



Maleficent admits that she felt distressed at not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora. She is highly skeptical, sardonic, and manipulative, shown by how she referred to the Three Good Fairies as "the rabble", which nearly prompted Merryweather to attack her. She’s introduced as an impeccably sophisticated and regal creature. Maleficent is the ultimate epitome of evil in the Disney universe. In the 2014 live action film and its 2019 sequel, she was portrayed by Angelina Jolie, who also played Grendel's Mother in the 2007 film adaptation of Beowulf, Lola in DreamWorks' Shark Tale, and Mrs. In subsequent appearances, she is voiced by Susanne Blakeslee who also currently voiced Lady Tremaine and Cruella De Vil. In the 1959 animated film, she was voiced by the late Eleanor Audley, who previously voiced Lady Tremaine in Disney's 1950 film, Cinderella, and Madame Leota in The Haunted Mansion. With her gothic, elegant design, dramatic and flamboyant animation, and unlimited arsenal of magic powers, Maleficent is one of the most popular and well-known Disney villains. She also appears to have a hatred of the Three Good Fairies: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, her rivalry opposites who do all in their power to keep her overwhelming evil magic at bay. She is responsible for all the trouble and misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom. She is an evil witch who takes offense at not being invited to the christening of Aurora and attempts to get revenge on King Stefan and his people by cursing Queen Leah and Stefan's beloved daughter, Princess Aurora. In Sleeping Beauty, she is the arch-nemesis of the Three Good Fairies, Princess Aurora, and Prince Phillip. Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 16th full-length animated feature film Sleeping Beauty (which is based on the 1697 classic fairytale of the same name by the late Charles Perrault and the late Peter Tchaikovsky) as well for Disney Animated Canon as a whole, a supporting antagonist in Mickey's House of Villains, one of the main antagonists of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, and the titular main protagonist of the live-action films Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
