History Main / IWishItWereReal

* ''DigimonTamers''

* This is also where Greer Gilman's ''{{Moonwise}}'' takes off. Sylvie, who has spent her life creating elaborate fantasy worlds, meets Ariane at university and lets her in. They end up with nine planets and reams of heartfelt work dedicated to their legends. At Midwinter's Eve, Sylvie vanishes before Ariane's eyes, and it's up to Ariane to find her. The clew she unwinds draws her into the world they called Cloud, but again it's a real place, beautiful but complex and often painful.

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* Both Loony Leo, the living cartoon character, and Beautie, the android FictionalCounterpart Barbie doll, in ''Comicbook/AstroCity.''

See also WelcomeToTheRealWorld, RefugeeFromTVLand, AscendedFanboy. WantingIsBetterThanHaving might end up as an {{Aesop}}.

* TheTwilightZone 2002 - ''Azoth The Avenger Is A Friend Of Mine''. A little boy meets his favorite BarbarianHero.

* ''{{Jumanji}}''
** Its SpiritualSuccessor ''{{Zathura}}''.

* Subverted in ''{{Pleasantville}}'', in which the protagonists are drawn into an idealized-1950s TV-show universe, and introduce various forms of personal and sexual liberation that shake up the stereotypically stodgy inhabitants.

* ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard''

* The ''[[{{Castlevania}} Simon's Quest]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors Wizards & Warriors]]'' books in the ''WorldsOfPower'' series begin this way.

* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''[[JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Only You Can Save Mankind]]'', although the titular video game comes to life without any actual wishes being involved. It's partially a parody of ''The Last Starfighter'', mentioned above.
* Terry Pratchett and NeilGaiman's ''Literature/GoodOmens'' addresses this. As [[TheAntichrist Adam]] prepares to remake the world to his liking his friends become acutely aware that the best thing about pirates and cowboys and the other fantastic things in their imaginations is that you can stop being them when you want to.

And in the search they just might make it real!\\''

* Both Loony Leo, the living cartoon character, and Beautie, the android Barbie doll, in ''Comicbook/AstroCity.''

* ''CaptainNTheGameMaster''.

* ''Film/{{Ted}}'' shows a young boy that wishes his teddy bear was real. He gets exactly what he wants, but the charm wears off as the two of them grow up and the bear becomes a lazy womanizer like any other man.

* Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, does this when Spongebob and Patrick wish for "Real nice Robots to play with". Guess who the mooks of this game are!

* Deconstructed in ''[[Fanfic/MarieDSuesseAndTheMysteryNewPirateAge Marie D Suesse And The Mystery New Pirate Age!]]''. The main character does not have a happy home life and [[MakeAWish wishes she could go on adventures]] in the world of her favorite manga. Too bad for her, the world of OnePiece is actually a CrapSaccharineWorld, which makes her wish coming true [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a very bad thing]].

* ''DenjiSentaiMegaranger''

* At least one of [[TheFairlyOddparents Timmy Turner's]] wishes has been like this.

* ''Beetleborgs''

* Both Loony Leo, the living cartoon character, and Beautie, the android Barbie doll, in ''AstroCity.''

* ''TheIndianInTheCupboard''

* ''Ted'' shows a young boy that wishes his teddy bear was real. He gets exactly what he wants, but the charm wears off as the two of them grow up and the bear becomes a lazy womanizer like any other man.

* The fantasy series ''GuardiansOfTheFlame'' has the college professor DM of a gaming group turn out to be a wizard from a fantasy world who sends his players through to try and set things right there. Some benefit from the immigration (one guy, who's crippled in real life, becomes his physically whole dwarf character), but there is a ''high'' body count once the characters find out that this 'DM's world is much harsher than their usual 'game'.

* In ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Wishbones" a boy named Pud'n wishes his toy bunny were real. An extra-dimensional skull grants his wish, but being a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, the newly animated bunny turns out to be a complete psychopath who does everything in his power to kill Pud'n.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'', moments after Parson declares he would gladly trade his current life a life in a game world, he is summoned into a [[RPGMechanicsVerse turn-based strategy wargame universe]]. This turns out to be [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor less desirable than he'd thought]] when he finds himself on the badly outnumbered side of a war, under threat of [[BadBoss having his existence ended]] if he doesn't follow orders.

--> "Dibs on his dice"

** [[http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/48208-wisdom-of-crowds/ "Maybe wanting something does make it real. Clearly, the comic needs to be corrected.?]]