Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.Think about it:
* Not motivated by inadequacy or jealousy or fear.... Sleeping Beauty doesn't have anything that she wants per se; she's just motivated by plain old hatred.
* How to stop Prince Charming from getting to the castle? A forest of thorns, that's how.
* She turns herself into a motherf-ing dragon.... because she can.
Trust me, I honestly don't sit around everyday thinking of these things.... somehow they just happen to come up.
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You are correct. The image of her green eyes flicking open in the dark recesses of Aurora's fireplace was seared into my brain as a child. I recently Netflix'd the movie and re-watched it. Not as epic as I remember it, but the whole spinning wheel sequence still roiled up some serious dread in my now adult bones.
"Now, you shall deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of HHHHHELLLLL."
Can you imagine Disney creating a villain like that now? Even Ursula (the last Disney bitch to come close to scary) was too humorous to be terrifying.
JJ: Extras points for Maleficent's ultimate evilness because she conjures the powers of hell. I remember being terrified/intrigued as a child, hell being mentioned and all that in a Disney cartoon. I gotta see this movie again. Ursula from The Little Mermaid was pretty badass, but I agree with you that she wasn't exactly scary. I must admit though, that scene where she's in human form and singing to the mirror about her evil plans ("and the o-cean will be mine!") is one of my favorite moments of all Disney cartoons.
TaylorL: Not that familiar with the Kingdom Hearts bandwagon, but I like that they're smart enough to go all the way and make Maleficent a total badass. As for Gaston.... I guess Beauty and the Beast wasn't nominated for a Best Picture oscar for nothing.
Oh yeah.... does anybody remember the "Muppet Babies" episode where Animal played Maleficent? Instead of a forest of thorns, it was petunias.
oh, hell -- i stopped having the witch nightmare when i was 5 or something, and now...?!
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