Maleficent

Articles About Maleficent
Main Series	Sleeping Beauty
Alternate Continuity	2014 Remake - Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy
Non-canon	Disney Infinity - Kingdom Hearts - Disney Heroes: Battle Mode - Mirrorverse - Disney Sorcerer's Arena

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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.

“	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

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You poor, simple fools; thinking that you could defeat me! ME, the Mistress of All Evil!

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Background

Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. An evil fairy, Maleficent is an incarnation of pure evil, and is responsible for all misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom. Taking offense at not being invited to the christening of Aurora by King Stefan and his wife, Queen Leah, Maleficent curses the princess to die by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before the sun sets on Aurora's 16th birthday. She also appears to be particularly disdainful of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, her benevolent rivals. She is frequently accompanied by her pet raven, Diablo.

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Sleeping Beauty At the christening of the newly born Princess Aurora, announced by the herald, the Three Good Fairies come to bestow three gifts on the child. Before Merryweather has a chance to give the child a final gift, Maleficent appears with Diablo, perched on her. She then sarcastically addresses the gathered attendees and explains she must have not gotten an invitation until Merryweather bluntly told her she wasn't invited in the first place. While being hurt by the remark, Maleficent decided to leave. Leah then asked if Maleficent was offended, with Maleficent admitting she wasn't, and in fact intended to bear a gift of her own to Aurora. She then promptly curses the child, decreeing that before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday, the child shall die by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. Before the guards can get to her, she disappears, laughing wickedly, leaving everyone in despair and filled with worry. Though she is unable to undo the entire curse herself, Merryweather softens it so that Aurora will not die, but will merely enter a deep sleep that will only last until true love's kiss. As Aurora's sixteenth birthday draws near, Maleficent punishes her Goons after finding out that they have stupidly been searching for nothing but a baby for sixteen years. After angrily calling the goons idiots and imbeciles and intimidating them into running away by conjuring dark lightning bolts with her staff, she sends her raven Diablo to search for the princess. After managing to find the hiding location of Aurora and the fairies, Diablo flies back to Maleficent to inform her of Aurora's whereabouts. With this new knowledge, Maleficent plans her next move. When the three fairies return the princess to the castle and leave her alone for a while, Maleficent uses a hypnotic apparition resembling a will-o-the-wisp to lure Aurora to a spinning wheel conjured by Maleficent. Though Aurora is momentarily snapped out of the trance by the fairies' voices (who call after her to not touch anything), Maleficent orders Aurora to touch the spindle while the fairies try stop Aurora from touching the spindle with her finger. But before the fairies can reach Aurora, she pricks her finger in the process and subsequently falls to the floor, motionless, having fulfilled Maleficent's curse bestowed on her when she was a baby. When the fairies arrive too late to save Aurora, they were horrified to see Maleficent, who briefly mocks her arch enemies of their efforts to defeat her. She uncovers the fallen princess before their eyes and vanishes, cackling maniacally, leaving the fairies to weep over Aurora’s fate. Following this, Maleficent, anticipating thanks to Diablo's intel that the man Aurora met earlier is her true love, summons her goons to head over to Briar Rose's cottage to set up an ambush, and they capture Aurora's true love (who turned out to be Prince Phillip, rather than a peasant). On Maleficent's orders, Phillip is taken to Maleficent's domain in the Forbidden Mountain. When the fairies arrive at the cottage in search of Phillip, all they find is the prince's hat, allowing them to deduce that Maleficent has captured him. At the Forbidden Mountain, Maleficent presides over a bonfire with her minions celebrating their victory (the bonfire itself is implied to have been lit by Maleficent herself due to it using green flames) before deciding to visit the imprisoned Phillip in the dungeon to "cheer [Phillip] up." She taunts him with the knowledge that Briar Rose is actually Princess Aurora, and ridicules the notion that "true love conquers all". She then reveals her intent to keep Philip imprisoned until he grows elderly, then let him go to seek out Aurora, who won't have aged a day since. Maleficent then leaves the dungeon to sleep, saying she shall sleep well for the first time in sixteen years. With Maleficent out of the way, the Three Fairies infiltrate Phillip's cell and arm him with the Shield of Virtue and the Sword of Truth. As they make their escape, they are confronted by Diablo, who fetches the Goons. As the prince and fairies dodge the Goons and make their escape, Diablo flies to warn Maleficent of Phillip's escape, with Merryweather in pursuit. Diablo reaches outside Maleficent's tower, where Merryweather finally turns the raven into a stone statue with a satisfied scowl before rejoining Phillip, Flora, and Fauna. Awakened by Diablo's constant cawing, Maleficent emerges from her tower, where she finds Diablo's petrified form. Shocked by Diablo's state and enraged at the sight of Phillip escaping to reach Aurora, Maleficent attempts to strike him down with lightning. As he continues, she summons a forest of thorns to surround Stefan's castle as a blockade. With the help from the Good Fairies, however, Phillip manages to hack through the thorns and towards the castle. Infuriated again, Maleficent transports herself to Stefan's castle to appear before Phillip personally. As a final attempt to kill the prince, Maleficent summons all the power of Hell to transform herself into an enormous dragon. Phillip charges at the dragon, who drives him backward with her blasts of flame. As Phillip retreats, Maleficent chases him up onto a high cliff and corners him at the ledge. With another powerful flame blast, she blows his shield off. As she bursts out laughing and prepares to finish off the now defenseless Phillip off, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather magically empower the Sword of Truth and Phillip immediately throws the sword at the dragon's heart. Maleficent screams in pain and collapses onto the ledge, attempting to devour Phillip for the last time, but he dodges. Upon impact, her enormous weight causes the ledge to crumble, sending Maleficent tumbling down to her demise below into her own dragon flames and dissolves into a purple coloring dark smoke. Phillip looks down to see what remains of Maleficent, to see nothing more than her shredded cloak on the ground, plus the Sword of Truth, still embedded in the cloak, turning black, having its enchantment worn off. With Maleficent finally destroyed for good, Prince Philip reaches Aurora in her tower and kisses her, which successfully breaks Maleficent's curse. Maleficent's Revenge Maleficent also acted as the eponymous antagonist in Maleficent's Revenge, a short story included in Disney's Scary Storybook Collection. Two years after the film's events, Aurora and Prince Phillip have married, and the couple, as well as the entire kingdom, prepared to celebrate their anniversary. As the Three Good Fairies began work on decorations, they notice their powers have been drained away. This was due to the solar eclipse. When such an event occurs, fairies lose their magic, and their spells are undone, much to Merryweather's discomfort. Meanwhile, Merryweather's spell over Diablo is broken at the Forbidden Mountains, and the raven is revived from his petrification. Immediately, he begins searching for Maleficent, eventually finding her cloak, with her staff nearby. Diablo manages to use the evil fairy's magic to revive his mistress, and together, the villainous duo makes way for the kingdom, plotting to break Aurora and Phillip apart and dominate the land. On the day of the celebration, Maleficent storms in and places a curse upon the castle, turning every soul, except Aurora, to stone. Tortured and desperate, Aurora pleads for mercy upon Phillip and her people, going as far as to asking the wicked fairy to turn her into stone, as well. Maleficent refuses, as she's unable to place a curse on the princess due to Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather's protection spell, but she is able to grant a wish, resulting in Aurora sacrificing her life in exchange for her loved ones and people. With Aurora once again put into a sleep-like death, the kingdom citizens are freed, including Phillip, who rushes to the Forbidden Mountains to save his bride. There, a battle between Dragon Maleficent and the prince takes place. The evil dragon attempts to bite Phillip with her venomous fangs, but she accidentally strikes her own tail, killing herself. When Maleficent is defeated once and for all, Phillip once again wakes Aurora with a kiss of true love.

General Information

Name: Maleficent

Origin: Sleeping Beauty

Sex: Female

Age: Unknown

Classification: Evil Fairy, The Mistress of All Evil

Species: Fairy

Occupation: Unknown

Status: Deceased (Malifecent had been slayed in the original movie by Prince Phillip's sword of truth but came back to life during the events of Maleficent's revenge before dying once more as she bite her own tail with her venomus fangs)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Maleficent put a curse on Princess Aurora merely cause she could, she enjoys tormenting others and is even said to represent pure evil. She also claims her self to be the mistress of all evil,)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 10-B physically, 9-A in dragon form, 7-C with magic, 7-A with Environmental Destruction

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Human level, Wall level in her dragon form (Maleficent should be this strong via sheer size. Her fire breath could also easily destroy part of a bridge), Town level via Magic (Maleficent could create a forest of thorns), Metropolis level with Environmental Destruction (Her warth and frustration causes a storm which was calculated this high)

Durability: Human level, Wall level in her dragon form

Striking Strength: Human Class, Wall Class in her dragon form

Lifting Strength: Average Human, Superhuman in her dragon form

Travel Speed: Average Human, Superhuman flight speed (quickly flew from her castle to King Stefan's Castle), Superhuman in her dragon form (Her sheer size should grant her this)

Attack Speed: Superhuman

Reaction Speed: Superhuman

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with her staff, Several Meters in dragon form, Hundreds of meters with magic (Her magic can reach King Stefan's Castel while she's at her own Castle)

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Maleficent is an extremely talented magic user who is noted by the good fairies to know everything altough her knowledge is limited when it comes to good things such as love or kindness)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Speed, Magic, Immortality (Ageless; As a fairy herself, she should be comparable to the good fairies who are noted to be immortal) Air Manipulation (Maleficent opened the castle's doors with a powerful gust of wind), Electricity Manipulation (Maleficent can make lighting strike and cast lighitng), Teleportation and Fire Manipulation (Maleficent conjured fire to ward off guards before teleporting away), Curse Manipulation and Death Manipulation (Maleficent cursed Aurora to prick her finger on the spindel of spinning wheel which would cause her death), Ice Manipulation (Maleficent can cast frost), Weather Manipulation (Maleficent's warth and frustration can cause a storm), Smoke Manipulation and Mind Manipulation (By using the smoke from a fire, Maleficent could cast an orb that hypnotized aurora), Creation (Maleficent created a Spining Wheel), Clairvoyance (Maleficent can spy on Aurora's kingdom using her staff), Transformation and Flight (Shapeshifting; Maleficent can turn into a disc of energy and a dragon which she can both use to fly), Plant Manipulation (Maleficent created a forest of thorns), Petrification (Maleficent turned everyone at Aurora's party into stone), Sleep Manipulation (Maleficent could put Aurora to sleep), Resurrection (Maleficent's magic could resurrect her).

Limited Resistance to Power Nullification (Her powers are far too great to be undone by the good fairies)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Supersize; Maleficent is shown as quite large), Fire Manipulation and Breathing (Maleficent can breath fire), Natural Weaponry, Penetration Damage and Poison Manipulation (She has poisonous fangs)

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Equipment

• Staff: A magical golden scepter with a lime green ball on top, It possesses great magical power.

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• Diablo: Diablo is the secondary antagonist in Disney's 1959 animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty. He is Maleficent's pet raven and accomplice.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Maleficent's opener seems to vary, she has howver shown a preference in using her staff to cast lighting or petrifing her opponent. If she wishes to enter physical combat, she'll turn into her dragon form and use her fire breath.

Weaknesses: Maleficent doesn't know anything about things such as Kindness or love, which can be used against her such as when the good fairies formed a plan maleficent wouldn't expect due to that. Fairies lose their magic during an eclipse and her dragon form is not immune to her own poisonous fangs

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