Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26580042-20160723184605/@comment-1916997-20160723191411

I think this is simply a recast, and while unfortunate to those that watched the spinoff, the rest of the Once watchers wouldn't even know this is a recast. Plus, this actor is playing Jafar very similar to how Naveen did, so I'm happy about that, but that also points to this being the same Jafar. Besides that, this Jafar seems to have the same items and powers as Wonderland's Jafar: the snake staff (Amara), the flying carpet, he "force chokes" people and turns them to dust, etc. Lastly, timeline wise this fits, it would be sometime after Amara is turned into the snake staff and sometime before Jafar goes to Wonderland. Assuming Jafar also shows up in present day, he should still be a genie (as we saw happened at the end of Wonderland), so that could be very interesting.