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he was, it's just that marrying her just to punish the old sultan is weak.

i mean granted, jafar wasn't made to look like the brightest guy in the room when it came to titles (wife not meaning anything is alluded to early on so that could've backfired) or people ("I'm gonna marry the person who wasted my first wish through sheer force of will") so it totally makes sense for his character to do something that dumb. it just is lacking and felt like we were going through the motions on that. just a few lines of him clearly lusting after her or a few lines of him talking about how he's going to keep her caged in and silent would've worked to make him that much more of a villain.

an alternative i would've liked more is if she had come up with the idea first - if she willingly reduced herself to being just the most beautiful princess in the land in exchange for saving them. would've worked out to his ego too and would've foreshadowed the finale a bit too.
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