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Encyclopedia > Iago (Disney)
Iago from Aladdin, imitating Jafar.
Iago from Aladdin, imitating Jafar.

Iago, voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, is a fictional character in the 1992 Disney animated film Aladdin, a talking parrot who served as a sidekick for Jafar. Iago later switched sides in The Return of Jafar, but he is still largely conniving, greedy, and cowardly. His character is naughty and selfish, albeit harmless. He is rude and obnoxious, but has a good heart. Frustrated, irritated, and fussy, Iago is not the type to want to openly show up his good side. His remarks are insulting yet hilarious and entertaining. The others take no notice of his insults, taking them in stride. In the third movie, Iago partners up with Aladdin's father and leaves with him after Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding. Iago from Aladdin. ... Iago from Aladdin. ... Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American stand-up comedian and actor noted for his grating voice, his squint, his Brooklyn accent and his tendency to shout. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... 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. ... Jafar is a fictional character, voiced by Jonathan Freeman, in the Disney film Aladdin and its sequel, The Return of Jafar. ... The Return of Jafar is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 film Aladdin, produced by The Walt Disney Company in 1994. ...


In addition to being able to speak English, Iago has the ability to perfectly mimic other characters' voices. He also possesses knowledge of various magics, learned from Jafar, although he doesn't perform any magic himself; this proves useful on occasion as Genie's usually superior knowledge is 10,000 years out of date. The Genie is a fictional character from the Disney animated features canon movie Aladdin, as well as related series and sequels. ...


Like most characters from Disney's animated movies, Iago made recurring appearances on House of Mouse. On that series, the movies' continuity did not seem to matter, and Iago was depicted as either Jafar's sidekick or hanging around with the good guys. The House of Mouse is a Disney cartoon show where Mickey Mouse and his friends run a nighclub called The House of Mouse, which shows Disney cartons as part of its floor show. ...


Kingdom Hearts series

In Kingdom Hearts, like in the first movie, Iago works under Jafar. While not a major character, he took the lamp from Aladdin while no one was looking, and played keep-away with Jafar's Lamp with Sora and company trying to get it while dealing with Jafar in his Genie form. A facsimile of Iago would repeat that scenario during the boss-fight with Jafar in Chain of Memories. Kingdom Hearts ) is a hybrid action/RPG that was released in 2002, which is notable for being the result of a collaboration between the video game developer and publisher Square and Disney. ...


In Kingdom Hearts II, like in The Return of Jafar, Iago leaves Jafar and returned to Agrabah in a slump after failing to make amends to Aladdin and Jasmine. When he unintentionally assisted Sora in the task of beating the Heartless and retrieving Jafar's lamp, he managed to gain everyone's trust. But that trust was soon shattered when Iago was forced to help Jafar yet again in keeping Sora & the other occupied at the ruins. Despite losing face, Iago redeemed himself by intentionally getting shot by a spell that Jafar intended to shoot at Aladdin. He survived and was forgiven after Jafar's death. It should be noted that while his role is still minor, he does have a lot more lines compared with the first game. Kingdom Hearts II is an RPG video game sequel, the followup to the 2002 Disney Interactive/Square Enix RPG Kingdom Hearts, and its 2004 Game Boy Advance sequel, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Iago - definition of Iago in Encyclopedia (279 words)
Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello.
Iago fits into the character type of the malcontent because of his bitter and cynical view of what he sees in the play.
Iago is also a character in Walt Disney's Aladdin, a talking parrot who later recanted his evil ways in the movie sequels and television series.
The Return of Jafar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (981 words)
Iago and Jafar, having been buried in the desert at the end of the first film, finally manage to return to the suface.
Jafar orders Iago to release him, but Iago, tired of being treated badly by Jafar, throws the lamp into a nearby well and returns to Agrabah, hoping to convince Aladdin that he had served Jafar only because of a spell cast on him (though this is untrue).
Iago, however, who was assigned to guard the others, breaks the Genie's confinment allowing him to save Aladdin and letting him help Aladdin and his friends escape from Jafar's clutches.
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