In the third major revision, Aladdin's mother was written out of the script and he was changed from a boy to a teen-ager. The animators were also asked to deal with the fact that, whenever Aladdin and Princess Jasmine were on the screen together, Aladdin seemed to fade into the background. "Jasmine's so charismatic," says Katzenberg, "she just put this guy away; he was like a milquetoast."
