List of fictional fish
This is a list of fictional fish from literature, animation and movies. This also includes sharks and eels. cetaceans and seacows are aquatic mammals, not fish, and shellfish are mollusks, not fish, so they are therefore excluded.
Animation
Name | Type | Work | Notes |
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Albert | Fish | The Dreamstone | A dogfish. |
Bea Goldfishberg | Goldfish | Fish Hooks | An "overly-dramatic" goldfish who is Oscar's girlfriend. |
Bikini Bottomites and other Fish | Various fish | SpongeBob SquarePants | Fish that live in Bikini Bottom and other cities in the sea. |
Blinky | Fish | The Simpsons | A three-eyed fish. |
Bruce | Great white shark | Finding Nemo | Leader of a group of sharks that wants to give up eating fish. |
Cleo | Goldfish | Pinocchio | A goldfish owned by the wood-carver Geppetto. |
Darwin | Orange fish (goldfish) | The Amazing World of Gumball | A goldfish who gets adopted by the Watterson family in the episode (who we learn) The Origins |
Destiny | Whale shark | Finding Dory | A nearsighted whale shark who is Dory's childhood friend. |
Don Lino | Great white shark | Shark Tale | |
Dory | Pacific regal blue tang | Finding Nemo | A female palette surgeonfish in Disney's Pixar's Finding Nemo. |
Fish Out of Water | Goldfish | Chicken Little (2005 film) | |
Fishtronaut | Fishtronaut | A Brazilian cartoon. | |
Flounder | Tropical fish | The Little Mermaid | Ariel's sidekick in Disney's The Little Mermaid. |
Frances Albacore | Fish | Cats Don't Dance | A sassy, sarcastic fish who dances with Cranston Goat. |
Gyopi | Goldfish | Goldfish Warning | |
Jabberjaw | Great white shark | Jabberjaw | A shark and main character of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon shorts. |
Kenny | Tiger shark | Kenny the Shark | A shark and main character in the animated series. |
Klaus Heisler | Goldfish | American Dad! | Pet goldfish of the Smiths |
Lenny | Great white shark | Shark Tale | Vegetarian shark |
Misterjaw | Great white shark | The Pink Panther and Friends | produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1976 for The Pink Panther and Friends television series on NBC. |
Mr. Limpet | Fish | The Incredible Mr. Limpet | A 1964 live-action/animated film from Warner Brothers. |
Mack Salmon | Salmon | The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police | A human with a fishbowl for a head, Mack Salmon is really a fish who travels on top of a fake body. |
Marlin | Clownfish | Finding Nemo | Nemo's father |
Milo | Siamese fighting fish | Fish Hooks | An adventurous fish who is a self-proclaimed "party-guy". |
Muddy Mudskipper | Mudskipper | Ren and Stimpy | |
Nemo | Clownfish | Finding Nemo | a juvenile ocellaris clownfish in Disney's Pixar's Finding Nemo. |
Mrs. Puff | Pufferfish | SpongeBob SquarePants | A pufferfish with blonde hair, who is the owner and teacher of a boating school(analogous to driving school, as the "boats" are underwater equivalents to cars). |
Oscar | Bluestreak cleaner wrasse | Shark Tale | An underachieving worker in the Whale Wash of Reef City. |
Oscar | Catfish | Fish Hooks | A nervous catfish who is Milo's older brother. |
Ponyo / Brunhilde | Goldfish | Ponyo | Ponyo befriends a five-year-old human boy, and wants to become a human girl. |
Pudge | Unknown tropical fish | Lilo & Stitch | The fish that Lilo feeds peanut butter sandwiches to because she thinks he controls the weather |
Shark | Shark | Gyo | |
Winnie | Sea Horse | Adventures of the Little Mermaid | |
Virgil "Bull" Sharkowski | Bull shark | My Gym Partner's a Monkey | A shark bully at the Charles Darwin Middle School. |
Street Sharks | Half human, Half Shark | Street Sharks | Crime-fighting half-man/half-sharks. |
Shellsea | Jewelfish | Fish Hooks | Bea's stereotypically sassy friend |
Comics
Name | Type | Publisher | First Appearance | Notes |
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Mr. Fish | Piscine Humanoid | Marvel Comics | Luke Cage, Powerman #29 (April, 1975) |
A supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe who is an enemy of Luke Cage. |
Sherman | Great white shark | Sherman's Lagoon North County Times (May, 1991) |
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Harry'n'Hank | 'Cartoonesque' Electric Green Tetra Fish (Harry) & Electric Blue Jack Dempsy (Hank) | Tantrumedia | Facebook & Website (27 Feb, 2005) |
Newspaper Funnies (Cartoon) Style Characters |
Inspector Gill | Anthropomorphic fish | Fishwrap Comics | Fish Police |
Film
Name | Type | Film | Notes |
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Edward Bloom | Fish | Big Fish | His true form is that of a giant fish in the film. |
Bruce | Great white shark | Jaws | Bruce was the name of the mechanical shark film prop. |
Jaguar Shark | Shark | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Killed Zissou's partner during the making of a documentary. |
Justice | Tuna | Serenity | Turns out catching Justice is the main goal of the video game that the film's universe exists in. |
Wanda | Black Angelfish | A Fish Called Wanda | Ken Pile's beloved pet fish, who eponymously shares its name with Jamie Lee Curtis's character. |
Television series
Trevor | Goldfish | Being Human | Trevor is a goldfish, who is given by the main character John Mitchell to a woman that he fancies, after she lost her own goldfish. |
Dorothy | Goldfish | Elmo's World | Dorothy is owned by Elmo. Elmo frequently talks to Dorothy throughout each episode and Dorothy is featured in many 'Elmo' books. |
Gail | Goldfish | The West Wing | Gail is owned by C.J. Cregg. The Fish was given as a romantic gift by Reporter Danny Concannon, when he was told that C.J. Liked Goldfish, unaware that they meant Goldfish crackers |
Ick | Redtail catfish | It’s a Big Big World | A red catfish who lives in the pond of The World Tree |
Literature
Name | Type | Author | Work | Notes |
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Terrible Dogfish | Sea monster | Carlo Collodi | The Adventures of Pinocchio | |
The Crested Basketfish (Sagenapinna obriensis) | Fish Species | Tim Flannery | Astonishing Animals | Included in the book as a fake species of fish intended to confuse the reader; it fits in with the theme of bizarre animal adaptations so as to fool the reader into its plausibility. |
Otto | Goldfish | Helen Palmer | A Fish out of Water | Illustrations by P. D. Eastman |
Unnamed | Goldfish | Dr. Seuss | Cat in the Hat | In the 1971 The Cat in the Hat TV special named Carlos K. Krinkelbein |
Unnamed | Fish | Dr. Seuss | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | Also featured in a Beginner Book Video series. |
Swimmy | Black fish | Leo Lionni | Swimmy | Listed by the National Education Association as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a 2007 online poll.[1] |
Rainbow Fish | Rainbowfish | Marcus Pfister | Rainbow Fish | Children's book about the value of sharing. |
Myth
Name | Type | Origin | Notes |
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Abaia | Eel | Melanesian Mythology | |
Fur-Bearing Trout | Trout | North America | a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America. |
Ikaroa | Māori Mythology | A long fish said to have given birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or to be the Mother Goddess of all the stars. | |
Jasconius | An enormous fish in the story of Saint Brendan | ||
Leviathan | A biblical sea creature from Talmud. | ||
Namazu | Catfish | Japanese Mythology | A giant Catfish who causes earthquakes. |
Video games
Name | Type | Game | System(s) | Notes |
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James Pond | Fish | James Pond | PC | a computer platform game based on a James Bond styled fish. |
Freddi Fish | Fish | Freddi Fish Series | PC | A yellow fish with orange fins and blue eyes. She volunteers to investigate any mystery or crime that has recently affected her friends. She often counters the crooks she catches with morals of wrongdoings. |
Roysten | Goldfish | Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Tooie | Nintendo 64 | Banjo's pet goldfish. |
Undyne | Fish-Like Monster | Undertale | PC | A fish-like humanoid monster that leads the Royal Guard. She is rather hostile towards Frisk(unless the player befriends her in a pacifist run), the protagonist and gives cooking lessons to Papyrus. |
See also
References
- "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". NEA. National Education Association. 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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