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{{quote| ''"There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one."''}}

A'''''Finding Nemo''''' is a 2003 computer-animated film from [[Pixar]], and the first one from the company to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

The movie takes place in and around the Great Barrier Reef near [[Useful Notes/Australia (country)|Australia]], and centers on a neurotic clownfish named Marlin. After losing his mate and all but one of their 400+ eggs, Marlin becomes overprotective of his remaining son, Nemo. On his first day of school, Nemo gets fed up with Marlin's fear of the ocean, and ends up disobeying his father's orders by going near a boat. Soon after, Nemo gets "rescued" by a scuba diver, and Marlin, going against all his fears, goes off to find him. Marlin joins up with a forgetful blue tang named Dory, and they brave all sorts of obstacles to, well, find Nemo.

This movie is notable for being Pixar's most commercially successful feature until ''[[Toy Story]] 3]]''. It didn't exactly hurt the tourism trade in Australia, either.

* [[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.

* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Barracuda don't have much of taste for eggs. They prefer live prey.

* [[Ascended to Carnivorism]]: The movie ends with a [[The Stinger|Stinger]] of {{spoiler|the little green fish Blenny from the sharks' meeting gobbling up the [[Alluring Anglerfish|Anglerfish.]]}}

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: "Hello, I'm Dory. What, you want to look for your child? Ummm... [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesiaAnterograde amnesia|Hello, my name is Dory ...]]"

* [[Badass Onon Paper]]: Marlin gets through most of his adventures by gumption, desperation, and sheer dumb luck, but as his exploits are recounted over and over he starts to sound more and more badass. By the time the stories get to Nemo, his father is a [[Papa Wolf]] who has battled sharks and fought off jellyfish.

* [[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!]]<br />

([[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.]])<br />

'''Seagull:''' [[Catch Phrase|Mine?]]<br />

'''Crab:''' Ahh! Alright! I'll talk! I'll talk! He went to the fishing grounds! }}

* [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin']]: It seems like every time Marlin loosens up even a ''bit'', something terrible happens.

** [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]] in the case of the pelicans: they eat fish -- but not if they know the specific fish personally.

* [[Censorship Byby Spelling]]:

{{quote| '''Gurgle''': Whatever you do, don't mention D-A-R...<br />

'''Nemo''': It's okay, I know who you're talking about. }}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dory. She is the '''QUEEN''' of Cloudcuckooland. Part of it's due to her short term memory loss but anyone who thinks they can speak whale and ask a shark for directions is working on strange logic indeed.

* [[CloudcuckoolandersCloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: Poor Marlin.

* [[Come Withwith Me If You Want to Live]]: "Hop inside my mouth if you want to live."

* [[Derailed for Details]] / [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]:

{{quote| '''Marlin''': All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they—I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I --}}

{{quote| '''Nemo:''' How many times have you tried to escape?<br />

'''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?<br />

'''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]].

{{quote| '''Dory''': When I look at you...I can feel it! And I – and I look at you, and I... ''[choking up]'' ...and I'm ''home!'' Please... I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget! <ref>The romantic undertones are probably strongest in this scene.</ref>}}

* [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!|Don't Call Me 'Sir']]:

{{quote| '''Marlin''': Look, Mr. Turtle...<br />

'''Crush''': Dude, Mr. Turtle is my '''father'''. Name's Crush. }}

** 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.

* [[Erudite Stoner]]: Crush.

* [[Everything Is's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]]: [[Subverted Trope|Luckily,]] the sharks seen here have sworn off fish.

* [[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!'''"

* [[Feather Fingers]]: Nigel. And, of course, virtually every character has fin fingers.

** [[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.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Dory whose perkiness and high energy bouybuoy all her friends in rough times, or just annoy them.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Darla.

* [[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? <br />

'''Nemo:''' "It's...[[Shaped Like Itself|big and blue]]." <br />

'''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 {{spoiler|Nemo almost gets filleted by the tank filter while partaking in one of his plans.}}

* [[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.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: ''Literally.'' The anglerfish's light may look inviting but it leads to frightening teeth.

* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Marlin to Dory. Being with him somehow cures her amensiaamnesia, but only when he's nearby.

* [[Local Reference]]: Director Andrew Stanton is from Rockport, MassachussettsMassachusetts, so he included several references to it, including lamp replicas of two lighthouses in nearby Thacher Island and a photograph of "Motif Number One", a local landmark, as well as lobsters with thick "Bahston" accents.

{{quote| "Okay, he either said, 'move to the back of the throat,' or he 'wants a root beer float'."}}

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: The absent-minded Dory keeps misremembering <s>[[Marx Brothers|Harpo Chico]]</s> <s>[[Sesame Street (TV)|Elmo]]</s> <s>Fabio</s> <s>Bingo</s> Nemo's name.

* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Darla and the dentist.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Marlin and Gill, compared to their respective companions.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''BANG''' Sorry about '''BANG''' Bruce, mate! '''BANG''' He's really '''BANG''' a nice guy!}}

* [[Shout -Out]]: "[[The Shining|Heeeeeeere's Brucie!]]"

** [[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail|"Swiiim awaaay!"]]. Also ''several'' others.

** Bruce was [[Fan Nickname|the nickname]] Spielberg gave [[Jaws (Filmfilm)|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 {{spoiler|the shark in Jaws with the air tank in his mouth}}.

** 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 [[PacmanPac-Man]] video game. Ditto for her dad.

** While excaping from Bruce, Dory sees a sign labeled "escape" [[A Christmas Story|and pronuncespronounces it as "es-ca-pay."]]

** But it's averted as well: this is perhaps the first time a deep-sea fish shows up in a relevant role in Fictionland (the anglerfish). Not only that, many sea creatures from [[Real Life]] are [[Genius Bonus|well recognizable by who knows]]. The whale isn't the stock generic large cetacean, it's quite ''specifically'' a blue whale; and this is one of the extremely rare times in which ''dolphins are almost totally missing''. Tropical fish pertain to precise species (clownfish, blue tang, moorish idol, ''Gramma loreto'' and so on); one of the three sharks is a Mako; and the hero is called ''Marlin'' (the latter is lampshaded by Nigel trying to remember Marlin's name and saying "[[Lampshade Hanging|It's some kind of sport fish or something...]]" at one point). The chosen cephalopod is the unconventional "Dumbo-octopus". Finally the (totally unexpected) krill: ''talking krill''!

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Is Gill's name spelled with one or two L's?

* [[Staring Kid]]: The kid in the dentist's waiting room who reacts with horror at the commotion.

* [[The Stinger]]: In the last scene before the credits, see all the fish from the dentist office after their successful escape {{spoiler|still stuck in their plastic bags since their plan never got that far}}.

{{quote| '''Bloat:''' [[And Then What?|...now what?]]}}

** Crush is 150 years old, it's not like he needs to do anything in a rush.

{{quote| '''Dory:''' Wow. I wish I could speak whale.}}

{{quote| '''Nemo''': Have how ever met a shark? <br />

'''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 Onon Evil|This Is Your Brain On Fish Meat]]: The sharks.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Anchor and Chum.

{{quote| Fish are friends, not food!}}

* [[Verbing Nouny]]

* [[What's an X Like You Doing In AYa Y Like This?]]: "What's a couple of bites like you doing in a zone like this?"

* [[Where It All Began]]: It ends in the reef, with the characters doing the same things they did in the first scene, only differently, to reflect how the moral changed them.

* [[The Window or Thethe Stairs]]: Dory and Marlin come across a chasm; Dory was told that they had to go through it, and she tries to tell Marlin, who ignores her and then tricks her into swimming over it, since it seems much safer. They end up in a huge swarm of jellyfish, and they both almost die from the stings.