He lives in a pineapple under the sea and
everybody loves him… Well, maybe not everyone. There are plenty of other fish in the sea, or in
this case, villains. But the question is… Which of the villains in Bikini Bottom is truly the
most dastardly and despicable? We want to know. Today, we’re going down, down, down, down,
to the bottom of the sea… to determine who truly deserves the lowest
spot in Davy Jone’s locker. Hello, I’m Brad with WickedBinge. And this is
Spongebob Squarepants Villains: Evil to Most Evil. Now, when it comes to choosing Spongebob
villains, we have a couple rules. Firstly, all these villains have to come from
either the TV show or the movies. No villains from other forms of media, like
Robo Plankton in Battle For Bikini Bottom. Secondly, for TV Show Villains, they must
be the main villain of at least one episode. So, with all that said… Let’s start with the least
villainous and work our way down to the most evil. First up on our list, we have the sweetest
of the foes, Madame Hagfish. When we first meet her in “The Curse Of The Hex”,
she looks like a regular old woman, who just wants a Krabby Patty. However, due
to not having the money and it is closing, Mr Krabs just tells her to take a hike. Spongebob,
being the kind hearted individual he is, decides to give her two Krabby patties on
the house. Of course, Mr Krabs catches on and stops Spongebob, leading to her being
angry at him and cursing the Krusty Krab. Now, this seems to be an overreaction
at first, but we do learn that she is much more reasonable than at first glance.
She compromises and asks for a gold coin in return for lifting the curse. What was
her curse exactly? Just putting a sign out front saying that the store was closed,
which anyone could have found out and removed. She didn’t even use a curse on the
place, not wanting to waste a real hex on him. In comparisons to other villains here, this
is one of the easier villains to overcome. She really didn’t leave any lasting harm on
the place, and it was resolved rather easily. Really, she just wanted to teach
Mr Krabs a lesson in not being as cheap as he is, and honestly,
that’s pretty understandable. Next up, our second least evil villain is
Carl. Being the fish that Mr. Krabs sells the restaurant to in “Selling Out”, he starts
his takeover and rebrands the restaurant to be the “Krabby O’ Mondays”. He upgrades
the Krusty Krab, adding giant TV screens, automated cash registers, and an
automated Krabby Patty making machine, using gray sludge and just spray
painting it to look like a Krabby Patty. Yes, the food is definitely a downgrade, however,
legally, he really isn’t doing anything that wrong. He is just acting like a boss, and he is
much more friendly than Mr Krabs... and doesn’t seem to be as money hungry as he is. That said,
he does have a couple flaws. He doesn’t seem to like the idea of people being independent
thinkers, even calling in help when Mr Krabs starts to expose his automatic patties. He
also has a giant buff fish as Human Resources to threaten others into being happy. That said,
given how the original owner of the Krusty Krab is well… a pretty terrible boss... it’s
hard to argue that he is a downgrade. Heads up, we have a couple Plankton’s on this
list due to just how many different versions of our favorite microscopic scientist there
are. In third place for our nicest villain, we have one of those Planktons, but not
in the way you would expect, with PlanKrab. The antagonist of “The Krusty Bucket”,
he is created after Plankton merged his own DNA with Mr Krabs to create him, using him in another
scheme to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. However, something went wrong, and PlanKrab
ended up taking over the Krusty Krab, and even the Chum Bucket, combining the
two stores to create The Krusty Bucket. How did he get the legal paperwork in order
to take over the place? With just a simple shake of Plankton’s hand as well as Mr Krabs’s
hand, and stealing the deeds to the restaurants. He may be evil like Plankton, but he certainly is
much more polite. He seems to be making Spongebob and Squidward happy, and has even improved
the Krabby Patty by just adding a bit of chum. He was even willing to offer Mr Krabs and
Plankton a job at the place as well, showing that he doesn’t hold any grudges. However,
what puts him above the others so far is the fact that he took over
the restaurants illegally. Still, it’s funny how the combination of Plankton
and Krabs ends up being nicer than the two. Moving on, we have the musical worm, the Earworm.
Coming from the episode, well, “Earworm”, he ends up burrowing his way into Spongebob’s head
after he listens to a catchy song one too many times. This ends up severely
affecting his work life, causing him to get sent home as he’s just
stuck singing the song over and over again. Thanks to Sandy, she was able to help
restrain Spongebob and identify the problem. How do you get rid of an earworm? Well, with
another earworm, mainly, Squidward’s clarinet. Even if Squidward’s playing wasn’t that good, it
still worked, and he just left with an angry look. Up next is Mrs Gristlepuss. A sour
old fish judge, she visits the Krusty Krab in “Banned In Bikini Bottom”, where
after seeing just how much Spongebob loves Krabby Patties, she ends up banning them. She is
a member of the The United Organization Of Fish Against Things That Are Fun And Delicious,
or T.U.O.O.F.A.T.T.A.F.A.D. for short. It’s a odd organization that has been allowed
to stay open, but it is legally recognized, and it is also legal for her to arrest Spongebob
and Mr Krabs after they broke the law by selling Krabby Patties. However, it takes just one taste
of Krabby Patty to sweeten up Mrs Gristlepuss. She ends up reversing her decision
and legalizing Krabby Patties again. Up next is the rival of the Flying Dutchman,
Lord Poltergeist. Once the first mate for the Flying Dutchman, he jumped ship after making off
with his gold. Now while that is bad, considering the kind of person the Flying Dutchman is, we’ll
cut him a bit of a break. When we meet up with him in “Ghoul Fools”, he ends up tasking Spongebob
and Patrick with fetching him a new head gasket to help fix his ship. He even claimed to have taken
their souls and will return them once he gets it. However, we do find out that he
really didn’t take their souls, and what he instead had was old orange
soda left out in the sun for too long. He even indulges Patrick in singing a song for
him and giving him pizza after he rudely calls the ghost a pirate. Albeit, this is in order
to get him to believe he is a real ghost, but given how he could have done a lot
worse, we do have to give him credit. He even seems disappointed by Patrick’s
willingness to sacrifice Spongebob for his sake. We can’t forget about Doodlebob. And look, we
understand that Doodlebob was crazy… and frankly, very violent. He attacked Spongebob and
wanted to replace him… But let’s be real… Doodlebob’s existence is very tragic. Unable
to come to grips with the fact that he is nothing but a drawing, he lashes out by
trying to preserve himself in the real world. Like Frankenstein, Doodlebob
may have just been misunderstood… Up next, we have Master Udon of “Karate Island”.
In this episode, Spongebob is tricked into thinking he is the King Of Karate, being invited
to an island to celebrate his success with Sandy. However, he ends up getting kidnapped by him and
his henchmen, and it’s up to Sandy to save him. After beating all of his minions, Sandy ends up
facing off against Master Udon himself, where she finds out his evil scheme; trying to
pawn off a condo to Spongebob and Sandy. He’s not really a karate master,
and is more of a con man, as seen with trying to dupe Squidward by
changing Karate Island into Clarinet Island before he arrives. He isn’t above using people’s
confidence to their own downfall, more than happy to boost their ego to make them more than happy
to buy into his condo. He’s nothing more than a sleazy con artist, which is why he’s higher
up than others, but not as high as the rest. Up next... the weather!, with weatherman
Gale Doppler. In “Stormy Weather”, Gale is a Meteorologist, telling the folks around
Bikini Bottom just what the weather would be like for the day. He has never gotten a
day wrong, and doesn’t want to start losing trust anytime soon. When a stray storm cloud by
the name of Drizzle, given to him by Spongebob, left behind by his parents stays in Bikini Bottom,
he tries to do his best to change the weather. Such attempts include sucking
him up with a reef blower and planning on killing this storm cloud
by sending him through a shredder. Thanks to Spongebob and Drizzle’s own parents,
he was able to be spared from being destroyed as Drizzle’s folks literally blew Gale away.
Sure, it is just a cloud, but it was sentient. Murder is still murder, and in a world
as fantastical as Bikini Bottom having so many different species of actual intelligent
beings, Gale really should have known better. Next in line ready to be served is
Bubble Bass. When we first met him, he started as just a one time rival for
Spongebob in “Pickles”. Tricking Spongebob into thinking that he didn’t serve pickles, he
sends him into a downward spiral of depression and doubting his own abilities.
Thanks to Mr. Krabs helping out, Spongebob not only returns, but also
undercovers Bubble Bass’s secret; he’s been hiding the pickles underneath his tongue
the whole time, as well as someone’s car keys. That was the last we heard of him; at least until
the later seasons. Here, he acts like a snobby jerkish nerd, believing he is smarter and superior
than the others. The height of this ego was in “Moving Bubble Bass”, where he essentially tricks
Spongebob and Patrick into helping him move out, and letting them do all the work, promising them
lunch afterwards. However, when they do arrive and bring everything, Bubble Bass revealed to have
just eaten both of their lunches. What a jerk. Our first of Mermaid Man
and Barnacle Boy’s enemies, up next is The Dirty Bubble. As a
villain, he only has one purpose in life, and that is making everything dirty.
He delights in being dirty and being evil, even teaming up with Man Ray to commit
crimes, ranging from robbing banks, to ding dong ditching. Mostly, he just seems to enjoy being
a criminal nuisance while spreading his filth. However, what would he look like if he cleaned
up his act? Well, in “Dirty Bubble Returns”, we get an answer; he would be the clean bubble.
After being in jail and getting cleaned, we discover that he has something of a Doctor
Jekyll and Mr Hyde complex. When he is dirty, he acts like the villain we all know. When
he is clean however, he’s a bright happy face willing to do whatever it takes to stay
clean, even if being dirty is something of an addiction to him. Thanks to Spongebob however,
he does make a genuine attempt to stay clean, only for a careless Patrick to ruin it. Could we
see this form return someday? Maybe, maybe not. Now we arrive at Mr Krabs. In some
respects, we were both not harsh enough, but also a bit too harsh with him in
our Spongebob Squarepants Good To Evil list. As the owner of the Krusty Krab, he has
done plenty of heinous things for a buck. He transformed his restaurant into a eatery/jail
hybrid in “The Krusty Slammer”, putting many fish at risk of being attacked by convicts, and
even lets them out after they start affecting his profits. He is willing to let Spongebob
get arrested in “Patty Caper” if it meant he didn’t have to pay for the secret ingredient
to his Krabby Patties. He even was willing to sell Spongebob for 62 cents in “Born Again
Krabs”, even if he ended up regretting it later. That said, he still does have his own good
moments. For one, he was in the Navy, and helped his crew fend off an attack from pirates in “Pull
Up A Barrel”, and even earned the respect from his fellow Navy buddies in “Shell Of A Man”,
even being called “Armor Abs Krabs” by them. Despite sometimes putting money ahead of him,
Mr Krabs truly does care for Spongebob. Such moments include teaching Spongebob how
to drive in “Tutor Sauce”, even if it ended with his racking up a high fine. He
is seen being reasonable with Spongebob after seeing him be in three different
places at once in order to follow through on promises in “Overbooked!”, and after
seeing Spongebob fainting from a lack of Krabby Patties from “”Welcome to The Bikini
Bottom Triangle”, gets incredibly scared for his well being and asks for the giant vacuum
cleaner to give him one to save his health. He even plays along with Spongebob as super
villain “Captain Tightwad” in “Mermaid Pants”. He also tries to be a good parent for Pearl, even
if his greed gets in the way from time to time, like with celebrating her birthdays. There was
one instance where he was genuinely concerned for her, that being “Growth Spurt”, where without
the promise of any money, goes around town trying to get as much food as possible in order to feed
her to help her stop growing. Overall, it's really hard to get a clear reading of Mr. Krabs morality.
He’s the total embodiment of greed half the time, or perhaps more than half the time, but
is a good person more than occasionally. Coming up onto another classic pre-movie villain,
we have the bully of the titular episode, “The Bully”, Flats The Flounder. Being first introduced
into Mrs Puff’s class as another student, Flats ends up sitting next to Spongebob,
telling him of his desire to beat his butt. Why does he want to beat up Spongebob? We get
no reason for it. All we do know is that he is relentless in his chase, and has even been hinted
at that he is abusive towards his own father. His ways of hurting Spongebob involve tracking
him down to his house and trying to run him over with a garbage truck. Even after Spongebob
saved him from a crash in said garbage truck, he still didn’t give up his chase and continued
to hunt him down. In the end, Flats is just a bully who wants to beat up Spongebob for no
reason. Thank Neptune Spongebob is a sponge. Now we’re getting to actual real threats, starting with The Tattletale Strangler.
The foe of “Spongebob Meets The Strangler”, he ends up getting arrested after Spongebob
calls the cops on him for littering. Escaping from police custody, he intends on making good
on his name, and plots to strangle Spongebob for tattling on him. To get close to him, he decides
to take up the job of being Spongebob’s bodyguard. But in typical comedic fashion, he gets so fed up
with Spongebob, that he actually ends up running away, with Spongebob being the one chasing after
him, until he ends up in prison. Situation aside, he is still guilty of many implied attempted
murders, so he is a pretty ruthless character. We have a rather interesting one up next: Mrs
Pop. Now, true, this is Mrs Puff, but given just how vastly different she is personality wise,
we’re going to give her the benefit of the doubt, and just rank Mrs Pop by her own actions separate
from Mrs Puff. After losing her ability to puff up in “Demolition Doofus”, she grows a vast
hatred for Spongebob... and when we mean hatred. She ends up trying to choke him, and gets
the idea of getting rid of Spongebob forever, and in her own words, “in the worst way
possible”. Her plan is to get Sponegbob enrolled into a demolition derby for
the sake of getting him killed off. However, it doesn’t work as she intended, with her
getting more angry with the fact he’s still alive. Eventually, she gets so fed up that
she decides to hop into a ride herself and tries to run over him. This failed
as well, and was the last we see of her, or at least this side of Mrs Puff, as she got
the ability to inflate again. How exactly? We don’t really know to be honest, but we do
know that we really don’t want to see her again. For the next of our Planktons, we have
Dead Eye Plankton. As Plankton’s ancestor, he’s just as evil as he is. As the outlaw of
Dead Eye Gulch, he has his own song about how evil he is. This list of misdeeds
include robbing the town blind, whipping others, and trying to get the Krusty
Kantina from Mr. Krab’s own ancestor. Without any sheriff to stop him, despite his small
size, he was able to get away with misdeeds. However, this was eventually stopped thanks
to the arrival and bravery of Spongebuck Squarepants; try to guess who he is the ancestor
of. That said, all it took for his stronghold he had over the town was just to be stepped on.
The real Plankton may be small, but even after being stepped on so many times, he still is
feared and hated by others in Bikini Bottom. While we’re here and talking about
him, we may as well add in the original Plankton as well. He’s no stranger to these lists, being the most evil person in Bikini Bottom on
our “Good To Evil: Spongebob Squarepants” list, and being ranked around the middle in our
Evil To Most Evil Nickelodeon Villains list. As the rival of Mr Krabs, he has tried every
scheme in his files to beat him and steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. From letting a skunk
run loose in the restaurant, countless disguises, to even using a giant robot to assault the
restaurant in the second movie, he truly has done it all and then some; every scheme
in the book, from A to Y...Uh, I mean Z. He has been around for a long time, and
has done plenty of good and evil deeds. He has helped Squidward with his band in
“Band Geeks”, and he has tricked Squidward into being his friend to get the formula in
“Sweet And Sour Squid”. He was happy to join in on Spongebob’s party in “Spongebob Meets
The Tattletale Strangler” and set up for his party in “Spongebob’s Birthday Blowout”
in his own way, and he has also tried to raid his brain for the secret formula in “The
Inside Job” and showed literally hijacked his mind in “Plankton!”. The point being, is that like
Mr Krabs, Plankton has done his fair share of good and bad deeds. However, he does have plenty more
bad deeds than Mr Krabs does, despite his greed, thus ranking him as significantly more
evil of the two restaurant owners. Prepare for a clash with Triton, because he’s up
next. Neptune’s son in “The Clash Of Triton”, he was originally a swell kid, as while his father
wanted to just smite and cause destruction to the mortals, he was at work creating a vaccine
for diseases. After being caged by his father for being too nice however, he grew cold and
hostile towards him, as well the world around him. When Spongebob freed him, he went on a rampage
across town, destroying everything just to show off his new powers, and even locked up Neptune
and his own friends. Now granted, he does make up with his dad, but this was after he expressed
approval of Triton using his powers for evil. I heard that this list was lacking a well
known ghost, as in, The Flying Dutchman! The spectre that haunts Bikini Bottom, he can
be either someone who just loves scaring folks, or forcing them to serve on his ghostly
crew and eating them if they fail too often, like we see in “Shanghaied”. He even does deals
with others for their souls, like when he gave Mr Krabs the ability to talk with money for the price
of his soul in “Money Talks”. He even acts like the grim reaper, taking the dead to Davy Jones’s
locker, like he did with Mr Krabs and Spongebob in “Born Again Krabs”. He even turns Spongebob
and Patrick into ghosts after they disturbed his resting place and accidentally destroyed his beard
with a lawnmower in “The Curse Of Bikini Bottom”. He’s certainly a formidable and scary
foe. However, despite being a ghost, he still has some human traits. He’s saddened
by the fact that others aren’t scared of him in “Ghost Host”, and even genuinely
thanks Spongebob for helping him get his groove back. In “The Ghost Of Plankton”, he is
happy to teach Plankton all of his tricks and tips of being a ghost. He also is a ghost
of his word, giving Spongebob and Patrick three wishes in return for his dining sock
in “Shanghaied”. While you could potentially leave an encounter with him alive,
we really don’t recommend risking it. Up next are our two movie exclusive villains;
the first one being Dennis from the original Spongebob Squarepants movie. Hired
by Plankton, he only had one goal, and that is to kill Spongebob and Patrick before
they get Neptune’s crown back to Bikini Bottom. On his way, he ends up meeting up with the gas
station attendants and the dive bar’s patrons, with both encounters ending with
him beating up the people there. When he eventually reaches his targets, he
isn’t much better, happily ripping off their fake mustaches, degrading them, and reveling
in the fear that they have when he’s about to stomp on them. Sure, he was eventually stopped
by the Cyclops, but that was only temporary, as he returned as the two rode back to
Bikini Bottom on David Hasslehoff’s back, continuing to try and kill them. He’s
certainly more than eager to continue his job of being a bounty hunter, and is
more than ruthless enough for the task, earning him the rank of being our
fifth most evil being in the sea. Moving onto the second movie, we have the
antagonist of “Sponge Out Of Water”, Burger Beard. Now, in terms of villains, his motive doesn’t
really seem that hostile and cruel. He just wants to sell burgers on the beach, and he even has
some friends with the seagulls that surround him, even if he can be annoyed by their antics at
times. Now sure, the burgers he was selling were done by stealing Mr Krab’s own formula, but
that doesn’t mean the end of Bikini Bottom, right? Well, no; it means JUST that. Without Krabby
Patties, the place falls into anarchy, becoming a set piece that you see out of Mad Max.
Society literally depends on these burgers. And Burger Beard knows it, now caring if it’s an
unhappy ending for Spongebob and his friends. In fact, when they try to reclaim the formula,
he just sends them to a place where they could be eaten. He even fights for his right to keep the
formula by using his ship to blast them away with cannonballs. He may not be as outwardly cruel
as Dennis, but for someone knowing he’s causing the apocalypse in Bikini Bottom and not caring,
that definitely ranks him very high up our list. With our top three evil beings, let’s add in
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy’s other enemy, Manray. Being locked up in their cave in
“Mermaid Man And Barnacle Boy III”, Spongebob and Patrick end up releasing him after
tricking them into believing he’s a good guy. After successfully duping them, he tries to
instantly go after a bank and tries to rob it. That said, due to just how the tickle belt he was
stuck to affected his mind, he ends up blowing his chance, and just opens a bank account
with checks that have kitten faces on them. Despite this stumble, he’s still a very real
threat, being able to take over Bikini Bottom in an evil future in “Back To The Past”. He
even teamed up with the Dirty Bubble to cause either mischief or crimes across the town. He
can be very evil when he needs to. That said, he doesn’t get any higher up on this list thanks
to the fact that he seems to have a life outside of being evil. In “Super Evil Aquatic Villain
Team Up is Go”, he apparently has a job as a vending machine restock worker. He also seems to
have gone to college and had friends with someone from high school, happily chatting up with
her in “Shuffleboarding”. He even has dreams of just going on vacation, as seen in “Man Ray
Returns” when he rents out Squidward’s house. Despite how civil he can be at times, he’s
still very much, as Mermaid Man says, EVIL! Our silver medal of pure evil goes
to Plankton’s evilest family member, Planktonamor. The main antagonist of “Dunces and
Dragons”, he attacks the town over and over again with his pet Jellyfish Dragon. He plans on taking
over King Krabs’ kingdom, Bikini Bottom Shire, destroying it with his dragon until he gets
his way. He even ends up kidnapping King Krabs’ daughter, Princess Pearl, and plans on returning
her for the keys to the kingdom. Of course, if these demands aren’t meant, he would just
kill her, showing just how ruthless he is. In terms of Plankton, he’s much
more ambitious, and crueler as a result of this. He ends up coming very
close to achieving his goals, and only fails thanks to Sponge on befriending the dragon with a
Krabby Patty. The only reason he isn’t any higher is thanks to just how weak he is on his own,
with magic only strong enough to tickle people. Of course, he’s still no laughing matter. Anyone
that is capable of getting a dragon to obey them and attack a village on their
behalf shouldn’t be taken as a joke. For the most evil being in Bikini Bottom,
we don’t have just a single being, but rather, an entire race; The
Jelliens. These fake jellyfish aliens could have come from Invasion Of The
Body Snatchers with just how creepy they are. They are able to latch onto hosts and create
alien versions of these familiar friends. What Spongebob thought was just a pet that he
and Patrick, who is actually his alien self due to being captured, were going to hand out,
ended up accidentally leading them to their prey. These aliens all serve under a overlord, bringing
her the captured fishes for her to presumably eat. They are essentially a parasite, literally
hijacking their brains and bodies and turning them into followers of the Jelliens.
They seemingly have no goal in life other than to reproduce and expand
their species, even if it means destroying others. Given just how powerful and
dangerous they can be, getting very close to destroying all of Bikini Bottom’s residents
save for Spongebob and Sandy, we think it’s only fitting to give this entire race the spot as
the most evil threat in the world of Spongebob. And with that, that’s our list of all
the foes in Bikini Bottom! Do you agree with our list? Let us know… and if you want
the full morality ranking of Bikini Bottom… check out our main Spongebob
Squarepants: Good to Evil episode. Be sure to hit that notification bell
and most importantly: Stay wicked!
