Maleficent is the villain in which Disney movie?
Disney spent millions giving Maleficent a tragic backstory in 2014, and Angelina Jolie did her best to make us sympathize with her, but none of that changes the fact that she literally calls herself the "Mistress of All Evil." Some villains are beyond redemption, and some villains prefer it that way. Which Disney movie is Maleficent the villain in?
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Correct Answer: Sleeping Beauty
(Source)Disney can make all the sympathetic villain movies they want, but Charles Perrault wrote Maleficent into existence back in the 1600s as a purely petty villain. She showed up to a baby's christening uninvited, saw that everyone was having a nice time without her, and decided to curse the infant to die on her sixteenth birthday. When Disney adapted the fairy tale in 1959 as "Sleeping Beauty," they leaned into the evilness and gave her a transformation into a fire-breathing dragon that terrified children. At that point, not even a movie star could rehabilitate Maleficent's image.
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