Talk:Maleficent (film)/@comment-25041095-20130911011335/@comment-1672596-20131116040637

Even for origin stories, this is just badly done. It's one thing to make Maleficent into a villain protagonist, its quite another to turn her into a Darth Vader expy in terms of how she became evil (Honestly, I could draw a poster of the movie based on the Phantom Menace teaser poster (you know, the one showing Anakin Skywalker with his shadow forming Darth Vader's sihlouette), the similarities are blatant), especially considering that she's closer to Palpatine than she is to Vader if we use Star Wars comparisons. There are plenty of start of darkness stories for very evil people that actually show them as being fairly evil from the start. Take Palpatine from Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, for example: It depicted him as being a very bad man even before Plagueis inducted him into the Sith. Also Umbrella Chronicles from Resident Evil, which is technically Albert Wesker's story, and quite clearly shows him to be a very evil person. Had I been making a Maleficent movie, I'd use those sources rather than copying Vader's start of darkness, as unlike Vader, she is supposed to be evil incarnate.