During this time, Maleficent's species is identified as 'Dark Fey', although Maleficent's powers are unique to her due to her being the latest reincarnation of the powerful Phoenix.
Maleficent is a direct descendant of the Phoenix, which explains why her power is so immense to begin with.
Maleficent is a powerful dark fairy and the titular main protagonist of the 2014 film Maleficent and its 2019 sequel, titled Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Growing up as an orphan in the Moors, Maleficent believed herself to be the last of her kind.
Maleficent is the main antagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. A malevolent fairy, she is an incarnation of pure evil and is responsible for all the misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom.
In the original Sleeping Beauty (1959), Maleficent is a horned witch-monster who can fly, apparate out of nowhere, shape-shift into a dragon, command the thunderous sky to do her bidding, and, of course, issue death curses at an infant christening she wasn't invited to.
And this means that Maleficent is none other than a modern incarnation of the goddess Nemesis.
If you want to cover the majority of Maleficent's powers, a Druid/Wizard combination is your best bet. However, Maleficent very clearly states that her power is directly given to her from Hell and that she serves the Forces of Evil, which is textbook Warlock. So, I would label her a Warlock/Druid.
The second film goes back even further, creating a deep backstory for Maleficent, positing that she is not the only one of her kind. There is an entire different race of people called Dark Fey, though they do not have her powers. Maleficent's powers come from a phoenix.
What species is Maleficent? Maleficent is a Fae. She is fairy-folk. She conforms to the Fairy Godmother archetype.
Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm bordering a human kingdom. As a child, she meets a human peasant boy named Stefan, and they both fall in love with each other.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
During this time, Maleficent's species is identified as 'Dark Fey', although Maleficent's powers are unique to her due to her being the latest reincarnation of the powerful Phoenix.
Urban fantasy often uses quasi-archaic spellings like Fay, Fae and Faerie, especially to conjure images of Fae creatures of a more archaic and scary sort, while Fairy has come to mean the children's creature or the romantic Victorian concept of the tiny winged Pixie.
The Dark Fae are one of the factions of Fae and are made up of members who can be at best described as free spirited and at worst pure evil. Many of the Dark Fae are amoral and corrupt, operating in activities that others would consider criminal and cruel.
Emma immediately does some research and uncovers the truth that the woman, Lilith "Lily" Page, is not only Maleficent's daughter, but was once the childhood friend of Emma, who also discovers that fate has controlled her life down to the finest detail, which includes influencing the one friend she ever had.
Essentially what sets the Dark Fae apart from the Light Fae is their willingness to use their unique gifts purely for personal gain regardless of the consequences to those around them, especially humans. The Dark Fae have their own group of leaders and Elders.
Signature. Tinker Bell, also nicknamed Tink or Miss Bell, is a Tinker-talent (also called pots-and-pans-talent) fairy and the main protagonist of the Tinker Bell movie series from 1 to 5.
Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent is an explicitly satanic figure: “mistress of all evil,” in league with “all the powers of Hell.” At the climax she transforms into a dragon to battle Prince Philip, the most archetypally heroic male lead in any Disney cartoon.
On Maleficent's sixteenth birthday, Stefan kissed her. However, after some period of time after this, he didn't come to see Maleficent. Stefan later betrayed her and stole her wings, so he would be able to become the new king. Stefan later married Leila, Henry's daughter, and she became his wife and queen.
She is the only daughter and only child of the deceased King Stefan and Queen Leila, and the "goddaughter" of the fairy Maleficent.
But overall Scarlet Witch is more powerful, even if Maleficent may edge out in some areas.
The three fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, imply that Maleficent is the most powerful fairy in the land when they fail to undo the curse that she's placed on Princess Aurora.
Weapons and implements made from cold iron are often granted special efficacy against creatures such as fairies and spirits. In the Disney film Maleficent, the title character reveals early on that iron is lethal to fairies, and that the metal burns them on contact.
They are an ancient line of beings who are descended directly from the original phoenix, now long since dead. Maleficent is herself directly descended from the last of the phoenix, explaining why the scale of her powers is beyond even the other Dark Faeries.
True, Maleficent tried to kill a baby, and true, the Evil Queen did try to kill a girl simply because she was prettier than her, but, in terms of evil, neither come close to Shan Yu. Shan Yu is a bloodthirsty warrior.
Diablo the Raven
Diablo is Maleficent's pet raven. The source of his name is not clear as he is never named in the film. Diablo is present at Aurora's christening, during which Maleficent curses the baby.