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{{quote| Voiced by: [[Tom Kenny]]}}
An outgoing sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, as the show's [[Theme Tune]] implies. Works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab. Although not very bright, he has a good heart and constantly strives to help his friends...even when they don't really ''want'' it.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Parents made a big controversy of his sexuality
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type I or IV]], [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[And Call Him George]]: His attitude towards Squidward
* [[Annoying Laugh]]: Sounds like a
* [[Asexual]]: [[Teasing Creator|Stephen Hillenburg]] plays around with this quite a bit. He mentions that Spongebob is asexual, but since actual sponges usually (though not always) reproduce by budding, he could be referring to the biological aspect only. Because there's little indication in-series that he's ever attracted to anyone, he might be asexual in orientation as well.
* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: The little to Patrick's big.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: He's the only character with an iris;
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Subverted in "Fools in April", played straight in "Have You Seen This Snail?" and others.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Despite his weirdness and frequent wacky antics, Spongebob is very good at his job and loves it so much that he'll gladly work without sleep. It's obvious that this is the only reason Mr. Krabs likes having him on the Krusty crew.
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* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
* [[Workaholic]]: At one point, Mr. Krabs's forcing him to take a vacation nearly caused him to ''go insane''; in "The Splinter", he frantically tries to avoid being sent home early; and this exchange from "Graveyard Shift" says it all:
{{quote| '''Mr. Krabs:''' From now on the Krusty Krab is open 24 hours a day.
'''Squidward:''' But Mr. Krabs...!
'''Spongebob:''' Wooow! Now we ''never have to stop working''! }}
== Patrick Star ==
{{quote| Voiced by: Bill Fagerbakke}}
A not-quite-bright starfish who is SpongeBob's best friend.
* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]] : All the freakin' time.
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* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: [[Fan Disservice]].
== Squidward
{{quote| Voiced by: Rodger Bumpass}}
A cranky perfectionist octopus who works as a cashier at the Krusty Krab.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: The krabby patty he made in "The Grass is Always Greener" deserves special mention.
** And this priceless little snippet:
{{quote| '''Customer #
'''Customer #2:''' [[Up to Eleven|My sandwich ]]''[[Up to Eleven|is ]]''[[Up to Eleven|a fried boot!]] }}
** Don't forget this:
{{quote| '''Customer #
'''Customer #2:''' He burnt my fries! <br />
'''Customer #3:''' He burnt my shake. }}
* [[Magma Man]]: As Captain Magma in ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V''.
* [["No Respect" Guy]]: One episode revolves around Spongebob thinking Squidward has died and is now haunting him. When he arranges a funeral for him, where the guests have this to say:
{{quote| '''Mr. Krabs:''' Oh, Squidward...we came as soon as we were sure you were dead.}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]
** [[Not So Above It All]]: If Squidward ''does'' partake in Spongebob's tomfoolery, he'll end up taking the games too seriously, ruining them for everyone else.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Sometimes shows compassion for others. "Pizza Delivery" is the most obvious where
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to SpongeBob's red.
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* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Into a non-anthro octopus ("Squid's Day Off") and an amorphus liquid ("Suction Cup Symphony").
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{{quote| Voiced by:
A scheming skinflint crustacean and owner of the Krusty Krab. His over-the-top greed and cheapness is played for laughs.
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** [[Depending on the Writer|Sometimes.]]
* [[Annoying Laugh]]
* [[Anti-Hero]] [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III --
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Plankton.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Several.
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* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: In later seasons.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: After the movie.
* [[Villain Protagonist]] (post-
== Sheldon Plankton ==
{{quote| Voiced by: Doug Lawrence}}
Krabs' business rival and arch-enemy. Is always after the formula for the Krabby Patty, the burger that SpongeBob fries up to the customers. Barring that, he ultimately aims for crushing all of Bikini Bottom beneath his feet.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Krabs, and sometimes SpongeBob.
* [[Big Bad]]: In episodes dealing with him and the Chum Bucket.
* [[Body Snatcher]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]
** [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: sometimes.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]
** "Ouch."
* [[The Chew Toy]]
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* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Karen had a ''really'' good time with this one.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: In "Walking Small", he's driven to a [[Villainous Breakdown]] after SpongeBob resolves to be "aggressively nice".
{{quote| '''Plankton:''' [[Troubled Fetal Position|Too...much...love...need...hatred...]]}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: With an exception in 'Wishing You Well'.
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: The reason why he doesn't have customers.
* [[Likes Older Women]]: He is attracted to Mr. Krabs's mother in one episode.
* [[The Napoleon]]
* [[Nice Guys Finish Last]]: Says this word-for-word in "Walking Small".
* [[Not So Harmless]]: In the movie and "Plankton's Army". There are other episodes that demonstrate this though.
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* [[Species Surname|Species Whole Name]]
* [[Take Over the World]]: His secondary goal, [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[Took a Level
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Sometimes. He varies from being on Sandy's level in terms of intelligence to being barely smarter than other characters.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Sometimes SpongeBob doesn't acknowledge him as an enemy.
== Karen Plankton ==
{{quote| Voiced by: Jill Talley}}
A talking supercomputer who is Plankton's sidekick and wife. She provides him with evil plans to steal the Krabby Patty formula.
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Sometimes laughs with the good guys against Plankton.
* [[All There in the Script]]: Her name wasn't mentioned at all in the "Plankton!" episode, but it was listed in the credits.
* [[Armless Biped]]: In the movie and most episodes from season 5-9, her mobile form does not have arms. From season 10 onwards, however, her mobile form always has them.
* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]: She mostly averts this as she is generally the dominant one in the relationship.
* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: She and Plankton tend to be the main villains of the show.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: The big to Plankton's little, since she's a large computer and he's a tiny crustacean.
* [[Breakout Villain]]: As mentioned above, Mr. Lawrence was responsible for turning the Planktons from one-off characters into the main villains.
* [[Character Development]]: She shows no signs of sentience in "Plankton!" but gains her personality in "F.U.N."
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: She gets so excited over how adorable Spot's puppies are in "Spot Returns" that she shuts down and spends several hours needing to be rebooted. When she comes back online and discovers even more puppies, she's even happier.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: In the post-movie episodes, she snarks at Plankton all the time.
* [[Equippable Ally]]: She is equippable with lasers, screensavers, and various software.
* [[Flanderization]]:
** Her sentience and, to a lesser but still noticeable extent, her DeadpanSnarker mannerisms. In the first season, she was always supportive of Plankton and focused on the mission. In the first movie, she became deadpan almost all of the time. While she has mostly reverted to her more cheerful demeanor as of season 9, she still shows signs of getting fed up with Plankton's ignorance at times.
** One aspect of her personality that was completely phased out was her unquestioning servitude to Plankton. She always helps with his plans and gives them to him in most cases, but she no longer does whatever he says when he demands it.
** An example of her unquestioning servitude can be seen in the Season 3 episode "The Algae's Always Greener". Plankton orders Karen to make him some dinner, so she gives him holographic meatloaf while saying—in a completely serious, non-sarcastic manner—"Yes, your majesty."
* [[Green Eyes]]: Whenever she has eyes.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: She successfully stole a Krabby Patty the first time she tried alone, with near zero effort (then again, it was against Squidward).
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: If a computer counts as a species, her and Plankton counts as a relationship between people of different species.
* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Had a very obvious Chicago accent even [[Characterization Marches On|before she had a personality]].
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: She even says to [=SpongeBob=] that she cannot feel for others because she physically does not have a heart.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Her full name is Karen Plankton, but she's a computer, not a plankton.
* [[Non Standard Character Design]]: Karen is the only one who is regularly drawn with wavy-lined borders instead of clean lines. This is because backgrounds and items in the show are normally drawn with wavy borders while characters aren't.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: She is a computer but nevertheless has a very strong love for Plankton deep down.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Played with. She supposedly has no heart but still feels a wide range of emotions. However, she still has some limitations such as being unable to eat (though she is turned into a Krabby Patty zombie in "Krabby Patty Creature Feature" when she is force-fed bits of the Krabby Patty zombies by having them stuffed into her disc drive).
* [[Robotic Spouse]]: Yes and no. Yes, Karen is a robot and she married her creator. But no, Plankton did ''not'' create her just to marry her. She was originally just the security system for the business he and Mr. Krabs ran together, before they began dating naturally. Their romance even began before Plankton became evil, and Karen was so faithful to him that she became evil as well.
* [[Satellite Character]]: She usually only interacts with Plankton and whoever else comes into the Chum Bucket. [[Justified]], seeing as she's a mostly immobile computer who was permanently stationed in the Chum Bucket for the first four seasons.
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: She plays crucial roles in both movies (authoring and telling Plankton about "Plan Z" in the first, powering the time machine in the second) but did not have much screen time in the trailers for them. However, she ''was'' featured in the associated merchandise, such as the Mega Bloks time machine playset for the 2015 movie.
* [[Snarky Inanimate Object]]: She's a computer and is pretty snarky in the later episodes.
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: She's a computer who aids Plankton in his plans and is prone to making snide remarks toward him.
* [[Talking Weapon]]: She has robotic abilities like lasers and death rays that make her a talking, walking weapon sometimes.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: The huge girl to Plankton's tiny guy.
* [[Tuckerization]]: Named after the wife of series creator Stephen Hillenburg.
* [[TV Head Robot]]: The head of her mobile unit looks a lot like a CRT television.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: She is much more clever and competent than her husband Plankton.
== Sandy Cheeks ==
{{quote| Voiced by: Carolyn Lawrence}}
An athlete/scientist squirrel from Texas.
* [[The Ace]]: Particularity as her appearances get less frequent.
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Badass Bookworm]] (Easily the most intelligent in the main cast, but often shown to be as physically strong as [[The Big Guy|Larry the Lobster]]. Also likes life-threatening stunts.)
* [[Balloon Belly]]: in a recent episode
* [[Berserk Button]]: Never ever insult anything/anyone from Texas, or even the state itself. You will regret it, as SpongeBob and Patrick faced the serious consequences.
** Or rip all of her fur off (Sponge Bob and Patrick do this to her during the hibernation episode, when she finds out she beats them and then uses them as bikinis), or kick her in the butt (Squidward is trying to put a band together, when Sponge Bob asks him if they can start kicking now, Squidward replies that they only do that during chorus lines, then Patrick responds by saying he wants to kick something, he does kick Sandy in the butt, causing her to clobber him with a trombone, he later does it again with the same effect happening).
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Not as much as the others but Sandy suffers some physical damage at times, such as being mauled by a gorilla, having her fur torn off by Spongebob and Patrick, being plagued with fleas, being hit by a car off of a mountain and so on.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Flip flops with this. While she is far more intelligent than most of the cast, she is occasionally shown to have a very rowdy and abrasive temperment when pushed. She is also sometimes more aware of her position in this trope [[Small Name, Big Ego|than she really is]]. Granted as the rest of the cast became Flanderized more and more, her own flaws became less significant.
* [[Competition Freak]]: Sandy is used to being the best at multiple talents and sports, so gets rather aggressive with when challenged.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Inverted: She and Gary are more common in merchandise than the show.
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]
* [[Fish Out of Water]] (Played straight, though she's [[Captain Obvious|actually a squirrel IN water]])
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The Choleric
* [[Invisibility]]: As Miss Appear in ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V''.
* [[The Ladette]] (by many fan [[Alternate Character Interpretation|interpretations]].)
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Masculine Girl to SpongeBob's Feminine Boy.
* [[Only Sane Woman]]
* [[Out of Focus]] (Appears less and less with each season, it seems).
* [[Panty Shot]]: Frequently
* [[Parody Sue]]: A few episodes, especially in the Second Season, seem to [[Lampshade Hanging|make light of]] her [[God Mode Sue|somewhat lengthy amount of talents]] and [[Canon Sue|positive aspects]], it also usually being these points she was portrayed in a more flawed light. May count as an example of [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]] with those elements considered.
* [[Positive Discrimination]] (Arguable example. Is the most gifted and least flawed central character by miles, though partly due to excessive [[Flanderization]] of the bipedal, male characters. Admittedly it is also balanced by frequent [[Not So Above It All]] moments).
** She played it undeniably straight pre-[[Character Development]] however.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]] (Albeit [[Depending on the Writer|not as consistently]] as Squidward).
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]].
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: The only main character that isn't either a [[Jerkass]] or a moron.
** Her occasional [[Small Name, Big Ego|ego]] and [[Berserk Button|temperament]] can provoke some unfortunate situations in the show (eg. ''Pressure), that said, she is arguably the one recurring character that hasn't had her flaws [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] over her redeeming aspects.''
* [[Too Clever by Half]]
== Mrs. Puff ==
{{quote| Voiced by: Mary Jo Catlett}}
SpongeBob's patient but paranoid teacher at boating school, who is a pufferfish.
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Several episodes demonstrate that SpongeBob's antics have taken quite the toll on her mental health. "Doing Time" ends with her having repeated hallucinations of the episode's beginning, and in "Krusty Love", she has a very PTSD-like reaction by just hearing SpongeBob's voice. Though she's still able to calm down when he points out they're not driving.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Sort of. She's far more level headed than Spongebob, but she shows occasional incompetance as a teacher.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: In "Demolition Doofus" when she becomes obsessed with attempting to get SpongeBob killed in a demolition match, and tries to kill him herself when that fails.
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Despite the occasional dark tint, she's more level-headed than most of the other main characters. SpongeBob is constantly grating on her sanity however.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: According to at least one conversation, she has previously skipped town under a different name.
* [[December-December Romance]]: She and Mr. Krabs are close to being senior citizens and have each been married before, but that doesn't stop them from falling in love and continuing to date (for nearly two decades, as revealed in ''Whirly Brains'').
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: She falls victim to this in the episode "No Free Rides". Sick and tired of having to go through SpongeBob's chaotic driving tests, she comes up with a bogus extra credit test to just give him his driver's license and get him out of her classroom. It's only after she does so that it hits her that she has just given SpongeBob free reign to drive on public streets and wreak havoc there.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: The first time we see her, in "Boating School" (episode 4), she is at her school watching SpongeBob dance around and says "I'm not ready..."
* [[Nervous Wreck]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
== Pearl Krabs ==
{{quote|Voiced by: Lori Alan}}
Mr. Krabs' beloved teenage daughter, who is a sperm whale.
* [[Animals Not to Scale]]: She is a whale who's only twice the size of miniature creatures like starfish and crabs. Some international dubs justify this by claiming she is a ''baby'' whale, but she is 16 (mentally, at least).
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Depending on the writer in the more modern episodes.
* [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin']]: In "Bossy Boots", she goes to work for the Krusty Krab during her summer vacation, and makes multiple changes to the restaurant that effectively ruin her father's business. As it turns out, all the changes she made were because she was deliberately trying to get fired, but Krabs simply didn't have the heart to fire his own daughter. So SpongeBob, who was sent to fire her anyway, "pretends" to fire her so she could go and enjoy her summer vacation.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: in ''Dunces and Dragons''
* The Dreaded Pretend Tea Party: When SpongeBob enters her dream in "Sleepy Time" and sees that she's having a fake tea party, he asks her how to get to Mr. Krabs' dream instead.
* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Her boyfriend was (unexpectedly) a nerdy little baitfish...although she [[Informed Attractiveness|describes him as incredibly "long, tan, and handsome"]]
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Considering she's a whale among little animals like starfish and squirrels.
* [[Non Standard Character Design]]: She's the only one with monocular vision: eyes on the sides of her head rather than in front.
* [[Out of Focus]]: In later seasons.
* [[Valley Girl]]: Borderline Case — she actually falls somewhere between this and a deconstruction of the [[Alpha Bitch]].
== Gary ==
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Tom Kenny]]}}
SpongeBob's pet snail, who meows like a cat.
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Subverted
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]
* [[Odd Name Out]]:
* [[Out of Focus]]:
* [[Silent Snarker]]
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: Despite all of them [[Captain Obvious|being sea creatures and all]] (except
* [[Talking to Himself]]: With SpongeBob.
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: One of the few characters who is not a Jerkass, an antagonist, or a moron.
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{{quote| Voiced by:
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: He returns in "Feral Friends" after years of only appearing in commercials and in stop-motion form ("It's a [=SpongeBob=] Christmas!").
* [[Butt Monkey]]: He gets a lot of misfortunes in the segments featuring him.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: If something bad happens during his segments, it's usually him it'll happen to.
* [[Excited Kids' Show Host]]: ''Especially'' since he's played by Creator/TomKenny.
* [[Fanboy]]: He's the president of the [=SpongeBob=] fan club.
* [[Man Child]]: He's a fully-grown man who's more obsessed with SpongeBob than most of the kids watching the show could ever be.
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Despite being a pirate, we never see him doing any actual looting or plundering.
* [[Pirate Parrot]]: Has an obnoxious parrot on his shoulder named Potty.
* [[Straw Loser]]: He's an immature fanboy who has no life outside of [=SpongeBob=]. Nothing ever goes right for him, and Potty only seems to hang around him to make wisecracks at his expense. Even the narrator calls him a loser at the end of The Lost Episode.
* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]: The accent and outfit go along well with it.
* [[Token Human]]: Notably the only recurring character who is a live-action person.
== Mermaid Man ==
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* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: He's apparently married (although we never see his wife), because he hit on a female fish at a party, who eyed him skeptically and noticed his wedding ring.
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{{quote|Voiced by:
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: Has the color of a boiled lobster
* [[
* [[
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Post-movie (although it could be [[justified]] given that he was never an important character anyway). He wasn't seen at all in season six.
* [[Only One Name]]
* [[Talking to Himself]]: He and Plankton have the same voice actor.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]
== SpongeBob's Gramma (Grandma SquarePants) ==
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* [[Supreme Chef]]
* [[Out of Focus]]: Post-movie, borderlining on [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]], as she didn't appear at all in seasons six or seven.
== Man Ray ==
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* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Somewhat of an example; in his few
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Unsatisfiable Customer]]: Type 4, since he was making false complaints for SpongeBob's flawless service, either for a free Krabby Patty or just to [[Mind Screw]] SpongeBob [[For the Lulz]].
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* [[The Bully]]
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
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== Realistic Fish Head ==
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]
* [[Fourth Wall Portrait]]
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