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| 3 | !!Main Characters |
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| 5 | [[folder:Marlin]] |
| 6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marlin_transparent.png]] |
| 7 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlbertBrooks (movies), Creator/JessHarnell (other media) [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Pierre Auger (Canadian French), Franck Dubosc (EU French), Noritake Kinashi (Japanese), Creator/HermanLopez (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
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| 9 | A clownfish who becomes an [[HelicopterParents overprotective father]] after his mate Coral and all but one of his offspring were killed by a barracuda, making him very protective of Nemo to the point of isolating him. After Nemo is taken by divers, Marlin risks life and fin to find and rescue his son, becoming a braver and more self-confident person himself. He is the main protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and the deuteragonist of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''. |
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| 11 | * AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Marlin is mostly immune to the stings of baby jellyfish, due to living in an anemone. This allows him to stay conscious in the jellyfish field longer than Dory. |
| 12 | * AesopAmnesia: The first movie has him learning over the course of the film to be less of a worrywart and a stick-in-the-mud. In the sequel, while not quite as overprotective, he's back to being a worrywart and a stick-in-the-mud. |
| 13 | * AngerBornOfWorry: In ''Finding Dory'', [[spoiler:this causes him to lash out at her when she accidentally attracts a hungry squid due to forgetting a warning, which nearly leads to Nemo being eaten]]. |
| 14 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Clownfish are protandrous hermaphrodites, meaning that if the breeding female of a group, who is the largest one and effectively the alpha, dies or disappears, then the largest male will actually undergo a physical transition to become the new female alpha. |
| 15 | * BadassOnPaper: Marlin does get through most of his trials through wits, desperation or luck, and the tales of his are recounted across the ocean to the point that he is re-imagined as an unstoppable badass PapaWolf - granted, this isn't far from the truth, and he nearly becomes this during the end of the film. |
| 16 | * BadassUnintentional: Thanks to his hijinks, Marlin gets this reputation throughout the entire ocean area surrounding Sydney. |
| 17 | * CannotTellAJoke: He's rubbish at telling jokes at the start of the film due to his neurotic personality and being a hermit for years. |
| 18 | * CharacterDevelopment: Throughout the journey, he makes several friends and begins to understand that he should have given Nemo more freedom, particularly through his interactions with Dory and Crush because, as Dory states, "You can't let nothing happen to him, because then nothing will happen to him," meaning if Marlin doesn't let Nemo grow up and get out in the world, he won't be able to live life to the fullest. |
| 19 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Hanging around with Dory and encountering many more zany fish makes Marlin the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Fish.]] |
| 20 | * CowardlyLion: He'll do anything to get his son back; even get over his own fears. |
| 21 | * CurbStompCushion: He manages to dodge all of the barracuda's bite attacks and even gets two hits in on it (which actually disorient it) before it knocks him out with a single flick of its tailfin. |
| 22 | * CynicismCatalyst: The death of his wife and almost all of his eggs (except Nemo) turned him from a cheerful and easygoing fish to an overprotective, neurotic pessimist. |
| 23 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: No wonder he's so overprotective. His wife and 400 eggs, except Nemo, were eaten by a barracuda. |
| 24 | * DeadpanSnarker: Sometimes, towards Dory. |
| 25 | * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:After Marlin thinks Nemo has died, he crosses, abandoning Dory and swimming off into the sea until Dory and Nemo find him.]] |
| 26 | * {{Determinator}}: Willing to tangle with sharks, an anglerfish, jellyfish, and choke his way out of a pelican's throat to find Nemo. |
| 27 | * EarlyBirdCameo: In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', he appears as a painting on the wall of the sushi restaurant where Mike and Celia are having their date. |
| 28 | * FatalFlaw: His [[KnightTemplarParent obsessive behavior]] toward his son, while understandable, causes Nemo intense embarrassment and shame and drives his son away from him. One part of his CharacterDevelopment is learning to give his son space. |
| 29 | * {{Foil}}: Marlin is much more pessimistic and serious than Dory. |
| 30 | * HelicopterParents: Marlin's overprotectiveness towards Nemo is understandable given what happened to his wife and other children. Marlin is driven by this through the movie. After his wife Coral and four-hundred plus unborn children are eaten by a barracuda, Marlin becomes an over-protective single parent, in the belief that Nemo is fragile and incapable of looking after himself. However, him constantly telling Nemo what he can and can't do leads his son to resent his father at times, eventually leading Nemo to rebel against him. |
| 31 | * InSeriesNickname: "Marty," "Clown boy," "Mr. Grumpy Gills," "Jellyman," "Mr. Fish"... not many characters actually refer to him by his real name. |
| 32 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he is mostly polite and friendly, Marlin is extremely [[KnightTemplarParent overprotective towards Nemo]], doesn't trust in him very much and can be harsh towards Dory from time to time, such as when he accidentally tells her that forgetting is the only thing she can do, when he knows very well that she suffers from terrible amnesia. However, he is a pretty nice guy most of the time and everything he does is out of love for his son and later, even Dory. |
| 33 | * {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKljOD5B71k Nemo Egg (Main Title)]]'', a soft, lullaby-esque piano piece associated with both Marlin and Nemo that plays during tender moments. |
| 34 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Becomes this for Dory. She says being with him helps her remember things better. |
| 35 | * LoveHurts: A rare non-romantic, parent-child example. Marlin's extreme obsession with Nemo's safety is genuinely out of love for him, but when his son rebels and tells him he hates him (though he doesn't actually mean it), he is devastated, and believes that Nemo doesn't love him anymore and that he doesn't appreciate his love for him. |
| 36 | * NervousWreck: Due to the trauma of losing most of his family Marlin is always worried and anxious about what might happen next. His adventures help him overcome this somewhat. |
| 37 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''Finding Nemo'', Nemo had absolutely no intention of actually swimming out to the boat, until Marlin intervenes, scolds him and tries to rip away what little agency the kid had, finally pushing him over the edge enough to swim out and touch it. |
| 38 | * OnlySaneMan: Meeting a lot of crazy fish on their way and hanging around with a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} unsurprisingly makes him this. |
| 39 | * OrangeBlueContrast: Serves as the orange contrast to Dory's blue. |
| 40 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: At the beginning of the film, all of his and Coral's eggs get eaten by a barracuda, except one. |
| 41 | * PapaWolf: Scared or not; he will face sharks, deadly jellyfish and a whale if it means he will get his son back. |
| 42 | * ParentalSubstitute: Acts like this to Dory, to an extent. The creators state that Dory was introduced to serve as a surrogate child so Marlin could re-adapt his parenting approach. |
| 43 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Dory. |
| 44 | * ProperlyParanoid: Considering how his family, aside from Nemo, was killed by a barracuda, it's hard to fault him for being at least a little nervous about the dangers of the ocean. |
| 45 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Dory's Red Oni. It's actually kinda ironic, seeing their colors are reversed. |
| 46 | * SafetyFreak: Because his son Nemo narrowly escaped being eaten by a barracuda like his mother and the rest of his siblings as an egg, Marlin is obsessively protective of him, having him check four times for danger before leaving the house, worrying that he's broken a bone, and apparently once freaking out at a petting zoo because "that snail was about to charge". |
| 47 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The Savvy Guy to Dory's Energetic Girl. |
| 48 | * ShroudedInMyth: His misadventures, along with alterations to the tale through oral history, made him the undersea, clownfish version of ''Creator/ChuckNorris''. |
| 49 | * StunnedSilence: Marlin is rendered completely speechless when Nemo utters "I hate you" to him. |
| 50 | * SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Marlin is not impressed with Dory's apparent skill to speak whale, believing she is talking gibberish. However, when it turns out she can and the whale that swallowed them is taking them to Sydney, Marlin is ecstatic and tries to thank the whale by speaking its dialect. Dory then responds with "Wow. I wish I could speak whale." |
| 51 | * TookALevelInBadass: Marlin goes from a neurotic, overprotective worrywart to a full on ActionSurvivor. |
| 52 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: His journey to find his son allowed Marlin to loosen up and learn to have fun again. |
| 53 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Sort of. Marlin was initially a very playful, happy, and easygoing clownfish as shown through the interaction with his wife. The death of Coral and all his kids (sans Nemo) turns him into a pessimistic, neurotic worrywart who has the occasional outburst. |
| 54 | * WasTooHardOnHim: Marlin comes to feel this way towards Nemo. He has this again in the sequel after yelling at Dory, which is not helped by his son constantly reminding him about it. |
| 55 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: While Marlin is only overly paranoid and overprotective because he loves Nemo and wants him to be safe, his overprotectiveness and refusal to stop babying his son causes the two to have a very strained relationship. This strained relationship is exactly what leads to Nemo rebelling and getting captured. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
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| 58 | [[folder:Dory]] |
| 59 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dory_transparent.png]] |
| 60 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EllenDeGeneres (movies), Creator/JenniferHale (other media) [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Anne Dorval (Canadian French), Céline Monsarrat (EU French), Shigeru Muroi (Japanese), Patricia Palestino (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
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| 62 | A Pacific blue regal tang with short term memory loss, Dory becomes Marlin's companion during his search for Nemo. Ditzy and absent-minded, but optimistic and honest, Dory provides much moral support and comfort that Marlin has been missing for years. She becomes the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''. |
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| 64 | * AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Mispronounces the word "escape" as "es-KA-pay" while in the submarine. |
| 65 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Continuously keeps misremembering Nemo's name (e.g. Fabio, Elmo, Harpo, Bingo). However, by ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' she's gotten much better at remembering names and only gets another character's name wrong once. |
| 66 | * AnimalTalk: Can speak and understand whales - then she forgets that she can. |
| 67 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Dory suffers from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia Anterograde amnesia.]] As she can only remember a relatively short span of time clearly, it's easy for her to forget what she was originally doing and thus is likely to switch to a new topic. It runs in her family... she thinks. Although the sequel proves her wrong. |
| 68 | * BadassUnintentional: She just wants to be Marlin's friend and does some pretty awesome things. |
| 69 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Dory pulls this on a rude crab when he refuses to tell her where Marlin went, and she uses a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique to make him talk. |
| 70 | * {{Blipvert}}: |
| 71 | ** Experiences this when she remembers Sydney after Marlin abandons her. |
| 72 | ** She has this again in the beginning of [[WesternAnimation/FindingDory the sequel]], when Nemo mentions [[spoiler:The Jewel of Morro Bay, California]], causing Dory to recall her parents for the first time in years. |
| 73 | * BreakTheCutie: When she ends up in a tank with some other blue tangs who knew her parents, she thinks that they may have died and goes down the drainpipe to the ocean, frantically swimming about the dark ocean and asking other fish for help, just before she discovers that she's coming close to finding her parents' place. |
| 74 | * BreakoutCharacter: The most popular character in ''Finding Nemo,'' and subsequently the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''! |
| 75 | * BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Marlin abandons Dory after his DespairEventHorizon, but reunites with her when she finds Nemo. |
| 76 | * CerebusRetcon: Certain HiddenDepths abilities she showed in the first movie are explained when she's searching for her roots in the second. |
| 77 | * ChekhovsSkill: Her ability to speak in whale dialects. |
| 78 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She makes an art out of this. |
| 79 | * CoolBigSis: She seemed to fill this role toward Nemo when she was temporarily living with him and Marlin in the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''. |
| 80 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In the first film the main character is Marlin, an uptight, anxiety-ridden widower and single father looking for his missing son. In the second film it's Dory, a carefree, scatterbrained amnesiac woman looking for her missing parents. |
| 81 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Dory was separated from her parents as a child and to had to survive on her own. Something that wasn't easy because of her short-term memory loss. |
| 82 | * {{Determinator}}: She is quite persistent in hoping to find her parents in the second film, and just when she's about to lose hope after going through the drainpipe to the ocean and swimming about to get some visual clues, she finds her parents' place. |
| 83 | * TheDitz: In spades, but it's mostly due to her short term memory loss rather than actual stupidity. |
| 84 | * FearlessFool: Memory loss or no, she's not afraid of anything, which can be dangerous in the wrong situations. When in the middle of a school of jellyfish, Marlin starts to panic while Dory happily bounces around on the jellyfish tops, unaware of the stinging tentacles. |
| 85 | * ForgetfulJones: Played for laughs, but sympathetically, in the first movie: presented as tragic in the second. She has trouble processing new memories and retrieving old ones. She manages to maintain a long-term goal in ''Finding Dory,'' but only through constant reminders from companions or the environment. |
| 86 | * {{Foil}}: She serves as this to Marlin, being a comical and cheerful character in contrast to Marlin who is typically serious and depressed. Incidentally, Marlin becomes much more cheerful after meeting her and Dory starts remembering better. |
| 87 | * GenderFlip: The writer explains on the DVD commentary that in fact Dory was originally male, until he saw Creator/EllenDeGeneres on television and realized that was the sweet-but-scattered tone he was looking for. |
| 88 | * GeniusDitz: Despite her ditzy nature, she is quick to come up with solutions, knows how to read human writing, understands whale language to communicate with them, and knows a lot of random facts [[spoiler:that she learned in her childhood at the Marine Life Institute]]. |
| 89 | * GenkiGirl: Her perkiness and high energy buoy all her friends in rough times, or just annoy them. |
| 90 | * HopeSpringsEternal: Pretty good at invoking this with her "Just keeping swimming" mantra. |
| 91 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[http://screenrant.com/finding-dory-interview-lindsey-collins-andrew-stanton/ According to director Andrew Stanton]], one of Dory's fears is that she would get ditched all the time by fishes she tries to befriend. She tries to ensure she can be friendly and helpful as possible in hopes that someone will stick around with her, which is evident in the original movie, as Dory is heartbroken when Marlin tells her that he wants her to leave so that he continue the search for Nemo on his own and after he leaves her behind after thinking [[spoiler:that Nemo died.]] |
| 92 | * IndyPloy: In the second film, it is revealed that she has a particular talent for this. [[spoiler:So much that the question "What would Dory do?" gets Marlin and Nemo out of some sticky situations.]] |
| 93 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Marlin. Dory's optimism, easy-going nature and encouragement help rein in his neurotic side and keeps him focused. |
| 94 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: A non-romantic example. Her energy and quirkiness help Marlin loosen up in ''Finding Nemo'', while in the sequel her optimism helps Hank get over his fear of others and convinces him to return to the sea rather than spend the rest of his days in an exhibit. |
| 95 | * MiseryTrigger: Dory gets very sad when someone gives off the impression that they don't like her. |
| 96 | * MotorMouth: Dory does seem to talk a lot to the point that it irritates Merlin. |
| 97 | * NiceGirl: Dory's a bit ditzy, but she's very friendly and will go out of her way to help anyone in need. Despite being busy searching for her parents, she immediately puts it on hold to help Marlin, a total stranger, search for his son across miles of ocean. |
| 98 | * TheNotLoveInterest: To Marlin. Most of the movie consists of their dialogue with each other, they share body contact often, and even though Dory is not attentive most of the time, she truly worries for Marlin. Yet it's not a romance, just a case where [[PlatonicLifePartners two friends of opposite gender make each others' lives richer]]. |
| 99 | * OrangeBlueContrast: Serves as the blue and black contrast to Marlin's orange and white. |
| 100 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Marlin. All their interactions are played strictly platonic with neither expressing anything beyond friendship. This is further emphasized in the sequel where it opens with Dory living with Marlin and Nemo. Throughout the movie, she’s treated like a member of their family rather than a love interest for Marlin. |
| 101 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: Dory begs Marlin not to go following his DespairEventHorizon, telling him that when he's around that she remembers things better. |
| 102 | * PluckyComicRelief: She provides most of the comic beats in the first movie, and is fairly goofy even as the protagonist. |
| 103 | * PluckyGirl: Considering what she's had to go through, her ability to remain so upbeat is quite impressive. |
| 104 | * ThePollyanna: Always happy-go-lucky and optimistic. |
| 105 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Marlin's Blue Oni. |
| 106 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Baby Dory is pretty much made of raw, unadulterated ''"UWAAAAAHHH!"'' material. |
| 107 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Marlin's Savvy Guy. |
| 108 | * SmarterThanYouLook: As her GeniusDitz section notes, Dory is more intelligent than she appears. |
| 109 | * SuccessThroughInsanity: Nemo and eventually Marlin and Hank regard her as this. Marlin even admits in ''Finding Dory'' that no matter how crazy an idea she comes up with, it works. |
| 110 | * SuddenlyBilingual: She apparently can read Spanish as well as English (and speak Whale). [[spoiler:Justified in the second movie: she presumably got a lot of practice at the aquarium she was born in.]] |
| 111 | * SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Knows how to speak whale but Marlin is skeptical about it. When her skills gets them to Sydney, Marlin thanks the whale in its dialect, and Dory wishes that she could speak whale. [[spoiler:This ability leads her back to one of her childhood friends in ''Finding Dory''.]] |
| 112 | * SurvivalMantra: "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming." |
| 113 | * TooDumbToLive: Has moments of this, such as being oblivious to the danger involved in hanging out with some sharks she has just met, or in being surrounded by a colony of jellyfishes. |
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| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Nemo]] |
| 117 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nemo_transparent_6.png]] |
| 118 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlexanderGould (''Finding Nemo''), Hayden Rolence (''Finding Dory'') [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]François-Nicolas Dolan (Canadian French, ''Finding Nemo''), Adam Moussamih (Canadian French, ''Finding Dory''), Creator/MemoAponte (Latin American Spanish, ''Finding Nemo''), Darhey Fernández (Latin American Spanish, ''Finding Dory'')[[/labelnote]] |
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| 120 | Marlin's son. The sole survivor of a barracuda attack, Nemo grows up with a "lucky fin" that did not develop properly. He is very curious and brave, but sheltered. His father's overprotectiveness has kept him from attending school and having adventures. He is captured by divers and placed in a dentist's fish tank, earning the nickname "Sharkbait" for aiding in their escape. In the second movie, he moves from protagonist to Marlin's [[SourSupporter rather funny]] moral support. |
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| 122 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Nemo loves his father dearly, but he is often annoyed and exasperated by his overprotective behavior (and in the sequel when he tells Dory to just forget everything). He even tells him that he hates him early in the first movie when he gets too fed up with Marlin's overprotectiveness. However, it is clearly established that they do in fact love each other despite this. |
| 123 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: By far the youngest member of the Tank Gang, as he's a child while the rest are all presumably adults. The gang all act as a sort of surrogate family to him during his stay in the tank, with Gill even taking on a [[ParentalSubstitute fatherly role]] for him in Marlin's absence. |
| 124 | * BadassAdorable: He was willing to risk his life to jam the filter after hearing about all his father had done to come and save him. |
| 125 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: When Marlin went too far as he gets angry at Nemo when he tries to swim off to the drop-off by himself and tells him he can't do everything he thinks he can. Nemo didn't hesitate to tell him to his face that he hates him then touches the boat to prove it. Unfortunately, it isn't a smart and safe choice when he gets abducted by two human divers which Marlin has to chase after leading him to Sydney. |
| 126 | * BilingualBonus: "Nemo" is a reference to ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea,'' where ''Captain'' Nemo chose the name because it means "nobody" in his own language. |
| 127 | * CheerfulChild: Played straight, personality-wise. |
| 128 | * ChekhovsSkill: Learning from Gill, Nemo uses the technique of swimming down to save Dory and a whole net of fish. |
| 129 | * CompactInfiltrator: Out of all the fish in the dentist's tank, Nemo is the only one small enough to fit into the filter, so he's the one assigned to block it up. |
| 130 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was only an egg, his siblings and mother were killed by a barracuda. The attack damaged his egg, resulting in a disabled fin. |
| 131 | * DeadpanSnarker: In ''Finding Dory'', he's written as sometimes snarking at his father. |
| 132 | * DependingOnTheWriter: His aforementioned snarking can be seen as this, as the second film didn't have all the same writers as the first. |
| 133 | * {{Determinator}}: After learning from Nigel that his dad had been swimming the entire ocean to find and rescue him, Nemo gains a renewed sense of confidence and becomes determined to escape from the tank and reunite with him. |
| 134 | * DistressedDude: He's captured at the beginning and trapped in an aquarium for most of the film. |
| 135 | * FunWithFlushing: Nemo's escape plan involves him being flushed down the dentist's toilet to the ocean. |
| 136 | * GrillingTheNewbie: He gets a friendly version from the Tank Gang. |
| 137 | * HandicappedBadass: He was born with an atrophied fin but, despite that, he is a dauntless little fish. |
| 138 | * HeroicBSOD: After he is nearly killed by the fish tank's fan, believing he'd let Gill down. |
| 139 | * JerkassBall: Nemo is a good kid who wants to make friends and impress his dad but he has his immature moment after Marlin learns that Nemo's going near the open ocean and stops him. As their argument between them escalated regarding the open ocean. Nemo coldly tells Marlin he hates him, then touches the boat in the open ocean to spite Marlin, much to the latter's horror. It eventually backfires when he gets abducted by two human divers prompting Marlin to chase after them to rescue his son. |
| 140 | * {{Keet}}: Nemo's very first scene is him bouncing around the anemone while excited for his first day of school. |
| 141 | -->Get up, get up! Time for school! Time for school! Time for school! Time for school! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Whoa! ''(falls outside the anemone)'' |
| 142 | %%* KidHero: |
| 143 | * {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKljOD5B71k Nemo Egg (Main Title)]]'', a soft, lullaby-esque piano piece associated with both Marlin and Nemo that plays during tender moments. |
| 144 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Nemo is Marlin's only family and he will do anything to keep him safe. |
| 145 | * NiceGuy: Polite, kind, sweet, pleasant, gentle, and valiant. He goes out of his way to help Dory -- a total stranger to him -- out when he sees her in trouble, and repeatedly defends her when Marlin is mean to her. |
| 146 | %%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A fish version. |
| 147 | * SecondaryCharacterTitle: His father Marlin is the protagonist. The movie's title is in reference to how Marlin's primary motivation is to find his missing son. |
| 148 | %%* SixthRanger: In the Tank Gang. |
| 149 | * SoleSurvivor: Nemo is presumably the only one of Marlin and Coral's children to have survived the barracuda attack. |
| 150 | ** Interestingly, the planned sequel by Circle 7 Animation would have revealed he had a long-lost brother. However, as none of the original creators would have worked on it, it’s unlikely it would even be considered canon with the original film. |
| 151 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed; Nemo's still generally [[NiceGuy nice]], but ''Finding Dory'' gives him a notably [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic streak]] aimed at his father. |
| 152 | * TookALevelInSmartass: In the first film, Nemo was a typical NiceGuy and CheerfulChild. However, the sequel gives him a bit of a sarcastic streak, which is mainly aimed at his father. |
| 153 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: He is wiser than Marlin in ''Finding Dory'', likely since he went through a great deal of events in the first film that no doubt taught him a lot and unlike Marlin, all of his CharacterDevelopment stuck. |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | !!The Tank Gang |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Gill]] |
| 159 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gill_fn.png]] |
| 160 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WillemDafoe [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Sylvain Hétu (Canadian French), Creator/KazuhiroYamaji (Japanese), Creator/ArturoMercado (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | A Moorish idol and the leader of the Tank Gang. |
| 163 | ---- |
| 164 | * CruelToBeKind: He refuses to let anyone help Nemo when he gets stuck in the filter pipe, but only because he knows that Nemo is capable of getting himself out. |
| 165 | -->'''Gill:''' Calm down. Now, alternate wiggling your fins and your tail.\ |
| 166 | '''Nemo:''' I can't, I have a bad fin!\ |
| 167 | '''Gill:''' Never stopped me. |
| 168 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A sinister-looking Moorish Idol, but he actually helps Nemo and the other fish in the fish tank escape back into the ocean. |
| 169 | * {{Determinator}}: He will almost never give up his dream of escaping from the fish tank and returning to the ocean, despite the fact that all of his previous efforts have failed. |
| 170 | -->'''Nemo:''' How may times have you tried to get out?\ |
| 171 | '''Gill:''' Ah, I lost count. Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid. It does things to ya. |
| 172 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:When he and the Tank Gang finally escape to the ocean in TheStinger, they're still stuck inside their fish bags, with no apparent way to get out.]] |
| 173 | * ElephantInTheRoom: Averted. Nemo immediately notices his bad fin, but hesitates to ask about it. Gill, however, doesn't mind telling the story. |
| 174 | -->'''Gill:''' My first escape. Landed on dentist tools. I was aiming for the toilet. |
| 175 | * {{Foil}}: To Marlin. Marlin is obsessively overprotective of Nemo because of his disability, but Gill makes a point that Nemo's small fin is no excuse to coddle him. |
| 176 | * GoodIsNotNice: At first, at least. His goal is to get him and the other fish out of the tank and into the ocean, but is so determined to do so that he risks Nemo's safety. He's not exactly cuddly through the rest of the film, but he doesn't try to risk Nemo's life again. |
| 177 | * GreatEscape: He is always planning new schemes to get the Tank Gang out of the tank and back into the ocean. |
| 178 | * GuileHero: Even though his plans (almost) always fail. He's atypical in that he appears somewhat uncomfortable in this role: he has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone after Nemo almost gets killed by the tank filter while partaking in one of his plans. |
| 179 | * HandicappedBadass: Like Nemo, he has a bad fin on one side. In his case, rather than being a congenital atrophy, his was caused by his fin being badly mangled when he landed on the dentist's tools during a failed escape attempt. |
| 180 | * InkSuitActor: Gill's face is strikingly similar to Willem Dafoe's, notably the wrinkles around his mouth. |
| 181 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: He takes on a mentor like role to Nemo. |
| 182 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's certainly not nice most of the time, but isn't a bad guy. |
| 183 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Despite his desperation to return to the ocean, he refuses to continue his escape plan when Nemo almost dies trying to block the filter. |
| 184 | -->'''Peach:''' ''(holding a sobbing Nemo)'' Gill... don't make him go back in there.\ |
| 185 | '''Gill:''' ...No. We're done. |
| 186 | * TheLeader: He's the mastermind of the Tank Gang who constantly comes up with escape plans to get them out of the tank and back to the ocean. |
| 187 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has one after his initial escape plan fails and nearly gets Nemo killed, which leads to this exchange: |
| 188 | -->'''Nemo:''' I'm sorry I couldn't stop--\ |
| 189 | '''Gill:''' No, [[ItsAllMyFault I'm the one who should be sorry.]] I was so ready to get out, so ready to taste that ocean, that I was willing to put you in harm's way to get there. Nothing should be worth that. I'm sorry I couldn't get you back to your father, kid. |
| 190 | * MysteriousPast: Nothing is known of his life before he was captured and put into the tank. |
| 191 | * OldSoldier: Well, he acts like one, anyway. |
| 192 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He almost always refers to Nemo as "Sharkbait" since inducting him into the Gang, but upon fearing he's been killed by the filtration fan when he jams it, he worriedly refers to him as "Nemo." |
| 193 | * PapaWolf: In the climactic scene in the dentist's office, he flings himself onto Darla's head, risking his own life to save Nemo's. |
| 194 | * ParentalSubstitute: Gill acts as something of a surrogate father to Nemo while in the tank. |
| 195 | * RuggedScar: He has a ragged fin and a scar that runs across his mouth from previous escape attempts. |
| 196 | * ScarsAreForever: He has multiple scars and a damaged fin, mostly from injuries inflicted during his various escape attempts. |
| 197 | * TookALevelInKindness: Starts out being rather cold towards Nemo, considering he was unwilling to help him, and is interested in him primarily because he believes Nemo will be able to help him escape from the tank. Over time, however, he begins to genuinely care for Nemo and eventually helps him escape alone to reunite with his dad. When Nemo almost dies the first time he tries to block the filter, he's visibly shaken. |
| 198 | * TruthInTelevision: In a sense. While they haven't been known to make wacky escape attempts, Moorish idols are ''infamously'' known for '''not''' taking captivity well. |
| 199 | * UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:A deleted scene has Gill telling Nemo that he comes from a place called Bad Luck Bay, and that he had several brothers (Marco, Polo, Lester, Linus) and a sister named Lulu, out in the ocean. Later, Nemo sees a human in the dentist office reading this exact backstory in a storybook called "Bad Luck Bay," in the same tone to boot, which casts doubt on whether Gill is actually from the ocean at all, or if he's just as crazy as the rest of the Tank Gang.]] |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Bloat]] |
| 203 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finding_nemo_bloat.jpg]] |
| 204 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BradGarrett [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Creator/HubertGagnon (Canadian French, ''Finding Nemo''), Éric Gaudry (Canadian French, ''Finding Dory''), Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese), Creator/RubenMoya (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | A porcupine fish. |
| 207 | ---- |
| 208 | * BigEater: He even eats the algae that grows after the tank gets dirty, much to Gurgle's disgust. |
| 209 | * CharacterTics: When he gets scared or agitated, he puffs up, and then one of the other fish has to deflate him. |
| 210 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: He's a brownish-gold fish with brown eyes. |
| 211 | * {{Gasshole}}: Well, he ''is'' a blow fish. |
| 212 | * HotBlooded: According to Creator/AndrewStanton, although it doesn't come up much in his interactions with others aside from [[VitriolicBestBuds Gurgle]]. |
| 213 | * LargeHam: Especially during Nemo's "initiation" into the Tank Gang. |
| 214 | * MeaningfulName: A blowfish that ''bloats'' up. |
| 215 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Gurgle. While burps on him, argues with him, and even smacks him for unintentionally mentioning Darla around a depressed Nemo, the two are still clearly friends. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Peach]] |
| 219 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0179f9f7fca5e1214ffadf1087fe84b3.jpg]] |
| 220 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AllisonJanney [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Hélène Mondoux (Canadian French), Sayuri Sadaoka (Japanese), Marcela Páez (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | A starfish. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | * AmbiguousGender: Despite being a female, she has a somewhat androgynous-sounding voice. Makes sense when you realize that most real-life starfish species reproduce asexually. |
| 225 | * IWarnedYou: She's the only one who doesn't think it's a good idea to send Nemo into the filter to jam it with a rock. She gets proven right when the rock dislodges from the filter and it starts sucking Nemo back in, nearly getting him shredded alive. |
| 226 | * MotorMouth: She spends most of her time stuck to the edge of the tank, so whenever she talks to her tankmates it involves peeling herself off and then rushing the line out before she falls back. |
| 227 | * NiceGirl: She's very kind and caring. |
| 228 | * PhraseCatcher: She sometimes forgets to pull her face away from the glass when trying to talk to the gang, so a friend has to call out to her. |
| 229 | -->"Can't hear ya, Peach." |
| 230 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Although she is a starfish, so it makes sense. |
| 231 | * StraightMan: She is the least quirky of the Tank Gang and often serves as the voice of reason. |
| 232 | * TeamMom: To the Tank Gang and ''especially'' to Nemo, seeing as he's just a kid. |
| 233 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: She and Deb are the only two female members of the Tank Gang. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Gurgle]] |
| 237 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gurgle_findingnemo3d.jpg]] |
| 238 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AustinPendleton [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Jean-François Beaupré (Canadian French), Creator/RicardoTejedo (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | A royal gramma. |
| 241 | ---- |
| 242 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name isn't mentioned during the film itself, and only appears in the credits. |
| 243 | * TheCynic: He is incredibly pessimistic. |
| 244 | * LargeHam: "Curse you, [=AquaSCUUUUUUM=]!!!" |
| 245 | * NeatFreak: When he learns that Nemo is from the ocean he immediately gets Jacques to clean him. Also is visibly shaking and really nervous when the tank is really dirty for their escape plan. |
| 246 | * NervousWreck: He's by ''far'' the most neurotic member of the Tank Gang, and more generally the most neurotic member of the cast along with Marlin. He's especially paranoid about dirt uncleanliness, and contamination. |
| 247 | -->"JACQUES!! ''CLEAN HIM!!!"'' |
| 248 | * TerrifiedOfGerms: Very much. He's terrified by the thought of external dirt or germs entering the tank and, when the tank is purposefully made filthy, he is all but curling up in a ball. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Bubbles]] |
| 252 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bubbles_findingnemo3d.jpg]] |
| 253 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/StephenRoot [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Carl Béchard (Canadian French), Akihiko Shimizu (Japanese), Creator/RaulAnaya (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | A yellow tang. |
| 256 | ---- |
| 257 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His obsession with bubbles. |
| 258 | * TheDitz: As demonstrated by this conversation. |
| 259 | -->'''Bubbles:''' Ooh, the Big Blue. Tell me, what's it like?\ |
| 260 | '''Nemo:''' Um, [[CaptainObvious big... and blue]]?\ |
| 261 | '''Bubbles:''' I knew it! |
| 262 | * DumbBlonde: He's a yellow tang and the least intelligent member of the Tank Gang. |
| 263 | * GRatedDrug: His obsession with bubbles can border on such. |
| 264 | * MeaningfulName: He ''really'' likes bubbles. |
| 265 | * NiceGuy: He's friendly and kind... and a complete ditz. |
| 266 | * SanitySlippage: It's implied that Bubbles went insane and developed his obsession with bubbles after being stuck in the dentist's tank too long. |
| 267 | -->'''Gill:''' Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid. ''[glances at Bubbles]'' It does things to you. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:Deb]] |
| 271 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deb_findingnemo3d.jpg]] |
| 272 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Vicki Lewis [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French), Megumi Morisaki (Japanese), Claudia Garzon (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | A blue-and-white humbug damselfish. |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She believes that she has a twin sister named "Flo." It's actually just her reflection off the tank's glass. TruthInTelevision; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXWpiDd_7c fish are very small-minded animals and tend to believe their reflection is another fish.]] |
| 277 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindows: A blue fish with blue eyes. |
| 278 | * TheDitz: She seems delusional as she thinks her reflection is her sister named Flo, who may or may not exist. Not as uncommon as you would think- many fish have this strange thought. |
| 279 | * GenkiGirl: Not to the point of Dory but still there. |
| 280 | * MeaningfulName: Deb's name and her imaginary sister's together allude to "ebb and flow", the movement of water, often in relation to natural tides. |
| 281 | * NiceGirl: Deb is a kind fish. |
| 282 | * PunnyName: She and her "sister" are a play on 'Ebb and Flow'. |
| 283 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: She and Peach are the only two female members of the Tank Gang. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Jacques]] |
| 287 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacques_findingnemo3d.jpg]] |
| 288 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoeRanft (''Finding Nemo''), Jerome Ranft (''Finding Dory'') [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Alain Sauvage (Canadian French, ''Finding Nemo''), Olivier Reichenbach (Canadian French, ''Finding Dory''), Shiro Saito (Japanese), Raúl Aldana (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | A Pacific cleaner shrimp who speaks French. We're not sure where he came from either. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * BilingualBonus: Most of his French phrases. |
| 293 | * FunnyForeigner: Produces humor through his stereotypical French traits, such as feelers shaped like a curly mustache, accompaniment by accordion music, and peppering his speech with gratuitous French. |
| 294 | * GratuitousFrench: Peppers his English speech with French phrases such as "Oui!" for extra flavor. |
| 295 | * NeatFreak: Jacques "decontaminates" new fish to the tank in the dentist's office. When the tank fish conspire to let the tank get dirty, they have to remind Jacques to stop himself when he starts cleaning a bit out of sheer habit. |
| 296 | * NiceGuy: He's friendly and kind. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Nigel]] |
| 300 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nigel_1.png]] |
| 301 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GeoffreyRush [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Creator/ManuelTadros (Canadian French), Thomas Fritsch (German), Tetsuo Goto (Japanese), Creator/JesseConde (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | An Australian pelican. Technically not part of the Tank Gang but still frequently hangs out with them, mostly to watch the dentist's patients. |
| 304 | ---- |
| 305 | * CulturalRebel: |
| 306 | ** PlayedWith. He does eat fish, but he's not above befriending them, and wouldn't harm any fish friends. |
| 307 | --->Sorry if I ever took a snap at ya. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat. |
| 308 | ** According to AllThereInTheManual, other pelicans find him weird because he likes dentistry. Which makes sense, since pelicans are toothless and have no need for such knowledge. |
| 309 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He does eat fish, but he takes no pleasure from it and only does so because he needs to in order to survive; he makes a point to never eat any fish he's personally befriended. |
| 310 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With [[ButtMonkey Gerald]] according to AllThereInTheManual. Hinted at in the film when Nigel is the only one who actually tries to help him when he's choking. |
| 311 | * InstantMessengerPigeon: He delivers the news of Marlin's journey to Nemo, and when he finally meets Martin, is quick to tell him that he knows where Nemo is. |
| 312 | * LargeHam: It's pretty clear that Geoffrey Rush had a blast when voicing this line: |
| 313 | -->'''Nigel:''' ''(as the Seagulls continually clamor for fish)'' Oh, would you just ''shuuuuuuuutttt'' '''''UUUUUPPP!''''' You rats with wings! |
| 314 | * MotorMouth: He's prone to babbling, either when excited or talking about dentistry. |
| 315 | * NiceGuy: Probably one of the friendliest, most helpful characters in the movie, with probably only Crush and Dory beating him. |
| 316 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of him is him apologizing to Marlin and Dory before flying off. He doesn't appear in the second film either. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | !!Minor Antagonists |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:The Barracuda]] |
| 322 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finding_nemo_disneyscreencaps_com_257.jpg]] |
| 323 | ->'''Voiced by:''' N/A |
| 324 | |
| 325 | A great barracuda responsible for killing Coral along with her and Marlin's other children. |
| 326 | ---- |
| 327 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Barracudas don't eat eggs (or clownfish, for that matter). Lampshaded by Marlin who tries to assure Coral that the eggs will be okay as long as she doesn't give the barracuda a reason to attack. She doesn't listen. |
| 328 | * CurbStompBattle: Marlin tries to fend it off when it charges. It goes about as well as you'd think... |
| 329 | * DeathByCameo: The creators confirm that this is the same barracuda that appears stuffed and mounted on the wall in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4''. [[AssholeVictim Serves him right]]. |
| 330 | * TheDreaded: Big time, since the neighborhood totally cleared out when he makes the scene. |
| 331 | * EvilEggEater: Though is left for interpretation, as the change of luminosity in the water implies Marlin was out for several hours, where another animal could have done the deed, he seems to have eaten Nemo's siblings still in egg stage. |
| 332 | * FiendishFish: It's a scary, predatory killer that comes out of nowhere, and Marlin and Coral are powerless to stop it. |
| 333 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He's only a threat in the opening scene, but everything behind Nemo's bad fin, Marlin's overprotective nature (leading to Nemo's rebellious nature), and basically Nemo and Marlin as the only members of their clownfish family left can be traced back to him. Then again, he's not really villainous—he's just a predator needing to consume his prey to survive. |
| 334 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: As noted under DeathByCameo, someone eventually caught the barracuda and taxidermized him to display as a fishing trophy at Second Chance Antiques. Whomever did so, although obviously unintentionally, avenged Coral and all the children Marlin would have had. |
| 335 | * IncorrectAnimalNoise: It can be heard growling softly when stalking Marlin and Coral's nest and utters a long, lion-like roar when it attacks. |
| 336 | * NoisyNature: Nope, barracudas don't roar like that. |
| 337 | * NonMaliciousMonster: Even though its actions caused the loss of Marlin's family save for Nemo, it's just a predatory creature that needs to eat. |
| 338 | * RuleOfScary: While barracudas, like many fishes, are not able to utter sounds, this one does as it attacks Marlin and Coral's eggs, likely due to this trope. |
| 339 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He was only in the movie for roughly thirty seconds, but is (presumably) responsible for eating Marlin's wife and all but one of their children, thus turning Marlin into the {{Helicopter Parent|s}} he is today, which sets up the conflict for the rest of the film. |
| 340 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: Along with the anglerfish, it's one of the more frightening creatures in the film. Furthermore, it (presumably) kills and eats Coral and all of her children apart from Nemo. |
| 341 | * WouldHurtAChild: {{Justified|trope}}. He killed Coral and Marlin's children (sans Nemo), but he ''is'' a predator. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:The Anglerfish]] |
| 345 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anglerfish_nemo.jpg]] |
| 346 | ->'''Voiced by:''' N/A |
| 347 | |
| 348 | An anglerfish Marlin and Dory run into after following the diver's mask into a pitch-black trench. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: An example that is oddly both somewhat literal and ironic. In a post-credits scene, she gets EatenAlive by Blenny, the fish that Anchor brought as his friend earlier. The ironic part is that Blenny is actually much smaller than her. |
| 351 | * AnimalisticAbomination: How Marlin and Dory see her. Indeed, she's never referred to by any species name and is seen more as a horrifying creature than a normal animal. Justified, as neither of them have seen a creature like this. |
| 352 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: Invoked; she lures fish in with her light, then eats them. |
| 353 | * EatenAlive: In a post-credits scene, she gets swallowed in one bite by the tiny green fish that Chum brought to the sharks' meeting. |
| 354 | * FemaleMonsterSurprise: Younger audiences might not realize that this is actually female. Any biologist who is quite familiar with anglerfish would tell you that anglerfish [[ShownTheirWork like the one seen in the movie are female]] and the males of the species are much smaller and lack the bioluminescent lure characteristic of the species. |
| 355 | * HellIsThatNoise: The shriek it makes, especially when it finally shows itself. |
| 356 | * LightIsNotGood: She uses her luminescent lure to catch her victims. |
| 357 | * LuringInPrey: While chasing after the diver's mask, Marlin and Dory dive deeper and deeper into the sea until it's so dark that they can hardly see. They are then attracted by a small glowing orb which turns out to be an anglerfish's lure, used to distract prey. Both interact with it and Marlin is eventually snapped up by the fish, but holds onto the lure so tightly that the fish can't swallow him and she eventually spits him out. |
| 358 | * NightmareFace: Huge blank eyes, giant teeth, cavernous mouth, etc. This is TruthInTelevision. |
| 359 | * NonMaliciousMonster: Like the Barracuda, while she's just hunting to survive, she's nevertheless scary and antagonistic. |
| 360 | * NothingIsScarier: The only thing Dory and Marlin see of it is its hypnotic light. As it ascends, what descends behind them are long, razor-sharp teeth and big, blank, bug-like eyes. |
| 361 | * RuleOfScary: Like the barracuda, it utters noises, namely vicious snarls and screeches. |
| 362 | * ScaryTeeth: Like all anglerfish, she has a ferocious set of teeth. |
| 363 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Aside from Dory and Darla, she is the only notable female involved on the journey to find Nemo. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:The Jellyfish]] |
| 367 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jellyfish_finding_nemo.jpg]] |
| 368 | ->'''Voiced by:''' N/A |
| 369 | |
| 370 | A bloom of jellyfish that Dory and Marlin run into on their way to Sidney. While they're essentially passive beings and don't seem to directly move against the travelers, they still present a dangerous obstacle due to their numbers and toxicity. |
| 371 | ---- |
| 372 | * DontGoInTheWoods: They're referred to as a "forest". |
| 373 | * TheDreaded: Marlin ''immediately'' panics when he realizes that Dory has found a baby jellyfish, and it only gets worse when he sees a whole swarm of them coming. Additionally, most of fish who hear of Marlin's exploits are quite shocked to learn that he was able to get through them and even the turtles (whose offspring ''eat'' jellyfish) are impressed enough with Marlin fighting his way through them to nickname him "Jelly Man". |
| 374 | * ElectricJellyfish: All of their stings have a "zap" sound effect. |
| 375 | * TheSpeechless: They say nothing. Which makes sense, since they have no mouths. Oddly enough, Squishy makes a ''squeal'' after Marlin tailwhacks it away. |
| 376 | * TheSwarm: There's a ton of them. They're referred to as a "jellyfish forest". |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:The Seagulls]] |
| 380 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nemo_seagulls.jpg]] |
| 381 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"MINE MINE MINE MINE!"'']] |
| 382 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Andrew Stanton, Jan Rabson, and Creator/JessHarnell |
| 383 | |
| 384 | A flock of seagulls who are minor antagonists, only caring for food. They are rather stupid and only say "Mine!" |
| 385 | ---- |
| 386 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: While they don't look as threatening as the movie's other antagonists and behave in a ridiculous way, they are still hungry predators that represent a serious danger to small fish. They almost swallow Marlin and come dangerously close to pulling Dory apart in a matter of seconds, and if it wasn't for Nigel's help, neither of the two would have survived their encounter with the flock. |
| 387 | * BlackBeadEyes: They have a pair of forward-facing black eyes, [[NonStandardCharacterDesign unlike any other animal in the movie]]. |
| 388 | * BrokenRecord: "MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE" |
| 389 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Mine?" |
| 390 | * TheDividual: They're a flock of some thirty or forty gulls, but they're also very flat characters with the same exact design, behavior and personality as one another, and all act together with the singular goal of eating food. |
| 391 | * {{Feathered Fiend}}s: While not evil, they do pose a serious threat to the protagonists. |
| 392 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Though unlike most examples on this page, it seems that the seagulls are just too stupid to know any better. |
| 393 | * OneTrackMindedHunger: One of their defining characteristics is their constant desire to feed. |
| 394 | * OneWordVocabulary: "Mine!" That's the only thing that seem to know how to say, although they make for in repetition what they lack in vocabulary. |
| 395 | * SnackStealingSeagulls: The seagulls are minor antagonists characterized by their OneTrackMindedHunger, chanting "Mine?" like a BrokenRecord as they almost eat Marlin and Dory alive while they are on their quest to find Nemo in Sydney. |
| 396 | * TheSwarm: There're at least thirty or forty of them in the flock. |
| 397 | * TooDumbToLive: At one point, Nigel leads a group of them to crash into the sail of a boat. They eventually do seem to free themselves considering how Dory later interrogates a crab by threatening to feed him to one. |
| 398 | * VillainousGlutton: For a given definition of "villainous" -- they don't seem to be actively evil per se, as they act more like hungry animals that happen to know how to say one word aloud, but their primary role in the movie is to act as voracious predators determined to eat the fish characters. |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Humboldt Squid]] |
| 402 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finding_dory_79_5.png]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | A bioluminescent squid who is a minor antagonist in ''Finding Dory'', as well as the sole new character in who isn't a part of the Marine Life Institute. |
| 405 | ---- |
| 406 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: Not quite in its case, as it lets it notice potential prey in wreckage but also gives itself away. Justified in that they flash red rather than blue when in hunting mode, suggesting it wasn't actively looking for prey but just disturbed. |
| 407 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Of the barracuda in the first film. Like the barracuda, the Humboldt squid is a non-sapient predator who briefly appears and tries to eat the main characters. However, the barracuda appeared in the beginning of the movie and despite [[SmallRoleBigImpact his brief appearance]] and having [[BigBadEnsemble to share its screen time with other antagonistic forces]], [[TheHeavy serves as the main catalyst for the first movie's conflict]], while the Humboldt squid appears in the middle of this movie is the only antagonistic force found here [[PlotIrrelevantVillain but has nothing to do with its main conflict]]. |
| 408 | * TheDreaded: Cephalopods are major predators of crustaceans, so it makes sense that the local crabs would fear it even without taking its temperament into account. |
| 409 | * GiantEyeOfDoom: It's a jumbo squid, which have disproportionately large eyes compared to most animals. |
| 410 | * GiantSquid: Well, not quite the real deal but it plays as one towards the main characters (considering relative size). |
| 411 | * PlotIrrelevantVillain: The only antagonistic figure found in ''Finding Dory'', but it has nothing to do with the main conflict and only appears for a short time. |
| 412 | * SuperPersistentPredator: It crashes through corten steel containers in an effort to catch two clownfish and a blue tang, only stops because one falls on it, and continues to try and snap at what are less than bite-sized snacks to it with a door slammed on one of its limbs. |
| 413 | * TentacledTerror: It's big, it's mean, and it's hungry. |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | !!Other Animals |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:Coral]] |
| 419 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mom_nemo.jpg]] |
| 420 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ElizabethPerkins [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Catherine Allard (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | Marlin's wife and Nemo's mother. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | * DeathByOriginStory: She dies in Marlin and Nemo's backstory trying to save her young from a barracuda. |
| 425 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: When the barracuda shows up, her first instinct is to rush in to protect her eggs instead of taking shelter. It's likely that the barracuda didn't even see the eggs to begin with, meaning that she gave away their position by rushing in to save them, which cost her her life and all of her eggs barring Nemo's. |
| 426 | * ExplosiveBreeder: She had over 400 eggs with Marlin. [[TruthInTelevision Truth in television]], since scientifically speaking, her kind usually lays between a hundred to a thousand eggs. Sadly for her and Marlin, only one of them could hatch. |
| 427 | * TheLostLenore: To Marlin -- losing her is one of the reasons he becomes so overprotective of Nemo. |
| 428 | * MamaBear: She is killed when she tries to protect her eggs from a hungry barracuda. |
| 429 | * MissingMom: She died trying to protect her eggs (including Nemo) from a barracuda, for which Nemo (her and Marlin's only surviving son) never got to meet her. |
| 430 | * NiceGirl: Before her death, Coral was a kind, caring wife to Marlin who'd even [[MamaBear attack a barracuda to protect her eggs]]. |
| 431 | * OhCrap: The look on her face when she's looking at the barracuda does little to hide the fact that she's likely screaming internally. [[note]] though, seeing how barracuda don't eat clownfish or fish eggs, she may also have been trying to piece together why the hell he was even still there.[[/note]] |
| 432 | * OnlySaneWoman: Compared to Marlin. Possibly subverted when she goes to protect her fish eggs, which barracuda don't eat. Then again, they don't eat clownfish either, so the fact that it was sitting there waiting to eat them may have told her that her eggs were in danger as well. However, the barracuda most likely didn't even see them and probably would have just swam away had she listened to Marlin and gone back into the anemone. |
| 433 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: The death of her and her babies made Marlin promise not to let anything happen to the one surviving child, leading to the movie's conflict. |
| 434 | * SacrificialLamb: Presumably gets eaten by a barracuda before the story actually even begins. |
| 435 | * SenselessSacrifice: Subverted-her attempt to save her children fails and she gets eaten by the barracuda along with all of the eggs...well, all but one. |
| 436 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in the intro and never mentioned again afterwards, but Marlin's loss of her (and their 399 unborn children) is what made him the overprotective single father we see afterwards, not to mention put the entire plot in motion. |
| 437 | * StaringDownCthulhu: Finds herself in a staring contest with a distant barracuda before she dives down to protect her children and it eats her. |
| 438 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She is only shown in the beginning of the film, where she is eaten by the barracuda, along with her eggs, so all we know of her is that she and Marlin met a long time ago. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Pearl, Sheldon, and Tad]] |
| 442 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finding_nemo_disneyscreencapscom_1545.jpg]] |
| 443 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Erica Beck, Creator/ErikPerSullivan, and Jordy Ranft [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Catherine Allard, Laurent-Christophe De Ruelle, and Creator/XavierDolan (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | Nemo's friends and classmates. A flapjack octopus, a seahorse, and a yellow longnose butterflyfish, respectively. |
| 446 | ---- |
| 447 | * AbnormalAllergy: Sheldon the seahorse is allergic to water. Given that he lives underwater, he's quite the sneezer. |
| 448 | * AllThereInTheScript: Pearl and Tad's names were not said once (but they were in the video game). |
| 449 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Real octopi have their mouths under their heads, but Pearl has her mouth right below the eyes to make her look more anthropomorphized. |
| 450 | * BowelBreakingBricks: Pearl: "Aw, you made me ink!" TruthInTelevision, as cephalopods release their ink when they're scared (it's a defensive reaction). |
| 451 | * CheerfulChild: All three of them. |
| 452 | * DemotedToExtra: They're not featured a lot in the original movie, but in the sequel, they're just background characters. |
| 453 | * FunnyOctopus: Pearl, especially when she "inks." |
| 454 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Tad says that Nemo "looks funny" because of his deformed fin. He doesn't mean anything by it, and even claims himself to be "obnoxious" as a sign of unity. |
| 455 | * IronicAllergy: Sheldon is "H[[subscript:2]]O (water) intolerant." '''ACHOO!''' |
| 456 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: They initially tease Nemo about his deformed fin, but Pearl admits that she has one tentacle shorter than the rest ("but you can't really tell"). Then Sheldon admits that he's H[[subscript:2]]O intolerant, while Tad just says "I'm obnoxious!" |
| 457 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: They're all smaller, cuter versions of their dads. |
| 458 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: They leave the plot altogether after the first few minutes, but them daring Nemo to touch the boat ends up getting Nemo kidnapped and sets the rest of the movie into action. |
| 459 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Them goading Nemo to touch the "butt" directly results in him being kidnapped by the dentist. |
| 460 | * TheVoiceless: In the sequel, none of them get any lines. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Mr. Ray]] |
| 464 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_ray.png]] |
| 465 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/PixarRegulars Bob Peterson]] [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]François Godin (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | A spotted eagle ray. Nemo's teacher at school. |
| 468 | ---- |
| 469 | * CoolTeacher: He's the jolliest science master working in marine education. He believes in the practical, taking his little fishy pupils for a ride on his back to teach them about the other creatures of the seabed and singing a whole bunch of memory-aiding ditties along the way. And the kids love him. |
| 470 | * ADogNamedDog: He is a spotted eagle ray named Mr. ''Ray''. |
| 471 | * EducationalSong: He sings one about the various species of marine life. |
| 472 | * LargeHam: He has shades of this, as he will often begin his statements with a ''very'' loud and drawn out high note before resuming with his lecture. |
| 473 | * MellowMantas: He's the friendly teacher to all the kids in the Great Barrier Reef. He lets them ride on his back and sings songs about all the sea creatures. Early on in ''Finding Dory'', he goes on a migration with several other spotted eagle rays, and is enthusiastic to take the children on a field trip to educate them about migration. |
| 474 | * MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Pretty much word for word after he witnesses an angry Nemo tell Marlin he hates him for his overprotectiveness, and he ushers his class away before trying to smooth the situation over. |
| 475 | * PapaWolf: He is very protective of his students, telling them to hide under him when danger approaches. |
| 476 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: |
| 477 | ** He talks this way during his introductory song in the first movie: |
| 478 | --->'''Mr. Ray:''' Mesopelagic, bathyal, abyssalpelagic... |
| 479 | ** Later, when the students are on a field trip, he says "Okay students, optical orbits up front, and remember, we keep our subesophangeal ganglion to ourselves." |
| 480 | * StillBelievesInSanta: One bonus feature reveals that despite being fully grown and a biology teacher, Mr. Ray thinks there's an underwater tooth fairy, who has a full-time job collecting sharks' teeth. |
| 481 | [[/folder]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:Bruce]] |
| 484 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bruce_fn.png]] |
| 485 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BarryHumphries (movie), Creator/JessHarnell (other media) [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Guy Nadon (Canadian French), Sebastian Llapúr (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | A great white shark who wants to [[VegetarianCarnivore quit his habit of eating fish]]. |
| 488 | ---- |
| 489 | * AffablyEvil: Subverted, in spite of initial appearances. While it initially seems like he's trying to use a polite act to lead Marlin and Dory to their doom, it turns out that he genuinely wants their company and later sympathizes with their journey out of genuine kindness. But when he smells blood... |
| 490 | * AxCrazy: Once he is exposed to smelling blood, Bruce loses all judgment and consciousness and becomes an absolutely deranged and homicidal fish-killing machine. Not even his own friends are able to control him. Just imagine [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]] as a shark. |
| 491 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: Bruce has these once he [[OhCrap smells blood...]] Subverted as it is simply his carnivorous tendencies acting up, he tries to control himself outside of these episodes. |
| 492 | * BloodLust: Bruce is a nice shark, really. He just has trouble controlling his instinctive urge to eat fish once he smells Dory's blood. |
| 493 | -->'''Bruce:''' Dory, are you o-- ''(smells Dory's blood by accident, causing BlackEyesOfCrazy)'' ''Ooooooh,'' that's ''good!''\ |
| 494 | '''Anchor''' and '''Chum:''' '''''[[OhCrap INTERVENTION!!]]''''' |
| 495 | %%* CheshireCatGrin: His smile says it all. |
| 496 | * CoversAlwaysLie: The film's entire advertising campaign heavily implied to audiences that Bruce is the BigBad of the movie. This is not actually the case. |
| 497 | * CreepyGood: For being a shark, the other fish are terrified of him and his support group. Bruce is taking the necessary steps to be in control of his instincts and he's at least trying to fight the prejudice towards sharks. |
| 498 | %%* DarkIsNotEvil: See FaceOfAThug. |
| 499 | * DisappearedDad: By his own admission, Bruce never knew his father, which actually has scientific accuracy to it - after mating, male sharks avoid females when they become pregnant. |
| 500 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Implied to have gotten over his fish-eating habits by the end of the film. |
| 501 | * EmotionalBruiser: Despite being a big, imposing shark, he begins crying when Marlin explains that Nemo was kidnapped by divers. |
| 502 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Subverted, he's not evil at all, but he does have a "relapse" into his carnivore nature when he smells Dory's blood. |
| 503 | * FantasticRacism: He, along with the others, harbours a strong dislike of humans. Though considering how humans [[TheDreaded treat his species]] thanks to a certain [[Film/{{Jaws}} movie]], can you blame him? |
| 504 | * FaceOfAThug: Despite his good intentions, he still comes off initially as extremely terrifying since he ''is'' a giant Great White Shark. |
| 505 | * FreudianExcuse: When Bruce is frenzied by the smell of blood, Anchor insists that Bruce never knowing his father is part of how he developed this addiction/behavior. |
| 506 | * TheGadfly: He genuinely has no intention to eat Marlin or Dory, but that doesn't mean he's against [[JumpScare Jump Scaring]] them, flashing his teeth in their faces and even laughing about it afterwards. |
| 507 | * GentleGiant: He ''tries'' to be nice, at least, but he loses control over his predatory instincts when he smells blood. |
| 508 | * LargeHam: Particularly in "feeding frenzy" mode, in which he is bellowing every line like a pantomime actor. |
| 509 | -->'''"[[Film/TheShining HEEEEEERE'S BRUCEY!]]"''' |
| 510 | * MeaningfulName: He is named after "Bruce," the code-name for the mechanical shark prop from ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. It's also a name associated with the common [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus caricature of an Australian.]] |
| 511 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Only natural for a shark, of course, but his introduction plays it up for maximum sinister effect. |
| 512 | * NiceGuy: [[FaceOfAThug Despite appearances]], he's very genuine about wanting to give up his habit of eating fish. |
| 513 | * OffTheWagon: His avoidance of eating fish is treated like an attempt to shake an addiction. A small whiff of Dory's blood is enough to make him relapse. |
| 514 | * ParentalAbandonment: He cries that he never knew his father at one point. This is TruthInTelevision, as most sharks aren't particularly parental animals. |
| 515 | * PutOnABus: He doesn't appear in ''Finding Dory''. |
| 516 | * ScaryTeeth: As a large shark, he has a full complement of multiple rows of razor-sharp teeth, which are shown off in great detail when he smiles. |
| 517 | * ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', seeing how the gargantuan great white in that movie (colloquially) shares the name with him. |
| 518 | * SlasherSmile: Bruce pulls off a terrifying smile after accidentally smelling blood and relapsing into a feral state. |
| 519 | * TermsOfEndangerment: He seems to call small fish like Marlin and Dory "bites" as a bit of slang of some sort. It comes off this way initially thanks to his intimidating presence. |
| 520 | * ThreateningShark: Zig-zagged. Although he initially comes off as ''very'' threatening towards Marlin and Dory, he is actually a NiceGuy who honestly just wants to make friends with them. Unfortunately, [[FurryReminder he can't help his instincts]] when he accidentally gets a whiff of Dory's blood. His friends even {{Lampshade|hanging}} this: |
| 521 | -->'''Anchor''': Sorry about- ''[Bruce bashes the door]'' Bruce, mate!\ |
| 522 | '''Chum''': He's really- ''[Bruce hits the door again]'' a nice guy! |
| 523 | * TropaholicsAnonymous: Bruce is the president of a society for sharks who want to stop eating fish. |
| 524 | -->"Fish are friends, not food." |
| 525 | * VegetarianCarnivore: He ''attempts'' to be one, at least. He's determined to shake the fish-eating habit and go vegetarian. Unfortunately for him, sharks are hypercarnivores by nature, and as such this requires battling against some very deeply ingrained instincts. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:Anchor and Chum]] |
| 529 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/findingnemo_113pyxurz.jpg]] |
| 530 | ->'''Anchor voiced by:''' Creator/EricBana [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Jean-Marie Moncelet (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 531 | '''Chum voiced by:''' Creator/BruceSpence [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Denys Paris (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 532 | |
| 533 | Bruce's two friends, a great hammerhead and a mako shark respectively. |
| 534 | ---- |
| 535 | * ApologeticAttacker: Played with, as they're not the ones attacking, Bruce is, and they're trying to hold him back from causing any more damage. |
| 536 | -->'''Chum:''' SORRY ABOUT— ''[thud]'' —BRUCE, MATE! ''[thud]''\ |
| 537 | '''Anchor:''' HE'S REALLY— ''[thud]'' —A NICE GUY! ''[thud]'' |
| 538 | * BlackComedy: Chum appears to have ''eaten'' his guest on the way to the meeting. |
| 539 | * CreepyGood: For being sharks, the other fish are terrified of them and Bruce. Like Bruce, they are taking the necessary steps to be in control of their instincts and they are at least trying to fight the prejudice towards sharks. Chum had a brief relapse when he ate his fish buddy, but the support group understands how hard it is to overcome their instincts and don't hold it against him. |
| 540 | * FaceOfAThug: They're scary-looking guys, but genuinely nice. |
| 541 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 542 | ** They both seem to harbor a strong dislike for dolphins. Possibly inspired by tales of dolphins attacking sharks to protect themselves or humans, and the other way around. |
| 543 | ** Humans, too. [[BitingTheHandHumor Especially Americans]]. Their dislike of humans as a whole may also be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the way humans have treated and threatened sharks as a dangerous bogeyman following the release of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. This is especially true for Chum's case, as mako sharks are popular targets in trophy fishing. Not to mention the sizable fishhook lodged in one of his nostrils; if he's smelling his own blood frequently from that injury, [[FridgeBrilliance then this may even explain why out of the three sharks, he's the one implied to have simply eaten the fish guest he was supposed to bring with him to the meeting.]] |
| 544 | * ThoseTwoGuys: They are always seen together. |
| 545 | * TropaholicsAnonymous: Ditto to Bruce. |
| 546 | * VegetarianCarnivore: Like Bruce, although it's implied that Chum may have relapsed at some point. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[folder:Blenny]] |
| 550 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blenny.jpg]] |
| 551 | ->'''Voiced by:''' N/A |
| 552 | |
| 553 | A small green fish that Anchor brings to the meeting as his "fish friend." |
| 554 | ---- |
| 555 | * CowardlyLion: He's absolutely terrified to be at the shark meeting. In the post-credits scene, however, he gets over his fear of predators and eats the Anglerfish in one bite. |
| 556 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: He's left unnamed in the film, but is called Blenny in an officially licensed Macintosh game. |
| 557 | * NervousWreck: He's constantly quaking to the point where he never speaks and eventually sneaks off during the shark meeting. |
| 558 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Turns out he's actually quite capable of eating large predators despite his small size. |
| 559 | * TheQuietOne: He doesn't say a word in the film. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as he was likely so scared at the shark intervention that talking was the last thing on his mind at the time. |
| 560 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: He sneaks away after seeing that Chum ''ate'' his "fish friend." |
| 561 | * TookALevelInBadass: In the {{Stinger}}, he overcomes his cowardice and eats the Anglerfish in one bite! |
| 562 | [[/folder]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | [[folder:The School of Moonfish]] |
| 565 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/school_of_fish_make_an_arrow_in_finding_nemo.jpg]] |
| 566 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnRatzenberger |
| 567 | |
| 568 | A school of moonfish who give Marlin and Dory directions to Sydney. They also enjoy doing impressions. |
| 569 | ---- |
| 570 | * DeadpanSnarker: Especially towards Marlin. |
| 571 | * TheDividual: Despite the size of their school, they act as essentially a singular character -- in fact, their extensive use of SynchronizedSwarming means that they are also mostly ''drawn'' like a single character. |
| 572 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After Dory explains that Marlin was upset because his son was missing, they warm up and offer to help them out. Even beforehand, they went out of their way to comfort Dory when it seemed like Marlin was bothering her and really only made fun of him in the first place for the latter reason. |
| 573 | * SynchronizedSwarming: They can effortlessly form complex shapes like arrows, swordfish, octopuses, sailboats, the Sydney Opera House and more, and use this as one of their main forms of communication. |
| 574 | [[/folder]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | [[folder:Crush]] |
| 577 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crush_fn.png]] |
| 578 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/PixarRegulars Andrew Stanton]] [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Daniel Picard (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 579 | |
| 580 | A green sea turtle who helps Marlin and Dory find their way to Sydney. |
| 581 | ---- |
| 582 | * BreakoutCharacter: Widely popular among audiences despite his relatively short role in the movie, he's placed prominently on many posters and DVD covers, Pixar made sure to give him a short appearance in the sequel, and he even got his own attraction at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, ''Turtle Talk with Crush'', an interactive show where you get to, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] talk with Crush. |
| 583 | * CreatorCameo: Voiced by director Andrew Stanton. |
| 584 | * GoodParents: He's a great dad to Squirt, knowing when to interfere and when to let him learn on his own. Marlin learns a thing or two from this. |
| 585 | * NiceGuy: A friendly guy who's all too happy to help Dory and Marlin out. |
| 586 | * TheNicknamer: Marlin is "dude" or "jellyman," Dory is "little blue." |
| 587 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He's [[spoiler:150 years old, dude, and still young. This is partially [[TruthInTelevision Truth in television]], believe it or not, as many sea turtles are indeed capable of living this long, though for those that do, 150 is pretty much their maximum life expectancy.]] |
| 588 | * SurferDude: Played with. He's a turtle, but he has the laid-back personality. |
| 589 | * TotallyRadical: The way he talks, dude. |
| 590 | * VerbalTic: Crush tends to end his sentences with "dude," dude. |
| 591 | * WiseOldTurtle: He's a bit of a twist on the trope. While at first he doesn't act like a typical wise old mentor, being instead a laid-back SurferDude, he still gives Marlin useful advice for his quest... and when Marlin asks him his age, he answers that he's [[spoiler:a hundred and fifty -- and ''still young'']]. |
| 592 | [[/folder]] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | [[folder:Squirt]] |
| 595 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squirt_2.png]] |
| 596 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Nicholas Bird (''Finding Nemo''), Bennett Dammann (''Finding Dory'') [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Renaud Proulx (Canadian French, ''Finding Nemo''), Loïc Moënner (Canadian French, ''Finding Dory'')[[/labelnote]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | Crush's son. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | * CheerfulChild: Always smiling just about every second he's on screen and seems to be perpetually excited. |
| 601 | * {{Keet}}: He's full of energy. |
| 602 | * PutOnABus: Subverted; he still appears in the second film, but is no longer a member of Nemo's class. |
| 603 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He's small, has huge puppy-dog eyes, and has the energy of a seven-year-old boy. How can you NOT say "Awwww" when he's on screen? |
| 604 | * VerbalTic: He has one like his father, dude. |
| 605 | [[/folder]] |
| 606 | |
| 607 | [[folder:The Whale]] |
| 608 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whale.jpg]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | A blue whale encountered by Martin and Dory. |
| 611 | ---- |
| 612 | * ArtisticLicenceBiology: |
| 613 | ** In real life, a whale's blowhole and its mouth are not connected in any way -- the blowhole is technically the nose, but cetaceans' respiratory tracts are, by necessity, very well-insulated from their digestive ones. Its basic role would still be fulfilled by it just letting the fish swim out of its open mouth at the end of the trip, but the "trust fall" moment between Dory and Nemo would not be possible. |
| 614 | ** It also commits the very common cartoon animal sin of having a massive uvula hanging over its tongue, a feature owned only by humans. |
| 615 | * GentleGiant: Belongs to the largest existing species of mammal, which can be up to 30 meters (98 feet) long and 173 tonnes (191 short tons) in weight. Nonetheless, he mainly feeds on tiny crustaceans called krill and doesn't mean to harm larger fish like Marlin and Dory. |
| 616 | * MonsterWhale: Subverted. While a whale ''does'' end up very nearly consuming Marlin and Dory, and Marlin very much acts like they've been swallowed by a terrifying sea monster, it does so unintentionally and turns out to be friendly, giving them some advice that helps them escape its mouth before it can accidentally swallow them. |
| 617 | * TheUnintelligible: He only speaks a "whale" language consisting of low-frequency vocalizations that Marlin cannot understand. Dory claims to be able to speak whale, despite Martin's disbelief, [[spoiler:and it turns out she's right]]. |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | !!Humans |
| 621 | |
| 622 | [[folder:Dr. Philip Sherman]] |
| 623 | [[quoteright:130:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_25598_thumb.jpg]] |
| 624 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Bill Hunter [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Benoît Rousseau (Canadian French), Creator/HumbertoVelez (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 625 | |
| 626 | The dentist who "rescues" Nemo from the reef and puts him in his fish tank, thus setting up the main plot of the film. |
| 627 | ---- |
| 628 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned on the scuba mask (as simply "P. Sherman"). His first name Philip is not said at all. |
| 629 | * BigBad: While the fishing boat is the FinalBoss, he's the reason Nemo is kidnapped in the first place, kicking off the rest of the story. Though it's downplayed, since he's more ObliviouslyEvil than actively malevolent; from his point of view, he's just rescuing an injured and stricken fish which probably wouldn't last long in its natural environment and giving it a nice safe home. |
| 630 | * HumansAreCthulhu: To the fish when in his scuba diving gear. |
| 631 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His EstablishingCharacterMoment shows he's more of this than the usual dentist, accidentally pulling a tooth without anesthesia and joking about it shortly after. That being said, he's a relatively friendly guy and loves his niece. |
| 632 | * TheKindnapper: Why did he take Nemo? Because he ([[EntertaininglyWrong not unreasonably]]) thought the young clownfish was going to die if he didn't. |
| 633 | * LethallyStupid: He keeps giving fish to his niece despite the fact that she keeps killing them by shaking their bags. |
| 634 | * PapaWolf: He's willing to tackle a pelican he believes is terrorizing his niece. |
| 635 | * ObliviouslyEvil: He was under the impression that Nemo was struggling and dying away from the coral reef and is unaware that he separated a child from his father. Similarly, he is oblivious to the fact that the fish in his tank are miserable and wish to be freed into the ocean. Additionally, since no communication occurs between humans and other animals in the movie, it's also very unclear how intelligent the fishes are supposed to be in comparison to them and how aware, if at all, he would be of this. Ultimately, while he's the main antagonistic force in the movie, he's also completely unaware that anything even somewhat eyebrow-raising is going on. |
| 636 | * PunnyName: "P. Sherman" sounds like "fisherman." |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | [[folder:Darla]] |
| 640 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darla.jpg]] |
| 641 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=LuLu=] Ebeling [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Charlotte Mondoux (Canadian French), Jessica Ángeles (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 642 | |
| 643 | Dr. Sherman's niece, but known to the Tank Gang as "[[TheDreaded the fish killer]]." |
| 644 | ---- |
| 645 | * AntiVillain: While she is known for being too aggressive with fish and is pretty creepy, she's not really evil. Just doesn't really know any better because of her age. |
| 646 | * BabyTalk: "Fishy!" |
| 647 | * BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: God those braces of hers are '''massive!''' They basically make her default expression a SlasherSmile for the fish. |
| 648 | * BrattyHalfPint: Although she comes off as rather demanding and obnoxious, her brattiness is unintentional. |
| 649 | * ChronicPetKiller: The reason why she is feared by the Tank Gang is because she kills all her adopted fish through vigorous bag-shaking. |
| 650 | * CreepyChild: To the Tank Gang. Subverted considering the fact that she seems quite nice, if not a bit overenthusiastic about her pets. |
| 651 | * CuteIsEvil: From the perspective of the fish ([[RuleOfEmpathy where the audience's sympathy is supposed to lie]]) Darla is a serial fish killer and therefore TheDreaded. From the perspective of the humans, she's a sweet, smiley little kid whose worst fault is being too young to know better that she's harming the fish. |
| 652 | * TheDreaded: To the point that her scenes are accompanied by PsychoStrings. |
| 653 | * EvilRedhead: [[DownplayedTrope Not particularly evil]], but she does cause harm to the fish by shaking them too much. |
| 654 | * GenkiGirl: An overexcited and hyperactive little girl. |
| 655 | * GirlishPigtails: She has red hair in pigtails. |
| 656 | * TheHeavy: Is more of a direct danger than her uncle, whose only role was putting the fish in the tank and keeping them there. |
| 657 | * IdiotHoudini: As far as we know, she isn't punished for killing fish by shaking their bags. If she is, we never hear about it. |
| 658 | * LethallyStupid: Darla is actually a relatively normal girl (except for the braces), what makes her an antagonist is her bad habit to shake her fishes like crazy. This is justified, however, by how young and hyperactive she is. |
| 659 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Even more so than her uncle. She doesn't seem to know that her actions towards fish (particularly shaking their bags) are extremely harmful. |
| 660 | * PsychoStrings: They play every time she appears, to nail that she’s really bad news for the fish. |
| 661 | * ScaryTeeth: Thanks to her BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill, her teeth are very large and visible. |
| 662 | * ShoutOut: Her sweater reads "Rock 'n Roll Girl", a reference to the 1985 John Fogerty song "Rock and Roll Girls". |
| 663 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Darla has green eyes, has red hair, and is considered a scourge among fishkind. |
| 664 | * SpeechImpediment: Darla has trouble speaking with those terrible braces. |
| 665 | * SpoiledBrat: She gets everything she wants from her uncle. |
| 666 | * YouthfulFreckles: That match her red hair. |
| 667 | [[/folder]] |
| 668 | |
| 669 | !!The Marine Life Institute |
| 670 | |
| 671 | [[folder:Hank]] |
| 672 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hank_render.jpg]] |
| 673 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EdONeill [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]François L'Écuyer (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 674 | |
| 675 | A grouchy octopus who's determined to bust out of the institute. |
| 676 | ---- |
| 677 | * AnArmAndALeg: He's missing one of his arms, and Dory calls him a "septopus" because of that. |
| 678 | * BrokenBird: The traumatic loss of his tentacle is implied to be the reason why he's such a bitter loner. |
| 679 | * TheCameo: He appears as a sculpture in ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'', and underwater when Arlo learns to swim in ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur''. |
| 680 | * ChameleonCamouflage: Can blend in with any surrounding. Justified because octopuses can do that in real life, though it's mostly for underwater situations; octopuses are not very effective at blending in with human-made objects. |
| 681 | * ConMan: Hank is more than happy to trick Dory into handing over her tag in the beginning by any means possible. Once he realizes that she's TooDumbToFool, however, he quickly changes tactics and reluctantly begins helping her. |
| 682 | * TheCynic: In stark contrast to Dory's more optimistic outlook on life. |
| 683 | * DeadpanSnarker: When meeting Dory for the first time, he starts to tell Dory his plan, saying "It'd never work, it's too crazy." When Dory asks to hear it, saying she's okay with crazy, he remarks "You know, I could see that". |
| 684 | * DefrostingIceKing: Hank starts out as a cynical, grumpy loner who's only willing to help Dory for his own gain. However, her sweetness and optimism slowly begin to crack away at his icy exterior until he wants to help her for real. |
| 685 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Twice. First with a baby cart and second with a TRUCK. Justified, however, in that he "can't see squat" either time. |
| 686 | * EscapeArtist: We never once see where Hank is actually supposed to be within the institute since he's gotten himself out and been on the run for an indefinite amount of time. His ability to escape and camouflage himself is extremely helpful to Dory and extremely irksome to the staff at the marine hospital. |
| 687 | * {{Foil}}: Created to be one for Dory. While she is optimistic, friendly, and looking to find her family so she won't feel alone, Hank is cynical, grouchy, and looking to live in solitude for the rest of his life. Dory is also a textbook example of TheFool who relies on good luck and a good attitude to succeed, and generally doesn't bother with making plans; by contrast, Hank is a hypercompetent badass with a whole array of useful "superpowers", and he meticulously plans his every move. And while Dory is rather forgetful and wants to remember her parents, Hank has memories that he DOESN'T want to remember. |
| 688 | * FunnyOctopus: Even though he mostly plays the StraightMan to Dory, he still has a handful of humorous moments, mostly related to his MasterOfDisguise abilities -- including disguising himself as a human baby. |
| 689 | * GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: He's TheCynic who doesn't believe in the ThePowerOfFriendship nor ThePowerOfFamily to TheIdealist Dory, who is cheerful and friendly. |
| 690 | * HandicappedBadass: Despite having lost one of his tentacles, Hank is easily one of the most agile characters in the series; able to swing from objects with ease, pilot a baby stroller in a crowd of humans, and even drive a truck. |
| 691 | * HatesBeingTouched: Hank detests physical contact and wanted to be sent to quarantine so that he can live peacefully in an isolated glass box without having to be mishandled by anyone. |
| 692 | * HatesSmallTalk: Goes along with his ultimate desire to be left alone. Hank actually launches into a small rant about how much he doesn't like "talking and chatter" when Dory initially tries to make conversation with him. |
| 693 | * HollywoodChameleon: [[TruthInTelevision Just like real octopuses]], he has the ability to change his body color to blend in with his environment. |
| 694 | * IneffectualLoner: Hank doesn't want friends or family and aspires to live completely alone in a glass tank for the rest of his days. Thankfully, he comes out of this mindset after spending time with Dory. |
| 695 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Extremely prickly and ill-tempered, and only agreed to help Dory to get her tag. Despite this, he eventually grows attached to her and becomes one of her best friends. |
| 696 | * LuminescentBlush: It's very brief, but Hank blushes deeply when [[spoiler:Dory tells him, "I think I'll remember you."]] |
| 697 | * LonerTurnedFriend: Though Hank spends most of the movie rebuffing Dory's attempts to befriend him, she eventually gets under his skin and he actually [[spoiler:gives up his goal of going to Cleveland to return to the ocean with her.]] |
| 698 | * MasterOfDisguise: Due to his flexible body and color-changing abilities, he disguises himself as a number of things over the course of the movie, from a potted plant to a human baby. |
| 699 | * NoMouth: As an octopus's beak is on the other side of its body from its eyes, Hank talks for the most part without any visible mouth movement. However, the animators compromised and gave him a mouth between his front two tentacles which can be seen when he shouts or is otherwise riled. |
| 700 | * NoodleIncident: Exactly what caused Hank to lose a tentacle and develop his fear of the ocean and physical contact is never explained...in ''Finding Dory'', at least. |
| 701 | * OppositesAttract: In a platonic sense. The creators say that Hank was created to be Dory's exact opposite and the two of them become good friends. |
| 702 | * ShellShockedVeteran: While not a literal veteran, Hank lost one of his tentacles in an unmentioned "accident" that may or may not have to do with his fear of the ocean but which has everything to do with his PTSD-like fear of being touched. It is also implied to be the reason he's so cynical and adamant about not getting close to anyone-- physically or emotionally. |
| 703 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Over the course of the movie, Hank reveals in bits and pieces that his past (whatever it is) weighs heavily on him and he wishes he could forget about it: "No memories, no problems." |
| 704 | * StealthyCephalopod: Hank the "septopus" (an octopus with one tentacle missing; it's unclear if this is a birth defect or his tentacle simply hasn't grown back yet) is good at sneaking around, thanks to his quiet nature and ability to change his skin color. |
| 705 | * StraightMan: To Dory. |
| 706 | * SuperNotDrowningSkills: Inverted. He can survive outside of water for an improbably long time compared to real-life octopuses. |
| 707 | * TraumaButton: Part of his PTSD-like symptoms, Hank is extremely paranoid about being touched by anyone, and the idea of it alone is enough to make him a terrified wreck. |
| 708 | * VoluntaryShapeshifter: Like all octopuses, he can make himself look like something else by changing the color and texture of his skin, although since they're going for realism here, his abilities are somewhat limited. |
| 709 | [[/folder]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[folder:Destiny]] |
| 712 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/destiny_finding_dory.png]] |
| 713 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitlinOlson [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Rachel Gratton (Canadian French), Silvia Navarro (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 714 | |
| 715 | A nearsighted whale shark and Dory's pipe pal. |
| 716 | ---- |
| 717 | * BirdsOfAFeather: It's no wonder she got along so well with Dory. |
| 718 | * BlindWithoutEm: She has very poor eyesight and is constantly running into walls because of them. She mostly relies on Bailey's echolocation (dubbed in-universe as "The World's Most Powerful Spectacles") to "see". |
| 719 | * ChildhoodFriends: She and Dory used to communicate to each other using the tank pipes when they were younger. |
| 720 | * CuteClumsyGirl: An adorably sweet and helpful whale shark who frequently crashes into objects because of her poor vision. Even in-universe she's seen as cute enough that the MLI is selling stuffed animal versions of her. |
| 721 | * CuteGiant: A huge and downright adorable whale shark. |
| 722 | * GenkiGirl: Cheerful and enthusiastic, she gets very excited to reunite with her old friend, and will stop at nothing to help Dory. |
| 723 | * GentleGiant: Huge compared to the rest of the cast, but super nice. TruthInTelevision, since the whale shark is the largest living fish species, yet feeds on plankton and is docile even toward humans. |
| 724 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Frequently bickers about the most minute of things with Bailey, but they would develop a close bond as Bailey becomes her "eyesight". |
| 725 | [[/folder]] |
| 726 | |
| 727 | [[folder:Bailey]] |
| 728 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bailey_render.png]] |
| 729 | ->Voiced by: Creator/TyBurrell [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Frédéric Desager (Canadian French), Creator/ArturoMercadoJr (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]] |
| 730 | |
| 731 | A beluga whale who lives in the tank next to Destiny. He has an unknown injury that causes his echolocation to not function properly. |
| 732 | ---- |
| 733 | * DisabledSnarker: Is rather sardonic due to his inability to echo locate. |
| 734 | * HowDoIShotWeb: He can't remember how his echolocation works. |
| 735 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is often pretty ill-tempered, but nevertheless sternly tells Hank to lay off when he gets angry at Dory and arguably goes to the greatest lengths to help save Marlin and Nemo at the end of the film. |
| 736 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: He frequently pick fights with Destiny, but they share a close enough bond for him to agree to her requests, and he later promises her to be her "eyesight" when they return to the ocean. |
| 737 | * PstandardPsychicPstance: Invoked. Bailey's not trying to use ESP, but he still takes the pose. |
| 738 | * SuperSenses: While his echolocation is not functioning perfectly, it still allows him to "see" through solid objects and locate stuff from far distances. |
| 739 | [[/folder]] |
| 740 | |
| 741 | [[folder:Fluke and Rudder]] |
| 742 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fluke_and_rudder.jpg]] |
| 743 | [[caption-width-right:350:Rudder (left) and Fluke (right)]] |
| 744 | ->'''Fluke voiced by:''' Creator/IdrisElba [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Patrick Chouinard (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 745 | '''Rudder voiced by:''' Creator/DominicWest [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Gilbert Lachance (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 746 | |
| 747 | Two sea lions that hang around the shore close to the Institute. |
| 748 | ---- |
| 749 | * AnimalGenderBender: Rudder has the slender and lean body of a female sea lion. Fluke looks more accurate to how a male sea lion looks. |
| 750 | * FatAndSkinny: Fluke is rather burly, whereas Rudder is slender. |
| 751 | * GoKartingWithBowser: As Marlin points out, sea lions live principally on fish. However, Rudder and Fluke are perfectly willing to help the protagonists. |
| 752 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Gerald, constantly trying to keep him off their rock. |
| 753 | * SluggishSeal: Fluke and Rudder are two sea lions who spend all their time sitting on a rock. Fluke and Rudder are [[CarnivoreConfusion acknowledged to be fish-eating predators]], but they are too lazy to attack Marlin and Nemo. Fluke and Rudder only move when they want to get fellow sea-lion Gerald off their rock. |
| 754 | * SweetSeal: Both are pretty amicable even to their natural prey. That said, they are territorial. |
| 755 | * ThoseTwoGuys: They appear together all the time. |
| 756 | * TruthInTelevision: Sea lions are highly gregarious animals. |
| 757 | [[/folder]] |
| 758 | |
| 759 | [[folder:Becky]] |
| 760 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/becky_finding_dory.jpg]] |
| 761 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Torbin Xan Bullock |
| 762 | |
| 763 | A common loon that is friends with Fluke and Rudder and tries to help Marlin and Nemo find Dory |
| 764 | ---- |
| 765 | * ArtisticLicenseOrnithology: She's treated more like a semi-aquatic pigeon than an actual loon, walking around on two legs, eating popcorn and making pigeon noises. Real life loons move rather ungainly on land and are piscivores (which would make them another threat to Marlin and Nemo). |
| 766 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Despite trying to help Marlin and Nemo find Dory, she gets distracted by popcorn that has fallen to the ground. |
| 767 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: She is less anthropomorphized than most animals in the film, with realistic bird eyes. She also looks different from the other loons in the movie, with scruffier feathers. |
| 768 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted. She has eyes that are realistic (if a bit too large) for her species, but is quite friendly. |
| 769 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: She loves popcorn. |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | |
| 772 | [[folder:Gerald]] |
| 773 | [[quoteright:177:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gerald_sea_lion.png]] |
| 774 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Torbin Xan Bullock |
| 775 | |
| 776 | A sea lion that is always trying to get on the rock that Fluke and Rudder are on. |
| 777 | ---- |
| 778 | * BigOlUnibrow: Just look at it. |
| 779 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Seems to be not ''quite'' there. |
| 780 | * ComicallyCrossEyed: He has unfocused, outward-looking eyes. |
| 781 | * FishEyes: Ironic, considering he's one of the few characters that's ''not'' a fish. |
| 782 | * NonstandardCharacterDesign: Compared to the rest of the characters, Gerald looks like he escaped from a much more cartoony film. |
| 783 | * OneSteveLimit: He shares the name with a pelican that attempts to eat Marlin and Dory in ''Finding Nemo''. They are both ugly and unpopular members of their species (the other pelicans refuse to help Gerald the pelican when he's choking on the protagonists). |
| 784 | * ThousandYardStare: Again, his eyes are unfocused and looking into a distance. |
| 785 | [[/folder]] |
| 786 | |
| 787 | [[folder:Jenny and Charlie]] |
| 788 | ->'''Jenny voiced by:''' Creator/DianeKeaton [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Viviane Pacal (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 789 | '''Charlie voiced by:''' Creator/EugeneLevy [[labelnote:Other voice actors]]François Trudel (Canadian French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 790 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jenny_and_charliepng.jpg]] |
| 791 | |
| 792 | Dory's long-lost parents. |
| 793 | ---- |
| 794 | * AudienceSurrogate: They represent the many parents who live through the struggle of having a child with special needs. Many parents would be able to relate, especially the scene with Jenny crying in worry over whether Dory can survive on her own. |
| 795 | * {{Determinator}}: They never gave up hope that their daughter would one day return. [[spoiler:When she disappeared, they escaped the institute, set up a home near the exit pipe, and spent every day since setting up seashell trails in every direction in the hope that Dory would stumble upon one of them and follow them back home.]] |
| 796 | * GoodParents: They're incredibly patient with Dory and her short-term memory loss, and did everything they could to keep her from getting lost. |
| 797 | * ParentalAbandonment: Though not by choice. Dory got swept away by the undertow and was lost for years, with her parents trying hard to find her. |
| 798 | * ParentsAsPeople: As much as they love Dory, they genuinely wondered if she could make it on her own. |
| 799 | * StepfordSmiler: While Jenny acts cheerful around Dory, a flashback shows her crying out of worry for Dory's future as a fish with short-term memory loss. |
| 800 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Their stripe patterns resemble a [[NonMammalianHair hairstyle]], with long hair for Jenny and a receding hairline for Charlie. |
| 801 | [[/folder]] |
| 802 | |
| 803 | [[folder:Sigourney Weaver]] |
| 804 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SigourneyWeaver |
| 805 | |
| 806 | The narrator for the Marine Life Insititute's various exhibits. |
| 807 | ---- |
| 808 | * AsHimself: Weaver voices herself having been presumably contracted by the MLI to provide voiceover for their exhibits. |
| 809 | * CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker: All her dialogue is pre-recorded educational facts that play over the exhibits. |
| 810 | * CompanionCube: As the all the animals in the MLI don't understand that she's not actively speaking to them, they treat her as if she's a friend who gives them helpful information. |
| 811 | * TheVoice: As she's only a voice, her face is never seen. |
| 812 | [[/folder]] |
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