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Wish-Fulfillment

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Wish-Fulfillment	label	Wish-Fulfillment
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Wish-Fulfillment	comment	Using the control that being a writer affords to create a story that addresses one or more outcomes that the author wishes would come about; that is wish fulfillment. There is nothing at all wrong with this, in and of itself. If Real Life fulfilled every psychological need we human beings have, we probably would not want to write fiction at all. Nor is there anything inherently unhealthy about using fantasy to compensate for a deficiency in Real Life; as long as one avoids becoming a Daydream Believer, Escapism and fantasy and Wish Fulfillment are healthy ways a human psyche can deal with dissatisfaction. Human beings have needs, and some of these needs are psychological in nature. This is an undeniable fact. When a person's Real Life does not provide all of these psychological needs, they can turn to fiction in order to provide for these needs. For instance, someone lives a very boring life going to an utterly mundane job and has no excitement at all. Said person's need for variation and stimulation is not being catered for. Thus, this person might feel very attracted towards stories where an otherwise-normal person they can easily relate to suddenly becomes an extraordinarily powerful being and is thrust into a wild and thrilling series of events. This, in turn, is why people sometimes defend fictional characters as if they were real, because they are not defending the character but idealized versions of themselves and/or embodiments of their values. An attack on the character is seen as an attack on traits they (the real person) personally possess and/or admire. While it's a neutral term and an undeniable part of fiction in general, wish fulfilment is rarely mentioned in a positive light in reviews. Usually, bringing up the term suggests that the author sacrificed quality in plotting, pacing, characterization, etc. in order to facilitate their own wishes. However, it is entirely possible to have Wish Fulfillment stories that are still fluid and well-written; but be careful- do it too much, and it stops improving the story and just becomes indulgent instead. The conclusion being: don't worry too much about using these tropes as long as you pay particular care to that balance. It is also possible for a work to be Wish-Fulfillment for the audience either, instead of, or as well as the author. People whom the work targets will be more willing (to a point) to suspend their disbelief over certain aspects of the work if it means that the goal of the work is achieved. The most blatant form of wish fulfillment for the audience is Reader-Insert Fic, which is literally about the reader. However, this can be a double-edged sword too, as aiming for a too-specific demographic can limit the amount of people that the work appeals to. Contrast with Sour Grapes Tropes and True Art Is Angsty. Not to be confused with Wishing Tropes, which is about literal wishes being granted for characters in-story.
Wish-Fulfillment	fetched	2024-04-10T14:33:48Z
Wish-Fulfillment	parsed	2024-04-10T14:33:48Z
Wish-Fulfillment	processingComment	Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Wish-Fulfillment	processingComment	Dropped link to TransformationComic: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Wish-Fulfillment	processingComment	Dropped link to Utopia: Not a Feature - ITEM
Wish-Fulfillment	isPartOf	DBTropes
A God Am I	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Anti-Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Ascended Fanboy	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Audience Surrogate	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Author Appeal	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Author Avatar	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Author Filibuster	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Author Powers	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Author Tract	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Back from the Dead	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Be Careful What You Wish For	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Beautiful All Along	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Become a Real Boy	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Black Hole Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Born Lucky	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Born Winner	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Bully Hunter	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Came Back Strong	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Canon Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Catharsis Factor	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Changeling Fantasy	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Chick Magnet	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Cinderella Plot	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Competence Porn	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Cursed with Awesome	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Daydream Believer	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Deus ex Machina	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Devoted to You	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Died Happily Ever After	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Dream Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Einstein Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Escapism	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Escapist Character	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Even the Girls Want Her	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Even the Guys Want Him	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Expectation Lowerer	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Fairy Godmother	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Fantasy	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Feminist Fantasy	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Fiction 500	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
"Getting My Own Room" Plot	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Ghost Reunion Ending	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
God-Mode Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Godhood Seeker	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Guardian Angel	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Happy Place	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Harem Genre	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Healthy in Heaven	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Heaven	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Heaven Seeker	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
He's Just Hiding	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Humanity Is Advanced	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Humanity Is Superior	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Humans Advance Swiftly	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Humans Are Special	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Humans Are Warriors	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Humongous Mecha	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be Badass	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be Beautiful	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be Free	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be Loved	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be Normal	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be Special	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Be You	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Just Want to Have Friends	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Want to Be a Real Man	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
I Wish It Were Real	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Intrepid Fictioneer	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Invincible Hero	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Joins to Fit In	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Laser-Guided Karma	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Little Sister Heroine	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Longing for Fictionland	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Mad Dreamer	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Magical Girl	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Magical Girlfriend	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Manic Pixie Dream Girl	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Marty Stu	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Mary Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Mary Sue Classic	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Mary Tzu	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Moe	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Mon	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Never Gets Fat	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
New Life in Another World Bonus	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Next Life as a Fictional Character	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
No Animosity in the Afterlife	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
No Poverty	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Nostalgia Heaven	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Nude Nature Dance	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Only Has Same-Sex Admirers	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Pals with Jesus	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Power Fantasy	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Proud Beauty	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Purity Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Rags to Riches	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Rags to Royalty	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Randomly Gifted	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Real-World Episode	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Relationship Sue	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Revenge Is Sweet	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Right Makes Might	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Romance Novel	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Sailor Earth	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Self-Insert Fic	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
So Beautiful, It's a Curse	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Special Snowflake Syndrome	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Superhero	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Superpowers for a Day	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The Extremist Was Right	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The Four Loves	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The Gift	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The Good Guys Always Win	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The Idol's Blessing	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The One Who Made It Out	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
The Promised Land	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Together in Death	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Token Mini-Moe	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Transformation Fiction	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Trapped in Another World	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Trapped in TV Land	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Tsundere	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Unwanted Harem	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Vengeance Feels Empty	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Wanting Is Better Than Having	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
With Great Power Comes Great Hotness	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
With Great Power Comes Great Perks	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
"World's Best" Character	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
World's Best Warrior	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
World's Most Beautiful Woman	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
World's Smartest Man	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
World's Strongest Man	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
You Are Better Than You Think You Are	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
You Are Not Alone	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Youngest Child Wins	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Not Disabled In VR	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment
Yamato Nadeshiko	processingCategory2	Wish-Fulfillment

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Samurai Flamenco / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Unfunnies (Comic Book) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Funky Winkerbean (Comic Strip) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Brewdening Love Expanded Universe / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past / Fan Fic / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Love Is Deffinatly Blind (Fanfic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Redaction of the Golden Witch (Fanfic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Rise of Darth Vulcan (Fanfic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Argylle / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
High Stakes / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Office Space / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Teen Witch / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Delta Force / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Mirror Has Two Faces / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Wayne's World / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Arabian Nights / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Breaking Dawn / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Executive Orders / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Infinite Stratos / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Instrument of God / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Real Ultimate Power / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
TheCosmicExpress	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
The Irregular at Magic High School / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Twilight Saga / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Voyage / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Aylatrigger	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
BoysLoveNotes	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
BrewdeningLoveExpandedUniverse	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
MarySueTopia	processingCategory1	Wish-Fulfillment
SONICHU	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
TB Abrams	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
WhatMeasureIsANonbadass	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
WishFulFillment	sameAs	Wish-Fulfillment
biotop (Manga) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
GDGD-DOGS (Manga) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Manga Dogs (Manga) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Pixie Pop (Manga) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
School-Live! (Manga) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Fantasy Island / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Fantasy Island (2021) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Psych / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
BitBoy	seeAlso	Wish-Fulfillment
Ethnic Cleansing (Video Game) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
What Remains of Edith Finch (Video Game) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Diamond in the Rough (Touhou) (Web Animation) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Adventures of Kim Jong Un (Web Animation) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Adventurous Adventures of One Direction (Web Animation) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Drawtectives (Web Video) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Dom Reviews (Web Video) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Video Game High School (Web Video) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Cheating Men Must Die (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Suicide for Hire (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Transcendent (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Fantendo (Website) / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Vampire Reviews / Webvideo / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Heavy Metal / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Barbie Diaries / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
The Mask / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
wishfulfillment	sameAs	Wish-Fulfillment

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