Do you like animated films? Well, Finding Nemo is the ninth most grossed animated film of all time. Finding Nemo was an adventure and comedy film, that taught the world the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and cooperation to everyday life. Archetypes are used in many films, movies, and/or books to help both enhance and advance the audiences/readers understanding of the story. Whether it be through character, symbolic, or situational archetypes. Finding Nemo uses character archetypes to help advance the understanding of the movie by providing the audience with a better and deeper understanding of the characters. Finding Nemo has three main and crucial characters they are Marlin our hero, Dory the mentor, and Nemo the damsel in distress. Marlin is a clownfish who had a very traumatic event happen to him, that prompts his quest and journey. Marlin and his wife Coral had just become parents after finding a home for their eggs. Unfortunately the family was faced with a barracuda attack in which Coral and all but one of the eggs died. Marlin his one surviving egg Nemo live a cautious life never wanting to leave the reef and enter the open ocean. One day Nemo swims out to touch the “butt” of a boat in the open ocean. He is later captured by a scuba diver making Nemo become our damsel in distress. A damsel in distress in a vulnerable person who needs the hero to save. Even though Nemo is a not a women he fits the description perfectly. On the other hand we have Dory. Dory