Dawn Bellwether

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Fear always works! And I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way.

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“	Assistant Mayor Bellwether is a sweet sheep with a little voice and a lot of wool, who constantly finds herself under foot of the larger-than-life Mayor Lionheart.	„
	~ Official Description

Background

Dawn Bellwether is the main antagonist of Disney's 2016 animated feature film Zootopia. A scorned sheep, her ultimate goal is to supplement the position held by Mayor Lionheart and create a new order where prey animals dominate the predators.

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Bellwether is first seen during Judy's induction into the Zootopia Police Department, where she stands alongside Mayor Lionheart and is tasked with badging Hopps. Bellwether shows great pride in Zootopia's first rabbit officer, proclaiming that it is a momentous day for "little guys", referring to prey. Before her words can run further, Lionheart rudely removes Bellwether from Judy and subsequently blocks her from the flashing cameras of the press. Before Judy's first day as an officer, Emmitt Otterton goes missing for days, forcing his distraught wife to seek help at the ZPD. Bellwether is present when Judy volunteers to find Emmitt, and sends Lionheart a knowing text to congratulate him on the growing success of the Mammal Inclusion Initiative, referring to Judy's newfound role as a detective to a major case. Bellwether then speaks to Judy, telling her that she always has an ally at City Hall, should she need any important favors. Later at City Hall, Bellwether is seen struggling for Lionheart's attention, needing him to discuss various matters regarding the city. Lionheart, seeming more aggressive than usual, coldly orders Bellwether to take care of the matters herself, and to cancel his afternoon, as he needs to run out for confidential matters. Feeling defeated and exhausted, Bellwether sadly gathers the paperwork to begin her assignments, before receiving a surprise visit from Judy and her accomplice, Nick Wilde. Judy explains that she needs access to the city's traffic cameras, which Bellwether obliges to in her "office", which is the boiler room. While doing so, Bellwether laments to Judy and Nick, expressing her excitement in doing something of importance, to which Judy replies with confusion, as she believes the title of "assistant mayor" to be rather significant. Bellwether merely sees it as being a "glorified secretary", and voices her suspicion that Lionheart may have selected her simply for the sake of winning the sheep vote. Just then, Lionheart pages Bellwether, aggressively scolding her for failing to cancel his afternoon. Bellwether hurriedly rushes to finish this assignment, leaving Judy and Nick with her computer. Using the traffic cameras, Judy and Nick can find asylum with over a dozen predator mammals imprisoned, and all of which have mysteriously gone savage. The imprisonment was at the hands of Mayor Lionheart, who was desperately searching for the cause behind the mysterious outbreak, but to no avail; keeping it confidential to prevent a citywide panic, and by extension, the loss of his position. Judy alerts Chief Bogo, and Lionheart is arrested and removed from office. Bellwether, as a result, becomes the new official mayor of Zootopia. Bellwether as the mayor of Zootopia. Judy, meanwhile, is hailed a hero, and a press conference on the savage predators is held. Bellwether is present, and to her advantage, Judy accidentally calls out predators as naturally savage, with the potential to revert to their original, bloodthirsty natures, disturbing the press and causing a citywide panic. Following these events, Bellwether summons Judy to her office and, alongside Chief Bogo, offers her to be the public face of the Zootopia Police Department, as prey mammals look to her as a hero for uncovering the "truth" about predators. Judy declines, feeling she's failed the city, having torn it apart instead of making it a better place, and officially resigns from her position as a police officer, much to Bellwether's shock and confusion. Sometime later, Judy discovers that toxic flowers are known as "night howlers" are the cause of the strange behavior infecting predators—not instinct—and rushes back to the city to reveal the truth. After she and Nick interrogate Duke Weaselton, they discover that a ram named Doug has been going around purchasing night howlers, and using them to create a serum that turns civilized mammals savage. After she calls Doug to instruct him to dart a leopard in Sahara Square with the serum, Judy and Nick infiltrate Doug's laboratory, steal his equipment as evidence to show to the ZPD, and a chase ensues. Additional ram minions alert Bellwether about the situation, prompting her to take matters into her own hands. Nick successfully retrieves the evidence (a case containing a gun used to shoot predators with paintball-like pellets containing the night howler serum) to show Bogo, but before he and Judy can make it to him by cutting through the natural history museum, Bellwether arrives. She asks for the evidence, presenting herself as being proud of Judy's success, but when Judy questions how Bellwether knew of their whereabouts, the ploy is broken, and Bellwether reveals her true colors by ordering her rams to capture the pair. Judy is injured while trying to escape, and she and Nick are eventually thrown into a pit exhibit, trapped. Though Bellwether attempts to have Judy join her side, she instead resorts to turning Nick savage so that he will kill Judy, and the entire situation will look like another savage outbreak demonizing predators. Bellwether shoots Nick with the night howler dart gun and "alerts" the ZPD that a savage fox is in the museum and attacking Judy. While Nick becomes feral and stalks Judy, Judy asks why Bellwether is doing this, to which Bellwether confesses her plot to dart all predators in Zootopia to ostracize them from her envisioned prey-dominated society. Just as Nick appears to have bitten Judy, the two reveal that they were merely and deliberately acting out the scene to deceive Bellwether and make her spill the beans. They also reveal that the serum pellets of Bellwether's gun had been replaced with harmless blueberries, meaning Nick had never turned savage. Angered at this failure, Bellwether, having framed Lionheart, threatens to frame Nick and Judy as well, claiming that it's "her word against theirs". However, Judy responds by revealing that she had recorded Bellwether's confession with her carrot pen and plays the recorded monologue and tells her it's "her word against hers", just as Bogo and the ZPD arrive. Bellwether is arrested along with her accomplices and is sent to prison. During the credits, she is last seen in jail angrily watching a live stream of Gazelle's concert performance with prey and predator united again, which the prison inmates around her seem to enjoy, much to her annoyance while two of them patting on their lap. Later, one of them messes with her wool, much to further annoyance of hers and proceeds to swat him away.

Statistics

Tier: 10-B

Name: Dawn Bellwether

Origin: Zootopia

Sex: Female

Age: Unknown

Classification: Sheep, Assistant Mayor of Zootopia (formerly), Mayor of Zootopia (formerly), Prisonner

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Bellewether darted predators in order to make prey fear them and framed lionheart so that she could become mayor and once nick and judy figured out she was the bad guy she shot nick with what she belive was a night howler pellets so that he would kill judy for her)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Average Human

Durability: Average Human

Striking Strength: Average Human

Lifting Strength: Average Human

Travel Speed: Average Human

Combat Speed: Average Human

Reaction Speed: Average Human

Stamina: Average

Range: Standard Melee, tens of meters with Night howler dart gun

Intelligence: Gifted (Bellwether is Assistant Mayor and later on becomes the Mayor after framing Mayor Lionheart meaning she has a considerable knowledge of politics along with being responsible of a plot that according to judy tore apart zootopia)

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Powers and Abilities

Small Size (Type 0), Enhanced Senses, Social Influencing (Bellwether hides her true intentions behind a friendly facade which she uses in order to manipulate and frame others), Mind Manipulation (With her Night howler dart gun, which can make animals go savage inculding preys such as rabbits)

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Standard Equipment

Night howler dart gun

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Other

Standard Tactics: Bellwether does not fight, instead trying to manipulate others, if she has to get rid of someone, she'll shoot someone nearby her opponent with a night howler pellet to make them go savage

Weaknesses: Bellwether has no combat experience and mostly relies on others to do the physical work for her

Battle Records

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