>>16688545Break the Cutie.
Dawn was following in her mother's footsteps, and had some pretty big shoes to fill. It actually started out pretty smoothly in her first two contests, with her losing one in the final and then winning the second one.
After that though, everything went to hell. Two straight losses from the Appeal rounds made her doubt herself if she was really as great as she was made to be. She became surprisingly depressed until the battle with Maylene which reinvigorated her and gave her the will to do contests again. This was then followed off with a win against May to get the Wallace Cup badge to show her return.
I don't really see how that's bad character development, considering it made Dawn change how she looked at herself.
