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NOTE: This page focuses solely on the live-action version of Jafar as the original animated version of Jafar never qualified for the Pure Evil status. Thus, only Jafar's crimes seen in the 2019 movie should be put here.

Another petty insult from that slow-minded fool. He sees a city where I see an empire. Once that lamp sits in my hand, then I shall sit on his throne.
~ Jafar commenting over his goal to overthrow the Sultan and take over Agrabah.
(Iago: He likes you.)
(Prince Anders: I know. Cause in Sknland, cats love me. Here, puss-puss. Hey, puss-puss. Hey, puss-puss, puss...)
My Sultan... Our enemies grow stronger every day, yet you allow your daughterto dismiss Prince Anders and a possible military alliance. Which enemies? Sherabad continues to amass.
(Sultan: Sherabad is our ally.)
Was our ally.
(Sultan: You would drag us into a war with our only...)
Yet you would allow your kingdom to sink into ruin, for mere sentiment!
(Sultan: Jafar! Remember your place.)
I apologize. Forgive me, my Sultan. I went too far. But... if you would only reconsider, I think you would see that invading Sherabad is the right thing to do.
(Sultan: Invading Sherabad is...)
Invade Sherabad? Why would we invade Mother's kingdom?
(Sultan: We would never invade Sherabad.)
But an ally in Sknland would improve our situation.
(Sultan: Yes. If you consider giving Prince Anders a chance.)
(Jasmine: To rule? Baba, Rajah would make a better ruler.)
(Sultan: My dear, I'm not getting any younger. We must find you a husband and... we are running out of kingdoms.)
(Jasmine: What foreign prince can care for our people as I do? I could lead, if only...)
(Sultan: My dear, you cannot be a sultan. Because it has never been done in the thousand-year history of our kingdom.)
(Jasmine: I have been preparing for this my whole life. I have read every...)
Books? But you cannot read experience. Inexperience is dangerous. People, left unchecked, will revolt. Walls and borders, unguarded, will be attacked.
(Sultan: Jafar is right. One day, you will understand. You may leave now.)
Life will be kinder to you, Princess, once you accept these traditions and understand it's better for you to be seen and not heard.
~ Jafar to Jasmine.

Jafar is the main antagonist of the 2019 musical fantasy film Aladdin, the live-action remake of the 1992 animated feature film of the same name.

He is the power-hungry Grand Vizier of Agrabah who plots to become Sultan and destroy the nearby kingdom of Shirabad by acquiring the lamp containing the Genie. He is also based off his original incarnation with the same name.

He was portrayed by Marwan Kenzari, who also played Ahk-Ton and Sabbac in Black Adam.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

  • Unlike his animated counterpart, this version of Jafar is not comedic at all and is taken completely seriously aside from a few moments, but those just show how twisted and evil he is without undermining him as a threat.
    • Which is already saying much given how the original was already taken pretty seriously by the narrative and the characters despite these few moments.
  • In the past, Jafar was once a thief and street rat just like Aladdin, but only he thought bigger until he became the grand vizier of the Sultan.
  • He wanted to conquer all of Shirabad.
  • As opposed to the original where Gazeem willingly entered the Cave of Wonders and Jafar was horrified at his death, here Jafar forces prisoners to the Cave of Wonders to retrieve the Genie’s lamp against their will, resulting in at least one of them getting killed and showing no remorse about this.
  • He's far more murderous than his animated counterpart, which is best shown when he mentions "the bodies he's buried" to get the power he has, then proceeds to kill a jailer by knocking him down a well solely for saying (as a compliment) that he's already the second most powerful person in Agrabah next to the Sultan.
  • He left Aladdin to die in the crumbling Cave of Wonders as soon as he got the lamp from him, even going as far as stepping on his hand so he’ll fall, showing he never had any intention of keeping his promise to make Aladdin rich enough to impress Jasmine.
  • He hypocritically treated Aladdin as disposable despite their similar backgrounds.
  • He attempted to hypnotize The Sultan into invading Shirabad, only failing due to Jasmine's intervention.
  • He tested whether or not Aladdin had the lamp by having him thrown into the sea to drown, knowing if he didn't have the lamp, it would result in his death. (Although there were arguably better ways to do so). Unlike his animated counterpart who had Razoul and his gang do the gig, this Jafar does it all on his own, making the act even worse.
  • After usurping the throne and becoming a powerful sorcerer, he banished Aladdin to a frozen wasteland to freeze to death and painfully tortured the Sultan and Dalia to force Princess Jasmine to marry him simply to spite the Sultan by taking what he cares about the most from him.
  • He attacked Aladdin and Jasmine with Iago, (whom he transformed into a giant roc-like creature) and a twister, endangering the Agrabah citizens (who were technically his subjects by that point) and destroying the Magic Carpet.
  • After becoming first the Sultan and then a sorcerer, he expressed his intent to first send Agrabah's forces to invade Shirabad, and then move on to do the same to other neighboring kingdoms so he can conquer them and build Agrabah into a mighty empire that, in his words, "history cannot ignore".
  • After becoming a genie, he tried to destroy Shirabad out of revenge for his poor upbringing, which almost certainly would have resulted in hundreds of deaths, including any of its citizens who are middle-class or as poor as he once was.
  • Although he doesn't abuse Iago like his animated counterpart did, the animated Jafar did seem to care about Iago to some degree until the latter redeemed himself. Here, Jafar used him as if he was just his slave instead of a pet and does not display open affection towards him.
  • In the original movie, Jafar inadvertently dragged Iago along with him, instinctively reaching for something to hold onto without realizing he had grabbed Iago's tail until it was too late. However, this version of Jafar deliberately takes hold of Iago, forcing him to share in a punishment he does not deserve. This action seems driven by spite, likely in response to Iago's uncaring farewell to Jafar.
  • Though he wouldn't be as heinous as the villains from the TV series, the 2019 movie is from a different universe where they didn't exist. Therefore, he doesn't fail the heinous standards of his universe without any villains that he could compete against.

Trivia[]

  • This version of Jafar does manage to qualify unlike his 1992 counterpart, as the extent of the latter's actions are not explored in depth enough to boost his heinousness, having only 1 confirmed kill and 7 attempted kills, and failed the heinous standards to Mozenrath.
  • It is implied that most of Jafar's negative traits and motives stemmed from having to grow up impoverished and bullied by the populace of Shirabad, making him quite similar to his rival Aladdin. However, their similarities differed in how they handled their suffering. Also, his ruthless nature, lack of care for anyone else and bottomless lust for power, to the point that being anything less than the single most powerful being around is unacceptable to him, negates this, not to mention when Jafar tries to wipe out all of Shirabad, that would include the middle-class and poor people like him which he doesn't seem to care about.
    • Interestingly, these details were originally intended to be featured in the original film as seen in the deleted scene "Why Me" as well the Broadway musical.
  • It's commonly theorized that Jafar may have had something to do with the death of Jasmine's mother.
    • One theory is that rather than her dying of natural causes, Jafar had arranged her murder, possibly out of spite for his tragic early life and/or to incite the Sultan into declaring war against Shirabad. If this were confirmed, it would make Jafar even worse.
  • Jafar serves as a dark parallel to Aladdin as they came from similar backgrounds. However, while Aladdin is kindhearted and humble towards the fellow Agrabah residents and cares for those close to him, Jafar grew to hate the kingdom of Shirabad to the point of wanting to conquer it out of spite and was more than willing to harm those who had nothing to do with his poor upbringing. If Aladdin hadn't met Genie, Jasmine and The Sultan and never learned to embrace their influence, he would have ended up like Jafar.
  • Although he had homicidal tendencies, the original Jafar never murdered anyone (aside from Gazeem). This Jafar is much more murderous, talking about "the bodies he's buried to get here" before killing a palace jailer by pushing him into a well simply for calling him "second" in power to the Sultan, forcing Jasmine to marry him out of spite rather than lust, and when he's transformed into a Genie, he was about to annihilate Shirabad with his powers.
  • This version of Jafar is one of the two versions of him that is pure evil, the other being the Fanscription version.

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