Bloat

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“	There I go! Little help...over here!	„
	~ Bloat whenever he puffs up

“	Nemo, newcomer of orange and white, you have been called forth to the summit of Mount Wannahockaloogie to join with us in the fraternal bonds of tankhood.	„
	~ Bloat adressing Nemoa

Bloat is a supporting protagonist in Pixar's 5th full-length animated feature film Finding Nemo and a minor character in its 2016 sequel Finding Dory.

He is a porcupine pufferfish from "Bob's Fish Mart" who lives in Dr. Philip Sherman's office tank. He is also one of the members of the Tank Gang, seemingly acting as their second-in-command after Gill. Whenever he gets scared or agitated, he bloats up (hence his name), and then one of the other fish has to deflate him.

He was voiced by Brad Garrett, who also voiced Dim from A Bug's Life and Hook Hand from Disney's Tangled franchise. In the Japanese dub from the movies, he is voiced by Kenji Nomura.

Biography[]

He is first seen chanting with the rest of the Tank Gang sans Gill, where he initiates the newly added fish Nemo's addition to their group by using Mount Wanahockaloogie, a plastic volcano. When Nemo succeeded his initiation, Bloat is pleased.

In the ending of the film, Bloat and the rest of the Tank Gang escape the aquarium exactly as Gill had planned, but Bloat then asks, "Now what?", ending the gang's joy of escape and causing them to worry about how they will get out of their plastic bags. However, during the credits, the tank fish have escaped their bags somehow (although this is proven to be non-canon in the sequel Finding Dory, where the Tank Gang are shown to still be in the now algae-filled bags as they reach the Marine Life Institute in California and are picked up by the staff for rehabilitation in the post-credits scene). As the credits continue to roll, Bloat is seen having a brief dispute with Gurgle. He then bloats up, and Gill and Gurgle start spiking Bloat around like a volleyball.

He made a cameo in the sequel's epilogue, alongside the Tank Gang, where they can be still seen inside their plastic bags trying to strive for their freedom. Unfortunately for him and the other members, they were caught by the Marine Life Institute workers.