Beware the Genie’s Bad Mood: Common Wishes Turned Unfortunate

Imagine if you were a genie in a bad mood. What common wish would you twist to create a troubling outcome? This article explores various wishes twisted into unfortunate realities and highlights the importance of being specific and mindful when making a wish.

Classic Wishes Gone Wrong

Consider the classic saying: “Genies in a bottle always get their wishes in reverse.” In a bad mood, a genie might twist a wish in unexpected and potentially disastrous ways. Here are some common wishes and their unfortunate twists:

Wish: I Want to Be the Richest in the World

Genie: Alright, but you earned your wealth from loans, and now you have to pay back 40 per month with death as the penalty for failure.

Wish: I Want to Bring This Anime Girl to Life to Love Me

Genie: Alright, but they have a surgically implanted hydrogen bomb in their abdomen. If they so much as look at you, your city is the last place your residents will see.

Wish: I Want to Be Famous

Genie: Alright, ok, you are a famous child rapist and murderer.

Wish: I Want Infinite Wishes

Genie: Alright, every wish gives the 10 closest people, including you, prostate cancer.

Wish: I Want Magical Abilities

Genie: Alright, you can only manipulate the urinary tract with your mind.

Wish: I Want to Be a Genie

Genie: Alright, I will now f**k**ing destroy the lamp and sentence you to eternal imprisonment unless some guy decides to mend this thing.

Unfortunate Wishes

Even benign wishes can turn into nightmares when a genie is in a bad mood:

Unfortunate Wish: I Wish to Be Good Looking

Genie: Congratulations! You now have the best eyesight in the world! You can see everything.

Unfortunate Wish: I Wish to Fly

Genie: Sure, but you can only fly up, never down.

Unfortunate Wish: I Wish for 1 Billion Dollars

Genie: I’m going to give you a choice here. I can take your 1 billion from the bank, or I can make new money for you. Make new money.

Genie: Make new money. Sure, but you just crashed the economy so your money is useless.

Unfortunate Wish: I Wish for a Multimillion Dollar Legal Company

Genie: Very smart, but your going to have to do it yourself. After all, you did wish for you to make it yourself.

Unfortunate Wish: I Wish for Infinite Wishes

Genie: Sure, you now have infinite wishes! But I will twist them all.

Unfortunate Wish: I Wish for the Same Superpowers as Superman

Genie: Ok, but it will take 1 million years to develop and it will be extremely painful right from the start.

Smart Wishes

One smart wish that the genie couldn’t twist was the ability to traverse time:

Smart Wish: I Wish for the Ability to Time Travel

Genie: You are supposed to rub the genie lamp first, but whatever, there you go. You can now travel through time painlessly. You can appear as a legitimate new person in a different timeline, traveling backward or forward. You can take whatever you want with you and you will always carry all of yourself to the particular time with you, including your toe/finger nails and hair and clothes. The timeline you are living in now will pause while you are time traveling through time. You are immune to illnesses, pain, and death while traveling through time. There is no limit to how many times you can perform this action. You can decide when and how far back or forward you will travel in time.

Genie: Alright, you won’t be twisted for this wish.

Genie: You are going to regret this, kids.

Why is that?

Genie: Because I’m in a bad mood and I will find a way to twist your wishes.

Big brother stays.

Why are you still here?

I’m here to get myself a legitimate wish.

Good luck. Your going to need it.

Warp

Hey old grandma, what do you wish for?

I wish for that kid's ability to stop working.

Now that’s one wish I won’t twist!