Prince Phillip

Background

Prince Phillip is the deuteragonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. The son of King Hubert, he is a dashing, wisecracking prince who was betrothed to King Stefan’s daughter, Aurora, as a means of unity. The alliance becomes endangered when Phillip instead falls in love with a “peasant girl” in the forest, unaware that she is actually Aurora.

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Announced by the royal herald, young Phillip and his father King Hubert were both invited to the christening of Princess Aurora, the newborn daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah because King Hubert and King Stefan were best friends. At Aurora's christening, it was decided that Phillip would one day marry Aurora to unite their fathers' respective kingdoms. The two were betrothed. Phillip presents a gift to the baby Princess, but ironically, he is less than impressed when he sees her. However, at the Princess's debut to the public, an evil witch named Maleficent came inside the castle and young Phillip is afraid of her, along with Leah and the others, except Stefan and Hubert. Angry at not being invited to the christening party, the witch curses the princess to die on her birthday with the spindle of a spinning wheel. Although one of the Three Good Fairies softens the curse, they make a deal with Stefan and Leah to take Aurora into the forest to raise her for her own safety. Many years later, a grown-up Phillip is riding in the forest when he hears a young girl's voice singing, and orders his horse Samson to take him there, but on the way, Samson goes too fast and accidentally knocks Phillip into the water. After falling into the water, Phillip hangs his wet cape, hat, and boots on tree limbs to dry, and wonders about the girl's voice, which sounds familiar, but then he turns around and notices that some forest animals have taken his clothes. When he follows the forest animals, he finds the girl who is singing (Briar Rose, alter ego of Princess Aurora), and he starts dancing with her. She tries to run away, but he continues to dance with her, and says that they have met before in "Once Upon a Dream". By the end of "Once Upon a Dream", they have fallen in love, and Phillip asks the girl what her name is, but she realizes that she must go home, so she runs off. Still not knowing who the girl is, Phillip asks when he will see her again, to which she tells him to meet her at the cottage this evening, and gives him directions to the cottage as she leaves. Phillip is entirely unaware that the girl with whom he has fallen in love is actually his betrothed, Aurora, so he assumes her to be a peasant girl. Later, when speaking to his father, Phillip tells him that he has fallen in love with a peasant girl, upsetting Hubert, due to the betrothal. However, Phillip manipulates him into agreeing that he should marry the girl he loves. That evening, Phillip goes to the cottage as promised by the girl he has met earlier, but he unknowingly walks into a trap set by Maleficent as her Goons pin him down, tie him up, and gag him with a white handkerchief upon entry. Maleficent and the Goons take Phillip away to her domain, the Forbidden Mountain, where she imprisons him in the dungeon. After learning from King Hubert that the girl Phillip has fallen in love with is Briar Rose, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather fly to the cottage to fetch him. But when they arrive too late and discover his hat in the wreckage, they realize that Phillip was captured by Maleficent and her goons. The fairies decide to go to the Forbidden Mountain to rescue him, despite the terror that the eerie place invokes. While chained to the dungeon walls at the Forbidden Mountain, Phillip is visited by Maleficent, who taunts him with the knowledge that Briar Rose, the girl he has met in the woods, is actually Princess Aurora and revealing that she has fallen under a curse of ageless sleep that can be broken by love's first kiss. Maleficent plans to keep Phillip locked up for 100 years and then release him. He will be an old man, if not dead, while Aurora will still be a 16-year-old girl. Phillip is angered and struggles against his chains, but Maleficent chooses to leave him with the "happy" thoughts. After Maleficent walks away and returns to her tower, the good fairies fly into the dungeon to release Phillip and melt the locks on his chains and prison door. They arm him with the mighty Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue, which they state to be weapons of righteousness that will triumph over evil. As the fairies and Phillip leave the dungeon, they are confronted by Maleficent's pet raven, Diablo, who summons the Goons to recapture the prince. The fairies thwart the Goons' attacks on Phillip with their magic as he and the fairies make their way out of the Forbidden Mountain. On their way to Stefan's castle, Maleficent, who has been awakened by the constant cawing of Diablo (who is turned into a statue by Merryweather) and realized that Phillip has escaped from the dungeon, unleashes some lightning to stop Phillip, but to no avail. Maleficent then causes a maze of thorns to grow around the castle and block his way. Phillip bravely hacks through the thorns using his sword and manages to get through. An enraged Maleficent appears before him and blocks his entry to Stefan's castle. In another attempt to kill the prince, Maleficent transformed herself into a enormous, fire breathing dragon. Phillip engages the dragon in a battle, but he is driven backward by the dragon's powerful flame blast and retreats up the cliff, with the dragon in hot pursuit. As Phillip is cornered at the cliff's ledge, Maleficent blasts his shield off, rendering him defenseless. But as Maleficent burst out laughing, the enraged good fairies magically empowers the sword, under the directions of Flora. Phillip immediately throws the sword into the dragon's chest, but he’s forced to dodge Maleficent's final attempt to devour him as she collapses onto the ledge. Phillip narrowly escapes for his life as the dragon's enormous weight cause the ledge to crumble upon impact, sending the evil witch falling to her demise below. With Maleficent finally gone for good, Phillip enters Stefan's castle to find the entire population asleep, due to the sleeping spell the fairies has cast upon. He heads up the stairs to the castle's tallest tower, where he finds Aurora, still in her ageless sleep. He bends over to give Aurora true love's first kiss, which finally awakens her from her eternal slumber. The princess smiles as she learns that her love and her betrothed are one and the same. One by one, the people in the castle also awaken from their sleep, including King Hubert, King Stefan, Queen Leah, Minstrel, and the Herald. Once the spell is broken, Phillip heads downstairs with Aurora, arm in arm, and reunite their family. The two then share a dance together and share another kiss, with the final words in the book, below the illustration of the couple kissing, reading "And they lived happily ever after."

Statistics

Tier: 10-B, 9-C with the Sword of Truth

Name: Phillip

Origin: Sleeping Beauty

Sex: Male

Age: 20 years old

Classification: Human, Prince

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Phillip is a brave and heroic prince who fought and defeated Maleficent but he has shwon to be fairly easy-going and even manipulative at times, such as when he manipulated his father into agreeing that he should marry the girl he loves rather than the princess to whom he is betrothed.)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Human level, Peak Human level with the Sword of Truth (The Sword of truth can easily cut throught large thorns and as a blade it should naturally be at this level)

Durability: Human level, Wall level with the Shield of Virtue (The Shield of virtue can protect Phillip from dragon Maleficent's fire breath which could easily destroy part of a bridge)

Striking Strength: Human Class

Lifting Strength: Above Average (Phillip can easily swing his father around who is overweight)

Travel Speed: Average Human

Combat Speed: Superhuman

Reaction Speed: Superhuman (Phillip can keep up in combat with dragon maleficent)

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with the sword of truth

Intelligence: Above Average (As a prince, Phillip likely received a good formal education)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Usage (Sword Usage and shield Usage; Phillip wields the Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue), Vehicular Usage (Land Vehicles; Phillip can ride his horse, Samson)

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Standard Equipment

Sword of Truth: The Sword of Truth is the second of two magical armaments (the other being the Shield of Virtue) bestowed upon Prince Phillip by Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. It is a longsword that was used by Phillip to defeat Maleficent

Shield of Virtue: The Shield of Virtue is one of two magical armaments (the other being the Sword of Truth) given to Prince Phillip by the fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. It is a long shield that was used by Phillip in order to block the otherwise lethal blows of Maleficent.

Samson: Samson is a supporting character in Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. He is the faithful and valiant steed of Prince Phillip.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Phillip uses the sword of truth for physical combat

Weaknesses: Nothing Notable

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