Maleficent is the main villain in Sleeping Beauty . Just as Mickey is the leader of all the Disney cartoon heroes, Maleficent is the leader of all Disney cartoon villains, and they all submit to her will.In Sleeping Beauty , she is an evil fairy that wants to take over KIng Stephan's kingdom (and then, the world). When Princess Aurora grows up, she tricks her into pricking her finger with a magical thorn, and Aurora falls asleep. Then, she magically puts a series of thorny vines in order to prevent anyone from waking her up. However, Prince Phillip cuts throught the vines and wakes her up with a kiss. Enraged, Maleficent summons all her satanic powers to morph into a huge dragon, but Phillip kills her.She is one of the guests in House of Mouse , and one of the villains in House of Villains . There, she is Jafar's girlfriend.She is the main villain in all three Kingdom Hearts videogames.In Kindgom Hearts , she uses the Heartless to take over the Disney Universe, the Kingdom Hearts. She uses her magic to entice Riku and gain him as an ally, but Sora breaks the spell. After defeating all the Heartless, Maleficent powers up into her dragon form, but Sora defeats her. However, it turns out Maleficent was working for the evil sorcerer Xenahort, so Sora defeats him too.In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories , she makes a third attempt to take over the Kingdom Hearts, but is defeated again.In Kingdom Hearts II , she makes yet another attempt to take over the Kingdom Hearts, but her plans are interrupted by the arrival of Organization XIII. At the end, she understands that the Organization is a threat to even her, so she decides to give up and flee, bowing to meet Sora again.From the movie Maleficent 2014, Disney channel original movie Descendants 2015, and the abc tv series Once Upon a time, we learn how and why Maleficent became so evil.In Maleficent, Sleeping Beauty's father trick poor Maleficent into falling in love with him so he can get her to drop her guard. After doing so, the old man chop off Maleficent's wings.In the Disney channel's original movie Descendants 2015, Mal tells us how the entire world was invited to a party for celebration of the birth of Aurora (sleeping beauty), all except for one.(one would guess that it was Aurora's mom's idea to not invite Maleficent and invite the entire rest of world sinse technically her husband did date Maleficent.)In the movie Maleficent, she regrets cursing an innocent baby for what the parents did. She tries to break the spell but was unsuccessful because of her choice words in the spell she used in rage no power can stop which included her own.In the abc tv series Once Upon A Time, we find out that Snow White and Prince Charming wanted to make certain their child would be a hero, and sinse everyone has good and evil in them, they decided to cast a forbidden ritual. They kidnaped Maleficent's daughter so they can cast the ritual. One that would connect Mal with Emma forever. Mal's good went into Emma and Emma's evil went into Mal. With this, no matter what Mal does in life, it would always turn out bad. Only doing evil would feel right.If you want to put it all together, Maleficent falls in love, was betrayed, was single out as the only one not invited in the whole world, her child was kidnaped, her child's ability to choose from right and wrong was taken from her. Currently, only the Disney movie Descendants has Maleficent able to raise her daughter. In the abc series, Once Upon A Time, she never saw her baby again until she was all grown up. Show less «