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"You poor, simple fools! You think you can defeat me?! ME, the mistress of all evil!?"

—Maleficent

Template:Enemy Maleficent is a major antagonist in the Kingdom Hearts series, second only to Master Xehanort. She is an evil fairy sorceress who made her first appearance in Disney's Sleeping Beauty. She seeks to gain control over all worlds, spreading darkness throughout the World.

She is first seen in Kingdom Hearts in Hollow Bastion, leading a group of villians who seek the power of Kingdom Hearts in order to rule all worlds. To this end, they use the Heartless to conquer worlds, while they search for the seven Princesses of Heart. However, Maleficent's plans are thwarted due to the efforts of Sora, who defeats her villainous council, and finally, her. She later returns, seeking to gain footholds in her bid to spread darkness and conquer worlds, while dealing with interference from Sora, King Mickey, or Organization XIII.

Unlike most other Disney villains in the series, Maleficent's role heavily extends into the overall story instead of being limited to her home world.

Story

Before Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Maleficent was already known and feared throughout Enchanted Dominion as a sorceress not to be angered. Despite not being invited to the celebration of princess Aurora's birth, she attended anyway and gave her a "gift", that on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. Merryweather altered the curse so that, instead of dying, Aurora would fall into a deep sleep until kissed by her true love, and the three fairies raised her in the woods, out of the reach of Maleficent and her lackeys.

Sixteen years later, Maleficent discovered Aurora living under the assumed name Briar Rose and arranged for her curse to take effect. She also imprisoned Prince Phillip in her dungeon to prevent him from breaking the curse.

At some point, Maleficent met Master Xehanort, who revealed to her the existence of other worlds and the seven Princesses of Heart whose hearts could be used to conquer all worlds. He also told her of certain wielders of the Keyblade that she would encounter. After this meeting, Maleficent's ambitions would grow to domination over all worlds.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

"Imagine with me, the most glorious of futures... Seven of the purest hearts, each overflowing with light.
When brought together, they grant the power to rule all worlds."

—Maleficent to Terra

Maleficent guides Terra to Aurora.

Terra arrives at the castle, searching for Master Xehanort, and he encounters Maleficent at the bridge leading to the gate. She claims not to know of Xehanort, but tells of a man she saw leaving the castle, speaking of "imprisoning the light". Terra enters the castle and finds Aurora asleep in her room, where Maleficent appears to him again and tells him of the seven hearts of pure light that grant the power to rule all worlds. She offers to tells Terra about Xehanort if he takes Aurora's heart for her, and when he refuses, she uses the darkness inside him to put him into a trance and takes her heart anyway. When he comes to his senses, she states that the Keyblade is necessary to retrieve the remaining hearts and asks Terra to join her. He turns her down, and she tells him that he cannot suppress his darkness by force before leaving him to deal with the Unversed.

Aqua confronts Maleficent

Ventus later arrives at Maleficent's fortress with the three fairies to retrieve Aurora's heart. After successfully freeing her heart, they find Maleficent in her throne room, furious. She tells him that Terra was the one who stole the heart, and despite having been warned by Xehanort not to harm Ventus, she confronts him in battle. Ventus defeats her with the help of the three fairies, but she restates that Terra willingly took Aurora's heart. Aqua arrives in time to hear this, and she reassures Ven before he takes off in search of Terra. Maleficent drops Aqua into the dungeon when she refuses to join her, but Aqua escapes the fortress along with Phillip and the fairies. Maleficent confronts them when they reach the bridge to the castle, surrounding the castle with thorns before claiming that Terra willingly embraced the darkness and assuming her dragon form. After a fierce battle, Prince Phillip throws his enchanted sword at Maleficent, defeating her. Maleficent survives, however, and Aqua confronts her as she leaves. Maleficent tells her that as long as there is light, there will be darkness, and she disappears.

After these events, Maleficent begins plotting to take over all worlds. She uses the Corridors of Darkness to begin recruiting allies from different worlds, beginning with the banished Pete.

Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts

Over the next several years, the Heartless appear in the Realm of Light, and Maleficent decides to use her immense power of darkness to command the creatures. She captures Aurora and causes her own world to fall into darkess, moving to the now abandoned Hollow Bastion to make it her new base of operations. She manages to gather most of the pages of Ansem's Report, which she and her allies would use to better understand the nature of the Heartless. Kingdom Hearts

With Pete's assistance, she recruits Hades, Jafar, Ursula, Oogie Boogie, and Captain Hook to her cause, and they use the Heartless to further their own ambitions while searching for their worlds' Keyholes and the Princesses of Heart. In the meantime, Maleficent dispatches Pete to assemble an army of powerful Heartless for her.

Kingdom Hearts

"The Keyblade has chosen him. Will it be he who conquers the darkness, or will the darkness swallow him? Either way, he could prove quite useful."

—Maleficent about Sora.

When Riku wakes up alone in Hollow Bastion after the destruction of Destiny Islands, Maleficent approaches him and gives him a room in the castle.

She and her allies witness Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeating the Guard Armor via Maleficent's magic, and they discuss the young Keyblade wielder. They continue to monitor their progress even as they continue with their own plans. As her allies implement their own schemes in their respective worlds, Maleficent occassionally comes to advise or observe them, as well as making sure they continue searching for the Keyholes and the Princesses. When the villains observe Sora sealing the Deep Jungle Keyhole, Maleficent assures them that it will take Sora ages to find the rest and notes that he is unaware of their plan regarding the Princesses of Heart.

Maleficent begins coaxing Riku to assist her in her plans, and she grants him the ability to travel between worlds. When Riku encounters Sora in Traverse Town and sees him with Donald and Goofy, Maleficent convinces him that Sora has forgotten about him and Kairi. In exchange for her help in finding Kairi, Riku agrees to help her gather the Princesses.

In Agrabah, Maleficent checks on Jafar's progress towards finding the Keyhole and capturing Jasmine. She reminds him of the importance of the Princesses and warns him against being careless with the darkness. Maleficent appears again in the Lamp Chamber after Jafar uses Genie's powers to reveal the Keyhole, and she learns that Sora has continued to interfere. Sora and company arrive on the scene, and Sora realizes who she is before she disappears. She returns to Hollow Bastion and has Riku capture Jasmine and take her there as well. She tells Hades that Jafar was overcome by his hatred and warns again against letting the darkness overpower oneself. To honor her deal with Riku, she sends him to sail with Captain Hook to find Kairi.

While Riku is trying to torment Sora inside Monstro, Maleficent comes to check on him. She warns Riku to beware the darkness in his heart, as the Heartless prey on it, but he tells her to mind her own business even as she steps in a Corridor of Darkness. She meets him later at Hook's ship, where Kairi's comatose body is resting, and she tells him that the power and wisdom of Kingdom Hearts will let him recover Kairi's heart once they gather the seven Princesses. She then gives him the power to control the Heartless.

After Riku takes Kairi to Hollow Bastion via Dark Corridor, straining himself in the process, Maleficent tells him that relying too much on darkness puts his heart at risk. She also tells him about the Beast, who had traveled from his world by sheer force of will. She amplifies his dark powers, allowing him to enter Dark Mode.

As Sora and the Beast enter the castle, Maleficent uses the power of the gathered Princesses to reveal the Final Keyhole in the Grand Hall. She is joined soon after by Riku, now possessed by Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, and armed with the Keyblade of People's Hearts. Maleficent realizes with shock that the Keyhole and Keyblade are both incomplete, due to Kairi missing her heart. She leaves to take care of Sora's group herself, but she is defeated, and she retreats to the Chapel's tower with the group in pursuit. The possessed Riku arrives, and he stabs her with his Keyblade, unlocking the darkness in her heart. Overwhelmed by the dark power, she transforms into her dragon form and attacks Sora again, only to be destroyed.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

"You dare to challenge me? Pitiful fools!"

—Maleficent to Sora, Donald, Goofy and Beast.

A memory-based illusion of Maleficent appears to Riku in the twelfth basement of Castle Oblivion, in a projection of Hollow Bastion. Although she is aware that she is only a figment of Riku's memory, she taunts him, reminding him of how he used to embrace darkness and telling him that the only people he will find from his memory are the ones with the same darkness. When Riku declares that he will take out each person of darkness he encountered, she fights him in her dragon form, only to lose. Zexion is able to smell this Maleficent's presence, and he informs Vexen and Lexaeus. Vexen remarks that the real Maleficent cannot return from the Realm of Darkness on her own.

When Sora enters the memory-based Hollow Bastion, he finds that Maleficent has kidnapped Belle and is trying to trap the Beast in an effort to steal Belle's heart. Belle sacrifices herself to save the Beast, and Maleficent disappears with her heart, with Sora, Donald, Goofy and the Beast in pursuit. When they catch up with her, she tells them that her magic requires hearts of utmost beauty, and that the love in Belle and the Beast's hearts makes them ideal. However, the group defeat her in her dragon form, freeing Belle's heart.

Kingdom Hearts II

"Do not misunderstand me: I shall have my revenge on you yet!"

—Maleficent to Sora while defending him against Saïx.

After Sora leaves the Mysterious Tower, Maleficent's raven brings Maleficent's empty robe to where Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are, and their memories of her bring her back to life.

Maleficent regroups with Pete at Villain's Vale, where she learns that her former allies are off dealing with their own matters. Maleficent has Pete catch her up on what has happened since her defeat, including the actions of Organization XIII and Sora. She is disgusted by his constant failures, however, and breaks ties with him. When Pete somehow summons a door to the past, she decides to give him another chance and has him interfere with the Cornerstone of Light in the past, so that she can take over Disney Castle in the present. With the power of the Cornerstone weakened, Maleficent begins sending her dark influence into the castle, allowing the Heartless to invade and filling the Hall of the Cornerstone with thorns. When Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrive with Queen Minnie, Maleficent projects her image before them and taunts them. Even though Sora and company successfully stop Pete and save the Cornerstone, Maleficent has Pete return to searching for new allies and powerful Heartless to place under their control.

Maleficent appears in Halloween Town, where she recruits Lock, Shock, and Barrel for her plan to destroy Christmas Town. After spying on Sora, Jack, and the others at Santa Claus's house, she decides to resurrect Oogie Boogie in order to take revenge on Sora, and she gives the three pranksters use of the Prison Keeper while she has Oogie recover. Although Maleficent has him kidnap Santa so that he can destroy Christmas Town while she turns Santa into a Heartless, Oogie's faulty memory and uncooperative attitude drives Maleficent to leave him to his own devices.

At some point, she hires the Gullwings as spies to keep tabs on the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee's activities. They continue working for her until they discover she retreated from a battle.

During the the Heartless invasion of Hollow Bastion, Maleficent tries to fight the Nobody forces with her own Heartless, but they are easily outmatched, and she sets them on Sora, Donald, and Goofy instead. Later, when Saïx reveals the Organization's goal to be Kingdom Hearts, she appears and stakes her own claim on Kingdom Hearts. She has her Heartless attack Saïx, only for them to be readily defeated by Dusks, then she attempts to hold off the Nobodies herself to let Sora and the others escape, demanding that they find a way to defeat the Organization for good. She is forced to retreat, but she opens a Corridor of Darkness underneath them, dropping them into the Realm of Darkness.

Maleficent and Pete inflitrate the Castle That Never Was while the Organization is dealing with Sora and the others, and Maleficent decides to take the castle for herself, despite Pete's misgivings. Later, as Sora and company are heading towards the final fight with Xemnas, Maleficent and Pete hold off an immense wave of Heartless to buy them time, although Maleficent points out that she will take the castle for her own afterwards.

Kingdom Hearts coded

"Drag all that you see into deepest darkness!"

—Maleficent to the Shadows attacking Data-Sora

Maleficent in Kingdom Hearts coded

Maleficent and Pete survive the destruction of the Castle that Never Was, and Maleficent returns to plotting her conquest of the worlds. She sends Pete to Disney Castle to spy on King Mickey, and when Data-Riku transports Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Jiminy Cricket into the datascape, Pete gets pulled in as well, appearing in a hub between the data worlds. He calls Maleficent, who uses her magic to enter as well. Despite her unfamiliarity with the concept of computers and computer data, she and Pete decide to conquer the data worlds, immersing them in darkness, and then use the link to the castle to overrun it with Heartless. She tasks Pete with interfering with the data worlds, and he cuts the link to the real world, trapping Mickey and the others.

After Data-Sora corners Pete in the digital version of Agrabah, Maleficent appears before him. Although she cannot differentiate between him and his real-world counterpart, she destroys his digital Keyblade, recognizing it as a fake. When Data-Riku tries to attack her, she subdues him and takes him along, saying he will be "useful". She and Pete corrupt Riku with Bug Blox, forcing him to fight Sora in the data Hollow Bastion. After Sora debugs Riku's data from within, Maleficent attempts to trap him by closing the connection to the outside. Sora escapes, however, and he defeats Maleficent in her dragon form. She disappears, vowing to conquer all worlds.

When the datascape begins to collapse, Jiminy remembers that Maleficent and Pete are still inside and are in danger of being deleted. Data-Sora goes after them, and he finds them in battle against the source of the bugs, Sora's Heartless. The Heartless's attack casts them into a rift in the data, but they are rescued by Data-Riku, who escorts them from the datascape.

When Data-Sora uses the Hollow Bastion World Card in the data version of Castle Oblivion, he encounters an illusion of Pete who summons a likewise-illusory Maleficent once he is defeated. She transports them to a room where Data-Sora must traverse a gauntlet of Bug Blox across bottomless gaps. They taunt Sora and disappear after he reaches them on the far side of the room.

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

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While Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are overseeing Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery exam with Yen Sid, Maleficent and Pete invade Disney Castle and take Minnie hostage. Maleficent has her raven deliver a letter and Minnie's crown to Mickey at the Mysterious Tower, and he returns to the castle with Donald and Goofy to stop her. Yen Sid surmises that Maleficent's actions are prompted by the growing darkness throughout the worlds and considers it a sign of Master Xehanort's impending return.

At the castle, Maleficent reveals to Mickey about her meeting Master Xehanort years before and how he told her of other worlds and of seven hearts pure light that would enable her to rule all worlds. She then states her intentions to conquer the worlds her own way and demands the world data that comprises the datascape. When Mickey doesn't comply, she launches an attack, but it is blocked by Lea's chakrams, which emerge from a Corridor of Darkness. Minnie escapes from Pete in the confusion, and Maleficent retreats with him, stating that she will return, now that she know where to find what she wants.

Later, when Master Xehanort is revived as part of the true Organization XIII, he reveals that he manipulated her to get her to gather the seven hearts of pure light while he set about gathering thirteen of darkness, as part of his plan to create the χ-blade.

Spoilers end here

Other appearances

Kingdom Hearts V CAST

Maleficent appears in the non-canonical Kingdom Hearts V CAST. She is yet again a villain and serves as the main antagonist, her lair being the game's final level and featuring the toughest Heartless in the game.

Appearance

Fair and green-skinned, Maleficent's shining, yellow eyes are heavily shadowed with violet make-up, and her lips are painted red. Her head is topped with a black-horned headdress. Maleficent wears a long, tattered black robe with a purple trim and maroon edges which flare out. She carries a staff with a glowing green orb at the tip through which she casts her spells. In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Maleficent wears a golden ring with a circular black stone in it. This was in her original design in Sleeping Beauty, but was absent in Kingdom Hearts. In Dream Drop Distance it appears once again.

Personality

Maleficent is a scheming, manipulative and highly cunning sorceress, who seems utterly determined to take over the dominion of Kingdom Hearts. She is mostly seen in a cool, calculated manner, easily manipulating Riku into helping her aims, whilst she pretends to care for helping him find Kairi. In Kingdom Hearts II, she is highly vengeful towards Sora, because of him having destroyed her in Kingdom Hearts. She doesn't tolerate failure, as shown when she berates Pete for his attempt to take over Kingdom Hearts without her, saying to him "Mark my words, there'll be no place for you when our time comes. Useless imbecile!"

Despite this, she seems to tolerate the incompetent Pete as her helper. She is not without scruples, however, and has aided Sora on some occasions, yet, for her own evil reasons, saying to him at one point "Do not misunderstand me, I shall have revenge on you yet": indeed, by the time of Kingdom Hearts coded, she appears to have reverted to her evil self and is once again attempting to destroy Sora, albeit a digital version of him, but after she is rescued by Data-Riku, she stops her attempts to kill him (at least for the time being), telling Sora that they are "now even". In Dream Drop Distance, even though she does not encounter Sora, she again reverts to her evil ways and tries to take over the data world, but she is foiled by Mickey and Lea.

Another important aspect of her character, like most Disney villains, but exceptionally notable in her case, is her superiority complex. This is readily apparent in nearly every instance in Kingdom Hearts II whenever the subject of Nobodies and Organization XIII are brought up and when facing them personally, and this view of herself extends to any Heartless she commands, despite the all-too obvious difference in power and capabilities of Nobodies in general over the Heartless.

However her superiority complex is not entirely unfounded as she is easily one of the most powerful characters in the series, her magic rivaled only by Master Xehanort's. Thus, her views of the Organization as insignificant could be, to her, quite true. Ironically, the Organization seems to view her the same way that she views them; as a relatively insignificant threat, shown when Saïx calmly summons some Nobodies to destroy Maleficent's Heartless and smugly calls her a fool. In contrast to Pete, she possesses extreme and completely legitimate confidence, while her minion is a coward and doubts of their chances of winning.

Origin

"Now shall you deal with me, O Prince, and all the powers of Hell!"

—Maleficent before the final battle with Prince Philip in Sleeping Beauty

Maleficent made her film debut in Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Appearing unexpectedly at Princess Aurora's birth ceremony, she was greatly angered upon not receiving an invitation to the occasion. Hiding this behind a calm demeanor, she then proceeds to give the infant a "gift" in the form of a curse, saying that she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday and die. King Stefan attempting to seize her at that moment, she escapes through her mastery over dark magic. Fearful for his daughter's life despite the fact that Merryweather's gift for the child will cause Aurora not to die but sleep should she prick her finger, King Stefan then issues a decree that all spinning wheels in the kingdom are to be burned. In a last attempt to delay Maleficent's curse and prevent Aurora from pricking her finger, the Three Good Fairies decide to take her into the woods to live and be raised as a peasant in an abandoned cottage once belonging to a woodcutter until after the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. The fairies succeed in keeping the girl's location and identity a secret, and an enraged Maleficent sends her loyal raven Diablo to search for the girl, after her Goon minions fail her.

Diablo discovers Aurora's whereabouts, and Maleficent then lures the girl to a spinning wheel upon her return to King Stefan's castle. Aurora pricks her finger, and then Maleficent departs for the old woodcutter's cottage, aiming to capture the princess's betrothed, Prince Phillip, who intends to meet the peasant girl that was Aurora there. Capturing the prince, Maleficent then places him in her dungeon, intending to keep him there for 100 years. However, Prince Phillip escapes Maleficent's clutches with the help of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, while the witch attempts to stop him from reaching Aurora's sleeping form and King Stefan's castle with a forest of thorns. As Phillip cuts through them, a desperate Maleficent appears before him. Transforming into a mighty dragon, she then engages the prince in a climatic battle. In the end, Maleficent is stabbed in the heart by the Sword of Truth, with Prince Phillip going on to awaken and marry Aurora.

Abilities

Maleficent in her dragon form

Main articles: Game:Maleficent and Game:Maleficent (Dragon)

The most powerful of the Disney Villains, Maleficent is known to avoid physical attacks, using sorcery instead. She may wish for others to fight under her command instead, taking on the form of a monstrous dragon when situations look bleakest. It is her great rage and lust for power that grants her this ability.

D-Link

Main article: Game:Maleficent (D-Link)

File:DL Maleficent.png

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Maleficent becomes a Dimension Link for Terra. While using her Terra can use powerful dark magic attacks similar to Maleficent's. Maleficent's finishing attacks allow Terra to summon powerful lightning and fire magic to attack his enemies.

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 |journalCOD=A terrifying evil fairy who commands dark magic. On one of Sora's previous adventures, Maleficent led the hordes of darkness in an attempt to conquer all worlds.<br><br>It was her servant, Pete, who led her to this strange new world; while unaware of its true nature, she can see the potential it holds for steeping other worlds in darkness.
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-'''Maleficent''' is a major antagonist in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts (series)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, second only to [[Master Xehanort]]. She is an evil fairy sorceress who made her first appearance in Disney's ''{{w|Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|Sleeping Beauty}}''. She was first seen in ''Kingdom Hearts'' in [[Hollow Bastion]], leading a group of villian who sought the power of Kingdom Hearts for universal domination. However, Maleficent's plans were thwarted thanks to interfearance from [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] and her defeat by Sora sending her to the [[Realm of Darkness|dark realm]]. She later revived herself and attempted, several time throughout the series, to gain control of [[Kingdom Hearts (world)|Kingdom Hearts]]. However, at each turn, she is hindered either by the heroes of the [[Keyblade]] or [[Master Xehanort]]'s own machinisms.
+'''Maleficent''' is a major antagonist in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts (series)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, second only to [[Master Xehanort]]. She is an evil fairy sorceress who made her first appearance in Disney's ''{{w|Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|Sleeping Beauty}}''. She seeks to gain control over all [[world]]s, spreading [[darkness]] throughout the World.
-Unlike most other Disney Villains in the series, she is more involved with the overall story instead of only appearing in her home world.
+She is first seen in ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' in [[Hollow Bastion]], leading a group of villians who seek the power of Kingdom Hearts in order to rule all worlds. To this end, they use the [[Heartless]] to conquer worlds, while they search for the seven [[Princesses of Heart]]. However, Maleficent's plans are thwarted due to the efforts of [[Sora]], who defeats her villainous council, and finally, her. She later returns, seeking to gain footholds in her bid to spread darkness and conquer worlds, while dealing with interference from Sora, [[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]], or [[Organization XIII]].
+Unlike most other Disney villains in the series, Maleficent's role heavily extends into the overall story instead of being limited to her home world.
 ==Story==
 ===Before ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
-Maleficent was already known and feared throughout [[Enchanted Dominion]]. She went to the celebration of princess [[Aurora]]'s birth despite not being invited by King Stephan. Hearing this from the good fairies, Malefincent pretended to not be upset, deciding to give Aurora a gift like the good fairies had done. She then cursed Aurora to prick her finger on a spinning wheel on her sixteenth birthday and die. However, her curse was soften by Merryweather, who made the curse, instead of death, a deep sleep her true love's kiss could break. Upon hearing that the princess was taken by the good fairies to be raised in secret to prevent the curse from coming true, Maleficent sent her [[Maleficent's Goons|lackeys]] to look for Aurora. However, they were incompetent and spent sixteen years looking for a baby. At some point between then and sixteen years later, Maleficent met [[Master Xehanort]], who revealed to her the existence of other worlds and the seven [[Princesses of Heart]] that could be used to open the way to Kingdom Hearts for universal domination. He told her of Eraqus's pupils; Terra could be of use in getting the pure hearts, Ventus was to be left unharmed, and Aqua would be trouble. Since her meeting with Xehanort, Maleficent became even more power hungry and lusted to gain complete control over all worlds. Some time later, her pet raven, Diablo, who she sent out to find Aurora, had found the princess, who was under the assumed named of Briar Rose. Maleficent used her magic to hypnotise Aurora and lure her to a spinning wheel, which she pricked her finger on. She then captured Aurora's true love, Prince Phillip, planning to only allow him to leave to break the curse when he's an old man.
+Maleficent was already known and feared throughout [[Enchanted Dominion]] as a sorceress not to be angered. Despite not being invited to the celebration of princess [[Aurora]]'s birth, she attended anyway and gave her a "gift", that on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. [[Merryweather]] altered the curse so that, instead of dying, Aurora would fall into a deep sleep until kissed by her true love, and the [[Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather|three fairies]] raised her in the woods, out of the reach of Maleficent and her [[Maleficent's Goons|lackeys]].
+Sixteen years later, Maleficent discovered Aurora living under the assumed name Briar Rose and arranged for her curse to take effect. She also imprisoned [[Prince Phillip]] in her dungeon to prevent him from breaking the curse.
+At some point, Maleficent met [[Master Xehanort]], who revealed to her the existence of other worlds and the seven [[Princesses of Heart]] whose hearts could be used to conquer all worlds. He also told her of certain wielders of the [[Keyblade]] that she would encounter. After this meeting, Maleficent's ambitions would grow to domination over all worlds.
 ===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
 {{Q|Imagine with me, the most glorious of futures... Seven of the purest hearts, each overflowing with light.<br>When brought together, they grant the power to rule all worlds.|Maleficent to Terra}}
-[[File:A Castle Wrapped in Thorns 01 KHBBS.png|thumb|200px|Aqua confronts Maleficent]]
+[[File:Maleficent  01 KHBBS.png|thumb|left|Maleficent guides Terra to Aurora.]]
-Observing Flora put King Stephan's kingdom to sleep until Aurora's curse was broken, Maleficent was met with surprise when she met a stanger. After Terra introduced himself, Maleficent acted on cue, preteneding not to know of Master Xehanort and directing Terra to Aurora's Chamber. Once there, she offers to tell him what she knows of Xehanort in return for extracting Aurora [[heart]]. However, though Terra refuses to do so, she uses her magic to "whisper" to the darkness inside him, making Terra extract Aurora's heart. After musing about what Xehanort told her, she asks Terra to collect the other six hearts, offering him the opportunity to join her in her quest to rule the worlds. He flatly refuses before tremors shake the castle; a giant Unversed was on the lose. Explaining Xehanort left through the darkness, Maleficent leaves herself.
+[[Terra]] arrives at the castle, searching for Master Xehanort, and he encounters Maleficent at the bridge leading to the gate. She claims not to know of Xehanort, but tells of a man she saw leaving the castle, speaking of "imprisoning the light". Terra enters the castle and finds Aurora asleep in her room, where Maleficent appears to him again and tells him of the seven hearts of pure light that grant the power to rule all worlds. She offers to tells Terra about Xehanort if he takes Aurora's heart for her, and when he refuses, she uses the darkness inside him to put him into a trance and takes her heart anyway.<!--Do we express what MX says to Braig? If so, how?--> When he comes to his senses, she states that the Keyblade is necessary to retrieve the remaining hearts and asks Terra to join her. He turns her down, and she tells him that he cannot suppress his darkness by force before leaving him to deal with the [[Unversed]].
-Imprisoning Aurora's heart behind a wall of flame in one of the halls of her castle, guarded by her goons with a maze of walls and teleportation spots, Maleficent immediately toke notice when it was freed. She encountered Ventus, who she told of Terra being the one who extracted Aurora's heart. However, Ventus did not believe her and prepared to attack. Lamenting that she was asked to leave him alone, Maleficent engauged the boy in battle. However, thanks to Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, she is prevented from casting sleep spells, which allows Ventus to win their fight. When he once again voices his belief that Terra would not exract someone's heart, Maleficent explains that Terra did so easily. Aqua then arrived.
+[[File:A Castle Wrapped in Thorns 01 KHBBS.png|thumb|200px|Aqua confronts Maleficent]]
+[[Ventus]] later arrives at Maleficent's fortress with the three fairies to retrieve Aurora's heart. After successfully freeing her heart, they find Maleficent in her throne room, furious. She tells him that Terra was the one who stole the heart, and despite having been warned by Xehanort not to harm Ventus, she confronts him in battle. Ventus defeats her with the help of the three fairies, but she restates that Terra willingly took Aurora's heart. [[Aqua]] arrives in time to hear this, and she reassures Ven before he takes off in search of Terra. Maleficent drops Aqua into the dungeon when she refuses to join her, but Aqua escapes the fortress along with Phillip and the fairies. Maleficent confronts them when they reach the bridge to the castle, surrounding the castle with thorns before claiming that Terra willingly embraced the darkness and assuming her dragon form. After a fierce battle, Prince Phillip throws his enchanted sword at Maleficent, defeating her. Maleficent survives, however, and Aqua confronts her as she leaves. Maleficent tells her that as long as there is light, there will be darkness, and she disappears.
-The two Keblade users refuse to accept the truth as Ventus is spirited off while Aqua is placed in the dungeon after she refused to become Maleficent's servant. Aqua and Phillip break out of the dungeon with help from Flora, Fauna and Merryweather and make their way towards King Stefan's castle to wake Aurora. Maleficent gives chase and confronts them on the bridge to the castle, where she tries to get Aqua to believe the truth. Once it appears words would not persaude her, Maleficent transformed into a dragon to battle them directly, but is defeated. Aqua explains the power of true love defeated her; Malficent is sickened to hear something like that could defeat her. Gloating that so long as light exist, darkness will as well, Malficent leaves her world just as Aqua attempts to stop her.
+After these events, Maleficent begins plotting to take over all worlds. She uses the [[Corridors of Darkness]] to begin recruiting allies from different worlds, beginning with the banished [[Pete]].
-Traveling to begin her plans to capture all the seven princesses. Later on in the game, she crosses paths with the imprisoned Pete and frees him, setting the scene for their alliance.
 ===Between ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and ''Kingdom Hearts''===
-Sometime after the events of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and prior to ''Kingdom Hearts'', the [[Heartless]] appear and Maleficent decides to use her immense power of darkness to control the creatures and build up a destructive force to aid her in her plans to conquer all worlds. Over time though, her darkness goes beyond her control and the Heartless soon use it to manipulate her for their own ends. She first captures Aurora and destroys her own world, going off to the now abandoned [[Hollow Bastion]] to make it her new base of operations.
+Over the next several years, the [[Heartless]] appear in the [[Realm of Light]], and Maleficent decides to use her immense power of darkness to command the creatures. She captures Aurora and causes her own world to fall into darkess, moving to the now abandoned [[Hollow Bastion]] to make it her new base of operations. She manages to gather most of the pages of [[Ansem's Report]], which she and her allies would use to better understand the nature of the Heartless.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts}}
-Though her travels to worlds in search of the princesses, Maleficent gained allies in [[Hades]], [[Jafar]], [[Ursula]], [[Oogie Boogie]] and [[Captain Hook]], offering them the assistance of the Heartless for their own endevours in exchange for helping gather the princess. With her fellow villains, Maleficent has to goal of unlocking the [[Keyhole]] that leads to [[Kingdom Hearts]], the heart of all worlds, to gain ultimate power and knowledge. She then has Pete visit other worlds to increase the Heartless to build up their army, leaving him unnoticed by future heroes.
+With Pete's assistance, she recruits [[Hades]], [[Jafar]], [[Ursula]], [[Oogie Boogie]], and [[Captain Hook]] to her cause, and they use the Heartless to further their own ambitions while searching for their worlds' [[Keyhole]]s and the Princesses of Heart. In the meantime, Maleficent dispatches Pete to assemble an army of powerful Heartless for her.
 ===''Kingdom Hearts''===
 {{Q|The Keyblade has chosen him. Will it be he who conquers the darkness, or will the darkness swallow him? Either way, he could prove quite useful.|Maleficent about Sora.}}
-Acting as a guide, Maleficent warns each of her followers that they should be wary of the darkness, ironic as she herself was perhaps the biggest victim to the darkness. She uses Hollow Bastion, the former home of [[Ansem the Wise]] and [[Xehanort]], as a base of operations where she directs the affairs of the group. She uses [[Ansem Reports|Ansem's report]] to help her understand and gain further control of the Heartless.
+When [[Riku]] wakes up alone in Hollow Bastion after the destruction of [[Destiny Islands]], Maleficent approaches him and gives him a room in the castle.
+She and her allies witness Sora, [[Donald Duck|Donald]], and [[Goofy]] defeating the [[Guard Armor]] via Maleficent's magic, and they discuss the young Keyblade wielder. They continue to monitor their progress even as they continue with their own plans. As her allies implement their own schemes in their respective worlds, Maleficent occassionally comes to advise or observe them, as well as making sure they continue searching for the Keyholes and the Princesses. When the villains observe Sora sealing the [[Deep Jungle]] Keyhole, Maleficent assures them that it will take Sora ages to find the rest and notes that he is unaware of their plan regarding the Princesses of Heart.
-After veiwing Sora's defeat of [[Guard Armor]], Maleficent quells the arguing of her fellow villains by explaining Sora would be useful if darkness swallows him or if he conquers it. She later visits the Rising Falls and finds [[Riku]], Terra's successor and [[Sora]]'s best friend, helping him find Sora after his return trip to [[Traverse Town]]. While spying on Leon's group informing Sora of her, Maleficent lies to Riku, saying that Sora replaced him and Kairi with Donald and Goofy, offering to help him find the stil-missing Kairi.
+Maleficent begins coaxing Riku to assist her in her plans, and she grants him the ability to travel between worlds. When Riku encounters Sora in [[Traverse Town]] and sees him with Donald and Goofy, Maleficent convinces him that Sora has forgotten about him and Kairi. In exchange for her help in finding Kairi, Riku agrees to help her gather the Princesses.
-During Sora's adventure in Agrbah, Malefient breifly meets him in person before vanishing. She then sends Riku to capture [[Jasmine]] while Sora and the others were busy fighting [[Jafar]]. Keeping her promise to help Riku find Kairi in exchange for helping them, Maleficent sends Riku with Captain Hook after finding her. Despite her attempts to appear sincere by claiming to think of him as a son, Riku is correctly suspicious of Maleficent's motives. When Riku is toying with Sora in [[Monstro]], Maleficent wonders why he is bothering as Sora has replaced him with new friends, but soon leaves, being told to mind her own business. After Riku leaves and comes back to Captain Hook's ship, Maleficent tells him of her plans to find Kingdom Hearts, which the path to can only be found by using the Princesses of Heart. She says that he may find a way to recover Kairi's heart when the way is opened, granting him the power to control the Heartless as a gift.
+In [[Agrabah]], Maleficent checks on [[Jafar]]'s progress towards finding the Keyhole and capturing [[Jasmine]]. She reminds him of the importance of the Princesses and warns him against being careless with the darkness. Maleficent appears again in the Lamp Chamber after Jafar uses [[Genie]]'s powers to reveal the Keyhole, and she learns that Sora has continued to interfere. Sora and company arrive on the scene, and Sora realizes who she is before she disappears. She returns to Hollow Bastion and has Riku capture Jasmine and take her there as well. She tells [[Hades]] that Jafar was overcome by his hatred and warns again against letting the darkness overpower oneself. To honor her deal with Riku, she sends him to sail with [[Captain Hook]] to find Kairi.
-After all her allies fall to Sora and Riku returns to Hollow Bastion with Kairi, Maleficent informs him of the danger he puts himself in by relying too heavily on Darkness. She then unlocks his dormant powers, allowing the ability to weild the Keyblade, an ability given to him by Terra years ago. Realising this potintial, Maleficent lies Riku about this and how only the TRUE Keyblade Master can open the door to Kingdom Hearts. This temporarily gives her the advantage when he manages to take Sora's Keyblade for a while. Conducting the ritual necassary to reveal the Final Keyhole, Maleficent discovers that it's incomplete. Riku, who is possesed by [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] (actualy Xehanort's Heartless), arrives and explains that because Kairi does not have her heart, she cannot release the power needed to complete the Keyhole.
+While Riku is trying to torment Sora inside [[Monstro]], Maleficent comes to check on him. She warns Riku to beware the darkness in his heart, as the Heartless prey on it, but he tells her to mind her own business even as she steps in a Corridor of Darkness. She meets him later at Hook's ship, where Kairi's comatose body is resting, and she tells him that the power and wisdom of Kingdom Hearts will let him recover Kairi's heart once they gather the seven Princesses. She then gives him the power to control the Heartless.
-Hearing the arrival of Sora's group, Maleficent goes to face them herself, ending up getting defeated and forced to retreat. She then proceeds to continue fleeing until the possesed Riku arrives, offering help. Shocking her, Maleficent finds Sora and his allies had followed after her. When they question him about his Keyblade, he demostrates it by unlocking her heart. This restores Maleficent's power, enabling her to transform into her dragon form. Despite becoming a much more powerful and formidable foe, Maleficent again loses to Sora and is destroyed.
+After Riku takes Kairi to Hollow Bastion via Dark Corridor, straining himself in the process, Maleficent tells him that relying too much on darkness puts his heart at risk. She also tells him about the [[Beast]], who had traveled from [[Beast's Castle|his world]] by sheer force of will. She amplifies his dark powers, allowing him to enter [[Dark Mode]].
-By defeating Maleficent, Sora obtains the fifth page of Ansem's Report, and Donald learns the [[Cheer]] ability. Defeating Dragon Maleficent rewards Sora with the [[Fireglow]] Gem, which unlocks the ability to summon [[Mushu]] if taken to the [[Fairy Godmother]].
+As Sora and the Beast enter the castle, Maleficent uses the power of the gathered Princesses to reveal the [[Final Keyhole]] in the Grand Hall. She is joined soon after by Riku, now possessed by [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]], and armed with the [[Keyblade of People's Hearts]]. Maleficent realizes with shock that the Keyhole and Keyblade are both incomplete, due to Kairi missing her heart. She leaves to take care of Sora's group herself, but she is defeated, and she retreats to the Chapel's tower with the group in pursuit. The possessed Riku arrives, and he stabs her with his Keyblade, unlocking the darkness in her heart. Overwhelmed by the dark power, she transforms into her dragon form and attacks Sora again, only to be destroyed.
 ===''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''===
 {{Q|You dare to challenge me? Pitiful fools!|Maleficent to Sora, Donald, Goofy and Beast.}}
-Maleficent appears to Riku as a memory-based illusion in [[Castle Oblivion]]. She is one of only two characters, along with [[Aerith]] in Sora's story, to realize that she is not real. She mocks her old student and how he once clung to her and the darkness, before he stands up to her and destroys her. The scent of this copy was smelt by [[Zexion]], who informed his fellow underground members of her presence. Maleficent was mentioned by [[Vexen]], saying she could not come back from the [[Realm of Darkness]] of her own will.
+A memory-based illusion of Maleficent appears to Riku in the twelfth basement of [[Castle Oblivion]], in a projection of Hollow Bastion. Although she is aware that she is only a figment of Riku's memory, she taunts him, reminding him of how he used to embrace darkness and telling him that the only people he will find from his memory are the ones with the same darkness. When Riku declares that he will take out each person of darkness he encountered, she fights him in her dragon form, only to lose. [[Zexion]] is able to smell this Maleficent's presence, and he informs [[Vexen]] and [[Lexaeus]]. Vexen remarks that the real Maleficent cannot return from the [[Realm of Darkness]] on her own.
-In Sora's story, she is the boss of Hollow Bastion and is revealed to need to steal hearts in order to practice her magic and attempts to use the love found in [[Belle]] and [[Beast]]'s hearts to make herself invincible. When Sora and company attempt to stop her, she turns herself into a dragon and attacks, shooting flames from her mouth, causing earthquakes by stomping and trying to eat Sora, but she fails and is defeated.
+When Sora enters the memory-based Hollow Bastion, he finds that Maleficent has kidnapped [[Belle]] and is trying to trap the Beast in an effort to steal Belle's heart. Belle sacrifices herself to save the Beast, and Maleficent disappears with her heart, with Sora, Donald, Goofy and the Beast in pursuit. When they catch up with her, she tells them that her magic requires hearts of utmost beauty, and that the love in Belle and the Beast's hearts makes them ideal. However, the group defeat her in her dragon form, freeing Belle's heart.
 ===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
 {{Q|Do not misunderstand me: I shall have my revenge on you yet!|Maleficent to Sora while defending him against Saïx.}}
-Maleficent is revived in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', in which she poses as a secondary villain but still plots against Sora and the others. Her raven, Diablo, brings her empty robe to the [[Mysterious Tower]], and the memories of [[Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather]] accidentally bring her back to life.
+After Sora leaves the [[Mysterious Tower]], [[Maleficent's raven]] brings Maleficent's empty robe to where [[Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather]] are, and their memories of her bring her back to life.
+<!--In [[Kingdom Hearts Another Report]], it is hinted that [[Organization XIII]] is inadvertently responsible for her return. Xemnas once sent Axel and Roxas to Hollow Bastion to wipe out Heartless and release a raven from a cage suspended from the ceiling. It is heavily suggested that this raven is Diablo and was released to revive Maleficent. The Organization may have planned to use her to create more Heartless for their plans.-->
-In [[Kingdom Hearts Another Report]], it is hinted that [[Organization XIII]] is inadvertently responsible for her return. Xemnas once sent Axel and Roxas to Hollow Bastion to wipe out Heartless and release a raven from a cage suspended from the ceiling. It is heavily suggested that this raven is Diablo and was released to revive Maleficent. The Organization may have planned to use her to create more Heartless for their plans. Like in ''Kingdom Hearts'', she attempts to control the Heartless to locate Kingdom Hearts. However, she now competes with Organization XIII for supreme power and considers the group and Nobodies in general as vastly inferior to her and her Heartless, even as far as calling them "white husks".
+Maleficent regroups with Pete at [[Villain's Vale]], where she learns that her former allies are off dealing with their own matters. Maleficent has Pete catch her up on what has happened since her defeat, including the actions of [[Organization XIII]] and Sora. She is disgusted by his constant failures, however, and breaks ties with him. When Pete somehow summons a door to [[Timeless River|the past]], she decides to give him another chance and has him interfere with the [[Cornerstone of Light]] in the past, so that she can take over [[Disney Castle]] in the present. With the power of the Cornerstone weakened, Maleficent begins sending her dark influence into the castle, allowing the Heartless to invade and filling the Hall of the Cornerstone with thorns. When Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrive with [[Minnie Mouse|Queen Minnie]], Maleficent projects her image before them and taunts them. Even though Sora and company successfully stop Pete and save the Cornerstone, Maleficent has Pete return to searching for new allies and powerful Heartless to place under their control.
-Maleficent, with the help of her only loyal follower remaining, Pete, goes from world to world reviving her other followers and building an army of Heartless. Although only Oogie Boogie is witnessed being revived, it may be guessed that she is also responsible for the return of Ursula and for [[Captain Barbossa|Barbossa]], [[Scar]], Hades, and Jafar using Heartless. Indeed, when she first meets up with Pete again, she asks about "the others," suggesting she was supposed to be holding a meeting with "them" like she did in the original game. Pete, however claims that "they must have had something better to do," perhaps meaning he was busy with his own endeavors. This infuriated her, and she demanded from Pete what could be more important than her return; universal domination would be more important that simple matters in their own worlds.
+Maleficent appears in [[Halloween Town]], where she recruits [[Lock, Shock, and Barrel]] for her plan to destroy [[Christmas Town]]. After spying on Sora, Jack, and the others at [[Santa Claus]]'s house, she decides to resurrect [[Oogie Boogie]] in order to take revenge on Sora, and she gives the three pranksters use of the [[Prison Keeper]] while she has Oogie recover. Although Maleficent has him kidnap Santa so that he can destroy Christmas Town while she turns Santa into a Heartless, Oogie's faulty memory and uncooperative attitude drives Maleficent to leave him to his own devices.
-Maleficent reveals herself to Sora and his friends at Disney Castle when she tries to fill the Hall of the Cornerstone with Darkness in order to take over the Castle and make her new base of operations, worrying Queen Minnie. Maleficent is defeated however by Sora when he and his friends go back in time and stop Pete from destroying the Cornerstone of Light, locking the door they used to go back in time. Maleficent appears in [[Halloween Town]] and tries to destroy [[Christmas Town]] by resurrecting Oogie Boogie but his memory loss causes him to drive her away and Sora defeats Oogie Boogie.
+At some point, she hires the [[Gullwings]] as spies to keep tabs on the [[Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee]]'s activities. They continue working for her until they discover she retreated from a battle.
-She is next seen in Hollow Bastion, during [[Battle of 1000 Heartless|its invasion by Heartless]]. The [[Gullwings]] were apparently hired by her until she did not show up to pay them like she said she would; she left because of the arrival of Sora and his friends. At the climax of the battle she holds off the Nobodies so that Sora may escape and devise a way to defeat Organization XIII. Although she still harbors bitter feelings towards Sora, she realizes that she cannot defeat Organization XIII herself, since they can easily defeat her Heartless and even wrested control of them from her, and thus decides to aid Sora for the time being. She flees a battle against [[Saïx]], escaping with her life, bringing Sora to the [[Realm of Darkness]], where he found clues left by RIku.
+During the [[Battle of 1000 Heartless|the Heartless invasion]] of Hollow Bastion, Maleficent tries to fight the [[Nobody]] forces with her own Heartless, but they are easily outmatched, and she sets them on Sora, Donald, and Goofy instead. Later, when [[Saïx]] reveals the Organization's goal to be Kingdom Hearts, she appears and stakes her own claim on Kingdom Hearts. She has her Heartless attack Saïx, only for them to be readily defeated by [[Dusk]]s, then she attempts to hold off the Nobodies herself to let Sora and the others escape, demanding that they find a way to defeat the Organization for good. She is forced to retreat, but she opens a Corridor of Darkness underneath them, dropping them into the Realm of Darkness.
-She last appears in [[The World That Never Was]] in one more attempt to acquire a suitable headquarters, fiding the Organization's castle to perfectly fit to her liking. However, though Pete was worried about the Heartless not obeying them there, Maleficent tells him that he underestimates her as always. After the explosion of Ansem the Wise's [[Kingdom Hearts Encoder]], Maleficent appears before the heroes, offering to destroy the Heartless pouring into the castle while they slay Xemans, explaining that she will take the castle as payment. Though Sora tries to talk her out of it, King Mickey prevents him from stopping her and Pete.
+Maleficent and Pete inflitrate the [[Castle That Never Was]] while the Organization is dealing with Sora and the others, and Maleficent decides to take the castle for herself, despite Pete's misgivings. Later, as Sora and company are heading towards the final fight with [[Xemnas]], Maleficent and Pete hold off an immense wave of Heartless to buy them time, although Maleficent points out that she will take the castle for her own afterwards.
 ===''Kingdom Hearts coded''===
 {{Q|Drag all that you see into deepest darkness!|Maleficent to the Shadows attacking Data-Sora}}
 [[File:Maleficent's Designs 01 KHREC.png|thumb|right|Maleficent in ''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]'']]
-As the Castle That Never Was ended up being badly damaged by Xemnas in his final fight with Sora and Riku, Maleficent was at a loss with no base of operations. Adding onto her dismay, Maleficent was without any Heartless, her control over the darkness weakened, and all her allies save for Pete defeated. Desperate to make yet another comeback, the sorceress sent Pete, who isn't affected by the Cornerstone of Light, to [[Disney Castle]] to spy on the king and bring her up to date on events.
+Maleficent and Pete survive the destruction of the Castle that Never Was, and Maleficent returns to plotting her conquest of the worlds. She sends Pete to Disney Castle to spy on King Mickey, and when [[Data-Riku]] transports Mickey, Donald, Goofy and [[Jiminy Cricket]] into the [[datascape]], Pete gets pulled in as well, appearing in a hub between the data worlds. He calls Maleficent, who uses her magic to enter as well. Despite her unfamiliarity with the concept of computers and computer data, she and Pete decide to conquer the data worlds, immersing them in darkness, and then use the link to the castle to overrun it with Heartless. She tasks Pete with interfering with the data worlds, and he cuts the link to the real world, trapping Mickey and the others.
-Pete eventually entered the journal world when Mickey turned the journal into a Data World to find answers to unsolved questions. Maleficent was summoned into the data world by Pete when he was sent there. Together they decided that they could use the data world to forward Maleficent's original plans to find Kingdom Hearts and fill the worlds with darkness. The pair planned to build up a huge army of Heartless under their complete control by using the Journal's data on the creatures and then send them into the real world to conquer Disney Castle and the rest of the worlds. Maleficent planned to either destroy Mickey or simply leave him trapped in the Journal's data world.
+After [[Data-Sora]] corners Pete in the digital version of [[Agrabah]], Maleficent appears before him. Although she cannot differentiate between him and his real-world counterpart, she destroys his digital Keyblade, recognizing it as a fake. When Data-Riku tries to attack her, she subdues him and takes him along, saying he will be "useful". She and Pete corrupt Riku with [[Bug Blox]], forcing him to fight Sora in the data Hollow Bastion. After Sora debugs Riku's data from within, Maleficent attempts to trap him by closing the connection to the outside. Sora escapes, however, and he defeats Maleficent in her dragon form. She disappears, vowing to conquer all worlds.
-She reappears in person in the data version of [[Agrabah]]. At the entrance to the Cave of Wonders, she strikes down the [[Data-Sora|data version of Sora]] and destroys his data Keyblade, mistakenly thinking he was the real version. After, she gloats and summons [[Shadows]], but they are destroyed by [[Data-Riku]] and Mickey. She kidnaps the Journal and has Pete infect him with Bug Blox, which would cause the Datascape to crash. As Data-Sora de-bugged Riku, she interfered with the process, nearly trapping him inside Riku's data. Confronting him in person, Maleficent fights him in her Dragon form.
+When the datascape begins to collapse, Jiminy remembers that Maleficent and Pete are still inside and are in danger of being deleted. Data-Sora goes after them, and he finds them in battle against the source of the bugs, [[Sora's Heartless]]. The Heartless's attack casts them into a rift in the data, but they are rescued by Data-Riku, who escorts them from the datascape.
-Later, when the debugging of the journal is complete and the Data World is being deleted, [[Jiminy Cricket]] remembers that Pete and Maleficent never left the Data World. Data-Sora rushes back to the Data Hollow Bastion to save them, and finds them fighting the corrupted version of Sora's Heartless, who is completely immune to their attacks. The Data-Sora attempts to save them, but they are both deleted before he can do anything. However, after the battle, Data-Sora and King Mickey walk outside to find them alive, standing next to Data-Riku, who explains that there was a "rift in the data" where he was able to rescue them. Maleficent points out that this makes them even, referring to when she helped them in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Data-Riku then escorts Pete and Maleficent out of the Data World to make sure they don't deviate from doing so.
+When Data-Sora uses the Hollow Bastion [[World Card]] in the data version of Castle Oblivion, he encounters an illusion of Pete who summons a likewise-illusory Maleficent once he is defeated. She transports them to a room where Data-Sora must traverse a gauntlet of Bug Blox across bottomless gaps. They taunt Sora and disappear after he reaches them on the far side of the room.
-A digital version of both later appear when Data-Sora goes to [[Castle Oblivion]] and attack him before leaving.
+===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===
+{{spoiler}}
+While Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are overseeing Sora and Riku's [[Mark of Mastery exam]] with [[Yen Sid]], Maleficent and Pete invade Disney Castle and take Minnie hostage. Maleficent has her raven deliver a letter and Minnie's crown to Mickey at the Mysterious Tower, and he returns to the castle with Donald and Goofy to stop her. Yen Sid surmises that Maleficent's actions are prompted by the growing darkness throughout the worlds and considers it a sign of [[Master Xehanort]]'s impending return.
-===''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''===
+At the castle, Maleficent reveals to Mickey about her meeting Master Xehanort years before and how he told her of other worlds and of seven hearts pure light that would enable her to rule all worlds. She then states her intentions to conquer the worlds her own way and demands the world data that comprises the datascape. When Mickey doesn't comply, she launches an attack, but it is blocked by [[Lea]]'s chakrams, which emerge from a Corridor of Darkness. Minnie escapes from Pete in the confusion, and Maleficent retreats with him, stating that she will return, now that she know where to find what she wants.
-Not long after being forced out of the digital worlds, Maleficent and [[Pete]] invade [[Disney Castle]] while [[Mickey]], [[Donald]], and [[Goofy]] are overseeing [[Sora]] and [[Riku]]'s [[Mark of Mastery exam]] with [[Yen Sid]]. Yen Sid surmises that due to the increasing darkness throughout the worlds as a result of [[Master Xehanort]]'s impending return and growing power, Maleficent gains enough strength to withstand the energies of the [[Cornerstone of Light]]. Once inside the castle, Maleficent abducts [[Queen Minnie]] and gives her raven, [[Diablo]], Minnie's crown and a letter to be delivered to Mickey to lure him back to the castle. Mickey soon receives the items and immediately returns to the castle with Donald and Goofy, where Maleficent reveals to Mickey about her meeting with Master Xehanort years ago and how she learned of seven purest lights that would enable her to rule all worlds.
-With Pete holding Minnie hostage, Maleficent demands that Mickey hand over the digital worlds, still set on using them to further her plans. When Mickey refuses to do so, she attempts to attack him, but [[Lea]] uses his Eternal Flame chakrams to simultaneously block her attack and strike Pete, giving Minnie the opportunity to break free. Mickey draws his Keyblade on the pair and demands they leave, or he will be forced to defend his castle and friends. Maleficent realizes that they are both outnumbered and overpowered and flees through a Corridor of Darkness, along with an oddly reluctant Pete. It would be later revealed that Master Xehanort's meeting with Maleficent was to aid him as a pawn in part of his master plan to create the χ-blade.
+Later, when Master Xehanort is revived as part of the [[true Organization XIII]], he reveals that he manipulated her to get her to gather the seven hearts of pure light while he set about gathering thirteen of darkness, as part of his plan to create the [[χ-blade]].
+{{spoilerend}}
 ==Other appearances==
 ===''[[Kingdom Hearts V CAST]]''===
 Maleficent appears in the non-canonical ''Kingdom Hearts V CAST''. She is yet again a villain and serves as the main antagonist, her lair being the game's final level and featuring the toughest Heartless in the game.
+==Appearance==
+Fair and green-skinned, Maleficent's shining, yellow eyes are heavily shadowed with violet make-up, and her lips are painted red. Her head is topped with a black-horned headdress. Maleficent wears a long, tattered black robe with a purple trim and maroon edges which flare out. She carries a staff with a glowing green orb at the tip through which she casts her spells. In ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', Maleficent wears a golden ring with a circular black stone in it. This was in her original design in ''Sleeping Beauty'', but was absent in ''Kingdom Hearts''. In ''Dream Drop Distance'' it appears once again.
 ==Personality==
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 However her superiority complex is not entirely unfounded as she is easily one of the most powerful characters in the series, her magic rivaled only by Master Xehanort's. Thus, her views of the Organization as insignificant could be, to her, quite true. Ironically, the Organization seems to view her the same way that she views them; as a relatively insignificant threat, shown when [[Saïx]] calmly summons some Nobodies to destroy Maleficent's Heartless and smugly calls her a fool. In contrast to Pete, she possesses extreme and completely legitimate confidence, while her minion is a coward and doubts of their chances of winning.
-==Appearance==
-Fair and green-skinned, Maleficent's shining, yellow eyes are heavily shadowed with violet make-up, and her lips are painted red. Her head is topped with a black-horned headdress. Maleficent wears a long, tattered black robe with a purple trim and maroon edges which flare out. She carries a staff with a glowing green orb at the tip through which she casts her spells. In ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', Maleficent wears a golden ring with a circular black stone in it. This was in her original design in ''Sleeping Beauty'', but was absent in ''Kingdom Hearts''. In ''Dream Drop Distance'' it appears once again.
 ==Origin==