Squidward

Appearance

Squidward is a turquoise octopus with purple suction cups on the bottom of his five tentacles, dark red eyes with yellow sclerae, and dark turquoise liver spots on top of his head. Squidward just wears a brown polo shirt. At the Krusty Krab, he wears the Krusty Krew hat to go with it. At nighttime, he wears a pink nightshirt with a matching sleeping cap.

Personality

Squidward is best described as ill-tempered, pretentious, and cynical who strongly despises his neighbors for their constant boisterous, 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. Squidward also has a passion and interest in reading, arts, and music, and is very fond of playing the clarinet, though no one considers him to be very good at it, the same for his artwork due to his bad taste. This, however, not always the case as on some occasions, his artistic talents somewhat more improved than it used to be. The post-movie seasons (Season 4 and so on which set between events from both the first 3 seasons and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) revealed that his misery, and inability to see the positive side of his neighbor's antics has developed a darker side of his personality where he sometimes becomes wrathful, indifferent, and sadistic. The revelation of these negative traits was previously foreshadowed by him nearly killing SpongeBob with his brutal booby trap joke in the retaliation of the latter's annoying but harmless jokes in the Fools in April episode.

Personality

Not only that, in various cases of his antagonistic acts that he performed, he sometimes has done so in a more malicious manner where he unknowingly became slave-driver for SpongeBob as seen in Can You Spare A Dime?, and Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost, fooling anyone to gain an advantage for improving his life despite the small percentage of success, or the worst, illegal acts include verbal and physical abuse that threatened him to be sent to jail. The worst instances of his antagonism are when he expresses his lack of remorse and genuine malice was when reading SpongeBob's diary aloud, disagreed with his friends' idea to bring SpongeBob back home after feeling remorseful of their abuse on him in retaliation of misfortunes that he unintentionally caused, and lended his lawnmower to both SpongeBob and Patrick hoping that they harmed themselves by accident wherein this case, he potentially crosses MEH regardless of whether he makes amends or not. These negative traits were reasons why some Bikini Bottomites antagonize him out of sheer hatred.

Personality

However, Squidward is not a heartless character as he had a softer side which is hidden under his sadistic, wrathful, and narcissistic personality. To some degree, he's friends with SpongeBob and Patrick but incapable to see the positive side of their childish antics, reason why he tends to loathe them more than truly love them. He also has a romantic relationship with his girlfriend Squilvia (a relationship that only explored in an episode where she featured at). Squidward has shown leniency to SpongeBob more than one time. The proof that he cares about SpongeBob was when he rescued him from an incoming truck and stood up to an angry drink-obsessed fish for hurting SpongeBob's feelings all because he didn't get his beverage (even though he didn't actually order it) and slammed a pizza in his face in "Pizza Delivery". In "Born Again Krabs", he berated Krabs for sold the sponge's soul for the Flying Dutchman. As he did, he expresses genuine disgust on Krabs' ungrateful action that made the crab regretful over his actions. Squidward actually does like SpongeBob, something that he apparently is simply unwillingly to admit most of the time: in the episode "Graveyard Shift", when he thinks he is about to get killed by the "Hash-slinging Slasher", Squidward admits to SpongeBob that, despite what he has said in the past, he "always sort of likes [him]" (SpongeBob confesses in response that he uses Squidward's clarinet to unclog his toilet). In Sponge On The Run, when SpongeBob went to find Gary with Patrick's aid, Squidward admitted that things aren't the same without him and later on, he stood up for SpongeBob to Poseidon, saying that despite he thinks SpongeBob is annoying, he is still his friend who does not deserve to die.

Personality

The reason why he mostly grumpy at times can be traced back when he had a garden as seen in episode Truth or Square. At that time, Squidward appeared to have a happier personality, until a pineapple fell from a sailor's boat to the ocean and crushed his garden, destroying it. Not long afterwards, SpongeBob showed up and decided to modify the pineapple into a house that we know today as Squidward mourned over the loss of his garden. His garden's destruction depressed Squidward so much that he becomes bitter and presumably never told his new neighbor about what has happened in the first place.

Relationships

Family Grandma Tentacles - Grandmother Jeff Tentacles - Father Mrs. Tentacles - Mother Unnamed Cousins

Relationship

Friends SpongeBob SquarePants - Neighbor and Situational Enemy Patrick Star - Neighbor and Situational Enemy Mr. Krabs - Boss and Situational Sandy Cheeks Pearl Krabs - Adoptive niece

Relationship

Enemies Sheldon J. Plankton - Business Rival and Situational Ally Squilliam Fancyson - Archenemy and Rival Flying Dutchman - Attempted Killer DoodleBob Dirty Bubble Man Ray

Powers and Abilities

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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 due to the fact that giant pacific octopuses have 9 brains.

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.

Superhuman Durability

Squidward is very durable, as he is known to survive numerous injuries that a real person cannot survive, such as nuclear explosions, driving a truck off a large cliff, falling into a bucket of lava, etc.

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.

Magma Manipulation

As Captain Magma, he can control and fires magma blasts from the volcanic cone on his mask. Unfortunately, due to lack of proper mastery over his powers, it resulted in him accidentally toasting SpongeBob (where ironically, he didn't intend to harm him as his intended target was Man-Ray, Dirty Bubble, and evil Barnacle Boy).

Sonic Wave Emission

As Sour Note, he can fire sonic waves (which often depicted as a blast of bubbles) from his signature clarinet, either in form of sonic waves that paralyze everyone who hears it and in the form of a concussive beam.

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Squidward lives in a moai, like those of Easter Island.

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Squidward's house's mouth is the door, but originally, its mouth was closed and a door rested underneath it. The house's exterior styling is reminiscent of a "Moai," giant statues found on Easter Island, Chile, also referred to as the Easter Island Heads. According to page 36 of the 2004 book SpongeBob Exposed! The Insider's Guide to SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward's house was built out of volcanic rock. The ground floor consists of three adjoining rooms; the one at the front being the living room. The living room consists of a bookcase with some of Squidward's jazz records, a couch, a coffee table, and TV. Behind the living room is the kitchen with a fridge, an island counter, and four cabinets. This is where Squidward cooks. The dining room is off to the side and consists of a round table with chairs and a clamshell chandelier. There is a room off to the side with a spiral staircase leading to the second floor. There is also an elevator. Upstairs is a bedroom on the left ear. In the bedroom is a canopy bed, a nightstand, and a closet with alarm clocks, as seen in "Employee of the Month." Off of the bedroom is a bathroom with a toilet, sink with medicine cabinet, and a Jacuzzi tub/shower. There's also a gallery where Squidward paints his self-portraits and plays the clarinet. Other upstairs rooms include a library and backroom. The architectural style is Polynesian. In some episodes, it is shown that he has a backyard and at times, raises a garden there.

Kitchen

This room is at the back. This is where Squidward cooks and prepares his food.

Dining room

Next to the kitchen. This is where Squidward eats his meals and is where he keeps his shellphone.

Living room

Squidward watches TV and enjoys Sundays here, as seen in the episode "Good Neighbors."

Bathroom

Only seen on the first floor in the episode "Plankton!"

Bedroom

Squidward sleeps in his bed. This room can be found on the left ear. His bed, nightstand, and a closet are in here. Bathroom: This is where Squidward's bathtub/shower is located, just off of his bedroom.

Gallery

Squidward does his art of self-portraits and plays his clarinet in this room.

Backroom

This room has wallpaper that is easy to peel and is seen in "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost."

Library

This is where Squidward reads books. Seen in the episodes "Squid Wood" and "I ♥ Dancing."