#disney Cassim

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I think continuity wise Aladdin has the best pay off for their viewers.

First movie[1992]: the main characters meet, fall in love, and get in engaged.

Second movie [1994]: which is more so, why the main gang trust iago after he was a villain in the first movie.

Tv series[1994]: The main couple is engaged the whole time. Three whole seasons!

Third movie[1996]: They finally get married and we get to meet and learn about Aladdin's father.

We get to see the characters we've grown attached to over the years, finally tie the knot and it answers an important character's fact.

Small edit: I meant this post as in Disney Prince continuity not in general of all media, don't come for me. I can't fight.

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Disney Aladdin Cassim’s wife Bahiyya

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[somethingstrangeisherehehe]

Doing really useful important things because deadlines are burning - ❌

Draw aimlessly - ✅

Take my tablet away from me and lock me in my room and make me write term papers and flow charts🙏

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Two proud dads talking about their sons

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The two worst father/father figures, who are also both career criminals? I think they'd match each others freak.

[dragonsruby]

The concept of both Mozenrath and Behan being related to Aladdin in some way is so funny to me because it takes the story from “Lonely orphan with no family finds love” to “Four men are in the family and three are wanted for crimes against the government.”

It also means that Aladdin's line “I never ever had a real family” from “There’s A Party Here in Agrabah (Reprise)�� reads as “I never had a real family that didn't suck.”

[flowerynameslover]

“You're a good guy, Cassim. But not too good.”

Cassim and Iago in Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

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Comission for friend

Her OC - Farid

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Cassim Is A Better Executed Example Of A Deadbeat Father Who Loves His Child But It Doesn't Make Up For How They Chose Their Obsession Over Them

It's funny to make this comparison but both Cassim and Stolas are pretty the same type of description which is a father who obviously does care for his kid but has become so obsessed with his object of desire that it makes them forgo their relationship with them. With Cassim, we have a more sympathetic reason why it's because he wanted to provide a good life for them but it didn't come without a cost where his wife died in his absent and his son lived his life thinking he was an orphan. However, Stolas on the other hand had no sympathetic reason to break his family (even if the narrative portrays Stella as abusive). He did it because he cared about his own desires to have a relationship and did it at the expense of his daughter's normal life (which he said he even stayed married to his wife for).

Ultimately they are both men who put their obsession over their family and alienate themselves from their children. They even both have a fight with their children about how they keep on putting their desires before being fathers. The biggest difference is how Cassim finally comes to the realization his obsession was unhealthy and ultimately almost cost him his true treasure when Aladdin's life was almost threatened by the villain of the movie, Sa-Luk. Can't say the same thing for bird brain because all he got for Via rejecting him is that she hates "him" and not that he hurt her. He only cares again about how he's perceived by her and not how he royally fucked up everything in his life. The narrative still tries to validate and treat his obsession with Blitzo as worth it just because Blitzo will now not call him out and the fact that shipping junk food is going to pander to his fantasies.

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Aladdin and the King of Thieves: Deleted Scene Aladdin, Jasmine and Cassim

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POV Aladdin had his father while growing up 🥰

@princeasimdiya12 I am SO sorry it's taken me this long to get to it, please forgive me for my tardiness!!

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I was really curious how you would describe an evil Aladdin? I certainly took inspiration from the show, when they showed us a cartoonishly evil clone of Aladdin. But I'm also interested in other visions.

Oh man, I am a sucker for evil/alternate doppelgangers or counterparts, in case that wasn't already obvious with my ranting. I could talk about them all day if anyone let me! Had to take a few days to think about this one. 

Like you said, we have a few more “official” examples of an evil Aladdin already. Chaos's Aladdin is an jerk who beats people up for fun, and Shadow Aladdin is just evil for the sake of it.

And going off of non-Disney stuff, there's Aladdin from Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, who... yeah, that guy has issues.

As for my take on an evil Aladdin, it would obviously change depending on what kind of environment Aladdin was raised in. I love Aladdin as a character because he very clearly has flaws that make things difficult for both him and the people around him. He's athletic, intelligent and kind, but he's very insecure about how other people see him. A villainous Aladdin would probably be someone who ups the insecurities and acts out because of it, likely deciding that he was going to make people think better of him whether or not it's for a good reason. What would decide on the rest would be what influences he had growing up in his life.

While I can't remember it being made canon anywhere apart from the Broadway show and the original demos of the film, I personally headcanon that a lot of Aladdin's morality stems from his desire to make his mother happy. Whether she's alive or not, she seems to have been a major source of stability in Al's early life, so taking that away from him would have certainly twisted him in another direction.

Even then, while we see that young Aladdin still argues against Amal stealing jewels, Al does temporarily turn to stealing money as a teen/young adult when he's hired as a pickpocket by the traveling circus. He immediately relents against this, though, once he sees the grief caused by leaving people in the same state that he's in.

I think an Aladdin who grew up on the streets without a caring figure in his early life would probably be much more selfish and inconsiderate, taking without thinking to give anything in return. He may have be someone who wouldn't argue against stealing jewels and wouldn't care if his actions left people on the streets. ...Maybe it'd take a bit more to get him there, but I think it's a possibility for a villainous Aladdin.

And then there's concepts where he's had a very different upbringing, like if he were raised by his father and brought into the Forty Thieves. Cassim isn't an entirely villainous figure, but he's shown to not be the most considerate when it comes to the wellbeing of others. Perhaps a "Prince of Thieves" Aladdin would be more like his father, where he cares more his own wellbeing than for others but still heavily values the life of his family.

Your version and the version of @somethingstrangeisherehehe with the necromancer Aladdin could come out in a lot of ways, most likely from Aladdin being raised by Destane as Mozenrath was implied to have been. Considering how rough Destane was implied to have been and how Mozenrath turned out, that kind of Aladdin would not be anywhere near as kind as the Aladdin we know. That, and I imagine using the bodies of the dead as your tools probably takes a lot of compassion out of people.

(I included the pictures because the links kept deleting themselves. Sorry about that.)

I love thinking about all of this stuff. It's fascinating! I'm excited to see what else you guys do with your versions, if you decide to keep going with it!

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An image and animate gif it’s still animated if it moves.

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I was having fun rendering faces😁

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Bad dads again.