Marlin From 'Finding Nemo'

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People often face difficult and dangerous situations in life. Marlin from "Finding Nemo", has been a scared-cat from pretty much the moment he found out he would be a father, and with good reason losing your wife in a violent attack would make anybody skittish. But like so many parents when they are called upon to protect their kids, Marlin finds his own true bravery when it counts, traveling across the entire ocean and facing all kinds of threats in dogged pursuit of his son.

He's not only just brave when he successfully escapes the bloodthirsty sharks, or navigates through the jellyfish and let's the whale shoot him and Dory out of the blowhole. He's brave to open himself up to Dory to begin with, letting go of his aversion to strangers

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