Dewey Ripple

**Dewey Ripple** is a mentioned character in the 2023 Disney/Pixar animated feature film *Elemental*. He was Wade Ripple's father.

## Early Life

Dewey was born sometime during the 60’s, he was presumably the only son of an unnamed father & mother.

When Dewey was around 5, His father taught him to put his big emotions that were so big to control into the ocean.

Dewey then started playing Waveball which overtime, he became extremely good at where he was the number one Waveball player in his school.

However, when he dumped his big uncontrollable emotions into the ocean. It lead to Dewey becoming a lot more stubborn, emotionless to anyone outside of his Waveball team.

This grew to the point where he was 16 where the only things that he cared about were trophies and school. This made him extremely unapproachable by others except the Waveball team.

## Meeting Brook

When Dewey was still in school/college. He had finished doing practice drills with his team when he saw his Future Wife, Brook Ripple on the sidelines sketching in her notebook.

Dewey fell in love with her right away & even told his teammates about it.

Upon meeting Brook, he was stubborn to her first but as they talked overtime, Dewey slowly regained his big emotions that he thought had vanquished to the ocean. With his big emotions, he saw what he had become, which messed with him mentally for a while.

One particular meeting between them lead to him revealing his emotions, thinking & feelings to Brook. He had feared that she wouldn’t love someone like him.

But unknown to him, this made Brook fall in love with him as she saw that Dewey that everyone had referred to as Cold, Stubborn, Emotionless & Obsessive had a bigger heart than all his sport achievements.

## Life With Brook

After becoming a couple & completing School/College & University. Brook & Dewey pursued their careers as an Architect & Professional Waveball Player, Dewey had a successful career as a Waveball Player while Brook became an architectural genius.

Sometime before Alan was conceived, Dewey proposed to Brook which she accepted. The two then proceeded to have three kids, Alan Ripple, Wade Ripple & Lake Ripple over the course of a few years.

Dewey's Emotions, Wisdom, Honesty & Personality alongside Brook's was what made the Ripple Family grow.

## Wade's Sponge Incident

One day, Dewey learned through a call from his old school/college that he put his two sons into that Wade had gotten stuck into a sponge, upon arriving at the school to take Wade home, his second son was too broken up that he didn’t tell Dewey or Brook about the specifics of what happened.

Upon going to the beach with his family, he learned the specifics from Wade after he ran away from a sea sponge that was already filled with water.

He somehow found humour in the situation by trying to stifle his laugh but he stopped after seeing his son in such a distraught state.

He then used the same life lesson that his father taught him when he was around Wade’s age, telling Wade to put his big emotions into the ocean, this worked which made Dewey proud of his son.

## The Final Days

Somewhere in between the 11 years after his lesson to Wade. Dewey contracted an illness that seemed to ramp up with some intensity, over the course of the 11 years. Brook became increasingly worried for her husband which made her get a family doctor called Dr. Coral.

Just before the mambo incident, Dewey became increasingly frustrated by Wade’s changes in careers which made him put Wade’s name down for a Waveball tryout, but that anger intensified once more upon learning that his son had missed out on that tryout because the band was playing his favourite song.

He went to Coach Tide, asking him to make a second tryout for his son which worked.

But him & Wade clashed again upon learning that Wade was interested in music instead of Waveball. This lead to an argument where Wade’s siblings who were on their dad's side, chipped in with wanting to help Wade purse other sports.

Upon Wade correcting the pronunciation the monsoon mambo, Dewey lost his cool which caused him to bubble up which made Alan, Brook & Lake concerned, Dewey plead with his son to find something before he ended a adrift but Wade was not having it, causing Wade to walk to his room.

## Death

Sometime before his death, Dewey told Brook that he thinks he failed his son by not giving him enough guidance.

The same year of the mambo incident, Dewey passed away. Leaving everyone in his family devastated, it left Brook & Wade shattered with Brook losing the only man she ever loved and Wade, his father.

That causes Wade to regret not fixing things up before his death which is regret which will persist for the rest of his life.

## Legacy

With his death, it left Brook as the sole parent in the house and Harold, Alan presumably taking on the father role for Wade & Lake.

10 years after his passing, Wade laments a lot about his father which causes him to presumably lose all of his jobs and almost cost his job that Brook did as a favour for helping Gale in getting her citation all those years ago.

Dewey is mentioned prominently by Brook & Wade, Brook talks to Wade after Ember breaks up with him about Dewey & how much he really cared for Wade and he wanted Wade to be himself and that he was never trying to mold Wade into another him.

Wade tells her about Dewey’s story about how he fell in love with her which causes Brook to laugh at that. She then tells her son about how she fell in love with him, this conversation brings Wade to peace with his father.

It is heavily implied that Brook has not recovered fully from Dewey’s death in the scene where Wade is leaving Element City. Judging by the looks that everyone expect Wade gives her which were of sadness as they know that while Brook has recovered somewhat to a level where she can interact with others like nothing happened but whenever she is alone, she will always be sad about Dewey.

## Trivia

* The name of Wade Ripple's father was revealed on the novel of Elemental: Unlikely Friends.
* There is only one concept art of Dewey in The Art of Elemental but is disliked by fans as “It looks too similar to Harold"
* There have been many fan designs of Dewey which are considerably more liked than his official design.
* On the day that the deleted scene of “Brook’s Dinner” was released, it was believed by many that an official Dewey had been sighted with him as the person in the middle photo. But upon being asked by RTG, Le Tang confirmed that the person in the middle was Wade.