It’s Actually Extremely Hilarious That, Like, Every Wish That Prismo Grants Has Some Sort Of ‘Monkey’s

It’s actually Extremely Hilarious that, like, every Wish that Prismo grants has some sort of ‘Monkey’s Paw’ deal going on and usually you can kinda see, like, the Cosmic Forces of Magic Wish Irony twisting and reinterpreting the Wish to make sure it backfires on the Wisher in some way....

Like, when Finn tried to Wish that the Lich never existed, the Wish decided to prevent the creation of the Lich in a way that also basically prevented the creation of the world Finn was fighting to save in the first place and generally took away the life of adventure Finn loves so much and that’s before stuff started to get Really Bad in Farmworld

And Then it hit the pedantic ‘well, you Wished the Lich never existed, that doesn’t mean he won’t exist in the future’!

Same goes with Wyatt. Even without Prismo taking ‘I wish it was quiet enough to think!’ as a valid Wish - taking it to mean a whole horrifying Silent-Era cartoon universe where he’s tied to the railroad track was a total twist on Wyatt's intention created to make sure he gets as much Suffering out of his Wish as possible. 

Babyworld was said by Word of God to be BMO’s Wish. He probably just wanted everyone to be adorable babies and then it backfired by making her into a Baby Toy rather than anything sapient or independent enough to enjoy the cuteness around him.

But then there’s the Lich’s Wish. 

And he got… exactly what he Wished for and exactly what he wanted. There were no technicalities or wild misinterpretations of his intentions or pedantic twist. The Lich’s Wish worked out exactly how he intended it to. It was exactly the goal he was working towards for all these centuries. 

But it still backfired on him because turns out his life-long goal actually sucked and always did.