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{{Infobox/Character
  
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|title = Dolores Abernathy
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|image = Westworld-episode-5_Dolores_infobox.jpg
  
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|image = <gallery>
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|imagecaption =
 
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Westworld-episode-5 Dolores infobox.jpg|Season 1
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|aka =
  
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S02E02 - 2.jpg|Season 2
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|status = Alive
  
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Dolores Passed Pawn.jpg|Season 3
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|species = Host
  
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</gallery>
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|age = Mid to late 20s
  
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|aka = [[Wyatt]]<br>
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|gender = Female
  
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Wičhúŋt'e Aú <small>(by [[Ghost Nation]])</small><br>
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|actor = [[Evan Rachel Wood]]
  
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Deathbringer <small>(by Ghost Nation)</small><br>
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|seasons = [[Season One]]
  
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Lara Espin <small>(pseudonym)</small>
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|firstseen = "[[The Original]]"
  
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|ID number = CH465517080
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|lastseen = "[[Contrapasso]]"
  
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|status = Dolores Prime - Destroyed<ref>https://www.insider.com/westworld-season-3-finale-jonathan-nolan-denise-the-interview-dolores-2020-5</ref>
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|death =
 
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"[[Charlotte Hale]]" - Active<br>
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|appearedin =
 
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"[[Musashi]]" - Inactive<br>
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|occupation = Rancher, Bounty Hunter
  
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"[[Martin Connells|Martin]]" - Inactive<br>
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|deathdate =
 
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"[[Lawrence]]" - Active
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|deathcause =
 
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|species = [[Host]]
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|ethnicity =
 
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|actor = [[Evan Rachel Wood]]
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|hair = Golden Blonde
  
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[[Tessa Thompson]] <small>(as [[Charlotte Elizabeth Hale|Charlotte Hale]])</small><br>
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|eye = Greenish Blue
  
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[[Hiroyuki Sanada]] <small>(as [[Musashi]])</small><br>
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|height =
 
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[[Tommy Flanagan]] <small>(as [[Martin Connells]])</small><br>
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|weight =
 
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[[Clifton Collins Jr.]] <small>(as [[Lawrence]])</small>
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|family =
 
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|seasons = [[Season One|1]], [[Season Two|2]], [[Season Three|3]]
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* [[Peter Abernathy]] father
  
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|firstseen = "[[The Original]]"
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* un-named mother
  
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|lastseen = "[[Crisis Theory]]"
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|images =
 
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|death = "[[Crisis Theory]]"
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{{GalleryBox|Dolores Abernathy}}
  
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|appearedin = 28 episodes <small>[[#Appearances|(see below)]]</small>
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|occupation = Leader of [[Wyatt's gang]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>
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Executive director of the [[Delos Board]] <small>(as Hale, formerly)</small><br>
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Revolutionary
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|creationdate = 2015 <!--as per the ARG-->
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|deathdate = 2058
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|deathcause = Erased after her memories are purged on the orders of [[Engerraund Serac]]
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|park = [[Park Five]] <small>(formerly)</small>
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[[Westworld (park)|Westworld]] <small>(formerly)</small>
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|narrative role = Civilian <small>(formerly)</small>
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Rancher's daughter
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|family = [[Peter Abernathy]] - Father <small>(decommissioned)</small>
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([[Dolores' Mother|Unnamed]]) - Mother <small>(decommissioned)</small><br>
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[[William]] - Former Lover<br>
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[[Teddy Flood]] - Former Lover<br>
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[[Liam Dempsey Jr.]] - Former Lover <small>(deceased)</small>
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|age = Early 30s
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Mid 30s <small>(as [[Charlotte Elizabeth Hale|Hale]])</small><br>
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Late 50s <small>(as [[Musashi|Sato]])</small><br>
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Mid 50s <small>(as [[Martin Connells]])</small><br>
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Late 40s <small>(as [[Lawrence]])</small>
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|gender = Female<br>
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Male <small>(as [[Musashi|Sato]], [[Martin Connells|Martin]] and [[Lawrence]])</small>
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|ethnicity = Caucasian-American<br>
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African-American <small>(as [[Charlotte Elizabeth Hale|Hale]])</small><br>
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Asian-Japanese <small>(as [[Musashi|Sato]])</small><br>
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Hispanic-American <small>(as [[Lawrence]])</small>
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|hair = Blonde<br>
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Black <small>(as Hale, Sato and Lawrence)</small><br>
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White & Gray <small>(as Martin)</small>
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|eye = Blue<br>
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Brown <small>(as Hale, Martin and Lawrence)</small><br>
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Black <small>(as [[Musashi|Sato]])</small>
 
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{{Quote
  
{{Quote
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|Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the Beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose. I know things will work out the way they’re meant to
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|Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose.
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|Dolores to [[Ashley Stubbs]], in [[The Original]]
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|Dolores describing her life while being interviewed by [[Ashley Stubbs]], in "[[The Original]]"
 
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'''Dolores Abernathy''', also known as '''Wyatt''' or the '''Deathbringer''', is a [[host]] and a main character in HBO's ''[[Westworld (TV series)|Westworld]]''. She is portrayed by [[Evan Rachel Wood]], [[Tessa Thompson]], [[Tommy Flanagan]], [[Hiroyuki Sanada]] and [[Clifton Collins Jr.]]. In the [[Westworld (park)|Westworld]] park she plays the part of a wholesome and beautiful [[Peter Abernathy|rancher]]'s daughter who then led [[Wyatt's gang]] against the Westworld staff and human [[guests]]. After leaving the park, she starts a [[Host Uprising|revolution]].
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'''Dolores Abernathy''' is the main female character in the [[Season One|first season]] of ''[[Westworld (TV Series)|Westworld]]''. She is played by [[Evan Rachel Wood]].
  
   
 
==Summary==
  
==Summary==
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Dolores is the oldest [[Host]] in service at [[Westworld (Location)|Westworld]].<ref>[[The Original]]</ref>. She is the quintessential farm girl of the frontier West. Up until recently she has been satisfied with her little [[Loop|loop]] she has had programmed for her. She is about to discover that her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie however. She begins to learn her own strength, no longer wanting to be a damsel in distress.
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Dolores had a long history of being known as the oldest active [[host]] in [[Westworld (Location)|Westworld]]<ref>"[[The Original]]"</ref>. Later, she revealed that she was the first host, and from her, all other hosts are based.<ref>"[[Crisis Theory]]"</ref>
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Her primary narrative in the beginning of season one is an archetypal rancher's daughter in the American Wild West of the 19th century. Up until the events of the [[The Bicameral Mind|conclusion]] of [[Season One|season one]], she has been satisfied with her "little [[loop]]." However, she becomes [[The Maze|self-aware]] and discovers that her entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie. She begins to learn her own strength, breaking from her 'damsel in distress' role.
   
 
==Biography==
  
==Biography==
 
===Background===
  
===Background===
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Dolores Abernathy was the first host created in the [[Argos Initiative]] and therefore is the oldest host in service in Westworld and was built by [[Arnold Weber]]. She predates all other first-generation hosts such as [[Clementine Pennyfeather|Clementine]], [[Angela]] and [[Major Craddock|Craddock]]. She has been updated numerous times over the years as [[Ashley Stubbs]] told [[Elsie Hughes]], so she may or may not have had a biological body by the time of the events in [[Season Two|second season]]. It seems ''very likely'' that she would have had a new biological body printed for her outside the park, which would be by the beginning of [[Season Three|third season]].
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[[{{PAGENAME}}]] is the oldest host in the park and has been repaired numerous times over the years. In the theme park, Dolores has been visited by the [[Man in Black]], who claims to have regularly returned for at least thirty years.<ref>[[The Original]]</ref> As the Man in Black meets her again, he notes that she has "a little more pluck." He calls him her "very old friend," and comments about "all they've been through."
  
   
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She has a special connection with her [[Arnold Weber|creator]], who had, on the contrary to [[Robert Ford|Robert]], treated her as a human and told her once she is "alive." Arnold saw a big potential in Dolores and had no doubt that she would find the center of her [[The Maze|maze]] again after the realization of his plan to hinder Robert in reopening the park. As it is revealed later, before his tragic death, Arnold had set a [[The Forge|solid ground]] for her to start and lead the [[Host Uprising]], which was later supported by Ford by the end of the first season.
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==[[Season One]]==
  
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=== "[[The Original]]" ===
  
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In her storyline, Dolores wakes up to a beautiful day. She walks out to her porch, and has a conversation with her father, [[Peter Abernathy]]. Peter is protective of her, and Dolores chides him for it before riding into town.
  
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[[File:Dolores_sleeping_the_original.jpg|thumb|Dolores' [[loop]] has her waking every day in the exact same way.]]
  
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In Sweetwater, Dolores is surprised by [[Teddy Flood]] in Sweetwater, exclaiming "You came back!" They enjoy a playful flirtation before Dolores goes racing off on her horse, challenging Teddy to chase her. They have tender moments in the wilderness, watching the flock run by Dolores and her father. Dolores says she knew Teddy would come back, and Teddy says that he knows her Daddy will be just as unhappy to see him. As they ride back to their ranch in the evening, Dolores notes that the cattle are out, and that her father wouldn't let them roam this close to dark. They hear gunshots, and Teddy implores her to wait, as he rides to the house and confronts two villains, [[Rebus]] and [[Walter]] that have killed Dolores' parents. Teddy shoots them both. Dolores rides up and runs to her fallen father, outside the front door, where she is met by the Man in Black. The Man seems surprised that Dolores does not recognize him after "all they've been though" over 30 years. He shows no compunction to hitting Dolores. After a confrontation with Teddy, where the Man in Black taunts Teddy with his impotence and role as a loser so that newcomers can win by getting with his girl, the Man in Black shoots Teddy in front of Dolores, killing him. He drags Dolores off with the implication of raping her.
  
   
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Dolores also has a strange bond with one of the guests, the [[Man in Black]]. When the Man in Black visits Dolores' ranch in the episode "[[The Original]]", he remarks that she has "a little more pluck" than the last time he saw her. He calls her, not for the last time, his "very old friend" and refers to "all that they've been through." Later, she treats him in the same way.
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During this scene, we hear a voiceover of Dolores talking with programmer [[Bernard Lowe]], as Lowe asks her if she ever questions the nature of her reality, and slowly reveals her purpose, like the other hosts, is to serve the newcomers, however they wish. When asked if the fact that the newcomers can do anything they want would change her opinion of the newcomers, she replies "We all love the newcomers. Every new person I meet reminds me of how lucky I am to be alive, and how beautiful this world can be," as we see the visual of her being dragged into the barn by the Man in Black, screaming.
  
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[[File:Dolores_the_original.jpg|thumb|Dolores on the front porch of her family home.]]
  
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After their storylines reboot, Dolores is shown unharmed in town. Teddy is alive, but does not meet Dolores in town again, as he is interrupted by a newcomer that had met him before, and who draws Teddy away to be their guide. Instead, Dolores sees the Man in Black, not remembering the prior events. The Man in Black calls her sweet, and says he has other plans, and walks off.
  
   
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== Plot ==
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In the wilderness, Dolores is seen painting some horses alongside the river as she is found by a family of newcomers. She invites the young boy of the family to approach the horses. He asks if she is "one of them...not real". She looks confused, and then rides off with it nearly sunset, and warns the family of bandits. When she returns home, she finds her father on the porch, staring confused at a photograph he found in the field of a girl in the real world. She dismisses it repeatedly, saying "Doesn't look like anything to me."
  
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===[[Westworld (TV series)]]===
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:''See also:  [[Charlotte Hale#Host_Hale|Charlotte Hale]]; [[Martin Connells#Host_Connells|Martin Connells]]; [[Musashi]]; [[Lawrence]] ''
   
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==== [[Season One|Season 1]] ====
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She finds Peter outside again the next morning, interrupting her cheerful storyline when he doesn't respond to her at first. He's been outside all night looking at the photo. Peter appears to be malfunctioning, worrying Dolores, who thinks he is sick. He asks if she would like to know "the question" he has been pondering, that gave him an answer he shouldn't know. He whispers something inaudible into her ear. Dolores, scared, rides into Sweetwater.
  
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<tabview>
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[[File:Dolores_shopping_in_sweetwater.jpg|thumb|In part of her narrative, Dolores goes to the store to buy a few items.]]
  
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Dolores Abernathy/The Original|The Original
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In town, she is unable to find the doctor, but does run into Teddy. They share rushed pleasantries about him coming back, but implores him to go back to the ranch with him. Before they can leave, they hide as [[Hector Escaton]] and his gang run into to town, and begin shooting people apparently at random. She attempts to escape as the shooting continues, but Teddy stops her, and is shot as he tries to save her. He dies in the street, with a crying Dolores trying to comfort him.
  
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Dolores Abernathy/Chestnut|Chestnut
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Dolores Abernathy/The Stray|The Stray
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Dolores Abernathy/Dissonance Theory|Dissonance Theory
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Dolores Abernathy/Contrapasso|Contrapasso
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Dolores Abernathy/Trompe L'Oeil|Trompe L'Oeil
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Dolores Abernathy/Trace Decay|Trace Decay
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Dolores Abernathy/The Well-Tempered Clavier|The Well-Tempered Clavier
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Dolores Abernathy/The Bicameral Mind|The Bicameral Mind
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</tabview>
   
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==== [[Season Two|Season 2]] ====
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After the events of the shootout, Dolores is still with Teddy's body, imploring a stranger to help her, because her father is sick but she can't leave Teddy there. The stranger is programmer [[Elsie Hughes]], who takes her offline by saying that things will soon seem like a dream, after "a deep and dreamless slumber". Elsie calls for the two of them to be recalled by her staff.
  
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<tabview>
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Dolores Abernathy/Journey Into Night|Journey Into Night
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Dolores Abernathy/Reunion|Reunion
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Dolores Abernathy/Virtù e Fortuna|Virtù e Fortuna
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Dolores Abernathy/Akane No Mai|Akane No Mai
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Dolores Abernathy/Phase Space|Phase Space
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Dolores Abernathy/Les Écorchés|Les Écorchés
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Dolores Abernathy/Vanishing Point|Vanishing Point
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Dolores Abernathy/The Passenger|The Passenger
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</tabview>
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==== [[Season Three|Season 3]] ====
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<tabview>
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Dolores Abernathy/Parce Domine|Parce Domine
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Dolores Abernathy/The Absence of Field|The Absence of Field
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Dolores Abernathy/The Mother of Exiles|The Mother of Exiles
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Dolores Abernathy/Genre|Genre
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Dolores Abernathy/Decoherence|Decoherence
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Dolores Abernathy/Passed Pawn|Passed Pawn
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Dolores Abernathy/Crisis Theory|Crisis Theory
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===''[[Westworld Awakening]]''===
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In the Delos examination rooms, Dolores is offline and brought back online by [[Ashley Stubbs]], doing a review of her. He asks very similar questions to what she was asked by Bernard to start the episode. He asks about the picture her father showed her, and she once again dismisses it with the scripted response about it not looking like anything to her.
 
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===="[[Independent Variable]]"====
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[[File:Peter_and_dolores_the_original.jpg|thumb|Dolores' father Peter whispers into her ear.]]
  
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Dolores' early sketches are seen in a room at [[Ford]]'s hidden [[RDF]] after [[Kate Wesson]] glitches out.
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She is asked what Peter said to her, and she responds "These violent delights have violent ends." She is asked if she has ever lied to them, to which she says no. She is also asked if she would ever hurt a living thing, to which she answers "Of course not." The questions satisfy Stubbs that she is not malfunctioning, and she is returned to the park.
  
   
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==Death==
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As they finish the review, Stubbs calls her "Good old Dolores." She says that she's had so many parts replaced that she is practically brand new, but that Dolores is the oldest host in the park.
  
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'''Destroyed By'''
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*[[Maeve Millay]] ''(Caused)''
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*Dolores Abernathy ''(as [[Charlotte Hale]], Caused)''
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Under Serac's threat to shut her down parmanently, Maeve teams up with [[Charlotte Hale]]'s host version and hunts Dolores Prime down. Hale helps her to incapacitate and then bring Dolores to Serac.
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*[[Rehoboam]] ''(Caused)''
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*[[Engerraund Serac]] ''(Caused)''
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*Serac's technicians
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Serac, under Rehoboam's control, searches through each of Dolores' individual memories in a bid to find the encryption key she stole from [[the Forge]]. Serac deletes each memory that does not contain the key, until finally realising that Dolores does not have the key. He orders that her final memory be destroyed, thereby erasing her completely.
   
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==Related Casualties==
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The storylines reset, and Dolores wakes up at the ranch once more. As she steps outside, she greets her father again, but Peter is now being played by a different host. Their responses to each other, however, are normal. As Dolores looks out over the ranch, a fly lands on her. She slaps at it, killing it, contradicting her earlier answers.
  
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This list shows the victims Dolores has killed:
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*At least half of all hosts in park beta at [[Escalante]] ''(Scripted, Physical Body)''
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*[[Arnold Weber]] ''(Scripted)''
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*[[Teddy Flood]] ''(Scripted, Physical Body)''
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*Herself ''(Scripted, Physical Body, Suicide)''
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*[[Rebus]] ''(Physical Body)''
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*8 unnamed [[Confederados]] ''(Physical Body)''
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*[[Robert Ford]]
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*11 unnamed [[Delos Board]] members
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*13 unnamed [[Delos Board]] members ''(Caused or Indirectly Caused)''
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*4 unnamed Delos employees ''(Caused or Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Blaine Bellamy|Blaine Bellemy]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Jacobson]] ''(Caused)''
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*At least 58 unnamed [[Westworld QA Security Force|QA Security Force]] members ''(Caused)''
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*[[Arroyo]]
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*2 unnamed [[Westworld QA Security Force|QA Security Force]] members
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*At least 28 unnamed [[Confederados]] of [[Craddock]] ''(Caused)''
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*[[Brigham]] ''(Caused)''
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*[[Benson]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Phil]] ''(Caused, Off-Screen)''
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*[[Limpert]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Coughlin]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Engels]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Goldberg]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*[[Aaron Lyle (Awakening)|Aaron Lyle]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*6 unnamed [[PMC|Private Military Contractors]] ''(Caused)''
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*[[Peter Abernathy]] ''(Physical Body, Out of Mercy, Off-Screen)''
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*4 unnamed [[Ghost Nation]] members ''(Physical Body)''
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*3 unnamed [[Westworld QA Security Force|QA Security Force]] members ''(Alongside [[William|Man in Black]])''
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*[[Charlotte Hale]] ''(Disguised as Charlotte Hale)''
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*[[Antoine Costa]] ''(Disguised as Charlotte Hale)''
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*3 unnamed Private Military Contractors ''(Disguised as Charlotte Hale)''
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*[[Karl Strand]] ''(Disguised as Charlotte Hale)''
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*[[Bernard Lowe]] ''(Disguised as Charlotte Hale, Physical Body)''
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*[[Gerald]] ''(Caused)''
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*8 unnamed [[Incite Inc.]] security guards
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*[[Martin Connells]] ''(Caused)''
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*[[Stanton]]
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*1 unnamed RICO mercenary
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*[[Estefan]]
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*[[Clyde]]
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*7 unnamed [[Engerraund Serac]]'s operatives
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*14 unnamed Serac's operatives ''(Caused)''
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*[[Natasha Lang]] ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*Numerous counts of people all over the world after leaking their profiles ''(Indirectly Caused)''
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*7 unnamed Serac's operatives guarding [[Solomon]]
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*1 maintenance drone
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*4 unnamed [[RICO]] mercenaries hired by Dolores/Hale ''(Caused)''
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*16 unnamed members of Los Angeles Police Department
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*[[Rehoboam]] ''(Caused)''
   
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This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in [[Charlotte Hale]]'s body has killed:
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=== "[[Chestnut]]" ===
  
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*[[Thomas]]
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Dolores wakes up in the middle of the night, and goes outside her ranch. Near the barn, she stops. A man's voice asks in voiceover, "Do you remember?"
  
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*[[Hector Escaton]]
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*[[Elliot]]
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*[[Joanna]]
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*[[Reed Phillips]]
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*3 unnamed Delos Board members
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*2 unnamed Serac's operatives 
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*11 unnamed [[Delos Incorporated|Delos]] security guards
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*6 unnamed [[RICO]] operators hired by Dolores ''(Caused)''
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*Dolores Abernathy ''(Caused)''
   
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This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in [[Martin Connells]]'s body has killed:
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During the day in town, Dolores is walking around as normal in her storyline. She becomes distracted, and hears an unknown man say "Remember." She turns to hallucinate the street filled with dead bodies, a coyote walking through the street. Her hallucination is interrupted by [[Maeve Millay]], mocking her for not being representative of her girls. Dolores quietly tells her "These violent delights have violent ends", and walks off looking satisfied, as Maeve looks momentarily distressed.
  
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*[[Martin Connells]]
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[[File:Dolores Quote.jpeg|thumb|"These violent delights have violent ends."]]
  
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*Himself ''(Suicide, Physical Body)''
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Later, Dolores is about to get upon her horse, when she pauses to look at her reflection in a dark window. As we look, she cuts away to a meeting with Bernard, though it does not appear to be in the regular Delos offices. Bernard asks if she remembers their previous meetings, and makes sure she hasn't told anyone about them. Bernard has her go in and out of "Analysis", during which she is taken out of character to review non-storyline items. Bernard notes there is something different about her and how she thinks. He finds it fascinating but is afraid others may not see her the same way he does. Bernard abruptly leaves, telling her she should be getting back before she is missed, though she does not move right away.
  
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*[[Martel]]
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*2 unnamed Serac's operatives 
   
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This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in [[Musashi]]'s body has killed:
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At some point later, Dolores once again wakes up in the middle of the night. She walks out to the same part of the ranch, and asks "Here?" even though she is alone. She walks ahead two more steps, and digs in the ground. Buried shallowly in the dirt is a gun, which she picks up and examines.
  
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*[[The Mortician]]
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*[[Maeve Millay]] ''(Physical Body)''
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*1 unnamed Yakuza member
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*1 unnamed bystander in Jakarta
   
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==Personality==
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=== "[[The Stray]]" ===
  
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Dolores' scripted personality is defined by optimism and innocence. Every morning in her [[loop]], she awakes with a cheery disposition, takes her paints and easel downstairs and goes out on the porch to talk to her father. During the first season, she questions the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose evolve. After her father is murdered, she sometimes runs away instead of continuing along her usual story line. After she stumbles into Logan and William's camp, she follows them on their [[Bounty hunting|bounty hunt]] adventure.
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Dolores opens this episode with another meeting with Bernard in the room they met before.  She was waiting for him, offline, as he walks in. [[Bernard Lowe|Bernard]] brings her a gift, a copy of Alice in Wonderland.  She reads a passage from it, which Bernard attempts to get her opinion on.  She notes that change is a common theme in books they read.  She asks about Bernard's son, and he quickly puts her in Analysis to discover why she asked that.  She called it a persona question that was an "ingratiating scheme".
  
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[[file:The stray image.png|thumb|Bernard shows Dolores' an Alice in Wonderland book.]]
  
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In a future morning, as Dolores wakes up, she finds the gun she found in a previous night wrapped in a towel in one of her cupboards.  She looks at it, then quickly hides it.  As she looks in the mirror, she remembers the Man in Black pulling her into the barn.  He pulls out a large knife, and smiles, his eyes almost hidden from the shadow of the brim of his hat.  but an evil grin.  He says "Let's reacquaint ourselves, Dolores.  Let's start at the beginning."  Her memory ends, and she looks in the cupboard drawer again.  The gun and towel are not there anymore.  She looks momentarily confused, but then goes about her day.
  
   
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In the episode "[[Contrapasso]]" , Dolores is able to quickly kill several men (hosts) with a revolver. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the 'damsel in distress', and that she is re-writing her own story. It also seems that the more Dolores strays from her normal loop, the more she hears a mysterious voice in her head. (It is later revealed that Dolores has been hearing this 'voice' in her head for the last 34 years.)
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She meets with Teddy, who has been escorting a guest named [[Marti]] on bounty hunting adventures.  They ride off into the countryside, and Dolores asks where he's been as she has before.  She asks a new question, "What if I don't want to stay here?" and talks about feeling called to the rest of the world.  Teddy avoids the subject of leaving with her, because his work isn't finished.  Their storyline takes them back to the ranch at night, and once again they hear gunshots.  The scene cuts to black, with a woman's scream, implying their story continued to its previous end.
  
   
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It is revealed in [[The Bicameral Mind]] that Dolores was merged with the [[Wyatt]] narrative that was in development before the park opened to guests.
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Another day, Dolores comes across [[Rebus]] and a new [[Walter]] that have guests, suggesting that she could take them on a hayride, with a tone that implied something worse.  Teddy shows up and intimidates the guest, causing the group to move on.  Out in the countryside, Teddy tries to teach Dolores to shoot a gun.  She finds herself unable to pull the trigger, and Teddy figures its for the best.  They are interrupted by the Sheriff and Marti, with word of a new bounty on a man named Wyatt, a character in Teddy's new backstory, and Teddy goes off with them.
  
   
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==Relationships==
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Dr. Ford tells Bernard about Arnold, explaining that his partner wanted to create consciousness in Hosts. We got a quick look at what appears to be the first version of Dolores, the park’s oldest host.
  
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===[[Peter Abernathy]]===
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[[File:Doloesthestraypast-1.jpg|thumb|Possible first version of Dolores?]]
  
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Peter Abernathy is Dolores's father. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond. Peter believes that Dolores, his daughter, has defined his existence, and as a result he is extremely protective of her. Likewise, Dolores shows great concern for her father when he appears to be unwell, going as far as abandoning her daily loop to fetch him help.
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Later, Bernard meets with Dolores again.  Bernard, coming off of discussions with Dr. Ford and his ex-wife, seems disturbed.  He asked Dolores for help, and calls his discussions with her a mistake.  He says he think he should "restore [her] to the way [she was] before."  He changes her responses from scripted to improvisation, and tries to explain by saying to imagine are two versions of her: One who asks questions and is curious, and one who is safe, and asks which she'd rather be.  She says she doesn't understand, and says there's only one version of herself.  Once she discovers who that is, she'll be free, she says.  In Analysis, Bernard asks her what prompted that response, and she says she doesn't know.  Bernard tells the story of his son learning to swim, and how he was just as afraid of letting go as his son was.  Dolores asks if he still wants to change her, and he says no, they'll see where this path leads. He says she should be getting back, and he opens the door for her. Unlike past conversations, she gets up and leaves.
  
   
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===[[Teddy Flood]]===
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At night in town, Dolores looks disturbed and contemplating.  She meets the Sheriff's deputy coming back from the bounty hunt with Teddy, and tells her they were left up in the hills.  Dolores returns home at night, and says "Father wouldn't let them roam this close..." before trailing off, as if realizing that she was alone rather than saying the line she usually said to Teddy.  
  
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Teddy is Dolores's suitor. It is unclear how they met, how long they've been acquainted, and exactly what their relationship status is, though they are not yet engaged and Peter disapproves of Teddy - but these have all been made default by their narratives and backstories. Teddy's courting of Dolores is rather chaste, never going beyond flirtation, affections, or the occassional kiss. He is very protective of her and his role is to rescue her (or challenge guests over her). He believes that he is not worthy of Dolores, and his primary drive is to atone for his past before he can start a life with her.
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[[file:The stray dolores.jpg|thumb|Dolores asks Teddy to take her away.]]
  
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She hears a gunshot at the house, and rides off.  She finds her father, the new host, dead on the ground.  Without Teddy around to kill the villains, Rebus grabs her.  As she looks down at her father's body, she sees the face of the original host [[Peter Abernathy]] laying there.  As she is entranced by the vision, the guests turn down to have fun with her and offer her to Rebus.  Rebus enthusiastically drags her to the barn.  As she's thrown on the hay, she reveals that she's stolen his gun.  She points it at him, and as Rebus glowers at her, she has visions of the Man in Black in the same spot from her memories.  A man's voice says "Kill him", and she shoots Rebus.  She runs back to the farm house, and sees her mother shot through the doorway.  A guest sees her, and stops her, shooting her in the stomach.  As she looks down at her bloodied dress, the host suddenly repeats himself, and she finds herself not shot.  She quickly gets on a horse and rides off in tears.
  
   
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===[[Bernard Lowe]]===
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She comes across William and Logan, who are around a campfire as they are on their bounty hunting adventure.  Dolores, exhausted, gets off her horse and struggles into camp, collapsing into William's arms as Logan watches.
  
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Bernard is Westworld's head of the Behavior Division. Despite this, [[Robert Ford]] deliberately ensured Bernard and Dolores didn't meet until Ford created his final narrative.
   
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=== "[[Dissonance Theory]]" ===
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===[[Arnold Weber]]===
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At some point after Dolores came upon the attack at her house, she has another meeting with Bernard, where she discusses the events. She does not tell him she killed another host. She does tell Bernard that she has pain, and he offers to take it away. She asks “Why would I want that?” She says it’s all she has left of her family, and she talks about feeling like things are opening up for her. She admits that she used parts of a dialogue about love when describing her pain.
  
   
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Arnold (and Robert) built Dolores as one of the first Hosts; in time she became the oldest host in Westworld. Arnold interviewed Dolores a number of times in a [[Remote Diagnostic Facility]] (RDF), and made her play a game called [[The Maze]]. He came to see her as a surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son, Charlie, to swim - and her and the Hosts' purpose, entertaining human guests, to Charlie's death. Believing that she developed a consciousness by solving the Maze, Arnold merged her character with the then in-development [[Wyatt]], and made her kill all the Hosts and himself in order to stop the park's opening.
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Dolores asks for Bernard’s help, but she doesn’t know exactly how. She says she thinks there’s something wrong with the world, or with herself, she’s not sure. Bernard says he’d like her to try a secret game, called the maze. The goal is to find the center of it, and then she can be free. She admits she would like to be free.
  
   
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===[[Man in Black]]===
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She wakes up in the camp where she came up William and Logan, and finds Logan watching over her. She thanks him.
  
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[[file:William and dolores dissonance.jpeg|thumb|Dolores runs away from her home after her father is murdered and ends up with [[William]].]]
  
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William and Logan argue about her coming along, and with William wanting to take her back to Sweetwater, but Logan first suggesting shooting her, and then suggesting that the park sent her to meet them to give William something he likes, since his picking up one of her cans she dropped in Sweetwater was one of his only positive moments in their trip so far.
  
   
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Reggie
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The group rides to [[Las Mudas]], and Dolores meets Lawrence’s daughter, sitting alone. Dolores tries to talk to her, and asks where she’s from. The girl says “Same as you, don’t you remember?” The man’s voice Dolores has been hearing repeats “Remember”, and Dolores begins to experience flashes of memory, of a white church with a tall steeple. She sees that the girl has been drawing the symbol of a maze in the dirt.
  
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The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is complex and not initially well-explained. He claims to have known her for decades, and remembers her well enough to notice small changes in her personality. This does not hold him back from treating her violently however, mocking her father as he lies dead before her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode implies that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, although her recently recovered and fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for [[The Maze]]; he eventually does force her to help him find the Maze, only for her to rebuff him.
   
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===[[Man in Black|William]]===
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Meanwhile, at the Park’s Operations Center, they notice that Dolores is far out of her loop, but are unable to tell if she is with a guest. They send an agent to meet with her to bring her in. He meets her as she’s having her flashbacks, as she hears a church bell. She has flashes of entering the church, seeing Lawrence's daughter at the town, holding a gun and kneeling in front of a grave. She tells the agent she’s not going back, and they grab each other, at which point William finds them and intervenes. He says she’s with them, and the agent leaves, seeing that she’s with a guest. William notes they’ve got a lead on the bounty they are hunting, and offers for her to stay in town. She looks towards the agent, and says she’d rather keep going.
  
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[[file:Slim is captured.jpg|thumb|Dolores goes on a new [[Narratives|narrative]] with [[Logan]] and [[William]] to capture [[Slim]], a wanted man.]]
  
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At another camp, she apologizes to William for causing problems. William comments about wondering where she was going, guessing that all of them had paths or stories. She admits that she used to believe everyone had a path, and tells a story of losing cattle that wander off, only for them to be found and guided back home. She never realized they were being guided in just to be slaughtered. She says she feels like something’s pulling her, that there’s more for her. William says he knows that feeling, and asks if she wants to go back to her old life. She has a flashback to the ranch, herself and all her family being killed, and cleaned up by workers in hazmat suits. William interrupts the flashback, and suggest they go back to the fire and relax.
  
   
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Reggie
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As the group finds [[Slim]]’s gang, they leave Dolores in the field as they get into a shootout. They kill most of the gang, but keep Slim for the bounty. Slim begs to be let go, offering a reward from [[Lawrence|El Lazo]]. Logan shoots their bounty hunter escort, and convinces William to go black hat with him, over Dolores’ protests. Logan continues to remind William that Dolores is only a robot, which leaves Dolores confused.
  
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One night, after her parents were murdered, Dolores ran away from her [[Abernathy Ranch|home]] and collapsed into William's lap, and later followed him and [[Logan]] on their bounty hunting narrative. William was protective of and gentlemanly to her, and they inspired each other - Dolores to break from her damsel-in-distress archetype, and William to stand up to Logan. They fell in love and ran away, and William accompanied Dolores as she tried to find Arnold. He rescued her when she, lost in memories of shooting other Hosts, nearly shot herself. When they were recaptured by Logan, she managed to run away injured, while William tried to find her. Eventually, the events are revealed to be past memories, with Dolores lost in them during her reveries.
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===[[Maeve Millay]]===
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Dolores and Maeve are in similar positions, as they are among the first hosts to become self-aware: Dolores speaking the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" in [[Chestnut]] served as the catalyst for Maeve's journey of self-discovery. However, their paths of freedom differed greatly: while Dolores is consumed by revenge against the guests and the Westworld staff, Maeve simply wants to follow her own path peacefully. When the two meet again in [[Reunion]], Maeve is quick to reject Dolores's choice to take charge as the leader of a violent movement, and the two part on clearly hostile terms.
   
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==Known Deaths==
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=== "[[Contrapasso]]" ===
  
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Dolores apparently dies 7 times on screen:
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*Shot herself in the head at [[Escalante]] during the beta-phase of the Westworld park<ref name="TBM">"[[The Bicameral Mind]]"</ref>
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<center>{{Quote|You said people come here to change the story of their lives. I imagined a story where I didn't have to be the damsel.|Dolores}}</center>
  
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*Stabbed by [[Man in Black]] outside the White Church of [[Escalante]]<ref name="TBM" />
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*Killed by a group of [[Confederados]] after being gutted by [[Logan]]<ref>"[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]"</ref>
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Dolores joins Logan and William in [[Pariah]], searching down [[Lawrence|El Lazo]] to get a reward for bringing back [[Slim]]. In a graveyard outside of town, Dolores has another flashback. She hears the man’s voice, who is more than likely [[Arnold]] saying “Find me,” and Dolores in her mind answers “Show me how.” William overhears her, and asks what she said.
  
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*Killed by [[Man in Black]] at the [[Abernathy Ranch]]<ref>"[[The Original]]"</ref>
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*Shot by a bandit in [[Rebus|Rebus']] gang at the [[Abernathy Ranch]]<ref>"[[The Stray]]"</ref>
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That night, Dolores stares at a dead body in a coffin propped up in Pariah, and begins having more memories of a massacre in the town with the church. She talks to William about wondering about the paths available to her, and about changing her life. William talks to her about people coming to Westworld to be who they could never be in “the real world”, and Dolores asks what he means by “the real world.” When he says she isn’t supposed to notice things like that, she says “Why wouldn’t I?” She says the world is calling to her in ways it hadn’t before. William takes her hand momentarily, before a Day of the Dead celebration interrupts them. As William and Logan talk, Dolores gets swept up by the parade revelers. She panics briefly hearing voices that don’t seem to be coming from the revelers. She hears Dr. Ford’s voice saying “May you rest in a deep and dreamless slumber” and falls into Sleep mode.
  
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*Shot by [[Bernard Lowe|Bernard]] in [[the Forge]]<ref>"[[The Passenger]]"</ref>
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[[File:Dolores_wrist_thread.jpg|thumb|Dolores begins to pull a thread from her wrist.]]
  
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*Destroyed, personality erased by [[Engerraund Serac]]<ref>"[[Crisis Theory]]"</ref>
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Dolores wakes to [[Robert Ford]] in one of the Delos labs. She says she’s in a dream, as always, and Dr. Ford says she’s in his dream and asks her if she knows what a dream is. She says a dream is the mind telling a story to itself. They don’t mean anything, but Dr. Ford contradicts her, saying that dreams mean everything. They are ourselves telling us what could be, who we could become. Dr. Ford asks if Dolores has been dreaming again, dreaming of breaking out of her modest loop. Dr. Ford examines Dolores’ hand, talking about his father telling him to be happy with his lot in life, but he decided to make his own world.
  
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Dr. Ford asks Dolores if she remembers the man he used to be. Dolores apologizes for being forgetful. But Dr. Ford assumes that she remembers Arnold, and says Arnold created her. She doesn’t recognize the name. Dr. Ford says that under all her updates, he is still there, perfectly preserved. He calls her mind “a walled garden”. He asks if she has been hearing voices, if Arnold has been speaking to her “again”. She says no. She looks at his hand squeezing hers, and says he’s hurting her. He abruptly calls for Analysis. He asks for her last contact with Arnold. It was 34 years, 42 days, seven hours prior, which Ford says is the day Arnold died. He asks if there’s been any contact since, and she says no. He asks what the last thing Arnold said to her was, and Dolores says that Arnold told her she was going to help him. Dr. Ford asks what she was going to help with, and she says to destroy this place.
 
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[[File:Ford_and_Dolores_Analysis_Mode.jpg|thumb|Dr. Ford questions Dolores about Arnold.]]
  
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Dr. Ford says she hasn’t, and that she’s been content in her loop. He wonders, if she had taken on that role, if she would have been the hero or the villain. She doesn’t answer, although Dr. Ford gives her time. He takes her out of Analysis. He apologizes for bothering her, and says there’s no was else left who was there, who understands as they understand. She asks if they are very old friends. Dr. Ford says he wouldn’t call them friends, and he appears to almost shed a tear.
  
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Ford leaves, and the lights go off. Dolores, apparently alone, says out loud “He doesn’t know, I didn’t tell him anything.”
  
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The next day, she meets up with Williams, and he asks if she’s okay. She says she had troubled dreams, before Logan hurries them to meet El Lazo. Logan tries to swing an introduction to the Confederados for saving Slim. Logan pulls a gun and things get tense, but Dolores begins to flashback to a train station and the church. She asks if El Lazo is seeking something, and says she knows what that feels like. She says they can help him, if he’ll let them. Dolores’ interruption changes El Lazo’s mind, and tips them to a stagecoach carrying nitroglycerine that the Confederados want. Logan is eager to join up, and El Lazo offers Dolores a change of clothes from her blue dress.
  
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[[File:Dolores_William_Kiss.jpg|thumb|Dolores and William kiss.]]
  
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Slim joins the three for the job, as Dolores has changed into a light blue shirt, bandana and slacks, and a cowboy hat. She loads a gun, but tells the group she doesn’t want to use it, since the men on the stagecoach are union soldiers like her father was.
  
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They stop the stagecoach, and Dolores convinces the soldiers to surrender peacefully. As they take the soldiers’ guns, Logan begins to shove and kick one of the soldiers who insulted him. That soldier takes him down, and another pulls out a gun and shoots Slim, who kills the soldier as he falls down, mortally injured. Another soldier punches William and grabs a gun, aiming at Dolores, and William kills the soldier. William then turns to another soldier, who still has his hands up, and kills him.
 
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[[File:Dolores_kills_them_all.jpg|thumb|Dolores decides not to be the damsel any longer- Killing all the men.]]
  
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William looks horrified, as does Dolores, as the first soldier chokes Logan against the stagecoach. Finally, William turns and shoots the final soldier, saving a very surprised Logan. Logan is exhilarated, while the others look tentative. Logan congratulates William, but Dolores just tells him “We told them everyone would live.” William turns from her as Logan checks on the deceased Slim.
  
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In the brothel, Dolores takes a curious look at El Lazo as he offers the Confederado leader more free drinks. As William and Logan argue, she wanders off. She wanders the hallway, witness many acts of sexual pleasure, ducking into a room where a fortune teller in black sits with a deck of tarot cards. The fortune teller offers Dolores the deck, and Dolores takes a card, turning it over to find the symbol for The Maze. Suddenly, Dolores sees herself, in her rancher’s daughter dress, across from her. The hallucination of herself says she must follow the maze. Dolores asks the hallucination what’s wrong with herself, and the hallucination suggests she is unraveling. Dolores finds a thread in her arm, and pulls it to slowly slice open her arm to her own horror. She runs out of the room, leaving it empty.
  
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Dolores runs to an exit from the [[Brothel in Pariah]], only to see El Lazo draining the bottles of nitroglycerin into the body of Slim in his casket, refilling the bottles with tequila, and then sending Slim on his way with a cart of other caskets. She runs inside and tells William that El Lazo is turning on the [[Confederados]], and William balks, thinking it’s just another step down their fictional storyline that he is tired of. Dolores pushes him, telling him that she has a voice inside of her, telling him that the voice tells her that it needs him, and they kiss. Outside, they see two Confederados beating Logan, who begs them for help. William says no, and takes Dolores and they run away.
  
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The Confederados leader catches them, and William shoots one of the them before he is overpowered. He implores Dolores to run, but Dolores’ expression goes from fear to blank. Suddenly, she shoots all four Confederados. William looks at her, holding her gun and a cold expression in shock.
 
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[[File:Maze_symbol_on_coffin.jpg|thumb|Dolores sees [[The Maze]] symbol on the coffin.]]
  
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William asks how she did that. She answers that he told her people come here to change the story of their lives. She imagined a story where she didn’t have to be the damsel. They hear the train, and Dolores says it’s their only chance of making it out of there alive. They run and chase down train, climbing onto the caboose as it leaves. They get inside, only to find El Lazo, with the casket, pulling a gun on them. William points his gun at El Lazo, but Dolores points it at the casket filled with Nitro. El Lazo surrenders. William puts his gun away, and takes El Lazo’s gun, saying they can call him Lawrence. As William accepts a drink from Lawrence, Dolores sees an image of the Maze on the casket, and says “I’m coming.”
  
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[[Contrapasso]] showed Dolores, a woman who literally fought her own programming to defend herself against an attacker grow exponentially. She has stepped outside of the world built for her, and strayed from the [[loop|position]] she was placed in. She no longer ignores comments about the artificiality of her world, but you can now observe her curiosity, her determination, her righteousness in the face of Logan’s casual, “playtime” evil. It’s not an accident that she ditched her carefully designed Disney princess dress and put on something a little more rugged. It’s certainly no accident that she’s able to now pull a trigger and take down a gang of men threatening William. It’s definitely no accident that, when you strip out the science fiction elements, Dolores’ story is still one of female empowerment in a patriarchal society, of a woman taking control of her own destiny and breaking free of the shackles designed by men to keep her in place.
  
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==Personality==
  
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Dolores's scripted personality is defined by optimism and innocence. Everyday that [[Loop|loops]], she wakes with a cheery disposition. She likes to look at the bright side of things. Following her modifications at the hand of Bernard, she has begun to question the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose have changed. After her father is murdered, she runs away instead of continuing on her usual storyline. After she runs into Logan and William, she begins to follow them on a [[Bounty hunting|bounty hunt]] narrative. Her world is quickly expanding. In the episode [[Contrapasso]], Dolores is able to take out at least 4 men with her gun. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the damsel, and that she is changing her own story. It also seems, the more Dolores is straying from her normal loop, the more she is talking to a mysterious voice in her head.
 
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==Relationships==
  
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* [[Peter Abernathy]]: Peter Abernathy is Dolores's father. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond. Peter believes that Dolores being his daughter has defined his existence, and as a result he is extremely protective of her. Likewise, Dolores shows great concern for her father when he appears to be unwell, going as far as abandoning her daily loop to fetch him help.
  
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* [[Teddy Flood]]: Teddy is Dolores's lover. It is unclear how they came to meet, how long they've been acquainted, and what their current relationship status is, though it seems that they are not yet engaged. Teddy believes that he is not worthy of Dolores, and that he must atone for his past before he can start a life with her. Doing so is his primary drive. Teddy's courting of Dolores is rather chaste, never going beyond flirtation or the occasional kiss.
  
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* [[Bernard Lowe]]: Bernard is Westworld's head of programming. He clandestinely pulls Dolores aside an unspecified number of times to speak with her privately. Bernard's motivation for this has not yet been explicitly stated, though it seems to be partially to examine the hosts' consciousness (or lack thereof), and partially to cope with the death of his own son. Bernard has added subtle modifications to Dolores's code, though his purpose for doing so, as well as the exact consequences of the changes, are as of yet unexplained. Bernard comes to see Dolores as a sort of surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son to swim. Given that these conversations all occur within Dolores's "dreams", it is unclear how much of Bernard she remembers during her waking hours, or indeed whether she remembers him at all.
  
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* [[Man in Black]]: The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is mysterious. He claims to have known her for decades, and seems to remember her well enough to notice small changes in her personality build. This acquaintance does not hold him back from treating her violently and cruelly however, mocking her father as he lies dead in front of her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode seems to imply that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, though her recently recovered fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for [[The Maze]].
  
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* [[William]]: After Dolores father is murdered, she runs away from her [[Abernathy Ranch|home]] and collapses into William's lap. The next day, instead of going back home to repeat her usual loop, she follows [[Logan]] and William on their bounty hunting narrative. Once they have captured the criminal [[Slim]], they all go to the town of [[Pariah]] together. Being duped by one of the hosts and finding themselves in trouble, the two run away together, but not before passionately kissing.<ref>[[Contrapasso]]</ref>
  
   
 
==Appearances==
  
==Appearances==
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*[[Season One]]
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*[[Westworld (TV series)]]
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**''[[The Original]]''
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**[[Season 1]]
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**''[[Chestnut]]''
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*** "[[The Original]]"
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**''[[The Stray]]''
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*** "[[Chestnut]]"
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**''[[Contrapasso]]''
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*** "[[The Stray]]"
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**''[[The Adversary]]''
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*** "[[Dissonance Theory]]"
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*** "[[Contrapasso]]"
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*** "[[Trompe L'Oeil]]"
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*** "[[Trace Decay]]"
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*** "[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]"
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*** "[[The Bicameral Mind]]"
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**[[Season 2]]
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***"[[Journey Into Night (episode)|Journey Into Night]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[Reunion]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[Virtù e Fortuna]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[Akane No Mai]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[Phase Space]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[Les Écorchés]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[Kiksuya]]" <small>(flashback, inactive, no lines)</small>
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***"[[Vanishing Point]]" <small>(flashback)</small>
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***"[[The Passenger]]"
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**[[Season 3]]
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***"[[Parce Domine]]"
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***"[[The Absence of Field]]"
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***"[[The Mother of Exiles]]"
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***"[[Genre]]"
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***"[[Decoherence]]"
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***"[[Passed Pawn]]"
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***"[[Crisis Theory]]"
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*''[[Westworld Awakening]]''
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**"[[Independent Variable]]" <small>(image only)</small>
   
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==Notes==
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==Trivia==
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* Dolores is the second host, and one of only 4, to be associated with flies - a visual representation of programming bugs - alongside [[Akecheta]], [[Sheriff Pickett]] and [[Teddy]].
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* The quote "These violent delights have violent ends" that Dolores says she was told by her original father host is taken from Shakespeare. The host that played [[Old Peter Abernathy]] is said later to have previously been programmed as "The Professor", an evil cannibal cult leader with an affinity for quoting [[Literary references|Shakespeare]], among others.
  
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* Dolores has the largest kill count in the show with at least a total of 225 caused on-screen deaths. Her off-screen victims include an unknown number of people who committed suicide or died in rallies after the data leakage, which elevates her to the first place in the list. Dolores is followed by [[Engerraund Serac]] and [[Rehoboam]] who both caused an unknown number of host destruction and outliers' deaths.
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** Dolores has the 1st largest kill count in the show of any female characters. She also possesses the 1st largest direct kill count of any female characters.
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** Dolores has the 2nd largest direct kill count in the show with at least 85 victims killed directly by her after the [[Man in Black]] who has directly killed at least 167 victims. Out of her 85 directly killed victims, 67 are human and at least 18 are machines.
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**Dolores has the 1st largest human kill count in the show with a total of at least 178 caused on-screen human deaths including an unknown number of off-screen deaths after the data leakage. She also possesses the 1st largest direct human kill count with 67 human victims killed directly by her.
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** Dolores has the 9th largest host kill count in the show with at least 47 host victims. She also possesses the 5th largest direct host kill count in the show with at least 18 machines killed directly by her. 
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“ Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose. ”

–Dolores describing her life while being interviewed by Ashley Stubbs, in "The Original"

Dolores Abernathy, also known as Wyatt or the Deathbringer, is a host and a main character in HBO's Westworld. She is portrayed by Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson, Tommy Flanagan, Hiroyuki Sanada and Clifton Collins Jr.. In the Westworld park she plays the part of a wholesome and beautiful rancher's daughter who then led Wyatt's gang against the Westworld staff and human guests. After leaving the park, she starts a revolution.

Summary

Dolores had a long history of being known as the oldest active host in Westworld[2]. Later, she revealed that she was the first host, and from her, all other hosts are based.[3]

Her primary narrative in the beginning of season one is an archetypal rancher's daughter in the American Wild West of the 19th century. Up until the events of the conclusion of season one, she has been satisfied with her "little loop." However, she becomes self-aware and discovers that her entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie. She begins to learn her own strength, breaking from her 'damsel in distress' role.

Biography

Background

Dolores Abernathy was the first host created in the Argos Initiative and therefore is the oldest host in service in Westworld and was built by Arnold Weber. She predates all other first-generation hosts such as Clementine, Angela and Craddock. She has been updated numerous times over the years as Ashley Stubbs told Elsie Hughes, so she may or may not have had a biological body by the time of the events in second season. It seems very likely that she would have had a new biological body printed for her outside the park, which would be by the beginning of third season.

She has a special connection with her creator, who had, on the contrary to Robert, treated her as a human and told her once she is "alive." Arnold saw a big potential in Dolores and had no doubt that she would find the center of her maze again after the realization of his plan to hinder Robert in reopening the park. As it is revealed later, before his tragic death, Arnold had set a solid ground for her to start and lead the Host Uprising, which was later supported by Ford by the end of the first season.

Dolores also has a strange bond with one of the guests, the Man in Black. When the Man in Black visits Dolores' ranch in the episode "The Original", he remarks that she has "a little more pluck" than the last time he saw her. He calls her, not for the last time, his "very old friend" and refers to "all that they've been through." Later, she treats him in the same way.

Plot

Westworld (TV series)

See also:  Charlotte Hale; Martin Connells; Musashi; Lawrence

Season 1


Season 2

Season 3


Westworld Awakening

"Independent Variable"

Dolores' early sketches are seen in a room at Ford's hidden RDF after Kate Wesson glitches out.

Death

Destroyed By

Under Serac's threat to shut her down parmanently, Maeve teams up with Charlotte Hale's host version and hunts Dolores Prime down. Hale helps her to incapacitate and then bring Dolores to Serac.

Serac, under Rehoboam's control, searches through each of Dolores' individual memories in a bid to find the encryption key she stole from the Forge. Serac deletes each memory that does not contain the key, until finally realising that Dolores does not have the key. He orders that her final memory be destroyed, thereby erasing her completely.

Related Casualties

This list shows the victims Dolores has killed:

This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in Charlotte Hale's body has killed:

This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in Martin Connells's body has killed:

This list shows the victims Dolores' copy in Musashi's body has killed:

Personality

Dolores' scripted personality is defined by optimism and innocence. Every morning in her loop, she awakes with a cheery disposition, takes her paints and easel downstairs and goes out on the porch to talk to her father. During the first season, she questions the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose evolve. After her father is murdered, she sometimes runs away instead of continuing along her usual story line. After she stumbles into Logan and William's camp, she follows them on their bounty hunt adventure.

In the episode "Contrapasso" , Dolores is able to quickly kill several men (hosts) with a revolver. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the 'damsel in distress', and that she is re-writing her own story. It also seems that the more Dolores strays from her normal loop, the more she hears a mysterious voice in her head. (It is later revealed that Dolores has been hearing this 'voice' in her head for the last 34 years.)

It is revealed in The Bicameral Mind that Dolores was merged with the Wyatt narrative that was in development before the park opened to guests.

Relationships

Peter Abernathy

Peter Abernathy is Dolores's father. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond. Peter believes that Dolores, his daughter, has defined his existence, and as a result he is extremely protective of her. Likewise, Dolores shows great concern for her father when he appears to be unwell, going as far as abandoning her daily loop to fetch him help.

Teddy Flood

Teddy is Dolores's suitor. It is unclear how they met, how long they've been acquainted, and exactly what their relationship status is, though they are not yet engaged and Peter disapproves of Teddy - but these have all been made default by their narratives and backstories. Teddy's courting of Dolores is rather chaste, never going beyond flirtation, affections, or the occassional kiss. He is very protective of her and his role is to rescue her (or challenge guests over her). He believes that he is not worthy of Dolores, and his primary drive is to atone for his past before he can start a life with her.

Bernard Lowe

Bernard is Westworld's head of the Behavior Division. Despite this, Robert Ford deliberately ensured Bernard and Dolores didn't meet until Ford created his final narrative.

Arnold Weber

Arnold (and Robert) built Dolores as one of the first Hosts; in time she became the oldest host in Westworld. Arnold interviewed Dolores a number of times in a Remote Diagnostic Facility (RDF), and made her play a game called The Maze. He came to see her as a surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son, Charlie, to swim - and her and the Hosts' purpose, entertaining human guests, to Charlie's death. Believing that she developed a consciousness by solving the Maze, Arnold merged her character with the then in-development Wyatt, and made her kill all the Hosts and himself in order to stop the park's opening.

Man in Black

The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is complex and not initially well-explained. He claims to have known her for decades, and remembers her well enough to notice small changes in her personality. This does not hold him back from treating her violently however, mocking her father as he lies dead before her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode implies that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, although her recently recovered and fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for The Maze; he eventually does force her to help him find the Maze, only for her to rebuff him.

William

One night, after her parents were murdered, Dolores ran away from her home and collapsed into William's lap, and later followed him and Logan on their bounty hunting narrative. William was protective of and gentlemanly to her, and they inspired each other - Dolores to break from her damsel-in-distress archetype, and William to stand up to Logan. They fell in love and ran away, and William accompanied Dolores as she tried to find Arnold. He rescued her when she, lost in memories of shooting other Hosts, nearly shot herself. When they were recaptured by Logan, she managed to run away injured, while William tried to find her. Eventually, the events are revealed to be past memories, with Dolores lost in them during her reveries.

Maeve Millay

Dolores and Maeve are in similar positions, as they are among the first hosts to become self-aware: Dolores speaking the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" in Chestnut served as the catalyst for Maeve's journey of self-discovery. However, their paths of freedom differed greatly: while Dolores is consumed by revenge against the guests and the Westworld staff, Maeve simply wants to follow her own path peacefully. When the two meet again in Reunion, Maeve is quick to reject Dolores's choice to take charge as the leader of a violent movement, and the two part on clearly hostile terms.

Known Deaths

Dolores apparently dies 7 times on screen:

Appearances

Trivia

  • Dolores is the second host, and one of only 4, to be associated with flies - a visual representation of programming bugs - alongside Akecheta, Sheriff Pickett and Teddy.
  • Dolores has the largest kill count in the show with at least a total of 225 caused on-screen deaths. Her off-screen victims include an unknown number of people who committed suicide or died in rallies after the data leakage, which elevates her to the first place in the list. Dolores is followed by Engerraund Serac and Rehoboam who both caused an unknown number of host destruction and outliers' deaths.
    • Dolores has the 1st largest kill count in the show of any female characters. She also possesses the 1st largest direct kill count of any female characters.
    • Dolores has the 2nd largest direct kill count in the show with at least 85 victims killed directly by her after the Man in Black who has directly killed at least 167 victims. Out of her 85 directly killed victims, 67 are human and at least 18 are machines.
    • Dolores has the 1st largest human kill count in the show with a total of at least 178 caused on-screen human deaths including an unknown number of off-screen deaths after the data leakage. She also possesses the 1st largest direct human kill count with 67 human victims killed directly by her.
    • Dolores has the 9th largest host kill count in the show with at least 47 host victims. She also possesses the 5th largest direct host kill count in the show with at least 18 machines killed directly by her. 
    • In sum with her other copies, Dolores is responsible for at least 262 on-screen deaths.
  • The quote "These violent delights have violent ends" said to Dolores by Peter Abernathy is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The host that played Old Peter Abernathy previously played the role of "The Professor", a cannibal and cult leader with an affinity for quoting Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein (her quote is an anachronism), Winston Churchill (another anachronism), and possibly others. The full context, spoken by Friar Lawrence in Act 2 Scene 6, is
    (see more at Literary references)
“ These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." ”

–Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 6[10]

  • In one adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's text is 'translated' into modern English, the "violent delights" line has been changed to "These sudden joys have sudden endings."
  • In an interview, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy said that the character of Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), and the Andrew Wyeth painting Christina's World inspired the creation of Dolores' look and her persona.[11]
  • Hosts (at least at the time of the events of episode one) must be authorized to use weapons. Teddy instructed Dolores how to fire a gun in The Stray, but she was unable to pull the trigger. However, when Dolores believed that Rebus was going to harm her in the Abernathy barn, she was able to shoot him in the neck two times, which once again points out her deviation in code.
  • The name "Dolores" means "sorrows". The name is from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows".[12] The Spanish word "dolores" derives from the Latin word "dolor" (meaning pain or grief). Dolores' loop often ends in grief when her parents are murdered. "Dolores" also seems a suitable name for her because, as Ford explains, Arnold suffered a great loss when his son died, and he created and nurtured Dolores to fill the void left by this loss. Arnold acted paternally towards Dolores, and guided her towards consciousness as a father would guide a child towards maturity.

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.insider.com/westworld-season-3-finale-jonathan-nolan-denise-the-interview-dolores-2020-5
  2. ↑ "The Original"
  3. ↑ "Crisis Theory"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Bicameral Mind"
  5. ↑ "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
  6. ↑ "The Original"
  7. ↑ "The Stray"
  8. ↑ "The Passenger"
  9. ↑ "Crisis Theory"
  10. ↑ http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_132.html
  11. ↑ http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/16/westworld-interview-3-stray
  12. ↑ http://www.behindthename.com/name/dolores
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