Maleficent
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| Gender | Female |
The antagonist of *Sleeping Beauty*, the 1959 animated adaption of the 1697 fairy tale *La Belle au bois dormant* by Charles Perrault. A fairy with immense magical power and self-proclaimed "mistress of all evil", Maleficent set her story in action when, after discovering she had not been invited to the christening of the newly-born [Princess Aurora](https://anilist.co/character/29465/Aurora), cursed the princess to be fated to die by being pricked by a poisoned spinning wheel's spindle on her 16th birthday. While Aurora's fairy godmothers managed to change her prophecy to instead be eternal s...