SpongeBob SquarePants

* Normal
* Underwear
* With Glasses

- Mrs. Puff's Boating School

- Larry's Gym

- Sandy's Treedome

- ??? (Bubble Bowl)

- Can double jump in some situations.

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*The term "SpongeBob" leads here. For other uses, see SpongeBob (Disambiguation).*

**SpongeBob SquarePants** is the main protagonist of Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom, as well as the SpongeBob SquarePants TV show produced by and aired by Nickelodeon.

## Appearances in Game

SpongeBob is the first character the player will take control of in the game if they choose to play the Tutorial level. Otherwise, the first playable character will be Patrick in Glove World. When skipping the Tutorial, SpongeBob's first playable appearance will be at SpongeBob's Pineapple.

He is playable in the following levels:

* Tutorial
* SpongeBob's Pineapple
* Mrs. Puff's Boating School
* Larry's Gym
* Sandy's Treedome
* ??? (Level)

## Gameplay

SpongeBob is the fastest playable character and is an efficient sprinter and jumper due to his overall speed. However, when he is carrying a heavy object, he is both unable to jump or run. At the Tutorial level, he is equipped with his Jellyfishing Net (otherwise known as Ol' Reliable) which he uses to catch non-Jellienified Jellyfish.

## Plot

SpongeBob spends his day before the invasion getting ready for his driving test at Mrs. Puff's Boating School, finally believing he will do well enough to earn his license, but is interrupted by Patrick and the offer of going jellyfishing with him. The player can choose whether SpongeBob skips his test to go jellyfishing with Patrick (and therefore playing the Tutorial level) or continues towards Mrs. Puff's Boating School for his driving test, although how well or poorly SpongeBob did is never shown.

On the night of the invasion, SpongeBob and Patrick are preparing for Squidward's clarinet performance at Glove World before the theme park is overrun by Jelliens, who The Overlord releases his newly amassed swarm from the sewers at the end of the Tutorial in a cutscene. In the chaos, SpongeBob is kidnapped by Left Glovey and is taken to the Tunnel of Glove, where he is tied up and placed into a maze which Patrick must traverse to save him.

When Squidward saves SpongeBob and Patrick from Left and Right Glovey, he drives the duo to their houses to gather any valuables they can before reconvening in the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob enters his Pineapple to find Gary but is confronted by DoodleBob, Doodle Patrick, and Squid Doodle. After sneaking around to find Gary's food, he manages to find Gary and escape the Pineapple right before DoodleBob is able to erase him.

While Patrick and Squidward are preparing to eradicate all of the Jellien Clones inhabiting Tentacle Acres, SpongeBob, and Mr. Krabs travel to the Barg'N-Mart to purchase as much mayonnaise as they can. However, the grocery store has been overrun by Jelliens and they must use black sunglasses (the same pair used in the SpongeBob episode where the Jelliens originated from) to blend into the mindless crowd. After taking the precaution of covering their shopping cart with a tarp, SpongeBob follows close behind Mr. Krabs and safeguards any obtained mayo within the cart. Once they have collected enough mayo, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs can either leave by creating a diversion or attempt to pay upfront with the right amount of money. Either way, they run out of the store with the Jellien Clones in pursuit due to them catching on, with Mr. Krabs hoisting SpongeBob into the shopping cart as they both make a clean getaway.

After the duo manages to make it out with all of the store's mayonnaise, SpongeBob and Squidward travel to Mrs. Puff's Boating School armed with a mayo-filled whoopie cushion in order to eliminate the cloned Mrs. Puff. Their efforts are initially thwarted once Mrs. Puff spots them through a classroom window, but SpongeBob remembers that her purse was still in the boatmobile used during his boating test and sets out to find it and retrieve Mrs. Puff's keys. After tracking down the keys, SpongeBob makes his way across the schoolyard once again to deliver the keys to Squidward, who unlocks the lighthouse and deactivates it to lure Mrs. Puff out and give SpongeBob a chance to sneak inside. However, SpongeBob is detected before he can get fully out of sight and soon finds her roaming the school halls in pursuit of him. To make matters worse, SpongeBob finds out that Mrs. Puff has been keeping several non-jellienfied students captive, and promptly rescues them while evading Mrs. Puff in the halls. With the mayo-filled whoopie cushion in place and the students freed, SpongeBob and Squidward drive off while the Mrs. Puff clone succumbs to the cushion's explosive torrent of mayo.

SpongeBob's next endeavor to halt the invasion is within Goofy Goober's alongside Patrick and Squidward, believing the late-night janitors will grant them access to the establishment's mayo reserves in order to alleviate their fears of running out. However, they are instantly met with evidence of a Jellien hive, which has spread throughout the entirety of Goofy Goobers. While the three attempt to decide how to manage their life sources, a rampaging Alpha sneaks up behind Squidward and chases him deeper into the parlor, with the Suited Prowler appearing and joining the pursuit. SpongeBob and Patrick discover what's left of the staff members who have shut themselves in a closet to remain one step ahead of the Jelliens and refuse to come out until the hives are cleared out. After using what little mayo they have left to collapse the hives, with SpongeBob lighting the way for Patrick using a lantern, the employees are pleased with their work and gladly offer them the previously stowed away mayo.

SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick later encounter the Dirty Bubble, who claims that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy helped clone every elderly citizen in the nursing home, which apparently caused Man Ray to ditch him for those two. Since Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were the ones they had come to recruit, the trio agrees to help out on the condition they stop the elderly heroes. The three work strenuously to unlock the Villain Containment chamber, only for the whole thing to have been a trick plotted by the Dirty Bubble and Man Ray, who release the villains that had been imprisoned by the now-deactivated security system. Luckily, Patrick is able to fend them off as Starfishman, leaving SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs in awe all the while.

Eventually, they arrive in the Industrial Park, where a giant Plankton clone is wreaking havoc. Mr. Krabs orders SpongeBob and Patrick to fly around and lure him to the condiment production site in a biplane. The two are able to succeed and Mr. Krabs injures the clone by attacking him with large mayo towers, only for the Plankton clone to shoot down their plane with a laser. He is eventually defeated by Mr. Krabs, who then mourns the supposed death of SpongeBob and Patrick. However, it is revealed that they survived the crash. They then travel back to the Krusty Krab and save Squidward from a cloned Hash-Slinging Slasher.

SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs arrive at Larry's Gym to put an end to the Larry clone, but SpongeBob is too weak to pick up the mayo so he travels throughout Larry's gym to get stronger, only to be spotted and chased out of the gym by Jellien Larry, Who he soon pours mayo on him, causing the clone to run back in the gym in pain.

Later on at Sandy's Treedome, SpongeBob and Patrick are locked in Sandy's House and enter her tree to find something that can help them escape. They soon find a blueprint of an idea project of Sandy’s called the Nut-o-roaster. They soon collect parts of the Nut-o-roaster while avoiding waking up Hibernating Sandy. After unfreezing the door to the Treedome, they run out and head back to the Krusty Krab.

The Krusty Krab is then flown into the sky by the Overlord. While Mr. Krabs and Patrick fight The Overlord, SpongeBob and Squidward are in the Kitchen under the guise of guiding it when in reality, they can be seen in the Kitchen with camera hacks, in an explicit position. Once the Krusty Krab is dropped by The Overlord and crashes to the ground, SpongeBob and others are thrown into a bus by Mr. Krabs. Mr. Krabs hijacks the vehicle and he crashes it into Rock Bottom. SpongeBob can then be seen admiring a candy bar referencing the episode of SpongeBob also named Rock Bottom. Once they arrive at The Rock Bottom Art Gallery. The Overlord is spotted along with many cocoons of the captured people who were cloned including Mr. Krabs' daughter Pearl who had been eaten by the Jelliens, Mr. Krabs attempts to use the Mayo Machine Gun against The Overlord but it does nothing. Everyone splits up, with Patrick getting thrown through a wall and forced into a fight with Doodle Patrick, Mr. Krabs and Squidward going to an unseen room in the Art Gallery, and SpongeBob being left behind to be swatted at by The Overlord. Once everyone returns to the room The Overlord is in, Mr. Krabs instructs Patrick to throw SpongeBob the Goofy Goober Guitar. SpongeBob catches it, plays a note of rock music, and they are all transported to the Bubble Bowl, a large football stadium. SpongeBob uses the guitar against The Overlord but it is no use. Just before SpongeBob can die, Mr. Krabs orders Squidward to lather him in mayonnaise, he tries to refuse at first but eventually gives in, Mr. Krabs says that The Overlord is only protected from the mayo by his outer shell and is completely vulnerable from within, Mr. Krabs jumps into The Overlord's mouth, killing both of them. SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward then find his remains, a claw, and a few unidentifiable red pieces, they all grieve Mr. Krabs' death as the camera zooms out on the destroyed Art Gallery. In the secret epilogue taking place a year later, The Krusty Krab is seen, rebuilt, and SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward are seen smiling, standing in front of a memorial they made for Mr. Krabs, with a statue of him, and a smaller one for his daughter.

## Personality

SpongeBob's personality isn't all different from his TV counterpart. However, he notably shows a more brave and selfless side as he decides to risk his life for his friends, family, and others if it means they have a chance of survival. He also displays more intelligence by using the Jellien glasses so he and Mr. Krabs can enter the supermarket unnoticed. SpongeBob greatly cares for his friends and is worried for their well-being whenever danger is afoot. He also had a father-son relationship with Mr. Krabs, as he screamed when the former dove inside the Overlord to kill him. He later collapsed to his knees in despair when realizing that Mr. Krabs had died in the process and honored him by visiting his grave.

## Trivia

* SpongeBob is the fastest character in the game, the 2nd fastest being Squidward.
* Like Squidward, SpongeBob only has ONE boss, that being The Overlord in ???.
* He is also the last character to fight a boss in the game.
* This is SpongeBob's second time defeating The Overlord.
* It is assumed that either SpongeBob or Squidward is the new boss of the Krusty Krab after the death of Mr. Krabs.
* SpongeBob seems to be the only playable character who doesn't use light sources when being played as. Although, he is seen holding Clam torch in Goofy Goobers and the Rock Bottom section of the final level, but he isn't the playable one in either of them.

## Gallery

Jellien Clone of SpongeBob seen on the Death Screen if the player fails to keep up with Left Glovey in Glove World.

 Clones
 Bosses