Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) commands the magical creatures of her kingdom, including the powerful tree warrior, the luminous water fairy, and the gargantuan forest dragon. They all stand with the dark fairy against those who dare invade her land. No creature is more loyal than shape shifter Diaval (Sam Riley).
Mushroom Fairy - Elderly elf looking fairies covered in mushrooms. Water Fairy - Tiny blue mermaid like fairies that glow and fly and live in the waters of their forest home. Leaf fairy - A small green leafed fairy with leafs for wings. Hedgehog fairy - A half-hedgehog/half-elf looking fairy.
Maleficent is in a frozen tundra and while she flies she sees creatures like her but better adapted to the cold. Connal appears by her side and tells her that they are Dark Fairies like her, a species of dark fairies hunted down to near-extinction due to many of them killed by human oppression.
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.
Spriggans are an army of humanoid trees that inhabit the Moors. When King Henry's army attempted to take over the Moors, Maleficent showed up and called the Tree Warriors and the Forest Dragon to defeat the human kingdom's army.
Diaval is the tritagonist of the 2014 live action Disney film, Maleficent and also its 2019 sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. He's Maleficent's friend, partner, loyal servant, and pet raven. After being saved by Maleficent in his raven form, he agreed to be her servant and act as her "wings."
She was called "Beastie" by Maleficent. At first, Maleficent hated Aurora, but Maleficent soon had developed a close bond with her, so she now calls Aurora "Beastie" as a nickname and a sign of affection towards her. Aurora was only able to wear her signature pink dress in the second film.
The Forest Dragon is a creature responsible for defending the Moors. During the attempt of King Henry's Army to take over the Moors, Maleficent called on the Forest Dragon and the Spriggans to defeat the human kingdom's army.
Diablo the Raven, also better known as Diablo, is the secondary antagonist of Disney's 16th full-length animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. He is Maleficent's pet raven and familiar. In the original film, he was supposedly voiced by the late Candy Candido. In Sleeping Beauty…
Diaval is a raven and Maleficent's confidant who can under her command take on not just the form of a human, but also a variety of other creatures such as a wolf, a horse, and the dragon that Maleficent turned into in the original film. All his transformations appear very birdlike.
When you consider that purple is often associated with power, nobility, luxury and ambition, it makes sense. Those characteristics are certainly reflected in characters like Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Dr.
Spriggans are an army of humanoid trees that inhabit the Moors. When King Henry's army attempted to take over the Moors, Maleficent showed up and called the Tree Warriors and the Forest Dragon to defeat the human kingdom's army. They also served as Maleficent's loyal subjects when she claims herself Queen of the Moors.
This means the earliest likely release date for Maleficent 3 would be 2026 or 2027. This comes down to the franchise's rather ambitious production scope. The second film came with all the thrills of an epic fantasy, and it's likely that Disney would want to top this—and that takes time to achieve.
Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent is an explicitly satanic figure: “mistress of all evil,” in league with “all the powers of Hell.” At the climax she transforms into a dragon to battle Prince Philip, the most archetypally heroic male lead in any Disney cartoon.
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.
Maleficent is among the last creatures known as Dark Phoenix Fae, powerful fairies forced into hiding and nearly driven extinct by human oppression. She is also the last descendant from the Phoenix, an ancient and powerful Dark Fae ancestor.
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.
Fortunately, the baby found an adoptive family in the real world, and it's revealed that the child has a star birthmark on her wrist, just like the one young Lily and Emma bonded over as children.
Angelina Jolie has revealed the reason why her daughter Vivienne, 5, was cast in her new film Maleficent. The 38-year-old admitted she didn't set out for Vivienne to be an actor. However, Vivienne was the only child actor she could find who wasn't terrified of her in costume.
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.
