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Movie

• Ear Worm: Prince Ali, mighty is he, Ali Ababwa! Strong as ten regular men, definitely!
  • You ain't never had a friend like me!
  • A whole new world...
  • One jump ahead of the breadline, one swing ahead of the sword...
  • Arabian niiiiiiiiights,'neath Arabian moooooooons...
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Iago. Gets a Heel Face Turn, a more important role, and his own song in Return of Jafar.
  • Again when Agrabah was reintroduced in Kingdom Hearts II. When Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrive, Iago finds them, and warns them of a Heartless ambush. In exchange, he asks for Sora to put in a good word for him to Jasmine and Aladdin. Iago then guiltily tells Sora and Aladdin where Jafar's lamp is, in the Cave of Wonders, only to discover that the Peddler got it first. Pete then steals it from him, and Sora gets it back. During the second visit, Iago lures Sora and Aladdin to the ruins, while Jafar takes over Agrabah.
    • Iago is also useful in a "World Runner" deck in the short lived Kingdom Hearts card game. He appeared in the fourth and final American set, as a level 0 (Meaning he can be played if you have no other friend cards in the friend area.) If you discard him, you can remove a Heartless card from your current Agrabah world card. Which is helpful, because two of the three Agrabah cards have no dark limit, meaning your opponent can play as many Dark or Nobody cards as they wish on your world, and some of them have little means of being extinguished.
• Evil Is Cool: Jafar.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Jafar's voice actor's name? Jonathan Freeman!
  • Also hilarious right away considering Jafar's living conditions at the end of the movie.
  • Aladdin and Jasmine's world tour in "A Whole New World" includes visits to Greece and China (the latter even with fireworks); in the former case, given the subsequent cartoon crossover, that would suggest Hercules himself was around at the time.
  • The first lyrics in "Friend Like Me" include a reference to the Forty Thieves. Flash forward to the third movie and learn that Aladdin's father is their leader (and would've been during the first movie's events).
  • In one scene of the first movie, Jafar deceives Jasmine into believing that Aladdin has been executed "by beheading" (while Al is actually alive and imprisoned). In the first sequel, Al is condemned to death by decapitation, and nearly beheaded by Public Execution when Genie arrives in time to save him in a Big Damn Heroes moment. In the TV series's episode, Al finally gets his head "cut off" by Caliph Kapok... or rather separated, since the rest of Al's body is still alive while his friends find a way to reunite it with his head. Weird.
• Large Ham: Jafar (gets even hammier after becoming a Sorcerer and later a genie), and The Genie.
• Love to Hate: Jafar.
• Memetic Mutation: "Prince Ali, X is he, Ali Ababwa!"
  • HE'S GOT THE MONKEYS! LET'S SEE THE MONKEYS!
  • PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER! ...itty-bitty living space.
  • "How about a little more BAKLAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
• Moral Event Horizon: Jafar trying to kill Aladdin after getting the lamp from him.
• Narm: "Are You In Or Out" in King of Thieves is supposed to show the remnants of the Forty Thieves planning to return to their bloodthirsty rampaging roots after Cassim reformed them into Noble Demons. But it's hard to take some of them seriously since several of them are still humorous in design, and the lyrics include "I'm the prince of generosity" and "Imagine the fear on their faces / when we drop by for cookies and tea."
• Nightmare Fuel: See here.
• Smurfette Breakout: Jasmine is a supporting character while the story is about Aladdin, but she is included in the Disney Princess franchise and is actually the only princess in the lineup who isn't the main character in her film.
• Squick: Jafar isn't particularly attractive on his own, but any scene where he puts advances on Jasmine makes him look even slimier, causing major squick! Even in the movie's own universe, Abu and Iago have a Squick noise at Jasmine and Jafar's kiss. Jasmine looks pretty grossed out as well during that.
• Tear Jerker: Genie's goodbye to Aladdin made some fathers in the audience cry.
  • When Jasmine thinks that Aladdin has been executed, and she realizes: "I didn't even know his name!"
• Unfortunate Implications: It has been speculated that Jafar is a depiction of a "true" Arab, while Aladdin and Jasmine are simply "exotic"-looking. Several background characters are also Middle Eastern stereotypes. Some "Arabic writing" that we see is actually random squiggles instead of real words...
  • At least on this last part, it seems Disney learned its lesson in time for Mulan, which uses actual Chinese characters.
  • The song "Prince Ali" mentions that the prince (Aladdin in disguise) has slaves, who are proud to work for him.
    • Maybe more Values Dissonance given the setting.

Sequels

• Badass Decay: Genie. It seems to come with being free.
• Complete Monster: Sa'luk is the only adversary of Aladdin's who comes close to this trope.
• Magnificent Bastard: Jafar, while more of a Smug Snake in the first movie, became a lot more competent in the sequel, developing a more thought-out plan to take over Agrabah. If it wasn't for Iago pulling a Heel Face Turn and betraying him, he would had succeeded.
• Nightmare Fuel: See here.

TV Series

• Alas, Poor Villain: Arbutus.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Jasmine. Due how easily she becomes criminal in "Forget Me Lots" - due to Criminal Amnesiac - and eventually betrays and overthrows Abis Mal as the Big Bad of the chapter and TRIES TO KILL ALADDIN (for a very petty reason), for some fans she hides a very dark side into her and she is really a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
  • Don't forget this.
• Counterpart Comparison: Unsurprisingly, Mozenrath tends to be compared to Jafar quite a bit. He avoids being a Replacement Scrappy though, which is quite a feat in itself, because... well, it's Jafar.
  • Fun fact; both of their voice actors were named Jonathan.
• Crazy Awesome: Genie, on occasion. Sometimes he saves the day just by goofing off, not even realizing it.
  • Chaos.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Mozenrath.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Mozenrath. While only appearing in 9 out of all the 86 episodes, there was just enough depth to his character to make him stand out from the crowd, resulting in endless theories about him and his past life.
  • Sadira as well.
  • Mirage.
• Evil Is Cool: Many villains are seen this way, like Arbutus, Chaos, Malcho, The Mukhtar and Mozenrath. Of course, on the other hand...
• Evil Is Sexy: Mozenrath, Mirage, Saleen and Sadira (though she's more cute than sexy).
• Foe Yay: Aladdin and Mozenrath have quite the fan following with numerous fanfics and fanart of them.
  • Whenever Mozenrath appears, Aladdin usually ends up in some kind of bondage. They also tend to end up wrestling on the ground.

Mozenrath: You see, I'm going to transport my essence into your body.

• • Mozenrath has this with Jasmine too from time to time, with the way he's constantly teasing her and calling her cute, or gently touching her chin when she's captured. She also has a very impish smile on her face when she uses her whip on him.
  • Not to mention his brief encounter with Eden. A lot of it simply comes from the way Mozenrath talks to people.
• Jerkass Woobie: Iago occasionally.
  • Sadira is an obvious example.
  • Mozenrath. While the leather pants does have a part in it for some, it's still not that hard to feel for him during his more tragic moments.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Mozenrath. He hasn't even met half the characters he gets shipped with.
• Magnificent Bastard: Mozenrath. The fact that he's the only villain to ever hear Aladdin say the words "you win", and mean it, says a lot.
• Moe: Sadira.
• Nightmare Fuel: See here.
• Ugly Cute: 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 Carpet.