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| “ | 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 |
| “ | 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 archenemies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. |
| “ | Now, shall you deal with ME, o Prince, and all the powers of HELL! | „ |
| ~ 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 Sleeping Beauty franchise.
She is the arch-nemesis of the Three Good Fairies, Princess Aurora, and Prince Phillip. She is an evil fairy/witch 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 his and Queen Leah’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.
Portrayals[]
- 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 and Lola in DreamWorks' Shark Tale.
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 razor-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, sadistic, 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. She’s also very clever enough to get what she wants by tricking King Stefan and Queen Leah into claiming she’s unoffended and allowed her to bestow the so-called gift on Aurora which actually turns out to be the curse in disguise. 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 save 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 violently 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 when, instead of killing prince Phillip, she chose to lock him in a dungeon instead and intended to release him only when he becomes a frail old man (if she ever intended to release him), and mocking him about it. Her malice and sadism is further shown when she laughs hysterically when transformed into a dangerous dragon to stop him from reaching princess Aurora. Maleficent is also a bloodthirsty and aggressive being by nature, never having a certain goal in mind, except causing destruction and misery, 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, 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 know about love well enough to recognize it as a potential 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. She’s so adamant and determined to prevent him from destroying her curse that even when her heart was pierced by his sword and was clearly dying, she made one final attempt at his life by trying to eat him as she fell, failing only because Phillip managed to dodge her snapping jaws in time.
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's Staff
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 (as mentioned by Merryweather) 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: As a dragon, Maleficent is capable of breathing acid-green fire that she is able to project from her mouth. Her fire breath is incredibly potent as lightning cracks whenever she breathes it while it is capable of knocking an enchanted weapon out of its owner's grasp.
- Immense Strength: As a dragon, Maleficent has demonstrated immense strength due to her gargantuan size. Her jaws become incredibly powerful as whenever she snaps them shut, they create sonic booms.
- Immense Durability: As a dragon, Maleficent is immune to fire and conventional weapons as her skin is covered over with thick scales which act as body armor, 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 † - Pet and Sidekick
- Maleficent's Goons - Minions
- Disney Villains
- Pete - Minion
- Hades - Love interest
Enemies[]
- The Three Good Fairies - Arch Enemies
- Princess Aurora - Attempted Victim
- 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
- Yen Sid
- Protagonist (Kingdom Hearts χ/Union χ)
- Lauriam
- Sora
- Riku
- Terra
- Aqua
- Ventus
Other Media[]
Films[]
Maleficent films[]
- Main article: Maleficent (Maleficent Film)
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. Royalty, nobility, the gentry and [laughs] how quaint, even the rabble. 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. a valiant figure, straight and tall, to wake his love with love’s first kiss, and prove that true love conquers all... | „ |
| ~ Maleficent taunting Prince Phillip as she reveals her intent to keep Phillip imprisoned 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 is mentioned by Miss Nettle in her villain song, which says "I'll be as famous as Maleficent".
- 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, albeit her heart was pierced by a magic sword that would have killed her regardless of gravity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Relative enough to her own presentation, Maleficent’s name is an obvious portmanteau of the terms “malevolent” and “magnificent”. Interestingly, part of that formation also contains the word "malefic", which means the illegal use of dark magic (something that she herself uses).
- Early prommotional material and non-English translations claim she's a "witch", but Disney has since confirmed she's a fairy.
External links[]
- Maleficent on the Antagonists Wiki
- 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
- Maleficent on the Fortnite Wiki
- Maleficent on the Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Wiki
- Maleficent on the Sleeping Beauty Wiki
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