Aladdin (1992 Disney film)/WMG: Difference between revisions

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== Genie was originally a human ==

* 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.

Why not?

 

 

== The Genie is from Atlantis ==

The lamp is supposed to look like an ordinary object at first glance, but it's still too artistic to have been made by some Stone Age hunting/gathering Average Joe.

* He ''is'' blue and glowing, too...

* He helped [[Fairly Oddparents|Cosmo]] drown Atlantis, that's it! (Of course, he was sealed in Smoof shortly after.)

* ''Alternate theory:'' He wasn't really trapped in the lamp for 10,000 years. That's how long he's been in the wish-granting business. One of his previous masters appear in the TV series, even though he wished for immortality, he doesn't seem to resemble any cro-magnon man.

 

 

He created the lamp and the "3 wishes" in order to study humanity's desires.

* Except Osterman is the ANTITHESIS of Robin Williams.

* It also explains how he can bring so much stuff that doesn't belong in that place and time period. Guns, artifacts, types of arts, foods, and many many others. He is also goofy because Dr. Manhattan decided to try out being a tricker/humorous character.

 

== The Merchant is The Genie ==

* The Genie was supposed to be the Peddler, but the idea was trashed in the end.

* Per filmmaker commentary: the original idea was for the peddler to reappear occasionally and provide ongoing narration for the story (in the form of more verses to the song) finally revealing himself at the end to be the genie. As stated, it didn't make the final cut. They decided it just was one too many endings to the movie.

** Not necessarily the animated series - the general point of said series was that it was the stuff the Peddler ''left out'' of his three-film epic. But the part about the Peddler being the Genie makes sense, and ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' isn't canon.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcY8nsxTRU Just watch this]!

*** But he sounds more like Macbeth....

 

It explains how a lamp that couldn't have been designed more than a few centuries before Aladdin's time could have been sitting around for ten thousand years. It also explains Genie's anachronisms.

 

* Hmm, usurp your kingdom and get stuffed in a lamp but be technically alive, or be killed along with your entire family because you slept with the caliph's sister that he told you to marry in the first place? Yeah, gonna say neither one of them were all that successful.

 

Jafar just hasn't been doing magic as long, hence the still-normal skin coloring and regular number of finger joints.

 

== The poor quality of the sequels was caused by a curse ==

* They're some of the few Disney movies that fans enjoy and stick with for an entire trilogy!

 

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.

 

 

== The magic carpet was a former master of Genie. ==

 

 

== The magic carpet was always with Genie. ==

== 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.

 

== The Carpet was once a greedy carpet merchant. ==

 

== Aladdin is Sikh. ==

 

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.

* 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. ==

** 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.

The peddler at the beginning is trying to sell a lamp as a fabulous object. He can't say that when you buy it you get a genie because that's obviously not true. So he spins a tale about a lamp that USED to hold a genie but then the kind-hearted individual who found it let the genie free.

 

 

 

 

 

== Mozenrath was going to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] and get together with Sadira in the end. ==

 

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?)

*** Can you kill them when they're already techinally dead?

**** Possibly he was SO repulsed that his third wish was "Genie, I wish for you to lose the power to resurrect the dead."

 

== Abu is a girl. ==

** I am officially making this part of my personal canon for this movie.

* Alternatively Abu was [[Gender Bender|TG'd]], in his elephant form (and maybe the horse form too).

 

== Jafar is a crypto-pagan. ==

* 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 ==

 

== Genies do not use base 10. ==

 

== Iago used to be human ==

* To quote Jafar: "If it weren't for ''me'', you'd still be in the cage at the bazaar, squawking ''Polly want a cracker''!" Given that Iago apparently hates crackers, why would he exclaim that if he was human-turned-bird? Are we going by the assumption that Jafar was simply mocking Iago, or that Iago temporarily lost his human intellect until Jafar somehow reawakened it? Furthermore, given that the Genie heavily implies that he's been inactive for ten thousand years, why would Iago still be alive by the time Jafar bought him? Is this also assuming that he was cast far into the future, or that a previous wish was a variation of immortality?

 

* 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

* 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)

We also know that Cassim has a tendency, like John Silver, to completely put his family on hold when there's a quest afoot. Because who leaves his son(s) behind just to go get one silly treasure without more of an explanation than that? Crazy Cassim, that's who. Also consider that Cassim DOES NOT RECOGNIZE Aladdin at first. So he is capable of completely forgetting about a family member while on a quest to get something that was supposed to fix things for them.

 

 

So Cassim was on a different treasure hunt (where he picked up his band, including Sa'Luk, who is important, especially combined with Cassim's "I forgot my son because of this adventure" tendency), when ol' Whatsherface back at Agrabah dies. The two boys are cast out on the street. Aladdin...well, we know what happened to him. On the other hand, Mozenrath (who was probably the least liked of the two; Cassim probably preferred the more athletic and outgoing Aladdin to his brooding, intellectual counterpart) knew he wanted power and set out for the Land of the Black Sand, where he met Destane, who, for the purposes of this theory, we will assume is the Archmage from Gargoyles, because that's the only way I can accept that a) someone without a name is more powerful than Xanatos in the Gargoyles continuity, and b) Destane could possibly SCARE Jafar. Because please. Jafar fears nothing, except what that Archmage could do with his 3 artifacts. Also, we'll assume Destane/Archmage left Agrabah alone because it wasn't magical, and that's why Jafar felt free to turn it into his stomping ground (if not for Archmage Destane, he would have gone for the whole Seven Deserts and moved his palace to the Black Sand).

 

 

 

 

Long story short: Cassim, eager to reconcile with Mozenrath, set out to REPLACE HIS MISSING HAND.

== Mozenrath is the son of Cassim and Mirage. ==

Going with the theory that Mozenrath is either Aladdin's brother or half brother.I was thinking before Cassim married Aladdin's mother,he had a fling with a disguised Mirage who then took off without a trace.Then nine months later she gave birth to Mozenrath and she placed her son into the care of Destante in order for him to make her son into a powerful soccerer.

Sometime after the events of ''The Jungle Book 2'', Kaa was captured and sold at the same market Jafar found Iago. Jafar bought both the snake and the parrot, then after putting a spell on the parrot so he could speak perfect English, he turned the snake [[And I Must Scream|into]] [[Taken for Granite|gold]]. However, even as a gold statue, Kaa was still able to hypnotize, which Jafar could use to his advantage. The reason why the staff has a cobra hood when Kaa is a python? Well, Jafar probably added it because it [[Rule of Cool|looked cool]]. If this is true, then this results in some major [[Fridge Horror]] when you remember {{spoiler|Aladdin smashing the staff}} and realize that ''Kaa was alive and conscious in there the whole time!''

 

* 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.

* 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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