Plot Corner: The Evil Queens are the Princesses that were never saved - "Maleficent"

In a land far far away, there are two kingdoms. One was ruled by a ruthless and greedy king named King Henry, while the other - known as the Moors- was home to different magical creatures like faeries. Moors had no rulers but there was a guardian who is the most powerful among them all named Maleficent. As a young girl, she fell in love with a human peasant boy named Stefan who tried to steal a jewel from the Moors. At her 16th birthday, Stefan gave her "true love's kiss" only to break her heart later on as the two parted their ways. 

After Maleficent's battle with the current King as he tried to invade the Moors, the king announced whoever can kill Maleficent will be his successor. As soon as Stefan heard the announcement,  he journeys to the Moors to look for Maleficent. Filled with ambition and greed, Stefan pretended to warn Maleficent about the King's plot. He drugged Maleficent that put her into sleep. He attempted to kill Maleficent but he just can't so he cut off her wings with iron (iron burns faeries) and presented it to the king as a proof that he killed Maleficent. He was then announced as the new King.

Without her wings, Maleficent saved a raven named Diaval and becomes her new "wings" and informant. 

Diaval informs that Stefan is the new King and Stefan will be hosting a christening for her daughter, Aurora. Filled with agony and thirst for revenge, Maleficent arrives uninvited and curses the new born princess: on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, which will cause her to fall into a death like sleep. Stefan begged Maleficent to spare his daughter, so Maleficent offers a caveat: the curse can be broken by a true love's kiss. Soon as Maleficent cursed the child, she left everyone in the room terrified. Stefan sends Aurora to live with the three good-hearted but dim-witted pixies (Knotgrass, Flittle and Thistlewit) until the day after her 16th birthday.

Stefan on the other hand, ordered his men to burn and destroy all spinning wheels in the kingdom and hide them on the castle's deepest dungeon. He also ordered his men to capture and kill Maleficent but Maleficent surrounded the Moors with wall of thorns.

Despite of being Stefan's daughter, Maleficent begins to care and develop maternal feeling for Aurora. Maleficent soon watches Aurora from afar when the careless pixies fall short in watching over her. When Aurora turned 15, she meets Maleficent and calls her her "fairy godmother". Maleficent soon realizes the feelings developed as she watch Aurora, so, she tried to revoke the curse but she cannot as she herself declared that "no power on Earth can change it".  Aurora, then, meets a boy named Philip. They both fell in love at first sight. 

On Aurora's 16th birthday, everything was revealed to Aurora. About Maleficent, the curse, the pixies - Everything. So she runs away and went to her father. Maleficent, on the other hand, hoping to avoid the curse but it was to late. So, she abducted Prince Philip and infiltrates the castle to have him kiss Aurora and break the curse.

As Maleficent struggles, Aurora, on the other hand, was locked in her room to prevent the curse but it was futile. She was drawn by the curse to the dungeon, where a spinning wheel assembles. Aurora falls asleep. 

When Maleficent reaches Aurora's room, she quickly made Philip kiss Aurora but it had no effect. Maleficent then came closer to Aurora and apologizes and swears no harm will come to her, then she kisses her forehead. That kiss broke the curse and Aurora awakes. Maleficent's motherly concern for Aurora constitutes "true love". Aurora forgave her and they attempted to escape from the castle but Maleficent was caught in an iron net. She was attacked by Stefan and his men.Maleficent transforms Diaval into a dragon and lifts off the net. Stefan almost killed Maleficent but her wings, freed by Aurora on its chamber, fly backs at her and reattached. Now that her wings are back, she overpowers Stefan and carries him in a tower where they fight to death. But Maleficent couldn't kill him, instead she declared their feud over. Still, Stefan attempted to kill Maleficent once more but he fell off the tower  and died.

Soon after, Maleficent crowned Aurora as the queen of the human and faerie realms that will unify the two worlds with Philip at her side. And that ends the story of Maleficent.

"I had wings once, and they were strong. They could carry me above the clouds and into the headwinds, and they never faltered. Not even once. But they were stolen from me."

-- Maleficent