Madam Mim (voiced by the late Martha Wentworth) is an antagonist in the the 1963 animated film "The Sword In The Stone".
Madam Mim is a witch who is also the rival of Merlin. She makes her first and only appearance in the movie. Mim is arrogant and believes herself to be the most powerful. She despises Merlin because of his benevolence with his skills and anything that is associated with Good.
Events[]
When Arthur (aka Wart) as a transformed bird falls down through her chimney after dodging a predatory lung from a hawk, he lands in a pile of soot in the fireplace, making his presence known to Mim from coughing. After finding out he is being trained by Merlin, Mim first attempts to convince Arthur that she is superior to Merlin by showing off her own magical abilities to him, but Arthur remains unconvinced, citing Merlin's benevolence when using magic. This infuriates Mim, being that she sees all good things as bad ("Yes, and in my book, that's bad!"), so she decides to destroy him instead by transforming herself into a cat. Merlin arrives in the nick of time. But instead of handing Wart over to Merlin, she challenges him to a wizard's duel, which two magical beings change themselves into different things in an attempt to destroy one another. She invents the rules which is only change into animals, no fictitious things, and no disappearing, but she breaks every single one of them. However, Merlin outwits her by using his knowledge of microbiology while turning himself into a disease which he infects Mim with, making her too ill to continue and forcing her to forfeit along with being laid up in bed back home in order to recover.
Trivia[]
- Madam Mim is among the second of four Classic Walt Disney Villainesses such as evil Queen Grimhilde of "Snow White and the seven Dwarfs" (1937) and the evil fairy Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) of "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) and Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians) (1961 movie).
- In a Walt Disney Comic Digest story "Mim meets her Match," Madam Mim decides to seek new places to practice her witchcraft {her monsters don't scare anyone!]; she soon meets Br'er Rabbit; he "introduces" her to a real dope (his old antagonist Br'er Bear). Br'er Bear thinks that Br'er Rabbit will fall for the old "Tar Baby" trick; Mim causes the Tar Baby to grow 9 feet tall and scares Br'er Bear into running away; pleased with her success, she accidentally gets herself stuck in the Tar Baby; Br'er Rabbit promises to help Mim out, but only after he sells the tar at a cheap price!
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