In contemporary literature and pantomime, the "Grand Vizier" is a character stereotype and is usually portrayed as a scheming backroom plotter and the clear power behind the throne of a usually bumbling or incompetent monarch. A well-known example of this is the sinister character of Jafar in the Disney animated film "Aladdin", who plots and uses magic to take over the entire Kingdom of Agrabah under the nose of the nation's naïve sultan, just as Jaffar in the 1940 movie "The Thief of Bagdad" dethroned his master, caliph Ahmad. Others include Zigzag from "The Thief and the Cobbler" (the original inspiration for the character of Jafar in Disney's "Aladdin"), the comic book character Iznogoud, Prince Sinbad's advisor Yusuf in the DC Vertigo series "Fables", and the villains of the video games "Prince of Persia" and "".