| “ | I never knew how many eggs there were after I gobbled them all up. But turns out only one lives. Under my opinion, three clownfishes will never reunite. And the little guy's life will yet again become miserable, even when he'll have to join them. | „ |
| ~ Fang's infamous quote after realizing that Nemo was the only surviving youngling of those he ate and attempts to make Marlin's life miserable and prevent him from reuniting with Coral. |
| “ | You think you can hide from me, like those cowards back at your place did during my encounter?! No matter how hard you hide under things thrown into the ocean, I will find you and I will catch with my own teeth. Meaning that the lives of the people to trust you will become wasted and tormented. Cause they are not going to get used to it living under water without their little friend, you. | „ |
| ~ Fang's infamous quote as he attempts to track down Marlin while chasing him around the ports. |
| “ | You know what? It's a shame I didn't get to hear your unborn children squeeze... when I swallowed them all in one bite. | „ |
| ~ Fang reminding Marlin of how he murdered his children. |
Fang, also known as the Barracuda and the Great Barrier Cuda, is the overreaching antagonist of Pixar's 5th full-length animated feature film Finding Nemo and the main antagonist of its sequel Finding Marlin.
He is a feared predator in the Reef that is responsible for the death of Marlin's 399 children, leaving only him and his unborn son Nemo behind, but ultimately failed to eat his mate Coral, who has been missing for years, causing Marlin, Nemo and Dory to head of on another adventure to find her and would soon encounter the old foe and his gang of dangerous predators that attempts to ensure that the family of clownfishes will ever reunite. Fang is also Marlin's arch-nemesis and he is responsible for the latter to become overprotective towards his son and making him think that he lost the love of his life forever.
He was portrayed by Titus Welliver, who also portrayed James Savoy in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Maxwell Burke in Star Trek: Voyager, Tom Landricks and Rob Miller in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, War in Supernatural, Man In Black in Lost, Jimmy O'Phelan in Sons of Anarchy, Felix Blake in Marvel's Agents of SH.I.E.L.D., Ratko in Castlevania, the Trask Imperial Captain in The Mandalorian, and Carmine Falcone in Batman: The Long Halloween.
Appearance[]
He is a long, slender Barracuda with navy skin, long jaws with teeth that overlap. He also has grey eyes and black stripes on his skin as well as four fins.
Personality[]
The Barracuda is a malevolent, ruthless, cruel, vicious, and a voracious predator who eats innocent fishes for his own amusement, especially the clownfishes, which the other members of his species never eat. He loves to ruin the lives of others, Fang sees himself as the top of the food chain, an apex predator, and hates being questioned. He leads a gang of most feared fishes in the Reef, antagonizing and assaulting others to seize power. However, Fang shows no care for his gang, including the other barracudas as they are predators themselves and very loyal to him, and doesn't mind attempting to starve them.
Powers and abilities[]
- Hunting: According to Fang, barracudas are active hunters that rely on surprise and speed to catch their prey. They are opportunistic predators that hunt primarily during the day, though some are also proficient nocturnal hunters. Smaller fish may also hunt in groups to corral and ambush prey. While adults are often solitary, younger barracudas may hunt in groups to herd schools of fish into corners or shallow water, making them easier to catch. Speed: Fang is shown to swim very fast with full speed, as it was shown in Finding Nemo when he ferociously attempted to chase down Coral who went down to grotto to protect her unborn children as Fang attempts to attack them all. They rely on short, explosive bursts of speed to chase down and overtake their prey.
- Fighting Skills: Due to his own violences, Fang happens to be a good fighter, and is proclaimed to be stronger than his henchmen, despite one them happens to be an electric eel, as he could of becoming shocked by him.
- Strength: Fang is very brutal as he managed to knocked out Marlin while the former tried to protect his family from his attack and slapped him with his tail fin, sending the clownfish unconscious to his house, and did the same thing to Hank before confronting him and his friends to happens to know where could find Marlin, and threatened to have them harmed next. However, Fang is shown not be strong enough when Bruce managed to briefly defeat him by using his tail to knocked him away.
- Leadership: After eating 399 eggs of unborn clownfishes and posthumously failing to eat Coral, Fang organized a group of marine predators that will follow him anywhere and help him becoming to most feared predator of the ocean, as he enjoys bossing his henchmen around, even threatening their own lives if a failure approaches them.
Moral Event Horizon[]
- Terrorizing the Coral Reef and frightening everyone who lives there away.
- Knocking Marlin unconscious and eating his 399 unborn children, thus becoming responsible for the latter to become separated from Coral and overprotective towards Nemo for years.
- Brutally knocking Hank to a rock and holding Jenny and Charlie, hostage threatening to eat their daughter unless they don't reveal Marlin's location.
- Attempting to eat Nemo and Dory while chasing them off to make Marlin's life miserable without them.
Biography[]
Finding Nemo[]
Marlin and his wife Coral were enjoying the view of their new reef and anemone home with a breathtaking view of the ocean. The two are seen having fun and admiring the nearby neighborhood and later watching their eggs sleep. After goofing around inside the anemone, they leave only to discover that the barracuda was watching them, and that everyone else has fled. Marlin orders Coral to go inside the anemone, however, she ignores him in favor of the babies and swims towards them, attracting the barracuda, which speeds towards her and the babies. Marlin in shock reacts quickly and immediately swims to his wife's aid, only for the barracuda to engage in a short battle with him leading to him whacking Marlin with his tail, knocking him unconscious. He eats Coral and all of the eggs except Nemo due to him not noticing him. The barracuda was not seen again, however, his impact on Marlin led to the latter becoming incredibly paranoid and overprotective, which caused Nemo to get tired of his father's overprotectiveness and becoming rebellious, and thus led to the entire story.
Finding Marlin[]
The Barracuda returns as the main antagonist of Finding Marlin, and is now known as "Fang". Having learned of Nemo's existence, Fang tries to find and eat him in order to make Marlin's life more tragic. While Fang is trying to make Nemo fear him some more so he will suffer the same fate as his own mother.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He was originally supposed to have a small amount of more screen time. However, due to those working on the film fearing that children would be frightened of the barracuda, these ideas were dropped.
- Most eager fans are still struggling for Finding Marlin to develop soon because they had enough of Fang for being responsible for making Marlin felt overprotected and traumatized since he didn't save Coral on time, while Nemo is unaware about this horrible disaster.
- In real life, barracudas don't eat clownfish. Which iconically Cuda is similar to Hopper from A Bugs Life both have last names of their species, both want to be more superior than others, both hates being questioned, but yet they are cowards to someone who's the real apex predator.
- Fang served as the opposite of Gill: Where in the first film unlike Marlin, Gill was trying to teach Nemo how to escape on his own out of harm's way without any help or the words becoming brave on his own. Fang, on the other hand, wants Nemo to be traumatized in terror by him just like Marlin had been, just to make him submit not everything in the ocean is safe.
- He is so far the first villain of the Finding Marlin franchise, as he used to be just a regular predator in the original movie, until he returned for the third film as shown how wild and dangerous he truly is.
External Links[]
- Fang on the Pixar Wiki