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| “ | From the day I was born to the day I died, I never helped anyone! I lived for myself and, in the end, I died for myself. I thought that was obvious. | „ |
| ~ Dahlia talking about herself. |
| “ | It's true then... The loveliest rose can hide the cruelest thorn... | „ |
| ~ The judge regarding Dahlia. |
Dahlia Hawthorne, (Japanese: 美柳 ちなみ Miyanagi Chinami), is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Manfred von Karma) of the Phoenix Wright trilogy within the Ace Attorney franchise.
She is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Excelsius Winner) of the 2001 visual novel Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and the main antagonist of its 2004 sequel, Trials and Tribulations.
She is a manipulative and dangerous criminal who uses her sweet appearance and demeanor to manipulate others into doing her bidding. She is the daughter of Morgan Fey and the twin sister of Iris. She is also the arch-nemesis and evil counterpart of her cousin Mia Fey, and arch-enemy of Phoenix Wright, whom she manipulated in the past.
In the Japanese anime, she was voiced by Rina Satō, while in the English version, she was dubbed by Dani Chambers.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
- While it is mentioned that she didn't have the easiest childhood due to the dysfunctions present in the Fey family, in top of her never being played for sympathy by the narrative, it's made clear that she wasn't affected by this, at the point of admitting that she "lived and died for herself" since her birth.
- She exiled and disinherited her own twin sister at eight years old.
- She planned a fake kidnapping plot with Valerie and Terry to extort $2 million out of her father, an act done solely out of greed.
- She used her step-sister Valerie and lover Terry Fawles to steal the diamond from her father, manipulating the latter into faking a kidnapping and ended up getting Terry sent to death row for seemingly killing Dahlia by "throwing" her off a bridge.
- She murdered Valerie despite her helping her tie up loose ends and pinned it on Terry.
- She manipulated Terry Fawles into thinking she loved him and convinced him that the two of them should agree to a suicide pact if it meant they couldn't trust each other anymore, leading Terry to eventually take his own life during the trial after Dahlia manipulated him into considering it so she could save her own life, leaving the courtroom with a smile on her face.
- She poisoned Diego Armando after he was on to her guilt about murdering Valerie, and while he survived, his eyesight got severely damaged and he became color-blind, causing him to depend on a visor in order to see properly.
- After giving Phoenix Wright the container she used to poison Diego Armando supposedly as a gift to shift blame off herself, she considered killing him until Iris persuaded her to let her impersonate her and date him to get the container.
- She attempted to kill Phoenix by poisoning his cough medicine after feeling like she had waited too long for Phoenix to give the container back.
- She murdered her ex-boyfriend Doug Swallow to cover all loose ends, trying to pin the murder on Phoenix.
- She teams up with her mother to kill Maya Fey by tricking Pearl into channeling her after she was executed, being willing to possess and possibly cause the death of a little girl who was her younger sister, only being stopped because someone else channeled her instead.
- While she claims to be disgusted by Morgan's plan and to feel bad for Pearl, she is still willing to get along with said plan out of spite against Maya, uncaring of what Pearl may feel about all of this, making her a complete hypocrite.
- She attempts to kill Maya when she is channeled out of pure spite for Mia proving her guilty and causing her rightful execution.
- She pins Misty Fey's murder on Maya by writing her name in blood on a shrine and later by falsely claiming to be a witness of Maya killing Misty while she was impersonating Iris.
- She attempts to kill Godot a second time when he steps in to defend Maya.
- During the earthquake, she takes the opportunity to trap Iris in a cave and impersonate her.
- She manipulates Phoenix into thinking Maya had killed herself, causing him to have a mental breakdown until Godot helps him prove that it was impossible for Maya to have done so.
- When her murder plan fails, she tries to pin the blame on her own twin as well purely out of spite.
- She easily meets the high heinous standard of the series with her large list of heinous crimes, personal villainy with Phoenix, Mia and Godot, and her low resources compared to many other villains.
External Links[]
- Dahlia Hawthorne on the Villains Wiki
- Dahlia Hawthorne on the Ace Attorney Wiki
- Dahlia Hawthorne on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Dahlia Hawthorne on the Moral Ranking Wiki
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