User blog comment:SuperX2995/Bring them back/@comment-5074900-20160908013432/@comment-24618333-20160908060813

I hate to interrupt, but Love Robin is right. From my personal analysis on SpongeBob, Patrick, both of them were never truly become full-blown villains unlike Krabs. In fact, how they had nasty reputation was not only due to flanderization of their show, but also due to their worst character flaw:
 * SpongeBob: Due to his gullible personality, SpongeBob is prone to manipulation of others whom used him for their gain or made him unknowingly hurt others, physically and emotionally. I mean, if he did something really bad, this was due to him either tricked by villain or his own devotion on something sometimes get best of him that he unknowingly hurt others. If you see his most controversial episode A Pal for Gary, SpongeBob's mistreatment on Gary was both due to him being mesmerized by Puffy Fluffy's cuteness that he was rendered incapable to see the worst side of that sea predator for the rest of the film (it's even unlikely that the sponge weren't snapped from the beast's influence when it tried to kill him) and too consumed by concern about how Gary would take care of himself. Geez...
 * Patrick Star: In Patrick's case, i discovered that his low IQ was the source of his stupidity problem. In Pet Sitter Pat, it's true that the flanderization and whoever write that episode made Patrick become something that greatly despised by both himself and the others where when he supposedly taking care of Gary, he ended up tried to killed him and laying wasted on SpongeBob's house. If i analyze it further, whatever negative actions that Patrick done is NOT OUT OF MALICE, but rather lack of necessary skills and experience to handle a pet. Sadly, many viewers got angry that some even believed him to be destructive monster. Worse i found that The Mysterious Mr. Enter's opinion made Patrick can be compared with Carnage (possibly but it's just my theory). In reality however, Patrick really care with Gary like he does with SpongeBob, it's just his low IQ and lack of experience that the problem.

So the conclusion is, SpongeBob and Patrick is not evil nor heartless enough to be a villain.