{"id":97318,"date":"2016-06-11T23:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T23:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/11\/hafanforever-the-big-baaa-d-sheep-when-i\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T02:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:27:33","slug":"hafanforever-the-big-baaa-d-sheep-when-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/11\/hafanforever-the-big-baaa-d-sheep-when-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-97318 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/11\/hafanforever-the-big-baaa-d-sheep-when-i\/attachment\/97319\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8661lAvOG1shyusgo3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8661lAvOG1shyusgo8_r1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8661lAvOG1shyusgo8_r1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8661lAvOG1shyusgo8_r1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hafanforever.tumblr.com\/post\/145706408088\" target=\"_blank\">hafanforever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>The Big Baaa-d Sheep<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first saw <i>Zootopia<\/i>, I enjoyed it tremendously, and even though I figured it would have another surprise villain, since that has been the trend lately with\u00a0<i>Wreck-It Ralph<\/i>, <i>Frozen<\/i>, and <i>Big Hero 6<\/i>, I was not at all surprised to find out that it was Bellwether. <b><i>It was a great twist, but I was not surprised because I noticed or realized some subtle clues that made me suspect her.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bellwether is a perfect, and literal, representation of the popular phrase \u201ca wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing.\u201d On the surface, she appears to be a sweet, meek, finicky, albeit overworked, sheep doing all she can to help the city. <i><b>But beneath her exterior is a ruthless, prejudiced, and embittered mind.<\/b><\/i> Years of discrimination and lack of consideration from her predator coworkers, especially from her boss, Mayor Leodore Lionheart, caused her to develop a vengeful, scheming, diabolical personality that was devoted against all predators, hidden behind her seemingly meek disposition.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of mysteries with hidden culprits and the last few surprise Disney villains (e.g.; Hans, Callaghan), I figured that the villain of <i>Zootopia<\/i> had to be the one you least expected, someone who hid his or her true colors of prejudice and hatred by acting just the opposite as a cover. Keeping this in mind, I just thought that Bellwether seemed too nice, too sweet, and too helpful at times. <i><b>In short, she just seemed way too good and way too perfect. This demeanor, along with her tiny stature and generally harmless appearance, made it extremely easy for no one to suspect that she was the mastermind of the savage predators conspiracy.<\/b><\/i> For a lot of villains or culprits, this is the best kind of cover for them to use in order to divert attention away from themselves. If they acted rude or grumpy, that would make them an easy target for suspicion since they wouldn\u2019t be acting too different from their real selves. There are a lot of small-minded or closed-minded people in the world who still believe that appearances and behavior make someone just who they seem to be while others aren\u2019t if they don\u2019t fit these descriptions. <i><b>And due to the prejudice and closed-mindedness of many citizens of Zootopia, this further provided Bellwether with an advantage of getting away with her plans.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The strongest point I can make about Bellwether being the hidden villain was that the oppression and abuse she endured from Lionheart gave her a motive.\u00a0Lionheart treated her like a stooge rather than an actual assistant, showing almost no appreciation for what she did and appearing to not want her around for important moments. <i><b>These moments include when he rudely pushes her away from Judy and blocks her when he and Judy are being photographed, and when he piles book after book in her arms about important matters, coldly telling her to \u201cjust take care of it.\u201d<\/b><\/i> Lionheart then adds,\u00a0\u201cPlease\u201d at the end of his demanding request, but then he orders her around again by telling her to clear his afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>While not bigoted like Bellwether, these moments portray Lionheart as a glory hound who dislikes incompetence, gets very annoyed and impatient when Bellwether fumbles, makes mistakes, or forgets things, cares greatly about his reputation as the mayor,\u00a0and dumps the majority of the work on her while he takes all the credit. <b><i>For the latter part, Lionheart probably gives her job after job to do, many of which she doesn\u2019t finish in time because he immediately gives her something new to do, which increases his impatience with her.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Along with these points, the fact that he gave Bellwether the small, crammed boiler room as her office and merely scribbled out\u00a0\u201cDad\u201d and wrote \u201cAssistant Mayor\u201d\u00a0on the mug he gave her shows that he has almost no respect for her. Lionheart has also been known to call Bellwether by the derogatory name of\u00a0\u201cSmellwether\u201d when he is annoyed or mad at her, including when she initially forgets to cancel his afternoon appointments.<\/p>\n<p>All throughout the film, Bellwether still acted nice and sweet, even cool, like it was no big deal when Lionheart bossed her around and took credit for the things she would do.\u00a0<b><i>But all of this was just a facade to keep her true nature and scheme under wraps.<\/i><\/b> She may have acted cool on the surface, but someone who acts like her while being abused and oppressed, inside them they truly hate the abuser and their mistreatments. Inside them is an infernal of rage, hatred, and sinister schemes. <i><b>I think she already disliked predators before she was working for Lionheart, but his abuse towards only increased her hatred towards them, making her decide to try and get rid of them entirely. <\/b><\/i>Furthermore, someone like Bellwether who cannot stand such treatment would plot to ruin and get rid of their predecessor.\u00a0And we know that her harmless demeanor and appearance was a great cover up for her schemes. She was a master organizer who also made it so that the crimes were never directly connected to her.<\/p>\n<p>Within <i>Zootopia<\/i>, there is a subtle, yet \u201ceasy to miss if you don\u2019t look fast\u201d, clue that foreshadows Bellwether\u2019s villainy in the end. When she helps Judy and Nick look into the traffic camera system, on her desk is a sticky note with the name\u00a0\u201cDoug\u201d and a phone number. <i><b>As we see near the end of the film, this is the very same Doug, who is a ram, producing the night howler serum,<\/b><\/i> and he is the one shooting the predators with this serum to make the animals turn savage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2d1d1930811d1b6e9de11f83832ec789\/tumblr_inline_o8k49c0OeY1s93lo1_540.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/00df637eb4230326739c8cb2d7ece250\/tumblr_inline_o8k36d8av91s93lo1_540.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Once we get to the point that shows Doug making the serum and talking to one of his accomplices, with him admitting that he shot Emmitt Otterton with the serum, I knew that he was immediately responsible for the savage outbreaks, and that Woolter and Jesse, two more rams, were also in on the scheme. <b><i>Simultaneously, however, I believed that there was someone else who was the true mastermind of the whole conspiracy.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0More so, it had to be a prey animal since predators were the only animals going savage, suggesting that they were being attacked by preys due to prey and predators being natural enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The final clue I noticed\/thought about Bellwether being the villain was when she finds Judy and Nick at the museum. Prior to this, we saw that the train chase scene involved three rams: Doug, Jesse, and Woolter. <b><i>So I figured that there were possibly only rams, or at least other sheep, involved in this plot, and that it had to have included Bellwether.<\/i><\/b> Before then, I took every other clue I recognized about her into account. And of course, when she arrives at the museum, she is accompanied by two more rams. <i><b>I\u00a0knew that they weren\u2019t the rams from the train chase since they couldn\u2019t have gotten there in time, but they still could have alerted other rams and Bellwether about what was happening.<\/b><\/i> That explains how Bellwether knew where Judy and Nick were and where they were going. And then when she tried to take the case of evidence from them, and a third ram showed up at the museum doors? That\u2019s when I knew the ploy was broken and that Bellwether was behind everything.<\/p>\n<p>Like many past Disney villains, Bellwether\u2019s overconfidence and arrogance is ultimately her downfall when she believes that her scheme will still go without fail when she shoots Nick, hoping he will kill Judy so that she has no witnesses. Though she is angered by her failure when the two reveal that they were acting, Bellwether\u2019s arrogance is finally brought down when she threatens to frame them, only to learn that Judy had recorded her entire confession. Finally, justice is met in the end when the ZPD arrive and arrest Bellwether and her accomplices for their crimes.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>And so there you have it about former assistant mayor, then former mayor Dawn Bellwether, who is the big baaa-d sheep of the awesome film<\/i><\/b> <b>Zootopia<\/b><i>!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hafanforever: The Big Baaa-d Sheep When I first saw Zootopia, I enjoyed it tremendously, and even though I figured it would have another surprise villain, since that has been the trend lately with\u00a0Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, and Big Hero 6, I was not at all surprised to find out that it was Bellwether. It was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/11\/hafanforever-the-big-baaa-d-sheep-when-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12208,4,4782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97327,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318\/revisions\/97327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}