What villain is Maleficent?

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Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. A malevolent fairy, Maleficent is an incarnation of pure evil and is responsible for all the misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom.
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What type of villain is Maleficent?

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.
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Who is the real villain in Maleficent?

King Stefan (also simply known as Stefan) is the main antagonist in the 2014 live-action Disney film Maleficent and a posthumous antagonist in its 2019 sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which are both based on the 1959 Disney animated classic film Sleeping Beauty.
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Is Maleficent a protagonist or antagonist?

In terms of role, maleficent is a protagonist because she is a good fairy. It looks when she revokes the cursed after she cursed Aurora for a long time.
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Is Maleficent the Evil Queen?

Maleficent is sometimes incorrectly referred to as an evil queen, likely because she lives in an abandoned castle in the Forbidden mountains, but she isn't actually a queen in Maleficent or in Sleeping Beauty (in Maleficent her aunt and uncle were technically rulers of the Moors, although that was cut from the final ...
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Who is the most evil Disney villain?

The Top 10 Disney Villains of All Time
  • Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians) ...
  • Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) ...
  • Jafar (Aladdin) ...
  • Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) ...
  • The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) ...
  • Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) ...
  • Hades (Hercules) ...
  • Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
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Is Maleficent evil or broken?

Maleficent is the titular protagonist villain and anti-heroine of the 2014 film "Maleficent". Originally a sweet, kind young girl, Maleficent soon grew evil after being betrayed by her former boyfriend King Stefan. Maleficent became the darkest of them all and cursed young Princess Aurora with a sleeping curse.
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What creature is Maleficent?

Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) is actually a dark fairy who can control natural elements like roots, plants, and the weather. She can also cause other creatures to shape-shift. And for all means and purposes, Maleficent is also Aurora's godmother.
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Is Maleficent good or evil?

Personality. Maleficent represents pure evil. She is ruthless, dark, devious, and will do whatever it takes to achieve her evil goals. Additionally, she is very sinister, which is shown when she taunts Prince Phillip after she captures him.
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Is Maleficent the most powerful Disney villain?

Maleficent has to be the most powerful villain of all time. Unlike her other equivalent like Jafar, she doesn't need some extra, external magical source to draw her power from. She has it in spades, capable of even turning into a massive fire breathing dragon that very few could hope to defeat.
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Why did Maleficent turn into a phoenix?

[Spoiler Warning] After Maleficent is killed while saving Aurora, she turns to dust, and Aurora sheds several tears over her ashes. The powerful expression of spontaneous love in turn resurrects Maleficent, causing her to literally rise from the ashes as a phoenix.
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Who cut Maleficent's wings?

Many grown-ups who have seen the film already suspected as much from the scene in which Angelina Jolie's Maleficent is violated by Sharlto Copley's King Stefan, a man she trusted. He drugs her and cuts off her massive wings.
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Why is Maleficent an antagonist?

In disney's 2014 movie Maleficent ,Maleficent is both a good hero and a bad villain but more a hero. In the beggining she is good because she didn't turn him away and love him. Maleficent is also both protagonist and antagonist because she is against stepon and is sometime against herself .
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Is Cruella an anti villain?

Cruella de Vil, on the other hand, has been treated with such care and empathy that she's barely recognizable as a villain at all. Rather than exploring the genesis of a soul twisted into evil, Cruella simply opts to make its leading lady … not evil.
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Is Cruella really a villain?

In fact she's just the right amount of everything. There are some crimes from which there is no redemption, and killing puppies is one of them. Cruella would appear to be irredeemably evil in 101 Dalmatians, and yet Emma Stone's version of the character, while she's capable of extreme acts, really isn't bad.
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What kind of Dark Fey is Maleficent?

The Dark Fey are a subspecies of Fairy, human in size and appearance however with large feathered wings and horns. In Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Conall tours and brings Maleficent around the cavern, describing it as their Nest of Origin.
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Why is Maleficent so powerful?

Maleficent is herself directly descended from the last of the phoenix, explaining why the scale of her powers is beyond even the other Dark Faeries. She also gives them a stronger tie to the forces of magic in the world.
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Where did Maleficent get her powers?

There is an entire different race of people called Dark Fey, though they do not have her powers. Maleficent's powers come from a phoenix. The Dark Fey are living in imposed exile thanks to their conflict with humans.
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Who is the most misunderstood Disney villain?

Maleficent & 9 Other Disney Villains Who Were Just Misunderstood
  1. 1 Hades - Hercules.
  2. 2 Yzma - The Emporer's New Groove. ...
  3. 3 Syndrome - The Incredibles. ...
  4. 4 Scar - The Lion King. ...
  5. 5 Maleficent - Sleeping Beauty. ...
  6. 6 Captain Hook - Peter Pan. ...
  7. 7 Lady Tremaine - Cinderella. ...
  8. 8 Shere Khan - The Jungle Book. ...
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Why did Ursula become a villain?

Triton received the trident while Ursula received the magic Nautilus shell. Though the two were meant to rule the seas together, Ursula's greed and use of dark magic to usurp Triton led to her being banished. The desire for revenge and power is her motivation for the show.
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Who is the least evil Disney villain?

Disney Villains: A Ranking From Most to Least Evil
  • 'Mulan': Shan Yu. ...
  • The Evil Queen from 'Snow White' ...
  • 'Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent. ...
  • Cruella de Vil from '101 Dalmatians' ...
  • 'The Lion King': Scar. ...
  • Hades from 'Hercules' ...
  • 'Beauty and the Beast's Gaston. ...
  • Disney villains with honorable mentions.
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Who is the most heartless Disney villain?

The Top 10 Most Evil Disney Villains
  • Gaston. ...
  • Hades. ...
  • Jafar. Movie: Aladdin (1992) ...
  • Cruella De Vil. Movie: One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) ...
  • Maleficent. Movie: Sleeping Beauty (1959) ...
  • Dr. Facilier aka the Shadow Man. ...
  • The Evil Queen. Movie: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) ...
  • Scar. Movie: The Lion King (1994)
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What is the most violent Disney movie?

Disney's Most Deadly Films Revealed
  • Dinosaur – 307,148 Deaths. Disney's 2000 film Dinosaur takes the top spot as the deadliest film, with 307,148 deaths! ...
  • Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 35,185 Deaths. ...
  • Hercules – 20,010 Deaths. ...
  • Lion King – 1,660 deaths. ...
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Why did Maleficent turn into a dragon?

In the film's climax, after failing to prevent Prince Phillip from reaching King Stefan's castle to kiss Princess Aurora, Maleficent teleports before him and transforms herself into a huge terrifying dragon in order to battle him and destroy him for good.
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