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  1. Donna Kilpatrick

    Nope. It is an “against all odds…” Kind of story…with a happy ending.
    Did everyone forget they are reunited in the end???
    This theory is a re-imagining of what actually happened in the story, it is *not* the same story!!

    1. Rondi

      You’re totally right. Not to mention Nemo literally has his own storyline and interactions with other characters including Dory and other scenes where characters interact with them together in the same scene.

  2. It is a great turn if that was actually true but here in the future, we all know that this can not be true. Finding Dory being the magnifying glass into what is reality. A good twist for a Halloween story remake.

  3. Heidi

    Nemo was alive the entire time. The reason Marlon didn’t want Nemo to do things is because he lost the rest of the family. I wish fans of Disney cartoons would stop trying to change them and make them into what they want. Just accept the movie for what it is. These movies are fictional. they are not real people. They are intended for younger viewers, but if adults keep trying to twist the plots of them all, then some children might eventually come to hate all of them. No offense, but if Nemo never exsisted, then why would Marlon have envisioned him with a deformed fin, why not make him a normal looking fish.

    1. KC

      I completely agree. Stop remaking movies and doing crap that changes them. I am hating that people are remaking movies like Annie. Shes a damned redhead. That was how the story is. Get an imagination and make your own movies people!!! Stop remakimg and using other peoples ideas.

      1. Fury

        KC, so you’re basically saying people aren’t allowed to make fan-fictions of their favorite stories? Look, I’ve seen a lot of people make fan-fictions of the movies they like. I’ve seen a few people make “The Lion King” fan stories, and I’ve seen some people make Angry Birds fan stories, and plus I’ve seen other fan stories. I myself have done it. You’re basically saying all fan-fiction authors are, dare I say it, C-Theorists? How about YOU use your mind, and think for a second? People aren’t officially remaking movies, but they’re using their imagination and adding little twists and all that. Sure, I can agree with you on the dark stuff, but BESIDES that. Also, I DO have an imagination, it’s just that you don’t understand. Goodbye.

      2. JS

        I liked the Annie remake better though I think you’re just a hater

      3. JS

        I loved the remake of Annie though. Its boring to have a remake where everything’s exactly the same bc you might as well just watch the original. I think you’re just a hater.

    2. I agree. Why would he imagine Nemo with a bad/”lucky” fin. Come on people lighten up, its a kids movie.

  4. Gordon

    Marlin was an irritating life partner so Coral (Nemo’s mom) ran off with the barracuda with the other kids and abandoned Marlin and Nemo. She was always into cool bad boys and didn’t want to spend her life with a neurotic worry wart.

    1. Elena

      And eventually the whole lot of the ran into Bruce who relapsed and ate them all in one gulp.

  5. LouiB

    I just enjoy the movies the way they come out. Way to many conspiracy theories made up in real life, don’t need to hear anymore made up for movies.

  6. Karen E Brokken

    Children need ways to understand loss. My mother died when I was 7years old. She had already introduced art and literature into our lives. So seeing thematic messages in children’s stories was something I knew about from an early age.
    I recently lost my sister, so these stages of grief are even more recognizable and relatable.
    I think this interpretation of Nemo is insightful. It adds a depth of meaning.

  7. Marie

    The fact that Memo means “nobody” shouldn’t even matter. Remember Coral, Nemo’s mother is the one who came up with the name before she died. Not Marlin.

    1. Nobody

      Now we have to ask, did Coral ever exist to begin with??

      Hmmmmm…

    2. Dan

      Whereas I agree pertaining to this movie, it’s kind of an ironic argument given that Disney took and altered most of its original stories…and ruined them.

  8. Cianna

    The theory kinda falls apart at the dentist office. If Nemo was just a hallucination none of the other fish would have interacted with him as Marlin wouldn’t have been there to perceive him.

    Same story at the drop off with the school fish. Marlin was not there at first and the other fish interacted with nemo.

    1. Nobody

      All the other fish at the drop off were a hallucination. Dory is the only fish that existed. In the dentist office she was reacting to Marlin’s response when she looked up and noticed… there were actually no other fish in the office. She realized at that point Marlin was crazy. But of course, she forgets this when they leave the office.

  9. Sam Wallace

    While realizing the story followed those steps as part of its structure, that doesn’t imply that Nemo was dead all along. While it certainly adds depth to it, so does the fact Puixar puts Easter eggs in all their films. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything to the story, but it’s pretty neat if you catch them.

    1. TM

      This is my granddaughter’s favorite movie, we’ve watch it way too much, sometimes 2-3 times a day, including Finding Dory, which includes Marlin and Nemo.

      The theory that this is just his stages of grief is an alternative way to look at it, but Nemo is very much alive.

      The whole “let go”, in my opinion, is directed towards Marlin being overprotective father.

      And agreed with others, Nemo had his own story line with the other fish in the tank.

  10. Brian Reed

    So was every other fish also insane and hallucinate Nemo? Pretty sure I’d he was making it up the school kids would have said something, there wouldn’t be any dentist Office scenes the list goes on. This is one of the most flawed “fan theories” I’ve ever seen. And just like Nemo in latin means “nobody” Nemo in Oromo means “The Man”.

  11. Kraze

    So if Nemo is dead the whole time how did the school fish interact with him before his his dad got there? Are they all going through grief also? And how was it that Dory saw Nemo too, and talked with him, when his dad was no where in sight? Is Dory so crazy that she saw and talked with nonexistent Nemo too? Also how did the dentist and the dentist daughter both see and interact with Nemo, was it a ghost fish flopping in her hair?? And the fish in the fish tank also interacted with Nemo in a significant way, how is this possible if he’s just a figment of his dad’s imagination??

  12. Monique Williams

    Wow dark!!! Kids have a lot on their plates right now and some things need to be left innocent so they have a safe zone… Is there no place for kids to just be themselves without this going on?? And ppl wonder why kids act out the ways they do

  13. Rondi

    Great theory… except for the other half of the movie which is Nemo’s storyline and him interacting with other characters in the movie including Dory and multiple scenes where Marlin and Nemo are together and interacting with other characters as well. Were they also hallucinating on some toxic algae? Maybe that’s they real deal ??‍♀️

  14. Bryan Dawson

    So when Dory runs into Nemo without Marlin . . . .

  15. I thik we wasn’t

  16. Rusty

    Oh really, if this ignorant reddit user thinks this then explain why does Dory see him huh? Also, the dentist sees him as well. What about the sequel, why is there a sequel called Finding Dory. I would love to interview this idiot one on one video calling,

  17. Aurelia Delrio

    Someone will always make up some story line that is not true to get peoples attention. Unfortunately this one doesn’t make sense. We are Nemo fans

  18. Michael Ray

    Its cool that people put their own twist on things its a unique perspective on a what if story like cailu the little boy on pbs his shows nothing but memories of boy whose dying of leukemia thats why he is bald…or rugrats being an analogy for LSD or acid check out creepy pasta they have all kinds of these theories

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