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Plankton

By guest | May 10, 2009

Plankton is one of the animated characters in the cartoon series, SpongeBob SquarePants; he is the owner of the Chum Bucket restaurant competing for customers with Krabs’ rival business. It is only in an episode like Plankton’s Army that viewers learn the full name of the character: Sheldon J. Plankton. Not even his computer wife Karen knows the full name of her husband. When she finds out she laughs at Plankton, but without being mean. All throughout the series Plankton will try to get his hands on Mr. Krabs’ secret recipe.

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Sheldon Plankton is the smallest of the heroes in SpongeBob SquarePants, he is so tiny that he can fit into SpongeBob’s hand. He is a zooplankter with one eye in the center of his head that is easily recognized by his very deep voice. There is one funny episode, Enemy-in-Law, when Plankton nearly becomes Mr. Krabs’ stepfather in a very funny context that viewers definitely like. In the movie version of the animation, Plankton finally succeeds in stealing the Krusty Krabs’ secret recipe and he is the happiest zooplankter in the world. Unfortunately, SpongeBob ruins his dream of world domination.

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There is a lot of contradiction between Plankton’s humble tiny appearance and his aspirations and goals. This small, jelly, green bean-shaped creature with long antennas is 1% good and 99% evil. The flaws of his nature keep him away from getting hands on the Krabby Patty formula, because he makes stupid mistakes out of impatience and too much haste. Jealous and sneaky, Plankton forgets that once, Mr. Krabs used to be his friend and the only one who didn’t laugh at him and protected him against the others. Plankton’s anger is often directed towards SpongeBob whom he thinks to be too silly and babyish, and who on top of everything knows the ingredients of the Krabby Patty recipe.

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We could say that there is no antagonist or villain in the SpongeBob SquarePants series other than Plankton. He makes all sorts of major schemes to achieve his goals and usually gets to work with characters that are much stronger in terms of physical appearance; a very large ego surely hides in that tiny body of his. From a certain point of view, Plankton gets viewers’ sympathy by his miserable failures at getting something that seems so important for him. No matter the way one feels towards this character it is obvious that he gives a grain of salt to the cartoon.

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