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Retroactive Wish
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A character mentions something extremely unlikely to happen, and is surprised when it actually occurs (usually for a plot-based reason). They (or another character) then mention something else in the hope that that will occur as well. The follow-up wish is often for money, or, if the speaker is male, women. Compare Cue the Flying Pigs and Be Careful What You Wish For, where the unexpected thing is a Deus ex Machina. Cousin Trope of Kitchen Sink Included. Examples |
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Aladdin: The Series: In "Do the Rat Thing", a stolen magic mirror and an ill-timed remark from Iago ("If you're a street rat, then I'm a frilled lizard!") lead to Jasmine getting turned into a rat and Iago getting turned into a lizard. He's later seen verbally kicking himself for his poor choice of words. | |
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In one strip of Narbonic, Artie and Dave are running for their lives through an imminently exploding moonbase while Artie is stuck in a facsimile of Dave's body: | |
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Clone High: After a "It can't get any worse": | |
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In the Chuck episode "Chuck Versus the Gravitron": | |
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Played with in House, when House says that stating things doesn't make them true and, to demonstrate, shuts his eyes and declares, "I am surrounded by naked cheerleaders!" Nothing happens, of course, and he opens his eyes again and says, "See?" | |
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The Simpsons: Homer tries this in one episode: The Mayor of Springfield tried it in another episode. He had just had sex with his lover and commented on how he'd like some cigarettes when a bag of them is thrown in his room. He then offered one to her but she rejected and explained she was pregnant. Mayor Quimby then prayed for God because he had another favor to ask. |
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Happens in the Back at the Barnyard episode "The Farmer Takes a Woman". And in the final scene of the episode he's still waiting. |
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Happens in the Blue Beetle, as mentioned in the page quote. | |
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Vow of the King: When two intruders fall out of the sky after Yumichika says "a fight won't just fall out of the sky", Ikkaku says the same about a barrel of high quality sake. It doesn't happen. | |
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SVTFOE Metaverse: A Jarco kid sullenly looks at the Blood Moon powering the Starco kids' base and wishes it would disappear. Seconds later, she watches it get stolen by the Big Bad, and immediately wishes that she had a boyfriend. | |
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From The Demented Cartoon Movie: | |
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Garfield: Garfield was sick of his hiccups and wished they'd just disappear. After they did, Garfield claimed to be sick of Odie. Garfield demanded respect. When Jon showed up saying he respected him, he smacked himself saying he could have demanded a pizza. Combined with Reverse Psychology, Garfield says he hopes it doesn't rain. When it does, Garfield says he hopes they don't have any fudge. |
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Discworld: During the play near the end of Wyrd Sisters, Hwel the playwright laments the poor special effects he's forced to use after the tin sheet used to make thunder gets bent, and shouts to the heavens that all he wanted was a decent dramatic thunderstorm. As one starts up, he wonders to himself if he should have asked for a wind machine while he was at it. From Hogfather comes the closest thing to deconstructing this trope after the Hogfather's death results in a lot of unused belief coalescing into other entities: As Susan explains, the things being called are those that have been believed to exist for some time, e.g. a monster that eats socks so there's always a mismatched sock in the laundry when you're sure they were all matched going in, or a gnome that runs around showers giving people verrucas, or an oh god of hangovers (no, not god, as in "What Did I Do Last Night? Oh God"). As the Dean has never had cause to believe huge bags of money were given to him by a goblin, it isn't going to happen. In The Science of Discworld II, the wizards convince a caveman that the large snake population in his area is due to him making snake sculptures out of mud (It Makes Sense in Context). He tests this theory by sculpting a fish, and the wizards obediently make it rain fish. His next sculpture, predictably, is a naked woman. The wizards decide not to help with this one. |
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Skin Horse, when the Mothership shows up just as Renard is trying to remember Tony's weird space theories: | |
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The author of The Perishers confesses to playing with this trope after noticing that he invariably came into possession of things resembling things he had recently introduced into the comic. This was his entire motivation in creating the character of Fiscal Yere, an incredibly rich child. It didn't work. | |
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Shortly after Jon Stewart appeared on Crossfire, called the host a dick and said the show was hurting America, Crossfire got cancelled. When Jon heard the news: | |
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Penny Arcade did this right here. They never did get those doughnuts, though. | |
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From Not Going Out: | |
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A Redtail's Dream had a funny moment when Hannu wished it would stop snowing... and it did. | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries: In the first book, Georgia asks her reporter boyfriend Fletcher about Dr. Jocasta Kirkland, and if he'd ever covered a murder. A while later, Dr. Kirkland's dead, and Fletcher's covering the story. Georgia notes the bizarre coincidence, and says that "I wish I'd asked you if you'd ever interviewed an English instructor who'd won a multimillion-dollar sweepstakes." | |
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On The Nostalgia Critic review of SNICK, he declares that anyone who shouts all the time should be shot, (he is shot in the forehead) unshot, (the bullet hole disappears) and given a big bag of money (unusually, he immediately receives a bag of money). He then asks for and receives some lounge music too. | |
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An episode of Everybody Loves Raymond had Debra request that Ray refer to his mother-in-law as "Mom". Once he's alone in the kitchen, Ray contemplates the suggestion by speaking the word aloud a few times, and just then Marie walks in the back door. Immediately Ray declares "Xena: Warrior Princess! Xena Warrior Princess!" | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: "Rocks, Clocks, and Two Stupid Ponies". | |
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Robb Returns: During a conversation with Jon Arryn, Oberyn Martell expresses his desire to meet with one of the Green Men, which he has tried (and failed) to do before. When a Green Man makes his way to King's Landing to plant a weirwood... | |
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My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap: Done by Gallus in "School Raze" while on a school trip to Cloudsdale. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In the episode "Rollercoaster: The Musical!" the recurring farmer couple do this. In Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, after Candace vanishes into the other dimension, Stacy tries to invoke the "mysterious force" that protects Phineas and Ferb from being busted in order to get Candace back. When Candace walks in, Stacy tries asking the mysterious force for a car. |
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Green Tea Rescue; while on patrol during her internship, Toga asks for something to happen to break up the boredom of always keeping an eye on Tenya just before a woman starts yelling about a pair of purse snatchers. Toga thanks the universe for this before asking for a horny, naked Izuku to show up, and is disappointed when that doesn't happen. | |
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In a Bloom County Sunday Strip, Opus, lounging in the "backstage area" for the strip's Animated Actors, is granted several of his wishes because "anything is possible in the funnies," including a colorful but useless 200-pound green and mauve duck on his head. His next wish for "Kathleen Sullivan... in spandex... in a hot tub... filled with warm Jell-O" comes a few panels too late to be fulfilled. | |
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During the play near the end of Wyrd Sisters, Hwel the playwright laments the poor special effects he's forced to use after the tin sheet used to make thunder gets bent, and shouts to the heavens that all he wanted was a decent dramatic thunderstorm. As one starts up, he wonders to himself if he should have asked for a wind machine while he was at it. | |
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From Hogfather comes the closest thing to deconstructing this trope after the Hogfather's death results in a lot of unused belief coalescing into other entities: As Susan explains, the things being called are those that have been believed to exist for some time, e.g. a monster that eats socks so there's always a mismatched sock in the laundry when you're sure they were all matched going in, or a gnome that runs around showers giving people verrucas, or an oh god of hangovers (no, not god, as in "What Did I Do Last Night? Oh God"). As the Dean has never had cause to believe huge bags of money were given to him by a goblin, it isn't going to happen. |
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From Robots, after Crank shows no concern over the fact that Bigwell is missing, we get this: | |
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Dinosaurs: Baby Sinclair's pacifier was taken by animals, to which he whines and screams "Want suck toy!" At that moment, his pacifier is dropped down the chimney and falls out of the fireplace. Seeing this, Earl shouts that he wants a big-screen TV and cable. As nothing happens, he says he wants a bigger fireplace. | |
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Hannah Montana: Robbie Ray Stewart once prayer for God that the dog next door would stop barking. As the dog stopped, Robbie Ray thanked God for that and then apologized for something he said while driving. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: | |
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In Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, after Candace vanishes into the other dimension, Stacy tries to invoke the "mysterious force" that protects Phineas and Ferb from being busted in order to get Candace back. When Candace walks in, Stacy tries asking the mysterious force for a car. | |
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In Spriggs: a Halo 3 Machinima, after seeing Spriggs drive by on a mongoose, Triple M wishes he had one himself. One promptly falls out of the sky. Seeing this, he loudly wishes for a nymphomaniac catgirl with a La Blue Girl fetish, only for Willy, who had been driving the mongoose that fell, to fall next. | |
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In the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger review from Atop the Fourth Wall, Linkara complains that the heroes should just shoot the monster after he says there are no rules in a fight. They do, in fact, shoot him, at which point Linkara expresses his surprise and asks them to undo One More Day as well — of course, it doesn't happen. | |
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Naru-Hina Chronicles: Mina sighs and wishes Kiba was with her so they could have lunch together. Her boyfriend then crash lands right next to her. Soon enough, she realizes what just happened and wishes for a sundae. However, Mina is disappointed when no sundae appears before deciding to heal Kiba's injuries. | |
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In a Laughing Hyenas cartoon, a starving Banzai commented he was so hungry he could eat a circus monkey. Immediately a crate containing a monkey that had fallen from a passing plane fell on top of them. After they failed to make a meal of it, Banzai remarked that he could now eat a blue whale. Cue acres of whale falling from nowhere onto their heads. | |
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One season of Robot Chicken ended with the creators killing everyone (to have a more impressive In Memorium segment) and getting canceled. The beginning of the next season had them trying to find new jobs, eventually asking Seth MacFarlane for work on Family Guy. He sets up a Cutaway Gag: "Robot Chicken? I haven't heard that name since it was renewed," which of course cuts to someone renewing Robot Chicken. Seth Green says "Quick, offhandedly mention that one time we all solved world hunger!" prompting nothing more than a confused response. | |
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From a Zits strip: | |
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Dogma: Jay says "Guys like us don't just fall out of the fuckin' sky, you know!" When Rufus does in fact fall from the sky right in front of them, he adds, "Beautiful, naked, big-tittied women just don't fall out of the sky, you know!" | |
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From the Duckman episode "Joking the Chicken". | |
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Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: In the Palimpsest Car, Vale warns the denizens there that things are gonna get ugly, like trains flying in the sky. Cue the Third Rail zooming past the window. He then thinks that he has wishing powers and asks for a pair of gauntlets that summon dragons...and gets nothing. | |
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Ethan from Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. In the opening two-parter, while he and the other soon-to-be Rangers are looking for Kira, he mentions that it's "not like she's just gonna fall out of the sky and land right in front of us." Kira promptly drops out of the villain's Portal Network and lands on the hood of their car. Ethan then waits until the end of the season before completing the trope — and it works. He always was pretty Genre Savvy. | |
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Justice League: The Spider: While the Justice League is discussing recruiting more members, the Flash says that "it's not like a good choice for membership will fall out of the sky or something", only for Peter Parker to suddenly appear in midair and fall onto their meeting table. The Flash then makes a similar comment about swimsuit models and a million dollars falling out of the sky. Nothing happens. | |
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This Bites!: In the enormous whale Laboon's stomach, which is painted and lighted enough to resemble the outside: As it turns out in the later Christmas Special, that wish was granted. Except the billion berries landed on Johnny and Yosaku's heads. |
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Lost Girl #1x08, when Bo is at Trick's for information on the type of Fae that tried to kill her: | |
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Changing Lives has this bit when Cloud Kicker introduces her Changeling double to Lyra: | |
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After Mo Rocca expressed his dislike of homemade sweaters on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, he was sent loads of them by irate knitters. When he related this story to the panel on a later show, one of them announced "You know what I can't stand? Bricks of gold!" | |
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The Replacements: In one episode, Todd had the school librarian replaced with someone who'd turn the library into a place where he'd like to be. Riley got ran over by a hippopotamus right after she asked if they were what'd come next. She asked about a unicorn stampede but nothing happened. She complained because it worked with the hippopotamus, causing another one to run her over. | |
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In The Science of Discworld II, the wizards convince a caveman that the large snake population in his area is due to him making snake sculptures out of mud (It Makes Sense in Context). He tests this theory by sculpting a fish, and the wizards obediently make it rain fish. His next sculpture, predictably, is a naked woman. The wizards decide not to help with this one. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The episode "Triangle": This is almost a Running Gag with Willow (It also happens in "Dead Man's Party" and "Beer Bad"). |
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In "Rising", the pilot episode of Stargate Atlantis, Major Sheppard declares that he's been thinking how to find his kidnapped comrades on a Wraith-controlled planet. Immediately, the telepathic ship delivers him a life-signs detector. Then he says, "Now I'm thinking about a nice turkey sandwich." Nothing happens, and Lieutenant Ford remarks, "Worth a try." note Strangely enough, humans eventually receive replicator technology (the benign Star Trek kind, not the planet-eating bugs) from a different alien race. | |
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This is lampshaded in Goblins with the following exchange. | |
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Family Guy: A man tells his wife to imagine "a happy healthy baby boy at play. Now put him in a magic bubble and release him into the universe." When Stewie, in a bubble, rolls by, the man tells his wife to imagine Lindsay Lohan naked and doing a backwards crab walk. Later on, Lohan appears at Peter's door doing just that. | |
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In Housepets!, during the "Let's Imaginate Macbeth!" arc, Maxwell, playing Macbeth, does this. | |
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Dinosaur Comics does it here. | |
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First episode of Drawn Together: | |
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In the Pilot of Friends, Ross says, "I just want to be married again" right before Rachel appears wearing a wedding dress. Chandler immediately jumps in, "And I just want a million dollars!" | |
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The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds: In the sequel The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand, Danny makes two in quick succession. When Rainbow Dash mentions needing Princess Celestia and the Elements of Harmony, only for Celestia to appear across dimensions with said Elements, Danny quickly asks for Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles to appear and declare her love for him. Then later, when it is mentioned that they need to get in touch with the higher-ups, a military escort arrives to get everyone up to speed, and Danny quickly asks for 5 million dollars in his bank account. Neither wish amounts to much. | |
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This finally occurs to the Muppet Newsman, who has a history of the things he reports on falling on him, in a Disney on-line video. It works the first couple of times, but when he wishes for a "brown-eyed blonde" he gets hit with a cow. | |
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