Talk:Maleficent/@comment-5644628-20140218005542/@comment-929837-20140308074152

Maleficent.

"An interesting twist on conventional storytelling is to make  The Hero  an antagonist. Sometimes (but not always), this villainous main character will even get the  Sympathetic P.O.V.  and we will be show what caused the villain to become a villain in the first place . It is not necessary for a villain to be sympathetic for them to be this trope. They simply need to be a villain whose morally reprehensible actions (however  well-intentioned ) are in no way glossed over  or  justified within the context of the story. We are seeing the story from the  Big Bad 's point of view. However, the villain is still a villain, and good will triumph over evil at the end, with the villain either going down in flames or redeeming him/herself by refusing to be a villain anymore. It all depends on wether the villain willingly chooses to be redeemed at the end or not."

Maleficent is still the villain, even in her own film.