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If you had a genie with three wishes, do you set him free with the last wish?
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It's been a while since I watched it, but I think he still ran on the old limits. No killing, no resurrections, no mind control.
But he mostly ran on plot. He was, however considered mundane enough that stuff that would affect other magic also affected him. There was an episode where Mozenrath had some magic eating monster that was presented as a real danger to Genie, for instance. Basically, Mozenrath was presented as a threat to Genie more times than not. He was countered more by Aladdin doing thief-like things rather than blunt Genie force.
Genie was also very durable meaning he took hits and were out of the fight. Better he get blasted over the horizon than his buddy Al takes that hit, after all.
The genie was probably locked up for a reason
Unleashing an omnipotent being onto the world because you saw a Disney movie doesnt sound like a good idea
Unleashing an omnipotent being onto the world because you saw a Disney movie doesnt sound like a good idea
If he's an asshole, my third wish would be to set him free with none of his powers. I would also say it in the most direct, straightforward manner so that there are no twists.
Do they have a personality or are they just like "what are your three wishes my master"? Cause if they just ask for the wishes and that's it I don't see anyway I would not just make 3 big wishes that would benefit me and my family and that's it. If they want freedom they better make a case for it I guess.
Yeah I think the problem with having Genie as a main character is that you would be forced to invent increasingly powerful villains that could counter his powers. But that would make the rest of the mortal, human main characters increasingly useless in a fight against the all-powerful villains. It's an interesting conundrum and I'm kinda curious how they handled it -- but not really curious enough to make me watch the entire animated series or the straight-to-video sequels.
It looks like DisneyPlus doesn't even have the Aladdin TV series available for viewing -- what's up with that?
Monkey Paw Genie wishes:
1. Remove Trump from presidency (Putin ends up taking over the US with alien technology in 2021, calls himself US Emperor...)
2. Reverse the last wish (Trump is back but beats Biden in 2020)
3. Wish for the Genie to be sealed in his bottle eternally (monkey paw yourself out of that one, bitch)
Aladdin Genie:
1. Make myself a Genie without restrictions.
2. ???(I'm all powerful, why need any more wishes?
3. Wish him free...
1. Remove Trump from presidency (Putin ends up taking over the US with alien technology in 2021, calls himself US Emperor...)
2. Reverse the last wish (Trump is back but beats Biden in 2020)
3. Wish for the Genie to be sealed in his bottle eternally (monkey paw yourself out of that one, bitch)
Aladdin Genie:
1. Make myself a Genie without restrictions.
2. ???(I'm all powerful, why need any more wishes?
3. Wish him free...
all yall setting them free, smh.
Genie from Aladdin is propaganda. this is the real "genie".
I definitely remember this movie and some sequels, lmao.
Monkey paw wish 3: You freed evil genie because to him his bottle is this reality.
Lol, it reminded me "The Man In The Bottle" from the Twilight Zone.
The guy wished to "be the leader of a modern country where he can't be voted out of office"
Lol, it reminded me "The Man In The Bottle" from the Twilight Zone.
The guy wished to "be the leader of a modern country where he can't be voted out of office"
Reminds me of the X-Files episode when Mulder found a Genie who had monkey paw powers.
He spent and entire day trying to create a wish that had no loopholes and the Genie found one...made me lol at that episode.
Still remember the homeless guy giving the dude cancer in the convenience store. YUCK.
I guess one would be to have all the cumulative knowledge of all living species in the universe both future and past, and the other would probably be the ability to will objects into creation just by thinking them. That should pretty much do it for me. I could probably use those two abilities to create anything to allow me to do anything I could ever want.
1. Wish
2. Wish
3. Wish for him to be free so that no one else can come across him and use all 3 wishes to get some kind of insurmountable power that completely renders mine useless. ie: "take away all the wishes everyone before me got out of you" etc.
I've always pondered that it would be wise for me to make the first two wishes EXTREMELY well thought out and valuable so that a third wish isn't even really needed. I could ask for a specific super power that I could then use to achieve all the other things I want, instead of wasting wishes on them? If I could do that then my second wish could be something super generous to society or fix something broken about the world. I really do like the idea of "do something for me, do something for the world, and set the genie free". Though it may be a situation where I can't really achieve the things I want without having to use both first wishes on it.
I would also obviously need to know what this particular genie's rules are. Are they the same ones from the Aladdin cartoon movie? Or are there more traditional rules I've never heard of? What if the rules are MEGA strict and I can't really do much in the way of achieving any kind of true power, thus have to just use my wishes for simple riches and material possessions?
2. Wish
3. Wish for him to be free so that no one else can come across him and use all 3 wishes to get some kind of insurmountable power that completely renders mine useless. ie: "take away all the wishes everyone before me got out of you" etc.
I've always pondered that it would be wise for me to make the first two wishes EXTREMELY well thought out and valuable so that a third wish isn't even really needed. I could ask for a specific super power that I could then use to achieve all the other things I want, instead of wasting wishes on them? If I could do that then my second wish could be something super generous to society or fix something broken about the world. I really do like the idea of "do something for me, do something for the world, and set the genie free". Though it may be a situation where I can't really achieve the things I want without having to use both first wishes on it.
I would also obviously need to know what this particular genie's rules are. Are they the same ones from the Aladdin cartoon movie? Or are there more traditional rules I've never heard of? What if the rules are MEGA strict and I can't really do much in the way of achieving any kind of true power, thus have to just use my wishes for simple riches and material possessions?
Aladdin itself addressed that problem by having Genie come back as merely a magical creature rather than being all-powerful. It assumes that the power goes hand in hand with the servitude, and that being free makes you something less powerful.
This is actually the only power I've really been able to think of that would supply me with all I need- especially if it includes the ability to modify existing things at will. ie: will money into my bank account, will the paper trail to make it all seem legit and not raise any alarms, will my body into being more fit and better looking, will any disease or cancer out of my body, etc. That would allow me to take care of myself and others.
ALSO: technically this doesn't count as wishing to be a genie or wishing for more wishes!
Haha, keep reading the thread :) I'm definitely interested in how Disney's Aladdin movies & TV shows dealt with the issue of a free Genie.
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They typically had something Genie couldn't overpower so Aladdin would have to solve the problem with his wits.
Genies/Jinns are almost exclusively portrayed as extremely malevolent in their mythology, and since the mythology is all we have to go by, fuck no.
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Presumably someone or something past or present throughout the entire history of the universe would have figured out how to overcome that in some way, and thus I would know how to do that, and could handle it.
To be safe, though, I'd reverse the order of the wishes so that I could instantly materialize any sort of device or mechanism I would need to contain such madness and allow me to comprehend what knowledge I would now possess.
I would ask for as much power as the bottle.
Bottle would need to be incredibly powerful to restrain the genie in the first place.
Bottle would need to be incredibly powerful to restrain the genie in the first place.