History ComicBook / EightBillionGenies

* RulesLawyer: Exactitude is an enclave in the post-genie world that is composed entirely of lawyers, who write loophole-free wishes for their clients. They are paid entirely in genies and have become ''very'' powerful as a result.

* AchillesHeel: Floyd Faughn's wish was that people would believe in him, allowing him to [[CharmPerson compel]] almost anyone to do as he wished and leading to him becoming one of the most powerful individuals in the post-genie world... but he requires some ability to belief in his victims for this to work out: people that believe in nothing at all, such as lawyers or eventually [[spoiler:Robbie]], are not impressed.

* WorldWreckingWave: Several years after "G-Day", someone ([[spoiler:Floyd Faughn]]) makes a wish for an energy wave that scours the Earth and kills most of humanity. The only survivors are people who were in reinforced bunkers or those living in wish-proofed enclaves.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Wang and Lifeng are discussing what to do with their wishes, their genies pass the time by thumb wrestling, only for Lifeng's to cheat by increasing the size of their thumb.

* 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.

* 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:Actually subverted; Will is actually a genie, and would have ''anticipated'' a {{Wishplosion}} apocalypse.]]

Now imagine if ''everyone'' got a wish like that. What do you think would happen?

* HappilyMarried: While they do bicker over what to do in their current crisis, it's clear that Wang Zhang and his wife Lifeng dearly love each other and the two fret about one another constantly. Similarly, Ed realizes that he's been a bad father to Robbie and uses his wish to bring back June, Robbie's mother, so they can be a whole family again. Ed and June are nothing but affectionate for one another and care deeply about their son.

* {{Wishplosion}}: This turns out to be [[spoiler:the ''point'' of the whole thing. The genies will keep returning to Earth for as long as its sentient population collectively feels unfulfilled before reaching a certain size. Every time they do, the person with the last genie has the exclusive right to wish for something that resets the whole thing with different conditions. There is a rumor amongst the genies of an "ultimate wish" that'll permanently satisfy all human needs and desires forever, ending the cycle of genies, but none of them know what it is; a single genie gets left behind to live on the new world each time to try and figure it out. It turns out to be for everyone to love the way they wish themselves to be loved. This results in an Earth with a population of eight billion, but no genies this time around.]]

** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (specifically, "Curse of the Flying Hellfish") is referenced when discussing the idea of "tontines" (a wish that is shared among multiple people and can only be granted when all of them are in agreement).

** One of the variant covers for issue #8 is drawn in the style of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' and channels the spirit of the "[[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/a7/24/51a7242c54731dcd5af440d4666b7d7d.jpg Tyrannosaurs in F-14s]]" strip. It depicts a genie resembling Calvin overlooking a scene with a paratrooper ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and several F-35 jets.

* {{Immortality}}: The final issue takes place 800 years after the events of the first, and three characters survive to the end: [[spoiler:Will, Daisy, and Betty Tzang]].

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoilerDaisy]] does this after [[spoiler:the deaths of Brian and Alex]]. She does this for ''700 years'' due to her unexpected immortality.

* {{Immortality}}: The final issue takes place 800 years after the events of the first, and three characters survive tot he end: [[spoiler:Will, Daisy, and Betty Tzang]].

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoilerDaisy]] does this after [[spoiler:the deaths of Ben and David]]. She does this for ''700 years'' due to her unexpected immortality.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Many people don't ''intend'' to cause harm with their wishes, but their ill-thought out wishes or acts as a result of those wishes cause enormous carnage and destruction. One person who wishes for a lightsaber accidentally starts a fire that engulfed all of downtown Detroit. As one of the genies notes, she asked for a lightsaber, not how to ''use it.''

-->"Every wish we grant is the same wish. '' 'I wish I had enough.' ''"

* ApocalypseHow: The genies' arrival on Earth has triggered a Class 1 Apocalypse, as people's ill-thought out wishes lead to enormous death and destruction. Nearly two billion people, a fourth of Earth's population, die within eight days of the genies' arrival. A large part of the U.S. has been covered by a tarp labeled "Dougland", South America is a barren wasteland, and the planet has a chunk bitten out of it by the moon.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ernest Hemingway initially presents himself as the gentlemanly scholar-poet "Papa" upon arriving at the Lampwick. A few drinks later, Ernest is ranting about how his whiskey glass has run dry and calls Will a son of a bitch whose "shitty cantina" could be bought for a poem Ernest writes onto a napkin.

* WorldWreckingWave: Several years after "G-Day", someone makes a wish for an energy wave that scours the Earth and kills most of humanity. The only survivors are people who were in reinforced bunkers or those living in wish-proofed enclaves.

* RulesLawyer: One of the enclaves in the post-genie world is one composed of lawyers, who write loophole-free wishes for their clients. They are paid entirely in genies and have become ''very'' powerful as a result.

* RulesLawyer: One of the enclaves in the post-genie world is one composed of lawyers, who write loophole-free wishes for their clients. They are paid entirely in genies and have become ''very'' powerful as a result.

* ApocalypseHow: The genies' arrival on Earth has triggered a Class 1 Apocalypse, as people's ill-thought out wishes lead to enormous death and destruction. Nearly 2 billion people, a fourth of Earth's population, die within eight days of the genies' arrival. A large part of the U.S. has been covered by a tarp labeled "Dougland", South America is a barren wasteland, and the planet has a chunk bitten out of it by the moon.

* 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.

* 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 in the stratosphere.]]