History Fridge / FindingDory

* The two adult fish that Baby Dory first talks to after being separated from her parents? [[AdultFear The ones who turn away for half a second to talk only to be distressed when they see Dory is gone?]] Chances are they never found out what happened to her.

* Destiny the whale shark is seen being fed a bucket of dead fish, which means Dory befriended a creature that considers her kind to be food.

* Why does Dory forget about finding her family for a year? [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Because she found Marlin and Nemo.]]

!!FridgeLogic
* If Destiny and Bailey do stay together so Bailey can be Destiny's eyes, one of them is going to be very uncomfortable. Whale sharks are warm-water animals with a range bracketing the equator, while Beluga whales are a deeply Arctic species, with a range barely extending South of the Aleutian islands.
** Well, it's a world where sharks can overcome their fish-eating instincts, so I guess they could be fine.
** Possibly they could find a spot where the water is warm at the surface but frigid lower down. Bailey could take a quick look-around for Destiny each time he surfaces to breathe, then dive down to where he's comfortable.
*** Then he'd have to deal with the additional water pressure that deep down.
* Destiny thinks she's a whale, but she's actually a whale ''shark''. Exactly what caused her to think she's a whale or even learn to speak their language? Was she raised by whales? Did her life next to Bailey cause her to assume she was a whale as well? Wouldn't she suspect something considering she can breathe underwater, has gills, and lacks a blowhole?
** Possibly baleen whales consider whale and basking sharks to be "honorary whales" due to similarity in diet, and are friendly enough to them that the sharks bring their offspring up to be bilingual.
* We see characters from previous films in cameo appearances including Crush, Squirt, Mr. Ray, the seagulls, and [[spoiler:The Tank Gang]]. But, not once do the shark trio (Bruce, Chum, and Anchor) ever appear. Sure, we know they're still alive at the end of Finding Nemo. And, they are briefly mentioned when Marlin recaps his adventures. But, they don't show up. What gives? Were the actors not available to reprise their roles? Did the makers think Destiny would be better off as the only shark in the film?
** Their absence is a bit shocking as well. There is a missed funny opportunity to have Bruce and co. at the end of the film [[spoiler:lecture Destiny and Bailey on the perks of vegetarianism once everyone is in the ocean. Real life whale sharks and belugas eat fish when given the chance]]. The movie even acknowledges this when [[spoiler: Dory sneaks into Destiny's tank through the bucket of dead fish. Unless the idea is that Destiny and Bailey still eat fish once in the ocean, just not Dory and her friends ...]]
** It could be as simple as the shark-trio having left the area. Many sharks are migratory, like Mr. Ray.
** While it's not terribly odd that they don't reappear, the way they're referred to raises a few questions. Marlin tries to claim that there were four of them... but the end of the first film showed that Dory attends their weekly meetings. Does that not go on anymore? And why would Marlin try to make the situation sound scarier than it was when Nemo must know that the sharks turned out to be friendly? Later in the film, during Marlin's tender moment with Dory, he mentions that without her he'd never know he could outsmart sharks. Outsmart? That doesn't sound like what happened. It's as if this film forgot that the sharks were actually benevolent.
*** They "outsmarted" Bruce when he was in his blood-drunk fugue, deploying the torpedo from the submarine into his mouth to wedge his jaws apart so that they could escape. Also remember that it was ''Dory's'' idea to do that, however impulsively, so Marlin's words still hold true. As for Marlin exaggerating the details of his encounter with the sharks to Nemo, maybe it's his version of a "big fish" story?
* Okay, how did that truck's back door open at the end?
** If you look closely while [[spoiler:the truck is falling backwards off the cliff, there's one shot where you can see the back door's locks open. They unlock because of the gravity pull from being flung forward in that upside down position.]]

* Dory's friends might find themselves uncomfortable with the three sharks occasionaly hanging around the reef. Oh, wait, the sharks are nice and don't eat fish. Then you realize that Hank and Bailey are not fish.
** Bailey is a Whale ''Shark''. Sharks are technically fish. Bailey will not only be fine but would probably be fine even if we weren't talking about friendly sharks.

** Bailey is a Whale ''Shark''. Sharks are technically fish. Bailey will not only be fine but would probably be fine even if we weren't talking about friendly sharks. Hank, on the other hand, will probably be in even more trouble when you remember that, after the first time we hear the "Fish-Eater's Anonymous" pledge in ''Finding Nemo'', Anchor immediately pipes in with "Except stinkin' dolphins!" Sure, Hank isn't a dolphin, but he's closer to a dolphin than he is to a fish, so Anchor and Chum(and possibly Bruce, who says nothing in protest to Anchor's comment) might be more likely to see him as food.

* Dory's friends might find themselves uncomfortable with the three sharks occasionaly hanging around the reef. Oh, wait, the sharks are nice and don't eat fish. Then you realize that Hank and Baily are not fish.

* Dory's friends might find themselves uncomfortable with the three sharks occasionaly hanging around the reef. Oh, wait, the sharks are nice and don't eat fish. Then you realize that Hank and Baily [i]are not fish.[/i]

* The two adult fish that Baby Dory first talks to after being separated from her parents? [[AdultFear The ones who turn away for half a second to talk only to be distressed when they see Dory is gone?]] Chances are they never found out what happened to her.

* Destiny the whale shark is seen being fed a bucket of dead fish, which means Dory befriended a creature that considers her kind to be food.

* In what may well be both a CallBack and a CallForward to '"Finding Nemo'', remember how Marlin got Dory through the jellyfish despite her poor memory and easily-distracted nature? He framed it as a game! Now we see Dory's childhood and learn that her parents did the same thing, trying to impress important lessons on her (how to introduce herself, how to find her way home) in the form of games (hide-and-seek, collecting shells).

* When [[spoiler: Dory relives the memory from the night she's forcefully taken away from her parents,]] she's in the little alcove where she used to talk to Destiny. Because of this, she was [[spoiler: able to overhear her mother worrying for her, and so she went off to find a purple shell near the pipes, where she was whisked away into the ocean.]] In a way, Destiny [[spoiler: was what brought Dory, Marlin, and Nemo together.]]

* The fact that Dory's opinion on sand is the exact opposite of Anakin Skywalker's [[MemeticMutation has not passed unnoticed]], but if you think about it, it's not really a difference of opinion. Dory describes sand as "squishy" while Anakin describes it as "coarse, rough, and irritating"--but considering one lives underwater and the other grew up in a desert, those aren't their opinions, those are facts. No wonder one finds sand pleasant and the other doesn't.

** Destiny's also the first shark Dory ever knew, which helps explain her placid acceptance of the 'Fish are friends' sharks in the first movie.
* Dory's ability to read is never explained in WesternAnimation/FindingNemo, but it is here: [[spoiler: she was born in an aquarium and surrounded by exhibits.]]

** Actually, it's not "unexplained" at all. Hank specifically states that he'd already lost a tentacle ''because of Dory'', seconds after we see his little blunder with the garbage disposal. He hasn't regenerated because the injury ''just now'' happened.
** No, he doesn't. Hank says he doesn't want to lose ''another'' tentacle because of Dory. That doesn't mean he lost the first tentacle because of Dory.

** It's implied he received the injury in the wild, causing him to be brought into the MLI to recuperate. His traumatic experience is presumably the source of his desperation to be moved to the Cleveland aquarium before his arm regrows, he's considered rehabilitated, and MLI releases him back to the ocean.

** No, he doesn't. Hank says he doesn't want to lose ''another'' tentacle because of Dory. That doesn't mean he lost the first tentacle because of Dory. ** It's implied he received the injury in the wild, causing him to be brought into the MLI to recuperate. His traumatic experience is presumably the source of his desperation to be moved to the Cleveland aquarium before his arm regrows, he's considered rehabilitated, and MLI releases him back to the ocean.