Maleficent is one of the major villains in the Character What franchise. She is one of Shadow Aaron's right-hand villains, and a member of The Forces of Evil. Maleficent is also the main antagonist from Disney's 16th full-length animated feature film Sleeping Beauty.
She is a evil fairy/witch who curses Queen Leah's beloved Princess Aurora as revenge for King Stefan for not inviting her to the christening of Aurora. She is also the arch-nemesis of the Three Good Fairies, Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip.
Personality[]
Like her canon counterpart, Maleficent is the embodiment of evil. She is evil, devious, ruthless, sadistic, malicious and wicked and will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals and cause pain, misfortune and suffering to others. Like in the film, she is sinister and sadistic, as she relishes in the pain and misery of others, as shown when she taunts a chained Prince Phillip after capturing him and locking him in her dungeon. Maleficent still remains very persuasive, abrasive, unpleasant and narcissistic as her original counterpart, as she still mocks the Three Fairies for the failure to save Princess Aurora, and for the fact that they thought they could defeat "the mistress of all evil", indicating that she thinks herself above everyone, even calling her minions "her pets", considering them to inferior to her. Maleficent is also sarcastic, as shown when she psychologically tortures Prince Phillip, she states that when Phillips is set free he will be "straight and tall", despite her vision showing Phillip as a elderly man, who is barely even able to stay straight correctly.
Despite her wicked personality, Maleficent does had some redeeming qualities, as she treats her pet raven Diablo with genuine affection, such as stroking the bird on several occasions. She also genuinely cares about Diablo, as seen when she suffered a villainous breakdown after learning that one of the fairies turned her beloved pet raven into a permanent stone stature. Despite considering herself to be above all, Maleficent very loyal and respectful to her superiors, especially Shadow Aaron, as she is shown helping carrying out Shadow Aaron's plans, such as recruiting villains for him, as well as reviving deceased villains to re-join him.
According to Shadow Joe, Maleficent lacks the knowledge of love, or kindness, or even joy in helping others, indicating she shows no sympathy or empathy towards others. However, when she captured Prince Phillip, she taunts toward Phillip regarding his role to undo her curse, and later she tries to prevent Phillip from reaching King Stefan's castle, implying that she knows about love realize it was massive threat to her curse on Princess Aurora.
Backgrounds[]
Before the events of the series, Maleficent places a curse a newborn princess named Aurora, decreeing that before the sun sets on Aurora's 16th birthday, she shall die by prinking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. Though the Three Good Fairies; Flora, Fauna and Merryweather were unable to undo the entire curse themselves, Merryweather, but she was able to alter it, so Aurora will only enter a deep sleep which will be broken by true love's first kiss. Maleficent curses Aurora as revenge on King Stefan for not inviting her to Aurora's christening, which Maleficent was satisfied of cursing King Stefan and Queen Leah's beloved daughter.
Character What: The Movie[]
Maleficent makes his first appearance in the first ever full-length animated feature, serving as one of the secondarily antagonists even though her role is short in film.
Maleficent use her magic to remove Shadow Aaron still imprison in his hardened shell from Earth's core, and transports the encased Shadow Aaron with her to a intergalactic spaceship with Jafar and General Grievous onboard, waiting for her return with Shadow Aaron. General Grievous congratulates Maleficent for a job well-done while Jafar was curious about how Maleficent is going to free Shadow Aaron since her magic is not strong enough to cancel out the spell casted by the Shadow Creatures. Maleficent instilled that she won't need to magic to awaken Shadow Aaron as the planets will soon align themselves and break the spell that kept him in his long-term slumber. Later, when the planets finally align themselves, Maleficent announces Shadow Aaron's return, as the spell was broken and Shadow Aaron was finally awakening from his millennia of solitude. After Shadow Aaron breaks free from his shell-like prison, Maleficent was the first to introduce herself to Shadow Aaron and bow down to him but he already knows her along with Jafar and Grievous, due to being nigh-omniscient. Next, Maleficent along with Jafar and Grievous watch pridefully as Shadow Aaron destroyed his home, Luna Limo, and his entire species, the Shadow Creatures (except for Shadow Joe and his parents as well as his sister) with a giant death-ray empowered by one of the black Shadow Creature crystals that are capable of killing a Shadow Creature permanently. After Shadow Aaron destroyed the Shadow Creatures, Maleficent smile sadistically at the death of the Shadow Creatures before declaring that Shadow Aaron will no longer had the Shadow Creatures interfere with his plans ever again. Maleficent is not seen again in the remainder of the film.
Character What: The Adventures[]
In the Sleeping Beauty episode, Maleficent reprise her role from Disney's Sleeping Beauty film, with the episode is set near Aurora's 16th birthday, where Maleficent punishes her goons for failing their search for the baby for sixteen years, due to their incompetents. As her last option, she sends out Diablo, her pet raven, to find the princess. Diablo discovers that Aurora, as "Briar Rose", living with the Three Good Fairies; Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather (who are posing themselves as mortal maids) in a cottage in the woods. When the princess and the fairies return to the castle and leave her alone for a while, Maleficent casts a hypnotic apparition resembling a will-o-the-wisp to lure Aurora to her trap. Meanwhile, the fairies met Shadow Joe and Twilight Sparkle, who know about Aurora and want to protect her from Maleficent's curse. Back at the castle, Maleficent conjured a spinning wheel, forcing Shadow Joe, Twilight and the fairies to go after Aurora. But before they can reach Aurora, she successfully pinch her finger on the spindle and falls to the floor. When the three fairies along with Shadow Joe and Twilight Sparkle arrive too late to save her and gasped when Maleficent scoffs them for being unable to stop her, informing them that they are too late by revealing them the now sleeping Aurora before disappearing, cackling over their failure to protect Aurora. Following this, Maleficent and her goons go to the cottage, where they wait for Prince Phillip, who had arranged to meet Aurora. When he arrives, her goons capture him and take him to her domain in Forbidden Mountain. At the mountain, Maleficent and her goons celebrated their victory, Maleficent than pays Phillip a visit in the dungeon to "cheer he up". She taunts him with the knowledge that the peasant girl he met that day is actually Princess Aurora who is in a deep sleep that she shall never age her, and then reveals her intent to keep Prince Phillip imprisonment until he grows elderly, then let him go to save Aurora. She leaves the dungeon to sleep, saying she shall sheep well for the first time in sixteen years. Shadow Joe, Twilight Sparkle and the three fairies rescue Phillip, Shadow Joe unshackled him and the fairies gives Phillip the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. This witnessed by Diablo, who fetches the goons. As Shadow Joe, Twilight, Phillip and the fairies dodge the goons and make their escape, Diablo files to alert Maleficent of their escape, and Merryweather turns Diablo into stone stature to silent the bird. However, Maleficent was awakened by Diablo's constant cawing, Maleficent emerges from her tower, where she saw Diablo as a stature. Shocked by Diablo's state and enraged at the sight of Phillip escaping, and attempting to strike him down with lighting. As Phillip reaches Stefan's castle, she summons a forest of thorns to surround the castle as a blockage. However, Phillip managed to hack through the thorns with the help of Shadow Joe and the fairies. Infuriated by this, Maleficent angerly decided to stop them personality and transported herself to block Phillip's path. In order to stop them from breaking the curse on Aurora, Maleficent transformed into a dragon to fight Shadow Joe, Twilight Sparkle, and Phillip. At first, Phillip appears to be no match for the dragon, but Shadow Joe proves to be more stronger than the dragon, and was able deliver a blow to the dragon's head. However, the three fairies finally had enough of Maleficent's evilness and enchant Phillip's sword with spell, "Now sword of truth fly swift and sure that evil die and good endure", upon realizing that she is too destructive and dangerous to be life alive. Maleficent was then ultimately killed by Phillip throwing his sword straight at her chest through her heart, and she fall from a great height (same fate from the film) in a cloud of black and Philip and Shadow Joe looks down to see that only her clock remains. After Maleficent's demise, Phillips goes to King Stefan's castle and awaken Aurora with a kiss, undoing the spell, and lifting the curse.
Prior to events of Aladdin II, Shadow Aaron used the remained of her dark power to bring Maleficent back to life, and she re-join with Shadow Aaron and continue to serve him.
Character What: Tales[]
Maleficent reappears In Shadow Aaron's Revenge: Part 1, where she was first seen hosting a meeting with Shadow Aaron, Jafar, General Grievous, Giovanni, Queen Chrysalis, Emperor Palpatine, Davros, and Chase Young.
In Beast of the Museum, Maleficent along with Jafar, General Grievous, Grovanni, Queen Chrysalis, Emperor Palpatine, Davros, and Chase Young stole Discord (who is still prison in stone) from Shadow Joe's Villains Museum.
In The Return of Chaos, Maleficent used her magic to free Discord from his stone prison.
Character What: Hero Force[]
In Multiple Kevins, Maleficent appears in the launching bay and questions Shadow Aaron for his reason of sending some droids to attack Shadow Joe's base, reminding him that the droids won't success, which Shadow Aaron knows Maleficent is right.
In Destroy Shadow Joe, Maleficent questions Shadow Aaron would villains success in defeating Shadow Joe in battle, and Shadow Aaron saying he sure that the villains will. At the end, Shadow Aaron learn that the villains failed to defeat Shadow Joe, and Maleficent questions Shadow Aaron's next plan to defeat Shadow Joe, which Shadow Aaron tells her that he will destroy Shadow Joe personality.
In Villainess Meeting, Maleficent was with the some of the other female villains having a meeting with Sunset Shimmer, with Maleficent sitting next to Cruella De Vil and Ursula.
Character What: Ultimate Hero[]
In Year of the Dragon, Maleficent in her dragon form was among several other dragons, where she was mostly seen with the Dragon (from The Pagemaster) and the Sapphire Dragon.
Character What: Villains Revenge[]
Maleficent makes her return in The Return: Part 1, Maleficent disturb Shadow Aaron when he was debating how to defeat Shadow Joe, Maleficent reminded Shadow Aaron that could send out some villains to defeat Shadow Joe, but Shadow Aaron reminded her that none of the villains had ever succeeded in deteating Shadow Joe.
In Take Them Down, Maleficent join forces with Shadow Aaron to ambush Shadow Joe and destroy the Piplings for causing Shadow Aaron's demise in The End of Shadow Aaron.
Character What: Friendship is Magic[]
In Female Club, Maleficent was one of the many female characters in the Female Club.
Character What: The Last Stand[]
In Villains Turn Evil, Maleficent is one of the very few remaining villains in The Force of Evil, as a majority some have been imprison, killed, banished, reformed or simply left the empire. Maleficent was surprise of Shadow Aaron's return, after believing he was truly destroyed by Shadow Joe and the Mane Six. Maleficent explains that she along with Jafar, General Grievous, Davros, Sunset Shimmer, and the Zebra Brothers were only villains remaining in his kingdom.
Character What: The Return of the Shadow Creature[]
In the final chapter of the franchise, Shadow Aaron announced Maleficent along Jafar, General Grievous and Davros to move to the Mustafar system for the time being, though Jafar questions why he would send them to the volcanic planet, but Shadow Aaron dejects and demanded them to leave immediately. After Maleficent along the rest of the remaining villains (Sunset Shimmer) were absent. Shadow Aaron decides to recreate his empire by using his infinite powers to create evil versions of every Shadow Creature tribe except his own. Shadow Aaron concludes that Jafar and the rest of the villains had perceive their purposes and their needs are no longer required. Shadow Aaron decided that Maleficent along Jafar, General Grievous and Davros needs are fulfilled and no longer has any further use of them. Shadow Aaron travels to the Mustafar system and arrive on the planet, Shadow Aaron first encountered with Davros and killed him insanity. Maleficent along Jafar, General Grievous and Davros witness this from the recordings, and were shocked and realize that Shadow Aaron has betrayed them. After Grievous was killed in attempt to stop Shadow Aaron, Maleficent transforms into her dragon form to confront Shadow Aaron for his betrayal, but Shadow Aaron impale her with one of his electric swords into her chest, killing Maleficent and causing her to fall into the lava, echoing her first death.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Sorcery: Maleficent possesses great powerful dark magic.
- Teleportation: Maleficent can teleport herself anywhere with a wave from her staff.
- Green Fire Generation: Maleficent can generate green flames as means for defense or teleportation.
- Divination: Maleficent can foresee into the future using the orb on her staff.
- Spell Casting: Maleficent can cast spells with her staff.
- Lightning Bolt Projection: Maleficent can project lightning bolts from her staff.
- Chlorokinesis: Maleficent can grow a forest of thorn bushes that are unnaturally large and strong to slow Prince Phillip and Shadow Joe. Only the Sword of Truth can cut through the branches of these bushes, because it was enchanted, while Shadow Joe can penetrate through the branches, due to his powers being more greater than Maleficent herself.
- Flight: Maleficent can fly by transforming herself into a form energy similar to a galaxy or comet, which she can reach at supersonic speed.
- Curse inducement: Maleficent can a create tremendously elaborate curse on a person, as she did to Princess Aurora.
- Zoopathy: Maleficent seems to have a symbiotic control over her pet raven Diablo
- Dragon Transformation: Maleficent can transform into a enormous dark fire-breathing dragon. Referring this to "all the powers of hell".
- Resurrection: Maleficent can bring deceased individuals back from the dead, as she did with Jafar and some of the villains throughout the series.
Trivia[]
- Maleficent is one of the few villains in the Character What franchise who can use "Teleportation", The following villains are Shadow Aaron, It, Discord, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger (In the dream world), Nightmare Moon, Sunset Shimmer, Frank, Jafar, The Horned King, Queen Chrysalis, HIM, Hades, Galactus, Slender Man, Aku, Slade, Charmcaster, Hex, Chase Young, Tso Lan, Trigon, Diagon, Starlight Glimmer.
- Maleficent is also one of the few villains who can take the form of a dragon, the other being Shadow Aaron, Aku, Father, Charmcaster, Diagon, Madam Min and Belle Bottom.
- Ironically, Shadow Aaron kills Maleficent the exact same way as Prince Phillip did.
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