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In most fiction, inanimate wish-granting objects (such as wishbones and birthday candles note though a monkey's paw is a notable exception.) tend to grant only one wish. But when you're fortunate enough to find a living creature that can grant wishes, you'll most likely receive three of them. When presented with three magical shots at anything they want, most fictional characters react thus: The first wish is one typically made in haste, perhaps not quite believing that it would be granted. Sometimes they specifically wish for something trivial, just to "test" if their wish will really be granted at all. Other times they may waste it on something frivolous, like wishing that the neighbor's damned dog would stop barking. (Granted! A car plows into the neighbor's house, killing the dog in the process.) Sometimes the second wish may also be wasted on something equally frivolous. The second wish is made with much greater care than the first wish, with full awareness of what (obvious) consequences may result; they will carefully craft their second wish in a way that results in the maximum gain and the minimum unintended side effects, and possibly attempting a bit of Loophole Abuse to get the better of their benefactor. A Jackass Genie, well aware of their greed, will usually find a way to exploit the person's Exact Words and attach some measure of unforeseen tragic consequence to their wish all the same. Alternatively, the wish itself will be flawed and shallow, and the hero's misery will be his own fault. The last wish — almost invariably — pushes the Reset Button and returns things to the status quo through one precisely worded Wishplosion. However, if nothing of consequence ever came of the first two wishes, the third wish (desperately made in an attempt to elicit some gain) may also backfire, but with hilarious instead of tragic consequences. Another option for the third wish is Freeing the Genie. Related to the Rule of Three. For this to work, the person with the wishes has to not be Genre Savvy enough to know to use the first wish to wish for the knowledge and wisdom to know what to use the last two wishes for. The original version of this trope was a European fairytale with fairies as the wish granters; Djinns in Arab mythology don't a limited number of wishes in folklore. The oldest known case where genies have the "three wishes" rule is probably The Thief of Bagdad (1940). See Mundane Wish when one of the wishes (typically the first one) is spent on something trivially minor. See also Be Careful What You Wish For, Wasteful Wishing. Can easily become a Story-Breaker Power if restrictions are loose; i.e being allowed to wish for more wishes or being allowed to write out long, elaborate wishes that string together dozens of unrelated things, thus effectively giving yourself unlimited wishes. Also, as the Genie in Aladdin stresses, "IXNAY on the Wishing for More Wishes!" |
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Sluggy Freelance: In "Torg Potter and the Chamberpot of Secretions", the Djinn of the Chamberpot grants only two wishes because the third one is "withheld for tax purposes." Also, good luck getting past the first wish without it being interpreted as "Turn me into chocolate." | |
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Invoked and averted in Angel by Sahjhan, who ends up just telling him he "appreciates it". Then he finds out who Connor is. | |
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When The Simpsons go to Tokyo in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", they wind up gutting fish to earn enough money to go home. Bart guts fish, rhythmically chanting "Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out." He then picks up a talking fish that says if his life is spared, he'll give Bart three wishes... "Knife goes in, guts come out." | |
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From Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, there's a subversion. Abis Mal frees Jafar and also gets the standard three wishes, despite Jafar demanding he take him to Agrabah first so he can get revenge on Aladdin, then he'll give Abis Mal his wishes. Instead Jafar takes the Jackass Genie route and makes Abis Mal completely waste the first two, while saving the third one for getting himself freed from the lamp. Even so, he's in a good enough mood at that point that he gives Abis Mal an entire room of treasure as a reward for setting him free, but Abis Mal never gets to do so in the end. | |
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A "Scenes From A Hat" game in Whose Line Is It Anyway? had "Bad Ways to Use Your Three Wishes." Colin Mochrie's response was "I'll have two cokes and some chips." | |
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Both Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! have the exact same plot in their respective episode: The first wish is used by a member of the group for "some excitement", leading to a fight against some Mooks and introduction of the genie-like character. The second wish is used for The Ditz to be smarter (by accident). The last wish is used for a way to destroy the genie, but fails due to a rule which forbids the genie from being harmed. Thus, the wish is wasted. The genie is set free and is revealed to be a Sealed Evil in a Can. As they begin to reek havoc, The Ditz seemingly betrays the group and switch sides. When allowed an extra wish, it's used to not only return the group to the point before they found the item that summoned the genie, but to ensure they never discover it in the first place. The group returns to the start of the episode, where the character who wished for excitement is stopped before they did it again, leaving the genie trapped. |
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Used in the fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife": The henpecked fisherman catches a fish which says he'll grant him three wishes if he spares his life. The fisherman agrees, and wishes for a castle. The wife isn't satisfied and wants to be the Pope, so she sends the fisherman back to catch the magic flounder and get that wish fulfilled as well. Still not enough. Now she wants to be like God, so the fisherman gets sent back one last time. This wish undoes everything, as the fish interprets the wish in the context, as American Mcgees Grimm points out at the end, that God has no need for material possessions - in short, to "be like God" means absolute destitution, which is no big deal for the divine, but utter hell for the insatiable wife. In another version, the fish doesn't limit the wishes to three, and the wife progresses up the social status ladder from the shabby hovel to a nice little cottage, then to Burgher to Bishop to King to Pope to God, and the "God" wish causes the fish to become so angry at the wife's greed that he retracts all the wishes, returning her to the shabby little hovel she started with. In yet another version, the wife progressively makes more and more demanding wishes, and when the wife is about to make the ultimate wish, the fish is annoyed and says to the fisherman "Every time you come here, you bring a wish for your wife. Don't you have any wish of your own?" to which the fisherman replies "I just wish for my wife to be happy" to which the reset button is applied, and the couple are returned to their original poverty, but now the wife is satisfied with her lot in life and no longer seeks to rise in social status nor wealth. Awwww. |
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In Wish Dragon, the titular character Long can grant three wishes to any master who possesses the tea pot he's bound to, and he can only be freed once he fully grants three wishes to ten different masters. | |
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In one of the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories, an alcoholic Irish spirit known as a clurichaun is captured before he can drink Mary's Place out of business and is forced to grant three wishes. The bartender, Jake, sees the potential disaster looming and uses his first wish to summon his mentor for help; the second wish is granted out of sheer mischief when the Irish spirit interprets a casual remark as a wish to fix a broken table. Wish three should be used to banish him, but Jake realizes just how fun the clurichaun has made the place, so he uses the third wish to make the clurichaun pay for every drink he takes, in honest money. Since Jake had been running the bar at a loss, the clurichaun's patronage is the financial saving of the place. | |
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One strip of The Bash Street Kids in The Beano has the teacher discovering a Genie. He blows his first wish on wishing he wasn't so freaked out. He then wishes for all the kids to be smart. It happens, and teacher hears he's going to be out of job, so he wishes for all the kids to be stupid again. | |
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In the Darkwing Duck episode "The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck", while travelling through a desert, the future Darkwing discovers a genie in a lamp and wishes for a drink, new clothes, and the secret to the genie's dramatic entrance. | |
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In Road to Morocco Hope and Crosby are in a cell waiting to be executed and are given a magical ring. They don't believe it but Hope wishes he had a sandwich. When one appears he exclaims "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle" and is turned into a monkey. After several seconds of jumping up and down he turns back into himself, having apparently wished for that. Their three wishes are gone and they are no better off than before. | |
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Discussed in The Fairly OddParents! (see Three Good Wishes). According to Norm the Genie, the typical structure is thus: Something stupid like "I want a sandwich"; something world-changing ("I want to be Mayor of the World!"); and then when that blows up in their face, "I wish I had never met you!", returning the status quo. Interestingly, Timmy also uses a variant of this when he meets Norm (before this pattern was brought up). He decides, since Norm can grant him three RULE FREE wishes (as opposed to Cosmo and Wanda, who can grant unlimited wishes but have a ridiculously long book of rules to go along with it), to test them out with a simple rule free wish: "I wish I had an omelet (after 10 am)!" (Of course, Norm, being The Trickster, gives him an omelet that was too hot without a plate). This is followed by, "I wish Trixie Tang was in love with me, Timmy Turner!" (actually in love with everyone named Timmy Turner on the planet), and "I wish I had One Billion Dollars!" (it's counterfeit). The reset button is pressed by him more or less blackmailing Norm into more wishes, and then wishing for a lawyer (the only thing that can defeat Genies besides Smoof). | |
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The Dresden Files: Inverted. Fairly early in the series, Harry ends up owing three favors to the Queen of Winter Faeries, Mab. As of Changes, he seems to have paid them all off, but even if becoming the Winter Knight counts as the third favor, he now has to follow her orders anyway. | |
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In a Sesame Street Christmas special, Elmo gets a magic snowglobe from Santa Claus. He uses the first wish to get a drink of water, the second wish to make Christmas neverending, and the third wish to undo the second one when he realizes that an endless Christmas isn't as wonderful as he thought it would be. Subverted with the third one when the snowglobe breaks as he's trying to wish on it, and he has to take an alternate way of undoing his second wish. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "I Dream of Genie", the Genie only gives one wish, saying that there've been cutbacks, so the man delays making his wish and dreams three possible scenarios (the classics: love, money, and power). Finding them all to be unsatisfying, he wishes to be a genie himself, who grants three wishes. However, the condition is that every recipient of his must return his lamp to the alley, so that he'll only be found by (and thus help) people who are down-on-their-luck. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Wish Bank", Janice Hamill finds a magic lamp at a rummage sale. When she rubs it, she is transported to the Department of Magical Venues and is told by the broker Mr. Brent that she has three wishes. She wishes for $10,000,000, to look ten years younger and for her ex-husband Craig to suffer from moderate sexual dysfunction for a year and a half. Mr. Brent warns Janice that the first wish will turn out fine but that the second will not turn out as expected and she will almost certainly have to use the third wish to undo the first two. Eventually, Janice is so frustrated at the Department of Magical Venues being a Vast Bureaucracy that she wishes that she never found the lamp in the first place. In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the Leprechaun Shawn McGool grants Buddy, J.P. and Richie three wishes — one a piece — after they capture him. However, none of them turn out according to plan. Buddy wishes for X-Ray Vision so that he can see girls' underwear but he can't control his new power and sees internal organs and skulls. McGool reverses the wish after he determines that Buddy has learned his lesson. J.P. wishes for all of their parents to do exactly what they tell them. The boys soon learn that McGool has once again tricked them by granting their wish too literally. When J.P. orders his mother to make pizza for the three of them, he has to tell her to perform every step in the preparation from taking the pizza out of the box. McGool likewise reverses this wish. Richie wishes for a "really hot" car with a driver with a mind of his own. While they are enjoying their new stretch limo, they are chased by the police. The driver, given that he has a mind of his own, refuses their instructions to stop and gets into a car chase. When the police catch up with them, the three boys are arrested as the limo was hot as in stolen. McGool again reverses the wish and the police have no memory of the car theft. |
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Misty: The heroine of the story "The Evil Djinn" receives these after saving a Jerk Ass Genie from choking to death. The first two wishes (for legally gained wealth, and for the heroine's sister to be alive again) have negative consequences, so in an act of Laser-Guided Karma she uses the last wish to wish that she had never met the genie, and the genie dies. | |
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According to xkcd, if you do the first wish right, there's no need of the other two. Also, in this strip's alt text, the protagonist circumvented the "no more wishes" rule by wishing for the genie to not be able to remember any previous wish, making the current wish always the first one. | |
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Woody Woodpecker gets three wishes from a leprechaun woodpecker. The first wish gets Woody in trouble with the law, so he uses the second wish to get out of the jam. Woody uses the third wish to tell the leprechaun (in kid-friendly terms) to go to Hell. | |
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The short story "Time in a Bottle" by P. Andrew Miller (published in Dragon) has a scholar who frees a female genie from her bottle and first wishes to see something no other human has, so she takes him to the bottom of the sea (and points out that, had she been a Jerkass Genie, she could have not provided the ability to breathe, or simply left him there). When he realises how much she's experienced, and also how much she hates being trapped alone in the bottle between wishes, he wishes for her to tell him all the stories she knows. Many, many years later, as an old man, he makes his final wish. Not Freeing the Genie, but joining her. | |
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The X-Files: In the genie episode "Je Souhaite", Mulder skips the simple test wish, having already seen the effects of some of the genie's wishes, so his first wish was for "peace on Earth", which the genie grants by getting rid of everyone except him (which, she explains, is much easier than making people actually love their fellow man). He uses his second wish to undo the first. His third wish is to free the genie. | |
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Junkers, from Junkers Come Here, is a talking dog who says he can grant "Three Miracles" to his owner, Hiromi; So she first wishes that her tutor, Keisuke, doesn't marry his girlfriend, Yoko, so the next day the latter breaks up with Kaisuke, severely depressing him and causing a My God, What Have I Done? moment in Hiromi, so later she uses her second wish to make them reconcile, which they do; and for her final wish Junkers offer her to wish that her parents don't get divorced which she declines and instead wishes for her family be happy together just one last time, Junkers grants her third wish and whisks the three away to the beach where she had her best childhood memories, and the next morning Hiromi's mother announces that her father and she have decided not to divorce; the downside of all these is that Junkers has lost his ability to speak and it's now a normal dog. Hiromi at the end wonders if Junkers was really a talking dog and if everything that happened was because of his magic or just a series of coincidences. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons has a Ring of Three Wishes. And yes, the GM is supposed to be an Evil Genie when he doesn't like the wish. In third edition, they start listing exactly what the players are allowed to wish for without the Dungeon Master messing with them, and any greater effect is giving license for the DM to wreck your wish to balance the game. | |
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Each miko in Fushigi Yuugi gets three wishes. While Takiko and Suzuno's last wishes are unknown (the former is assumed to have died before making her third wish, while it is unclear whether or not the latter's wish to remain with Tatara was indeed her last), Miaka and Yui's last wishes are of this type ( Yui, after being devoured by Seiryuu, wishes that Miaka be given the power to summon Suzaku, while Miaka wishes that everything be brought back to normal). | |
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Goosebumps: "Be Careful What You Wish For". First Samantha Byrd wishes that she would be the strongest member of the basketball team, but everyone else becomes weak. Then she wishes for Judith to stop bugging her, but everyone disappears. After Samantha resets the wishes, Judith accidentally wishes "Byrd, why don't you fly away?", turning her into a bird. | |
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Bread Barbershop: In "Magic Kettle", the eponymous kettle's genie gives Wilk a whopping 300 wishes instead of three, believing that "in this digital age, that's too few!". | |
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A rather grisly example shows up in ×××HOLiC, this one involving a monkey's paw which grants five wishes (one for each finger of the mummified paw). In this case the additional two wishes only give the woman who gets hold of the paw that many more ways to screw herself over: her first wish turns out harmlessly enough, which only encourages her to make increasingly reckless and greedy wishes. It's not long before, running late for an important interview, she carelessly thinks to herself that if there were a railway accident it would give her an excuse for being late - which the paw accepts as a wish, causing an unfortunate bystander to be thrown into the path of an oncoming train. Matters deteriorate rapidly after this as her other wishes begin backfiring on her as well, and when she tries to use her final wish to hit the reset button, the paw kills her. | |
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Rick and Morty (Oni) Dungeons and Dragons Chapter II: Painscape: In an interesting variation, Rick does this with his second wish, after earning a magic wishing ring and using the first wish to return home from the alternate dimension in which he's trapped. By the time he does get home, his own version of Earth has been taken over by the D&D characters he created and many other monsters, and a large portion of the planet's population has been killed, including everyone in Rick's family. After he defeats his Big Bad OC, he uses wish #2 to return everything back to normal (complete with nobody else even remembering any of it), and tells the reader that the remaining third wish will be a Chekhov's Gun for Chapter III. | |
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An episode of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats has a cat genie granting wishes to Mungo who, because he is kind of dumb, wastes them all. | |
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Oddly Enough: Vincent, the main character of "Am I Blue?" gets three wishes from his Fairy Godfather. The first gets him a Swiss double mocha at a coffee shop. The second turns every gay person, coast to coast, blue for twenty-four hours. Vincent's final wish is for a homophobic bully to be turned blue as well... only for his fairy godfather to return smirking that that wish is still available. | |
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In one episode of The Real Ghostbusters Janine finds a genie in a lamp who offers her three wishes. The first is to be the Ghostbuster's boss, the second is to have Egon in love with her. In both cases she gets tired of them soon enough, especially because both represented a lot of pressure. Her third wish never happens as the genie is actually a Reality Warper using the lamp to open a gateway to the spirit world who was using the mayhem caused by her wishes to distract the Ghostbusters. | |
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The Wheel of Time has Mat entering another world where fox-like beings grant three wishes to every visitor. He wishes for a cure for his amnesia, a way to be free of Aes Sedai and the One Power, and a way out of their world and back to his own. That last wish is almost a "reset button," but he still "enjoys" the benefits of his first two wishes. Except he failed to specify that he wanted to leave their world alive, so they try to hang him. | |
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In the DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, the villainous sorcerer has a talisman that allows him to override the three wish rule. And unfortunately, wishing for possession of the talisman is the one wish beyond the genie's power. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire the assassin Jaqen H'ghar offers Arya three very specific wishes. Specifically, she can say three names, and those people will die (because he'll kill them). As is traditional she ends up wasting the first two on a petty tormentor and a soldier who, while vile, was no worse than several of the others. Only after doing so does she realize that she could have said anyone and she should have killed the enemy commanders. The third name she says is Jaqen H'gar, after he refuses to help her free the prisoners and have her family's forces take control of the castle. She unsays it after he helps her, but because several people were killed in the uprising he considers his debt to her paid and refuses to let her pick another name. Jaqen H'gar was impressed however, because he essentially offers her admission to his order before leaving. Ironically Arya wasted the third wish too. Jaqen H'gar offered to kill Joffrey, the sadistic boy-king who had Arya's father executed. Instead Arya insisted he free the prisoners, only they turn out to be part of a Trojan Prisoner gambit and would have been freed to take the castle anyway. | |
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People: Three wishes I'll grant ye, great wishes an' small! But you wish a fourth and you'll lose them all! | |
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This version is given something of a twist in a short tale from Planescape: Torment: | |
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In The Angry Video Game Nerd, one episode revolves around the Nerd finding a Genie before reviewing the Aladdin Deck Enhancer. The Nerd uses the second wish to make the Genie swim in a foul septic tank, and the third wish to ensure that every Deck Enhancer on Earth "fucking explodes". | |
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Genies in The Fairly OddParents!, who are a different subset from fairies. You can't wish for unlimited wishes, but you can use your third wish to wish for three more wishes. If you use up the next three by accident, you are out of luck. Turns out genies actually have been bluffing people when they say you can't wish for more wishes. | |
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Jaeyun's backstory from Brawlhalla tells that one time he saved a unicorn-lion's soul from the goblin king and got three wishes. He never got to use them, however, because he lost them by playing poker with a fox spirit. In fact, he lost FOUR wishes. He had to grant one of those wishes himself. | |
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In Hack 'N' Slash, the genie Halcyon grants you three limited wishes. These "wishes" consist of directly altering the in-game variables. The player is free to wish for more wishes by altering the "WISHES" variable. It's more a satisfying Easter Egg than anything else, given how limited the wishes are. | |
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There was a Saturday Night Live sketch with a 3-wish-granting fish; the fisherman who caught him was Genre Savvy enough to hire a team of lawyers to figure out precisely what his first two wishes should be. His third wish? "Pay my lawyers." His lawyers' fee: 100 wishes. | |
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The Mermaid Summer: Jon and Anna capture the mermaid and threaten to cut off her hair, the source of her power, if she doesn't grant them three wishes. Jon wishes that no one from their village will ever be drowned again at sea, and that no boat he builds will ever sink. Anna wishes for Granda Eric to come home. | |
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The remake of Bedazzled (2000), despite giving the main character seven wishes, follows this trope fairly well. The first is wasted on a Cheeseburger. That he has to pay for himself. Wishes 2-through-6 are attempts to get the Hot Chick to fall in love with him. Of course, the Devil screws them up. The final wish is to make sure that the object of his affection has a happy life. Everything goes back to normal, with The Devil telling him that making a Selfless Wish voids the contract with her and he no longer owes her his soul. | |
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The Spider-Man fic "Jackpot" presents Peter and Mary Jane finding a genie while stopping a museum robbery in an alternate post-One More Day world where they didn't take Mephisto's deal and Aunt May died, leaving them both on the run from the pro-Registration forces. After Peter determines that asking the genie certain questions would count as a wish, he is able to use one wish to confirm that May is safe in Heaven and that the deal would have caused various additional problems in his life, uses the second wish to erase all public knowledge of his identity as Spider-Man (only those who truly care for him will still remember it), and the third wish is used to bring Gwen Stacy back to life (with the stipulation that she'll only be brought back to life if she wants to come back). The genie also grants Peter a favor by leaving a duplicate of its container in the museum while Peter takes the original one home with him, observing that this doesn't count as a wish but a way of thanking Peter for saving the genie's vessel. | |
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In the Invader Zim fanfic Gaz Dreams of Genie, Gaz shatters a genie bottle that Dib found just to spite him, which counts as opening it and frees the genie Azie to serve her. When Dib tries to warn her about using genie wishes, Gaz impulsively wishes he had never been born, erasing him and creating a reality where Zim has conquered Earth and she's a slave. She then uses her second wish to hit the Reset Button and undo this, before trying to figure out how to properly use her last wish. She attempts to get the ability to grant wishes herself, only for Azie to make them switch lives, leaving Gaz trapped in the restored bottle. | |
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In Tales of the Questor, Quentyn wins a wild hunt and earns a boon, but due to circumstances, the debt is tripled, giving him (what else?) three wishes. The first wish cancels out every debt and favor owed to the Unseelie Prince. Given that the Fae economy is built on debts and favors, this instantly leaves the Princeling a pauper and strips him of the bulk of his servants. The second wish causes everything the Princeling took through force or guile - including the children whose theft had set off the Hunt - to be given to Duke Sturmhold. Of course, the Duke is wise enough to realize that getting a fortune in gold, gems, and miscellaneous other junk dumped into his castle hall is likely to cause at least as much trouble as blessing. The third wish requires Dolan and all his servants to depart, harming none, and never to hunt the mortal realm again. |
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In Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a Genie in a Bottle offers the Tortoise and Achilles three wishes. Achilles suggests wishing for a hundred wishes ("I always wondered why those dopey people in the stories never tried it themselves," he says), but the Genie answers that he doesn't grant meta-wishes—it takes a Meta-Genie to grant those. Eventually, Achilles is instead allowed to make one Typeless Wish, with disastrous results. | |
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"The Ludicrous Wishes": While this story is a little obscure, it may be the Trope Maker, as it dates to 1697 at the latest. | |
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Genies in Aladdin movies must give whomever hold their lamps three wishes, with three restrictions: they can't kill anybody (but, as the sequel Aladdin: The Return of Jafar made clear, "you'd be surprised what you can live through"), they can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else (there's a moment when Jafar wishes for Jasmine to fall in love with him; Jasmine fakes it, much to Genie's surprise), and they can't bring people back from the dead (it's not a pretty picture... they don't like doing it!). And of course, wishing for more wishes is strictly forbidden (but, as Aladdin proved, genies can apparently be tricked into using their powers without making an official wish, when he doubts whether Genie can even free them from the Cave of Wonders and Genie takes the dare, freeing them without realizing Aladdin never actually wished for it). | |
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In Finian's Rainbow, Finian's crock of gold has three wishes in it before it turns to dross. The first wish is accidental, causing complications until it is undone by the third wish (because there was an accidental second wish too). | |
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chainsawsuit has a variation, where the character wishes for one genie who doesn't follow this restriction. | |
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The Darkside Detective: In one episode, a fisherman finds a lamp with a genie in it. The genie is bound to grant three wishes, after which it will be free; it enlists the game's protagonist to trick the fisherman into using up his wishes as quickly as possible. | |
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Subverted in the Living for the Day After Tomorrow manga; a sign by the shrine the wishing stone is in says each stone will grant three wishes, but in truth, each one only grants one wish. | |
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There is a joke about the Devil offering a Doom fan three wishes, and then he'll take him to Hell. First wish: IDDQD. Second wish: IDKFA. Third wish... what wish? Take me to hell now! A variation exists where the Devil is not stupid... and sends him to the Nightmare difficulty level, where cheats do not work. | |
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In Dead Witch Walking, Rachel apprehends a leprechaun who offers her three wishes if she'll let her go. Rachel decides to take the leprechaun up on her offer, intending to use the wishes to quit the IS and set up a freelance runner firm. Ivy and Jenks, believing the IS will try to have Rachel killed, offer to come along to help her along in exchange for a wish each. Rachel uses hers to avoid getting in trouble for taking the leprechaun's bribe, Jenks wishes to become sterile (he already has lots of kids and is afraid his wife would leave him otherwise), and Ivy gives hers to a banshee who helped her once, which causes trouble a few books later. | |
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In The Mermaid and the Genie, when Ariel finds the Genie's lamp after her father destroyed her collection, she uses her first wish to become human, but although she promises to release the Genie, he suggests that she not waste her remaining two wishes and instead just give it a few days to make sure she wants to stay human. As a result, when Ursula later steals the lamp for herself, Ariel is able to use her second wish to undo the consequences of Ursula's wishes, before using her final wish to free Genie as she promised. On the other side, when Ursula acquires the Lamp, she uses her third wish to wish that the Genie will have to obey her as long as she's holding the lamp, essentially drawing out her third wish rather than wishing for more. |
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Mage: The Awakening: Tradition in Magical Society holds that if a mage creates a soul stone that falls into another's hands, the possessor can demand three favours of the mage (enforced by the soul stone's powerful Sympathetic Magic link) in exchange for its return. Abuse of a soul is one of the gravest crimes against the Karma Meter and lowest forms of The Dark Arts, so there's strong pressure for both parties to play by the rules. | |
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The titular genies of Shimmer and Shine grant three wishes per day. | |
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In the Endless Quest book Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons, one of the items that the main character uses is a ring of wishes, which is used to stop the monsters that were attacking. There's then a paragraph discussing whether it's a three wish ring or a many wish ring, and trying a fourth from the three wish version will undo the previous ones. The reader is then given a choice whether or not to use another wish, and it turns out to be a three-wish version. Note that the reversal of wishes was specific to the book rather than the D&D ruleset the book is based upon. | |
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Charmed (1998): In "Be Careful What You Witch For", the genie grants the sisters a wish each. Piper vaguely wishes for Dan to move on with his life (as in stop pining over her and Leo) which backfires and he ages rapidly. Prue wishes for love to feel "like it used to" and she ends up transformed into a 16-year-old. Phoebe wishes for an active power but hers gets stolen from a Dragon demon (which becomes Hilarious in Hindsight as she gains the exact same power naturally in the next episode). When the Dragon demon kills Prue the Genie voluntarily returns to his bottle so he can give them a new set of wishes. Phoebe wishes for Prue's resurrection, Piper wishes on Dan's behalf for him to forget about magic and for their final wish the sisters turn the Genie into a human as a thank you. In "I Dream of Phoebe", Phoebe accidentally wishes that Chris wouldn't leave, and that ends up stopping him from being able to orb, so her second wish is for him to be able to orb again. Her third wish sets the genie free...and traps her in the bottle instead. Chris becomes her master and accidentally wishes for Leo to get over his prejudice towards him. He then wishes for Piper and Leo to sleep together (long story) but Phoebe makes them fall asleep next to each other. He doesn't get his third wish however as the original genie steals the bottle. Her three wishes are to kill the sister, raise a lost city and (through some heavy trickery) wish the new genie free which imprisons her again. |
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Pool of Radiance: Shal was given a ring with three wishes. She accidentally uses the first two in her debut chapter, somewhat wastefully. | |
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The Smurfs (1981): In the episode "The Magical Meanie", when Papa Smurf gets a hold of being master of the Jerkass Genie by saying the magical word "pumpernickel pickle", his second wish was to undo all the things the genie did with his magic. This also undid the first wish of Gargamel and Azrael being shrunk to Smurf-size as they were floating down the river on a small raft, causing them to start swimming from the waterfall that they were approaching. | |
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In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "A Lad in the Lamp", there are three wishes per customer. The genie tricks Monterey with the third wish to free him from the lamp, but forgets to mention that the wisher takes the genie's place. In the second half of the episode, Monterey is captured by the Fat Cat's gang and made to do wishes for the gang. When he's finally rescued, the last wish is that none of it ever happened (which alters a minor event in the past to prevent the artifact from being stolen). | |
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In Wishmaster, three wishes are granted for the one who awoke the Djinn (everyone else gets only one, and give up their soul in return). Granting them all will unleash the hordes of the Djinn upon the world. The Djinn may also give a "free" wish. He did so as a demonstration to show that one cannot simply wish the Djinn were dead or killed. He offered the protagonist in the second film a free wish, so that she "might know its joy", but she refused. In the first film the protagonist makes her third wish such that it resets time so that the Djinn was never freed from his magical prison. As the Djinn learns from his mistake, later movies force the heroes to look for other ways to beat him at his own game. | |
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In Koucha Ouji manga, by performing a specific ritual while drinking tea under the full moon, a human can summon a tea prince or princess who will stay with them until three small wishes are granted. The "small" part is important as the wishes cannot be too big (like asking to be a millionaire), or affecting too many people (so you can't wish to cure cancer or something like that) unless a specific circumstance happens that allows it to be (like erasing normal people's memories because they discovered the existence of the tea fairies). Even so, it also depends on the personality of the tea prince/princess that how big a wish can be, some princes will freely perform small magics to help you in daily life and only count something as a wish if it's required a lot of power, some others will not use any spell at all and use them only for the wishes. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 2 episode 20, Doctor H. finds a genie who grants him three wishes. Doctor H. immediately wishes to marry his Celeb Crush Miss Peach, but the genie places some unwanted side-effects on the wish due to him making the wish with no effort, and Doctor H. uses his other two wishes to take care of them. He still gets fed up and begs for everything to return to normal by the end of the episode. | |
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