Villains Beginning With 'M'

Maleficent

Sleeping Beauty film (1959)

Maleficent is a wicked dark fairy, 'Maleficent' is a Latin word meaning harmful or evil. She cursed the infant Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun set on her sixteenth birthday after not being invited to the baby's christening.

Maleficent is imposing, serious, gothic, terrifying and evil. She is responsible for all misfortune that befalls King Stefan's kingdom (King Stefan is the father of Princess Aurora.) Maleficent also possesses magical powers and artifacts, which allow her to--for example--use the crystal ball 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, sending frosts, projecting lightning, teleporting, and changing shapes. Some of Maleficent's forms include that of a spinning wheel, a Will o' the wisp, and a black-and-purple dragon. She was often surrounded by eerie green flames; implying that she had phenomenal powers of evil at her disposal.

Her pet raven, Diablo, and her army of inept goblin henchmen carried out most of her orders for her. She was slain by the sword of Prince Philip, after one final enchantment from Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather drove it directly into her heart.

Maleficent lives in a large ruined castle called 'The Forbidden Mountain' which is where she holds Prince Philip captive until he is freed with the help of the three fairies.

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