1. When this attempt fails, Snow White is rescued and the Evil Queen is executed for her crimes.
60 Facts About Evil Queen
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In some revisions the Evil Queen has been reworked or portrayed more sympathetically, serving as the protagonist, antihero, or tragic hero.
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The Evil Queen is described as a "proud and arrogant" woman with exceptional beauty who marries the King following the death of his first wife, Snow White's mother.
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The Evil Queen tells him to bring back the child's lungs and liver as proof that the princess is dead.
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Equivalents to the Evil Queen can be found in Snow White-like tales from around the world.
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Evil Queen is then awoken by her cruel and jealous aunt who treats her like a slave.
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Furthermore, the Evil Queen's tricks vary from place to place.
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Already the first English translation of the Grimm's tale, written by Edgar Taylor in 1823, had the Evil Queen choke on her own envy upon the sight of Snow White alive.
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The Evil Queen is portrayed in a variety of ways in subsequent adaptations of the original fairy tale.
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Evil Queen can "be presented either as a horrible witch or as a beautiful and jealous rival", thus enhancing one of the themes of the story.
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The Disney version of the Evil Queen character uses her magic to transform herself into an old woman rather than taking a disguise like in the Grimms' story; with this appearance, she is commonly referred to as the Wicked Witch or alternatively as the Old Hag, or Witch.
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The film's version of the Evil Queen was created by Walt Disney and Joe Grant, originally animated by Art Babbit, overseen by David Hand, and voiced by Lucille La Verne.
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Evil Queen has since been voiced by Eleanor Audley, Louise Chamis, and Susanne Blakeslee.
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Evil Queen was portrayed live by Anne Francine, Jane Curtin, and Olivia Wilde, among others.
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Evil Queen's surviving and aged version was portrayed by Kathy Najimy in Descendants.
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Evil Queen influenced a number of non-Disney "Snow White" adaptations and other works, and even Walt Disney's own next villainess, Maleficent.
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The both of them, along with Cruella De Vil, were later self-parodied by The Walt Disney Company through the character of Evil Queen Narissa played by Susan Sarandon in Enchanted.
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The Evil Queen, played by Marianne Christina Schilling, arrives at Snow White's wedding where the Prince offers her a half of a red apple, which she assumes is poisoned, an flees terrified, chased out of the country by the Prince.
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Evil Queen's character is similar to the fairy tale the princess is protected by the Three Stooges.
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The Evil Queen looks similar to the Evil Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but she has a green face like Maleficent from Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
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Evil Queen dies when the Little Red Riding Hood tricks her to fall into a furnace-like shrine of the Devil at her castle.
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Evil Queen successfully seduces Lilly's suitor Dr Gutenberg and begins to plot the death of her stepdaughter and later the king.
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Evil Queen then gives Lilli a poisoned apple, placing her in a coma.
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror has been noted as innovative in that the Evil Queen's jealousy is first provoked by Snow White's own jealousy towards her.
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Evil Queen manages to rescue the princesses and defeat the Queen, turning her to stone.
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Evil Queen becomes jealous when her hall of mirrors reveal that her stepdaughter Snow White is the fairest in the land and in this adaptation she is driven more by insecurities than vanity.
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Evil Queen is destroyed after Jake Grimm shatters the mirror in the tower, making her werewolf minion transform into the woodsman and destroy the rest of the mirror by jumping out of the tower's window with it.
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The Evil Queen's obsession with power and beauty stems from childhood trauma when her mother tells her that beauty is a weapon.
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Evil Queen is ultimately killed when she is stabbed by Snow White, aided by Eric the Huntsman, rapidly aging as she dies.
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Evil Queen is a cold and narcissistic woman who married the king and bewitched him into a savage beast using a magic necklace.
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The Evil Queen spends her time organizing lavish parties in the palace and buying expensive dresses while neglecting the kingdom which has caused the people to struggle and live in poverty due to high taxes imposed on them by her.
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Evil Queen uses a magic mirror to talk to a much younger reflection of herself who often warns her not to use her magic for selfish short-sighted purposes.
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Once Snow defeats the beast, the Evil Queen begins to rapidly age as her reflection states that she must pay the price for her use of magic.
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Theron reprised her role in the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War, in which the Evil Queen was revealed to have hidden part of herself in the Mirror.
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Evil Queen is ultimately punished with a spell that drives her to insanity by preventing her from ever seeing her reflection again.
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The Evil Queen is forced to live with Snow White, while trying to return to their own world.
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The main villain of the 2000 miniseries The 10th Kingdom is Christine White, more commonly referred to as the Evil Queen and portrayed by Dianne Wiest.
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Two hundred years after the events of the original Snow White fairy tale, the original Evil Queen, who had been left for death, uses her mirrors to spy on Earth, where she finds Christine Lewis, a troubled former socialite whose husband Tony lost their fortune through bad investments and whose daughter Virginia was unplanned.
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Evil Queen meets her long-lost half-sister, Zelena the Wicked Witch, and falls in love with Robin Hood.
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An early yet notable animated adaptation is Snow White, a Betty Boop series cartoon short in which the Evil Queen is a vain and conniving witch who resembles Olive Oyl.
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The Wicked Evil Queen is voiced by Melendy Britt in the 1980 Filmation animated television film A Snow White Christmas, a loose sequel set years after the events of the fairy tale in which the long defeated Evil Queen is accidentally revived after having been enclosed in ice for many years.
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Evil Queen appears in the Shrek the Third video game where Shrek and Pus have to fight their way through her castle in a game-exclusive scenario.
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The Evil Queen's character has been given various names and characterisations by modern authors.
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In Laurence Anholt's children's book Snow White and the Seven Aliens, the jealous Mean Evil Queen is a former famous pop star who was the lead singer of The Wonderful Wicked Witches.
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In Jane Yolen's Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All, the Evil Queen is a dark magic-using stepmother simply called Stepmama.
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In Gail Carson Levine's novel Fairest, Queen Ivi is an insecure 19-year-old new queen assisted by Skulni, the mysterious, evil creature living in Ivi's magic mirror.
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In Jim C Hines's Princesses series chronicling the adventures of Snow White, Princess Danielle Whiteshore, and former Princess Talia Malak-el-Dahshat, Snow White's mother, Queen Rose Gertrude Curtana of Alessandria, was a powerful and cruel witch who trained her daughter in magic to later attempt transferring her soul into her daughter's body, but was thwarted when Snow White proved to be more capable than she had revealed.
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Evil Queen's fate is unclear and mysterious, but her ghost does shows up to heal a poisoned character.
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Evil Queen is soon revealed as the Wicked Queen and the true antagonist of the series.
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The antagonist of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, Evil Queen Levana, is the ruler of the moon, aunt of the protagonist Cinder, and stepmother of Princess Winter.
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Evil Queen captures the protagonists Conner and Alex, and reveals to them her tragic story.
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Evil Queen had her heart cut off and turning it to stone, so she could only feel emotion when she was holding it.
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The Evil Queen fails in her plot to rid of Snow White after first having tried to befriend her.
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The Evil Queen then declares that the dwarfs are trespassers, throwing them out of her forest, and she and Snow White later open a spa for women on the same spot.
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Centuries later, she was freed accidentally by Snow White's descendants and has since faced many Justice League superheroes like Superman and Wonder Woman, who the Evil Queen thought was Snow White due to her great beauty.
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Evil Queen is initially married to Kurt, the king of Kurtlandia and Snow White's father.
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Kazuki Nakashima's manga series Lost Seven features Evil Queen Rose, known as The Witch of the Mirror, as a former court magician who usurped the throne and killed all members of the royal family except for Snow White, who managed to escape.
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Evil Queen seems to plan to open a portal to the demon realm through a magic mirror, here called Sefirot Glass and crafted by Snow White's own family.
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Evil Queen Rose is killed by seven warriors trying to restore the Snow Evil Queen to the throne, but as the castle crumbles she manages to rescue her own young child, Red Rose, who ten years later becomes the teenage heroine of the series.
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The Evil Queen herself is locked up in Mirror Prison and often insults the things Raven talks about, including Raven's father, the Good King.