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Yes, you gotta see it while it's still out! It was phenomenal: easily the best movie to have "Planet of the Apes" in the title.

I lean more towards no, honestly. I think Maleficent as an example is a pure YMMV thing that shouldn't be on the main page. The YMMV page of the film has this: "Complete Monster: Maleficent could be viewed as one, since she is the mistress of all evil!" and her possible status as a CM is also mentioned in her entry on the Magnificent Bastard film page. And really, that's all that's needed for this wiki.

The main reason I can't include her is that her most truly heinous on-screen action is her very first one: cursing Aurora as a baby to die by her sixteenth birthday. All her subsequent on-screen actions don't really go beyond standard villainy. She blasts her mooks for their incompetence, sends her raven to gather information, lures Aurora to her doom and then mocks the fairies, abducts Philip and locks him in the dungeon while taunting him, and then does everything in her power to try to kill Philip before she herself is killed. That's pretty much it: all Kick the Dog and things that villains do. So I think Maleficent is one of those cases where the character would be clearly a CM if we saw more of them on-screen and what earned them their in-universe reputation, but what we actually see is very limited.