She carries a staff with a glowing green orb at the tip through which she casts her spells. 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. Both the horned headdress and bat wing-like robe represent and foreshadow her dragon form. 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. 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. 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. Maleficent is also a bloodthirsty and aggressive being by nature, never having a certain goal in mind and only wishing to cause pandemonium and chaos in the world, supported by her true form being a dragon. She’s a devious, cruel, spiteful, sadistic and treacherous creature, shown to laugh hysterically when she transformed into a dangerous dragon. She’s also very prideful, egotistical, and overconfident, describing her powers as all of the powers of hell. This prompts her to enter the fray directly. Maleficent has shown to be capable of terror, shown by her reaction to Prince Phillip hacking through her enchantments so easily. 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 is also very persuasive, abrasive, unpleasant and narcissistic to a fault, mocking the Three Fairies for their failure to protect Aurora, and for the fact that they thought they could defeat "the Mistress of All Evil".ĭespite her wicked nature, Maleficent is shown to care for her pet raven Diablo.
Maleficent is an extremely bellicose and diabolical person: she flies into an explosive rage frequently when punishing her minions, going so far as to electrocute some of them. Maleficent is openly uncooperative, hurtful and malicious in cursing Princess Aurora with her eventual death. She admits that she felt distressed at not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora. Maleficent is highly skeptical, sardonic, and manipulative, shown by how she referred to the Three Good Fairies as "the rabble", which nearly prompted one of the Fairies to attack her. She’s introduced as an impeccably sophisticated and regal creature. Maleficent is the ultimate epitome of evil in the Disney universe. 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, Lola in DreamWorks' Shark Tale, and Mrs. In subsequent appearances, she is voiced by Susanne Blakeslee who also currently voiced Lady Tremaine and Cruella De Vil. In the 1959 animated film, she was voiced by the late Eleanor Audley, who previously voiced Lady Tremaine in Disney's 1950 film Cinderella, and Madame Leota in The Haunted Mansion. With her gothic, elegant design, dramatic and flamboyant animation, and unlimited arsenal of magic powers, Maleficent is one of the most popular and well-known Disney villains. She also appears to be particularly disdainful and hated the Three Good Fairies: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, her rivalry opposites who do all in their power to keep Maleficent's overwhelming evil magic at bay. Maleficent is a dark fairy who is responsible for all misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom.
She is an evil witch who takes offense at not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora and attempts to get revenge on King Stefan and his people by cursing Queen Leah and Stefan's beloved daughter, Princess Aurora. In Sleeping Beauty, she is the arch-nemesis of the Three Good Fairies, Princess Aurora, and Prince Phillip. Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 16th full-length animated feature film Sleeping Beauty (which is based on the 1697 classic fairytale of the same name by the late Charles Perrault and the late Peter Tchaikovsky), a supporting antagonist in Mickey's House of Villains, one of the main antagonists of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, and the titular main protagonist of the live-action films Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.