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King Neptune
King Neptune
Voiced by: Jeffrey Tambor
The ruler of the sea, whose crown is his prize possession and holds his symbol of authority over all his undersea kingdom. While he has a completely different design and voice from the series, Word of God has said that they consider him interchangeable with the main series Neptune.
- Absurdly Bright Light: His bald head is so bright that it hurts people's eyes.
- Adaptational Jerkass: The series' Neptune, while still a Jerkass, is pretty affable and a far more understanding monarch, isn't as possessive towards his belongings, and treats his subjects far more pleasantly. This Neptune, by contrast, is a tyrannical, punishment-obsessed, and ill-tempered king (compared to his more compassionate daughter, Mindy). He tends to freak out and overreact over the slightest wrongdoings and considers himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner; he refuses to believe Mr. Krabs when he maintains his innocence and is eager to fry him on the spot. Despite his iron-fisted rule over the sea, horrible temper, and obsession of harsh punishments by executing people or sentencing them to the dungeon, he manages to learn his lesson at the end, finally listening to Mindy and accepting her advice at being a more compassionate ruler.
- Always a Bigger Fish: It’s the sole reason he’s afraid of Shell City and the Cyclops who guards it. He towers over Mindy and the other sea creatures, but is only knee high to a human.
- Baldness Angst: He's so concerned with covering his baldness that he doesn't notice Plankton taking over Bikini Bottom.
- Berserk Button: He really doesn't take kindly to anyone messing with his crown. At one point, he tries to throw his own crown polisher to jail for merely touching it.
- The Caligula: Not above using harsh punishments for the most petty of reasons. If it weren't for Mindy's intervention, he would have sentenced the royal crown polisher to 20 years in the dungeon for touching his crown, the job that he was hired to do.
- Disproportionate Retribution: While stealing a crown is a pretty serious crime, most people would argue that it's not bad enough to deserve being burned to death.
- Dramatic Thunder: Lighting flashes when he's really angry.
- Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene, he has decided to punish the royal crown polisher for the crime of touching his crown even though that's his job and dials down from execution to 20 years in the dungeon. He then has a private chat with Mindy about her future responsibilities where he acts far gentler and the only times he raises his voice are to deny his baldness rather than anger at her. This shows us King Neptune is a rather cruel king with massive Skewed Priorities, but he does love his daughter.
- Fiery Redhead: What little hair he has is bright red, tying in with his murderously short temper.
- The Gods Must Be Lazy: Throughout the movie, he's far more concerned with covering up his bald spot than the fact that Plankton has enslaved all of Bikini Bottom.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It's so easy for him to get mad. If he's already angry, then whatever slight comes next will certainly exacerbate the extent of his rage. He also tends to overreact to the slightest wrongdoings thanks to his anger getting the best of him.
- Insistent Terminology: He insists his bald head is "thinning!"
- Jerkass Gods: More so than his series counterpart — he was going to imprison someone who touched his crown for 20 years. The kicker? Said person was the royal crown polisher. Also, according to Mindy, he can barely go one day without trying to execute someone.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He finally becomes this at the end of the movie, when he believes that Mindy was right. King Neptune gets An Aesop on how important it is to have love and compassion when you're in a position of leadership. He also apologizes to Mr. Krabs for freezing him and praises SpongeBob for recovering the crown and saving Bikini Bottom from Plankton. Even beforehand, it is very clear that he holds a lot of affection for his daughter despite their different personalities clashing and her constant meddling in his affairs and decisions.
- Kill It with Fire: Probably his favorite method of solving things is to shoot fire at it from his trident.
- Large and in Charge: He towers over just about everyone and is the king of the sea.
- Large Ham: Neptune constantly talks in a loud, bombastic tone of voice almost every time he speaks, even when he's not shouting/screaming. Helps that he's voiced by Jeffrey Tambor, who is well-known for playing these types of characters.
- Never My Fault: Played for Laughs when he marches towards the Krusty Krab, bumping into the sign pole as he was distracted talking to Mindy.Neptune: Squire!
Squire: Yes, your highness!
Neptune: Have this pole executed at once! - Precision F-Strike: The only character in the movie to use a swear word: damning.
- Prongs of Poseidon: His trident obviously, being another incarnation of the sea god. He can fire a variety of beams from it such as a fire beam, an ice beam, and a Shapeshifting beam (which he accidentally uses to turn Mr. Krabs into a human at the end of the movie). In The Sponge Bob Movie Game, he can also fire an additional electrical beam that covers a wide area, and he can wield his trident like a Sniper Rifle to fire a laser shot.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes glow pinkish red when he finds out Mr. Krabs apparently sold his crown to Shell City.
- Redhead In Green: He has red hair (what's left of it) and green skin.
- Skewed Priorities: He's more concerned with his bald spot and missing crown rather than the fact that Bikini Bottom has been enslaved by Plankton. And even then, rather attempt to find his missing crown and catch the thief, he immediately goes to execute Mr. Krabs based on the clearly fabricated "proof" that he stole it, the danger posed by the Cyclops notwithstanding.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After SpongeBob and Patrick return with his crown and save everyone in Bikini Bottom, including Neptune himself, the king finally realizes the error of his harsh ways and finally comes to respect Mindy, taking her advice about learning to be kinder and more compassionate.
- You Don't Look Like You: Looks completely different than his appearance in the show, but with the same arrogant personality.
Mindy
Mindy
Voiced by: Scarlett Johansson
A friendly mermaid who does her best to assist SpongeBob and Patrick in their quest to Shell City. She disproves of her father's method of ruling with an iron fist, and wishes he would use a little love and compassion. She is also the target of Patrick's affections.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: She and her father have green skin.
- Bespectacled Cutie: She's a cute bespectacled girl with a sweet personality.
- Establishing Character Moment: The very first thing she does when she's introduced is releasing the royal crown polisher, much to her father's anger.
- Morality Pet: To her father, King Neptune. While he's a petty tyrant to others, Mindy, his only daughter, is clearly the one he treats the least harshest despite their different personalities clashing and her constant meddling in his affairs and decisions. And Mindy tries to be a good influence on him, which finally works out at the end of the film.
- Nice Girl: Unlike her father, she's very caring and is willing to give everyone a fair chance.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: She has green skin, blue hair, and wears glasses. She is also small enough to fit in a human fist (she is about the same size as SpongeBob and Patrick and the duo were small enough to fit in the fist of the Cyclops who is human).
- Pie-Eyed: Her pupils have a pie shape.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the only member of the royal family that's willing to help save Bikini Bottom, unlike her father, who's more concerned about covering up his bald spot.
- Women Are Wiser: She gives SpongeBob and Patrick a chance to save Mr. Krabs from death and believes that her father's cruel punishments for the most petty of reasons are wrong.
Dennis
Dennis
Voiced by: Alec Baldwin (Movie), Fred Tatasciore (Video Game)
A hitman hired by Plankton to make sure that SpongeBob and Patrick never make it to Shell City. He is a living example of the movie's Darker and Edgier tone.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Gets stomped on by the Cyclops when he himself was about to stomp on SpongeBob and Patrick.
- Ax-Crazy: He callously admits that he loves his job while preparing to crush SpongeBob and Patrick with the spiked sole of his boot.
- Badass Biker: The first time he appears on-screen, he's shown stoically riding a chopper, highlighting his rugged, no-nonsense nature. He continues riding the bike during his pursuit of SpongeBob and Patrick, all the while casually tearing lips off of yokels, punching thugs into the sky, and crushing skulls with his bare hands.
- Badass Boast: "Come on, kid, give it up. Dennis always gets his man!"
- Berserk Button:
- Don't insult his hat. He'll retaliate by literally ripping your lips off as poor Lloyd and Floyd found out.
- Don't tell him what to do. Victor learned this the hard way after Dennis punched him so hard his boots flew off his feet and he crashed through the roof of the Thug Tug after Victor dared to test Dennis's patience.
- The Cameo: He appears on a wanted poster in "Call the Cops", later showing up in-person at the E.V.I.L. auditions in Season 13's Captain Pipsqueak.
- Cool Bike: He drives an impressive customized chopper with a unique license plate.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily punches the toughest looking guy in the Bad Guy Bar high into the air, sending him crashing back into the Thug Tug, which sinks into the dirt.
- Dark Is Evil: Most of his clothes are black, he has a skull buckle, and he's a hitman who loves killing people.
- Death Glare: His main facial expression is a menacing scowl.
- Determinator: Even after getting squished by the Cyclops, he still follows after the sponge and sea star he was assigned to assassinate.
- The Dragon: To Plankton, since Plankton hires him to stop SpongeBob and Patrick from ruining his scheme.
- Evil Feels Good: It's clear that he enjoys being a hitman, joyously stating that "I LOVE THIS JOB" as SpongeBob and Patrick cower in fear underneath his spiked boot.
- Evil Is Bigger: While not to the extent of the ginormous Cyclops, he still towers over just about every good character who isn't King Neptune and could easily squish both SpongeBob and Patrick at the same time with one foot.
- Evil Laugh: He has two instances of laughter. One when he is alone driving his way to kill our heroes, and the second one comes as he is about to step on the main duo.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He's a hitman hired by Plankton to do away with SpongeBob and Patrick and he has a deep voice.
- Eviler than Thou: While tracking his quarry, he comes across the Thug Tug, a Bad Guy Bar that accosted SpongeBob and Patrick on their journey. They try their usual "all bubble-blowing babies etc." shtick on Dennis, but he shuts them up and sinks their ship with a single punch before continuing his hunt.
- Eyes Out of Sight: He takes off his sunglasses to reveal another pair of sunglasses. Subverted in his final scene where his other pair breaks to the point of revealing his eyes.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: He only wears a glove on one hand.
- Faux Affably Evil: He ends up bantering with SpongeBob and Patrick for a bit before trying to murder them.
- Fluffy the Terrible: When Plankton mentions that he's a vicious killer and we first see his name, it doesn't look like he'd be threatening. Then he gets dangerous.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: Per Plankton's orders, he intends to crush our heroes with his wickedly-spiked cleats, but then ends up on the receiving end courtesy of the Cyclops. He still manages to survive this.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has an easy-to-miss scar on the side of his cheek.
- Green and Mean: He is a green-skinned hitman.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: He has a leather vest.
- Humanlike Hand Anatomy: Unlike most fish characters, who have realistic-looking fins that occasionally develop thumbs when necessary, Dennis has what appear to be human-like arms and hands, but with lines representing the fin-rays as a reminder that they're actually fins.
- Implacable Man: He's already super persistent in his hunt, but even getting stepped on by the Cyclops doesn't stop him from coming back for one more round with our heroes.
- Knight of Cerebus: Every second of screentime he has covers some of the darkest moments in the movie, casually disposing of various side characters in brutal ways and inviting genuine fear in SpongeBob and Patrick when he finally meets them. His end goal is to murder the pair, something he eagerly anticipates, and he nearly succeeds both times he faces them. When he's finally defeated during the ride atop David Hasselhoff, a brief orchestral swell appears, as if the movie itself is breathing a sigh of relief that he's gone.
- Laughably Evil: Despite being one of the series most threatening villains, his manliness is so over-the-top that it's impossible not to laugh at him at times.
- Malevolent Masked Man: He wears a red cloth mask over his nose and mouth, and combines it with Sinister Shades.
- The Noseless: Has no nose, yet he can still grow a mustache on the spot.
- Not So Stoic: Does an Evil Laugh during his first meeting with SpongeBob and Patrick after spending most of his scenes before being almost completely quiet. During his second meeting with them, he loses all stoicism and has a brief Villainous Breakdown.
- Not Quite Dead: The Cyclops stepping on him does not kill him, as he returns riding on "bigger boot".
- Offscreen Teleportation: He is somehow able to get from one of David Hasselhoff's legs to the other in no time after SpongeBob made a dramatic jump to the other leg. This ends up factoring into his boss fight in the home console video game, where he casually leaps from leg to leg without issue.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Dennis isn't above blowing a bubble just so he can track down where SpongeBob and Patrick were last at, but when the Thug Tug calls him out on it and attempt to gang up on him, Dennis' response is to uppercut Victor into the club, causing it to sink.
- Professional Killer: He is, after all, a hitman.
- Psycho for Hire: Before he tries to kill SpongeBob and Patrick, he lets out a maniacal laughter and gleefully cheers he loves his job.
- Sadist: He seems to take great pride in finishing out his assassinations.
- Saying Too Much: Lampshaded when he accidentally slips that Plankton stole Neptune's crown. Subverted because Mindy had already told SpongeBob and Patrick that Plankton had become the Evil Overlord of Bikini Bottom. The only thing they didn't know was that Plankton hired Dennis to not only kill them, but to dispense some Laser-Guided Karma by stepping on them, which regularly happens to Plankton.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: He, among other things, deduces SpongeBob and Patrick were at the Thug Tug from nothing more than a small puddle of bubble fluid.
- See You in Hell: "See you later, fools!" However it is hard to tell whether he means to subtly imply that he'll meet them again in Hell or he is just being sarcastic as he is about to kill our heroes.
- Sinister Shades: When he is first introduced, he inspects a sesame seed by taking off his shades only to reveal another pair underneath.
- Slasher Smile: He has a nightmarish grin throughout his second fight with the main duo.
- The Sociopath: As befitting of a Professional Killer, he doesn't care at all about the lives he has to take.
- Spikes of Villainy: Dennis's glove has spiked knuckles, and his cleats have spikes that are almost as tall as the boot.
- Spontaneous Mustache: He has the ability to grow a mustache on command.
- Testosterone Poisoning: He can grow a mustache on the spot. Doesn't get any more overbearingly masculine than that.
- Tom the Dark Lord: Dennis isn't exactly the first name to come to mind when you see an insane and merciless hitman.
- Tranquil Fury: Comes off as calm and collected in spite of his desperation to kill SpongeBob and Patrick, at least until his second meeting with the main duo.
- Underestimating Badassery: The hillbilly brothers, bar thugs, and SpongeBob and Patrick should have known better than to mess with this guy.
- Vanity License Plate: His motorbike features the custom license plate "I-KILL-U".
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: He's one of the only villains concerned with actually offing a character, and he comes pretty close.
- Villainous Breakdown: He is pretty calm and levelheaded until SpongeBob accidentally blows bubbles into his eyes, almost blinding him. After this moment, he starts yelling and decides right then and there that he will kill the main duo without hesitation."THAAAT'S IT! I'M THROUGH MESSING AROUND! SEE YOU LATER, FOOLS!"
- You Got Guts: "You got guts, kid. Too bad I'm gonna rip 'em out of ya."
- You Won't Feel a Thing!: Subverted.Dennis: Don't worry, this will only hurt a LOT!
Victor
Victor
"HEY! Who blew this bubble?!"
Voiced by: Thomas F. Wilson
The owner of the Thug Tug.
- All There in the Script: Only named in the credits.
- Asshole Victim: Considering he made a rule against blowing bubbles and that whoever does gets beaten senseless, no one really feels anything for him when he tries to enforce this on Dennis, only to learn the hard way that Dennis isn't someone you wanna mess with.
- The Bartender: Owner and bartender of the Thug Tug.
- Berserk Button: Blowing bubbles. He will beat bubble blowers senseless because, in his eyes, people who blow bubbles aren't real men.
- Eyepatch of Power: Wears a patch over his left eye. It's just an accessory, as he can see perfectly fine.
- Jerkass: Like his patrons, he's a violent, ill-tempered brute.
- Uncertain Doom: Dennis gives him a Megaton Punch that knocks him into the Thug Tug, causing it to sink. It's unknown if Victor was saved by Toon Physics or not.
- The Worf Effect: After being established as a tough guy, Dennis delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle onto him. With one blow, he knocks him back into the Tug.
The Cyclops
The Cyclops
Played by: Aaron Hendry (in suit)
Voiced by: Neil Ross
Voiced by: Neil Ross
The guardian of Shell City, who is actually a man in a diver suit that he never takes off.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Stomps Dennis when he is first introduced.
- Creepy Old-Fashioned Diving Suit: He is only ever seen wearing a bulky deep-sea diver suit with a green glow coming from its helmet, adding to his mysteriousness.
- Cruella to Animals: Not only are all his souvenirs made of real sea creatures, but he also laughs maniacally as he kills them. It's implied that he knows the fish he kills are sentient, and finds their suffering amusing.
- Cyclops: He's called the Cyclops because his diving helmet invokes the appearance of a one-eyed giant.
- Dissonant Serenity: He has a moment of this when he hums quite cheerfully, right as he makes a kitschy diorama of a clam that he captured and killed.
- The Dreaded: The Cyclops is feared by all inhabitants from the sea, with Mindy specifically warning SpongeBob and Patrick to avoid the Cyclops at all costs. It is possible that King Neptune fears the Cyclops as well, considering his reaction of despair when he finds out his crown is in the forbidden Shell City, which is guarded by the Cyclops.
- Eldritch Abomination: Played with. While he's clearly just a regular dude wearing a diving suit who loves his job just a tad bit too much, SpongeBob, Patrick, Mindy and even King Neptune see him as an incomprehensible monster who finds great joy in murdering fish.
- Evil Is Bigger: He is the biggest villain in the movie and is only matched by David Hasselhoff in sheer size since they are both humans.
- Evil Laugh: Of the "Big Scary Monster" variety of villainous laughter.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He is an antagonist and he has the deepest voice in the movie.
- The Faceless: His helmet doesn't show any facial features.
- Foil: To Plankton. They both share similar traits, such as being evil, having one eye, and running their respective establishment. The differences being that Plankton is the smallest villain that often gets stepped on by nearly everyone under the sea, while the Cyclops is the largest villain in the movie that can easily step on any sea creature seen so far.
- Greater-Scope Villain: His only role in Plankton's scheme is owning the gift shop that buys King Neptune's crown, and yet he's technically far worse than Plankton, regularly capturing and killing sea creatures to harvest their bodies for schlocky decorations.
- Hero Killer: He actually kills SpongeBob and Patrick by drying them out with a heat lamp. They do get better...
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Cyclops uses glue and googly eyes to make his knick-knacks. One of the sea creatures later uses these to take down the Cyclops, squirting it into his helmet's viewing window.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: To the audience, he's just a guy in an old-fashioned diving suit. To the characters, he's a colossal, incomprehensible monster defined by his unnaturalness and willingness to kill sea creatures. However, since SpongeBob and Patrick show no fear to David Hasselhoff, they might not recognize the Cyclops as human given his preference to not take off his suit.
- Knight of Cerebus: He only appears for a few minutes, but those minutes are probably the darkest minutes in the whole movie, maybe even the series, coming the closest to killing SpongeBob and Patrick, who become increasingly despondent as they dry out.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He ends up being attacked by the sea creatures he turned into marine gifts and sundries, with the implication that they're going to make him one.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Downplayed. He came extremely close to killing our two heroes, but if the Cyclops never found and captured them, they would have never been able to find Shell City and retrieve the crown in time before the deadline.
- Obliviously Evil: Subverted trope. Whether he knows the sea creatures he's killing are sentient or not, he's obviously enjoying what he does in a weirdly sadistic way.
- Oh, Crap!: He has a displeased reaction when all the sea creatures he killed come back to life."Uh oh."
- Punch-Clock Villain: The Cyclops is just some guy dressed up in a divers suit who goes out and fishes out for sea creatures to dry and sell as "smelly knicknacks." Although he seems to enjoy capturing and murdering sentient sea creatures a little too much, he does seem to be a normal guy off the job as seen when he goes to the bathroom while humming and carrying a book to read along with him. So he is a very dark example of one.
- Sadist: It’s clear that this guy really enjoys turning sea creatures into merchandise- a bit too much.
- Sickly Green Glow: All we see through the window of his helmet is a green light, which makes him all the scarier and less human.
- Vader Breath: Sounds of breathing from the suit can be heard underwater, and sounds much louder when on land.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Remember how Dennis came close to killing SpongeBob and Patrick? This guy actually succeeds. Sure, they get better, but even so...
- Villainous Rescue: He stops Dennis from crushing SpongeBob and Patrick, before taking them to his lair.
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff
Played by: David Hasselhoff
- Adam Westing: This version of David Hasselhoff is a super-powered lifeguard who cruises through the water like a speedboat and has a launch pad inside his pecs.
- Amusing Injuries: He gets burned by fire from King Neptune's trident shortly after sending SpongeBob and Patrick to the Krusty Krab. All that happens to him is that he gets covered in ash and says "Ow".
- As Himself: One of history's most delightfully inexplicable examples of celebrities playing themselves.
- The Bus Came Back: 15 years after the release of the movie, he reappeared for a few short appearances in SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout.
- Celebrity Power: Has a mysterious set of superpowers which can't really be explained by anything other than the fact that he's David Hasselhoff.
- Good Counterpart: To the Cyclops. Just as vast and incomprehensible, he aids the heroes for reasons unknown.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: Averted. He is portrayed in a friendly and awesome way compared to the dark and incomprehensible Cyclops. SpongeBob and Patrick show no fear towards him. In fact, it could be that the sea creatures don't see humans as eldritch abominations, but think the Cyclops is one since he's creepy and doesn't take off the suit to indicate that he's human.
- Inexplicably Awesome: SpongeBob and Patrick have no way back to Bikini Bottom, when all of a sudden David Hasselhoff comes out of nowhere, offers to take them there, cruises to the center of the Pacific Ocean as if he's a speedboat, and rockets them to Bikini Bottom through some sort of mechanized device in his pecs. None of this is ever explained.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He launches SpongeBob, Patrick and King Neptune's crown back into the Krusty Krab - just in time for Neptune to blast Mr. Krabs and the beam to deflect off of the crown, ultimately hitting Hasselhoff on the surface."You've done good, Hasselhoff. You've done -" (gets blasted and burnt) "Ow."
- Spell My Name with a "The": SpongeBob calls him "the Hasselhoff" at one point.
King Neptune's Squire
King Neptune's Squire
Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui
King Neptune's Squire, who accompanies Neptune pretty much wherever he goes, and must obey his every command.
- Butt-Monkey: Gets hit over the head by Neptune twice.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He is only addressed as "squire" throughout the movie.
Floyd and Lloyd
Floyd and Lloyd
"Lloyd, take off your hat in respect... Respect for the dead!"note
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (Floyd) and Doug Lawrence (Lloyd)
Two hillbillies who work the gas station at the edge of the county line.
- All There in the Script: Floyd is only named in the credits.
- Bullying a Dragon: They make fun of Dennis and promptly get their mouths ripped off.
- The Hyena: They laugh at just about anything.
- Jerkass: They make fun of SpongeBob, Patrick, and even Dennis. They also show No Sympathy to the duo when they learn they are going to Shell City. Naturally, Dennis makes sure to punish them for their rudeness before he resumes his pursuit.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After being jerks in both their scenes, they get their mouths ripped off by Dennis. It's unknown if they were ever able to get them back or talk again.
- Those Two Guys: They are basically the same character.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Burger-Beard the Pirate
Burger-Beard
Played by: Antonio Banderas
The main antagonist of The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water, a pirate who seeks the Krabby Patty secret formula.
- Affably Evil: Despite being a thief, he refuses to hurt innocent civilians to the point where he politely tells them to move out of the way while he is driving. Burger-Beard is also willing to sing the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song with his seagull crew.
- Badass Normal: Manages to put up a winning battle against SpongeBob and his friends after they gain superpowers while being just an ordinary human.
- Big Bad: He is the main villain of the second movie.
- Canon Character All Along: Implied. It's revealed with the paint-over before the rap battle started that he is or the model used for Painty the Pirate, the intro singer.
- Captain Colorbeard: A pirate named Burger-Beard.
- Corrupted Character Copy: He's basically an evil Jack Sparrow.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Played With. The first thing he does once he gets the magical book is steal the Krabby Patty recipe so he can make money off of it rather than just make himself rich. Possibly justified by the fact that it is implied that the book is limited to influencing what has already been written in it, meaning Burger-Beard can't do anything directly for himself with it.
- Didn't See That Coming: Burger-Beard was not expecting a magic dolphin to give SpongeBob the power to breathe air.
- Evil Is Hammy: You can clearly tell Antonio Banderas was having one heck of a great time.
- Friendly Pirate: Despite his antagonistic role and shady methods, ultimately is an Affably Evil pirate who merely wants to run a fast-food chain using the stolen Krabby Patty formula. He is still completely harmless to any civilians he encounters, as well as being a Benevolent Boss who is kind to his seagull crew. He is a Graceful Loser who takes his defeat in stride.
- Graceful Loser: In the end, he takes his defeat in stride.
- Hidden Villain: This is actually supposed to be a twist in the movie. Burger-Beard is initially presented as part of the Framing Device, narrating the story. It's only halfway through the movie when it's revealed he stole the Krabby Patty secret formula off-screen for his plans.
- Pet the Dog: Sings the SpongeBob theme song with the seagulls at the end of the movie.
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The live-action parts of the movie are set in a modern, United States coastal town, and he clearly doesn't belong. In fact, his pirate ship has wheels on it. And an "Auto-Pirate".
Bubbles the Dolphin
Bubbles the Dolphin
- And I Must Scream: He reveals that he hated his job as The Watcher for this reason, as he had been bound by duty to watch the cosmos for eons.
- Fluffy the Terrible: His name is rather silly and while he doesn't look terrifying he has immense powers and can shoot lasers from his blowhole.
- Head Blast: Bubbles can fire laser beams from the blowhole on his head.
- Heel–Face Turn: Goes from trying to kill SpongeBob to helping him.
- Heroic Dolphin: Gives the main characters the ability to breathe air.
- Hollywood Tourette's: Constantly and involuntarily makes dolphin whistling noises.
- Immune to Fate: When SpongeBob tells Burger-Beard that a magical talking dolphin helped him breathe air, Burger-Beard claims that a magical talking dolphin wasn't in his story. The implication is that Bubbles doesn't appear in Burger-Beard's magic book, which records - and can rewrite - reality.
- Large Ham: He's played by Matt Berry. Of course he'll be hammy.
- Outside-Context Problem: To Burger-Beard, who was not expecting a magic dolphin to give SpongeBob the power to breathe air, or even for said magic dolphin to even exist.
- Space Whale: He's a cetacean (though strictly not a whale) who watches space and can travel through it.
- Stop Motion: He's animated using stop motion animation.
- Toilet Paper Trail: Has toilet paper stuck to his tail after he leaves the restroom.
- The Watcher: He's a parody of Uatu from Marvel Comics. However he loses this job.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
King Poseidon
King Poseidon
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Voiced by: Matt Berry
The main antagonist of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Captures snails and uses their slime as facial cream. Once they run out he makes them work as slaves.
- Balloon Belly: It turns out he's actually fat, but was hiding his gut with a golden plate.
- Big Bad: Of Sponge on the Run.
- Expy: Is very similar to King Neptune of the first SpongeBob movie, being both gods of the sea who function as the antagonist. At the end of the film Poseidon reveals that he is bald like Neptune. The only difference is that Neptune is respected, out of fear more than anything and takes his job far too seriously, while Poseidon is universally reviled and hardly ever does anything worth of kingship.
- Heel–Face Turn: At the end of the movie he reforms after SpongeBob befriends him.
- Jerkass Gods: Poseidon is a whimsical tyrant who neglects his Royal duties, never pays his subjects, only cares about his looks and executes anyone who dares to question him (in an extravagant way to add more pleasure to his experience).
- Lazy Bum: He doesn't actively rule Atlantic City. Granted, it is a very well-developed and wealthy city, but as Chancellor points out, the king only cares about his good looks and neglects his Royal duties because of it.
- Mean Boss: He has a chancellor whom he overworks and neglects to pay.
- 0% Approval Rating: It turns out everyone in Atlantic City dislikes him, including his own administrator (whose been a long-suffering Beleaguered Assistant), and that his subjects only pretended to like him because they were afraid of his power.
Otto
Otto
"You're fired."
Voiced by: Awkwafina
A robot that Sandy invented and gave to Mr. Krabs. Later discarded and adopted by Plankton and Karen who use him to drive SpongeBob to Atlantic City.
- Ambiguous Gender: Appears to be a male robot based on the masculine name and being referred to as "he" by Sandy. Although, some characters also use "it" to refer to Otto, and Otto is also played by a woman and speaks with a noticeably feminine voice. As a robot, Otto might just simply not have a gender.
- Character Catchphrase: "You're fired." Often said at inopportune times due to being programmed by Sandy as a managerial personality.
- Happily Adopted: After being fired for being too good at it's job by Mr. Krabs, it got "adopted" by Plankton and Karen, who she sees it as a sort of son to her.
- The Gambling Addict: Is revealed to have become this after spending too much time in Atlantic City.
- Troll: Seems to enjoy frustrating people.
Sage
Sage
"I'm made out of sage, and I am a sage. So it works out pretty well."
Played by: Keanu Reeves
A mystical sagebush who gives SpongeBob advice.
- Big Good: He's the most powerful force in the movie who aids SpongeBob and Patrick in saving Gary.
- Only Sane Man: Is an adult having to intervene in the childish duo of SpongeBob and Patrick misinterpreting his instructions about the Sage Coin or getting distracted by the fantastic luxuries and entertainment in Atlantic City. After the two gamble away the coin, Sage walks out fed up with them screwing up the mission to save Gary.
- So Proud of You: Though he does returns at the end to praise SpongeBob for being able to retrieve Gary and force Poseidon to have a change-of-heart.
- Spirit Advisor: Acts as this to SpongeBob and Patrick.
El Diablo
El Diablo
Played by: Danny Trejo
A fearful gunman in a Western town who Sage claims is controlling the zombies souls.
- The Dreaded: He gets very little description other than being this.
- Villain Song: Gets one with Snoop Dogg and a bunch of dancing zombies expressing that he's a fearful Western shooter.
- Weakened by the Light: How SpongeBob and Patrick defeat him.
