The Sultan is a major character in the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin. He is the widowed father of Jasmine.
Background[]
We discover his wife (who originates from the kingdom of Shirabad) was killed many years prior to the events of this movie, so the Sultan forbids Jasmine from going outside in fear of what could happen to her. This incarnation of the Sultan loses many of his childish traits, appearing as a competent and active ruler, while remaining kind and benevolent; towards his subjects and guests.
Appearances[]
Aladdin[]
The Sultan first appears during the musical number "Arabian Nights", where he throws a drumstick to his tiger Rajah, who walks along with Jasmine mingling with Dalia. He then later appears where Prince Anders tells the Sultan that he is here to see Princess Jasmine to which he curiously irritates Rajah by giving him consequences about Jasmine's pet tiger until the tiger pounces at him. The Sultan is then later seen talking to Jafar about what Jafar is going to do about Shirabad to which Jafar rejects him saying that Shirabad is Agrabah's enemy which upsets the Sultan that if he betrays Shirabad, Agrabah and Shirabad would go into war to which Jafar forces him to change his orders to which Jasmine stops Jafar from doing this. The Sultan is very disappointed that Agrabah is running out of princes for Jasmine to choose to which Jasmine feels upset about her father's orders about marrying a prince from another country to which Jasmine is not allowed to leave the palace under the Sultan's orders nor can she be like her father as there has never been a princess who becomes Sultan of Agrabah.
The Sultan later appears during the musical number "Prince Ali", watching Aladdin's arrival as Prince Ali in an attempt to get Jasmine's attention, though the scene where he tells Jafar to see a prince's arrival was omitted, unlike in the animated film. After the parade, the Sultan greets Aladdin and Genie for Aladdin to welcome Princess Jasmine to which Jafar explains he is never familiar with a prince from Ababwa in which the Sultan tells Jafar that the world is changing quickly whenever a new country appears every day. Just as Aladdin presents the gifts for the Palace of Agrabah and Jasmine leaves, the Sultan tells Aladdin he can speak again when Agrabah celebrates the harvest festival after delivering the jams to the palace. Later when the Genie helps Aladdin save himself from a watery demise in order to go to the palace, Aladdin notices Jafar hypnotizing the Sultan giving him a negative influence to which Aladdin smashes the cobra staff while the Sultan tells the Guards to arrest Jafar; Iago, however, manages to rescue Jafar from prison.
Furthermore, the Sultan also took an important part in the climax of this film, when he pushed the staff out of Jafar's hands while the latter conjured dark sorcery on Iago (in which the latter was transformed into a giant and monstrous Roc, and was sent to go after the magic lamp when Jasmine took it and rode away on Magic Carpet with Aladdin and Abu), which resulted for Iago to be reverted back to its normal form; but not long before the Sultan was being restrained by Jafar's loyal guards, while Jafar retrieved his staff and summoned a sand twister that captures Aladdin and Jasmine and brings them back to him (and even destroying the Magic Carpet in the process), as well as retrieving back the magic lamp. After that, Jafar eventually immobilizes the Sultan, Dalia, and Jasmine in a dark spell, before Aladdin taunts Jafar of being "second-best", which results to the latter on using his third and final wish to become the most powerful being in the universe, which the Genie reluctantly grants and turns Jafar into an all-powerful genie. Before Jafar could use his newly obtained phenomenal, cosmic powers to destroy Sherebad, eventually results in the latter being shackled, as its power of a genie comes with a price and caused Jafar to be sucked into his own magic lamp, taking Iago with him.
After Jafar's defeat, much of the latter's dark magic being unleashed within Agrabah was dispelled and eventually results in the dark spell that immobilized the Sultan, Dalia, and Jasmine, broken. Aladdin then apologized to the Sultan and Jasmine for his deception to them. Not long after, the Sultan made a decision in relinquishing the crown towards Jasmine, making her the Sultan of Agrabah.
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Trivia[]
- Unlike his animated counterpart, the Sultan is wiser and mature but was still unaware of Jafar's true nature until Aladdin exposed him.
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