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** When Jasmine thinks that Aladdin has been executed, and she realizes: "I didn't even know his name!"
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
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