Dahlia Hawthorne

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9. Dahlia Hawthorne

To put it simply--if the Phoenix Wright trilogy has a "final boss," Dahlia is it. She's manipulative, cunning, evil as hell, and sort of redefines the concept of "evil *****." No villain in the series has quite the record she does--she stole a valuable diamond and doublecrossed both her boyfriend and her adopted sister. She later murdered her sister and caused her former boyfriend to commit suicide. To cover her tracks, Dahlia poisoned Diego Armando, and then to cover those tracks, deceived Phoenix Wright with the help of her twin sister, murdered Doug Swallow, and almost did the same to Phoenix as well.

Then they killed her. And she still wasn't done.

Dahlia is tremendously well-executed (lol) as a villain, being the primary adversary in not one but three cases (depending on who you see as the true villain behind 3-5, but I think most would agree that it's her). In 3-1 you get a glimpse of her true nature (and her death glare is still one of the more "holy ****" animations in the series), but it isn't until 3-4 that you find out how deep her hatred truly runs. The way she manipulates pretty much everybody around her, the way she doesn't hesitate to carelessly throw away people who claim to love her? Dahlia is unquestionably evil, and the writers pull her off so damn well. In 3-4 you find out the reason for the hatred between her and Mia in the first case, and 3-4 builds to the final climax of 3-5 excellently. The double-team of Phoenix and Mia vs Dahlia is probably one of the best moments in the series, if only because she deserves it so much.

However, unlike Engarde, Gant or Manfred von Karma (the other great villains in the series), there's actually shown to be some reason behind Dahlia's actions. She's certainly sociopathic, yes, but we get the feeling that she almost feels justified in doing the things she does due to the way her father treated her, her sister, and her mother. Dahlia's relationship with Iris, too, is rather interesting--it sometimes seems that Dahlia almost cares for Iris in a twisted sort of way; she allows Iris to try and get the necklace back from Phoenix for six months, etc etc. Immediately after Iris and Dahlia switch in 3-5, when you're talking to Iris--who is really Dahlia-in-Maya's-body... I think it's interesting watching Dahlia pretend to be Iris and say the things she does.

But even though she's got some character behind them to make her a bit deeper as a villain, she's mainly just a fantastic adversary and probably the best in the entire AA series bar none... or at least my favorite.

Naye745
9. Dahlia Hawthorne

Dahlia has to be the most hate-able villain in the Phoenix Wright series. She totally crushes Phoenix in 3-1, and you hate her for it. Then she drives a man to suicide in 3-4, and you learn she's not just heartless, but absolutely crazy evil. By 3-5, my hatred for her was so much that I wanted Iris to be found guilty, since at that point I thought she was Dahlia. Ultimately, she gets owned again by Mia and it's satisfying and stuff, but for being as horrible, selfish, and villainous as Engarde x100, she gets put slightly ahead of him.

SSBM_Guy
9. Dahlia Hawthorne

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Case(s): 3-1, 3-4, 3-5

Ah, Dahlia. The closest you can ever get to a "final boss" in Phoenix Wright. Argubly the most evilest PW villain, Dahlia starts off as a simple Case 1 murderer. You would think she just shows up for that one case, but no. She doesn't. But let's start off with that case, shall we? Case 3-1, Turnabout Memories. Dahlia was Phoenix's girlfriend at the time (Well, actually it was Iris, but she was posing as Dahlia, so eh.) and is also the murderer. Here, you can see a bit of evilness of Dahlia. First off, she was planning to kill Phoenix Wright. Why? Because he had the evidence that proved she killed another person, Diego Armando, back in the past. So yeah. Doug tells Phoenix to watch out for Dahlia, so Dahlia decides to kill off Doug. ...Yeah. She killed 2 people already and was planning to kill one more. She would probably kill Mia, too, if she had the chance. <_< And that's the thing about Dahlia. She loves to kill. I think she personally kills...3 people on her own and was planning to kill 2 more. Plus, she also causes the death of two people. That's...a total of 7. Damn. And if you want...she would probably kill Mia, too. Make that 8. Yep. Dahlia is just damn crazy.

But that's what is so great about Dahlia. She's an excellent villain. She has great murder plans and she is able to manipulate everyone so easily, due to her looks. Plus, she could have to most simplest reason to killing anyone. Doug? He warned Phoenix about her. Phoenix? He had evidence that she herself gave to Phoenix. Diego? He was on to her and probably knew that she did it. Terry? She was able to manipulate him and got him to suicide. Valerie? She was going to betray her, I guess. Maya? Just to make Mia and Phoenix suffer. Mia? Well...she did get her guilty and was the reason why Dahlia died. Elise? She just had the misfortune of Godot going crazy and killing her when channeling Dahlia. Yeah. Wow. Anyways...let's get to Case 3-4.

Well...Dahlia goes under the identity of Melissa Foster...since Dahlia was considered dead at the time. Didn't take long for Mia to figure her out...as well as accusing her of the murder. However, Dahlia was able to get out of this situation...by manipulating Terry and telling him to suicide. Yeah...this just proves how completely evil Dahlia is. And then, 3-5. Oh man, 3-5. By the time 3-5 happens, Dahlia was executed, due to Case 3-1. Yeah. But...Dahlia is basically the equivalent of Liquid Snake. She just won't die. She comes back via channeling and attempts to kill Maya, but failed, thanks to Godot. However, she left her mark...she caused Elise to die. Also, we get a nice bit of backstory about Dahlia in Case 3-5. The reason why all those murders started...was because she wanted to get back at her father. She stole the diamond and jumped off the bridge. This led to Valerie questioning her...which led to her death. And Valerie's death leads to Terry's suicide. Terry's suicide leads to the Doug's death. And Doug's death leads to Elise's death...yeah. So all of this happened because of Dahlia's father being a complete bastard.

transience
6. Dahlia Hawthorne

- holy crap this girl is ****ing satan - Dahlia's the only multi-case villain and she certainly takes the title of most successful villain of the series. she's twisted and deranged. she jumped off a bridge to keep her plans alive. she killed her sister, she tried to kill her sorta boyfriend, she pretty much killed Diego Armando, she tried to kill Mia's sister just because she couldn't kill Mia. she's freaking twisted. - the reason Dahlia is awesome is because she has a personal relationship with seemingly everyone. Mia, Phoenix, Edgeworth, Maya, Godot.. everyone in PW3 has some connection to Dahlia, and she's just the most evil piece of scum that ever existed. part 4-2 of case 3-5 is just one big kick in the balls with her rubbing it in how Maya is dead. it's cruel, nasty, and awesome. - I still think that if Dahlia was real she would have killed herself the second she realized she was being channeled by Maya, but that would kinda ruin the happy ending so whatever