SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a licensed platform video game based on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ. Originally released in 2003 for the Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation 2, and Xbox, it would prove popular enough of a game to get an HD remake titled Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated over seventeen years later, released on the Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Windows operating systems on June 23, 2020. This remake would be developed by Purple Lamp Studios, and released by THQ Nordic. Game Boy Advance and Windows versions of the original game also exist, but they're wildly different in presentation: the Game Boy version of Battle for Bikini Bottom is a 2D Platformer developed by Vicarious Visions, while the Windows version is a point-and-click adventure game developed by AWE Games.

The game opens with Plankton having created a machine called the Duplicatotron 3000, which can create an army of dangerous robots in record time. He aims to use these robots to finally steal the coveted Krabby Patty secret formula, but in true Plankton fashion his plan goes horribly wrong. Because it turns out that for some ungodly reason, he installed a "Don't Obey" option on the machine, which causes the robots to rebel against him, kick him out of his own restaurant, and start wreaking havoc across Bikini Bottom.

Meanwhile, Spongebob Squarepants and his best friend Patrick Star make a wish on a "magic wishing shell" for some robots to play with. The next day they'd get their wish all right, and Spongebob would wake up to find his house and Bikini Bottom as a whole trashed and in complete chaos thanks to the antics of the robot horde. Believing that his wish was responsible for this mess, this absorbent, yellow, and porous unlikely hero takes matters into his own hands and vows to stop this newfound cybernetic menace... with some help from Patrick and Sandy Cheeks, of course.

Tropes used in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom include:

• Abnormal Ammo: Tar-Tar and Slick robots will attack you with jets of tartar sauce and oil, while Robo-Patrick will puke up toxic sludge that looks like ice cream during his boss fight.
• Action Bomb: Thunder Tikis, which will explode after you attack them or step within their detection radius. The aptly-named Bomb-Bots are a more aggressive variant of this trope and will actively chase you down.
• Action Girl: Sandy, who puts her karate and lassoing skills to good use against the mechanized hordes.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted. While Plankton's robots are rebelling against him, they're actually following their orders to the letter... it just so happens that their orders are for them to not obey him. Played straight later on though, where the "Obey" order simply causes them to follow the orders of Robo-Plankton instead of their master.
• Airborne Mook: Chucks and Monsoons are both flying robots that will annoy you with projectile attacks fired off from a safe distance.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Every robot you run into is a dangerous troublemaker needing to be scrapped.
• Ambiguous Gender: Used to truly weird effect with Spongebot Steelpants. It's a robot modeled after the male Spongebob Squarepants, but Robo-Plankton calls it his bride after you beat it for the first time.
• Amusement Park: The boardwalk part of Goo Lagoon. Glove World would also count, had it made the cut.
• Arrow Cam: When you use the Cruise Bubble.
• Band Land: Squidward's Dream.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: SpongeBob thinks this trope is at play, making him the one responsible for the robot attacks. He eventually wises up, though.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Plankton came this close to being the game's proper villain, but his big mistake doomed him to be an ineffective whiner forced to boss Spongebob and friends around so he can take the Chum Bucket back from his rebellious robots.
• Big Boo's Haunt: The Flying Dutchman's Graveyard.
• Border Patrol: Hans, the photorealistic hand from the show serves this purpose. If you step into an out-of-bounds zone and linger there, he'll grab you and take you back to safety.
• Bubble Gun: Spongebob's bubble-blowing skills are surprisingly powerful when used in combat. Aside from weaponizing the bubbles himself, he can also create several powerful constructs like missiles and bowling balls.
• Call a Rabbit a Smeerp: The "throw fruits" Patrick can toss around are quite clearly watermelons with a different name.
• Cash Gate: If you neglect your Golden Spatula collection mission, you won't be making much progress through this game. Ditto for skipping out on Shiny Object hunting, because there are multiple literal cash gates that you can't bypass without some of her money in your bank.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Mermaidman's just as out of touch with reality as he usually is.
• Dream Land: SpongeBob's Dream, as well as the other dreams he visits within that dream.
• Drop the Hammer: Ham-mer robots will try to squash you flat with massive hammer hands that are designed to look like hams.
• Flunky Boss: King Jellyfish, who will summon swarms of jellyfish when you hurt him. Prawn will also summon Ham-mers every time you hit him.
• Gotta Catch Them All: Getting all 100 Golden Spatulas gets you a bonus clip featuring nearly every character in the game singing the series theme song.
• Green Hill Zone: Jellyfish Fields.
• Ground Pound: Patrick & SpongeBob have access to one. Sandy, however, does not.
• Heart Container: Golden underwear. There are three pairs scattered throughout the Hub world, and every time you find one you gain an extra hit point.
• Killer Robot: The main threat Spongebob and friends face off against.
• Lone Wolf Boss: King Jellyfish, Prawn, and the Flying Dutchman are all threats that are entirely disconnected from the robot menace. King Jellyfish attacks Spongebob after having his shower intruded upon, Prawn is taking advantage of the robot attacks to escape his prison in the Mermalair, and the Flying Dutchman tries to kill Spongebob and Sandy when they try to take a Golden Spatula he's grown possessive over.
• Lost Woods: Kelp Forest.
• Mook Maker: Duplicatotrons will constantly churn out new enemies until you destroy them. Arf robots will also summon countless Arf-Dawgs until they're defeated.
• Palmtree Panic: Goo Lagoon.
• Plot Coupon: The Golden Spatulas, which are collectibles that you'll need to access different levels.
• Poisonous Person: Robo-Patrick will try to drown you in toxic sludge, or simply spit it up at you after eating radioactive "ice cream".
• Ridiculously-Human Robots: Maybe "human" isn't the right term, but Robo-Patrick's a lot more expressive and lively than the other boss robots. He can emote, eat ice cream, and scream in pain while dying, while Robo-Sandy and Spongebot Steelpants don't pretend to be anything other than mindless killing machines.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Sand Mountain is meant to be a snow-capped mountain in spirit, complete with ski-lifts, sandmen, and sandboarding trails.
• Stout Strength: Patrick is the designated powerhouse out of all three playable characters, and can lift and toss enemies and heavy objects around like they're nothing.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Every level has innocent civilians you can beat up and harass to your heart's content. Getting the Golden Spatula and missing sock from Squidward's House even require you to exploit this by annoying the hell out of Squidward.