You Have Touched the Forbidden Treasure Now You Will Never Again See the Light of Day

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Works with their own Nightmare Fuel pages:

• Aladdin: The Render of Jafar
• Aladdin and the King of Thieves
• Aladdin: The Series

The Disney picture show

• The picture's intro song "Arabian Nights" originally had much darker lyrics to an already dark song in hindsight to describe the setting of Aladdin. The lines about getting i'due south ear removed were eventually cut due to being deemed offensive to Arab-Americans and were changed shortly after being released.

  "Oh I come from a country, from a faraway identify,
  Where the caravan camels roam,
  Where they cut off your ear,
  If they don't like your face,
  It's barbaric, just hey, information technology's home!"

• The Cave of Wonders. Its archway is a gigantic tiger head that seems to be alive, with a deep phonation.
  • Gazeem the thief getting eaten alive by the Cave at the beginning. His scream is awful.
  • The Cave collapses on itself afterwards Abu grabs the Schmuck Bait cherry on the gorilla statue in the Lamp Chamber and presses the guardian's Berserk Push. The entity screams "INFIDELS! You have touched the forbidden treasure! Now you will never again come across the light! Of! DAAAYYY!!!" Cue the Lamp pedestal erupting in flames and the h2o surrounding the pedestal turning into molten lava. The building rage in the cave'southward voice as it delivers those words makes it all the more terrifying.
  • As the heroes endeavor to escape from the Cavern, nosotros become a shot of what'south happening outside; the entrance is writhing and howling in what could be rage, but looks very much more like agony, as everything within is destroyed.
  • When the heroes wing through the treasure equally information technology's being melted down, what look similar fiery arms attempt to grab them.
• Aladdin almost drowning after being thrown off a cliff by Jafar's goons. Especially with this line beforehand—

  Jafar: I'm agape you've worn out your welcome, Prince Abooboo. Make certain he's never institute.

• When Ragamuffin Jafar gets the lamp from Aladdin.

  Aladdin: What are you doing?!
  Jafar: Giving you your advantage! Your eternal reward… (pulls out a dagger and is about to stab Aladdin)

• Some of the Genie'due south faces are Uncanny Valley. And that's without considering...
  • The original concept art for Genie. ◊
  • Genie turned into a rotten zombie class while explaining to Aladdin that his powers forbid him from bringing dead people to life. Bonus points go to Aladdin's reaction to this if you've noticed it—looks like he's nigh to throw up! Likewise, he does an impression of Peter Lorre, just to put icing on the cake.
    • It'south unsaid that he can it'south just that he won't since, "Information technology's not a pretty flick. I DON'T Like DOING Information technology!!!"
  • Aladdin'southward plan is to claim that he'southward gonna observe another way out, seemingly not convinced that the Genie tin can get them out of the cave. It may take been a plan to not waste his first wish but Genie reminds him that he actually is a being with astounding cosmic power .

  Aladdin: I don't know, Abu. He probably can't even get us out of this cave. Looks like we're gonna have to find a manner outta here. (the Genie immediately stomps his pes in front of him)
  Genie: Excuse me?! Are y'all lookin' at me? Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me upwards? Did you bring me here, and all of a sudden yous're walking out on me?! (stomps the ground as he inches towards Aladdin) I don't call back and so! Not right at present! You lot're getting your wishes (makes a brief Nightmare Face) and then sit down! (Aladdin and Abu immediately sit down on the Magic Carpeting)

  • The deleted ending where the Peddler reveals himself to be the Genie -cut for fourth dimension, or considering people would have left early and missed the gag, but maybe the REAL reason is that it would take ended the movie on an eerie annotation. This sequence has but been seen by the masses in storyboard class, but the combination of the Peddler/Genie's ominous vocal tone, dramatic music in the background, the sudden unexpected "poof" transformation, and the fast stride of the sequence gives information technology a strong scare factor. And so, to top it off, the Genie "makes ya wait" as in the final catastrophe, except that he does and so by letting out a really shrill scream.
• Simply picture what would happen if it was possible for Jafar to have Genie apply his magic to make Jasmine fall in honey with him.

• Jasmine, even so glowing with love after the "Whole New World" sequence, is in her room combing her pilus. From backside her appears her male parent with glazed, ruby-red-tinted eyes, speaking in a Creepy Monotone, opening the other door to reveal a leering Jafar, her new hubby, continuing in that location. It'due south similar something out of a horror picture.
  • When Jafar hypnotizes the Sultan, information technology is normally just long enough to get him to agree with a single determination, after which he is left dazed for a moment earlier returning to normal. Apparently this has its limits, though, every bit the Sultan was able to break control when trying to convince him to marry Jasmine to him before. This time, Jafar is asserting direct command, and it'south terrifying. Jasmine's growing alarm at her father's state is painfully realistic to boot.
• Pretty much the whole scene where Jafar takes over. The palace is absolutely huge, dwarfing the rest of Agrabah. The fact something like that can exist picked up like a carrot out of a garden is bad plenty, but having it be moved by a friend against his will is still the tip of the iceberg! How Jafar reveals he's the one in charge of the Genie to Al by having him tower over the palace like a mile-alpine wingless Chernabog, how minutes ago everything was going so well, Jafar wishing he was the virtually powerful sorcerer in the world, and Al tries in vain to take Genie miss powering upwardly his target... Someone's having a bad day. "Finders keepers, Abooboo," indeed.
• Jafar'south insane laughter at the end of Prince Ali Reprise and the shot of him slowly looming over Jasmine and the Sultan, who are both caught and utterly terrified. The whole scene shifting to a red tint with the music growing very intense as he does it doesn't help in the slightest.

  Jafar: Ex-Prince AliiiiiiiEEE HAHAHAHA! AHH HAHAHAHA!! AHHHH HA HA HA!!!

• Jasmine about suffocating in a giant hourglass and Aladdin's look of horror when he sees the girl he loves about to become cached alive, time literally running out for her. To add to that, the first fourth dimension she addresses him by his real name was when she was begging him for help.

  Jasmine: Aladdin!

• The Carpeting being unravelled and Abu beingness turned into a wind-upward toy. Carpeting keeps desperately grabbing for the lamp as he's being unravelled, which adds some extra horror when one remembers he has human-strength sentience.
• Genie Jafar (pictured to a higher place). If yous didn't already get a Devil vibe from this guy, he transforms from a massive serpent to a gigantic, crimson, fanged, black-taloned, musclebound jinn, perpetually surrounded with plumes of fume, flashes of lightning, bellowing about how the Universe is now his plaything. Yikes.
  • Fridge Brilliance: In Islam, the Devil is a genie.
  • Before that, how about his transformation into a giant cobra? It notwithstanding provides the page paradigm for the trope because information technology's never been topped.
  • The lead-up into the transformation is just every bit eerie. Jafar'south ordinarily relaxed and half-airtight eyes are wide open with tiny pupils, flicks out a snake tongue, reopens his eyes to reveal carmine eyes with reptilian slits before turning a giant cobra with an initially homo-like face that morphs into a regular snake confront with a serpentine, college-pitched vocalisation all while slowing endmost into the camera view to give a shocking reveal.
  • At one point when Aladdin is battling Cobra Jafar, he dodges his snapping jaws, jumps on top of his neck, and sticks a sword in there, and Jafar bleeds. Actual. Cherry. Blood. No wonder the snake screams in pain. He shrugs it off pretty fast afterwards, but all the same, it goes to show, Aladdin'southward practiced, but Good Is Not Soft.
• Beheading. It does not happen at whatsoever bespeak in the movie but it is mentioned and judging from Jasmine'due south reaction when Jafar lies that Aladdin has been beheaded and later when Jafar and Iago both imagine what might happen to them when Jasmine is queen it becomes clear that this fate is dreaded on both sides. Because one of the sequels and the serial had well-nigh-beheadings, it might just go worse from what the original moving picture had.
• It'due south also crystal clear that Jasmine nearly has her manus cut off for 'stealing' in the market when she'due south dressed as a commoner.
• Aladdin doesn't seem to be bothered by it, only that brief period where information technology seemed like he was going to be trapped in the cave forever. Imagine if Jafar had actually gotten away with the lamp, and he really did have no hope in escaping. It's similar being buried live, simply less claustrophobic.

The original tale

• The sorcerer leaving Aladdin to die in the tunnel. Unlike in the Disney adaptation, the horror of Aladdin's fate is brought home to the reader. Made specially bad since the tunnel has been locked at both ends, and then he can't even wander around looking at the treasures and jewel fruit-orchards while awaiting death from aridity and starvation.

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