History WesternAnimation / Aladdin

* SpitefulGluttony: Abu messily chews his half of the stolen bread when Aladdin considers giving it to the urchin children. His conscience gets to him after that.

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* {{Deconstruction}}: In the original ''Aladdin'' story, Aladdin gets everything he wants--riches, marriage to a princess, the sultanate--by constantly wishing with an enslaved genie, and being perfectly happy with his situation until his enemies try to take it from him. Here, Aladdin does the same, but starts feeling bad for wholly depending on the Genie for everything and needing to keep him captive in order to maintain the deception. [[spoiler:On the other hand, it becomes a DeconReconSwitch when Al decides to use his last wish to [[FreeingTheGenie grant the Genie his freedom]], and his heroism and (belated) honesty still help him win Jasmine's heart.]]

** Abu causes the destruction of the Cave of Wonders by picking up the giant ruby -- but on the other hand, if Aladdin had left the Cave without incident, he may very well have been killed by Jafar once he'd handed over the lamp.
** The Genie decides to have the briliant idea of asking Aladdin to free him while he's in the middle of an emotional crisis, and although the Genie was justified in feeling betrayed, he should've at least tried to reason with Aladdin into telling Jasmine the truth, so he wouldn't need to rely on the Genie anymore. Didn't seem like it would take much, since Aladdin decides to do just that a few moments later. Instead, the Genie goes back into his lamp, insults Aladdin, and prompts him to abandon the lamp, leaving it open for Iago to steal it.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Jafar had kept his side of the bargain and not tried to kill Aladdin as the latter was trying to escape the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin and Abu wouldn't have gotten control of the lamp and Genie.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The film changes the location from China to the Middle East, in the fictional country of Agrabah. This also leads to RaceLift.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The original story was set in China, while this version changes the location to the Middle East, in the fictional country of Agrabah. This also leads to RaceLift.

** This is why Abu and Rajah don't appear in this adaptation. The Genie lampshades it when he comes out of the lamp.

** Scott Weinger and Linda Larkin as Aladdin and Jasmine respectively. Even after more than two decades, the resemblance is ''incredibly'' striking!

** Damn near everything Genie says or does.[[note]]His transformations/impressions include a nightclub entertainer, a [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scotsman]], a Scottish terrier, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, [[Series/TheEdSullivanShow Ed Sullivan]], a slot machine, [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], a boxing trainer, a firework, a French maître d', a roast turkey, a [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat pink rabbit]], a [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragon]], a certificate, Creator/WilliamFBuckleyJr, a CampGay pair of giant lips, a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] which strongly resembles Creator/PeterLorre, Creator/RobertDeNiro, a flight attendant, Carol Channing, a sheep, a hammock, a muscle man, WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, a magician, a Frenchman in a beret and striped shirt, a chef, [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar Gaius Julius Caesar]], Arsenio Hall, a tailor, a game-show host (changed to a cricket commentator for release in India), a drum major, Walter Brennan, a little boy, a fat man, TV parade hosts, a tiger, a goat, a harem girl, Ethel Merman, Creator/RodneyDangerfield, Creator/JackNicholson, a professor, a [[LampshadeHanging talking lampshade]], a bee, a submarine, a one-man band, a script prompter, a ventriloquist, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} a demon resembling Chernabog]], [[BigBad Jafar]], cheerleaders, a baseball pitcher, a tourist with a Goofy hat, and the moon.[[/note]]

** Princess Jasmine's [[LimitedWardrobe regular outfit]] is an anachronism, overlapping with PoliticallyCorrectHistory. The bedlah outfits worn by her (and various harem girls throughout the film) are [[TheCoconutEffect a Hollywood invention]], created during the early twentieth century. Hollywood popularized it enough to result in a defictionalization. If you get over that, it still makes no sense at all that the Princess goes around wearing a belly dancer costume.

** The magma itself.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: The big lady in "One Jump Ahead". "Still I think he's rather tasty!"

* AdaptationalNameChange: Prince Achmed becomes Prince Abdullah in the Broadway show.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the stage adaptation, Jafar's sidekick Iago is a human instead of a parrot.
* AdaptedOut:
** In both the Disneyland and Broadway musical adaptations, Abu is omitted from the story,[[note]]although in the Broadway version he appears as a placard illustration during the 'white persian monkeys' line of "Prince Ali", and is the excuse used during Jasmine's ObfuscatingInsanity [[/note]] as is Jasmine's pet tiger, Rajah.
** The Genie of the Ring makes no appearance in the Disney adaptation, nor does Aladdin's mother.

%% * AllThatGlitters: The treasure in the Cave of Wonders.
* AlmostKiss: Between Aladdin and Jasmine in his hideaway before they are interrupted by the guards, just after Jafar is revealed as a traitor, and again at the conclusion before Genie grabs them in a group hug.

%% * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome
%% ** The lamp/Genie.
%% ** Jafar's [[MagicWand snake staff]].
* AnachronismStew: [[TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson Mostly in Genie's gags]].

** Princess Jasmine's freakin' [[LimitedWardrobe regular outfit]] is an anachronism, overlapping with PoliticallyCorrectHistory. The bedlah outfits worn by her (and various harem girls throughout the film) are [[TheCoconutEffect a Hollywood invention]], created during the early twentieth century. Hollywood popularized it enough to result in a defictionalization. If you get over that, it still makes no sense at all that the Princess goes around wearing a belly dancer costume.

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Jafar plans to control the Sultan and have him order Jasmine to marry him.
* AngelFaceDemonFace: The Genie begins the movie as a playful, googly, shape shifting comedian. But when his lamp comes into the possession of Jafar, his coloration and body shape temporarily change to the "evil Djinn” style.

* AnimateInanimateObject: The Carpet is a magic carpet that can fly and carry people while doing so.
* AnimationBump: Noticed in most of Genie's animation in general, having been supervised by former Creator/RichardWilliams associate Creator/EricGoldberg. The scenes in the Cave of Wonders also make use of this trope.

** Iago says "Pack the guns, the weapons, the knives... oh, and how about this picture, I think I'm making a weird face in it." Miniature paintings were absolutely not in vogue in the Abbasid period, but more to the point, '''''THE GUNS?''''' According to the DVDCommentary, that was Gilbert Gottfried ad-libbing, and it got a laugh out of Creator/RobinWilliams.

%% * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Genie.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While it's far from the first adaptation to make UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar a villain, it's probably the most well known example of it. In the ''Literature/ArabianNights'', Jafar was a minor character but generally a hero (although Sunni tradition, which thinks very highly of Harun al-Rashid, assumed that Ja'far must have been guilty of something if the great Caliph had him killed), and in the Aladdin story, the Grand Vizier (who is actually not the same character as Jafar, as Jafar did not appear in the Arabian Nights Aladdin story, but he is replaced by Jafar in the movie) is hostile to Aladdin at first, but then [[TheCassandra he has a point]], and is actually TheGoodChancellor in contrast to the Disney movies depiction of Jafar as an EvilChancellor; the real villain of the story is a magician from North Africa.

* AnimationBump: Noticed in most of Genie's animation in general, having been supervised by former Creator/RichardWilliams associate Creator/EricGoldberg. The scenes in the Cave of Wonders also makes use of this trope.

%% * AudibleGleam: When Aladdin is first revealed as "Prince Ali" (in the musical number).

* BackFromTheDead: {{Defied|Trope}} -- one of the genie rules forbids this. The phrasing of said rule suggests that it's not ''impossible'', but that Genie refuses due to [[CameBackWrong the results typically being unpleasant]].

-->'''Aladdin:''' You want to be a genie? You got it! And everything that goes with it! Phenomenal cosmic powers! ...[[CallBack Itty-bitty living space!]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: As a woman in ancient Arabia, Jasmine's free spirit wouldn't have been quite so tolerated in RealLife. There'd be no such thing as suitors; she's marrying whoever Daddy chooses for political purposes. On the other hand, the Sultan really is a softie, and in this time period the father is ''allowed'' to consult the daughter's wishes even though he doesn't ''have'' to. He is well aware of this as when Jafar brings up the fact that he can choose for her, the Sultan refuses that he couldn't bring himself to choose someone she hates to marry. So it's more a case of a loving father wanting his daughter's happiness and not being concerned with alliances. He even allows her to marry a pauper, something that definitely would not have been allowed as he is far below her social status.

** Jasmine dresses down her father, Aladdin, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Jafar]] for discussing her future right in front of her.

---> '''Genie:''' Alright... your wish is my command... ''(aside)'' Way to go, Al...
---> '''Jasmine:''' ''(after [[spoiler: Jafar turns into a genie]])'' What have you done?

* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: The Genie is this to the max, [[TropeNamer obviously]]. His accurate impressions of movie stars (such as, notably, Creator/JackNicholson) provided ample {{Parental Bonus}}es, and like Merlin in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', he exhibits ample working knowledge of twentieth-century zeitgeist and technology. In the sequels and [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries television series]] that followed, he frequently alluded to several other Disney franchises and impersonated their characters, including Pumbaa from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''.\\
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Worth noting is that Aladdin {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the Genie's tendency to do this in the cartoon series. "What's the genie doing?" "Dreaming about references to some form of entertainment that hasn't been invented yet." It's occasionally mentioned that Genie sometimes time-travels in his spare time, which explains how he knows about pop culture icons from the future. There is one episode of the show that [[CutawayGag explicitly shows him in another time, with Napoleon]]. There's also a fairly popular fan theory that the movie actually takes place in the distant ''future'', which also explains it handily.

** Ironically, said berserk button was also what finalized Iago's decision to defect from Jafar in the beginning of ''Return of Jafar'', and leave Jafar in a well.
** Shows up in ''King of Thieves'' as well:
--->'''King of Thieves:''' Good birdy... Polly want a--\\

* SelfDeprecation:
** The Sultan gives an accidental, but ironic example - "I don't know where she gets it from. Her mother wasn't nearly so picky."

* MisplacedWildlife: Abu and Iago are a New World monkey and macaw. While it makes sense the Sultan's vizier might have access to exotic pets from far outside Arabia, that doesn't explain where a homeless teenager got a monkey. Rajah the tiger is often assumed to be this, but he actually isn't; there really were tigers in the Middle East at the time the movie takes place.