The thing is, there's a heck of a lot of infrastructure that goes into making one a prince. You've got to basically rewrite the family trees of hundreds (thousands? millions?) of people. Whether this sort of thing is very stable or very unstable once done I just don't know.
Not necessarily. Prince Philip (of the UK) became a prince by marrying a princess (Elizabeth Windsor, the king's eldest daughter and heir). A prince could also be adopted, or even granted the title of prince by a popular assembly...
I've always wondered what he was the prince OF. I mean, in order to BE a prince, doesn't there at minimum need to exist a principality? I always thought it was funny to think that somewhere out there there was a whole nation that Aladdin had never heard of or seen which was all like "Oh, woe! What ever has happened to our beloved prince? Shall we never see him again?"
1) Depends on how you define prince, I guess. Aladdin got the entourage and the money and the clothes, but there's never any mention of what country or royal line he comes from.
2) It's never explicitly stated in the movie, and I haven't seen any of them besides the first one, but it seems that magic and wishes are somewhat equally powerful in that world. I mean, genies can be bound with those bracelets which I'm guessing were made by some kind of magic.
I mean, genies can be bound with those bracelets which I'm guessing were made by some kind of magic.
We were discussing this at katieliz's; within the metaphysics of the movie, it doesn't seem to be so much that genies are bound by some magic as that bondage is the native state of geniehood, as when Jafar becomes a genie the bracelets automatically reappear as part of the whole package.
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2) It's never explicitly stated in the movie, and I haven't seen any of them besides the first one, but it seems that magic and wishes are somewhat equally powerful in that world. I mean, genies can be bound with those bracelets which I'm guessing were made by some kind of magic.
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