Barracuda (Finding Nemo)

The **Barracuda** is a minor, but pivotal character in *Finding Nemo*. / The ​**Barracuda** ​is the arguably the sole villain and a pivotal antagonist of Disney/Pixar's award winning animated feature ​*Finding Nemo.* ​Despite having very little screen time, his impact on the story and its main protagonist Marlin makes him a very important and pivotal character.Template:Animal-CharacterFile:Profile - An The Barracuda.PNG

## Appearance

He is a long, slender Barracuda with navy skin, long jaws with teeth that overlap. He also has grey eyes and black stripes on his skin as wel as four fins. **The barracuda appears to be an aggressive silvery blue fish with a furious face.**

## Trivia

* He was originally supposed to have a small ammount of more screen time however due to those working on the film fearing that children would be frightened of the barracuda these ideas were dropped.
* In real life barracudas don't eat clownfish.

## History

### *Finding Nemo*

"This sinister killer" is nothing like Bruce and his gang. It is one of the most feared sights in the reef. When it swims in, everyone else swims out. Renowned for its stare-you-out eyes, the Barracuda can scare most small fish to death even before it lays a sharp tooth on them. Marlin's life is changed forever when his wife, Coral, comes face to face with this monster. Coral is so worried about the eggs she has laid nearby that she cannot bring herself to flee home."

The barracuda is a predatory fish seen at the beginning of the film invading the reef where Marlin and Coral have made their home. Coral sees her eggs and, ignoring Marlin's warnings, rushes to protect them. Marlin attempts to defend Coral, but he is no match for the barracuda and is knocked back into his anemone unconscious. Marlin awakens to find that the barracuda has left from sight. He looks around to discover Coral and all of the eggs were gone. After briefly crying over discovering what happened, Marlin spots one egg (which presumably fell out of the barracuda’s mouth while he was eating the eggs) which later hatches into Nemo whose right fin becomes unusually small due to some slight damage his egg had gained from the barracuda attack. The barracuda is not seen again throughout the rest of the entire film.

The Barracuda's appearance was at the start of the film when Marlin and his wife Coral were enjoying the view of their new Reef and anenome home with a breathtaking view of the ocean. The two are seen having fun and admiring the nearby neighbourhood and later watching their eggs sleep. After goofing around inside the anenome they leave only to discover that the barracuda was watching them. Marlin ordered Coral to go inside the anenome however she ignores him in favour of the babies and swims towards them, attracting the barracuda towards her and the babies. Marlin in shock reacts quickly and immediatly swims to his wife's aid only for the barracuda to engage in a short battle with him leading to him whacking Marlin with his tail knocking him unconscious. He eats Coral and the all of the eggs except Nemo due to him not noticing him. The barracuda was not seen again in the movie however his impact on Marlin leaded to the latter becoming incredibly paranoid and overprotective leading to Nemo getting tired of his father's overprotectiveness and becoming rebellious, leading to the entire plot of the movie unfolding making him arguably the most important character in the movie.

## Trivia

* In the original storyboard of the movie, there was going to be a scene where Coral and the eggs were originally seen inside the barracuda's mouth, but it was later cut from the final film because it would have scared little kids watching the movie.Template:Cite
* Despite barracudas and other fish not having vocal cords and as such not being able to produce any sounds, the Barracuda can be heard roaring as it attacks Marlin and Coral.
* In real life, barracudas do not eat fish eggs and rarely eat clownfish. They typically eat larger fish.
	+ They also generally live in open water instead of near coral reefs.
* In the 3-D re-release, when the barracuda closes its teeth, its bottom lip is shown.
* As revealed through the *Finding Dory* commentary, one of the writers for *Finding Dory* wanted the final shot of the sequel to be the Barracuda looking hungrily at the reef right before "The End" appears on the screen. The Barracuda was also originally planned to speak in the sequel, in which it would be voiced by the late ***David Lander***, who also voiced ***Thumper*** in the outtakes of ***A Bug's Life***. However, the idea was eventually dropped.
* Although Nemo survived the barracuda's attack, his egg was slightly damage, which is why Nemo's right fin is so small.

## Gallery

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