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Aurora - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, 2019

[cherriedt]

maleficent: mistress of evil (2019).

elle fanning as aurora.

[imthepunchlord]

With Wish supposed to be a return to good ole fashion Disney villainy, I think they missed a big opportunity. By what we got, there's enough set up I saw for a literal return of old Disney villainy, particularly one of the more iconic.

I could see Maleficent easily fit into the film.

Magnifico could've worked, he had the charisma, fun, and spite. But wound up an awkward flop. The Magnifico we got wasn't really set up as a villain. Everyone is happy in his kingdom, he doesn't tax them, doesn't demand residents to give up their wishes and he safeguards all of them even if not granted, he keeps his people in the know of what's going on, and grants wishes to people free of cost. He crafted a utopia. And I saw people in his kingdom just demanding more and more of him, and saw them as ungrateful. And yeah, by set up, Asha did feel more like a villain in contrast to him, starting a revolution because she was told no, and having a risky belief that all wishes should be granted or returned to people, not even considering that there are just as many dark and selfish wishes as there are pure and selfless ones. I wound up standing more with Magnifico instead of the hero. And it shouldn't be so.

Additionally, he doesn't exactly click with the villain label. Having an ego and being petty is not enough to make someone a villain. It's actions and intentions that do. Which he doesn't have either. He has no ambition as a villain. And despite being petty to Asha, he still promises to safeguard her grandfather's wish. Why, they had to bring out an evil spell book to corrupt him and make him fit the villain label. And that's not good for your villain...

Which just leads to my thought process that maybe Maleficent should've been the villain. And there's just a lot of details I saw in the film that could point to that thought and how it could work.

To start, there's the vagueness of his backstory. We have an unnamed group that destroyed Magnifico's home when he was younger. Also this inspired him to study and learn magic. Maleficent can fit with both details: she does have an army and is a sorceress (and maybe fairy?), and typically it takes magic to fight magic.

Plus, their names can be solid counters to each other and could work off being foils, with Magnifico relating to greatness, noble, and exceptional wonders while Maleficent is great evil and harm.

But, the biggest thing that sells the thought for me, all relates to the mysterious evil book Magnifico has. Where did he get it? Who made it? Why does it have this ability to corrupt anyone who looks into it?

Maleficent is just an easy answer to all of those questions.

She's the Mistress of All Evil. It's plausible she'd make a spell book that would corrupt any that opened it and read through it's pages. And if she's a major threat, it makes sense for Magnifico to think he needs to get this potential source of power and wickedness away from her, keep it under lock and key.

Also, everything tied to the spell book just screams to me Sleeping Beauty references.

From the dragon on the cover.

To the claw-like green magic that reminds me of Maleficent's magic.

To the "thorny vines" take over of the kingdom.

All the details and magic to the book remind me of Maleficent, and it makes me wonder if maybe she should've been the true villain of Wish. Maybe even a surprise twist villain, the true return to Disney villainy.

Even more so, when you introduce a vague threat that shaped one of my your major characters, defining his backstory and reasons for where he went in life and built up, typically that threat comes back. And I would think wherever he got that spell book from, would want it back.

And I can just see Maleficent having the cunning and spite to get Magnifico to destroy the kingdom he built up, having the audacity to stand up to her, thinking he can challenge her power. She could've whispered to him with Star made him scared and nervous, escalate things that he looks into the book and gets corrupted.

You could even go so far to have her be the Queen in disguise, playing a long game.

This film also could've established her rivalry with benevolent fairies and wish granters, especially with fairies tied to stars in older Disney films, which are also tied to wishes.

Maybe it would've been too much, but I do think, over all, it was a missed opportunity not doing more with Maleficent and her potential ties to that book, cause everything about it just reminds me of her and seems like a big Sleeping Beauty reference. Could've been cool for Magnifico to mention he got it from "The Mistress of All Evil", just to give a more definitive origins to this plot device that made him a villain, though not a good one... I will say, concept wise, he was a better villain from what I've seen. I am also bummed that we didn't get our villainous couple. You cowards, Disney.

[sydneyofalltrades]

i’m so tempted to rewrite descendants: rise of red because i woke up this morning with ideas like:

NO MERLIN PREP. jesus it was so unnecessary and why are characters in different stories all the same age?? if castlecoming is supposed to be ella’s and charming’s meetup ball why the HELL is fairy godmother bridget and ella’s age??

no villain crew. while it is iconic, it’s also its own plot hole. hades is immortal, maleficent is the “mistress of all evil,” hook should be in neverland. why the three of them follow ursula’s BABY SISTER doesn’t make sense.

red and chloe don’t go back to avoid the coup. bridget is actually trying to be a good mother, she just has deep seated trust issues and anger issues from an incident in her past

chloe has a natural hair color. so does ella. bridget and red have their natural hair colors with stripes of color (red/pink) because they’re from wonderland

the catalyst for bridget’s “ruthlessness” isn’t a prank from high school. it’s years of being ostracized by the other people of auradon for being a wonderlandian

and so so so so sooooo much more. so if anyone’s interested, i might be considering writing the fanfic (this is coming from someone who has never watched the movie, just seen enough of it on tiktok)

[izunias-meme-hole]

One Villainous Scene - The Mistress of All Evil

Ah, Kingdom Hearts... before things jumped the shark in a lot of areas, the series started out as just a original Final Fantasy inspired game with various different worlds and characters from Disney's classic works. In other words, while original elements were present and building up in the background, a lot of focus was on the Disney side of things and if there's one villain that benefited the most from this approach its the Mistress of Evil herself, Maleficent.

Despite having a good run in KH2 and a half & half presentation for the rest of the series, Maleficent in this first entry was just a perfect villain. She operated as the leader of a team-up between a few iconic Disney villains, The Heartless follow her every whim, she manipulated Riku to her side, and overall she was a consistently active and ever-present threat. All of this, combined with how calm and calculated she, just makes it seem like she was big bad and final boss. Everything so far seems to be building up to that, and when she finally decides to confront Sora, Donald & Goofy face to face when her plan is almost complete, it feels like you’re ready for one final showdown as her arrogance is put on full display.

Then she gets her fckin' humbled and runs away! Maleficent is extremely weakened right now, and the last thing she needs is to be completely and utterly humiliated. But then something happens... a possessed Riku appears behind the evil fae, condescendingly asking her if she needs help. Said "help" was being stabbed by a keyblade that unlocks hearts, and unlock her heart it did. As darkness officially entered her, the Mistress of Evil smiled as she welcomed this increase in power and turned into a bloodthirsty dragon that revels in her newfound power. Though despite all of this terrible strength, she's still defeated by the heroes. And the cherry on top is that it’s ultimately revealed that she was never truly had control over The Heartless and was being consumed by the darkness they spawned from since the very beginning. "A fitting end for such a fool."

Maleficent in this game was someone who thought that she could control darkness itself, another world's manifestation of pure evil dabbling in forces beyond even her understanding. She wanted multiversal dominion and got WAY in over her head, sealing her demise as a result. Honestly this is the literal only instance where a Disney villain manages to surpass their original film appearance in this series, and if this was her only appearance in the series then it definitely would've been one helluva way to go.

[muses-of-the-memory]

Happy 66th Anniversary, Sleeping Beauty!

Today is the 66th anniversary of...

Disney's Sleeping Beauty!

It has been 66 years since we have seen Disney Princess, Aurora become cursed by

the Mistress of All Evil, Maleficent. The curse was that on her 16th birthday she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die...

The good fairies; Fauna, Flora and Merryweather tried to hide her from the evil fairy's plan, until she met Prince Phillip. Phillip had defeated the evil Maleficent who transformed into a fairy,

and awakened the Sleeping Beauty.

We must thank this film for having to make Aurora's and Maleficent's debut as iconic Disney characters, and having Maleficent become a main villain in the Kingdom Hearts franchise.

Tagged by: @hoshi-neko-hikari, @bluemajingirl, @spirits-of-nature16, @the-world-hopper, @themultiverseheroines

[ultraericthered]

The Big Bads of Kingdom Hearts (Divergence)

Xehanort - Big Bad of KH0.I (as Master Xehanort/Terra-Xehanort), KH1 (as Ansem & Xemnas), and KH2 (as Xemnas), major villain in CoM (as Ansem), XIII Days (as Xemnas), KH3D, KH3, and KH5. Easily the most iconic and ever-present KH original villain in the series, Xehanort was the greatest enemy to Sora and his friends. We see him in many forms: as a human, a superhuman, a Heartless, a Nobody, a memory specter, a data copy, and a Hollow Replica carrying his heart's entire essence that ultimately fuses together with a demonic god of darkness. Even after he's dead, his machinations create new trouble in the form of his Replica bastard son turned Ephemer clone who draws power from Nothingness. Had Xehanort's canonical trajectory matched this, all of him might have placed among the best video game villains instead of among the worst.

Maleficent - Major villain in KH0.1, KH1, CoM, KH2, Encoded Worlds, KH3D, KH3, KH4, and Pandemoniac Heartless Parade.

While Maleficent can never secure the position of THE Big Bad in any story, she's the Mistress of All Evil for a reason, and such a thing would feel too constraining for her. She stands as the arch foe of the Destiny Trio and all Disney good guys who've allied with them, and is always seeking ways to claim higher power, having involved herself with all major forces of evil to besiege the worlds. Even after getting ousted in KH0.I, after her own death in KH1, and after seeming to lose all power in KH4, she proves you can never count her out.

Marluxia - Big Bad of CoM, Major villain in KH2, XIII Days, and KH3.

One of the less remarkable Big Bads in the series as he only exists to service larger plots of Organization XIII and the Dark Seekers, yet in some ways this makes Marluxia all the more impressive for what he is. Much like CoM itself, he didn't need to go as hard with his plots and the style in his villainy, but he sure does and we love him for it.

Saix - Big Bad of XIII Days, Major villain in CoM, KH2, and KH3.

Saix is in the same boat as Marluxia and unfortunately has less luck when it comes to being a Big Bad, as no matter how much he may try otherwise, he's always in the shadow of Xemnas. That said, he still makes for a creepy and compelling antagonist you love to hate.

Pete - Major villain in KH2, XIII Days, Encoded Worlds, KH3D, KH3, KH4, Pandemoniac Heartless Parade, The Missing Links, and KH5.

The closest Pete comes to Big Bad status is playing the de-facto main antagonist in Encoded Worlds, but even that's at the behest of Maleficent and he's easily outdone by a computer virus. His major villain status comes from being a minion who also happens to be the Disney Castle crew's sworn enemy. Following Maleficent's power loss, he even gains a partner in the treacherous Duke Mortimer.

Chernabog & The MCP - Major villains in KH1 and KH2 respectively. Chernabog is, like Darxomnious, a demonic deity of darkness who, once situated at the core of End of the World, became a benefactor to Xehanort and the Heartless, but he is only encountered in a single boss fight (though he resurfaces as a nightmare boss in 3D and yet again in KH5). The MCP is more prominent, being the Arc VIllain for the Space Paranoids world that's directly tied with Hollow Bastion, essentially the digital counterpart to Terra-Xehanort who's even implied to service Xemnas himself, though he hates all other users.

Darxomnious & Master Luxu - Big Bad of KH3, Major villain(s) in X, KH3D, and The Missing Links. Darxomnious is the aggregation of the darkest of all hearts, the progenitor of all Darklings, and the overarching Big Bad of the second saga just as Terra-Xehanort was of the first. Master Luxu is the old master whose heart and mind has been tied directly to the dark god and who acts as his vessel in leading the XIII and directing the Dark Seekers movement. While both perish by the end of KH3, we see a fairy tale take on Darxomnious in X and fight a spectral memory of both him and Luxu in one route of The Missing Links.

Hades - Big Bad in Pandemoniac Heartless Parade, Major villain in KH0.1, KH1, CoM, KH2, XIII Days, Encoded Worlds, KH3D, KH3, and The Missing Links.

He's...well, he's Hades. What more need be said?

Judge Frollo - Major villain in KH3D, KH4, and The Missing Links. Frollo debuts in KH3D as the main villain of one of the penultimate worlds (voiced here by Earl Boen rather than Corey Burton) and gets defeated in the world's collective shared dream, which led to him being stripped of all authority upon the world's waking. Finding a way to flee his world, Frollo resurfaces as one of the most primary villains in KH4 (now voiced by Timothy E. Brummund) who conspires with the Lost Masters to exploit the Demi-Deterged and purge the worlds of all he considers sinful, even when it only grows and enhances his own heart's darkness. He's killed off for real, but makes one final appearance as an illusion to be vanquished in The Missing Links.

Master Narix - Big Bad in KH4, The Missing Links, and KH5. Narix is the third saga's overarching Big Bad and essentiallly the final boss of KH Divergence, as my imagination just can't extend past KH5. Narix, by nature, is a Contrasting Sequel Antagonist to Xehanort, basically Master Eraqus' moral absolutism and ideals of light supremacy taken to the furthest extremes, as he seeks to dismantle and reassemble Kingdom Hearts so as to eliminate all darkness across not just the World but the multiverse ('cause you know we had to go there at some point), all costs be damned. In doing so he ironically creates an evil force called "blight", light that's been perverted to the point where it works in tandem with darkness. Narix is only seen once in KH4, then becomes a more prominent enemy in both The Missing Links and KH5 along with the order he and his subservient Lost Masters leads, the Luminous Vanguard. Following Neodarkness and Evanessé, he's KH5's very final boss.

Vanitas/Neodarkness - Major villain in KH0.1, KH3D, KH3, KH4, The Missing Links, and KH5.

Vanitas is a major villain in KH0.1 and in KH3, with a phantom image of him being utilized by Xehanort in KH3D to spread nightmares. However, he doesn't come into his own until he embraces the fact that he is a perfect manifestation of darkness itself, which allows him to evolve into Neodarkness, the dark entity who takes Darxomnious' place as ruler of all dark hearts and evil beings. What's neat about Neodarkness is that, unlike Darxomnious, he's not strictly evil all the time, he's more a Chaotic Neutral who acts for his own amusement. Along with Narix and Evanessé, he's one of KH5's final bosses.

Evanesse' - Major villain in The Missing Links and KH5.

This would be "Xehanort's Replica bastard son turned Ephemer clone who draws power from Nothingness" I mentioned before. When Xehanort was in his new Replica body and planned on becoming a god by merging with Darxomnious, he secretly used the knowledge of Xion's creation from one cursed timeline as a blueprint to create his own Hollow Replica he planned on reincarnating his human heart into, but as Darxomnort was destroyed, this never happened. It ends up being Ephemer's heart that gives life to this Replica, creating the tortured and nihilistic Evanessé who seeks to find his own aim and place in the world before ultimately deciding he wants everything around him to disappear into Nothing, hence his thematic name. Along with Neodarkness and Narix, he's one of KH5's final bosses.

King Magnifico - Major villain in KH5.

Magnifico is sort of like the MCP of KH5, being the Arc Villain of a running subplot. We're told he's in competition with Yen Sid because he wants to seize ownership of the Mysterious Tower and relocate it to be Rosas-adjacent, and the Wishing Star he's on the lookout for is one of Ephemer's allies throughout the game, but we only meet him in person upon actually visiting Rosas, where he's faced down and defeated. His inclusion in the game not only makes sense given the timing, but due to the fanbase he's garnered over in Japan. He's also a parallel to Narix, a man in white whose good intentions have given way to selfishness and power-lust that he can't even recognize.

[hollywoodoutbreak]

Emmy nominated actress Juno Temple has built an impressive career collaborating with an array of A-list stars. From working alongside Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham in the Emmy-winning comedy series Ted Lasso, to sharing the screen with Jon Hamm in the critically acclaimed FX series Fargo, Johnny Depp in the biographical crime drama Black Mass, and Angelina Jolie in the Disney fantasy film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Temple has consistently demonstrated her versatility and talent.

Now, she can add another iconic name to her list of esteemed co-stars: Tom Hardy. In the latest installment of the Venom saga, Venom: The Last Dance, Temple stars opposite Hardy, who not only reprises his role as Eddie Brock/Venom but also co-wrote the movie.

Temple was understandably awestruck by the experience, particularly the opportunity to witness Hardy's deep involvement in the project.

Venom: The Last Dance is still playing in movie theaters.

[thepoisonapple]

do you get upset that maleficent has usurped you as the most iconic villain when your film came out before hers did?

"Maleficent is the Mistress of All Evil. There is little sense in attempting to rival her in such a manner. After all, she would never attempt to usurp me as the Fairest One of All, and as long as all know that I am the most beautiful and radiant of the villains and the original villain, I care very little for anything further."

[jules-has-notes]

Bad Guy (Maleficent) — PattyCake Productions music video

When Disney announced a sequel to their live-action Maleficent film, the PattyCake guys jumped at the chance to revisit their own incarnation of the wicked sorceress. They found a perfect song to represent her, courtesy of another strange, deliciously vengeful, frequently maligned fae-like creature: Billie Eilish. After all, if a lot of people insist on portraying you as evil or nasty, why not lean into it?

Details:

title: Maleficent – Bad Guy

performers: Leah Lowman (Maleficent), Andrea Stack Dunn (Queen Ingrith), Bebe Caliberr Mercy (Aurora), Paul Kaleka (King Stefan), & Hannah Juliano (featured vocals)

original songs / performers: "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish; "Finale" from Swan Lake (1877)

written by: "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell; Swan Lake score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

arranged by: Layne Stein & Tony Wakim

release date: 18 October 2019

My favorite bits:

that ominous introductory narration

the dolorous piano creeping in under the lyrics

Queen Ingrith's heart-wrenching scream, muffled to indicate that she's holding it inside

the subtle layering of a lower, slightly distorted vocal line that gives Maleficent even more gravitas and otherworldly presence

those strategic lyric substitutions to better fit the fairy tale setting

King Stefan defiantly drawing his sword as she sings ♫ "punish your dad" ♫

the side lighting on the spinning wheel that makes it look like a circle of daggers

Maleficent's fantastic smirk as she purrs ♫ "I'm the bad guy" ♫

replacing Billie's "Duh." with a throaty chuckle

the frantic strings entering under ♫ "Secrets up both my sleeves" ♫

Aurora bowing her head in time to ♫ "I don't sleep" ♫

the iconic riff from the original song played on what sounds like muted glass bells

that final wicked laughter 😈

Trivia:

This video was released on the same day as Disney's live-action sequel film, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

Leah first wore Maleficent's horns in "Michaeleficent", and has reprised the role occasionally ever since.

King Stefan and Aurora are also played by the same actors from "Michaeleficent".

Andrea has played the regal Lady Tremaine in "Cinderswift" (opposite Leah's Cinderella) and the Villains Lair series, so she was a natural fit for Queen Ingrith.

Interestingly, the PattyCake guys chose to include a musical motif from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet score, rather than his Sleeping Beauty, which would have been more in keeping with the source material. But I can't deny that the former blends incredibly well with the more modern pop tune.

The aesthetic is reminiscent of VoicePlay's version of "Once Upon a Dream", which Layne had directed as their Halloween video in 2014, when Tony was still a member of the group. The guys also confirmed that the visuals were partly inspired by the opening title sequence for the American Horror Story TV series.

Layne also recorded two excerpts from the original song with VoicePlay during the last few months of the year. It was included in both their "Billie Eilish in 3 Minutes" medley two weeks earlier, and their "Aca Top 10 – Hits of 2019" countdown on New Year's Eve.

[themattress]

Favorite Evil Overlord Villains

Sauron - The Evil Overlord, the titular character of The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is a villain who is seldom seen or heard yet who still manages to dominate the story. The enemy army is his army, Mordor is his kingdom, and the One Ring is his power source fueled by a fragment of his own soul that tempts and corrupts all who bear it. And of course there's the iconic visual of the Eye of Sauron, an eye that fixes its malevolent gaze upon the world with the intent of ravaging and conquering all that it can see. While he certainly has backstory and some personal characteristics, Sauron primarily stands out through sheer force of presence.

Maleficent - Disney's Sleeping Beauty beefs up the role of the Wicked Fairy into being, as Maleficent herself says, "the Mistress of All Evil". She is a Satanic figure ruling over an evil kingdom full of evil subjects who go around spreading evil just because. Maleficent can be cold and sophisticated, other times furious and violent, and other times giddily and even childishly cruel. But at her core, Maleficent is all about one emotion: spite. Spite toward all who are good and who love and who are able to know true happiness that forever eludes her black-hearted self. All of her grandiosity is a cover for how empty she feels inside, which drives her eternal quest to make the world a worse place for everyone else. While there are many different incarnations of Maleficent out there now, none truly do justice to the original.

[momercurio]

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[mayookhpallikandi]

Sources and Significance | Blog post #10

We have talked about ‘Representation’ and ‘Identity’ in our class session. In this blog post I would like to talk about a character representation and identity. So, I take an example the Disney’s iconic lady villain ‘Maleficent’.

We know that in the movie ‘Sleeping beauty’ she was the main villain. While describing her “Maleficent: red lips, twisted horns, and green flames. She's the self-proclaimed Mistress of All Evil, a fairy gone so bad as to curse a newborn child.” (Cangro, 2015).

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In 2014 they remade a story that tell about the ‘Maleficent’. In that movie villainism changed to anti-hero character. We are getting confused is she has a negative or positive role. Disney told the back story of her life and why she turned like the character we are familiar with. “From the perspective of the royal family, she is an evil character who wants to spite their family without a purpose other than jealousy.” (Wangard,2021).

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We watched the movie and the audience get confused about her character is she good or bad?

In this movie, as a kid she was best friends with the king. They were happy together until he took away her wings to become King. In this story, the king is bad, and Maleficent becomes a hero who fights against him. She casts a curse on the King's daughter to annoy him. But later, she is the one who releases her from it, not any prince. This is a very different way of looking at what we first heard about this story. The past makes her actions have a reason and goal, also helping us understand who she is.

We can conclude this discussion as the Disney represented this character as an anti-hero character. After watching her story, we feel sympathy on her situation and she creates a good image in audience mind. Because in her point of view she was right. We all know every witch is normally represented as bad. Even though she was bad. Finally she earns the sympathy and became a good one in every audience’s mind.

References

Cangro, S. (2015) The evolution of Maleficent: How the classic Disney villain became a star. https://theweek.com/articles/446464/evolution-maleficent-how-classic-disney-villain-became-star. [Accessed: 28 Dec 2023]

Wangard, E. (2021) 'When the Hero is Also a Villain - Elizabeth Wangard - Medium,' Medium, 11 December. https://medium.com/@elizabeth.wangard/when-the-hero-is-also-a-villain-3c737706e22a. [Accessed: 28 Dec 2023]

Disney, W. (1959) 'Sleeping Beauty', Directed by Clyde Geronimi, United States: Walt Disney Productions. [Accessed: 28 Dec 2023]

Stromberg, R. (2014) 'Maleficent', Directed by Robert Stromberg, United States: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. [Accessed: 28 Dec 2023]

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