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{{quote|''"There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one."''}}
The movie takes place in and around the Great Barrier Reef near [[Australia (
Meanwhile, the scuba diver turns out to be a [[Sydney]] dentist who puts Nemo in his office's aquarium, and plans to give the fish to his niece, Darla, for her upcoming birthday. The other fish in the tank, most of whom are somewhat insane, decide to help Nemo escape (especially because Darla is described as a "fish killer", who, whenever she gets a fish, shakes their plastic bag too hard).
This movie is notable for being Pixar's most commercially successful feature until ''[[Toy Story
Followed thirteen years later by a [[Sequel]], ''[[Finding Dory]]''.
Has no relation whatsoever to ''[[Little Nemo]]''.
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]:
{{quote|'''Dory''': Hey, look. "Esc-a-pay". I wonder what that means? That's funny, it's spelled just like the word "escape."
* [[Adult Fear]]: The Pixar Film. "Adults have nightmares about what would happen when they lose their only surviving son? Let's make a cartoon about it!"
* [[Advertised Extra]]: For some reason, Bruce and Crush are always shown on just about every piece of promotional material as two of the film's central characters even though their screen time is limited to only a handful of scenes.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Subverted. Bruce appears to be this towards the beginning of the movie, but it's revealed that he's actually a [[Nice Guy]]. {{spoiler|Unless he smells blood.}}
* [[All There in the Script]]: Gurgle's never referred to by name. He's the purple and yellow one.
* [[Alluring Anglerfish]]
* [[And Call Him George|And I Shall Call Him Squishy]]: Darla, possibly. Dory came pretty close until she learned that jellyfish sting.
* [[Animals Lack Attributes]]: Poor Bruce was originally animated with prominent claspers, as would be appropriate for a shark his size. Obviously they didn't make it to the final version.
* [[Animal Talk]]
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Nearly every villain in this movie is either [[Obliviously Evil]] (like Darla and the jellyfish) or just lacking in self-control (like Bruce and the seagulls) and the closest thing to bad guys would be {{spoiler|the fishermen towards the end, but even they probably see what they're doing as okay like most fishermen in real life do}}. This movie overall has arguably the mildest villains in Pixar movie history.
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** Chuckles, the gift fish who was killed by Darla, was a goldfish. Which live in freshwater. The other Tank Gang fish are saltwater fish. You can see where this is going.
** None of the sea turtles seem to worry about having to breathe. They also don't travel in flocks, but this was intentional, see [[Rule of Cool]] below.
* [[Ascended to Carnivorism]]: The movie ends with a [[The Stinger|Stinger]] of
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: "Hello, I'm Dory. What, you want to look for your child? Ummm... [[wikipedia:Anterograde amnesia|Hello, my name is Dory ...]]"
** [[Invoked Trope|Deliberately invoked]] by Marlin when he gets Dory to follow him above the trench rather than through it.
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** Thanks to [[Papa Wolf|his hijinks]], Marlin gets this reputation throughout the entire ocean area surrounding Sydney.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
{{quote|'''Crab:''' [[Jerkass|Yeah, I saw him, Bluey. But I'm not tellin' you where he went.]] [[Tempting Fate|And there's no way you're gonna make me!]]
([[Death Glare|Dory glares at him]], [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|cut to the crab being]] [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|lifted out of the water near a bunch of seagulls.]])
'''Seagull:''' [[Catch Phrase|Mine?]]
'''Crab:''' Ahh! Alright! I'll talk! I'll talk! He went to the fishing grounds!
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Nemo" is Latin for "nobody".
* [[Blipvert]]
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* [[Censorship by Spelling]]:
{{quote|'''Gurgle''': Whatever you do, don't mention D-A-R...
'''Nemo''': It's okay, I know who you're talking about.
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Nemo.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Gill saves Nemo from the first net by having them swim down. Nemo then goes on to use this technique to save a whole school of fish.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: Poor Marlin.
* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: "Hop inside my mouth if you want to live."
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: In P. Sherman's waiting room, there is a [[Toy Story (franchise)||Buzz Lightyear]] on the floor next to the chest of toys.▼
* [[Cool Teacher]]: Mr. Ray.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Gill.▼
▲* [[Continuity Cameo]]: In P. Sherman's waiting room, there is a [[Toy Story|Buzz Lightyear]] on the floor next to the chest of toys.
▲* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Gill
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Director Andrew Stanton is the voice of the gnarly Crush.
* [[Cub Cues Protective Parent]]: When Marlin slaps away a baby jellyfish with his tail after it stings Dory, the swarm of adult jellyfish immediately start swimming toward them.▼
* [[Curse Cut Short]]
{{quote|'''Gurgle:''' Doesn't anyone realize? We're *swimming* in our own sh-
'''Peach:''' Shhh! Here he comes!
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Somewhat, Pixar's first four films had some more emotional moments but on the whole they were very
▲* [[Cub Cues Protective Parent]]: When Marlin slaps away a baby jellyfish with his tail after it stings Dory, the swarm of adult jellyfish immediately start swimming toward them.
▲* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Somewhat, Pixar's first four films had some more emotional moments but on the whole they were very light-hearted and comedic. ''Finding Nemo'' was arguably Pixar's first foray into more dramatic territory, as in films that have comedic elements but on the whole aren't comedies.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Remember that pelican Gerald that {{spoiler|swallows Marlin and Dory}}? He and Nigel were originally going to be [[Those Two Guys]], Nigel being the neat freak of the two, Gerald being scruffy and sloppy. In the finished film, Gerald's final screen time is less than a minute.
* [[Derailed for Details]] / [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]:
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* [[Determinator]]: Many characters in the movie, but especially Marlin, Dory, and Gill.
{{quote|'''Nemo:''' How many times have you tried to escape?
'''Gill:''' Eh, I've lost count. Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid.
* [[Did You Die?]]:
{{quote|'''Turtle''': ''(to Marlin)'' Mr. Fish, did you die?
'''Dory''': Sorry. I was a little vague on the details.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
** The group of sharks who have sworn off eating fish is played as if it were an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting or similar drug rehab group, complete with pledge ("Fish are friends, not food"), 'steps' and interventions if one of the members has / looks like they're going to fall [[Off the Wagon]].
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* [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!|Don't Call Me 'Sir']]:
{{quote|'''Marlin''': Look, Mr. Turtle...
'''Crush''': Dude, Mr. Turtle is my '''father'''. Name's Crush.
* [[Downer Beginning]]
* [[DVD Commentary]]: While the audiovisual commentary track was an interesting concept, by the time you get to the second or third behind the scenes segment interrupting the movie you can see why future films do not use the technique.
** They do it better in the Blu-Ray edition of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', where the video actually stays in the frame in a picture-in-picture.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Luigi from [[Cars]] makes a brief appearance when the aquarium fish are escaping. The boy in the waiting room on Escape Day is reading a [[The Incredibles|Mr. Incredible]] comic.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
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* [[Empty Promise]]
* [[Erudite Stoner]]: Crush.
* [[Everything
** Until Bruce [[Double Subversion|gets a noseful of Dory's blood and goes]] ''[[Double Subversion|berserk]]''. His friends still tried to stop him, though.
* [[Explain, Explain, Oh Crap]]: "Good morning, everyone! Today's the day! The sun is shining, the tank is clean and we are getting out of-- (gasp) ''the tank is clean.'' '''The tank is CLEAN!'''"
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* [[Feather Fingers]]: Nigel. And, of course, virtually every character has fin fingers.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: The Tank Gang.
** [[The Hero]]: Gil.
** [[The Lancer]]: Gurgle.
** [[The Big Guy]]: Bloat.
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Peach.
** [[The Chick]]: Bubbles.
** [[The Heart]]: Deb.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Nemo.
** [[Team Pet]]: Jacques.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]]: Squirt the baby sea turtle becomes one at the end of the movie.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: There are actually quite a few. A good one is when Marlin is trying to tell his joke at the start. Nemo at first has an 'Oh, boy' expression, then an embarrassed and apologetic smile.▼
** A meta example occurs on the 2-disc DVD introduction: whilst Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich are talking about the included bonus features, in the background you can see John Lasseter waving and then miming diving over a rail.▼
* [[Fun with Flushing]]: Nemo's escape plan is to play dead and get flushed, because "all drains lead to the ocean". Many have pointed out that in reality, a fish would not survive the trip, as it would be ground up during the sewage treatment process, leading some to joke that the title should have been "Grinding Nemo".
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Dory, who knows how to read humans writing and understands whale language and knows about whales in general. "Don't worry, whales don't eat clown fish, they eat krill."
** "Oh look, krill!"
*** "Swim away!"
* [[Genki Girl]]: Dory whose perkiness and high energy
* [[Genre Busting]]: It's a road movie/coming of age/thriller/animal comedy/prison escape/surf movie.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Bruce and the whale.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself Man]]: Anchor and Chum do this when Bruce accidentally smells Dory's blood and goes on a feeding frenzy. He's not bad but his addiction to fish is that severe.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** Deb introduces herself as "your aunt Deb", then introduces her "sister", Flo. So...Aunt Flo?
** A non sexual example, the name of the aquarium mountain is called Mount Wannahockaloogie. Say it out loud.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Darla.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Gill has extensive scarring on the right side of his body, mostly over his face (but [[Eyes Are Unbreakable|leaving his right eye intact]]) and his right fin (now as useless as Nemo's one) from a failed escape attempt, adding to his grizzled, fierce personality.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: Jacques, the shrimp who speaks nothing but French. First time you see him, a stereotypical little accordion ditty plays.
* [[Grilling the Newbie]]: The other fish in the tank ask Nemo endlessly about the Ocean.
{{quote|'''Bubbles:''' "The old big blue, eh? What's it like?
'''Nemo:''' "It's...[[Shaped Like Itself|big and blue]]."
'''Bubbles:''' "I ''knew'' it!"
* [[Guile Hero]]: Gill is somewhere between this and a protagonist [[Magnificent Bastard]], even though his plans (almost) always fail. He's atypical in that he appears somewhat uncomfortable in this role: he has a [[Heroic BSOD]] after
▲* [[Funny Background Event]]: There are actually quite a few. A good one is when Marlin is trying to tell his joke at the start. Nemo at first has an 'Oh, boy' expression, then an embarrassed and apologetic smile.
▲** A meta example occurs on the 2-disc DVD introduction: whilst Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich are talking about the included bonus features, in the background you can see John Lasseter waving and then miming diving over a rail.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Gill. Extensive scarring on his right fin makes it as useless as Nemo's atrophied one. That doesn't prevent him to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]] and mentor Nemo.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Averted in the trench scenes, which are absolutely pitch black until the anglerfish arrives. Played straight in the whale's mouth.
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* [[Interspecies Friendship]]: Not only do different kinds of fish get along, but they also befriend sea turtles, and even species that otherwise prey on fish, such as sharks and pelicans.
* [[It's All My Fault]]
* [[Keet]]: Nemo on a good day. The baby sea turtles also count.▼
* [[Land Down Under]]
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: ''Literally.'' The anglerfish's light may look inviting but it leads to frightening teeth.
* [[Little-Known Facts]]: The unseen Sandy Plankton.
* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Marlin to Dory. Being with him somehow cures her
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Local Reference]]: Director Andrew Stanton is from Rockport,
* [[Lopsided Dichotomy]]: Dory translating whale speech:
{{quote|"Okay, he either said, 'move to the back of the throat,' or he 'wants a root beer float'."}}
▲* [[Keet]]: Nemo on a good day. The baby sea turtles also count.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Dory to Marlin.
* [[Meaningful Background Event]]
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* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]
* [[Noodle Incident]]: "Hey, that snail was about to charge."
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Darla and the dentist.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The anglerfish. "IIIIIII'm gonna ''getcha''!"
** Bruce's [[Nightmare Fuel|first appearance.]]
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Not in Latin, and (except possibly to the very youngest viewers) not all that ominous. Arguably a parody.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Marlin and Gill, compared to their respective companions.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: Marlin and Dory. The main character is Nemo, however the two characters play just as important, if not more important, of a role than Nemo himself. After Nemo gets taken away to an Australian dentist office, it is up to the duo to find and save him.
* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: Marlin proves that, despite what all the other fish think, not all clown fish are funny.
** One of the bonus features of the DVD are 10-15 different punch lines that were considered for the closing scene. Good times, good times.
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* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Dory to Marlin.
* [[Plot-Triggering Death]]: In a rather roundabout example, Coral's. Her death happens some years before the actual story, but hadn't it been for that, the plot wouldn't have happened, at least not the way it did.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Nemo and the baby sea turtles.▼
* [[Psycho Strings]]: Played whenever Darla looks at the camera.
* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: A rare example of the dialog and pounding coming from different characters:
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* [[The Quest]]. And while it's not a perfect [[The Seven Basic Plots|Booker's Quest]], it does meet plenty of the specifications: Monsters (angler fish), Temptations (Bruce delays then, when they get back on track, turns deadly), Dangerous Terrain (mines, jellyfish), Deadly Opposites (Marlin even ignores the guides!), the Journey to the Underworld (the whale), then the halfway arrival where the heroes realize the task is even harder than imagined. Not to mention Dory's role as Anima and how ''she'' is the one who first connects with the prize.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Crush is 150, and still young, dude.
▲* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Nemo and the baby sea turtles.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Turtles don't actually travel in groups, but in the words of Stanton himself, "But it was just too cool and it helped the story along. We don’t address it in the script, but they’re all off to Hawaii to go surf.”
** Also lobsters with Bostonian accents near the [[You Fail Geography Forever|Australian Coast.]]
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Marlin and Dory. One is grumpy and grounded while the other is perky and optimistic pushes him forward.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: The ones on Gill's face that he apparently got from trying to escape the tank.
* [[Sea Mine]]: a whole minefield of them too.
* [[Short Cuts Make Long Delays]]▼
* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[The Shining|Heeeeeeere's Brucie!]]"
** [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|"Swiiim awaaay!"]]. Also ''several'' others.
** Bruce was [[Fan Nickname|the nickname]] Spielberg gave [[Jaws (film)|the animatronic shark]], [[I Am Not Shazam|though not the name of the shark itself]].
*** And the torpedo sliding into his mouth is reminiscent of
*** Speaking of [[Monty Python]], there's an added joke about a character named Bruce having an Australian accent.
** Don't forget the [[Psycho Strings]] and the gulls surrounding Nigel, Dory and Marlin like a certain scene in [[The Birds]]...and it's been said Pixar don't reference other movies!
** There's also P. Sherman's address, [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|42]] [[Wallace and Gromit|Wallaby Way]].
** Doubling as an [[Actor Allusion]], [http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/finding-nemo-gil/657184-1-eng-US/finding-nemo-gil.jpg Gill's scars]{{Dead link}} are almost identical to the ones [http://www.cinemovies.fr/images/data/photos/G38072144681843.jpg Tom Berenger]{{Dead link}} sported in [[Platoon]].
** Pearl, Nemo's little octopus schoolmate ("You guys made me ink!") bears strong resemblance to the pink Ghost in the original [[Pac-Man]] video game. Ditto for her dad.
** While excaping from Bruce, Dory sees a sign labeled "escape" [[A Christmas Story|and
▲* [[Short Cuts Make Long Delays]]
* [[Simultaneous Arcs]]: Most of the movie splits between Marlin in the ocean and Nemo in the tank.
* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: Largely played straight. Among fish we see colorful reef-fishes, and then the stock seahorses, puffers, rays, great white and hammerhead sharks, and barracudas (will we ever see an ocean sunfish, dolphinfish, pipefish, and remoras in fiction?). The sea birds are gulls and pelicans (and what about frigatebirds, tropicbirds, skuas and so on?); the sea-mammal is a whale, the sea-reptiles are the classic Chelonid turtles: and we have crabs, jellyfishes and starfishes as the invertebrate members of the fauna.
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* [[Staring Kid]]: The kid in the dentist's waiting room who reacts with horror at the commotion.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Nemo attends a school of fish.
* [[The Stinger]]: In the last scene before the credits, see all the fish from the dentist office after their successful escape
{{quote|'''Bloat:''' [[And Then What?|...now what?]]}}
* [[Surfer Dude]]: Crush, and the turtles. Apparently, ''all'' of them.
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* [[Tempting Fate]]:
{{quote|'''Nemo''': Have how ever met a shark?
'''Marlin''': No, and I don't plan to.
** "If I ever meet a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|turtle]] I'll ask him... [[Foreshadowing|after I'm done talking to the shark.]]"
* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|This Is Your Brain On Fish Meat]]: The sharks.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Anchor and Chum.
* [[The Tooth Hurts]]: The scene where the dentist is trying to remove the prime minister's tooth. When Nigel the pelican runs into the window, the noise startles the dentist so much that he forcefully pulls out the bad tooth, putting the prime minister in a lot of pain.
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: A popular scene shown in the commercials was Bruce swimming through some seaweed while saying "We're looking for Nemo!" This was never used in the movie. In fact, the super hyped up sharks in the trailers were just [[One-Scene Wonder|One Scene Wonders]].
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* [[Waking Non Sequitur]]: After the incident with the sharks, Dory wakes up screaming "Look out! Sharks eat fish!" She also has "Zzz... the sea monkeys have my money... Mmm... yes, I'm a natural blue..."
* [[Water Is Air]]: Averted. Those folks at [[Pixar]] [[Shown Their Work|really did their homework]] on this one.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]
* [[What's an X Like You Doing In a Y Like This?]]: "What's a couple of bites like you doing in a zone like this?"
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