DEXTER DOLPHIN

Real Name: Dexter Dolphin

Identity/Class: Dolphin (fringe character)

Occupation: Wild dolphin

Group Membership: His pod

Affiliations: Bedtime Bear, fellow dolphins in his pod, Humphrey

Enemies: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile in the ocean

First Appearance: Care Bears#12/4 (September 1987)

Powers/Abilities: Dexter Dolphin has the usual attributes of (what appears to be) a young bottlenose dolphin, an intelligent sea-based mammal with a top blowhole reliant on oxygen. Dexter displays helpful altruistic behavior and enjoys playing with a ball with others in his pod. It's unrevealed if this is learned behavior from human interaction or other dolphins. As a bottlenose dolphin, he would typically swim up to a speed of 10 km/h (and be capable of short bursts of speed) and jump up to 15' in the air.

Length: 12'
Weight: 550 lbs.
Eyes: Black
Hair: None

History:

(Care Bears#12/4 (fb) - BTS) - While playing with his friends, Dexter Dolphin was having trouble with a volleyball that had sprung a leak.

(Care Bears#12/4) - The Care Bear Bedtime Bear woke up from a nap to find his cloud bed had torn away from the main cloud where the rest of the Care Bears lived. On his tiny cloud, Bedtime Bear drifted quickly down and landed in the sea. Dexter splashed up and the two introduced each other in a friendly manner. Dexter asked for help in repairing his ball and Bedtime Bear easily did so using a cloud patch. Dexter returned the favor by calling over his big whale buddy Humphrey to use his big blowhole to squirt Bedtime Bear high up into the air so the Care Bear could drift back to his cloud friends.

Comments: Created by Michael Gallagher, Howie Post, Roberta Edelman.

Given dolphins communicate via clicks and whistles, this story suggests that Care Bears can communicate that way too.

"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something." --Terry Pratchett on dolphins (from his humorous Discworld fiction book Pyramids).

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Dexter Dolphin has no known connections to:

• DEXTER, Dr. - scientist at Gena -Sys Laboratories, subdivision of Mys-Tech--Genetix#3
  
• DEXTER, BEN @ Old West - sheriff of Leadville, Sheriff Yarby's predecessor--Wild Western I#9
• DEXTER, JOHN - engineer, vanished on escalators going up in a mall--Strange Tales of the Unusual#5/1
  
• DEXTER, PHIL - former SHIELD agent, assisted Black Widow (Natasha) in the investigation of the other Black Widows--Black Widow IV#1
• DEXTER, SIMON - mystically enhanced by "Satan", torn part by Black Widow (Claire Voyant)--The Twelve#3
  
• DOLPHIN - one of the Ani-Mates at Paradise island--New Mutants I#60
  
• dolphins of Earth-712 (Flrrr, Hleee, Pip, Prurr, Rhaii, Squeal)-friends of Amphibian--Squadron Supreme I#1
• MORGAN, DEXTER - serial killer of serial killers (based on books & TV series)--Dexter#1
  
• SURFSTREAK - Brute Force member, cybernetically enhanced dolphin--Brute Force#1
  
• or any other "Dexter" or "Dolphin" characters

Humphrey

Humphrey was a whale and buddy of Dexter Dolphin, who asked Humphrey if he could send helpful little Bedtime Bear back into the clouds to join his Care Bear friends. Humphrey squirted out a mighty load of wet air from his big blowhole that ejected the happy Care Bear into the sky.

   Humphrey looks like a sperm whale, given his side profile, but it appears he has baleen and not teeth in his mouth. Maybe they're just jolly non-threatening teeth for a friendly squirty sperm whale.

--Care Bears#12/4

images: (without ads)
Care Bears#12/4, p1, pan7 (main image)
   p2, pan3 (headshot with ball)
   p2, pan6 (Humphrey)

Appearances:
Care Bears#12/4 (September 1987) - Michael Gallagher (writer), Howie Post (pencils), Roberta Edelman (inks), Sid Jacobson (editor)

First posted: 07/15/2025
Last updated: 07/15/2025

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