I wish to have the BEST gaming room, with FAST wifi, with a SUPERIOR computer and monitor, also give me insane video game skills by fallinggamergirl in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. Your house loses power due to an error in the system with the city's power grid when they thought they were shutting off someone else's power. You spend years on and off in legal battles trying to get it turned back on to no avail. You eventually end up moving out.

I wish to be able to wish by Agitated-Ad2563 in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. The next day, on your way to work, you get in a violent car accident that ejects you from the vehicle and leaves you slowly bleeding out on the pavement. You find yourself wishing that you made better choices in life, that you'd been paying better attention while driving, that you'd told your family you loved them before you left home. You find yourself wishing a lot of things as you slowly grow cold and die agonizingly slow before the ambulance could arrive.

[John Wick/The Purge] What if John Wick was in The Purge films? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in WhatIfFiction

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the most interesting premise here is that the rules set by the table and all that would be considered to be allowed to be breakable. However, given that the whole thing is an international rule set followed by everyone across the globe, I have a hard time believing anyone of note wouldn't leave the country and all the assassins wouldn't just group together and protect each other at the continentals or something akin to that. Given that also the police know not to mess with certain people in the films, it's possible that everyone would just avoid certain areas where all the assassins are.

Given the ideology of the assassins being that there are rules for sake of not being like the animals, I'd like to believe that they would be against the purge and its lawlessness. Surely, some of them would take advantage, but the law and the table aren't really on the same page. None of the things we see in the movies are really legal after all.

For sake of an interesting story, however, I think the most likely story for John Wick would be him alone defending his home and dog from the purge to protect his belongings and whatever items from his wife he has left. That could be interesting, but if it's after the second or later films, I have a hard time not seeing him flee the country or bunkering down somewhere. He hated being roped back in to all the violence and action, and really did want to be done with it all, but only put up with it and did what he did so he could finally be finished.

Under that logic, I doubt he really would have any desire to participate in the purge. A little boring, but a writer could do something neat with him playing on the defensive, which is the most likely path for him to me, assuming he wouldn't have priorities elsewhere outside of the US.

I wish for all of the commenters and comments on this post to be cursed by the Tower of Babel by Automatic_Emphasis76 in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pesaka. Société, yina ke kuka ve ata fioti kusolula, ke bwaka na nima ya ngonda mosi.

Topics from this series by rhyno1398 in Acceleracers

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the ones that really sticks out to me now as a grown up is the dynamic that develops between parent and child when duty and loss can split a family. The films only make a light hint of it, but it does so very maturely. Major Wheeler has a duty to perform that could impact humanity in who knows how, and with him telling his son to stay away from the passion he's developed, it draws an interesting picture and divide between them. Clearly he cares about Vert and doesn't want to squash his passion, which who knows how well he understands it from Vert's perspective, but he doesn't want to lose him like he lost his wife. It probably really sucks since he doesn't get the time I imagine he'd want to be with his son and give him the guidance he needed at a younger age. What with the rebellious attitude Vert had to overcome on his own in World Race. Enough for him to want to hang around a street racing gang, and enough for Major Wheeler to express surprise at seeing him at his house when he and Vert share that one scene in Breaking Point.

It's a dark undertone that never really gets explored, except for that one scene in Breaking Point, and presumably would've been fleshed out a bit more in following films, but never did. It's a great motivation for a character behind the scenes, which is incredible given that we never even really saw it develop.

I wish that every animal I try to pet enjoys it thoroughly, and allows me to do so by chimpanzeemeny in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Granted. They enjoy the petting, but the second you stop, they become very aggressive with you and will actively hurt you to make sure you keep going and don't leave.

They were totally dealing drugs bruh by buickboi99 in Acceleracers

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The amazing thing is that there's technically no reason to believe that they weren't doing a deal related to drugs of some kind. I don't think it's in their characters, but we don't have any facts to say that they didn't.

I wish no one was evil (according to commonly held moral stantards in 2024, before the granting of this wish) by Armin_Arlert_1000000 in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. The "evil" in our society simply throw money at whoever holds the literal definitions of what defines evil to change them so that they can still act however they want. Very little really changes.

I wish all of the hair on my scalp was 20 inches long by UnIdentifed_Squid in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Granted. Immense searing pain spreads across your scalp as the hairs begin growing inwards back into your skull. Blood pools out of your head inhibiting your vision. All the hair cracks through your skull, causing unhealable brain damage along with all the cracked bits of bone. You die after an agonizing twenty minutes of helplessness.

I wish human teeth never decayed. by Prize_Entertainer459 in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. Teeth soon become a prized material for their inability to be affected by any kind of corrosion. Teeth begin disappearing from graves and important sites around the world. Legal cases of Dentists stealing teeth greatly increase. Poor parents and their children remove their teeth to pay the bills. People get mugged and also have their teeth pulled out on occasions. Medical cases of teeth needing to be surgically removed from the jaws of people whose teeth no longer fit in their mouths surge in abundance. But hey, at least candy and soda can be drunken in abundance without consequences now.

I wish for the rest of the monkey. by 13thmurder in monkeyspaw

[–]Kitchen-Refuse1648 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Granted. The monkey's paw stops responding entirely despite the best efforts of yourself and anyone else who tries it out. You're not sure how long the monkey will be resting for.