History WesternAnimation / FindingDory

* UnreliableNarrator: Rather than retconning a number of the things Dory said about herself, this movie would only reinforce the [[CaptainObvious obvious]] point that she can't always be trusted. [[spoiler:In a throwaway line in the last movie, she said she had a feeling that her condition runs in her family, but in this film that's shown to clearly not be the case.]] Just one way the sequel takes some of Dory's lines in the original and paints them in a whole new light.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: A variant shows up at the beginning. Dory's having her usual memory issues and Marlin has to explain to her about Mr. Ray not taking her on his field trips despite reportedly having already done it. Dory, being Dory, assumes he wants her for an assistant teacher instead. Not wanting to deal with her memory loss, Marlin just goes with it.

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:As the first movie started with Marlin and his wife Coral looking at the view, the ending does the same thing with him and Dory at the drop-off.]]

* {{Bookends}}:
** [[spoiler: TheStinger of both movies deal with the Tank Gang.]]
** [[spoiler: Early on, Dory is captured by a volunteer from the Marine Life Institute and dumped into a live fish transport box. In TheStinger, the Tank Gang are captured by the same volunteer and dumped into the same box. Both times, the volunteer complains "No respect for marine life."]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Dory's parents are loving and kind, and certainly GoodParents overall but even they [[spoiler:have doubts that their daughter will succeed on her own.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Dory's parents are loving and kind, but even they [[spoiler:have doubts that their daughter will succeed on her own.]]

* {{Overcrank}}: [[spoiler: The scene where Hank drives the Cleveland truck off the hill into the ocean is done completely in dramatic slow motion.]]

* ClamshellMouth: Nemo and Marlin encounter one [[MotorMouth very talkative]] clam that lies on its side, moving its shells as if it was a mouth.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Dory starts to give Mr. Ray's class TheTalk before quickly being cut off.
** Hank at one point exclaims, "Holy [[{{Pun}} carp]]!" and separately, "Suck it, bipeds!"

* PrecisionFStrike: The Swedish release ends with the word "slut".

** And perhaps most importantly, [[spoiler:we learn that Dory was born in the Institute]]. Blue tangs breeding in captivity was believed to be impossible, a fact that had many RealLife marine biologists ''highly'' concerned about any [[TheRedStapler Red Stapler]] effect this may have had on blue tangs after this film, as each one would have to be caught in the wild. Fortunately, ScienceMarchesOn pretty quickly in this department, and blue tangs were bred in captivity the month after the film came out.

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The Tank Gang from the first movie, still in their bags which have become very dirty in the past year, have somehow made it to the Marine Life Institute and are rescued by the personnel there, and will presumably be cleaned and released back into the ocean.]]

* {{Sleepwalking}}: Dory sleep''swims'' in a MissingTrailerScene.

* BrickJoke: The Tank Gang, [[spoiler:still in their bags which have become very dirty in the past year, have somehow made it to the Marine Life Institute and are rescued by the personnel there, and will presumably be cleaned and released back into the ocean.]]

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The Tank Gang, still in their bags which have become very dirty in the past year, have somehow made it to the Marine Life Institute and are rescued by the personnel there, and will presumably be cleaned and released back into the ocean.]]

** The climax with the truck flying off the freeway into the ocean, over the wales Destiny and Bailey, can be seen as an inverse to the climax in ''Film/FreeWilly''. There's even a similar shot of the shadow passing over them.

* InkSuitActor: Fluke bears some resemblance to Creator/IdrisElba.

** Hank the octopus can, like many octopi, survive for a short time outside of water, so long as he remains moist, but not for the extended periods shown in the film.

** On the other hand, ''Nemo'' of all characters was written with his father's snarky attitude at times, particularly to remind Marlin that he had screwed up. Nemo's sarcasm usually and rather ironically comes at his father's expense. Sometimes, it may results in a small SnarkToSnarkCombat.

** On the other hand, ''Nemo'' of all characters was written with his father's snarky attitude at times, particularly to remind Marlin that he had screwed up. Nemo's sarcasm usually and rather ironically comes at his father's expense. Sometimes, it may results in a small SnarkToSnarkCombat. Fans are rather divided on this. Time will tell whether it's a permanent trait of Nemo's.

** On the other hand, Nemo rather strangely took his father's snarky attitude at times, particularly to remind Marlin that he had screwed up. Nemo's sarcasm usually and rather ironically comes at his father's expense. Sometimes, it may results in a small SnarkToSnarkCombat.

* AnAesop: Similar to the first film, the overall message of the movie is that sometimes we just have to take chances and do something that we never thought we would be able to do. Also, just because someone has a disability doesn't mean they are a liability, and we should give them a chance and support them in their attempts to overcome their obstacles, not holding them back from doing so.