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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
* 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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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...
* Clearly he was bottled in an effort to shore up power before the [[Mage: The Awakening
* 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.
== The Genie is [[Watchmen (
Blue. Reality. Warper.
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 (
* 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 ==
This might be [[All There in
* 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.
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** 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]!
** Huh, Aladdin's dad looks suspiciously like [[Gargoyles
*** But he sounds more like Macbeth....
== Genie and Al Gebraic are former companions of [[Doctor Who
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.
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* 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 is the younger brother of ZigZag from ''[[The Thief and
Jafar just hasn't been doing magic as long, hence the still-normal skin coloring and regular number of finger joints.
* No, no, their mother just [[Wicked (
== The poor quality of the sequels was caused by a curse ==
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== 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 (Disney film)|some Greek culture]]. This also accounts for the existence of bras and heart-print boxers, new world monkeys, and new world fruits.
** 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
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 (Disney film)|he ended up in the underworld of]] [[Greek Mythology]] after his death. He pretended to be a Muslim, because only this way it was possible for him to gain an influential government position in an Arabian sultanate. (This bears [[Unfortunate Implications]], with Jafar fitting the "idol-worshippers are amoral" stereotype, but you have to admit that it doesn't sound too out of place [[Values Dissonance|for a story supposedly from a medieval monotheistic society]].)
* 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.
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== 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.
== Jafar's snake staff is [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Kaa]]. ==
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!''
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