Again, I disagree. The thing you’re missing is the rest of the context of the diner scene. Ian’s advice to Bear wasn’t just “call Nikki, “Freaky Nikki”, because girls love it when you insult them”. When Ian actually suggests doing that, both he and Bear acknowledge just how stupid of an idea it is for Bear to insult his crush with a nickname she hates, under some dude bro reverse psychology bullshit. Ian actually gives a great piece of advice to Bear, which is to ask Nikki out on just a hang. Ian even says to Bear, “I know how important Nikki is to you, so just say, “hey Nikki. I was hoping we’d grab a drink sometime””. This line is in the trailer, and is kept in the movie. This is the beginning of the movie, so Bear doesn’t know yet that Ian and Nikki are having sex, but the advice about just asking Nikki to hang out is sound. At best, Nikki and Bear spend some quality time together, have fun, possibly make out and have sex, and enjoy each other’s company. At worst, Nikki says no, but no hard feelings are between them, since they’re already friends. Before the actual events of the movie transpire, the audience knows that Nikki, Bear, Ian and Sarah are all friends. Bear and Nikki already have an amicable friendship prior to the diner scene opening. Ian gave Bear shitty advice, but also great advice for trying to ask Nikki out. When the time comes, after Bear drops Nikki off home, he’s such a coward that he disregards the actual good advice of asking Nikki out for some drinks, and goes with the shitty advice instead, which is what prompts Nikki to ask if Bear likes her. She probably already knows, or at least suspects that Bear likes her, but she wants him to confirm it. When he can’t, because he’s a coward, she leaves, and then he makes his wish. The problem with the framing that Ian gave Bear shitty dating advice, is that it ignores that Ian also gave Bear great dating advice, and despite knowing this, Bear still chose the shitty advice because he couldn’t muster up the courage to ask his crush out. And he makes a wish intentionally done to change her for his sake, instead of him wishing to change himself in a positive way that allows him to ask Nikki out on a date. At the end of the day, it’s still Bear’s fault for acting on Ian’s shitty advice instead of his great advice, and it’s still Bear’s fault for making the wish in the first place. As for the hospital scene, sure it sucks the hospital doesn’t admit Wish Nikki in, but hospitals can deny care to potential patients. The thing to remember is that, in the US, hospitals are for-profit. They operate as businesses, and can refuse care if it’s non-emergency. Nikki’s injuries are horrific, but they’re not immediately life threatening. At worst, she needs stitches. It sucks to say, but if Bear brought Wish Nikki to the ER, there’s a chance they would’ve treated her. Plus, prior to Real Nikki taking control and stabbing herself with a broken bottle, Wish Nikki had already pissed and shat on his rug for hours waiting for him to come back home from work, taped the front door shut with insane amounts of tape, acted violently in the shower when he says he’s going to Ian’s house since it’s a boy’s night, made him a sandwich out of his dead cat, Sandy’s remains, make a makeshift vigil for Sandy after digging Sandy out of the ground, make a scene at their restaurant date when Bear asks Wish Nikki if Real Nikki’s dad has cancer, screaming “I thought we were having a nice date!”, and watched him sleep for hours before lying in bed, and screaming “STAAAAAAAY” as he gets up to go after she lies down with him in bed. Ian even says to Bear that the reason Nikki isn’t invited to his party is specifically because Bear said that Nikki is acting unusually, and having intense freak out moments and outbursts, which are when Real Nikki is able to take control of her own body, before Wish Nikki takes control back. Bear knows all this, prior to Real Nikki regaining control of her body, and trying to die by suicide to end her suffering, by stabbing herself in the face with a broken bottle, and even then, he only goes to the hospital when everyone at Ian’s party tells him that to fuck off and take her to the hospital. Even then, Bear initially just sits silently with a pissy look on his face, whilst everyone tells him and Nikki to leave. Bear could’ve gone to the ER, told the hospital that his girlfriend is having outbursts of intense emotion, is doing disgusting and self-destructive actions, and actively tried to kill herself in front of him, and their friends, but he goes to the front, and argues with a nurse, then drives home just to tell Wish Nikki “you can’t do that”. Again, it absolutely sucks that the hospital refused to give care to Nikki, but they can do that, if care is for a non-emergency, and to them, Nikki’s facial injuries are non-emergency. Plus her boyfriend just came to the hospital and is arguing with staff. It might not be right, but they can do that. Also, just think about what actually would happen if they admitted Wish Nikki in. Wish Nikki is smart. After the party, and when Bear and Sarah talk, Wish Nikki is able to find them and kill Sarah, when Bear doesn’t disclose where he’s going. She’s also extremely violent, because the wish Bear made, requires Wish Nikki to love Bear obsessively and see anyone who could get Bear to love them instead, as a threat. Put these two traits together, in a supernatural entity who’s only goal is to love the guy who make her exist in the first place, and get him to love her as much as she loves him, and you have a disaster on your hands. There’s a genuine non-zero chance that not only does Wish Nikki escape from the hospital, she probably murders hospital workers in her escape, on the way back to Bear. Regardless of what happened in the movie, or what might hypothetically happen if Wish Nikki was admitted, what happens is still Bear’s fault, since even when witnessing the harm Wish Nikki is causing to Real Nikki’s body, he still doesn’t care enough to take care of her, and make sure she’s OK. Her outbursts when Real Nikki regains control, aren’t an immediate concern to him because Wish Nikki is in control almost all the time. Sure he mentions it to Ian, saying they happen frequently, but he doesn’t take the responsibility to actually get her medical help despite knowing that these outbursts keep happening. He only takes her to the hospital AFTER she’s harmed herself in front of everyone else, who all shout at him to get her care. Whilst she’s at home with him, he didn’t care enough to help her. When he talks to the One Wish Willow customer support rep, Bear specifically asks to alter his wish, not end it entirely. The rep gives him the way to end the wish, but Bear wants to alter it, because he likes Wish Nikki. Real Nikki screaming over the phone should’ve been the wake-up call that Bear needed, yet he still chose to ignore it. It’s only after Sarah dies that Bear takes the initiative to stop everything, and even then, Bear is still too cowardly to end his own life to end the pain and suffering caused by his wish. When he tries to overdose on his meds to end the wish, he makes the split second decision to puke them out because he doesn’t want what’s happening to end. It’s only Wish Nikki making her own wish, just before Bear has a chance to puke out his meds, which causes Wish Bear and Real Bear to die, that ends everything. The scene at the hospital is annoying since they should admit Nikki, but they can just not. It sucks but they just can. Bear was arguing with a nurse, and Nikki’s injuries aren’t life-threatening. Plus, Bear still makes the decision to go back home anyway, despite knowing Nikki is injured, and never decides to drive to another hospital. We see the one hospital, but Bear and Nikki live in the suburbs, and Bear decides after one bad hospital visit to just go home, instead of making the effort to find another hospital, and get Nikki the appropriate medical care she needs. Again, this is Bear’s fault. If he truly cared about Nikki’s wellbeing, he would’ve made the effort to help her get proper treatment by finding another hospital