Genie in a Bottle - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[FirstDayRegister]

Dumb genie on a crack

 

[Tamerlane]

He never said "I wish." Genie doesn't even know how to rules lawyer properly, shake my head

 

[SpookiLurkr]

Whoever is in charge of that genie needs to be reprimanded.

 

[feha]

how stupid do you have to be to not watch your words when given wishes, particularly when he says he the first request/order was interpreted as a wish?

Also, the second 'wish' has absolutely no way to be parsed as a wish or even request/order in any way. And if he really had parsed it as such, it would have given him 1 wish more (by invalidating the counting of the first one (though before that, the first wish would have made the second one not be a wish, as he had to wait a minute for the first wish to have been fulfilled))

 

[LordTrollbias]

This is actually way more accurate to how genies were portrayed initially than in the Disney films.

They are absolute manipulative dickheads. At least my guy ended with a net neutral result.

Now we could argue semantics about whether or not he phrased stuff as a wish or not but genies are assholes and its not like the guy knew better so the genie won't give a fuck here

 

[guardian1102]

Left to right??

 

[Hounder]

<meh>

 

[Hounder]

Ouch...

@FirstDayRegister Nope, genie smart. Minimal effort for maximum reward, literally didn't have to do anything but let the guy talk his way into wasting the wishes.

 

[Matthewkeen]

nice.

 

[Harvester]

The first wish was an accident. The second wish was a conversational reaction. You'd think he'd shut his mouth in a hurry and not blow the third one by doing anything that could possibly be interpreted as a wish until he gave it some thought. Or if he had some more wit about him, would sit down and spin a yarn that'd put Scherazade to shame until the genie figured granting an actual wish would be less annoying.

 

[dharman]

but no "wish" word in this comic?

 

[Pokari]

Honestly, given that genie's probably-malicious overly-literal-yet-liberal-interpretation of things said, I think it's safe to say the man got off very lightly.This might even be roughly the best-case scenario.

Letting the genie away without a fuss or being memorable in any way is arguably the right thing to do. He's an omnipotent asshole, even if nominally bound to one's bidding. GTFO, and fast.

 

[Alrange]

How osamu tezuka of you

 

[2SpiritCherokeePrincess]

r/MaliciousCompliance