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.
| 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 | Mutant 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. | |
| Bubbles | Bass | PB&J Otter | ||
| Charlie | Tuna | StarKist brand tuna commercials | Charlie the Tuna is the cartoon mascot and spokes-tuna for the StarKist brand. He was created in 1961 by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency. Charlie the Tuna | |
| Cleo | Goldfish | Pinocchio | A goldfish owned by the wood-carver Geppetto. | |
| Darwin | Goldfish | The Amazing World of Gumball | A goldfish who gets adopted by the Watterson family. | |
| 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. | |
| Electric Eel | Eel | Adventure Time | ||
| Evo | Anglerfish | Deep | A clumsy anglerfish who is one of Deep's best friends . | |
| Fang | Mutant Shark | Total Drama | A two-legged shark | |
| Finbar | Shark | Rubbadubbers | ||
| Fish | Various fish | Adventure Time | ||
| Fish in the Pacific Ocean and others | Various fish | Finding Nemo (franchise) | Fish that live in the Pacific Ocean and other in anywhere. | |
| Fish Out of Water | Goldfish | Chicken Little | ||
| Fishtronaut | Goldfish | Fishtronaut | A Brazilian cartoon. | |
| Flotsam and Jetsam | Eel | The Little Mermaid | Ursula's pets in Disney's The Little Mermaid. | |
| 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. | |
| Giant Goldfish | Goldfish | Adventure Time | ||
| Gill | Moorish idol | Finding Nemo | Leader of the Tank Gang. | |
| Gummy Fish | Candy fish | Adventure Time | Fish which is made from Candy, created by Princess Bubblegum. | |
| Gyopi | Goldfish | Goldfish Warning! | ||
| Holu | Rainbow colored divine fish from Hawai | Portuguese OS Show | Rui's Pet Fish | |
| Jabberjaw | Great white shark | Jabberjaw | A shark and main character of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon shorts. | |
| Jarsh-Jarsh | Mudskipper | All Hail King Julien | A mudskipper from All Hail King Julien | |
| Jean-Claude (JC) | Goldfish | Bionic Max | A goldfish that has water-cooled 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 | |
| Members of the Ocean Council | Various fish | Adventure Time | Fish which conduct their politics. | |
| 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. | |
| Mr. Piranha | Red-bellied piranha | The Bad Guys | The short-fused, loose-cannon "muscle", and the youngest of the gang that is also a really beautiful singer. | |
| Mr. Shark | Great white shark | The Bad Guys | A childish and sensitive master-of-disguise great white shark and the biggest member of the gang | |
| Mr. Shark | Blue shark | Toy Story | A shark squeaky toy who resides in Andy's toy box. | |
| Mack Salmon | Salmon | 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 | Carpenter's flasher wrasse | Shark Bait | An orange wrasse 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 | ||
| Sharko | Great white shark | Zig & Sharko | A friendly shark who is best friend's with Marina the Mermaid. He acts as her bodyguard against Zig the Hyena whom wants to eat her. | |
| Tiger shark | Tiger shark | Grandma and Her Ghosts | A soul of the tiger shark which A-min's friend and he is one who can see. | |
| 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 | Morgana's shark minion. | ||
| Vice President Blowfish | Adventure Time | Blowfish which is the Vice President of President Porpoise's council. |
| Name | Type | Publisher | First Appearance | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Fish | Piscine humanoid | Marvel Comics | nowrap | 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) | |||
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | |
| Carlos K. Krinklebine | Goldfish | Dr. Seuss | The 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. |
| 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. |
| Name | Type | Game | System(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheep Cheep | Various | Super Mario Bros. | Various | One of the enemies in the Super Mario franchise. Can be seen with various colors such as red, green, yellow and purple. | |
| James Pond | Mudskipper | James Pond | PC | a computer platform game based on a James Bond styled fish. | |
| Freddi Fish | Goldfish | 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. | |
| Phangler | Anglerfish-Like Monster | My Singing Monsters | Mobile Games | A fire monster species with the element of water and fire that sings in an autotuned fashion. It also has a rare and an upcoming epic variant in the original game and six prismatic variants as well as seen as a fish with fins in the prequel. When it grows up, its fins become feet and develop a second microphone on its forehead. | |
| Troupple King | Apple-Fish Hybrid | Shovel Knight | Various | The leader of the Troupples who treats others as mortals and himself as a god. He appears to those who seek him and carry a Troupple Chalice. | |
| Kine | Ocean Sunfish | Kirby | Various | A sunfish who is friends with Kirby. He first appeared in Kirby's Dream Land 2. | |
| Blipper | Various | Kirby | Various | A fish enemy who wears a goggle. It first appeared in Kirby's Dream Land. | |
| Fatty Puffer | Puffer Fish | Kirby's Return to Dream Land | Wii | A large puffer fish who appears as a 3rd boss in Onion Ocean. |