Princess Jasmine: A New Leader for a New Agrabah note
We reroll Aladdin! Paulo falls in love! Andy foments revolution! Kara punches a wall! Joz gets thrown!
Episodes 59-62 of Film Reroll. Based on the 1992 Disney movie.
The kingdom of Agrabah — located somewhere in the medieval Middle-East — is facing a political crisis. Princess Jasmine, the only daughter of the Sultan, is refusing to get married to a prince, putting the kingdom’s international relations at risk. As if that wasn’t enough, Jafar — the trusted royal vizier — has hired street rat Aladdin and his monkey Abu to find him a magical artifact containing an all-powerful genie he plans using to take over Agrabah for himself, but things don’t turn out quite like anybody imagined...
Starring Paulo Quiros as Aladdin, Andy Hoover as Jasmine, Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Genie, Kara Straitnote as Abu, and Jon Miller as the Dungeon Master.
Followed by Pokémon: The First Movie.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Heroism: Jafar is still a Treacherous Advisor using the Sultan as a Puppet King, but here he actually helps saving Aladdin's life, and becomes an outright Reasonable Authority Figure when the city is attacked by an enemy more dangerous and powerful than him.
- Discussed in the post-game where they argue that Jafar was still acting selfishly, even if those selfish desires were to the city's benefit, and he actually ended up more villainous by the end.
- Adaptational Villainy: Abu becomes The Heavy after being subjected to The Corruption.
- Abu becomes The Dragon to Jafar when Aladdin disappears to join the reformed Agrabah at the end, taking up Iago's spot on his shoulders.
- Adaptation Name Change: Abu gains the power to talk, at which point he corrects Aladdin and Genie that his name is actually "Cecil Bloomenthal". He accepts C.B as a nickname.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Rajah, mostly because the players keep forgetting what gender the character is supposed to be. Kara, however, decides to take the idea seriously and make this into an actual character arc for the tiger. (
In hindsight, she admitted to taking inspiration from her own experiences here.) - And I Must Scream:
- The demon that possessed Abu is eventually trapped as a statue, which is itself trapped in the lamp.
- Possibly his Mooks too, assuming they're still consious after being transformed into trees.
- Animated Adaptation: Jafar's seduction of Aladdin has been turned into an animatic.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
- Becoming a demonic avatar of the island kingdom's expansionism also causes Abu to grow into a giant with hands the size of horses.
- Subverted with Rajah, who merely thinks this has happened to them when spotting Jafar's model city...
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Genie says that his magic works like this, with most wishes ending up having unwanted side effects.
- Becoming the Mask: Initially, Jasmine merely pretends to be a reincarnation of Princess Jezebel to gain followers, but her second wish leads to the two of them actually Sharing a Body.
- Beneath the Earth: The ruins of the Autarch's kingdom lay buried deep under the desert, and can only be accessed through the Cave of Wonders.
- Benevolent Precursors: The Autarch, who once used the lamp to rule the whole world as The Good King, built a technologically advanced society with electricity and working elevators during the stone age, and later sealed the lamp in a cave to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Genie knows that he's in a role-playing session, and is the only character to interact directly with the Dungeon Master.
- The Bus Came Back: Jeff returns as a member of the Vizier Council, having been absent from the show for almost one and a half years.
- Another Barry (or Bahri) appears, this time as the sergeant in charge of defending the walls.
- Call-Back: The players point out that this isn't the first time Joz has played a djinn. She previously played Jyn Erso is Rogue One.
- Canon Foreigner:
- Princess Jezebel, a Posthumous Character who was unfairly exiled, becoming a "princess of the desert", known for providing assistance to weary travellers. note Jasmine tries to use her as an example of how a woman can be a great credit to society without being married.
- Aladdin now shares his garret with a perverted man named... Garrett, who is quickly killed by the royal guards.
- We also have Maurice, Jasmine's loyal guard and Gay Best Friend whom she plans to marry if she absolutely has to get married to somebody.
- Then there is Cookie, the palace chef.
- Convenient Replacement Character: Once Abu gets Drunk on the Dark Side — and turns into an enemy NPC — Kara gets to play Rajah instead.
- Crapsack Only by Comparison: Aladdin naturally thinks that Agrabah is a breathtaking, glorious city, but the Autarch consider it a mere village compared to his old capital.
- Demonic Possession: Happens to Abu when Malek Malekeith wishes for him to become the avatar of his island.
- Dream Sequence: Abu has one where he sees Aladdin's face inside of bananas and is told by the Genie to "reach toward the true banana.
- Elderly Immortal: The Autarch, who wished for eternal life but didn't get eternal youth along with it. By the time Aladdin finds him, he's so old and withered that he can barely move on his own, and needs Aladdin's help to carry him around.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: Malek receives these along with Genie's gift of knowledge, giving him glowing eyes and the ability to levitate.
- Enlightened Antagonist: Sadly, he turns out to be an evil conqueror, and becomes the new Big Bad of the story.
- Evil Costume Switch: For Abu, turning evil involves getting a darker, torn-up version oh his west... and also losing his fez.
- Exact Words:
- Abu wishes to be taken to his riches. He ends up being transported to an almost deserted island filled with gold and bananas.
- Jasmine's wish is so complicated and elaborate that Jon, Tim and Joz spend 20 minutes deciding exactly how to enact it, paying special notice to the term "I wish Agrabah was that". It ends with Genie literally creating a new city of Agrabah right next to the old one, renaming that one "Habarga."
- Excrement Statement: Abu poops on the thief Ferrad's feet when the latter tries to force Aladdin's location out of the former.
- "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Genie exorcises the demon possessing Abu by restoring the latter to how he was two days ago, getting rid of his newfound Super-Strength and ability to speak in the process.
- Fridge Horror: Occurs In-Universe when the players propose that the Sultan's senility is a side-effect of Jafar's prolonged Mind Manipulation.
- Frothy Mugs of Water: Justified. Jasmine, Maurice and Cookie take shots of milk, as they — if not the players — abstain from alcohol for religious reasons.
- Going in Circles: Jeff (and a random soldier) apparently walked round the city wall multiple times, because they didn't realise it was circular.
- Ham-to-Ham Combat: The extremely loud Meet Cute between Aladdin and Jasmine. The sounds they make are compared to them going Super Saiyan.
- The High Queen: Jasmime wants to become this, but she's held back by her Idle Rich father and his Grand Vizier Jafar.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Intentionally or not, the legend of Jezebel implies quite heavily that the princess herself was one. This goes right over the characters' heads, but the players get much milage out of it.
- Last of His Kind:
- In the Ziggurat on the otherwise deserted island lives High Priest Malek Malekith, seemingly the last remaining citizen of the civilization that built it.
- The Autarch is certainly this for his civilization too, being immortal and all.
- Lost in Imitation:
- This is, coincidentally or not, one of several adaptations of Aladdin where Jafar doesn't bother with his old man disguise and just recruits Aladdin as himself, the others being the official Screen-to-Stage Adaptation, the not-so-official Affectionate Parody Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, and the live-action movie Aladdin (2019).
- Jasmine becoming the new ruler of Agrabah at the end also happened in the latter two and in the (unrelated) In Spite of a Nail Alternate Continuity in A Twisted Tale.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Aladdin letting Jafar flirt with him leads to Kara giving the former the title "manic pixie street rat."
- My Skull Runneth Over: Malek suffers a Freak Out after asking Genie what's going on and getting millenia of knowledge downloaded into his brain. The effect is temporary, however. And he eventually thanks Genie for his gift.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- Abu makes Malek faint of fear when he demonstrates his Super-Strength. (Of course, given what we learn about Malek later, this might be deserved.)
- Having been reunied with the Genie, Aladdin asks him to bring back Apu too, not knowing that he has recently transformed into a giant, violent monkey demon.
- Oh, Crap!: The players have this reaction when they realize that Jafar has the Autarch, who — while too old and frail to rule the world — still has the powers he used to take it over in the first place. And this is how the campaign ends!
- Paper-Thin Disguise:
- Rajah the tiger tries to disguise themself as a farm animal by covering themself in hay. Jasmine tells them to just give up, as it's obviously not going to work.
- Later, Jasmine disguises herself as a regular city woman... while still singing songs of how great and beautiful "the Princess" is, and giving away her real name and birthday, claiming it's by sheer coincidence that they're identical to those of the princess whose political campaign she's supporting.
- Playing with Fire: The demon possessing Abu attempts this tactic after his army is defeated.
- Sdrawkcab Name: Habarga.
- Sequel Hook: The genie is free and the demon is contained, but Jafar is now ruler of a city full of hateful citizens ready to wage war on Agrabah. Not to mention that Malik is still unaccounted for.
- Shout-Out: "What do my princess eyes see?" A scene described by DM Jon Miller where the lamp falls to the ground without bouncing was also intended as a Homage Shot to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
- The Siege: Evil!Abu puts the city of Agrabah under one by magically creating monkey mooks outside of its walls.
- Skewed Priorities: Jafar considers Jasmine to have these as she seems to care more about his (admittedly impressive) magical security system than the fact that it shows that their city is under attack.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Abu's first wish is for Aladdin to be able to understand him. After that point, he's no longer The Unintelligible, but a fully voiced character, at least when shown from his own and Aladdin's perspective.
- Super-Strength: Aladdin and Abu wish for this. Unfortunately, they don't get the Required Secondary Power of Nigh-Invulnerability, meaning that Abu breaks his hand while trying to smash through a wall.
- Textual Celebrity Resemblance:
- The Rerollers decide that Prince Achmed is played by John Waters, and Jon voices him thusly.
- John Waters is also cast as Aladdin's roommate, Garrett, and as a member of the Vizier council.
- The Un-Twist: In-Universe. Jon tries to keep the movie they're rerolling a surprise, but everyone guesses it correctly immediately.
- Villainous Crush: Jafar ends up falling in love with Aladdin, despite rolling to resist his charms. This only ends up making their early interaction even creepier. (Though it eventually turns into a case of Even Evil Has Loved Ones.)
- We Need a Distraction: Aladdin uses one of the street kids as an improvised distraction to frighten Prince Achmed's horse. When Abu then steals the prince's turban, the kid uses that as a distraction to escape.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Sultan just disappears halfway through the story, to the confusion of both the players and their characters. They are perfectly satisfied with the explanation that he was thrown in the dungeon.
- Wretched Hive: Habarga, the former city of Agrabah filled with those lacking a sense of civic duty.
