Genie Works

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This index is for works that focus on genies (also called djinn or jinn). A work just having a genie does not qualify. The genie must be one of the main characters, the main threat, or otherwise central to the plot. Such works will invariably make use of one or more Genie Tropes.

Also see the related indexes Dragon Works, Elf Works, Fairy Fiction, Goblin Works, Leprechaun Fiction, Mermaid Media, and Unicorn Works.

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Works:

Multimedia Franchises

• Aladdin: A wisecracking blue Genie is one of the primary characters.

Anime & Manga

• Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights, featuring a robot genie sidekick as a major supporting character. And a couple of legit genies in Sinbad's collection of artifacts.
• Hakushon Daimaō: The titular character and his mischievous daughter Akubi are genies.
• Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic: An Arabian Nights-themed manga by Shinobu Ohtaka, one of the main characters is a huge, muscular djinn named Ugo.
• The utterly strange Burutabu-chan shorts from the equally strange Japanese children's show Ugo Ugo Ruga, involving a genie finding himself in bizarre situations, almost always involving his own excrement.

Comic Books

• Cairo, by G. Willow Wilson. One of the main characters is a three-piece suit-wearing genie inhabiting a water-pipe who grants wishes by manipulating probability.
• ClanDestine: Revolves around a family of British superheroes in the Marvel Universe, children of a male human and a female jinni.
• Djinn
• Eight Billion Genies: Soon after human population reaches eight billion, each person alive is granted a wish by a genie. Oh, Crap!
• Soulsearcher And Company: Baraka is an Arabic fire demon (also known as a djinn) who dwells in a bottle.

Comic Strips

• My Own Genie by artist Jamie Smart.

Films — Animation

• Aladdin: The famous blue Genie is one of the major characters. At the end of the film, the villainous Jafar is turned into a genie himself.
  • Aladdin: The Return of Jafar
  • Aladdin and the King of Thieves
• Bratz Genie Magic
• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp: Gene the Genie is an important character.

Films — Live-Action

• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad: Baronni, a child genie, who is freed and becomes both a mortal and Sinbad's cabin boy is one of the main characters.
• Aladdin (2019): A live-action remake of the 1992 animated Disney film.
• Bernard and the Genie
• The Brass Bottle: Burl Ives stars as a genie who causes more problems than he solves for his master and his fiancee.
• Clash of the Titans (2010)
• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
• Djinn
• The Field Guide to Evil: "Haunted by Al Karisi,the Childbirth Djinn" segment.
• Kazaam: The eponymous character is a rapping genie.
• My Darling Genie, a Shaw Brothers film about a genie summoned from an umbrella.
• The Outing: A Slasher Movie with a genie from a lamp as its killer.
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940): Borrowing heavily from stories of the Arabian Nights, an absolutely enormous genie who will grant three wishes to anyone clever enough to survive him is an important character.
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• When Evil Calls: The villain is a dark djinn who grants one wish that works perfectly, so long as the wisher passes the text message on to others.
• Wishmaster: A series of horror films about an evil genie.
  • Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
  • Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell
  • Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled
• Wonder Woman 1984

Literature

• Arabian Nights: Several genies feature prominently.
  • Aladdin: The genies are bound to a lamp and to a ring. The genie attached to each item must obey whoever holds it at the time.
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The title character is a djinni.
• Castle in the Air: Two djinn, named Daizel and Hazruel, are featured characters.
• Children of the Lamp: This series of fantasy novels tells the story of twin djinn, or genies, John and Philippa Gaunt, and their challenges with adapting to the world of djinn.
  • The Akhenaten Adventure (2004)
  • The Blue Djinn of Babylon (2006)
  • The Cobra King of Kathmandu (2006)
  • The Day of the Djinn Warriors (2007)
  • The Eye of the Forest (2009)
  • The Five Fakirs of Fazibad (2010)
  • The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan (2011)
• "The City of Brass"
• Declare: British and Soviet intelligence agencies vie for control of the djinn who live on Mount Ararat.
• Djinn by Graham Masterton.
• "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye," a short story by British writer A.S. Byatt.
• Djinn Rummy
• The Forbidden Wish: A retelling of Aladdin told from the perspective of a female genie. Written by Jessica Khoury.
• Fortune's Fool, the third book in Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, is about rescuing magical women from a jinn.
• The Genie of Sutton Palace by George Selden.
• The Golem and the Jinni
• Jinn by Matthew B. J. Delaney.
• Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
• The Orphan's Tales: One of the main characters is a jinni queen and one of the leaders of the jinn army.
• Rose of the Prophet: Immortal djinn and efreet are major characters.
• Scream of the Evil Genie
• The Thief of Baghdad
• The Toothpaste Genie, by Sandy Frances Duncan.
• Wandering Djinn

Live-Action TV

• Arabian Nights: The story contains both the Genie of the Lamp and Genie of the Ring, both played by John Leguizamo.
• The Genie from Down Under
• I Dream of Jeannie: The title character is a female Persian genie.
• My Phone Genie: About a young girl with a genie in her mobile phone
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: The villain's plot involves harnessing the power of three genies, one of whom is the main character's love interest.
• You Wish is a short lived sitcom about an inept genie living with a single mother.

Music

• The Christina Aguilera song "Genie in a Bottle."
• Black metal band Melechesh is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern mythology, with song titles such as "Wardjinn", "A Summoning of Ifrit and Genii", and "Genies, Sorcerers and Mesopotamian Nights" on the album Djinn.
• The Nile song "The Howling of the Jinn."
• "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)" by Girls' Generation.

Pinball

• Genie
• Jinni Zeala
• Tales of the Arabian Nights: The game centers around an evil blue genie who has kidnapped and imprisoned an Arabian princess. A more benevolent genie helps the player.

Video Games

• Aladdin:
  • Aladdin (Capcom)
  • Aladdin (Virgin Games)
• Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse
• Quest for Glory II
• Shantae: The titular character is a half-genie girl who acts as her home city's Guardian Genie. As well as using her hair as a weapon in combat, she can also transform into different animals by performing dances.
  • Shantae (2002)
  • Shantae: Risky's Revenge
  • Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
  • Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
  • Shantae and the Seven Sirens
  • Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution
• The Sims
  • The Sims: Livin' Large
  • The Sims 2: FreeTime
  • The Sims 3: Showtime
• Sonic and the Secret Rings, the first entry in the Sonic Storybook Series, features a Benevolent Genie named Shara as Sonic's companion and a Jerkass Genie named Erazor as the Big Bad. The story is based on Arabian Nights.

Visual Novels

• Havenfall Is for Lovers: A djinn is one of the romance options.

Web Animation

• Narez: In Narez 2th Episode Sapphire Genie: feature female genie Misa as a secondary protagonist.

Webcomics

• Held Within by Dan Standing. Both genies are former college students who were turned into genies thanks to unknowingly making wishes on a magic amulet.
• I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle: A guy gets transformed into a (female) Genie. A spoof of I Dream of Jeannie and parodying the tropes used there.

Web Original

• Akinator: A genie guesses what character you're thinking of by asking a few questions.

Western Animation

• Aladdin: The Series: Beyond the blue Genie, there's also Eden, a green-skinned female genie who becomes romantically attached to the blue Genie.
• Ali Baba Bunny: This 1957 Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoon set in the Middle East features Daffy encountering a genie near the end.
• Extreme Ghostbusters has a few demonic entities akin to Jackass Genies.
• The Fairly Oddparents features Jackass Genie Norm as a recurring antagonist.
• Genius Genie is a Preschool Show starring an anthropomorphic blue elephant genie.
• Jeannie: A short-lived Animated Adaptation of I Dream of Jeannie.
• Ninjago: The Jackass Genie Nadakhan serves as the Big Bad of the sixth season.
• Pixel Pinkie: On her birthday, Nina gets a phone with a genie infused into the phone named Pixel Pinkie in it who can make her wishes come true.
• Shazzan: The eponymous character is a giant genie summoned by magic rings.
• Shimmer and Shine: The title characters are female genies who live in another dimension.

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