But see the gracious whim of fate - why, ‘tis the self-same peasant maid, who won the heart of our noble prince but yesterday. And in yonder topmost tower, dreaming of her true love, the Princess Aurora. Why so melancholy? A wondrous future lies before you - you, the destined hero of a charming fairy tale come true. But I’ll go with her mocking speech to the imprisoned Prince Phillip: It’s hard to choose among Maleficent’s lines from the Disney version. I could never look at a baby and put a curse on it, even if I had the power. Three things I don’t have in common with them: Like Maleficent, I like the color purple. Least favorite thing about them: The same as above – it makes her a great villain, but it’s terrible. It’s no wonder that so many fans consider her the greatest Disney villain of all time. First of all, having those years to raise her and bond with her would have made her death more devastating to her parents and other loved ones, and secondly, it tortures them with fifteen or sixteen years of fear and of trying to prevent the curse only for their efforts to fail in the end.įor Disney’s Maleficent, let me add to the above her special blend of elegance, wit, ferocity and power.

Not only that, she curses her to die at age fifteen (in the Grimms’ version) or sixteen (in Perrault’s and most modern retellings), which is more cruel than just killing her straight away. She curses an innocent baby to die just because she wasn’t invited to her christening. Tagged by answers will encompass every version of the character I know: Disney’s Maleficent (the animated version only, though), Carabosse from Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Faerie Tale Theatre’s Henbane, the Cannon Movie Tales’ Fairy of Red, and the unnamed Old Fairy from the original tale.įavorite thing about them: The sheer sadism and pettiness of her cruelty. Character ask: The Old Fairy from “Sleeping Beauty”

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