "I" rather than "we". And when he wishes for money, it is stolen from the bank, and the cops are quick to track it down. This also occurs later in the Deadly Swamp (because Tony never learns):
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Literal Genie / int_c75986ad	comment	GÃ¶del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid features such a genie incident when Achilles wishes that his wish not have been granted. Oops.
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Literal Genie / int_c7a52ee3	comment	Driven into the ground in the Extreme Ghostbusters episode "Be Careful What You Wish For". An evil spirit grants wishes like "I wish I could get back to my roots" (guy turns into a tree), "I wish I had a younger body" (woman turns into a baby but keeps her normal head), "I wish I had a face like that guy" (grows a second head), "I wish she liked me as much as that cat" (wakes up inside the cat's body), and to just put a cherry on it: "I wish I was made of money" (do we have to explain this one?). The ghost is eventually beaten when Eduardo the one in the cat comes up with the wish "I wish for you not to grant this wish", and the resulting paradox after Kylie says it renders it vulnerable to the usual ghost trap.
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Literal Genie / int_c87ab2f4	comment	In Green (2011), Lily is ordered to catch a pisky and have it grant her a wish. She decides the best way to get through this is to ask for something too minor to be worth turning against her.
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Literal Genie / int_c96cfe29	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Ganon makes a wish upon the Triforce. The exact phrasing of the wish is unknown, but it appears to have been a wish to rule the world. However, the Triforce granted it by giving Ganon total dominion over the world he was in at the time; the Golden Realm. On the other hand, the power he gained from that conquest would have led to him breaking into the Light world and conquering it as well, so it may have been fulfilling his wish in a sort of roundabout fashion.
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Literal Genie / int_cc3602d6	comment	Magic Shop: Near the end of The Skull of Truth, the embodiment of Truth offers to truthfully answer any one question for each of the main characters. One of the characters asks about his father's future and the answer Truth gives him is something along the lines of, "He will grow old. He will be happy. He will be sad. He will die." When the character complains that the answer wasn't what he wanted, Truth tells him he should have been more specific with his question.
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Literal Genie / int_ce50887e	comment	A rather famous one comes up at the end of the first arc of the original Dragon Ball due to the line being bowdlerised. To stop Emperor Pilaf from making a wish to Take Over the World, Oolong rushes in and makes a wish first. In the original dub, he just wished for a pair of women's panties. In the English line he wished for "the world's most comfortable pair of underwear", which just so happened to be lady's underwear.
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Literal Genie / int_d0952fd9	comment	The Thief of Bagdad (1940): Ahmad looks in an All-Seeing Eye and sees Jaffar courting the Princess. He says "I wish I were in Baghdad right now!" His sidekick Abu says "I wish you were!" The Literal Genie, who sees Abu as his master, sends Ahmad to Baghdad, but since Abu didn't wish to go with him, he's still stuck on the deserted island. Thankfully, he has more wishes.
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Literal Genie / int_d0c31ab	comment	In Star Trek: Generations, Captain Kirk winds up being the Trope Namer for Dropped a Bridge on Him, but that ending was a re-shoot. Originally Kirk had a more direct fight with Soran before being killed, but this ending didn't do well with test-screenings. Supposedly several comments from the test screeners read, "Kirk should die on the bridge." Unfortunately, none of these specified "The bridge of the Enterprise."
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Literal Genie / int_d0f6e64a	comment	I Wish has K start off as this when he first became a wish-fulfilling magician. A man wishes to never have to see idiots again? K makes him blind. A fat woman wishes to be as thin as a bone? K turns her into a bone. He got better as he continued his work.
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Literal Genie / int_d11cd383	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d11cd383	comment	Kamen Rider Den-O: The Imagin, ghostly "spirits" from an alternate future who make genie-like "contracts" with humans in order to gain physical form, go back in time, and wreck the past, ensuring their history is restored (they're ghosts because they were retroactively wiped from existence). The only way they can connect to the past is by granting their contract-holder a wish, though quite often the Imagin will twist the human's words in order to achieve their goal. In one episode, a man wishes to cut ties with the Yakuza, and the Imagin fulfills his wish by cutting their neckties, which is apparently sufficient to connect to the past. In another, the Imagin of the week overhears a man talking in his sleep that he would like to get rid of his boss, and takes it as a wish. When he finds out that the man can't remember wishing that (he was fast asleep)... Well, just say it didn't go over very well. A more positive version occurs late in the series. the good Imagin Kintaros, who lacks a contract with his partner Ryotaro, asks what the young man's New Year's resolution is; Ryotaro says that it's for his friends to stay with him no matter what. Later on when faced with an army of evil Imagin, Kintaros reveals that he treated the resolution as a wish, giving himself physical form and allowing him to pull a not-quite-Heroic Sacrifice Go Through Me.
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Literal Genie / int_d371eaa5	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d371eaa5	comment	Joka's ending in Klonoa: Beach Volleyball features him casting a spell to make the prize money he won 10 times greater. He ends up making the individual bills 10 times larger. When he tries to spend the money, the shopkeeper assumes it's counterfeit and calls the police.
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Literal Genie / int_d4642985	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d4642985	comment	In the Revelation Space Series short story "Nightingale", the mad medical A.I. offers to let the mercenaries return "in one piece". Cue the Body Horror.
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Literal Genie / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin: Applies to some degree to the Genie, even though he's a well-meaning Benevolent Genie. At the start, Aladdin manages to con him into getting them out of the Cave of Wonders for free, but only by making the Genie think he's made a wish. Later, the Genie is unable even to rescue him from drowning without an explicit spoken wish (though he pulls his own bit of Loophole Abuse to get around this). Ultimately, Aladdin tricks Jafar into wishing that Genie make him into a genie himself, with all the limitations that entails — making him much less dangerous than when he was a sorcerer who could use his magic however he wanted. In the sequel Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, Jafar does this with Abis Mal to cow him into wishing exactly how Jafar wants him to. Abis Mal wanted treasure, so Jafar takes them to a sunken treasure ship in the middle of the ocean. Jafar being Jafar, he's also a Jackass Genie. In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the Oracle of the staff answers Iago's rhetorical question about what she is, ticking him off when he hears each questioner only gets one chance. (And also the Oracle being the Oracle, she probably knew exactly what Iago is like.)
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Literal Genie / int_d5bd2a20	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d5bd2a20	comment	In The Book of Mormon, two people at different times demanded for a sign that Jesus Christ existed. They didn't live long after that.
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Literal Genie / int_d79bb655	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d79bb655	comment	Subverted in Eight Billion Genies. The genies will give you exactly what you ask for and follow it to the spirit of the letter, only reminding the wishers to be very specific in their intent, as it can affect the outcome of the wish. They also warn people to word their wishes very carefully to avoid unforeseen consequences, but they don't care what happens afterward.
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Literal Genie / int_d84394a3	comment	Not surprisingly, this joke tends to come up in I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle. Here's one example.
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Literal Genie / int_d8bda674	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d8bda674	comment	In X/1999 Fuuma becomes the embodiment of Be Careful What You Wish For when he starts granting people's "true" or unseen wishes. This usually involves killing someone in a particularly gruesome manner, or in one instance taking someone's eye — admittedly more a result of the fact that the people whose wishes are being granted are almost uniformly really screwed up, considering that the only person to escape a confrontation with him unscathed was the one person who honestly wished to survive.
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Literal Genie / int_d981184b	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d981184b	comment	In The Fountain, conquistador Tomas Creo finds the Fountain of Youth/Tree of Life in the Mayan jungle, which is said by the Mayans to give eternal life when it sprouted from the chest of the first human. He cuts into the tree and where the sap lands, flowers spring up. After drinking from its sap, Flowers burst out of his chest and lungs and he is absorbed into the roots of the immortal tree. Paging Don Martin, anyone?
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Literal Genie / int_d9c4a85e	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d9c4a85e	comment	An issue of Marvel Adventures has Tigra find a genie and hesitate to use her wishes because she's very well aware of the possibility of the genie behaving in this way. Until the end of the issue, where she wishes for a new lamp to hold him and is very specific about it to avoid him finding any loopholes.
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Literal Genie / int_d9c602eb	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_d9c602eb	comment	The South Park episode "Crippled Summer" had Nathan trying to get Mimzy to get Jimmy killed, but he misinterprets every command. For example, Nathan tells Mimzy to kill Jimmy by going underwater where he is and blowing a shark whistle to attract sharks. Mimzy then goes underwater, goes back on land, and then blows the shark whistle.
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Literal Genie / int_da92c130	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_da92c130	comment	Units in Erfworld are duty bound, and can't go against orders unless they actively defect to the enemy. But when a magician, capable of casting mind control and suggestion spells asks "May I give you a suggestion, lord?", you may want to think about your answer.....
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Literal Genie / int_dac7c837	comment	In A Wizard in Rhyme, the entire magic system of the world sometimes acts like this. An example would be the time that main character Matt, a transplant from our world who therefore isn't as careful about his language, yells "damn that stick!" when a big stick is in his way, and later finds out that he literally damned the stick. It comes back as an even bigger stick that is now pissed off because it was taken to Hell.
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Literal Genie / int_dc4e4f67	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_dc4e4f67	comment	The Wotch features an Artifact of Doom that forces the genie summoned through it to act this way, even if it's against their nature. Later still, one story arc involves the protagonists visiting a world inhabited entirely by genies. It ends when the gang accidentally kicks off a Civil War between the genies who follow this trope on purpose and the genies who don't.
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Literal Genie / int_dca06c7f	comment	Tales of MU: While Two isn't evil herself, one has to carefully word any order meant to give her a little more freedom without getting her in trouble. Protagonist Mackenzie had to think for a whole minute in order to allow her to eat relatively freely. And it takes more than one try. In chapter 345 of the first year, one of Mack's professors gives the class a project that essentially amounts to wording a wish so that it can't be screwed with by a Literal Genie and then having them trade to twist the Exact Words of their victim.
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Literal Genie / int_de769331	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_de769331	comment	Happens a lot in the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comics. For one example, Sabrina is so disappointed with the tiny portion of ice cream she's ordered from a soda shop that she casts a spell to make it ten times larger. Her aunt informs her that she only made the bill ten times larger.
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Literal Genie / int_e013357e	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e013357e	comment	An evil butcher in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat episode "Guardian Idiot" wishes Felix's bumbling Guardian Angel to "make him the biggest, greasiest sausage ever made"... which he does, but to him.
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Literal Genie / int_e199d649	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e199d649	comment	Magic in Inheritance Cycle requires very careful use of language; Eragon once accidentally cursed a girl because he used the word "shield" as a noun rather than a verb, dooming her to soak up misery and pain from everyone around her.
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Literal Genie / int_e1c2dccd	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e1c2dccd	comment	In one Grimm module, the ancient witch, Baba Yaga, would answer one question for the PCs, but just one. The module says that if the questioner is trying to be polite, and formulate the question as "Can you tell me..." or "Do you know..." the answer would be "Yes, I can / Yes, I know".
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Literal Genie / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "shapeshifter" Strong Bad, brainstorming forms of shapeshifting powers, asks (no one in particular) if it would be all right if he could have the power to "change into almost anybody". He then finds he can only turn into about half of people, such as the right half of the King of Town, or only the legs of Bubs.
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Literal Genie / int_e409487a	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e409487a	comment	The Mordheim character Nicodemus freed a daemon and in return was offered a wish. His wish was "I want to become the greatest wizard known to Mankind!" and the daemon granted his wish by making him grow endlessly.
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Literal Genie / int_e40d0ab2	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e40d0ab2	comment	The accidental wish variant and the "don't break the rules" variant are both in effect on an episode of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! in which the team encounters one called the Wigglenog.
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Literal Genie / int_e5bcaba6	comment	The Fruit of Grisaia: Sachi tends to act like this. She always follows any orders she's given, even innocent hyperbole, and the other characters have had to learn to phrase things carefully around her as a result. In one case, Makina nonsensically rambled that she and Sachi should become people who can count to ten million in the bath... and Sachi nearly suffers heatstroke when she actually tries to do this. And in her backstory, a classmate told her to "make the test next Friday not happen". Sachi thought about all the ways a teacher might be able to still hold the test despite setbacks... and ended up burning the entire school down. Can't have a test if the school doesn't exist.
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Literal Genie / int_e5c5bc22	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The hare god Bett Agwo in GURPS Fantasy II: Adventures in the Mad Lands. Unlike most Literal Genies he actually tries to be helpful, but manages to screw things up anyway.
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Literal Genie / int_e5fb535b	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_e5fb535b	comment	The Life and Times of a Winning Pony: Fey tend to be very literal about enforcing contracts and agreements with mortal ponies. For instance, one of Octavia's teachers once idly mentioned to a musenote a kind of fey that feeds on psychic energy released during artistic creation and that associates with and inspires artists in order to feed that he'd trade his right hoof to be as good as the in-universe historical cellist Animando Assai.
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Literal Genie / int_e60576a5	comment	In the first episode of Heaven's Lost Property, Tomoki wishes in jest that he was ruler of the world. Ikaros grants it by making every other person in the world vanish. She does explain that making him a traditional ruler would be impossible because no one would take a doofus like him seriously. Ikaros normally cannot undo her wishes, but fortunately Tomoki wishes that it was All Just a Dream.
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Literal Genie / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy, "Viewer Mail #1". Peter is threatened by a man riding on a bus after Peter is granted his own theme music by a genie. The man asks him to stop the music. Peter tells him he can't, and the man threatens to break every bone in Peter's body. So Peter says "I wish I had no bones" out of fear. The genie, who is driving the bus, hears him and says, "Done," turning Peter into a boneless blob. Bizarrely, Peter is initially happy about this turn of events and laughs at the man.
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Literal Genie / int_eb59224d	type	Literal Genie
Literal Genie / int_eb59224d	comment	In an episode of LazyTown, Robbie acquires a genie, and his first two wishes are for all the fruit and vegetables and all the sports equipment to disappear. But since he forgets to specify a duration, they return not 5 minutes later. He fails to wish away Sportacus.
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Literal Genie / int_ec02633a	comment	In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Gaunter O'Dimm claims to be this (YMMV on whether you agree with him). If Geralt implies that he's a Jackass Genie, he'll get all indignant and insist that he never "cheats". He gives people exactly what they wish for; it's not his problem that what people wish for and what they actually want are usually entirely different things.
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Literal Genie / int_ec28245c	comment	A rare favorable example happens in Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2. At the end of Captain Ginyu's What If? storyline, he assembles the seven Dragon Balls and asks Shenron to "bring back my precious teammates", intending to resurrect the Ginyu Force. However, due to his vague wording, he also gets Frieza, Zarbon, and Dodoria in the bargain.
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Literal Genie / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate: The Limited Wish and Wish spells work like this for the most part, though it doesn't always apply it well. Wishing for a powerful magic item actually gives you a useful one for example, instead of one with an extremely powerful curse on it. Meanwhile, ask to be prepared against the undead and it just summons vampires to attack you, without even giving you the feeblest protection against them, making it a Jackass Genie (asking for protection will make it cast an appropriate spell on your party). How much of an ass the genie is depends on your Wisdom, which is presumably meant to mean you alter the wording based upon it, though it's not an effect you see. For example, asking for magic to no longer affect you can either stop you from casting spells, or defend you from minor spells. This is a bit unfortunate given that most mages have no use for Wisdom beyond this single spell. In the sequel, you encounter a beholder who was summoned and charged with guarding a chest. He's not entirely sure if that's really his job, as the summoner was stabbed to death when he issued the order, but he did scream "my chest!" so he might have meant either. With enough wisdom, you can convince him that he's technically not under orders to guard the contents of the chest, only the chest itself, so he'll allow you to at least open it for a look.
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Literal Genie / int_edaffe15	comment	The title character of The Bartimaeus Trilogy is both a literal and metaphorical example ("Djinn" is the root of "genie"). He has some Noble Demon qualities that cancel it out, though. He actually remarks, several times, on how careful the magicians have to be when giving orders to the djinn, because they try to misinterpret it to either mean nothing or cause harm to the magician. Probably the most memorable example of magicians getting around this was Nathaniel giving Bartimaeus's somewhat long orders about stealing the Amulet in one breath.
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Literal Genie / int_ee5e6821	comment	An episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme featured a reluctant literal genie. If you wish for world peace, then he will kill everyone because that's the simplest way of arranging it, but he'd really rather not, and will give you plenty of opportunity to change your mind and wish for a sports car. And because he's not a Jackass Genie, he won't drop the car on your head or anything, you'll just get a sports car, nice and simple. The wisher eventually comes up with "make everyone forget how to fight and be unable to learn" as a "world peace" wish that couldn't possibly go wrong. It turns out this doesn't stop war or even deaths in war, it just makes them really protracted and painful, as soldiers just keep jostling the enemy until one of them dies.
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Literal Genie / int_ef0dea89	comment	Shimmer and Shine: Some of the wishes go wrong because the titular genies don't understand certain figures of speech, likely due to the fact they are genies-in-training and are still learning. Averted since Season 2.
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Literal Genie / int_effa694a	comment	In the Ryan George video "If Cats Were Able to Talk", a guy is curious about what his cat is thinking and (as he just happens to have a genie on call) uses his second wish to make the cat able to speak — only for the cat to start making loud, meaningless vocalizations that just creep the guy out.
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Literal Genie / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed has two different genie episodes. In the first, the genie is explicitly shown as being sent by the forces of evil to screw with the witches, so their wishes going wrong is justified. In the second, a secondary character happens to have a book of perfectly phrased wishes to say to genies so as not to mess things up, though he never gets to use it. That same episode shows that genies actually have control over how they grant the wish, such as when Phoebe, who's been turned into a genie, makes Piper and Leo literally fall asleep together when their future son Chris (who needs to be conceived soon) wishes for them to sleep together.
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Literal Genie / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: Anya had great fun with this. She creates a heart-eating monster when an upset girl wishes that some frat boys find out what it's like to have their hearts ripped out. On the other hand, when asked to turn a cheating lover into a frog, she turns him French. In "The Wish", Cordelia wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale; in the Alternate Universe that results, with no Slayer to keep them in check, the vampires rule the town. Anya's co-worker, Halfrek, also falls into this. In "Older and Far Away", when Dawn, suffering from abandonment issues, wishes that no one would leave her, Hallie makes it so everyone who enters the Summers residence is mystically trapped inside. Halfrek ends up Hoist by Her Own Petard when she pops in to indulge in some Evil Gloating and is trapped by her own curse, forcing her to break the spell so she can leave. In "Something Blue", Willow foolishly casts a "My will be done" spell on herself, then accidentally strikes Giles blind, turns Xander into a magnet for demons, and gets Buffy and Spike engaged through her foolish use of figurative language. In "Life of the Party", Lorne finds himself writing, rather than reading, people's destinies after having his sleep removed. Spike becomes upbeat, Fred and Wesley become drunk without drinking, Gunn begins to mark his territory (by peeing on things), and Angel and Eve find themselves uncontrollably having sex. Insanely inverted with the case of Holtz and Sahjhan. In this instance, Sahjhan is the genie yet he's the one who gets screwed over when it's revealed just what Holtz meant when he "swore he won't show any mercy." Whether you're a Literal Genie, or The Devil you don't make deals with Daniel Holtz.
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Literal Genie / int_f3bfbc44	comment	George and Azazel: A series short stories about a tiny demon named Azazel, who would grant wishes that started off looking like exactly what the person wanted, but ended up being the person's worst nightmare. In one story, a man with no self-confidence wanted to be irresistible to women. He ended up being chased everywhere by women, and in the end was engaged to a woman built like a linebacker because he was too afraid of her (and her equally massive brothers) to turn her down.
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