Queen Maleficent Bertha "Mal" is the main protagonist of the Descendants franchise. She is the daughter of Hades, the God of the Underworld, and Maleficent, one of Disney's most feared villains, the wife of King Ben, and the Queen of Auradon.
Background[]
Personality[]
Mal is a sneaky, smart, and a ruthless girl who was raised to be a leader. Though she is compassionate to her friends, she is vengeful and unforgiving to anyone who doesn't actively help her. She is artistic and has a knack for casting spells. As the daughter of Maleficent, she wants to be like her mother: pure evil. Yet whenever she tries to prove herself to her mother, she often disappoints her instead. However she does enjoy coming up with evil plans and is the most feared at her previous school because of her reputation. She is not fond of beautiful surroundings or anything pink and finds them to be horrid, but she does sometimes wonder about how life would be off the island. Her "mean girl" façade is an act because she does not want to be seen as weak in her mother's eyes; being one is the only way she is respected by Maleficent, who never cared about Mal. Ben "saw through Mal's act," and saw her as a good person.
In the second novel, Mal is more open and still cherishes Ben; it makes her happy that Ben loves her, despite Mal being the opposite of Auradon princesses. She retains a fear of her mother escaping imprisonment and causing trouble. She also shows regret for abusing her old friend Mad Maddy. Mal is the only one of her friends not to be tempted by an enchanted item that belonged to their parents, as her heart was filled with love and friendship. She is still the one with the most common sense amongst them, as she knew using the talismans (even for a good cause) would cause items to corrupt them.
Appearances[]
Descendants[]
Descendants 2[]
Descendants 3[]
Songs[]
Solos[]
- "If Only"
- "If Only (reprise)"
- "If Only (reprise 2)" (deleted)
- "Evil"
- "Genie in a Bottle"
- "My Once Upon a Time"
Duets[]
- "Evil Like Me" (with Maleficent)
- "Space Between" (with Evie)
- "I'm Your Girl" (with Evie; offscreen)
- "Better Together" (with Evie)
- "Do What You Gotta Do" (with Hades)
- Stronger (with Uma)
Group Songs[]
- "Rotten to the Core" (with Jay, Evie, and Carlos)
- "Set It Off" (with Jay, Evie, Carlos, Ben, and Audrey)
- "Ways to Be Wicked" (with Jay, Evie, and Carlos)
- "It's Goin' Down" (with Jay, Evie, Ben, Carlos, Uma, Harry, and Gil)
- "Kiss the Girl" (with Jay, Evie, Carlos, Ben, Uma, and Harry)
- "You and Me" (with Jay, Evie, and Carlos, Ben)
- "Good is the New Bad" (with Evie, and Freddie)
- "Rather Be With You" (with Evie, Jane, and Freddie)
- "Good to Be Bad" (with Jay, Evie, Carlos, Dizzy, and Celia)
- "Night Falls" (with Jay, Evie, and Carlos, Uma, Harry, and Gil)
- "One Kiss" (with Evie and Uma)
- "Break This Down" (with Jay, Evie, and Carlos, Uma, Ben, Harry, Gil, Audrey, Celia, Jane, and Doug)
- "Rotten to the Core (D3 Remix)" (with Jay, Evie, and Carlos, Uma, Harry, Audrey, Celia)
Trivia[]
- Mal and Ben are the second Disney Channel couple to get married, after Bailey and Cody who are going to be married at some point in the future.
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See Also[]
- Faybelle Thorn (daughter of the dark fairy Maleficent is based upon)
- Lily Page (daughter of Maleficent from Once Upon a Time)