User blog comment:B.K. Tyler/PE Proposal - Jafar (2019)/@comment-2059440-20190607112337/@comment-2059440-20190607113732

it's just my opinion, anyone can propose him and give reasons - I just feel that he's kind of like what Genie Jafar was like in Revenge of Jafar but rather than it being a sequel this is his personality from the start (in Revenge of Jafar he did stuff like pose as Jasmine to try and have Aladdin beheaded (taunting him as Jasmine while doing so) - tried to kill Iago (even though genies can't personally kill) and a lot of other darker stuff than he did in the original.. not to mention as Genie Jafar he destroyed a large portion of the city with lava etc.. the only reason he didn't have a death-toll in sequel was that Genie Rule about how they can't kill but "you'll be surprised what you can live through" was definitely exploited to its maximum).

this is a remake anyway, so not tied to the animated canon - so you can make argument it has its own heinous standards.