A defining moment for the original character was her transformation into a dragon during Sleeping Beauty's climax. It is an image so iconic that for decades following the movie, Maleficent's dragon form has been sold to Disney fans by way of shirts, plushies, pins, mugs.
Sometimes she's depicted as more of a witch than a fairy, but at least in Disney's various versions, she is distinguished by her two large horns, which are usually covered by a headpiece. She also has a raven servant and, depending on the adaptation, she can turn either herself or the bird into a dragon.
The original Maleficent dies at the end of the film, while the 2014 version, Maleficent is still alive. Maleficent in this version never turned into a dragon, instead, she turned Diaval into a dragon. However, in the sequel, she does transform into a large phoenix.
November 9, 2023. It was a shocking performance of Fantasmic! at Disneyland on April 22, 2023 when the Maleficent Dragon (affectionately known as Murphy) caught fire as guests watched in shock. The entire dragon soon became engulfed in flames and began falling apart on stage.
Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm bordering a human kingdom. As a child, she meets a human peasant boy named Stefan, and they fall in love with each other.
Sleeping Beauty - Maleficent turns into a dragon/Maleficent's death
Why is Maleficent a dragon?
As a final attempt to kill the prince in order to prevent him from breaking her curse on Aurora and saving the whole kingdom, Maleficent summons all the power of Hell to transform herself into an enormous dragon. Maleficent defeated, stabbed in the heart by the Sword of Truth by Prince Phillip.
The Dark Fey are a subspecies of Fairy, human in size and appearance however with large feathered wings and horns. In Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Conall tours and brings Maleficent around the cavern, describing it as their Nest of Origin.
On Maleficent's sixteenth birthday, Stefan kissed her. However, after some period of time after this, he didn't come to see Maleficent. Stefan later betrayed her and stole her wings, so he would be able to become the new king. Stefan later married Leila, Henry's daughter, and she became his wife and queen.
Lilith Page, better known as Lily, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. She is the daughter of Maleficent and debuts, with her first appearance, in the fifth episode of the fourth season.
On 5th December 2023 Angelina Jolie confirmed a third Maleficent film was officially in the works in an interview published by the Wall Street Journal.
Even though Maleficent is a heroine, she is still presented as a satanic figure. Her iconic horns (which Disney artist Marc Davis, who designed Maleficent, says were inspired by the traditional look of the devil, to “frighten everybody half to death”) are present even before Stefan's betrayal.
In the Enchanted Forest, presumably, Maleficent's dragon form mates with another dragon which results in her becoming pregnant and eventually having a daughter named Lilith, or "Lily".
Maleficent's parents had died when she was a newborn, It is Unknown what happened to them, but in the Maleficent`s Novelization, it was Revealed that their names were Hermia [Mother], Lysander [Father]. According to the director of the second movie, he said that they were killed by Humans after a War.
Maleficent is a character in Descendants and a minor character in Descendants 2. She is currently a lizard after being shrunk by Mal due to shrinking down by the size in her heart, meaning there is a chance Maleficent will learn to love and probably grow back to her original size.
Weapons and implements made from cold iron are often granted special efficacy against creatures such as fairies and spirits. In the Disney film Maleficent, the title character reveals early on that iron is lethal to fairies, and that the metal burns them on contact.
For Maleficent, it's not as easy. In the present, she implores Rumpelstiltskin to show her what became of her child once it came through the portal. The little girl was adopted, and named Lilith, or Lily.
But once she is betrayed, “her heart begins to turn to stone and she becomes a more malevolent Maleficent, she hides her hair and horns under wraps,” designed and made by members of Team Maleficent from leather and other materials meant to look like snake and animal skins.
Aurora reveals to the Queen that iron is Maleficent's weakness, and during the war sequence, Maleficent sacrifices herself to save Aurora. All Philip did was propose to Aurora, otherwise he is nonessential to the story.
Maleficent is herself directly descended from the last of the phoenix, explaining why the scale of her powers is beyond even the other Dark Faeries. She also gives them a stronger tie to the forces of magic in the world.
The irony is that Aurora was taken from her mother to protect her from Maleficent, but, to Aurora, Leila is simply the woman who gave birth to her while she refers to Maleficent as her Fairy Godmother.
Hades on the other hand states that the only person he left was her mother and Maleficent not being the most easiest person to life with gives the two of them the common ground of hating Maleficent, but Mal states that she doesn't hate the parent who stuck around.
As weeks of waiting turned into months, fans called the dragon Murphy after Murphy's Law, which states that “anything that can go wrong, will.” With that in mind, Murphy's final fate was quite fitting.
Nothing happens to turn Maleficent evil. No back story is offered or hinted at to explain her malevolence—she has just simply always beenevil. Since she has no past, there are no grounds for any sympathy for her.
