Iron Dogfish

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### Methods of Attack

Spitting Boulders, Launching Boulders, Charging

### Character Fought

Squidward

The **Iron Dogfish** is an enemy in Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom. He is the second boss in the game and is fought near the end of Tentacle Acres by Squidward.

## Appearance

The Iron Dogfish is a hybrid between a dog and a fish, having both traits of said animals. Its upper body resembles that of an American Staffordshire Terrier. It has a brown head and arms, a blue-colored torso, nose and lips, a dark blue underbelly, and a greyish tail. It has sharp white teeth on both its upper and lower jaw.

## Patterns

### Phase 1

Before the boss fight even begins, the player must avoid the Iron Dogfish chasing them down after Squidward and Patrick trigger the security alarms in Tentacle Acres.

### Phase 2

The Iron Dogfish has a predictable yet hard-to-avoid fight pattern during its boss fight, spitting and flinging boulders whose trajectories are shown as green lines and circles on the ground. During the fight, Patrick will run to and from the Boatmobile to supply Squidward with mayonnaise jars to throw at the Iron Dogfish. The player can miss their shots, but Patrick always brings them more mayonnaise. At the end of the fight, the Iron Dogfish does one final attack where it charges at the player, the player must throw one final tub of mayo at the Iron Dogfish as it charges, if the player fails to hit the Iron Dogfish in time it will jumpscare and kill them regardless of how many hearts they have left.

### Defeat

After the player throws the last mayo jar, the Iron Dogfish has a death scene, involving it roaring one last time as its face melts. It also loses its left eye during its death animation.

## Plot

Near the end of Tentacle Acres, after Patrick began playing with a rubber duck despite Squidward's warnings, the Squid Guards were alerted to their presence and released the Iron Dogfish to kill them. Squidward and Patrick managed to evade the Iron Dogfish and eventually killed it after throwing many tubs of mayo at it.

The Iron Dogfish only appears in the final moments of Tentacle Acres, acting as the level's final boss. It's likely that the Overlord managed to clone the actual Iron Dogfish*,* and that he is currently being held hostage as a cocoon in the Jellien's Nest.

## Trivia

* The part where Patrick steps on the rubber ducky is a reference to the episode “The Lost Mattress”.
* This is the first boss you face that doesn't involve playing as Patrick. It's also the only boss that Squidward fights.
* The original Iron Dogfish is fought at the end of SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge. Its concept art seems to be similar to the SuperSponge design, but its in-game design seems to differ.
* The fact that most of the attacks use rocks, plus the fact that one of their attacks has rocks falling from above, seems to be a reference to the boss fight in the Gameboy Advance version of SuperSponge.
* It also uses a similar animation for the falling rock attack.

## Gallery

Concept Art Of Iron Dogfish.Iron Dogfish in the pre-battle cutscene.Iron Dogfish during the boss fight.The Iron Dogfish's Gameover Screen.The Iron Dogfish dying.The Iron Dogfish's corpse.Iron Dogfish's original appearance as seen in SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge.