Darla Sherman

**Darla Sherman** is the secondary antagonist of the 2003 Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo. She is the niece of Philip Sherman who was going to have Nemo as her present but failed due to Nemo escaping.

She was voiced by LuLu Ebeling.

## Finding Nemo

Darla was first mentioned when Philip announces to Nemo that he is going to be her present. Gill and other fish describe Darla as a fish killer due to the fact that she accidentally killed Chuckles by shaking the bag which was her present last year.

When Darla first arrives at the dentist office, Nemo pretends to be dead in order to be flush down the toilet although Philip was going to dispose Nemo in the trash just until Marlin, Dory and Nigel arrive in order to save Nemo. During the scene, when Nemo's bag fell into the tray of the dentist's tools, Darla picks up Nemo's bag and starts shaking it thinking that Nemo is sleeping, causing Gill to free himself out of the tank and lands on Darla's head which cause Darla herself to drop the bag onto the same tray as well as making the bag pop. After Gill saved Nemo from Darla, he jumps onto the dentist's mirror to catapult Nemo into the sink, letting the clownfish escape the office through the drain, through the sewers and back to the ocean. After Gill is back into the tank. Darla grabs the sink, looking down in it, yelling "Fishy!", wanting Nemo to come back, but she accidentally breaks it, causing it to harshly squirt water in her face. It's unknown what happen to Darla after this.

## Finding Dory

Even through Darla doesn't make a physical appearance in the film, she does make a cameo appearance in the Marine Life Insititute when Dory meets Hank at the quarantine office. This may imply she has relatives working at the institute.

## Trivia

* Darla is often thought to be the first film's main antagonist, but this is not true since she does not have much screen-time as her uncle (even though she is the actual threat towards Nemo's life).
* According to one of the Finding Nemo books, the shirt Darla was wearing in the film was given to her by her uncle after her pet fish Chuckles died.
* Darla was named after Darla K. Anderson, a Pixar employee, as Andrew Stanton's revenge for the many practical jokes she often played on him.
* According to the Darla scene by side video from YouTube, Darla was originally going wear an outfit in the film.
* Darla can be briefly seen in the transition to the Bonus Features on Disc 2 of the 2-disc Edition of Finding Nemo, there she sings "I get fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy" then laughs happily.
* Darla appears in Toy Story 3 as a cameo which is in Molly Davis's magazine.
* Darla, in a way, is very similar to Sid Philips, as they are both naughty human children who serve as antagonists toward the main character's races (toys and fish, respectively), although the differences is that Sid is a genuinely nasty kid who relishes in his sick experiments. Darla appears to much more innocent and seemingly did not mean Chuckles and Nemo any actual harm, and apparently genuinely care for Nemo (devastated when Nemo went down the drain) and Sid is the main antagonist of his film (Toy Story) while Darla is the secondary antagonist of her film (Finding Nemo).
* The music that plays when Darla appears at her uncle's office is The Murder from 1960's Psycho during the shower scene.