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"In ageless sleep, she finds repose..."

Entry #xvi of the Disney Animated Canon, Disney made the Fairy Tale "Sleeping Beauty" into a movie in 1959, based loosely on Charles Perrault's fairy tale with a number of elements from Peter Tchaikovsky'southward ballet, including the championship, Sleeping Dazzler, the entire musical score, equally well as the princess'southward proper noun, Aurora. Past a flake of contortion, they manage to come up with a reason for calling the heroine both Aurora and Briar Rose (the French and German language versions of her name rendered into English).

Having already adapted 2 like Fairy Tales, the biggest challenge story-wise was how to make the plot different without recycling too many elements. Walt wanted the story to be more streamlined, focusing on the cardinal plot about the two lovers without the numerous side plots involving minor characters like dwarves or mice. Technically, the final film is rather streamlined with one major plot... because the animators had so much fun fleshing out the 3 Good Fairies that the film completely unintentionally became a Perspective Flip nigh the efforts of three heroines to rescue the sleeping dazzler and her prince from an evil fairy. If Walt'south original plan had been followed, the fairies would accept been Single-Minded Triplets with no distinctive personalities (quite ironic, as it was Walt Disney himself who pushed for the dwarfs in Snow White to have distinct personalities).

Don Bluth was an assistant animator for the film as his very first professional animation gig.

This film features in the Kingdom Hearts series from Square Enix — Maleficent takes the part of the leader of the Disney Villains and serves as a primary adversary in the start game, and Aurora appears as ane of the Princesses of Heart. The fairies appear equally a One-Scene Wonder in Kingdom Hearts Two, and the prequel Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep introduces an entire earth themed after the movie, with Prince Phillip serving every bit a party member during part of the game. The fairies also feature as of import characters in the Disney Junior series Sofia the First.

In 2014, Disney brought out Maleficent, a live-activity Perspective Flip version of this motion picture.

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• Actionized Adaptation: There's an action-packed climax where Maleficent turns into a dragon and battles the prince, in contrast to the story where he awakens Aurora without trouble.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: The prince in the fairy tale had no connection to the princess - given the hundred year time gap. In this version he's her betrothed, every bit the curse is but in outcome for one nighttime.
• Adaptational Karma: Maleficent meets her expiry at the hands of Prince Phillip; her original fairy-tale counterpart simply disappeared from the story later delivering her curse and was never seen to be punished.
• Adaptational Timespan Change: In the original story, the princess sleeps for a hundred years before being awoken by a prince she's never met before. In this adaptation, she'southward asleep for about a day at most, so that she tin accept a happy ending with the prince she already knows.
• Adaptational Villainy: Yeah, sure, the Old Fairy was pretty evil in the original version, but she was pretty tame compared to Maleficent, who acts every bit the devil stand-in and takes a more active role in the plot.
• Adoptive Name Modify: Beauty's name was originally Aurora, but when the fairies adopt her, they rename her Briar Rose. Eventually, though, she gets her proper noun inverse back to Aurora.
• Advertised Extra: Poor Aurora. The movie is named after her and she is barely even in it, and has a total of eighteen lines of dialogue. It's the fairies who are the main stars of the film.
• Booze Hic: The jester that gets desperately drunk on vino and passes out under the table, hiccups the whole time.
• All for Nothing: The fairies manage to protect Aurora but fail to prevent the curse from existence fulfilled, as Maleficent finds out her location, and once she's alone, makes the expletive come truthful right earlier the sun sets, and calls the fairies out for declining their mission.
• All There in the Script: Maleficent's raven, Diablo, is never actually named in the movie.
• Anachronism Stew:
  • During the forest scene and the finale, Aurora and Phillip dance the waltz. But the flick takes place in the 14th century, and the waltz wasn't invented until the 18th century.
  • Aurora's princess dress follows the high way standards of The '50s (which focused on shape and smoothness over loads of decoration), compared to rest of the outfits in the moving picture (although fifty-fifty those have varying degrees of Hollywood Costuming).
  • While fireworks did exist in the 14th century, it would exist a couple more centuries before they became conventional for celebrations.
  • A recipe called for 1 teaspoon, which wasn't even a unit of measurement until the 1600s.
• Statement of Contradictions: The fairies argue over the colour of Aurora's dress. Flora wants pink, Merryweather wants blue, and they repeatedly employ their magic to change the color.
• The Artifact: Flora's idea to hibernate Aurora by turning her into a bloom is a leftover from when the 3 Good Fairies had powers specifically associated with their names. Flora was to accept powers related to flowers and plants, Creature had animal-associated powers, and Merryweather's powers were tied to the weather. This was cut for time.
• Honour-Bait Song: "In one case Upon A Dream"
• Badass Normal: Prince Phillip is just a regular prince who ends up defeating the Mistress of All Evil, admitting with help from the Three Good Fairies.
• Beautiful Singing Voice Sleeping Beauty has scenes where Princess Aurora sings to (and dances with) Woodland Creatures, but her Beautiful Singing Vocalisation is Enforced as the "gift of vocal" was i of the three gifts given to her past her Fairy Godmothers at nativity.
• Beware the Squeamish Ones: The fairies in the climax end up taking downwardly Maleficent. They complimentary Phillip from the lady'south castle, give him a shield and sword to defend himself, and cover his escape by transforming the deadly weapons aimed at him into harmless flowers and bubbles. Flora, the one who told Merryweather that their magic can only exist used for practiced, casts the spell that allows Phillip to slay Maleficent once and for all with the sword.
• Big Bad: Maleficent. Her aroused whims are the reason Aurora must exist hidden and the basis of the movie.
• Bound and Gagged: Phillip is ambushed by Maleficent's goons.
• Tin can't Kill You, Yet Need You: Maleficent tells Phillip outright that she didn't impale him for this reason. Thanks to Merryweather softening her curse, he needs to be alive to give Aurora a osculation to wake her. She's still planning to have fun with it though, by only freeing him to give the kiss after a hundred years pass. The fairies overhear and free Phillip before Maleficent can carry that plan out.
• Greatcoat Snag: Prince Philip'south cape gets caught in the branches of Maleficent's woods of thorns. Merryweather alerts the faeries to this and they use their magic to gratuitous his cape from the thorny branches without a single tear.
• Bill of fare-Carrying Villain: Maleficent, the Mistress of All Evil.
• Celestial Deadline: Maleficent'south curse is fix to come true before the sun sets on Aurora's 16th birthday; to brand sure this doesn't happen, the fairies change the spell and so that Aurora will fall into a Forced Sleep instead of dying, all the spinning wheels in the kingdom are destroyed, and the fairies raise the princess in secret. However, their wand fight causes their magic to burst out the chimney and alarm the raven to where Aurora is and let Maleficent in on information technology, and when the fairies make up one's mind to leave her alone to requite her some time to at-home downwards, Maleficent uses this opportunity to make the curse come up true herself.
• Changeling Fantasy: Subverted. Aurora is horrified to notice she is the long lost princess and has to pack up and motion to the castle with the king and queen, and never run into that beautiful guy in the forest again, and marry some total stranger (unaware that was the person she'due south going to ally); and on top of it all her aunts, her only family unit, aren't related to her at all and aren't even human!
• Clever Crows: Maleficent's pet raven Diablo is revealed to be smarter than the balance of Maleficent's goons.
• Color-Coded Eyes: Aurora has violet optics, which are meant to symbolize rare beauty along with her sunshine golden pilus and rose-ruby lips that were given to her by the gift of beauty.
• Comically Missing the Signal: Maleficent's minions spend xvi years looking for a baby instead of a growing adult female.
• Cool Equus caballus: Samson.
• Covers E'er Lie: The "Black Diamond" VHS and Laserdisc depicted a scene on the cover in which Philip is most to wake a pink-clad Aurora while Maleficent rages on the staircase to a room in a higher place. However, major plot points are that the event takes place (i) at a moment when Aurora's clothes is blue instead of pink, (ii) after Maleficent is dead, and (3) in the "topmost tower" of the castle. On meridian of the film itself beingness in the Pan and Browse format.
• Crying at Your Altogether Party: Aurora bursts into tears at what was supposed to exist her surprise altogether party when she learns she is a princess and can never see her beloved once more (or so she thinks).
• Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists: Prince Phillip does this when the adept fairies release him.
• Dance of Romance: Aurora meets Phillip in the woods when he sneaks up behind her and joins in on her "I Want" Song.
• Dark Reprise, a variant:
  • First, Flora gives Aurora the Gift of Beauty, with passages sung by the Chorus:

    Gold of sunshine in her pilus, lips that shame the red reddish rose,...

  • After Aurora pricks her finger and is sound asleep, the 3 fairies are putting anybody in the palace to slumber. The groundwork chorus sings the "Sleeping Dazzler Song", with the aforementioned words.
  • Subsequently, as a villainous Triumphant Reprise, Maleficent recites essentially the same poetry to the Prince as he'southward chained in the dungeon.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Downplayed but when Aurora finds out she's a princess, she also finds out she has to ally a prince she's been betrothed to since nativity. And there's nothing she tin can do about it. She gets lucky it turns out to be a Perfectly Bundled Marriage.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Granted, Phillip has aid from Flora's magic, but he all the same takes down Maleficent in I-Winged Affections dragon form with one toss of his sword.
• Disney Princess: Of them all, Aurora is the one with the least involvement in her ain story.
• Asymmetric Retribution: Why the curse on the princess? Because Maleficent got snubbed an invite to the party.
• Does Not Like Shoes: Aurora goes barefoot while venturing out into the woods.
• Dragons Versus Knights: Prince Phillip is never actually stated to be a knight, but he wields a Chivalry Sword and Shield provided by the iii fairies. To end him from rescuing Princess Aurora, the evil Maleficent transforms herself into a fire-breathing dragon. Phillip successfully kills Maleficent with the fairies' assistance.
• Dramatic Irony: Prince Phillip and Aurora encounter each other in the forest and each assumes the other is a peasant. Both express drama over not being able to exist with the other because of this, since they themselves are royalty. Just the audience knows that they are both royalty and accept been betrothed; non only can they exist together, but they will exist together.
• Dramatic Thunder: When Maleficent is around, there's almost ever thunder and lightning, to the bespeak where it gets to be like a Hair-Trigger Audio Upshot.
• Drunken Vocal: SKUMPS! When the kings wake up from the sleeping spell, Male monarch Stefan blames it on the wine. No "Frothy Mugs of Water" hither!
• Dub Name Change: In the Shine dub, Beast's name is Hortesja and Merryweather'southward proper name is Niezabudka ("Unforgettable").
  • In the Finnish dub, Merryweather's proper name became Ilomieli ('happy mind'). Maleficent's proper noun became Pahatar (Paha ways 'evil' and -tar is a feminine suffix).
  • In the Spanish dub, used both in Spain and Latin America, Merryweather's name became Primavera (Jump).
  • In the Swedish dub, Merryweather's proper noun became Magdalena, while Fauna's name became Fina.
• Dude, She's Similar, in a Blackout!: Most famous instance, forth with Snow White. Justified, though, since Merryweather outright states that a buss is the but way to interruption the spell. It seems equally if Aurora and Prince Phillip met before as a way to human action against this trope and to justify their beloved to a degree because the original fairy tale didn't.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The villainess is likewise smart to exist Hoist by Her Own Petard, so in an unusual twist for a Disney film, the hero has to really confront and kill her directly.
• Edible Bludgeon: A brief scene Played for Laughs has an offended and mildly drunk King Hubert endeavour to attack his best friend King Stefan with a very large fish. Withal, since the fish isn't frozen, it goes all floppy in a few hits confronting a metal serving tray used as an improvised shield. The absurdity of the situation makes them engage in some tension-lifting laughter, and they make apology.
• Enraged by Idiocy: When Maleficent learns that her Goons were looking for a baby for the by xvi years, (not knowing that Aurora had grown upward during that fourth dimension) she lashes out violently at them.
• Epic Fail: It is quite an achievement that Animate being messes up the cake as spectacularly as she does. She somehow made about a dozen layers without blistering, decorating them, and piled them. Information technology flops over and melts, not helped by the candles.
  • Flora sets this up almost immediately when she makes the apparel. The first thing she does is cut a hole in the textile because dresses accept holes, so tries to pull the textile upwards to brand the dress part, instead of wrapping fabric effectually the waist in order to make the brim (with a natural hole).
• Fifty-fifty Evil Has Standards: Diablo looks shocked when Maleficent zaps her minions after they failed to notice Aurora.
• Everybody Cries: The expert fairies are left in tears after Aurora is put into a deep sleep.
• Evil Cannot Cover Adept: The fairies talk over this nearly Maleficent, how she doesn't sympathise kindness or love. This leads to Flora's "Eureka!" Moment, where she says Maleficent wouldn't anticipate the three fairies raising Aurora as their own in the wood, without magic, all to protect her. It well-nigh works; Maleficent fails to find Aurora until the immature lady'south sixteenth birthday.
• Evil Is Petty: Animate being claims that Maleficent always ruined Flora'south flowers, by sending the frost apparently.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: Maleficent'southward domain, the Forbidden Mount.
• Verbal Words:
  • The fairies explain to King Stefan that spells work this way; while a powerful-enough fairy could probably intermission the expletive on the Princess, none of them have the capability with how evil Maleficent is. Instead, they can soften the expletive and ameliorate it with the power of words so Aurora won't die at the age of sixteen. Merryweather uses her souvenir to change the curse from death to slumber, cleaved by True Dearest's Buss. As an added benefit, information technology ways that Maleficent can't kill Phillip because he needs to be live as Aurora's true beloved.
  • It's a Chekhov's Lecture afterward when the fairies hash out that Merryweather can't turn Maleficent into a toad because their magic is designed to make others happy. Merryweather snorts it would brand her happy. While indeed they can't transform Maleficent, Merryweather can use her internal joy to ability a spell that turns a crowing Diablo into stone.
  • Maleficent "reassures" Phillip that for this reason she intends for him to follow the prophecy. Her intent is to let him alive, for a long, long time, until a hundred years pass. Aurora will remain asleep and young, merely he'll exist an onetime man, forced to fulfill his duty and kiss her awake. The fairies intervene and free Phillip only as she retires to bed.
• Explicate, Explicate... Oh, Crap!:
  • As Flora puts Rex Hubert to slumber, he starts muttering about Phillip going off into the woods to meet a peasant daughter. Alarmed, Flora starts questioning him, and realizes correct then that Phillip was the male child that Rose met. She tells Merryweather and Fauna that they have to become back to the cottage, but to get in there too late.
  • Earlier, Flora thought of turning Aurora into a flower so she wouldn't become her finger pricked. The other fairies thought information technology was a good idea until Merryweather pointed out Maleficent will just send a frost tempest, but For the Evulz since she might not even know. Then over again, they realize Maleficent will expect them to do something like that.
• The Faceless: Aurora'southward face is never shown as a infant.
• Failed a Spot Check: The Three Fairies effort their darnedest to embrace up their magic within the cottage and do close every door and window and encompass upwardly every nook and cranny, but end upwardly overlooking one very obvious place: fireplace. This might exist justified as Maleficent's expletive in action. Doubles as Foreshadowing when Maleficent lures Aurora away through the fireplace.
• The Fair Folk: Though often cited as a witch, Maleficent is actually a fairy.
• Fairy Devilmother: While Flora, Animate being, and Merryweather collectively act like the typical "Fairy Godmother" to Aurora, Maleficent represents this trope. Whereas Flora and Fauna place blessings on the infant princess, Maleficent, both to spite the king and queen for not inviting her and For the Evulz, curses the princess with a magical death. Because she is so powerful, Merryweather had to waste material her approving simply dulling the curse to magical sleep.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Maleficent; when Prince Phillip slays her as a dragon, her bloody wound is shown in full view on screen.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Aurora's left eyebrow is raised equally she follows the calorie-free upwards the stairs.
• Fat and Skinny: Hubert and Stefan, respectively.
• Faux Decease: Maleficent intended for Aurora to actually dice upon pricking her finger on a spindle of a spinning bicycle. Fortunately, Merryweather was about to bring her souvenir to Aurora when Maleficent interrupted, and then Merryweather was able to amend it with this trope.
• Feminist Fantasy: The Trope Codifier as far as Disney examples go. The villain Maleficent is a Lady of Blackness Magic and refers to herself every bit the Mistress of All Evil. She's notably stronger, more powerful, and much smarter than the typical Disney villain. So effective is she that she's finer won by the end of the 2nd act. On the heroes' side, the three Good Fairies drive the plot. They hide the princess from Maleficent for years and create the counterspell to save her. When Prince Phillip is captured, the fairies are the ones that rescue him and provide him with the tools necessary to stop Maleficent. Unshaved Mouse noted how unusual even today information technology is for a film to feature three female Primary Characters who don't provide Fanservice, pass The Bechdel Examination, and don't end up as someone'southward honey interest.
• Burn, Ice, Lightning: Role of Maleficent's power ready.
  • Fire: Teleports with the use of flames and transforms into a fire-breathing dragon after on.
  • Lightning: Hurls bolts to punish her goons after they fail to find Aurora, summons more to assail Phillip during his escape and uses lightning bolts to conjure the forest of thorns.
  • Ice: Though not portrayed onscreen, Merryweather mentions that she tin "ship a frost".
• Forced Sleep: The chief plot of the film is Merryweather altering the curse and so that Aurora does not dice from pricking her finger, she'll just sleep until she is awoken by Truthful Honey's Kiss. Later on when the curse was fulfilled, the fairies cast a spell on the castle which puts everyone to sleep until Aurora awakens.
• Foregone Determination: From the championship alone, nosotros know that Maleficent'south (modified) curse volition take issue. Merely since the focus is on the good fairies and their sixteen-year endeavor to prevent this, the drama is preserved (especially since they almost succeed).
• Forgot Nigh Her Powers: The fairies try to physically strength downwards a wall/segmentation to get to an entranced Aurora earlier suddenly remembering they take wands and can magic it away. Justified as they spent 16 years without magic earlier then.
• Forgotten Showtime Coming together: Perfectly understandable, since Aurora was a newborn at the fourth dimension. Phillip (being a few years older) might remember the occasion, but he wouldn't recognize her.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The skeptical expect young Phillip gives his futurity bride in her cradle foreshadows how he feels nearly marrying for politics when he's grown.
  • When Flora turns Fauna and Merryweather into dotty old ladies, she gives Merryweather pink wear. Merryweather angrily magics her outfit blue.
  • Maleficent's dragon form appears as part of a glimmer-and-y'all'll-miss-it page ornamentation right before the scene where she zaps her minions, and well earlier she transforms.
• For the Evulz: Why does Maleficent want to kill Aurora? Non beingness invited to a political party is merely her "justification". To add to that, she doesn't kill her so and there. She declares her death to come within 16 years, so her parents, and presumably Aurora, would live with the haunting dread of that unfortunate fate that volition befall her. There is likewise her program to torment Phillip by locking him upward for a hundred years and only and so releasing him to wake Aurora so that she'll remain sixteen and he'll be an old man. Neither Phillip nor his father had done anything to her.
• French republic: The film's setting, though information technology was non mentioned or explicitly said in the picture show. The reason is because of the castle's architecture beingness based off of many French castles, every bit well as the Neuwachstein Castle in Frg. Some other evidence are the french words similar 'Troubadour' and 'En Guarde' in the christening scene and where Stefan and Hubert'south argument, respectively, the names Phillip (originally Greek and German), Aurora (originally Latin), Stefan (originally Greek), and Fauna being partially French, Tchiakovsky's rendition of the French royal anthem (Vive Henry IV) by George Bruns (the score adaptor), the Fleur De Lis banners, and the near important evidence is Artist Evyind Earle's artwork and mode background were based off of a French gothic manuscript by the Limbourg Brothers, equally well every bit other French tapestries.
• Freudian Trio: The Three Fairies fir the nib, with the impulsive, short-tempered and slightly selfish Merryweather being the id, the gentle and deferring Beast being the ego, and the strict and mindful Flora beingness the superego and de facto leader of the group.
• Friend to All Living Things: Aurora. Then much that her animal friends steal a cape, chapeau, and boots and course a scarecrow prince to cheer her up.
• Genre Relaunch: The movie was an effort from Disney to render to "experimental" films, where an astronomical budget was irrelevant to the film's technical innovations and lavish character animation and layout. Information technology was sadly non meant to be at the time, but this was accomplished in 1986 in a mode, when its home video debut ^note coming off the heels of its last of iii-wide theatrical re-releases helped rebuild Disney then, which led to The Niggling Mermaid.
• Girl in the Tower: The final third of the film.
• Daughter of My Dreams: If you accept "Once Upon a Dream" at its word.
• Good Is Not Soft: Parodied with Merryweather, who deals in Brutal Honesty and constantly lunges at Maleficent. The fairies' magic can only be used for proficient and to bring joy, but Merryweather still manages to turn Maleficent'southward crow into stone. Only when you consider it, she did make someone happy past doing it: herself.
• Gorgeous Catamenia Dress: Save for Aurora's "new look" dress, this trope is there for virtually of the characters.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Averted; Maleficent is allowed to say "hell", which wasn't and so the very minor curse discussion it is today.

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• HA HA HA—No: Maleficent does this when she discovers that her minions have spent sixteen years looking for Aurora in "all the cradles" in the kingdom.

  Maleficent: Cradle? [speaks to Diablo sweetly] Did you hear that, my pet? All this time, they've been looking for a infant!
  [she laughs heartily, and her minions join in, until...]
  Maleficent: FOOLS! IDIOTS! IMBECILES!
  [starts zapping them with her staff]

• Hand Gagging: Flora shushes the other fairies this way. A goon also does this to Phillip for a 2d.
• The Hedge of Thorns: Maleficent raises a forest of thorny plants effectually Stefan's castle to stop Phillip.
• Hell Is That Noise: The music y'all hear when Maleficent hypnotizes Aurora. If you heed advisedly, it's actually singing "Aurora...". The voice calling out even changes from language to language.
• Heroic Mime: Phillip is completely silent for the second one-half of the pic, which focuses on him.
• Heroic Willpower: Aurora briefly resists Maleficent'due south spell when Merryweather shouts at her to not touch anything. Maleficent has to order her to touch on it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Due to Maleficent casting the curse, Princess Aurora is taken into hiding as a baby. For the next 16 years, Maleficent makes herself fret and orders her minions to find the princess, saying that she'due south a disappointment to the forces of evil if she can't fulfill the curse. It's her ain error for not sleeping peacefully at night.
  • Averted for the climax. Notable in that this is a Disney movie, which are normally the kings of this trope. The fairies had to interfere in order to defeat Maleficent because she is so powerful and clever that even at her most big-headed, she is brutally effective.
• Hollywood Kiss: Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip at the end of the film when they're dancing in the clouds.
• Hollywood Costuming: The pic is explicitly stated to take place in the 14th century, yet Aurora'southward clothes has a neckline like dresses in the decade when the pic was made. Her mother's gown is more period-accurate.
• Horns of Villainy: Maleficent'southward headdress features a pair of large curved horns; whether or not they're just decorative or real isn't revealed, although Maleficent existence an evil fairy makes them being real likely.
• Horsing Around: The Prince'southward horse Samson, until the climactic scene, is very stubborn and has to exist bribed by carrots to practise his master'south behest, but bungles it and charges straight into a pool.

  Phillip: [irritably] No carrots.

• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Diablo the raven. He finds Aurora in ane day and successfully sounds the alarm when the fairies bust Phillip out of Maleficent'southward prison. Averted with the balance of her minions.
• Anesthetize the Convict: When the glowing green orb appears in Aurora's bedroom as she cries, the light makes her suddenly stiffen and look upwards. Her eyes are glazed, and she stands up very fluidly, following the orb single-mindedly. When the fairies call out to her to not touch anything, information technology momentarily breaks the spell, before Maleficent'due south voice lulls her back in, and she touches the spinning wheel's spindle.
• "I Want" Song: "I Wonder", in which Aurora ponders why "each little bird has a someone to sing to" and hoping someone will bring a beloved song to her.
• Internal Reveal: Maleficent reveals to Prince Phillip that the "peasant girl" he vicious in love with is Princess Aurora. Likewise, Aurora must take learned upon waking up that the "stranger" she fell in honey with is Prince Phillip.
• Irony: Every bit Phillip says: "Now, Father, you're living in the past! This is the 14th century!"
• Constabulary of Changed Fertility: Narrowly averted for King Stefan and Queen Leah. The opening narration remarks that "For many years, they had longed for a child, and finally their wish was granted." Information technology'south office of why information technology was so devastating to them to have to surrender her to the fairies; she was the only child they were always able to take.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Not in one case, but thrice, Merryweather tries to outright attack Maleficent, even when she's a dragon, and has to be held back by Flora.
• Leitmotif: Maleficent has a creepy, foreboding one on oboe that is heard nearly whenever she is onscreen, with the last note on a trumpet.
• Lethal Chef: Animal when blistering a cake, despite post-obit the recipe to the tee. Her trouble is that she is Literal-Minded about things like "fold in ii eggs". Fortunately, she's much more than practiced when cooking with magic, since all she has to practise is tell the ingredients to "follow what it says hither the volume".
• Allow's Become Dangerous!: The fairies when they rescue Phillip. Practice not underestimate the power of turning mortiferous arrows into flowers and boiling oil into rainbows. Flora helps Phillip deliver the killing blow.
• Letterbox: 3 clips from this movie — Aurora singing in the forest, Phillip escaping Maleficent'due south dungeon, and Aurora and Phillip waltzing — became the starting time pieces of footage to air on TV in widescreen, when shown in the Walt Disney Presents episode "The Peter Tchaikovsky Story". Withal, they played trimmed to 1.82:1. Additionally, in 1997, Sleeping Beauty became i of the lucky few Disney movies to get a widescreen VHS, which was released alongside a widescreen Laserdisc. This presented the motion-picture show in the two.35:1 aspect ratio used for 35mm engagements.
• Little "No": Maleficent says this twice, first when she notices Diablo is permanently turned to stone and sees Phillip making his escape. She does it once again when she notices that Phillip has cut through the thorns she made, thus triggering her Villainous Breakdown.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • Subverted when Stefan orders all the spinning wheels in the kingdom burned since Maleficent's expletive forms a new spindle for Aurora on which to prick her finger. Lampshaded by Flora as she watches the bonfires.
  • Discussed when Flora suggests turning Aurora into a bloom since a bloom doesn't have fingers to prick. Merryweather points out that Maleficent would anticipate something similar that and transport a frost to kill the flower-Aurora.
• Love at First Note: Technically they met equally a baby and a little male child, only as far as either of them knew, this was their first meeting.
• Dear at First Sight: The prince and princess really see before the Dude, She's Like, in a Coma! Truthful Love'southward Osculation in this version, but the only time they spend together is singing a song and dancing in a forest. (Technically, they "met" when they were young. Aurora was just a babe; Phillip wasn't older than 4 or five, but they don't realize it until the end.) The lovers Paw Moving ridge this by claiming they met "once upon a dream."
• Mama Bear: The fairies as a whole deed this mode towards "Rose". Merryweather is ready to tear autonomously Maleficent for threatening the babe Aurora, and you tin can tell Flora would want the former to take it fifty-fifty as she'due south holding Merryweather back. They determine, for Rose's sake, to talk to Stefan and convince him to telephone call off the Arranged Marriage to Phillip. When Maleficent kidnaps Phillip, Flora gains a wait of Tranquil Fury and says that they are rescuing him, no questions asked. Merryweather turns Diablo to stone and so he won't thwart their escape. Note that Flora makes the sword that eventually kills Maleficent, and casts the spell to ensure that it kills her.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The fairies in the castle when, after leaving Aurora lonely for a few minutes to requite her some time to weep, they hear Maleficent'southward voice and find "Rose" missing. "Why did we exit her alone?!" indeed.
  • The fairies again when they realize Maleficent has captured Phillip, having no pick but to rescue him themselves.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Inverted. The princess is named Aurora (Latin for "dawn"), and then Flora gifts her with "pilus of sunshine gilt" to match her name. She may besides be named afterwards the Aurora Borialis.
  • Maybe unintentional, only Phillip means "friend of horses" in Greek. Consider his relationship with Samson.
  • Maleficent means "working or productive of harm or evil."
  • The fairies' names were this originally, as they were going to accept powers tied to a specific element — Flora with plants, Fauna with animals, and Merryweather with the weather.
• The Middle Ages: "After all, this is the 14th century."
• A Minor Kidroduction: The film opens up with Aurora's christening as a infant with a young Prince Phillip showing upward to run across his time to come wife.
• Misplaced Retribution: Maleficent places a curse on the baby princess, who has washed nothing, to punish her parents. Although as she is the simply heir, it would cause quite some trouble for the kingdom.
• Missing Mom: Phillip'southward female parent is never seen or mentioned, and presumably is dead prior to the picture show. Averted by Aurora, who is i of the few Disney female person leads whose parents are both live for the unabridged motion picture.
• Minor Royalty: Speaking considerately, Aurora'due south gown is i of the virtually understated of all the Disney dresses. It's quite simple compared to the gowns of the courtiers (and her female parent), equally well. This one is pretty justified since the fairies were intending to make it by mitt from materials they had in the cottage.
• Moment Killer: Aurora tells her animal friends that she met a prince, but their informal date got cut short when she woke up and realized it was All Just a Dream.
• Morality Pet: Of all her servants, Maleficent treats Diablo rather kindly, and is visibly upset past his Taken for Granite demise. Justified as he is a Hypercompetent Sidekick.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: 16-year-quondam Aurora looks similar her mother'south slightly shorter, slightly finer-featured twin.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The fairies when they hear Maleficent is effectually and they enter Aurora's room and see her disappear through the door at the back of the fireplace, realizing it was wrong to get out her alone and thus became vulnerable to the curse.

  Fauna: Oh, why did nosotros leave her alone?!

• Mythology Gag: A dark one, where Maleficent plans to imprison Prince Phillip for 100 years before setting the elderly prince free. In the original tale, the princess and her kingdom were asleep for 100 years until a prince found the kingdom.
• Names to Run Away from Actually Fast:
  • Maleficent, "working or productive of harm or evil: baleful". A fitting name for the Mistress of All Evil.
  • Likewise her pet raven's proper noun, Diablo.
• Natural Spotlight: On Aurora before she is woken up.
• Never Say "Die": Averted.
  • "Now Sword of Truth, fly swift and sure, that evil die and skillful endure!"
  • "Simply...before the lord's day sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel...and dice!"
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • The fairies stopped upward every nook and cranny except for the fireplace when they perform magic for the first time in years. Then Flora and Merryweather become into a magical dispute over the color of Aurora's dress. Guess how Maleficent discovers the whereabouts of Aurora. Missing the fireplace is how Maleficent manages to get a hold of Aurora a second time, too: past enchanting information technology to open into a stairwell and hypnotizing her into pricking her finger.
  • Merryweather's impulsiveness worsens the situation on more than one occasion. As well as the aforementioned 'argument' with Flora over the apparel's color (though this is as well equally Flora'due south fault), she outright tells Maleficent that she wasn't wanted at the christening, perchance leading to the curse. She also tries to attack Maleficent when she insults Prince Phillip and has to be pulled dorsum past Flora (which alerts Diablo the raven to their presence).
  • Arguably, the three fairies' original plan of outlasting the curse by keeping Aurora under Maleficent'due south radar might have worked if Merryweather hadn't insisted on using magic for Aurora'due south altogether celebration or at the very to the lowest degree, didn't pick a fight with Flora over the colour of Aurora's wearing apparel. Then again, if the events of the moving-picture show hadn't been sent in move and Prince Phillip never slayed Maleficent in the dragon form, Maleficent may take continued to terrorize the purple family and been particularly driven since her original expletive failed.
  • Most importantly, the fairies leaving the room for Aurora to have some fourth dimension to cool down is what leaves her vulnerable to Maleficent, as in one case she'south alone, she uses a spell to lure Aurora to her at the height of the tower and conjure a spinning wheel herself to make her prick her finger. The fairies before long realize their fault, and Maleficent even calls them out for it.
• Nice Job Fixing Information technology, Villain: Maleficent is the ane who tells Phillip that not just is Aurora the same peasant girl he fell in love with, only exactly where she is.
• No Body Left Behind: Dragon!Maleficent falls down a cliff. When the sword is shown again, it is stabbing only a cloak.
• No Ontological Inertia: Zigzagged; Maleficent's death causes the thorns she summoned before to disappear, but does not undo the curse put on Aurora; Phillip even so has to osculation her.
• Non-Homo Sidekick: Prince Phillip has a horse named Samson, Maleficent has her raven familiar Diablo, and Aurora has various miscellaneous woodland creatures. Also, Maleficent's goons; it'south never antiseptic exactly what they are, but they're definitely not human.
• No Song for the Wicked: Maleficent's Villain Vocal may accept been cut, but she still gets to (prematurely) gloat over her victory in a creepy, depression-key Villain Poem.

    O-U

• Obviously Evil: Maleficent. Just look at all the evil tropes with which she's associated (Evil Eyebrows, Evil Tower of Ominousness, High Collar of Doom, Lean and Mean, etc.). Her very proper name has "mal" (evil) in information technology.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Phillip's equus caballus has this reaction (with whinnying accompaniment) at one signal during the battle with Maleficent (earlier the fairies bond him out).
  • Phillip looks horrified after Maleficent's I-Winged Angel transformation.
  • Phillip (over again) when the door of the cottage closes and Maleficent'due south goons jump him.
  • Flora, when she heard King Hubert mentions his son going to marry a peasant daughter he met "once upon a dream". She then realized the "stranger" Aurora come across in the wood (also "one time upon a dream") was Prince Phillip, and whom Aurora asked to visit her in the motel.
  • When Maleficent says she's going to give Aurora a gift, the three fairies immediately try to shield her, knowing what kind of "gifts" Maleficent is likely to give.
  • The fairies when they hear Maleficent in Aurora's room and when they enter to run into her lured away, realizing information technology was incorrect to exit her lonely. And they get an even bigger i when they find Maleficent in the top of the tower and Aurora securely asleep on the flooring, the curse having been fulfilled meaning the fairies accept failed.
• One-Winged Angel: Maleficent's dragon form.
• I-Woman Wail: The infamous Aaauroooraaa calling during Maleficent'southward evil spell on Aurora. Flora hears this, which alerts her to Maleficent's presence.
• Our Fairies Are Unlike:
  • The three skilful fairies accept the advent of short elderly women. They have wings but cannot fly without shrinking to the size of insects, and their wands appear to exist the source of their magic.
  • Maleficent, though technically a fairy, is closer to an Evil Sorceress. However, she too has a magic wand that takes the course of a Magic Staff, and she likewise changes size (and form) when she wants to wing.
• Owls Ask "Who?": When Aurora/Briar Rose talks to her creature friends, the owl naturally goes "hoo?", which she takes as a question.
• Papa Wolf: The minute Maleficent casts the curse, Stefan orders his guards to seize her. Though they're as helpless every bit he is to stop Maleficent from leaving, he even so does all that he tin to protect his daughter, from burning all the kingdom'south spindles to like-minded with the fairies to send Aurora into hiding.
• Parental Substitute: Aurora equally Rose calls the three fairies her aunts. She treats them every bit her parents, even planning to introduce Phillip to them since she's in honey. Merryweather starts to cry every bit she serves as a mannequin for Flora's sewing because she remembers how Aurora was one time a fiddling baby, their babe, and now she'south going to become a princess again. The fairies all complaining that her sixteenth birthday came so soon.
• Perfectly Bundled Matrimony: Aurora and Phillip do come up to really like each other despite the engagement. Of form, that was before they find out who they really are.
• Pinkish Product Ploy: In some countries, the 2014 Blu-Ray re-release of Sleeping Beauty has a cover showing Aurora in her peasant clothes. Withal, the American cover shows her in pink and sparkles.
• Power Trio:
  • Superego - Flora
  • Ego - Beast
  • Id - Merryweather
• Businesslike Accommodation: In order to allow Aurora and Prince Phillip to meet and form a relationship prior to the buss, the film had to drop the original tale's ane-hundred-year time frame of Aurora and the kingdom's slumber-induced country, every bit Phillip could not possibly take been live by and then.
• Precision F-Strike: "Now shall y'all deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of Hell! " How much of a precision strike was this? The side by side time anyone said that word in a Disney animated product was thirty-v years later... in the weekday afternoon slot, in the pilot episode of Gargoyles.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: By Flora equally she enchants the Sword of Truth then Philip can pierce the Dragon Maleficent to death.

  Flora: Now Sword of Truth, fly swift and sure, that evil die and good endure!

• Pre-Violence Laughter: Maleficent has merely learned that her minions haven't found Aurora because they've been looking for a babe for sixteen years, and breaks out laughing. The minions start laughing as well until she suddenly turns angry and fires lightning bolts at them from her staff.
• Princess Classic: Flora and Animal'due south gifts were even related to this trope. Merryweather'due south might have been every bit well, had she non been interrupted; we never learn what her souvenir would have been.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Played with. Aurora never chooses her own gown, but Flora and Merryweather fight over what color it should be.
• Princess Protagonist: Princess Aurora, who is cursed by an evil fairy, and and then rescued past a handsome prince, is nominally the heroine, although the movie focuses more on her fairy godmothers.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Much of the soundtrack of the movie is the music to Tchaikovsky'south ballet of Sleeping Beauty.
  • Almost famously, the song "Once Upon a Dream" was adding lyrics to the Waltz from Act I. An unedited excerpt of Tchaikovsky'due south actual flit (which varies considerably in the 2d half from "Once Upon a Dream") tin can be heard simply earlier Brute says "I just dearest happy endings."
  • The opening chorus, "Hail to the Princess Aurora", is the opening march from Act I with lyrics.
  • Aurora'southward song equally she enters the woods, "I Wonder", is taken from the second office of the Flit also with lyrics.
  • The music that accompanies the three fairies flying through the forest is Aurora'due south "Vertigo dance" from the Deed I finale subsequently she pricks her finger on the spindle. ^note In the original ballet, it starts off slowly and gets faster as Aurora gets more and more woozy and finally faints.
  • Prince Phillip's fight against Maleficent is gear up to the music from the Deed I finale as Carabosse, Maleficent'southward counterpart in the ballet, is attacked by Aurora's 4 suitors.
  • The creepy chorus when Maleficent lures away the princess is from the Human activity III pas de deux between Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat. It's a funny scene in the original, with the pocket-size-fundamental oboe figures suggesting not "Aurora" just "Miaou".
• Refuge in Audacity: This is why Maleficent doesn't anticipate that the iii fairies would tempest her castle to rescue Phillip. After all, good fairies only practice adept magic, and they failed at protecting Aurora? Why would they think they tin stop her? By the fourth dimension she cottons onto their programme, they've already sprung Phillip and are on their fashion out the door.
• Remaster: In 1997, this became Disney's second film to undergo a digital restoration, the kickoff being Snowfall White. Some other restoration, performed in training for the 2008 Blu-Ray debut and DVD rerelease, went dorsum to the original camera negatives, making the picture appear 16% wider than in the movie's theatrical premiere.
• Rescue Romance: Prince Phillip fights his way through one hell of a magical obstacle course and slays Dragon!Maleficent (with plenty of help from the faries) to break the curse on Princess Aurora and the kingdom. The two then get their happily ever after.
• RevengeSVP: Probably the most famous example of the trope: Maleficent casts the spell in retribution to not being invited to a party, setting off the plot.
• Royals Who Really Do Something: Prince Phillip is the one who defeats Maleficent and wakes Aurora, although the fairies give him invaluable assistance.
• Running Gag: Flora and Merryweather'south bickering over Aurora's apparel being pink or blue, which happens in all three acts of the movie.
• Say My Proper name: The fairies crying "ROSE! ROSE! ROSE!" when they run into Maleficent lure her away and effort to await for her before finding her cursed.
• Scaled Up: Maleficent turns into a dragon.
• Scare Chord: A rather intense (and scary) crescendo is heard when the spinning wheel appears in front end of Aurora, followed past another when she pricks her finger.
• Scenery Porn: It was fabricated in the Super Technirama lxx widescreen process, and the filmmakers were up to the challenge of filling the space, and so had the backgrounds painted in exquisite detail by artist Eyvind Earle. This trope is likely the reason information technology was the starting time cel-animated Disney title to get a Blu-Ray Disc release.
• Screw the Rules, I'k Doing What's Right!: On realizing that Aurora won't exist happy in an Bundled Wedlock when she loves someone else, Flora and Merryweather talk and concur to tell her father about the change in circumstances. Unfortunately, before they can, Flora hears Maleficent's spell.
• She's All Grown Up: Lampshaded by Maleficent when her minions spend sixteen years looking for a baby and instructs Diablo to find a cute maiden in her teens. All three good fairies take a moment of sadness when they consider that the girl they've raised and loved every bit a daughter is nigh to exist Princess Aurora and non their Briar Rose.
• Shipper on Deck: The forest animals really want Aurora and Phillip to be together.
• Shout-Out: Prince Phillip was named after the most prominent prince in the popular imagination of the day: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
• Sickly Green Glow: Maleficent has dark-green optics and a green orb atop her staff. Her flames are also green. In the 1997 restoration and a few other incarnations, her pare is greenish, although a very pale green — mostly due to coloring errors, since her skin was supposed to be white.
• Silence Is Golden: Phillip and Aurora have no lines in the second half of the moving picture. In fact, few characters have any dialogue except Maleficent and the fairies.
• Simple, nevertheless Opulent: Most of the dresses in this motion-picture show, even Aurora's dress, lack enough trimmings to authorize as a Pimped-Out Clothes, just that doesn't hateful they aren't extremely fancy regardless.
• Slasher Smile: Maleficent has a sharp-toothed one in her dragon form.
• Something Completely Different: Well, not quite. Just this is a unique entry in the pre-Oliver & Visitor Disney animated picture show canon. Information technology's a much more serious treatment than 1950s audiences were used to seeing from Disney: other than the bickering fairies and the drunken minstrel, at that place isn't much of the vaudeville shtick from, say, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs or Peter Pan; the aesthetic is literally Darker and Edgier (many more shadows and darkened faces, and there wouldn't be Disney characters this angular again until Hercules 38 years later); and the medieval setting is truly medieval: historically authentic, properly Gothic, and without the '30s cuteness seen in Snow White or the '50s-sitcom gloss seen in Cinderella. Compared to Disney's other "classic" films, Sleeping Beauty looks more like something made independently past Don Bluth (which is plumbing equipment, since his commencement job at Disney was on this moving-picture show) or Rankin/Bass. Y'all might even call it the The Lord of the Rings of its time, specially since High Fantasy was in very curt supply in 1950s America.
• Sorcerous Overlord: Maleficent, who'due south either an Evil Sorceress or one of The Fair Folk. She seems to dominion over a dark land adjacent to the human kingdoms from her ominous castle, populated but past her monstrous and incredibly dumb minions.
• Spell Blade: How the fairies give Prince Phillip the Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue to fight Maleficent. They fifty-fifty add together an extra incantation before the final blow.
• Spit Take: King Hubert does one when Rex Stefan points out that the hymeneals to Phillip may come equally quite a shock to Aurora.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Despite the movie existence centered on Aurora, the fairies accept up most of the focus and do most of the work.
• Stating the Simple Solution:
  • Stefan's outset large decree after Maleficent curses his girl is to fire all the kingdom's spinning wheels, invoking Loophole Abuse. It doesn't work since when the curse activates, Maleficent simply creates a new i out of thin air.
  • Fauna over tea suggests reasoning with Maleficent since she cast the expletive out of feeling slighted, and that Maleficent "can't exist all bad". Flora and Merryweather shoot that plan down since Maleficent won't listen to reason and she is definitely all bad.
• Storybook Opening: The last true princess one till Enchanted came out.
• Stock Sound Effect:
  • When Aurora cries the 2nd time, Dopey'south crying audio effect from Snow White and the Vii Dwarfs is used. The aforementioned sound outcome had also been used for Sasha the Bird's crying in Make Mine Music's Peter and the Wolf segment.
  • Also from Snow White: Maleficent's dying scream in dragon class is the Evil Queen/Witch'southward scream from when she falls to her death.
• Potent Family unit Resemblance: Aurora bears a strong resemblance to her mother.
• Supernatural Aid: The fairies requite Prince Phillip the Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue to fight Maleficent. They even add together an extra incantation before the final blow.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: For Aurora. After her initial heartbreak that she has to leave the human being of her dreams and take on the function of princess, he turns out to exist the prince to whom she was already engaged and her true honey. (It's happy for Phillip also, but he had a little more warning).
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Turns out, as the three practiced fairies learn the hard way, sewing dresses and blistering cakes takes years of experience. Because Flora can't sew (and uses Merryweather equally a mannequin), her attempt at making a dress for Aurora looks besides much like a pink straightjacket. And Fauna can't bake, so her block is a lopsided goopy mess. It takes Merryweather's Savage Honesty regarding the situation to foreclose Princess Aurora'southward 16th birthday party from going wrong.
  • Also, as information technology gets closer to Aurora's 16th birthday, King Stefan brings upwardly to Rex Hubert that Aurora was probably raised to exist unaware of her status as a princess (and, by extension, her arranged marriage to Prince Phillip) and how it will probable come as a bit of a daze to her once Flora, Animate being, and Merryweather finally reveal it to her (and indeed it does).
• Surrounded by Idiots:
  • It is Maleficent'southward much smarter raven who finds Aurora, rather than her evidently idiotic mooks. They spend sixteen years looking "in every cradle" — for a princess they imagine to still be an babe. They didn't appear to have even searched the wood, despite challenge to have done so. She zaps them with her staff in response, and they clear out with all haste.

    Maleficent: [sitting downwards in her throne] Oh, they're hopeless. A disgrace to the forces of evil.

  • Merryweather feels this way when Flora and Fauna are trying in vain to make a dress and broil a block, while she must stand there and be the dummy. Her expression and mannerisms say everything.
• Swordfish Sabre: A drunken statement between the kings devolves to Hubert picking up a sturgeon off the table and waving it at Stephan. When Stephan holds up a platter as a shield and the fish collapses, they laugh and stop fighting.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Fauna expresses that Maleficent can't exist all that bad and that she must not be very happy.
• Taken for Granite: Merryweather turns the raven into a conveniently placed gargoyle.
• This Cannot Be!: A note-perfect example, complete with a Villainous Breakdown and subsequent One-Winged Angel transformation, with a touch of Precision F-Strike thrown in, when Maleficent sees Prince Phillip managing to interruption through the thorns surrounding the castle she made and almost make it to Princess Aurora.

  Maleficent: No! It cannot exist! [teleports over and cuts him off] At present shall you bargain with me, O Prince... AND ALL THE POWERS OF HELL!!!

• Throwing Your Sword Ever Works: Phillip slays the dragon by throwing his sword into her heart. Justified in that it was an enchanted sword further blest by the magic of the good fairies.
• Time Skip: After the good fairies come up with their plan to hide Aurora from Maleficent by raising her as a peasant, the moving-picture show skips alee over a decade to the day of Aurora'south sixteenth birthday, with the plot continuing from there.
• To the Pain: This is Maleficent's whole schtick. She's probably powerful enough to have glassed the whole kingdom when they didn't invite her to that christening, only she decided to expletive the infant princess to die sixteen years later on purely in order to inflict a long drawn-out torture on the male monarch and queen. Maleficent's most evil moment in the motion picture is when she explains to a captured Prince Phillip exactly how she's going to ensure that he doesn't get a happy ending. Killing him outright would've been kinder.
• Tomboyish Name: Downplayed, only Merryweather is actually a boys' name in tradition (it'due south what Merry is usually short for). Merryweather is the most tomboyish of the fairies, at to the lowest degree with her no-nonsense mental attitude and dislike of pink.
• True Blue Femininity: Aurora'south gown is blue for most of the moving-picture show, including the kissing scene, as this trope was more popular than Princesses Adopt Pink at the time. In-universe, Merryweather insisted on it over Flora's objections, and they become into an Edit State of war over the color.
• True Dear's Buss: This appears in many Disney movies, but this particular kiss is the Trope Namer. It'southward the just thing that can break Maleficent's curse and awaken Aurora.
• Underestimating Badassery: Maleficent had no idea that Aurora's three fairy godmothers would be able to bring well-nigh her downfall, hence why she only did Evil Gloating nigh their precious princess while heading off to capture Phillip.
• Uptown Male child: Information technology's ready upwardly to be an inter-form romance, just it turns out that the beautiful peasant girl Phillip sees in the forest is the princess to whom he's betrothed.

    5-W

• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Zig-zagged. Maleficent is considered 1 of the most (if non the most) dangerous villains in all of Disney Animated Canon, and her lackeys get different ways:
  • The Goons don't sympathise that babies grow up, and so they've been looking for the infant Aurora for 16 years.
  • Her pet raven Diablo averts this by having almost no comedic moments and proving to be Maleficent's most capable minion.
• Villain Has a Point: When the fairies go out Aurora lonely to have some time to herself, this leaves her unattended and completely vulnerable to Maleficent, who makes the expletive come true; she was right to call the fairies out for not watching her and thus, they failed at their mission.
• Villainous Breakdown: Maleficent breaks down further and further as she sees Prince Phillip escaping to the castle and tries at every plow to terminate him. What little sanity remaining during this scene is completely spent when she sees that he had cut through the thorns she had made to stop him and she cries, "Information technology cannot be!"
• The Weird Sisters: The 3 practiced fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather nourish princess Aurora's baptismal commemoration to confer blessings on Aurora, and later take Aurora in their care in club to protect her from Maleficent's curse.
• Were Dragon: Maleficent. Almost the cease of the moving picture, she turns from her humanoid form into a huge fire-breathing dragon. Though even in her humanoid form she already resembled one, such as possessing horns, scales, and a cape that resembled wings, and shooting fire at her minions when she's aroused.
• Wham Shot:
  • Maleficent revealing the asleep "precious princess" to the fairies.

    Maleficent: You poor, simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. ME, the Mistress of all evil! Well, here'due south your precious princess!

  • Maleficent standing in the shadows of the cottage every bit her minions ambush Phillip.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Most of Aurora'south animal friends disappear when the owl, a cardinal, a blue jay, a squirrel and two rabbits wearing apparel up in a prince to trip the light fantastic with her. And only those 6 remain with Aurora and Phillip until she had to return to the cottage.
• White Stallion: Prince Phillip races in to rescue the princess on his white horse.
• Why Don't You But Shoot Him?:
  • Why not but kill the baby at the christening for revenge on her parents? Considering Maleficent would rather evangelize a "souvenir": a sleeping death for when the little girl becomes xvi.
  • Justified for why Maleficent doesn't impale Phillip. He needs to be alive to fulfill Merryweather'due south role of the Curse Escape Clause. So instead she'll keep him live, for as long as possible, and simply then release him.
  • Defied past Merryweather when Diablo sounds the alarm as the fairies bust Phillip out of prison house. She chases the raven until she can go a clear shot and turns him into stone.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Creature.

  Creature: Perhaps if we reason with her...
  Flora: Reason?!
  Merryweather: With Maleficent?!
  Fauna: Well, she can't be all bad.
  Flora: Oh, yeah, she can!

• Would Hit a Girl: During Prince Phillip's boxing with Maleficent equally a dragon, the prince struck the dragon'south head with his sword.
• You Tin can't Thwart Stage One: Not for lack of trying; Stefan orders all of the spinning wheels in the kingdom burned, and the fairies take "Rose" into hiding to protect her. Maleficent still manages to find the princess and compel her to touch the spindle.

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I know you, I walked with you one time upon a dream,
I know you, the gleam in you eyes is then familiar a gleam,
And I know it'due south true, that visions are seldom all they seem,
But if I know yous, I'll know what you do,
You'll dear me at once,
the way you did in one case upon a dream.

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