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| “ | Well maybe it is stupid, but it's also dumb! | „ |
| ~ Patrick to Squidward in "The Camping Episode". |
| “ | PATRICK NEEDS LOVE TOO! | „ |
| ~ Patrick in Valentine's Day |
| “ | Is mayonnaise an instrument? | „ |
| ~ One of Patrick's most memorable lines. |
| “ | Good morning, Krusty crew! | „ |
| ~ Patrick's catchphrase when entering the Krusty Krab. |
Patrick Star is the deuteragonist of Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants franchise.
He is the titular SpongeBob's best friend and one of his neighbors.
Despite being portrayed as a hero and a protagonist most of the time, Patrick occasionally has his moments of antagonism and villainy (such as being mean to SpongeBob, antagonizing Squidward, causing destruction, etc.), both before and after the show flanderized him into an empty-headed jerk.
He is voiced by Bill Fagerbakke in all of his appearances.
Appearance
He is shown to be an anthropomorphic humanoid starfish who wears light green shorts with purple flowers on them, but doesn't wear a shirt. He also has no shoes, due to not exactly having feet.
In The Patrick Star Show, it's revealed that he wears a light green shirt with two lighter white/green buttons and flora, along with purple pants.
Personality
Patrick's portrayal is pleasant, overweight, lazy, unmannerly, unintelligent, friendly, helpful, and even with either performing unintended act of malice or dangers around him.
Despite this, Patrick has anger problems and his ignorance can result in him unintentionally (but sometimes intentionally) causing problems and harm to others around him. He hates being called "Tubby", implying he's sensitive about his weight, although his weight is because he eat unhealthy and being lazy.
His most prominent trait is his stupidity, and he is often regarded as one of the least intelligent characters in cartoon history, if not all of fiction. Instances include mistaking an elephant for a giraffe, calling a mop bucket a hat, having intense difficulty placing his hand on a simple jar, forgetting that he ate his candy bar seconds after eating it and angrily falsely accusing SpongeBob of stealing his candy bar, thinking he throw a peanut at a giant clam (which he didn't do), being unable to recognize his own wallet even when it has his ID in it, and generally possessing a stunning lack of common sense and basic knowledge. At times, he can show signs of intelligence, like in "Wet Painters", when he points out how Mr. Krabs hanging up one of his dollars was a silly idea since it looked no different than any of the other dollars.
Biography
SpongeBob and Patrick often annoy Squidward, but they have no idea they are doing so. Patrick first appeared in "Help Wanted", although his first main role in Season 1 is in "Jellyfishing".
He disappears very often in Krusty Krab episodes, but he did get a job there in some episodes. He is also very loyal and loving to anyone he knows. Once, to help SpongeBob get into the Salty Spitoon, he pretends to get beat up by SpongeBob so his best friend can be tough. In "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", SpongeBob and Patrick went to the Bi-Annual Jellyfish Convention and see many of their favorite jellyfish enthusiasts, such as Jeffery the Jellyfish, who Patrick admires greatly. Patrick can also play the drums, as shown in "Band Geeks".
Although, he is unintelligent and usually carefree, well-meaning, detached and a best friend to SpongeBob, Patrick has frequently acted cold, shrewd, selfish, and quite psychotic many times in the series, such as the time he refuse to share.
Powers and Abilities
- Superhuman Strength: Patrick has been shown to be very physically strong in various episodes, such as lifting up a road and chopping an old boat in half perfectly, but the only instance where he couldn't use his immense strength properly was when he couldn't tear a paper apart in Krusty Krushers.
- Driving: Patrick appears to be a better driver than SpongeBob, who seems to be never meant to able for driving considering his countless failures.
- Singing: Patrick has never had a solo and rarely sings; however, he does it fairly well when he does.
- Drumming: Patrick has remarkable skills in drumming.
- Dancing: He presumed to be a remarkable dancer, giving that he could dance Jazz well with his friend SpongeBob.
- Disguise: He was good in disguise, which the notable example was in That's No Lady where he disguised as the female version of himself named Patricia.
- Intelligence: This is rare because of Patrick's stupidity but Patrick seems to be smarter than he looks. This can be seen in various episodes. While Patrick is dumber than SpongeBob, he does have a lot of knowledge such as when Squidward refused to go jellyfishing Patrick states that he doesn't want to go jellyfishing which SpongeBob replies to the opposite. This ability has been implied such as when someone asked about his stupidity, he usually replies with it varies. Some argue that he is a psychopath, yet such assumptions deemed irrational taking into account of how much he truly cares with others and the show's controversial flanderization until eventual revision by Stephen Hillenburg. Ironically, real-life starfishes lacks a brain while Patrick himself (as well as other starfishes in the show) has one. This could imply Patrick smarter than his species but is dumber than the other cast.
- Seahorse Riding: He seems to be able to ride a seahorse but seems unable to do it at first.
- Survival Skills: In "To Save a Squirrel", he and SpongeBob nearly eat each other to survive. He also made earmuffs out of his own bellybutton lint so they could play without Sandy harassing them in "Survival of the Idiots." He also made warm clothing out of her fur.
- Jellyfishing: Patrick sometimes forgets how to jellyfish, however once reminded, he does it particularly well.
- Eating: In Pressure, Patrick ate a Krabby Double Deluxe in one bite. Not only that, but Patrick is shown to have an enormous appetite and can swallow large foods in one bite by either abnormally enlarged his mouth temporary or sucking all of the foods like a vacuum cleaner though he normally eating in conventional manner. He can eat 1000 Krabby Patties during the Krabby Patties Contest.
- Doing absolutely nothing for a very long period: In Stanley S. SquarePants, Patrick showed SpongeBob and Stanley on the art of doing nothing, and in The Pink Purloiner, he did nothing for 8 hours straight, while SpongeBob was spying on him. In Big Pink Loser, he even gets an award for doing absolutely nothing longer than anyone else.
- Staring: Patrick is good at staring with SpongeBob in their Staring Contest Game in various episodes, as he capable to not blinking for a considerable amount of time.
- Karate Chopping: In Karate Star, Patrick is a skilled karate "genius" at chopping. However, his hand started to go out of control, and he cut it off before starting another rampage it, regenerating his limbs like SpongeBob in Graveyard Shift.
- Performing anything dangerous: In "A Life in a Day," Patrick wanted to "live like Larry" by torturing himself in life-threatening skills. He soon gave up this lifestyle.
- Performing extreme stunts: Patrick is sometimes an ultimate daredevil in "I Had an Accident" and "A Life in a Day."
- Regeneration: In "Karate Star", after losing his control over his tendencies to cleaving anything around him with karate chop attack and nearly killed SpongeBob, he resorts by ripped his arm off. Once he explained to SpongeBob starfish regenerate their arms, they were both fine with it. But unfortunately, the severed arm grows into a perfect clone of himself.
- Teleportation: Patrick was implied to possesses this in "The Secret Box", as when SpongeBob took his secret box and ran the other way, he immediately bumped into Patrick in front of him. This led to speculation that he possibly has psychic power, but his low IQ made it difficult to be proven nor estimate how good he is using the said power.
- Levitation: Patrick seems to be able to fly without any aid, which also led to speculation that he possibly has psychic power, but his low IQ made it difficult to be proven nor estimate how good he is using the said power.
- Ice Cream Summon and Control: As Mr. Superawesomness, he can summon and control a huge number of ice cream telekinetically, which are cone ice cream. He could send them all at once to hail any enemy they hit like missiles, but ineffective against those whom have acute agility like Burger Beard.
- Rubber-Like Physiology: As Elastic Waistband, he could expand and contract his body like a rubber near limitlessly. He also extremely flexible capable of twisting and bending his body in an inhuman fashion. But he couldn't properly use it for his advantages as he had little to no training in using this superpower.
- Ghost Physiology: After he and SpongeBob accidentally shave Flying Dutchman's beard, the powerful ghost cursed SpongeBob and Patrick by stripping them from their flesh and blood, turned them into ghosts. This gave them various ghost powers including intangibility, flight, ectoplasm creation, and turned inanimate object into the said object's ghost version. Although, Flying Dutchman eventually had to restore SpongeBob and Patrick back to normal due to their newfound cursed powers proving to be too much for them to handle (Patrick claimed his intangibility made him able to see through his eyelids).
- Large Size: Patrick is also shown to be able to willingly become giant, as shown in “Ice Cream Headache” where he takes on a beast persona and become giant, then becomes normal after he notices Squidina.
Weaknesses
- Low IQ: Patrick’s biggest weakness is his low IQ, as his stupidity tends to cloud his judgment and hinder him from doing anything right, even when attempting to commit evil acts. While the show meant to have this played for laughs, the flanderization ended up exaggerated this trait so that he ended up being portrayed more like an outright malicious being, if not outright out of character as seen in Pet Sitter Pat, where he repeatedly attempted to expose Gary to anything that can potentially kill him, arguably the character's greatest controversy due to him genuinely loving the snail.
- Amateur Strategist/Tactician/Manipulator: Although his claim of being aware about his stupidity which suggests that he sometimes takes advantage of it to avoid being responsible and being capable of lying to the others, none of the instances we see Patrick doing such things showing him thinking ahead enough to ensure outcomes of his actions remain in his favor as much as Plankton and Krabs do. In fact, he tends to either go overboard or lose tracks in his schemes.
- Distraction: Patrick sometimes tends to be distracted, in some cases, by something that he favors like ice cream. Notable example would be when he supposedly used his powers as Mr. Superawesomeness to summon a pair of ice cream as weapon (presumably either as melee weapon or thrown weapons that thrown in the same manner with shurikens), his love for ice cream ended up leading him to eat the summoned ice cream instead.
- Laziness: Patrick is very lazy and usually takes poor care of himself and his "house". He also actually likes to do nothing and is good at doing it implying his laziness.
- Stinginess: As of "Dumped", he refused to get Gary back until the end, as of "The Secret Box", he even refused to let SpongeBob see his secret from the box, and as of "Yours Mine and Mine", he never let SpongeBob shares toy with him, unlike SpongeBob who loves to share. This marks him to become selfish.
Villainous Acts
- In "Tea at the Treedome", he nearly got SpongeBob killed from dehydration.
- In "Jellyfishing", despite Squidward's injuries, he and SpongeBob drag him along on a jellyfishing expedition. Patrick then tries to force Squidward to hold a jellyfishing net, but when Squidward is unable to “firmly grasp it”, Patrick callously impales the net into the poor cephalopod’s bandaged palm. Patrick was well aware that Squidward's tentacles were fully bandaged, rendering him incapable of holding objects independently. Nevertheless, Patrick persisted in forcing Squidward to perform tasks that were clearly beyond his physical abilities.
- In "Sandy's Rocket", he and SpongeBob kidnapped everyone in Bikini Bottom because they mistakenly believed that they were aliens.
- In "Nature Pants", he tried to catch SpongeBob after he chooses to live in Jellyfish Fields, attempting to keep him in a jar.
- In "Valentine’s Day", he went on a rampage throughout a carnival when he thought SpongeBob didn’t give him a Valentine’s Day gift, destroying a heart-shaped popsicle and even attacking SpongeBob and some of the carnival goers.
- In "Survival of The Idiots", he and SpongeBob broke into Sandy's house while she's hibernating and when it got cold, they shaved off her fur to keep themselves warm.
- In "Dumped", SpongeBob is left feeling down in the dumps when his loyal pet snail Gary starts hanging out with Patrick. Despite Patrick's lack of empathy, telling SpongeBob to simply move on, it's later discovered that Gary's intentions weren't to replace SpongeBob, but rather to get his slimy hands on a cookie from Patrick's pocket. In the end, Gary returns to SpongeBob, leaving Patrick devastated.
- In "Pressure", he mocked Sandy for not being a fish, and when she took off her helmet and started drowning, Patrick laughed at her and didn't care that she was dying.
- In "I'm With Stupid", upset about his parents thinking he was unintelligent, SpongeBob offers to act dumb to make Patrick seem smart to them. It wasn't until a game of charades where Patrick begins to start making fun of SpongeBob as if he really were dumb forgetting their plan and even wearing an "I'm With Stupid" shirt with an arrow pointing towards SpongeBob. When SpongeBob tries to give Patrick's "parents" a normal greeting, they all begin to poke fun at SpongeBob causing him to yell in aggravation and run out of Patrick's home. It's hypocritical that Patrick doesn't like feeling dumb by his parents but treated SpongeBob the same way his parents treated him.
- In "The Fry Cook Games", he landed on the handle of a fryer which caused it to be flipped and throw boiling oil onto some of the fish in the audience, resulting in them being killed and turned into fish sticks.
- In "Chocolate with Nuts", he and SpongeBob lie to a bunch of people so that they can get them to buy their chocolate.
- In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, during the ceremony for the grand opening for the second Krusty Krab and after the announcing of the new manager of the original Krusty Krab, Patrick flys over the audience by using his pants as a glider and moons them while holding a small flag labeled “SpongeBob” with his butt. He then crashes into the Squidward banner and destroys the stage (even accidentally causing a small fire), which results in everyone panicking and running away, ultimately ruining the last of the ceremony. Although Patrick only did this in a genuine attempt to be supportive to SpongeBob.
- When King Neptune gives SpongeBob 10 days to retrieve his crown, Patrick arrogantly and very stupidly claims that SpongeBob can do it in only 9, causing Neptune to lower it to 8 days, with Patrick then lowering it 7, and King Neptune finally bringing it down to 6 days, which results in both SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs tackling him before he could reduce the amount of days even more, with him even trying to lower it down to 5. It is worth noting that SpongeBob and Patrick were just barely able to return the crown in time, with Mr. Krabs nearly being shot by King Neptune’s trident before the duo were fired down into the ocean by David Hasselhoff and accidentally deflected the blast with the crown, meaning that not only did Patrick reduce his and SpongeBob’s time significantly, but had he succeeded in lowering it in 5 days, Mr. Krabs would have been successfully executed.
- In "No Weenies Allowed", he punched SpongeBob in the face after he pretended to insult him.
- In "Driven to Tears", after getting his license instead of SpongeBob, being insensitive to SpongeBob's unhappiness about it, he drove recklessly through the city by running 3 stoplights and took an illegal U-turn through an orphanage.
- In "Rule of Dumb", he abused his power as king by refusing to pay for food, stealing others' possessions whenever he wants (including from children), forcing the citizens to give him their stuff, and trying to build a Ferris Wheel in Squidward's yard by moving his house out of the way with him still inside.
- In "House Fancy", he murdered Squidward's sentient toilet with no remorse, and he also steals SpongeBob's brain for unknown reasons.
- In "The Card", Patrick outright revealed his stupidity to be a façade to "keep you on your toes", which reveals that he's aware od his stupidity and at time taking advantage of it to avoid being responsible. However, his inferior means he fails to see potential harm he causes to others AND himself, let alone able to think ahead enough to ensure outcomes of his actions remain in his favor as much as Plankton and Krabs do.
- In "CreamBob ConePants", he and SpongeBob devoured the residents of Pint Bottom, leaving the entire city completely void of anyone and anything.
- In "Shuffleboarding", he and SpongeBob filled in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy and arrested everyone for doing things that aren't even crimes. Eventually, the jail got so full it exploded, causing all the people to fall from the sky. However, the blame fell on Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in the end because the townspeople thought SpongeBob and Patrick were Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy since they were wearing their costumes.
- In "Stuck in the Wringer", one of his most infamous roles, he uses the Forever Glue to permanently trap in SpongeBob while he is stuck in his wringer, thus getting the poor sponge tortured a lot, like getting him kicked out of the Krusty Krab, almost choking him to death while eating ice cream due to the wringer blocking his esophagus, and him getting flung off a carnival ride and even getting a black eye in the carnival.
- In "That Sinking Feeling", he and SpongeBob sank every house in Bikini Bottom, and while this was unintentional, they felt no remorse for it.
- In "Karate Star", he took his newfound karate prowess too far, destroying part of the Krusty Krab and nearly chopping a baby even after SpongeBob warned him to use it responsibly.
- In "Pet Sitter Pat", he negligently abused Gary while pet-sitting for SpongeBob by forgetting to feed the snail and eating all of his pet food even though he was starving, firing a flamethrower at him to give him a bath, spraying him with a hose and then blowing a hot hairdryer at him to dry him off.
- He was even originally planning to dry Gary with salt (which is severely dangerous to snails) but he couldn't find any.
- In " InSPONGEiac", when SpongeBob comes to him to help him sleep, Patrick reads him a "get-out-of-bed" story, sings him a song about getting up and gives him coffee, which not only leads to SpongeBob having insomnia even further to the point of hallucinating for the rest of the night, but it also demonstrates Patrick's poor listening skills when SpongeBob repeatedly tells him he's trying to go to sleep.
- In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, he rats out SpongeBob to the angry mob because he wants Krabby Patties during the post-apocalypse that start in Bikini Bottom.
- Also, when SpongeBob starts to feel defeated and guilty about failing Bikini Bottom, Patrick rubs salt in the wound by saying it's on him, which shows that Patrick doesn't think before he talks.
- In "Ink Lemonade", he tortured Squidward so he can extract the ink he makes when scared for his lemonade, going as far as to scare him with a giant spider and even a horror contraption showing a desolate future where Squidward is still a cashier after 50 years.
- In “Sanitation Insanity”, he fight with SpongeBob and Patrick because he wanted to keep trash using mechs.
- In "The Goofy Newbie", he eats so much ice cream that he gets a brain freeze that ends up freezing the Earth for five billion years.
- In "Squidina's Little Helper", he attacked an innocent ice cream cone guy when he attempted to make an audition for his show.
- He would also attack this same ice cream cone guy in the episode "Host-a-Palooza", where he chomped the head off of them on live television.
- In "The Haunting of Star House", he strangled a sentient phone to death and proceeded to use it's spirit as a hotline to call other ghosts, showing zero remorse for this.
- In "House Hunting", he committed a genocide on the Hamdonians by devouring their land.
- When the surviving Hamdonians confront Patrick for what he did to them at the end of the episode, Patrick shows zero remorse for his actions and even attempts to have the Hamdonians jump into his mouth in order to eat them again.
- In "Fun & Done", he and SpongeBob murdered several creatures, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong and simply just danced.
- In "The Starry Awards", he murdered an innocent sentient granola bar on live television with zero consequences.
External Links
- Patrick Star at the Protagonists Wiki
- Patrick Star at the Heroes Wiki
- Patrick Star at the Nickelodeon Wiki
- Patrick Star at the Paramount Wiki
- Patrick Star at the SpongeBob SquarePants Wiki
- Patrick Star at the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Patrick Star at the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
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