History Recap / DeathBattleS09E12SpongeBobVSAquaman

* BreakingOldTrends: Played for laughs this time around. Usually, Wiz and Boomstick are fairly impartial and neutral when going over the feats of the combatants. This time around? Nooot so much. Wiz is flabbergasted and dismayed how utterly mind-boggling [=SpongeBob's=] feats and abilities are and how disappointing Aquaman's cartoon counterpart is respectively. Boomstick quickly figures out from the word "go" that Aquaman's fucked and has no chance of winning, even saying as much at the end of the latter's analysis.

* CurbStompBattle: Wiz and Boomstick don't even try to hide the fact that Aquaman is completely and utterly screwed against [=SpongeBob=], with his one impressive feat, outspeeding Rokan[[note]]which would require that he swam 55 billion times faster than light[[/note]], being shot down by [=SpongeBob=] grabbing the ''fastest calculable speed feat in Death Battle history'' (key word "calculable"; Speed Force users and the Archie Hedgehogs still have [=SpongeBob=] beat due to their literally impossible speed feats). Wiz bluntly claims there's only one possible outcome in the pre-fight section, Boomstick outright declares the fight to be "Aquaman's funeral", and the animation and post-fight review do not attempt to hide how far superior [=SpongeBob=] is in literally everything but intelligence, an advantage which Aquaman could do precisely ''nothing'' with. And unlike the last deliberate curb-stomp battle in "Deadpool VS Mask", Wiz and Boomstick have no regrets for throwing Aquaman to the wolves.

* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is a silly cartoon character who is a naively moronic {{Manchild}} with the sole desire to work as a fry cook. He is also capable of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E26SquirrelJellyTheString unraveling a string]] measuring at 192 micrometers in width to 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[[note]]This isn't counting the Speed Force users and the Archie Sonic hedgehogs, who are simply too fast to calculate at all.[[/note]]. That's not even counting his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

* WrongGenreSavvy: The reason the hosts chose ''Super Friends'' Aquaman instead of his mainstream counterpart is that they thought that coming from a 70’s cartoon he would have access to the types of feats one would find in ''He-Man'' and Silver Age comic books instead of the infamously watered down version found in the show. They quickly realize their mistake during Aquaman’s rundown.

* AccidentalMisnaming: [=SpongeBob=] keeps getting Aquaman's name wrong.

* AdaptationalWimp: Aquaman was made even ''weaker'' than his ''Super Friends'' portrayal. Wiz and Boomstick claimed he couldn't survive without water and that was reflected by him immediately drying out when [=SpongeBob=] got him out of the water, even though there was no ''Super Friends'' episode where he was in danger of drying out and he often spent time on land, and was fine in the desert. They claimed him lifting 50 tons of garbage was the limit of his strength, but in the episode "Return of Atlantis", he picked up a cruise ship, which can weigh over 10000 tons, and threw it. Granted, like [=SpongeBob=], his strength was often portrayed inconsistently as in the same episode, he got captured by an ordinary net. They claimed he had no durability feats, but in the episode "The Evil From Krypton", he got tossed around by the evil Kryptonian Zy-Kree, who was as powerful as Superman and had no reason to hold back, and immediately got up. The only feat Wiz and Boomstick gave him was outspeeding the Kryptonian monster Rokan, who was even more powerful than Superman. To top it off, Aquaman didn't have access to any of his weapons from his analysis, like his heat ray that might have exploited [=SpongeBob=]'s weakness to drying out. Of course, even if Aquaman had these feats and weapons, he would have still lost since he couldn't compete with [=SpongeBob=]'s ToonPhysics, but it would have been (comparatively) less of a CurbStompBattle.

* AdaptationalWimp: Aquaman was made even ''weaker'' than his ''Super Friends'' portrayal. Wiz and Boomstick claimed he couldn't survive without water and that was reflected by him immediately drying out when [=SpongeBob=] got him out of the water, even though there was no ''Super Friends'' episode where he was in danger of drying out and he often spent time on land, and was fine in the desert. They claimed him lifting 50 tons of garbage was the limit of his strength, but in the episode "Return of Atlantis", he picked up a cruise ship, which can weigh over 10000 tons, and threw it. Granted, like [=SpongeBob=], his strength was often portrayed inconsistently as in the same episode, he got captured by an ordinary net. They claimed he had no durability feats, but in the episode "The Evil From Krypton", he got tossed around by the evil Kryptonian Zy-Kree, who was as powerful as Superman and had no reason to hold back, and immediately got up. The only feat Wiz and Boomstick gave him was outspeeding the Kryptonian monster Rokan, who was even more powerful than Superman. To top it off, Aquaman didn't have access to any of his weapons from his analysis, like his heat ray that could have exploited [=SpongeBob=]'s weakness to drying out. Of course, even if Aquaman had these feats and weapons, he would have still lost since he couldn't compete with [=SpongeBob=]'s ToonPhysics, but it would have been less of a CurbStompBattle.

* BreakingOldTrends: Played for laughs this time around. Usually, Wiz and Boomstick are fairly impartial and neutral when going over the feats of the combatants. This time around? Nooot so much. Wiz is flabbergasted and dismayed how utterly mind-boggling [=SpongeBob's=] feats and abilities are and how disappointed Aquaman's cartoon counterpart is respectively. Boomstick quickly figures out from the word "go" that Aquaman's fucked and has no chance of winning, even saying as much at the end of the latter's analysis.

[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E13JasonVorheesVSMichaelMyers Next time on Death Battle...]]

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

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'''Boomstick:''' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the thalassic third wheel of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends. Thalassic means ocean! I looked it up.\\

Within the depths of the deep blue sea lies all sorts of unique and awe-inspiring wildlife and Death Battle's 12th episode will show that sometimes greatness can be found in the most unexpected places. Now [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] and Aquaman's WesternAnimation/SuperFriends iteration are here to clash fists in order to decide who will win an oceanic [[TitleDrop Death Battle]]!

At first glance, [=SpongeBob=] is nothing much to write home about; A naive ManChild whose only goal is to continue his low-paying job as the Krusty Krab's sole fry cook who lacks the physicality to perform basic tasks, such as failing to lift a glass of lemonade. But beneath that spongey, yellow surface is a hard-working citizen with access to ''Toon Force'' which has countered his aforementioned lack of physical strength frequently such as when he effortlessly rotated the Earth with nothing more than a wrench and a nut, and despite being a sea sponge, [=SpongeBob=] has displayed properties similar to that of kitchen sponges, such as the ability to absorb large quantities of water. [=SpongeBob=] has demonstrated abilities such as the ability to shapeshift his body effortlessly, duplicate through asexual reproduction, and through his ability to absorb water, has shown to be able to drain the entirety of Goo Lagoon dry and even absorb enough water to match the moon in size.

[=SpongeBob=] also possesses an impressive healing factor that is able to heal him from being torn in half, vaporized, having his soul removed and even being literally unravelled from existence. But his greatest ability is his skill with of all things, bubbles. Similar to that of Green Lantern, [=SpongeBob=] can create anything from his imagination out of bubbles, from controllable ordinance to even sentient life and entire societies made of bubbles. On a similar note, is his Magic Pencil which, while otherwise an ordinary pencil, is able to draw living beings into reality and erase them just as easily. Even the most mundane objects become tools of mass destruction in [=SpongeBob=]'s hands, such as his reef blower which was able to vacuum up the entire Earth's oceans and ended up exploding on top of [=SpongeBob=], who was unaffected by the ensuing explosion, and while impressive as an impromptu weapon, [=SpongeBob=]'s Hydro-dynamic Spatula is best suited for its intended purpose of making the finest meal in the sea, the Krabby Patty. A burger so addictive that [=SpongeBob=] was romantically involved with one, and is capable of negating mind control, restoring damage and even remotely detonate.

[=SpongeBob=] has accomplished many feats over the course of his show, such as surviving nuclear explosions at close range, hugging his best friend Patrick Star hard enough that their [=DNA=] fused together, riding on the very scene transitions of his show and somehow cried hard enough to flood Bikini Bottom. But all this pales in comparison to when he ''literally'' unravelled the fabric of the universe by pulling on a mysterious string. But despite his accomplishments, the rest of Bikini Bottom only saw the childish fry cook on the surface, requiring him to prove himself on multiple occasions, as evidenced when he thwarted Plankton's Plan Z, defended Bikini Bottom from an army of renegade robots, and even teamed up with fellow Nickelodeon characters, Timmy Turner, Jimmy Neutron and prior Death Battle combatant Danny Phantom to save the Nicktoons multiverse.

With the analysis of our first aquatic combatant complete, we now focus on the second. While Arthur Curry has been covered before, this time we shift our attention from the comic books to the 60s and 70s cartoons, the same era as the solar system-sneezing Pre-crisis Superman. The story of Aquaman begins like it did in the comics with Tom Curry siring a child with Atlanna of the underwater city of... Poseidonis, but unlike his comic book counterpart, the resulting child, Arthur didn't become king of Atlantis but still possesses phenomenal aquatic abilities. Due to the era he hails from, Aquaman has a wide assortment of gadgets to assist him as a hero, such as an underwater jet ski, pistols that can fire water and octopus ink, a net and a heat ray potent enough to melt solid ice, and his hybrid nature of being half-human/half-Atlantean grants him superhuman strength, the ability to survive indefinitely underwater and even survive the deepest depths of the ocean.

'''Wiz:''' The winner is [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=], our god.

* CurbStompBattle: Wiz and Boomstick don't even try to hide the fact that Aquaman is completely and utterly screwed against [=SpongeBob=], with his one impressive feat, outspeeding Rokan[[note]]which would require that he swam 55 billion times faster than light[[/note]], being shot down by [=SpongeBob=] grabbing the ''fastest calculable speed feat in Death Battle history'' (key word "calculable"; Speed Force users and the Archie Hedgehogs still have [=SpongeBob=] beat due to their literally impossible speed feats). Wiz bluntly claims there's only one possible outcome in the pre-fight section, Boomstick outright declares the fight to be "Aquaman's funeral", and the animation and post-fight review do not attempt to hide how far superior [=SpongeBob=] is in literally everything but intelligence, an advantage which Aquaman could do precisely ''nothing'' with. And unlike the last deliberate curbstomp battle in Deadpool VS Mask, Wiz and Boomstick have no regrets for throwing Aquaman to the wolves.

* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is a silly cartoon character who is a naively moronic {{Manchild}} with the sole desire to work as a fry cook. He is also capable of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E26SquirrelJellyTheString unraveling a string]] measuring at 192 microns in width to 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[[note]]This isn't counting the Speed Force users and the Archie Sonic hedgehogs, who are simply too fast to calculate at all.[[/note]]. That's not even counting his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

** [=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]].

* 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.

* WrongGenreSavvy: The reason the hosts chose Super Friends Aquaman instead of his mainstream counterpart is that they thought that coming from a 70’s cartoon he would have access to the types of feats one would find in He Man and Silver Age comic books instead of the infamously watered down version found in the show. They quickly realize their mistake during Aquaman’s rundown.

[=SpongeBob=] also possesses an impressive healing factor that is able to heal him from being torn in half, vaporized, having his soul removed and even being literally unravelled from existence. But his greatest ability is his skill with of all things, bubbles. Similar to that of Green Lantern, [=SpongeBob=] can create anything from his imagination out of bubbles, from controllable ordinance to even sentient life and entire societies made of bubbles. On a similar note, is his Magic Pencil which, while otherwise an ordinary pencil, is able to draw living beings into reality and erase them just as easily. Even the most mundane objects become tools of mass destruction in [=SpongeBob=]'s hands, such as his reef blower which was able to vacuum up the entire Earth's oceans and ended up exploding on top of [=SpongeBob=], who was unaffected by the ensuing explosion.

''[work in progress]''

With both contestants' history, abilities and feats covered and the sponsor ad for [=MintMobile=] done, it's time for a death battle!

* 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.

* BreakingOldTrends: Played for laughs this time around. Usually, Wiz and Boomstick are fairly impartial and neutral when going over the feats of the combatants. This time around? Nooot so much. Wiz is flabbergasted and dismayed how utterly mind-boggling Spongebob's feats and abilities are and how disappointed Aquaman's cartoon counterpart is respectively. Boomstick quickly figures out from the word "go" that Aquaman's fucked and has no chance of winning, even saying as much at the end of the latter's analysis.

** Spongebob declares he saved Bikini Bottom at the beginning of the fight with a comically deep voice and wearing a big chin [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E7HallMonitorJellyfishJam as a reference to an early episode of his show.]]

* NoJustNoReaction: During the opening analysis, Boomstick questions whether Spongebob banged Sandy. The pop-ups that usually add information and theories that the hosts don't normally bother to bring up themselves just say "NOPE" after Boomstick asks that question.

* LethalJokeCharacter: [=SpongeBob=] is a silly cartoon character who once failed to lift a glass of lemonade and is a naively moronic {{Manchild}} who's sole desire is to work as a fry cook. He is also capable of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E26SquirrelJellyTheString unraveling a string]] measuring at 192 microns in width to 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[[note]]This isn't counting the Speed Force users and the Archie Sonic hedgehogs, who are simply too fast to calculate at all.[[/note]]. That's not even counting his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

* 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[[note]]This isn't counting the Speed Force users and the Archie Sonic hedgehogs, who are simply too fast to calculate at all.[[/note]]. That's not even counting his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

* 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[[note]] This isn't counting the Speed Force users and the Archie Sonic hedgehogs, who are simply too fast to calculate at all.[[/note]]. That's not even counting his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

* 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[[note]] This isn't counting the Speed Force users and the Archie hedgehogs, who are simply too fast to calculate at all[[/note]]. That's not even counting his ability to [[RewritingReality rewrite a comic he was in]]. Wiz even concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end of the episode.

* 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.

* 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.

* CurbStompBattle: Wiz and Boomstick don't even try to hide the fact that Aquaman is completely and utterly screwed against [=SpongeBob=], with his one semi-impressive feat, outspeeding Rokan, being shot down by [=SpongeBob=] grabbing the ''fastest calculable speed feat in Death Battle history'' (key word "calculable"; Speed Force users and the Archie Hedgehogs still have [=SpongeBob=] beat due to their literally impossible speed feats). Wiz bluntly claims there's only one possible outcome in the pre-fight section, Boomstick outright declares the fight to be "Aquaman's funeral", and the animation and post-fight review do not attempt to hide how far beyond [=SpongeBob=] is in literally everything but intelligence, an advantage which Aquaman could do precisely ''nothing'' with. And unlike the last deliberate curbstomp battle in Deadpool VS Mask, Wiz and Boomstick have no regrets for throwing Aquaman to the wolves.

* CurbStompBattle: Wiz and Boomstick don't even try to hide the fact that Aquaman is completely and utterly screwed against [=SpongeBob=], with his one semi-impressive feat, outspeeding Rokan, being shot down by [=SpongeBob=] grabbing the ''fastest calculable speed feat in Death Battle history'' (key word "calculable"; Speed Force users and the Archie Hedgehogs still have [=SpongeBob=] beat due to their literally impossible speed feats). Wiz bluntly claims there's only one possible outcome in the pre-fight section, Boomstick outright declares the fight to be "Aquaman's funeral", and the animation and post-fight review do not attempt to hide how far beyond [=SpongeBob=] is in literally everything but intelligence, an advantage which Aquaman could do precisely ''nothing'' with.

* ForegoneConclusion: For the first time in the series, Wiz and Boomstick came down to just ''one possibility'' of who wins this episode's battle.

* 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.

** Aquaman's first few punches [[NoSell doing nothing to SpongeBob]] hearkens back to Flats' similarly ineffective punches from "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E3TheBullyJustOneBite The Bully]]".

* CurbStompBattle: One of the most blatant examples in the series; thanks to [=SpongeBob=]'s ToonPhysics, it was impossible for Aquaman to even hurt him, let alone kill him. Even using a weapon from one of his more awesome interdimensional counterparts wasn't enough.