YMMV / Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

• I Am Not Shazam: 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.
• Magnificent Bastard: 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 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.
• Memetic Mutation: Open Sesame, the famous password to open the secret cave to the 40 thieves treasure is one of, if not the most famous magical word in fiction. It's usually used as a stock saying to open something.
• Nightmare Fuel: 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.
  • Thirty-eight of the forty thieves are killed when Morgiana pours boiling oil on top of them.
• Signature Line: "Open sesame!"
• Values Dissonance: 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 adopted servant.

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