Disney Infinity 2.0 brings two femalte leads to the fore front among the Marvel Men, Merida from PixarsBrave and Maleficent from Disney's Maleficent. It's been sometime since we've seen a villain take a leading role in Disney Infinity and I can only hope there are more to come. The trailer shows Maleficent using some of her classic powers from the classic Sleeping Beauty which is a great addition and it looks like Merida has some nice melee/long range attacks. Also, Mike Wasowski, what are you doing?
Name: Maleficent
First Seen: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
The baddest of the bad. Maleficent is an evil fairy who knows how to hold a grudge. After not being invited to the royal christening of Princess Aurora, Maleficent enacts a revenge so subtle and bold that only evil could come up with it.
Before she leaves an already awkward situation at the castle, Maleficent claims she has no ill will towards the King and Queen and bestows a gift upon the young Princess Aurora. The child will grow up beautiful and kind, but "before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die."
If that's not bad enough, as Aurora's sixteenth birthday arrives, Maleficent ensures her curse will be fulfilled by finding Aurora and leading her to a spindle. She also traps Prince Phillip and leaves him in a dungeon to rot for 100 years. The good fairies help him escape, and Maleficent, more determined than ever, calls upon all the forces of hell! Things just got real.
Besides having an army of goons and an evil raven, Maleficent can turn into a fire-breathing dragon! Maleficent fights Prince Phillip to the bitter end. She falls to her death after Prince Phillips magically endowed sword stabs her in the heart.
Maleficent as she appears in Kingdom Hearts.
Maleficent, however, would reappear numerous times. In the Kingdom Hearts series she is the mistress of all evil leading other Disney Villains in a scheme to take over worlds. In Fanstasmic!, a spectacular nighttime show at the Disney Parks, Maleficent is one of the villains trying to take over Mickey's imagination. She appears in both her fairy and dragon form.
Maleficent receives her first solo film debuting May 30th, 2014.
