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Spoilers for this movie will be marked as usual. However, due to its nature as the sequel to Finding Nemo, that film's spoilers are unmarked here. You Have Been Warned!Finding Dory is Pixar's seventeenth film, released on June 17, 2016. The film is a sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo, and this time centers around everyone's favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, again voiced by Ellen DeGeneres.Taking place one year after the events of the first movie, Dory starts to recall memories of her long-lost family. Going by her memories of "the jewel of Morro Bay, California," Dory sets off to exactly there, with Marlin and Nemo going along for the ride. However, Dory gets separated from Marlin and Nemo once they arrive, so Dory must explore the Marine Life Institute in search for her parents while Marlin and Nemo find where Dory was dropped off.Soon after her separation, Dory meets Hank, a cranky septopus (an octopus missing a tentacle) who dreams of spending his days alone in an aquarium in Cleveland. Together they navigate the Institute while meeting plenty of colorful creatures, including a nearsighted whale shark named Destiny and a sarcastic beluga named Bailey. Traversing from the sickly Quarantine holding zone to the Locomo... er, Open Ocean exhibit, Dory sets on a journey larger than herself, and perhaps discovering who she really is along the way. Sigourney Weaver "appears" as the narrator of the Marine Life Institute.Played in theaters along with the Pixar short Piper.
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Sure, Let's Go with That
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Sure, Let's Go with That: A variant shows up at the beginning. Dory's having her usual memory issues and Marlin has to explain to her about Mr. Ray not taking her on his field trips despite reportedly having already done it. Dory, being Dory, assumes he wants her for an assistant teacher instead. Not wanting to deal with her memory loss, Marlin just goes with it. A meta example concerns how Hank ended up with just seven tentacles. The animators discovered that his body was too small to attach eight, and by then it was too late to go back and resize him. So they rewrote his backstory to account for the missing limb.
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Heroic BSoD
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"But Dory, that was years ago. Fishes who don't leave the Quarantine usually... they're no longer around, Dory." Sure, Dory's parents turn out to be alive and well, but that line causes a massive Heroic BSoD on her.
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Trailers Always Spoil
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Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers for the movie were really bad about this. Nearly every trailer for the film features at least one clip from a plot-critical moment.
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Mental Health Recovery Arc
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Mental Health Recovery Arc: It's unclear whether Dory's memory issues are psychological or not, however the entirety of Finding Dory is about Dory's struggle with her short-term memory loss which she has had to live with for her entire life. While she initially despised it, she eventually learns to work with it and accept it is a part of who she is.
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Ripped from the Headlines
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Ripped from the Headlines: After the release of Blackfish, the writers rewrote the story to explore the theme of animals in captivity.
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Menagerie of Misery
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Menagerie of Misery: Zig-Zagged. The film has a major "Fish belong to the ocean, not to tanks" message, but also establishes that the Marine Life Institute is primarily a rescue center that releases animals that recovered from their injuries, and its fish habitats are more or less accurate to real-life aquariam. Yet, the "touch pool", from the animals' point of view, is depicted as a terrifying place where the poor starfish and sea cucumbers hide for their lives from the giant hands of human children. Also, the Cleveland Aquarium is referred to as a scary place where animals end up if they are in a too bad condition to be released to the wild.
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Misplaced Wildlife
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Misplaced Wildlife: A few examples: By the end of the film, Bailey moves to the Great Barrier Reef along with Hank and Destiny, which is thousands of miles away from the Arctic circle of the beluga whale and is in a completely different hemisphere. Jenny and Charlie managed to survive in the kelp forests of the Californian coast. Blue Tangs have a large range around the Indo-Pacific, but it doesn't reach the American continents.
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Unreliable Narrator
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Unreliable Narrator: Rather than retconning a number of the things Dory said about herself, this movie would only reinforce the point that she can't always be trusted. In a throwaway line in the last movie, she said she had a feeling that her condition runs in her family, but in this film that's shown to clearly not be the case. Just one way the sequel takes some of Dory's lines in the original and paints them in a whole new light.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: While Pixar as usual went to great lengths to get their science right for this film, some liberties were taken to advance the plot, as follows: The fish are seen hopping between pools or cups or buckets of water, some of which is freshwater. Saltwater fish like Marlin and Dory would not survive long in freshwater. At one point, Dory, Nemo, and Marlin fall into a janitor's mop bucket. Even if the water didn't contain floor cleaning chemicals (which are quite toxic), the filth alone would have poisoned them to death. The huge squid that attacks the main characters is generally an open-water predator that spends most of its time deep in the ocean, coming to the surface only to feed. It wouldn't lurk inside a shipping container in 30-40 feet of water, or hunt tiny bottom-dwelling animals. Hank the octopus can, like many octopuses, survive for a short time outside of water, so long as he remains moist, but real octopuses can't leave the water for the extended periods shown in the film. Hank also has two siphons on either side of his face, whereas real octopuses have only one on their right side, and he is also shown to have permanently lost a tentacle, whereas real octopuses can regrow any arms that have been severed. Additionally, several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments late in the film show that he has a white Tooth Strip shared with many of the fish characters in the film instead of a beak, or at least an atrophied, miscolored beak in the spirit of such (real octopus beaks are black and strongly hooked). Tropical fish like Dory and Marlin would not be able to survive the cold waters of the California coast. Becky the loon is shown walking on land in a similar manner to a duck. In reality, loons are terrible at walking on land because their legs are placed so far back on their bodies. Destiny the whale shark is occasionally referred to as a "whale", when she actually is a type of shark. Additionally, Dory falls into a bucket labeled "Destiny" (implying it's her food) and it is full of fish. Whale sharks will eat fish if they have to but mostly eat plankton, shrimp, and krill in the wild. Bait fish commonly take their chances swimming beside whale sharks to shield themselves from more dedicated predators and even in captivity people try to feed them shrimp and krill. Bailey the beluga is seen at the end back on the reef with the other institute creatures. Belugas live in the chilly Arctic waters, not coral reefs near the tropics. The Tank Gang from the previous film made it across the Pacific all the way from Sydney Harbor to the coast of Morro Bay in California in the same plastic bags they were put in. Not only it is impossible for the water-filled plastic bags to travel across the ocean for a whole year without puncturing (it takes years for plastic to decompose, but long-term exposure to saltwater can break down plastic polymers), the limited supply of oxygen from the water in the plastic bags, would have certainly killed them even before they managed to make it into the open seas. To say nothing of the buildup of their own filth and lack of food. And perhaps most importantly, we learn that Dory was born in the Institute. Blue tangs breeding in captivity was believed to be impossible, a fact that had many Real Life marine biologists highly concerned about any Red Stapler effect this may have had on blue tangs after this film, as each one would have to be caught in the wild. Fortunately, Science Marches On pretty quickly in this department, and blue tangs were bred in captivity the month after the film came out.invoked
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: One trailer for the movie depicted Dory sleepswimming out of her house, subconsciously trying to go back to her parents. This scene did not appear in the movie. Justified, as Pixar is known for intentionally doing this with their teaser trailers.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Crush and Squirt take the gang on a current that leads to California, saving them a lot of time on their journey. The "Mine!" seagulls appear near the end of the movie. Alexander Gould (Nemo's original voice actor) provides the voice of the truck driver. The entire Tank Gang show up in the movie's post-credits scene. The same photo of Darla that can be seen in the dentist's office in the first movie is visible in the background of the quarantine room.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: Sigourney Weaver is mentioned often, but is only heard and not seen. Justified, considering that she's simply the park's narrator.
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Dare to Be Badass
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Dare to Be Badass: Dory, to Hank - he can survive in the ocean and should follow her off the Cleveland-bound truck, rather than stay in a boring little tank.
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Parents as People
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Parents as People: Dory's parents are loving and kind, and certainly Good Parents overall, but even they have doubts that their daughter will succeed on her own.
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Tooth Strip
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Hank the octopus can, like many octopuses, survive for a short time outside of water, so long as he remains moist, but real octopuses can't leave the water for the extended periods shown in the film. Hank also has two siphons on either side of his face, whereas real octopuses have only one on their right side, and he is also shown to have permanently lost a tentacle, whereas real octopuses can regrow any arms that have been severed. Additionally, several blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments late in the film show that he has a white Tooth Strip shared with many of the fish characters in the film instead of a beak, or at least an atrophied, miscolored beak in the spirit of such (real octopus beaks are black and strongly hooked).
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All There in the Script: The sea lions that Marlin and Nemo meet, Fluke and Rudder, were not named in the movie itself, only the credits.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: In a flashback scene, young Dory's parents encourage her to find and carry shells along the sea bed. When she's alone outside the Marine Institute, she absently finds herself following a trail of shells, which leads to a small underwater cave that has several lines of shells leading toward it, and when Dory turns around she sees her long lost parents. Her parents had taught her to search for shells so she could follow the shell trails to lead her home.
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Ironic Echo: Marlin is angry at Dory for nearly getting Nemo killed and angrily tells her to "go over there and forget! That's what you do best!" Nemo is quicker to forgive Dory, so he sometimes repeats this line in a snarky way to let his dad know that he messed up.
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Unavoidable due to the large number of characters that Dory interacts with. Fluke, Rudder, Gerald, and Becky don't appear until the final trailer.
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Funny Background Event: During the touch tank scene, as the kids are running away in a panic after one accidentally makes Hank "ink", you can see a kid unrelated to the incident falling off a ride-able playground animal in the background during the ensuing commotion. When Marlin and Nemo are in the tank outside the Gift Shop (the one with the swimming toy fish), there's a shoplifter in the background.
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Carnivore Confusion: Except for one squid, none of the carnivorous animals seem to have any desire to eat the main characters. And almost all the new characters are carnivorous, including a Beluga whale, an octopus, and two sea lions. Marlin even notes that sea lions are predators, but the issue is ignored after that and no explanation is given as to why these two sea lions don't try to eat them. DVD commentary indicates that their laziness overrides their hunger.
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: When Marlin, Dory, and Nemo arrive at the wreck, they find that the crabs all around it keep hiding and shushing them, making Marlin apprehensive that there's something they're hiding from. Shortly thereafter, they find the Giant Squid the crabs are hiding from. At the Kid Zone, the animals live in constant fear of the kids who come to poke at them.
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Bring My Brown Pants: Hank inks himself after he is touched by a young girl in the touch tank at an exhibit at the Marine life Institute. This plays a very important role in how he and Dory escape the tank and get to her parents.
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No Cartoon Fish: Naturally averted given the franchise, but at one point the trope is exploited for a bit of Black Comedy when Dory ends up in a feeding bucket surrounded by dead fish, which are all designed more realistically in an effort to garner less sympathy.
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Talking in Your Sleep: Still a staple for Dory. One important early line said while sleeping is "Don't cry, Mommy. Don't cry."
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Same Plot Sequel: This film has many of the same story beats as Finding Nemo. In both films, the title character gets captured and put in an aquarium, while two other characters try to find them. There's an opening flashback, a school field trip where things go wrong, a chase scene involving a giant predator set on a shipwreck, a glow-in-the-dark predator, some predators who are friendly to the protagonists, a goofy bird, a gruff character who tries repeatedly to escape the aquarium, a reunion with lost parents, and a climax in which dozens of fish perform an unlikely escape. Both films also have an underlying theme of not assuming someone is incompetent because of a disability.
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: The Tank Gang's names and voice actors appear in the credits, spoiling their appearance on the stinger.
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Searching for the Lost Relative
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Searching for the Lost Relative: plot involves Dory, Marlin, and Nemo travelling to the Marine Life institute so Dory can find Charlie and Jenny, her long-lost parents.
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Crowd Chant: The Marine Life Institute truck is full of fish bound for Cleveland, where they will spend the rest of their days. But they know the Institute's Catchphrase and motto, "Rescue, Rehabilitate, Release", shouting its final word in unison to encourage Marlin, Nemo, and Hank.
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Noodle Incident: The viewer never learns how Hank lost a tentacle or why he doesn't want to return to the ocean.
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Spoiler Cover: The cover of the standard DVD features screenshots that depict the otters cuddling on the highway overpass (from the movie's climax) and, egregiously, a screencap from the very ending depicting Destiny, Bailey, Hank, and Dory's parents all at the reef.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hank can be very rude, impatient, and forceful as he tries to take Dory's quarantine tag away from her, but he still helps her find her parents.
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The Stinger: The Tank Gang from the first movie, still in their bags which have become very dirty in the past year, have somehow made it to the Marine Life Institute and are rescued by the personnel there, and will presumably be cleaned and released back into the ocean. As soon as Fluke and Rudder chase Gerald off the rock a second time, he sneaks back onto the rock when they're asleep.
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Roundabout Shot: Dory has one with her parents when they are finally reunited.
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Rocky Roll Call: Marlin, Nemo, Jenny, and Charlie go through one briefly when they run into each other for the first time, ending with Becky chirping.
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What Would X Do?: At one point, while stuck in a fish tank at the aquarium gift shop and needing to get into the institute's plumbing network to find Dory, Nemo encourages Marlin to think, "What would Dory do?" Marlin proceeds to talk about thinking carefully and weighing up a lot of options, until Nemo points out that that's closer to "What would Marlin do?" They then hit upon the idea of using a row of splash pad fountains to bounce from the tank to a small pool not too far away.
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Sleepwalking: Dory sleepswims in a Missing Trailer Scene.invoked
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Wham Line: The first thing we hear from Dory while she's talking in her sleep. "But Dory, that was years ago. Fishes who don't leave the Quarantine usually... they're no longer around, Dory." Sure, Dory's parents turn out to be alive and well, but that line causes a massive Heroic BSoD on her.
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Wham Shot: In one of the flashbacks, when the camera pulls out and establishes that Dory and her parents lived in — and were presumably born in — the Marine Life Institute. Another camera zoom-out to reveal that the line of shells Dory is following is one of many that her parents have seeded all around the MLI leading back to their home, showing they've been waiting for her all this time.
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Fake-Out Opening: The opening scene is framed to be as similar to the opening scene from Finding Nemo as possible, with Dory and her parents living an idyllic life in a coral reef, but doing their best to warn Dory away from the "undertow" just outside their home. This helps postpone The Reveal that the "coral reef" is an aquarium, and the "undertow" is the pipe system.
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Book Ends: As the first movie started with Marlin and his wife Coral looking at the view, the ending does the same thing with him and Dory at the drop-off. The Stinger of both movies deal with the Tank Gang. In this movie, the Tank Gang (still in the plastic bags prior to sabotaging Phillip Sherman's Aquascum) gets captured by the a volunteer from the Marine Life Institute and dumped into a live fish transport box.note Early on, Dory was captured by said volunteer and dumped into the same box. Both times, the volunteer complains "No respect for marine life." And like in the previous stinger, Bloat says: "Now what?"
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Acoustic License: This film gets real heavy with this one in order to drive the plot. Notable scenes include Dory calling for Destiny from the surface of the ocean near the Marine Life Institute all the way to Destiny's exhibit and Destiny hears her just fine despite the fact she's underwater. If that's not enough, there's also Marlin calling for Becky from a truck that's already miles away from the Institute and Becky responds immediately despite disappearing from the film halfway through. For tiny fish, Dory and Marlin sure do have some pipes in them.
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Green Aesop: Downplayed — despite the humans' impact on the ocean being seen somewhat in the form of trash (Dory even gets stuck in a can-ring at one point), it remains a minor background theme. Ellen DeGeneres did, however, make a point to raise awareness about the perilous state of the Great Barrier Reef, from which the clownfish (and now Dory) hail.
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On the other hand, Nemo of all characters was written with his father's snarky attitude at times, particularly to remind Marlin that he had screwed up. Nemo's sarcasm usually and rather ironically comes at his father's expense. Sometimes, it may results in a small Snark-to-Snark Combat.
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Funny Octopus: Hank, the octopus Dory meets at the Institute, is pulled into her wacky hi-jinks. He tends to be more of a Straight Man than funny on his own, though he does have his moments, such as disguising himself as a baby.
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It's All My Fault: Marlin eventually comes to believe that it was his fault that he and Dory were separated, while Dory is convinced that everything that happened to her and her parents is her fault for having memory loss.
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Air-Vent Passageway: Apparently, most of the Institute's tanks are connected with pipes, allowing the fish to move around the place at will. There are grills, but the gaps are big enough to squeeze through.
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Central Theme: Things you didn't plan might happen and they might actually lead to great things.
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Creative Closing Credits: It begins with scenes of Hank messing around with his camouflage ability. Once that's done, the scene switches to the ocean, with the camera slowly panning up from the seafloor to the surface through the kelp forest—the opposite of the first movie's credits, which start from the surface and pan down to the dark.
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Hank, despite the fact that he (like real octopuses) has three hearts as Dory stated. But the octopus is also fittingly good-hearted.
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Dinky Drivers: A variation is performed by Dory and Hank when they hijack the Marine Institute's delivery truck. Since Hank operates the controls with his tentacles, the coordination issues of this trope are averted; instead, problems arise because Dory is, well, Dory...
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Hourglass Plot: When Hank first pitches the idea to Dory that she should give him her tag so that Dory could stay in California while Hank would go to Cleveland, Hank calls it a crazy idea but Dory says she's "okay with crazy". Towards the end of the film, when Hank and Dory hijack a truck and they get surrounded by cops Dory pitches the idea that Hank should drive the truck into the ocean. Dory calls this a crazy idea but Hank says he's "okay with crazy".
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A Giant Squid pursuing and attacking a character named "Nemo" is a clear reference to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The main difference is that Jules Verne's Captain Nemo had a slight comfort and protection in his ship, the Nautilus; Pixar's Nemo doesn't have that advantage and almost got eaten by the Humboldt squid.
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The Promised Land
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The Promised Land: Hank considers Cleveland as this, since at there, he can finally get the isolation that he doesn't have in the Marine Life Institute. He ultimately chooses not to go there, though.
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Overcrank: The scenes where Dory is tossed to the otters and Hank drives the Cleveland truck off the hill into the ocean are done completely in dramatic slow motion.
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Seeking the Missing, Finding the Dead: Subverted. Dory is told by the other blue tangs that her parents went to Quarantine to look for her, and that fish who don't come back from Quarantine have been euthanized. Dory's parents actually made it out of Quarantine and to the ocean.
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Meaningful Echo: When Hank offers Dory a way out from the Quarantine in exchange for the tag, he cautions that the plan is crazy, but Dory replies that she's "fine with crazy things". Much later, Dory and Hank are cornered by the police inside a truck and Dory suggests doing a free fall into the sea, though she considers the plan crazy. Guess what answer Hank replies? When Marlin and Nemo are lost in the tank in the Gift Shop, Nemo asks, "What would Dory do?" to get them both out of there. When they reunite with Dory later, Marlin assures her that it was she who encouraged Marlin to find Nemo all those months ago and that the philosophy "what would Dory do?" helped them overcome obstacles. Finally, during her Darkest Hour, Dory repeats this phrase to herself to try to make her remember anything and get her as back on track as she can. It eventually helps find her parents at last. Nemo reminds Marlin when he snapped at Dory after he and Nemo are chased by a giant squid, angrily telling her "Go wait over there and forget! It's what you do best", reminding him of his harsh words to Dory when they're outside the Institute meeting the sea lions. When Dory finds her way to the Marine Life Institute, Nemo tells Marlin "Looks like Dory can do something else besides forget", and when Marlin is deciding against being carried in the bucket by Becky the Loon, Nemo remarks "In the meantime, Dory will just forget about us... it's what she does best". Marlin relents and allows Becky to carry them in the bucket.
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: After outswimming a squid that nearly eats Nemo because Dory forgets the warning, Marlin (who had almost lost him before) snaps at Dory, angrily telling her that forgetting things is "what you do best", causing her to swim away to find help for Nemo to make up for it. Nemo (who's more forgiving to Dory) calls his dad out for this, and up until they make up, he often repeats that line to Marlin in a snarky way.
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Here We Go Again!: In the stinger, the Tank Gang, who managed to escape their fish tank at the dentist, are captured and brought into the Marine Life Institute.
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Devastating Remark: Marlin blows up at Dory after her forgetfulness results in her accidentally attracting the attention of a Humboldt Squid that attacks them and ends up hurting Nemo, and he says, "Just wait over there and forget! It's what you do best." This comment ends up making Dory have an emotional breakdown and indirectly gets her captured by the Marine Life Institute, and Nemo never lets his father forget his moment of cruelty.
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Amusing Injuries: At the start of the movie, when Dory swims into the anemone and gets stung repeatedly. A Running Gag features Destiny repeatedly bumping into the walls of her enclosure because of her poor vision.
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No One Gets Left Behind: After Dory reunites with Marlin and Nemo in the transport truck, she refuses to let Hank take her place after everything she has learned over the course of the movie and all fish, including Hank, deserve to be released.
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Imprinting: Marlin had to do this with Becky so she could take him and Nemo to Quarantine.
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song: In Russia, a song "Дари Дори" ("Dari Dori"), written and performed by a band FRUKTЫ (Fruits), is playing during the closing credits in place of "Three Hearts", "Loon Tune" and "Fish Who Wander." When the song ends, the beginning of "Three Hearts" can be heard, slowly followed by the ending part of "Release."
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Orbital Shot: Dory gets one whenever something triggers a memory of her childhood and transitions to the accompanying flashback.
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Quest for Identity: Dory goes on a journey to find out where she came from and who her family is.
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Both averted and played straight in regards to the Tank Gang. It turns out they're still okay but still trapped in their plastic bags when they're "rescued" by the Institute. Now it's left unclear whether they'll be released or sent to Cleveland.
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Truth in Television
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Truth in Television: In Real Life, Sigourney Weaver has done a few recorded narrations for science exhibits. One of the bonus features likened her in this respect to David Attenborough.
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Cerebus Retcon: Dory's memory problems are not a Running Gag here. In fact, it's revealed she can't even remember her own parents on command. It puts the throwaway line "Itnote Dory's short-term memory loss runs in my family... Where are they?" from the first movie into a completely different context when you realize that Dory forgot about her goal to reunite with her family for an entire year of her life. In fact, that single line is responsible for this movie's very existence, after the writers realized the vast implications of what it could mean for Dory's character. Dory's "Just Keep Swimming" song was not something she made up; it was invented by her parents to stop her moments of indecisiveness and keep moving on.
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Cargo Cult: Of a sort. The "Sigourney Weaver" who appears in the film is merely a recorded voice who narrates the various attractions of the Marine Life Institute. But the other characters treat her as an actual "person" and almost revere her.
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Self-Serving Memory: Marlin has shades of this: he claims it was four sharks, not three, that he encountered, and tries to say it wasn't his fault that Dory wandered off in the kelp forest, only for Nemo to call him out.
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Big Damn Reunion: Much like Marlin and Nemo had in the first film, Dory has hers with her parents towards the end of this film.
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Never My Fault: Marlin is initially unwilling to admit that Dory being taken into the Marine Institute is his fault (seeing as how his blowing his stack at Dory after the incident with the giant squid is what led to it). Nemo is quick to call him out on this.
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Humans Are Cthulhu: Zigzagged. At one point, Dory and Hank are thrown into the "Touch Area", where kids are sprawling through the aquarium getting their hands all over many different kinds of marine life, which is shown to be so invasive it seems like it's the end of the world. However, the humans are otherwise played un-monstrously, and two of them even have their day ruined when Dory and Hank hijack their truck. It's worth pointing out that the facility specifically aims to release its captives back into the wild, using them in the meantime for educational & awareness purposes and only withholding the ones who simply cannot make it on their own.
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Flashback B-Plot: At the same time that Dory, Marlin, and Nemo are traveling in search of Dory's parents, the audience also learns through flashbacks about Dory's old life with her parents at the Marine Life Institute, how she ended up accidentally getting herself separated from them, and how she spent her life wandering in the ocean before finally meeting up with Marlin for the very first time during Finding Nemo.
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Double-Meaning Title: Finding Dory both refers to Marlin and Nemo's efforts to find and rescue Dory when they got separated at the Marine Life Institute, and Dory's own Quest for Identity to find her own origin and family.
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Ascended Extra: Although she only shows up once in the whole film, Kathy the "Chicken Fish" (aka. the "OH MY GOSH! NEMO'S SWIMMING OUT TO SEA!!" fish) is a lot more vocal than she was back in the first film.
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Handicapped Badass: Hank is missing a tentacle and Hates Being Touched, but he's still able to traverse the park using the tentacles he has, his camouflage abilities. He even teaches himself to drive - automatic, not stick.
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And perhaps most importantly, we learn that Dory was born in the Institute. Blue tangs breeding in captivity was believed to be impossible, a fact that had many Real Life marine biologists highly concerned about any Red Stapler effect this may have had on blue tangs after this film, as each one would have to be caught in the wild. Fortunately, Science Marches On pretty quickly in this department, and blue tangs were bred in captivity the month after the film came out.invoked
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Super-Senses: Bailey the beluga whale has echolocation, which allows him to "see" through walls and track locations from far distances... although it takes him a while to figure out how to actually do this.
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Blipvert: Happens occasionally when Dory remembers something important.
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Subverted with Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World", a song known for being used cynically in dark and violent contexts to contrast with its hopeful lyrics. While the initial situation it appears in (a truck flying off of a freeway and landing into the ocean) is certainly calamitous, the progression of events (all the Cleveland-bound marine life being freed and Dory reuniting with her family) complement the meaning of the song.
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Weirdness Censor: Apparently nobody would have seen fish doing rather un-fishlike behaviour like jumping out of tanks or loons carrying pails of water, not to mention a random out-of-control pram being spun by tentacles clearly sticking out.
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Super-Persistent Predator: The Humboldt squid gets itself trapped in a huge shipping container, but still focuses all its energy on trying to snap up Nemo rather than its own predicament.
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Deadpan Snarker: Marlin is not quite as snarky here as he was in the first film, but he still has it. On the other hand, Nemo of all characters was written with his father's snarky attitude at times, particularly to remind Marlin that he had screwed up. Nemo's sarcasm usually and rather ironically comes at his father's expense. Sometimes, it may results in a small Snark-to-Snark Combat. Hank, Destiny and Bailey each has their snarking moments, but Hank in particular really shows his sarcastic attitude. He and Nemo are probably the snarkiest characters in the film.
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In Nemo, Dory said "I suffer from short-term memory loss" exactly once. This film treats it as something of a Catchphrase, one that her parents deeply ingrained into her. Justified, as being the protagonist and being on her own for the majority of the film puts Dory in a lot more positions where she needs to explain it.
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Genki Girl: Destiny is a cheerful whale shark who gets very enthusiastic when she meets her long-lost friend.
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Gave Up Too Soon: When Becky leaves the bucket containing Marlin and Nemo on a tree branch to eat popcorn, Marlin loses patience and ends up catapulting himself and Nemo into a gift shop aquarium. A few seconds later, Becky takes the empty bucket up to the roof of the quarantine building. Nemo points out that at least they aren't stuck on top of the building.
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Ink-Suit Actor: Fluke bears some resemblance to Idris Elba.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: Dory takes over Marlin's role as the protagonist, relegating him into a supporting role. Nemo himself is also relegated to a supporting role from being the title character of the previous movie. Not that they had especially large roles in the first movie to begin with, but Nemo's classmates Tad, Pearl, and Sheldon are really just background characters during the school scenes here. In fact, Kathy the Chicken Fish actually has more lines than them! Gil and the Tank Gang with their memorable after-credit sketch scene in Finding Nemo show up only...in a Running Gag after-credits sketch scene, in a hilarious subversion of What Happened to the Mouse?.
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Fiery Redhead
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Fiery Redhead: Hank, being colored red while having Hair-Trigger Temper, fits the trope.
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Both Sides Have a Point: The movie brings full circle that both Dory and Marlin are right about their respective viewpoints. In the first movie, Dory has a point that you can't avoid every bad thing in life and sometimes you have to roll with the punches or rather "just keep swimming". In the second movie, however, Marlin also has a point that it's good to have a plan or an approach rather than going through life randomly.
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Cuteness Overload
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Cuteness Overload: Weaponized by the otters in order to stop the truck to Cleveland.
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True Companions
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True Companions: Dory, Marlin and Nemo were this in the beginning, but by the end they add Destiny, Bailey, Hank, Becky and Dory's parents to their companions.
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Cuddle Bug: The otters. Dory convinces them to pair up and hug each other on the road, halting the truck headed to Cleveland.
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Bruce, Anchor, and Chum are never mentioned by name once during the whole movie. Likely justified as most of the film is spent away from their neck of the woods and there isn't really a good place for them to show up in the plot, but their absence is still noticeable. The pelican Nigel failed to return or get a mention. He was last seen in the first movie sadly flying off after placing Dory and Marlin back in the sea, thinking Nemo was dead. (While it's also a possible sign that they could be saving him to reappear in a later film as well, it's most likely that he found out about Nemo being alive from the Tank Gang shortly afterwards.) The dentist Dr. Sherman, along with his niece, Darla are also absent.
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Aesop Amnesia
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Aesop Amnesia: Marlin, who is more or less okay with Nemo taking brave risks but now has to worry about absent-minded Dory getting into sticky situations. Justified, though, because it's a whole different ball game for him - at least Nemo eventually learned a thing or two, and since he actually has a consistent memory, Marlin can count on him to stay out of genuine trouble more.
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Shout-Out: In an early scene, Marlin tells Dory "Mr. Ray doesn't have time to worry about fish who wander." This is a nod to A Fish Called Wanda. Bailey's echolocation abilities are depicted identically to the motion trackers from Alien. The touch pool scene seems reminiscent to the caterpillar room scene at Sunnyside Daycare in Toy Story 3, where little kids unknowingly make smaller creatures' lives living hells. Also, the scene where Hank and Dory hijack the aquatic animal transport truck in the finale is like the exaggerated version of the Pizza Planet Truck scene in Toy Story 2. In one shot in the Quarantine lab, the camera stays on a pipe labeled "TM-59" for five seconds. This is a reference to the Submarine Voyages ride at Disneyland, California. Opening in 1959, the Submarine Voyages attraction is located in Tomorrowland, and currently has been adapted into a ride themed on Finding Nemo. Hence, TM (Tomorrowland) 59 (1959). A Giant Squid pursuing and attacking a character named "Nemo" is a clear reference to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The main difference is that Jules Verne's Captain Nemo had a slight comfort and protection in his ship, the Nautilus; Pixar's Nemo doesn't have that advantage and almost got eaten by the Humboldt squid. In Disney's film adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Nemo was almost devoured by the squid. The climax with the truck flying off the freeway into the ocean, over the whales Destiny and Bailey, can be seen as an inverse to the climax in Free Willy. There's even a similar shot of the shadow passing over them.
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Eat the Camera: Invoked somewhat in Marine Life Interviews, a short based on Finding Dory, where each of the major secondary characters (Fluke, Rudder, Bailey, Destiny, and Hank) from the Marine Life Institute are interviewed about Dory. In Destiny's final interview segment, she points out how large she is (seemingly a bit proud of it too), and that as a child, Dory used to play hide-and-go-seek inside her mouth, before Destiny demonstrates how large her mouth is by opening it gaping wide and forcing it at the camera.
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No Mouth: Hank looks like this most of the time, making him more authentic than the franchise's other octopus character, Pearl, as real octopuses have beaks which are hidden among their tentacles and therefore are seldom seen. Hank has a human-like lower lip, in the proper place, which is visible on occasion.
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Refuge in Audacity: An Octopus. Driving a stolen truck. With Dory telling him which way to steer. Hilarity Ensues.
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Perplexing Pearl Production: In one scene, Marlin and Nemo meet a loudmouthed clam who speaks by moving his shell like a mouth. He has a fairly big pearl, seen rolling around in his shell whenever he opens his mouth.
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Company Cross References: A driver near the end of the film has a bandage of Lightning McQueen from Cars on his right hand, also serving as Production Foreshadowing for Cars 3.
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Disabled Means Helpless: Part of the conflict is that Marlin assumes Dory's disability (her memory loss) is this, which audiences will recall was his problem with Nemo in the previous movie. Nemo convinces him that it's just another way of experiencing the world. For Dory's part, her memory loss is portrayed as genuinely impairing, but she's quite capable of taking care of herself.
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No Antagonist
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No Antagonist: The conflict is purely character-driven and not obstructed by a Big Bad. The closest thing to an antagonist is a giant squid that the gang runs into, but it barely factors into the story, and isn't even evil - it's just a hungry predator doing what comes naturally.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: It was nearly a full 13 years since Finding Nemo, and boy does it show. Especially when the movie recreates the scene where Marlin and Dory ram into their first meeting.
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Super Not-Drowning Skills: Inverted with Hank, who can stay outside of water for an unusually long time. He hydrates himself precisely once on screen.
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Flanderization: In Nemo, Dory said "I suffer from short-term memory loss" exactly once. This film treats it as something of a Catchphrase, one that her parents deeply ingrained into her. Justified, as being the protagonist and being on her own for the majority of the film puts Dory in a lot more positions where she needs to explain it. In Nemo, Nemo's spotted eagle ray teacher Mr. Ray had a memorable scene that involved him singing an educational song about marine life to the kids while taking them on a tour through the coral reef. In this movie, a love of singing seems to be a defining characteristic of spotted eagle rays; when we see a school of them traveling on their migratory journey, they're all singing a baritone opera song in perfect harmony.
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The Talk: Dory gets confused during a conversation of parents and starts to give a group of children a version of the talk, but is quickly cut off.
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Vomit Discretion Shot
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Vomit Discretion Shot: We don't see Marlin "feeding the fishes."
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: The Gonk-ish, voiceless sea lion that the other sea lions don't like is named Gerald, which was also the name of the first film's ugly, voiceless pelican that the other pelicans didn't like.
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A Minor Kidroduction
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A Minor Kidroduction: Played with. The film's opening is about Dory's past when she was still a baby living with her parents at the Open Ocean, before transitioning to the present timeline. However, since this film focuses on Dory's rediscovery of her family, her past at the Open Ocean keeps coming back at certain points in the movie.
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Survival Mantra
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Survival Mantra: "Just keep swimming" is revealed to be this for Dory, taught to her by her parents so she wouldn't panic if she ever forgot where to go.
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Never Say "Die"
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Never Say "Die": Subverted. When the blue tangs try to tell Dory that her parents have disappeared years ago and never came back, they say that they're "no longer around", and that they're "gone". Then Dory forlornly asked if they're dead. They aren't.
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Clamshells as Mouths
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Clamshells as Mouths: Nemo and Marlin encounter one very talkative clam moving its shells as if it was a mouth.
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Platonic Life-Partners: Dory and Marlin have grown up to be this since the previous film. Other than living together for a year after the first film, the two are shown to be inseparable from each other; Marlin considers Dory his family, while Dory can't settle at one place without being guided by someone like Marlin.
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Darkest Hour
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When Marlin and Nemo are lost in the tank in the Gift Shop, Nemo asks, "What would Dory do?" to get them both out of there. When they reunite with Dory later, Marlin assures her that it was she who encouraged Marlin to find Nemo all those months ago and that the philosophy "what would Dory do?" helped them overcome obstacles. Finally, during her Darkest Hour, Dory repeats this phrase to herself to try to make her remember anything and get her as back on track as she can. It eventually helps find her parents at last.
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Gil and the Tank Gang with their memorable after-credit sketch scene in Finding Nemo show up only...in a Running Gag after-credits sketch scene, in a hilarious subversion of What Happened to the Mouse?.
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: The baby sea otters. Dory exploits this by setting them to cuddle in the middle of the streets to stop the Marine Institute truck. Baby Dory.
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Brick Joke: The Tank Gang from the first movie, still in their bags which have become very dirty in the past year, have somehow made it to the Marine Life Institute and are rescued by the personnel there, and will presumably be cleaned and released back into the ocean.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: The entire character of Hank the octopus is a testament to this trope. Hank can change his skin to either disguise as an object or turn invisible. It's a little-known fact that real-life octopuses are actually able to change their color of their skin to camouflage with their environment, and an even lesser-known one that certain kinds change their shape to make that camouflage more effective, which Hank also demonstrates. The same applies to the three hearts thing, something that Hank himself didn't know. Octopuses also have a knack for escaping their enclosures and wandering around on land, though not as effectively or as long as Hank does. Also, Hank, whose default coloring is red, is often angry or irritable. In real life, octopuses turn red when they are stressed or angry.
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 Finding Dory
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All-CGI Cartoon / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
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All There in the Script / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
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Always a Bigger Fish / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
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Arc Hero / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Artistic License – Ornithology / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Ascended Fridge Horror / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Bioluminescence Is Cool / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Bowel-Breaking Bricks / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Bravado Song / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Bring My Brown Pants / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Calling Your Nausea / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Celebrity Voice Actor / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Clamshell Mouth / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Clamshells as Mouths / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Comically Cross-Eyed / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Contested Sequel / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Death by Cameo / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Demographically Inappropriate Humour / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Demoted to Extra / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Devastating Remark / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Dinky Drivers / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Disembodied Eyebrows / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Even Better Sequel / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Event Title / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Extremely Short Timespan / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Fake Interactivity / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Fiery Redhead / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Film Comic / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Films of 2015–2019 / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Flashback B-Plot / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Funny Octopus / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Furry Baldness / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Giant Squid / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Hates Being Touched / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Imprinting / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Incoming! / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Kids' Meal Toy / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Menagerie of Misery / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Mental Health Recovery Arc / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
No Mouth / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Not-So-Imaginary Friend / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Once Done, Never Forgotten / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Once per Episode / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
One-Hit Wonder / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Parting-Words Regret / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Perplexing Pearl Production / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Pet Fad Starter / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Playful Otter / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Predation Is Natural / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Predator-Prey Friendship / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Production Foreshadowing / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Protagonist Title Fallacy / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Real Song Theme Tune / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Revised Ending / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Ridiculously Cute Critter / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Ring Around the Close-Up / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Rocky Roll Call / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Same Plot Sequel / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Sapient Eat Sapient / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Searching for the Lost Relative / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Seeking the Missing, Finding the Dead / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Series Continuity Error / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
She's a Man in Japan / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Sleepwalking / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Slow-Motion Fall / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Sluggish Seal / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
So What Do We Do Now? / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Spoiled by the Cast List / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Spoiled by the Merchandise / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Spoiler Cover / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Stealthy Cephalopod / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Super-Persistent Predator / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Survival Mantra / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Sweet Seal / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Talking in Your Sleep / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Tentacled Terror / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
The Quest / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
The Talk / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Themed Stock Board Game / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Threatening Shark / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Time Skip / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Tough Act to Follow / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Trailer Joke Decay / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Travel Montage / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Two Lines, Different Times / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Verbing Nouny / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Vomit Discretion Shot / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
Water Is Air / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
What Would X Do? / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Dory
hasFeature
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue / int_1360c1cf
 Finding Nemo
seeAlso
Finding Dory