Line #46 Recap/DeathBattleS09E12SpongeBobVSAquaman


1	->'''Wiz:''' WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s number-one nautical nincompoop.\
2	'''Boomstick:''' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the thalassic third wheel of the ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''. Thalassic means ocean! I looked it up.\
3	'''Wiz:''' The infinite ink-black depths of the seven seas are home to any number of terrifying, awe-inspiring creatures.\
4	'''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!
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6	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]]!
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8	Before we start our first analysis, we first look into history as we recall the Cold War and the United States' game changing weapon, the Atomic Bomb, and one of its most well used testing sites, a small island within the Pacific Ocean named Bikini Atoll. On the surface, ecological destruction was the clearest result but what if we look ''below'' the waves to see the affects. Deep beneath the atoll, the flora and fauna proceeded to change and evolve, gaining sentience, forming societies and developing language and technology all under the watchful eye of King Neptune himself. Even the most simplistic of organisms developed intelligence, including the very first multi-celled organism to become part of the Animal Kingdom, the sea sponge, and for Death Battle we will be taking a look at one particular sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea, [=SpongeBob SquarePants=].
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10	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.
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12	[=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 unraveled 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 detonating.
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14	[=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'' unraveled 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.
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16	The only significant weaknesses [=SpongeBob=] has is that he is a suicidally naive moron more often than not and being deprived of water long enough can weaken and even permanently incapacitate him. But despite these flaws, [=SpongeBob=] finally accepted who he was and was able to achieve his goal of becoming the manager of the Krusty Krab 2, proving one doesn't need to be mature to accomplish great things.
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18	->'''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!
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20	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.
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22	As befitting an aquatic superhero, Aquaman is phenomenal as a swimmer, being able to swim from Florida to Maine in under an hour and can manipulate water to create condensed water balls and whirlpools while being immune to water-based attacks himself. Aquaman also possesses telepathy which allows him to communicate with any aquatic life, whether they're microscopic organisms or even alien life as long as it is aquatic, but unlike his comics counterpart, Aquaman's telepathy is not able to induce seizures and there have been occasions where sea life have... outright ignored Arthur's commands.
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24	Soon enough Aquaman would end up joining together with a few other superheroes to form a team, the Super Friends, not only consisting of members of the later made Justice League such as Batman and Superman, but also more obscure heroes such as Black Vulcan and the Wonder Twins. And one of his best feats of strength is... moving a pile of trash weighing 50 metric tons... Yes unfortunately, [[AdaptationalWimp there is very little that manages to set this version of Arthur apart from his other counterparts]], but very little doesn't mean none, he's dodged lasers, defeated a sentient version of the Titanic by re-enacting the original's sinking via iceberg, defeated the water elemental Undine by commanding a flock of seagulls to pelt her with clamshells and even out sped the Kryptonian monster, Rokan, who was able reach Earth from the edge of the Milky Way in 15 seconds, putting Aquaman's top speed at over 55 billion times the speed of light.
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26	Though he does have a key flaw, he can't last without water for more than an hour, or he dies of dehydration so a smart enough opponent can simply deprive him of water for long enough. But despite all this, Arthur has proved himself a capable hero more times than not, [[BrutalHonesty even if that doesn't amount to much on a show like Death Battle]].
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28	->'''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!\
29	'''Boomstick:''' ...[[BrutalHonesty He's about to die.]]\
30	'''Wiz:''' Yeah... yeah...
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32	With both contestants' history, abilities and feats covered and the sponsor ad for [=MintMobile=] done, Wiz and Boomstick have calculated all possibility! [[ForegoneConclusion One. One possibility]]. It's time for Aquaman's funeral!
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34	We begin the simulation within a burning Bikini Bottom as a green portal opens up and spits out Aquaman before closing. As Arthur gets his bearings, he sees a pair of robots resembling Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks only to watch them be destroyed by an incoming spatula and shortly after the cooking implement is picked up by its owner, [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] who initially mistakes Aquaman for his {{Expy}}, Mermaid Man, before realising he isn't the fry cook's idol. Aquaman ends up mistaking [=SpongeBob=] for being responsible for Bikini Bottom's current state despite the sponge's claims to the contrary, leading to the Super Friend initiating the attack with punches...
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36	'''FIGHT!'''
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38	...that have absolutely no effect on his opponent due to his squishy body, but as [=SpongeBob=] casually points out the ineffectiveness of the attacks, Aquaman proceeds to condense water around his fist for a stronger punch that sends his absorbent foe into a building. [=SpongeBob=] leaps out of the dust, now decked out in his Karate gear as he finally fights back, butchering Aquaman's name once more as the duo land blow after blow on each other culminating in a dual GroinAttack that sends both away. As Arthur recovers, a portal opens to show another Aquaman which reminds him of the fact that as his opponent is a sea creature, he's susceptible to his telepathy... only for [=SpongeBob=] to ignore the attempt at influencing his mind before creating a bubble torpedo to strike the vulnerable Aquaman and send ''him'' flying into a building. As [=SpongeBob=] prepares to blow more bubbles, a group of eels latch on to him, revealing that Arthur wasn't just trying to affect him before the aquatic superhero commands the eels to electrocute the sponge, causing him to burst into a cloud of yellow smoke, which much to Aquaman's own shock, reveals a cluster of giggling [=SpongeBob=] duplicates that reform into one before proceeding to absorb the surrounding water while getting Arthur's name wrong once more.
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40	As the sea drops to reveal that [=SpongeBob=] had absorbed it entirely, Aquaman is quickly weakening now that he's being deprived of water. As he laments on what he can do now, another portal opens up to show him his alternate counterparts, causing the Super Friend to break down in despair as he realises that he's the weakest iteration. As Arthur wallows in misery, his spongy opponent begins to empathise with him, revealing that not many people thought much of him either, but he still gets up and goes through his days with a smile on his face, breaking Arthur out of his funk as he pulls the Trident of Neptune from the portal before stabbing [=SpongeBob=], releasing all of the water as the now normal sized sponge pulls out his Magic Pencil before Arthur states that may the best hero win as the fight continues. Aquaman starts the brawl with a series of strikes with the trident that [=SpongeBob=] avoids and retaliates by drawing a stampede of [=DoodleBobs=] to assault Arthur before the superhero manages to slice the Magic Pencil in half. Catching the half with the pencil tip, Aquaman begins drawing before [=SpongeBob=] throws the eraser half at him, erasing his arm before Aquaman proceeds to stab [=SpongeBob=] once more before sending him through his creation, a door leading to the other side of the universe.
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42	As [=SpongeBob=] floats in space, he turns his legs into rockets before beginning his trip back to Earth, causing Aquaman to smile as he prepares one last ditch effort of creating a whirlpool made from the entire Earth's oceans. As both attacks collide into a gargantuan explosion, the dust settles to reveal a crater that was once Bikini Bottom as an unharmed but grieving [=SpongeBob=] kneels next to a slowly disintegrating Aquaman, who consoles his foe before stating that they are both Super Friends before breaking apart into ash that floats away on the sea current. As [=SpongeBob=] cries over the outcome he uses the remains of the Magic Pencil to create a due to the dead for the late Arthur Curry, a "1#" gravestone that says here lies ''[[Music/{{Ween}} Ocean Man]]''.
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44	'''KO!'''
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46	Aquaman proved that he bore the mark of a true hero in fighting against such insurmountable odds, but alas, Wiz and Boomstick spare no expense to hammer down how the Super Friend really had no chance winning this bout. Arthur only really had some martial prowess going for him, but the vast majority of [=SpongeBob=]'s advantages simply had him beat. For starters, [=SpongeBob=] could basically do anything he wanted given the creation powers afforded to him by the magic pencil and his bubbles, and due to his nature as a sentient sea sponge, it would stand to reason that he would be able to absorb the vast majority of Aquaman's water-based attacks. Aquaman could try to use his telepathy, but even beyond the fact that it would be nowhere near his comic counterpart's and would thus be something [=SpongeBob=] could outright ignore, eating a Krabby Patty would be enough to break any form of mind control Aquaman could apply. Not only that, but [=SpongeBob=]'s absurd healing factor made it difficult for Aquaman to actually put him down permanently; the hosts theorize that he could potentially incapacitate [=SpongeBob=] long enough by dragging him to the surface, but this would in turn lead to Aquaman himself suffering fatal side effects from being out of water -- side effects that would be far worse than what [=SpongeBob=] would go through.
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48	This all would be for naught considering [=SpongeBob=]'s insane strength and speed advantage, based on his feat of unraveling the universe. By comparing his size to that of the string he pulled to enact said unraveling, the hosts determine that [=SpongeBob=]'s maximum top speed would be somewhere around 8.2 x 10^78 times the speed of light -- the ''fastest'' calculable speed feat in the show's history to boot. With such great power at his mere fingertips, Wiz and Boomstick theorize that [=SpongeBob=] would've even been able to best the canon DC comics' Aquaman, especially noting that [=SpongeBob=] himself is aware of the fourth wall and can create anything he wants even without bubbles or his pencil. Overall, while both fighters had enough showings to prove that they were a lot stronger than what most would peg them as, the Krusty Krab's resident fry cook was simply just too overpowered and more, marking one of the most decisive victories ever seen in Death Battle history.
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50	->'''Wiz:''' At least Arthur finally got to be a real hero, and at the end of the day, that's what matters.\
51	'''Boomstick:''' Yeah sure, whatever pal, he's dead. Too bad for the king of the seas, that was one sweet victory!\
52	'''Wiz:''' The winner is [=SpongeBob SquarePants=], our god.
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54	[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E13JasonVoorheesVSMichaelMyers Next time on Death Battle...]]
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56	! This Death Battle includes examples of:
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58	* AccidentalMisnaming: [=SpongeBob=] keeps getting Aquaman's name wrong; first mistaking him for Mermaid Man, then calling him "Waterman" (an alias Aquaman used in an old comic), "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Seaman]]", and finally "[[Music/{{Ween}} Ocean Man]]".
59	* {{Bookends}}: Aquaman announced himself a Superfriend when the fight starts. As he dies, he declares him and [=SpongeBob=] super friends.
60	** On a similar note is during the start of [=SpongeBob=]'s analysis where despite his simple desire to be the Krusty Krab's fry cook, Boomstick states that he's happy and that's all that matters, only for Wiz to refute that, saying it doesn't on a show like Death Battle. At the end of the post-fight analysis, Wiz states that Aquaman finally got to be a true hero and that's what matters, only for Boomstick to refute that by pointing out that it doesn't mean much if the Superfriend is dead.
61	* BluntNo: 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.
62	* BrainsVersusBrawn: The fight ends up with a dynamic kinda similar to this.
63	** Superfriends Aquaman is the Brains, being horrifically and comically outmatched by [=SpongeBob=] physically, but pulling off some admittedly clever tricks like summoning electric eels with his telepathy and using [=SpongeBob's=] own Magic Pencil against him. Not that it was able to do him any good, though, given just how monstrous the stat gap was.
64	** [=SpongeBob=] is the Brawn, being stronger, faster, and more durable than Aquaman to a monstrous degree. However, he is also noted as a naive dumbass whose idiocy tends to get him hurt by accident. Since he's a cartoon character, however, it doesn't hold him back.
65	* BreakingOldTrends: PlayedForLaughs 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.
66	* BreatherEpisode: Functions as one, airing after one episode featuring time-traveling warriors with near-cosmic levels of power and before another featuring slasher film villains.
67	* BrokenWinLossStreak: On both sides:
68	** 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. [=SpongeBob=] is also the first cartoon character to defeat a DC character.
69	** Aquaman is the first character voiced by Kestin Howard to lose.
70	* TheCameo: As Aquaman fires up his final attack and sends the massive typhoon of water and sea creatures at [=SpongeBob=], Series/{{Columbo}} can be seen popping up in the bottom right corner.
71	* CallBack:
72	** For the first time since "[[Recap/DeathBattleS01E08YoshiVsRiptor Yoshi VS Riptor]]" back in Season 1, Wiz once again says, "[[AbandonedCatchphrase That's right, Boomstick.]]"
73	** When beginning the post-battle analysis, Boomstick wonders what is it with the show and [[Recap/DeathBattleS08E16SaitamaVSPopeye overpowered nautical-themed cartoon characters]].
74	* CurbStompBattle: The more they look into Aquaman's feats, the more 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'' [[note]]key word here is "calculable"; Speed Force users and the Archie Hedgehogs still have [=SpongeBob=] beat due to their literally impossible speed feats)[[/note]]. 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 after attempting to defend Aquaman for his entire rundown, by the end Wiz is forced to admit that he and Boomstick threw him to the wolves and it's too late to stop it.
75	-->'''Boomstick:''' [[BrutalHonesty He's about to die]].\
76	'''Wiz:''' Yeah... Yeah.....
77	* ForegoneConclusion: For the first time in the series, Wiz and Boomstick's analysis came down to just ''one possibility'' of who wins this episode's battle.
78	-->'''Boomstick''': [[LargeHam IT'S TIME FOR AQUAMAN'S FUNERAAAAAAL!]]
79	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Hilariously subverted. Wiz says that, despite [[SuperLoser his faults]], Aquaman could at least defeat the people watching at home… until Boomstick points out a comic that claims Aquaman couldn't survive more than an hour out of water.
80	-->'''Boomstick''': So, uh, never mind, person watching at home! Just hide for a bit, grab some lunch and then… stomp on his corpse.
81	* GoOutWithASmile: Aquaman lost, but he goes out with a bang and he declares him and [=SpongeBob=] as friends.
82	* GoodVersusGood: It's an optimistic {{Toon}} sponge who doesn't mean any harm versus a superhero.
83	* HeroicBSOD: Aquaman has a brief version of this when he peers into the same portal that sent him to Bikini Bottom and comes to a startling realization: out of all versions of Aquaman in the DC-Multiverse, he is without a doubt ''the worst out of all of them.''
84	* 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.]]
85	* HourglassPlot: The rundown for both characters can be summed up as this, Wiz initially underestimates Spongebob's potential and treats him like a total joke, only to discover he's one of the most broken characters in the entire series. His attitude with 70's Aquaman is quite the opposite, setting him up to be a close match for Spongebob, but is ultimately forced to admit he's as lame as everyone says he is. Boomstick is his opposite, finding an appeal in Spongebob's good-natured attitude and being the one to often show his best combat-applicable feats whereas he is more aware of Aquaman's joke character status and ribs Wiz for his own behavior.
86	* InternalDeconstruction: The analysis for both characters of any Death Battle are often presented as the hosts going over the characters fresh, aside from when they're already legitimate fans of them. In this episode, doing it like this with only the understanding of the connections between [=SpongeBob=] and Aquaman means they don't understand just how big the gap between both characters truly is. While Boomstick is presented as a more neutral and reasonable party, Wiz enters each analysis expecting [=SpongeBob=] to be a legitimate joke and Aquaman an impressively broken character... only for those to flip incredibly quickly.
87	* 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, which is [[ObligatoryJoke literally trash]] in comparison to [=SpongeBob=]'s feats, and the one admittedly impressive feat of outspeeding the monster Rokan, which is the only really exceptional thing that Wiz and Boomstick are able to dig up, and even that is immediately overshadowed by Aquaman's crippling weakness to drying out and completely blown out of the water by [=SpongeBob's=] own speed. Even Aquaman himself realizes that he's the lamest version of himself across the multiverse.
88	-->'''Strengths:''' +Won the moral victory?\
89	'''Weaknesses:''' -Everything else lmao
90	* 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]]. At the start, Wiz has little hope for the sea-sponge and outright belittles his character, only to change his [[{{Pun}} tune]] the deeper they go into how far his ToonPhysics can go and concedes that [=SpongeBob=] is "our God" at the end.
91	* 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]].
92	* 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.
93	* MythologyGag:
94	** 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.
95	** Boomstick remarks that Wiz' initial pessimism makes him sound like Squidward — "and [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E10WetPaintersKrustyKrabTrainingVideo nobody wants to be a Squidward]]."
96	** [=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.]]
97	** Aquaman's first few punches [[NoSell doing nothing to SpongeBob]] hearkens back to Flats' similarly ineffective punches from "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E3TheBullyJustOneBite The Bully]]".
98	** When Aquaman sees [=SpongeBob=] split into multiple copies, he utters '''"GREAT NEPTUNE!"''', his {{catchphrase}} from [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends his cartoon]]. A live-action mouth moving over a drawing of him is a reference to multiple instances of SynchroVox in [=SpongeBob=]'s show.
99	** Aquaman's PrecisionFStrike is censored by a dolphin cry, considered as one of the SevenDirtyWords (or "#11" of ''thirteen'' bad words if you're a sailor) according to Mr. Krabs in the ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]'' episode "''[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]]''".
100	** Fred the Fish is heard once again screaming "MY LEG!" offscreen when [=SpongeBob=] [[DestructiveSaviour "saves the day"]].
101	** [=SpongeBob's=] heroic speech has him mention being dismissed as [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie a goofball, a wingnut, and a Knucklehead McSpazatron]].
102	** One of the Aquaman variants that can be heard voicing his support to his counterpart here directly references Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse incarnation, complete with addressing him as [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 "my man"]].
103	** Much like [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E14WelcomeToTheChumBucketFrankendoodle the episode it first appeared in]], [=SpongeBob=]'s Magic Pencil gets snapped in half during the fight.
104	** 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.
105	** 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]].
106	** Boomstick's BondOneLiner mentions [=SpongeBob=] having pulled off a "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E15TheSecretBoxBandGeeks sweet victory]]."
107	* 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.
108	-->'''Wiz:''' No I'm sorry, I need to do this one. This is... this is ''fucking insane''.
109	* SelfDeprecation:
110	** Aquaman sees [[TheMultiverse other versions of himself]] in a portal and realizes that he is the worst of them.
111	** 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 on the show.
112	* SoundEffectBleep: Instead of the usual bleep sound, Aquaman's F-bomb was censored by a dolphin noise.
113	-->'''Aquaman:''' And out of all of them, I'm the '''''lamest F-(dolphin noise)-ING ONE!!'''''
114	* SpiritualAntithesis: This episode's one to "Deadpool Vs. The Mask"; both episodes are blatant {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s that make absolutely no effort to hide how screwed the person getting stomped (Deadpool and Aquaman respectively) is, but while the former episode was a deliberate UriahGambit to get [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave Deadpool]] taken care of, this one has the hosts (more specifically Wiz) genuinely believe Aquaman had a fighting chance… only to slowly realize over the course of the episode that Aquaman has absolutely no way of winning.
115	* TakeThat: To the post-movie era of [=SpongeBob=], with Boomstick claiming that [[invoked]]SeasonalRot is one of [=SpongeBob's=] only weaknesses, citing [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E3LicenseToMilkshakeSquidBaby "Squid Baby"]] as an example of a particularly poor episode.
116	* TemptingFate: Wiz calls Spongebob "the biggest wimp in town," just moments before realizing he rotated the entire world with a wrench.
117	* ToonPhysics: Once more analyzed and used in this episode. Unfortunately for Aquaman, [=SpongeBob=] is able to make full use of it to win.
118	* 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.
119	* 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 [[AdaptationalWimp infamously watered down version]] found in the show. They quickly realize their mistake during Aquaman's rundown.
120	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Wiz becomes absolutely flabbergasted by the fact that, out of all of the characters of ''Death Battle'', the one that holds the honor of having the fasted calculable speed is ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]''.

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