Jafar

## Personal information

### Personality

Suave, sinister, cruel, evil, dark, erudite, power-hungry, cold-hearted, cunning, mysterious, greedy, ill-tempered, snobby, self-absorbed, ruthless, manipulative, deceptive, violent, sadistic, quiet, insane, selfish, vengeful, vindictive, plucky, abusive, envious, psychopathic, argumentative, dangerous, rude, dramatic, blasphemous, shadowy, sneaky, classy, cynical, vain, impatient, sarcastic, dishonest, gradually pompous, murderous, commanding

### Allies

Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella De Vil, Iago

### Enemies

Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie, Magic Carpet, the Sultan, Beast, Belle, Fairy Godmother

### Family

Jay (son)
Nasira (sister)
Jade (niece)

### Powers and Abilities

Alchemy (initially)
Magician tricks (initially)
Divination (initially; amateur)
Vast sorcery abilities
Minor darkness control
Genie powers)

## Appearance information

### Movies

*Aladdin
Descendants*

## Relevant Pages

**Jafar** is one of the main characters of the Disney Channel Original Movie, *Descendants*. He is one of the villains and he is also the father of Jay. He is a secondary antagonist in *Descendants*, but he is the main antagonist Disney's 1992 animated feature film, *Aladdin*.

## Before the Isle of the Lost

### *Aladdin*

Jafar is the Grand Vizier of Agrabah, the Sultan's most trusted adviser and is also an evil sorcerer. Jafar secretly plots to possess the Genie's magical oil lamp and wish to be the ruler of Agrabah. Early in the film, Aladdin is imprisoned in the palace dungeons, as arranged by Jafar using his influence over the guards. Jafar (disguised as a fellow prisoner) approaches him, striking a deal with Aladdin. In exchange for Aladdin's help in retrieving the lamp from the Cave of Wonders, Jafar reveals an escape route from the prison and promises him a reward if he succeeds, who soon reveals that the reward is death. When the plan fails, Aladdin and the lamp are lost. When Iago suggests an alternative plan, Jafar next decides to, using the hypnotic powers of his snake-headed staff, manipulate the Sultan into mandating a marriage between himself and Princess Jasmine, but he is impeded by Aladdin, who had discovered the Genie and used his first wish to become a prince. After a second attempt by Jafar on his life, Aladdin (with the help of the Genie) survives and then exposes Jafar's plot, but Jafar learns that Aladdin possesses the lamp. Iago steals the lamp from Aladdin and Jafar becomes the Genie's master. Jafar uses his first two wishes to become Sultan and the world's most powerful sorcerer. Jafar assumes control of the palace (which is lifted off the ground and put on the main top of a mountain by Genie) and banishes Aladdin to a frozen wasteland. Aladdin returns and battles Jafar and reminds him that he is only the second-most powerful being on Earth after the Genie, who was the one who gave him his power in the first place. Realizing that Aladdin is right, Jafar uses his final wish to become an all-powerful genie, in an attempt to rule the whole universe. However, Jafar is angered to realize that Aladdin has tricked him into wasting his wish into becoming a genie, since genies are not free beings, and becomes trapped in an oil lamp of his own with Iago, and the lamp is sent into the Cave of Wonders.

## History

### *Descendants*

20 years after being imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, Jafar has taken to making a living as a shopkeeper. Jafar has Jay steal from the other residents to keep the store stocked. When Jafar notices that one of the stolen objects is a lamp his son Jay had brought him, he eagerly and excitedly tries to rub it; hoping for it to be a magic one in which he can supposedly get three wishes from a genie again but when his son tells him that he already tried that himself and it didn't work, he throws it away in anger. He, along with his friends, the Evil Queen, Cruella, and Maleficent have statues fabricated in the Museum of Cultural History in Auradon. Later, when talking to their kids through video chat, Jafar laughed at Cruella for getting "burned"/dissed by her son, Carlos. This mockery later led all four villains to squabble in embarrassment in front of their kids.

## Personality

Jafar was portrayed as an amoral psychopath who will not hesitate to destroy anyone he perceives as a threat to his own sinister designs. Like numerous clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, Jafar wears a metaphorical mask of normalcy throughout the film, establishing himself as a cool-headed schemer and gaining the trust of those around him, despite his rather untrustworthy physical appearance. Even with this mask, Jafar's psychopathic tendencies tend to seep through and become apparent to the viewer, particularly in the opening sequence, where Jafar, outside of immediate initial anger over Gazeem the thief not being the one who is the Diamond in the Rough, displays no remorse in sending Gazeem to his death in the Cave of Wonders, simply proclaiming that, "Gazeem was obviously less than worthy" in a rather dry tone of voice. It is not until Jafar gains control of the Genie's lamp that he fully shows his true colors, becoming arrogant, tyrannical, and short-tempered with his subjects. He also was depicted as laughing excessively and in a deranged manner shortly after banishing Aladdin to the North Pole, suggesting that Jafar was also insane and suffered from hysteria.

## Appearance

Jafar is a tall, bony man dressed in extravagant clothing, always seen carrying a gold, ruby-eyed, cobra headed staff to supplement his magical powers. Jafar has a twisted, black goatee and a faint mustache, as well as grey eyeliner. He was supposed to be designed as ugly, and Genie makes this obvious when he refers to him as "a tall, dark, sinister, ugly man." He is apparently completely bald, as evidenced by when he removes his beggar disguise, acting as the only time Jafar did not wear his distinctive headdress, although it was never made clear whether he was naturally bald or if he shaved his head for the disguise. He also carries a cobra-head staff, which he uses for his sorcery.

As Royal Vizier, Jafar wears black robes that reach the ground over top a red garment with bell sleeves, under which he wears a jet-black shirt with very close-fitting sleeves that reach his wrists, all held in place with a red-violet sash tied around his waist. The shoulders of his outer robe are pointed and curved upward, connected to a long, billowing black cape with a blood-red underside, while his brown shoes curl inward at the tips. He also wears an odd, pale-yellowish garment that covers his neck, the back of his head, and his chest.

The outfit is topped off with a tall, black headdress, seemingly a type of mitre, with a thin, yellow pattern lined around the middle and downwards at the front, a ruby-like gemstone situated in the front, and a crimson-red feather sticking out above it. The headdress itself is apparently (yet strangely) made out of metal, as evidenced by the hollow clonking sound it made when Iago briefly knocked on it while trying to get Jafar to calm down from a laughing fit as he thought he went insane (not realizing he was actually laughing because he realized that not only did the lamp actually survive, it's actually in close proximity since Prince Ali, or rather, Aladdin, owns it). A red-violet cloth hangs from the miter, draping over Jafar's shoulders. As Sultan, Jafar wears a white, blue, and gold version of this outfit resembling the actual sultan's.

When he's turned into a sorcerer, Jafar's wardrobe goes to a more exaggerated, sinister form of his normal attire; The head-dress sports distinct, horn-like protrusions, the red feather is gone, and only the ruby on the front remains. The shoulders of his outer robe are even pointer and maintain a higher position than before, no longer curved. The sash on his waist is also different, bearing a pattern of magenta and copper stripes and a gold border. Here, he regains his iconic snake staff, but it now has an open fanged-mouth that fires beams magic on command.

In his showdown with Aladdin, Jafar transforms into an enormous cobra, greatly bearing the color palette of his main wardrobe. The cobra is mainly black in color, representing his main robes, with the hood having a crimson underside with a red dot on each side, making the hood resemble his cape and mitre combined. He has a tan underbelly, resembling the garment covering his neck and most of his head, and he has red markings running down his back to his unseen tail-tip. The Cobra also has menacing red eyes and sharp (possibly venomous) teeth.

Once Jafar makes his third lamp wish, he takes on a form resembling Genie himself, but with a more sinister appearance. Jafar's skin becomes blood red, his ears become pointed, his right ear gains a gold piercing (which changes from big to small in the second film), his hair becomes tied in a topknot, and his eyes become completely yellow (although there are instances where Jafar gains pupils, such as in "You're Only Second Rate"), and when he uses legs, instead of his genie smoke, the legs look muscular and somewhat demonic, with claws. He retains his red-violet sash and five-fingered hands (albeit with black claws, compared to Genie, who has four-fingers). When he's in his normal human form, Jafar wears a slight recolor of his sorcerer outfit, with the red and black colors switched. He also retains his snake staff. When he guest appeared in an episode of Hercules, he regains his sorcerer outfit.

## Trivia

* In *The Isle of the Lost* map, it's revealed that Jafar lives near the evil Shan Yu, who lives near Captain Hook's abandoned ship, The Jolly Roger.
* Jafar's crimes were
	+ To overthrow The Sultan
	+ Grand Theft (Genie)
	+ Attempted Murder (Aladdin and Jasmine)
	+ False Imprisonment (Aladdin)
	+ Manipulation (The Genie)
	+ Animal Transformation (Abu and Rajah)
* Even though in many posters and advertisement, we see Jafar in his Agrabah uniform, he is only in the uniform during the Museum of Cultural History scene and during, "Evil Like Me".
* Jafar was voiced by Jonathan Freeman in his original debut, the original Aladdin Movie.
* He is the second Disney Villain to ride a horse, the first being Gaston, the third Claude Frollo, the fourth Shan Yu, the fifth Hans.
* He's the only Villain to be kissed by a protagonist (Jasmine).
* In *Descendants*, it's revealed whenever Aladdin's name is mentioned, Jafar gets mad over it.
* He and Governor Ratcliffe are the only Disney Villains not to die during the Disney Renaissance Era (The Return of Jafar doesn't count in The Auradon Timeline.)
* He's the third Disney Villain to turn into an animal. The first was Maleficent, the second was Madam Mim, the fourth and fifth were Pain and Panic and the sixth was Yzma. Jafar is my Evil dad

## References

**Other Characters** Belle • Beast • Fairy Godmother • Snow White • Queen Leah • Maleficent • **Jafar** • The Evil Queen • Cruella De Vil • Coach Jenkins • Mr. Deley • Dude the Dog