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“ | You poor simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me. ME!, the Mistress of All Evil! Well here's your precious princess! [reveals Aurora's body in a death-like sleep and laughs maniacally as she magically disappears] | „ |
~ Maleficent's infamous words while taunting three of her hated archenemies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. |
“ | Now, shall you deal with ME, o Prince, and all the powers of HELL!!! (maniacal laugh) | „ |
~ Maleficent's last words before transforming into a dragon leading to her battle with Prince Phillip leading to her death. |
Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 16th full-length animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. In Sleeping Beauty, she is the arch-nemesis of the Three Good Fairies, Princess Aurora, and Prince Phillip. She is an evil fairy who takes offense at not being invited to the christening of Aurora and attempts to get revenge on King Stefan and his people by cursing Queen Leah and Stefan's beloved daughter, Princess Aurora.
She is responsible for all the trouble and misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom. She also appears to have a hatred of the Three Good Fairies: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, her rivalry opposites who do all in their power to keep her overwhelming evil magic at bay. With her dark, elegant design, dramatic and flamboyant animation, and unlimited arsenal of magic powers, Maleficent is one of the most popular and well-known Disney villains.
In the 1959 animated film, she was modeled and voiced by the late Eleanor Audley, who previously portrayed Lady Tremaine in Disney's 1950 film, Cinderella, and Madame Leota in The Haunted Mansion. In subsequent appearances, she is voiced by Susanne Blakeslee who also currently voiced Lady Tremaine and Cruella De Vil. In Japanese, she is voiced by Toshikio Sawada. In the 2014 live action film and its 2019 sequel, she was portrayed by Angelina Jolie, who also played Grendel's Mother in the 2007 film adaptation of Beowulf, Lola in DreamWorks' Shark Tale, and Mrs. Nerse in The Cleveland Show.
Appearance[]
Maleficent appears in the form of a tall, slender, beautiful (although some appearances of her depict her with gray skin) woman with pale green skin, a narrow face, and a prominent chin. She also has yellow eyes and black horns (it is unknown if those are her horns or a headdress), which is symbolic of her dark magic. She is clad in a black and purple robe with bat wing-like edges, underneath her robe, she wears a dress with the same color pallet, but with some red instead of purple, and wears a gold ring with a large, mysterious, circular black stone in it. Both the horned headdress and bat wing-like robe represent and foreshadow her dragon form. Unlike the other three fairy godmothers in the movie, Maleficent is an evil sorceress, and her evil enables her to perform many magical and powerful spells. She carries a staff with a glowing green orb at the tip through which she casts her spells. She is also frequently accompanied by Diablo, perched on her shoulder. She seems to have a minor quirk in regards to holding light objects, as she seems to extend her pinkie when holding a torch in the forward direction, as evidenced during her capture of Prince Phillip.
She is also capable of shapeshifting at will into numerous forms, including a floating hypnotic light resembling a will-o'-the-wisp and a massive, monstrous, intimidating dragon, who is largely black with a purple and ribbed underbelly which starts below her jaw to the tip of her tail, with green (sometimes yellow) eyes, along with a long yellow snake-like tongue, a yellow mouth who is capable of breathing a burning, acidic green fire and black, pointy sharp claws and teeth. She also possesses webbed fins underneath her horns and multiple spines across her back and neck, some of which form a sharp and long three-pronged tip at her tail. She also possesses webbed wings, though these are somewhat small compared to her overall size, though Maleficent still seems able to fly with them at some degree.
Personality[]
“ | Oh, but she doesn’t, dear. Maleficent doesn’t know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping earnest. You know, sometimes I don’t think she’s really very happy. | „ |
~ Fauna indicating Maleficent's lack of knowledge of love, indicating she lacks sympathy towards others. |
Maleficent is the ultimate epitome of evil in the Disney universe. She is evil, malicious, devious, wicked and ruthless and will do whatever it takes to achieve her ruthless goals and cause pain, misfortune and suffering to others. She’s introduced as an impeccably sophisticated, soft-spoken, elegant and regal creature. She is highly skeptical, sardonic, and manipulative, shown by how she referred to the Three Good Fairies as "the rabble", which nearly prompted Merryweather to attack her. Maleficent admits that she felt distressed at not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora. She is openly uncooperative, hurtful and malicious in cursing Princess Aurora with her eventual death. She is also very sinister and sadistic, as she relishes in the pain and misery of others, which is shown when she taunts a chained Prince Phillip shortly after capturing him in locking him in a dungeon. Maleficent is also very persuasive, abrasive, unpleasant and narcissistic to a fault, mocking the Three Fairies for their failure to protect Aurora, and for the fact that they thought they could defeat "the Mistress of All Evil", indicating that she thinks herself above everyone to the point of even calling her minions "her pets", considering them inferior to her.
Maleficent is an extremely bellicose, diabolical person, and is shown to have some emotional instability, this is evident when she finds out that her goons had incompetently spent the last sixteen years searching for nothing but a baby, where she reacts at first with a maniacal laughing but eventually turns into a burning rage and violenty attacking them with lightning bolts with her staff. Maleficent is also shown to be sarcastic, this is evidenced when she pretends to be shocked and hurt when Merryweather tells her she wasn't wanted at the christening and states she decides to leave. Her sarcastic side is also shown when she psychologically tortures Prince Phillip, she states that when Phillip is set free he will be "straight and tall" despite the vision showing an elderly Phillip who is barely even able to stay straight correctly.
Despite her wicked nature, Maleficent is not without redeemable traits as she is shown to care for her pet raven Diablo. She’s shown to be affectionately stroking the bird on several occasions, even suffering a villainous breakdown after learning that one of the fairies turned him into a permanent stone statue. Maleficent has shown to be capable of terror, shown by her reaction to Prince Phillip hacking through her enchantments so easily. This prompts her to enter the fray directly. She’s also very prideful, egotistical, and overconfident, describing her powers as all of the powers of hell. She’s a devious, cruel, spiteful and treacherous creature, shown to laugh hysterically when she transformed into a dangerous dragon. Maleficent is also a bloodthirsty and aggressive being by nature, never having a certain goal in mind and only wishing to cause pandemonium and chaos in the world, supported by her true form being a dragon.
Maleficent has no knowledge about love, or kindness, or even the joy of helping earnest according to Fauna. indicating she shows no sympathy or empathy towards others, as Fauna also states that she enjoys destroying Flora's nicest flowers through frost storms. However, It is implied that she did knew about love due to it being a threat to her curse, as she attempts multiple times to kill and prevent Phillip from reaching King Stefan's castle as she previously taunted him regarding his role in breaking the spell.
Powers and Abilities[]
“ | Flora: Don’t despair, your majesties. Merryweather still has her gift to give. King Stefan: Then, she can undo this fearful curse? Merryweather: Oh, no, sire. Flora: Maleficent’s powers are far too great. |
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~ Flora telling a worried King Stefan that Maleficent's magic is far too powerful for Merryweather to undo her curse. |
Maleficent is one of the most powerful villains in Disney history, being a enormously powerful magical being, since she is the personification of pure evil. She displays the following powers:
- Teleportation: Maleficent is capable of transporting herself from one place to another with a wave of her staff.
- Elemental Manipulation: Maleficent is capable of manipulating fire as a means of defense and transportation and shoot bolts of electricity from her staff as an offensive barrage on an opponent. She can also summon thunder and frost storms at will.
- Divination: She is capable of seeing into the distant future using the orb in her staff.
- Plant Control: At one point, Maleficent surrounded Aurora's castle with a forest of thorn bushes that are abnormally large and strong to slow Prince Philip down. Only the Sword of Truth can penetrate the branches of these bushes, because it was enchanted.
- Flight: She can fly in a form of energy similar to a comet, in which shape she can reach superhuman speeds.
- Zoopathy: She appears to have a symbiotic control over her crow Diablo.
- Casting Curses: She can create a tremendously elaborate curse on a person, as she did with the Princess Aurora.
- Shape-shifting: In the climax of the film, Maleficent transforms into an enormous dragon. Referring this to "all the powers of hell," it is her ultimate form in which her powers are increased immensely:
- Fire Breath: When Maleficent is a dragon, she is capable of breathing acid-green fire. The fire is incredibly potent, as lightning cracks whenever she breathes fire, and it is capable of knocking an enchanted weapon out of its owner's grasp.
- Immense Strength: As a dragon, Maleficent's physical strength increases tremendously. Her jaws become incredibly powerful, as whenever she snaps them shut, they create sonic booms.
- Immense Durability: Maleficent is immune to fire and conventional weapons as a dragon, but enchanted weapons can penetrate her hide.
Weaknesses[]
Despite being preternaturally powerful, manipulative, and intelligent, Maleficent is neither omnipotent or omniscient in her abilities and capacities. The effects of her powers, and Maleficent herself, are also not especially immune to enchanted weapons, and her curses, while elaborate, powerful and nearly unbreakable, cannot be undone, but can be worked around in some ways, by altering them, just like Merryweather altered Maleficent’s curse from death to sleep.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Diablo the Raven † - Former Pet and Sidekick
- Maleficent's Goons - Former Minions
Enemies[]
- The Three Good Fairies - Arch Enemies
- Princess Aurora - Attempted Victim (Never met)
- Prince Phillip - Kidnapee, Attempted Victim and Killer
- King Stefan
- Queen Leah
- King Hubert
- Lord Duke - Only met in an alternate scene
- Sir Minstrel - Never met
- Mickey Mouse
- Donald Duck
- Goofy
- Minnie Mouse
- Protagonist (Kingdom Hearts χ/Union χ)
- Lauriam
- Sora
- Riku
- Terra
- Aqua
- Ventus
Other Media[]
Films[]
Maleficent films[]
- Main article: Maleficent (Maleficent Film)
Maleficent (2014)[]
Maleficent (played by Angelina Jolie) appears as the main protagonist of the 2014 live-action film Maleficent. Which tells the untold story of how and why the dark fairy became evil.
In this version, Maleficent had a pair of giant black wings and was the protector of an enchanted swampland called the Moors which multiple kingdoms wanted for their own. One day she meets a peasant boy named Stefan and became friends with him, the years passed and they eventually fall in love with eachother but Stefan's ambition to become royalty ultimately drives them apart. The ailing King Henry, wanting to possess the Moors, orders Maleficent to be hunted down and killed. Stefan wants to be King but he still can't bring himself into killing Maleficent, so he cuts off her wings and presents them to the king as proof that he supposedly killed her. This is enough to make him the new monarch when King Henry died shortly after. Maleficent, betrayed and heartbroken, swears revenge on Stefan.
When she learns that now-King Stefan has a newborn daughter named Aurora, she curses the princess to fall in a deathlike slumber where she could only be awakened by a true love's kiss. Due to the three fairies being imcompetent and negligent at raising Aurora in this version, Maleficent takes care of the princess from afar in order to fulfill her curse. This causes Maleficent to instantily become attached to the child. But it was too late already, the curse had already been fulfilled despite Maleficent's efforts to undo her curse. Maleficent voices her regrets and kisses Aurora's brow which causes her to wake up and after defeating King Stefan, Maleficent gets her wings back and crowns Aurora to rule the Moors.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)[]
Angelina Jolie returns as Maleficent in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. In the course of the film's runtime, Prince Phillip's mother, Queen Ingrith tries to provoke a war between humans and fairies by creating the impression that Maleficent has cursed the king, which causes her to flee the kingdom only to be rescued by others of her species. After nearly destroying the fairies by devising a red cloud of dust that could turn fairies into trees, the Queen knocks Aurora off a tower but fortunately, Maleficent manages to save her before she hits the ground, and after breaking the curse on the King and transforming the Queen into a goat. Shortly after Aurora and Phillip's wedding, she flies away promising to come back for their child's christening.
Descendants (2015)[]
- Main article: Maleficent (Descendants)
Television[]
House of Mouse[]
Maleficent has made a few appearances on the House of Mouse series. Where she plays a larger role in the episode "Halloween with Hades" where Hades is smitten with her, Mickey overhears and recommends Hades act nice to attract Maleficent. The technique fails to the point Hades gets so mad he tries to incinerate Mickey as vengeance, Maleficent notices that and changes her mind about him and agrees to go out with Hades. In later scenes they are seen dining together.
Maleficent has been approached by male villains who have tried to charm her, like Captain Hook and Jafar, only for them to end up zapped, burnt and rejected
In "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation", Maleficent in her dragon form causes a fire in the club alongside Mushu, the Reluctant Dragon and Madam Mim in her dragon form, with Mushu accusing her of this.
Maleficent also appears in Mickey's House of Villains where she merely joins as an ensemble member once the villains take over the club.
Once Upon a Time[]
- Main article: Maleficent (Once Upon a Time)
Quotes[]
“ | Well, quite a glittering assemblage, King Stefan. Royal, nobility, the gentry and [laughs] how quaint, even the rebel. I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation. | „ |
~ Maleficent's first words, upon appearing on Princess Aurora's christening and remarking the fact of not having been invited to the ceremony. |
“ | The Princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But... before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel...and DIE!. | „ |
~ Maleficent casting her curse upon the newborn Princess Aurora. |
“ | Stand back, you fools! [laughs manically]. | „ |
~ Maleficent holding off the royal guards as she manically laughs as she dissapears in a flash of lightning, fleeing the scene. |
“ | IT'S INCREDIBLE!, sixteen years and not a trace of her! She couldn’t have vanished into thin air!. Are you sure you searched everywhere? | „ |
~ Maleficent showing her frustation and despair as her prophecy had not yet been fulfilled after sixteen years. |
“ | 'Fools!, idiots!, imbeciles! | „ |
~ Maleficent furiously flinging lightning bolts at her goons for their incompetence. |
“ | Oh, they’re hopeless. A disgrace to the forces of evil. [She then talks to the raven.] My pet, you are my last hope. Circle far and wide, search for a maid of sixteen with hair of sunshine gold and lips red as the rose. Go, and do not fail me. | „ |
~ Maleficent sending her raven Diablo to find Princess Aurora. |
“ | Touch the spindle. Touch it, I say! | „ |
~ Maleficent demanding an hypnotized Aurora to touch the the spindle of the spinning wheel, fulfilling her curse. |
“ | Well, this is a pleasant surprise. I set my trap for a peasant, and lo! I catch a prince! [laughs] Away with him! But, gently, my pets. Gently. I have plans for our royal guest. | „ |
~ Maleficent upon kidnapping Prince Philip as she orders her goons to take him to the Forbidden Mountain. |
“ | Behold, King Stefan’s castle, and in yonder topmost tower, dreaming of her true love, the princess Aurora. But see the gracious whim of fate. Why, ‘tis the self same peasant maid, who won the heart of our noble prince but yesterday. She is indeed most wondrous fair. Gold of sunshine in her hair, lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years to a steadfast heart are ‘bout a day. And now, the gates of the dungeon part, and the prince is free to go his way. Off he rides on his noble steed… | „ |
~ Maleficent taunting Prince Phillip as she reveals her intent to keep Phillip imprisonated until he's elder |
“ | SILENCE!!! You. Tell those fools to- [realizes Diablo was stoned] No. [gasps] NO! | „ |
~ Maleficent spotting Prince Phillip escaping her mountain. |
“ | A forest of thorns shall be his tomb, born throught the skies on a fog of doom, now go with a curse and serve me well, 'round Stefan's Castle, cast my spell! | „ |
~ Maleficent conjuring a thorn forest spell to surround King Stefan's castle as a blockade in order to prevent Prince Phillip from getting to Princess Aurora and breaking her curse. |
“ | NO! IT CANNOT BE!!! | „ |
~ Maleficent's breakdown as she infuriatedly teleports to the castle in order to face Phillip,. |
Audio[]
Maleficent's dragon's roar in the 2008 Blu-Ray promo:
Maleficent's jaw snap:
Maleficent (originally Queen Grimhilde)'s death scream:
Trivia[]
- Maleficent is one of the three Disney villains to say the word "Hell", the other two being Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Forte from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.
- Maleficent has been mentioned by Miss Nettle in her villain song, which says "I'll be as famous as Maleficent." so maybe, she thinks that Maleficent is the most famous fairy of the Disney world.
- Maleficent may be the first Disney villain to appear in an adaptation told from her perspective.
- Her final scream was provided by recycled voice footage of Queen Grimhilde's from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is provided in the section above.
- Coincidentally, Maleficent is the second Disney villain to die at the end of the film following Queen Grimhilde, as well as one the many Disney villains to fall to her death.
- Also, her roar from the 2008 Blu-Ray promo was provided by the voice footage of the T-Rex from the 1993 movie, Jurassic Park.
- Maleficent is pictured on one of the 10 USA non-denominated commemorative postage stamps celebrating "Disney Villains", issued as a pane of twenty stamps on July 15, 2017. The set was issued in a single sheet of 20 stamps. The price of each stamp on day of issue was 49 cents. The other villains depicted in this issue are the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Honest John from Pinocchio, Lady Tremaine from Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Captain Hook from Peter Pan, Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians, Ursula from The Little Mermaid, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, and Scar from The Lion King.
- The A Twisted Tale Once Upon A Dream version of Maleficent is far worse than her animated counterpart.
- When Maleficent taunts an imprisoned Philip in his castle, she shows him an image of him being a old man riding on his horse and exiting the castle. However, if looked carefully, the old Philip and his horse are transparent, implying that they are ghosts, which means that Maleficent never intended to release Philip alive.
- Despite being considered one of the evilest Disney Villains, Maleficent isn't totally heartless. She did care for her pet raven Diablo and was shown shocked and horrified when Merryweather petrified him, which implies she may have had a soft side for her raven.
- Quite ironically, in Strawberry Shortcake, the character has a counterpart in the Brambleberry Fairy who resembles a corrupted Angel Cake.
- Maleficent’s original voice actor and performance model, Eleanor Audley, actually turned down the role due to tuberculosis, tried to protect her voice. Miraculously, she recovered in time to perform one of her legendary roles.
- She is often referred to as both a witch/sorceress, as well as a dark fairy.
- In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream, Drop, Distance, Master Xehanort refers to her as “The Dark Fairy”.
- Journal entries through the series refer to her as a witch, sorceress and a dark fairy.
External links[]
- Maleficent on the Disney Wiki
- Maleficent on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Maleficent on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki
- Maleficent on the VS Battles Wiki
- Maleficent on the Wikipedia
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