Characters / Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

Ja'far

Ja'far

Played by: Dylan Saunders

Science says you're dead and gone forever
Reason says I'm talking to the air
But something in my heart
Some secret hidden part
Illogically insists that you are there
Somewhere

The protagonist of Twisted, Ja'far is the royal vizier to the Sultan of the Magic Kingdom.

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• 0% Approval Rating: Nobody likes him, constantly blaming him for the problems plaguing the kingdom.
• Adaptation Expansion: Here we see where Ja'far got the Scarab necklace, how he became Vizier, and where he got the Bird.
• Adaptational Heroism: As Wicked did with the Wicked Witch of the West, Twisted portrays Ja'far as a goodhearted, sympathetic hero who was never evil to begin with.
• All of the Other Reindeer: The citizens of the Kingdom give Ja'far this treatment, and then he and the other Disney villains do this to Cruella de Vil. To be fair, she deserved it.
• Becoming the Genie: Like in the source material. But while there he did it out of greed for power, here he did it to give the Princess the power to fix things and keep Aladdin from getting the lamp.
• Beleaguered Bureaucrat: He really just wants to return the kingdom to its golden age. He's just not very successful. Or appreciated.
• Benevolent Genie: Ja'far becomes one of these at the end of the play.
• BSoD Song: The beginning of Twisted, before the other Disney villains show up.
• Butt-Monkey: The scapegoat of the citizen's woes, and a No-Respect Guy despite his efforts.
• Dark Is Not Evil: While he has a foreboding appearance and wears a lot of black, he's a hero in this version of the story.
• Determinator: Everyone in the kingdom hates Ja'far and nothing ever goes his way. Will that stop him from trying to fix the kingdom's problems with logic, reason, and elbow grease? Nope.
• Evil Chancellor: Averted, but is everyone's opinion of Ja'far himself.
• Face of a Thug: An Informed Flaw, yet deconstructed. Just because he's not as handsome as a prince as he got older he became The Scapegoat for the kingdom's misfortune. This makes him a pariah and he's desperate to save the kingdom over this.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: To begin with, he is a staunch proponent of science and reason over magic and stories — but he lives in a world with magic lamps and flying carpets, and his whole plan to save the Magic Kingdom from invasion hinges on finding a Djinn with the power to grant wishes. His struggle to believe in magic as a solution to the world's problems is part of his Character Development.
• The Golden Rule: The philosophy he lives by before palace politics sucks his spirit dry.
• The Good Chancellor: Unlike his movie counterpart, he has his kingdom's best interests at heart, despite his bitterness. Not that anybody recognizes this.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Is this as nobody likes him despite his kind personality.
• Informed Flaw: While he's said to have a Face of a Thug, he doesn't really look particularly sinister or intimidating.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He tries to do the right thing as a realist in a world full of idealist mooks.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: When he tells Aladdin that he loves the Princess, Aladdin assumes he means in a romantic sense and calls him a "total pedo" since he's a grown man and she's only sixteen.
• Nice Guy: He's kind, benevolent, and determined to make the world a better place.
• Only Sane Man: His defining trait is that he's the only character who's kindhearted, intelligent, and has any common sense whatsoever. Sherrezade also checked all those boxes, but sadly, she's long dead by the time the show starts. The Princess manages to get there, though.
• Our Genies Are Different: The Djinn is blue, Ja'far is red. And a devil-guy.
• Papa Wolf: He's very protective of the Princess and doesn't want Aladdin anywhere near her.
• Parental Substitute: The Princess' mother isn't around and her father is basically useless, so Ja'far is the closest thing she has to an actual parent. Then it turns out he's literally her father.
• Phrase Catcher: "This is all your fault, Ja'far."
• Rage Breaking Point: Ja'far tries to stay polite and considerate of the Djinn but when the Djinn's non-stop nonsensical references become too much, Ja'far yells at him to stop being an asshole for just one minute.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Subverted. The color scheme comes from the Disney movie, where it's played straight, and the people of the Kingdom think it's being played straight here too, but Ja'far is actually a mix of Red Is Heroic and Dark Is Not Evil.
• Tenor Boy: The first hint this Ja'far is a heroic character compared to the Evil Sounds Deep Disney character. Emphasized when we flash back to Ja'far as an idealistic young man.
• To Be Lawful or Good: During the title song, Ja'far struggles whether he should go turn himself in and accomplish nothing or continue down his path and maybe save the kingdom.
• Took a Level in Cynic: While he does his best to hide it, Ja'far goes from an idealist who believes the best in everyone to quietly admitting he doesn't "believe in good" any more.
• What You Are in the Dark: He has the opportunity to save his own skin, but he instead chooses to use the Djinn's lamp to try and stop the war and protect the kingdom. Part of the title song is him wrestling with the fact that he's sealing his fate to always be remembered as a villain, but he realizes it doesn't matter. He'll know he did the right thing.
  Ja'far: The question, then, is whether 'tis nobler in the mind to be well-liked, but ineffectual, or moral, but maligned.

Princess

The Princess

Played by: Rachael Soglin

Look at my life from the outside, and sure
I've got servants, and tigers, and stuff
You're probably thinking
She's got everything
Well, it's true
'Cause I do
But so the fuck what?
It's not enough

The Princess is the teenage daughter of the Sultan of the Kingdom, and his heir.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: A lot more bratty than Jasmine in the movie, at least at first.
• Bedlah Babe: Her outfit is identical to her counterpart in the animated movie.
• Birth-Death Juxtaposition: She was born at around the same time that Sherrezade, who previously held the position of most important woman in Ja'far's life, died. It's later revealed that Sherrezade was actually her mother.
• Brainless Beauty: The Princess isn't exactly brainless, but she is very, very naive. She gets better.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: We don't see her interact with the Sultan directly, but it's hard to imagine she's any nicer to him than she is to anyone else. As revealed by the ending, she's been a completely straight example to Ja'far this whole time, though she's become a lot nicer by the time they find out they're related.
• Brick Joke: Also, when the Princess says she wants to fix the socioeconomic inequality by making everyone a princess. When she becomes Sultan, she does just that, and it is extremely effective.
• Character Development: She becomes more considerate and more proactive as time goes on. She also wises up significantly by the end, especially where Aladdin is concerned.
• Comically Missing the Point: Prince Achmed declares that his army is here to end the tyrannical rule of the Magic Kingdom. The Princess makes the Badass Boast: "You will never end our tyrannical rule!"
• Dumbass Has a Point:
  • As it turns out, the Princess' plan to solve social inequality by making everyone a Princess actually worked.
  • Although she goes about it totally wrong, it's hard to blame her for not liking Achmed. Or for not wanting to marry someone that made out with a girl while she was blacked out.
    The Princess: That's not charming! That's kind of rapey.
  • Some early conversations, particularly with Aladdin, show the Princess is almost there when it comes to getting what's wrong with the Kingdom. Almost. She gets that the class system is screwed up and mistreats poor people, but fails to see that she benefits from it and that Aladdin isn't much better. She realizes the people in power aren't helping and that something needs to be done, but doesn't understand that she has a lot more to learn before she can instill any lasting change. She finally turns the corner via Character Development.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She's only ever called "the Princess", for copyright reasons.
• Innocently Insensitive: While she doesn't intend to be mean, some of the things she says come off as offensive to those less well-off than her because she doesn't know any better.
• Love at First Sight: Deconstructed. She believes in it, and becomes enamored with Aladdin. Yet she can't remember his name unless it's written, and realizes what a creep he is after some advice from Ja'far.
• Loving a Shadow: She falls in love with Aladdin after one night, but it's a superficial visage Aladdin made up to seem attractive. When she spoke with Ja'far afterwards, she couldn't even remember his name. When she finds out Aladdin was lying (in truth he lied about lying), which makes her realize she's making a mistake. By the end, she's disgusted by him.
• Named by the Adaptation: Inverted; while one might not even catch it, she's never referred to as "Jasmine", only "the princess", in a case of Writing Around Trademarks.
• Rebellious Princess: Reconstruction. Her rebellious attitude is little more than selfish complaining over her near perfect life and she's completely oblivious to the real problems of her world. Later, she rebels against palace politics and leads a social revolution.
• Related in the Adaptation: It was revealed that she's really Ja'far's daughter.
• Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: Parodied. She cares deeply for the downtrodden masses but is unfortunately also very naive and spoiled, leading her to come out with lines like "This is so unfair! Poor people need slaves just as much as rich people do!"
• Sheltered Aristocrat: She's a teenage daughter of the Sultan of the Kingdom and his heiress. She is a kind girl deep down, she just hasn't any idea how life outside of wealth and privilege really works. She's really not a bad person but she's insufferably naive and a Royal Brat at the beginning. Even so she still wants what is best for her people and her kingdom. Case in point, after inheriting Ja'far's lamp her wishes are that 1, the war with Pik-zahr be resolved peacefully, 2, that the Magic Kingdom be returned to the happiest place on earth, and 3, her, arguably, only selfish wish be that she and her father could remain together, but when Ja'far solemnly tells her that he cannot grant that wish, she instead wishes that he have every happiness he ever wanted, reuniting Ja'far and Sherrezade for the rest of eternity in the lamp.
• True Blue Femininity: Like the animated movie, she's feminine and wears a blue outfit.

Aladdin

Aladdin

Played by: Jeff Blim

Want food, but got no money?
I'm screwed, or so it would seem
That's why I came up with this brilliant scheme
Just steal everything!

A lying street rat.

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• Adaptational Villainy: He steals not due to economic problems but because he is a lazy, sociopathic asshole that killed his own parents.
• Age Lift: In the original movie, Aladdin is meant to be a teenager, maybe in his early twenties at most. Here, he's 33.
• Ax-Crazy: His alternate personality killed his parents because they wanted him to get a job, and his regular personality went along with it.
• Barefoot Poverty: Aladdin briefly goes through this until he loots a dead body.
• Basement-Dweller: It's revealed that he was still living with his parents at 33, and them trying to get him to move out and get a job drove his psychopathic split personality to kill them.
• Beauty Is Bad: There's no denying that he's a very good-looking man, but he's also a self-centered bastard with no concern for anyone else.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Is effectively this with Prince Achmed. The major threat comes from Pik-zahr's imminent invasion, but Aladdin's actions become progressively worse as well, culminating in threatening to rape the Princess and revealing that he was the one who killed his own parents.
• Blatant Lies: All over the place. For example, "I've never done this before," said while trying to seduce the Princess.
• Book Dumb: He tells the Princess he hates the "class system"… but it is clear he means school, which he dropped out of.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Aladdin seems to be able to get straight answers out of the Djinn when he is in his lamp in Aladdin's hat.
• Composite Character: The ending reveals that Aladdin would eventually become the street merchant from the beginning of the film.
• Death by Irony: With a Book Ends take on it, he became a street merchant and was murdered by a thief over a loaf of bread.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: He deconstructs two points about Disney's Aladdin: His life philosophy and why he steals. "[He] steals what he can't afford, and that's everything." Taken to the conclusion, that means he steals everything. And why does he steal and not shown getting a job? He hates actual work, refuses to go to school, and stealing is more fun to him.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Unlike the Aladdin from the movie, he's eventually revealed to have a severe mental illness in the form of a violently insane alternate personality.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Aladdin threatens the baker with death if he puts any more raisins in his bread.
• Does Not Like Spam: Dislikes raisins, as he makes very clear to an unfortunate baker.
• Ephebophile: He's at least 33, is pursuing the 16 year old Princess and has knocked up at least one other teenager that we see, and most of his dialogue indicates that he's been with a lot of teenage girls.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even the murderous and sex-obsessed Aladdin is skeeved out by the idea of Ja'far being in love with the Princess, noting that he's old enough to be her father — disregarding that he himself is over 33 years old and in love with said teenage princess. Also, when his alternate personality is threatening Ja'far, regular Aladdin briefly pops up and warns him, "Listen to him, man, he'll kill you!".
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Mistook Ja'far's declaration of loving the Princess as sexual and not parental and hypocritically calls him a total pedo.
• Evil Is Hammy: Whenever Aladdin turns up the evil, he gets very theatrical.
• Fan Disservice: He's a handsome guy and his outfits do little to hide his very muscular body. However, he's such a creepy sleaze that any of his attempts to act sexy just make him seem grosser.
• Faux Affably Evil: Yep. The first time we see him, he seems like a lazy jerk. Then he threatens to kill the baker.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: As he's being carted away to prison by the Captain, the Princess tries to stand up for him, saying that he lost his family. The Captain counters that he still killed people, including one guard's twin brother. It goes further when it turns out he doesn't steal for any reason besides him finding it fun and being too lazy to want to work, and that he killed his parents for (justifiably) wanting him to move out. Even his plans for the Djinn and the Princess are just random thoughts that cross his mind.
• Handsome Lech: He's plenty attractive, but if he fails at his initial seduction his creepiness and complete lack of caring swiftly kills any charm he has. The Princess is only with him because she thinks she has to be because of Love at First Sight, and his increasingly desperate attempts to sleep with her turn her off.
  Princess: You make sex seem gross and lame!
• Hate Sink: While he has his fair share of comedic moments, he's still a sleazy, lecherous, greedy, inconsiderate Psychopathic Manchild with no sympathetic or even respectable traits to speak of.
• The Heavy: Whilst Prince Achmed’s invasion of the Magic Kingdom is undoubtedly a wider scale threat than that of Aladdin’s thievery, Achmed doesn’t show up very frequently, leaving Aladdin to be the more direct villain of the musical.
• Hypocrite:
  • When Ja'far declares that he loves the Princess (like a daughter), Aladdin calls him "a total pedo" for being interested in someone half his age. Aladdin is 33 and the Princess is 16.
  • He accuses Monkey of being lazy when his whole motive for stealing is not wanting to work for a living.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Subverted. Yes, he does have an Ax-Crazy evil side that killed his parents without his knowledge, but once they meet, he doesn't mind since he's just as evil and they get along fine.
• The Killer in Me: Even outside of the deaths that come as a result of his various activities accidentally, he is the "Amnesiac Killer" version when it comes to the deaths of his parents. His split personality did the deed, and he is as shocked as anyone... but given he's nearly as bad himself, he doesn't really mind.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After the play he runs away and seems to be a Karma Houdini, but Ja'far admits that the first thing he wanted to know was what happened to him. That's when he sees Aladdin old and fat, taking away two of the qualities he exploited best (his good looks and athleticism), is working as a peddler, forced to do the exact kind of honest work he hates, and he tells a false story where he's the hero, keeping the lamp as a reminder of his failure and thus only ever getting a happy ending in a fairy tale he tells with no way to enjoy the benefits of the happy ending he spun up, and he dies at 55 over a loaf of bread, the highest form of karma given one of his most heinous crimes was due to him having gotten people seriously injured or even killed stealing bread. A pitiful end that happened to an entirely deserving scumbag.
• Laughably Evil: While he is undeniably slimy and depraved, a lot of his douchebaggery is Played for Laughs.
• Lazy Bum: The only reason he steals is because he does not want to work for a living. He even killed his parents because they wanted him to move out of their house and get a job at 33. When he's forced to find honest work later on, he's clearly miserable.
• Loophole Abuse: Subverted. He knows he can't wish for the princess to love him but he tries to wish for her to have sex with him. The Djinn refuses.
• Mr. Fanservice: Subverted. He certainly has the appearance, physique and wardrobe to qualify for this, but having the personality of a creepy, off-putting sleazebag makes him come off as more repulsive than attractive.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Fully expects his monkey to eat a corpse, mistreats a pair of crippled orphans and is implied to have impregnated several women with no genuine regard for who they are as people.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Not only is he a lazy, immature prick who decided not to finish school out of just not liking it, but he has a downright evil lack of concern for other peoples' well-being. His alternate personality is even more psychopathic.
• Refuge in Audacity: When an angry father confronts him for impregnating his daughter, Aladdin’s only defense in that his daughter is hot. This just gets him a high five from the guy.
• Robbing the Dead: He has no qualms about looting corpses.
• Self-Made Orphan: It's eventually revealed that he has an even more sociopathic alternate personality that killed his parents because they wanted him to move out of their house.
• Street Urchin: Subverted. He steals way more than he needs, issues death threats, and many more things that make him unlike a lovable "street urchin" stereotype. He's also 33 years old, meaning that the "urchin" part has long been untrue, turned to crime out of laziness, and only lost his parents a few months earlier because his alter ego killed them.
• Villainous Breakdown: Threw a temper tantrum when Ja'far was able to screw him out of his final wish by turning into a Djinn. It was short as Aladdin hightailed it after the transformation is complete.
  Aladdin: What?!? No! No! No! The Djinn can't be free! I didn't get my last wish! Oh c'mon, work you stupid lamp! This isn't fair! Life. Is supposed. To be fair!
• Wasted Beauty: While he's certainly attractive on a physical level, the skeeviness and selfishness that lie beneath his superficial charm are usually quick to kill any appeal he has. The Princess is initially quite taken with him partly due to him being so handsome, but his dishonesty and creepy attempts to get her to sleep with him end up destroying her attraction to him.

Sherrezade

Sherrezade

Played by: Meredith Stepien

I want to know your story
So make the story last
I want to know each twist and turn
Tell me all I've missed
I've so much to learn
For when it comes to stories
I thought I knew them all
But now, I'm face to face with one I can't seem to recall

Once a storyteller at the palace, she was kicked out after her ear was cut off.

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• Bedlah Babe: Her clothes are inspired by Jeannie's outfit.
• Birth-Death Juxtaposition: She died around the same time the Princess was born. It's revealed that she was the Princess's mother who died giving birth to her.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no counterpart in the animated film, other than a brief mention in Genie's song.
• Character Narrator: She narrates parts of the play, but also interacts with the other characters, especially Ja'far.
• Delayed Narrator Introduction: She appears in the very beginning, as the narrator during the Opening Monologue, and then shows up later as a character.
• Died Happily Ever After: Not at first, but in the ending. Thanks to the Princess, she gets to be with her husband for all eternity.
• Ear Ache: Her ear was cut off by a goon who didn't like her face. But Ja'far's knowledge in medicine was able to patch it up for her.
• The Lost Lenore: For Ja'far.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Sherrezade is a thorough subversion. Since she lives in a world where magic is a real and tangible thing, her dreamy, creative life as a storyteller yields valuable knowledge rather than pointless whimsy. When she brightens Ja'far's life, it's a deliberate (and skillfully clever) effort on her part rather than just her innate quirkiness, and when Ja'far falls in love with her, it's because her argument for the value of magic is logical and well-reasoned enough to convince him of her worth, even if he never actually adopts her viewpoint on it.
• Mythology Gag: She is based on the character of the same name from Arabian Nights - a servant woman who is taken by a deranged Sultan as his wife, and tells countless fantastical stories. Indeed, Aladdin was commonly thought to have been one of those stories.
• Nice Girl: Just like her husband, she's very kind.
• Pink Means Feminine: Dressed entirely in pink.

Prince Achmed

Prince Achmed

Played by: Joe Walker

Say my name in these parts and you'll get a vacant stare
Until you mention tigers
Or spotted underwear
So to restore my repute as a fierce fearsome brute
There's only one route I see
I'll arrange the slaughter of millions of innocent civilians
Then they'll remember me!

Prince of Pik-zahr, a neighboring kingdom.

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• Adaptational Badass: While he still suffers some embarrassing moments and comes off as a stuffed shirt like his counterpart from the movie, this version of Achmed is an accomplished warrior and commander who stands a very real chance of destroying the Magic Kingdom.
• Adaptational Villainy: He was certainly a massive asshole in the original movie, but this take on him is a bloodthirsty warmonger.
• Ascended Extra: In the original film, Prince Achmed was a throw-away joke. Here, not only does his humiliation have consequences, but the play openly mocks his movie-version's status as a joke character.
  Achmed: I cannot believe that she thought that she could feed a prince to a Bengal tiger and that there would be no political consequences! This really is an act of war, Ja'far, and she treated it as if it were a throwaway joke! As if I was some silly side character here only to illustrate her reluctance to get married!
• Bad Boss: Averted. For a bloodthirsty warlord who brags about slaughtering millions of innocent people, he never once threatens his own soldiers despite them repeatedly humiliating him.
• Berserk Button: Don't imply that Prince Achmed fucked a tiger.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Prince Achmed becomes known as Tigerfucker to his people. Played with, as his soldiers do not think it depraved, but rather a measure of his power that he managed to fuck a tiger.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Serves as the most prominent threat, as while Aladdin is more directly present, it is Pik-zahr's threat of war that makes Ja'far the most desperate.
• Butt-Monkey: A tiger attacks his ass, his accomplishments are ignored, the Princess needs to reminded who he is when he's invading her country, and his army names him Tigerfucker.
• Embarrassing Nickname: "TIGER FUCKER! TIGER FUCKER! TIGER FUCKER!" Played with in that, while he's embarrassed by it, his soldiers seem very proud of the alleged deed.
• Every Man Has His Price: Sells Pik-zahr to the Princess for 7.4 billion drachma.
• Evil Is Hammy: In regular and Cold Ham varieties, depending on how pissed he is.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Ja'far falls for the "dickfor" joke, and Achmed and his soldiers point and laugh at him.
• A Hero to His Hometown: His soldiers all revere him, praising his acts of war and alleged tiger-fucking.
• "I Am Great!" Song: He and his servants sing a song about how great and powerful he is, while lamenting nobody remembers Achmed's mighty deeds, only his embarrassing encounter with a tiger.
• Insane Troll Logic: During his Villain Song, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to make the Princess love him is to kill all of the Magic Kingdom's citizens.
• Not Good with Rejection: In addition to addressing the Princess's insulting attack on his person and his grievances over his kingdom being economically taken advantage of over the years, one of his reasons for wanting to go to war with the Magic Kingdom is because he thinks if he kills all the Princess's people, she'll fall in love with him.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Yes, he's a Butt-Monkey and a bit of a goof, but he's still a legitimate threat to the Magic Kingdom.
• Offstage Villainy: According to his Villain Song, he apparently regularly slaughters scores of people in one-sided massacres.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: In his Villain Song he laments how he is only remembered in the Magic Kingdom as the guy who got bit in the ass by a tiger.
  Achmed: Say my name in these parts, and you'll get a vacant stare/Until you mention tigers, or spotted underwear!
• Princes Rule: He, a prince, is apparently the sole ruler of Pik-zahr.
• Villainous Crush: He's smitten with the Princess, and hopes to make her love him back by slaughtering the citizens of the Magic Kingdom.
• Villain Has a Point: As he bluntly points out, siccing a tiger on a visiting prince is a serious diplomatic blunder. However, it probably didn't warrant him trying to pillage the Magic Kingdom, especially since Ja'far apologized for the Princess's ignorance.

Sultan

The Sultan

Played by: Nick Gage

The Sultan of the Kingdom.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: The original was a Manchild and didn't realize how evil Jafar is, but he at least had the excuse that he was being frequently brainwashed by Jafar and snapped out of it once the hypnosis was broken. This guy, on the other hand, completely buys Aladdin's lie that Ja'far is a sorcerer because he knows that hippos come from Africa, something that only a sorcerer would know.
• Adaptational Villainy: The man is a total dick. Ironic, considering his running joke...
• Beard of Evil: Has a thick beard and is a terrible ruler.
• Brick Joke: The Sultan's apparently random story about how he inverted his penis. Near the end, Ja'far realizes that because of this, he must be the Princess's real father.
• The Caligula: It is not until this Sultan came to power when the socio-economic problems arose in the kingdom, with his own blatant disregard for the problems of the kingdom.
• Chekhov's Gun: His inverted penis turns out to be important. It's the reason he can't be the Princess' biological father.
• Cloudcuckoolander: The Sultan addresses his court by first telling them all how he gave himself an inverted penis.
• Death by Adaptation: Dies at the end as a result of the Princess' wish that the kingdom had a good sultan. She becomes that sultan, as he passed the title down to her just before he died.
• Demoted to Extra: Has minimal screentime, particularly compared to the play's other two antagonists, Aladdin and Achmed.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Downplayed. Unlike the Sultan in the movie, he wears glasses.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He dies offscreen so that the Princess can become the ruler of the Magic Kingdom. No one mourns him.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Just like his movie counterpart.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Hilariously inverted. He speaks with an extremely high pitch.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Bespectacled and bastardly.
• Groin Attack: A self-inflicted one, no less. He apparently pushed in his own penis, and it never came out since. This turns out to be the reason why he can't be the Princess' father.
• Insufferable Imbecile: In addition to being an incompetent ruler who inverted his own penis by sticking his finger into it, believes Aladdin about being a prince no one has ever heard of from a country no one has ever heard of and that Ja'far is a sorcerer, he pointlessly has 150 of the palace employees killed^note He wanted there to not be a 2D department, so instead of simply firing all its employees, he had them all "sacked"—this being put in a sack and beaten to death, leads a life of luxury while the lower classes starve, completely looks the other way while the kingdom is besieged, and takes Ja'far's pregnant wife as a concubine. The only thing keeping him out of Hate Sink territory is that he has too little screentime to leave an impact and is mostly overshadowed by Aladdin and Prince Achmed.
• Light Is Not Good: His white and blue colour scheme, inherited from the Disney version of the character, doesn't change his evilness in the slightest.
• Miss Conception: Despite the fact that he took Sherrazade from a married Ja'far when she was already pregnant and he couldn't actually have sex with her, he never realized that the child she bore couldn't possibly have been his.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Is revealed to not be the Princess’ father after all.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He's got white hair, beard, and moustache and is an evil corrupt bastard when it comes to how he rules his kingdom.

Evil Vizier

The Evil Vizier

Played by: Joe Walker

Who has the gold makes all the rules
So he wins the game and then
The prize for winning? (More gold!)
And the game begins again!

Appearing only in backstory, he was the vizier many 17-ish years ago, when Ja'far first came to the palace.

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• The Caligula: He enjoys the luxuries of the palace with full disregard of the people.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no counterpart in the animated film.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He just drops out of the story after taking Ja'far's wife away from him on the Sultan's orders. Ja'far takes over his position at some point later with no explanation.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: His singing voice, in contrast to his speaking voice.
• The Dandy: Wears make-up and enjoys the spoils of tax-money shamelessly.
• Decadent Court: The Sultan's court under his regime.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": "The Royal Vizier."
• Evil Chancellor: Unlike Ja'far, this is played entirely straight.
• Evil Is Hammy: As flamboyant as he is cruel.
• Karma Houdini: As far as we know, the Evil Vizier never pays for his actions, disappearing from the story with no mention of how or why.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Played straight.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: His own "golden rule."
• Sissy Villain: The Old Vizier has elements of this, such as wearing guyliner, although like with some examples of this trope, this is contrasted with him having a deep voice. Arguably he inherits these traits from the Disney version of Jafar, making him and this Ja'far a Decomposite Character. (Ja'far's Fashion-Victim Villain wardrobe and serpent staff seem to be inherited from his regime.)
• Sycophantic Servant: He fawns over the Sultan and carries out his orders and requests without a second thought.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Obviously, he stopped being Vizier at some point, but how that happened and what became of him are never explained.

Djinn

The Djinn

Played by: Nick Gage

A powerful djinn contained in a magic lamp, sought by Ja'far to help him save the Kingdom with his nigh-omnipotent powers. He's also really funny.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: His only appearance is during the climactic battle against Prince Achmed's forces, having been called upon by Ja'far for divine assistance.
• Benevolent Genie/Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Annoying pop culture references aside, he still grants the wishes that are asked of him and even lets Ja'far have four wishes (become the Sultan, become the most powerful sorcerer in the world, move the palace to the top of a cliff, and take the Djinn's place).
• Character Exaggeration: Played for Laughs. Unlike the Genie from Aladdin who could still speak normal sentences while making pop culture references the Djinn's entire dialogue is nothing but references which makes him borderline incomprehensible and only serves to piss Ja'far off.
• Cloudcuckoolander: The Djinn is a deliberately over the top example. He only speaks in hackneyed movie references. Unlike in the movie though, these references deliberately have little to zero context to the situation at hand.
• Demoted to Extra: Compared to his counterpart who was prominent throughout most of the original movie, he doesn't appear until near the end of the second and final act, since Ja'far doesn't get ahold of him until then.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Like most of the other characters. As his Disney counterpart is simply named "Genie", it's likely that this was more to spice things up rather than for legal reasons. Like the spelling of "Ja'far", it's more authentic to the original Arabian tale; and a tiny handful of lines of dialogue do in fact refer to him as a genie instead of a djinn.
• Everyone Has Standards: For all his annoying, incomprehensible behavior, he's still disgusted by Aladdin's desire to use a wish force the Princess to have sex with him, and refuses to allow it.
• The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: Like his animated movie counterpart, he constantly makes pop-culture references. Unlike his animated counterpart, the references make no sense. It's actually given an explanation here, as it's revealed the Djinn can see the future.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: It's implied that the Djinn's eccentric behavior is due to spending countless millennia in the lamp alone, with his only form of entertainment (and company) being able see past, present and future events (which also explains his knowledge of pop-culture references).
• Humor Dissonance: invoked A deliberate case of this. Virtually all of his dialogue consists of out-of-context pop culture references that have nothing to do with the situation at hand, and yet everybody except Ja'far finds him absolutely hilarious.
• Informed Attribute: Played for Laughs - a Running Gag is people (with the exception of Ja'far) remarking on how funny the Djinn supposedly is. He's actually So Unfunny, It's Funny.
• Our Genies Are Different: He's the standard blue-skinned variety who grants Three Wishes, except he says nothing except out-of-context movie references.
• So Unfunny, It's Funny: His pop-culture references are completely out of context. Other than Ja'far, everyone else thinks he is hilarious.
• Speaks in Shout-Outs: His dialogue consists almost entirely of movie references.

Captain

The Captain of the Royal Guard

Played by: Jim Povolo

The captain of the royal guard.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Razoul, while not outright evil, was still an abrasive, unnecessarily violent man with an irrational grudge against a petty thief. This take on the character is far more reasonable, and his hatred of Aladdin is actually justified due to the "street rat" being far worse.
• Ascended Extra: Not as much as Prince Achmed, but he's more prominent here than his movie counterpart was in the original, frequently interacting with Ja'far and appearing all the way through the runtime.
• Berserk Button: As he's arresting Aladdin, the Princess tells him he's not at fault and is a victim of circumstance. He gets rightfully pissed.
  Captain: Victim?! Tell that to Bafool's twin brother Adbul, HE was the victim.
• Catchphrase: "This is all your fault, Ja'far."
• The Comically Serious: Has a very serious tone that contrasts with the ridiculous things he says and does.
• Deadpan Snarker: With all he has to deal with, it's no wonder he has a sarcastic streak.
• A Father to His Men: He comforts Abdul in his last moments by claiming that the stolen bread was retrieved.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appears throughout "Dream a Little Harder" before he is introduced in the following scene.
• Insistent Terminology: After the Princess makes everyone a princess, he insists on being called one.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he still wrongly blames Ja'far like everyone else, his criticisms are at least grounded in some form of reality at times.
• Only Sane Man: Second only to Ja'far in this regard, and even acts as one to him on occasion. For example, he's the one who points out that setting up a breakfast between Prince Achmed and the Princess was probably a bad idea since she has a tendency to sic tigers on visiting princes.
• Servile Snarker: He's this to Ja'far. Fortunately for him, Ja'far is a kind Reasonable Authority Figure, and wouldn't punish his subordinates for just criticizing him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: His interactions with Ja'far has shades of this. While he's still a dick to him, he's one of the few people willing to give him the time of day. He even acknowedges that the story's happy ending is thanks to Ja'far's actions.
• You Don't Look Like You: Of all the characters, he looks the least like his movie counterpart.

Monkey

Monkey

Played by: Lauren Lopez

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• Cymbal-Banging Monkey: The eyes, man! What's with the eyes?!
• A Dog Named "Dog": Its name actually seems to be "Monkey", for copyright reasons.
• Flipping the Bird: When Aladdin calls it lazy, this is its response.
• Heel–Face Turn: Monkey shows up near the end after being abandoned by Aladdin and is overjoyed when everyone is declared a princess.
• Maniac Monkeys: It's the very creepy pet of the sociopathic criminal Aladdin.

Bird

Bird

Played by: Denise Donovan

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• Adaptational Nonsapience: While Iago was a sapient Talking Animal, Bird is a regular, non-sapient parrot.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Similarly to Monkey, it's only ever called Bird.
• Fauxshadow: He's played up as a possible Chekhov's Gunman, but it never happens.
• Tragic Keepsake: The last gift Sherrezade gave to Ja'far before she was taken from him.

Gazeem

Gazeem

Played by: Nick Gage

A thief enlisted by Ja'far to bring him the other half of the golden scarab to open the Tigerhead Cave.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed. Unlike his movie counterpart, his claim that he "had to slit a few throats" to obtain the other half of the golden scarab is no more than an expression not to be taken literally.
• All There in the Manual: The script for the musical gives his name.
• Crippling Castration: What a merchant did to him for screwing him over on the price of the scarab half.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He isn't swallowed up by the Tigerhead Cave, instead storming off in anger after showing Ja'far his injury.

Spoiler Characters

Disney Villains

Played by: Jaime Lyn Beatty (Ursula), Nick Gage (Scar), Robert Manion (Gaston), Lauren Lopez (Maleficent), Alex Paul (Captain Hook), and Denise Donovan (Cruella).

Jafar: What remains of a man when that man is dead and gone?
Only memories and stories of his deeds will linger on
But if a man's accomplishments aren't in the tale they tell
Are the deeds that go unheralded his legacy as well?

After Ja'far steals the lamp, he's tormented by the realization that he is no longer walking the straight and narrow path. He is visited by the villains of the stories Scherrezade told him, who reveal that they too were once perfectly decent people who were forced to make a morally ambiguous decision, and lost.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Almost all of them had noble goals in a stark contrast to how they were portrayed in the movies. Scar wanted to end segregation between the lions and hyenas, Gaston tried to talk Belle out of an abusive relationship with Beast, Ursula was the rightful ruler of Atlantica who was overthrown by her evil brother Triton, Maleficent just wanted an invitation to Aurora's christening, and Captain Hook just wanted to teach Peter Pan responsibility. However, like in her movie, Cruella still wanted that coat made out of puppies.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Ursula bemoans about this trope when saying that Scar was disliked for his horrid looking scar.
  Urusla: Fortune favors the beautiful.
  Gaston: Au contraire!
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: At the climax of their song, all the "villains" are lamenting how they "only wished" for their respective positive goals...and then Cruella pops in. "I only wished to have a coat made out of puppies!"
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: They all have very reasonable motivations for doing what they did. Except Cruella. She really did just want a coat made out of puppies.
• Obliviously Evil: Cruella seems to genuinely not get why anyone would take issue with her "only" having wanted a puppy-skin coat.
• Token Evil Teammate: Cruella is this. Kinda hard to justify making a coat out of puppies by even the most good-hearted.
• Written by the Winners: The reason they are regarded as villains.
• Writing Around Trademarks: The credits identify Ursula as "Sea Witch", while other sources call Gaston "Handsome Hero" and Hook "Pirate Captain". No word on what we're supposed to call Scar, Maleficent, or Cruella.

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