SpongeBob SquarePants

"Well, he's ready, he's ready, he's ready... to fight these Coalition of the Red Star bastards that get into our way. Now we're at the brink of total control between the ASEAN and China. Better help this guy out, along with Patrick and Sandy. That's Team SpongeBob of course."

--Su Ji-Hoon, South China Sea

SpongeBob SquarePants is the main protagonist and eponymous character of the Nickelodeon animated comedy series of the same name, SpongeBob SquarePants. He was designed by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, and is voiced by Tom Kenny. He first appears in the series' pilot episode "Help Wanted."

SpongeBob is a childish, joyful, eccentric sea sponge who lives in a pineapple on 124 Conch Street with his pet snail Gary and pet scallop Shelley in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. He works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, a job in which he is exceptionally skilled. He attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, though has yet to receive a driver's license due to his inability to drive a boatmobile. SpongeBob lacks a lot of knowledge and is a constant annoyance to those around him, but he is very good-natured.

He appears in all of the episodes in the series, except for a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "The Algae's Always Greener," in which his alternate-universe counterpart appears instead. He was soon to be Nickelodeon's main mascot.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he is the leader of Team SpongeBob.