History YMMV / AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves

* ValuesDissonance: Some stories ''kind of'' bowdlerise Morgiana as being Ali-Baba's servant rather than slave, though sometimes it's done because the practice of her having been adopted as a servant makes little sense to those not in the know. As mentioned on the main, sometimes she was an [[AdoptAServant adopted servant]].

* MagnificentBitch: [[HypercompetentSidekick Morgiana]] is a slave-girl defined by her loyalty to her master Cassim and his family. Tasked with concealing Cassim's violent death after his run-in with the Forty Thieves, Morgiana buys up medicine from the apothecary and leads a blindfolded tailor to sew his body back together so Cassim's brother Ali Baba can bury him, then foils two attempts by the thieves to find the house by marking [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles neighboring houses similar to her own]]. When the thieves sneak into the house in oil sacks, Morgiana tricks the thieves into staying put by imitating their leader, then boils most of them alive by filling each sack with hot oil. Even when her freedom is given in some versions, Morgiana comes back one final time to kill the thieves' leader after seeing he intends to break Ali Baba's hospitality, earning herself a fine marriage and a share in the thieves' treasure.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:After the forty thieves catch Kasim in their cave, they kill him, quarter his body, and display the pieces at the cave's entrance as a warning to other would-be intruders]].
** [[spoiler: The deaths of the other forty thieves are boiled in oil.]]

* ValuesDissonance: Some stories ''kind of'' bowdlerise Morgiana as being Ali-Baba's servant, though sometimes it's done because the practice of her having been adopted as a servant makes little sense to those not in the know. As mentioned on the main, sometimes she was an [[AdoptAServant adopted servant]].

** [[The deaths of the other forty thieves are boiled in oil.]]
* SignatureLine: [[OpenSesame "Open sesame!"]]

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:After the forty thieves catch Kasim in their cave, they kill him, quarter his body, and display the pieces at the cave's entrance as a warning to other would-be intruders]].

* NightmareFuel: After the forty thieves catch Kasim in their cave, they kill him, quarter his body, and display the pieces at the cave's entrance as a warning to other would-be intruders.

* NightmareFuel: After the forty thieves catch Kasim in their cave, they kill him, quarter his body, and display the pieces just inside the cave's entrance as a warning to other would-be intruders.

* NightmareFuel: After the forty thieves catch Cassim in their cave, they kill him, quarter his body, and display the pieces just inside the cave's entrance as a warning to other would-be intruders.

* IAmNotShazam: Of a sort. Ali Baba is commonly mistaken in popular culture as being a member of the forty thieves, or even their leader, rather than being victimized by them.

* AdaptationalVillainy, IAmNotShazam: Of a sort. Ali Baba is commonly mistaken in popular culture as being a member of the forty thieves, or even their leader, rather than being victimized by them.

* AdaptationalVillainy, IAmNotShazam: Of a sort. Ali Baba is commonly mistaken im popular culture as being a member of the forty thieves, or even their leader, rather than being victimized by them.

* AdaptationalVillainy, IAmNotShazam: Of a sort. Ali Baba is commonly mistaken is popular culture as being a member of the forty thieves, or even their leader, rather than being victimized by them.

* AdaptationalVillainy/IAmNotShazam: Of a sort. Ali Baba is commonly mistaken is popular culture as being a member of the forty thieves, or even their leader, rather than being victimized by them.

* IAmNotShazam: Of a sort. Ali Baba is commonly mistaken is popular culture as being a member of the forty thieves, or even their leader, rather than being victimized by them.