Maleficent

"Whoever created that monstrosity makes the two of us look positively... moral."

- Maleficent to the Evil Queen

Maleficent is a minor character on Once Upon a Time. She débuts in the second episode of the first season, and is played by Kristin Bauer van Straten. It is unknown who her Storybrooke counterpart is.

Maleficent is a very powerful witch - wielding magic to rival that of the Evil Queen, and indirectly that of Rumpelstiltskin. She is a sinister rival to the Queen, an evil witch, and perhaps the Evil Queen's only friend.

Season One
Maleficent was the main villain of Sleeping Beauty. She made the princess prick a dark spinning wheel, and fall into a deep eternal sleep (death, if it hadn't been for a good fairy at the princess' birthday). She generally causes chaos and destruction for the innocent.

Later, after she was defeated, she retired and kept a unicorn as a friend until the Evil Queen came to her. The Evil Queen traded the Dark Curse to Maleficent a long time ago, in exchange to have the Sleeping Curse so she could put Snow White into a deep sleep and get rid of her forever. However, the Sleeping Curse was broken when Prince Charming broke the curse with true love's kiss.

Frustrated, the Evil Queen goes to Maleficent in The Thing You Love the Most to get the Dark Curse back. Maleficent says they made a deal and the curse belongs to hers now. She keeps the curse held in the orb of her staff, and when she refuses to willingly hand over the curse, the Evil Queen challenges her. They have a magic spar, and just as the Evil Queen readies a fireball to throw at the pet unicorn, Maleficent jumps in front to intervene and is tied up with the metal of the chandelier. She believes she will be killed, but the Evil Queen states she would never do that since Maleficent is her only friend. Now the Evil Queen is free to get the Dark Curse from the orb of the staff. While Maleficent warns that there is magic even they should not touch, and the Dark Curse will leave a void in her, the Evil Queen takes it all in stride.

Trivia

 * She is the second witch to appear in the series.
 * She is rumored to be appearing in an upcoming episode.
 * In the Disney adapation of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent had a pet raven. In this series, she has a unicorn instead.
 * Maleficent's outfit and hairystyle from The Thing You Love the Most was featured in the Facebook game Sorority Life during the Fairytale Adventure travel abroad series.

Appearances
Maléfique Malefiz Maléfica Maleficent