Melefescent is a thinly-veiled allusion to Maleficent, an evil, demonic faerie dubbed the Mistress of All Evil, who appears in the 1959 Disneyanimated adaptation of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. It is unclear if Melefescent is a parallel, N-Space counterpart to the "prime" Maleficent, or if the suggestion is that the original Maleficent, at some point after her various appearances in Disney media, was one of the powerful beings from other universes who made their way into N-Space and were dubbed Great Old Ones.