Khartoum is a one-time villain and the main antagonist of the episode, "The Book of Khartoum", featured in Disney's Aladdin television series.
Background[]
Khartoum is a supremely powerful, evil wizard imprisoned on the cover of a large magical book by his longtime enemies. His only hope of release is a magical gem called the Philosopher's Stone, which contains the god-like energy and abilities of the cosmos itself. All he needs is someone greedy enough to create the stone and willingly release him from his prison. As it turns out, Mozenrath is that "someone" when he finds the book. After the young sorcerer creates the stone, Khartoum double crosses him and takes the stone for himself.
Physical Appearance[]
Khartoum is a floating and talking sorcerer with red eyes, black hair, brown eyelids, a crooked nose, thick black eyebrows, and a short black pencil mustache with a short black beard. When he is fully released, he wears a grey and blue wizard's turban and robe.
Role in the episode[]
In the episode, Mozenrath tries to find a new way to gain more power so as to conquer the world. In his Citadel, he brings a book known as the Book of Khartoum, which contains the key to all of the magical secrets in the cosmos and which took him seven years to search in the Seven Deserts. Khartoum is seen as a normal book with an angry wizard face but after Mozenrath, who is worthy of Khartoum's magic, releases him, he comes to life, his eyes turn red permanently, and floats. When Khartoum finds out that Mozenrath is a power-hungry wizard, which of course, he likes, he tells him that the key to all of the magical secrets in the cosmos is held within a magical gem called the Philosopher's Stone. Khartoum tells him that he needs to build a furnace to heat a small quantity of sands, crystals, flakes of gold and one element that is absolutely essential; a cosmic power source strong enough to heat the furnace (namely, Genie) so as to create the magical gem.
After Mozenrath builds the furnace and kidnaps Genie, it turns out Genie alone isn't powerful enough to heat the furnace. So now, Mozenrath must get more power, or his dreams of unlocking the cosmos's greatest secrets will be dashed forever (namely, Eden). After tricking Eden into letting her exchange her place with Genie, Eden and Genie both end up in the furnace, thus, making them powerful enough to heat it while aging fast.
After the Philosopher's Stone is created, Mozenrath opens the furnace and removes the Philosopher's Stone, but it then floats out of his hand towards Khartoum. The Stone embeds itself in Khartoum's "turban" and then, Khartoum's body rises out of the book, therefore, he has been released from his imprisonment. It is revealed that Khartoum double crossed Mozenrath and used him, he just needed someone greedy enough to create the stone and release him from his prison. After zapping Mozenrath, Mozenrath tries to return the favor but it is proven that his powers are useless against him while Khartoum's are limitless.
Later, Khartoum begins to grow rapidly until he reaches the ceiling, which means that the Philosopher's Stone is getting much stronger and so is he. Then, he and Mozenrath have a magic fight, nevertheless, Mozenrath's magic is still proven useless against Khartoum and then, his powers disappear all of a sudden. Khartoum grows so large that now, his head is sticking through the roof of the Citadel.
While Khartoum is distracted by Genie; who along with Eden had his powers and age restored due to the Genie Embrace, Eden unwinds Khartoum's turban, causing the Philosopher's Stone to fall out. Genie puts on oven mitts and catches the mystical Philosopher's Stone. Khartoum starts to shrink and is pulled back inside his magical book again. Mozenrath then berates him for his double cross while Aladdin and Iago mock Mozenrath on how his greed caused all the trouble by "judging a book by its cover". Finally, the Stone is forever destroyed by the two genies' combined magic and Khartoum suddenly disappears too.
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Trivia[]
- Khartoum's name is an adaptation of the capital and second largest city of Sudan and of Khartoum State.
- In the same way as Jafar, who had wished to be an all powerful genie and ended up being imprisoned, Mozenrath also wanted more power, but his greed led to his downfall.
