The Genie is a fictional character from the Disney animated features canon movie Aladdin, as well as related series and sequels. For the original movie, his voice was provided by Robin Williams, though it was later taken over by Dan Castellaneta (better known as the voice of Homer Simpson), after a contract dispute between Williams and the Walt Disney Company. Castellaneta continued to voice the Genie throughout Aladdin the Series, as well as the direct-to-video feature The Return of Jafar, before Williams reprised the role for the final installment of the franchise, Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Castellaneta also voiced Genie in the Kingdom Hearts series by Square Enix and Buena Vista Games. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... This is a list of animated feature films produced by Walt Disney Productions/The Walt Disney Company: Official canon The following is a list of the forty-four feature films officially part of the Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) canon. ... Aladdin is the thirty-first animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released on November 25, 1992 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ... Robin Williams performing in Iraq. ... Dan Castellaneta Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born September 10, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series The Simpsons. ... Homer Jay Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is one of the main characters in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Aladdin is a animated series made by Walt Disney Television which debuted in 1994. ... The Return of Jafar is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 film Aladdin, produced by The Walt Disney Company in 1994. ... Aladdin and the King of Thieves is an animated film made by Disney in 1996. ... Kingdom Hearts Logo The Kingdom Hearts series is a series of role-playing games made by Buena Vista Games (formerly Disney Interactive) and Square Enix (formerly Squaresoft), starting with Kingdom Hearts for Sony PlayStation 2. ... SQUARE ENIX (Japanese: スクウェア・エニックス) is a Japanese producer of popular video games and manga. ... Buena Vista Interactive is a video game company owned by Disney. ...

Like popular versions of genie myth, Disney's Genie was originally a slave. Though he possessed what he called "phenomenal cosmic powers", he was bound to a magic oil lamp and could only use his powers when the owner of the lamp (his master) made a wish. Each master had three such wishes. The lamp came into the possession of the character Aladdin during the course of the first movie, and remained in servitude until the end of the movie, when Aladdin used his third and final wish to grant Genie his freedom. Ancient Assyrian stone relief of a genie. ...

As well as largely driving the plot in the first movie, the Genie serves as a comic relief element in each of his appearances. He is shown to have incredible shape-shifting abilities, which allow for many and varied sight gags, and the Genie's supernatural disposition permits him to break the fourth wall, as well as parody real-life people and popular culture completely outside of the boundaries of the fictional universe in which he is contained. In comedy, a Sight Gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. ...

Along with the character of Iago the parrot, Genie is one of the most well recognised of characters from Disney's Aladdin franchise. Iago from Aladdin. ...

Trivia

• An earlier draft of the script for the original movie had the Genie becoming human at the end - becoming the shopkeeper/narrator at the beginning of the movie (also voiced by Robin Williams) - though this idea was cancelled when it became clear that potential sequels were more viable with the Genie character intact.
• The Genie's gold bracelets were used in the first movie as a symbol of his enslavement to the lamp, serving as his shackles which fell off upon his release (similarly, when Jafar is turned into a Genie it is the appearance of his own gold armbands that apparently bind him to his own lamp). Despite this, Genie is shown to be wearing his gold armbands (or similar ones) in every appearance except in the first movie.
• Throughout the three feature length Aladdin movies, Genie transforms 12 times into another Disney character (not counting a second time he becomes Jafar).
• The casting of Robin Williams as the Genie paved the way for other live-action celebrities to be cast in voice acting roles.
• The Genie is the mascot of DisneyQuest, an "indoor interactive theme park" located in Downtown Disney at the Walt Disney World Resort.