Characters from Disney's Aladdin universe.

Original Movie Characters

Aladdin

 
 

Voiced by: Scott Weinger

 

  • The Ace: Aladdin disguises himself as the completely over-the-top Prince Ali to woo Princess Jasmine, and he's introduced with a preposterously epic song that's one long hymn to his awesomeness, which has him easily evading the guards.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Aladdin normally faced discrimination by people who'd constantly call him a "street rat", and laugh when some haughty prince shoved him into a nearby mud puddle. This had the unfortunate consequence of Aladdin taking this to heart and hating himself enough that he rejects Genie's concerns regarding dropping his own "haughty prince" façade and just telling Jasmine the truth about his identity.
 

Aladdin: If Jasmine found out I was really some crummy street rat, she'd laugh at me

 
  • Anti-Hero: Earlier on due to growing up as a criminal, he's quite deceitful and has no qualms about stealing from others if he feels like it. In fact, Aladdin may very well be one of the most morally ambiguous Disney protagonists yet. However, not only was every bad deed he committed done for survival rather than out of malice, but he eventually got over it after the second movie.
  • Badass Normal: This is a guy who goes up against magical beings, sorcerers, and giant robots on a regular basis, and somehow finds a way to come out on top every time by using his guile.
  • Batman Gambit: Showcased in the first movie. His plan to defeat Jafar banked on exploiting the man's ego.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's a Nice Guy through and through, but you do not want to make him angry. In the first film, when Prince Achmed badmouths him, Aladdin is only stopped from physically attacking him because the palace gates slammed shut between them.
  • Bound and Gagged: Chained up and silenced so he couldn't save himself from drowning or call for help, until Genie saves him.
  • Character Development: By the final film, he's really grown into a man worthy of being Sultan.
    • This is best seen in King of Thieves. After breaking his father out of prison, Aladdin returns to face any punishment he might receive, because he realized how much his running away would affect Jasmine due to his own father's abandonment of his family. Aladdin has learned that his actions affect other people, a lesson some people would say more rulers need to learn.
  • Chaste Hero: Although he's engaged to Jasmine and thusly spends a lot of time at the palace, he still seems to live in the abandoned building from the first movie.
  • Chick Magnet: Just ask Jasmine, the Harem Girls, Sadira, Saleen, and (initially) Brawnhilda.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Especially in the animated show, where characters, often Iago, are able to use the knowledge that he'll always help people in need to get him to go along with things.
  • Consummate Liar: Being a Guile Hero Street Urchin, it's part of the trade, but at the same time it's treated as a serious character flaw. Aladdin grows out of it before it becomes an actual Fatal Flaw.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Explored in the television series. He grew up an orphan after his father left the family on a treasure hunt and never came home and his mother died some time afterwards, forcing him to raise himself on the streets as a thief. He later finds out that his dad is the leader of the infamous "40 Thieves." There was also one episode in the series detailing how his childhood friend, Amal, just up and vanished one day without a trace when he was a child.
  • Determinator:
 
 
  • Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Twice at least. One of them by conning them into becoming a Cthulhu... who is constrained by itty bitty living space.
  • Didn't Think This Through: He used the Genie to become a wealthy prince to woo Jasmine. He succeeds, but never considered before them that with Jasmine comes the throne of Agrabah.
  • Dude in Distress: At one point in the first movie, he's thrown into the ocean by Jafar's guards, and would have drowned if not for the Genie.
    • In the series, one episode has Aladdin getting kidnapped for ransom by Mozenrath, and Jasmine has to rescue him.
  • Friend to All Living Things: He's the only one of the thieves in "Seems Like Old Crimes, Part 1" to treat Abu kindly.
  • Guile Hero: He's a roguish street rat who gets by via theft and charm, and uses cunning and trickery to best most conflicts. After first meeting the Genie, Al uses trickery to get out of an otherwise inescapable cave without actually wishing to do so.
  • Hidden Depths: He's not called "the diamond in the rough" by the Cave of Wonders for nothing. Aladdin's worth lies far within. When you understand not to judge a book by its cover - the young man is one of the most honest, empathetic and good-willed humans you're ever going to find in the entire world.
  • Honor Before Reason: In the third movie; after breaking Cassim out of the dungeon and being discovered, instead of escaping Agrabah with his father, Aladdin refuses to abandon Jasmine and willingly goes back to face the consequences of his actions because he knows how much it would affect her after seeing how much it hurt his mother and him.
    • A much milder example can also be seen in the television series. Aladdin lives in his home in the slums and wears the same old peasant rags throughout the series because he doesn't want to mooch off the Sultan. At the time depicted (whenever it's supposed to be anyway) it would be considered improper for him to live in the same house as his girlfriend and not be married, even if it is a huge freaking palace. However, several episodes show that he sometimes sleeps in one of the Palace's rooms, demonstrating that Aladdin seems to alternate between spending nights in his old hovel and spending nights in the Palace.
  • Just Like Robin Hood: How often does he actually keep anything he steals for himself? Only a jeweled flower to earn bonus points with his girlfriend.
  • Idiot Hero: Even though he's also a Guile Hero, Aladdin is prone to foolish reckless choices: He goes about his life carelessly while making the most moronic decisions, spare for a few moments of flash in the pan brilliance when his or somebody else's life depends on it. It's particularly noticeable when you realize how most of the other characters, save for Jasmine, spend their time trying to steer him to a correct choice. Still, his idiocy seems not to extend too far beyond what's needed for the Aesop of the week. And his moronic behavior goes through stages, as well: in the first movie, it's due to his horrifically low self esteem telling him that lying about himself will make people like him, even when it's obvious that Jasmine loves him for who he is. In the show, it shifts to either overconfidence or his chronic inability to pass by a problem and not try to solve it.
  • Leitmotif: Often accompanied by "One Jump Ahead Reprise"
  • Losing Your Head: In one episode ("Heads, You Lose") along with Caliph Kapok. Thankfully, Al gets better. By the way, we saw him get nearly decapitated before in The Return of Jafar.
  • Loveable Rogue: As a thief and a trickster (at least initially), but a sympathetic one you can root for.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Reportedly, he was redesigned during development because originally he was deemed not attractive enough: his animation design was based on Tom Cruise (at the point where Tom Cruise was the hot young thing of the moment) for this very reason. He was originally designed much younger and based on Michael J. Fox, but that design didn't go down as well.
  • Must Make Amends: After Aladdin left behind the genie lamp, which led to Iago bringing it to Jafar, then Jafar using it to wish himself to be sultan and the world's most powerful sorcerer.
 

"I made a mess of everything; somehow I gotta go back and set things right."

 
  • Nice Guy: Aladdin might be a thief and The Trickster, but there is no doubt whatsoever about his decency and sense of morality. In fact, "The Diamond In The Rough" line is essentially a perfect measure about his decency.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • He didn't wish the Genie free when he had the chance and left it behind to go talk to Jasmine, giving Iago the opportunity to swipe the lamp and hand it over to Jafar. He even acknowledges that he blew it. Then again, he does fix his mistakes.
    • While exploiting Jafar's lust for power to trick him into Becoming the Genie saved the day in the first movie, come The Return of Jafar, when Jafar is unearthed by Abis Mal...
  • Nobody Calls Me Chicken: Interestingly, he was originally based on the Trope Namer, Marty McFly, before being redesigned.
  • No Social Skills: A mild case, again due to his having grown up on the streets, he often doesn't fit in at the palace. Although he does have a sort of common man's wisdom that impresses the Sultan enough to want to make him his royal advisor.
  • Parental Abandonment: His mother died when he was young and Cassim left before that.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Mozenrath's blue. Mozenrath is a lot more cold-blooded and calculating, whereas Aladdin has a more impulsive and improvosing nature.
  • Rule of Empathy: His defining trait. An Establishing Character Moment happens when he gives up his only meal to ensure orphans won't starve. That's all the viewer needs to know what sort of man he is.
  • Save the Villain: Unintentionally. Upon Abis Mal's introduction, the only reason Abis Mal wasn't killed by his own gang for foolishly demanding all the loot that they stole is that Aladdin swooped in and stole it himself from them thus directing all their ire at himself.
  • Street Smart: By necessity. "Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat".
  • Street Urchin: He is one of many children who grew up on the streets of Agrabah. Jafar was all too keen to sacrifice Aladdin for his scheme because in his mind, who would miss one more vanished street rat?
  • Turn Out Like His Father: A number of people thought that he would become a "prince of thieves" after his father. Luckily it doesn't go that far.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Jasmine. Aladdin would sooner kill himself than cheat on her behind her back. It's why he turned down the advances of Sadira and Saleen in the series. This is further emphasized in the third movie — after freeing his imprisoned father, Aladdin decides to go back to Agrabah because he refused to abandon Jasmine. Also to his other friends, even Iago. He refuses to give up Genie to an old master and he still rescues Abu after their falling out. He even still helps Iago after Iago almost betrays the city by handing over Genie to Abis Mal.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Apparently, he couldn't afford buttons for his vest. Or a shirt.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It turns out that Aladdin is terrified of Unkbut, which are giant spiders that live underground. Justified considering that spiders of that size would be potentially dangerous. He eventually conquers this fear later on.

Genie

 
 
 

Jasmine

 
 

Voiced by: Linda Larkin

 

Abu

 
 

Voiced by: Frank Welker

 

Iago

 
 

Voiced by: Gilbert Gottfried

 

Carpet

 

Sultan

 
 

Voiced by: Douglas Seale

 

Rajah

 
 

Voiced by: Frank Welker

 

Jafar

 
 

Voiced by: Jonathan Freeman

 

 

"THE POWER... THE ABSOLUTE POWEEEERRR!!! THE UNIVERSE IS MIIIINE TO COMMAND, TO CONTROOOOOLLL!!!"

 

Razoul

 
 

Voiced by: Jim Cummings

 


Sequel/Series Characters

Abis Mal

 
 

Voiced by: Jason Alexander

 

Cassim

 
 

Voiced by: John Rhys-Davies

 

 

"Don't touch my son!"

 

Sa'luk

 
 

Voiced by: Jerry Orbach

 

The Oracle

 
 

Voiced by: C.C.H. Pounder

 

Haroud Hazi Bin

 
 

Voiced by: James Avery

 

Amin Damoola

 
 

Voiced by: Jeff Bennett

 

 

"Don't call me Butterfingers!"

 
 

"I'm alright."

 

Mechanikles

 
 

Voiced by: Charlie Adler

 

 

"The Greatest of the Great Greek Geniuses!"

 

Sadira

 
 

Voiced by: Kellie Martin

 

Mozenrath

 
 

Voiced by: Jonathan Brandis

 

 

"Is it my fault that you are so trusting?"

 
 

"You were in my kingdom and you didn't look me up? I'm hurt."

 
 

"Oh, should I tremble at the painted toes of her dainty little feet?! I don't think so!"

 
  • Determinator: His refusal to give up rivals that of Aladdin.
 

"When I want something, I get it."

 
 

Aladdin: A test? People could've been hurt!
Mozenrath: ...And your point would be?

 

Xerxes

 
 

Voiced by: Frank Welker

 

 

Genie: Agrabah has a strict ordinance against evil flying critters." (to Iago) "You've got your tags, don'cha?

 

Destane

 

 

Iago: Even Jafar steered clear of that guy.

 

Mirage

 
 

Voiced by: Bebe Neuwirth

 

Chaos

 
 

Voiced by: Matt Frewer

 

Arbutus

 
 

Voiced by: Ron Perlman

 

  • Anti-Villain: He's probably the least evil of the series villains (not the least effective, Abis Mal is that, but the least malicious) since he's only collecting a debt from the Sultan and doesn't hurt any of the characters before they hurt him.
 

Jasmine: "Arbutus, I'm not a flower you can keep in your garden! I need my family and friends."
Arbutus: "Ah, yes, human needs. Like you need to hack down my gorgeous trees, and chop them into lumber."
Jasmine: "It's not that simple."
Arbutus: "Indeed! You burn them, for warmth. Creating smoke, to block our life-giving sun!"
Jasmine: "We don't do that on purpose!"
Arbutus: "Is it an accident when you rip and pluck my flowers? Condemning them to a slow death in a vase?"
Jasmine: "Slow death?"
Arbutus: "Your kind, you're all the same! You treat my beautiful living creations as things! Why should I treat you any differently?"
Jasmine: "Arbutus, I... I think I understand."

 
 

"Your sword may sever every limb, but my power will always bloom!"

 

Mukhtar

 
 

Voiced by: John Kassir

 

Fasir

 
 

Voiced by: Ed Gilbert

 

Nasira

 
 

Voiced by: Jodi Benson

 

Saleen

 
 

Voiced by: Julie Brown

 

Eden

 
 

Voiced by: Debi Derryberry

 

Thundra

 
 

Voiced by: Candi Milo

 

Malcho

 
 

Voiced by: Hector Elizondo

 

  • Affably Evil: Possibly the best example from the series.
  • Bad Boss: Played with when Iago becomes his sidekick.
 

"Maybe if a scheme fails I can slap you around a bit? Yes, please?"

 

Minos, Fatima & Aziz

 
 

Voiced by: Keith David, Charity James & Michael Bell