History ComicBook / EightBillionGenies

** [[spoiler: The Bada-Bangs gain admission to Fun City through clever use of their remaining genies, after spending several years in a remnant town that abruptly vanishes (including the band's romantic partners) when its host human dies. Alex and Daisy move past their baggage and get married, and Brian finds a new love in Fun City. And while Brian does die relatively young in his 50's, it at least wasn't from a violent skirmish or wish gone awry, and the nature of his own wish leaves Daisy immortal when Alex dies twenty years later.]]

* RealityWarper: The genies can make practically anything happen so long as the wishes are worded properly. Their abilities can completely ignore conventional logic and physics, making functional HumongousMecha, giving people superpowers, and even turning the moon into a ravenous GeniusLoci. They even mentioned offhandedly how they could create hundreds of new realities to accommodate the wishes of leading politicans to have their countries rule as a superpower, but they call it far too much ''work'' to do so, instead choosing to anull all those wishes.

* AnyoneCanDie: Due to the chaos that the genies bring to Earth, people start dying off in rapid numbers as the intended or unintended consequences of wishes spiral out of control. [[spoiler:Heck, population control is the whole point of the genies in the first place.]] By the end of the book, only a handful of characters are left: [[spoiler:Betty, Daisy, and Will are the last people left on Earth when Betty makes the ultimate wish.]]

* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: A great deal of wishes lead to people wanting superpowers and other abilities that lead them to become superheroes, kickstarting a so-called "Powered Age" eight days after the genies arrived. [[spoiler:Robbie is one of these people after he wishes to become someone powerful enough to protect his parents and help them find a safe haven.]]

* ArcNumber: "Eight". All eight billion people on Earth have their own genie to grant one wish of theirs. The story tracks the effects of the genies in multiples of eight. Eight seconds, eight minutes, eight hours, eight days, and so on. The series is eight issues long. And, of course, there are the eight humans in the Lampwick at the moment of G-Day. [[spoiler:By genie standards, that is. An unborn fetus is counted, but not the bartender Will Williams, because he's secretly a gneie.]]

** WorldHealingWave: Several months later, another wish is used to restore the world and bring back most plant and animal life (except for the humans killed earlier).

* RepetitiveName: Lampwick Bar and Grill is owned by Will Williams, a ProperlyParanoid CoolOldGuy who acts as the voice of reason in the story.

* ArcNumber: "Eight". All eight billion people on Earth have their own genie to grant one wish of theirs. The story tracks the effects of the genies in multiples of eight. Eight seconds, eight minutes, eight hours, eight days, and so on. The series is eight issues long.

* AmoralAttorney: The lawyers of the world, with their skills regarding rules proving to be very useful in a world of genies, quickly establish Exactitude, a haven for lawyers, and begin selling their services to the leaders of other havens. Their amorality helps them remain neutral in the new political landscape. [[spoiler:It also gives them immunity to Floyd Faughn, who wished for people to believe in him, since a lawyer believes whatever they're paid to believe - and therefore in nothing at all.]]

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: A common wish is to grow gigantic, with everyone from children to adults wishing to tower over buildings. One page shows that a man wished to grow so tall he could be seen from space... and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome promptly begins to suffocate from the lack of oxygen since his head is in the stratosphere.]]

* AmoralAttorney: The lawyers of the world, with their skills regarding rules proving to be very useful in a world of genies, quickly establish Exactitude, a haven for lawyers, and begin selling their services to the leaders of other havens. Their amorality helps them remain neutral in the new political landscape. [[spoiler:It also gives them immunity to Floyd Faughn, who wished for people to believe in him, since a lawyer believes whatever they're paid to believe - and therefor, in nothing at all.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: When the genies first appear, Will Williams instantly decides to wish for all wishes made outside the Lampwick Bar and Grill to be completely unable to affect the bar and anything and anyone inside. It isn't long before dinosaurs, HumongousMecha, and superpowered people come roaring down the street, but Will's wish protects him, the bar, and everyone inside. Will says that he's seen enough friction happen to prepare for the worst, be it a natural disaster, military threat, or otherwise. His bar's basement is also a bunker stocked with everything from food and water to firearms, though he admits that no one could have possibly prepared for the genies. [[spoiler:This is a lie, since Will ''is'' a genie who's been through over a dozen cycles already, and would have ''anticipated'' a {{Wishplosion}} apocalypse.]]

* OhCrap: The genies consider eight years of age ([[ArcNumber What else?]]) to be the age of reason at which point children are capable of making a wish. Naturally, every parent in the world is ''horrified'' by what that could entail. In fact, one of the core tenets of El Futuro is that children can't make a wish without their parents' permission until they're 25. And given the trouble ''adults'' get into with their wishes, this concern is very justified.

* PapaWolf: Wang is incredibly protective of his wife and unborn child, declaring that if anything should happen to them, the perpetrator will answer to him. After leaving the bar for his appointment at the Lamplighter Bar, he has no problems with murdering anyone he deems a threat to himself or his family, be it a vampire or the man who blackmailed him and was about to wish him dead.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Daisy doesn't learn Brian is gay until long after she wastes her wish trying to make him fall in love with her (it didn't work because he was inside the wish-proof bar when she made the wish but she wasn't). It begs the question of whether or not she would've made that wish had she known it would change a fundamental part of him (as opposed to "just" overriding his free will).

* IncompatibleOrientation: Daisy doesn't learn Brian is gay until after she wastes her wish trying to make him fall in love with her (it didn't work because he was inside the wish-proof bar when she made the wish but she wasn't). It begs the question of whether or not she would've made that wish had she known it would change a fundamental part of him (as opposed to "just" overriding his free will).

** [[spoiler:When Robbie wishes for his genie to transform him into a powerful superhero strong enough to protect his parents and find a safe haven for them amidst the chaos, the genie follows his childish drawing to a T, making him so huge that his arms are as big as his formerly child-sized body. Meanwhile, his head and face remain unchanged, poking above his muscles thanks to his equally muscular neck.]]

** [[spoiler: The death of Robbie's parents frees him from Floyd's brainwashing, as he no longer has anything to believe in, which is crucial to Floyd's power. He kills Floyd after the latter's forces attack El Futuro and kill its leader, at which point Robbie promises to protect the people of El Futuro himself (including Betty and Carlos, who start a family) and leads the haven for 54 years before dying of old age.]]
** [[spoiler: The Bada-Bangs gain admission to Fun City through clever use of their remaining genies, after spending several years in a remnant town that abruptly vanishes (along with Brian's boyfriend) when its host human dies. Alex and Daisy move past their baggage and get married, and Brian finds a new love in Fun City. And while Brian does die relatively young in his 50's, it at least wasn't from a violent skirmish or wish gone awry, and the nature of his own wish leaves Daisy immortal when Alex dies twenty years later.]]

-->"About twenty worlds back, someone was so attached to their genie they couldn't imagine letting them go. Their own friend. Kind of sad."

* AmbiguouslyBrown: The art style makes it hard to tell if Brian is supposed to be African-American or just a white guy with curly hair and a tan. However, his middle name Demetrius is a very "black" name, and he could possibly be mixed.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: The art style makes it a little hard to tell if Brian is supposed to be African-American or just a white guy with curly hair and a tan. However, his middle name Demetrius is a very "black" name, and he could very well be mixed.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: The art style makes it a little hard to tell if Brian is supposed to be African-American or just a white guy with curly hair and a tan, though his middle name Demetrius is a very "black" name.

* OutWithABang: One guy wished to have sex with Music/JimMorrison, but died of a heart attack during the act, leaving the remnant of Morrison to his own devices for a few days. It's stated that several people have used their wish for some manner of sexual gratification, but thankfully the story doesn't dive too deeply into ''that'' subject.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: It's a little hard to tell if Brian is supposed to be African-American or just a white guy with curly hair and a tan, though his middle name Demetrius does imply that he's black.

** [[spoiler: The death of Robbie's parents frees him from Floyd's brainwashing, as he no longer has anything to believe in, which is crucial to Floyd's power. He kills Floyd after the latter's forces attack El Futuro and kill its leader, at which point Robbie promises to protect the people of El Futuro himself and leads the haven for 54 years before dying of old age.]]
** [[spoiler: The Bada-Bangs gain admission to Fun City--through clever use of their remaining genies--after spending several years in a remnant town that vanishes (along with Brian's boyfriend) when its host human dies. Alex and Daisy move past their baggage and get married, and Brian finds a husband of his own. And while Brian does die relatively young in his 50's, it at least wasn't from a violent skirmish or wish gone awry, and the nature of his own wish leaves Daisy immortal when Alex dies twenty years later.]]

** [[spoiler: After years of searching, the Bada-Bangs gain admission to Fun City through clever use of their remaining genies. Alex and Daisy move past their baggage and get married, and Brian finds a husband of his own after helplessly watching his remnant boyfriend vanish in front of him. And while Brian does die relatively young in his 50's or 60's, it at least wasn't from a violent skirmish or wish gone awry, and the nature of his own wish leaves Daisy immortal when Alex dies twenty years later.]]

** [[spoiler: After years of searching, the Bada-Bangs gain admission to Fun City through clever use of their remaining genies, and Brian and Alex live out their lives there. Alex and Daisy move past their baggage and get married, and Brian finds a husband of his own. And while Brian does die relatively young in his 50's or 60's, it at least wasn't from a violent skirmish or wish gone awry, and the nature of his own wish leaves Daisy immortal when Alex dies twenty years later.]]

* BodyHorror: When a woman makes a wish to "be one with the sea", she is turned into a gigantic squid/whale/fish/mermaid creature as a result. She is thrilled at first as it allows her to freely explore the ocean, but eventually gets lonely, not at all helped by the fact that the people she encounters think she's an EldritchAbomination.