User blog comment:Loolveus/Barracuda (Finding Nemo) *TEST"/@comment-366087-20170627223342/@comment-366087-20170628163105

Thing is, in the *Finding* franchise, there is a definitive Food Chain Order acknowledgment and acceptance by all marine life. The Blue Whale ate, which were fleeing for their lives ("run away!!"), the sharks were abnormal for no longer intending to eat fish ("fish are our friends, not food"), etc.

In Dory's movie, when the truck was falling into the bay with opened doors and fish flying out, despite their all having been talking in their varied tanks moments prior, Marlin was swallowed/snapped up by a larger fish which itself was snatched by a fish larger still, only to sneeze and all of them expelled back out in turn.

While Marlin's fears and neuroses were in perpetual overdrive, they nonetheless had validity rooted in the reality of their world.

So what does this mean for this discussion? ALL the marine life were depicted as having anthropomorphic human-like and relatable reasoning and social structure and the Food Chain/Circle of Life was a fact of their lives. So the Barracuda must also have been a thinking/reasoning being. We just were not given any peeks into his driving motivations and thought processes, no more so than a mugger *has to* share anything about himself with his victims.

All we know is it was hungry and it saw "eggs for breakfast". So the question is: did the Barracuda have any sort of malicious intent or was it just another "Day in the Circle of Life" for it?

We are simply not given anything to reach a conclusion on.

All that said, I agree as a character it was VERY pivotal to the story. I think so long as we ensure the article maintains a neutrality and ambiguity and the initial description says, "arguably the sole villain in the franchise", I'm inclined to also vote a "weak yes" to it counting.