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

And the current tally is... 19 for "yes", 0 for "no", and none abstaining. Woah... I was quietly confident that at least some people would share my opinion, but that's a total blowout. And here's the funny thing; having just seen it a second time with a family member (due to enjoying the film enough to want to, as well as get to see it with someone else for a change), I noticed I even missed what could be considered an important piece of villainy; when he's torturing the Sultan as a sorcerer and talking about ways he can make him suffer, he talks about making Agrabah's forces invade all of his "toothless aliies".

So yeah, even though his megalomania made it pretty apparent, at least to me, that his initial plans of conquest wouldn't stop with Shirabad, I'd say this and his talk of building "am empire that history can't ignore" prove it beyond a doubt. But it would appear even without making that obvious, he made a strong enough impression with people who hadn't seen it and were just going off my proposal anyway. Honestly, I'm still kind of stunned he was made this dark, but hey, there's a first for everything, so maybe a Disney villain getting enough of an upgrade, villainy-wise, in a live-action remake to qualify for this shouldn't be so surprising.