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- “You poor, simple fools, thinking you could defeat me! Me! The mistress of all evil!”
- ―Maleficent to Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather[src]
Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. She is a powerful dark fairy and the incarnation of pure evil, who is responsible for all the misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom. Taking offense at not being invited to the christening of Stefan's daughter, Princess Aurora, Maleficent casts a curse on her, predicting that the princess will die from pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. Maleficent spends the following years making sure that her evil prophecy is fulfilled so that she can plunge the kingdom into sorrow and despair for good.
Maleficent is based on the wicked fairy from the 1697 fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault. She is an official member of the Disney Villains franchise and is considered one of its most recognizable and popular characters due to her memorable design, vivid animation, and unlimited arsenal of magical powers at her disposal.
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Background[]
Development[]
Maleficent's early designs included elements intended to give her a more inhuman look, such as insect antennae.[2]
Walt Disney began work on his animated adaptation of Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant in 1950.[3][4] For their version, Disney and his story artists decided to significantly expand the role of the wicked fairy, who appeared only at the beginning of Perrault's tale and was depicted as an ancient crone, and turn her into the driving force of the story.[5][6] The earliest story treatment was completed by April 1951, naming the character Maleficent, the Fairy of Darkness.[7] In this version, after casting her curse on the princess, Maleficent conjures an indestructible spinning wheel, which forces the king and queen to hide their daughter within the castle walls and never let her out.[4][7] On the princess' sixteenth birthday, Maleficent sneaks into the castle and disguises herself as an old spinner, luring the princess into a secret room and tricking her into pricking her finger on a spindle.[7] After the good fairies put a sleeping spell on the inhabitants of the castle, Maleficent surrounds it with an impenetrable forest of thorns, and a few years later, she attempts to stop the prince (whom the princess met shortly before succumbing to the curse) from saving the princess; the good fairies manage to defeat Maleficent by causing her to accidentally pierce her heart with a spindle from her enchanted spinning wheel.[7]
In 1952, Disney discarded the original treatment for Sleeping Beauty, finding its elements too similar to his previous films, and as a result, the story artists had to start all over again, although they kept some of the earlier suggestions.[4][8] Maleficent was eventually built up as both the embodiment of a powerful sorceress from fantasy literature and the archetype of the femme fatale, following on from the Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Lady Tremaine from Cinderella.[9][10] In the final version of the story, Maleficent not only casts the curse on Princess Aurora, but also lures her to the spinning wheel to fulfill it, as well as attempts to prevent Prince Phillip from awakening Aurora, eventually transforming into a fire-breathing dragon.[5][11] In earlier versions of the scene where Maleficent fulfills her curse, she was supposed to directly confront Aurora, tricking the princess into pricking her finger on the spindle; Disney eventually requested that the scene be rewritten so that Maleficent would lure Aurora to the spinning wheel by hypnotizing her, feeling that this "eerie, haunting presentation of a victim powerless in the hands of evil" would be a stronger choice.[12][13] One of the story ideas originated from an abandoned concept for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, involving Maleficent capturing Phillip, followed by his escape from her domain with the help of the good fairies.[14]
Design and animation[]
- “There were some story suggestions for a character. Then, again, I had a book, I think it was printed in Czechoslovakia, and there was a painting, a religious painting. She had on this black robe, and there was this pattern of flames and that intrigued me. The collar and the points on there, it was kind of trying to get a bat look to [Maleficent]. And, of course, the horns, just because it's kind of the devil image.”
- ―Marc Davis on designing Maleficent[15]
Marc Davis artistically experimented with patterns of triangular color and flame-like shapes to design Maleficent.[3]
The tapestry-esque design of Sleeping Beauty was developed by Eyvind Earle, whose style was strongly influenced by the pre-Renaissance Northern European art, combined with his own abstract vision of realism.[3][16] Earle was given full control over the look of the film and had the decision in the case of character designs and their color schemes.[17][18] Although most animators struggled to adapt to Earle's stylized approach, Marc Davis embraced it, and Walt Disney assigned him to supervise the design and animation of Maleficent (along with Princess Aurora).[19][20] Davis' inspiration for the character's appearance came from a Czechoslovakian book about medieval art that he found in his home library; one of the illustrations featured a religious figure in a long black robe with a flame pattern at the ends, which Davis was "intrigued by."[8][21] He also incorporated a collar resembling bat wings and the horns into Maleficent's final design to give her a full-on devilish look, and endowed her costume with a reptilian quality to foreshadow the dragon she would transform into at the film's climax.[3][15] Davis' original designs featured red trim to Maleficent's costume to emphasize its flame-like shape, but Eyvind Earle felt that the red color would not fit into his background palettes, which had a lot of green, and requested a change to a more complementary lavender.[19][22]
Speaking of her portrayal of Maleficent, Eleanor Audley said that she "tried to do a lot of contrasting to be both sweet and nasty at the same time."[23]
At Walt Disney's insistence, the character animation in Sleeping Beauty was done with extensive use of live-action reference footage. To provide both the voice and live-action reference for Maleficent, he personally suggested Eleanor Audley. who had previously done the same work for Lady Tremaine in Cinderella.[8][15] Davis praised Eleanor Audley's live-action performance for the character, claiming that she created many of Maleficent's expressions and mannerisms that were ultimately used in the animation. The animators were more limited to how their characters could move against the detailed backgrounds. The manner in which Maleficent moved, perhaps limited by her costume, later inspired Andreas Deja to take a similar route when animating Jafar for Aladdin.
Personality[]
Maleficent represents pure evil. She is ruthless, dark, devious, and will do whatever it takes to achieve her evil goals. Additionally, she is very sinister, which is shown when she taunts Prince Phillip after she captures him. Her most famous quote ("You poor simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me. ME! The mistress of all evil!") indicates that she thinks herself above everyone, even calling her closest allies "her pets" in a pseudo-affectionate manner. She also appears to particularly have a hatred of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, her benevolent rivals. Other than herself, the only entity for which that she seems to have a genuine care is her pet raven, Diablo. This is especially evident in her horror at seeing the aftermath of Diablo getting turned to stone, as well as her being shown petting him. Maleficent also seems to have some emotional instability. This is especially evident in her reaction to the discovery that her goons spent the previous 16 years looking for a baby, where she pitched a nearly truly evil laughing fit before reacting violently towards her goons. She is also shown to be very sadistic, which is especially evident when she proceeded to psychologically torture Prince Phillip simply for her own amusement late in the film.
On top of her deviousness, Maleficent is very misleading in her personality. But underneath the mask of stoicism, she unleashes the full brunt of her wrath with a smile, which shows how she relishes in the pain of others. This is displayed during her first appearance during Aurora's birthday ceremony. When Merryweather states bluntly, "You weren't wanted," Maleficent pretends to be shocked and hurt, remarking, "In that event, I'd best be on my way." But then she turned around and cast a curse upon Aurora, cackling while taking in the sweet revenge she had attained. Owing to her misleading personality, she also expresses sarcasm, which is especially evident during her psychological torture of Prince Phillip, where Maleficent states that when he leaves, he will be "up on his noble steed, straight and tall" despite the vision making very obvious that he and his steed were barely even able to leave due to being near-death.
Maleficent is soft-spoken, proper, and elegant and has two possible motivations for her crimes, either out of pride, considering she curses Aurora because Stefan didn't invite her to the christening, or she is simply a monster who enjoys being evil. The latter is further suggested by her admitting that she's not offended by them not inviting her before cursing Aurora.
Fauna indicated that Maleficent has no knowledge of love, or kindness, or joy that comes from helping others. However, her later capture of Prince Phillip, taunts toward Phillip regarding his role in undoing the curse, and later her attempts at preventing Phillip from reaching the castle implied that she knew enough about love to realize it was a massive threat to her curse on Aurora.
Physical appearance[]
Maleficent is a tall and slender woman with pale green skin, a narrow face, and a prominent chin. She appears to be the tallest character in the cast of Sleeping Beauty, as evidenced by the christening scene, with King Stefan only being able to stand eye-to-eye with her while atop the throne steps. She also has yellow eyes and large black horns (it is unknown if they are part of her body or a headdress), which symbolize her nature as an agent of the forces of evil. Maleficent's signature outfit consists of a black robe with lavender trim, batwing-like sleeves with flame-shaped edges, and a long train; under the robe, she wears a magenta dress with long sleeves. She also wears a gold ring with a large round black stone and carries a staff with a glowing yellowish-green orb at the tip.
Maleficent is capable of shapeshifting into numerous forms at will, including a floating hypnotic light, which resembles a will-o'-the-wisp, and an enormous fire-breathing dragon. As a dragon, she can stand upright and is mostly black in color, with her underbelly, starting from just below her jaw up to the tip of her tail, being purple-colored and ribbed. Maleficent has webbed fins under her horns and yellowish-green eyes without pupils, while her tongue and the inside of her mouth are colored yellow. Her claws and sharp teeth are also colored black, and she also has spines across her back and long neck, some of which form a three-pronged tail tip. Maleficent's dragon wings are quite small compared to her overall size, although they still seem to allow her to fly to some extent.
Powers and abilities[]
Maleficent in her dragon form.
Maleficent is one of the most powerful villains in Disney history. She describes her own skills as "all the powers of hell". Her powers are magic-based, and it is also implied during the christening ceremony that her magic was far more powerful than even that of the Three Good Fairies, at least individually, as they admitted they could not outright remove Maleficent's curse but rather alter it. Using her staff, she can conjure up her spells, for example, lightning projection, divination, and teleportation. Merryweather also implied that she was capable of controlling the weather such as frost storms. She can even cast powerful dark magic spells like her forest of thorns. She was capable of hypnosis, as she demonstrated on Aurora to make her prick her finger. She also conjured the spinning wheel and spindle, which she used to prick Aurora's finger, which shows she is capable of conjuration.
She also implied that the sleeping curse's effects, even when not at full power, were sufficient to effectively halt aging so long as the curse was in effect. Maleficent was also capable of flying by conjuring energy from her staff, similar to a galaxy or a helicopter rotor. This was presumably used as an act of desperation, given the events that had her use it. She is also shown to be particularly skilled at pyrokinetic-related spells, as her teleportation sometimes has flames being involved, such as during the christening ceremony and just before confronting Prince Phillip for the final time. Her flames, which are always emerald green colored, are extremely hotter like a sun, strong enough to melt the castle's bridge made of durable stone bricks.
One of her most powerful abilities is to transform herself into a massive fire breathing dragon, with the flame blasts being strong enough to effortlessly knock away Phillip's Shield of Virtue, and her hide in this form was apparently strong enough to even withstand the Sword of Truth barring significant enchantments on the Three Good Fairies part. In addition, her fangs in this form were shown to be venomous in Maleficent Returns, but she lacks immunity to this poison, which ironically also led to her second defeat.
She also possessed some degree of divination and telepathy, as demonstrated when she was taunting Prince Phillip near the end of the film with the revelation that Briar Rose and Princess Aurora were one and the same. In the storybook sequel, she also was capable of petrifying people, which she demonstrated on the people of Aurora's kingdom, including Phillip after her revival, and also attempted to do so on Aurora at the latter's request to save the kingdom, although her protection charm by the Three Good Fairies prevented this from happening.
Appearances[]
Sleeping Beauty[]
Maleficent with Diablo at the christening of Princess Aurora.
In honor of the birth of their long-awaited daughter Aurora, King Stefan and Queen Leah throw a grand celebration throughout their kingdom and arrange a christening, to which they invite the Three Good Fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, so that they can bestow the child with magical gifts. Just before Merryweather gets to give the princess a final gift, Maleficent arrives at the castle along with her pet raven Diablo. She claims that she was offended by not receiving an invitation to the christening and casts a powerful curse on Aurora, predicting that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, the princess will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Stefan commands his guards to seize Maleficent, but before they can do so, she leaves the castle by disappearing into the green flames. Although her magic is not strong enough to undo Maleficent's curse, Merryweather uses her gift to soften it so that Aurora will not die, but will instead fall into a deep sleep that can only be broken by true love's kiss. Still fearful of Maleficent's curse, Stefan orders all the spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. Knowing that Maleficent will still attempt to fulfill the curse at any cost, the good fairies take Aurora away from the castle to a secluded cottage deep in the forest, where they decide to raise the child as their own until her sixteenth birthday, when the curse expires.
Maleficent hurling lightning bolts at her goons for failing to find Aurora.
Upon discovering that Aurora has disappeared from the castle of her parents, Maleficent sends her goons to search the entire kingdom and find the princess. Years pass, but the search proves unsuccessful, to Maleficent's growing frustration, which gives the kingdom hope that her curse will not be fulfilled. Shortly before Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Maleficent discovers that her goons have stupidly spent almost sixteen years searching for a baby instead of a grown-up maiden. Enraged, she violently lashes out at them, before sending Diablo to search for the princess. On Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Diablo accidentally discovers the cottage due to Flora and Merryweather having a duel with magic wands while preparing presents for the princess. He overhears Aurora telling the fairies about a young man she met in the forest and fell in love with earlier that day, with the fairies telling her the truth about her royal heritage and that they must return her to the castle that same evening. Diablo flies back to Maleficent to inform her of what he heard at the cottage, and with this knowledge, she plans her next move.
Maleficent unveiling the sleeping Aurora to the Three Good Fairies.
As the sun begins to set, Maleficent teleports to Stefan's castle and finds Aurora alone in her chambers. Using a hypnotic apparition, she puts the princess into a trance and lures her to a secret room in the upper part of the castle, where she conjures a spinning wheel. The good fairies discover Maleficent's presence and frantically rush after Aurora, managing to momentarily bring her out of the trance by calling her; however, Maleficent hypnotizes Aurora again and orders her to touch the spindle, fulfilling the curse just before the sun sets. When the fairies enter the room, Maleficent mocks their efforts to stop her and reveals them the now sleeping Aurora, before triumphantly disappearing into the green flames. The fairies take Aurora to her bedroom and cast a sleeping spell on everyone in the kingdom until their princess is awakened, while Maleficent (along with her goons and Diablo) goes to the forest cottage to ambush the man Aurora fell in love with, as he is supposed to come there in the evening. When the man arrives, the goons capture him, and Maleficent recognizes him as Prince Phillip, to whom Aurora was betrothed as a baby. They then take Phillip to Maleficent's domain, the Forbidden Mountain, and lock him in a dungeon.
Maleficent taunting the imprisoned Prince Phillip.
After discovering that Phillip is the man Aurora had met, the good fairies return to the cottage, where they find his hat and deduce that the prince has been captured by Maleficent. The fairies travel to her castle on the Forbidden Mountain, where they find Maleficent and her goons celebrating their victory. Maleficent decides to "cheer Phillip up" and descends into the dungeon, where she tauntingly shows the prince that the peasant girl he met in the forest and Princess Aurora are one and the same person; she also reveals her plans to keep Phillip imprisoned for the next hundred years until he grows elderly, and then release him to wake up Aurora, who will not age a day in her slumber. After Maleficent leaves for her chambers to get some rest, the fairies infiltrate the dungeon and free Phillip, arming him with the enchanted Shield of Virtue and the Sword of Truth so that he can fight Maleficent and her minions. As Phillip makes his way through the goons and the obstacles they put in his way, Diablo tries to warn Maleficent, but just when he reaches outside of his mistress' tower, Merryweather turns him into a stone statue.
Maleficent getting stabbed in the heart by Phillip's enchanted Sword of Truth.
Awakened by the sounds of fighting outside, Maleficent emerges from her tower and discovers Diablo's petrified body just as Phillip breaks out of her castle, guided by the good fairies. Maleficent climbs to the top of the highest tower and tries to strike the prince down with lightning bolts, but he evades them. As Phillip reaches the royal grounds, Maleficent surrounds Stefan's castle with a forest of thorns, but the prince manages to hack it with the sword. Enraged, Maleficent teleports to the royal castle just as Phillip reaches the drawbridge and confronts him personally, transforming herself into a massive fire-breathing dragon. In the ensuing battle, Maleficent corners Phillip on a ledge of a high cliff, but just as she is about to finish him off, the fairies magically empower the sword, and the prince throws it at the dragon. Fatally wounded in the chest, Maleficent falls off the ledge, and when Phillip looks down, he sees her shredded cloak and the sword stuck in it on the ground. With Maleficent gone, her forest of thorns fades away, and Phillip enters Stefan's castle, where he finds Aurora and wakes her up with a kiss, breaking the evil fairy's curse and freeing everyone else in the kingdom from their enchanted slumber.
House of Mouse[]
Maleficent in House of Mouse.
Maleficent makes frequent cameos as one of the guests on House of Mouse.
In the premiere episode "The Stolen Cartoons", she was shown turning into her dragon form when Daisy Duck warned Donald that "the crowd is turning ugly".
Her most notable appearance is the episode "Halloween With Hades", which is centered on Hades' attempts to woo her. When Maleficent initially rejects him, Mickey Mouse tries to help Hades by teaching him to be nice, which fails since Maleficent loathes nice. Hades furiously tries to kill Mickey, but Maleficent is impressed by his fiery temper and agrees to go out with him. They are seen having dinner together at the end of the episode, although Maleficent's later appearances suggest that their relationship did not work out. Throughout the show, Maleficent is frequently approached by other male villains who try to win her over, but she always rejects them in return. In the same episode, Captain Hook tries to charm her, only for Maleficent to zap him away with her staff. In "Max's Embarrassing Date", Jafar also attempts to woo her when they are sitting together, but Maleficent literally burns him after he tries to compliment her.
In "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation", Maleficent in her dragon form, alongside Mushu, Madam Mim, Elliott, and the Reluctant Dragon, cause a fire in the club, with Mushu accusing her of this.
In Mickey's House of Villains, Maleficent appears along with other villains during the takeover of the club led by Jafar. During the song "It's Our House Now", she takes on her dragon form, which is praised by Chernabog. This is the only time Maleficent can be heard singing in animation, although she only sings one line here.
Other appearances[]
A dragon resembling Maleficent's dragon form makes a brief cameo in the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Guatemala Malarkey" as one of the booby traps in the cursed temple.
Maleficent in her dragon form appears as a minor antagonist in LEGO Disney Princess: The Castle Quest. During the climax, she is summoned by Gaston to kill the Disney Princesses to prevent them from thwarting his plot to seize power over all the kingdoms. Snow White manages to tame the dragon, who turns on Gaston and burns him alive.
In Once Upon a Studio, Maleficent is seen in the lobby of the Walt Disney Animation Studios among the characters queuing on the stairs. Maleficent later joins in on singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" with all the other Disney characters as a group photo is successfully taken for the Disney's 100th anniversary.
In Wish, Maleficent is featured among the characters from the Disney animated features canon that appear during the film's end credits.
Billy Kaplan is dressed up as Maleficent for the trial on the Witches' Road in the Agatha All Along episode "Death's Hand in Mine".
Printed media[]
Comics[]
Maleficent appears in the 1991 Italian comic crossover Paperino in: La storia (in)finita, which is a parody of the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story, and was published in the Italian magazine Topolino. She serves as the leader of the Disney Villains and the equivalent of the wolf Gmork from the original movie and book.
When a mysterious malevolent force known as the Nothing slowly destroys the magical world of Fantasyland, Maleficent arrives on Madame Medusa's steamboat, where the villains are assembled. She warns them that Mickey Mouse has been tasked with fighting the Nothing and saving the life of the Empress (played by Daisy Duck). Maleficent then explains that it is in the villains' best interests to allow the Nothing to destroy the magical world, because once it is destroyed, they will be able to remake it to their liking with their dark magic. She decides to take care of Mickey herself and goes to the forest of Broceliande, where Mickey seeks advice from Merlin. Maleficent casts a curse on the forest to put everyone in it to sleep, and although Mickey manages to get some advice from Archimedes, the spell soon affects him.
Maleficent reappears at the climax of the story, confronting Mickey on the derelict Pleasure Island that is slowly being consumed by the Nothing. After Maleficent brags that she is going to kill him so that the Nothing cannot be stopped, Mickey asks about her motivation, and she explains that this way the good will finally be defeated. When Mickey retorts that evil cannot win if she and the other villains are also killed by the Nothing, Maleficent admits that she lied to the other villains, manipulating them into helping her kill Mickey, and that she is willing to sacrifice her life to see the agents of good destroyed. Maleficent transforms into a dragon, but before she can kill Mickey, she is consumed by the Nothing, while Mickey makes a timely escape on Dumbo's back.
Maleficent's Revenge[]
Illustration of Maleficent ascending in Maleficent's Revenge.
Maleficent serves as the eponymous antagonist of Maleficent's Revenge, a short story included in Disney's Scary Storybook Collection.
Two years after the events of Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip are preparing to celebrate their second wedding anniversary by hosting a royal ball for the entire kingdom. While the Three Good Fairies are working on the decorations, they notice that their powers have run out due to a solar eclipse; when it occurs, the fairies lose their magic and their spells are undone. Meanwhile, on the Forbidden Mountain, Merryweather's spell over Diablo is broken, and raven is revived from his petrification. He then finds Maleficent's staff and uses it to revive his mistress. Brought back to life, Maleficent makes her way to the kingdom, plotting to break Aurora and Phillip apart and take over the land.
On the day of the royal ball, Maleficent crashes the celebration and casts a spell on the castle, turning everyone into stone, except Aurora, who is protected by a spell cast on her as a baby by the good fairies. Tormented and desperate, the princess goes to the Forbidden Mountain and begs Maleficent to have mercy on Phillip and her people, asking the evil fairy to turn her into stone instead. Maleficent is unable to place a curse on Aurora due to the protection spell, but she is able to grant her wish, and the princess wishes to fall into eternal slumber in exchange for freeing everyone else.
With Aurora once again put into a deep sleep, Maleficent releases the rest of the kingdom from the stone spell, including Phillip, who rushes to the Forbidden Mountain to save his wife. Maleficent takes on her dragon form and tries to sting Phillip with her venomous fangs, but accidentally bites her own tail in the process and dies. With the evil fairy gone for good, Phillip once again awakens Aurora with true love's kiss, and the couple returns to their castle, where they continue celebrating their anniversary with the rest of the kingdom.
Kilala Princess[]
In the manga series, Maleficent returns disguised as "Lady Malecent" and attempts to curse Aurora at the princess' seventeenth birthday using magic rose thorns. However, the story's heroine, Kilala Reno, shields Aurora and falls under the curse. When Prince Rei delivers a kiss to a sleeping Kilala, Maleficent's evil plot was once again undone by true love's kiss, this time, ending Maleficent's life.
Kingdom Keepers[]
Artwork of Maleficent for the Kingdom Keepers book series.
Maleficent plays a major role in the novel that tells the story of Walt Disney World after dark. Maleficent is one of the Overtakers and believed to be the leader. Still, nearing the end of the first book, when Finn calls her the Overtakers' leader, she denies it and tells there's someone far more powerful than her. In this version, Maleficent will become weakened if in warm places; thus she gives off a cold chill, which cues the Keepers into when she's nearing their location.
Prior to the first story, Maleficent cursed a girl named Jess into becoming her servant, to keep her from giving predictions to the Keepers. She was set free thanks to Finn's DHI powers; Maleficent held a grudge against both of them and tried numerous times to incapacitate them.
Though captured twice, Maleficent manages to escape each and every time; the second time was with her master, Chernabog. She, the Queen, and Cruella look for Disney's notes on Chernabog to find a way to bring him back to full power as the transitions into different forms she's caused him to go through have severely weakened him. Onboard the Dream, Maleficent and the rest of the Overtakers blend in without much of the problem as the crew mistake them for Cast Members in costumes. During the two-week cruise, she plans to toss the Keepers overboard.
During the Sixth book, Dark Passage, Maleficent is killed by Finn (who had become blinded by rage at being tricked into killing his best friend for them), who ripped a hole in her using his DHI powers. In the Seventh book, The Insider, Tia Dalma retrieved some of Maleficent's bones and enacted a ritual to resurrect her. Upon meeting Ursula, Finn wondered if Maleficent was a double-agent secretly working for the sea witch.
In The Return trilogy, Maleficent is brought back as a Frankenstein-like misshapen being with stronger powers by Tia Dalma. She attempts to attack Amanda and Jess.
Other books[]
In the Disney Villains: Top Secret Files, Maleficent is featured in her own section. According to the pieces of information provided, Maleficent's last name is Faery. She attended a magic school in her youth, where she (already) showed remarkable interests in dragons. In her younger years, she tended to accidentally transform into her dragon form (only learning to control it much later); this happened at a birthday party where she was invited. The resulting disaster is why she was traditionally never invited to parties. On the other hand, it turns out she was actually invited to Aurora's birth ceremony and that the invitation simply never got to her castle because she burnt the postman to death (believing him to be a trespasser) before he could deliver it.
In Disney Villains: My Side of the Story, Maleficent claimed her actions in the film were portrayed incorrectly, and that her efforts were merely meant for Aurora and Phillip's best interests.
Video games[]
Mickey Mousecapade[]
Maleficent appears as the final boss of the North American version of the Nintendo game Mickey Mousecapade (in the original Japanese version, the final boss is the Queen of Hearts).
Kingdom Hearts series[]
Maleficent appears as one of the main antagonists in the Kingdom Hearts series. Unlike the other Disney villains featured in the game (except Pete), who are only antagonists to the world they originate from, she plays a major role throughout the overall storyline of the series. Maleficent's story begins in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, in her homeworld Enchanted Domain, where she meets the dark Keyblade master Xehanort. Their contact leaves Maleficent with the knowledge of the existence of other worlds, the seven princesses of light, thus beginning her journey to gather all the princesses and unleash darkness upon the worlds, claiming them as her own, leading into the events of Kingdom Hearts. In order to do so, Maleficent enlists the assistance of several Disney villains: Pete, Jafar, Ursula, Captain Hook, Oogie Boogie, and Hades. Together, they wreak havoc upon their worlds and collect the princesses through the control over mysterious creatures known as the Heartless, with Maleficent managing to capture Aurora before having Enchanted Domain consumed in darkness. However, one boy stands in their way, that boy being Sora, the Keyblade's chosen one. With the help of Donald Duck and Goofy, Sora manages to travel across the worlds, defeating each villain, and eventually finding himself in Hollow Bastion, where Maleficent has built her home base. A battle follows, and eventually, Maleficent is killed after facing Sora in her dragon form after Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, possessing Riku, awakens her inner darkness in her heart with his own Keyblade. It was later revealed that Maleficent was actually nothing more than a pawn in Xehanort's hands, to collect the seven pure hearts for him and complete the first step of his greater plan.
As revealed in Kingdom Hearts Union χ, Maleficent did not actually die during the events of the first game. As when Ansem opened her heart with his dark Keyblade, he unwillingly allowed the evil fairy to transcend the rules of time travel. In this way, while Maleficent's body perished after her defeat against Sora, her heart travelled back in centuries and finding herself into a data-replica of her past homeworld. Unable to change the past events she is reached by a mysterious entity called "Darkness", who explains she was trapped here as part of the Master of Masters plans, and offers to guide her to the only way to return to her right temporal line. Together they travel to Auropoli, and reach a time travel machine. Maleficent is confronted by Lauriam, who tries to eliminate her, although the witch wins the fight and manages to use the capsule to go back to the future.
This way, in Kingdom Hearts II, she revives from her death. The only villain still in contact with her being Pete, thanks to Diablo taking her cloak to Master Yen Sid's tower, where the memories of her from Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather resurrect her, gaining back her body, and sets up her new base back in Hollow Bastion at Villain's Vale when she discovered she could no longer use the castle as her headquarters like before. Together, they continue their quest for power, by merely invading worlds and attacking with Heartless, along with allying with fellow Disney villains, both new and old, such as Oogie Boogie and Hector Barbossa, but a new threat is known as the Organization XIII gets in the way of Maleficent's quest for power. Maleficent and Pete appear to sacrifice themselves in order to hold off a horde of Heartless so that Sora, Riku, and their allies can defeat Organization XIII's leader, Xemnas at the summit of the Castle That Never Was.
Maleficent also appears in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts coded, and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, where she appears as a considerably minor character, looking to consolidate power and antagonize both Sora and King Mickey.
Maleficent returns in Kingdom Hearts III. She and Pete searched through the worlds in order to find the Black Box, a mysterious box given by the Master of Masters to his apprentice Luxu. Believing the box might contain the powerful Book of Prophecies, written by the Master himself, Maleficent decides to search for it, in order to use the book as a means to conquer all the worlds.
At the end of the game, after Xehanort's defeat in the Second Keyblade War, Luxu brings the box in the Keyblade Graveyard, followed by the Foretellers, called back from the past. Maleficent and Pete observe them from a distance, apparently deciding that was better to wait for the right moment to take the box for themselves.
Epic Mickey[]
Maleficent appears in her dragon form in the Sleeping Beauty transition level in addition to several background cameos. In Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, she serves as the basis of Mizrabel's redesign and final form along with her dragon form in the Final boss level against Mickey Mouse.
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
Maleficent appears in the game as one of the playable characters that are unlocked for 80 chips. She is Mid-Line Control Role hero. Maleficent's ability to transform into a dragon is the same as in Sleeping Beauty, as is her ability to summon the forest of thorns, although it can only be used to stun enemies. She has a friendship campaigns with Scar, Ursula, Jack Skellington, Dr. Facilier, and Namaari. Maleficent's name is also used for a level titled "Maleficent Market".
Fortnite[]
Maleficent appears in the game as one of the featured Outfits of Fortnitemares 2024. She can be purchased in the Item Shop along with her cosmetics with the Disney Villains Bundle (which also include Captain Hook and Cruella De Vil and their respective) for 3800 V-Bucks or separately along with her cosmetics with the Melificent Bundle for 1800 V-Bucks. Unlike her other incarnations, Fortnite's Maleficent appears with an outfit much more suitable for combat.
Disney Dreamlight Valley[]
Maleficent is an upcoming character in "The Storybook Vale" expansion pass. She will arrive in Act 2 as a full character, after appearing briefly in Act 1, involved in some missions with Hades and the player, as a minor character. She held a grudge with Hades for the control of the Vale, but at the end of Act 1 they reconciled to save the Vale from tearing apart.
She lives in the castle located in The Beanstalk Marshes biome, in the Storybook Vale world. Separate rooms of her castle can be explored in Fairy Tale Trials scattered in the Everafter biomes, where the player needs to cross a portal in order to start the trial, which normally involves solving puzzles of all kind.
It is heavily implied that she has something to do with Aurora's disappearance, and she was the one behind Flynn's curse, making him believe he was a wolf and act under her control to find Aurora. Though she fails in this, since Flynn actually helped Aurora to hide from Maleficent. Maleficent also seems to know the true reasons for what is happening to Storybook Vale after being told of the Neverafter by the player since that is what the Lorekeeper said was the cause, but Maleficent is doubtful of such information as she would have known of it as well.
After reconciling with Hades, she mysteriously disappears. Her fate was revealed in Act 2 of the DLC released on July 9th, 2025. Maleficent had been banished to the Unwritten Realms to be slowly erased while being imprisoned there. She reveals that the Lorekeeper was responsible for banishing her there, because Maleficent knew the truth that the Neverafter was the Lorekeeper's handiwork, and when Maleficent was about to expose the truth, the Lorekeeper sent her there to keep the truth buried. This is further proven when the Lorekeeper sends the player an ultimatum regarding their attempts to rescue Maleficent: Erase the Mistress of All Evil, or face the utter destruction of Storybook Vale and Dreamlight Valley. With Maleficent's help, the player locates Princess Aurora and brings her back, and manages to convince the Lorekeeper to apologize for its actions due to its fear and paranoia that was caused by the Forgotten and the Forgetting, and accept Storybook Vale and Dreamlight Valley for what they are.
Disney Parks[]
A portrait photo of Maleficent released by the Disney Parks.
Disneyland Resort[]
In the 2015 rendition of World of Color, Maleficent appears during the montage celebrating villains.
Maleficent is one of the villains that appear during Halloween Screams as part of Mickey's Halloween Party.
Maleficent appears as the main antagonist of the nighttime show Fantasmic! where she tries to takeover Mickey's dream. She transforms into a dragon and sets the setting on fire, before Mickey defeated her along with the other Disney villains.
Maleficent appears in the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough in the same role from the film. She appear looming over Aurora after she pricked her finger on the spinning wheel. After seeing her goons through the hallway of doors, Maleficent then appears near a window summon demons from her castle. She is then appears on her throne looking over a bonfire with Diablo perched on her staff. Maleficent is then seen fighting Prince Phillip in her dragon form. She appears at the end of the walkthrough in shadow.
Walt Disney World[]
In Disney Villains Mix and Mingle, until 2011, Maleficent was the lead villain and celebrates Halloween with her fellow villains. Dr. Facilier took over in 2011 as the main villain. After she joins in a meet and greet...if one is not too scared of her, of course.
Maleficent also plays a role in Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom. One of the villains in Fantasyland, Maleficent is brought back from the dead by Hades to steal the crystal of the Magic Kingdom, though, like Ursula, Maleficent plans to double-cross Hades and instead use the crystal for her own gain rather than let him have it. The guests have to help Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather defeat her and retrieve the crystal.
Maleficent's dragon-form makes a cameo in the Skipper Canteen of the Magic Kingdom's Adventureland. In the S.E.A. room is a map by Jason Chandler and Captain Brieux of, "Legendary flying creatures" which shows a bronze scaled version of Maleficent's dragon form.
In Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular, Maleficent is the third villain to help the Sanderson Sisters with their Halloween celebration by conjuring various Disney Villains the sisters call "frightful friends". Maleficent and the other villains can be seen singing "I Put a Spell on You" with them during the finale of the show.
She appears in Disney's Hollywood Studios version of Fantasmic! in the same role as in the Disneyland version, but is joined by other Disney villains besides the Evil Queen, Ursula, and Chernabog such as Cruella De Vil, Scar, Judge Frollo, Jafar, and Hades.
In Dream Along With Mickey, the former live castle stage show in the Magic Kingdom, Maleficent attempts to take over the Magic Kingdom. However, Mickey uses the power of dreams to defeat Maleficent. Maleficent decides to leave but reminds Mickey they have not seen the last of her.
She currently appears in her Dragon form battling Prince Phillip, in the Festival of Fantasy Parade, and in the nighttime fireworks show Happily Ever After, where she transforms into a dragon to battle Phillip; her defeat ends the segment centered on adversity.
The scene where she fought Phillip as a dragon was also included in the Action montage in Wonderful World of Animation.
Tokyo Disney Resort[]
In Starlight Dreams, Maleficent was the leader of the villains in the show as she and some other Disney Villains come together, to fight against Mickey Mouse.
Maleficent can also be seen in One Man's Dream II: The Magic Lives On!
During the Halloween season, she is prominently featured alongside other Disney villains and makes a live appearance in Tokyo DisneySea's harbor show, The Villains World.
Disneyland Paris[]
In France, Maleficent also appears in Disney Dreams! where she is summoned by Captain Hook and turns into her Dragon form, to torment the living shadow of Peter Pan.
Maleficent was also seen in Mickey and his Magic Halloween Night and Disney's Maleficious Halloween Party.
Hong Kong Disneyland[]
At Hong Kong Disneyland, she hosted the 2010 Halloween festivities, with an animatronic dragon Maleficent being placed in the hub and hosting a variation of HalloWishes.
In Villains Night Out!, Maleficent joins the festivities of Jafar and the Evil Queen by inviting a cast of Disney villains to the castle.
She also makes an appearance during the final scene of The Nightmare Experiment, seen turning into a dragon.
Shanghai Disneyland[]
As part of the park's Halloween celebration, Maleficent joins Dr. Facilier and Hades in the Villain's Cavalcade night show.
Disney Cruise Line[]
Maleficent is one of the villain suspects in the Midship Detective Agency interactive attraction on the Disney Cruise Line ships and sometimes the culprit.
Maleficent appears as the central character in the immersive and interactive show Under Her Spell: A Maleficent Encounter onboard the Disney Destiny.
Fantasmic![]
- “Now you will deal with me, and all the powers of…MY IMAGINATION!”
- ―Maleficent to Mickey Mouse[src]
In the live nighttime spectacular, Maleficent is the final villain to be called forth by the Evil Queen, who plans to kill Mickey Mouse once and for all. In order to battle Mickey, Maleficent fires a fireball from her staff at him before the pinnacle she stands on rises as she transforms into her dragon form and burns the area with her fire-breathing abilities but is killed along with the other villains by Mickey when he uses the Sword in the Stone. The depiction of Maleficent's dragon form differs between parks: at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, Maleficent was a 45-foot-tall Audio-Animatronic, the largest ever built. Disneyland's dragon was codenamed "Snaps McGee", and frequently referred to as "Murphy" by fans (referring to the dragon's constant technical difficulties leading up to its debut in the Summer of 2009; it did not debut until September 1, 2009), while the Tokyo dragon's nickname is unknown. At Disney Hollywood Studios (and the original Disneyland version), the dragon is a 40-foot mechanical puppet on a JLG cherry picker. California's original dragon was codenamed "Dymo" (often misreported as "Bucky"), while Florida's dragon is codenamed "Vivian". In the event that the dragon is unavailable due to technical or weather issues, Maleficent will battle Mickey in her regular form on her pinnacle, which will lower back down to the ground upon her defeat (although her dragon form still appears on the water screens). After a fire destroyed the dragon at Disneyland in 2023, Maleficent currently faces Mickey in her normal form as previously described from 2024 onwards. It is unknown if the dragon will be replaced.
Differences from the source material[]
In the Sleeping Beauty ballet, the evil fairy was named Carabosse. In some versions of the fairy tale, she only appeared to curse the child at the beginning and did not appear elsewhere in the story; in these versions, the spinning wheel the princess pricks her finger on is not magical but simply a normal spinning wheel. One version of the story shows the fairy who curses the princess as old and grumpy, but not necessarily evil; this version of the character lived (most of the time sleeping) in a tower at the top of the castle, and, after cursing the princess, goes back to sleep, not appearing afterward. Also, the original story did not feature a battle with the prince, and Carabosse doesn't die. In addition, the reason she wasn't invited in the original tale was due to the populace believing that she either was cursed to not be able to come or dead, while in the Disney version, it is heavily implied that her evil nature was what made Stefan decide ultimately not to invite her.
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Trivia[]
- Her name means "to do evil or harm; harmfully malicious". It can also be seen as a portmanteau of the words "malevolent" and "magnificent" and "magnify" and "magnification". The first part of the name also is derived from Malefica, which is latin for witch.
- Maleficent was nominated for a place in 'AFI's 50 Greatest Villains list', along with the Evil Queen, Stromboli, Man, Lady Tremaine, Cruella De Vil, and Ursula. The Disney Villains to make the final list were the Queen (10), Man (20), and Cruella De Vil (39).
- Maleficent is one of the ten villains featured in the tongue-in-cheek Disney's Villains' Lair. Maleficent's section of the book includes the catalog she chose her costume from, and an invitation to Aurora's christening arriving 16 years late (with a small 'oops!' scrawled in the corner). Maleficent is ranked as the second greatest Disney Villain at the end of the book.
- In the original French story, the wicked fairy had not been invited, because for more than fifty years she had never left a certain tower and was thought to be dead or enchanted.
- Unlike most Disney Villains who speak to their respective heroines, Maleficent does not have any direct contact with Aurora (aside from luring her to the spindle) in the animated film. She does, however, have direct contact with Aurora in the storybook sequel Maleficent's Revenge.
- Sleeping Beauty's sound effects designer Jim MacDonald used castanets for the sound of Maleficent's jaws snapping as the dragon. He got the sound of her fiery breath by asking the U.S. Army to send him some training films on using flame throwers. The snapping sound of the dragon was also heard when she bangs the ground with her staff to announce her curse and later to silence the goons. The exact same sound effect was used for Tick-Tock the Crocodile's snapping sound in Peter Pan. In addition, her growl when Prince Phillip briefly tries to slice her snout was taken from a lamp chimney.
- Maleficent's scream upon getting stabbed in the heart by Prince Phillip was reused from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when The Evil Queen gets electrocuted by a thunderbolt and screams as she falls to her death and the boulder crushes her off-screen.
- Maleficent's horned headdress and bat's-wing-like sleeves, besides being reminiscent of the popular images of horned devils and dragons, reflect actual women's costumes of the fourteenth century.
- It is noted in the original 1959 animated film that Maleficent had not been sleeping well (or not at all) for the last 16 years since the day she cursed Aurora. It is clearly seen through her eye bags in the latter parts of the movie set after sixteen years, giving her a more fearsome look.
- Maleficent's curse could be fulfilled at any time before sunset on Aurora's sixteenth birthday.
- In some tie-in storybooks based on the 1959 film and on the stained-glass portrait in the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Paris, Maleficent appears next to Aurora when she urged the princess to touch the spindle on the spinning wheel, despite the fact that she herself is the spinning wheel in the actual film.
- Maleficent was listed #7 in Empire Magazine's The 50 Best Animated Movie Characters. Stating her stroke of genius as "She turns into a frickin' dragon; what more do you need?".
- Maleficent is one of the few Disney characters who has ever uttered the word "hell". Another Disney Villain to use that word is Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame in his song "Hellfire".
- Maleficent is mentioned in a song sung by Miss Nettle from Sofia the First.
- She is often referenced as both a witch/sorceress, and a dark fairy. Both of these are different types of supernatural beings. These phrases may be labels rather than true to what she is, as she has been confirmed to be an evil witch.
- Despite being an evil fairy, she is still viewed as a witch by other entries. One theatrical trailer for the 1993 scrapped re-release of the film, as shown on the 1992 Walt Disney Classics VHS of Beauty and the Beast, even referred to her as an evil witch.
- In the Kingdom Hearts series, her journal entry referred to her as a sorceress but also called an evil fairy or a witch; there are some entries in the other installments of the series:
- Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts II do not. Cid, Yuna, Paine, and Rikku, Final Fantasy characters referred to her as a witch and journal entries referred to her as a sorceress.
- In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Xehanort refers to Maleficent as "The Evil Fairy" (though her also refer as "The Dark Fairy" in the Japanese version)
- Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts III likewise do so, referring to her as an evil fairy.
- Maleficent's defeat was the goriest of the Disney villains' defeats during Walt Disney's lifetime and, to this day, is seen one of Disney's most graphic deaths ever; when she was stabbed in the heart by Prince Phillip, blood was clearly visible oozing out from under the sword on the area of her chest that was stabbed.
- On that note, she is also the only Disney villain to be deliberately and directly killed by one of the heroes within Walt Disney's lifetime. Most other villains, if they were killed off, usually were victims of their own actions with the heroes not playing any role in their demise.
- She is also the first Disney villain in history whose manner of death is shown rather graphically alongside The Horned King, Ursula, Jafar, Scar, and Clayton. In fact, Disney wouldn't do such a graphic villain death in the Disney Animated Canon again until at least when The Black Cauldron came out in 1985.
- Maleficent briefly alludes to Aurora's 100-year sleep in the original tale nearing the end of the film. When taunting Prince Phillip inside his cell, Maleficent tells him "The years roll by, but a hundred years to a steadfast heart are 'bout a day."
- Maleficent and the other good fairies appear to hold noble titles or a high form of status in the kingdom, as they are addressed at Aurora's christening with the term "excellency". It is used by the herald when he announces the arrival of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather by calling each of them "Mistress", as well as when Queen Leah asks Maleficent if she was upset about not being invited, "...and you're not offended, Your Excellency?"
- Maleficent is the only member of the Disney Villains franchise to be a playable character in the Disney Infinity games.
- Although Maleficent cursed a child to death in the original animated film, all her live-action counterparts are portrayed as maternal figures (Maleficent and Lily in Once Upon a Time; Maleficent and Aurora in the 2014 live-action film; and Maleficent and Mal in Descendants).
- Ironically, her forbidding and eerie leitmotif in the film that is lifted from the ballet, is actually a comedic pas de deux between Puss in Boots and the White Cat.
- Maleficent is briefly mentioned in the Sofia the First episode "Make Way for Miss Nettle", when Miss Nettle plots to become the most powerful fairy of them all, and openly wishes to become as famous as Maleficent, though she claims she'll be more magnificent.
- Maleficent makes an appearance as a figment of Kenny's imagination in the ABC show, The Real O'Neals.
- The 1997 VHS cover plot summary for Sleeping Beauty claimed that the reason Maleficent cursed Aurora was due to jealousy of the latter's beauty, even though the film itself never indicated anything about Maleficent having any personal negativity towards Aurora herself. This was presumably due to the one who wrote the summary mixing Maleficent up with the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Interestingly, this similar confusion between the characterizations of both The Evil Queen and Maleficent is also referenced in the House of Mouse episode "Jiminy Cricket", as evident when Jiminy Cricket shares his wisdom, he states, "Savior your youth and beauty, because wicked queens, mean stepsisters, and evil witches will try to steal it from you every time", with the "evil witches" Jiminy Cricket is referring to being Maleficent.
- It is possible to generate green flames similar to Maleficent's in real life, namely if a flame is exposed to Copper or Barium.
- A Maleficent version of Mr. Burns appears in The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XXXI", during the segment "Into the Homer-Verse", as one of the alternate versions of Mr. Burns from different realities.
- In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, during Terra's spirit battle, an Assist Trophy of Ashley (a character from WarioWare), appears representing Maleficent.
- Despite this, designer Masahiro Sakurai mentions her name in Hollow Bastion as "Maleficent's Castle" during development of the final DLC.
- In 2022, a hadrosaur dinosaur was found in Texas and was named Malefica. After the Bruja Canyon where it was found (Bruja being Spanish for witch and deprived from the Latin word for witch Malefica). This is an allusion to Maleficent herself despite the fact that it wasn’t named after the Disney villain.
- Queen Narissa has the ability to turn into a dragon in the movie Enchanted, heavily inspired by Maleficent.
See also[]
- Maleficent (Once Upon a Time)
- Maleficent (Maleficent)
- Maleficent (Descendants)
- Maleficent (Villains)
References[]
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External links[]
Maleficent on Wikipedia- Maleficent on Kingdom Hearts Wiki
- Maleficent on Villains Wiki
- Disney Japan page on Maleficent (Japanese 日本)
- Maleficent on Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Wiki
- Maleficent on Disney Speedstorm Wiki
- Maleficent on Disney Mirrorverse Wiki
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