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[Disney]Could Jaffar have simply wished for the ability to grant wishes and avoided what happened?
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His wish to be the most powerful sorcerer in the world was already pretty much the best wish he could have made. Everything bad that happened to him past that was due to his own paranoia and insecurity. The nagging doubt that Aladdin planted in his head, that since all power was granted by a genie, it could be taken away be a genie as well, could only be resolved by becoming a being of equal or greater power than the genie. He had no other wish that could satisfy his fear of his power being taken away. Even had he foreseen the negative consequences of his wish and not done it, the idea still would have driven him crazy even. You know those crazy wizards who build crazy dungeons full of traps and monsters and lock themselves away from humanity for hundreds of years because they haven't quite figured out how to make themselves 100% invincible rather than 99% invincible. That would be Jaffar had he not made the genie wish. the way he ends up chained to the lamp is just a literal manifestation of the way his lust for power and control is self defeating.