Flying Dutchman

**It's The Real Flying Dutchman!**

**-K.C. From The Scaredy Cat Episode**

## Summary

"Flying Dutchman" Is The Scary Ghost From The Story K.C. Told To The Babies In The Nursery Evrey Night! He First Appeared In Both Spongebob And Mia Kitten Episodes Such As Scaredy Pants And Scaredy Cat.

## Personally

During all of his appearances, the Flying Dutchman proves to be anything but a "friendly ghost." Though his role in the series is to be the devil of the nursery, he constantly varies from a sea demon to a restless soul or even as a psychopompic judge to the dead. The Flying Dutchman has been consistently shown to be gruff, malicious and even downright sadistic, scaring people and stealing their souls out simply for fun, and in his first full appearance in "Scaredy Cat," he attempts to steal the souls of everyone in the Tots Nursery simply because Mia's ridiculous costume as the Flying Dutchman was the ultimate insult to his image while interacting with her. The latter trait shows that he is extremely prideful.

Despite his antisocial behavior and malevolence, the Flying Dutchman is not pure evil without companionship.

He has a number of ghost friends and has the capability to bond with other people in case they have the same interests or objectives. He is also a notorious womanizer, with not even mortal women being free from his teasers. While the Flying Dutchman takes strong delight in scaring people, he does not live exclusively to haunt mortals, having sometimes tormented them only out of boredom, or otherwise because someone provoked him. Although, he is no saint, the Flying Dutchman has a strong sense of justice and has been known to reward people for good deeds done towards him or to punish wicked souls, taking his role as a Psychopomp very seriously, and has been known to keep promises as seen in "Shanghaied," when he grants three wishes to Mia and the gang in exchange for his sock.

While he has a penchant for scaring, he's shown to be a rather dirty coward. This is shown despite having reality-bending powers, he refuses to scare a strong and imposing fish, preferring to scare the weak instead.

## Powers And Abilities

The Flying Dutchman is shown to be one of the most powerful supernatural beings in the ocean, rivaling King Neptune. Though The Flying Dutchman's skills vary from episode to episode, he has been consistently capable to levitate, and teleport in a cloud of smoke preceded by a storm. In his first appearance, he is shown to be capable of stealing souls and fire-breathing through his nose. He has also shown to be capable of opening dimensional portals to banish his enemies. He has shown to be capable of manipulating matter, even turning SpongeBob and Patrick into ghosts and making objects appear out of thin air, and granting wishes.

However, of all his incarnations, his most "frightening" appearance was in "Ghost Host," where he was able to shape shift into numerous horrific forms and warped reality effortlessly. Ever since he had been stealing souls and devouring them, there is no approximate limit to how much he can empower himself, and this is what caused him to reach into godhood over the years. The only limitation to his powers regards his ghost tail. Despite being a champion in looping for centuries, he has long forgotten how to tie his shoes and it's later shown that he cannot eat without his "dining sock."

His most powerful and dangerous ability, though, was seen in "Ghoul Fools," in which he pulled out one of his eyes and transformed into an atomic bomb, after which he launched himself into the ground. The blast from this attack was so powerful that everyone caught within the blast radius was sent to the Void.

"The Ghost of Angelica" shows that he can possess people's bodies, as he possessed Angelica's body.

## History

He debuted in the episode "Pip the Unfriendly Ghost" as a cameo in a magazine. He later debuted physically in the episode "Scaredy Cat," appearing at the nursery to tell everyone there how offended he is by people dressing up as him for Halloween, and that Mia And Her Demi Lovato's costumes are the worst of all. Before he is about to steal the souls of everyone present, he first takes off Mia And Her Demi Lovato's ghost costumes, revealing Mia's brain being exposed as a result of Chloe shaving her. This scares the Flying Dutchman and he flees in terror.

He appeared again in the episode "Arrgh!," where he is awoken by K.C., Mia, and Chloe fighting over a treasure chest. The chest is revealed to belong to the Flying Dutchman, and he questions who found his treasure chest. Afraid, K.C. blames it on Mia and Chloe, and when they nervously confirm it, he takes his treasure and congratulates them and rewards them with one gold coin each. Jealous, K.C. asks for his reward, but he only receives a tiny plastic treasure chest, which the Flying Dutchman explains is "based on a real treasure chest" as he disappears, laughing maniacally.

In "Your Shoe's Untied," he was summoned by Mia's cries of anguish about not finding someone who actually wears shoes. The Flying Dutchman says that he has held the Fancy Knotting Contest Champion for 3,000 years, and teaches her a thing or two about knots and shows her various knots. However, when Mia asks for a knot for tying shoes, she is stumped when the Flying Dutchman says that he doesn't need to tie her shoes, due to him being a ghost and no longer having feet. He even stated that he hasn't worn shoes for over 5,000 years. But this fact doesn't impede his enjoyment of wearing a sock on his ghostly tail.

He had his first major role in the episode "Shanghaied," forcing Mia, Chloe, and Pip to be part of his crew forever when they board his ship. Pip instead is sent through the Fly of Despair as punishment for his constant complaining and annoyance. However, when Mia and Chloe damage his ship and fail to scare the storks of T.O.T.S., he decides to eat them. However, when they steal his dining sock to prevent him from eating them, he catches them and tries to get it back, until Chloe declares that they reached an impasse. To get his sock back, he makes a deal with them that if they give him back his sock, he will give them three wishes, and they accept the deal. Chloe wishes that she wished she would have known that earlier, and Mia wishes for Pip's return and the Flying Dutchman being a vegetarian so he would not be able to eat them. However, instead of going home, they are turned into fruit and are chased by the Flying Dutchman in his ship, which is now a hippie van with a sail.

In "Born Again Koala," he appeared in K.C.'s bedroom to condemn her to "Davy Jones' locker." But however, because K.C. was begging to be freed, the Flying Dutchman gave her another chance, as long as she will always be generous from now on, and K.C. promises (thinking she is only having a "bad dream"). K.C. returns to the Nursery less cheap and more generous, but she becomes cheap once again after realizing that she is not in a bad dream and the whole thing is real, the Flying Dutchman returns to take her back to the locker. However, Mia loudly says she is not cheap bets that she would choose her over all the money in the Flying Dutchman's pocket. K.C. chooses the money and Mia is instead condemned to the locker, but after Pip scolds her for doing so, K.C. realizes what she just did and regrets it. Then, the Flying Dutchman brings Mia back because of his constant annoyance, and Mia later annoys her once again on the fly-pad.

He then appeared in the episode "Baby Talk" he appears to grant K.C.'s wish of translating to the babies if he sells his soul, which K.C. accepts. Later, K.C. starts to regret his deal with the Flying Dutchman and demands it to be put off, and he appears and refuses to put off the deal. However, before he is about to take K.C.'s soul, he says he already sold it. Then suddenly, a group of monster-like ghosts, including Mia, are lined up and reveal that K.C. sold her soul to them too.

In "Mia And Angelica vs. The Big One," he accidentally bumps into K.C. at the middle of the Dutchman's Triangle while on her flight home from the grocery store (After When Pip And Freddy Picked Her Up) and spills her groceries. To buy more groceries, he tries to get money from K.C. by stealing his cash register, and a fight starts. Later, the Flying Dutchman gets ahold of the register, but he accidentally releases the tray, which hits him and sends him to Davy Jones' locker, where he is tortured by Davy Jones himself.

In "The Curse of T.O.T.S.," he turns Mia and Chloe into baby ghosts as punishment for accidentally shaving his beard off while playing with Pip's ice cube lawnmower. Later, not wanting to be ghosts anymore, Pip and Freddy bring Mia And Chloe over to the Flying Dutchman plead him to turn Mia And Chloe back to normal, and he does, but the curse will not wear off until his beard grows back for his date. Because of this, they decide to replace it. At the end, Mia herself replaces his beard for several months until it grew back. Later, the Flying Dutchman appears to Mia and Chloe and reveals that his girlfriend wants to marry him, but he says he is "not the marrying-type". Then, when a giant monster, who is apparently his date, pops out from the horizon of the background, he runs away in fear.

In "Ghoul Fools," where he finds Lord Poltergeist's haunted house boat and plans to reclaim the treasure chest filled with doubloons Poltergeist stole from him. Poltergeist tried to escape, but the haunted house boat broke down. Then, the Flying Dutchman turned into a bomb that makes a huge void that sucks everyone present (Poltergeist, Mia, Chloe, Pip, K.C., and Freddy) inside.

In "Angelica Gets the Boot," he makes a cameo on a board game box.

In "The Legend of Boo-Tot-ville," he enjoys himself on Halloween until he is halted by Mia's giggling, who used to be scared until Chloe told her that scary equals funny. He tried to scare Mia numerous times, but she still thought it was funny. The Flying Dutchman then stole the souls of Mia's friends and locked them in cages as they call for help. Mia then started to become scared and ran away. Despite being scared, Mia returns to save her friends with the help of Demi Lovato Acorn Puppy. However, she ends up destroying the puppy, and the Flying Dutchman laughs at her. Angelica mentions the "scary" things Mia has inside her brain, and the Flying Dutchman decides to have a look inside her brain. However, he ends up becoming scared of the things in Mia's brain and flees in fear.

In "Shopping List," Freddy and Mia secretly steal some of his dandruff, one of the "ingredients" of the Kitty Kibble. Angelica, however, fails to do so and is caught by the Flying Dutchman.

He also makes a cameo in the episode "Appointment TV."

In "The Ghost of Angelica," he teaches Angelica all the basics of being a ghost. He also jump scares the viewers at the end.