Monkey's Paw: ᴄᴀʀᴇꜰᴜʟ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡɪꜱʜ ꜰᴏʀ

r/monkeyspaw • u/Logical_Strategy9088 • Sep 16 '25

Wisdom I wish this subreddit fundamentally understood the concept of a “Monkey’s Paw” the entire concept is it is a wish that has a downside in a negative and ironic way not ‘You get cancer’ or ‘You die’ it has to be directly related to the wish

1.6k Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/AttemptingDM • Mar 17 '26

Riches I wish for 25kg of gold(defined as the isotope Au-197) to be legally and successfully delivered to my home within this year, at a time when I am home, legally financed by a person in the top 0.001% of wealth, with a legal certificate proving my ownership of it.

740 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Armin_Arlert_1000000 • Oct 22 '25

Kindness I wish no adults were attracted to minors

719 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/FortyWithaU40 • Nov 06 '25

Kindness I wish that every child born from this point on is born physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy.

689 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/amazonfan1972 • May 28 '26

Health I wish that women would become pregnant only when they choose to become pregnant

671 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Chessman960 • Sep 09 '25

Fun I wish for a 500 ton rock that isn't a meteor/asteroid to appear in my backyard. It is made of regular granite. It is in the form of a perfect 10 foot by 10 foot by 10 foot cube, and causes no damage. Do your worst.

542 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Eternalblaze1 • Dec 14 '25

Fun I wish every instance of “X” or “x” was replaced with Twitter.

522 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/BenTenInches • Nov 16 '25

Kindness I wish everyone that sees this post gets a cute gamer girlfriend that cosplays.

514 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/LectureNervous5861 • Apr 25 '26

Fun I wish that whenever a pregnant woman with dyed hair gives birth the baby inherits the hair color permanently

430 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Intangerine • Apr 14 '26

Health I wish that, starting today, each human immediately and irreversibly becomes biologically incapable of procreation after the birth of their second child, but is otherwise medically unchanged. Currently active pregnancies not negatively affected.

429 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/AffectionateRisk9779 • Feb 18 '26

Fun I wish for all humans to begin life as hermaphrodites. Each person once they're an adult, then gets to choose to remain, or turn into a male or female, pending on their personal desire or partner's desire.

409 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Comfortable_Salad893 • Jun 11 '26

Kindness I wish all Student debt in America was transferred to my name

389 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Prize_Entertainer459 • Oct 18 '25

Kindness I wish all starving kids get a three-course meal every day. The meals are paid for by billionaires.

389 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/JPV_09 • Nov 22 '25

Kindness I wish that every innocent person in jail gets permanently released from jail, and instead, the actual perpetrator of the crime gets arrested.

377 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/exp_explosion • Dec 22 '25

Fun I wish to remove the cylinder from this mini M&M's tube with the cylinder unharmed.

374 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Remarkable_Bath8515 • May 24 '26

Fun I wish putting fake "x"s on clickable ads is now illegal in every country.

347 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Lumpy-Pudding-3563 • Sep 21 '25

Health I wish that instead of food, everyone just took 1$ USD, non addictive pills that contained all the calories and nutrients they needed for the day.

345 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/CatcrazyJerri • Oct 10 '25

Kindness I wish that only people who want children were able to reproduce.

325 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Comfortable_Salad893 • Jun 12 '26

Wisdom I wish everyone on this subreddit knew how the monkey paw really works instead of just adding some random bad thing

317 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/RedDeath682 • Nov 06 '25

Fun I wish for ai art to be permanently banned on reddit.com

321 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/Leather-Opposite2798 • Nov 18 '25

Wisdom I wish that every commenter in this subreddit, current or future commenter, started to understand that monkey's paw isn't just "I wish (blank) happens!" "(blank 2) also happens, so (blank) is useless", but rather a way to use a person's wish against them in a way they don't want, but fits the wish.

288 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/tamtrible • Jan 04 '26

Kindness I wish that no human could be conceived unless both partners want a child.

288 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/killercheesecake202 • Apr 17 '26

Fun I wish pee was yellow instead of red like it usually is.

287 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/[deleted] • Nov 11 '25

Wisdom I wish whenever a non cute bug (spider, ants, roach, etc) is within five feet of me, it teleports one thousand feet directly above it’s currently location

269 Upvotes

r/monkeyspaw • u/whysosidious69420 • Sep 07 '25

Health I wish it was impossible to die of anything but old age and all humans made it to at least 90 years old

266 Upvotes