History WMG / Maleficent

* The good fairy from Beauty and the Beast
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* Jossed: [[spoiler:Stefan and Aurora have no fairy blood in the movie. Although, since Aurora becomes the queen of the human kingdom and the Moors, it is likely that she or one of her descendants would marry a fairy.]]

* Jossed: [[spoiler:Stefan and Aurora have no fairy blood in the movie.]] Although he does duel Maleficent and puts up a damn good fight using his [[KryptoniteFactor iron armor and weapons]].

* [[spoiler:Jossed. The only attempt at FakingTheDead is when Stefan lets King Henry believe he killed Maleficent.]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed. Maleficent lives at the end.]]

* Jossed: [[spoiler:Aurora's mother is the old king's daughter.]]

* Jossed: The original plan was for Maleficent's ''aunt'' to be the abusive one, cursing her with horns to mark her as troublesome (due to her large wings). Also, the novelization mentions Maleficent's parents as being loving and kind [[spoiler:before they're killed by a human attack]].

* Jossed: [[spoiler:Her parents are killed by humans and loved her dearly.]]

It just seemed strange to me that the Mistress of All Evil who calls upon all the powers of hell would be the same person who would [[spoiler:go through enough character development to save her worst enemy's daughter from a curse that she regretted casting.]] So perhaps they might actually be two different people. Here's my theory (and feel free to add/change things if you please):

Ellie and Angie (I'm nicknaming them after their respective actresses) were once [[TricksterTwins two trickster fairies]] who lived within the Moors. Both of them were relatively sweet young things, but Ellie was often considered the clever one, coming up with all the funny pranks they played on people, while Angie would be the one to question whether Ellie's plans would work. Then one day, [[spoiler:they found Stefan, and Angie ended up befriending him and started spending more time around him. Ellie felt ignored by her sister, so she took time to learn some other forms of magic. In the interim, she became fascinated with the [[TheDarkArts Dark Arts]]. Angie, upon learning this, tried to warn her against it, but Ellie told her to mind her own business.]]

[[spoiler:When they grew up, wars were waged on the Moors, and the sisters took arms against the humans by warding them off in magical but non-harmful ways. However, Ellie eventually made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the devil]]/some other evil exchange to get more power and finally decided to kill humans to show them the supremacy of fairies. Angie tried warning Stefan (who was maybe fighting there too) about her sister's plot, but he ended up betraying her much like in the movie. Horrified at the darkness of humanity but refusing to give in to what consumed her sister, Angie ran away. Eventually, Ellie proclaimed herself the Mistress of All Evil, banishing her sister and any of the other mythical folk who opposed her rule from the Moors.]]

Long story short, [[spoiler:it was Ellie who ended up cursing Aurora, and Angie was so angry at Stefan that she didn't really care what Ellie did to him. However, Angie ended up finding Aurora and over time regretted that she didn't stop her sister, so she vowed to protect Aurora even though she couldn't change the curse. Ellie ultimately wanted to keep the sleeping death permanent to keep Aurora from possibly overthrowing her as Queen of the Moors, but Angie ended up teaming up (if only reluctantly) with the three fairies to stop her.]]

[[WMG: Philip's kiss [[spoiler:didn't work because he didn't do it of his own free will.]]]]
[[spoiler:It's not that he didn't truly love Aurora, but the fact that he was having major apprehension due to DudeShesLikeInAComa, and the faeries just forced him to kiss her without explaining what was going on. Since he acted under duress, his heart wasn't in it, so it didn't qualify as TrueLovesKiss.]]

* Jossed: Stefan is ''not'' the king's son, he's just a courtier/nobleman who took the king up on his offer ("Whoever kills Maleficent becomes king after me."). In fact he explicitly says to Maleficent that his parents are dead. In the novelization King Henry outright ''laughs'' at Stefan and calls him a worthless delusional servant for thinking he could become king. [[spoiler:Stefan promptly suffocates him.]]

In the original film, she is clearly evil for the sake of being evil. This dream shows her in acts of kindness, even going so far as to [[spoiler:try to reverse her own curse, and later break it herself]]. Those are selfless acts, and acts of love, which are two things the original Maleficent never seemed to understand. Naturally, seeing herself acting like this is the most horrible thing she could imagine.

Some other elements, like [[spoiler:being Stefan's lover, freeing Aurora from her curse, Diaval turning into a dragon, being caught in an iron net, etc.]] are dreams and/or nightmares that mingle with these thoughts. She's unable to sleep well, seeing how her mind twists some of her thoughts and fantasies to make her weak, or completely good, or do things to her closest companion that she'd never consider, or let her do things she doesn't completely understand [[spoiler:like freeing Aurora out of love]]. Some of these things are truly terrifying/bothersome to her.

Credit to a friend for this one. [[spoiler:It's revealed in the end that the narrator is Aurora, so it's possible that she only knows what Maleficent told her. Who's to say Maleficent hasn't embellished/changed some details?]]

When she was done, little Mal asked "But, Mommy, how come you still don't have wings?" And she'd tell her to just shut up and go to sleep. Now that Mal realizes Queen Leah is alive and well, she wonders what other parts of the story were made up.

[[WMG: This movie is a prequel to Disney/{{Frozen}}.]]

* [[FridgeBrilliance Who's to say she didn't give her the wish right after Maleficent left? Just like the third fairy from the original ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' film?]] That, combined with Maleficent's wish that only true love could awaken the princess may very well have set the curse up to fail. Of course, if we KNEW that the third fairy's wish was for Aurora to find true love, then [[RuleOfDrama the movie would be somewhat spoiled]]

[[WMG: The original ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' is a misrepresented retelling from other lands.]]

Since this story is said to be not as we originally heard it, and since Giselle said Little Red Riding Hood tells her story with the Big Bad Wolf differently, it's possible this is in a universe where the villains of fairy tales (at least in the Disney canon) have been made to look bad by another character from the previous incarnation of that story. In this case, we would assume the fairies made Maleficent look bad in the original ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' like Red does to the BBW.

When she was done, little Mal asked "But, Mommy, how come you still don't have wings?" And she'd tell her to just shut up and go to sleep. Now that Mal realizes Queen Leah is alive and well, she wonders what other parts of the story were made up.

[[WMG: Maleficent is actually a pair of twins, similar to Yubaba and Zeniba from SpiritedAway.]]

Jolie would pull the film out of DevelopmentHell and become a producer... but only if she got to be the hero.

** Come to think it, Maleficent has all the traits of a PossessionSue. complete derrailing of her personality (And the rest of characters, by the way) plot hijacking, and even a beauty upgrade.

* Since this story is said to be not as we originally heard it, and since Giselle said Little Red Riding Hood tells her story with the Big Bad Wolf differently, it's possible this is in a universe where the villains of fairy tales (at least in the Disney canon) have been made to look bad by another character from the previous incarnation of that story. In this case, we would assume the fairies made Maleficent look bad in the original ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' like Red does to the BBW.

* Since this story is said to be not as we originally heard it, and since Giselle said Little Red Riding Hood tells her story with the Big Bad Wolf differently, it's possible this is in a universe where the villains of fairy tales (at least in the Disney canon) have been made to look bad by another character from the previous incarnation of that story. In this case, we would assume the fairies made Maleficent look bad in the original ''SleepingBeauty'' like Red does to the BBW.

* [[FridgeBrilliance Who's to say she didn't give her the wish right after Maleficent left? Just like the third fairy from the original SleepingBeauty film?]] That, combined with Maleficent's wish that only true love could awaken the princess may very well have set the curse up to fail. Of course, if we KNEW that the third fairy's wish was for Aurora to find true love, then [[RuleOfDrama the movie would be somewhat spoiled]]

[[WMG: The original Disney/SleepingBeauty is a misrepresented retelling from other lands.]]

[[WMG: This film is in the same universe as ''{{Enchanted}}'']]

[[WMG: This movie is Maleficent's Death Wish / Death Delusion.]]

It looks too much a Mary Sue story. It's like "My Immortal" but only with some good writing. And it's because THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS: The entire story (called "Maleficent" instead of "Sleeping Beauty") is about her, how cruel the world has been to her, how she's not the one to blame, but everybody else is.

* Since this story is said to be not as we originally heard it, and since Giselle said Little Red Riding Hood tells her story with the Big Bad Wolf differently, it's possible this is in a universe where the villains of fairy tales (at least in the Disney canon) have been made to look bad by another character from the previous incarnation of that story. In this case, we would assume the fairies made Maleficent look bad in the original ''SleepingBeauty'' like Red does to the BBW.

[[WMG: This movie is Maleficient's Death Wish / Death Delusion.]]

Keep in mind: In this movie, EVERY NAMED CHARACTER (save for Maleficient, Aurora, and Diaval) are jerkasses, childish, and/or utterly incompetent. Maleficient, instead of cursing Aurora to a horrible demise, curses her only to a sting, sleep, and even gives her a CurseEscapeClause.

It looks too much a Mary Sue story. It's like "My Immortal" but only with some good writing. And it's because THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS: The entire story (called "Maleficient" instead of "Sleeping Beauty") is about her, how cruel the world has been to her, how she's not the one to blame, but everybody else is.

Even in her last echoes, she even thinks about stealing the story's climax: The central spot of her tale is not prince Phillip's kiss, but Maleficient's.

Heroine, victim, pariah, messiah, and the only one allowed to experience true love, to be clever, and stealing the spotlight from the original characters meant do to that. That's a Mary Sue Work... and that's what Maleficient does.

** Maybe. Her mother is mentioned as having the same wings as Maleficent (in the novelization), so there could possibly be more out there.

[[WMG: The ending credits rendition of Once Upon A Dream is sung by Maleficent]]

* Jossed: Stefan is ''not'' the king's son, he's just a courtier/nobleman who took the king up on his offer ("Whoever kills Maleficent becomes king after me."). In fact he explicitly says to Maleficent that his parents are dead.

* Jossed: The original plan was for Maleficent's ''aunt'' to be the abusive one, cursing her with horns to mark her as troublesome (due to her large wings).

* Jossed: Stefan is ''not'' the king's son, he's just a courtier/nobleman who took the king up on his offer ("Whoever kills Maleficent becomes king after me.").