Molly Hale

Molly Hale (Japanese: ミー・スノードン Me Snowdon) is a little girl from Greenfield, and the daughter of researcher Spencer Hale. She is the main antagonist of Spell of the Unown: Entei.
==In the movies==
Sometime before the events of the film, Molly's mother disappeared, supposedly because of Spencer's research (in the Japanese version, her absence was never directly explained, although guidebooks released with the movie revealed that she had been hospitalized before the events of the film). Spencer was left to care for Molly, but because his job requires an undying commitment, she was often left under the care of the servants and housekeepers.
At the beginning of the , Molly was read tales of Legendary Pokémon by her father. She stated that was her favorite Legendary Pokémon because it reminded her of her father. Spencer abruptly left after receiving an email involving his research. When her father later disappeared into the Unown Dimension, Molly was left in the care of the family servants. Before he vanished, her father left behind a mysterious puzzle box with -shaped letter tiles.
Upon receiving the box, Molly used the tiles to spell "Mama" and "Papa", the people she truly desired. When she began to cry, the Unown sprung to life and granted her wish, summoning an who was led to believe it is Molly's father. The Unown started to reflect Molly's confusion, anxiety, fear, and loneliness with their , slowly engulfing her mansion and then her hometown, Greenfield, with crystal, driving everyone but Molly away.
Molly decided she needed a mother as well, and had the Entei bring to her after seeing her on television. Upon being confronted by Entei, Delia was hypnotized into believing that she was the girl's true mother and was taken to the mansion. However, the hypnosis was eventually broken when Delia saw her son risking his life while trying to enter the crystallized mansion. Since that moment, Delia tried to reason with Molly, helping and protecting her throughout the movie. Molly became inspired by seeing Ash use his Pokémon to enter the mansion and decided that she wanted to be a Pokémon Trainer. She fell asleep, and Entei left to greet Ash and his friends, bringing along a dream-version of Molly. Molly wished she were older so that she might be a Trainer, and she turned into a teenager.
She greeted Ash and his friends and challenged them to a battle. volunteered to battle her so that Ash and could continue on and find Delia. After Brock's defeat, she met up with Ash and Misty further ahead. After realizing Misty, who was younger than her teenage form, was a Trainer as well, she changed to a preteen and challenged Misty to a battle while Ash went ahead.
Once Ash reached Delia, they woke up the real Molly and asked that she escape with them. When Delia revealed that she was leaving, Molly was left heartbroken, and her emotional turmoil caused the Unown to lose some control. Entei appeared to defend her, but after a gruesome battle between him and Ash's Charizard, Molly realized what her wish was doing to those around her, and she agreed to end the illusion and return to reality. This caused the Unown to completely lose control of their psychic concentration. They reached the Unown's chamber and Entei sacrificed himself to drive away the Unown, returning the land and manor to normal. At the same time, the Unown returned to their ruins, returning Spencer from their dimension in the process. He returned to the manor and reunited with his daughter.
After some time, Molly received a real Pokémon, a . While playing with it one day, her father appeared with her mother by his side, leaving Molly overjoyed.
Molly briefly reappeared in a montage in The Rise of Darkrai, which chronicled the preceding nine movies.
===Character===
With her mother having disappeared several years prior (or having been hospitalized, depending on the version) and her father busy with his work schedule, Molly had become increasingly lonely and withdrawn. Her father's own disappearance only exacerbated this loneliness. The gave Molly the opportunity to live out her wildest fantasies and idealized reality, which appeared to have originated from the fairy-tales her father read to her, twisted together with her strong emotions. From a psychological standpoint, Molly's decision to have Greenfield become a crystal wasteland and surround herself with Pokémon was indicative of her distrust for people.
Molly also expressed strong ambitions to become an extremely strong Pokémon Trainer. As such, she battled both and with Pokémon possessing abnormally high levels of strength. She also took on physical appearances that she believed to be more befitting of a Trainer, though she retained her childish personality.
Molly eventually came to realize that she can achieve her true desires in real life, and this led the Unown to disappear. Her newly acquired is representative of this change.
===Pokémon===
====On hand====
Molly battled Ash, Misty, and Brock with dream Pokémon manifested by Entei. However, she was only shown with one real Pokémon, a Teddiursa.
====Illusion Pokémon created by the Unown====
Due to being Pokémon created through Molly's dreams, these Pokémon were a lot stronger than real ones, as stated by .
===Artwork===
Artwork from the website
===Voice actors===
==In the manga==
===Movie adaptations===
As she is a main character in the film, Molly also appears in the manga adaptation, , fulfilling the same role.
====Pokémon====
==Trivia==
* Molly's Japanese name, Me (Japanese: ミー Mī), is partly derived from the one Takeshi Shudō had for his own daughter.https://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/2000_pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei_takeshi_shudo_departure.html
==References==
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ミー Me 	From me
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian	Molly 	Similar to her Japanese name
Korean 	미이 Mee 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese () 	小美 Xiǎo Měi小米 Xiǎo Mǐ 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese () 	小美 Síu Méih 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Thai 	มี Me 	Transcription of her Japanese name
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