Squidward Tentacles

Squidward Tentacles is the tritagonist of the animated franchise . 
He is the next-door neighbor of SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star, as well as the rude, grumpy, pessimistic, and lazy cashier of the Krusty Krab restaurant. He is the most unpopular guy in Bikini Bottom as he considers everyone around him as idiots.
Despite this, he is also quite sympathetic, as his life is little more than a dismal failure, and he is constantly pushed to the brink of insanity by his mischievous neighbors. SpongeBob and Patrick consider Squidward to be their best friend, but this feeling is not reciprocated. Despite this, Squidward does occasionally express kindness, respect and compassion towards SpongeBob, especially when he's actually well-behaved.
Squidward is passionate about reading, art, and music, and is especially fond of playing the clarinet, though no one considers his music or artwork to be noteworthy. His arch-rival is a wealthy octopus named Squilliam Fancyson.
He is voiced by , who also voiced Professor Membrane in Invader Zim, Rokit and Flamzer in Mixels. 
==Appearance==
Squidward is a turquoise octopus with purple suction cups, dark red eyes with yellow sclerae, and dark turquoise liver spots on top of his head.
Squidward just wears a brown polo shirt. At the Krusty Krab, he wears the Krusty Krew hat to go with it. At nighttime, he wears a pink nightshirt with a matching sleeping cap.
==Personality==
Squidward is best described as arrogant, short-tempered, pretentious, and cynical who strongly despises his neighbors for their constant boisterous, noisy behavior. However, the pair are unaware of Squidward's antipathy towards them and see him as a friend. Squidward works as a cashier at the Krusty Krab restaurant, a job that he is apathetic towards.
Squidward also has a passion and interest in reading, arts, and music, and is very fond of playing the clarinet, though no one considers him to be very good at it, the same for his artwork due to his bad taste. This, however, not always the case as on some occasions, his artistic talents somewhat more improved than it used to be.
The post-movie seasons (Season 4 and so on which set between events from both the first 3 seasons and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) revealed that his misery, and inability to see the positive side of his neighbor's antics has developed a darker side of his personality where he sometimes becomes wrathful, indifferent, and sadistic. The revelation of these negative traits was previously foreshadowed by him nearly killing SpongeBob with his brutal booby trap joke in the retaliation of the latter's annoying but harmless jokes in the Fools in April episode. 
Not only that, in various cases of his antagonistic acts that he performed, he sometimes has done so in a more malicious manner where he unknowingly became slave-driver for SpongeBob as seen in Can You Spare A Dime?, and Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost, fooling anyone to gain an advantage for improving his life despite the small percentage of success, or the worst, illegal acts include verbal and physical abuse that threatened him to be sent to jail. The worst instances of his antagonism are when he expresses his lack of remorse and genuine malice was when reading SpongeBob's diary aloud, disagreed with his friends' idea to bring SpongeBob back home after feeling remorseful of their abuse on him in retaliation of misfortunes that he unintentionally caused, and lended his lawnmower to both SpongeBob and Patrick hoping that they harmed themselves by accident wherein this case, he potentially crosses MEH regardless of whether he makes amends or not. These negative traits were reasons why some Bikini Bottomites antagonize him out of sheer hatred.
However, Squidward is not a heartless character as he had a softer side which is hidden under his sadistic, wrathful, and narcissistic personality. To some degree, he's friends with SpongeBob and Patrick but incapable to see the positive side of their childish antics, reason why he tends to loathe them more than truly love them. He also has a romantic relationship with his girlfriend Squilvia (a relationship that only explored in an episode where she featured at). Squidward has shown leniency to SpongeBob more than one time. The proof that he cares about SpongeBob was when he rescued him from an incoming truck and stood up to an angry drink-obsessed fish for hurting SpongeBob's feelings all because he didn't get his beverage (even though he didn't actually order it) and slammed a pizza in his face in "Pizza Delivery". In "Born Again Krabs", he berated Krabs for sold the sponge's soul for the Flying Dutchman. As he did, he expresses genuine disgust on Krabs' ungrateful action that made the crab regretful over his actions. Squidward actually does like SpongeBob, something that he apparently is simply unwillingly to admit most of the time: in the episode "Graveyard Shift", when he thinks he is about to get killed by the "Hash-slinging Slasher", Squidward admits to SpongeBob that, despite what he has said in the past, he "always sort of likes [him]" (SpongeBob confesses in response that he uses Squidward's clarinet to unclog his toilet). In Sponge On The Run, when SpongeBob went to find Gary with Patrick's aid, Squidward admitted that things aren't the same without him and later on, he stood up for SpongeBob to Poseidon, saying that despite he thinks SpongeBob is annoying, he is still his friend who does not deserve to die.
The reason why he mostly grumpy at times can be traced back when he had a garden as seen in episode Truth or Square. At that time, Squidward appeared to have a happier personality, until a pineapple fell from a sailor's boat to the ocean and crushed his garden, destroying it. Not long afterwards, SpongeBob showed up and decided to modify the pineapple into a house that we know today as Squidward mourned over the loss of his garden. His garden's destruction depressed Squidward so much that he becomes bitter and presumably never told his new neighbor about what has happened in the first place.
==Relationships ==
===Family=== 
*Grandma Tentacles - Grandmother
*Jeff Tentacles - Father
*Mrs. Tentacles - Mother
*Unnamed Cousins
===Friends===
*SpongeBob SquarePants - Neighbor and Situational Enemy
*Patrick Star - Neighbor and Situational Enemy
*Mr. Krabs - Boss and Situational Enemy
*Sandy Cheeks
*Pearl Krabs - Adoptive niece
===Enemies===
* Sheldon J. Plankton - Business Rival and Situational Ally
* Squilliam Fancyson - Archenemy and Rival
*Flying Dutchman - Attempted Killer
*DoodleBob
*Dirty Bubble
*Man Ray
==Powers and Abilities==
*Intelligence: Squidward is actually smarter than SpongeBob and even Mr. Krabs in many ways, as he had better IQ and more knowledgeable than the latter like Sandy due to the fact that giant pacific octopuses have 9 brains.
*Boneless: Like SpongeBob, Squidward has been shown to be quite fragile due to his laced bones. Although, he sometimes is shown to have bones depending on the writer of the episodes.
*Superhuman Durability: Squidward is very durable, as he is known to survive numerous injuries that a real person cannot survive, such as nuclear explosions, driving a truck off a large cliff, falling into a bucket of lava, etc.
*Artistic Skills: Squidward proved himself as the artist with promising talent in singing, painting, sculpture, playing his trademark clarinet, etc. Unfortunately, he's not always appreciated on his works due to his somewhat bad taste.
*Magma Manipulation: As Captain Magma, he can control and fires magma blasts from the volcanic cone on his mask. Unfortunately, due to lack of proper mastery over his powers, it resulted in him accidentally toasting SpongeBob (where ironically, he didn't intend to harm him as his intended target was Man-Ray, Dirty Bubble, and evil Barnacle Boy).
*Sonic Wave Emission: As Sour Note, he can fire sonic waves (which often depicted as a blast of bubbles) from his signature clarinet, either in form of sonic waves that paralyze everyone who hears it and in the form of a concussive beam.
== Heroic Acts==
===Season 1=== 
*Pizza Delivery: Squidward sympathized with SpongeBob after the customer berated him for allegedly forgetting his Diet Dr. Kelp and gave the mean-spirited customer a well-deserved punishment by throwing the pizza at his face. Additionally, earlier in the episode, Squidward risked his own life to save SpongeBob from getting run over by a speeding truck when SpongeBob tried hitchhiking.
*Texas: Squidward is one of the people who agreed to participate in Texas-themed party that SpongeBob wanted to use to cheer Sandy up.
===Season 2===
*Dying for Pie: In this episode, Squidward buys a bomb disguised as a pie from a band of pirates thinking it was a real pie which he could give SpongeBob for Employee Brotherhood Day. After he and Mr. Krabs discover it was actually a bomb, they want to get rid of it to save SpongeBob, but they are seemingly too late as SpongeBob seems to have already eaten the pie. Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that SpongeBob will die after the sunset and Squidward decides to give SpongeBob the best final day he could ever imagine. To do that, he agrees to spend time with SpongeBob doing various activities, some of which are embarrassing and even dangerous things such as walking around town in a salmon costume and letting SpongeBob open his chest and poke his heart.
*Christmas Who?: Initially, Squidward is the only one who doesn't believe in Santa Claus, doesn't write him a letter nor celebrate his coming. After everyone is disappointed that Santa Claus doesn't come, Squidward even makes fun of SpongeBob for what he believed. However, after SpongeBob gave him a wooden clarinet as a gift, he feels guilty for making fun of him and wants to cheer up a saddened SpongeBob. He masks himself as Santa Claus to make SpongeBob believe Santa really did come. When others hear "Santa Claus" arrived, they come to Squidward asking for their gifts. Squidward gives away all of his possessions as gifts so that SpongeBob doesn't breakdown again.
===Season 3===
*Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V: He, along with SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy, joins Mermaid Man to help him fight against Every Villain Is Lemons. However, he only did it for his convenience as Mr. Krabs told him that he will fire him if he doesn't help. He became Captain Magma and gained the ability to shoot magma out of his head. When the heroes confronted the enemies, Squidward ended up causing more harm than good as he accidentally shoot magma on The Quickster's (SpongeBob's) head, which caused a chained reaction in which the heroes ended up defeating themselves.
*Born Again Krabs: He is horrified when Mr. Krabs sells SpongeBob's soul to the Flying Dutchman for 62 cents right after SpongeBob stood up for Krabs. He furiously reprimanded Mr. Krabs for his actions, telling him that he should be ashamed of himself.
*Missing Identity: After SpongeBob loses his name tag, Squidward advises SpongeBob to retrace his steps to find it.
*SpongeBob Meets the Strangler: After SpongeBob calls the police on a man throwing around garbage, Squidward warns him that he called the police on a dangerous criminal, the Tattletale Strangler, who promised to strangle anyone who turns him in.
===The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie===
After learning that Plankton stole King Neptune's crown in order to frame Mr. Krabs so that he could steal the secret formula, Squidward confronts him and tells him that he knows what he did since he listens to public radio. Because Plankton's actions led to Mr. Krabs being frozen, Squidward no longer gets paid so he now wants to report Plankton to King Neptune. However, Plankton activates a mind-control device which he distributed as hats among his customers and captures Squidward, preventing him from exposing him. Squidward became another of Plankton's slave until he was freed by SpongeBob's "Goofy Goofer Rock". He and the other citizen as well King Neptune and Princess Mindy watched Plankton's arrest for his crimes. Squidward pass down his manager tag to SpongeBob.
===Season 4===
*Rule of Dumb: Squidward tells the Bikini Bottomites that Patrick isn't a king and that it is impossible for someone like him to be king of anything but idiots. The Bikini Bottomites agree and stop supporting Patrick who, until then, was acting like a jerk toward everyone and abused his power.
*Best Day Ever: Being grateful to SpongeBob for fixing his clarinet and enabling him to perform his concert, Squidward agrees to do something for SpongeBob. He, along with Mr. Krabs, Sandy and Patrick participate in a musical performance requested by SpongeBob.
===Season 5 ===
*Waiting: He "fixes" a toy which SpongeBob and Patrick thought was broken.
*Fungus Among Us: After learning SpongeBob is infected with fungus, he calls the emergency services to quarantine him.
*Boat Smarts: He participated in Mrs. Puff's documentary to show what a good driver is supposed to be like.
==Quotes==
==Trivia== 
*Steve Carell, Alan Cumming, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Driver, and Ed Helms were all considered for the role of Squidward for the live-action film adaptation to the series.
*As noted by fans and suggested by writer/voice actor Doug Lawrence in the DVD commentary for the season one episode "Plankton!", main casts of SpongeBob SquarePants were intended to represent Seven Deadly Sins. In Squidward's case, he represented Wrath due to seemingly in perpetual bad mood, extremely short temper, and only seeing the worst in everyone.
*Squidward seems to have a rivalry with Gary, SpongeBob's snail. To a lesser extent, he also archenemies to Samantha "Sam" Star, Patrick's older sister due to nearly killing each other when finally fed up with her behavior which turned out more volatile than Patrick.
*As with the rest of the main casts, Squidward's portrayal in post first movie seasons (Season 4-Season 9) became increasingly negative as a result of his worst traits exaggerated through the show's Flanderization, with his portrayal in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Little Yellow Book where he was at his worst. Fortunately, this has since revised following the end of Season 9.
* His voice sounds like Bert from the Sesame Street series and Mr. Bean from Mr. Bean: The Animated Series.
*Ironically, Squidward has shown himself to be a better friend to SpongeBob than Patrick on several occasions. Squidward stood up for SpongeBob when he was being mistreated such as in “Pizza Delivery” and “Born Again Krabs”. Patrick however, would constantly backstab and eagerly throw SpongeBob under the bus, and he was uncaring of SpongeBob’s predicament in “Stuck In The Wringer”.
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