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* [[Testosterone Brigade]]: Jasmine has a huge one, and may have the biggest of any of the Disney Princesses (possibly behind [[The Little Mermaid|Ariel]]). This is due to her very sexy bedlah outfit, making her one of the more scantily clad princesses, and the additionally revealing red number [[Go-Go Enslavement|Jafar traps her in]]. What's more is her feisty personality and the fact that she establishes herself as an [[Action Girl]] in spin-off media.
* [[Testosterone Brigade]]: Jasmine has a huge one, and may have the biggest of any of the Disney Princesses (possibly behind [[The Little Mermaid|Ariel]]). This is due to her very sexy bedlah outfit, making her one of the more scantily clad princesses, and the additionally revealing red number [[Go-Go Enslavement|Jafar traps her in]]. What's more is her feisty personality and the fact that she establishes herself as an [[Action Girl]] in spin-off media.
* [[They Copied It, So It Sucks]]: This film and ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' are both accused of ripping off the other one. The latter went through [[Development Hell]] (and ''Aladdin'' itself wasn't exactly sitting in Development Heaven, so that's saying something), so it was only released after ''Aladdin'', and in a heavily meddled-with cut at that, making it look like the rip-off to people who didn't know that it was in production before ''Aladdin'' was.
* [[They Copied It, So It Sucks]]: This film and ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' are both accused of ripping off the other one. The latter went through [[Development Hell]] (and ''Aladdin'' itself wasn't exactly sitting in Development Heaven, so that's saying something), so it was only released after ''Aladdin'', and in a heavily meddled-with cut at that, making it look like the rip-off to people who didn't know that it was in production before ''Aladdin'' was.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: One of the lyrics from the opening number "Arabian Nights" - "where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey! It's home" - [http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-10/entertainment/ca-11747_1_altered-lyric came under fire for being offensive towards Middle Eastern people and their culture]. The line was later changed to "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense" for the VHS release to assuage these concerns.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: [[Bowdlerise|Disney removed one of the verses of the opening song "Arabian Nights"]] - "''Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey, it's home''" - in July 1993 [http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-10/entertainment/ca-11747_1_altered-lyric following complaints that this verse was offensive to those who lived in Middle Eastern countries], despite the fact that such capital punishments ''did'' exist in a lot of Middle Eastern countries and are still legal today, changing it to "''Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense''" [[Author's Saving Throw|so that the lyric "''It's barbaric, but hey, it's home''" referred to the land and the heat rather than the people]]. However, viewers still morally objected to the use of the "barbaric" descriptor as well as a scene where a merchant almost amputates Jasmine's hand for giving an apple to a little boy without paying for it and cites it as the standard punishment for stealing, [[Moral Guardians|suggesting that these viewers wouldn't consider ''Aladdin'' to be a racist film if ''none'' of the multiple Arab characters in the film were portrayed negatively]], and all the constant controversy caused this verse to be completely changed to "''Where you wander among every culture and tongue. It's chaotic, but hey, it's home''" for the 2019 live-action remake [[Bowdlerise|and the scene where the peddler threatens to chop Jasmine's arm off]] [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|has him take Jasmine's jewelry demanding it as a recompense instead]].
* [[Values Dissonance]]: This stands out amongst later Disney films based on non-American cultures. Disney [[Shown Their Work|does a lot of research]] into presenting the cultures accurately and respectfully. ''Aladdin'' on the other hand isn't a particularly accurate film and some aspects have been considered offensive (such as how "Arabian Nights" needed to be censored to remove some violent references). This wasn't a well-known issue in the early 1990s, but in modern times, the film would be written much differently.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: This stands out amongst later Disney films based on non-American cultures. Disney [[Shown Their Work|does a lot of research]] into presenting the cultures accurately and respectfully. ''Aladdin'' on the other hand isn't a particularly accurate film and some aspects have been considered offensive (such as how "Arabian Nights" needed to be censored to remove some violent references). This wasn't a well-known issue in the early 1990s, but in modern times, the film would be written much differently.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: What is Rajah supposed to be, again? The tiger is likely a male since the female equivalent to "Rajah" would be "Rani" but this is not in the movie.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: What is Rajah supposed to be, again? The tiger is likely a male since the female equivalent to "Rajah" would be "Rani" but this is not in the movie.
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