Squidward Tentacles

**Squidward Tentacles** is grouchy squid who is one of SpongeBob's Friends.
He lives in a moai between SpongeBob SquarePants' and Patrick Star's houses. The character is portrayed as ill-tempered, manipulative, pretentious, cynical and incredibly hostile, and he strongly despises his neighbors for their constant annoying, 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.

## Bio

### Personality

Squidward is arrogant, snobby and grumpy. He views the world in such a negative light that he is rarely seen greeting anyone with a smile. He loathes his job at the Krusty Krab and is often seen sleeping or reading on the job.

In spite of his temper, he is still one of the most intelligent and educated characters. He has a sarcastic attitude and sees others as uncivilized morons, while failing to accept his own personal shortcomings. Squidward sees himself as misunderstood and unappreciated, blaming society for his failures.

He is annoyingly pretentious in his pursuit of fame and is either unwilling or unable to spot talent and creativity, even belittling it. He lauds "cultivated taste" and accepted standards. In the episode "Artist Unknown," he insists that his pupil SpongeBob "show his method," even when it is painfully clear that SpongeBob has artistic genius. Furthermore, Squidward takes credit for creating the David statue when SpongeBob is the actual creator. His motive was to impress the art appraiser. In the episode "Bubblestand," he belittles SpongeBob's bubble blowing.

Despite his grumpy nature, Squidward does have a caring heart deep down, and when he realizes his plans have caused either harm or emotional pain to those he ridiculed, he is quick to realize the error of his ways and make up for it while he can. Occasionally, Squidward is seen teaming up with SpongeBob, or even caring about him.

In The Alicorn Jewel Arc, Squidward does show he really does care for SpongeBob, as the former being erased of existence by Darth Blackard, Squidward started to enjoy it at first, but after 3 months had past, Squidward began to miss SpongeBob as he puts it, without SpongeBob around, his life is rather incomplete. Moreover, despite his idiotic nature, SpongeBob did provide Squidward with some small fun in his life. In which he was willing to join the quest to get the Jewels from the past to use them to bring back the victims of the Clap.

## Physical Appearance

Squidward Tentacles is a light turquoise octopus, and has purple suction cups at the end of his tentacles. He has six limbs in total, two being arms and four being legs, which tend to make the shape of a plus sign when he stands in place. Whenever he walks, his suction cups stick to the floor, meaning that he walks with a distinct squelching noise. Squidward has a large cranium with eight holes on the top of it, presumably show his baldness.

## Main Weaponry

* M1928 Thompson submachine gun

## Skills 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.
* **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.
* **Durability**: Squidward is very durable, as, in one episode, he survived a nuclear explosion.
* **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.
* **Marksmanship:**

## Relationships

### SpongeBob

Squidward dislikes SpongeBob, and often tries to avoid him. However, on occasions, Squidward can display sympathy for SpongeBob, and in addition, when Squidward is in a good mood, he is usually kind to SpongeBob. And ever since SpongeBob started acting more mature and helped many beings regain hope, Squidward soon begins to respect Spongebob altogether.

### Blackie

Squidward is a real close friend to Blackie, and he admires his bravery and how he can help SpongeBob out tough situations.

### Patrick

Squidward dislikes Patrick, but sometimes likes him, the reason is somehow Patrick can be a non-annoying type occasionally and can be quiet sometimes. Squidward, however, mostly calls him an idiot, imbecile etc.

## Trivia

* Unlike the Squidward of the Show, he will stick to his personality he has in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and not go with his post Movie and Season 4 personality. And he acts more kinder to SpongeBob and Patrick.