Dory and Marlin were an unlikely duo from the start of Finding Nemo but they soon became one of Disney's best friendships. Dory and Marlin were an unlikely duo from the start of Finding Nemo. Dory had short-term memory loss and was casually swimming around the ocean, while Marlin was on a mission to find his son Nemo.
The two bring out the best in each other, challenge each other, and help each other grow. Through the adventure, Dory helps Marlin learns how to trust and let go. While, for Dory, she admits, “I remember things better with you. I look at you, and I… and I'm home,” to Marlin.
Destiny is Dory's childhood friend. The two are shown speaking to each other through tiny pipes as children. When Dory meets Destiny again, Destiny is overjoyed to finally meet her "pipe pal". The two maintain a good friendship, as Dory compliments her swimming.
Marlin learns to trust others throughout his journey, especially when he is in the belly of the whale with Dory. This is a turning point because Marlin learns to trust. This is evident when he lets Nemo assist Dory in escaping her captors.
She is able to put Marlin first despite his insensitivity to her feelings because she genuinely cares about helping, just as a hero would. Dory's positive outlook on life and trust in those around her is the only thing that got the two of them through the journey to find Nemo.
Dory suffers from severe short-term memory loss, but a lot of what she goes through can be adapted to other contexts, such as the world, or ocean, of ADHD. Dory has trouble with multi-step directions, is easily distracted, and is very impulsive.
Every time Marlin feels like giving up Dory says to him, “Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.” DORY: When life gets you down, you know what you got to (gotta) do? MARLIN: I don't want to know what you got to (gotta) do.
Marlin is Nemo's father, who is careful, meticulous, and sometimes too jumpy and anxious for his son's liking. He named Nemo's smaller fin, his lucky fin, which happened when Marlin found Nemo's egg cracked after the barracuda attack.
On coral reefs, “Dory,” the small vibrant blue fish with black stripes and a yellow tail, is known by several other names: Hippo Tang, Royal Blue Tang, Regal Tang, Palette Surgeonfish and by the scientific name Paracanthurus hepatus.
In a flashback Dory hears her mother crying in fears of being relocated to another aquarium, so she left to retrieve a shell to cheer her up, to which she was pulled away by an undertow current out into the ocean.
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.
He and his memory-challenged new friend Dory discover the dentist's lost goggles and Dory reveals she is able to read the address printed on them. This gives Marlin his first clue about how to find Nemo, and he officially enters the “adventure world” of the quest, in which he sets out across the ocean to rescue Nemo.
In Finding Nemo, Marlin showcased himself as a very overprotective father who would go to great lengths for his family. Granted, his journey in finding his "missing son" may have been part of the coping mechanism in an effort to overcome his loss, according to the theory.
The common name dory (from the Middle English dorre, from the Middle French doree, lit. "gilded one") is shared (officially and colloquially) by members of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
Marlin proves to be emotionally disabled from the traumatic loss of his wife, and eggs. “Like many single parents who have survived a tragedy, Marlin turns neurotically overprotective of his son (Germain, 2003)”. Marlin helps represent the struggle with chronic anxiety, and the effect it has on relationships.
Trivia. Marlin is named after an actual fish, called a marlin. In Monsters Inc., a painting of Marlin can be seen in the sushi restaurant where Mike and Celia go on their date.
During the movie Finding Nemo, Marlin is transitioning into a female clownfish. Clownfish are protandrous hermaphrodites, all individuals are born male and then transition into a female at some point in their life.
Dory, the small blue fish with a bad memory from the "Finding Nemo" franchise, is a blue tang, or a Paracanthurus hepatus in scientific terms. Native to the Indo-Pacific and found in coral reefs, these fish weigh around one pound and are generally 10 to 12 inches long, according to National Geographic.
Stanton: The first line you hear is Dory saying in her sleep, “Klaus, the piñata is drooping.” That is from the first time we ever had Ellen make up stuff for when Dory is asleep in the diving mask when they were hanging from the sub after the mine had exploded [in the first film].
It's quite obvious that Dory has anterograde amnesia, which is the inability to form new memories. I also see many of the signs of ADHD within the character.
In "Finding Nemo", I discovered sunken treasure—a multifaceted representation of disability. The protagonist, Nemo, displays a small, or "deformed," fin that is a congenital result of a fatal attack on his mother and sibling eggs—a corporeal characteristic that the story surrounds, yet does not drown in.
