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Cris joe wrote: To me, the Sultan is one of the worst characters in the OUAT universe. Not only does he attempt to drown and kill his own son (I don't care what cultural reasons he has, it's inexcusable), but he KNOWS what Jafar wants, and he KNOWS the lengths he's going to obtain his goal. All the bloodshed, all the chaos, all the evil could have just been stopped if this man would stop being stubborn and just call the crazy man his son! But instead he chooses not to stop the rampage all just to spite the madman. At first I thought he was Aladdin, aged and Jafar was torturing him for the key to the cave of wonders or something else that would have been necessary for Jafar's ultimate plan to do something truly evil, but instead I got a Sultan who could end the whole thing by saying 4 words: "I love you son." I don't care how proud you are, if a maniac wizard threatens you and thousands of innocents unless you call him your son and say you love him, you say those words!! It's not just that Jafar wanted the Sultan to say he loved his son, Jafar wanted the Sultan to mean it so that he could be killed by someone he loved.

Would you ever love someone who killed your other children, took you from your home, imprisoned you in a dungeon for decades and forced you to commit Sysiphisian tasks constantly? I wouldn't.