Maleficent- Sleeping Beauty

Maleficent, the self proclaimed mistress of all evil, is by far Disney’s most wicked villain. After not being invited to the celebration of the princess Aurora’s birth, she decides to bestow a “present”, in the form of a spell, on the baby princess. She vowed that on Aurora’s sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on a spindle and die. The Three Good Fairies countered Maleficent’s curse by stating that the Princess would not die, but would be sleeping, awaiting loves first kiss. The fairies then go into hiding with the Princess, attempting to escape Maleficent’s evil wrath. They change their names and can not reveal the Princess’s true identity to her until she is sixteen.

By the time of Aurora’s sixteenth birthday, Maleficent’s home, the forbidden mountains, thundered with her frustration because she could not find the Princess. After discovering her idiotic henchmen have been searching for a baby girl for the past sixteen years, not a grown woman, a burst of psychotic laughter emits from her mouth, echoing through her eerie domain, she then uses her magical staff to the useless miscreants. She sends a raven, her loyal companion, out to find Aurora, begging him not to let her down. The raven stumbles upon the Three Good Fairies in a cottage in the forest and overhears them discussing the Princess and quickly flies back to his ally.

The Good Fairies reveal to the Princess that she is royalty and they take her to the castle. They make the mistake of leaving Aurora alone in a room where Maleficent appears before the Princess, her glowing eyes creating the only source of light, and lures her into a secret passageway where the Princess fulfills her ignoble prophecy. She then kidnaps the Prince, imprisoning him in her dungeon so he will never be able to save his precious Princess. The Three Good Fairies manage to sneak into the castle and free the Prince, arming him with a sword and a shield. Maleficent sees this and goes to her beloved raven, to tell him to stop them. Unfortunately he was cast in stone by one of the Good Fairies; her only loyal friend is gone. She is so furious about this that she fills the sky with a thunderous storm and casts a spell around the castle. Mounds of thorned bushes surround the castle. Prince Philippe uses his new sword and breaks through these prickly plants enraging Maleficent even more. So, she decides she’s going out in true villainous style: she becomes a dragon. Prince Philippe uses his trusty sword once again, leaving only her robe with the sword piercing through it.

Why she’s number one: Even the name Maleficent has an evil ring to it. She is the epitome of what every villain should be. Being pure evil from beginning to end, she set out on the murderous plot of a baby princess even though she had absolutely nothing to gain from it. She was evil because she enjoyed it, nothing more nothing less.

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