Minor characters in Aladdin

The following characters appear in the Disney series Aladdin:

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.

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. While he showed appreciation of the beauty of the garden, Arbutus was enraged when he 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.

Aziz

Aziz (voiced by Michael Bell) is a fictional character in Disney's TV animated series "Aladdin" He is one of Aladdin's first advesaries, a small and ugly man, later turned to a goblin-like creature that can use its 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 travelling 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 ttheir 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 qonquering 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 chse 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 turnes into three stars in the sky.

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 ("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.

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.

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.

Muktar, the

The Muktar (voiced by John Kassir) is a character in the Disney animated TV series Aladdin. He is appearantly the last surviving member of the race of Muktars, sworn enemies of Genies. Though Muktars 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 Muktar 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 Muktar part as friends.

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).

External links

* [http://www.streetrat.net/ae/a/arbutus Arbutus: Agrabah's enemies]
* [http://www.streetrat.net/ae/c/chaos Chaos: Agrabah's enemies]