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Sapient Cetaceans
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Many scientists, writers, and laypeople consider cetaceans (dolphins, whales, and porpoises) to be very intelligent — almost, or even equally, as intelligent and self-aware as human beings. But we can't talk to them, so we can't be sure. This trope is for dolphins and whales that quite clearly demonstrate their human-level intelligence by talking to non-cetaceans, communicating via telepathy, using magic or technology, piloting spaceships, or other activities generally beyond merely-clever animals. Often, telekinesis is used to make up for dolphins' lack of hands to manipulate their environment. Sapient cetaceans may demonstrate obvious sentience because of genetic engineering or magical phlebotinum, or human-level intelligence and the skills to prove it may just be natural traits of cetaceans in the setting. This is actually Truth in Television to a degree; although they probably aren't on the same level as us humans, they're pretty close, even moreso than you might at first think. Some of the more intelligent cetaceans such as orca and bottlenose dolphin are at least on par with some apes in terms of memory, problem solving, and coordination. It is notable however that while the family as a whole is fairly smart as far as animals go, not all cetaceans are equally sharp. Baleen whales are generally less intelligent than the likes of dolphins and toothed whales. For dolphins in particular, this may sometimes overlap with Friendly, Playful Dolphin, or Heroic Dolphin, or both, but not always. You may be dealing with Devious Dolphins instead. Compare Uplifted Animal, which often includes (and may artificially induce) this trope. Note that examples of Animal Talk, or stories taking place in a World of Funny Animals, don't count. Even then, however, whales and dolphins are likely to be portrayed as smarter on average than other species or as The Smart Guy in an ensemble cast. For similar animal stereotypes see Clever Crows and The Owl-Knowing One. |
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In Aero Fighters 2, Spanky is a dolphin who pilots a YF-23 fighter jet. He calls himself "the world's first dolphin pilot" and fries over jungles. He's back as a semi-hidden character in Aero Fighters Assault, this time flying an X-29 armed with Frickin' Laser Beams. | |
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Dr. Blowhole, archenemy of The Penguins of Madagascar, is an Evil Genius bent on having his revenge on humanity for the humiliation he has suffered jumping through flaming hoops on Coney Island. Definitely not friendly or heroic. | |
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The Far Side: A group of clueless human scientists are sitting in a lab, studying the possibility of dolphin speech, but struggling with the incomprehensible sounds they're making: "Matthews...we're getting another one of those strange 'aw blah es span yol' sounds."note Habla español, Spanish for "do you speak Spanish?" | |
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Digimon - Dolphmon possesses advanced intelligence, but its form of thought is too complex for a normal person to understand. | |
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In the Revelation Space univers, dolphins are used as pilots for surface-to-space shuttles after the Melding Plague destroys most of the advanced technology, including the automated shuttles of the past. The Generation Ship that Chasm City partly takes place on has a tank of sapient dolphins, but their cooped up surroundings (barely larger than a home's pool) has caused them to become psychotic. | |
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The Onion parodied this with the article "Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs: 'Oh, Shit,' Says Humanity". The article is then filled with stories of the Dolphins' incredibly rapid technology development, and marine biologists committing suicide or preparing to serve the Dolphin overlords. | |
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One of the Xindi races in Star Trek: Enterprise is a cetacean species whose speech is similar to the songs sung by whales. They are slow to come to any decision, but highly intelligent and their warships are by far the most powerful. | |
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The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse of Horror XI" segment "Night of the Dolphin", dolphins invade the land and take over. They can speak English. | |
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X: According to the X-Encyclopedia, one of the planets in the Kingdom of Boron has a native species of sapient whales. | |
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In Into the Drowning Deep, along with the crew of the ship, Imagine entertainment sent along a team of dolphins, one of whom gets his own viewpoint chapter, and who the crew considers to be people. It's mentioned that things are legally contentious re: cetaceans, because scientists consider them people but governments haven't caught up. Theo says Imagine's contract with the dolphins covers their ass both ways: either the dolphins are animals and they don't need a contract, or the dolphins are people and they agreed to this. | |
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His Humanx Commonwealth series gives Earth's cetaceans their own ocean-covered world to inhabit as reparations for centuries of hunting and pollution. The baleen whales are more slow-witted, the dolphins more involved with humans, and the sperm whales are aloof but brilliant with Psychic Powers. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Determined here, by way of a test designed to evaluate the intelligence of species. Because dolphins react with disgust to watching a human defecate, they are declared intelligent and it is proposed that all dolphin hunting cease immediately. | |
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In the Greatwinter Trilogy by Sean McMullen, scientists reconstruct ancient cetacean DNA and create three members of the species who turn out to be telepathic/smarter than humans. | |
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The 1970 album Songs of the Humpback Whale was the first album released to the public featuring nothing but sounds of singing whales. At the time many people had thought whales were mute, but the record actually showed them to be majestic and magnificent creatures whose vocal sounds are an amazing and wonderful listening experience. It also helped people to realize that these intelligent creatures ought to be protected from hunters, thus inspiring the "Save The Whales" movement. | |
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The final episode of GunBuster shows an Orca amongst a ship's crew. | |
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Dilbert: One series has Dilbert trapped miles from shore while dolphins taunted him for hours ("Let's ask the humming fish to do the Jaws theme song..."). They also steal his swimming trunks. | |
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The Glove of Darth Vader mentions the Whaladons, a species of sapient whales native to the Mon Calamari homeworld. The Empire legalized their hunting, but the New Republic put a stop to it. | |
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In The Dresden Files novel Small Favor, dolphins turn out to not only be intelligent, but smart enough to recognize that Harry is a good guy and the squad of Fallen Angels lurking nearby are the bad guys and thus warn Harry that he's walking into an ambush. | |
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The main heroes of Cyborg 009 named their ship 'The Dolphin'; in the manga, genetically and cybernetically enhanced dolphins were a pretty common enemy, used by Black Ghost as underwater scouts, soldiers, and assassins. | |
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Skin Horse: Hugey P. is a whale gangster rapper. Amusingly, his record label is run by a Weirdness Censor-equipped hippy, who thinks Killa Whale Drive-By is a regular whale song CD. There's also Mr Squeakers, a dolphin who is a Transgenic League representative and talks in textspeak. He also runs a Subway franchise, somehow. |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Dolphins are not only intelligent, they also remember. And can apparently use firearms. | |
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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, an alien probe is sent to Earth to re-establish relations between an alien race and humpback whales. Seems they didn't know that in the meantime human civilization had risen and caused the extinction of humpbacks sometime before 2286. In the movie, it's left to the viewer's imagination what the whales and the probe are actually saying, but the novelization makes it more explicit. | |
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Dinotopia: Although every creature in and around the island of Dinotopia is at least intelligent enough to communicate with humans, dolphins were the first to interact with humans. | |
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Insaniquarium: Blip the Porpoise is highly intelligent and possesses powerful psychic powers. He is notably able to tell which fishes are hungry, how much life aliens have during a battle and precisely predict the area at which aliens will appear. | |
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Hothouse: The Sodal Ye is a sapient dolphin descendant. It has a good claim to being the most intelligent creature in a world where most sapient beings range from stolidly unimaginative to simply idiotic; as a consequence, it's also incredibly conceited and condescending. | |
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In Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island, human researchers learn to understand dolphins' language and some of the dolphins learn to speak some English words. Eventually communication becomes good enough for the dolphins to explain what they wanted all along: human protection from orcas. Orca are good at communicating within their species but less intelligent than dophins, so the researchers come up with a nightmarish way to train individual orca to fear attacking dolphins in the hope that the fear will spread through their entire population. | |
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Psychic Squad has the appearance of Lieutenant Ikyuugo, a dolphin with precognitive powers, whom The Children affectionately call "old man." | |
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In UNA Frontiers, one of the main characters is Cyberna, an AI built in a (mostly) dolphin shape to act as a human/dolphin interface. Having spent time with them in their own element, she has few illusions about their actual nature, but she is capable of teaching them "civilized manners" just the same. | |
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American Dad! reveals the CIA has a program that trains dolphins to help on missions and in turn they teach humans to speak dolphin, which Steve has picked up after years of being brought to the lab by Stan. Stan believes this is neat, but Steve complains that all dolphins ever talk about is fish. Later in the episode, this ability comes in handy for Steve, as he asks dolphins to save him, but in the end he just ends up getting pissed off because the dolphins won't shut up about mackerel. | |
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In Johnny Mnemonic, the protagonist spends most of the movie trying to find a way to get a whole lot of computer data out of his mind before the stress of having all that stuff in there fries his brain. Other people seem to only be able to come up with crude methods leading to his likely death, but he eventually does find someone who saves him - a genetically modified super-smart dolphin, originally created by the military for submarine warfare. | |
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Mars Daybreak showcases Poipoider, a dolphin who spends much of his time in a suit of power armor wielding heavy weapons. | |
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Blue Planet has uplifted dolphins and whales. Given that the planet the game is set on is almost completely covered in water, it's pretty much a given that they'd be there. | |
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Ruffin the dolphin from Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas is a Heroic Dolphin capable of communicating with the main cast via telepathy, with the revelation near the end that Ruffin's actually an animal cop working for the Time Police. | |
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Some editions of Dungeons & Dragons have depicted dolphins as sentient Good-aligned creatures with their own patron goddess. | |
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Season two of Old Harry's Game reveals that dolphins are the only non-human species that have sufficient understanding of their actions to be damned. Episode 2 features the most evil dolphin who ever lived, Chuckles. | |
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It's mentioned in Dæmorphing that few people in the world have dolphin dæmons; since dæmons can't take the form of sapient beings, this implies that most dolphin species are sapient in this setting. | |
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus features a number of ocean creatures that are able to communicate with the human protagonist. The first one he meets is an injured dolphin named Delphineus. | |
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Critical Depth: The Cephalopod race intended for dolphins to rule the earth. In one ending, they are dismayed to find humans have taken over after millions of years, and vow to fix the situation. | |
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Sword of the Stars; the Liir are a race of starfaring telepathic cetaceans. The young Liir look more like dolphins, while the Elders look like whales (only much bigger). The Liir keep growing as they age and have a, theoretically, unlimited lifespan. However, at a certain age, the Square-Cube Law goes into effect, and the Elder is crushed by its own weight. Unless, of course, they enslave the Liir race and force them to build a massive spacesuit that it can use to survive indefinitely. | |
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Duane's Young Wizards book series also features Cetacean wizards (the Trek novel contains a Shout-Out to them). Of course, pretty much everyone and everything with more brains than a sponge has Wizarding potential in this setting. | |
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The Causal Angel has mentions of cetamorphs, uplifted dolphins who live in giant water tank ships in the Asteroid Belt. | |
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Referenced, but not shown in Squidbillies. When a group of sapient, deep-fried birds takes over Dan Halen's factorynote It Makes Just as Much Sense in Context., Dan Halen comments on their intelligence. The bird's leader thanks him, noting that while they aren't as smart as dolphins, they do work their asses off. | |
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Damekko Doubutsu has a sentient orca that cannot swim and uses a life preserver. | |
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Traveller: Issue 6 of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society has an article on dolphins genetically engineered to have higher intelligence, up to 13 (with the human average being 7). Some of them can learn human languages. | |
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Star Trek: In Star Trek: The Next Generation it's suggested that there are cetaceans aboard the Enterprise-D. In some expanded universe material, the cetateans are aboard as navigation experts. Star Trek: Lower Decks later confirms this by showing a pair of Beluga whale crewmembers on the Cerritos. One of the Xindi races in Star Trek: Enterprise is a cetacean species whose speech is similar to the songs sung by whales. They are slow to come to any decision, but highly intelligent and their warships are by far the most powerful. |
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In The Fermi Paradox, it is possible for dolphins to evolve to be the dominant lifeform on Earth rather than humans if the player wants. They start out more benevolent than humanity at 20% Utopia, and gain technological progress faster, in addition to having more resources, however, their population starts out smaller. | |
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Subverted in the Spellsinger series: in a world where every species of mammal or bird is intelligent, dolphins are essentially a bunch of slackers, whose only interest in land-goers is the chance to swap dirty jokes. | |
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Girl Genius: The Great Cetaceans are unfathomably intelligent whales from the deepest parts of the ocean who are worshipped by the Fish People, and find thinking down to a human-equivalent level difficult. They're also bioluminescent, and so huge that regular whales travelling alongside them look like minnows. They support entire ecosystems within them. | |
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In an Animal Man story set in 2029, the Green Lantern Corps has passed over human candidates and chosen a blue whale as the lantern for Earth's sector. He has a uniform, and his ring is a crest embedded in his belly. | |
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In the Hyperion Cantos there is mention of intelligent telepathic dolphins. Unfortunately they were hunted nearly to extinction because it was discovered they were sentient. | |
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In Made For Love, employees at tech company Gogol can communicate with Zelda, a dolphin who lives at their corporate campus, using some ambiguously-defined technology resembling earbuds. Those who do so find that she's very intelligent, observant, and quite witty, and undercover FBI agent Jasper even takes a liking to her. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: As referenced above, Lower Decks is the first series to actually portray the referenced Ceteacean Observations, with a giant pool where two sentient Beluga whales in Starfleet uniforms serve. One of them is named Matt, and he is later revealed to be a good friend of Ransom. | |
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One early RPG inspired by Niven's Known Space novels omitted rules for dolphin characters, but an article in Dragon corrected that, introducing such necessities as water-filled space suits and strap-on robotic arms. | |
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Animorphs: Cassie has a minor crisis because she's not sure if it's right to take a dolphin's DNA or control its mind; one of their rules is that the Animorphs never morph a sapient creature without its permission, or unless it's an urgent emergency. Whether or not they're truly sapient is never quite settled, (although whales just barely are, according to the Drode), but they are capable of a kind of telepathic communication with whales ("great ones"; the dolphins are the "little ones.") Cassie firmly believes they have souls, and everyone loves the dolphin morph because they're so happy and carefree. Orcas are also implied to be fully sentient, to the point where in the place of the usual instincts that the team have to overcome, they seem to have a fully-functioning mind which is aware about the fact that it is indeed a morph. Also in Animorphs, at least one whale is confirmed to be sentient: the Drode must spare its life for this reason. |
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Ecco the Dolphin: Every dolphin is shown capable of advanced speech among other dolphins and other aquatic species, conveying complex ideas, and family units. Ecco also has to learn about the world, travelling to the frozen north, the deep ocean, Atlantis, through time, and even to an alien world. This is all part of his quest to learn about and stop an alien invasion. The series also involves solving notoriously challenging puzzles when playing as Ecco. | |
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The Scar by China Miéville has sapient dolphins aiding the security forces of the floating pirate settlement of Armada, as well as a small mention of sapient whales. Inverting typical presentations the main dolphin character is a sadist named Bastard John, while the whales are all extremely stupid dupes of the book's primary antagonists. | |
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The Death Gate Cycle: The dolphins and whales who inhabit Chelestra, the world of water, are sapient, capable of speech and allied with the mensch who live there, helping them by ferrying messages through and exploring the global ocean where the mensch cannot go. The whales don't show up much on-page, while the dolphins are shameless and enthusiastic gossips. | |
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In the Hell's Gate series the Cetaceans of Sharona have been established as having intelligence at or near human levels. Some humans are able to telepathically talk to them and they act as ambassadors trading human services (such as medical treatment) for the Cetaceans' help with things like fishing and finding oyster beds. | |
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Transhuman Space has the deep-sea sourcebook Under Pressure. On the one hand there are "Cetanists"; "Ghosts" and A.I.s who believe in the intelligence and spirituality of whales and dolphins, and express this by wearing dolphin bioshells (biological bodies that can run an AI or Ghost) and joining a pod. On the other hand, there are actual dolphins; who are certainly bright enough that translator software works, but are also bullies, mildly sociopathic and, in short, wild animals. And on the third hand there are Doolittles and Delphi; dolphins who've been uplifted, but who often have the same "personality disorders" (by human standards) as their wild kin. They also find Cetanists a bit disturbing. And then there's Coak, a Delphi who wishes he was a normal dolphin to the extent that he now runs an anti-uplift terrorist organisation. | |
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Sonic the Comic has some comic strips based on the Ecco the Dolphin series which explicitly portray Ecco as a very clever and resourceful dolphin, even to the point of tricking a jellyfish and a polar bear into attacking each other instead of him. We also see him discussing subjects like alien invasions with other creatures and even talking crystals. See also the Ecco entry in the video game section. | |
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Orion's Arm: Dolphins were one the earliest animal species to be uplifted, or "provolved", to sapience. They are quite common, living on oceanic worlds and aquatic habitats all over the terragen sphere. There are also several genetically recreated and provolved whales on Old Earth, known as "Gaian whales". | |
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Mortasheen has Dolfury and the vampire narwhal Narwight, which happens to be one of the smarter Vampires in the setting. | |
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In SeaQuest DSV, Ensign Darwin is a dolphin crew member of the titular submarine. He can speak passable english thanks to a translator device hooked to the ships computer, and is considered an honorary ensign in the Navy. A few episodes involve them telling Darwin what to do, such as "playing" with automated submarine drones, causing them to crash into each other. | |
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A well-known arc of Gundam X has the Mysterious Waif actually talk to dolphins, presumably with her Psychic Powers. The arc also includes a white dolphin, which seems to be psychic itself. | |
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In Maddy's Dolphin, dolphins and whales are all sentient and can talk to each other. One dolphin, Indigo, also has the ability to talk to the human Maddy. | |
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Jett Rocket has Rudolpho, an old friend of Jett's. He's a be-helmeted space dolphin. He just is. But he's cool. | |
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In Meta-Fic Alt: Rising War, a RWBY Subreddit dramatization, the King of Blue Whales is a major character, along with his helpers Cyan and Sulfur. They are part of a whale society that has developed technology to compress their bodies into a semi-humanoid form to survive on land. | |
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A Robot Chicken sketch shows that dolphins were able to send one of their own to the moon, he just didn't survive the trip. | |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, humans are actually only the third most intelligent creatures on Earth. The first is mice. But then, they are hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who are actually running the Earth, which is a giant computer program, and the second is explicitly stated to be dolphins (who aren't in disguise and are still ahead of humans), and who knew about the impending destruction of Earth long before the humans themselves knew about it. The dolphins tried to warn them, but when the humans didn't understand, they left the planet quietly by their own means. Their last message is "so long and thanks for all the fish", and this all becomes important in the book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. At the end of it, it's all but stated outright that the Dolphins were responsible for restoring Earth. | |
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52 has a sapient space dolphin in Lobo's entourage. | |
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Post-Crisis Aquaman was raised by a mother dolphin named Porm, who communicates with Arthur telepathically and advises him on matters both underwater and above the waves. Even after her death, she continued to provide counsel from the spirit world. | |
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In the 1960 Astro Boy a sentient race of dolphin people threaten war on humanity if they keep developing on their land. | |
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Eclipse Phase has uplifted cetaceans, though they're not featured in the core rulebook (appearing in the Panopticon supplement) as few of them made it off earth before the Fall (especially the large baleen whales). Many who escaped as infomorphs had to resleeve in human morphs or the Suryas adapted to the sun. | |
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The Doctor Who novel Storm Harvest features the ocean planet Coralee, where dolphins are equipped with telepathic translators and, for dry land manoeuvre, mechanical, multi-legged exoskeletons. | |
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One episode of Upright Citizens Brigade included a sketch at a town hall meeting where one concerned mother (played by Amy Poehler) wanted the issue of dolphin-centric questions on the SATs addressed. She reads several examples of questions involving detailed knowledge of marine life and species and argues that it wasn't fair to human children. Eventually they bring in a dolphin in a tank with a dolphin-to-human translator device, and he proceeds to insult all of them with some really filthy smack talk. The hidden-camera bit they did while the credits played for that episode had Amy Poehler (in character) bringing this up and reading similar sample questions at an actual town's town hall meeting, much to their confusion. | |
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Mister Smarty Smarts from Spliced is an evil Dolphin/Chimpanzee mutant. | |
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In Blue Rose, you can play a sapient, telepathic dolphin PC, or play a human who has one as a Bond Creature. | |
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Uplift: In the tabletop adaptation, Fins (uplifted dolphins) are a playable species, complete with the tech from the books that lets them operate out of water. | |
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The Stellaris Aquatic Species Pack DLC adds a race of anthropomorphic dolphins you can encounter or play as. | |
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The Rings of Saturn features an uplifted dolphin as a telepathic Drill Sergeant Nasty. | |
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GURPS: Transhuman Space has the deep-sea sourcebook Under Pressure. On the one hand there are "Cetanists"; "Ghosts" and A.I.s who believe in the intelligence and spirituality of whales and dolphins, and express this by wearing dolphin bioshells (biological bodies that can run an AI or Ghost) and joining a pod. On the other hand, there are actual dolphins; who are certainly bright enough that translator software works, but are also bullies, mildly sociopathic and, in short, wild animals. And on the third hand there are Doolittles and Delphi; dolphins who've been uplifted, but who often have the same "personality disorders" (by human standards) as their wild kin. They also find Cetanists a bit disturbing. And then there's Coak, a Delphi who wishes he was a normal dolphin to the extent that he now runs an anti-uplift terrorist organisation. Uplift: In the tabletop adaptation, Fins (uplifted dolphins) are a playable species, complete with the tech from the books that lets them operate out of water. |
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Rifts: Rifts Underseas allows you to have a dolphin, orca, or humpback whale as a player character. They even have Powered Armor designed for Dolphins and Orcas to use. There are also the Pneuma-Biforms, Cetaceans mutated by an Eldritch Abomination to be slaves, and have the ability to switch between Human and Cetacean forms. This allows a player to be a Dolphin or Whale, but also participate in land-based adventures as well (as long as they keep a large water tank handy). | |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, dolphin-men are one of the many denizens found in the Magic World. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship. | |
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Wet Goddess portrays the cetaceans as completely sapient, while keeping the Real Life setting plausible. (the story is based on real events). | |
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Blue Planet revolves around a water planet named Poseidon that's colonized by genetically modified humans and sapient cetaceans. | |
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Subverted in a John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme skit, in which a scientist devotes his life to creating a machine to translate whalesong, only to learn that all they ever say is "Hi! I'm a whale!" | |
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Transpecial: Dolphins and orcas have human-level intelligence and in fact realized humans were sapient long before humans realized dolphins were. The Delphic language is largely inaudible to humans, but many dolphins speak a pidgin that's designed to be easy for humans to understand. Some dolphins even work among humans, such as Iterk, pilot of the spaceship Challenger. Whales, however, aren't fully sapient and are essentially the dolphins' pets. Earth is the only planet known to have more than one race of sapient lifeforms. | |
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The Tick: "The Tick vs Nevada" featured a dolphin who, like Blowhole, wanted to conquer mankind rather than amuse it. | |
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In the Dolphin Trilogy, dolphins and whales are fully sentient and all speak Dolphinese, a language of clicks and whistles. John, Vinca, and Syn have all been raised by dolphins and are fluent in Dolphinese, and John tries to prove the intelligence of whales in his unsuccessful efforts to get whaling banned. | |
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The Dragonriders of Pern features sentient dolphins, who were genetically uplifted by the ancestors of the Pernese humans. | |
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Existence features a "tribe" of dolphins who show unusual intelligence, catching fish using a net, having a language that they manage to teach to a human, etc. It's eventually discovered that they were partially uplifted, but abandoned when funding ran out. After they save an oligarch's son he revives the uplift program. | |
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In Hc Svnt Dracones dolphins were officially recognized as sapient by many governments, though that meant little more than protection from fishing in most cases. But there was some controversy about using them in the Vector project as none of the other species they were splicing with human genes had their own cultures and societies. But, after Earth was sterilized in the Terra Firma/Corptown war they went with it anyways, and Vectorized dolphins are a common sight in the oceans of terraformed Mars, Venus, and Europa. | |
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Avatar: The Way of Water: The Tulkun are the direct counterpart to Earth baleen whales, extremely intelligent Gentle Giants able to swallow whole schools of fish at a time. The Metkayina people consider the Tulkun extensions of their tribes and are able to carry on conversations with them, and appoint themselves their protectors since the Tulkun collectively swore off the use of violence long ago... except for Payakan. | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation it's suggested that there are cetaceans aboard the Enterprise-D. In some expanded universe material, the cetateans are aboard as navigation experts. Star Trek: Lower Decks later confirms this by showing a pair of Beluga whale crewmembers on the Cerritos. | |
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