Was Nemo dad hallucinating?

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In a “Beautiful Mind”-like twist of fate, Marlin — Nemo's father, voiced by Albert Brooks — has just been imagining his son as a way to cope with the loss of his wife, Nemo's mother, and their kids.
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Is Nemo Marlin's imagination?

Another dark Pixar theory suggests the animated film predominantly set under the sea is meant to showcase the tragic loss in the eyes of a husband and father. More specifically, the theory posits that Nemo never existed in the movie, and instead was a figment of Marlin the clownfish's imagination.
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What is the real story behind Finding Nemo?

Pre-production of the film began in early 1997. The inspiration for Finding Nemo sprang from multiple experiences, going back to Stanton's childhood, when he loved going to the dentist to see the fish tank, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home.
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Is Nemo just a hallucination?

The theory further states that Nemo was merely a mental manifestation of Marlin so that he could come to grips with reality. Marlin used this mental manifestation so he could face the insurmountable pain of losing his family.
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What happens to Nemo's dad?

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Later, the authorities call at Nemo's home and tell her the bad news: her father has died. She is then sent to live with her father's brother Phillip who lives in the big city.
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What eats Nemo's mom?

The Barracuda That Ate Nemo's Mom Finally Got What It Deserved In "Toy Story 4" SWEET JUSTICE.
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Is Nemo's mom alive?

One day, Coral revealed that she would love a home with an ocean view, so the devoted Marlin managed to get her a much-prized anemone at the drop-off—with a view of the whole ocean. It is assumed that she and the eggs got eaten by the Barracuda; albeit never exactly confirmed in the movie canon.
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Is Nemo his dads imagination?

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In a “Beautiful Mind”-like twist of fate, Marlin — Nemo's father, voiced by Albert Brooks — has just been imagining his son as a way to cope with the loss of his wife, Nemo's mother, and their kids.
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What mental disorders are in Finding Nemo?

Side characters Jacques and Gurgle display the obsession with cleanliness often linked with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); the vibrant royal blue Deb has multiple personalities; and Bruce and the sharks battle their fish-eating addiction at AA-style meetings.
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Is Nemo actually no one?

As we know from the Jules Vernes classic sci-fi Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea(s), the name “Nemo” is actually Latin for “no one.” In that story, Captain Nemo goes by that particular title in order to maintain his anonymity and his seclusion from the land-based civilization of man.
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Did Nemo find himself?

Back in Sydney Harbour, Marlin leaves Dory to head home. But, little does he know that Nemo's managed to get himself flushed down a drain and has popped up back in the harbor, too. Father and son are finally reunited, but not before Dory gets trapped in a fisherman's net. (Things are never that simple, are they?)
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Is Nemo the dad or the son?

Nemo is one of the main characters of Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. He is the son of Marlin and Coral. Like his father, mother and unborn children, he is a young clownfish.
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Is Captain Nemo a true story?

Captain Nemo (/ˈniːmoʊ/; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875).
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What is the scary Finding Nemo theory?

One theory states that Nemo does not actually exist, and Marlin is just in the denial stage of grief—where his entire family has just been brutally slaughtered. In the theory, Marlin has been hiding from the barracuda, but then realizes and simultaneously denies what just happened.
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Is Finding Nemo about disability?

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.
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What mental illness does Marlin have in Finding Nemo?

Nemo's father, Marlin, suffers from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Anxiety Disorder, and his illness causes him to miss some of his daughter's milestones. Germs and contamination have always been a problem for Jacques and Gurgle, Royal Gamma fish.
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Is Dory mentally disabled?

Finding Dory, Pixar's most recent box office success, stars many characters with disabilities. Dory, the titular character, has short-term memory loss.
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What illness does Dory suffer from?

The character Dory from the movies Finding Nemo and Finding Dory is an example of a movie character who has amnesia, or memory loss. Some of the things that Dory does in the movies are a lot like real-life amnesia.
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What illness does Dory have?

Dory's short-term memory loss is most likely associated with a form of amnesia known as anterograde amnesia — the inability to form and retain new memories.
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What disorder does nemos dad have?

Marlin, the father of Nemo, suffers from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Anxiety Disorder, specifically Separation anxiety from losing his wife and kids in a Barracuda shark attack.
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Can Nemo change gender?

Males of the Clownfish, a species which lives exclusively in anemone, with which they share a symbiotic relationship, can change sex if their mating partner dies.
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Did coral eat the eggs?

With Marlin knocked out, the barracuda ate Coral and her eggs, and presumably, while eating them, one egg fell out of its mouth. When Marlin later regained consciousness that night, he discovered that Coral and all but one of their eggs were gone, as they had been eaten by the barracuda.
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Who is Nemo's girlfriend?

Darla Sherman is a main character in Finding Nemo.
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Who is Marlin's wife?

Coral (Elizabeth Perkins)

Elizabeth Perkins' appearance in Finding Nemo was all too brief, playing Coral, the wife of Marlin and mother of Nemo who dies at the fins of a barracuda.
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