Saleen (Aladdin)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saleen is a fictional character, voiced by Julie Brown, in the Disney animated series Aladdin.
[edit] Background
Saleen is known as "Ariel gone bad." She is a red-hair mermaid with an attitude believing she can win any man and if he’s not free she doesn’t shun anything to get the 'competition' out of the way. If the man keeps refusing, Saleen will use her magic to force him fall in love with her.
For example, when Aladdin and his friends went to the beach for a day, Jasmine and Aladdin get in an argument and she walks away sitting on a cliff she’s hit by a wave and pulled under by a whirlpool. There, she meets our Saleen, who thinks she got a sailor, but instead, she got Jasmine. Saleen gives Jasmine the ability to breathe and talk underneath the surface. They get in a conversation. When she tells Saleen about Aladdin, the evil mermaid sets her sights on our hero.
At shore, Saleen changes her tail into legs and after trapping Jasmine under water in the care of her octopus she walks along the beach until she finds Aladdin. At first Aladdin finds no interest in her but when he looks into her eyes his glow red for a few seconds and then feels a strange care for Saleen. She gets him to walk to back to Agrabah, meanwhile, doing her best to make him forget that he’s looking for Jasmine. Meanwhile, Jasmine is not going to let Aladdin steal away from her. She escapes the tentacles of the octopus and swims to holes near the surface where she sees her city and Aladdin with Saleen on his arm. Jasmine did all she could to get his attention, but Saleen prevented that by making the water in the bucket flow away.
Finally, in a water well, Jasmine gets Aladdin's attention, and she tells him that she's trapped by Saleen. Saleen refuses to let her go. Jasmine tells Genie to play along with Saleen because it's a cruel game to her. Genie brings the message across to Aladdin. He takes Saleen to a fish restaurant where Team Aladdin trap Saleen into the sea getting Jasmine free at the same time.
Saleen does not take no for an answer, so she pulls Aladdin deep under water, nearly drowning him. Aladdin and Jasmine struggle with Saleen until she is launched across the ocean Submarine Genie. Aladdin and Jasmine make it up and, for the moment, everything is fine.
Saleen goes back and out to get Aladdin. By sinking one of the Sultan's ships, she lures Aladdin somewhere in the ocean. There, she makes a surprise appearance to let a print of a sea star on Aladdin's chest. With her magic, Aladdin slowly grows webbed appendages on his hands, feet, and ears, until he grows a sharks tail and forms into a merman, and then into a shark. Genie tries to hide him but he escapes into the sea where Saleen keeps him as a pet. Then, Genie, Abu and Iago with the help of Saleen’s former pet, an octopus, free Aladdin from Saleen's grasp and returns his body back to normal as well as frees his spririt from her spell.
[edit] Source
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
