| “ | 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 other Jellyspotters members about his intentions to mess with SpongeBob. |
Kevin C. Cucumber is a supporting antagonist in Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants franchise.
The leader of a Jellyfishing group known as the Jellyspotters, 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 see how many times SpongeBob can get stung in his “introduction” before he "goes running home like a baby."
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 as well, which can be seen in Kevin's lack of hesitation to see anyone beneath him suffer, although he did show some concern over Spongebob's well-being before he switches back to showing no concern or consideration and proceeds to see 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 Jellyspotters 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[]
Series[]
Kevin made his first appearance as the main antagonist in "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic". In the episode he 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.
In "Lame and Fortune", his legs can be seen in the Chum Bucket.
In "Jolly Lodgers", he appears at the Hotel Halibut's 36th annual Jelly-Fisher Convention, where fans can meet and take pictures with him. He also appears at the end of the episode, where he can be seen running out of the fumigated hotel.
In "Patrick the Mailman", SpongeBob and Patrick arrive at Kevin's house to deliver a jury summons to Kevin, however, he throws the summons back at them everytime they put it through his mail slot. SpongeBob and Patrick try to ring Kevin's doorbell so that they can give him the summons, but he tells them that he doesn't want it and proceeds to slam the door shut. SpongeBob then suggests that they should move on to the next house, but Patrick refuses to give up, so he decides to stuff himself into a box and ring Kevin's door bell again. Kevin comes out of his house to collect the box, only for Patrick to emerge and offer him the summons. Kevin then activates a booby track that catapults Patrick off of his doorstep.
Patrick, who is still not ready to give up, disguises himself as Santa Claus and enters Kevin's house by going through the chimney. Patrick tries to offer Kevin the summons as a Christmas present, however, Kevin isn't fooled by this and tries to run away from Patrick. Patrick proceeds to chase Kevin and manages to catch him before he can escape the house via the window. Kevins later grabs his net so that he can use it as a weapon, and after Patrick grabs a net for himself, the two of them proceed to have a duel. Kevin manages to get the upper hand and tries to escape to escape the house again, but Patrick manages to catch him by using a chandelier to tackle him from above. Kevin gets caught in Patrick's net and is forced to finally accept the summons, however, as SpongeBob and Patrick are leaving Kevin's house, he notices that the summons is actually not for him but for Bubble Bass instead. He calls them out for this mistake and then proceeds to angrily tear up the envelope.
Later in the episode, Kevin finds another summons for Bubble Bass on the ground, which he crumples up and tosses into a barrel.
In "Mooned", SpongeBob makes an appearance on a show for jellyfish enthusiasts called The Jellyfish Group, and he has a discussion with the other other people in the group about the Moon Jellyfish, a fabled jellyfish that migrates to Bikini Bottom every 25 years. SpongeBob believes that it exists because of a video that Kevin made that shows him supposedly catching it. The other people in the group laugh at him for it, and because of this, SpongeBob decides to find the Moon Jellyfish together with Kevin to prove its existence.
SpongeBob looks for Kevin at the Jellyspotters Clubhouse, however, he then finds out that Kevin was kicked out of the Jellyspotters a long time ago and his role as their leader is now currently taken by Patrick, who gives SpongeBob Kevin's address, which is located in a shack in the woods , showing that he's now homeless. SpongeBob encounters Kevin in a trash can, and he confesses to SpongeBob that he has no idea how to catch jellyfish. After cleaning up Kevin and giving him a new uniform, SpongeBob takes him to the Jellyfish Fields to practice catching jellyfish.
The two of them are later seen hiding in the bushes at night and waiting for the Moon Jellyfish to show up. However, Kevin abandons SpongeBob after the jellyfish shows up and tells that he doesn't know how to catch it and that the video he made of him catching it was staged with a green screen. SpongeBob tells him that this is his chance to catch it and prove that he's a good jellyfisher. The two of them proceed to ambush the Moon Jellyfish, but they unfortunately fail to catch it. SpongeBob comes up with a plan, which is to trap it by disguising himself as a wedge of cheese and luring it to an alleyway.
SpongeBob and Kevin corner the Moon Jellyfish in a alleyway, but clouds begin covering the moonlight and SpongeBob is worried that it might get away. Patrick, the townsfolk, and the other people on the Jellyfish Group pull their pants down and show their butts to the jellyfish, which reflects the moonlight and stuns the jellyfish. SpongeBob then proceeds to leap on it and catch it, with Kevin also doing the same, however, Kevin cuts off SpongeBob's net so that he can take all if the credit for himself. However, this backfires on Kevin when the Moon Jellyfish proceeds to take him to the moon, wich results in him not being able to return for another 25 years.
In "Kreepaway Kamp", he is one of the people that shows up for the reunion at Kamp Koral. He gets captured by the mysterious muscular figure (who is actually Elwood) and later appears at the Clamphitheater at the end of the episode.
SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies 2018[]
Kevin can be seen in the back cover of this book as a part of the crowd of villains.
Kamp Koral[]
In "The Jellyfish Kid", he can be seen taking a shower. He also makes an appearance in Meadow Falls along with the other campers.
In "Quest for Tire", he watches SpongeBob tell a campfire story.
In "Kitchen Sponge", he can be seen along with Bubble Bass when he tries to eat a Krabby Patty with a fork.
In "The Treasure of Kamp Koral", he can be seen at the Krusty Kantean. Later in the episode, he can be seen rolling on the ground.
In "Midnight Snack Attack", he flips objects into the air.
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.
