plankton
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.
Sheldon Plankton is the smallest of the characters in SpongeBob SquarePants, he is so tiny that he can fit into SpongeBob’s hand. This one-eyed zooplankter is easy to recognize by his voice too, that will surprise the first time viewer with its deep tonalities. 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.
There is a lot of contradiction between Plankton’s humble tiny appearance and his aspirations and goals. Who would expect mighty things from the jelly green bean-shaped creature that is 99% evil and only 1% good. His repeated failures at stealing the Krabby Patty formula are caused by his over-haste and impatience. Sneaky and jealous, 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 that looks to Plankton as both silly and babyish, and who on top of everything knows the ingredients of the Krabby Patty recipe.
We could say that there is no antagonist or villain in the SpongeBob SquarePants series other than Plankton. He makes all sorts of major plans to achieve his goals and usually gets to work with characters that are much stronger in terms of physical appearance; actually, the fact that he is so small does not prevent him to have a huge ego and a really self-deceptive perception. From a certain point of view, Plankton wins viewers over by his miserable failures at getting something he puts so much emphasis on. Plankton really makes the animation series a lot spicier.