History Film / MaleficentMistressOfEvil

* BloodlessCarnage: The deaths of many, many fairies are softened by the fact that the weapons cause them to dissolve in a puff of ashes or turn into the plant they resemble (for example, a dandelion fairy merely becomes a dandelion).

** The dust [[spoiler: Maleficent]] turns into after her HeroicSacrifice is dark grey. As [[spoiler: she begins to come back from the dead]], it turns gold.

* BigDamnHeroes: During the climax, it's Big Damn Maleficent.

** [[spoiler: When Queen Ingrith's soldiers have the Dark Fey on the ropes, Maleficent comes out of the glowing clouds, wings flaring, unleashing blasts of green magic like a demonic creature out of Hell, and [[OneWomanArmy singlehandedly]] turns the tide.]]
** [[spoiler: Later, she sacrifices her life to protect Aurora... and, as Queen Ingrith is about to imprison Aurora after Maleficent's death, she comes back to life and rescues Aurora again.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: During the climax, [[spoiler: when Queen Ingrith's soldiers have the Dark Fey on the ropes, Maleficent comes out of the glowing clouds, wings flaring, unleashing blasts of green magic like a demonic creature out of Hell, and [[OneWomanArmy singlehandedly]] turns the tide.]]

* KillTheCutie: Just to show how awful the iron dust is, Lickspittle demonstrates its capabilities on a tiny little dandelion fairy.

* OminousPipeOrgan: In the wedding chapel, a rigged organ is what is used to [[spoiler:spread the iron dust on the assembled fairies.]]

** [[spoiler:''Flittle,'']] of all people, [[spoiler:throws herself in to the pipe organ that's firing the iron powder/Tomb Bloom concoction. When the next shot fires and turns her into flowers, they clog up the pipes.]]
** May also apply to [[spoiler:Maleficent, who throws herself between an arrow and Aurora with no indication that she knew her status as a phoenix would save her from the weapon]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Queen Ingrith talks as though fairies are incapable of affection or concern for others, and yet [[spoiler:she throws Aurora off a tower to distract Maleficent to exploit her 'rival's' human affection for the girl]].

** [[spoiler:Gerda]] suffers this when [[spoiler:Knotgrass and Thistlewit fly in her face to stop her from trying to release anymore red iron dust.]]

* ShutUpHannibal: In the end, Ingrith [[spoiler: has been dropped face first on the ground and is standing up to rant there will never be peace between humans and fairies. In the middle of it, Maleficent turns her into a goat.]]

** Queen Ingrith asks if King Stefan died or was killed (he [[DisneyVillainDeath fell off a tower]] while [[SelfDisposingVillain attempting to attack Maleficent from behind]]).

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Gerda]] suffers this when [[spoiler:Knotgrass and Thistlewit fly in her face to stop her from trying to release anymore red iron dust.]]
** Averted with [[spoiler: Ingrith as rather than be killed, she's transformed into a goat (with her own husband indicating he's perfectly okay if she's never changed back.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: From [[spoiler:''Flittle,'']] of all people, who sacrifices [[spoiler:her]] life to stop the fairy genocide.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: At the climax, Aurora falls off the tower and is caught by [[spoiler:phoenix!Maleficent]].
* OffscreenTeleportation: Diaval somehow manages to get to the Moors ahead of Aurora, despite being human and on foot while she is on horseback (of course, given his own experience of flying straight as a raven he may just know a more direct route).

* ParentalMarriageVeto: Aurora tries to share the good news about her engagement with Prince Phillip. Maleficent simply says, "No."
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: The entire dinner scene. The first course is roast bird, which is awkward, as Aurora's surrogate dad is a raven turned into a person. Queen Ingrith "accidentally" lays the table with iron cutlery, forcing Maleficent to eat with her fingers, as iron burns fairies. Despite Phillip and King John trying to TalkAboutTheWeather, the conversation devolves into Maleficent and Ingrith sniping back and forth, cumulating in Maleficent losing her temper once Ingrith implies that Maleficent doesn't really love Aurora.

* ChekhovsGag: Aurora asks Maleficent if she intends to turn Prince Philip into a goat. [[spoiler: In the end, she does this to his mother, Queen Ingrith.]]

->''"I remember the story of an evil witch, at the princess she cursed to sleep forever. The story became legend. But this is no fairy tale."''

* LightIsNotGood: Queen Ingrith is repeatedly seen bathed in sunlight and covered in glittering jewels, and yet she's a genocidal warmonger.

* AllThereInTheManual: The names of a few of the characters are in the cast list but not spoken onscreen. For example, Queen Ingrith's redheaded [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] {{Mook}}/servant is named Gerda, and the general is named Percival.

* DisproportionateDestitution: [[spoiler: As punishment for manipulating her family and Aurora, bringing about war between the humans and fairies and nearly massacring the fairfolk, Queen Ingrith is merely transformed into a goat as part of a BrickJoke.]]

Set five years after the events of the first film, Prince Phillip has proposed to Aurora and takes her to meet his family. But tensions between Maleficent and Phillip's mother, Queen Ingrith (played by Creator/MichellePfeiffer), soon devolve into war.

* AllThereInTheManual: Queen Ingrith's redheaded [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] {{Mook}}/servant is named Gerda according to the cast list, but is never called this onscreen.