While trapped inside the cave, Abu reveals that he stole the lamp back from Jafar. Aladdin notices the lamp is a bit dusty and gives it a rub. This causes the lamp to release a powerful Genie who can grant him three wishes as long as he is holding the lamp. Aladdin wishes to escape from the cave (though he makes the wish without holding the lamp, keeping his three wishes in tact) and he, Genie, Abu and Carpet find themselves in the middle of the desert. Genie instructed Aladdin on wishes that he can't grant: he can't kill anyone, resurrect someone from the dead or make anyone fall in love with anyone else.
After seeing Genie's potential, Aladdin wishes to become a prince in the hopes that he can be with Princess Jasmine. Genie transforms him into Prince Ali and parades him to the Sultan's Palace with an entourage, where the Sultan welcomes him. Unfortunately, much to Genie's chagrin and embarrassment, Aladdin ends up trying too hard to act like a prince and ends up making some rather embarrassing gaffes and comments when presenting himself. Later on when they're at a party, he tries to to encourage him to be more confident and speak to Jasmine. He also helps him do an impressive dance when that's being held, up to and including having him end it with a backflip. though Jasmine still isn't impressed due to coming it off as showboating.
Later, Aladdin convinces Genie to help him get into Jasmine's room by distracting Dalia since he can tell he likes her. Even though he comes off as comically clumsy and awkward, she reciprocates his feeling, and while the two of them go out for a stroll, Aladdin bonds with Jasmine over some of their shared ideals, especially once they go on a carpet ride together.
But Jasmine also figures out that he is really Aladdin and not Prince Ali like he claims. But worried that she'll view him as a nobody, Aladdin makes up a story about him pretending to be Aladdin to get to know Agrabah and its people better. When he shares this story with Genie, he tries to convince him to be more honest and tell her who he really is, but the subject is dropped shortly after that.
But the following morning, Jafar has Aladdin captured, and tied to a chair since unfortunately, he's also seen through his disguise and interrogates him about the lamp's whereabouts. When he refuses to admit who he really is and insists he doesn't know what he's talking about, Jafar pushes Aladdin out of his tower and into the sea. Thankfully, Abu and Carpet arrive with the lamp, and Aladdin manages to rub it before drowning. Genie then appears and rescues Aladdin, and after speaking with Jasmine, they expose Jafar's treachery to the Sultan. Genie was celebrating with Aladdin that he got the girl and pulled himself together after a messy start.
But, worrying that he would lose Jasmine if they find out he's not really a prince and being guilt-tripped due to the Sultan praising him for his honesty and integrity, Aladdin feels he needs to keep pretending and shape himself into being Prince Ali. He also admits he feels he needs the Genie's help to keep this up and can't fulfill his promise to use it to set him free. Genie then expresses his disappointment that despite being the first master he's ever considered a friend and the fact that he bent the rules to save him, he still feels he needs to lie rather than do the right thing and admit' who he really is before going back into the lamp.
Aladdin then leaves the palace and heads back to his real home in frustration and a state of conflict to clear hie head. Unfortunately, in the meantime, Iago frees Jafar by snatching the keys to his cell. Jafar subsequently steals the lamp from Aladdin while in disguise without him even noticing, then laughs manically upon rubbing the lamp and confirming he had what he wanted for so long.
After this, Jafar makes him way back to the palace and into the throne room, where he reveals the power he now has. He subsequently commands Genie to grant him two wishes, with the first is to make him the new Sultan of Agrabah. Then, when Jasmine still stands up to him and convinces Hakeem to do what is right and lead the guards in arresting him, Jafar has Genie turn him into the most powerful sorcerer in the world. During the commotion, Aladdin notices the lamp was missing and went to the palace to take it back from Jafar, but with Jafar having already been granted the powers of a sorcerer, it was too late.
Jafar notices Aladdin trying to take the lamp and reveals his identity to Jasmine and the Sultan, then banishes him and Abu to a frozen wasteland. But Genie discreetly transports the magic carpet to the frozen wasteland to find and save them. The Magic Carpet finds them and heads back to Agrabah. Meanwhile, Jafar tortures both the Sultan and Dalia to force Jasmine into marrying him, not out of love, but in order to make the Sultan suffer from losing what he cares about most to him, with Genie breaking his composure and asking him to stop despite him being obliged to remain neutral since he cares about Dalia.
Thankfully, Aladdin and Abu get back just as Jasmine was being forced to say "i do", so she takes the lamp from him him and tries to escape with them, but thanks to his powers, Jafar is able to force them back by creating a powerful storm and get his hands on the lamp once again.
Jafar then traps Jasmine, Dalia and the Sultan in bubbles of suspended animation for their defiance and starts to torture Aladdin to death while bragging about his power, but Aladdin has a trick up his sleeve. He appeals to Jafar's obsession with being the most powerful individual around and not being second to anyone by pointing out that Genie is still more powerful than him, and having given him his powers, he can just easily take them away. Despite adamantly denying this since he serves him, this enrages Jafar so much that he uses his third wish to the Genie to make him the most powerful being in the world, even more so than him.
Because he words this wish in a vague manner, Genie exploits this by turning him into a powerful Genie. While he initially revels in his newfound powers and tries to outright destroy Sherebad, he is stopped and realizes much to his horror that he now has to abide by all the rules that come with being a genie: genies can't kill or give any free wishes to himself and they are imprisoned in a lamp until somebody rubs the lamp and he needs to grant them their three wishes. Jafar and Iago are then imprisoned in the lamp, after which everyone is freed, with Genie fixing the Magic Carpet and chucking the lamp Jafar and Iago are imprisoned in into the Cave of Wonders. As a way of showing his gratitude, he then makes an offer to Aladdin to get rid of the law that dictates only a prince can marry the princess.
But Aladdin decides to do the right thing and try to atone for his mistakes by keeping his promise to the Genie by using the wish to set him free. Genie is then officially freed and turned back into a human, much to his surprise, but subsequent joy. He then hugs Aladdin and gives him a heartfelt thank you, as well as decides to marry Dalia and travel the world with her now that he's able to do so. During this segment, he's confirmed to be the fisherman from the beginning and has been narrating the story to his two children while they were travelling on their boat, with Dalia being his wife in the background.
Meanwhile, the Sultan decides to pass the throne to Jasmine, having seen how much she's truly grown, knows and cares about their people. Now being the Sultaness, she has the ability to change the law herself, and both seeing and appreciating Aladdin for being the essentially good person he is, she gets rid of the law that allows only a prince to marry her and goes after him. Genie is then finally seen attending their wedding with Dalia and participates in a dance party being held at the palace afterwards.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Former powers[]
Jinn Physiology: As a jinn, Genie is immensely powerful and possesses several supernatural attributes.
Immortality: Genie is immortal, as he cannot be killed by natural or supernatural means.
Superhuman Longevity: Genie does not visibly age. Despite being over 10,000 years, he still maintains the physical appearance of a man in his prime.
Flight: Genie is able to fly at amazing speeds and at high altitudes.
Conjuration Genie is able to conjure anything out of nothing, even objects that are centuries ahead and that have not yet come into existence.
Mégethoskinesis: Genie can amplify or decrease his own size.
Shapeshifting: Genie is capable of transforming into other individuals or creatures.
Wish Granting: Genie is able to grant wishes to other individuals as long as they are holding the lamp.
Weaknesses[]
Mortality: After being unbound from the lamp and becoming human once again, Genie is now mortal and can be killed.
Former weaknesses[]
Limitations: Although Genie is incredibly powerful, he does have his limits.
Bounded to the Lamp: Genie can only come out of the lamp when he is summoned by his master. But after being unbound from the lamp, this is no longer a weakness for Genie.
Death: Genie can't bring anyone back to life.
Love: Genie can't make individuals fall in love against their free will.
Wish Granting: There are a number of gray areas in the wishes that Genie can grant, so the wishes have to be made carefully.
Wish limitations: Besides the wishes he can't grant, Genie is also incapable of granting more than 3 wishes to a person.
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Trivia[]
Unlike his 1992 counterpart, this Genie is VERY clear with his powers and how wishes are made; telling Aladdin to avoid ambiguous wording that leaves Genie to interpret how to grant the wish. He uses this against Jafar, who wished to be "the most powerful being in the universe".
He had some paperwork drafted that said Aladdin would use a wish to have his life saved; Genie had to technically forge the signature by forcing Aladdin's hand to sign. Contrasting the animated film, where Genie took Aladdin's head bobbing in the water as confirmation; paying in mind Genie had just been shaking him while Aladdin was unconscious from lack of air.
Genie's costume in his human form is based on Genie's outfit from the Aladdin Broadway musical.
Unlike Genie's animated counterpart, he was originally a normal human prior to being turned into a jinn.
The prequel film of Genie would have revealed how Genie become a jinn in the first place, but this film ended up being cancelled.
Aladdin, Gemini Man, and Spies in Disguise, all of which Will Smith starred in, came out in 2019.
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