History Main / BenevolentGenie

* [[LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]] once briefly obtained a treasure that included the services of a genie who really wanted to help him ... but [[{Jerkass} being who he is]] he attacks the genie as a rival for his treasure. The consequences are [[{{Understatement}} not good]].

* In '{{Bernard and the Genie}}', Lenny Henry plays one of these to Alan Cumming's Bernard.

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* Shenron from DragonBall. Hey may not be all that polite, but he grants you anything you want, no strings attached. [[spoiler: Unless it is outside of his power to do so.]]

* {{Weesh}} [[http://www.weeshcomic.com/]] is about three kids and their ''very'' benevolent genie.

** A different episode featured a benevolent "genie" surrounded by jackasses - it's a little fuzzy creature that grants the wish of whoever scares it as a defense mechanism. Iago befriends it, and at episode's end, shows it a mirror while screaming. "Squirt scared himself", so its own wish is granted - to return to the homeland of its species.

* Shenron from DragonBall. Hey may not be all that polite, but he grants you anything you want, no strings attached.

* ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "I Dream of Genie" features a genie who can only grant one wish and so encourages the man who finds him to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor carefully consider what he really wants]]. The hero rejects various ordinary wishes for wealth, love and power, and finally [[spoiler:wishes to become a BenevolentGenie himself, one who can grant three wishes and arranges for his lamp to be found by the homeless and needy]].

* ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "I Dream of Genie" features a genie who can only grant one wish and so encourages the man who finds him to carefully consider what he really wants. The hero rejects various ordinary wishes for wealth, love and power, and finally [[spoiler:wishes to become a BenevolentGenie himself, one who can grant three wishes and arranges for his lamp to be found by the homeless and needy]].

* ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "I Dream of Genie" features a genie who can only grant one wish and so encourages the man who finds him to carefully consider what he really wants. The hero rejects various ordinary wishes for wealth, love and power, and finally [[spoiler:wishes to become a BenevolentGenie himself, one who can grant a full three wishes and who arranges for his lamp to be found by the homeless and needy]].

* TheTwilightZone episode "I Dream of Genie" features this sort of genie, who can only grant one wish and encourages the man who finds him to carefully consider what he really wants. The hero rejects various ordinary wishes for wealth, love and power, and finally [[spoiler:becomes a BenevolentGenie himself by wishing that he was a genie who can grant a full three wishes, and who arranges for his lamp to be found by the homeless and needy]].

* TheTwilightZone episode "I Dream of Genie" features this sort of genie, who can only grant one wish and encourages the man who finds him to carefully consider what he really wants. The hero rejects various ordinary wishes for wealth, love and power, and finally [[spoiler:becomes a BenevolentGenie himself by wishing that he was a genie who can grant a full three wishes, and who arranges for his lamp to be found by the homeless and needy]].

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* CaptainN once had the heroes stumble upon a genie who granted their wishes pretty much as they intended them. Only the collective stupidity of everyone on the show prevents either faction from winning in approximately ten seconds.

More often than not, the ultimate ending for this type of Genie tends to be its master wishing it free. Depending on the work, this sometimes makes the Genie have unlimited power or in other cases makes them normal humans.

* The TV series version of ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' has a female genie called [[ShoutOut Eden]], who is also benevolent. Unlike Genie however, she's wise enough to become a LiteralGenie when dealing with Jerkass Abis Mal. When the villain wishes Genie imprisoned in the bottom of the ocean, she give him an escape hatch because Mal didn't say forever. When Mal wished the biggest and strongest being in the world, she including a method of relieving him of his power; and when the little girl who finds her wishes for everything to be all right, she turns Abis Mal into a bug as a "freebie". She also went out of her way to encourage the little homeless girl to come up with better wishes; when the girl wished for a sandwich, she convinced her to wish for a lifetime supply of food instead.

* In ''DuckTales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp'', the genie is a curious but good-natured fellow who even tells the nephews that he is "eternally grateful" when they first free him. He takes no pleasure in granting wishes that are liable to cause trouble or are otherwise harmful, but he can't resist for long before he is somehow compelled into bringing it into existence anyway. He even warns them early on to try and keep the wishes relatively subtle, as flashy displays of his magic invariably cause trouble. Not least of which is a former master of his, an immortal sorcerer who has a talisman that gives him limitless wishes and a very cruel nature. Two other wishes the genie was forced to grant him included sinking Atlantis back when it was a prime vacation spot after the sorcerer couldn't get a reservation and causing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (in his words, "Poor Pompeii! Vesuvius wouldn't have blown its top if Merlock hadn't!"). The genie openly weeps when recounting these facts.
* CaptainN once had the heroes stumble upon a genie who granted their wishes pretty much as they intended them. Only the collective stupidity of everyone on the show prevents either faction from winning in approximately ten seconds.

** It also seems that sometimes they ''have'' to be literal, or at least, can't undo something they've already granted literally. Or something; it kind of [[DependingOnTheWriter changes with the plot]].

* The Genie in ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' functions like this, even interpreting an unconscious head bob in the best possible way (as "Genie, I want you to save my life"). In fact, he's nice to a fault -- when Jafar takes control of him late in the film, it doesn't even occur to him to try to use some LiteralGenie interpretations to screw Jafar out of his wishes (for example, simply teleporting Jafar to a DeathWorld when he wishes to be the most powerful sorcerer in the world, or making Jafar the "sultan" of an oasis). Fortunately, Aladdin himself thinks of a loophole and tricks Jafar into using it. The Genie doesn't even realize what Aladdin's plan is until after he already granted the wish.