Maleficent

Maleficent is one of the many Disney Villains appearing in the Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures series. She is the Head of the Council of Villains whose goal is to seek to harness the power of the Heartless and to take control of Kingdom Hearts to rule all of the worlds in the *Kingdom Hearts* video game series. Outside of the *Kingdom Hearts* universe, Maleficent is the main antagonist of the 1959 Disney animated film, *Sleeping Beauty*. She is also the husband of Hades from *Hercules* and the mother of Mal in the Disney Channel Original Movie trilogy/franchise, *Descendants.*

## Maleficent

### Occupation

Mistress of All EvilHead of the Council of Villains

## History

Maleficent, the main antagonist of *Sleeping Beauty*, head of the Council of Villains in the *Kingdom Hearts* series and the wife of Hades and mother of Mal in *Descendants* is one vindictive fairy. She places a spell on baby Aurora to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel to die before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday just because the king and queen hadn’t invited Maleficent to Aurora’s christening celebration. That takes pettiness to a whole new level. Then, when the plan looks to be foiled Aurora’s love Phillip, she kidnaps the prince, locks him up in a dungeon and reveals an even more sadistic plan: she’s going to imprison Phillip until he’s about to die from old age, then will let him go free so that he can rescue the sleeping Aurora and give her true love’s kiss. He’ll be ancient, she won’t have aged a day and he’ll die right after. All this because she wasn’t invited to a party. Of course, this plan fails and Phillip escapes. She can’t give up, she’s committed. So, she turns herself into a demonic dragon and tries to burn Phillip and the kingdom to ash. Naturally, she fails. Phillip strikes her in the heart with his sword, but she got really, really close. She caused a whole mess of mayhem and destruction over a social slight. For her sadism, cunning and avenge hundredfold mentality, Maleficent is easily Disney’s own embodiment of evil earning her the title of Mistress of All Evil and one of Disney’s most evil and dangerous villains.

## Powerfulness and Weaknesses

Maleficent may have had weird motivations for cursing Aurora, but she was said to be the most powerful being of her world. With Flora, Fauna and Merryweather only able to twist her magic a little instead of being rid of it completely. She transforms into a giant dragon, can make countless thorns grow to slow her enemies down, has fire and lightning abilities when attacking and can vanish from sight in an instant.

## Intelligence

Placing a curse out of being insulted is a lot of effort. But for Maleficent, she really did well covering her bases. She was able to find Aurora with the use of her raven Diablo, was able to get the princess to prick her finger and kidnapped Phillip as a further insult.

## Arsenal

**Her Staff**: Maleficent's powers come from her staff which include the ability to shoot lighting and fire, make countless thorns grow and also the power to shapeshift. Maleficent's staff is also one of the Wicked Nine in *Sofia the First* along with Jafar's Snake Staff, Ursula's Necklace, Queen Grimhilde's Crown and Heartbox, Shan Yu's Sword, Mother Gothel's Sundrop Flower, Dr. Facilier's Hat, Lady Tremaine's Golden Key and Mor'du's Claw.

## Goal

In the Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures series, With the powers of the Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed and Nightmares, Shuriki along with Maleficent, the Council of Villains and Organization XIII aim to bring all of the worlds home to Sora and numerous other Disney Characters to darkness and ruin starting with Avalor. Once Avalor was conquered, Maleficent, the Council and the Organization aimed to takeover Destiny Islands, the Disney Castle, the Land of Departure, Twilight Town, Hallow Bastion, Traverse Town and numerous Disney Worlds (the Dwarf Woodlands, Castle of Dreams, Enchanted Dominion, Wonderland, the Deep Jungle, Never Land, the Land of Dragons, Beast's Castle, Atlantica, Agrabah, Halloween Town, Christmas Town, the Pride Lands, Space Paranoids, La Cité des Cloches, Prankster's Paradise, the Grid, Olympus (including Olympus Coliseum), the Toy Box, the Kingdom of Corona, Monstropolis, Arendelle, Port Royal, the Caribbean, San Fransokyo, the Hundred Acre Wood e.t.c.) causing Sora, Kairi, Riku, King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Ventus, Aqua, Terra, Roxas, Naminé, Axel, Xion, Saïx, Hayner, Pence, Olette, Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Cid and numerous other Disney Characters to team up and work together to defeat the villains and restore their worlds back to their former glory.

## Pretty Cure Rival

Maleficent becomes one of Pretty Cure's biggest enemies in the Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures series. The Pretty Cure team she has the biggest rivalry with is Pretty Cure Max Heart (Natalie Blackstone/Cure Black, Hannah Whitehouse/Cure White, Hilary Marigold/Shiny Luminous, Mepple, Mipple, Porun and Lulun). With Maleficent being the leader of the Council of Villains and with the Max Heart girls being the overall leaders of all the Pretty Cure teams, she and them share a great bargain with each other and Maleficent is willing to engage in a magic showdown with the Max Heart girls and will always come back for more even if they end up foiling her plans.

## Defeats

In *Sleeping Beauty*, Maleficent is stabbed in the heart by Phillip's sword with Flora, Fauna and Merryweather's fairy magic.

In the *Kingdom Hearts* series, despite being bested by Sora and his crew numerous times, Maleficent just brushes it off and moves on with her never-ending task of seeking to harness the power of the Heartless and taking control of Kingdom Hearts to rule all of the worlds.

In *Descendants*, Maleficent is turned into a lizard because of the very little love that she has in heart after she attempted to steal the Fairy Godmother's wand at Ben's coronation as King of Auradon to use it to destroy the barrier around the Isle of the Lost and free all of the villains residing there, but gets confronted and disgusted by Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos renouncing to be evil.

## Trivia

Maleficent may make her debut in the Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures series alongside Jafar, Ursula, Claude Frollo, Cruella De Vil, Scar, Queen Grimhilde, Professor Ratigan, King Candy (Turbo), Shan Yu, John Ratcliffe, Mother Gothel, Captain Hook, Hans, Dr. Facilier, Dawn Bellwether, Lady Tremaine, Hades, Gaston, Yzma, Queen Narissa, the Queen of Hearts, Mombi, The Sanderson Sisters, Jadis the White Witch, Warden Louise Walker, Madam Mim, Lana Thomas, Zira, Grey Grayson/Royal Pain, Si and Am and Madame Medusa in *Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures of Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein*.

## Gallery

Maleficent's StaffMaleficent in her Dragon Form