As with Cruella D’Evil, Maleficent had no chance of being good. From the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty (collected by Charles Perrault, the French version of the Brothers Grimm) she’s shown as an evil fairy, warning new parents of their daughter’s dire fate. Since Aurora herself can’t really have much agency, modern tellings give the bad fairy much of the backstory. Something must have made her mad, something that justifies a sleeping spell on an innocent girl. (And cut-glass cheekbones, with a cut-glass regal accent to match.)
How much do you know about Maleficent?
Aurora, the heroine of the 1959 film Maleficent premiered in, Sleeping Beauty, hid in the forest under what other name?
Maleficent curses Aurora to fall sleep on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on what?
Maleficent can turn into a black dragon: what color is the dragon’s underbelly?
Guillermo Del Toro said Maleficent’s dragon form was one of his favorite cinema dragons: his all-time favorite is the Vermithrax Pejorative (what a great name!) from this 1983 medieval fantasy movie.
In medieval stories Maleficent is named Carabosse: an 1889 ballet by what Swan Lake and Nutcracker composer featured Carabosse as the villain?
Eleanor Audley, who voiced Maleficent in the 1959 Sleeping Beauty, also voices the floating head of Madame Leota in what Disney parks attraction?
In this doll series from Mattel, Faybelle Thorn is the daughter of the villain from Sleeping Beauty, and Briar Beauty the daughter of Her Sleepiness.
True Blood’s Kristen Bauer van Straten played Maleficent in this fourth season of this show about fairy tale character stuck in a Maine town.
This Oscar-winning actress played Maleficent in a 2014 Wicked-style reimagining of the bad fairy as a scorned lover of a corrupted king.
Isobelle Molloy played young Maleficent in the 2014 film: she was discovered while playing the title role in what Roald Dahl musical about a rebelling girl?
In the sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, what piece of anatomy that she lost in the first film has she regained?
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Aurora, the heroine of the 1959 film Maleficent premiered in, Sleeping Beauty, hid in the forest under what other name?
BRIAR ROSE
Maleficent curses Aurora to fall sleep on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on what?
A SPINNING WHEEL
Maleficent can turn into a black dragon: what color is the dragon’s underbelly?
PURPLE
Guillermo Del Toro said Maleficent’s dragon form was one of his favorite cinema dragons: his all-time favorite is the Vermithrax Pejorative (what a great name!) from this 1983 medieval fantasy movie.
DRAGONSLAYER
In medieval stories Maleficent is named Carabosse: an 1889 ballet by what Swan Lake and Nutcracker composer featured Carabosse as the villain?
TCHAIKOVSKY
Eleanor Audley, who voiced Maleficent in the 1959 Sleeping Beauty, also voices the floating head of Madame Leota in what Disney parks attraction?
THE HAUNTED MANSION
In this doll series from Mattel, Faybelle Thorn is the daughter of the villain from Sleeping Beauty, and Briar Beauty the daughter of Her Sleepiness.
EVER AFTER HIGH
True Blood’s Kristen Bauer van Straten played Maleficent in this fourth season of this show about fairy tale character stuck in a Maine town.
ONCE UPON A TIME
This Oscar-winning actress played Maleficent in a 2014 Wicked-style reimagining of the bad fairy as a scorned lover of a corrupted king.
ANGELINA JOLIE
Isobelle Molloy played young Maleficent in the 2014 film: she was discovered while playing the title role in what Roald Dahl musical about a rebelling girl?
MATILDA
In the sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, what piece of anatomy that she lost in the first film has she regained?
HER WINGS