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Jafar is given the fairly accurate nickname of "Señor Psychopath" by the Genie character near the climax of the first film. One is an unnamed vizier who is jealous of Aladdin but does not serve as a real villain the other is the major antagonist, an evil magician from the Maghreb in North Africa who introduces Aladdin to his magical lamp. The original tale of Aladdin, a Syrian story not originally attached to the Arabian Nights, features two characters who correspond to Disney's Jafar. Harun did have the real Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki beheaded after a dispute arising from allegations that Ja'far had engaged in an affair with the Caliph's sister. Harun and Giafar were the protagonists of many stories in Arabian Nights, but Giafar was never presented as a villain. Jafar's name seems to be derived from a character named Jafar or Giafar ( Arabic: جعفر) in tales of the Arabian Nights, who is the Vizier to the 9th century Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid this character in turn was based on a real-life vizier, Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki. He has said in interviews that this is his biggest regret in his career, and in the top three of biggest regrets of his life. Patrick Stewart was originally offered the role of Jafar, but scheduling conflicts with Star Trek: The Next Generation forced him to turn down the role. In this case, he is analogous to the latter film's villain ZigZag, who was voiced by Vincent Price. Jafar, like many other characters in Aladdin, is based on a character in Richard Williams' unfinished animated film The Thief and the Cobbler. However, the filmmakers realized that a cooler Jafar was better, so they made Iago the loud, agitated one. In the earliest version of film production, Jafar was to be loud and agitated, while Iago would've been a British parrot and would've calmed Jafar down.