Editing Jafar

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|journalCOD='''Character File'''<br>A wizard who served as royal vizier in Agrabah's palace.<br><br>The bugs plaguing the datascape version of Agrabah provided Jafar with just the tool he needed to seize the throne: a fake lamp Pete created from data. Later, Jafar used the real lamp, stolen from Aladdin, to become an all-powerful genie. In the end, though, he was imprisoned within yet another lamp: his own.<br><br>'''Enemy Profile'''<br>A wizard who served as Agrabah's royal vizier. With Jafar teleporting out of harm's way and creating illusions from thin air, it took everything Sora had just to keep up.

'''Jafar''' is a recurring antagonist in the ''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|series}}'' series. Originating in Disney's ''{{w|Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin}}'', he is a member of [[Maleficent]]'s council of [[villains]]. He is the royal vizier of [[Agrabah]]. Two-faced and cunning, Jafar seeks the demise of [[Aladdin]] and to rule Agrabah as {{w|sultan}}.

In his pursuit for the magic lamp, Jafar searches for someone to enter the Cave of Wonders since after his last attempt he lost a piece of the Golden Scarab. He comes across [[Player]], whom he requests to go and retrieve it. When the Player returns, the cave rises and Jafar urge the Player to go and retrieve the lamp, but the Cave of Wonders' guardian iterates that only the "diamond in the rough" may enter. Player is then cast away into the desert, thus revealing he was not meant to enter the cave.

Jafar is a part of Maleficent's council of Disney Villains who desire total control of [[Kingdom Hearts]]. Upon [[Guard Armor]]'s destruction, Jafar notes how forceful the [[Keyblade]] is, believing that the strength that defeated their [[Heartless]] wasn’t [[Sora]]'s own. After the events of [[Deep Jungle]], Jafar was inquisitive as to why the Heartless went there; it turned out to have been the stinginess in [[Clayton]]'s [[heart]]. Having seen [[Stealth Sneak]] crush Clayton to death by accident, Jafar noted "a weak-hearted fool like him stood no chance against the Heartless" However, he added that Sora was becoming a problem as he managed to lock away the heart of a world from the Heartless afterwards. Maleficent managed to calm his fears by reminding him that Sora is unmindful of their plans for the [[Princesses of Heart]].

[[File:Wish Number Two 01 KH.png|thumb|200px|Jafar captures Jasmine and gets confronted by Sora and Aladdin at the Palace Gates.]]

In the meantime, Jafar has used the Heartless to cause chaos in Agrabah. Using the bewilderment to his advantage, Jafar took control from the Sultan and put the citizens under house arrest, leaving the city empty; without potential prey to get their attention, the Heartless could concentrate on searching for the [[Keyhole]]. Maleficent orders Jafar to kidnap Princess [[Jasmine]], one of the seven Princesses of Heart, and she warns him not to rely too fully on the [[darkness]], or else he might lose his heart. Just as Jafar locates the princess and moves to capture her, Sora, [[Donald]], and [[Goofy]] show up and help her escape. Jafar manages to capture Jasmine at last, but he gets confronted by Sora and company, who have joined forces with Aladdin. Aladdin tries to rescue Jasmine from Jafar by using [[Genie]]'s powers, but Jafar's parrot [[Iago]] manages to steal the magic lamp, to which Genie is bound. Jafar summons the [[Pot Centipede]] to finish off the heroes while he makes his exit.

A data version of Jafar appears in the [[Datascape]] version of Agrabah. Much like his real counterpart, Jafar tricked Aladdin into going to the Cave of Wonders to bring back the magic lamp, although Aladdin planned to use it to win Jasmine's heart. Jafar was not too pleased with this, using the Heartless to try taking it back from him. However, [[Data-Sora]] defeated his minions, forcing Jafar to flee. While contemplating what to do, Jafar was met by [[Pete]] who held what Jafar thought was the real lamp. Pete had actually used the [[Bug Blox|glitches]] to create a copy of the lamp; it can grant wishes within the datascape, but lacks a genie. Mistaking the technical terminology for some kind of powerful sorcery, Jafar eagerly grabbed the lamp and was advised by Pete to plunge Agrabah into darkness.

Jafar debuted as the main antagonist of the 1992 Disney film ''{{w|Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin}}'', voiced by Jonathan Freeman. The Sultan's power-hungry vizier, his quest to seek someone suitable to enter the Cave of Wonders, "a diamond in the rough", led him to the street urchin Aladdin. With Aladdin's help, he would almost acquire an ordinary oil lamp which actually housed an all-powerful genie. However, due to unforeseen consequences, Jafar lost the lamp and his quest for power was thwarted unintentionally by Aladdin under the false identity Prince Ali al Ababwaa. But Jafar would not give up and used his parrot companion, Iago, to steal the lamp, becoming the genie's new master and assuming total control over Agrabah using newfound powers he had wished for. He attempted to banish Aladdin to the ends of the Earth but failed as Aladdin showed up for one last showdown. Desperate, Jafar used his final wish to become an all-powerful genie but was tricked into being contained inside a lamp by Aladdin and flung out into the desert by Genie.

In the film's 1994 direct-to-video sequel, ''{{w|The Return of Jafar}}'', Iago escapes the lamp and throws it down a well, and the thief Abis Mal finds it. Since he found the lamp Abis Mal is technically Jafar's master, but he is so inept and cowardly that Jafar easily pushes him around and gives him orders, tricking him into wasting two of his three wishes by purposefully misinterpreting them so they backfire. Jafar arranges for Aladdin to be taken away from the city by Iago while he imprisons Jasmine and the Sultan and takes over Agrabah. Aladdin returns and engages Jafar in a final battle, and is nearly killed by Jafar's genie form, when Iago has a change of heart and intervenes to destroy Jafar's lamp, destroying Jafar for good.