Dory

Kelpcake

Sweetie

Sweetie Pie

Sweetheart

Kid

Honey

Dear

Baby

Spinner (by Hank)

**Dory** is the deuteragonist of *Finding Nemo* and the protagonist of its sequel *Finding Dory*. She is a blue-tang fish who suffers from short-term memory loss. She first appears in the pilot episode "True Lovin’"

## Likes/Friends

### Friends

* Marlin
* Nemo
* Crush
* Squirt
* Bruce
* Chum
* Anchor
* Whale
* Nigel
* Mr. Ray
* Bailey
* Destiny
* Hank
* Otters

### Likes

* Fun
* adventure
* friendship
* games
* parties
* shells
* sand

## Dislikes/Enimies

### Enimies

* Jellyfish
* Anglerfish
* Seagulls
* Giant Squid

### Dislikes

* Being alone
* forgetting
* getting stung by jellyfish
* rudeness

## Meeting Marlin

Dory and Marlin do not exactly start off as best friends. She promises she can lead him in the right direction to find Nemo. But when Marlin follows her, she forgets what she is doing and tells him to leave her alone!

## Reading Human

Marlin and Dory find a clue: a mask with human writing. Luckily, Dory' can read it. "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney," it says. And for the first time she doesn't forget! She's so excited she repeats the address over and over and over and over...

## New Friends

Dory loves to play games. When a school of moonfish offers to play a game of charades, she can't resist. She is not very talented at charades, Often mistaking a clam for an octopus. But it's a good thing she makes friends easily. These moonfish know the way to Sydney, Australia!

## Biology

### Physiology

Dory has a royal blue body, yellow tail, and black "palette" design. She grows to 30 cm (12 in) and typically weighs around 600 g (21 oz) and males are generally larger than females.[5] She is rather flat, like a pancake, with a circular body shape, a pointed snout-like nose, and small scales. She has nine dorsal spines, 26–28 dorsal soft rays, three anal spines, and 24–26 anal soft yellow rays. She uses her fins to get around fast. Dory has bigger eyes than Marlin, as tangs get more than clownfish and need to see in deeper, murkier places. Regal tangs start out life yellow. just like Dory's tail is now: they gradually turn blue as they grow up.

### Behavior

Dory is a very optimistic and kind, but ditzy and forgetful fish. This is because she suffers from short term memory loss. However, she has a heart of gold, and was willing to go full lengths to help Marlin find his son (even though she can never remember his name).

After hearing about Marlin and how his son was captured by divers, she was willing to accompany and help him. She was always supportive and helpful to him throughout the journey, though her short-term memory loss and playful personality could sometimes cause Marlin to lose his patience with her. She can be very talkative and loved to play games throughout her and Marlin's journey, taking detours and getting easily distracted. She can also be naive and oblivious, as shown when she did not realize the danger of going to a Sharks only club and when a Marlin was fighting with an Anglerfish and seemed oblivious to Marlin's struggle (insisting he helps move the light closer to her so she could read the address on the diver's goggles).

She is also very friendly, fun, and warm-hearted, earning her fast friends. Her kindness was shown as she continued to accompany Marlin on his journey despite his lack of patience with her and his sometimes harsh comments. She developed such a close relationship with Marlin that her short term memory loss seemed to have improved, as she herself states "Please don't leave me. No one has ever stayed with me this long and when I look at you, I remember stuff better." The two remained close by the end of the film.

Despite her ditzy personality, Dory has shown to be somewhat intelligent, as she was capable of reading "human" (English and possibly other languages) and even communicate with whales. She also helped Marlin realize that he needed to give Nemo more freedom to grow up and become his own person and experience life. Dory also possesses something of a ruthless side, while trying to get information from a crab she threatens to feed him to seagulls if he didn't tell her and Nemo what they wanted to know.

Dory has shown to have separation anxiety, as she begs Marlin not to leave her after they return to the sea by Nigel's mouth. She cries, telling him that no one has ever stuck with her so long before. She shows it again in Finding Dory when she gets lost from the school group for a brief minute, and again when she remembers her family, swimming away from Marlin and Nemo and then slightly panicking as she can't find them before hearing Marlin's voice and swimming back. She shows it again after being separated from them later, and then again after she is told her parents are dead and washed down the drain. She shows it one last time on the reef, getting nervous as she finds herself alone before remembering the game

### Diet

As a juvenile, her diet consisted primarily of plankton. Dory is now omnivorous and feeds on plankton, but will also graze on algae. Spawning occurs during late afternoon and evening hours. This event is indicated by a change in color from a uniform dark blue to a pale blue. Her species is important for coral health as it eats algae that may otherwise choke it by overgrowth.[8]

## Dory Data

* **Favorite song**: Keep Swimming (written and composed by Dory!)
* **Hobbies**: Languages along with whale, Dory can speak 42 fish dialects and is currently studying conversational plankton.
* **Favorite food**: Can't remember.

## Trivia

* According to director Andrew Stanton on the audio commentary for the *Finding Nemo* DVD, in the original story Dory was going to be a male character but when Stanton went home to write the script his wife was watching *The Ellen DeGeneres Show* and when he heard DeGeneres' voice he decided to change Dory to a female and cast her in the role to which she accepted.
* Dory has made cameos in several of Boom! Studios' Disney comics including *The Incredibles*, where she appears in an underwater scene, and *Darkwing Duck* (on the last page of issue 7), where she and other Disney sea creatures react in fear to the return of the villainous Paddywhack.
* On the Disney website, they mistakenly refer to Dory as a Yellowtail Tang. Although she does have a yellow tail, she is a blue tang, this is a different species of fish.[1]
* The nicknames Dory gave to Nemo (in order of appearance) are Chico, Fabio, Bingo, Harpo, and Elmo. The first four are a reference to the Marx Brothers (excluding Groucho), while the fifth is a reference to the red Muppet monster from the children's puppet show *Sesame Street*.
* Many people think that goldfish have poor short term memories. Even though she's not a goldfish, this point might be linked to her amnesia-like condition.
* In *Finding Nemo: The Musical*, Dory wears mismatched socks.
* The toy swimming fish which Nemo and Marlin meet in the tank outside the Institute Gift Shop resembles a blue tang with the primaries swapped around so that it has a green body and a magenta tail.
* With over 24 million likes, Dory is the most liked character on Facebook from any Disney or Pixar film.
* One of Dory's lines in the film, "What'cha doin'?", is made famous later by the character Isabella Garcia-Shapiro in the 2007 Disney Channel Original Series, *Phineas and Ferb*.
* Dory's first major role is in "Hooking Nemo"