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Having lost both of her parents at a very young age, Snow White is a princess living with her wicked and cold-hearted stepmother, the Queen. Fearing that Snow White's beauty will outshine her own, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid and asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all." For years, the mirror always answers that the Queen is, pleasing her.

One day, Snow White meets and falls in love with a prince who overhears her singing. That same day, the Magic Mirror deems Snow White as the fairest. The Queen orders her Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, and bring back her heart in a jeweled box as proof. The Huntsman cannot bring himself to kill Snow White and warns her of the Queen's intentions. At his urging, Snow White flees deep into the forest.

Lost and frightened, Snow White is befriended by woodland animals, who lead her to a hidden woodland cottage. Finding seven small chairs in the cottage's dining room, Snow White assumes the cottage is the untidy home of seven orphaned children. With the animals' help, she proceeds to clean the place and cook a meal. Snow White soon learns that the cottage is the home of seven dwarfs named Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey, who work in a nearby mine. Returning home, they are alarmed to find their cottage clean and suspect that an intruder has invaded their home. Snow White introduces herself, and the dwarfs welcome her after she offers to clean and cook for them. Snow White keeps house for the dwarfs while they mine for jewels during the day, and at night, they all sing, play music, and dance.

Back at the castle, the Magic Mirror reveals that Snow White is still living, and with the dwarfs. Enraged that the Huntsman tricked her, the Queen retreats to her secret chambers, where she creates a magic poisoned apple that will put whoever eats it into a death-like sleep. She learns the curse can be broken by "love's first kiss," but is certain Snow White will be buried alive before this can happen. Using a potion to disguise herself as an old hag, the Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are away. The animals see through the disguise, but are unable to warn Snow White; they rush off to get the dwarfs. The Queen bestows Snow White the cursed apple, stating the apple will grant her a wish if she takes a bite. Snow White takes the apple, wishes for a reunion with the prince and takes a bite of the apple, and falls into a death-like sleep.

The dwarfs return with the animals as the Queen leaves the cottage and give chase, trapping her on a cliff. The Queen tries to roll a boulder onto them, but lightning strikes the cliff before she can do so, causing her to fall and be crushed by the boulder, killing her. In their cottage, the dwarfs find Snow White's body; unwilling to bury her, they instead place her in a glass coffin in the forest. Together with the animals, they keep watch over her.

The following spring, the prince learns of Snow White's eternal sleep and visits the coffin. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, breaking the spell and awakening her. The dwarfs and animals rejoice as the prince takes Snow White to his castle.

A benevolent queen gives birth during a snowstorm. To honor the day, she and her husband name their daughter Snow White. Years later, after the queen dies of a sudden illness, the king hastily remarries before embarking on a military campaign. When he disappears, the new queen usurps the throne, revealing herself as an enchantress whose vanity surpasses her beauty. Under the Evil Queen's rule, subjects are either left destitute or conscripted into the royal guard. Fearing that Snow White's beauty will outshine her own, the Queen confines Snow White to the palace, forces her to work as a scullery maid, and asks a Magic Mirror daily who is "the fairest one of all". The Mirror always responds in her favor.

One day, Snow White sees Jonathan, the leader of a band of bandits, raiding the pantry. When he is sentenced to be tied to the gates, she frees him. That same day, the Magic Mirror deems Snow White as the fairest. The Queen orders the Royal Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, and bring her heart back in a jeweled box as proof. The Huntsman instead warns Snow White of the Queen's intentions. At his urging, Snow White flees deep into the forest.

Lost and frightened, Snow White is befriended by woodland animals, who lead her to a secluded cottage, where she falls asleep. She awakens later that night to find herself confronted by the owners, seven dwarfs named Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey, who work in a diamond mine. They sympathize with her and agree to let her stay. Meanwhile, the Queen, having learned from the Magic Mirror that Snow White is still alive, imprisons the Huntsman before ordering a search.

Snow White and Jonathan meet again in the forest and fend off the guards alongside the bandits. The two realize their feelings for each other before Jonathan departs to find the king, whom Snow White believes may still be alive. Jonathan is captured by the guards and imprisoned by the Queen, who deduces Snow White's whereabouts. Retreating to her secret chambers, she creates a magic poisoned apple that will put whoever eats it into a death-like sleep.

Transforming into a peddler woman, the Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are away. The animals, seeing through the disguise, rush off to get the dwarfs. The Queen manipulates Snow White into taking a bite of the cursed apple, and she falls into a death-like sleep. During this, the Queen then reveals to her stepdaughter that she killed her father, and retreats just as the dwarfs and animals arrive. Having escaped with the Huntsman's help, Jonathan arrives to find her body and mournfully kisses her. Snow White awakens and rallies the dwarfs and Jonathan's bandits to overthrow the Evil Queen.

Snow White confronts her stepmother, who forcefully goads her to take the throne, placing a diamond dagger into her hand. Snow White refuses, reminding the people what the kingdom used to be like under her parents' rule. Moved, the guards turn on the Queen and join the dwarfs, the bandits, the Huntsman, and the civilians. The Queen tries to attack Snow White, but the dwarfs and the bandits defend her. The Magic Mirror tells the Queen that Snow White will always be fairer than her due to her kindness and justness. Snow White arrives to see the Queen angrily destroying the Mirror, which is revealed to be the source of her powers. As a result, she turns into glass herself and disappears into a vortex while the Magic Mirror repairs itself.

With Snow White named the new queen at a grand party, everyone in the kingdom arrives to celebrate. Snow White marries Jonathan and rules the land justly.

In 14th century Europe, King Stefan and Queen Leah welcome their newborn daughter, Aurora, and proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess. At her christening, she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the son of Stefan's friend King Hubert, in order to unite their kingdoms. The three good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, each bestow Aurora magic gifts. After Flora and Fauna give her beauty and song, the evil fairy Maleficent appears before Merryweather can bestow her gift, angry at not being invited. She bestows a curse on Aurora: before the sun sets on Aurora's 16th birthday, Aurora will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Merryweather's magic isn't strong enough to undo the curse, so she uses her gift to alter it so that Aurora will instead fall into a deep sleep until true love's kiss breaks the spell.

Still fearful, Stefan orders all the kingdom's spinning wheels to be burned. Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather devise a plan to hide Aurora in a secluded location and raise her themselves until her 16th birthday, to which Stefan and Leah reluctantly agree. The fairies move into a forest cottage, giving up magic and living as peasants; they also give Aurora the nickname Briar Rose.

On Aurora's 16th birthday, the fairies send her outside so they can prepare a surprise party. In the forest, Aurora sings to her animal friends, drawing the attention of Phillip, now a handsome young man. They fall in love without revealing their names, and Aurora invites Phillip to the cottage that evening. Meanwhile, Flora and Merryweather's argument about the color of Aurora's birthday gown attracts the attention of Maleficent's pet raven, Diablo. Aurora returns and tells her guardians that she has fallen in love; hearing this, they are forced to reveal her true identity, which Diablo overhears, and her betrothment to Phillip, meaning she must never see the boy again. Meanwhile, Phillip tells his father about the girl, unaware she is the princess to whom he is betrothed. King Hubert unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him.

Shortly before sunset, the fairies bring the heartbroken Aurora to the castle for her birthday celebration. While Aurora is left alone, Maleficent appears as a glowing ball of light and hypnotically beckons Aurora to a tower room, where Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle of a magic spinning wheel that Maleficent conjures and falls into a death-like sleep. The fairies, finding what happened, place Aurora's body in the highest tower, and put the entire kingdom to sleep until Aurora is awakened. While doing so, Flora overhears a conversation between Hubert and Stefan, and realizes that Phillip is the boy that Aurora met. The fairies rush to the cottage, only to discover that Phillip has been kidnapped by Maleficent.

At her domain, the Forbidden Mountain, Maleficent reveals Aurora's identity to Phillip. She plans to lock him away until he is an old man on the verge of death before releasing him to meet Aurora, who will not have aged a single day. The fairies rescue Phillip and arm him with the magical Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. Maleficent surrounds Stefan's castle with a forest of thorns, but Phillip breaks through it. Outraged, she transforms into a giant, fire-breathing dragon, overpowering Phillip. The fairies enchant Phillip's sword, which he throws straight into Maleficent's heart, killing her.

Phillip finds Aurora and awakens her with a kiss, awakening the rest of the kingdom. The two descend to the ballroom, to King Hubert's shock and confusion, where Aurora reunites with her parents and happily dances with Phillip as the good fairies look on with joy, with Flora and Merryweather continuing their argument about the color of Aurora's gown.

Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm bordering a human kingdom. As a child, she meets a human peasant boy named Stefan, and they fall in love with each other. However, as they get older, they grow apart, with Stefan's love being overshadowed by his ambition to be king, while Maleficent becomes protector of the Moors.

When King Henry attempts to conquer the Moors, Maleficent mortally wounds him. On his deathbed, he declares that whoever kills her will be king and marry his daughter Leila. Stefan visits Maleficent and drugs her. Unwilling to kill her, Stefan instead uses a bracelet of iron, which is lethal to fairies, to burn off her wings, and presents them as "proof" of her death. While distraught by the loss of her wings, Maleficent saves Diaval, a trapped raven, from a farmer by turning him into a human. Diaval offers his service and tells her of Stefan's coronation. Infuriated over the betrayal, Maleficent grows cruel and bitter, ruling the Moors with an iron fist.

Years later, Diaval informs Maleficent about the christening of Stefan's newborn daughter, Aurora. Maleficent arrives uninvited while three pixies, Knotgrass, Flittle, and Thistlewit, are bestowing magic gifts, and bestows a curse on Aurora: before the sun sets on Aurora's 16th birthday, Aurora will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a death-like sleep. Maleficent mocks Stefan's plea for mercy, but states Aurora's curse can be broken by true love's kiss, which she and Stefan both believe is nonexistent. Stefan orders the pixies to hide and protect Aurora in a forest cottage until the day after her 16th birthday. He also destroys every spinning wheel in the kingdom, hiding their remnants in the castle dungeon; he then sends his army after Maleficent, but she surrounds the Moors with a wall of thorns. Over the years, Stefan begins mass-manufacturing iron weapons nonstop, and grows obsessed with killing Maleficent to the point of insanity, even refusing to see his wife on her deathbed.

Maleficent and Diaval watch Aurora grow from afar, and secretly begin taking over care of her from the incompetent pixies. After several face-to-face encounters with Maleficent, whom she regards as her "fairy godmother", Aurora bonds with her and regularly visits the Moors. Realizing she doesn't have the heart to hurt Aurora, Maleficent privately and unsuccessfully attempts to undo Aurora's curse, forgetting she made "no power on earth" able to do so. Meanwhile, Aurora meets Philip, a prince from the neighboring kingdom, and both are mildly attracted to each other.

Aurora gains Maleficent's permission to live in the Moors before her 16th birthday. The next day, however, the pixies reveal Aurora's lineage and curse when she attempts to inform them. Heartbroken, Aurora confronts Maleficent and rides to her father's castle, where Stefan locks her up, intent on killing Maleficent and angered that the pixies didn't do their job. As the sun sets, the curse's power hypnotically draws Aurora to the dungeon, where Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle of a rebuilt magic spinning wheel and falls into a death-like sleep. Hoping to save her, Maleficent and Diaval abduct Philip and infiltrate the castle. Despite the pixies urging him, Philip's kiss fails. Afterward, Maleficent tearfully kisses Aurora, awakening her with true maternal love.

As Maleficent, Aurora, and Diaval attempt to leave, Stefan and his guards ambush them. Maleficent transforms Diaval into a dragon, but both are subdued. Aurora finds and releases Maleficent's caged wings, which reattach themselves to Maleficent, allowing her to fight back. Maleficent drags Stefan to the top of a tower; unwilling to kill him, she announces the fight is over and leaves, but Stefan tackles her from behind, dragging them both off; she saves herself with her wings, while he loses hold and falls to his death.

With Stefan gone, Maleficent returns the Moors to their former glory and crowns Aurora their new ruler, uniting the two kingdoms. Aurora also starts a relationship with Philip.

Five years since King Stefan's death, Aurora has benevolently reigned as Queen of the Moors, alongside Maleficent as its powerful guardian and protector. Despite her service, the neighbouring kingdom of Ulstead, home to Aurora's boyfriend Prince Philip, still sees Maleficent as a dangerous villain. Diaval, Maleficent's raven and confidant, overhears Aurora accepting Philip's marriage proposal. When he relays this to Maleficent, she advises against the union, though Aurora vows to prove her wrong.

Philip's parents, King John and Queen Ingrith, host an intimate dinner to celebrate the engagement. Maleficent maintains her composure after Ingrith tauntingly mentions Aurora's curse and Stefan's death. She openly claims Maleficent killed two human fairy poachers last seen near the Moors. When Ingrith carelessly dismisses Maleficent's maternal bond with Aurora, Maleficent reacts angrily and appears to seemingly curse John, who suddenly falls into a deep slumber; Maleficent says she did not curse him, though Aurora disbelieves her. Philip urges his mother to try and awaken the King with a kiss; Ingrith resists, and her weak attempt fails because she does not love John. As Maleficent flees the castle, Ingrith's servant, Gerda, shoots Maleficent with an iron bullet.

Wounded, Maleficent falls into the ocean and is rescued by a mysterious winged creature. She awakens in a cavern where fairies like herself have been in hiding. Among them is Conall, their peaceful leader who saved Maleficent, and Borra, a warlike fairy who favors open conflict with humans and killed the poachers near the Moors. Maleficent is among the last creatures known as Dark Fae, powerful fairies forced into hiding and nearly driven extinct by human oppression. She is also the last descendant of the Phoenix, an ancient and powerful Dark Fae ancestor. Because Maleficent's magic is so powerful, Conall and Borra believe she is instrumental in ending the conflict with humans through peace or war.

Meanwhile, Aurora is disillusioned with being an Ulstead noblewoman but is happy that the Moor denizens are invited to the royal wedding. Aurora discovers that Ingrith hates all Moor fairy folk, bitterly resenting their prosperity during one winter when her kingdom had suffered and blaming them for her brother's death; she secretly plots to eradicate all fairies and woodland beings using iron weapons and a lethal crimson powder developed by Lickspittle, a de-winged pixie. Aurora also learns that Ingrith cursed John, using Aurora's cursed spindle, which Ingrith had somehow taken to Ulstead, on his arm. Ingrith finds out and has Aurora locked up. Maleficent senses Ulstead soldiers harvesting Tomb Bloom flowers from fairy graves to manufacture more crimson powder, and rushes back to the Moors, followed by Conall and Borra. Maleficent and Borra are ambushed, and Conall sacrifices himself to protect them. After his funeral, Borra rallies the other Dark Fey to attack Ulstead.

The Moor folk are trapped inside the castle's chapel when they arrive. At Ingrith's command, Gerda unleashes the deadly crimson powder by playing the chapel's organ. The fairy Flittle selflessly sacrifices herself to save everyone as a last resort by clogging the organ, rendering it unplayable, while fairies Knotgrass and Thistlewit cause Gerda to fall to her death. The Dark Fae attack Ulstead, but soldiers slaughter them until Maleficent joins the battle, channeling the Phoenix power. She nearly kills Queen Ingrith, but Aurora appeals to Maleficent's humanity, claiming her as mother. Distracted, Maleficent is struck by the Queen's arrow, dissolving into ashes. Devastated, Aurora mourns, but her tears revive Maleficent as a Phoenix. Terrified, Ingrith throws Aurora from the tower and flees, but Maleficent saves her. Borra and the Dark Fae stop Ingrith's escape.

Philip forges peace between the fairies and humans, causing the Ulstead soldiers to stand down. Maleficent reverts to her fairy form and bestows her blessing upon Aurora and Philip. After receiving it from Lickspittle, Maleficent destroys the spindle, awakening John. As punishment for her crimes, Ingrith is transformed into a goat by Maleficent, until she can embrace peace between the two peoples. After Aurora and Philip are wed, Maleficent returns to the Moors with the other Dark Fae. She promises to return for the christening of Aurora and Philip's future child.