The DVD Fairy

Aladdin defeats the creature without Genie OR Carpet. It only took him 70 episodes to get that good.

Or gets it hurt, rather. But then this thing happens.

Mozenrath decides he’s “good” but needs to see how good and sends Xerxes to pretend to be a BABY IN PERIL.

Mind you, this baby is still making creepy Frank Welker Monster noises so the creature is like:

“Damn. There’s something wrong with that baby.” And flies toward it in an attempt to get it to stop making those hideous gargling noises.

Aladdin moves them out of the way, yes, but does nothing to kill or incapacitate the creature. HERE’S WHAT I DON’T GET.

The creature comes back and there is literally nothing Aladdin can do to stop it other than stand between it and the woman and her baby.

Nothing he can do. Nothing. The only reason he survives this encounter is because apparently Mozenrath has seen enough and he makes it explode.

But you didn’t see enough, Moze. He just saved somebody. That solved one small problem while the big problem only stopped being a problem because YOU MADE IT STOP.

What the Hell are you doing?

I seriously love it when bad guys figure this out.

And then, taking a page from Razoul, Aladdin plummets to his also-doom.

Otherwise known as a conveniently placed bed of spikes.

And Genie is able to come to the rescue because he read the script. This further adds to the headcanon that I have that Genie, for the type of Genie he is, can only do stuff like this when it’s funny. He is the patron mythological creature of Toon Town logic.

Because otherwise he would do this all the time.

Not this guy. I’m actually not even sure whether this creature conventionally exists or if Mozenrath created him out of thin air for reasons we’ll discuss later. But anyway, in most intro episodes, with a few exceptions, the main villain intro’d in an episode won’t pop up until act 2 in the plot structure, after some of their lesser monstrosities have had time to wreak havoc and the characters need to find out the source of the plot of the day. Moze comes in right away. While everybody’s running and screaming, this happens:

So the first thing we know about this villain: He steals things with telekinesis. This will be a running thing throughout this episode. I actually don’t think he ever does this again.

“Xerxes, all of these people suck.”

I like that the first impression you get of this guy is that he MAY have set this creature loose. But he might also just be a punk kid who’s watching and going “Man, if I were out there, I wouldn’t be running away. I would kick its ass. With magic. Why don’t these peasants just use magic? Why am I so awesome and everyone else is so not?”

If you know the series you know better. And his familiar’s evil little Frank Welker giggle kind of gives away that he’s a bad guy because Frank Welker kind of has a thing for playing bad guy lackeys.

When Razoul steps up to fight the beast his reasons for being there are at least slightly clearer. Or he’s still just rubbernecking. The jerk. He remarks and “this one has the muscle” in that I think he believes that if Razoul were especially capable as a combatant he would be strong enough to take the creature down by brute force.

He’s obviously sizing people up based upon how they respond to the creature.

I don’t need to build up the suspense like none of us are certain. That’s obviously what he’s doing. We’ve all seen the episode, we know that’s what he’s doing. I’m still just really amused that until he outright says so later, a first time viewer could go either way with him.