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{{quote|Did you know dolphins need to be in a pool with other dolphins? It's a law, because they're so social... like us... or me, anyway.|Hazel, from ''[[
In most media, especially most fiction, dolphins are portrayed as playful creatures, who will easily befriend humans and like to play around in the water with them.
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Blood Dolphins]]'', Ric O'Barry claims that he brought a TV to the end of a dock, and the dolphins (that he had trained) would watch ''[[Flipper]]'' with him.
* ''[[
* Averted in ''Day of the Dolphin'', when two dolphins are trained to assassinate the President.
* ''Eye of the Dolphin'' is about a 14 year old who bonds with a wild dolphin
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* ''Dolphin Boy'' is about a boy who won't speak meets a lost dolphin. Trapped in loneliness, a bond of friendship grows between them that leads the way to happiness and freedom for both the boy and the dolphin.
* ''Dolphin Boy Blue'' takes place in the sparkling blue waters of the Australian ocean, a boy and a dolphin develop a very special friendship
* In ''[[The
* In ''[[The Magic Treehouse]]: Dolphins At Day Break'', Jack and Annie are saved by friendly dolphins that allow Jack and Annie to ride them.
* ''Dolphin Tale: The Junior Novel'' is, as is apparent from the title, based on [[Dolphin Tale
* ''Riding the Storm Dolphin Diaries 3'' involves a girl finding buried treasure with her dolphin friend.
* ''Dolphin Song'' is about a girl a becomes friends with dolphins and learns how to communicating with them.
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* ''Fast-Talking Dolphin'' is about a boy who befriends a dolphin that can talk and needs the boy to use his skills to save his life.
* In ''Dolphin Knight'' a girl bonds with a dolphin knight who helps her overcome her fear of water
* Johnny Clinton is taken on an under sea tour by intelligent dolphins in ''Dolphin Island'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke
* In ''Aka'' by Tristan Jones the protagonist conan is saved from drowning by dolphins
* ''Maddy's Dolphin'' is about a girl who bonds with a talking dolphin. They have been freinds ever since the dolphin saved maddy from drowning.
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== Live-[[Action TV]] ==
* Darwin the Dolphin on ''[[
* [[Flipper]] the dolphin is a playful friendly dolphin, apart from being helpful.
* ''Dolphin Cove'' introduced a man and his son and emotionally-disturbed daughter who move to Australia, where the daughter develops a special rapport with two wild dolphins.
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== Video Games ==
* In the [[Sierra]] game ''[[
* ''[[Petz]] Wild Animals Dolphinz'' is about training and taking care of dolphins.
** ''Petz Dolphinz Encounter'' allows the player to swim with wild dolphins.
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* ''[[Wave Race|Wave Race 64]]'' has dolphins appearing in certain courses, most notably in Dolphin Park, in which the tutorial consists of following a dolphin. A code allows you to ''ride a dolphin'' in that course.
* In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', there's a dolphin that's [[Androcles' Lion|trapped under an anchor]] ''[[No Kill Like Overkill|in grimy toxic water]]''. Swimming up into the ship and slamming the button to drag the anchor off of him causes him to thank you by leaving behind a [[MacGuffin|Jiggy]].
* Mike rescues a dolphin in the second stage of ''[[
* Helena swims with a dolphin in her ''[[Dead or Alive]] 3'' ending cinematic.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]'' has yellow dolphins that swim alongside the train while it's going over water. They squeak and jump out of the water when you blow the whistle, and they are ''adorable''. If you keep blowing your whistle, they give you hearts to heal your train.
* In ''[[Robot Unicorn Attack]]'' a dolphin appears for each 5.000 points you earn. {{spoiler|(They don't do anything.)}}
* ''[[
* The first two [[Ecco the Dolphin]] games nearly avert it (the lone exception being Ecco being challenged to jump really high by a podmate), since the dolphins in question are in the middle of a war with space aliens, but ''[[Oddball in
* Goggle-wearing dolphins actually show up in the game ''[[Super Mario World (
== Western Animation ==
* Hank Hill meets an OVERLY friendly playful dolphin in an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]''.
* Aquaman's dolphin in ''[[Batman:
* In ''Flipper and Lopaka'' Lopaka is Flippers best friend and they go on many adventures together.
* ''Zoom the White Dolphin'' is about a white dolphin who is freinds with two children who live with their sailor uncle.
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