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Dory
Background information
Feature films

Finding Nemo
Finding Dory
Short films

Marine Life Interviews

Television programs

It's a Small World: The Animated Series(cameo)

Video games

Finding Nemo: The Video Game

Finding Nemo: Escape To The Big Blue
Nemo's Reef
Disney Friends
Disney INFINITY 3.0
Just Keep Swimming
Disney Crossy Road
Disney Tsum Tsum
Disney Emoji Blitz
Park attractions
Finding Nemo: The Musical
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
World of Color
The Seas with Nemo & Friends
Turtle Talk with Crush
Fantasmic!
It's a Small World
Pixar Play Parade
Crush's Coaster
Mickey's Storybook Express
Voice

Ellen DeGeneres
Jennifer Hale (video game, attractions)
Sloane Murray (child; sequel)
Lucia Geddes (teenager; sequel)
Honors and awards

16th greatest Disney Heroine (Ultimate Disney)

Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Ellen DeGeneres)
Character information
Other names

Little Blue
Bluey
Kelpcake
Sweetie
Sweetie Pie
Sweetheart
Kid
Honey
Dear
Baby
Spinner (by Hank)
Personality

Forgetful, talkative, caring, ditsy, clumsy, childish, fun, nice, sweet, friendly, optimistic, resourceful, loyal,
helpful, good-natured, very funny, patient, cheerful, fun-loving, spunky, big-hearted, selfless
Appearance

Slender regal blue tang fish, freckles, magenta eyes

Alignment

Good
Goal

To help Marlin find his son (succeeded)
To find her mother and father (in the sequel; succeeded)
Home

The Reef
Relatives

Charlie (father)
Jenny (mother)
Allies

Marlin, Nemo, Crush, Squirt, Bruce, Chum, Anchor, Whale, Nigel, Mr. Ray, Kathy, Bailey, Destiny, Hank, Otters,
Tank Gang
Enemies

Anglerfish, P. Sherman, Darla, Seagulls, Jellyfish, Giant Squid

Likes

Marlin, fun, adventure, friendship, games, parties, shells, sand

Dislikes

Being alone, forgetting, being stung, her friends being sad

Powers and abilities

Speaks whale
Can read human language and writing
Weapons

Fins, tailfin
Quote

"There, there. It's alright. It'll be OK."

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
"I suffer from short-term memory-loss."
Source
Dory is the deuteragonist in Disney/Pixar's 2003 computer-animated feature film Finding Nemo,
and the titular protagonist in its 2016 sequel. She suffers from short-term memory-loss and is a bit
ditzy.

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Background
Official Description
Throughout the vast ocean, you will not find a fish more hospitable, more friendly, and more
sociable than Dory. She would love to chat with you all day and tell you her life story... but she
can't. Dory suffers from short-term memory loss. Dory is the aquatic Good Samaritan who offers
to help Marlin on his journey to find his son. She is certainly an odd partner for such a quest, but
her optimism proves an invaluable quality to help overcome the impossible. To Dory, the glass is
always half-full.[1]
Personality
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 sometimes 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.

Physical Description
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 has flat teeth.

Appearances
Finding Nemo
Dory helps Marlin on his journey to rescue Nemo while heading to Sydney. She suffers from
short-term memory loss. The friendly female can read and is very happy to have a companion.
Marlin takes advantage of her short attention span, but he later regrets it when it physically hurts
her. Dory never remembers Nemo's name. However, she does care about the little fish.

Additionally, Dory comforts everybody she sees. The words "There, there. It's all right. It'll be
okay" are used by Dory twice in the movie. Once when she first met Marlin, because she thought
his head was hurting and again in the whale when Marlin was worried about Nemo. That being
said, nearly at the end of the movie, after Nigel puts Marlin and Dory back in the ocean, a
depressed Marlin barely kept his distance from Dory when she swam to him. After Dory had tried
so hard to comfort him, Marlin states that if Dory never took care of him along the way, he never
would have even made it to Sydney.

Despite her sunny outlook and demeanor, there is some tragedy to Dory. Because of her short term
memory loss, there's no telling how many life experiences have eluded her, or how many loved
ones she lost that she couldn't remember. When she starts traveling with Marlin, her memory starts
improving, as indicated when she can repeat the address 'P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney'.
When Marlin thinks that Nemo is dead, and starts to go home, Dory doesn't want him to leave,
because she is afraid that if she can no longer see him, then she'll forget everything and with
Marlin, she is home. This fear is founded, as when the hopeless Marlin leaves her, not a few
minutes afterward her entire adventure has been temporarily wiped clean from her mind.

After Marlin leaves, Dory meets Nemo, who had escaped alive and at first, she doesn't remember
him, but when she sees the word Sydney again all her memory comes back, and she takes Nemo to
his father. After finding help from some crabs although only by blackmail of feeding them to
seagulls, Dory and Nemo find Marlin, resulting in a happy reunion between Nemo and Marlin that
is cut short when Dory gets trapped with a school of fish in a fisherman's net. Nemo rushes to help
a distressed Dory; they tell the other fish to swim down together, and they all manage to escape
the net.

At the conclusion of the film, Dory is seen to have become the latest member of Bruce's Fish are
Friends Club as Bruce, Anchor, and Chum come over to drop Dory off.