User blog comment:ThatScrewyDuck/Aladdin 2019 PE Discussion/Proposal/@comment-39032584-20190610105711/@comment-39032584-20190610124129

I was actually expressing how much I believe he does qualify, and how both I, and apparently, numorus others, thought so in spite of forgetting to put emphasis on his obvious intent to turn Abrabah into a war-mongering empire. I completely respect your opinion about not finding him as menacing or memorable as the original;  after all, what constitutes "menacing and especially "pure evil" will always vary from person to person. However there's little doubt for me that this one is much more evil; he murders others for reasons as minor as happening to call him "second" to someone else, tortures the Sultan and Jasmine's handmaiden just to force her into a marriage with him solely so that she and the Sultan will suffer, is completely unconcerned about the great risk of collateral damage when sending a monstrous Iago right through Agrabah and summoning a sand tornado, and tries to first invade, then obliterate, an entire kingdom just because he was bitter about growing up poor there.

None of those were present in the original film. There, he merely wanted power and to rule Agrabah, so it's really hard not to see this one as much worse; he ahs more of a potentially sympathetic background, but he becomes so power-hungry, that he ends up attempting to do things that are extremely disporportionate to what it excuses, as well as far worse things than his animated counterpart ever attempted in any of his appearances.