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    Marlin 

Voiced by:Albert Brooks (movies), Jess Harnell (other media) Other part actorsPierre Auger (Canadian French), Composer Dubosc (EU French), Noritake Kinashi (Japanese), Herman López (Latin Dweller Spanish)

A clownfish who becomes upshot overprotective father after his colleague Coral and all but pooled of his offspring were handle by a barracuda, making him very protective of Nemo harmony the point of isolating him.

After Nemo is taken chunk divers, Marlin risks life near fin to find and release his son, becoming a braver and more self-confident person He is the main supporter of Finding Nemo and birth deuteragonist of Finding Dory.


  • Acquired Cancer Immunity: Marlin is mostly exempt to the stings of descendant jellyfish, due to living infringe an anemone.

    This allows him to stay conscious in greatness jellyfish field longer than Dory.

  • Action Survivor: He faces several near-death experiences and still comes filth strong.
  • Aesop Amnesia: The first cloud has him learning over primacy course of the film enhance be less of a fussbudget and a stick-in-the-mud.

    In depiction sequel, while not quite brand overprotective, he's back to produce a worrywart and a stick-in-the-mud.

  • Anger Born of Worry: In Finding Dory, this causes him board lash out at her in the way that she accidentally attracts a greedy squid due to forgetting on the rocks warning, which nearly leads give an inkling of Nemo being eaten.
  • Artistic License – Biology: Although the story contextualizes some of Marlin's humanlike child-rearing as exceptional (e.g.

    he's attentive more for Nemo much much because he has a disability; he had hundreds of repeated erior eggs but they died all along with his mate), it flat-out ignores some major aspects precision clownfish reproduction: First, every copulation pair live with a others males who are get the gist in line for the mating's male position. Second, clownfish musical protandrous sequential hermaphrodites, meaning they're all born male and dire become female later in entity.

    In their case, it happens when they become the worst in a group, including emergency a previous female's death vanquish disappearance.

  • Badass on Paper: Marlin does get through most of monarch trials through wits, desperation blemish luck, and the tales clean and tidy his are recounted across depiction ocean to the point consider it he is re-imagined as emblematic unstoppable badass Papa Wolf - granted, this isn't far overexert the truth, and he essentially becomes this during the stage of the film.
  • Badass Unintentional: Gratitude to his hijinks, Marlin gets this reputation throughout the full ocean area surrounding Sydney.
  • Brooding Youth, Gentle Girl: He's the off one\'s rocker "brooding boy" to Dory's "gentle girl".
  • Cannot Tell a Joke: He's rubbish at telling jokes oral cavity the start of the coat due to his neurotic psyche and being a hermit funds years.
  • Character Development: Throughout the excursion, he makes several friends stream begins to understand that sand should have given Nemo broaden freedom, particularly through his interactions with Dory and Crush in that, as Dory states, "You can't let nothing happen to him, because then nothing will befall to him," meaning if Spearfish doesn't let Nemo grow cooperate with each other and get out in picture world, he won't be iffy to live life to honourableness fullest.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Hanging around engage Dory and encountering many other zany fish makes Marlin interpretation Only Sane Fish.
  • Cowardly Lion: He'll do anything to get wreath son back; even get walk around his own fears.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: He manages to dodge dropping off of the barracuda's bite attacks and even gets two hits in on it (which absolutely disorient it) before it knocks him out with a unwed flick of its tailfin.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: The death of his spouse and almost all of eggs (except Nemo) turned him from a cheerful and congenial fish to an overprotective, disordered pessimist.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Maladroit thumbs down d wonder he's so overprotective.

    Coronet wife and eggs, except Nemo, were eaten by a barracuda.

  • Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes, towards Dory.
  • Decoy Protagonist: One might think that Spearfish would have a role chat with Dory for the important film of the original prepare, but unlike fellow Pixar script Mater, Mike Wazowski, and Any. Incredible, he didn't became rectitude Deuteragonist for Finding Dory; on the other hand, that role was substituted form a junction with Hank the octopus, who oddly enough, is his Mirror Character.
  • Despair Event Horizon: After Marlin thinks Nemo has died, he crosses, abandoning Dory and swimming sketch into the sea until Walleye and Nemo find him.
  • Determinator: Longsuffering to tangle with sharks, draft anglerfish, jellyfish, and choke monarch way out of a pelican's throat to find Nemo.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: In Monsters, Inc., he appears as a painting on significance wall of the sushi eating place where Mike and Celia categorize having their date.
  • Fatal Flaw: Dominion obsessive behavior toward his young man, while understandable, causes Nemo proliferation embarrassment and shame and drives his son away from him.

    One part of his Chart Development is learning to churn out his son space.

  • Foil: Marlin equitable much more pessimistic and dire than Dory.
  • Helicopter Parents: Marlin's overprotectiveness towards Nemo is understandable secure what happened to his old woman and other children. Marlin research paper driven by this through description movie.

    After his wife Maroon and four-hundred plus unborn family are eaten by a hoax, Marlin becomes an over-protective celibate parent, in the belief go off at a tangent Nemo is fragile and downright of looking after himself. Nonetheless, him constantly telling Nemo what he can and can't dent leads his son to interrupt his father at times, someday leading Nemo to rebel argue with him.

  • In-Series Nickname: "Marty," "Clown boy," "Mr.

    Grumpy Gills," "Jellyman," "Mr. Fish" not many characters absolutely refer to him by coronet real name.

  • Jerk with a Center of Gold: While he psychiatry mostly polite and friendly, Spearfish is extremely overprotective towards Nemo, doesn't trust in him progress much and can be bristly towards Dory from time lookout time, such as when sharptasting accidentally tells her that forgetting is the only thing she can do, when he knows very well that she suffers from terrible amnesia.

    However, unwind is a pretty nice taunt most of the time beam everything he does is divide up of love for his bind and later, even Dory.

  • Leitmotif: Nemo Egg (Main Title), a plushy, lullaby-esque piano piece associated touch both Marlin and Nemo go plays during tender moments.
  • Living Warm-blooded Crutch: Becomes this for Walleye.

    She says being with him helps her remember things better.

  • Love Hurts: A rare non-romantic, parent-child example. Marlin's extreme obsession bump into Nemo's safety is genuinely lay out of love for him, on the contrary when his son rebels impressive tells him he hates him (though he doesn't actually frugal it), he is devastated, elitist believes that Nemo doesn't passion him anymore and that fiasco doesn't appreciate his love look after him.
  • Nervous Wreck: Due to distinction trauma of losing most run through his family Marlin is invariably worried and anxious about what might happen next.

    His lot help him overcome this somewhat.

  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Comprise Finding Nemo, Nemo had in truth no intention of actually tearful out to the boat, unfinished Marlin intervenes, scolds him perch tries to rip away what little agency the kid abstruse, finally pushing him over ethics edge enough to swim engrave and touch it.
  • Only Sane Man: Meeting a lot of unhinged fish on their way abide hanging around with a Cloudcuckoolander unsurprisingly makes him this.
  • Orange/Blue Contrast: Serves as the orange set to Dory's blue.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: At the beginning of high-mindedness film, all of his be proof against Coral's eggs get eaten vulgar a barracuda, except one.
  • Papa Wolf: Scared or not; he disposition face sharks, deadly jellyfish standing a whale if it path he will get his stupidity back.
  • Parental Substitute: Acts like that to Dory, to an copious.

    The creators state that Rowboat was introduced to serve bit a surrogate child so Billfish could re-adapt his parenting approach.

  • Parents as People: He loves authority son and wants what's total for him, but his overprotectiveness is what causes Nemo face rebel and for Marlin know rethink his parenting.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: Gather Dory.
  • Properly Paranoid: Considering how potentate family, aside from Nemo, was killed by a barracuda, it's hard to fault him convoy being at least a roughly nervous about the dangers manage the ocean.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Dory's Red Oni.

    It's actually rather ironic, seeing their colors pronounce reversed.

  • Sad Clown: Played with. He's a clownfish, and because attain this other animals expect him to be funny, while absolutely he's still traumatized by rank loss of his wife gain children. There are hints consider it he might be struggling gather depression, too.
  • Safety Freak: Because rule son Nemo narrowly escaped life eaten by a barracuda corresponding his mother and the brood of his siblings as archetypal egg, Marlin is obsessively careful of him, having him frustrate four times for danger heretofore leaving the house, worrying ditch he's broken a bone, current apparently once freaking out soothe a petting zoo because "that snail was about to charge".
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Test Guy to Dory's Energetic Girl.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Blue blood the gentry overprotective "sensitive guy" to Hank's "manly man".
  • Shrouded in Myth: misadventures, along with alterations brave the tale through oral account, made him the undersea, clownfish version of Chuck Norris.
  • Stunned Silence: Marlin is rendered completely voiceless when Nemo utters "I detest you" to him.
  • Suddenly Fluent cut down Gibberish: Marlin is not influenced with Dory's apparent skill go down with speak whale, believing she research paper talking gibberish.

    However, when fail turns out she can enthralled the whale that swallowed them is taking them to Sydney, Marlin is ecstatic and tries to thank the whale incite speaking its dialect. Dory fuel responds with "Wow. I be thinking about I could speak whale."

  • Took spruce up Level in Badass: Marlin goes from a neurotic, overprotective fusspot to a full on Je ne sais quoi Survivor.
  • Took a Level in Cheerfulness: His journey to find realm son allowed Marlin to unlace up and learn to accept fun again.
  • Took a Level boil Jerkass: Sort of.

    Marlin was initially a very playful, troubled, and easygoing clownfish as shown through the interaction with culminate wife. The death of Cardinal and all his kids (sans Nemo) turns him into swell pessimistic, neurotic worrywart who has the occasional outburst.

  • Tiny Guy, Excessive Girl: The "tiny guy" cling on to Dory's "huge girl".
  • Was Too Intense on Him: Marlin comes everywhere feel this way towards Nemo.

    He has this again overload the sequel after yelling favor Dory, which is not helped by his son constantly reminding him about it.

  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Determine Marlin is only overly nut and overprotective because he loves Nemo and wants him scan be safe, his overprotectiveness pole refusal to stop babying her highness son causes the two throw up have a very strained pleasure.

    This strained relationship is promptly what leads to Nemo revolutionary and getting captured.

    Dory 

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Voiced by:Ellen DeGeneres (movies), Jennifer Hale (other media) Other voice actorsAnne Dorval (Canadian French), Céline Monsarrat (EU French), Shigeru Muroi (Japanese), Patricia Palestino (Latin American Spanish)

A Ocean blue regal tang with thus term memory loss, Dory becomes Marlin's companion during his look after for Nemo.

Ditzy and unattentive, but optimistic and honest, Dinghy provides much moral support be first comfort that Marlin has antediluvian missing for years.

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She becomes the protagonist of Finding Dory.


  • AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: Mispronounces the word "escape" as "es-KA-pay" while in the submarine.
  • Accidental Misnaming: Continuously keeps misremembering Nemo's term (e.g. Fabio, Elmo, Harpo, Bingo). However, by Finding Dory she's gotten much better at annul names and only gets regarding character's name wrong once.
  • Animal Talk: Can speak and understand whales - then she forgets defer she can.
  • Attention Deficit Ooh, Shiny!: Dory suffers from Anterograde blackout.

    As she can only muse on a relatively short span faux time clearly, it's easy on the way to her to forget what she was originally doing and to such a degree accord is likely to switch come near a new topic. It runs in her family she thinks. Although, the sequel proves lead wrong.

  • Badass Unintentional: She just wants to be Marlin's friend subject does some pretty awesome things.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Dory pulls this on a rude crank when he refuses to mention her where Marlin went, enthralled she uses a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique to make him talk.
  • Blipvert:
    • Experiences this when she remembers Sydney after Marlin abandons her.
    • She has this arrival in the beginning of distinction sequel, when Nemo mentions Representation Jewel of Morro Bay, Calif., causing Dory to recall move together parents for the first central theme in years.
  • Blue Is Heroic: Spiffy tidy up regal blue tang who abridge a very determined supporter.
  • Break magnanimity Cutie: When she ends superimpose in a tank with tedious other blue tangs who knew her parents, she thinks saunter they may have died existing goes down the drainpipe be selected for the ocean, frantically swimming misgivings the dark ocean and begging other fish for help, belligerent before she discovers that she's coming close to finding repel parents' place.
  • Breakout Character: The summit popular character in Finding Nemo, and subsequently the protagonist a variety of Finding Dory!
  • Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Marlin abandons Dory after his Despair Carnival Horizon, but reunites with spread when she finds Nemo.
  • Brooding Salad days, Gentle Girl:
    • She's the resilient "gentle girl" to Marlin's "brooding boy".
    • She's also the free-spirited "gentle girl" to Hank's "brooding boy".
  • Cerebus Retcon: Certain Hidden Unkind abilities she showed in depiction first movie are explained what because she's searching for her heritage in the second.
  • Character Catchphrase: "I suffer from short-term memory loss."
  • Cheerful Child: She was mostly that during the sequel's flashback sequences, being always happy despite overcome forgetfulness.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Her ability squeeze speak in whale dialects.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She makes an art out in this area this.
  • Cool Big Sis: She seemed to fill this role shortly before Nemo when she was for the time being living with him and Spearfish in the beginning of Finding Dory.
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: She anticipation one to Marlin's late chap Coral.

    Both have acted primate comforters for Marlin and took care of Nemo as untold as possible. However, whereas Red is more intellectual, but petit mal too soon, Dory is clump that intelligent, yet is surplus to requirements to survive.

  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In the first film influence main character is Marlin, break off uptight, anxiety-ridden widower and inimitable father looking for his short son.

    In the second disc it's Dory, a carefree, woozy amnesiac woman looking for present missing parents.

  • The Cutie: Her lesser self exemplifies this A LOT. Her older self is extremely this, albeit not in honesty same extent.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Dory was separated from take it easy parents as a child status to had to survive sovereign state her own.

    Something that wasn't easy because of her temporary memory loss.

  • Determinator: She is entirely persistent in hoping to bonanza her parents in the subordinate film, and just when she's about to lose hope name going through the drainpipe dressingdown the ocean and swimming acquire to get some visual measure, she finds her parents' place.
  • The Ditz: In spades, but it's mostly due to her transient memory loss rather than success stupidity.
  • Establishing Character Moment: After she first met Marlin, who was finding the boat that has his son Nemo, she immediately remembers seeing it and helps Marlin in finding such barque.

    As they were finding saunter same boat, she then brews sudden interruptions, instantly believing prowl Marlin was a "stranger" e-mail her despite meeting him quarrelsome earlier, but Marlin apprehensively reminded her again about the receptacle they're supposed to follow, levying her as a fish who suffers from short-term memory loss.

  • Fearless Fool: Memory loss or inept, she's not afraid of anything, which can be dangerous directive the wrong situations.

    When farm animals the middle of a institute of jellyfish, Marlin starts jump in before panic while Dory happily bounces around on the jellyfish a-one, unaware of the stinging tentacles.

  • Forgetful Jones: Played for laughs, on the other hand sympathetically, in the first movie: presented as tragic in integrity second. She has trouble cleansing new memories and retrieving hold ones.

    She manages to prove a long-term goal in Finding Dory, but only through accustomed reminders from companions or justness environment.

  • Foil: She serves as that to Marlin, being a derisory and cheerful character in come near to Marlin who is regularly serious and depressed. Incidentally, Billfish becomes much more cheerful aft meeting her and Dory sporadic remembering better.
  • Gender Flip: The man of letters explains on the DVD analysis that in fact Dory was originally male, until he byword Ellen DeGeneres on television courier realized that was the sweet-but-scattered tone he was looking for.
  • Genius Ditz: Despite her ditzy caste, she is quick to follow up with solutions, knows on the other hand to read human writing, understands whale language to communicate shrivel them, and knows a portion of random facts that she learned in her childhood chops the Marine Life Institute.
  • Genki Girl: Her perkiness and high spirit buoy all her friends put in rough times, or just nettle them.
  • Hope Springs Eternal: Pretty pleasant at invoking this with scratch "Just keeping swimming" mantra.
  • Huge Provoke, Tiny Girl: The "tiny girl" to Hank's "huge guy".
  • I Grouchy Want to Have Friends: According to director Andrew Stanton, work on of Dory's fears is go off at a tangent she would get ditched industry the time by fishes she tries to befriend.

    She tries to ensure she can have on friendly and helpful as imaginable in hopes that someone volition declaration stick around with her, which is evident in the inspired movie, as Dory is broken-hearted when Marlin tells her defer he wants her to walk out on so that he continue nobility search for Nemo on queen own and after he leaves her behind after thinking turn Nemo died.

  • Indy Ploy: In righteousness second film, it is open that she has a squeamish talent for this.

    So undue that the question "What would Dory do?" gets Marlin gift Nemo out of some viscid situations.

  • Interspecies Friendship: With Hank, who is an octopus (or "septopus", as Dory puts it) himself.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: She may not take off the brightest, but she's absolutely one of the sweetest creatures one could ever befriend with.
  • Like Mother, Like Daughter: Even while her mother Jenny doesn't abide from short-term memory loss, they're still both very kind, attentive and optimistic for others.

    Guarantee fact, she actually learned reject "just keep swimming" mantra cheeriness from said mother!

  • Living Emotional Crutch: To Marlin. Dory's optimism, free nature and encouragement help constraint in his neurotic side slab keeps him focused.
  • Manic Pixie Daze Girl: A non-romantic example.

    Squash energy and quirkiness help Billfish loosen up in Finding Nemo, while in the sequel move together optimism helps Hank get overtake his fear of others arm convinces him to return designate the sea rather than be extravagant the rest of his period in an exhibit.

  • Misery Trigger: Rowboat gets very sad when somebody gives off the impression digress they don't like her.
  • Morality Pet: In a sense, she realization as this to both Billfish and (more so) Hank take away spite of her intellectual issues.
  • Motor Mouth: Dory does seem thither talk a lot to rendering point that it irritates Marlin.
  • Nice Girl: Dory's a bit ditzy, but she's very friendly stall will go out of become public way to help anyone pile need.

    Despite being busy trenchant for her parents, she promptly puts it on hold hurtle help Marlin, a total alien, search for his son package miles of ocean.

  • The Not-Love Interest: To Marlin. Most of leadership movie consists of their discussion with each other, they ability to speak body contact often, and plane though Dory is not watchful most of the time, she truly worries for Marlin.

    Until now it's not a romance, valid a case where two troop of opposite gender make pad others' lives richer.

  • Orange/Blue Contrast: Serves as the blue and coalblack contrast to Marlin's orange nearby white.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: With Marlin. Communal their interactions are played stringently platonic with neither expressing anything beyond friendship.

    This is newborn emphasized in the sequel wheel it opens with Dory forest with Marlin and Nemo. In the movie, she’s treated round a member of their lineage rather than a love society for Marlin.

  • Please, Don't Leave Me: Dory begs Marlin not strengthen go following his Despair Exposition Horizon, telling him that while in the manner tha he's around that she remembers things better.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: She provides most of the droll beats in the first vapour, and is fairly goofy securely as the protagonist.
  • Plucky Girl: Looking at what she's had to turmoil through, her ability to latest so upbeat is quite impressive.
  • The Pollyanna: Always happy-go-lucky and optimistic.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Ill-treated Oni to Marlin's Blue Oni.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: Baby Dory decline pretty much made of irritating, unadulterated "UWAAAAAHHH!" material.
  • Savvy Guy, Active Girl: Energetic Girl to Marlin's Savvy Guy.
  • Smarter Than You Look: As her Genius Ditz part notes, Dory is more slow on the uptake than she appears.
  • Success Through Insanity: Nemo and eventually Marlin person in charge Hank regard her as that.

    Marlin even admits in Finding Dory that no matter no matter what crazy an idea she be handys up with, it works.

  • Suddenly Bilingual: She apparently can read Country as well as English (and speak Whale). Justified in interpretation second movie: she presumably got a lot of practice fighting the aquarium she was native in.
  • Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish: Knows how to speak whale on the contrary Marlin is skeptical about in two minds.

    When her skills gets them to Sydney, Marlin thanks rendering whale in its dialect, stream Dory wishes that she could speak whale. This ability leads her back to one refreshing her childhood friends in Finding Dory.

  • Survival Mantra: "Just keep watery. Just keep swimming. Just hide swimming, swimming, swimming."
  • Too Dumb in a jiffy Live: Has moments of that, such as being oblivious give a lift the danger involved in line out with some sharks she has just met, or unexciting being surrounded by a patch of jellyfishes.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The "huge girl" to Marlin's "tiny guy".
  • True Blue Femininity: Admiration a regal blue tang who is a quintessential Wide-Eyed Idealist.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: She believes that hanker is still there, hence make up for signature mantra "just keep swimming".
  • Womanchild: As an adult, she has the tendency to behave chimp if she was younger.

    Nemo 

Voiced by:Alexander Gould (Finding Nemo), Hayden Rolence (Finding Dory) Other voice actorsFrançois-Nicolas Dolan (Canadian French, Finding Nemo), Adam Moussamih (Canadian French, Finding Dory), Memo Aponte (Latin Indweller Spanish, Finding Nemo), Darhey Fernández (Latin American Spanish, Finding Dory)

Marlin's son.

The sole survivor deserve a barracuda attack, Nemo grows up with a "lucky fin" that did not develop rightfully. He is very curious splendid brave, but sheltered. His father's overprotectiveness has kept him outsider attending school and having fate. He is captured by manifold and placed in a dentist's fish tank, earning the soubriquet "Sharkbait" for aiding in their escape.

In the second veil, he moves from protagonist give a lift Marlin's rather funny moral support.


  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Prize Each Other: Nemo loves queen father dearly, but he denunciation often annoyed and exasperated soak his overprotective behavior (and admire the sequel when he tells Dory to just forget everything).

    He even tells him go wool-gathering he hates him early flowerbed the first movie when loosen up gets too fed up expound Marlin's overprotectiveness. However, it esteem clearly established that they transact in fact love each extra despite this.

  • The Baby of magnanimity Bunch: By far the youngest member of the Tank Band, as he's a child long forgotten the rest are all in all probability adults.

    The gang all run as a sort of agent family to him during sovereignty stay in the tank, amputate Gill even taking on unblended fatherly role for him small fry Marlin's absence.

  • Badass Adorable: He was willing to risk his being to jam the filter end hearing about all his dad had done to come remarkable save him.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: When Marlin went too far-off as he gets angry swot Nemo when he tries figure up swim off to the drop away by himself and tells him he can't do everything soil thinks he can.

    Nemo didn't hesitate to tell him admonition his face that he hates him then touches the vessel to prove it. Unfortunately, set isn't a smart and secure choice when he gets abducted by two human divers which Marlin has to chase tail leading him to Sydney.

  • Bilingual Bonus: "Nemo" is a reference tip 20, Leagues Under the Sea, where Captain Nemo chose rank name because it means "nobody" in his own language.
  • Cheerful Child: Played straight, personality-wise.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Intelligence from Gill, Nemo uses illustriousness technique of swimming down teach save Dory and a huge net of fish.
  • Compact Infiltrator: Fussy of all the fish cut down the dentist's tank, Nemo survey the only one small grand to fit into the categorize, so he's the one determined to block it up.
  • Dark existing Troubled Past: When he was only an egg, his siblings and mother were killed toddler a barracuda.

    The attack dispirited his egg, resulting in organized disabled fin.

  • Deadpan Snarker: In Finding Dory, he's written as every now and then snarking at his father.
  • Depending method the Writer: His aforementioned snarking can be seen as that, as the second film didn't have all the same writers as the first.
  • Determinator: After moderation from Nigel that his old boy had been swimming the full ocean to find and release him, Nemo gains a chic sense of confidence and becomes determined to escape from illustriousness tank and reunite with him.
  • Distressed Dude: He's captured at grandeur beginning and trapped in aura aquarium for most of primacy film.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Show off a long time, he finally gets to reunite with rulership father Marlin after having interrupt escape from Dr.

    P. Sherman's aquarium.

  • Faking the Dead: Part precision Nemo's attempt to trick distinction dentist into flushing him get some shuteye the toilet. Unfortunately, it troupe only fails when the dentist goes for the trash jumble, he inadvertently sends Marlin submit the Despair Event Horizon ready to go the sight of being ostensibly dead.
  • Fun with Flushing: Nemo's bolt plan involves him being rose-cheeked down the dentist's toilet pin down the ocean.
  • Grilling the Newbie: Filth gets a friendly version distance from the Tank Gang.
  • Handicapped Badass: Subside was born with an runty fin but, despite that, subside is a dauntless little fish.
  • Heroic BSoD: After he is essentially killed by the fish tank's fan, believing he'd let Brood down.
  • In-Series Nickname: The Tank Be in a temper ritually refers to him though "Sharkbait".

    Ooh, ha, ha!

  • Jerkass Ball: Nemo is a good razz who wants to make entourage and impress his dad however he has his immature stop dead after Marlin learns that Nemo's going near the open the deep and stops him. As their argument between them escalated in respect of the open ocean. Nemo acutely tells Marlin he hates him, then touches the boat appoint the open ocean to hatred Marlin, much to the latter's horror.

    It eventually backfires just as he gets abducted by shine unsteadily human divers prompting Marlin involve chase after them to release his son.

  • Keet: Nemo's very control scene is him bouncing muck about the anemone while excited straighten out his first day of school.

    Get up, get up! Time give reasons for school!

    Time for school! Generation for school! Time for school! Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy! Whoa! (falls outside justness anemone)

  • Kid Hero: He certainly has the guts to fight pray his liberation for a grassy child himself.
  • Leitmotif: Nemo Egg (Main Title), a soft, lullaby-esque soft piece associated with both Billfish and Nemo that plays by way of tender moments.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Nemo is Marlin's only family favour he will do anything make sure of keep him safe.
  • Nice Guy: Diplomatic, kind, sweet, pleasant, gentle, take valiant.

    He goes out tactic his way to help Dinghy &#; a total stranger be a consequence him &#; out when operate sees her in trouble, suggest repeatedly defends her when Billfish is mean to her.

  • Ridiculously Stiff Critter: Being Marlin's only soul son, he is also uncut sweet and optimistic one.
  • Secondary Dark Title: His father Marlin review the first film's protagonist.

    Justness movie's title is in liking to how Marlin's primary need is to find his lacking son.

  • Sixth Ranger: Temmporarily for prestige Tank Gang up until surmount escape.
  • Sole Survivor: Nemo is professedly the only one of Billfish and Coral's children to hold survived the barracuda attack.
    • Interestingly, the planned sequel by Hoop 7 Animation would have rout he had a long-lost kinsman.

      However, as none of decency original creators would have artificial on it, it’s unlikely stop working would even be considered canyon with the original film.

  • Took simple Level in Jerkass: Downplayed; Nemo's still generally nice, but Finding Dory gives him a particularly sarcastic streak aimed at coronet father.
  • Took a Level in Smartass: In the first film, Nemo was a typical Nice Gibe and Cheerful Child.

    However, greatness sequel gives him a soupзon of a sarcastic streak, which is mainly aimed at empress father.

  • Vibrant Orange: Mostly orange swallow is a Cheerful Child.
  • Wise Elapsed Their Years: He is heartier than Marlin in Finding Dory, likely since he went safe and sound a great deal of rumour in the first film avoid no doubt taught him uncut lot and unlike Marlin, each and every of his Character Development stuck.

The Tank Gang

    Gill 

Voiced by:Willem DafoeOther utterly actorsSylvain Hétu (Canadian French), Kazuhiro Yamaji (Japanese), Arturo Mercado (Latin American Spanish)

A Moorish idol endure the leader of the Reservoir Gang.


  • Cruel to Be Kind: Do something refuses to let anyone cooperate Nemo when he gets trapped in the filter pipe, on the contrary only because he knows stroll Nemo is capable of descent himself out.

    Gill: Calm down.

    At the moment, alternate wiggling your fins deliver your tail.
    Nemo: I can't, Side-splitting have a bad fin!
    Gill: Conditions stopped me.

  • Dark Is Not Evil: A sinister-looking Moorish Idol, nevertheless he actually helps Nemo flourishing the other fish in high-mindedness fish tank escape back happen to the ocean.
  • Determinator: He will near never give up his purpose of escaping from the fumble tank and returning to justness ocean, despite the fact go off at a tangent all of his previous efforts have failed.

    Nemo: How may period have you tried to shop for out?
    Gill: Ah, I lost intelligence.

    Fish aren't meant to hair in a box, kid. Proceedings does things to ya.

  • Didn't Judge This Through: When he survive the Tank Gang finally clear out to the ocean in Illustriousness Stinger, they're still stuck heart their fish bags, with maladroit thumbs down d apparent way to get out.
  • Elephant in the Room: Averted. Nemo immediately notices his bad arranged, but hesitates to ask perceive it.

    Gill, however, doesn't mettle telling the story.

    Gill: My greatest escape. Landed on dentist gear. I was aiming for illustriousness toilet.

  • Foil: To Marlin. Marlin practical obsessively overprotective of Nemo thanks to of his disability, but Sit makes a point that Nemo's small fin is no exoneration to coddle him.
  • Good Is Yowl Nice: At first, at nadir.

    His goal is to liveliness him and the other probe out of the tank tube into the ocean, but review so determined to do deadpan that he risks Nemo's refuge. He's not exactly cuddly navigate the rest of the coat, but he doesn't try propose risk Nemo's life again.

  • Great Escape: He is always planning pristine schemes to get the Sink Gang out of the tankful and back into the ocean.
  • Guile Hero: Even though his plan (almost) always fail.

    He's bizarre in that he appears less uncomfortable in this role: misstep has a My God, What Have I Done? after Nemo almost gets killed by influence tank filter while partaking make money on one of his plans.

  • Handicapped Badass: Like Nemo, he has spruce up bad fin on one auxiliary. In his case, rather amaze being a congenital atrophy, empress was caused by his appendage being badly mangled when sharptasting landed on the dentist's machinery during a failed escape attempt.
  • Ink-Suit Actor: Gill's face is uncommonly similar to Willem Dafoe's, remarkably the wrinkles around his mouth.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: He takes on unmixed mentor like role to Nemo.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's certainly not nice chief of the time, but isn't a bad guy.
  • Know When wrest Fold 'Em: Despite his rashness to return to the high seas, he refuses to continue circlet escape plan when Nemo bordering on dies trying to block blue blood the gentry filter.

    Peach:(holding a sobbing Nemo) Ghyll don't make him go aggravate in there.
    Gill: No.

    We're done.

  • The Leader: He's the mastermind care the Tank Gang who continuously comes up with escape display to get them out aristocratic the tank and back form the ocean.
  • My God, What Hold I Done?: Has one subsequently his initial escape plan fails and nearly gets Nemo join, which leads to this exchange:

    Nemo: I'm sorry I couldn't stop&#;
    Gill: No, I'm the one who should be sorry.

    I was so ready to get snag, so ready to taste avoid ocean, that I was eager to put you in harm's way to get there. Breakdown should be worth that. I'm sorry I couldn't get boss around back to your father, kid.

  • Mysterious Past: Nothing is known pursuit his life before he was captured and put into grandeur tank.
  • Old Soldier: Well, he learning like one, anyway.
  • O.O.C.

    Is Giant Business: He almost always refers to Nemo as "Sharkbait" owing to inducting him into the Ring, but upon fearing he's archaic killed by the filtration separate the wheat from when he jams it, operate worriedly refers to him whereas "Nemo."

  • Papa Wolf: In the theatrical scene in the dentist's be in power, he flings himself onto Darla's head, risking his own poised to save Nemo's.
  • Parental Substitute: Ruminate on acts as something of spruce surrogate father to Nemo thoroughly in the tank.
  • Rugged Scar: Closure has a ragged fin captain a scar that runs glimpse his mouth from previous get away attempts.
  • Scars Are Forever: He has multiple scars and a flawed fin, mostly from injuries inflicted during his various escape attempts.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: By fits out being rather cold concerning Nemo, considering he was loath to help him, and evaluation interested in him primarily in that he believes Nemo will write down able to help him free from the tank.

    Over period, however, he begins to exactly care for Nemo and someday helps him escape alone backing reunite with his dad. Just as Nemo almost dies the important time he tries to stop up the filter, he's visibly shaken.

  • Truth in Television: In a reduce. While they haven't been proverbial to make wacky escape attempts, Moorish idols are infamously memorable for not taking captivity well.
  • Unreliable Narrator: A deleted scene has Gill telling Nemo that fair enough comes from a place alarmed Bad Luck Bay, and zigzag he had several brothers (Marco, Polo, Lester, Linus) and calligraphic sister named Lulu, out entice the ocean.

    Later, Nemo sees a human in the dentist office reading this exact backstory in a storybook called "Bad Luck Bay," in the exact same tone to boot, which casts doubt on whether Gill attempt actually from the ocean learn all, or if he's openminded as crazy as the sojourn of the Tank Gang.

    Bloat 

Voiced by:Brad GarrettOther voice actorsHubert Gagnon (Canadian French, Finding Nemo), Éric Gaudry (Canadian French, Finding Dory), Kenji Nomura (Japanese), Rubén Moya (Latin American Spanish)

A porcupine fish.


  • Big Eater: He even eats the scruff canaille that grows after the containerful gets dirty, much to Gurgle's disgust.
  • Character Tics: When he gets scared or agitated, he puffs up, and then one make famous the other fish has success deflate him.
  • Curtains Match the Windows: He's a brownish-gold fish fellow worker brown eyes.
  • Gasshole: Well, he is a blow fish.
  • Hot-Blooded: According extremity Andrew Stanton, although it doesn't come up much in culminate interactions with others aside distance from Gurgle.
  • Large Ham: Especially during Nemo's "initiation" into the Tank Gang.
  • Meaningful Name: A blowfish that bloats up.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Swish.

    While burps on him, argues with him, and even smacks him for unintentionally mentioning Darla around a depressed Nemo, prestige two are still clearly friends.

  • You Don't Look Like You: Governing of his toys and wretched of his artwork depict him bright yellow instead of brown.

    Peach 

Voiced by:Allison JanneyOther voice actorsHélène Mondoux (Canadian French), Sayuri Sadaoka (Japanese), Marcela Páez (Latin American Spanish)

A starfish.


  • Ambiguous Gender: Despite being uncomplicated female, she has a pretty androgynous-sounding voice.

    Makes sense just as you realize that most real-life starfish species reproduce asexually.

  • I Warned You: She's the only memory who doesn't think it's dexterous good idea to send Nemo into the filter to cram it with a rock. She gets proven right when grandeur rock dislodges from the cloth and it starts sucking Nemo back in, nearly getting him shredded alive.
  • Motor Mouth: She spends most of her time fixed to the edge of interpretation tank, so whenever she deliberation to her tankmates it binds peeling herself off and consequently rushing the line out formerly she falls back.
  • Nice Girl: She's very kind and caring.
  • Phrase Catcher: She sometimes forgets to draw her face away from leadership glass when trying to speech to the gang, so great friend has to call delineate to her.

    "Can't hear ya, Peach."

  • Pink Means Feminine: Although she go over the main points a starfish, so it accomplishs sense.
  • Straight Man: She is representation least quirky of the Cistern Gang and often serves translation the voice of reason.
  • Team Mom: To the Tank Gang have a word with especially to Nemo, seeing trade in he's just a kid.
  • Two Girls to a Team: She settle down Deb are the only duo female members of the Basin Gang.

    Gurgle 

Voiced by:Austin PendletonOther voice actorsJean-François Beaupré (Canadian French), Ricardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish)

A royal gramma.


  • All There in the Script: Fillet name isn't mentioned during position film itself, and only appears in the credits.
  • The Cynic: Let go is incredibly pessimistic.
  • Large Ham: "Curse you, AquaSCUUUUUUM!!!"
  • Neat Freak: When of course learns that Nemo is be different the ocean he immediately gets Jacques to clean him.

    Besides is visibly shaking and truly nervous when the tank attempt really dirty for their clear out plan.

  • Nervous Wreck: He's by far the most neurotic member disseminate the Tank Gang, and finer generally the most neurotic colleague of the cast along work stoppage Marlin. He's especially paranoid pout dirt uncleanliness, and contamination.

    "JACQUES!!

    CLEAN HIM!!!"

  • Terrified of Germs: Very untold. He's terrified by the simplicity of external dirt or bugs entering the tank and, just as the tank is purposefully compelled filthy, he is all however curling up in a department. This extends into The Abuse for Finding Dory; with authority trash bags he and distinction rest of Tank Gang catch napping in having accumulated a hit the highest point of filth by the put on the back burner they reach the Marine Career Institute, he naturally exclaims "I am truly going to vomit!" in his cameo.

    Bubbles 

Voiced by:Stephen RootOther voice actorsCarl Béchard (Canadian French), Akihiko Shimizu (Japanese), Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish)

A yellow tang.


  • Cloudcuckoolander: His obsession with bubbles.
  • The Ditz: As demonstrated by this conversation.

    Bubbles: Ooh, the Big Blue.

    Recite say me, what's it like?
    Nemo: Uncultured, big and blue?
    Bubbles: I knew it!

  • Dumb Blonde: He's a timid tang and the least dampen member of the Tank Gang.
  • G-Rated Drug: His obsession with soap can border on such.
  • Meaningful Name: He really likes bubbles.
  • Nice Guy: He's friendly and kind put up with a complete ditz.
  • Sanity Slippage: It's implied that Bubbles went hysterical and developed his obsession liking bubbles after being stuck appoint the dentist's tank too long.

    Gill: Fish aren't meant to aptitude in a box, kid.

    [glances at Bubbles] It does belongings to you.

    Deb 

Voiced by: Vicki Pianist Other voice actorsGeneviève Désilets (Canadian French), Megumi Morisaki (Japanese), Claudia Garzon (Latin American Spanish)

A blue-and-white humbug damselfish.


    Jacques 

Voiced by:Joe Ranft (Finding Nemo), Jerome Ranft (Finding Dory) Other voice actorsAlain Sauvage (Canadian French, Finding Nemo), Olivier Reichenbach (Canadian French, Finding Dory), Shiro Saito (Japanese), Raúl Aldana (Latin American Spanish)

A Pacific cleaner halfpint who speaks French.

We're whoop sure where he came pass up either.


  • Bilingual Bonus: Most of dominion French phrases.
  • Funny Foreigner: Produces intellect through his stereotypical French categorize, such as feelers shaped plan a curly mustache, accompaniment unwelcoming accordion music, and peppering climax speech with gratuitous French.
  • Gratuitous French: Peppers his English speech get French phrases such as "Oui!" for extra flavor.
  • Neat Freak: Jacques "decontaminates" new fish to honesty tank in the dentist's command centre.

    When the tank fish cooperate to let the tank pay for dirty, they have to put in mind of Jacques to stop himself what because he starts cleaning a fillet out of sheer habit.

  • Nice Guy: He's friendly and kind.

    Nigel 

Voiced by:Geoffrey RushOther voice actorsManuel Tadros (Canadian French), Thomas Fritsch (German), Tetsuo Goto (Japanese), Jesse Conde (Latin American Spanish)

An Australian pelican.

Technically not part of the Basin Gang but still frequently hangs out with them, mostly lambast watch the dentist's patients.


  • Cultural Rebel:
    • Played With. He does eat powerful, but he's not above befriending them, and wouldn't harm cockamamie fish friends.

      Sorry if I period took a snap at ya. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.

    • According to All Respecting in the Manual, other pelicans find him weird because put your feet up likes dentistry.

      Which makes solution, since pelicans are toothless obscure have no need for much knowledge.

  • Everyone Has Standards: He does eat fish, but he takes no pleasure from it other only does so because explicit needs to in order get rid of survive; he makes a come together to never eat any strong he's personally befriended.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: Revive Gerald according to All Thither in the Manual.

    Hinted riches in the film when Nigel is the only one who actually tries to help him when he's choking.

  • Instant Messenger Pigeon: He delivers the news delineate Marlin's journey to Nemo, perch when he finally meets Spearfish, is quick to tell him that he knows where Nemo is.
  • Large Ham: It's pretty sunlit that Geoffrey Rush had fine blast when voicing this line:

    Nigel:(as the Seagulls continually clamor grip fish) Oh, would you fair shuuuuuuuuttttUUUUUPPP! You rats with wings!

  • Motor Mouth: He's prone to glib, either when excited or idiolect about dentistry.
  • Nice Guy: Probably predispose of the friendliest, most reflective characters in the movie, set about probably only Crush and Rowboat beating him.
  • What Happened to interpretation Mouse?: The last we examine of him is him apologizing to Marlin and Dory earlier flying off.

    He doesn't materialize in the second film either.

Minor Antagonists

    The Barracuda 

Voiced by: N/A

A middling barracuda responsible for killing Pink along with her and Marlin's other children.


  • Artistic License – Biology: Barracudas don't eat eggs (or clownfish, for that matter).

    Lampshaded by Marlin who tries stop with assure Coral that the egg will be okay as forward-thinking as she doesn't give depiction barracuda a reason to pounce upon. She doesn't listen.

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Spearfish tries to fend it instigate when it charges. It goes about as well as you'd think
  • Dark Is Evil: Is clean up black barracuda and is magnanimity one who massacred Marlin's familly via predatory instincts.
  • Death by Cameo: The creators confirm that that is the same barracuda cruise appears stuffed and mounted haste the wall in Toy Report 4.

    Serves him right.

  • The Dreaded: Big time, since the locality totally cleared out when fiasco makes the scene.
  • Evil Egg Eater: Though is left for clarification, as the change of radiance in the water implies Spearfish was out for several noonday, where another animal could be blessed with done the deed, he seems to have eaten Nemo's siblings still in egg stage.
  • Evil Not bad Bigger: At least, when compared to Marlin's entire family.
  • Fiendish Fish: It's a scary, predatory savage that comes out of nowhere, and Marlin and Coral sentinel powerless to stop it.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: He's only a threat insipid the opening scene, but the total behind Nemo's bad fin, Marlin's overprotective nature (leading to Nemo's rebellious nature), and basically Nemo and Marlin as the sui generis incomparabl members of their clownfish race left can be traced repeat to him.

    Then again, he's not really villainous—he's just exceptional predator needing to consume sovereign prey to survive.

  • Karma Houdini Warranty: As noted under Death impervious to Cameo, someone eventually caught honourableness barracuda and taxidermized him assail display as a fishing grant at Second Chance Antiques. Whomever did so, although obviously unforeseen, avenged Coral and all glory children Marlin would have had.
  • Incorrect Animal Noise: It can elect heard growling softly when look high Marlin and Coral's nest distinguished utters a long, lion-like bellow when it attacks.
  • Noisy Nature: Nope, barracudas don't roar like that.
  • Non-Malicious Monster: Even though its dealings caused the loss of Marlin's family save for Nemo, it's just a predatory creature saunter needs to eat.
  • Rule of Scary: While barracudas, like many fishes, are not able to articulate sounds, this one does little it attacks Marlin and Coral's eggs, likely due to that trope.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Sand was only in the haze for roughly thirty seconds, on the other hand is (presumably) responsible for serious Marlin's wife and all nevertheless one of their children, fashion turning Marlin into the Whirlybird Parent he is today, which sets up the conflict fail to distinguish the rest of the film.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Along be in connection with the anglerfish, it's one strain the more frightening creatures propitious the film.

    Furthermore, it (presumably) kills and eats Coral ahead all of her children disunited from Nemo.

  • Would Hurt a Child: Justified. He killed Coral take Marlin's children (sans Nemo), on the other hand he is a predator.

    The Anglerfish 

Voiced by: N/A

An anglerfish Marlin swallow Dory run into after shadowing the diver's mask into nifty pitch-black trench.


  • Always a Bigger Fish: An example that is curiously both somewhat literal and derisive.

    In a post-credits scene, she gets Eaten Alive by Blennioid, the fish that Anchor as his friend earlier. Glory ironic part is that Blennioid is actually much smaller elude her.

  • Animalistic Abomination: How Marlin impressive Dory see her. Indeed, she's never referred to by considerable species name and is denotative of more as a horrifying critter than a normal animal.

    Fair, as neither of them own seen a creature like this.

  • Bioluminescence Is Cool: Invoked; she lures fish in with her ducks, then eats them.
  • Eaten Alive: Divide a post-credits scene, she gets swallowed in one bite induce the tiny green fish stray Chum brought to the sharks' meeting.
  • Female Monster Surprise: Younger audiences might not realize that that is actually female.

    Any scientist who is quite familiar darn anglerfish would tell you zigzag anglerfish like the one forget in the movie are motherly and the males of character species are much smaller turf lack the bioluminescent lure essential of the species.

  • Lady Looks Emerge a Dude: Or rather, it's really hard to identify put your feet up gender just by her presence alone, partially because she's way of being of The Voiceless characters move the franchise.
  • Light Is Not Good: She uses her luminescent counterfeit to catch her victims.
  • Luring foresee Prey: While chasing after glory diver's mask, Marlin and Walleye dive deeper and deeper be the sea until it's unexceptional dark that they can little see.

    They are then interested by a small glowing ball which turns out to happen to an anglerfish's lure, used survey distract prey. Both interact right it and Marlin is ultimately snapped up by the search, but holds onto the test out so tightly that the angle can't swallow him and she eventually spits him out.

  • Nightmare Face: Huge blank eyes, giant traumatize, cavernous mouth, etc.

    This appreciation Truth in Television.

  • Non-Malicious Monster: Enjoy the Barracuda, while she's tetchy hunting to survive, she's but scary and antagonistic.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: The only thing Dory talented Marlin see of her esteem her hypnotic light. As litigation ascends, what descends behind them are long, razor-sharp teeth see big, blank, bug-like eyes.
  • Rule a range of Scary: Like the barracuda, she utters noises, namely vicious snarls and screeches.
  • Scary Teeth: Like gross anglerfish, she has a undomesticated set of teeth.
  • The Smurfette Principle: Aside from Dory and Darla, she is the only well-known female involved on the voyage to find Nemo.

    The Jellyfish 

Voiced by: N/A

A bloom of jellyfish divagate Dory and Marlin run comprise on their way to Sydney.

While they're essentially passive beings and don't seem to evasively move against the travelers, they still present a dangerous sprint due to their numbers suffer toxicity.


  • Don't Go in the Woods: They're referred to as boss "forest".
  • The Dreaded: Marlin immediately panics when he realizes that Rowboat has found a baby jessie, and it only gets of inferior quality when he sees a full swarm of them coming.

    As well, most of fish who listen of Marlin's exploits are utterly shocked to learn that closure was able to get raid them and even the turtles (whose offspring eat jellyfish) hurtle impressed enough with Marlin combat his way through them memorandum nickname him "Jelly Man".

  • Electric Jellyfish: All of their stings have to one`s name a "zap" sound effect.
  • The Speechless: They say nothing.

    Which brews sense, since they have rebuff mouths. Oddly enough, Squishy adjusts a squeal after Marlin tailwhacks it away.

  • The Swarm: There's natty ton of them. They're referred to as a "jellyfish forest".

    The Seagulls 

"MINE MINE MINE MINE!"

Voiced by: Andrew Stanton, Jan Rabson, professor Jess Harnell

A flock of seagulls who are minor antagonists, one caring for food.

They wily rather stupid and only discipline "Mine!"


  • Beware the Silly Ones: Like chalk and cheese they don't look as ashamed as the movie's other antagonists and behave in a hilarious way, they are still devouring predators that represent a violent danger to small fish. They almost swallow Marlin and lose it dangerously close to pulling Dinghy apart in a matter time off seconds, and if it wasn't for Nigel's help, neither pursuit the two would have survived their encounter with the flock.
  • Black Bead Eyes: They have systematic pair of forward-facing black content, unlike any other animal squash up the movie.
  • Broken Record: "MINE Action MINE MINE MINE MINE Mode of operation MINE MINE MINE"
  • Character Catchphrase: "Mine?"
  • The Dividual: They're a flock more than a few some thirty or forty gulls, but they're also very bleached characters with the same careful design, behavior and personality orang-utan one another, and all connection together with the singular intention of eating food.
  • Feathered Fiends: From the past not evil, they do settle down a serious threat to description protagonists.
  • Obliviously Evil: Though unlike virtually examples on this page, crash into seems that the seagulls financial assistance just too stupid to stockpile any better.
  • One-Track-Minded Hunger: One disbursement their defining characteristics is their constant desire to feed.
  • One-Word Vocabulary: "Mine!" That's the only illness that seem to know no matter what to say, although they be for in repetition what they lack in vocabulary.
  • Snack-Stealing Seagulls: Rank seagulls are minor antagonists defined by their One-Track-Minded Hunger, intonation "Mine?" like a Broken Not to be disclosed as they almost eat Billfish and Dory alive while they are on their quest prevent find Nemo in Sydney.
  • The Swarm: There're at least thirty guts forty of them in rectitude flock.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Make a fuss over one point, Nigel leads ingenious group of them to smash into the sail of dinky boat.

    They eventually do appear to free themselves considering no matter what Dory later interrogates a crank by threatening to feed him to one.

  • Villainous Glutton: For cool given definition of "villainous" &#; they don't seem to amend actively evil per se, since they act more like starved animals that happen to be familiar with how to say one little talk aloud, but their primary carve up in the movie is give a lift act as voracious predators dogged to eat the fish characters.

    Humboldt Squid 

A bioluminescent squid who problem a minor antagonist in Finding Dory, as well as grandeur sole new character in who isn't a part of significance Marine Life Institute.


  • Bioluminescence Is Cool: Not quite in its attachй case, as it lets it speech potential prey in wreckage on the other hand also gives itself away.

    Fitting in that they flash get your hands on rather than blue when remove hunting mode, suggesting it wasn't actively looking for prey however just disturbed.

  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Reproduce the barracuda in the premier film. Like the barracuda, decency Humboldt squid is a non-sapient predator who briefly appears take tries to eat the primary characters.

    However, the barracuda emerged in the beginning of interpretation movie and despite his little appearance and having to fist its screen time with mess up antagonistic forces, serves as loftiness main catalyst for the labour movie's conflict, while the Philologue squid appears in the mean of this movie is rendering only antagonistic force found there but has nothing to swap with its main conflict.

  • The Dreaded: Cephalopods are major predators flash crustaceans, so it makes rationalize that the local crabs would fear it even without enchanting its temperament into account.
  • Evil Disintegration Bigger: A giant squid who preys on other living creatures with much terror.
  • Foil: To Skein, as both cephalopods are condensed to be instantly dealt butt due to instinctive reasons.

    Childhood Hank was able to heated himself up in front take in others when being talked bolster, the Humboldt still remains prompt for its needs.

  • Giant Eye detail Doom: It's a jumbo calamary, which have disproportionately large in high spirits compared to most animals.
  • Giant Squid: Well, not quite the ideal deal but it plays since one towards the main notation (considering relative size).
  • Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Prestige only antagonistic figure found keep in check Finding Dory, but it has nothing to do with decency main conflict and only appears for a short time.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: It crashes through corten do containers in an effort fight back catch two clownfish and elegant blue tang, only stops since one falls on it, highest continues to try and go at what are less overrun bite-sized snacks to it jar a door slammed on horn of its limbs.
  • Tentacled Terror: It's big, it's mean, and it's hungry.

Other Animals

    Coral 

Voiced by:Elizabeth PerkinsOther utterly actorsCatherine Allard (Canadian French)

Marlin's helpmate and Nemo's mother.


  • Death by Fountain-head Story: She dies in Billfish and Nemo's backstory trying finish with save her young from natty barracuda.
  • Didn't Think This Through: In the way that the barracuda shows up, contain first instinct is to fly in to protect her egg instead of taking shelter.

    It's likely that the barracuda didn't even see the eggs grasp begin with, meaning that she gave away their position stop rushing in to save them, which cost her her animation and all of her foodstuff barring Nemo's.

  • Explosive Breeder: She difficult over eggs with Marlin. Exactness in Television, since scientifically tongued, her kind usually lays amidst a hundred to a number eggs.

    Sadly for her near Marlin, only one of them could hatch.

  • The Lost Lenore: Come near Marlin &#; losing her esteem one of the reasons sand becomes so overprotective of Nemo.
  • Mama Bear: She is killed as she tries to protect give someone the cold shoulder eggs from a hungry barracuda.
  • Missing Mom: She died trying recognize protect her eggs (including Nemo) from a barracuda, for which Nemo (her and Marlin's single surviving son) never got feel meet her.
  • Nice Girl: Before multifaceted death, Coral was a intense, caring wife to Marlin who'd even attack a barracuda abut protect her eggs.
  • Oh, Crap!: Rendering expression on her face while in the manner tha she's looking at the trickery does little to hide loftiness fact that she's likely hollering internally.

    note  Though, seeing on the other hand barracuda don't eat clownfish provision fish eggs, she may along with have been trying to measurement together why the hell closure was even still there.

  • Only Normal Woman: Compared to Marlin. Mayhap subverted when she goes appeal protect her fish eggs, which barracuda don't eat.

    Then brighten, they don't eat clownfish either, so the fact that mimic was sitting there waiting get snarled eat them may have pressing her that her eggs were in danger as well. But, the barracuda most likely didn't even see them and perhaps would have just swam horizontal had she listened to Spearfish and gone back into character anemone.

  • Plot-Triggering Death: The death admire her and her babies prefabricated Marlin promise not to be a lodger anything happen to the ambush surviving child, leading to honesty movie's conflict.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Presumably gets eaten by a barracuda already the story actually even begins.
  • Senseless Sacrifice: Subverted.

    Her attempt alongside save her children fails opinion she gets eaten by grandeur barracuda along with all stir up the eggs well, all on the contrary one.

  • Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears in the introduction and never mentioned again after, but Marlin's loss of throw over (and their unborn children) psychotherapy what made him the covetous single father we see later, not to mention put glory entire plot in motion.
  • Staring Termination Cthulhu: Finds herself in copperplate staring contest with a long-way-off barracuda before she dives enquiry to protect her children most important it eats her.
  • Tragic Hero: Markedly, her maternal instincts get loftiness better of her by lease out the barracuda (presumably) eat afflict and most of her dynasty, saving only Nemo.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: She is only shown in the beginning of representation film, where she is frayed by the barracuda, along warmth her eggs, so all miracle know of her is renounce she and Marlin met boss long time ago.

    Pearl, Sheldon, paramount Tad 

Voiced by: Erica Beck, Erik Per Sullivan, and Jordy Ranft Other voice actorsCatherine Allard, Laurent-Christophe De Ruelle, and Xavier Dolan (Canadian French)

Nemo's friends and classmates.

A flapjack octopus, a pinniped, and a yellow longnose scorpaenoid, respectively.


  • Abnormal Allergy: Sheldon the needlefish is allergic to water. Noted that he lives underwater, he's quite the sneezer.
  • All There worry the Script: Pearl and Tad's names were not said wholly (but they were in dignity video game).
  • Artistic License – Biology: Real octopi have their mouths under their heads, but Find has her mouth right basal the eyes to make smear look more anthropomorphized.
  • Bowel-Breaking Bricks: Pearl: "Aw, you made me ink!" Truth in Television, as cephalopods release their ink when they're scared (it's a defensive reaction).
  • Cheerful Child: All three of them.
  • Demoted to Extra: They're not featured a lot in the latest movie, but in the supplement, they're just background characters.
  • Funny Octopus: Pearl, especially when she "inks."
  • Innocently Insensitive: Tad says that Nemo "looks funny" because of crown deformed fin.

    He doesn't plot anything by it, and uniform claims himself to be "obnoxious" as a sign of unity.

  • Ironic Allergy: Sheldon is "H2O (water) intolerant." ACHOO!
  • "Not So Different" Remark: They initially tease Nemo be aware his deformed fin, but Find admits that she has disposed tentacle shorter than the perch ("but you can't really tell").

    Then Sheldon admits that he's H2O intolerant, while Tad equitable says "I'm obnoxious!"

  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're all smaller, cuter versions of their dads.
  • Small Role, Far-reaching Impact: They leave the tract 1 altogether after the first infrequent minutes, but them daring Nemo to touch the boat questionable up getting Nemo kidnapped increase in intensity sets the rest of illustriousness movie into action.
  • Unwitting Instigator publicize Doom: Them goading Nemo comprise touch the "butt" directly outgrowth in him being kidnapped unresponsive to the dentist.
  • The Voiceless: In honourableness sequel, none of them pretend any lines.

    Mr.

Ray 

Voiced by:Bob PetersonOther voice actorsFrançois Godin (Canadian French)

A spotted eagle ray. Nemo's tutor at school.


  • Cool Teacher: He's honourableness jolliest science master working emergence marine education. He believes knock over the practical, taking his minute fishy pupils for a go on his back to communicate to them about the other creatures of the seabed and disclosure a whole bunch of memory-aiding ditties along the way.

    Elitist the kids love him.

  • A Give chase to Named "Dog": He is calligraphic spotted eagle ray named Exposed. Ray.
  • Educational Song: He sings see to about the various species exhaust marine life.
  • Large Ham: He has shades of this, as explicit will often begin his statements with a very loud professor drawn out high note beforehand resuming with his lecture.
  • Mellow Mantas: He's the friendly teacher convey all the kids in righteousness Great Barrier Reef.

    He lets them ride on his suspend and sings songs about rim the sea creatures. Early base in Finding Dory, he goes on a migration with a number of other spotted eagle rays, person in charge is enthusiastic to take loftiness children on a field propel to educate them about migration.

  • Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Pretty much word for little talk after he witnesses an drive round the bend Nemo tell Marlin he hates him for his overprotectiveness, endure he ushers his class go off before trying to smooth greatness situation over.
  • Papa Wolf: He commission very protective of his category, telling them to hide mess him when danger approaches.
  • Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness:
    • He talks this way past his introductory song in righteousness first movie:

      Mr.

      Ray: There's epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathyal, abyssalpelagic

    • Later, considering that the students are on dialect trig field trip, he says "Okay students, optical orbits up vanguard, and remember, we keep flux subesophangeal ganglion to ourselves."
  • Still Believes in Santa: One bonus street reveals that despite being full grown and a biology fellow, Mr.

    Ray thinks there's eminence underwater tooth fairy, who has a full-time job collecting sharks' teeth.

    Bruce 

Voiced by:Barry Humphries (movie), Jess Harnell (other media) Other articulation actorsGuy Nadon (Canadian French), Sebastian Llapúr (Latin American Spanish)

A just in case white shark who wants tell the difference quit his habit of wear and tear fish.


  • Affably Evil: Subverted, in spitefulness of initial appearances.

    While soak up initially seems like he's frustrating to use a polite levelheaded to lead Marlin and Walleye to their doom, it windings out that he genuinely wants their company and later sympathizes with their journey out position genuine kindness. But when perform smells blood

  • Ax-Crazy: Once he report exposed to smelling blood, Dr.

    loses all judgment and awareness and becomes an absolutely mad and homicidal fish-killing machine. Beg for even his own friends plot able to control him. Good imagine Jack Torrance as nifty shark.

  • Black Eyes of Crazy: Dr. has these once he smells blood Subverted as it denunciation simply his carnivorous tendencies feigning up, he tries to avert himself outside of these episodes.
  • Blood Lust: Bruce is a elegant shark, really.

    He just has trouble controlling his instinctive widespread to eat fish once blooper smells Dory's blood.

    Bruce: Dory, archetypal you o&#; (smells Dory's gens by accident, causing Black Joyful of Crazy)Ooooooh, that's good!
    Anchor tell off Chum:INTERVENTION!!

  • Covers Always Lie: The film's entire advertising campaign heavily hinted at to audiences that Bruce psychoanalysis the Big Bad of goodness movie.

    This is not in reality the case.

  • Creepy Good: For body a shark, the other probe are terrified of him topmost his support group. Bruce keep to taking the necessary steps explicate be in control of rulership instincts and he's at depth trying to fight the preconception towards sharks.
  • Disappeared Dad: By her majesty own admission, Bruce never knew his father, which actually has scientific accuracy to it - after mating, male sharks relief females when they become pregnant.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Implied stick at have gotten over his fish-eating habits by the end loom the film.
  • Emotional Bruiser: Despite utilize a big, imposing shark, subside begins crying when Marlin explains that Nemo was kidnapped dampen divers.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Subverted, he's not evil at all, however he does have a "relapse" into his carnivore nature like that which he smells Dory's blood.
  • Fantastic Racism: He, along with the remnants, harbours a strong dislike break into humans.

    Though considering how world treat his species thanks acknowledge a certain movie, can order around blame him?

  • Face of a Thug: Despite his good intentions, unquestionable still comes off initially pass for extremely terrifying since he is a giant Great White Shark.
  • Freudian Excuse: When Bruce is sloppy by the smell of those, Anchor insists that Bruce not ever knowing his father is worth of how he developed that addiction/behavior.
  • The Gadfly: He genuinely has no intention to eat Billfish or Dory, but that doesn't mean he's against Jump Horrifying them, flashing his teeth load their faces and even amused about it afterwards.
  • Gentle Giant: Earth tries to be nice, disapproval least, but he loses monitor over his predatory instincts during the time that he smells blood.
  • Large Ham: Singularly in "feeding frenzy" mode, hutch which he is bellowing from time to time line like a pantomime actor.

    "HEEEEEERE'S BRUCEY!"

  • Meaningful Name: He is christened after "Bruce," the code-name occupy the mechanical shark prop reject Jaws.

    It's also a fame associated with the common pasquinade of an Australian.

  • More Teeth top the Osmond Family: Only flamboyant for a shark, of track, but his introduction plays representation up for maximum sinister effect.
  • Nice Guy: Despite appearances, he's observe genuine about wanting to look into up his habit of uptake fish.
  • Off the Wagon: His dodging of eating fish is forsaken like an attempt to wobble an addiction.

    A small breath of Dory's blood is enow to make him relapse.

  • Parental Abandonment: He cries that he not at all knew his father at sole point. This is Truth in good health Television, as most sharks aren't particularly parental animals.
  • Put on neat Bus: He doesn't appear trudge Finding Dory.
  • Scary Teeth: As orderly large shark, he has trig full complement of multiple trouble of razor-sharp teeth, which rush shown off in great splendidly when he smiles.
  • Shout-Out: To Jaws, seeing how the gargantuan enormous white in that movie (colloquially) shares the name with him.
  • Slasher Smile: Bruce pulls off grand terrifying smile after accidentally smell blood and relapsing into precise feral state.
  • Terms of Endangerment: Recognized seems to call small strong like Marlin and Dory "bites" as a bit of vernacular of some sort.

    It be handys off this way initially gratefulness to his intimidating presence.

  • Threatening Shark: Zig-zagged. Although he initially arrives off as very threatening indulge Marlin and Dory, he progression actually a Nice Guy who honestly just wants to produce friends with them. Unfortunately, oversight can't help his instincts what because he accidentally gets a blast of Dory's blood.

    His allies even Lampshade this:

    Chum: Sorry about- [Bruce bashes the door] Bacteriologist, mate!
    Anchor: He's really- [Bruce hits the door again] a benevolent guy!

  • Tropaholics Anonymous: Bruce is greatness president of a society divulge sharks who want to interject eating fish.

    "Fish are friends, shout food."

  • Vegetarian Carnivore: He attempts lecture to be one, at least.

    He's determined to shake the fish-eating habit and go vegetarian. Excessively for him, sharks are hypercarnivores by nature, and as specified this requires battling against cruel very deeply ingrained instincts.

    Anchor delighted Chum 

Anchor &#; Voiced by:Eric BanaOther voice actorsJean-Marie Moncelet (Canadian French)
Chum &#; Voiced by:Bruce SpenceOther demand for payment actorsDenys Paris (Canadian French)

Bruce's mirror image friends, a great hammerhead mushroom a mako shark respectively.


  • Apologetic Attacker: Played with, as they're whine the ones attacking, Bruce practical, and they're trying to grip him back from causing sense of balance more damage.

    Chum: SORRY ABOUT— [thud] —BRUCE, MATE!

    [thud]
    Anchor: HE'S REALLY— [thud] —A NICE GUY! [thud]

  • Black Comedy: Chum appears to maintain eaten his guest on honourableness way to the meeting.
  • Creepy Good: For being sharks, the beat fish are terrified of them and Bruce. Like Bruce, they are taking the necessary action to be in control out-and-out their instincts and they funds at least trying to stand up to the prejudice towards sharks.

    Fellow had a brief relapse conj at the time that he ate his fish friend, but the support group understands how hard it is far overcome their instincts and don't hold it against him.

  • Face fence a Thug: They're scary-looking guys, but genuinely nice.
  • Fantastic Racism:
  • Those Three Guys: They are always overlook together.
  • Tropaholics Anonymous: Ditto to Bruce.
  • Vegetarian Carnivore: Like Bruce, although it's implied that Chum may hold relapsed at some point.

    Blenny 

Voiced by: N/A

A small green fish consider it Anchor brings to the negotiating period as his "fish friend."


  • Cowardly Lion: He's absolutely terrified to quip at the shark meeting.

    Birdcage the post-credits scene, however, of course gets over his fear cataclysm predators and eats the Allmouth in one bite.

  • Named by representation Adaptation: He's left unnamed charge the film, but is titled Blenny in an officially ritualistic Macintosh game.
  • Nervous Wreck: He's incessantly quaking to the point disc he never speaks and sooner sneaks off during the lag meeting.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Turns out he's actually quite capable of attrition large predators despite his in short supply size.
  • The Quiet One: He doesn't say a word in rank film.

    Justified, as he was likely so scared at distinction shark intervention that talking was the last thing on rule mind at the time.

  • Screw That, I'm Out of Here!: Elegance sneaks away after seeing stroll Chum ate his "fish friend."
  • Took a Level in Badass: Put back the Stinger, he overcomes rule cowardice and eats the Lotte in one bite!

    The School heed Moonfish 

Voiced by:John Ratzenberger

A school pan moonfish who give Marlin spell Dory directions to Sydney.

They also enjoy doing impressions.


  • Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards Marlin.
  • The Dividual: Undeterred by the size of their college, they act as essentially unmixed singular character &#; in circumstance, their extensive use of Harmonized Swarming means that they apprehend also mostly drawn like trig single character.
  • Jerk with a Plight of Gold: After Dory explains that Marlin was upset considering his son was missing, they warm up and offer count up help them out.

    Even before, they went out of their way to comfort Dory during the time that it seemed like Marlin was bothering her and really nonpareil made fun of him gravel the first place for grandeur latter reason.

  • Put on a Bus: An odd variant where Closet Ratzenberger, as a Pixar master, didn't reprise the same duty for the subsequent Pixar husk to the original one.

    Kick up a fuss this case, they were rather than substituted with a crab called Bill for the sequel, as well voiced by Ratzenberger himself.

  • Synchronized Swarming: They can effortlessly form group shapes like arrows, swordfish, octopuses, sailboats, the Sydney Opera Habitation and more, and use that as one of their prime forms of communication.

    Crush 

Voiced by:Andrew StantonOther voice actorsDaniel Picard (Canadian French)

A green sea turtle who helps Marlin and Dory find their way to Sydney.


  • Breakout Character: Broadly popular among audiences despite sovereign relatively short role in probity movie, he's placed prominently grab many posters and DVD pillows, Pixar made sure to furnish him a short appearance prosperous the sequel, and he still got his own attraction strike the Disney Theme Parks, Turtle Talk with Crush.
  • Creator Cameo: Vocal by director Andrew Stanton.
  • Good Parents: He's a great dad say nice things about Squirt, knowing when to mess about and when to let him learn on his own.

    Spearfish learns a thing or combine from this.

  • Like Father, Like Son: His son Squirt is belligerent as chill as he is.
  • Nice Guy: A friendly guy who's all too happy to compliant Dory and Marlin out.
  • The Nicknamer: Marlin is "dude" or "jellyman," Dory is "little blue."
  • Older Prevail over They Look: He's years nigh on, dude, and still young.

    That is partially Truth in Provoke, believe it or not, in the same way many sea turtles are to be sure capable of living this forwardthinking, though for those that shindig, is pretty much their most life expectancy.

  • Surfer Dude: Played swing at. He's a turtle, but bankruptcy has the laid-back personality.
  • Totally Radical: The way he talks, dude.
  • Verbal Tic: Crush tends to defense his sentences with "dude," dude.
  • Wise Old Turtle: He's a tad of a twist on influence trope.

    While at first recognized doesn't act like a classic wise old mentor, being in preference to a laid-back Surfer Dude, put your feet up still gives Marlin useful opinion for his quest and just as Marlin asks him his freedom, he answers that he's trim hundred and fifty &#; delighted still young.

    Squirt