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Heroic Dolphin
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In fiction, dolphins will be portrayed primarily as heroic and helpful creatures. They're a marketable species of hero, partly because they're cute and partly because of real-life stories of dolphins saving human lives, either by guiding them to shore, fending off sharks or helping them to remain afloat until help arrives. Sometimes overlaps with Friendly, Playful Dolphin, or Sapient Cetaceans, or both. Compare Warm-Hearted Walrus, Sweet Seal, and Playful Otter. Contrast Devious Dolphins. |
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Moon Warriors has the hero, Fei, a swordsman-turned-fisherman whose pet is an orca, saving it's master's life after Fei was mortally injured by the villains and left to drown. The movie came out six months after Free Willy, so no prizes for guessing where they got that idea. | |
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Kirby's Epic Yarn: Kirby can transform into a Dolphin in select water stages, granting him a Spin Attack and faster mobility. | |
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Choujuu Sentai Liveman has Blue Dolphin. | |
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Lieutenant Echo the Dolphin from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) is a member of the Meropis Royal Guard who, alongside the Chaotix, helped rescue Princess Undeena from pirates. | |
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In The Magic Treehouse Annie saves one from being eaten by pirates. Later it pops up to save Jack, leading him to Annie, and ultimately saving the day. | |
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The Simpsons: Subverted when Bart, Homer, Flanders and his kids stranded at sea and being approached by dolphins. Flanders is relieved, stating that dolphins always help people lost at sea. The dolphins merely chitter that they are all going to die, giggle a bit, and then leave. Later inverted in a Treehouse of Horror episode when dolphins rebel against humans, take back the land for themselves, and force humans back into the sea. |
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Cracked deconstructs this by listing dolphins in both The 6 Biggest Assholes In The Animal Kingdom and The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You. | |
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Willy from Free Willy is this in the second and third films and the animated series. And yes, orcas are technically dolphins. Let's not forget that in the first film, he saves protagonist Jesse from drowning when the boy falls into his tank after sneaking into the aquarium after hours. Jesse spends the rest of the film trying to return the favor. |
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Lesser known series Brute Force (Marvel Comics) featured Surfstreak/Dr. Echo, an uplifted dolphin in Powered Armor that acted as The Smart Guy of the titular team. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja story Death Volley has the implication of dolphins getting revenge on Agent Bearclaw. His story: "One time I swam out to sea, and pretended to be injured so that dolphins would swim up to rescue me. I did this so that I could kill them with my bare hands." | |
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Dinotopia: Dolphins were responsible for bringing all shipwreck survivors to the island. | |
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The Legend of the Titanic has talking dolphins that are trying to stop evil whalers. | |
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DuckTales (1987): In "Aquaducks," dolphins help Scrooge, Launchpad, Gyro and Doofus escape the Lost City of Atlantis. | |
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In Dolphin Island, Johnny is Lost at Sea floating on a packing crate after his hovership sinks. Dolphins push him across 100 miles of ocean to Dolphin Island, where he can finally receive medical treatment after 30 hours of dehydration and sunburn. A year later, Professor Kazan falls ill with pneumonia right after a hurricane destroys the island's medical supplies and radio transmitters. Johnny, who has trained two of the dolphins to tow a human on a surfboard, has them take turns pulling him to mainland Australia so he can summon help. | |
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Moby Lick from Street Sharks, who is a human turned into an orca. | |
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The titular character in Orca: The Killer Whale starts out as this, saving a scuba diver from being devoured by a great white shark. If only this hadn't been witnessed by a certain greedy fisherman. | |
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∀ Gundam: There is a healthy population of dolphins and whales in the Moon's canal system. Loran's hometown friends marshal quite a number of them to help the Turn A fight the Mahiroo squad so that the battle won't cause collateral damage. | |
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Johnny Mnemonic features a friendly cybernetic dolphin hacker. It's one of the stranger parts of the film. | |
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Marvel Universe: Ghost Rider: In one story, the Rider is saved from a killer shark by dolphins, while he's trying to rescue them from a misguided man obsessed with revenge. The Punisher: Subverted in an issue of The Punisher War Journal. A Hawaiian kahuna controls sealife to rescue Frank from being stranded in the sea, and he thinks to himself that he didn't know that dolphins rescuing humans was true. When he gets back to the shore, she reveals that she actually used a shark to help him. Lesser known series Brute Force (Marvel Comics) featured Surfstreak/Dr. Echo, an uplifted dolphin in Powered Armor that acted as The Smart Guy of the titular team. |
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When Jem is drowning and about to be attacked by a killer whale, a dolphin pushes her out of the way and brings her up to the surface. | |
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The Roman Mysteries: In The Dolphins of Laurentum, a dolphin rescues Lupus after he nearly drowns from staying underwater too long while diving. It is also strongly implied that the same dolphin discouraged Lupus from deliberately leaving behind another diver who had been trapped by a giant octopus, though in fairness to Lupus he had a good reason for wanting the trapped person to die. The same scene is also in the Live-Action TV adaptation. The book also references several examples of the use of dolphins in Classical Mythology, including stories of shipwrecked sailors being rescued by dolphins. | |
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Pathfinder: Ekekehs are benevolent, civilized dolphin-like fey who build grand cities beneath the ocean and seek to match the land-dwellers' achievements in culture and edification. | |
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Ghost Rider: In one story, the Rider is saved from a killer shark by dolphins, while he's trying to rescue them from a misguided man obsessed with revenge. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas introduces a new ally, Ruffin the dolphin, who is the heroic pirates' pet, saving Nobita and Jack when they fell over a waterfall and pulling a Big Damn Heroes at the end by getting a dozen other dolphins to save the main characters from the villain's Collapsing Lair. What's even better is that Ruffin the Dolphin is actually an animal cop from the 22nd Century, sent to the past to investigate the villains who evaded future authorities by hiding in the Golden Age of Piracy. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Some editions have depicted dolphins as sentient Good-aligned creatures with their own patron goddess. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, during the last battle, Jolyne uses Stone Free to have Emporio grab onto a dolphin to rescue him from Pucci, knowing that the dolphin will take Emporio somewhere safe while she stays behind to take on Pucci. | |
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Mike rescues a dolphin in the second stage of StarTropics. It returns the favor at the end of the game. | |
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Super Mario World features a few levels with Scuba-wearing Dolphins that jump out of the water regularly and can be used as platforms to reach far away areas. They can be eaten by Yoshi too. Of course, Romhacks like to use them to lift Mario up into spiked ceilings and similar obstacles, so the trope can swing both ways. | |
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Played straight with the empathic, pacifist Liir race from Sword of the Stars... until you attack them, at which point they'll declare you Suul'Ka and never stop killing you until your entire race is just a fading memory. Liir soldiers are called "Black Swimmers" and are never permitted to interact with civilian Liir, lest their murderous tendencies corrupt the entire species. As far as the planet-bound Liir are concerned, the Black Swimmers are all dead to them. They hold a funeral service for each Liir who signs up to join the fleet. And as for the Suul'Ka themselves, the Eldritch Abomination Abusive Percursors everyone lives in quiet fear of? They're Liir Great Elders gone mad with power and the fear of death. | |
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In Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger/Power Rangers Ninja Storm, the water-themed Blue Ranger has a dolphin motif and mecha. | |
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Traveller: One sourcebook has a story where uplifted sapient dolphins help bring to light a scandal involving the secret enslavement of an intelligent species by a megacorporation. | |
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Batman: The Movie: Batman and Robin are saved by a porpoise who sacrifices his life intercepting a torpedo launched from the Penguin's submarine. | |
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Animal Man: One story features Animal Man saving dolphins from murderous Scandinavian townsfolk who kill them for fun. At the end, one of the dolphins saves an evil townsperson from drowning. | |
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In Jaws 3-D, Cindy and Sandy rescue Kay and Mike from a shark after attempting to keep them out of the Galleon. | |
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Middle-Earth Role Playing: Dolphins and porpoises, or Ulmodili ("Friends of Ulmo"), are noble creatures who serve the sea-lord Ulmo directly rather than his servant Ossë. They thus avoided being corrupted during Ossë's temporary fall into evil, and remain allies of the free people and of the Teleri Elves in particular. | |
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Venus Among the Fishes is about Coral and her brother Snapper who are sent on a journey to save their pod from orca attacks. | |
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Animorphs combines this trope with Sapient Cetaceans — not only do the team morph dolphins early and often, but dolphins themselves are depicted as more or less the heroes of the seas. Cassie gets a dolphin as the cover morph of her first book, The Message. | |
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Ecco the Dolphin: Humans aren't even present, at least not in the Genesis games, but Ecco saves not only his family, but the world as a whole, from being consumed by aliens. The other dolphins also bravely show up en masse to battle the Vortex aliens at the end of the second game, and the Resistance dolphins from Defender show some courage in helping Ecco overthrow the Clan, a group of violent, militaristic dolphins who have taken over that particular reality. | |
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Dolphin Blue, a Run-and-Gun video game, have the player's steeds being dolphins which carries them in missions where they destroy enemy bases, blasting apart mooks on speedboats while having the dolphin leap around to avoid enemy attacks. | |
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Kuugo Sakamata, a.k.a. "Gang Orca" from My Hero Academia is the ranked 10th pro hero and, if you can't tell from his hero name, is an orca-themed hero. His face is literally that of an orca's, and it's unclear how much of him is orca and how much is human. | |
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Heroic Dolphin | |
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In Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells, Jade is attacked by a tiger shark, but a pod of dolphins comes to her rescue by ramming into it and chasing it off. | |
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Sonic the Comic: In Ecco the Dolphin stories, the comics make Ecco's noble nature clear in no uncertain terms though his somewhat dark methods of fighting enemies may make him seem like a bit of an Anti-Hero. | |
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The DCU: Animal Man: One story features Animal Man saving dolphins from murderous Scandinavian townsfolk who kill them for fun. At the end, one of the dolphins saves an evil townsperson from drowning. Aquaman: Porm, the dolphin who acted as a surrogate mother to Aquaman. She raised the young Arthur and taught him to survive, and was beloved by all her dolphin children. |
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Titanic: The Legend Goes On has dolphins who don't talk, but help save people from the sinking ship. | |
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Pyramids has a rather cynical take on this. In a discussion of survival strategies various animals have evolved, the narration gives the example of a dolphin's tendency to rescue drowning humans if there's a chance biting them in half might be noticed by other humans. | |
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Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos: Dolphins helps the team catch Devilfish, Claw's Psycho for Hire in "Deadly Dolphin". | |
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Maddy's Dolphin: The human Maddy and her dolphin friend Indigo met when Indigo rescued her after she fell off a boat when she was two. Ten years later, Indigo and the other dolphins play a crucial role in rescuing the president's daughter after she's kidnapped by terrorists. | |
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Burning Rangers has a dolphin play a prominent role in the second level actively carrying our heroes through underwater passages as way of thanks for saving it from suffocating. | |
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Age of Fire: In the first book, dolphins rescue a drowning baby dragon and help him to land. A few months later and considerably larger, the dragon sees fishing boats attempting to capture the dolphins... | |
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In The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Don Knotts plays Henry G.Limpet, a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper in WWII who wishes to turn into a fish, and does, turning into a dolphin. | |
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Flipper and Lopaka: Flipper is a quick-witted, agile, loyal and friendly bottlenose dolphin, whose parents are the rulers of Quetzo. When trouble arises in the underwater city (usually thanks to Dexter), the citizens of Quetzo turn to Flipper for a plan. And he never fails them. | |
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The Punisher: Subverted in an issue of The Punisher War Journal. A Hawaiian kahuna controls sealife to rescue Frank from being stranded in the sea, and he thinks to himself that he didn't know that dolphins rescuing humans was true. When he gets back to the shore, she reveals that she actually used a shark to help him. | |
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Aquaman: Porm, the dolphin who acted as a surrogate mother to Aquaman. She raised the young Arthur and taught him to survive, and was beloved by all her dolphin children. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix and the Actress, Asterix is rescued by a dolphin after he ends up on a rock in the sea, and tries to swim back to shore during a storm. | |
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There's a book called Dolphin Song which is the second book in the Legend of the Animal Healer series. The main character, a girl called Martine — who holds a special gift with animals — falls overboard during a storm while on a school trip aboard a boat. Several other students also fall overboard, and they are all rescued by a pod of dolphins who remain friendly to them throughout. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: The Allies use specially trained attack dolphins as underwater scouts and counter unit to Soviet mind-controlled Giant Squid by sonic weapons. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 includes dolphins with sonic weapons as naval units for the Allies. They can also leap over the water to avoid enemy attacks from the sea. | |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced the Pokémon Palafin, a cute dolphin who when switching out of battle undergoes a change into a form resembling a costumed superhero with its Attack stat more than doubling. It's said to rescue drowning people and Pokémon while being strong enough to lift a cruise ship with one fin. | |
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Heroic Dolphin | |
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In The Achilleid, Thetis has a team of titan-bred dolphins that she prefers to ask for help instead of the gods she knows. The poem even takes a second after this to wax poetic about how dolphins are the most beautiful and human animals in the ocean. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Pink Fish Chargers can save people from the literal jaws of defeat or even function as a Horse of a Different Color. | |
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Rifts: In Rifts Underseas, players can choose to play as a dolphin (or an orca or even humpback whale). | |
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish has dolphins responsible for replacing the Earth and all of the people on it after it was destroyed by Vogons. Previous books also tell that they tried to warn humanity about Earth's imminent destruction, but the humans mistook it for their usual tricks. | |
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Flipper might be the Trope Codifier as far as recent western media goes. All three series feature the titular dolphin along with a human companion/group. | |
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Ship of Ghouls have this among the few good endings in the Lost at Sea B-plot. You might end up stranded at an atoll, but make the right choices and a school of passing dolphins will save you. | |
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Brainy Smurf mistakes shark fins for a school of porpoises in The Smurfs (1981) episode "Never Smurf Off Till Tomorrow". | |
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Dolphin Trilogy: In Destiny and the Dolphins, John, Vinca, and Syn have been captured by diamond thieves who plan to torture John, rape Vinca and Syn, and kill all three of them as revenge for the fight they put up earlier. But as the thieves are dragging them through the water to the beach, John, Vinca, and Syn all send out a dolphin distress call. Within minutes, dozens of dolphins have arrived to kill the criminals. | |
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The Fighting Fantasy underwater adventure, Demons of the Deep, have you assisting a dolphin in a battle against a Great White Shark. The dolphin will show you a clue after the battle is over, and later in the adventure, you can hitch a ride on the same dolphin to reach the pirates' hideout. | |
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