AS SEEN ON TV: MALEFICENT

MALEFICENT

AS SEEN IN:

'Once Upon A Time'

AS PLAYED BY:

Kristin Bauer

TV DIMENSION:

The Cineverse/The Literary Universe

STATUS:

It's complicated.  See below....

From Wikipedia:

Maleficent is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Walt Disney's 1959 adaptation of "Sleeping Beauty". She is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who, after not being invited to the baby's christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. The character is Disney's adaptation of the evil fairy godmother from the original fairy tale.

Maleficent is often viewed as the most powerful and sinister of the Disney Villains, frequently acting as their leader in many crossovers, and her scenes in the climax of the film are among the darkest and most intense produced by Disney. In Ultimate Disney's top 30 Disney Villains countdown, Maleficent ranked #1.

As far as I can figure out, for this theory about all of the characters from the show to work, then Maleficent wasn't a native to the Literary Universe.  It sounds like she was created specifically for the Disney movie, which would make her a citizen of the Cineverse.  But 'Sleeping Beauty' was animated, so we have to call upon movies like "Enchanted" and "The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle" (and "Boris And Natasha") to splain away how humanoid characters in Toon form are changed into flesh and blood creatures once they cross over into another dimension.  (Which could mean that the live-action sequences of "Enchanted" and "The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle" might belong in Toobworld.....)

So Maleficent crossed over into the Literary Universe and was transformed in the process.  And as far as I know, she has yet to appear in Earth Prime-Time.

BCnU!