Dawn Bellwether

At first glance, Bellwether appears to be meek, shy, helpful, sweet, and energetic, albeit overworked. She sympathizes with Judy Hopps as she feels the two are both under-appreciated and underestimated and offers to be Judy's friend at City Hall. When Judy approaches her for help on a case, Bellwether is eager to assist and excited to be of use since it appears that she mostly does paperwork and secretarial tasks for Lionheart who dumps work on her. However, this is a facade that disguises her true nature as a deceptive and cunningly diabolical mastermind. She is ruthless, power-hungry, sinister, and perfectly willing to eliminate anyone who gets in her way. It's even implied that Bellwether worked behind the scenes to support Judy's exposure of Lionheart's illegal imprisonment of the savage predators which enabled her to take over as Mayor though Lionheart later admitted to the imprisonment even if he had no idea about her plan due to her deceptiveness. Due to her duplicitous nature, it's hard to determine how much of what she says reflects her true beliefs or is just her political posturing. Bellwether seems to hold a resentment toward predators as she causes a city-wide panic that predators were reverting to their "primitive savage ways". She also appears to want prey animals to have more power in running the city, yet we also see that she's perfectly willing to let prey animals get injured or even killed by the predators she turns savage in order to further her plans. Therefore, despite her monologuing about leveling the playing field for prey, it seems that Bellwether's ultimate goal is just her own personal power as summed up by her explicit agreement when Judy's says... "So that's it? Prey fears predator and you stay in power?" and Bellwether agrees... "Yeah, pretty much."

In addition, when she has Judy and Nick trapped in the diorama in the Museum of Natural History and shoots Nick with a presumed Nighthowler pellet, Bellwether shows a disturbingly blood-thirsty side of her personality in her desire to stay and actually watch Nick kill Judy and the unsettling smirk of approval she gives when he clamps down on her neck. Bellwether epitomizes the term "a wolf in sheep's clothing": on the surface, she appears to be a sweet and finicky, albeit overworked, sheep doing all she can to help the city, though inside hides a ruthless and embittered mind. Years of discrimination and lack of consideration from her predator coworkers engineered an utterly vengeful, dishonest, and diabolical personality that was devoted against all predators, hidden behind her seemingly meek disposition. Bellwether's perception of predator mammals is that they are an irredeemable breed with an unjustified superiority complex over prey. To Bellwether, majority rules, and in Zootopia, it is a fact that the prey population drastically outnumbers that of predators. Bellwether uses this information as a means to justify a hostile revision of the city's social structure—one in which she feels entitled to rule. Clinging on to her beliefs that acceptance cannot be earned, Bellwether resorts to manipulating and fearing to enact her ideology. She ultimately cares little for the prey population as individuals, instead of viewing them as a collective capable of heightening her placement on the political ladder to power, evident by how her schemes endangered the lives of prey who were hurt by the predators targeted by Bellwether's minions. Even so, she is sympathetic toward the prey citizens who go through tribulations from predators in a similar manner to her past (she initially considered Judy an acquaintance because of their similarities in this regard). Anyone who sees predators beyond Bellwether's views, however, immediately loses her sympathy. Aside from obtaining control over the city, Bellwether's plot is primarily driven by her resentment toward Lionheart. Rather than subjecting Lionheart to becoming savage, Bellwether instead develops her plot to end so that it impacts Lionheart personally: the latter's title as mayor is stripped, and his positive reputation amongst the citizens is tarnished, thus destroying his most cherished assets while also ensuring her accession. Though Bellwether appears harried, and by extension, bumbling, most of the time she is presented, she is secretly a master organizer, operating with lethal cunning. Thanks to her occupation and access to city resources, she was able to create the predator panic without any attention drawn to herself, as well as orchestrating Judy's entire investigation on the mammal cases behind the scenes, leading to Lionheart getting arrested instead; due to her harmless appearance and seemingly friendly demeanor, Bellwether was less likely to be suspected for her crimes. However, she is subject to her overconfidence, which became her downfall: when she believed she had the upper hand, Bellwether admitted her entire plot to Judy and Nick out of pride, unaware that her confession had been recorded by the duo.