As in, very possibly too dark for a PG movie: Stefan does not kill Maleficent. Instead, he takes her out, drugs her drink, and cuts off her wings while she's unconscious, so that he can bring them back to the humans as a trophy.
As they make their way back to the Moors, Maleficent becomes captured by Stefan and his guards. She and Diaval become easily pinned down and just before Stefan can kill her, Maleficent's wings return to her after Aurora frees them.
The ultimate consequence of this betrayal was severe; he painfully cut off and stole Maleficent's wings, which ultimately turned her to evil, as she vengefully retaliates by cursing Aurora as the baby out of rage once she learned this.
Stefan visits Maleficent in the Moors and drugs her, but cannot bring himself to kill her. He instead cuts off her wings, presenting them to Henry as "proof" of her death.
Why doesn't she grow her wings? Because she can't. She made Diaval as a shape-shifter and called him her wings. She needs her wings, but she can't grow them back.
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. In the Pokémon games, Pokémon categorized as Fairy-types are weak against moves that are categorized as Steel-type.
All in all, despite her power, Maleficent only has one weakness: Iron: The slightest contact could burn her skin, and prolonged exposure could weaken her dramatically.
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.
Later, Stefan betrays Maleficent and steals her wings so he could claim that he killed her and become king. After the painful loss of her wings, Maleficent becomes enraged over his treachery, and as her heart of gold turns to stone, she becomes the evilest magical being in the land.
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. Maleficent, enraged from his betrayal, placed a curse on his newborn daughter, that when she will turn 16, she will fall to a sleep like death.
For what it's worth, shortly after I received your email, Angelina Jolie gave an interview in which she confirmed that both she and screenwriter Linda Woolverton were “very conscious” of the force of Stefan maiming Maleficent by hacking off her wings as “a metaphor for rape.” So far from being suspicious, I wasn't even ...
The three fairies cast an enhancing enchantment on Phillip's Sword of Truth, which he throws into Maleficent's heart, mortally wounding her before she falls off the crumbling cliff to her death.
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.
She is the only daughter and only child of the deceased King Stefan and Queen Leila, and the "goddaughter" of the fairy Maleficent.
As Aurora weeps, Ingrith tells her that she is the one who spread the stories about Maleficent being evil, as she wanted to take control of the Moors by wiping out the creatures there. Aurora's tears then cause Maleficent to regenerate into her powerful phoenix form.
Diaval was a raven in the Moors.
We all know Maleficent's evil side. The first Maleficent movie, however, showed us Maleficent's good side. Maleficent used to be a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm bordering a human kingdom. As a young girl, Maleficent meets and falls in love with a Scottish human peasant boy named Stefan.
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.
Maleficent is based on the evil fairy godmother from Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. In Perrault's version, she's an evil, old fairy who was left out of the princess' christening because she hadn't left her tower in years, and most of the kingdom thought she was dead.
For Maleficent, it's not as easy. In the present, she implores Rumpelstiltskin to show her what became of her child once it came through the portal. The little girl was adopted, and named Lilith, or Lily. Rumpelstiltskin warns Maleficent that it'll just cause more pain to know.
Zorro/Don Diego de la Vega is a character mentioned on ABC's Once Upon a Time. He is the father of Lilith Page, after a "union" between himself and Maleficent while both were in their dragon forms.
Queen Ingrith is a worthy adversary to the dark fairy Maleficent, with an evil plan to divide humans and fairies forever. She was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer.
“At first, she has beautiful, flowing hair but when she gets older and more bitter, she is more scary. She's hiding her hair and we put headwraps on her, which are a very, very important part of her costume. …
Like Doctor Strange, Thor is an opponent that has an element of magic about him, putting him in a class of superhuman ensured of victory against Maleficent. Thor is a God among his people, capable of controlling the weather to respond to his every command.
The Dark Fey are a subspecies of Fairy, human in size and appearance however with large feathered wings and horns. In Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Conall tours and brings Maleficent around the cavern, describing it as their Nest of Origin.