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== Genie was originally a human ==
About 23 seconds into [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CBsQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJr3m_fhCaAE&ei=gYi0Tq7uN-2JsAKR7azDAw&usg=AFQjCNHKHIQNvXmzhOUCTnE9G3z-P3goCQ this] implies it. Now about his name being Genie, this could mean he was a female who found a male genie and accidentally made a wish that caused the genie to become human so she turned into a male genie to take his place, or he was a cross-dresser or transgender who went by the name Genie. Or, and this is the one I want to believe, my WMG involving him on [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/WMG/Pinkie Pie
* One of my co-workers is named Gene. Genie is just an extension of this. --Tustin2121
* Troper's grandfather's name was Genie (spelled differently) but still. You don't have to explain the name.
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In the first game, the Prince was from a "foreign land" and has to face an Evil Vizier named Jaffar—maybe this is some kind of multi-generational blood-feud.
* There are such things as evil viziers NOT named Jaffar?
** [[Star Wars|* coughpalpatine]] [[Cough Trope Cough|cough*]]
** In the first game on the Xbox, there seemed to be expies of all the Aladdin characters. The vizier looked almost exactly like Jafar; he even had a staff and skill with magic. The Sultan/king in the game looked a ''lot'' like the one from ''Aladdin.'' The Prince himself dresses like Aladdin, except a bit more fancy—after all, he has the advantage of ''not'' being a street rat.
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== The Genie is [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]] ==
Blue. Reality. Warper.
He created the lamp and the "3 wishes" in order to study humanity's desires.
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* They're some of the few Disney movies that fans enjoy and stick with for an entire trilogy!
== Genie is a [[
Also, Jafar at the end of the movie may turn into a Dark Archon, but we see him only in a stage just before the merge. When he is sucked into his lamp, he takes Iago with him because he knows that he needs another being to merge with in order to complete the transformation into a Dark Archon.
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== The magic carpet was a former master of Genie. ==
They clearly had history together—the Genie greets him as soon as he leaves the lamp. The rug is also clearly sentient and, judging from what the Genie said, several millennia old.
When the rug was human, his third wish was for immortality. The Genie couldn't figure out a way to give him conventional immortality, and so he simply turned him into a form that would last forever; a sentient flying carpet.
* Perhaps... But we would need to assume some things, such as once upon a time Genie had more of a [[Jackass Genie|Jackass]] streak about him. Perhaps the rug, as a human, wasn't much of a prize either. (There were always clues that certain of Genie's rules he self-imposed because he doesn't like granting certain kinds of wishes, like bringing people back from the dead.) Heck, Carpet Guy could have asked Genie to bring someone back, inadvertently causing a zombie apocalypse that they used the second wish to end, (thus, forcing Genie to "kill people," even if they were undead and sort of didn't count.) Then the guy asks for physical immortality, And Genie, fed up, makes him a flying carpet. Still, after thousands of years of imprisonment, the two patched things up and became friends. Yeah okay, that could work.
** Yes because when I think "form that will last forever" I think aerial rug.
== The magic carpet was always with Genie. ==
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== The Carpet is ''the'' unfortunate thief who Jafar sent into the Cave of Wonders at the start of the film ==
Obviously not true, due to the Genie having known him back in the day, but still notable for being This Troper's personal WMG back when he was a kid.
* ....Hmm. He was squashed ''flat'' by the tiger's head, so he was turned into a ''carpet.'' Y'know, I can actually see the logic there!
== The Carpet was once a greedy carpet merchant. ==
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Aladdin's father left him a fancy ceremonial dagger that Aladdin could've sold when he was a poor street rat, but didn't. Aladdin espouses many of the philosophies of Sikhism. Examples: Slavery is wrong. Marriage is a partnership that must be entered willingly. All people, from the highest Sultan to the lowest street rat, are beloved children of God and are to be treated as such.
* Only problem with that theory is one line in the song ''Prince Ali'': "He's got slaves, he's got servants, and flunkies!" Granted, Genie might have conjured the slaves for Aladdin without his knowledge.
* Aladdin's hair is also far too short to be a Sikh. It's a religious requirement that they not cut their hair ever. If Aladdin was a Sikh, his hair would be long enough to touch the floor and it'd be wrapped up in a turban. In order for Aladdin to be a Sikh, he'd have to have been a very recent convert.
** Also he never sold his father's dagger because it was the ''only'' thing he had left from either his father or his mother. It's literally his entire past and not something anyone would be willing to part with for a few coins to buy some bread.
== Aladdin is set in the future. ==
In one scene, Genie notes that Aladdin's clothes are "so third century". Considering that the Genie most likely doesn't know about fashion trends while in his lamp, while also considering the Genie has been trapped in his lamp for 10,000 years and makes references to 20th century entertainment, the setting for Aladdin must be at least 10,989 AD. This not only explains Genie's constant impressions, but also why people praise Allah but show no other signs of Islam (degeneration of the religion after thousands of years). Agrabah is simply Arabia after an apocalypse, having lost all modern technology (except for talking parrots and magic carpets) and maintaining [[Hercules (
** One word: Brilliant.
** Jossed by a line in the TV series where Aladdin says all of Genie's references are things that don't exist yet, similar to Merlin, so he mostly ignores them.
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== Mozenrath was going to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] and get together with Sadira in the end. ==
Sadira and Mozenrath were both going through character development regarding their relationship with Aladdin. Sadira started out as the [[Stalker with a Crush]] antagonist but eventually grew into a valuable ally. Mozenrath, on the other hand, started out using Aladdin as a pawn and ended up having a particular desire to spite him (and later, Jasmine as well).
Mozenrath was being set up for an epic showdown with Aladdin or Jasmine (and possibly later a [[Heel Face Turn]]) while Sadira was being set up as his eventual love interest. (Sand-related powers, anyone?)
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== Jafar is a crypto-pagan. ==
That's why [[Hercules (
* Then again, being Jafar, it wouldn't so much genuine faith as merely wanting beings to bargain with. Seeing as Disney's version of the greek pantheon is not the type of deity who would bargain with people like Jafar, he wouldn't be a proper hellenic pagan either.
== Aladdin was the Diamond in the rough because his father is the king of thieves ==
So because he is the son of the king of thieves, that makes him the diamond in the rough; a thief who is capable of stealing one of the greatest treasures in the world, the lamp.
== Genies do not use base 10. ==
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* Genie and the Oracle from the King of Thieves movie are Those Who Came Before
* The Hand of Midas is actually a Piece of Eden
* Cassim is a Master Assassin who wants to teach Aladdin the ways of the Order, his dagger was the weapon that he left his son.
* Aladdin actually is a skilled enough Assassin who prefers not to kill (Case in point, in the third movie he would have killed all the guards while pretending to be the King of Thieves quite easily)
* The Forty Thieves are an order of Assassins that were easily turned by Sa'luk (who is a secret Templar looking for the Piece of Eden)
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* Getzistan: Pakistan. Because it's the other nearby "-stan".
* The river area in "In the Heat of the Fright": Sudan. It's a long river the Sultan wanted charted, which makes the Nile a likely candidate. It's near enough to Egypt to be plagued by Mirage, an Egyptian-style goddess, but the houses and people look more Sudanese than Egyptian.
* The village struck with the Golden Plague (it had some [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] for a name, but I can't remember): Turkey, or what would have been Hittite ground. Aladdin had to walk from Agrabah to here to Mechanicles' home, and the quickest way from Saudi Arabia to Greece without taking an extensive boat ride is through Constantinople (though you'd have to ferry across the Bosphorous).
* Mechanicles' lair: Macedonia, on the border near Constantinople. See above.
* Land of the Black Sand: Iran, then called Persia. Weak connection, but "Xerxes" is the name of an infamous Persian king.
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