Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-29414935-20170101163751/@comment-961279-20170101183603

Incorrect on both accounts. I am not against you. I am simply sticking to the facts, the other of which is that the movie does not show anything of Bellwether's life. We do not see a flashback like we do of Nick being humiliated at the troop meeting which resulted in him having a "look out for number one" attitude. We do not see a flashback like we do of Judy being bullied when she was a girl and deciding she'd keep working to help people out as she grew up.

This is what we do see of Bellwether:
 * She's the assitant mayor, which she feels only happened as a way for the Mayor to get votes.
 * She's timid and jokes that when she tried to give the Mayor a nickname like he did for her, the Mayor didn't like it.
 * She feels an affinity for Judy because she views both of them as "little guys" and even says so at one point.
 * When it's revealed she was the source of the attacks on carnivores, we learn that she's resentful of how she'd been treated and the fact that species like hers are outnumbered by the ones typically that have the power in her society.

How far back does that resentment go? Just to the point where she was the Mayor's running mate and once he was in office, she saw she couldn't help change things for the better like she hoped? Does it go back further to her childhood? Did she decide that she'd work to get herself into a position of power so she could do something about what she resented? Or did she decide after she became assistant mayor that then she take steps to fix what she thought was wrong?

We don't know because it isn't in the movie.