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[Aladdin] Why didn't Aladdin become a prince when he wished for the Genie to make him a prince?

When Jafar gets the lamp we see that the genie has to grant any wishes he makes, he supernaturally compelled to grant them. Aladdin wished to become a prince, why wasn't the genie compelled to actually make him a prince rather than just making him appear to be a prince.

Also, I know people like to be cute and say that getting Aladdin to marry Jasmin made him a prince and thus the genie was doing some sort of long-con nonsense. When Jafar wished to be a genie, however, the og genie didn't send him through a bunch of bullshit. He just zapped him into being a genie. So the genie is clearly capable of just zapping people to make them change.
gpt
how do we know he wasn't made a prince? whether the genie brought into existence an entirely new nation with aladdin as prince, or snapped his fingers and made aladdin a blood relative of the sovereign of some pre-existing state, nothing about aladdin's current situation in that moment would have changed. the genie graciously tried to fulfil the spirit of the wish with all the prince paraphernalia, but really that wasn't necessary. so all that pomp and glitz is irrelevant. whatever change he made to *really* make aladdin a prince wouldn't be immediately obvious to us the audience or the characters themselves.