Technology: Wish Fulfillment

A plot technology that shows a character getting everything they want

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The Cheat Sheet
Experience: Gratification
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
bree and nathan getting together in the end: "I gather all of my strength for my next words. 'Your ability to shoulder everything, to give 200 percent of yourself all the time, to be perfect at everything you attempt…these are not the attributes that make you a valuable human being.' I pause. 'And they are not why I fell in love with you.'" ... "'I love you too,' he whispers over and over again. 'I love you, Bree. I love you, I always have.'"
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Experience: Gratification
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
FitzSimmons finally getting their happy ending after many ups and downs in their relationship - getting married and having a daughter
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
Winnie the Pooh
Experience: I want to propose a new experience term
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
"Soon Tigger and Roo were bouncing through the Hundred-Acre Wood. "Bet I can bounce twice as high as you can!" Said Roo, giggling. "Tiggers can bounce twice as high as anybody!" Answered Tigger. So Tigger and Roo began a bouncing contest, bouncing over rocks and fallen branches along the way. When they reached the Trash Tree, Tigger and Roo were surprised to find that their pots had all disappeared."
Contributed by: AACB
May 28, 2025
Odyssey
Experience: Gratification
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
"a mortal man who outwits the gods, talks with the dead, feasts on endless ox flesh and Dionysian drink, enjoys the most gorgeous music in history, spends seven years in the embrace of a nymph and another year in the bed of a beautiful witch, and finally returns home to find his ageless wife waiting faithfully" (Fletcher 168).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025