History WMG / SpongeBobSquarePantsCharacters

** I interpret it as StockholmSyndrome. Can't live with 'em, can't live without.

[[WMG: One plot point in ''Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie'' will finally address the [[WillTheyWontThey “Spandy” issue.]]

Keep in mind that sponges in real life [[LongLivedRace can live for thousands, if not, tens of thousands of years]], and that Spongebob's grandma is STILL alive. Obviously this means that [=SpongeBob=] is a baby by his kind's standards, but since he's technically 21 or so (and therefore an adult by the standards of most other animal species), [[ChildProdigy he can afford a job and can experience things usually only reserved to adults.]]

* Or like real life cephalopods, one of his arms is a mating tentacle. [[StealthInnuendo Probably the]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms right one...]]

3) In the episode where Spongebob breaks his butt ("[[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS3E15BornAgainKrabsIHadAnAccident I Had an Accident]]"), Squidward has set up a table and tea set on the mountain slope. This is presumably around the price of skiing for a day, not to mention a lot of hard work.

** Looking at [=SpongeBob=]'s library I'd say he has [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob a lot of money, he's just bored]]. This theory fits with the "professional Jelly fisher one."

[[WMG: Plankton is a [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Rich Idiot With no Meaningful Day job]].]]

[[WMG: Spongebob is French.]]
In the first season he occasionally [[GratuitousFrench speaks French]], with an [[UnexplainedAccent impeccable French accent]]. Either he's French or he spent some time in France. Perhaps ''Spongebob'' is actually the suave French narrator we hear occasionally. (Backed up by the fact that in "Jellyfish Jam," he briefly starts narrating his own actions in the same suave French accent.)

[[WMG: Spongebob ''isn't'' actually a sadist. He just genuinely really likes Squidward!]]

** Of course, this just might make things worse, as there's no way to persuade Spongebob to back off; few things are more infuriating than someone determined "to cheer you up/help you out."

[[WMG: Spongebob went through some kind of horrible trauma when he was younger, hence his perpetual childlike state]]

* That actually works. In "Cephalopod Lodge", Squidward asks [=Spongebob=] if he was dropped on the head as a baby. [=Spongebob=] responds with "How did you know?"

[[WMG: Spongebob's parents were in the circus]].

[[WMG: Spongebob's child-like behavior is because of his Mother]]
Think about it, watch any episode where we see him with his parents and how she treats him like a child. She doesn't want to lose her only baby so she treats him like a kid and doesn't want him to grow up. She was thrilled to have him move back in with her in "Home Sweet Pineapple", though Spongebob clearly wasn't too happy about this because he knew how she'd smother him. His Grandmother is in on this too, and when he showed an interest in being treated like a grown up, she showed him how boring adult life is and ignored him until he finally broke down.

[[WMG: Spongebob is actually an infant in Sponge years.]]
Keep in mind that Sponges in real life [[LongLivedRace can live for thousands, if not, tens of thousands of years]], and that Spongebob's grandma is STILL alive. Obviously this means that Spongebob is a baby by his kind's standards, but since he's technically 21 or so (and therefore an adult by the standards of most other animal species), [[ChildProdigy he can afford a job and can experience things usually only reserved to adults.]]

[[WMG: Spongebob is a genius]]
* His license, in the two episodes he gets it, say his birthday is July 14th 1986. This would have put him at age 18 at around the time the first movie came out. But we've heard Spongebob talk about high school, and college. Plus he's got that huge library. He's a genius, who graduated at age 14-16. but was tired of the pressure put on him to be so smart, so he left home and became a fry cook, so he could enjoy a simple life.

[[WMG: Spongebob has asthma.]]

[[WMG: Spongebob has been through ''many'' traumatic experiences in his life]]

Spongebob's outgoing/weird personality- this prevents him from becoming friends with anyone else, because, after all, friendship would take time away from work. Spongebob is allowed to have Patrick as his friend, however. Similar to Wheatley's role to [=GLaDOS=] in Portal 2, Patrick is meant to feed Spongebob a constant stream of negative, idiotic, and otherwise foolish thoughts.

Spongebob's ambiguous sexuality- Simple. Mr. Krabs wants to prevent him from ever finding anyone to settle down with and take time away from work.

In the episode where Patrick beleives he has to get out of town, He runs to [=SpongeBob=]'s house who is wating for him at the door with two drinks. One for Patrick and one for himself unless, he has some secret friend in his house we don't know of.

He only has one set of grand parents, also his parents (possible aunt & uncle) do look kind of similar. In the episode with blackjack they featured [=SpongeBob=]'s uncle, but they never revealed how he is [=SpongeBob=]'s uncle. Maybe it's because the creators of this show are so damn lazy or maybe they didn't reveal how Captain Blue Squarepants is related to [=SpongeBob=] because it was too obscene. [=SpongeBob=]'s uncle is biologically related to [=SpongeBob=]'s mom and dad. [=SpongeBob=]'s mom must of thought that her country brother was to "hickish" for her and stuck with the civilized brother instead. Contradicting a previous trope about how spongebob's square shape is the result of a recessive gene, [=SpongeBob=]'s shape is really a defect caused by incest. Even though the flaws are exaggerated a bit, come on now a sea sponge looking like a perfect kitchen sponge. What the hell is this, ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues''? Spongebuck(ancestor) also shares the square shape but he's also a deep southerner. I'm not trying to be the least bit racist. Spongebuck had to keep the sponge legacy going on somehow, he has future children so he must of been with a women during his lifetime before. Don't even say "Sponges reproduce asexually" because why does spongebob have two parents. One of Spongebuck's hot ass female relatives cousin or sister could of got lonely and decided to kick it off with her older relative. We didn't see any other sponges in the town where Spongebuck moved to, so the sponge that Spongebuck slept with moved in with him; after she sent Spongebuck a letter about how he was doing and after Spongebuck replied by stating how great that town they were living at was. While Spongebuck's female relative was living with him they had intercourse sometime later. Ever since then the Sponge Clan has lived a legacy of incest, being discreet about if of course.\\

[[WMG: [=SpongeBob=] is square and his parents are round, because the gene for a square shape is recessive.]]

He was acting out a gay fantasy deep in his psyche. Despite [=SpongeBob=] being very creative don't you think he could've gotten Sandy or Pearl or someone to play the female. That was a date simulation for [=SpongeBob=]'s gay date with Squidward, I think he knew his crappy simuation wasn't helping Squidward. But it actually wasn't for Squidward. I'm surprised he didn't sabotage Squidward's chances for Squilvia.

[[WMG: [=SpongeBob=] didn’t shrunk everyone in Bikini Bottom]]
Despite Squidward telling [=SpongeBob=] that he shrunk everyone in bikini bottom while telling, neither Mr. Krabs, Gary, nor Pearl was barely even shown in the jar along with the shrunken people. For Karen, it wouldn’t make sense given that she is at the Chum Bucket.

In the episode "Gone", [=SpongeBob=] knocks on Patrick's rock, saying "You don't want to forget to wake up again, do you?"

In an earlier episode, [=SpongeBob=] goes into one of Patrick's dreams; the dream consists of Patrick riding on a coin-operated ride in the middle of a bleak, white landscape. It's implied that most of Patrick's dreams are like this.

Now, combining those two facts, if Patrick was to forget to wake up and [=SpongeBob=] wasn't there to wake him, then Patrick would spend the rest of eternity on that ride without [=SpongeBob=] or anyone else there with him. Meanwhile, [[Main/NightmareFuel Patrick will slowly starve while his organs fail; this will eventually kill him.]]
* Don't worry, [[http://www.bpe.wur.nl/UK/Research/Projects/Immortalized+ sponge+ cell+ culture/ science is working on this one.]] [=SpongeBob=] is immortal, and so Patrick will die of old age before ever getting left alone to starve.

** Likewise, the unintelligent [=SpongeBob=] who acts like a StalkerWithACrush towards Squidward is really a duplicate formed from budding off another sponge(bob). We can see in "Pressure" that [=SpongeBob=] - like real sea sponges - can reproduce by budding.

Patrick was once pushed around by other people who insulted him for his stupidity; friends and strangers alike. Then in ''I'm With Stupid'', Patrick saw his opportunity to [[WhosLaughingNow turn the tables]] and intentionally made fun of [=SpongeBob=] in front of his supposed parents. Having finally discovered the joy of insulting stupid people, he started ObfuscatingStupidity as means of {{revenge}} (Squidward being a prominent victim in moments like ''Smooth Jazz at Bikini Bottom'' and ''Restraining [=SpongeBob=]''). Unfortunately, his low intelligence and {{hypocrisy}} would soon consume him, [[TookALevelInJerkass turning him into the jerk we'd see in later episodes]].

A new episode showed that Patrick has a license for ALMOST EVERY JOB EVER, including random stuff like making crop circles and driving tractors. He has already been shown to be a genius when it comes to driving itself, and apparently he's also smart enough to earn all those other licenses, and be skilled enough with them to write alien messages and successfully harvest crops with a tractor. While Spongebob is working at the Krusty Krab, Patrick is doing odd jobs for random people because he's bored and doesn't have anything else to do with all the skills he has. He lives under a rock, makes his own furniture, and only seems to need to purchase food, so he probably has a LOT of money somewhere. Odds are he forgets he has it quite often due to his stupidity, but there are times when he has more than enough money to eat twenty-odd Krabby Patties, and we know there are NOT cheap because Mr. Krabs...is Mr. Krabs. Patrick is filthy rich thanks to all his random skills and licenses, but has NO IDEA what to do with his money.

* Notice that he also works at the Krusty Krab as Spongebob's replacement quite often, for one reason or another, and is usually not getting paid to do so. Most of the time, his burger-flipping skills are as good as Spongebob's, since no one complains about his cooking, meaning Patrick ALSO knows the secret to making good Krabby Patties. Something we're lucky Plankton hasn't figured out, since Patrick probably wouldn't understand why telling Plankton is wrong. Any job he's asked to do, he will usually do it for free. He clearly doesn't need/want the money. Or he's too stupid to know he should be getting paid.

[[WMG: Patrick has bi-polar disorder]]
He has severe mood swings and can easily snap if provoked. He also has hyperactive bouts of behavior, which is the manic side of bi-polar disorder. He also can get depressed or angry really easily, which is the depressive side.

[[WMG: Contrasting with the theory about Spongebob's long running campaign, Squidward will become insane]]

* Sandy is the angel advisor, the devil advisor is on vacation, leaving Squidward to design evil himself. Which is why everyone dislikes Squidward because he had to make it all purgatory to fit it all in. Certain places fluctuate between its normal earth-ish state, and heaven and hell, DependingOnTheWriter. Some notably fluxing places are large cliffs (Hell/normal, such as Squidward falling off with an explosion, and Mrs. Puff getting stuck in a fall sequence), the Krusty Krab areas (Highly unstable to the point every part is experienced at once, resulting in varied {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and weird moments), and some other places.

*** Also, Octopi exist in the world of spongebob, so it's still possible, but not as likely.

We already know Squidwards hates Patrick so when he heard his parents were coming for Starfish Day he knew he needed to do something. Patricks real parents did get there earlier but Squidward murdered them and got rid of the bodies. Then he hired a family and when Patrick saw them Squidward made it look like they were annoying him, so once they went in Patrick's house he could have his peace. After Squidward realized he got the names wrong he told them to find a way to get out.Then got two more starfish to pose as Patrick's parents. Nobody else knows about this, not even Squidward's house.

In the cartoon, they try and make it discreet, but older people can still see it. In one of the "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" episodes, as [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick were talking about "Wumbo", Squidward asks himself, "I wonder if a fall from this height could kill me?" In another episode, the one with Squidward in that group with all the squids, which I can't spell the name, Squidward says something along the lines of "This makes the other 365 days worth living." Add in the treatment he gets from people, the torture of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick bugging him all day, especially at work, low payment at a crappy job, a crappy job in general, a greedy boss, animals that attack him for no reason, even when he acts nice around them, and a clarinet career that can never seem to take off for him, he would start thinking these thoughts, but they can never outright show that on a children's cartoon. Maybe off camera, but not actually on the show.

If he didn't, he would have [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gone mad]] and commit suicide back in 2002. Besides, if you [[SubliminalSeduction listen to the theme song backwards]], you can hear the wordss, "Squidward smokes dope!" quite clearly.
** Yay, [[SubliminalSeduction Backmasking]]!

[[WMG: Squidward has a restraining order against [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick...]]
But the cops in Bikini Bottom are [[PoliceAreUseless just so damn incompetent and stupid]] that even if he calls them for Sponbebob and Patrick violating the order, [[ButtMonkey ''he'd'' be the one arrested]], not them, [[KarmaHoudini and [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick would get away with it]]. Thus he tries to put up with them or get away or do anything. Though of course, even if he DID kill [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, the Bikini Bottom Cops would probably not even RECOGNIZE a murder.

Alright, he has a round head, and a big nose. This is opposed to a rather pointy head that a squid has. When he set foot on dry land, he became a puppet of an octopus. Also, in Mrs Puff's classroom, there is a girl who looks a lot like a normal squid, with a pointy head and all. So, her species must be the REAL squids of bikini bottom, and Octos like having "Squid" in the name.

If he really hates [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and the rest of his neighbors, why doesn't he go and stay in Squidville / Tentacle Acres with the rest of his kind for eternity? If he really hates working at the Krusty Krab, why doesn't he quit? If Bikini Bottom is such a Hell for him, why doesn't he just move out, simple as that? He seems to be capable of buying a house outside of Bikini Bottom, concerning the many cases on which his house was destroyed. If he really suffered FreudianExcuse after FreudianExcuse after FreudianExcuse as the series suggested to us, why doesn't he show signs of it, or better yet, kill [=SpongeBob=], worship Cthulhu, go to Japan and rape tons of anime girls as most of RuleThirtyFour would suggest, and/or commit suicide? Well the truth is, he actually liked all those tortures, those agonies and torments and annoyances that [=SpongeBob=] and life imposed on him. That's why he doesn't ever move out of Bikini Bottom and go reclusive in Tentacle Acres (or choose your own utopia), which can just be the solution to all his problems. Of course we always see the grumpy Squidward who openly hates [=SpongeBob=], but of course Squidward had to hide his masochism (either that or Squidward is a Tsundere as an earlier WMG suggested).

** Alternatively, Squidward finds his job to be ok as it suits his needs. He just can't stand the fact that ''Spongebob'' also works there. All the times we've seen Squidward at his job without the sponge, he seems to be enjoying himself at least a little bit. Whenever he says he wants to escape from the Krusty Krab, he really just wants to get away from Spongebob.

Well, that's pretty obvious, but if you listen closely in the episode F.U.N, when the citizens of Bikini Bottom are calling Plankton a loser and making fun of him, Squidward says, "How does it feel to be the most hated person in Bikini Bottom, Plankton? Hurts, doesn't it? I know.". This could mean that Plankton took over as paraiah of Bikini Bottom, or is at the same position as Squidward as most hated.

He's the only one of the trio that has shown shown no attraction to girls ([=SpongeBob=] has a WordOfGod crush on Sandy and Pat fell for a mermaid). He's said a few comments about Squilliam though (like the infamous "He's hot" comment), and his relationship with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick has more HoYay then [=SpongeBob=], or Patrick, with his. Not to mention his AlwaysCamp feminine nature.
** It might just be a case of making sense in context. He was hoping to one-up Squilliam by imagining him in an embarrassing situation, but realized that Squilliam is, in fact, hot.

Duhh.

Even though this show has a lot of HoYay moments Squidward hasn't gone out and done anything that would be considered gay, his apparently un-manly dancing can be debated however. Squidward hasn't really did anything that would seem gay even him imagining Squilliam in his underwear, he did that to make him appear lesser in his mind, although it didn't work obviously. Squidward is a highly cultured individual and prefers the finer things in life despite the fact he lives around cultural blandness, therefore he might or most likely have high expectation of his women as well, I'm not trying to sound weird but Squilvia did look like a good catch. He doesn't eat those "mediocre Krabby Patties" and they're "the best things under the sea" according to a lot of Bikini Bottom even [=SpongeBob=], he prefers to dine at fine restaurants, and the ingredients he uses to fix his meals are exotic exquisite and fancy ones at that. When Patrick was dressed as Patricia that doesn't count because all the males like him (her). He apparently prefers super fine women just like he prefers high class meals.

They both have feminine dispositions

However Michael Jackson is famous because he got a deal but Squidward didn't

Michael Jackson has nice hair Squidward doesn't have any hair.

Michael Jackson supposedly has a health (skin) disorder know as vertiligo, although it's not looked on Squidward could really have a health problem (probably not cancer) that caused his long beatiful mane to just wither like that. On this reality show where people were getting surgery on their scalps because their hair all of a sudden fell out too, that's probably similar if not, what Squidward has.

Michael Jackson is a supposed sex fiend, Squidward is assumed to be asexual despite the two times he showed interest in women.

Squidward acts like an uppidy adult, while Michael Jackson acts like Peter Pan.

Michael Jackson is a engergetic pop singer, squidward is a reserved clarinet player.

* You mean like a MirrorUniverse version of MJ, right?

Think about it- in the episdoe in wicth Squidwards conduct, he does do a epic job conducting. The only problem was [=SpongeBob=] playing "Doctor"

[[WMG: Squidward WAS a good clarinet player until the Bubble Stand episode.]]

* Or like real life cephalopods, one of his arms is a mating tentacle. [[StealthInnuendo Probably the]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms right one.]]

Since ''[=SpongeBob=] Squarepants Movie'' is the GrandFinale of the series and in it Plankton crossed the line by stealing King Neptune's crown and framing Mr. Krabs and later brainwashing and enslaving (and possibly killing Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy) entire Bikini Bottom and in "Walking The Plankton" he activated Plan B (continuining the idea that Plankton uses all the letters of the alphabet to represent his biggest schemes). Since Plan Z is his MoralEventHorizon and movie is the finale of the series, it is possible that Plankton's actions will become worse as the series progresses. This troper has few ideas of how Plankton could become just as evil as he was in the movie:

** He could try to target [=SpongeBob=]. Plankton would realize if he wants to succeed in his plans, he must get rid of Spongebob who usually stops his plans. There could be a StoryArc episode there Plankton tired of Spongebob meddling in his affairs, attempts to kidnap and kill him and his friends. Spongebob and his friends manage to surive the series of attacks from Plankton and his robots, but they have no choice but to escape from Bikini Bottom with secret formula and find the place to hide. However Plankton still wants them dead, so he kidnaps Mr. Krabs and threatens to kill him if Spongebob and his friends do not return to Bikini Bottom and give him formula. He could also make offer a bounty to anyone who captures Spongebob and his friends. Thus our heroes must not only hide from Plankton and his robots, but from other sea creatures who want the money Plankton offered. This would lead into an epic showdown with Plankton, where Spongebob and everyone else would defeat Plankton, free Mr. Krabs and save the entire Bikini Bottom from Plankton's grasp. Also there could be the episode there Plankton secretly kidnaps Spongebob and makes him work for him under a death threat.

Scooter never actually talks to, comes in contact,or mentioned by anyone besides [=SpongeBob=]. The reason for this is [=SpongeBob=] secretly knows almost everyone in Bikini Bottom hates him so his mind self consciously created Scooter. He is what [=SpongeBob=] only wishes he could be. Even in the episode "Party Pooper Pants" in the segment "[=SpongeBob=]'s House Party" when Scooter reads his conversation card squidward says "this is lame" because nobody was there, [=SpongeBob=] imagined it. Then later in the episode "bubble buddy" [=SpongeBob=] felt he had a true friend, Bubble Buddy who was created for the same reason, so [=SpongeBob=]'s mind killed him off. It's later revealed that [=SpongeBob=] got the idea for this personality from someone labeled "Scooter's Cousin". He is called that because the show all happens from memories in [=SpongeBob=]'s head.

In the episode "Krusty Love", where Mr. Krabs wants to ask Mrs. Puff on a date, [=SpongeBob=] states that her name is Mrs. Puff, when Krabs wants to know her name. He is disappointed when he finds out her name is "Mrs" Puff, but [=SpongeBob=] says she doesn't have a husband. When Krabs asked what happened to her husband, a short scene where a puffer fish was being turned on by a lamp is shown. [=SpongeBob=] says that she doesn't like to talk about it. The movie comes out and when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's tears [[spoiler: short out the electricity and the lamp is shut off, not before [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick die]] the sea creatures come back to life, including a puffer fish. Granted, the puffer could be both male or female, but no other puffer fish had been shown yet. Also......

[[WMG: Old Man Jenkins is a Time lord.]]

* He's a Time Fish from Gallifrey, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment a fish who has Time Lord qualities,]] and thus is a Time Fish.

It's possible. Plankton's had a hard day at work and is tired what does he do? Have some hot virtual sex with his virtual reality machine. Maybe in that episode where Plankton and Krabs switched lives maybe it was false, he could of just been using his virtual reality machine the whole time; that could explain why he didn't even do anything with the Krabby Patties he had. He uses Karen to provide him food whether it be real or holographc and he also uses her to provide a hot touchable realtime sex simulation.