10 TV Episodes Where People Didn’t Get What They Wished For
3. Buffy The Vampire Slayer – ‘The Wish’ (S3 E9)
This episode was the first to feature vengeance demon Anyanka (Anya) before she became part of the regular cast. Cordelia encounters Anya in her human form, and after a bad day, decides that everything wrong in her life is Buffy's fault and wishes that she had never come to Sunnydale. The story then proceeds to show Cordelia how her life would have been adversely affected without Buffy around to save the day.
Anya gives her an amulet and grants her wish. Cordelia is now popular again, but the town is now overrun by vampires, with The Master in charge and Xander and Willow part of his brood. Cordelia is rescued by Giles, who is the leader of the vampire resistance, but is killed by Xander and Willow shortly after. The episode gets even more dark and disturbing when Xander kills Angel, Buffy kills Xander, Oz kills Willow and the Master kills Buffy.
Luckily for Cordelia, this leaves Giles alive, who realises what has happened and saves the day by summoning Anyanka and destroying her amulet, restoring the time before Cordelia made her wish and rendering Anya harmless. Unfortunately, Cordelia is now unaware of what happened so never gets to learn her lesson!