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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]]: This is Disney's first animated feature where there is not a single white person to be found (that is, if one doesn't count Genie's human form), so it is inevitable that some judgement calls about ''Aladdin'''s content will come from a place of cultural sensitivity. These include:
* [[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. Disney changed 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 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 tells her it is 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 at all]]. 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]].
** [[Bowdlerise|Disney removing 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. Disney changed 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 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 tells her it is 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 at all]]. 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]].
** [http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-10/entertainment/ca-11747_1_altered-lyric Aladdin and Jasmine possessing "anglicized features and Anglo-American accents" in contrast to the rest of the cast's "foreign accents" and "grotesque facial features"]. However, [[Positive Discrimination|a lot of the lead characters in Disney films that center on a human cast, including the one released directly before ''Aladdin'']], ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'', [[Non-Standard Character Design|are designed differently than the rest with more realistic and subdued proportions]]. One could read into this particular [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate Implication]] as saying "realistic features that make the character look like an actual Arab = white, cartoonish features that just so happen to play up Arab stereotypes = inherently ethnic" since Aladdin and Jasmine clearly aren't just Disney's prior white designs with a brown coat of paint, so, ironically, this has its ''own'' slew of [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* [[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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* [[Ugly Cute]]: [http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/9/94/Bs158.jpg Xerxes] is usually just plain ugly, but can sometimes cross into this when it's shown how devoted he is to his master.
* [[Ugly Cute]]: [http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/9/94/Bs158.jpg Xerxes] is usually just plain ugly, but can sometimes cross into this when it's shown how devoted he is to his master.
* [[The Woobie]]: All of the main characters gets their moments, or even entire episodes, of this. ...Yes, even [[Animate Inanimate Object|Carpet]].
* [[The Woobie]]: All of the main characters gets their moments, or even entire episodes, of this. ...Yes, even [[Animate Inanimate Object|Carpet]].

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