Who Did The Whales Scene Better?

"Finding Nemo" was always going to get a head start in this, if only because the Pixar film was the first to do it. Well, not the whole "swallowed by a whale" thing, of course — that's an old story that appears in works ranging from "Pinocchio" to the Bible. Still, when it comes to the exact beats the "Ahsoka" and "Finding Nemo" versions cover, Dory has Ahsoka Tano beat ... by two decades, no less.  

Apart from the time advantage, the "Finding Nemo" version of the scene also has another significant pro in its corner: the loving, patient way it sets up the whale moment. Dory starts the movie as a cloud cuckoo lander who seems to be far more annoying than she is useful. Over the course of the movie, her positive character traits slowly unfold as she turns out to be a great friend with a whole host of hidden depths. The whale scene captures this journey perfectly. After the movie has painstakingly set up Dory's supposed ability to speak whale as fake at best and fraudulent at worst, the audience and Marlin suddenly discover that she was telling the truth all along. From this point on, Dory is presented in an exclusively positive light and plays an instrumental part in Nemo's (Alexander Gould) rescue. 

There are plenty of poignant scenes in "Finding Nemo," but the whale one defines Dory as a character ... and may very well have played a part in the fact that the movie's sequel is called "Finding Dory."