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** Throughout [=SpongeBob=]'s analysis, Wiz and Boomstick make references to the show's main theme; Boomstick tries to start singing it before Wiz shut him down during the analysis, then when discussing his ability to absorb water and finally when Wiz closes off the analysis.
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* MistakenIdentity: At first, [=SpongeBob=] mistakes Aquaman for Mermaid Man (an in-universe {{parody}} of Aquaman and [=SpongeBob=]'s idol), though he quickly realizes his mistake. This confusion actually serves as another benefit for the sea sponge, as his obsessive knowledge of Mermaid Man would mean that he'd be familiar with Aquaman's powers.


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** Much like [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E14WelcomeToTheChumBucketFrankendoodle the episode it first appeared in]], [=SpongeBob=]'s Magic Pencil gets snapped in half during the fight.
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* TakeThat: To the post-movie era of [=SpongeBob=], with Boomstick claiming that SeasonalRot is one of [=SpongeBob's=] only weaknesses, citing [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E3LicenseToMilkshakeSquidBaby "Squid Baby"]] as an example of a particularly poor episode.
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* {{Bookends}}: Aquaman announced himself a Superfriend when the fight starts. As he dies, he declares him and [=SpongeBob=] super friends.


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* GoOutWithASmile: Aquaman lost, but he goes out with a bang and he declares him and [=SpongeBob=] as friends.
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With both contestants' history, abilities and feats covered and the sponsor ad for [=MintMobile=] done, it's time for a death battle!

''[work in progress]''
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* BreatherEpisode: Functions as one, airing after one episode featuring time-traveling warriors with near-cosmic levels of power and before another featuring two slasher film villains.

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* BreatherEpisode: Functions as one, airing after one episode featuring time-traveling warriors with near-cosmic levels of power and before another featuring two slasher film villains.
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** Spongebob declares he saved Bikini Bottom at the beginning of the fight with a comically deep voice and wearing a big chin [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E7 HallMonitorJellyfishJam as a reference to an early episode of his show.]]

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** Spongebob declares he saved Bikini Bottom at the beginning of the fight with a comically deep voice and wearing a big chin [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E7 HallMonitorJellyfishJam [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E7HallMonitorJellyfishJam as a reference to an early episode of his show.]]
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* LighterAndSofter: The battle revolves around aquatic kid’s show characters. The fight itself is pretty cartoonish in nature with barely any [[BloodlessCarnage gore or blood]].


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** Spongebob declares he saved Bikini Bottom at the beginning of the fight with a comically deep voice and wearing a big chin [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E7 HallMonitorJellyfishJam as a reference to an early episode of his show.]]
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** During the battle Aquaman gets his left arm erased, whereas in the comics he would lose his left hand and be forced to use a hook in its place for several years.
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* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is capable of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E26SquirrelJellyTheString unraveling a string]] measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10[[superscript:78]] times the speed of light'''-- making [=SpongeBob=] the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

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* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is capable of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E26SquirrelJellyTheString unraveling a string]] measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10[[superscript:78]] times the speed of light'''-- making [=SpongeBob=] the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. That's not even counting in his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.
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* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is capable of unraveling a string measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10[[superscript:78]] times the speed of light'''-- making [=SpongeBob=] the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

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* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is capable of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E26SquirrelJellyTheString unraveling a string string]] measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10[[superscript:78]] times the speed of light'''-- making [=SpongeBob=] the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.
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** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen if you're a sailor, according to Mr. Krabs in the [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]]".

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** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen SevenDirtyWords (or "#11" of ''thirteen'' bad words if you're a sailor, sailor) according to Mr. Krabs in the [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown "''[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]]".Mouth]]''".
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* LethalJokeCharacter: Spongebob is capable of unraveling a string measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10⁷⁸ x the speed of light'''-- making Spongebob the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. Wiz even concedes that Spongebob is "our God" at the end of the episode.

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* LethalJokeCharacter: Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] is capable of unraveling a string measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10⁷⁸ x 10[[superscript:78]] times the speed of light'''-- making Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. Wiz even concedes that Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.
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** When Aquaman sees [=SpongeBob=] split into multiple copies, he utters '''"GREAT NEPTUNE!"''', his {{catchphrase}} from [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends his cartoon]]. His voice actor's mouth moving over a drawing of him is a reference to multiple instances of SynchroVox in [=SpongeBob=]'s show.


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* PrecisionFStrike: While most of the F-bombs in this episode were bleeped out, Wiz drops an uncensored one right before calculating [=SpongeBob=]'s string feat.
-->'''Wiz:''' No I'm sorry, I need to do this one. This is... this is ''fucking insane''.


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* SoundEffectBleep: Instead of the usual bleep sound, Aquaman's F-bomb was censored by a dolphin noise.
-->'''Aquaman:''' And out of all of them, I'm the lamest f-''(dolphin noise)''-ing one!
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* BrokenWinLossStreak: After Prince Zuko's loss to Shoto Todoroki, and Avatar Korra's loss to Storm, [=SpongeBob=] is the first ''Nickelodeon'' original character to win a Death Battle since Danny Phantom's victory over Jake Long.
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* JokeCharacter: Aquaman, full stop. Wiz ''hopes'' to see ''something'' redeemable about him, but the best he can observe is that Aquaman is strong enough to lift about 50 tons of garbage out of the ocean. Even Aquaman himself realizes that he's the lamest version of himself across the multiverse.
-->'''Strengths:''' +Won the moral victory?\\
'''Weaknesses:''' -Everything else lmao
* LethalJokeCharacter: Spongebob is capable of unraveling a string measuring at 192 microns in width and completely unravel the universe and the literal fabric of reality in roughly 5 seconds. As Wiz points out, this speed calculates out at '''8.2 x 10⁷⁸ x the speed of light'''-- making Spongebob the single fastest calculation of speed ever recorded in Death Battle's entire history. Wiz even concedes that Spongebob is "our God" at the end of the episode.
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* HeroicSecondWind: Subverted in a way. [=SpongeBob=] is busy giving a depressed Aquaman a heroic speech, the Superfriend pulls out a trident from the multiverse to gain an advantage.[[HopeSpot It doesn't last.]]

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* HeroicSecondWind: Subverted in a way. [=SpongeBob=] is busy giving a depressed Aquaman a heroic speech, the Superfriend pulls out a trident from the multiverse to gain an advantage. [[HopeSpot It doesn't last.]]
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* HeroicSecondWind: Subverted in a way. [=SpongeBob=] is busy giving a depressed Aquaman a heroic speech, the Superfriend pulls out a trident from the multiverse to gain an advantage.

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* HeroicSecondWind: Subverted in a way. [=SpongeBob=] is busy giving a depressed Aquaman a heroic speech, the Superfriend pulls out a trident from the multiverse to gain an advantage. [[HopeSpot It doesn't last.]]
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** Boomstick remarks that Wiz' initial pessimism makes him sound like Squidward — "and [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E10WetPaintersKrustyKrabTrainingVideo nobody wants to be a Squidward]]."


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** Boomstick's BondOneLiner mentions [=SpongeBob=] having pulled off a "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E15TheSecretBoxBandGeeks sweet victory]]."
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** Wiz claims the fight was incredibly close before laughing it off as a joke, which reads as a lighthearted jab at his often-mocked habit of declaring such for other curb stomps.

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** Wiz claims the fight was incredibly close before laughing it off as a joke, which reads as a lighthearted jab at his often-mocked habit of declaring such for other curb stomps.stomps on the show.

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* SelfDeprecation: Aquaman sees other versions of himself in a portal and realizes that he is the worst of them.

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** [=SpongeBob's=] heroic speech has him mention being dismissed as a goofball, a wingnut, and a Knucklehead [=McSpazatron=], just like in [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie his first movie]].
** At the end of the battle, [=SpongeBob=] commemorates his fallen foe by drawing him a [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E6SnowballEffectOneKrabsTrash tombstone shaped like a giant number 1]]… and the epitaph refers to him as [[Music/{{Ween}} Ocean Man]].

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!!This ->'''Wiz:''' WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s number-one nautical nincompoop.\\
'''Boomstick:''' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the thalassic third wheel of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends. Thalassic means ocean! I looked it up.\\
'''Wiz:''' The infinite ink-black depths of the seven seas are home to any number of terrifying, awe-inspiring creatures.\\
'''Boomstick:''' They're also home to these two losers! Though when it comes to cartoon characters, there's always more hidden beneath the waves. That's right, we're prioritizing the cartoons for maximum toon-force shenanigans!

''[work in progress]''

->'''Wiz:''' So if nautical nonsense be something you wish, then pray to your yellow porous god for mercy, because his whimsical laughter is the last thing you'll ever hear!

->'''Wiz:''' But is raw power what really makes someone a hero, or is it the drive to help others, to be of service, to sacrifice? That's what a hero is to me, and I'd say Aquaman's got enough of that as there are drops of water in the ocean!\\
'''Boomstick:''' ...He's about to die.\\
'''Wiz:''' Yeah... yeah...

'''FIGHT!'''

'''KO!'''

->'''Wiz:''' At least Arthur finally got to be a real hero, and at the end of the day, that's what matters.\\
'''Boomstick:''' Yeah sure, whatever pal, he's dead. Too bad for the king of the seas, that was one sweet victory!\\
'''Wiz:''' The winner is [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=], our god.

[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E13JasonVSMichaelMyers Next time on Death Battle...]]

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* CurbstompBattle: Thanks to ToonPhysics, it was impossible for Aquaman to even hurt [=SpongeBob=], let alone kill him. Even using a weapon from one of his more awesome interdimensional counterparts wasn't enough.

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* CurbstompBattle: Thanks CurbStompBattle: One of the most blatant examples in the series; thanks to [=SpongeBob=]'s ToonPhysics, it was impossible for Aquaman to even hurt [=SpongeBob=], him, let alone kill him. Even using a weapon from one of his more awesome interdimensional counterparts wasn't enough.
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-->'''Boomstick''': IT'S TIME FOR AQUAMAN'S FUNERAAAAAAL!
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* AccidentalMisnaming: [=SpongeBob=] keeps getting Aquaman's name wrong.
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** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen if you're a sailor, according to Mr. Krabs in the [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] episode [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]].

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** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen if you're a sailor, according to Mr. Krabs in the [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] episode [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]].Mouth]]".
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** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen if you're a sailor, according to Mr. Krabs in the [[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]] episode [[ Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]].

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** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen if you're a sailor, according to Mr. Krabs in the [[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]] [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] episode [[ Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]].

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->'''Wiz:''' WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s number-one nautical nincompoop.\\
'''Boomstick:''' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the thalassic third wheel of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends. Thalassic means ocean! I looked it up.\\
'''Wiz:''' The infinite ink-black depths of the seven seas are home to any number of terrifying, awe-inspiring creatures.\\
'''Boomstick:''' They're also home to these two losers! Though when it comes to cartoon characters, there's always more hidden beneath the waves. That's right, we're prioritizing the cartoons for maximum toon-force shenanigans!

''[work in progress]''

->'''Wiz:''' At least Arthur finally got to be a real hero, and at the end of the day, that's what matters.\\
'''Boomstick:''' Yeah sure, whatever pal, he's dead. Too bad for the king of the seas, that was one sweet victory!\\
'''Wiz:''' The winner is [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=], our god.

[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E13JasonVSMichaelMyers Next time on Death Battle...]]

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->'''Wiz:''' WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s number-one nautical nincompoop.\\
'''Boomstick:''' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the thalassic third wheel of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends. Thalassic means ocean! I looked it up.\\
'''Wiz:''' The infinite ink-black depths of the seven seas are home to any number of terrifying, awe-inspiring creatures.\\
'''Boomstick:''' They're also home to these two losers! Though when it comes to cartoon characters, there's always more hidden beneath the waves. That's right, we're prioritizing the cartoons for maximum toon-force shenanigans!

''[work in progress]''

->'''Wiz:''' At least Arthur finally got to be a real hero, and at the end of the day, that's what matters.\\
'''Boomstick:''' Yeah sure, whatever pal, he's dead. Too bad for the king of the seas, that was one sweet victory!\\
'''Wiz:''' The winner is [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=], our god.

[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E13JasonVSMichaelMyers Next time on Death Battle...]]

! This
!!This Death Battle includes examples of:the following tropes:

* CurbstompBattle: Thanks to ToonPhysics, it was impossible for Aquaman to even hurt [=SpongeBob=], let alone kill him. Even using a weapon from one of his more awesome interdimensional counterparts wasn't enough.
* ForegoneConclusion: For the first time in the series, Wiz and Boomstick came down to just ''one possibility'' of who wins this episode's battle.
* HeroicSecondWind: Subverted in a way. [=SpongeBob=] is busy giving a depressed Aquaman a heroic speech, the Superfriend pulls out a trident from the multiverse to gain an advantage.
* MythologyGag:
** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords, or thirteen if you're a sailor, according to Mr. Krabs in the [[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]] episode [[ Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]].
** Fred the Fish is heard once again screaming "MY LEG!" offscreen when [=SpongeBob=] [[DestructiveSavior "saves the day"]].
* SelfDeprecation: Aquaman sees other versions of himself in a portal and realizes that he is the worst of them.
* ToonPhysics: Once more analyzed and used in this episode. Unfortunately for Aquaman, [=SpongeBob=] is able to make full use of it to win.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: The hosts consider [=SpongeBob=] and Superfriends!Aquaman total jokes, but acknowledge their incredible feats and abilities. That said, they admit that the latter grossly pales in comparison to the former.
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->'''Wiz:''' WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s number-one nautical nincompoop.\\
'''Boomstick:''' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the thalassic third wheel of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends. Thalassic means ocean! I looked it up.\\
'''Wiz:''' The infinite ink-black depths of the seven seas are home to any number of terrifying, awe-inspiring creatures.\\
'''Boomstick:''' They're also home to these two losers! Though when it comes to cartoon characters, there's always more hidden beneath the waves. That's right, we're prioritizing the cartoons for maximum toon-force shenanigans!

''[work in progress]''

->'''Wiz:''' At least Arthur finally got to be a real hero, and at the end of the day, that's what matters.\\
'''Boomstick:''' Yeah sure, whatever pal, he's dead. Too bad for the king of the seas, that was one sweet victory!\\
'''Wiz:''' The winner is [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=], our god.

[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E13JasonVSMichaelMyers Next time on Death Battle...]]

! This Death Battle includes examples of:

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