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Why not?

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.

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* ]]

** [[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.

** 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.

== The Genie is from Atlantis ==

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

* Except Osterman is the ANTITHESIS of Robin Williams.

** See [[Watchmen (comics)/WMG|WMG/Watchmen]], under the " {{spoiler|''Every'' character in Watchmen are all bisexual hermaphrodite lovers}} guess (spoilered for content). Dr. Manhattan is Robin Williams' Genie because society is much more relaxed about that sort of thing in the year ~~[[Aladdin (Disney film)/WMG|~~10300]], even more than the difference between the 1980s and the 2000s. That's why Jasmine gets away with prancing around in a particularly [[Stripperific]] harem girl outfit, aside from being the Princess in charge post-first movie.

** See [[Watchmen (comics)/WMG|WMG/Watchmen]], under the " {{spoiler|''Every'' character in Watchmen are all bisexual hermaphrodite lovers}} guess (spoilered for content). Dr. Manhattan is Robin Williams' Genie because society is much more relaxed about that sort of thing in the year 10300, even more than the difference between the 1980s and the 2000s. That's why Jasmine gets away with prancing around in a particularly [[Stripperific]] harem girl outfit, aside from being the Princess in charge post-first movie.

* 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

The peddler has a gift for ~~voices--he~~'s [[Robin Williams]], and so he can do all the voices Genie does plus all the other characters'. So far so good.

The peddler has a gift for voices—he's [[Robin Williams]], and so he can do all the voices Genie does plus all the other characters'. So far so good.

The original story of Aladdin did not appear in any Arabic manuscripts of ''One Thousand and One Nights.'' French translator Antoine Galland claimed to have heard it from a storyteller. The version we saw was the original ~~version--from~~ a storyteller/peddler looking to make some dinars off a foreigner with an interest in stories. The later differences in the written versions are a result of Galland's garbling of the clever peddler's tale.

The original story of Aladdin did not appear in any Arabic manuscripts of ''One Thousand and One Nights.'' French translator Antoine Galland claimed to have heard it from a storyteller. The version we saw was the original version—from a storyteller/peddler looking to make some dinars off a foreigner with an interest in stories. The later differences in the written versions are a result of Galland's garbling of the clever peddler's tale.

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*** 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."

** The Genie did bring people back from the dead- that was where the entire skeleton army in [[The Black Cauldron]] came from! Notice when Genie impersonates people rising from the dead[http://i28.tinypic.com/2iiizwy.jpg\]- he's got the green stringy things that the Black Cauldron skeletons have![http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gu8iNBz2AlI/TxY86K3-HcI/AAAAAAAAAX8/v0Qbrpr5vag/s1600/Not+for+kids.jpg\]

** The Genie did bring people back from the dead- that was where the entire skeleton army in [[The Black Cauldron]] came from! Notice when Genie impersonates people rising from the dead [http://i28.tinypic.com/2iiizwy.jpg\]- he's got the green stringy things that the Black Cauldron skeletons have![http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gu8iNBz2AlI/TxY86K3-HcI/AAAAAAAAAX8/v0Qbrpr5vag/s1600/Not+for+kids.jpg\]

== Abu is a girl. ==

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** 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).

* So Abu's territorialness might be because "he" had a heterosexual inter-species crush on Aladdin, or possibly saw Aladdin as his- erm, ''her'' male, and didn't like Jasmine taking her ''exact'' place? I like this guess. However, it's possible that Abu was designed to look like a [[Nerf~~|Nerfed~~]] elephant, since I doubt that even trained bull elephants are alowed to wander around rich peoples while still possessing tusks.

* So Abu's territorialness might be because "he" had a heterosexual inter-species crush on Aladdin, or possibly saw Aladdin as his- erm, ''her'' male, and didn't like Jasmine taking her ''exact'' place? I like this guess. However, it's possible that Abu was designed to look like a [[Nerf]]ed elephant, since I doubt that even trained bull elephants are alowed to wander around rich peoples while still possessing tusks.

== Jafar is a crypto-pagan. ==

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== Iago used to be human ==

He's a parrot who can talk. I prefer the idea that he was a human turned into a parrot rather than him always being a parrot. My personal favorite theory is that he got hold of the lamp long ago, and he was a [[Jerkass]] then too. Because [[Humans Are ~~Bastards~~]]. His third wish was to be able to fly, and the Genie turned him into a bird. Eventually he was bought by Jafar. That's how Jafar found out the lamp was more than a myth. He doesn't talk about it now because he's ashamed.

He's a parrot who can talk. I prefer the idea that he was a human turned into a parrot rather than him always being a parrot. My personal favorite theory is that he got hold of the lamp long ago, and he was a [[Jerkass]] then too. Because [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]. His third wish was to be able to fly, and the Genie turned him into a bird. Eventually he was bought by Jafar. That's how Jafar found out the lamp was more than a myth. He doesn't talk about it now because he's ashamed.

* 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?

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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 let's try this. Cassim went to find the ~~Hand--THE~~ ~~HAND--of~~ Midas, not to turn things into gold and buy his wife and son(s) a beautiful life, but to get the life they deserved by RECONCILIATION. Reconciliation because the family was torn apart, and Cassim wanted to reunite them.

So let's try this. Cassim went to find the Hand—THE HAND—of Midas, not to turn things into gold and buy his wife and son(s) a beautiful life, but to get the life they deserved by RECONCILIATION. Reconciliation because the family was torn apart, and Cassim wanted to reunite 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).

Once you've bought these ridiculous assumptions about Destane, you can figure what happened ~~next--Mozenrath~~ becomes his apprentice, realizes he needs to find a source of power, attains the extremely dangerous gauntlet, decides randomly that it's a GOOD idea to enchant an eel so it can fly and talk, and then deposes Archmage Destane, making him into the first zombie/Mamluk. By this point, he's consumed by the desire for power.

Once you've bought these ridiculous assumptions about Destane, you can figure what happened next—Mozenrath becomes his apprentice, realizes he needs to find a source of power, attains the extremely dangerous gauntlet, decides randomly that it's a GOOD idea to enchant an eel so it can fly and talk, and then deposes Archmage Destane, making him into the first zombie/Mamluk. By this point, he's consumed by the desire for power.

Now Cassim is distracted by the sidequests, and he's like, "Oh yeah, I had a family...should probably get back to them." Goes ~~back--they~~'re all missing. So he sets out on a quest to go find them, probably becomes distracted AGAIN because CASSIM, and then eventually ends up trying to rob the Black Sands (either his idea or Sa'Luk's). But what is this? One of his estranged sons! It takes Cassim freakin' forever to remember Mozenrath was his son (and then a bunch of profuse apologizing for playing favorites), but by this time Mozenrath is too far ~~gone--he~~ refuses to accept Cassim's outreach for love, and probably tries to kill him. Somewhere during this whole brawl Cassim recognizes the gauntlet (he probably tried to steal it once, heard about what it did to a person's body, and dropped it like a hot potato), gets Mozenrath to take it off, and sees what it's done to his hand.

Now Cassim is distracted by the sidequests, and he's like, "Oh yeah, I had a family...should probably get back to them." Goes back—they're all missing. So he sets out on a quest to go find them, probably becomes distracted AGAIN because CASSIM, and then eventually ends up trying to rob the Black Sands (either his idea or Sa'Luk's). But what is this? One of his estranged sons! It takes Cassim freakin' forever to remember Mozenrath was his son (and then a bunch of profuse apologizing for playing favorites), but by this time Mozenrath is too far gone—he refuses to accept Cassim's outreach for love, and probably tries to kill him. Somewhere during this whole brawl Cassim recognizes the gauntlet (he probably tried to steal it once, heard about what it did to a person's body, and dropped it like a hot potato), gets Mozenrath to take it off, and sees what it's done to his hand.

And so Cassim sets out with vigor to find a new ~~artifact--the~~ Hand of Midas. Not only will it turn everything to gold and perhaps bring greater power to the bearer than, say, the gauntlet of Doomy Dooms of Doom (OK, it doesn't have a name anywhere), but since it isn't a flesh-and-blood appendage, someone could conceivably replace one's hand with it, wear the gauntlet, and no longer suffer the gauntlet's effects.

And so Cassim sets out with vigor to find a new artifact—the Hand of Midas. Not only will it turn everything to gold and perhaps bring greater power to the bearer than, say, the gauntlet of Doomy Dooms of Doom (OK, it doesn't have a name anywhere), but since it isn't a flesh-and-blood appendage, someone could conceivably replace one's hand with it, wear the gauntlet, and no longer suffer the gauntlet's effects.

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