History Theatre / TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier

* LastDisrespects: After beating all 150 members of the 2D department to death, the Royal Guard threw their corpses out of the highest window of the western tower.

* AffectionateParody: Of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and the Disney Renaissance in general.

* NoSongForTheWicked: Averted. Aladdin and Achmed both get songs, and then double-subverted by every song Ja'far [[spoiler:and the other villains]] get to sing.

* AltarDiplomacy: Eventually [[AvertedTrope Averted]], the princess is almost married off to make a solid alliance with a neighboring kingdom. The previous suitor was Prince Achmed, and we all know how well that story went.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:

* TheGoodChancellor: DeconstruedTrope with Ja'far. While he always maintains his dedication to the people of the nation, he began the job brimming with optimism and over the years becomes a disenchanted BeleagueredBureaucrat. No matter what he does or how hard he tries, everyone percieves him as an EvilChancellor anyways.

* RobbingTheDead: Aladdin takes the shoes from a dead guard early on in the musical.

** Prince Achmed notes that some of the Magic Kingdom's greatest exports over the last ten years produced by [[Creator/{{Pixar}} Pik-zahr]] include [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory toys]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo exotic fish]], [[WesternAnimation/WallE trash-compacting robots]], and "other such [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles incredibles]]."

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Everyone, to some degree, given the nature of the musical, but in particular Razoul/The Captain of the Guard's mild ComicallySerious tendencies from ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'' go UpToEleven.

* PepTalkSong: "Twisted" goes from a BSODSong to this when [[spoiler:the Disney villains appear and tell Ja'far they were actually beings with good intentions. Ja'far gains a HeroicSecondWind to use the lamp's wishes to protect the Magic Kingdom]].

* {{Corpsing}}: Jim Povolo has to fight back laughter when the Princess rejects his high-five.

* MythologyGag: When the Sea-Witch is telling her story, it's heavily implied that King Triton is her brother, an element that Disney didn't make explicit in the film version of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', but was used more in the Broadway adaptation.

-->'''Aladdin:''' Yeah, those merchants are real dicks about that kind of stuff. It's like, is he really going
to eat all those apples? And did you know the ones he doesn't eat, he's trying to sell? For
money? So greedy.

* FourthDateMarriage: It's a Disney parody, so this is a given. Ja'far and Sherrezade meet, fall in love, and get engaged over the course of the same conversation. It actually ''works'', though it is lampshaded. ("Took you long enough!") [[spoiler:Averted, however, by Jasmine and Aladdin; they don't get together, period.]]

'''Soldier (triumphant):''' Ja'''FAR!''\\

-DeathGlare from Achmed-

* RuleOfThree: When Ja'far meets up with Gazeem, who has procured the other half of the golden scarab, Gazeem says, "I had to slit a few throats, but I got it." Ja'far is appalled, so Gazeem laughs and explains that it's an [[UnusualEuphemism expression]] meaning that he got a "killer" deal on the item. He further explains that he went to the shrewd businessman and "fucked his puppy". Ja'far is again shocked, and Gazeem explains that this is another expression, meaning that he dealt with the businessman in a no-nonsense fashion. He reminisces about how angry the businessman was upon realizing how little Gazeem had been able to haggle the item down to, and concludes, [[GroinAttack "Man, did he ever chop my dick off!"]] Ja'far ''initially'' looks taken aback until he figures that this must be yet another expression, and laughs to humor Gazeem... who storms over to him and furiously shows him that this is ''not'' another expression, [[ScreamingAtSquick much to Ja'far's horror.]]

** Prince Achmed's troops erroneously believing and being incredibly proud of the fact that he fucked a tiger.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The entire point of "The Golden Rule (Evil Reprise)." Meanwhile, Ja'far prefers the ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules route.

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Aladdin.]]

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Aladdin turns out to have one. One side's an arrogant, selfish dick, while the other one's an arrogant, selfish, ''murderous'' dick.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: With a dose of CerebusRetcon for the events of the film.
** Aladdin's antics during "One Jump Ahead" are described. The AmusingInjuries resulted in the deaths of at least five people.
** A princess setting a tiger on a visiting prince is regarded as an act of war, and like the earlier scene recapping "One Jump Ahead", Achmed was still injured by the tiger attack. Achmed even lampshades the absurdity of such an act carrying no political consequences.
** "Prince Ali"'s surprise parade through the streets causes a disaster. Since the streets didn't have time to clear, several people are trampled to death and property is damaged. Aladdin chucking coins into the starving masses lead to them killing each other to try and get them.
** The birds that the princess sets free? Imported, and unable to survive in this climate.
** The Princess points out Aladdin's PaperThinDisguise as Prince Ali and how unlikely and unethical his explanation for "pretending to be a street urchin" is.
** The Genie's bragging about Prince Ali's military prowess in "Prince Ali" wasn't just selling his manly qualities as a husband, it would've been a serious political consideration for forging an alliance between the two countries at the time. In this musical, the fact that all of this was a lie and those armies don't exist becomes a serious issue.
** To a lesser extent, the Djinn's TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson routine just pisses Ja'far off because he doesn't understand the jokes.
** When the Princess [[FailedAttemptAtDrama attempts to boast about "Prince Aladdin's" prowess by citing that "he faced the galloping hordes"]], Prince Achmed is completely clueless what she's talking about since the Djinn made it up.

''(long beat; Achmed gives an "am I supposed to know what that means?" shrug)''\\

''(Achmed looks mildly impressed; one of his soldiers mouths "Hole shit!")''

* TruerToTheText: In a [[TitleDrop twisted]] way. Although this is very much an irreverent, fourth-wall breaking parody of ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'', bringing back a version of Scheherazade and restoring Ja'far to [[AdaptationalHeroism heroic status]] both bring this story closer to the original Literature/ArabianNights. (See ShownTheirWork above.)

* AscendedMeme: The UrbanLegend that Aladdin whispers "good teenagers take off your clothes" at one point in the movie is exaggerated and played for laughs here, with Aladdin trying to get into the Princess' pants by whispering "take off your clothes" (it doesn't work) and leading into a whole musical number about the other supposed subliminal messages in Disney movies.
* AsYouKnow: "We mustn't let ourselves forget the saying every child born within the kingdom knows."
* AttractiveBentGender: Even wearing a mustache, Lauren Lopez looks beautiful.

* DemotedToExtra: To some extent, the Sultan, the Genie/Djinn, and Abu/The Monkey. However, the most striking would be Iago/Bird, whom Ja'far dismisses during the very first scene after it insults him, and who's never seen again in the entire musical.

-->'''Ja'far:''' I feel like you only come to see me when there's bad news!\\

'''Ja'far (ecstatic):''' Oh well thank heavens, what is it then?\\
'''Captain:''' Some fool atop an elephant is leading a parade throughout the marketplace!