Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20160929050506/@comment-1916997-20161115061418

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: WildThing228 wrote: Anyone concerned that the genie in the lamp is Jafar. Let us hope it's not him. The genie in that lamp was Robin Williams, a writer confirmed it. We'll probably never see that genie in canon. It's not that the genie of the lamp is Robin Williams, it's that Aladdin's genie is the role played by Robin Williams in the Disney movie. Honestly, the whole thing is kind of silly. They should have just made Aladdin's genie Sidney, and since Sidney is clearly not the same as Disney's blue crazy Genie, this would be a non-issue. Even if Robin was still alive, it's not like we would have gotten Disney's Genie on the show anyway, he's too cartoony to work on Once. Same reason they didn't do Olaf.