Maleficent is the titular main protagonist of the live-action film series of the same name. In contrast of her animated counterpart, this live-action version of Maleficent is portrayed as more heroic and sympathetic.
Though she used to be a protector of the land of Moors, but she turns herself into a tyrannical ruler following Stefan's betrayal and then cursed on Aurora out of anger and vengeance. Throughout her entire life, she began took her liking of young Aurora which turns herself into more of a hero rather than a villain.
She is portrayed by Angelina Jolie.
What Makes Her Magnificent?[]
In General[]
- She is portrayed to be very charming and chilling that is very entertaining to watch due to Angelina Jolie's killing performance. Even after her redemption, she's still remained snarky and sarcastic as usual, keeping her Evil Is Cool moments.
- Not only she's the most powerful fairy in all of the creatures, she's also very intelligent and is a quick thinker as well. This even makes her qualified as One-Woman Army as result.
Maleficent[]
- She has a tragic and sympathetic backstory where she used to be cheerful and friendly as a young fairy until her tragedy struck when Stefan betrays her and cuts off her wings so he could become the king, turning her into what she has become. Despite cursing Aurora when she was a baby in order to spite King Stefan for what she did, she began to have a motherly bond with a young girl throughout her entire life, which is what led to her redemption and became more of a hero rather than a villain like her original animated counterpart is.
- When she was young, she is a protector of the land of Moors and the fairies. Even after she grew up, she's still remained the protector until Stefan's betrayal, though she became a protector once again following her redemption.
- Despite Stefan steal a jewel from the river, she's willing to forgive and shows mercy to a young boy, therefore befriending her until her heartbreaking betrayal at his hands.
- When King Henry and his army went to conquer the Moors, she is quick and powerful enough to defeat many soldiers one by one and instilled Henry's fear of her while cornering her, successfully scaring him and his soldiers away as they're retreating.
- When Stefan returns to the Moors to see her, she later allows him to be with her despite her earlier skepticism of him, which later revealed to be true as Stefan betrays her by cutting off her wings.
- Seeing the raven bird is being captured by a farmer, she managed to scare him away by transforming him into a human. As result, the man later called himself Diaval and agreed to became her servant.
- With Diaval as her right-hand man, she only turns him into a raven just to sent him to spying on something new before reporting back to her, including looking after Aurora when she was young.
- After finding out Stefan's true motives and that Aurora is born, she breaks into the castle to confront King Stefan, while ignoring everyone's fear over her presence and the fact that she wasn't welcomed here. She later cursed Aurora out of spite just to make Stefan breaks down as he begged her not to do this. In the novelization, she instantly enjoys of seeing him showing his fear and paranoia.
- Just in case if King Stefan sent his soldiers to hunt down for Maleficent, even if it means invading the Moors, she builds a thorny wall to keep them away from the land. When the soldiers are trying to take it down, she used her magic to control the walls and attacked them.
- Due to cannot bring herself to hate her and spitefully calling her a "beastie", Maleficent began to took a liking of Aurora and grew care for her due to maternal bonding with her, causing her to grew remorseful of cursing her when she was a baby. Another fact that Aurora is very cheerful, friendly and kind-hearted individual who looks up to her as her fairy godmother, which makes sense why Maleficent decided to redeem herself from her villainy. Finally, her maternal care towards Aurora and huge remorse over her actions enables her to awakened her from long slumber, which is the true meaning of the true love's kiss.
- Knowing the fairies' incompetence of taking care of her, she secretly had a great job of looking after Aurora throughout her life like sending Diaval to cheer her up when she was crying and saving her from falling off the cliff.
- While secretly pranking the fairies, she managed to stay hidden so they wouldn't discover who's behind the antics she has caused and making them starts fighting each other.
- When Aurora was at the wall of the Moors, she immediately puts her to sleep and scared the soldiers away by turning Diaval into a wolf and intimidates them with her presence before attacking them with her powers.
- While telling Aurora of how she lost her wings, she tried to regained her composure to keep herself from breaking down, implied of not wanting her to know about her father's true nature in order to avoid her suspicions.
- Though she refused to believe that the young prince is the one who could break her curse, she later changed her mind out of guilt and remorse and brought Prince Phillip to the castle in order to break Aurora's curse. When Phillip's kiss on Aurora to awakened her didn't worked out, it turns out she was right that Phillip wasn't the one that could break her curse.
- After she and Diaval brought Phillip to the Stefan's castle to break Aurora's curse, they hide themselves behind the folding screen so Phillip and the fairies wouldn't find out where they are.
- While she was being captured by the soldiers, she never tried to resist and fighting back when they're attacking her while turning Diaval into a giant dragon to fight against them. After she regained back her wings, she is powerful and quick enough to dodge the soldier's weapons and attacked them before she brings Stefan outside the castle.
- Despite everything he had done for her, she coldly spared King Stefan and told him that it's over. When Stefan tried to attack her, she used her strength enough to let herself go off of him, even if it means leaving him to fall into his death.
- Turns the land of Moors back to its former glory and crowned Aurora as the queen of the lands.
Maleficent: Mistresss of Evil[]
- Despite everyone feared her due to her bad reputation as a villain, she didn't even care of their fear of her presence as she finds it "hilarious" when she, Aurora and Diaval are arrived at the Kingdom of Ulstead.
- Despite disliking the idea of bringing peace between humans and fairies like Dark Fey just like what Conall wanted, she later began to accepts this after Queen Ingrith's defeat.
- While she initially disagreed with Aurora's love for Prince Phillip, she later began to accepts their relationships and allowed them to get married at the end of the movie.
- Though she became angry and furious when she's instantly mocked and provoked by Queen Ingrith, she tries to remained calm and composure while she's awakening her powers, even when she was blamed into cursing King John into falling in a deep slumber. She then agreed to leave them alone by leaving the castle before she almost got killed by Gerda.
- When Borra looks down of her for her association with humans (including Aurora), she wasn't going to be provoked into getting angry but instead pushing him off with her powers.
- Despite being separated from Aurora while living in an underground caverns far away from the human kingdom, she still dearly missed her so much.
- She was the first of the Dark Feys to discover that Ingrith had sent the soldiers to take away all of the Tomb Bloom flowers from the land of Moors for her genodical plans, which she went off to discover that it's all gone.
- After Conall take the hit on the soldiers' iron bullets, she used her magic to summoned the roots that formed a dome to protect herself and dying Conall.
- Due to Conall's words of encouragement, she became strong and powerful enough to fight back alongside her kind, managed to take down many soldiers and dodged the crimson powders fired at her, which allowed to easily get through them and face Queen Ingrith for her actions against her kind and the creatures.
- Though she wanted to kill Queen Ingrith for her actions at first, she managed to calm down after Aurora managed to convinced not to giving into her anger. She also sacrificed herself to protect Aurora from getting shot by Ingrith before she revives by turning herself into a Phoenix.
- Went to saved Aurora from falling into her deaths after Queen Ingrith cowardly pushed her off the castle to save her own skin.
- She had a right reason to turn Ingrith into a goat because she attempt to commit genocide against her kind and other creatures. King John also states that his wife will be turned back into human unless she learns the error of her ways.
- At the wedding, she agreed to walk Aurora down the aisle and is happy when she and Phillip were married.
- She visits Aurora to tell her that she'll seeing her at her christening.
What Makes Her a Baddie?[]
- She cursed a baby Aurora into falling in a deep slumber after she reached at the age of sixteen in order to spite King Stefan for his betrayal, even taking pleasure of seeing him fearfully begging for her not to do it.
- Following Stefan's betrayal, she became a tyrannical ruler of the land of Moors and turning everything into grim and darker place.
- She's taking pleasure in pranking the fairies and getting them into fighting each other without ever showing remorse as she finds it funny.
- Shown to be lethal throughout the duology film as she attacked the soldiers of any kingdoms.
Trivia[]
- Her, alongside her Animated counterpart, are the only versions of Maleficent to be approved as MB.
External Links[]
- Maleficent at the Maleficent wiki
- Maleficent at the Disney wiki
- Maleficent at the Heroes wiki
- Maleficent at the Villains wiki
- Maleficent at the Inconsistently Admirable wiki
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