Maleficent

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Maleficent appears as one of the main antagonists in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, voiced by Susanne Blakeslee in the English versions and Toshiko Sawada in the Japanese versions. Eventually, Maleficent gives up on her vendetta against Aurora and her mother, finding solace in her pet black unicorn. After claiming a raven named Diaval ( Sam Riley) as her henchman, Maleficent renames herself from guardian of the Moors to ruler of same. It is then known that Maleficent is the descendant of the Phoenix, a legendary mystical bird that is an ancestor to the Dark Fey.

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Maleficent has no real motivation for her evil, making her arguably little more than a vicious animal (which is later shown when she turns into a dragon). Later propaganda states that Maleficent was put in a "tiny cell", but the Auradon residents don't know where she's been kept. With the help from the Good Fairies, however, Phillip manages to hack through the thorns and towards the castle. According to Brozenich, the majority of the film's effects were for the enormous battle sequences taking place in and around Castle Ulstead and Queen Ingrith's creation, a mix of fairy dust and iron which turns into a red powder-like substance that destroys the creatures in the film, and is brilliantly realized on-screen as explosions of red smoke in the sky. In Descendants: The Rise of Red, the younger version of Maleficent is a light-skinned girl with long black hair that's not only in a ponytail but also covers up her horns.

Gold relents, and using Maleficent's baby rattle, he shows her the child, Lily, being adopted thirty years ago. Queen Leah asked if Maleficent was offended, with Maleficent claiming she wasn't, and then adding that in fact she intended to bear a gift of her own to Aurora. In the course of the film, Prince Philip's mother Queen Ingrith ( Michelle Pfeiffer) attempts to provoke a war between the humans and the fairies by creating the impression that Maleficent has cast another curse on the king, forcing Maleficent to flee the kingdom only to be rescued by others of her kind.

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On September 20, 2019, the song " You Can't Stop the Girl" by Bebe Rexha, from the film's soundtrack, was released as a single.He warns the Queens of Darkness not to steal from him again, angering Maleficent, who claims that taking the gauntlet was part of the deal, and he never breaks his deals. Maleficent has a cameo appearance in the short film Once Upon a Studio (2023), as part of the Walt Disney Animation Studios characters who gather to take a group photo.

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In determining Maleficent's design, standard depictions of witches and hags were dismissed as Davis has opted for an elegant, sinister, green-skinned beauty, depicted as "vain femme fatale, utilizing a classic archetype of a bad woman.

Maleficent named her baby girl her own name, but nicknamed her "Mal" since she didn't believe her daughter can be truly evil. However, as Stefan enters the scene, Diaval is chained by the soldiers, and Maleficent is surrounded. Her powers are magic-based, and it is also implied during the christening ceremony that her magic was far more powerful than even that of the Three Good Fairies, at least individually, as they admitted they could not outright remove Maleficent's curse but rather alter it. When Carlos, the son of Cruella De Vil, breaks the magical barrier for a second, Maleficent's pet Diablo is freed of his stone curse and senses that The Eye of the Dragon ( Maleficent's Scepter) awakes too.

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At some point, the two powerful villains married (most likely common-law) and gave birth to Mal, with Hades walking out on Maleficent soon after. She later carries a wedding ring for her daughter at the impromptu ceremony where she is placed on Hades's shoulder. Enraged, she blows away and confronts him in front of King Stefan's castle, and transforms herself into a huge dark dragon.

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. Benjamin Justice describes this version of Maleficent as "a full person, good and evil, powerful and vulnerable, vengeful and loving" and notes that, while she and Aurora value heterosexual relationships and love, neither of them "let the idea of [one true love] define the arc of the personal or public lives. Upon learning of this from her pet raven, who got turned to stone in the process by Merryweather, she tried to stop him with a series of lightning bolts, but failed. On June 3, 2014, following the release of the first film, Angelina Jolie hinted that a sequel to Maleficent was a possibility. Davis praised Eleanor Audley's live-action performance for the character, claiming that she created many of Maleficent's expressions and mannerisms that were ultimately used in the animation.