List of fictional fish

This is a list of fictional fish from literature, animation and movies. This includes sharks and eels, both of which are fish. Cetaceans and seacows are aquatic mammals, not fish, and shellfish are mollusks, not fish, so they are therefore excluded.

Animation[]

Name	Type	Work	Notes
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 .
Dennis	Goldfish	Stanley	Stanley’s talking pet goldfish
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.
Finbar	Shark	Rubbadubbers
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.
Pi	Fish	Shark Bait	A fish who lost his parents in a fishing net.
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.
Sasha	Seahorse	Help! I'm a Fish	A seahorse who befriends Stella.
Shark	Shark	Gyo
Troy	Tiger shark	Shark Bait	A tiger shark who terrorizes the entire population of the reef and Pi's chief nemesis.
Winnie	Seahorse	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
Undertow	Tiger shark	The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea	Morgana's shark minion.

Comics[]

Name	Type	Publisher	First Appearance	Notes
Mr. Fish	Piscine Humanoid	Marvel Comics	#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)
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
King Shark	Great White Shark	DC Comics	Cameo appearance: Superboy #0 (October 1994) Full appearance: Superboy #9 (November 1994)	A Supervillain in the DC Universe

Film[]

Name	Type	Film	Notes
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[]

Name	Type	TV program	Notes
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
Abraham	Goldfish	Diff'rent Strokes	Abraham is the pet goldfish of Arnold Jackson, played by Gary Coleman.

Literature[]

Name	Type	Author	Work	Notes
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
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.
Salmon of Knowledge	Salmon	Irish Mythology	An ordinary salmon that ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom and gained all the world's knowledge. The first person to eat of its flesh would in turn gain this knowledge.

Video games[]

Name	Type	Game	System(s)	Notes
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.

References[]

^ "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". NEA. National Education Association. 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

[1] "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". NEA. National Education Association. 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

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