List of Finding Nemo characters

This is a list of the characters featured in the Pixar film Finding Nemo.

Main characters

Marlin

Marlin is an orange clownfish whose wife Coral is killed by a barracuda, along with 399 of their 400 eggs. Because of this tragedy, he develops agoraphobia and becomes extremely overprotective of his son Nemo. After Nemo is taken to Sydney by Phillip Sherman, Marlin gives chase and begins his travels searching for his son. A running gag in the film is whenever Marlin mentions he's a clownfish, other fish demand he tells them a joke. He only knows one joke, and frequently gets it wrong, prompting the listener to remark, "For a clownfish, he's really not that funny." At the end of the film he apparently tells the joke correctly, and is seen telling the punchline of it. Voiced by Albert Brooks.

Nemo

Nemo is a young and a friendly orange clownfish, Marlin and Coral's son, and the only surviving egg from a barracuda attack. Damage to his egg left one of Nemo's fins smaller than the other, affecting his ability to swim. Marlin refers to Nemo's misshapen fin as his "lucky fin." When Nemo is captured by divers, one of whom is a dentist, they take him to Sydney, Australia. Nemo eventually finds himself in a marine aquarium in the dentist's office, where he meets a group of marine animals known collectively as "The Tank Gang". Nemo is accepted into the Gang, given the nickname "Sharkbait" and helps their leader Gill try to escape. Nemo is approximately 1.2 inches in length. Nemo's name is the name of the famous Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which in turn is taken from the Latin word nemo meaning nobody. Voiced by Alexander Gould.

Nemo appeared in the previous Pixar film Monsters, Inc. as a toy that belongs to "Boo", giving a "sneak peek" to the film.

Dory

Dory is a Regal Blue Tang that Marlin collides with while pursuing the boat that is carrying his son, Nemo. Dory suffers from Anterograde amnesia. Dory accompanies Marlin in his search for his son, and her lack of short-term memory provides much of the film's comic relief. Dory's optimism and her free spirit help Marlin throughout his journey. Dory has a sunny point of view over everything in life, but shows real fear when she realises that Marlin, whose presence had helped her remember better, was planning to go home alone. She eventually becomes Marlin's best friend. Dory's name comes from the common name of several families of marine fish, most of which are in the order Zeiformes, suborder Zeioidei. Voiced by Ellen DeGeneres.

The Tank Gang

After Nemo's capture, he is placed in a marine aquarium in a dental clinic. Its inhabitants meet Nemo and initiate him into their group, christening him with his new name, "Sharkbait." They have a ridiculous extensive knowledge of dental procedures and equipment, and they constantly fight about which one's right. At the end they escape and make it to the ocean, but are still trapped in the plastic water bags.

Gill

Gill, a Moorish Idol, is the self-proclaimed leader of the Gang. He talks in a very rough voice, and develops a somewhat-fatherly bond with Nemo throughout the film, going so far as to sacrifice himself to save Nemo when his bag explodes. Like Nemo, he originally lived in the ocean until he was captured and sold as a pet. Also like Nemo, he has a deformed fin, caused by a previous tank escape attempt in which he landed in the dentist's sharp tools. The tools left his right fin and part of his face severely scarred. Gill's face was modeled to resemble his voice actor, complete with deep facial wrinkles. Voiced by Willem Dafoe.

Nigel

Nigel is an Australian pelican who has befriended the Tank Gang. He rescues Marlin and Dory from being eaten by the seagulls (or as he calls them 'rats with wings') and carries both of them in his mouth to take them to Nemo where he crashes through the window and into the office where he flies around frantically before he is pushed out the window. Nigel is also seen crashing into the window at the dental office more than twice in the movie. He is also the only animal character who is not from the water, apart from the seagulls. Nigel is voiced by Geoffrey Rush.

Bloat

Bloat is a porcupinefish, with the tendency to inflate himself when provoked or startled. Voiced by Brad Garrett. He has to get deflated often.

Gurgle

Gurgle is a Royal Gramma who displays germophobic behavior when he discovers Nemo is from the ocean, and when the Gang disables the aquarium filter as part of a plan to free Nemo. (This character is never referred to by name in the film. The name Gurgle is listed only in the end credits.) Voiced by Austin Pendleton.

Peach

Peach is a starfish who spends most of the time attached to the tank's glass, observing the events taking place on the outside. In this way, she also serves as the Gang's lookout. She spends so much time watching what goes on that she can not only read, but has the dentist's habits memorized down to the smallest detail. When the rest of the Tank Gang members are stating which pet shop they are from, Peach replies that she is from eBay, but buying life forms on eBay is now banned. Voiced by Allison Janney, who has other notable roles in Hairspray, The West Wing, and Over The Hedge.

Deb (and Flo)

Deb is a Blacktail Humbug, the 2nd female member of the Tank Gang. She confuses her reflection on the tank wall as her "sister" Flo. Deb and Flo are a pun to ebb and flow, the falling and rising, respectively, of the Earth's tides. Voiced by Vicki Lewis.

Jacques

Jacques is a Pacific cleaner shrimp who has an obsessive need to clean continually. He speaks with a French accent, and tends to lapse into French periodically. He is an obvious homage to the famous ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Voiced by Joe Ranft.

Bubbles

Bubbles is a yellow tang who behaves wildly in the presence of bubbles. Like Gurgle, Bubbles is never mentioned by name. Voiced by Stephen Root.

Secondary characters

Bruce

Bruce is a great white shark, and is part of a self-help support group with two other sharks to change their image by pledging off eating fish. Bruce encounters Dory and Marlin on their quest, and invites them as part of step five of the group's twelve-step program: "Bring a Fish Friend." Bruce momentarily reverts to his primal predatory instincts when he smells Dory's blood after she is hit by the diver's mask she and Marlin were fighting over, forcing the other sharks to try and restrain him; in his frenzied state, his pupils become extremely dilated. Bruce is named for the three mechanical sharks used in the original Jaws movie. Voiced by Barry Humphries.

Anchor

Anchor is a hammerhead shark, and is part of Bruce's support group. His mouth is where a real hammerhead's neck should be, though this may be due to animation difficulties. He hates dolphins and states them as being an exception to the "fish are friends, not food" rule (a given inaccuracy, since dolphins are mammals, not fish; this would however, make dolphins an exception to the rule since they are not fish.). He and Chum attempt to perform an "Intervention" on Bruce, when he gets set off by Dory's nose bleed, but are unable to restrain the larger and stronger Bruce. Voiced by Eric Bana.

Chum

Chum is a hyperactive mako shark with a fish hook embedded in his snout. He is the third member of Bruce's support group. His name is a pun, as the word "chum" can mean either a friend, or a mixture of fish parts and blood that is used by fishermen to attract fish. He appears to be cheating on his support group where it appears that he ate his "Fish Friend" he was supposed to bring. Like Anchor, he also hates dolphins. Chum is voiced by Bruce Spence.

Crush

Crush is a sea turtle who speaks with a surfer accent, and is 150 years old. He is the father of Squirt, and he aids Marlin and Dory after they had gone through the jellyfish swarm. Crush is an important influence on Marlin's character development. Crush is voiced by Andrew Stanton, the director of Finding Nemo. He also starred in his own theme park attraction, Turtle Talk with Crush.

Squirt

Squirt is Crush's son. Like Crush, he seems to be relatively relaxed about things, although he maintains a lot of energy. He has a very hard head. He gives instructions to Marlin and Dory on how to exit the East Australian Current, but because he tends to speak with 'surfer' lingo and very quickly,and high pitched, they can't understand what he says. At the end, he becomes an exchange student in Nemo's class. Squirt is voiced by Nicholas Bird.

Minor characters

In their adventure throughout the film, Marlin and Dory meet many different characters, both friendly and hostile.

Marlin

The Marlin are having a battle with their sword-like noses while talking about what Marlin (The Clownfish) has done.

Barracuda

The Barracuda appears at the beginning of the movie. After Marlin and Coral discuss future plans of their family, Coral spots the barracuda and freezes. As Coral dives to protect her eggs, the barracuda attacks and eats Coral and most of the eggs. One survives, which Marlin named Nemo.

Blenny

Blenny is the small, seemingly terrified, psychedelic fish with really big round eyes that Anchor brings to the support group meeting as his "fish friend". After the credits he appears again and eats the Anglerfish whole. .

Anglerfish

After Dory dropped P. Sherman's diving mask, both she and Marlin venture into a deep-sea trench in order to search for it. Marlin and Dory were in complete darkness, only to be entranced by a soft blue light, which turned out to be the lure of a vicious deep-sea anglerfish. Marlin uses its lure to give Dory the light needed to read the writing on the strap of the mask. After the credits roll, there's a scene where Blenny swims in the darkness before a light appears, a few moments later the angler fish appears out of the dark, only to be eaten by Blenny.

Moonfish

Marlin and Dory encounter a school of moonfish. They can arrange themselves to imitate the image of other creatures (including Marlin) or objects (ships, trenches, etc.). They direct Marlin and Dory to the East Australian Current, which would take them to Sydney quickly. The head of the school is voiced by John Ratzenberger..

Jellyfish

After ignoring the warning given to them by the school of moonfish, Marlin and Dory encounter a massive bloom of jellyfish. Dory is oblivious to the danger surrounding her; she bounces off the bells of the jellyfish as if they were trampolines. Realizing her playful nature, Marlin decides to make a game out of the jellyfish in order to get her to escape the swarm before it is too late.

Whale

At one point Marlin and Dory are lost, and, despite highly skeptical protests by Marlin, Dory is able to communicate with a blue whale. The whale sucks them into its mouth, and eventually gives Dory instructions on how to exit through its blowhole once they had reached Sydney Harbour.

Gerald

Gerald is the pelican that nearly eats Marlin and Dory. He is also Nigel's friend, and has an apparent habit of choking on his food.

Seagulls

The seagulls (specifically Pacific gulls, the only black-winged Australian gull) are depicted several times in the film, mostly attempting to obtain food. Their most prominent role is when a flock of seagulls chase Nigel (carrying Marlin and Dory in his mouth), through Sydney harbor. The only word they say throughout the entire film is difficult to distinguish, but sounds like "mine" or "mate". The visual commentary in the released DVD states that the seagulls are voiced by Andrew Stanton.

Crabs

Two crabs live by the sewage pipes. One crab, who tries to catch Nemo and later refuses to reveal where he's seen Marlin (until he is shown to the seagulls), is voiced by Australian talk show host Rove McManus.

Ted

Ted is Pearl's father. Like Pearl, he tends to "ink" when alarmed. He is voiced by Andrew Stanton,

Bob

Bob is Sheldon's father. He is voiced by Andrew Stanton, the director.

Bill

Bill is Tad's father. He has at least two children (Tad and one unnamed, older child). He is voiced by Joe Ranft.

Mr. Johannsen

"Mr. Johannsen" is a flounder who is teased by Nemo's classmates.

Lobsters

The lobsters made a cameo appearance as a few of the various creatures who were told Marlin's story via the turtles. On their way along the sea bottom they see their friend, Bob (another lobster, not to be confused with Sheldon's father, the seahorse) trapped in a lobster pot. The lobsters speak with a Boston accent, suggesting they belong to the American lobster (Homarus americanus) species. They are all voiced by Andrew Stanton.

Coral

Coral was an orange clownfish and was Marlin's wife and Nemo's mother. She was killed in an attempt to save their 400 eggs from a barracuda at the beginning of the film. Coral is voiced by Elizabeth Perkins. Coral's name originates from that of the colonial marine invertebrates.

Humans

Philip Sherman

Philip Sherman is a kindly Australian dentist who captured Nemo in a diving expedition, when he found Nemo so far from the reef. He captured Nemo because he believed Nemo was "struggling for life" due to his "Lucky fin". He is the owner of the diving mask that fell overboard. Its strap bore the address of his office, which Dory was able to read and helped Marlin locate Nemo. Philip has a niece named Darla. He makes a cameo in the Pixar short Boundin as the arm. Philip Sherman's name, "P. Sherman", as it is spelled on the strap of his diver's mask, is a subtle Filipino in-joke of the Filipino-American accent, due to the substantial number of Pixar employees of Filipino descent. The Tagalog language in the Philippines lacks the "f" sound, so foreign words with that sound are approximated with the "p" sound. This means that "P. Sherman" is a pun of "fisherman".

Philip Sherman is voiced by Bill Hunter.

Darla Sherman

Darla Sherman is Philip Sherman's niece, and is supposed to receive Nemo as a birthday present. While it says that Darla is turning eight, she behaves strangely childishly, and has a rather noticeable brace. The Tank Gang revealed her carelessness towards aquarium fish, though unintentional (she killed her precious birthday present goldfish, Chuckles, two minutes after receiving it by shaking the plastic bag in which Chuckles swam). As a result, Gill devises a plan to get Nemo back to the ocean. Darla is voiced by LuLu Ebeling. Every time she turns her head to look at the camera or when she enters a scene, the murder tune to Psycho plays. Darla is named after the Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson.

Barbara

Barbara is the female receptionist at the Dental Surgery.

Nemo's class

Mr. Ray

Mr. Ray is an eagle ray and Nemo's science teacher. Mr. Ray's teaching style involves impromptu oceangraphy songs and lessons to broaden the experience of the ocean through the eyes of a scientist. His class rides atop Mr. Ray as if an underwater magic carpet. Mr. Ray is voiced by Bob Peterson.

When Mr. Ray sings his "Let's Name the Species" song, he does not name species. He recites the names of much higher ranks of biological scientific classification. Porifera, Coelenterata, Ctenophora, Bryozoa, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata are all animal phyla. Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, and Anthozoa are classes in the phylum Cnidaria. Coelenterata is an obsolete yet common term encompassing two animal phyla: Ctenophora (comb jellies) and Cnidaria (coral animals, true jellies, sea anemones, sea pens, and their allies). Finally, Gastropoda (snails and slugs) is a class in the phylum Mollusca.

Mr. Ray tells a student named Jimmy to keep his supraesophageal ganglion to himself. This is a part of an insect's central nervous system. It is also part of the crustacean (shellfish) central nervous system.

Sheldon

Sheldon is a young Seahorse who says he is H₂O intolerant, i.e allergic to water. (This is somewhat ironic since he lives in the ocean and therefore has to live with water). Sheldon is voiced by Erik Per Sullivan.

Tad

Tad is a Long-nosed Butterflyfish[1] with an obnoxious disposition, though he doesn't seem to know what that means. Tad is voiced by Jordy Ranft.

Pearl

Pearl is a young, bubblegum pink female Flapjack Octopus who has one arm shorter than all her other arms. She bunks off school with Nemo and goes to the edge of the reef, where Nemo gets captured. When one of her friends (Tad) yells, "Saved your life!" she gets scared and shoots ink and whines "Ohh, you guys made me ink."

Pearl is voiced by Erica Beck.

Kathy

A blue buck-toothed fish who points out that Nemo is swimming out to sea to touch the boat (or "butt", as they mispronounced) "Oh my gosh! Nemo's swimming out to sea!"