You poor, simple fools! You think you can defeat me?! ME, the mistress of all evil?!
Maleficent is one of the main antagonists in the Kingdom Hearts series. She is an evil fairy sorceress who was first seen in Kingdom Hearts in Hollow Bastion, taking up residence there as her home world was already destroyed. Unlike the other Disney villains (with the exception of Pete), she plays a large part in the overall story rather than just in the world she came from.
Maleficent owns a raven named Diablo who also originates from Sleeping Beauty, and it's thanks to the raven's help that Maleficent managed to revive herself in Kingdom Hearts II.
Originally just an unknowing pawn in Master Xehanort's plan to forge the Χ-blade and open Kingdom Hearts, Maleficent remains a threat to the greater universe as her delusions of grandeur have caused her to seek powerful magic to force the worlds to submit to her rule.
Personality[]
Maleficent is a scheming, manipulative and highly cunning sorceress. Even before her quest throughout the worlds to take over the dominion of Kingdom Hearts, she was known and feared in her homeworld as an evil, powerful and vindictive witch.
Maleficent is a very melodramatic villain, often yelling at the heroes about the power of darkness and making abnormal speeches. Altought Maleficent's devotion to Darkness is not seen as a sort of worship, as the evil fairy rather consider it as a useful power that must be further explored and used to conquer and dominate the universe.
When Master Xehanort revealed to her the existence of other worlds, the power of the Keyblade and Kingdom Hearts, Maleficent became fascinated and obsessed with this new knowledge, seeking to use it in order to gain control over the universe.
She is mostly seen to behave in a cool, calculated manner; easily manipulating Riku into aiding her ambitions, pretending to care for and support his quest to find Kairi. However, despite her power and intelligence, she still failed to notice that Xehanort was just using her as a pawn for his greater plans. While the evil fairy constantly warned her allies about the risk of being too tempted by the darkness, Maleficent was being consumed by it from the very beginning—thus leading to her demise by Sora's hand.
Upon her return in Kingdom Hearts II she is highly vengeful towards Sora, in light of her previous defeat. She doesn't tolerate failure, as shown when she berates Pete for his attempt to take over Kingdom Hearts without her, saying to him "Mark my words, there'll be no place for you when our time comes. Useless imbecile!".
Despite this, she seems to tolerate the incompetent Pete as her helper. She is not without scruples, however, and has aided Sora on some occasions, yet, for her own evil reasons, saying to him at one point "Do not misunderstand me, I shall have revenge on you yet": indeed, by the time of Kingdom Hearts coded, she appears to have reverted to her evil self and is once again attempting to destroy Sora, albeit a digital version of him, but after she is rescued by Data-Riku, she stops her attempts to kill him (at least for the time being), telling Sora that they are "now even".
Another important aspect of her character, like most Disney villains, but exceptionally notable in her case, is her superiority complex. This is readily apparent in nearly every instance in Kingdom Hearts II whenever the subject of Nobodies and Organization XIII are brought up and when facing them personally, and this view of herself extends to any Heartless she commands, despite the all-too obvious difference in power and capabilities of Nobodies in general over the Heartless.
However her superiority complex is not entirely unfounded as she is easily one of the most powerful characters in the series, her magic rivaled only by Master Xehanort's. Thus, her views of the Organization as insignificant could be, to her, quite true. Ironically, the Organization seems to view her the same way that she views them; as a relatively insignificant threat, shown when Saïx calmly summons some Nobodies to destroy Maleficent's Heartless and smugly calls her a fool. In contrast to Pete, she possesses extreme and completely legitimate confidence, while her minion is a coward and doubts of their chances of winning.
Ironically her low opinion on Organization XIII, was later revealed to be quite true. Since all it's members were just being used as pawns by Xehanort's nobody, Xemnas, as much as Maleficent was being used in the past by the master's Heartless.
Despite being manipulated by Xehanort and overshadowed by the organization after her first defeat. Maleficent still showed to be resilient and cunning enough to use her knowledge about time-travelling, in order to survive her first demise and trying to change the past.
Realizing her previous mistakes, and that Xehanort was no more and ally of her, Maleficent became more suspicious to anyone who offered her their help, as in Kingdom Hearts Union X the evil fairy is not totally convinced by Darkness's words. Demanding to know how could the entity know so much about the Book of prophecies and why it insisted so much into aiding her to escape from Daybreak Town, and make her return to her original time in future.
After retutning to her original time in the future, Maleficent decides to act independently. Being the only Disney villain (along with Pete) to be involved in the main plot. And keeping with her original plan to take over Kingdom hearts for herself.
However, by acquiring knowledge about the ancient times, the Book of Prophecies and the Black of Luxu, Maleficent lost every interest into Xehanort plans and probably realized that even the master himself was nothing more than a pawn, being used for another greater purpose.
As a result: in Kingdom Hearts III Maleficent decides to not interfere in the war between Sora and the Real Organization, preferring to observe and wait for the Black Box to be revealed, and the destined moment to arrive. During her research, Maleficent acts in a criptic way (especially to Pete himself), showing to know many secrets about the existence of the black box and guessing why it couldn't be find in that timeline.
in this occasion Maleficent showed to be more patient and cautios, rather than jump into action like in Kingdom Hearts II. This is especially seen when she invites her usually coward minion Pete to not rush things after they find Luxu with the box. As the evil fairy realizes that he and the other foretellers together are a too powerful force to be faced directly. Preferring to wait the right moment for taking the box for herself.
Physical Appearance[]
Fair and green-skinned, Maleficent's shining, yellow eyes are heavily shadowed with violet make-up and her lips are painted red. This dark witch's head is topped with a black-horned headdress and she wears a long, tattered black robe with a purple trim and maroon flare edges. Along with these other physical descriptions and the fin-like spikes on the sides of her neck further hint towards her dragon-transformation powers.
The spikes along with the collar of her robe create an upside-down pentagram. She carries a staff with a glowing green orb at the tip through which she casts her spells. In screens and trailers for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Maleficent wears her golden ring with a circular black stone in it. This was in her original design in Sleeping Beauty, but was absent from Kingdom Hearts.
History[]
Birth by Sleep[]
Imagine with me, the most glorious of futures... Seven of the purest hearts, each overflowing with light.
When brought together, they grant the power to rule all worlds.Maleficent to Terra
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Maleficent meets Terra.
Maleficent appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, her role downgraded to that of a minor antagonist, only appearing in her home world of Enchanted Dominion. At some point in time, Xehanort enlisted her help in luring Terra to darkness and told her about Kingdom Hearts and the seven Princesses of Heart. From this point on, Maleficent lusted to gain complete control over all worlds. However, little did Maleficent know, Master Xehanort was only using her as part of his backup plan to create of the X-Blade should he become unable to move for some time. She was also told to not harm Ventus should he come to her world as he is needed for the X-blade.
Detesting the existence of the Unversed for being base creatures, Maleficent created a barrier of flame to keep them away from the Forbidden Mountain; also a precaution to keep them from feeding on her negative emotions, which were deep and dark.
By the time Terra arrives in the world, Maleficent had already succeeded in making sure Aurora had fallen under her curse. She had also seen Master Xehanort come out of King Stephan's castle after imprisoning Aurora to keep her "light" safe. When Terra questions her about this, she lies about not knowing Master Xehanort and directs him to Aurora's room. Once he's inside, Maleficent lets him know she learned about the Keyblade and the seven pure hearts of light; she wants Aurora's heart in her possession in order to further her own quest for Kingdom Hearts. Though she asks Terra nicely to extract Aurora's heart, Maleficent uses her power over sleep to awaken the Darkness within Terra's heart when he refuses. This allowed her to use him like a puppet and accomplish her goal. When Terra regains his senses, Maleficent offers him the chance to join her in her quest to rule the worlds, but he flatly refuses. She then leaves when the Wheel Master begins tearing up the throne room.
Later, Ventus visits the world and frees Aurora's heart from within her fortress. This angers Maleficent, who tells Ventus of Terra assisting her in taking Aurora's heart. When Ventus refuses to believe, and is prepared to attack, Maleficent sees that she will have no choice but to fight him despite Xehanort's orders. In the ensuing fight, Ventus defeats Maleficent. Ven once again protest that Terra would be unable to something so terrible, but Maleficent tells him that even through he doesn't believe her, Terra DID steal Aurora's heart. Aqua arrives and staunchly denies it, as does Ventus, although he seems unsure as what to believe and runs off.
After Aqua refuses Maleficent's offer to join her in Terra's place, Maleficent mentions Xehanort was right about Aqua being a stubborn girl and throws her into the castle dungeon with Phillip, whom she captured earlier to stop him from awakening Aurora. Aqua and Phillip break out of the dungeon with help from Flora, Fauna and Merryweather and make their way towards King Stefan's castle to wake Aurora. Maleficent gives chase and confronts them on the bridge. Aqua demands to know what Master Xehanort told her. Maleficent instead says it's a pity she isn't obedient like Terra, once again saying he embraced the Darkness within himself. However, when it seems Aqua will not listen, Maleficent decides to give a demonstration of what Darkness can do and transforms into a dragon. However, she is defeated by Phillip, who tossed his sword at her chest.
Reverting to her normal form, Maleficent tells Aqua that soon long as there is light, there will be Darkness and the many who are drawn to it will serve her. She then leaves Enchanted Dominion to seek allies. Later on in the game, she crosses paths with the imprisoned Pete, and frees him, setting the scene for their alliance.
Between Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts[]
A year after the events of Birth by Sleep and nine years prior to Kingdom Hearts, as Maleficent and Pete made their plans, Enchanted Dominion was attacked by a new species of darkness known as the Heartless. Rather than fight them, Maleficent saw them as a great opportunity for followers and decided to use her immense power of darkness to control the creatures and use them as her greatest asset for her schemes for power. Using this new-found force, Maleficent led a brutal assault on her own world, causing many lives to be claimed by the darkness. Maleficent was able to successfully abduct Princess Aurora once again and proceeded to completely destroy her entire world along with all its inhabitants; only Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, who fled to Yen-Sid's Tower, were able to escape.
After the destruction of Enchanted Dominion, Maleficent and Pete used the corridors of darkness to travel to other worlds, eventually ending up at Hollow Bastion, the former home of Ansem the Wise and the last remnants of Radiant Garden after a brutal Heartless attack, which would be the perfect fortress to serve as a new base of operations. There, Maleficent would find everything she needed for her conquest of the worlds, including a report about the Heartless by Xehanort under Ansem's name and the very Keyhole that would lead one to Kingdom Hearts once all the princesses of heart were gathered.
Once situated in her new stronghold, Maleficent sent Pete to many worlds in order recruit other villains for their cause and invite them to come to Hollow Bastion to hear her proposition; if they help her find the rest of the princesses of heart, she will give them the powers to control the Heartless to conquer their own worlds and eliminate their greatest enemies. Accepting her offer, the recruited Hades, Jafar, Ursula, Oogie Boogie, and Captain Hook receive a page each from Ansem's report to better understand and control the Heartless as they carry out Maleficent's scheme while Pete, in the meantime, was sent on another mission of building more armies of Heartless for Maleficent to increase their forces. Over the years, Maleficent and her allies would destroy hundreds of worlds in their mad search for the princesses of heart and would turn millions more into heartless.
Kingdom Hearts[]
After nearly a decade of searching, Maleficent only had three more princesses to capture in order to finally unlock the path to Kingdom Hearts. It would be by Xehanort's Heartless's doing that Riku, Sora's best friend, arrived at Hollow Bastion after Xehanort commanded the Heartless to wipe out his entire world. Sensing the same potential in Riku as she had in Terra years before, Maleficent decided to take Riku under her wing and slowly corrupts Riku's mind while turning him against Sora. Although Sora attempts to confront her in Agrabah, she merely studies him coldly before disappearing, leaving Jafar to battle the hero alone. Eventually, after he brought Jasmine to her, Maleficent told Riku of her plans to find Kingdom Hearts and convinced him that it would hold the answer of restoring the comatose Kairi's heart. While Maleficent's plans seemed to be progressing steadily, her allies were falling to Sora, though Maleficent was not concerned as only one princess was left to find.
When Riku managed to bring Kairi back to Hollow Bastion, Maleficent unlocks Riku's full potential to have him eliminate the Beast, who survived the destruction of his world and traveled to save Belle from Maleficent. As Riku manages to fend off the Beast, briefly taking Sora's Keyblade as his own, Maleficent decides to use the Princesses she already has to reveal Hollow Bastion's Keyhole. When Riku arrives, possessed by Xehanort's Heartless, Maleficent learns that Kairi is the seventh Princess of Heart yet cannot be used until her heart is restored to her body. Sensing their immanent arrival, Maleficent vows to battle Sora and his compatriots personally. Confronting the trio in the Castle Chapel, Maleficent is eventually defeated after a ferocious battle.
After barely surviving her encounter, the possessed Riku uses the artificial Keyblade made from the captive princesses hearts to unlock the darkness in Maleficent's heart, causing her to transform into a far more powerful version of her dragon form. Although she proved a far more dangerous enemy as an empowered dragon, Sora ultimately defeated her for the second time and all that remained of Maleficent was her dark robes. Riku stomped on these, and contemptuously revealed that Maleficent was nothing more than an unknowing pawn of the Heartless.
By defeating Maleficent, Sora obtains the fifth page of Ansem's Report, and Donald learns the Cheer ability. Defeating Dragon Maleficent rewards Sora with the Fireglow Gem, which unlocks the ability to summon Mushu if taken to the Fairy Godmother.
Chain of Memories[]
Maleficent appears to Riku as a memory-based illusion in Castle Oblivion. She is one of only two characters, along with Aerith in Sora's story, to realize that she is not real. She mocks her old student, and how he once clung to her to sate his thirst for darkness. However, Riku rejects her, saying that if he's forced to only see her and those who embrace the darkness like her, he'll take them out, one-by-one. However, she quips that Riku should kill himself last as he is one of the dark as well. Okay with it, Riku fights her in her dragon form and slays her.
Also, in Sora's story, she is the boss of Hollow Bastion and is revealed to need to steal hearts in order to practice her magic and attempts to use the love found in Belle and Beast's hearts to make herself invincible. When Sora and company attempt to stop her, she turns herself into a dragon and attacks, shooting flames from her mouth, causing earthquakes by stomping, and trying to bite Sora, but she fails and is defeated.
The true Maleficent is mentioned during the Organization's conversation about the events with Riku's first visit to a world from his past. Following her defeat by Sora and the others, she ended up in the Realm of Darkness and, according to Vexen, she cannot return from there of her own will.
Altought their believes will later revealed to be incorrect.
Kingdom Hearts Union χ[]
Unknown to everyone, Maleficent didn't disappear after the first demise suffered at Hollow Bastion.
When she was stabbed by Ansem, Seeker of Darkness with the incomplete X-Blade, her heart was set free. Remembering what Xehanort revealed about time-travelling, which could be possibile only by leaving behind your own body, Maleficent returned back in the past. Hoping to collect the seven pure hearts and rewrite her future.
Being sure that Sora couldn't interfere with her plans, Maleficent tries to bring on her curse over the princess Aurora. However, much to her shock, another keyblade wielder ( the Player) helps Prince Phillip to stop her. And once again Maleficent is defeated.
While Maleficent is wondering why she couldn't change the past at all, a dark figure draws her attention from the tower of her castle. It introduced to her as Darkness and revelead to evil fairy that they know she came from the future.
The witch couldn't change the events because she didn't arrive in the real world's past, but in a data version of the Enchanted Dominion. Darkness tell her about the Keyblade War, the Foretellers and the Book of Prophecies. And since Master of Masters forsaw she would attempt to change the past, he prepared that trap to prevent her from creating a time-paradox and rewrite what was written in the book. However, Darkness also declates that they don't want to keep her trapped forever, so they will show her the way to return to her original time.
The two of them travel to Daybreak Town, and Darkness reveals to Maleficent that her way to return to the future is hidden in the tower. When Maleficent demands more informations Darkness tells her an incomplete ark, once elaborated to travel to another world. In order to work, the machine will destroy her body, allowing only her heart to return to her original time.
Maleficent expresses her disappointment, since that means she will return to the future only as a mere ghost. But Darkness assures her that there are two elements that will grant her a new body. An object who belonged to her (which must be carried by a warrantor) and the memories of her in the future. And it is sure she will have both of them, since the Book of prophecies tells that Maleficent will be able to successfully return.
Maleficent asks if Darkness know the whole content of the book, the dark entity admitted that he just read it partially. However the evil fairy is still suspicious about the real intentions of her mysterious companion, and demands to know why it insisted so much into helping her.
Darkness then admits there are also other people trapped in data-world. And it wants for the leaders of Dandelions to escape and travel into future. But while Maleficent will be able to use the ark, since there are people in future who remember her, they won't be so lucky. As they belong to a very distant past, forgotten by everyone that will come after them.
If Maleficent, who saw the past with her owns eyes, will return to her original time, she will act as a point for them, allowing their time-travel into different periods in the future.
When they arrive to the ark, Darkness invites Maleficent to take her opportunity and to use the escape-pod prepared for her. But Maleficent, suspecting some scheme behind everything, decide to refuse to do so, declaring that she will wait some more before leaving the data-world. This enrages Darkness, who suggest her to not snoop around if she knows what's better for her.
Lauriam then enters in the room and discovering Maleficent's intrusion he declares that the witch is not welcome. Maleficent reveals to the boy that the ark is an exit from the data-world, and since she is not welcome she intends to use it to leave.
Lauriam then attacks her, and the two start a fight. At the end of it, the evil fairy defeates him but the pod which Maleficent was intended to use is destroyed. She then uses another pod and escapes from the data-world, arriving in the same room of the real Daybreak Town.
Here she is welcomed again by Darkness, who tells her to use the real version of the ark to finally return to the future. Maleficent decides to follow it's instruction this time and asks if the dark entity will come with her. But Darkness denies the offer, telling that there are unfinished business to do in that place.
Kingdom Hearts II[]
Shortly after Sora leaves the Mysterious Tower, Maleficent's raven Diablo brings her empty robe to Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Despite their attempts to block out the memories of Maleficent, they serve as an anchor in the present, allowing Maleficent's heart to return and begin recreating her physical form. After the fairies flee, a tirumpant Maleficent decides to resume her plan.
In Kingdom Hearts Another Report, it is hinted that Organization XIII is inadvertently responsible for her return. Xemnas once sent Axel and Roxas to Hollow Bastion to wipe out Heartless and release a raven from a cage suspended from the ceiling. It is heavily suggested that this raven is Diablo and was released to revive Maleficent. The Organization may have planned to use her to create more Heartless for their plans. Like in Kingdom Hearts, she attempts to control the Heartless to locate Kingdom Hearts. However, she now competes with Organization XIII for supreme power and considers the group and Nobodies in general as vastly inferior to her and her Heartless, even as far as calling them "white husks".
Maleficent, with the help of her only loyal follower remaining, Pete, goes from world to world reviving her other followers and building an army of Heartless. Although only Oogie Boogie is witnessed being revived, it may be guessed that she is also responsible for the return of Ursula and for Barbossa, Scar, Hades, and Jafar using Heartless. Indeed, when she first meets up with Pete again, she asks about "the others", suggesting she was supposed to be holding a meeting with "them" like she did in the original game. Pete, however claims that "they must have had something better to do", perhaps meaning they were busy with their own endeavors. This infuriated her, and she demanded from Pete what could be more important than her return.
Maleficent reveals herself to Sora and his friends at Disney Castle when she tries to fill the Hall of the Cornerstone with Darkness in order to take over the Castle and make her new base of operations, worrying Queen Minnie. Maleficent is defeated however by Sora when he and his friends go back in time and stop Pete from destroying the Cornerstone of Light. Maleficent appears in Halloween Town and tries to destroy Christmas Town by resurrecting Oogie Boogie but his memory loss causes him to drive her away and Sora defeats Oogie Boogie. Maleficent also tricked the Gullwings into spying on the Hollow Bastion's Restoration Committee its invasion by Heartless.
Confronting Saïx as he reveals to Sora that Organization's plans for him, Maleficent refuses to allow Kingdom Hearts to fall into no one's control but her own, holding off the Nobodies so that Sora may escape and devise a way to defeat Organization XIII. Although she hated Sora, she realized that she couldn't defeat them herself, since they easily defeated her Heartless, and even took control of them from her. But when Sora refuses to run off as she commanded, Maleficent is forced to bring Sora to the Realm of Darkness.
As Sora and company fight their way through The World That Never Was, Maleficent considers making Xemnas's fortress her own despite Pete mentioning that the world is too close to the darkness for them to properly control the Heartless. As the Heartless swarm, created from the explosion that ruined the Organization's Kingdom Hearts, storms into the Castle that Never Was, Maleficent aids Sora by fending off the immense wave of Heartless with the help of Pete so Sora and his friends can defeat Xemnas so she can take the castle for her own afterwards.
Coded[]
Drag all that you see into deepest darkness!
Maleficent to the Shadows attacking Data-Sora
Maleficent in Kingdom Hearts coded.
Having apparently survived the destruction of The Castle that Never Was, Maleficent decides to send Pete to Disney Castle to spy on Mickey and bring her up to date on events. When Pete is unintentionally sucked into the Datascape, he manages to summon Maleficent. Though she is ignorant of the nature of the Datascape, Maleficent decides to use the Journal's data Heartless to resume her plans on conquering the worlds within the Journal.
She reappears in person in the data version of Agrabah. At the entrance to the Cave of Wonders, she strikes down the data version of Sora and destroys his data Keyblade. After, she gloats and summons Shadows before Mickey and Data-Riku arrive to fend them off before Pete kidnaps the latter as Maleficent takes herself and them to the data version of Hollow Bastion. There, Data-Sora later fights and defeats her in her Dragon form. Though this restores the Journal, it also awakens the data-based Sora's Heartless, who Maleficent attempts to fight off before it seeming crushes her and Pete as Data-Sora attempts to save them. However, after the battle, Data-Sora and King Mickey learn from Data-Riku that he managed to save Maleficent and Pete via a "rift in the data". Maleficent points out that this makes them even, referring to her saving Sora at Hollow Bastion in Kingdom Hearts II, before she and Pete are escorted out of the Datascape by Data-Riku. A digital version of Maleficent later appears when Data-Sora goes to Castle Oblivion.
After her failed plans to take over the data-scape, Maleficent remembers about the data-world created by the Book of prophecies she was trapped in, during her previous travel in the past. Noting that the Journal had similarities with the Book itself she decides to search for it, probably in order to use it's power and knowledge to conquer all worlds.
Dream Drop Distance[]
Not long after being forced out of the digital worlds, Maleficent and Pete invade Disney Castle while Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are overseeing Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery Exam with Yen Sid. Yen Sid surmises that due to the increasing darkness throughout the worlds as a result of Master Xehanort's impending return and growing power, Maleficent benefits from it and gains enough strength to withstand the energies of the Cornerstone of Light. Once inside the castle, Maleficent abducts Queen Minnie and gives her raven, Diablo, Minnie's crown as well as a letter to be delivered to Mickey to lure him back to the castle.
Mickey soon receives the items and immediately returns to the castle with Donald and Goofy, where Maleficent reveals to Mickey about her meeting with Master Xehanort years ago and how she learned of seven purest lights that would enable her to rule all worlds as well as how to tame the darkness. However, after her plans failed throughout the years, she decides to go in a different direction by using the world's data. With Pete holding Minnie hostage, Maleficent demands that Mickey hand over the digital worlds, still set on using them to further her plans.
When Mickey refuses to do so she attempts to attack him, but is blocked by Lea with his Eternal Flame chakrams, which then hit Pete and allow Minnie safe passage back to Mickey. Mickey draws his Keyblade on the pair and ushers them to leave or he will be forced to defend his castle and friends. Maleficent realizes that they are both outnumbered and overpowered and flees yet again through a Corridor of Darkness along with Pete.
Kingdom Hearts III[]
Maleficent returns along with Pete. The evil fairy decides to search through the worlds in order to find the Black Box. Firmly convinced that the Box could possibly contain a copy of the Book of Prophecies. The two of them start their quest in Olympus where thay meet Hades, busy with his conquest of the world along with the Titans.
Not very happy to see his former allies again, the god declares he won't support any plan they have in mind this time, and invites Maleficent to leave. The witch assures him that she isn't looking for his help, but asks Hades if he knows something about any distincitve Black Box that could be hidden in that world.
Supposing they are searching for the box that Zeus hid in Thebe's city, Hades points them where it could be found. There Maleficent and Pete meet with Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy, prompring the young keyblade wielder to accuse them of being responsible for the Heartless currently invading the world, which Maleficent strongly denies. Pete notices that Sora lost all his strenght and suggest to finish him off while they can. However Maleficent tells him to not waist time with Sora, since they have more pressing matters to attend to. Pete let himself escape that they are searching for the Black Box, and Maleficent shuts him up.
Before leaving, the evil fairy swears to Sora that she will eventually deal with them another time. The two dig in Thebes ground, only to find the Pandora's box. Upset with it, Maleficent orders Pete to leave it and to search the Black Box in some other world. The two are unware that Xigbar was spying at them, and after seeing they failed to find the box he pronunounces the phrase "May your heart be you guiding key."
Maleficent and Pete searched in Kingdom of Corona but once again they are unable to find the box. Pete starts to doubt that the box does exist at all. But Maleficent assures him that it does, because it has been "etched". Before she can explain to his minion what that means, Maleficent decides that the best way to find the box is by following others who are searching for it. As Xigbar gave a secret order to the members of the Real Organization XIII to search the Black Box trought the worlds. Later Sora reports to Riku and King Mickey that both Maldficent and the Organization are after a mysterious Black Box.
Maleficent and Pete are seen again in San Fransokyo, where they are confronted by Riku Replica, who demands to know way the witch is snooping around. Maleficent tells him that this is none of his concern, and the boy warns her that overstepping will only bring darkness to consume her again. Not worried about his words, Maleficent says that she will just do anything she pleases, and invites him to do the same. When Pete asks her if she knows him, Maleficent confirms it but she can't tell "from when" he is.
Once again, in Twilight Town, Pete is fed-up by their useless search, as they hadn't found any Black Box at all. Maleficent agrees with him and says that they should stop searching since the box does not exist. But she also clears that what it really means is that it doesn't exist "NOW."
Even more confused, Pete asks where they are just supposed to be looking, and Maeficent tells him that "Light and Darkness are fated to clash. A keyblade war is upon us". But whoever wins doesn't concern them, since the box will be revelead in one case or another, and they just have to wait for that moment. As after she will finally posses the box "their real work can begin."
When the second keyblade war finishes, and Sora disappears after the ultimate demise of master Xehanort, the two travel to the Keyblade Graveyard and observe from far Xigbar, who reveals his true identity as Luxu, reclaiming the No Name keyblade and bringing back four of the lost foretellers. And, as Maleficent supposed, the Black Box is with them.
However, knowing that Luxu and the Foretellers are not simple keyblade wielders, she understand that facing them directly could be a far too risky move. Maleficent and Pete than departe from each other, probably deciding that keep an eye on them, waiting for the right moment to claim the box, is the best thing to do.
Abilities[]
Maleficent in her dragon form.
Next to Master Xehanort and his counterparts, Maleficent, as the mistress of all evil, is arguably one of the most (if not the most) powerful antagonists seen in the entire series. Although she is strong, she is known to avoid physical attacks, using sorcery instead. She may wish for others to fight under her command instead, taking on the form of a monstrous dragon when situations look bleakest. It is her great rage and the powers of darkness that grants her this ability.
Some of her other natural powers include creating thorns, turning into a will-o'-the-wisp, creating lightning, and teleportation. She has also been shown to be able to create walls of green flame and orbs of the same flame to seek and attack opponents, She is shown to be able to levitate objects and summon 'meteors' of dark energy, and transform herself into a pinwheel like vortex similar in appearance to her will-o'-the-wisp that damages with dark magic. Maleficent also tends to hit opponents with her staff, when close enough.
D-Link[]
In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Maleficent becomes a Dimension Link for Terra. While using her, Terra can use powerful dark magic attacks similar to Maleficent's. Maleficent's finishing attacks allow Terra to summon powerful lightning and fire magic to attack his enemies.
Other Appearances[]
Kingdom Hearts V CAST[]
Maleficent appears in the non-canonical Kingdom Hearts game, Kingdom Hearts V CAST. She is yet again a villain and serves as the main antagonist, her lair being the game's final level and featuring the toughest Heartless in the game.
Origin[]
Maleficent made her film debut in Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Appearing unexpectedly at Princess Aurora's birth ceremony, she was greatly angered upon not receiving an invitation to the occasion. Hiding this behind a calm demeanor, she then proceeds to give the infant a "gift" in the form of a curse, saying that she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday and die. King Stefan attempting to seize her at that moment, she escapes through her mastery over dark magic.
Fearful for his daughter's life despite the fact that Merryweather's gift for the child will cause Aurora not to die but sleep should she prick her finger, King Stefan then issues a decree that all spinning wheels in the kingdom are to be burned. In a last attempt to delay Maleficent's curse and prevent Aurora from pricking her finger, the Three Good Fairies decide to take her into the woods to live and be raised as a peasant in an abandoned cottage once belonging to a woodcutter until after the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. The fairies succeed in keeping the girl's location and identity a secret, and an enraged Maleficent sends her loyal raven Diablo to search for the girl, after her Goon minions fail her.
Diablo discovers Aurora's whereabouts, and Maleficent then lures the girl to a spinning wheel upon her return to King Stefan's castle. Aurora pricks her finger, and then Maleficent departs for the old woodcutter's cottage, aiming to capture the princess's betrothed, Prince Phillip, who intends to meet the peasant girl that was Aurora there. Capturing the prince, Maleficent then places him in her dungeon, intending to keep him there for 100 years.
However, Prince Phillip escapes Maleficent's clutches with the help of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, while the witch attempts to stop him from reaching Aurora's sleeping form and King Stefan's castle with a forest of thorns. As Phillip cuts through them, a desperate Maleficent appears before him. Transforming into a mighty dragon, she then engages the prince in a climatic battle. In the end, Maleficent is stabbed in the heart by the Sword of Truth, with Prince Phillip going on to awaken and marry Aurora.
Trivia[]
- Despite being technologically-inept, Maleficent was somehow able to figure out how to use the Heartless Manufactory for over a decade in order to bolster her army. Either that, or she had Pete figure out how it worked and copied the process of creating Emblems with her dark magic.
- Maleficent claims to have not bothered releasing anymore Heartless into the worlds by Kingdom Hearts III (due to her search for the Book of Prophecies taking precedence); implying that the Heartless are simply being drawn to worlds by exceptionally dark hearts like how Clayton lured Heartless to Deep Jungle.
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