Dory

### Personality

Very forgetful, talkative, caring, ditzy, clumsy, childish (as a guppy), heroic, calm, fun, warm-hearted, nice, sweet, friendly, optimistic, smart, intelligent, resourceful, insightful, loyal, helpful, playful (as a guppy), good-natured, very funny, cute and innocent (as a guppy), beautiful, wise, patient, understanding, cheerful, spunky, big-hearted, selfless, kind, naïve, plucky, supportive, confident, carefree, sociable, charismatic, absent-minded, brave, easily distracted, oblivious

### Loves/Likes

Fun, adventure, friendship, games, parties, shells, sand, her family and friends

### Hates/Dislikes

Being alone, forgetting, getting stung by jellyfish, rudeness, danger, Nemo in danger

### Allies

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

### Enemies

Jellyfish, Anglerfish, Seagulls, Giant Squid, Bruce (formerly), Darla, Philip Sherman

### Qoute

"There, there. It's alright. It'll be OK.""Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...""I suffer from short-term memory-loss."

**Dory** is the deuteragonist in Disney/Pixar's computer animated film "Finding Nemo." and the protagonist of it's sequel,

Finding Dory.

## Background

### Personality

Dory is very optimistic and kind but a 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. However, 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 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 could read "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, 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 returning 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. Finally, she shows it one last time on the reef, getting nervous as she finds herself alone before remembering the game.

### Physical appearance

Dory is a round-shaped regal blue tang with yellow on her fins and tail. She has magenta eyes, black spots, and a small but brightly colored dorsal fin. She has several dark blue freckles on and above her nose, slightly darker eyelids, and like both, her parents have flat teeth.

## 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, 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 yellowtail, this is a different species of fish.
* Her species is known by several common names, including regal tang, palette surgeonfish, blue tang, royal blue tang, hippo tang, flagtail surgeonfish, Pacific regal blue tang, and blue surgeonfish.
* Dory is the third female protagonist in a Pixar film, the first two being Merida and Joy.
	+ She is also Pixar’s third titular character, the first two being Nemo and WALL-E, and the second titular character to be a protagonist overall, the first one being WALL-E.
	+ She is also Pixar’s first female titular character.
* The nicknames Dory gave to Nemo (in order of appearance) are Chico, Fabio, Bingo, Harpo, and Elmo.
* 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 but, contrary to popular belief, goldfish do not have a three second memory; they can actually remember things for at least five months.
* In *Finding Nemo: The Musical*, Dory wears mismatched socks.
* In the Navajo version of *Finding Nemo*, she is voiced by Natalie Benally.
* On the DVD menu for Disc 1 (Widescreen) of the 2003 DVD release of *Finding Nemo*, Dory (offscreen) tells Marlin that she always wanted to see *The Little Mermaid* to which Marlin explains that the movie he and Dory are watching is *Finding Nemo* itself.
* Her emotional speech to Marlin in the first film was all done in a single take by Ellen DeGeneres. DeGeneres did try to re-record it, but the first take had to be used because she was getting too emotional when doing so.