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Like popular versions of Genie myth, Disney's Genie was originally a slave. Though he possessed what he called "phenomenal cosmic powers", he was bound to a magic oil lamp and could only use his powers when the owner of the lamp (his master) made a wish. Each master had three such wishes. The lamp came into the possession of the character Aladdin during the course of the first movie, and remained in servitude until the end of the movie, when Aladdin used his third and final wish to grant Genie his freedom. As well as largely driving the plot in the first movie, the Genie serves as a comic relief element in each of his appearances. He is shown to have incredible shape-shifting abilities, which allow for many and varied Sight Gag s, and the Genie's supernatural disposition permits him to break the fourth wall, as well as parody real-life people and popular culture completely outside of the boundaries of the fictional universe in which he is contained. Robin Williams is responsable for most of these because he had a tendacy to ad-lab the role and be so funny they had to add these jokes. Along with the character of Iago the parrot, Genie is one of the most well recognised of characters from Disney's Aladdin franchise. TRIVIA
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