Talk:Diablo/@comment-4998154-20180310194521/@comment-1672596-20200202113731

"It depends on the series whether turning them to stone kills them (like Lord of the Rings vs. Narnia, though usually getting turned to gold means death), and it seems to be the general consensus that it was fatal to Diablo, as otherwise Maleficent would have restored him. "

Considering Maleficent's Revenge had him being reanimated due to the fairies' magic wearing off due to an eclipse, he clearly wasn't dead by any stretch. And besides, Maleficent's "mistress of all evil" status and clearly not caring about love or attachments to anyone other than herself, she most likely just decided to abandon him like a used car even if she did have shock (not impossible for a villain to have outrage over a minion being killed despite being incapable of love. Voldemort, for example, expressed outrage towards Bellatrix Lestrange being killed, and that's despite his explicitly being incapable of loving anyone save for MAYBE himself). She was already stated to be a LOT stronger than at least Merriweather (the one actually responsible for Diablo's petrification), and presumably the other fairies, meaning she can easily undo the petrification curse. Doesn't help either that Maleficent's Revenge very clearly makes it obvious that she's more than capable of undoing that petrification curse when she undoes it to an entire kingdom after deciding to turn Aurora into a statue (as killing her outright was impossible since the three good fairies managed to imbue her with lots of protective charms) at the latter's request to save her kingdom.