The DVD Fairy

He yanks the monster off of Genie, and this does damage Genie in a way. Just not in the most physically visible way until:

He starts to disappear, and then when the Thirdac comes after him again, he poofs away. To Aladdin, he can’t see that. He just sees the Thirdac got away from him and now Genie’s gone.

So he jumps on the damn thing and beats the Hell out of it.

No weapons. No magical gimmicks. No fear that its rows and rows of teeth could still seriously damage him. (Not to mention he DOES have a little magic in him, but this is neither the time nor the place.) He just goes after it and wails on it.

For all he knows, it just killed his best friend. He is going to kill it with his bare hands. Screw that Mozenrath wants it alive. In fact, if Genie had died just then, he probably would have gone after Mozenrath next, unless his friends stopped him.

This makes a lot more sense than him running from the cats in “In the Heat of the Fright.” Someone told him Mirage hates Genies and he runs from everything. Here?

These things EAT MAGIC. Suddenly, we have a clear and cut method for killing a Genie. Send it to something that thinks Genies are food. It makes him almost completely incapable of participating as a member of the group because he is that afraid.

He suddenly really really really really needs Aladdin to be his hero.

Because he is going to die. Genie has to entertain the notion of dying for probably the first time in his existence.

…Also completely off topic but where the Hell is Carpet?

So if it’s just using its lung power to suck magic things in what the Hell is hole in its tongue for? MAKE SENSE, monster!

When I was little I used to think he did it when he was alone and needed someone to talk to.

Also this monster’s bizarre sucking powers apparently make it strong enough to stop a full-sized drag racer. I kinda have no fucking idea how Mozenrath got out of this place alive.

So Genie wakes up with this staring him in the face. Awful nice of it not to try to eat him right away so we can get an establishing shot.

So we get that some magical beings “slumber.” The tiger head on the Cave of Wonders sure did, after all. But what purpose does sleep serve to a Genie, save for passing the time? Did he do this at all in the movie? I can’t really remember. Is it something he needs to do now that he’s semi-phenomenal and nearly-cosmic?

I’m thinking too much into it. But what I’m not thinking too much about is that for whatever reason, Genie is terrified of this thing before he realizes it eats magic and I’m not sure why.

Also why does Mozenrath have just this one door that can be locked in this way?

That’s not to say that Genie hasn’t been scared by things that shouldn’t be able to kill him. Look at “In the Heat of the Fright,” for instance. I just think it would have been more clever if they’d built it up.

Then again, if Genie weren’t immediately afraid, I don’t know if he would have reacted in time to avoid being eaten.

Aladdin and Mozenrath have almost equal proportions. The differences in height can be explained here because one of them is wearing a headdress and wearing shoes. Beyond that? same muscular build. Almost the same facial shape. Height.

This is important when you bear in mind that in later episodes Mozenrath is about a head taller than he is and thin as a rail.

When Mozenrath says “I have devised a collar” that will trap the Thirdac, I take him at his word because we’ll get plenty of other examples throughout his episodes that he actually does invent stuff (and he creates a Philosopher’s Stone ON THE FIRST TRY, you guys, IN A MATTER OF HOURS), which is really impressive given that he is “barely older than” Aladdin.

He is really smart. (Or he, throughout the series, takes credit for a lot of shit he’s stolen – also likely, but I’m going to go with the former.) 

He’s just not as smart as he thinks he is.

He has intelligence but lacks wisdom – to reference someone on the internet (I lack the source), intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing it doesn’t belong in a fruit salad.

Mozenrath would put tomatoes in a fruit salad.