I Dream of Jeannies
This blog post is about Jeannie, and her cousin Jeannie, and her other cousin Jeannie, as well as other genies of the Television Crossover Universe. There are three different in-story interpretations of the origins of genies. The original mythology of genies begins with the djinn. In middle eastern folklore, djinn are demons. Both our words for demons and genies originates from the folklore of djinn. Thus, using that interpretation, genies are fallen angels who have been trapped in bottles and lamps, thus being enslaved to do the will of those who possess such items. A second, more liberal interpretation comes from Grant Morrison's run on JLA. Though JLA isn't strictly in the TVCU, some of its mythos have permeated the TVCU. According to Morrison, genies are actually 5th dimensional beings from a world called Zrff. This is a world of extremely powerful beings who are generally so bored with life that they interfere with lower life forms ...