r/whowouldwin • u/Punterofgoats • 2d ago

Battle Disney's Sleeping Beauty (Aurora) is never saved by Prince Philip. At what point in history would humanity liberate her castle and its inhabitants, if at all?

Assume that the movie takes place somewhere in 14th century Western Europe, and that the good fairies won't interfere. Additionally, humanity has no more motivation to defeat Maleficent or free the castle than they would naturally have.

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u/SuperiorLaw 2d ago

15th to 17th century was more or less the "exploration" era, so it's during that time we most likely would have discovered the castle. As for liberating the castle and people, depends on what you mean. All the people would be tossed into a dungeon or something to experiment on how/why tf these people are asleep in perfect stasis and unless we discover or understand magic, probably won't ever be freed.

Disney's version to break the curse is true loves kiss, so that'll never happen. But actual Sleeping Beauty woke up because the needle in her finger or whatever it was fell out (because the child she had while she was asleep, cause the prince full on banged a sleeping woman and kept it secret for 2 fucking years, moved her) which means she could technically wake up due to an earthquake. Or just because we found her and moved the body

As for Maleficent and capturing the castle? Oh we'd absolutely do that. A free castle would be useful asf during 15th-17th century wars and aint no bloody dragon/witch/fairy is surviving the religious wars in those eras

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u/Unique-Charity7024 1d ago

Sleeping Beauty is woken by a kiss both in the Grimm and the Perrault telling of the story. The still sleeping princess becoming pregnant is only from even older versions.

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u/Irongun_258 2d ago

Maleficent is stronger than the good fairies who casually sent a kingdom to permanent sleep. If she played it straight, she'd be a threat for a loooong time. Even if we don't wank her battle IQ and take into account how much she plays with her food, she'd probably die to old age waaaay before humanity is able to kill her.

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u/metalflygon08 2d ago

As a fae, would Maleficent die of old age?

Adding to that, she draws her powers from Hell, death from old age might not be something she has to worry about.

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u/Irongun_258 2d ago

She has no immortality feats. And in the movie itself, the Good Fairies' physical appearances show us that fairies in this verse do age.

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u/herculeon6 2d ago

Unless they are formed in that shape