Norm the Genie

**Norm the Genie** is a minor antagonist in The Fairly OddParents. He constantly hatches plans to gain his freedom and get his revenge on Timmy, although they fail miserably every time. He is trapped in a lamp made of Smoof. Another thing that can trap him is Barbara Eden (an in-joke to the 1960s comedy I Dream of Jeannie, in which Eden played a genie). He was voiced by and named after the late Norm MacDonald, his first voice actor.

## Character

Norm is a Genie that can grant wishes free of Da Rules. Timmy quickly discovers that wishes granted by Norm are usually taken too literally or intentionally misunderstood by Norm, in essence, he is a trickster. He enjoys seeing others fail miserably, causing them harm, predicting their wishes for fame and fortune to come crashing down (which they always do). Norm seems to show some sympathy by at least *warning* his victims of his nature, usually through sarcasm, but the people he encounters are usually too dumb to notice until it is too late for them.

## Description

Norm is a genie that can grant three wishes, although he can also apparently grant many more than that if his master wishes for more wishes. He even told Crocker that the latter may use his third wish to wish for three more wishes. "We always tell them you can't, but in reality, you can. We've been bluffing for centuries." This might be a reason that genies don't like heavy work if they hadn't been bluffing. He has the typical appearance of a genie, including a long goatee and black hair pulled in a fez. He wears gold earrings and teal blue clothing with a red bow tie. He has no feet, instead, his lower body flows in the air into a swirl tail, like a ghost.

## Personality

He talks to other characters with a sarcastic, mocking tone. Norm hates Timmy and has the utmost contempt for fairies. He was willing to ally himself with Crocker, presumably under the pretense of getting rid of Timmy, but Norm found it more entertaining to torment Crocker instead. He seems to enjoy making others miserable as opposed to fairies, who help those they grant wishes to.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Genie Magic:** Like genies Norm can perform a myriad of magical feats such as conjuration, transfiguration, teleportation, and emotional manipulation. The way Norm is repeatedly shown to use his powers is through a snap of his fingers, which is followed by a brief "Gong!" The precise limitation of a genie's magic is unknown, but Norm has repeatedly referred to himself as being "all powerful." According to Denzel Crocker, a genie needs their master's wish to activate their magic. According to Norm, a genie's master can wish for practically anything except for more wishes; however, he has revealed that this is just a lie genies made up in order to avoid being overworked.
* **Flight:** Like genies Norm can defy gravity and float in the air.
* **Space Survivability:** Like genies Norm can evidently survive in the vacuum of space, seeing as how Norm was able to be on Mars without any sort of protective equipment.
* **Supernatural Longevity:** Like genies Norm extremely long-lived, given how he claimed he was 50,000 years old.

## Weaknesses

* **Magic Lamps:** Like genies who are ordinarily trapped in magic lamps Norm is trapped in his magic lava lamp, and anyone who rubs these lamps becomes the released genie's master. Once released, the genie must grant their master three wishes before being forcibly sucked back into their lamp to begin this cycle again. These lamps, however, merely suck in the nearest source of magic after the third wish is made, and as seen when Norm tricked Wanda and Cosmo into being trapped inside his lamp, a genie can trick another magical creature into taking their place to free themselves.
* **Smoof:** According to Norm, things made of smoof are one of the three things he, and most likely other genies, cannot escape from, as are magic lamps and the charms of Barbara Eden.

## Role in Sora’s Adventures

He appeared in Sora’s Adventures in Dimmsdale

## Trivia

* Norm is not a member of the Genie Alliance, since Genie says he is an evil genie.