Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5047768-20140307045749/@comment-5325802-20140315065029

I'm still confused on the wish backfire killing her thing.

Her wish was for Will to feel something, anything for her. In a twist of magic, the wish ends Lizard's life to make Will feel pain and regret. But it's not like the wish making Will feel this way had the consequence of killing her, that would be reverse productivity; rather, in order to make Will feel something for her, the wish killed her.

It really seems like this breaks genie magic law. Even if it is considered a little indirect, the wish still caused Lizard's death (ergo: genie magic killed her) even though that's against the rules.

If indirect wishes could cause an effect that would normally be breaking genie rules, well frankly that's just a matter of finding a way to phrase words in a loophole fashion. "I wish there was a sword in his heart" my wish didn't kill him, the sword I wished for did.

It doesn't make sense. No matter how I look at this, the magic of the wish itself is what killed Lizard.

GothicNarcissus had a theory, but King Leopold's death consequence really had nothing to do with the wish itself. He wished the genie free, if there was going to be a direct consequence to that wish, you would think it would be Leopold becoming the genie in his place. But rather, he wish the genie free, and the genie's own decisions from then on lead to him killing Leopold. it was long after the wish was made so I can't consider that to be the wish itsef killing Leopold. He also brought up Alice's example of a consequence, but as that was her own interpretation, that's not necessarily how it would happen. A more likely consequence to having wished to find Cyrus would be to be taken to him by magic, but pop in right when Jafar is there as well. But in this instance with Lizard, the wish actually ends Lizard's life in order to fulfil the order of making Will feel something for her. It's not nearly indirect enough to qualify as just a consequence of the wish, because really the wish being fulfilled was the consequence of her death.