| “ | Look, I won't let the guy join the club. I just want to see how many times he can get stung before he goes running home like a baby. | „ |
| ~ Kevin telling the Jellyspotters members about his intentions to mess with SpongeBob. |
| “ | Kevin: That's right! You should have seen the look on your face when we zapped you! SpongeBob: But... What about my final test? Kevin: Did you think we'd actually let you into the Jellyspotters? SpongeBob: But, Kevin, I was your biggest fan! Kevin: So were they. [proceeds to point down to the bottom of the cliff, where a bunch of people are by a fire; one looks up] One of Kevin's Biggest Fans: Hey, look, everybody. Kevin's back! [all of his biggest fans then yell Kevin's name in praise] Kevin: You looked so dumb with your dorky jellyfish call! Loser, loser, loser loser loser! |
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| ~ Kevin and the rest of the Jellyspotters revealing his true nature to SpongeBob. |
Kevin C. Cucumber is a minor antagonist in the animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. The leader of the group known as "Jellyspotters" that made his first appearance as the main antagonist of the episode "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", it was revealed that SpongeBob was a huge fan of his. This is due to the fact that Jellyspotters itself is the premier Jellyfish enthusiast club. Despite his popularity however, Kevin himself is an arrogant, pompous, stuck up, and sadistic jerk who attempts to make SpongeBob's “introduction” a living hell for his own amusement.
He is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker who is also known for voicing other SpongeBob villains such as Bubble Bass and The Con Man. In addition, he also voiced other characters in other medium such as Admiral Trench in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Admiral Konstantine in Star Wars: Rebels, Crosshair in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Klaus Heissler in American Dad!.
Appearance[]
Kevin takes the appearance of a heavily stylized sea cucumber, blending elements of the animal with the vegetable from which it derives its etymology. As such, Kevin has an oblong, bright green body dotted with small bumps. His facial features consist of eyes covered by his circular, dark blue magnifier gasses, a drooping nose, and massive pink lips. He also has large eyebrows that furrow when he scowls which compliment his sinister grin, indicating his cruelty. For clothing, Kevin wears a simplistic, yellow crown-shaped tentacle that is revealed to be a part of his body much like the Sea Cucumber in real life, brown shorts, and black and white dress shoes. While cartoonish normally, a close-up reveals that Kevin's pants yellow stitches and has numerous accessories attached to it befitting of his role (such as a belt adorned with a jellyfish-shaped buckle with "JS" inscribed onto it, a button with a jellyfish on it, a pink tag with "JELLY" written onto it, and a jellyfish-shaped keychain), with his shoes also possessing red laces. Oddly, while absent from his base design, Kevin is shown wearing light brown socks coated in jellyfish in the same close-up.
Personality[]
Throughout "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic," Kevin is portrayed as an unpleasant and arrogant jerk most of the time, thinking everyone is beneath him. His arrogance is almost immediately noticeable, as his first appearance comprises of him bragging about how he uses composite materials in his net handle. His unpleasant behavior borders on sadism well, which can be seen in Kevin's lack of hesitation to see anyone beneath him suffer. SpongeBob, for example, showed him nothing but incessant reverence, yet he was still mistreated by Kevin. Kevin also attempts to electrocute SpongeBob so that he will go home and cry like a baby. He expresses no remorse about ditching his biggest fan and pushes him down a cliff. Despite his seemingly unpleasant and arrogant attitude, when Kevin and his cohort face trouble, he reveals his true self to be a sniveling coward, having his ego being torn to shreds. Kevin shows his vulnerable and humane side after he and his cohorts are trapped in a cave after they accidentally enrage King Jellyfish, saying that he's just on the Jellyspotter for the fashion. In addition, Kevin is shown to be a very unlucky person, despite the fact that he typically brings it onto himself. For example, he ends up getting stung by Jellyfishes that SpongeBob caught, as he attempted to reject his appeal to join the Jellyspotters. Near the end of "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic," Kevin is shown to be extremely ungrateful, even after he is saved. Even after SpongeBob saves him, Kevin rejects SpongeBob's offer to join, which causes his cohorts to get angry at him and rip his tentacle that looks like a crown and give it to SpongeBob, signaling his final downfall and loss of power.
Biography[]
Kevin was first introduced alongside a group of nerdy anchovies besides him, as he ended up becoming a member of the Jellyspotters in the Jellyfish Convention Center. He answered several questions from the crowd that were swarming his stand, with him bragging about the materials that he use for his Jellyfishing Net. After discovering the Jellyspotters and Kevin, SpongeBob becomes enamored by them due to the fact that the Jellyspotters were the premier Jellyfish enthusiast club. As SpongeBob aims to get Kevin's wisdom, Patrick was seemingly unenthusiastic by the idea as he found them to be geeky. When Patrick was busy chasing Jeffrey the Jellyfish in order to touch him, SpongeBob then approached Kevin and his group. Seemingly annoyed by SpongeBob's excessive and creepy adoration, Kevin initially wanted to call security to get rid of him. However, as SpongeBob decided to do whatever Kevin told him to do, such as punching himself in the face or jumping off the building, Kevin then decided to let SpongeBob join his group instead. It was then revealed that Keith's motivation for allowing SpongeBob join his group was not altruism, but instead his own twisted desires to see SpongeBob experience physical and emotional anguish.
After joining the Jellyspotters group, SpongeBob and the Jellyspotters then went into the Jellyfish Fields with SpongeBob carrying the Jellyspotters on his back. After SpongeBob expresses his enthusiasm about joining the Jellyspotters, Kevin decides to arrange a test for him by capturing a jellyfish so that SpongeBob can join the group. After Kevin and the anchovies see how SpongeBob manages to capture the jellyfish easier due to the fact that the jellyfish came after him, Kevin instantly rejects his attempt and increases the requirement of capturing Jellyfish. This causes Kevin to get stung several times by the Jellyfish. Despite his attempts to get SpongeBob stung, such as spreading Jellyfish jelly to him or capturing Jellyfish with a blind eye, Kevin was still relentlessly stung by several Jellyfish that SpongeBob captured until all of the Jellyfish wounds began to engulf his body. Due to being constantly stung by all of the Jellyfish, Kevin's hatred of SpongeBob began to grow. As a result, Kevin then devised an idea by arranging a final test for SpongeBob so he could join the Jellyspotters group.
It was then revealed that the final test was to capture the Queen Jellyfish, using SpongeBob as bait. SpongeBob didn't catch on, and he was completely excited at the prospect of capturing the Queen Jellyfish alongside Kevin and the Jellyspotters. After tying SpongeBob to two poles and making him use the blower to call the Queen Jellyfish, Kevin and the Jellyspotters then hid behind a bush, which caused Kevin to get stung by another Jellyfish. After a seemingly futile attempt at calling the Queen Jellyfish that continues for one day straight, SpongeBob finds out that Kevin's plans didn't work. However, after he saw that Queen Jellyfish hovering above him, SpongeBob decided to tell Kevin the good news. However, when SpongeBob checks the bushes, Kevin and the Jellyspotters are nowhere to be seen, only leaving his sting ointment. Afterwards, the Queen Jellyfish decided to zap SpongeBob which caused him to scream and run to evade the Queen Jellyfish's attacks. When he was cornered at the edge of the cliff, SpongeBob then begs to the Queen Jellyfish that he would let her go. When SpongeBob began to beg, it was revealed that the Queen Jellyfish is a mechanical beast controlled by Kevin and the Jellyspotters with them sadistically laughing at SpongeBob's misery, revealing his true nature towards SpongeBob. When Kevin tells SpongeBob that he rejected the latter's appeal to join the Jellyspotters, SpongeBob is distraught, telling him that he was his biggest fan. This caused Kevin to tell SpongeBob that he already had several biggest fans living in the bottom of the cliff, still alive while yelling at him with praise, heavily implying that Kevin had pushed his previous biggest fans to the cliff for a long time. Afterwards, Kevin and the Jellyspotters then sadistically mock SpongeBob how much of a loser he is.
Unfortunately for Kevin and the Jellyspotters, a giant Jellyfish known as the King Jellyfish — Cnidaria Rex in his latin name — arises from the cliff in time before their humiliation on SpongeBob reached its coup de grâce stage. Enamored with the Queen Jellyfish robot controlled by Kevin, the King attempts to kiss it which causes Kevin, the Jellyspotters and SpongeBob to run away from the King. However, Kevin ended up crashing his robot to the billboard sign that contains the advertisement of him promoting his ointment. After Kevin accidentally crashes into the billboard, the King's enamored expression suddenly becomes agitated after seeing Kevin. Afterwards, the King attempts to zap Kevin and the Jellyspotters as they end up retreating into a cave with SpongeBob with the king attempting to barge in. When Kevin thought that the king was gone, he then ordered one of the anchovy nerds to check if the king was gone or not. As the anchovies attempt to beg Kevin to save them, Kevin then tells the truth towards them that he's just in the club for the fashion and then reveals his cowardly nature, unable to do anything when the situation is dire. Although SpongeBob asked the anchovies for help first, he then ended up stepping outside and decided to help them on his own, by using his bubble technique to create a giant bubble pie that made the King enamored and get away. After seeing what happened, Kevin becomes enamored with SpongeBob's achievement of driving away the King Jellyfish. However, he still expresses his ungrateful side and still does not let SpongeBob enter the Jellyspotters group.
In the end, the anchovies are fed up with him and tear down the crown of his head while giving it to SpongeBob, putting him in excruciating pain as it is revealed that the crown is a part of his body, specifically his tentacle. Despite being accepted into the group, SpongeBob turns them down in the end because he believes Jellyfish Club should be about Jellyfish and not about Kevin.
Trivia[]
- Some parts of his name can be considered a pun much like other character names in SpongeBob. This can be found through the "C. Cucumber" part that is a pun of sea cucumber, befitting his own appearance as well. His first name, Kevin, comes from the Irish roots which means "Of Noble Birth". His first name makes sense in context in terms of personality despite some can be contradictory due to his vain, arrogant, pompous, condescending and sadistic nature, who thinks everyone is beneath him due to his newfound fame, some of the traits that arrogant people of noble descendant in fictional media possesses.
- In one of the scenes, it is shown that Kevin reacts with extreme pain when his crown is removed. It was revealed that the crown itself was a tentacle, an anatomical part of the sea cucumber's body that tends to be located on its mouth.
- At one point, when Kevin made the test to capture twenty jellyfish, he kicked the jellyfish net in a fit of rage. If paused, one can see there were indeed twenty jellyfish.
- It is possible that Kevin himself is an allegory of how some of the people that the fans idolize can also turn out to be an imperfect, rotten human being from the inside.
