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| “ | I'm ready! | „ |
| ~ SpongeBob's catchphrase. |
| “ | I soiled it. Soiled it. Soiled it. Soiled it! | „ |
| ~ SpongeBob when he almost lets an alternate universe Mr Krabs steal the formula. |
| “ | I don't need it, I don't need it, I definitely don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it. I NEED IT!!! | „ |
| ~ SpongeBob's most famous quote.
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| “ | I guess you're right, Plankton. I am just a kid. (…) And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven and a half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, It's that you are who you are. (…) And no amount of mermaid magic... or managerial promotion... or some other third thing... can make me anything more than what I really am inside: A kid. (…) But that's okay! (…) Because I did what everyone said a kid couldn't do! I made it to Shell City, and I beat the Cyclops, and I rode the Hasselhoff, and I brought the crown BACK! (…) So yeah I'm a kid. And I'm also a goofball! And a wing nut! And a Knucklehead McSpazatron! (…) But most of all, I'm... (…) I'm... (…) I'M... (…) ♪I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!♪ | „ |
| ~ SpongeBob's speech in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. |
SpongeBob SquarePants is the titular main protagonist of the franchise of the same name.
SpongeBob is a childish, joyful, hardworking, silly, and sometimes clumsy sea sponge who lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. He works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, a job in which he is exceptionally skilled at and enjoys thoroughly. He attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, and his greatest dream in life is to receive his boating license. Unfortunately, he tenses up whenever he has to drive a boatmobile, and he drives recklessly by speeding, crashing into buildings, etc., which causes him to fail every time. SpongeBob is very good-natured and loves to hang out with his best friend, Patrick. His teacher is Mrs. Puff, and his boss is Mr. Krabs.
He is voiced by Tom Kenny. In the Korean dub, Jeon Tae-yeol dubbed him, who also does Plagg in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and Obanai Iguro in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Mugen Train in the theatrical version
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- Despite having jerkish moments, he's often seen as a nice and friendly guy towards those around him, and these traits are shown way more than his jerkish ones.
- He has repeatedly stopped Plankton from stealing the Krabby Patty secret formula.
- In "Help Wanted", he saved Squidward and Mr. Krabs from a group of hungry anchovies, impressing Mr. Krabs who allowed him to be a fry cook.
- In "F.U.N.", he was friendly to Plankton even after the Bikini Bottomites rejected him and tries (but failed) to redeem him.
- In "Texas", he tried to cheer Sandy up after she felt depressed.
- He also created a party for Sandy to try to comfort her.
- Even after realizing how intense Sandy's rage was against him (she was trying to severely injure him), SpongeBob still tried to bring Sandy to the party and refused to let go of the door.
- In "Big Pink Loser", he helped Patrick earn an award.
- In "Imitation Krabs", he apologized to Mr. Krabs over thinking he was a fake and saved his life.
- In "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", he was willing to embarrass himself to become a jelly spotter.
- He also saved the jelly spotters from King Jellyfish and ended the conflict without violence.
- In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", he helped redeem Man Ray (though this does not last).
- In "Jellyfish Hunter", he helped No Name end Mr. Krabs's mass Jellyfish enslavement and torture.
- In "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm", he warned Sandy about the power of the Alaskan Bull Worm.
- In "Club SpongeBob", he kept himself, Patrick, and Squidward alive by listening to the magic conch shell.
- In "The Bully", he saved Flats the Flounder's life by giving him CPR for five hours straight.
- In "Can You Spare a Dime?", he offered to let Squidward stay with him after he lost everything.
- In "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve", he took care of a baby scallop, working day and night.
- In "Wet Painters", he tried to hide the spot on the dollar to save his and Patrick's lives.
- In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", he stood up against Every Villain Is Lemons.
- In "Born Again Krabs", he put his soul on the line to save Mr. Krabs.
- In "The Camping Episode", he created an anti-sea bear circle to save Squidward from a sea bear.
- In "The SpongeBob Who Could Fly", he made a special effort to help numerous Bikini Bottomites when he got inflatable pants.
- In "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler", he brought the Tattletale Strangler back to prison.
- In SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, he, Patrick, and Sandy team up to defend Bikini Bottom from invading robots created by Plankton so he could steal the Krabby Patty formula, including robot versions of themselves, and he defeats his robot counterpart SpongeBot SteelPants.
- In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, he stood up for Mr. Krabs against Neptune when Mr. Krabs was wrongfully framed for stealing Neptune's crown.
- Even though SpongeBob was initially upset with Mr. Krabs for not making him the manager for the Krusty Krab 2 and even rudely (yet somewhat rightfully) calling Mr. Krabs a big jerk, he immediately gets over it as he was willing to defend him against King Neptune when he was about to kill him. When he thought that King Neptune was going to kill Mr. Krabs for not making him the manager, he tells him that being manager ain't worth killing him over.
- He agreed to go to Shell City despite warnings that he will not survive.
- He brought the Crown back to King Neptune.
- He freed the Bikini Bottomites from mass enslavement.
- In "The Lost Mattress", he assisted Squidward in getting Mr. Krabs' mattress back, which is important as Mr. Krabs needed the money in the mattress to live.
- In "Dunces and Dragons", he spared Medieval Sandy and redeemed her.
- He and Patrick managed to save Princess Pearl from Planktonamor.
- He defeated Planktonamor, and used a Krabby Patty to stop the giant jellyfish peacefully.
- In "Chimps Ahoy", he assisted Sandy in building inventions to try to keep her in Bikini Bottom.
- In "Stanley S. SquarePants", he took the fall for Stanley's failures to let Stanley keep his job.
- In "No Hat for Pat", he worried about Patrick's health after falling repeatedly at his job.
- He also Let Patrick wear a Krusty Krab employee hat even after Mr. Krabs fired Patrick.
- In "The Clash of Triton" he brought Triton to Neptune to try to reunite the two.
- Additionally, when Triton captured Neptune, he helped free Neptune to stop Triton.
- In "Greasy Buffoons" he called the Health inspector to end Mr. Krabs and Plankton's Grease Competition that was getting various Customers sick.
- In "SpongeBob's Last Stand", he stood up against the other Bikini Bottomites that wanted the Jellyfish superhighway.
- He also passed flyers protesting the superhighway.
- In "Sponge-Cano!", he offered to be sacrificed to the volcano to stop the impending eruption.
- He also brought Squidward back up after he fell into volcano, albeit after Squidward took back his promise of never wanting help from SpongeBob.
- In "Enchanted Tiki Dreams", he created a dream vacation for Squidward just to make him happy.
- In "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!", he used a song to cure everyone of the effects of Plankton's Jerktonium-laced fruitcake.
- He also saved Santa Claus from ToyBob.
- In "Safe Deposit Krabs", he saved Mr. Krabs from the bank.
- In The SpongeBob Movie: SpongeBob Out of Water, he saved Plankton from a angry mob.
- He worked with Plankton to restore Bikini Bottom from a post-apocalyptic state.
- He showed Plankton what teamwork is.
- He offered to sacrifice himself so that Krabby Patties will return.
- He gave the main characters superpowers and brought them away from Pelican Island.
- He defeated Burger-Beard and got the Krabby Patty secret formula back from him.
- In "Krabby Patty Creature Feature", he saved Bikini Bottom from Krabby Patty zombies.
- In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, he went to Atlantis to save Gary.
- He also offered to be King Poseidon's friend and told him that looks don't matter which resulted in him redeeming himself by letting SpongeBob have Gary and releasing the other snails.
- In "C.H.U.M.S", he saves Mr. Krabs from getting eaten by a chum monster.
- In Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, he helps Sandy saved Bikini Bottom from Sue Nahmee and stop her form cloning everyone and selling them as toys. And after Sandy feels upset with herself after Sue reveals that Sandy worked for Sue in the past and helped set the Bikini Bottom citizens up for capture, he motivates Sandy to give up on saving Bikini Bottom.
- In Plankton: The Movie, he teamed up with the Gal Pals and Patrick to stop Karen from taking over the world by making Plankton apologize to her, saved Plankton from nearly being killed by her despite manipulating him and provoking Karen in the first place, and calling him out for his selfishness which influenced him to sincerely apologize to Karen and make her abandon her conquest. After her defeat, he stopped the Bikini Bottomites from attacking Plankton and Karen because he was touched by their romance together.
- While SpongeBob snapped at Plankton for his selfishness before leaving him, his reaction was justified since Plankton caused Karen's rampage in the first place by insulting her and manipulated him into helping him destroy her instead of making things right with her, and was unwilling to take accountability from his mistakes at first to the point he had to be given Karen's empathy chip in order to care about the problem.
- In The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, he wants to prove he's brave enough to ride a roller coaster, and decides to become a pirate.
- By acting like Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob passes all of the Flying Dutchman's trials.
- Even though he does break the Flying Dutchman's curse and ignored Mr. Krabs' warnings after finding out he lied to him, SpongeBob showed remorse for this.
- After Mr. Krabs encourages SpongeBob to embrace himself, he gains the courage to conquer his fears of roller coaster and his bubble-blowing skills to destroy the hornpipe and break the curse before sunset.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- While he doesn't hurt people intentionally (without good reason), he is still very reckless, careless and irresponsible when endangering other people's lives and well-being in his adventures, being responsible for mass property damage and manslaughter. This incompetence is a minor prevention, as SpongeBob has sometimes been shown to do things perfectly without trying.
- While he is naïve, there are times where it doesn't properly justify him doing immoral actions like when he willingly assisted Mr. Krabs with stealing an entire hotel room just so the latter could win the Cheapskate of the Year Award, when he willingly assisted Mr. Krabs in poisoning a health inspector who was only doing his job due to thinking he was an imposter trying to get free food after hearing about it on the news (not to mention he outright admitted that it felt good), and when he was successfully convinced by Plankton to ruin the Goo Lagoon Residents' Day (though he does show remorse for the last two).
- While he's generally very responsible and honorable; he's not above lying and playing dirty to get what he wants or boost his reputation as seen in episodes "Just One Bite", "Blackened Sponge", "Chocolate With Nuts", "MuscleBob BuffPants", "No Weenies Allowed", "Pranks A Lot", "Bubble Buddy", and "The Secret Box".
- He is an notorious and constant prankster. While most of his pranks are harmless, some pranks are extreme or able to get out of control as seen in "Scaredy Pants", "Pranks A Lot", "Opposite Day", "Frankendoodle", and "Survival of The Idiots".
- In "Mid-Life Crustacean", his and Patrick's attempt to make Krabs feel younger in their night out left much to be desired as it involved them committing childish antics from watch their faces spin in the mirror reflection of a washing machine to invading a woman's house at night to steal her underpants (the last made them coming off as a pervert despite intentions behind it being pure mischief instead of genuine malice).
- To make matters worse, the duo claimed that they "score here all the time", which means that they had done this multiple times before. Additionally, unlike Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob and Patrick get no punishment for doing this.
- In "Pressure", he mocks Sandy Cheeks for being a land creature alongside Krabs, Patrick and Squidward. When she takes off her air helmet and begins to drown, he breathes in and out alongside Krabs in order to mock her even further, and even calls her an airhead after she's forced to wear a pickle jar.
- Despite mostly being kind and friendly, there are times where he can act like a jerk, as shown in "Graveyard Shift" where he, thinking he and Squidward are about to be killed by the Hash-Slinging Slasher, confesses to Squidward that he has used the former's clarinet to unclog his toilet (although it was likely more of a comic moment to tone down the episode's overall creepy atmosphere) and in "Porous Pockets", where he lets his sudden wealth, status and popularity go to his head and becomes an arrogant snob who even cast Patrick (who was then his best friend) aside in favor of his countless superficial "friends", who actually just came close to SpongeBob out of financial interest rather than out of a genuine desire for friendship.
- He can let his envy get the better of him, such as always wanting to be the best employee of the month at the Krusty Krab, despite Squidward not caring about it.
- He is wrathful, as shown when he strangled Mr. Krabs for refusing to hire Squidward back (although Mr. Krabs arguably deserved it for accusing Squidward of doing something he didn't do, and it was also understandable since Squidward was driving him insane by constantly taking advantage of his hospitality), got angry at Patrick for supposedly breaking his new toy and furiously yelling at Squidward in jealousy when he was pogo dancing with Patrick (although he did feel remorse and apologize for this, even though Squidward wasn't able to listen due to getting electrocuted).
- When Patrick argues with Neptune of how many days SpongeBob can make it back with his crown, he and Krabs brutally beat up Patrick just to shut him.
- He was willing to trip Sandy while they were running from an Alaskan Bull Worm, which would have gotten her eaten by it if she didn't admit she was wrong on its size, just so he could have the satisfaction of her admitting that he was right. This didn't help by SpongeBob's insistence to do nothing regarding such threat.
- He's also a control freak, as shown when he demanded his party to go exactly the way he planned it and got mad at the guests when they started enjoying the party, and when he got too picky and strict with the way Squidward and Patrick were working and forced them to do it perfectly when standing in for Mr. Krabs while he was injured.
- In recent episodes, he starts blaming people for his own personal problems that have nothing to do with anyone.
- He is quite mischievous (in a bad way) as he and Patrick repeatedly bother Squidward for no reason, notably barging into his home uninvited, which is trespassing, practically making them both one of the main reasons why Squidward is always grouchy and miserable (along with Mr. Krabs' mistreatment towards him at work).
- He is very willing to get others harmed for trivial reasons. Some examples include him assisting Mr. Krabs on several occasions in endangering the health of the customers, attacking other characters in fits of rage at times, and killing a bunch of sentient clams over a Krabby Patty.
- He and Patrick are responsible for Man Ray and the Dirty Bubble being villains by time traveling back when they were babies and revealing their future to them. Otherwise, Man Ray and the Dirty Bubble would be even superheroes if it weren't for them.
- He can be a hypocrite from time to time such as in the episode One Coarse Meal when Plankton asked him to step on him in a way of suicide which SpongeBob rejected claiming that it flies in the face of his good nature, yet he has done some immoral actions prior to this episode and would still do time to time in the future (it also doesn't help that in the same episode he betrays Plankton by joining Mr. Krabs in tormenting him over his fear of whales), gets mad at others for being annoying and clingy to others as he does yet he annoys Squidward a lot of the time, and threw a prison guard in a cell for throwing away an unfinished Krabby Patty, which is not even a misdemeanor, when he once nearly threw away a fresh batch that Squidward made out of arrogant belief that he was the better fry cook in Fresh Breath of Squidward.
- His biggest prevention from being Near Pure Good is being On & Off, since he committed heinous acts several times such as in the comic "CreamBob ConePants", where he and Patrick ate the entire population of Pint Bottom and in the episode "The String", where his actions of finding the titular string caused Bikini Bottom and all of reality to break apart.
Trivia[]
- He was the very first Inconsistently Admirable ever proposed.
- Like many other characters on this wiki, he was originally Pure Good for a while. However, when the admirable standards changed so that heroes who are too jerkish and mischievous can't qualify (though the Pure Good criteria has changed over the years, saying that mischievous heroes can qualify as Pure Good if their mischief is harmless and doesn't go too far or cause serious trouble for innocents), he was removed due to these inconsistencies explained below.
- Ironically, there is also currently a Pure Good version of him, as well.
- He is the current icon of Inconsistently Admirable Wiki, as well as the icon of the Cleanup Template.
- If the series ended after the first movie as planned, or his flanderization in season 6B to season 7 never happened, he still would have been too corrupting for Near Pure Good since he helped Mr. Krabs murder the health inspector and outright went on a panty raid.
- Ironically, his paternal 7x great-grandfather, SpongeBuck SquarePants, is Near Pure Good.
- SpongeBob was the first approved Inconsistently Admirable character, while Darth Vader was the first approved Inconsistently Heinous character. Coincidentally, both SpongeBob and Vader share the same moral rankings and have been headlined on both wikis.
- He, Anakin Skywalker, Kratos and Walter White are the only characters to be Headlined Inconsistently Admirable and Headlined Inconsistently Heinous.
External Links[]
- SpongeBob SquarePants on the Heroes Wiki
- SpongeBob SquarePants on the Nickelodeon Wiki
- SpongeBob SquarePants on the Encyclopedia SpongeBobia Wiki
- SpongeBob SquarePants on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
- SpongeBob SquarePants on Wikipedia
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