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Maleficent is a Fictional Character , the wicked dark Fairy who appears in Walt Disney 's 1959 adaptation of '' Sleeping Beauty ''. She was animated by Marc Davis , and voiced by Eleanor Audley (who also voiced Lady Tremaine , the stepmother of '' Cinderella ''). She cursed the infant Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" on her sixteenth birthday after not being invited to the baby's christening. Maleficent is considered the classic Disney on her Staff to taunt Prince Philip with images of a bleak future. She also casts spells, such as inflicting Aurora with a curse of death (weakened to a curse of sleep by the good fairy, Merryweather ), creating Thunderstorms , projecting Lightning , Teleporting , and changing shapes. Some of Maleficent's forms in the film were that of a Spinning Wheel , a Will O' The Wisp , and a European Dragon . Maleficent was often surrounded by eerie green flames and in the final battle she cries "Now shall you deal with me, oh prince, and all the powers of Hell !" implying that she had phenomenal powers of evil at her disposal. With a deep and commanding voice, Maleficent is heard echoing throughout the halls of her castle. Of the four fairies who appear in ''Sleeping Beauty'', Maleficent is the most powerful, capable of utilizing her magic without any reservation and even summoning the powers of Hell to back her. Her pet raven, Diablo, and her army of inept goblin henchmen carried out most of her orders for her. Maleficent is a recurring character on the TV series '' House Of Mouse ''. She also appeared in the spin-off movie, '' Mickey's House Of Villains '' where she was constantly shown, but delivered only a single song lyric, "Every evil queen gets due respect." In one scene Maleficent sits, in dragon form, next to Chernabog , and he tells her that he "loves {Link without Title} work". KINGDOM HEARTS Maleficent appears as a major villain in the PlayStation 2 game '' Kingdom Hearts '', voiced by Susan Blakeslee in the English version and Toshiko Sawada in the Japanese . With Pete as her then-unseen henchman, Maleficent headed a group of Disney villains who sought out to discover ultimate power by controlling the Heartless and unlocking Kingdom Hearts, the "heart of all worlds". She directs their affairs from Hollow Bastion , the former home of Ansem . Following the goal of ultimate power, Maleficent uses Ansem Reports to help control the Heartless and darkness, and recruits Riku to help her gather the Princesses Of Heart . The seven Princesses of Heart are explained by Maleficent as necessary to complete the keyhole portal that led to Kingdom Hearts; the keyhole itself is located at Hollow Bastion. She distanced herself from the arguments among her group, appearing to them only with it is of importance. Over time, Maleficent focused more of her attention on Riku while her group slowly dissolved due to each being defeated by Sora . Inside Riku's heart, she sees both a powerful darkness and the abiltiy to use the Keyblade, and offers to help him revive his friend, Kairi, in return for his services. Riku agrees and Maleficent grants him the apparent gift to control the Heartless. Upon near-completion of the Hollow Bastion keyhole and the imminent arrival of Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy , she battles them. She fails, and has to hastily retreat. As the heroes catch up with her, Riku, who seems concerned about her well-being, appears. Unknown to her, however, is that Riku is possessed by Xehanort 's Heartless. Failing to realize this, she is struck in the chest by the Keyblade Xehanort's Heartless created from the hearts of the six princesses she captured. The keyblade, unlike the one Sora wields, is one that opens hearts; with her heart opened, Maleficent is vulnerable to the immense darkness that is attracted to her. The darkness overcomes her and transforms her into a dragon. In this form, she battles the heroes and dies, leaving only her robe. Upon her death, Xehanort's Heartless remarks that she was a puppet of the darkness all along, and that while she warned others about not underestimating the darkness, she ironically failed to see the darkness eating away at her heart. Xehanort's Heartless then steps on Maleficent's robe, which faded into thin air. She appears in '''' as an aspect from the memories of Sora and Riku. In Sora's memory world, Maleficent seeks to steal both Beast's and Belle's, from '' Beauty And The Beast '', hearts for use in her dark magic, resulting in Sora's involvement and her later "death". In Riku's perspective, Maleficent appears to mock Riku for his dabbling in the darkness. Unfettered by her comments, Riku kills her. In '' Kingdom Hearts II '' Maleficent is resurrected when Diablo, her faithful raven, brings her robe into the Tower, the home of Yen Sid , and the power of her memory revives her. From there, Maleficent appears before Pete; after being updated on the events that had occurred after her death, Maleficent's goal of dominion over the worlds was placed on halt for both the finding of a new base of operations and getting revenge on Sora. She eventually made herself known to Sora and company when she attempted to take over Disney Castle by having Pete go back in time to get the Cornerstone of Light, the mystical object that protected the castle from forces of darkness, from Timeless River, which is Disney Castle in the past. To further her goals, she hired the three little fairies, Yuna , Rikku and Paine to spy on Leon and the Hollow Bastion Reconstruction crew as well as resurrecting Oogie Boogie . Both alliances were short-lived; Maleficent abandons the fairies when the Heartless invade the Radiant Garden while Oogie drives her away with disrespect due to Amnesia . Despite being Sora's enemy, Maleficent decided to use Sora to destroy Organization XIII for her when they tried to muscle in on her right to Kingdom Hearts. Though she kept some Nobodies at bay when they overwhelmed Sora, it changed nothing between them. By the time she and Pete arrived in the World That Never Was, Maleficent's power over the Heartless was fading as the world itself was close to the darkness the Heartless thrive on. She was forced to assist Sora, giving him safe passage to Xemnas while she and Pete held off the vast army of Heartless created by the ravaging of Kingdom Hearts by DiZ on the condition that she would take Xemnas' castle as her own. FANTASMIC! In the night time show '' Fantasmic! '', performed at the Disneyland and Disney-MGM Studios theme parks, Maleficent is the most deadly and awesome of the Disney villains portrayed in the shows. Although the Evil Queen from '' Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs '' is traditionally seen as the leader of Disney villains (due to her position as the first classic Disney villain created), Maleficent is seen as the worst weapon in the Disney villain arsenal. In the shows, the Evil Queen decides it is time to finish off Mickey Mouse once and for all, and invokes the worst of Disney villains to help her. They strike Mickey through his dreams and imagination, and Maleficent is the final villain to attack Mickey - the battle between Maleficent's European dragon incarnation and Mickey serves as the climax to the show. NAME ORIGIN "Maleficent" is a Latin -derived word meaning harmful or evil. It is a Cognate of the words "malice", "magnificent", "malevolent", and "malefic." |
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