So what's up with this game having a Grand Vizier named Jaffar and Disney's Aladdin having a Grand Vizier named Jafar? Edit: Did some digging around and appar

So what's up with this game having a Grand Vizier named Jaffar and Disney's Aladdin having a Grand Vizier named Jafar? Edit: Did some digging around and apparently there was a fictional Grand Vizier named Jaffar in the 1940s film "The Thief of Bagdad." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_of_Bagdad_(1940_film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_of_Bagdad_(1940_film) So it looks like those two instances are a rip-off of a character in that movie.