Mozenrath

"Let's look at the big picture. I have the Genie, Aladdin is dead, and my plans for world conquest are shaping up nicely. All in all, it's been a good night." - Mozenrath

"Why tell you, when I can show you?" - Mozenrath

Mozenrath is a major antagonist in the Aladdin television series, and arguably Aladdin's most dangerous foe. He is widely regarded as the most popular villain in the show, as well as the successor of Jafar as Aladdin's new archenemy. Mozenrath was meant to be a complete antithesis of of Aladdin in every way. He is pale, physically frail and he always wears rich and elegant clothes, while Aladdin is tanned, athletic and almost always clad in his beggar's rags. He is also malevolent, ambitious and scheming while Aladdin is gentle, selfless and is a quick thinker.

Mozenrath is voiced by the late Jonathan Brandis. His mannerism and attitude were inspired by those of Brandis himself.

Presentation of Mozenrath
"Ah Destane. He was like a father to me. Until I stole his power and his throne." - Mozenrath

Mozenrath is a powerful and malevolent teenage sorcerer, not much older than Aladdin himself, who rules over the Land of the Black Sand: a desolated and hostile land, solely populated by his army of undeads mamluks. Little is known about Mozenrath's past. Judging by his own words, he seems to have been the apprentice and probably the adopted son of the dreaded sorcerer Destane, the former king of the Black Sands, whom even Jafar feared. At some point, likely when he felt that Destane had nothing left to teach him, he killed him and turned him into one of his undead mamluks, before taking his throne.

He is always accompanied by his familiar Xerxes, a flying, talking eel, fully devoted to him, who serves as his spy, his assistant, and sometimes his punching ball, when the sorcerer is angry.

Personality
"I just can't take "No" for an answer." - Mozenrath

''"And your point would be?" ''- Mozenrath (after Aladdin told him that he could have harmed people)

Mozenrath is cruel, ruthless, selfish, arrogant, overproud, scornful, greedy and ambitious; and all this to a much larger scale than many other villains in the show. His malevolence and lust for power are often compared to Jafar's, prompting Iago to nickname him "Jafar jr" shortly after meeting him. He doesn't care the slightest about the people he might harm during his experiences, to the point of showing disbelief when Aladdin chose helping people over personal benefit. He wants to gain enough power to take over the magical realms of the Seven Deserts. (and possibly the entire world) Since the first time when Aladdin twarted his schemes, he swore to destroy Aladdin, his friends and everything he holds dear.

Like many other powerful villains, Mozenrath is calm, collected, aristocratic and refined. He enjoys dominating the situation and taunting his enemies with dark humor and false courtesy. Yet, he is also shown being stubborn, not very patient and a little capricious. When people refuse to work for him, he will coerce them to do what he wants; and he will try to gain something from every situation. He also gets angry at the mere idea of Aladdin being murdered by someone else. He even displays jealousy towards Aladdin, "who got the power of a Genie on a silver platter," while he had to make harsh sacrifices to reach his situation. In most cases, albeit only when it arranges him, he proves to be a man of honor, who fulfils his part of a bargain and rewards generously those whom he hired. All this prompts him to firmly protect what he believes to be rightfully his, and to protest whenever he himself gets dubblecrossed. (Which happens only once in the show.)

Mozenrath is also remarkably intelligent, cunning and scheming. He can devise very clever and traps and complicated schemes; and can guess things right from very few facts. But even if he is absolutely not above it, he prefers direct confrontation over manipulation.