He notices Aladdin, however, from the reflection of Jasmine's crown, and he realizes the whole thing was a ruse.ДЄladdin battles Jafar (who has turned into a giant cobra) and taunts him with the fact that he is only the second-most powerful being on Earth after Genie, who was the one who gave him his power in the first place and can very easily take it away. Jafar, believing that Genie has somehow granted him his wish, goes up to Jasmine to seduce her without realizing she is tricking him. Their argument causes him to not notice that Aladdin has returned and Jasmine decides to help Aladdin steal back the lamp by pretending that she is now in love with Jafar. Genie tries to inform Jafar that he cannot use his magic to make people fall in love, but Jafar, grabbing him by the beard, demands him to do it anyway.

An angered Jafar decides to use his final wish to wish for Jasmine to fall desperately in love with him. Jasmine angrily refuses and throws a cup of wine in his face. Jafar, seeking a queen to rule Agrabah alongside him, offers Jasmine his hand in marriage. A horrified Jasmine begs Jafar to stop and Jafar does so. Jafar then turns the Sultan into a puppet, allowing Iago to torture the Sultan by force-feeding him crackers as revenge for the crackers the Sultan fed Iago.

Jafar assumes control of the palace (which is lifted off the ground and put on the main top of a mountain by Genie) and banishes Aladdin to a frozen wasteland. Jafar uses his first two wishes to become Sultan and the world's most powerful sorcerer. Iago steals the lamp from Aladdin and Jafar becomes the Genie's new master. After a second attempt by Jafar on his life, Aladdin (with the help of the Genie and his second wish) survives and then exposes Jafar's plot against the Sultan however, Jafar learns that Aladdin possesses the lamp before making his escape. Seeing вЂњPrince AliвЂќ as a potential threat to his plans and a rival for JasminesвЂ™s hand in marriage, he plots to dispose of him.

However, he is impeded by Aladdin, who had discovered the Genie and used his first wish to become a Prince. This plan also instigates Jafar's lust towards Jasmine and thus he genuinely wants to have her as his bride. When his pet parrot Iago suggests an alternative plan, Jafar decides to use the hypnotic powers of his cobra-headed staff to manipulate the Sultan into mandating a marriage between himself and Jasmine. The Sultan later scolds Jafar for supposedly executing an innocent life behind his back without consulting him, in which Jafar pretends to regret his actions and promises not to do it again. When the plan fails, Aladdin and the lamp are lost. In exchange for Aladdin's help in retrieving the lamp from the Cave of Wonders, Jafar reveals an escape route from the prison and promises him a reward if he succeeds, it is soon revealed that the reward is death. Jafar (disguised as a fellow prisoner) approaches Aladdin, striking a deal with him. He lies to Princess Jasmine claiming Aladdin has already been executed while he pretends to be shocked that he had mistakenly believed that Aladdin abducted her. Early in the film, Aladdin is imprisoned in the palace dungeons, as arranged by Jafar due to his influence over the guards. Jafar secretly plots to obtain the Genie's magical oil lamp and rule Agrabah. He is also an evil sorcerer who strongly dislikes being second best. In the 1992 adaptation of Aladdin, where he is voiced by Jonathan Freeman, Jafar is the Grand Vizier of Agrabah, the Sultan's most trusted advisor. When Deja first met Freeman, he was surprised to see the lack of physical similarity to the character, but included some of Freeman's acting and gesturing into Jafar's animation. He stated that 'once I saw those heavy lidded eyes, that long narrow face, I knew that Jafar was going to be something really special.' He was the first actor cast, and spent one year and nine months recording dialogue he went months without any other actors to interact, and later interrupted theater tours to fly to Los Angeles and record newly written lines. Jonathan Freeman, who composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman met when he auditioned for Little Shop of Horrors and had previously invited Freeman to audition for both The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, said that the artwork was what got him truly interested in the role. Animator Andreas Deja decided to design Jafar in a way he was contrasting to the other characters, with many vertical lines against the curvy designs based on Al Hirschfeld.

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