Jafar

Jafar
Series	Aladdin
Age	Unknown
Birthday	October 6 (year unknown)
Sex	Male
Species	Human (formerly) Unknown (currently)
Height	7 ft 11 inches
Weight	58 lbs
Alignment	Chaotic Evil

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"If you won't bow before a sultan, then YOU WILL COWER BEFORE A SORCERER! Genie! My second wish...I wish to become the most powerful sorcerer...IN THE WORLD!!"

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Jafar is the overall main antagonist of the Aladdin franchise. He is an evil vizier and sorcerer who wishes to become the most powerful sorcerer. He is also a member of the Disney Villains, a rival of the Genie, and Aladdin's arch-nemesis.

Background

Welcome to Agrabah, city of mystery, of enchantment. Here, you can find several kiosks containing watermelon, pots, bread, sugar dates, figs, pistachio, pretty necklaces, fresh fish, and of course, the palace. The city is ruled by the Sultan, his daughter Princess Jasmine, and the royal vizier, a dark man with a dark purpose, the sorcerer, Jafar.

Jafar is the second most powerful man in the city, and acts as the Sultan’s advisor. However, despite the helpful advice he may have given out over the years, Jafar hated being second best, wanting to overthrow the Sultan and assume that power for himself. To that end, he sought out a mysterious cave, the Cave of Wonders. For it was here that he thought he would find the key to ultimate power. However, he had a bit of a problem. Only one could enter the cave, a so-called Diamond in the Rough. This turned out to be a lowly street rat named Aladdin, who had a bit of history with the guards under Jafar’s rule. After a successful arrest, Jafar tricked Aladdin into finding the cave, promising him a special reward should Aladdin find a certain treasure, a seemingly common lamp. But this was no ordinary lamp, for it contained a being with phenomenal cosmic power, a Genie that could grant any wish of the master’s desires. Unfortunately, Jafar failed to get the lamp before it and Aladdin were trapped inside the cave, but this failure sparked a different idea.

If Jafar couldn’t gain the power through cosmic wishes, he would simply marry into it, proposing to marry Princess Jasmine so he becomes the Sultan. And while he seemed to get the Sultan to agree (mostly due to hypnotism), the interference of Prince Ali Ababwa, who was actually Aladdin in disguise, thwarted his plans and revealed him for the cowardly snake he is to the Sultan. Fortunately, his parrot Iago was able to swipe the Genie’s lamp from Aladdin, making Jafar the Genie’s new master. Finally, the position of Sultan was his, but he quickly realized that neither Jasmine nor the former Sultan would bow to him, so instead he wished to become the most powerful sorcerer in the world, intending to rule with an iron fist. However, despite his amazing power, the Genie will always be his superior….but not for long. Using his final wish, Jafar transformed into a genie himself, with the universe under his control. Unfortunately, what he didn’t expect was that he got all the pros of becoming a genie, but also all the cons, including confinement in a magic lamp of his own. So Jafar was sealed away by the very power he sought after, sent off to the Cave of Wonders for 10,000 years.

Or at least he should’ve been. Instead, by chance, he was found by a thief named Abis Mal, who wound up freeing Jafar, making him Jafar’s master. But Jafar was the real mastermind, using Abis Mal to return to Agrabah to get revenge on Aladdin. To that end, he entrusted his now former sidekick Iago, who had betrayed him earlier, to lead Aladdin and the Sultan to a waterfall, and ended up capturing all of Aladdin’s friends, and framing him for the death of the Sultan. Unfortunately, Jafar failed to convince Abis Mal to wish him free, and Aladdin and co. fought him to get the lamp that had shackled him. But despite the clear numbers advantage, they were no match for Jafar’s incredible power. But, thanks to interference from Iago, Jafar’s lamp was pushed into the molten lava below, melting it and causing Jafar to be erased. At last, the magical and now cosmic threat to Agrabah had been thwarted.

Powers & Abilities

• Sorcery: Jafar is a skilled sorcerer. He can conjure up magical spells, manipulate fire, project energy, shapeshift, and various other magical abilities.
• Transmutation: Through his magic, Jafar has demonstrated that he can transform people with transmutation, such as turning Abu from an elephant back into a monkey and later turning him into a toy.
• Puppetry: Jafar was shown to be able to control others during his transformation to sultan, making Aladdin, Jasmine, and the Sultan seem like playthings to him.
• Summoning: Jafar has been shown to summon inanimate objects out of nowhere to defend him, like when he spawned a wall of swords in front of Aladdin.
• Fire Breath: Jafar has been shown to breathe fire in his battle with Aladdin, mainly to keep his opponents away from him
• Teleportation

Equipment

• Scepter: The staff Jafar uses for all of his sorcery needs. Capable of casting spells that cause mass destruction or control people, it’s clearly a weapon not meant to be trifled with. It is worth noting that this staff is needed for Jafar’s magic, and if it’s destroyed then he can’t use magic anymore. However if it is just thrown away from him, he can telekinetically drag it back to him.

Alternate Forms

• Snake: Jafar has the ability to transform into a giant cobra, which he uses to battle Aladdin in the climax of the film. In this state, he possesses the physiology and abilities of a real-life cobra, except amped up due to his giant size.
• Genie: As a final wish, Jafar gains the powers of a Genie. Like the original he gained this form from, he possesses cosmic power and the abilities listed above, as well as weather mimicry, illusions, and telekinesis. With the power of a Genie at his fingertips, he can warp reality and essentially do anything he can imagine with almost no limit. However, it comes at a cost. He must also abide by all three Genie rules listed below:
  1. A genie cannot make two fall in love.
  2. A genie cannot directly kill another person (Although alternative means are ambiguous).
  3. A genie cannot revive the dead. Additionally, if the Genie’s lamp is rubbed by hand, they must become subservient to whoever has done such. And if a Genie’s lamp is somehow destroyed, they will also perish with it.

Feats

Strength

• Sent a castle tower flying from Agrabah to a frozen wasteland like a rocket (3.64 kilotons of TNT)
• Wished to be the most powerful sorcerer in the world. This would make him more powerful than:
  • King Mamood, who can change the weather of Quirkistan. This includes:
    • Forming and dissipating huge storm clouds (99.05 kilotons of TNT - 175.48 kilotons of TNT)
    • Causing earthquakes intense enough to rupture the ground at the country’s edge (1.812 megatons of TNT)
    • Causing enormous eruptions of lava from the earth (61.59 kilotons of TNT)
    • Causing crops, grass, and trees to sprout across the country
  • Frigeed, who can:
    • Cause a blizzard that spanned all of Agrabah and the surrounding desert (22.621 megatons of TNT)
    • Create snowmen that can freeze the city by stomping through it like Godzilla
    • Create a building-sized statue of himself, casually kick the head off, and move it like a mech suit
• Through scaling to Aladdin, he likely also scales to Sa’luk, who can wrestle a shark to death
• Capable of creating a giant storm in the 2019 remake (123.9 kilotons of TNT)
• As Genie Jafar:
  • Tossed around multiple planets at once (6.92 yottatons of TNT)
  • Likely scales to the normal Genie, who can:
    • Spin the Earth around (538,400 yottatons of TNT)
    • Transform himself into a Sun (54,421,606.1 yottatons of TNT)
    • Cause rapid transitions between night and day

Speed

• Hurled a tower all the way from Agrabah to a frozen wasteland at high speed (Mach 4.19)
• Tagged the Magic Carpet, who flew from the frozen wasteland to Agrabah in a few minutes (Mach 25.15)
• Likely scales to Aladdin who:
  • Blocked a whip strike (Mach 1)
  • Could block incoming lightning from the Ethereal (Mach 53.6)
  • Dodged lightning strikes from Jafar in the SNES game (Mach 78.57)
• As Genie Jafar:
  • Grew to massive size rapidly, dwarfing entire planets (1,191.3 times FTL)
  • Moved planets around at high speed (11.631 times FTL)
  • Likely scales to the normal Genie, who:
    • Spun the Earth at high speed (0.092c)
    • Flew Aladdin tens of thousands of kilometers into space within a few seconds (0.0382c)

Durability

• Got crushed by giant palace doors
• Likely scales to Aladdin, who:
  • Blocked a whip strike like it was nothing
  • Fell several feet, hitting a stone wall on the way down
  • Crashed through stone
• As Genie Jafar:
  • Tanked blasts from the regular Genie

Skill

• Controlled Agrabah’s Sultan for years
• Stole the Genie from Aladdin, becoming his master temporarily
• Wished to become the most powerful sorcerer in the world, a wish that was successfully granted
• Exposed Aladdin’s identity as the false Prince Ali, before banishing him from Agrabah
• Temporarily became ruler of Agrabah, subjugating the Sultan and Princess Jasmine
• Wished to become an all-powerful Genie and was successfully transformed into one

Weaknesses

• Jafar may have Agrabah under his fingertips, but he’s hardly flawless. Like most villains, especially of that era, Jafar’s hubris and arrogance can and has gotten the better of him, making him underestimate his opponents greatly. And if he’s indisposed in any way, like when he was sealed in the genie lamp, then his sorcery reverts back to the way it was. Any objects or beings he’s affected will return to normal.
• While the Genie form is incredibly powerful, it’s not without its limits. For one, Jafar is tied to the lamp. Not only does that mean he can’t travel far distances without it, but should it be destroyed, Jafar will die too. But perhaps the most important caveat to his power is that genies are unable to kill anyone directly. No matter how much they may want to, they simply are unable to kill people through their own power.