Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-24936039-20141021021429

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote:

Aladdin. (We got Jafar and the Genie. Even the Sultan, but no one important.) The genie is actually very important, to that story.

Although.... I have a funny feeling that if/when OUaT adapts Aladdin, that Rumplestiltskin will be the one "granting" Aladdin's "wishes". If the Evil Queen can take the place of the Sea-Witch, then Rumplestiltskin can easily "act" as the genie.

Well, there is a Genie - Sydney Glass. As far as I can tell, he never gave up being a Genie in the EF, just trapped by his own wish into the mirror...  No need for Rumples to impersonate one.