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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 villain: imposing, serious, gothic, terrifying, and lacking any of the occasional goofiness seen in some later Disney villians. She is often considered to be the most frightening of all Disney villains. An almost mythical personification of evil, she is responsible for "all misfortune that befalls King Stefan's kingdom." (King Stefan is the father of Princess Aurora.) She had a range of magical powers, at one point Maleficent uses 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, projecting lightning, teleporting, and changing shapes. Some of Maleficents 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 you shall deal with me, you 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 the demon from Night on Bald Mountain, (see Fantasia) Chernabog, and he tells her the he "loves work".

Relationships Maleficent is thought to have a number of romances particulary in Mickey's House of Mouse. The queen of darkness has been seen with the demon from Fantasia, Hades, and mostly with Aladdin villain Jafar. Although questioned if she even has a heart, Maleficent has certainly proved otherwise during many dates on this show. Jafar, however, seems to be her number one fan and frequent accomplice doing almost anything to please her.

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. She heads 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 Princess 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.

Inside Riku's heart, she sees a powerful darkness, and helps him bring it forth, also granting him the apparent gift to control the Heartless. Upon near-completion of the Hollow Bastion keyhole and the imminent arrival of the heroes, she battles them. She fails at this, and has to hastily retreat. As the heroes catch up with her, Riku appears and seems concerned about her well-being. Unknown to her, however, is that Riku is possessed by Xehanort's heart. Failing to realize this, she is struck in the chest by the Keyblade Xehanort created from the hearts of the six princesses she captured, one that opened hearts; with her heart opened, it is vulnerable to the immense darkeness that is attracted to her. The darkness overcomes her and transforms her into the dragon as seen in the film. In this form, she battles the heroes and dies, leaving only her robe. Upon her death, Xehanort 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. With these words, Xehanort steps on Maleficent's robe, which faded into thin air.

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