Talk:Maleficent/@comment-35919551-20181024074708/@comment-1672596-20190830161217

"At least Aurora, while cursed as a baby, was older when she pricked her finger."

To be fair, Maleficent's reasons for having Aurora cursed to die/go to sleep at age 16 was most likely for the same reasons why Bane didn't simply kill Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, instead leaving him in the pit for months as a TV screen is shown of Gotham's decay before the inevitable detonation of the nuke via its half-life running out. In other words, she thought that would have maximized the fear and suffering far more than just killing Aurora outright.

Besides, it's heavily implied that she tried to hunt down Aurora during the intervening sixteen years and only failed to find her due to her minions' incompetence, so it's a safe guarantee that if Maleficent found Aurora during that time, she probably would have made sure Aurora pricked her finger long before the sun setting on her sixteenth birthday just like Shan Yu did to that little girl. Not to mention Maleficent strikes me as being the type to slaughter people for fun as well.