| “ | Because a lot of other clownfish had their eyes on this place. | „ |
| ~ Coral to her husband Marlin. |
Coral is the overarching protagonist of Pixar's 5th full-length animated feature film Finding Nemo.
She is Marlin's wife and the titular Nemo's mother who unfortunately lost her and her unborn children's lives from an unnamed barracuda. Because of this, it made her widower Marlin very overprotective over their only living son Nemo.
She was voiced by Elizabeth Perkins.
Appearance[]
Coral is a small clownfish with bright orange and white scales. Her stripes, fins and tail are lined with black and she has large brown eyes.
History[]
Finding Nemo[]
She only appeared at the beginning of the movie. She and Marlin were swimming down to their sea anemone where there were a lot of baby eggs. Marlin decides to name half of the kids Marlin, Jr. and half of them Coral, Jr., and Coral says that she wants to name one of them Nemo, so Marlin says that he'll only name one child, "Nemo." Coral was wondering why Marlin was looking at her the way he did, Marlin tells Coral about how they first met and she tried to get away from Marlin by swimming out of the anemone.
When Marlin swam out to find Coral, he saw the neighborhood looks empty and sees her getting shocked as she stares at a barracuda. Marlin tells Coral to get back into the anemone and tries to assure that the children will be fine, but then she foolishly rushed down to save the children from the barracuda, but inadvertently led the predator to them. Marlin tries fending the barracuda off from eating them, but then it slapped Marlin with its tail and knocked him out. With Marlin out of the way the barracuda moves on to Coral and their eggs.
Hours later, when Marlin regained consciousness, he discovered that Coral and all of their eggs were gone as they had been killed by the barracuda. While crying over the deaths of his wife and children, Marlin found a lonely surviving egg (slightly damaged from the attack) and named it "Nemo," to honor his wife, Coral's wish to name one of the children "Nemo."
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Trivia[]
- In the original storyboard of the film, it was shot so that the audience could glimpse Coral in the barracuda's mouth, but this was later cut, possibly because it might terrify young kids watching the movie. Because of this, Coral was killed offscreen.
- Coral is the third Pixar character to die, after Combat Carl and Hopper.
- She is also the first female character in a Pixar feature film to die onscreen. Hopper and Molt's mother doesn't count since she was already deceased prior to the events of A Bug's Life.
- She is the second Pixar mother to be deceased after Hopper and Molt's mother. She is, however, the first deceased mother to have her husband still alive.
External Links[]
- Coral on the Disney Wiki
- Coral on the Pixar Wiki
- Coral on the Near Pure Good Wiki
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