Talk:Maleficent/@comment-9614551-20140924225458/@comment-1672596-20141012030715

No kidding. Like I said earlier, making Maleficent into a Darth Vader-esque character was a terrible mistake, especially when unlike Vader, who actually did have a chance at redemption, got said redemption, and actually started out good, Maleficent is closer to the likes of Palpatine, or the Joker, or Albert Wesker (ie, completely irredeemable villains who enjoy being evil, possibly even being born that way). I'm actually surprised the movie posters didn't blatantly rip off Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace's teaser poster of young Anakin Skywalker's shadow forming into Darth Vader's sihlouette. Heck, Maleficent wasn't even meant to be a Vader-esque character or a Snape-esque character with shades of gray (oh, and BTW, even Vader was still treated as being evil in the films, even if morally complex).

I could have forgiven the route they chose if Maleficent actually became the bad guy nearing the end, and made clear she was permanently lost to darkness. Sort of like how X-Men: First-Class ended with Magneto becoming the villain.