The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is as sweet as it is bizarre. Here is a guy who is as lonely as he is artistically talented, and he uses both of these aspects to create an ivory woman, who is as beautiful as she is not alive. Upon seeing her, he apparently goes insane and falls in love with an inanimate object, and he acts on these emotions by gifting this statue with fineries and even building her a bed to sleep in. However, as the sane audience will have probably guessed, the statue does not seem to respond to this wooing because it it a statue. Bonkers yet unbowed, Pygmalion prayed to Aphrodite to give him a wife like the statue he was in love with, and, because this is a mythical story, Aphrodite did and Pygmalion and his creation married and lived happily ever after.
I would like to bring the genie from Aladdin to life. Of course, the three wishes would go to me because I brought the genie into the world. First wish: the power to grant my own unlimited number of wishes; Second wish: nobody other than me can grant wishes for the rest of eternity; Third wish: destroy the genie (just as a safety precaution). I would then transcend to the state of all powerful being and live happily ever after.
Calvin and Hobbes (which I should be allowed to create together since you can't have one without the other) would also be very cool.
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