


And grieved by imagining,” said one TikTok commenter. So the part of the theory is that the dad killed the son and mom. Nemo (left) and Dory team up - or do they? - in “Finding Nemo.” Walt Disney/courtesy Everett Collection While it’s true that “Nemo” in Latin translates to “no one,” the name could have also been chosen to highlight the fact that Nemo was missing for a large portion of the movie.Īfter uploading on TikTok a clip of their podcast explaining the theory, the video’s views skyrocketed to more than 19 million.ĭubbed the “Finding Nemo Theory,” film fanatics seem to agree, even adding comments with their own speculations. “That’s why Dory is such a good friend for Marlin: because she has short-term memory loss and can’t remember that Nemo’s not to Comment what we should talk about next! #fyp #foryou ♬ original sound – JustTheNobodys The podcasters rationalize that this reality could explain why it made sense for Marlin’s Pacific-blue-tang sidekick, Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), to suffer from memory loss. “So Disney is literally telling the audience, ‘We have a movie called “Finding Nemo,” but it actually means “finding no one,” because Nemo’s not real.’ ” “The word ‘nemo’ in Latin means ‘no one,’ ” they explained. It may sound ridiculous at first, but there could be some truth to this theory - at least according to the podcasters. 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. However, on the “Just the Nobodys” podcast, the hosts conjectured that the character of Nemo never actually existed. NYC’s best new mini-golf courses include a Pixar-themed wonderlandīen Feldman on joining the Pixar world in ‘Monsters at Work’Ī new fan theory about the animated childhood classic “Finding Nemo” smells a little fishy.įans young and old will remember the heartbreaking scene in which clownfish Nemo is separated from his father.


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