Minor characters in Aladdin
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The following characters appear in the Disney series Aladdin:
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[edit] Arbutus
Arbutus was a character - partially a villain, but not entirely evil - who appeared in Disney's television show Aladdin. He has one appearance, in the episode "Garden of Evil". The character of Arbutus is voiced by Ron Perlman.
Arbutus is a plant entity with the power to make vegetation and flora immediately grow and manipulate them to his will. He sees himself as an artist and makes most plants grow with the intention of making something beautiful. He sometimes involves living organisms such as birds and even humans in his works of art, although he could not create them.
Many years ago, a much more youthful Sultan came to the garden of Arbutus because he had heard that the most beautiful flowers grew there, to pick a flower for his bride. Arbutus did not attempt to harm him at first, as the Sultan showed appreciation of the beauty of the garden. But the sorcerer was enraged when the Sultan plucked a flower, effectively killing it. In order to allow the Sultan to go free he demanded that in 20 years time he be given the Sultan's most precious treasure. Misunderstanding him, the Sultan quickly agreed and hurried away. 20 years later, Arbutus came to Agrabah and took the Sultan's most precious treasure—Jasmine.
Arbutus hates man for killing his beautiful works of art for their crass purposes (wood for heat and smoke which blocks the sun, flowers to die slowly in vases etc). His main weakness is the rose on his lapel. Once cut off, he withers and dies, along with all of the plants he created around himself. However, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie plant the flower again, which perks up, and a deep inhalation is heard, suggesting that he will return to life in time. Although he was a plantlike creature, his appearance somewhat resembled Jafar's.
His name comes from the genus of trees called Arbutus.
[edit] Aziz
Aziz (voiced by Michael Bell) is a fictional character in Disney's TV animated series Aladdin He is one of Aladdin's first adversaries, a small and ugly man, later turned to a goblin-like creature who can use his breath for almost anything, including attack, create illusions of entire deserts, or even turning people into small slug-like beings. It is appearant in the episode Destiny on Fire that these powers come with a price, as throughout the episode, Aziz seems to have a short breath and eventually goes on fire.
Aziz first appears in the two part episode Seems Like Old Crimes as a part of a small traveling circus along with his friends Fatima and Minos. They use the monkey Abu to pickpocket their audience, but eventually hire the young Aladdin to do this instead. When Aladdin objects to stripping innocent citizens of all their money, Minos brings him in on their plan to steal the fabled Destiny Stone. Aladdin, Minos, Fatima and Aziz go to the ruins where the Destiny Stone is kept and avoid many obstacles on the way. When the trio attempt to steal the Destiny Stone, they are instead trapped inside it for many years, while Aladdin and Abu escape.
Many years later, the three of them escape, having been turned into monsters after their imprisonment: Aziz has become a goblin, Minos has become a minotaur and Fatima has become a harpy. With their newfound powers, the three of them go on a crime spree in Agrabah, eventually setting their eyes on conquering the city and getting revenge on Aladdin for causing them to be trapped for many years. They eventually return to the temple where the Destiny Stone was held, where after a brief conversation with Jasmine, Minos and Fatima, who have mutual love for each other decide not to kill Aladdin, which causes Aziz to turn against them and attack them with his magic breath. The Destiny Stone thus turns Minos and Fatima back into humans, while Aziz prefers to keep his powers and escapes.
Aziz makes a return appearance in the episode Destiny on Fire, where he uses his breath to transform all of Agrabah's people to slug-like creatures and take over the palace. Aladdin, Genie, Abu, Carpet and Iago, having been on vacation at the time, return to a wrecked Agrabah, and with the help of Captain Razoul of the Royal Guards, they infiltrate the palace and confront Aziz. Aziz keeps them on a wild goose chase through the palace searching for Jasmine and the Sultan. Eventually, they figure out that overuse of Aziz's magic breath causes him to go on fire. When they have him try to destroy each other, Aziz eventually explodes and turns into three stars in the sky.
[edit] Chaos
Chaos, voiced by Matt Frewer, is a fictional character in the Disney cartoon series Aladdin. He appeared in one episode, "When Chaos Comes Calling." He is a winged blue cat who desires that life be unpredictable, full of surprise and change. Chaos is an extremely powerful entity of whom both Mirage and Genie are terrified of ("He's got more magic in his little whisker than a palace full of genies"). Chaos is a fun-loving prankster and uses his power for antics and light-hearted harassment rather than intentional, malicious evil. He does get angry when people start giving him orders, warning in a threatening voice not to do so. Like Genie, his magical tricks tend to reference other media.
Chaos possesses several traits similar to the Cheshire Cat from Disney's Alice in Wonderland, such as disappearing, leaving only his grin behind, and leaving footprints before actually appearing.
[edit] Eden
Voiced by Debi Derryberry, Eden is Genie's girlfriend, first introduced in the episode "Some Enchanted Genie" and only appearing in one other episode: "The Book of Khartoum." Genie falls in love with her at first sight and tries to impress her by granting her master free wishes. Initially taken aback by his sudden appearance, she eventually agrees to a date and the two fall in love. Her master is an optimistic young orphan named Dhandi. Although her first wish is simply to have enough food to prevent her being hungry for the rest of her life, Dhandi sacrifices her second wish to prevent Aladdin and Genie from being turned into cockroaches by Abis Mal when he had the bottle. In the end, Dhandi accidentally uses her last wish to make Eden stay with her forever, postponing Genie's romance until Dhandi's life ends. However, Eden tells Genie that she is all that Dhandi has and that she cannot just leave her at that point in life, to which Genie understands. The two tell each other that they will wait until the time comes that they will finally be together.
Unlike Genie, Eden has five fingers instead of four. Her name was most likely intended as a nod to Barbara Eden, who played a genie in a bottle in the 60's sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
[edit] Mukhtar, The
The Mukhtar (voiced by John Kassir) is a character in the Disney animated TV series Aladdin. He is apparently the last surviving member of the race of Mukhtars, sworn enemies of Genies. Though Mukhtars would generally hunt Genies just for the honour, the last Muktar acknowledges that times have changed, and now he hunts Genies for gold. Like Genie, he does not have a specific name. He is often seen riding on a strange, kangaroo-like reptile.
The Mukhtar appears in two episodes, "Genie Hunt" and "The Hunted". In the former of these, he works for one of Genie's former masters, Al Gebraic, to capture Genie and put him into his service again. In the latter, he is hired by Mozenrath to capture Genie so that Mozenrath could entrap him in the crystal of Ix and steal his powers, but ends up turning on Mozenrath and helping Aladdin rescue Genie after he saves him from a giant monstrous killer plant inside Mozenrath's palace. At the end of the episode, Genie and Mukhtar part as friends.
[edit] Phasir
Phasir (voiced by Ed Gilbert) is a character in the Disney animated TV series Aladdin. He appears frequently through the series. His first appearance is in the episode "Do the Rat Thing", but he is not named or given any background until the episode "The Prophet Motive", where he is identified as Phasir, an old seer and powerful wizard who turned his evil giant brother, Fashoom, into stone many centuries ago. The end of that episode also reveals that he is actually a cyclops, but he wears bands over his one eye, which makes him appear to be just blind (it is never made clear whether he actually is blind or merely pretends to be in order to hide his eye). Later episodes, such as "Eye of the Beholder" and "While the City Snoozes" hint that Phasir has had many dealings with Mirage in the past and may have once been in love with her (he states to himself that love will one day lead Mirage back to him).
[edit] Razoul
Razoul (voiced by Jim Cummings) is the Captain of the Guard of Agrabah. Controlling his men with an iron command, little is known about his past. But since the series began, he has arrested Aladdin, Cassim, and Iago, and even put Aladdin's head on the execution block. After the Sultan, the Grand Visier, and the Princess, Razoul, apparently commanding every guard - both palace and street - appears to be the fourth most powerful authority in Agrabah. During Aladdin's past life as a thief on the streets of Agrabah, Razoul became obsessed with capturing him, only for Aladdin to outsmart and escape him at nearly every turn. Even after Aladdin is accepted as Jasmine's husband-to-be, Razoul still dislikes him and openly expresses it, though he is nonetheless able to tolerate Aladdin's presence in the palace. Despite his aggressive and violent nature, Razoul has frequently proven himself loyal to the Sultan and Jasmine.
In the first film, Razoul arrested Aladdin and knocked Jasmine to the ground, not recognizing her as the princess. When she revealed her true identity, he was shocked at seeing her outside the palace for the first time. Then when she ordered him to release Aladdin, he apologized and said that his orders came from Jafar. In the second film, Razoul arrested Aladdin for the murder of the Sultan and followed what he believed were Jasmine's orders (Jafar in disguise) to have him executed. During the TV series episode among the number of things Razoul did is "Forget me Lots", when Jasmine lost her memory from the Rose of Forgetfulness, Razoul was more than happy to throw Aladdin, Iago, and Abu out of the palace and into the streets thinking that the princess had rejected Aladdin. Razoul also admitted his opinion that Aladdin was a power hungry street rat in "Destiny on Fire" and manipulated Aladdin's hesitant decision making when Aladdin was left in charge in "The Return of Malcho" reminding him that is what the Sultan would do, until Aladdin decided to stop listening to his advice and handle the situation his own way. In the third film, Razoul arrested Cassim and Iago for trying to steal The Oracle, but Aladdin broke Cassim out. Distracted, Razoul arrested Aladdin again, but was knocked unconscious by Cassim. Though he tried to have Aladdin charged for this crime, Razoul's request was denied as the Sultan decided to overlook the matter since Aladdin only broke Cassim out of prison out of love and came back to face punishment for his actions.
Razoul shows no sympathy for lawbreakers, whether young, old, male or female, and appears to take pleasure from the power he has. When Aladdin was arrested for the alleged murder of the Sultan in The Return of Jafar, Razoul was obviously pleased that Aladdin was finally in a cell, and certainly not fazed by the order to execute him. In fact, Razoul seems to thoroughly enjoy killing people as long as he can get away with it, as seen when he readily threw Aladdin (in disguise as Prince Ali) into the ocean under Jafar's orders, without the Sultan's consent.
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