Maleficent Body Paint Cosplay Features Some Of Disney’s Biggest Villains – Armessa Movie News

Some of Disney’s most iconic villains are featured in stunning Maleficent body paint cosplay. First appearing in the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty, the conniving dark fairy was reinvented in the 2014 solo film bearing her name as a misunderstood protagonist. Maleficent proved popular with critics and audiences, spawning a sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in 2019.

Paula Mateo recently took to Instagram to share her Maleficent body paint cosplay, which features some of Disney’s biggest villains.

Paula dons a tall headdress resembling Maleficent’s recognizable horns while sporting dark eyeshadow and pale green makeup to resemble the original animated character. Her painted torso hosts portraits of The Little Mermaid‘s sea witch Ursula, 101 Dalmatians‘ vile fashion designer Cruella de Vil, both forms of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‘ Evil Queen, and the sadistic Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.

Disney Has Created A Great Gallery Of Villains

Since Disney released the first feature-length animated film with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, their timeless cartoons have depicted some of the greatest villains in cinematic history. Other than the instantly recognizable antagonists depicted in Mateo’s remarkable body paint, Disney has given audiences Aladdin‘s Jafar, The Lion King‘s Scar, and Peter Pan‘s Captain Hook. Even some of Disney’s smaller villains have made a notable impact on popular culture, including Beauty and the Beast‘s Gaston, Mulan‘s Shan Yu, and The Jungle Book‘s Shere Khan.

Much of Disney’s success with villains can be attributed to how most of their films are inspired by notable works of literature and folk tales. For example, Maleficent was originally an evil fairy character featured in the 16th century French tale The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. Hans Christian Andersen’s character the Sea Witch in his 1837 fairy tale The Little Mermaid led to Ursula, and Shere Khan was taken directly from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Even The Lion King, first touted as an original story from the animation studio, was partly inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with Scar taking the role of King Claudius.

However, as Walt Disney Animation Studios entered the 21st century, their antagonists evolved with modern audiences. Instead of outright evil characters solely focused on stopping the heroes, the villains of the studio’s stories have become more nuanced with flaws deeply tied to the films’ rich themes. With Maleficent expected to return for a third film, Disney will complete the iconic villain’s reinvention.

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