History Characters / SleepingBeauty

* TakenForGranite: Diablo, courtesy of the Merryweather.

* BigEntrance: Maleficent, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCV0hy6ex1c here.]]

* BoundAndGagged: Maleficent has him bound in chains and locked up after he comes looking for Aurora, then to him known as Briar-Rose.

* DisproportionateRetribution: She curses the princess to die because she was not invited to the christening. She spends the next sixteen years obsessing over her revenge being enacted.
** A case of ShownTheirWork: Maleficent's behavior is quite fitting of an evil fairy, who is compelled to avenge all slights.
*** Beyond that, a Royal Christening would have been the social event of the year, if not the ''decade'' and Maleficent was ''deliberately'' not invited, despite the other three fairies having invitations. This isn't just some small slight to her by the laws of mid-evil hospitality. This is tantamount to an act of war.

* Chekhov's Gun: Her dragon form appears as part of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it page decoration right before the scene where she zaps her minions, and well before she transforms.

* Chekhov'sGun: Her dragon form appears as part of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it page decoration right before the scene where she zaps her minions, and well before she transforms.

* BrickJoke: The pink Flora and blue Merryweather, as they decide to use magic to prepare for Aurora's birthday party, have an arguement where they keep magically changing Aurora's dress from Flora's preferred pink to Merryweather's preferred blue and back again, a commotion that leads to the raven finding out where they live. [[spoiler:When Aurora and Phillip dance in the courtyard after they marry, Flora and Merryweather (watching with Fauna from a balcony) are still waving their wands and changing Aurora's dress colors alternately from Flora's pink to Merryweather's blue. The dress is still changing color in the ending as the camera pans out of the moving storybook pictures of the prince and princess dancing.]]

* LetMeAtHim: Merryweather to Maleficent at the beginning of the movie. Flora has to hold her back though.

* TakenForGranite: Diablo, courtesy of the Three Good Fairies.

* UndyingLoyalty: Diablo to Maleficent.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: She's referred to as a 'witch' sometimes, but also as an evil fairy.

* OnlySaneMan: Merriweather.

* RedBaron: Her "Mistress of All Evil" title appears to be entirely self-proclaimed. [[EvilOverlord But]] [[DarkIsEvil no]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction one]] [[ObviouslyEvil questions]] [[CompleteMonster it]], [[TheDreaded including]] [[SorcerousOverlord the]] [[ForTheEvulz audience.]]

* CompleteMonster: Which moment cements it for you? Cursing a newborn infant to die out of sheer spite? Planning to keep Phillip prisoner until he's an old man while Aurora stays young and beautiful, [[KickTheDog just to twist the knife further]]? Calling upon the powers of Hell itself to transform into a huge black dragon? We could go on...

* AdaptationalBadass: The evil fairy, a minor villain in the original story, is here adapted into one of the most powerful villains {{Disney}} had ever produced.

** BadassBoast: "Now shall you deal with '''me''', oh Prince, and all the powers of ''hell!''"

* BigEntrance: Maleficent, as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8RY7Bm-Ew here.]]
* [[BreakoutVillain Breakout Villainess]]: Maleficent has become one of the go to main villains for Disney whenever they do a serious crossover, such as in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and ''Theatre/{{Fantasmic}}'' She also got [[{{Film/Maleficent}} her own movie.]]
* [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villainess]]: She, [[EvilIsCool magnificently]] and [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chompingly]] enough, proclaims herself "mistress of all evil."

-->'''Merryweather:''' What ''won't'' (Maleficent) expect? She knows everything.\\

* EvilCounterpart: To the the three Good Fairies, obviously.

* EvilGloating: During a particularly malicious scene in the second act, Maleficent taunts Phillip by telling him he may go free in a hundred years, when is ancient and Aurora is still young and beautiful.

* EvilWearsBlack: Her robe is black, lined with purple.

* TheFairFolk: Played extremely straight -- Maleficent's one of Disney canon's more powerful, subtle, and intelligent villains, so her reaction to slights and love of cruelty seem out of place to audiences more familiar with Tinkerbell.
* FireIceLightning: Merryweather informs us that Maleficent can "send a frost", she tries to strike Prince Philip with bolts of lightning when he escapes her castle and she uses fire at various points during the movie, most prominently at the end of the movie once she has ScaledUp.
* ForTheEvulz: Maleficent ''could'' just kill Phillip and by doing so ensure that Aurora's curse could never be broken, but she decides to go the extra mile by taunting him with the knowledge of just who Aurora is and what's become of her, then keeping him locked up in her dungeon until, at best, he's a withered and decrepit old man - possibly until he's died outright of old age.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: She just turns into a dragon at the end.
* LadyOfWar: She usually had her minions do her dirty work but if she wanted to, she could probably kill everyone.

* MadeOfEvil: It's implied Maleficent is this.

* NiceHat: Her headdress... assuming it is a headdress and not real horns.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When she died, [[HesJustHiding which has led to certain possibilities]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Her cloak is cut as if it were flames and she has giant horns on her head.
* OneWingedAngel: When she becomes a dragon, it even is the trope image because its so iconic.

* {{Person of Mass Destruction}}

* ScaledUp: One of the most memorable Disney villains as she was the first one to manifest herself as a real, highly dangerous threat in the form of a dragon.

* {{Slasher Smile}}: In her dragon form.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Her plan goes nowhere because her minion forget that Aurora would have aged over the years (although it's clear they had never prior visited the cottage).

* TakenForGranite: Diablo.

* UndyingLoyalty: Diablo to Maleficent

* LethalChef: Fauna, whose never been on cooking duty before, even if she does eat their food.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She was originally going to have a VillainSong, but it [[CutSong was cut]].

* GoodColorsEvilColors: [[SicklyGreenGlow green]], [[[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] and [[DarkIsEvil black]].

* LetMeAtHim: Merryweather to Maleficent at the beginning of the movie. Flora has to hold her back though.

* RavensAndCrows: Diablo is a raven.

* FatAndSkinny: With Hubert.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Despite his pro-activeness, Prince Phillip usually has everything done for him by the three good fairies except for the final kiss to wake Aurora.

* Expy: He greatly resembles the king from ''Cinderella'', and shares his voice actor, who does the same voice for both of them. Both kings also wish to marry off their sons because they want grandchildren.

* HumanoidAbomination: The same way many [[TheFairFolk classical malevolent fairies]] were.

* RealityWarper: Has powers like this, thanks to her magic.

* RealityWarper: Their magic can alter reality, but unlike Maleficent, it's limited to acts of good.