Story: The Bat-sponge, a legend preceding even Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. In one world he disappeared a decade before the appearance of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, while in the other he died long before that. Learn the history of both Bat-Sponges, starting with the one from the 1900's in the first timeline.
Story inspired by: Spongebob Squarepants, Gotham 1919-1939 by Giant Panda King, Gotham 1889 by the Bat-feed, the Dark Knight trilogy, Batman Returns, the Batman 2 Nando pitch, and Batman: Gotham by gaslight.
Chapter 1: The Black Bat Rises
Ever since the reunification of Bikini Bottomshire in the year 1680, crime had become rampant across the lawless city. The police officers were corrupt, self serving, and negligent, and crime and injustice reigned, even after King Amoeba took over in the late 1800's. In the year 1902, a young sponge boy named Thomas Hailfish was coming home from the Opera with his parents, William and Anna Hailfish.
His parents were the heads of the largest manufacturing company in the city, employing dozens of citizens. They're company was one of the only things keeping the city afloat. The two were very loving and nurturing of their son, but on that dark day, everything would change. The family were held up by a mugger, and be it the mugger's inexperience or malicious intent, William and Anna were both shot dead.
Afterwards, a grief stricken Thomas swore that he would avenge his parent's deaths, and become the thing that would return order to Bikini Bottom. After his parent's deaths, Thomas was put into the care of the family butler, Albert Fishington. As Thomas grew into his teenage years, he asked Albert to train him in basic combat, claiming that he needed something to cope with his parent's deaths.
Albert reluctantly agreed, hoping Thomas would grow out of it. He was dead wrong. When Thomas became 18, he gained access to his family's full inheritance. Even so, he enrolled in Bikini Bottom University, meeting a young squid named Heykill Wright. The two men came from very different upbringings. Heykill's father was abusive and would often beat Heykill and his mother in drunken rages.
When the two graduated in 1914, Thomas began reforming his family's company, Hailfish enterprises, with the aid of his father's old friend Issac Seafox. The company's board of directors believed him naive, thinking he would run the company into the ground. However, he proved them wrong as in a year, Halfish enterprises inc became one of the most diversified and biggest companies in the entire ocean.
Heykill also became Bikini Bottom's youngest district attorney with the help of Thomas's money, promising to restore order to a city of chaos. When the second rebellion war broke out in 1915, Thomas saw this as an opportunity. He had been laying the seeds of his crusade for the past year, but couldn't go anywhere without people recognizing him.
And so, Thomas signed up for the war alongside Heykill, who wanted to use his status as a war hero to increase his public standing. Public opinion of Thomas was that he was a rich boy throwing his life away to go play war hero. The young sponge would use this to his advantage.
In the first battle Thomas and Heykill fought in, half of Heykill's face was scarred by a bomb, and Thomas disappeared altogether, presumed dead. In reality, he had escaped and begun traveling across the ocean, training under the best masters he could find. A year into his travels, Thomas began to hear whispers of a group known as the League of Secret Ninjas. Some feared them, and some considered them saviors.
He eventually tracked the league to the pacific ocean and began training under their leader, Fu Manchu. After 3 years of training, Thomas was tasked with one final challenge: kill an asian fish prisoner of the league who had tried to get revenge on them for killing his parents named Misato Mizuguchi. Thomas refused, and after a confrontation, blew up the league's base.
Afterwards, Thomas returned to Bikini Bottom, claiming that he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war by the old queen, but had escaped after her death. He also finally began his vigilante work as soon as he got back. Inspired by a bat he had seen during his travels, Thomas fashioned a costume, and became the hero the Bat-Sponge.
The first criminals he took on were the members of a crime ring led by Seymour and Basila Plankton. Seymour was rumored to be the son of the late Dead-Eye Plankton, and while the two Planktons had only recently moved to Bikini Bottom after being driven out of their hometown for evil scheming in 1910, they had quickly established themselves as Bikini Bottom's greatest crimelords.
One night, the Bat-Sponge was fighting two of the Plankton gang's goons outside the first nautical bank. The authorities quickly arrived on the scene, led by police captain Crustus Krabton, one of the BBPD's few honest cops. The cops were shocked. Before this, the Bat-Sponge had been seen as merely a myth, but now they could see that they were dead wrong.
They all fired at the Bat-Sponge, but he managed to escape using a smoke pellet on his utility belt. Afterwards, the BBPD apprehended the two criminals and brought them to Bikini Bottom jail. They interrogated the two criminals, but they refused to say anything. So, the BBPD brought in a psychologist from the Wacko Asylum for the mentally challenged named Joseph Marabou.
He worked directly under Wacko Asylum's warden, Friedrich Queer. Marabou saw this interrogation as an opportunity to test a fear gas he had created to study patients' fear responses. He wore a mask fashioned after a scarecrow, which was the last thing one of the thugs said before his heart gave out.
Horrified at this, the BBPD sent him away, and continued the interrogation with normal policefish. The thug explained that the Plankton gang had been planning to steal an ancient artifact recovered from the first rebellion war. The BBPD quickly mobilized and headed to the scene, where they found the Bat-Sponge taking care of it already. They held their guns towards the Bat-Sponge, who told them that he wasn't the enemy. He handed the two criminals over to the police, and then disappeared when Crustus turned away.
A day later, Thomas decided to hold a gala at a venue to celebrate his return. In attendance was Crustus, who confided in Thomas about the corruption in the department. Thomas explained to Crustus that he believed the Bat-Sponge was doing good for the city, and he believed that he himself could help with the BBPD's corruption. However, before they could finish talking, an explosion rocked the entire street.
Thomas and Crustus were knocked off their feet, and as they got up, Thomas saw a strange mist fall over the crowd. It was the same gas that Marabou had created. In the chaos of the crowd, Thomas also saw, to his shock, Fu Manchu quietly staring at him. The leader of the league of secret ninjas then disappeared, leaving Thomas confused.
As Crustus and the other members of the police force tried to contain the chaos, Thomas returned to his manor, only to find Misato standing in front of the door. Misato explained that he had managed to find his way to Bikini Bottom from the pacific ocean, and had deduced that Thomas was the Bat-Sponge.
He wanted to become Thomas's sidekick and help him defeat the league of secret Ninjas, but Thomas refused. Misato then began attacking him, showing impressive combat skill. After a while, Misato stopped, and Thomas noted his skill. Misato, who had attacked Thomas to show him his skills, reiterated his request to join him, stating that he knew insider information about the league.
Thomas agreed, but told Misato that he would have to follow his orders and not kill anyone. If he did, he would be no better than the league. Misato agreed, and afterwards Thomas requested Albert make Misato a suit. Misato, inspired by the freedom of robins he had seen while in prison, took on the mantle of Red Robin.
A few days later, while making a public appearance, Thomas was approached by Fu Manchu, going under the name Akutama Kage. Fu Manchu took him backstage and told him that the league of secret ninjas were going to destroy Bikini Bottom due to its corruption and crime, deeming it not worthy of existence.
Fu Manchu then detonated bombs the league had previously placed near Wacko asylum and Bikini Bottom jail, releasing all the inmates. After telling Thomas that he had his hands full, Fu Manchu threw a boomerang at him and fled. In the chaos of the situation, Thomas and Misato fled and changed into their Bat-Sponge and Red Robin costumes.
The two began tirelessly working to aid the Bikini Bottom police department in apprehending the escaped criminals. The BBPD were forced to put their differences with the Bat-Sponge aside to stop the escaped criminals, Crustus leading the charge. Even after the heroes detained numerous inmates, there were still many unaccounted for.
The streets of Bikini Bottom were in pandemonium, the inmates of the two prisons wreaking havoc. Many of Bikini Bottom's citizens were murdered in cold blood, their bodies laid out in the streets. Many others fled the city altogether, no longer feeling safe in their own homes. Numerous underwater fires raged across Bikini Bottom, with the police and fire department working overnight to keep the fires from consuming the city.
Bat-Sponge, Red Robin, Crustus and members of the BBPD all convened in a temporary base, which was an abandoned Hailfish industries building. Albert stayed in the caverns underneath Hailfish manor which the Bat-Sponge used as a lair. The Bat-Sponge and the police were struggling to get the upper hand against the league, and feeling an obligation to keep his surrogate father safe, Thomas attempted to dismiss Albert for his own safety.
Albert replied that Thomas would need to knock him out and ship him in a crate to get him to leave Bikini Bottom. Thomas reluctantly agreed to let Albert stay on after that, which was a decision that would come to haunt him. Weeks later, after dealing with a fire breaking out at an opium den, the Bat-Sponge received a telephone call.
He had a secure line running through the entire city through communication, and on the other end of the telephone was Albert, who informed him that Hailfish manor was being attacked. The Bat-Sponge and Red Robin quickly hopped in a specialized Bat-Boat created by Issac Seafox and sped off to the manor.
When they arrived, they saw fish dressed in black outside, some with swords and others with guns. One of the fish unloaded their tommy gun on the Bat-Boat, damaging the wheels and hood of the car. The Bat-sponge managed to get the boat close enough to knock out the assailant, and he and Red Robin then leaped out of the boat and took out the thugs with guns.
They then entered the manor, seeing bodies strewn everywhere. It was clear that Albert had put up a fight. The carnage led to a secret tunnel to the Bat-Sponge's lair, with the false top having been torn off. The Bat-Sponge advanced into the cave, worrying for his surrogate father's safety.
When the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin entered the cave, they found even more bodies laid across the cave, and Albert slumped against a wall clutching a rifle. Luckily he was still alive, and the Bat-Sponge rushed to get his butler medical supplies. After stitching Albert up and stabilizing him as best he could, the Bat-Sponge helped get him to the Bat-Boat alongside Red Robin. The 3 sped off, but were shot at by the goons as they entered the city proper.
One of the bullets managed to hit one of the Bat-Boat's tires, causing it to spiral out of control and crash into a street. The Bat-Sponge and Red Robin managed to escape with Albert and get into an alleyway behind some crates. However, the 3 found themselves completely surrounded, with one of the league members telling them to surrender or they would open fire.
Realizing this could be the end, the Bat-Sponge prepared to go down fighting, only to be saved by the Plankton gang, who killed all of the league members that had cornered them. Seymour and Basila came up to the Bat-Sponge and told him that they were tired of the league causing chaos across Bikini Bottom.
They believed that Bikini Bottom was their city to control, and offered their help to the Bat-Sponge. Reluctantly, the Bat-Sponge agreed, realizing he would need all the help he could get if he wanted to win this war. With the aid of the Plankton gang, the BBPD and the two vigilantes managed to start making significant victories.
However, the Bat-Sponge couldn't help but feel that Fu Manchu had been ominously absent since arriving in Bikini Bottom. It appeared that the leader of the League of secret ninjas was biding his time, waiting for an opportunity to do something big. Luckily, the Bat-Sponge wouldn't have to wait long to find out what it was.
One night, while interrogating a member of the league, the Bat-Sponge learned that Fu Manchu's base was Reef cinema. With this information, the Bat-Sponge, Red Robin, the Plankton gang and the BBPD sped to the cinema, and when they arrived, the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin burst into it. Waiting for them inside were Fu Manchu and Joseph Marabou, wearing his scarecrow mask.
Fu Manchu revealed to them his plan to unleash a blast of Marabou's fear gas so powerful that it would cause the people of Bikini Bottom to tear each other apart. The device he would use to do this had been what Marabou had been working on ever since the beginning of this "shadow war." Before the Black bat could stop him, Misato attacked Marabou, and at the same time Fu Manchu drew his sword and attacked the Bat-Sponge.
The two fought, with the black magic contained in Fu Manchu's sword allowing him to harm the Bat-Sponge. Evenly matched, the two eventually collapsed, breathless and exhausted from fighting each other. Red Robin had easily defeated Marabou and cuffed him to a railing during this, and when seeing the Bat-Sponge and Fu Manchu on the ground, he picked up Fu Manchu's fallen sword.
Torn between his desire for vengeance and his sense of justice, Misato walked over to the two warriors. Fu Manchu told him to kill him, while the Bat-Sponge implored his ward to drop the sword and turn his back on his revenge quest. Faced with an impossible choice, Misato raised the sword, and drove it down.
It tore into Fu Manchu's shoulder, causing him to roar in pain. As the Bat-Sponge was helped to his feet by Red Robin, Fu Manchu stumbled to his feet and disappeared into the darkness. The Bat-Sponge and Red Robin then arrested Marabou and turned him over to the police. Shortly after this, Fu Manchu was cornered in an alleyway by a clownfish in clown makeup.
The clownfish called himself the Jester, and angry that Fu Manchu had caused so much chaos, he pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest, killing him instantly. Afterwards, the remnants of the League of Secret Ninjas fled back to the pacific ocean, and the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin became firmly established as Bikini Bottom's heroes. Misato Mizuguchi also joined Hailfish enterprise as Issac Seafox's assistant.
Chapter 2: The Bat, the Cat and the Penguin
5 years after the shadow war, Bikini Bottom was in relative peace. The city had rebuilt and embraced the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin as their heroes. The two had also formed a relatively amiable relationship with the police, especially Crustus, who had convinced the BBPD to install a "Bat-Signal" on top of the police station to signal the Bat-Sponge if he was ever needed.
One night near what would one day be known as Christmas, business Mogul Otto Fancyson announced to the public that he was opening a new energy generating power plant for the city. Accompanying him at the ceremony was his son Squilliam, who Otto intended to inherit the power plant and his company when he died.
The public all overwhelmingly supported the idea and cheered, but the celebration was soon crashed by an army of clowns which were once part of the Blue Rectangle circus. The police quickly arrived on the scene, but were soon overwhelmed and forced to light the Bat-signal. Thomas and Misato saw the signal from Thomas's manor and quickly suited up, heading to the ceremony.
Once they arrived they subdued all the criminals, with the Bat-Sponge saving a female sponge named Spongebarbra Roundpants, who happened to be Otto's secretary, after one of the goons tried to hold her hostage. However, in the confusion, Otto had been kidnapped by the Blue Rectangle gang and taken to the abandoned Bikini Bottom Zoo.
He was taken underneath the zoo, and brought face to face with the mastermind behind the Blue rectangle Gang, the Pudgy Penguin. The Pudgy Penguin was the leader of a troop of Penguins who killed fish and sold them to evolved tooth whales and other predators in exchange for not being killed themselves.
This was obviously illegal and frowned upon by every civilization in the ocean, and because of this the entire gang were known criminals. The Blue Rectangle circus members had actually been blackmailed to work for them or be eaten by the penguins.
Accompanying the Pudgy Penguin was his right hand man, simply known as the Killer Crocodile. He was a deformed evolved crocodile that had been sold to the circus as an infant and become a murderous raping cannibal. The Pudgy Penguin told Otto that he wanted him to help him run for mayor under a different name.
Otto reluctantly agreed to help him, and was returned to his mansion afterwards. That night, Spongebarbara discovered incriminating evidence that showed that Otto was going to use the power plant to suck power from the city instead of generating it. To keep her from leaking the information to the public, Otto proceeded to shove her out the window, causing her to hit the ground from 5 stories up.
Once she awakened, she returned to her home, and after having a mental breakdown and destroying her furniture, she began creating a costume for herself. There had been rumors and legends of the creatures from the surface, and one that fascinated Spongebarbara to no end was the cat.
So, she created a skintight costume out of her raincoat modeled after a cat, and dubbed herself the Black Cat. Meanwhile, the Pudgy Penguin began his plan. He had the Killer Crocodile kidnap the child of the mayor during a speech, and then pretended to save the baby, earning the favor of the people. He also made up a story about trying to find his mom and dad.
Upon learning of this in the newspaper, Thomas began doing research on the Pudgy Penguin, learning of all the disappearances that had occurred in areas where a group of Penguins were rumored to be. The Pudgy Penguin also began searching through the hall of records for the names of all of Bikini Bottom's firstborn sons, and at the same time the Black Cat tested her moves on a mugger.
The next day, Spongebarbara came to work while Thomas and Otto were talking, and played dumb while Otto tried to make up excuses for her injuries. As she rambled on about past experiences, Otto eventually told her to escort Thomas out. She did so, and after a short conversation, Thomas ended up asking her out. On the way out of the building, he also implanted a recording device on Otto.
Afterwards, In order to drive the current mayor of Bikini Bottom into a chaotic frenzy, the Pudgy Penguin sent his Blue Rectangle circus and Penguin flunkies to destroy as much of Bikini Bottom as they could. The Bat-Sponge and Red Robin quickly arrived, and fended them all off fairly easily.
Meanwhile, the Black Cat tore up one of Otto's fashion stores, none of the guards able to stop her. All 3 of these parties eventually met up in one place, and while the Pudgy Penguin escaped, the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin fought the Black Cat, who had blown up the department store she attacked with explosives. The Black Cat eventually managed to escape after some brief flirting with the Bat-Sponge, and the next day, the Pudgy Penguin officially announced his candidacy for mayor.
This was met by a round of applause, but when the Pudgy Penguin went to his base of operations after the announcement, he found the Black Cat seductively lying on his bed. She suggested to him that they team up to take out the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin, and he agrees. They decided to frame them for murder, and that night, Thomas and Spongebarbara had their date.
They began to connect, but as they talked, they were suddenly interrupted by news over the radio that a very wealthy Bikini Bottomite named Rossene Curtis had been kidnapped by the Pudgy Penguin. The two split up to change into their costumes, and confronted each other atop the sea needle.
After this second battle, during which the Black Cat flirted with the Bat-Sponge again by licking his face when she had him pinned, the Pudgy Penguin dropped Rossense from the sea needle, making it look like the Bat-Sponge pushed her, and bats were released on the crowd.
Afterwards, the Bat-Sponge and Black Cat separated, but when the Black Cat reconvened with the Pudgy Penguin, he betrayed her and dropped her off a building. However, she survived like before, and meanwhile the Bat-Sponge was chased by the police in the Bat-Boat, eventually managing to escape. Afterwards, Otto and the Pudgy Penguin talked, with Otto begging the Pudgy Penguin to be more lowkey in his attacks.
However, the Pudgy Penguin simply began to ramble on about how he had played the Bikini Bottomites like a "Harp from Hell", giving Thomas just the dirt he needed on him. Later that night, the Bat-Sponge approached Heykill Wright, who had gotten reconstructive surgery but still held a grudge against Thomas Hailfish for abandoning him.
The Bat-Sponge gave him an advanced compact recorder with the Pudgy Penguin's confession on it, and although Heykill was reluctant to take it, he ended up doing so. The next day, during a speech by the Pudgy Penguin, the police, led by Heykill, burst onto the stage and told the Pudgy Penguin that he was under arrest.
When the Pudgy Penguin tried to tell the audience that it was all a misunderstanding, the police played the recording. The angry Bikini Bottomites all began to throw tomatoes and lettuce at the Pudgy Penguin, forcing him to open fire on them and flee into the sewers. He then began enacting his main plan, to kidnap all of Bikini Bottom's wealthiest firstborn sons and devour them.
One of the clowns opposed this, but was shot dead in response. Shortly after this, Thomas and Misato were invited to a masquerade ball hosted by Otto, with Thomas only going because there was a chance SpongeBarbara would be there. When he arrived, he briefly talked with Heykill, and the two began slowly reconciling, even though there was still a lot of tension between them.
However, Thomas eventually spotted SpongeBarbara in the crowd and went to dance with her, during which she confessed that she was going to kill Otto. The two ended up accidentally revealing their secret identities to each other, at which point the Pudgy Penguin interrupted, telling the attendees his plans. He prepared to take Squillum, but in a rare show of goodness, Otto offered himself up instead.
The Pudgy Penguin accepted and took Otto, but Thomas and Misato quickly changed into the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin and followed them. They managed to save the children, forcing the Pudgy Penguin to move on to plan B: Blow up Bikini Bottom with his other Penguins. After placing Otto in a cage suspended above acid guarded by the Killer Crocodile, the Pudgy Penguin sent the Penguins out, who began destroying as much as they could.
The Bat-Sponge and Red Robin managed to stop the Penguins, and meanwhile the Black Cat arrived to kill Otto, and began battling the Killer Crocodile. During this fight, the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin tackled the Pudgy Penguin into the sewer's water. In the midst of all this chaos, Otto managed to steal the keys to his cage from a sea-monkey besides his cage, escaping as the Killer Crocodile was subdued.
However, the Black Cat quickly caught up to him and prepared to kill him. The Bat-Sponge tried to convince her to hand him over to the police, but she refused, choosing vengeance over love. However, when Otto began firing on the Bat-Sponge, the Black Cat took all the bullets for him, and then used a taser to electrocute herself and Otto, seemingly killing them both.
Heartbroken, the Bat-Sponge then watched as the Pudgy Penguin rose from the water, only to fall over dead moments later. Afterwards, the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin gathered up the remaining gang members and turned them in to the police, and afterwards returned home in their civilian identities, realizing that the Bat-Sponge's reputation had been permanently tainted by the Pudgy Penguin. However, they both knew they had to continue on.
Unbeknownst to them, the Black Cat had survived, but had gotten amnesia from the electrocution. She would leave Bikini Bottom and become a thief for hire for the next several years. She would also take the Black Cat suit with her, wearing it during her heists and becoming a legend in the seedier parts of the ocean.
Chapter 3: The Madness of the Bat-Sponge
5 years after the events revolving around the Pudgy Penguin, Bikini Bottom had become far more prosperous than it had been a decade prior. Red Robin had gone out on his own once the Bat-Sponge felt he was ready, and was now operating in New Kelp City, a city just as crime ridden as Bikini Bottom had once been.
One night when apprehending thugs, the Bat-Sponge noticed them begging him not to send them to Wacko asylum, saying that they'd rather die. One of them even managed to kill himself. Concerned by this, The Bat-Sponge, as Thomas Hailfish, began advocating for reform in Wacko Asylum. Friedrich Queer watched Thomas make a speech, and from the speech realized he was the Bat-Sponge.
The next day, Thomas and Heykill met up to discuss their plans to reform the asylum, with Heykill mentioning rumors about Friedrich Queer. Thomas was also getting some pushback from inside of Wacko Asylum and could figure out how to move further. The next night, while on patrol, the Bat-Sponge began hearing reports of another Bat-Sponge near the Bikini Bottom Hospital.
Confused by this, he headed to the Hospital, only to find a bizarre Sponge-bat hybrid. This "Sponge-Bat" attacked the Bat-Sponge, and the two battled until the Sponge-Bat managed to escape. Afterwards, the Bat-Sponge observed a medical tag he had yanked off the ankle of the Sponge-Bat. It said that the Sponge-Bat's name was Yango Yin, and that he was a prisoner at Wacko Asylum.
The next day, Thomas visited Wacko Asylum and talked to the warden about plans for renovation, and during his tour through the new wing he ran into Friedrich Queer. The two talked, and Friedrich gave Thomas his business card, telling him to call him if he had any questions about the asylum.
Before he left, Thomas noticed some papers in Fredrich's hands, and the paper on top was a file for Yango Yin. Now realizing that Queer was involved with the Sponge-Bat, Thomas planned to break into his office later that night to see what he could dig up. While he normally wouldn't do this, he realized that Yin was in danger. When he did break into the office, the Bat-Sponge discovered a file on Queer's desk.
He read it and learned that Yin had been a scientist working in the cross-species genetics field that had been hired by the Bikini Bottom government to conduct experiments with animal DNA. Yin had eagerly agreed, but he soon began to lose his hearing. He had tried to use the experiments to find a cure for his oncoming deafness, but the deviation from his normal work had caused problems.
The Bikini Bottom government threatened Yin with a cease of funding since the project seemed to be going nowhere, and with little time, minimal funding, and a newfound desperation, Yin made the drastic decision to experiment on himself. The secrets of how would be lost to time, but Yin managed to fuse his DNA with a bat's, becoming the Sponge-Bat. When he was discovered by the Bikini Bottom government, they quickly restrained and locked him up in Wacko Asylum to be cured.
Seeing the project as a failure, the Bikini Bottom government abandoned it altogether and would never try such an attempt at cross-species genetics again. Horrified by what he had read, but with new knowledge of his enemy, the Bat-Sponge headed to Yin's home. There he found him reverting back to normal thanks to special pills, but his body wasn't taking the transformation well.
He looked at the Bat-Sponge trembling, and said "Icuble 432" before dying. Crustus, now a lieutenant, arrived a few minutes later, and the two agreed to investigate Wacko Asylum. Crustus attempted to do so the next day, but was unable to find anything useful except the fact that Yin had been reported missing for the last 3 days, but the police were never notified.
That night, the Bat-Sponge went to Queer's office again to see what he was really up to, but was met by Queer himself. Queer explained that he had figured out the Bat-Sponge's secret identity, but wanted to use this chance to test the Bat-Sponge. He had previously recommended that they transported some of the most dangerous criminals in Bikini Bottom to Wacko's and had rigged a bomb that would set them free. Among these inmates was the Killer Crocodile.
Queer then gave the Bat-Sponge files on the patients, and the Bat-Sponge then left. After getting Hykill to agree to help him, the Bat-Sponge tracked down and defeated all of the patients while being talked through his assessment of him on a voice player by Queer. Afterwards, Heykill was kidnapped by Queer, and when the Bat-Sponge found him, he explained his goal.
He wanted to be able to run Wacko Asylum the way he saw fit and study the limits of what separated fish from monsters. Part of that was turning people into monsters with experimental genetics. Thomas attempting to reform Wacko's had made this difficult, so he wanted to kill him, but was also fascinated by the Bat-Sponge. So he devised a plan to both psycho-anylyze the Bat-Sponge and get him killed.
Queer then sent mutated henchmen at the Bat-Sponge, and the Bat-Sponge used a chemical called Icuble 432 that he had discovered during the fights against the patients, realizing that it had been what Yango Yin was talking about before his death. Queer was killed in the mayhem, and afterwards, Thomas successfully reformed Wacko's.
He gave one final speech a few days later about the value of Wacko and the value of reforming and helping its patients, and by the end of it, everyone clapped. However, Thomas's biggest challenge was yet to come.
Chapter 4: The Bat-Sponge rises
A year after Fredrich Queer's arrest, the Jester finally decided to strike. After having been in hiding building a gang he called the Crazy Clownfishes ever since the shadow war, he and a few other goons launched a robbery on the Bikini Bottom Mint, which was being used as a base for the incredibly weakened Plankton gang.
The Jester himself was among them in a mask, and after the gang members picked themselves off one by one through a series of calculated betrayals, all that was left was the Jester. Seymour and Basila tried to kill the Jester, but he simply stepped on them. As they quivered in pain from the squashing, the Jester knelt down and took off his mask, revealing to them his scarred lips, white face paint and green hair.
He then shot them both dead and escaped in a school bus one of the crazy clownfishes was driving. Meanwhile, another gang of criminals was discussing using the fear toxins originally created by Joseph Marabou for their crimes, only to be attacked by Bottomites dressed as the Bat-Sponge. However, the imposters were quickly overwhelmed, forcing the real Bat-Sponge to arrive and save them, reprimanding them afterwards.
Afterwards the Bat-Sponge returned to his lair, and with the aid of Isaac Seafox, he created a new, more versatile suit, as his had been damaged during the previous fight. The next day, he and Albert watched Heykill successfully protect himself from an assassination attempt by a Bikini Bottom mob boss in court.
Afterwards, the Bat-Sponge and Crustus began discussing officially recruiting Heykill to help permanently eliminate crime in Bikini Bottom. However, the Bat-Sponge was concerned with more than just searching for an ally. In the wake of all the super-villain attacks that had occurred over the last 11 years, the people of Bikini Bottom had begun blaming him more and more.
In addition, he had grown tired of the constant fighting, and wanted to find a replacement. He initially believed that Bikini Bottom would always need a Bat-Sponge, but Heykill had made him start doubting that. Eventually, the mob bosses all met up in an abandoned warehouse, discussing how to deal with the combined threat of the Bat-Sponge, Crustus and Heykill.
Their accountant, an asian fish named Chiimy, told them that he had secretly relocated all of their stolen money to a city in the pacific ocean to protect it against the police, but they were then visited by the Jester. After showing off a "magic trick" by poking a fish's eye out with his pencil, he offered to kill the Bat-Sponge for half of their money.
The men mocked him, one even placing a bounty on his head. However, after the Bat-Sponge and Issac Seafox tracked Chiimy to his home city and brought him to Bikini Bottom, his testimony allowing Heykill to apprehend the crime families, the mob bosses reluctantly accepted the Jester's offer.
The Jester then began assassinating several government officials. One of these was Mayor Bubble Bass the 1st, who was delivered a poisoned burger. Because he was so gluttonous he ate it up without questions. As a final punchline, his corpse uncontrollably farted as he died. Another person assassinated was the corrupt commissioner Fishkins, who was killed by a mysterious laughing gas.
At the commissioners funeral, the Jester would attempt to assassinate the mayor as well while he was giving a speech. Luckily Crustus was able to save him, but was seemingly killed in the process. Afterwards, the Jester threatened that he would continue to kill people until the Bat-Sponge revealed himself.
Red Robin returned to Bikini Bottom following this announcement to help his former mentor. However, after foiling an attempt by the Jester to kill Heykill, the Bat-Sponge told him that he was going to reveal his secret identity to stop the killings. He tried to convince Red Robin to do so too, but he refused.
However, Heykill believed that the Bat-Sponge needed his anonymity to protect people. So the next day while doing a press conference, he claimed to be the Bat-Sponge, allowing himself to be arrested afterwards.
During this conference, Thomas and Misato had been trying to figure out what the Jester's motivations were, but Albert told them a story from his time as a wild west ranger. He told Thomas that some fish just wanted to watch the world burn. Before they could reply, The two heroes heard about Heykill's arrest on the radio, and quickly suited up and headed to their specialized motorcycles.
As the two closed in, the Jester and his men attacked the police convoy transporting Heykill, attempting to shoot out the convoy's tires with tommyguns. Luckily, the Bat-Sponge and Red Robin quickly arrived on the scene, battling the Jester and his henchmen in a long chase through Bikini Bottom.
As the Jester eventually fired a rocket launcher at the convoy, Red Robin realized what he had to do. Bidding a final farewell to the Bat-Sponge, he jumped in front of it, being killed instantly. Enraged, the Bat-Sponge flipped over the truck Jester was in with cables, but managed to stop himself from killing him.
Afterwards, Crustus, who had survived and been driving Heykill's transportation van, arrested the Jester. Following this, Heykill was brought home and applauded as a hero, and Crustus was promoted to police commissioner. However, it was soon discovered that Heykill never made it home. Custus interrogated the Jester for information on what happened, but when he didn't comply, he was left in the Bat-Sponge's hands.
The Jester explained to the Bat-Sponge that he saw society as a joke and he wanted to prove that even the greatest people need only one bad day to lose their minds. After minutes of interrogation by an angry Bat-Sponge, the Jester finally revealed that he had abducted Heykill and his fiance and taken them to opposite sides of the city. Both buildings they were in were rigged to explode, and the Bat-Sponge and the BBPD quickly rushed off upon hearing this.
However, they weren't able to arrive fast enough to save them, Heykill's fiance being killed and Heykill's face being scarred once again. During this chaos, the Jester managed to escape, killing Chiimy and burning all of the mob's money. The next day, a lawyer for hailfish enterprises named Cletus managed to deduce the Bat-Sponge's identity and threatened to reveal it to stop the killings.
Once this threat was published in the Bikini Bottom times, the Jester caught wind of it and issued his own threat: He would blow up Shady Shoals retirement home if Cletus wasn't killed within the hour. Crustus desperately tried to keep Cletus alive as mobs swarmed in to kill him, with Thomas Hailfish even pitching in to help his employee.
Meanwhile, Shady Shoals was being evacuated, but the Jester wasn't there. Instead he was in Bikini Bottom general hospital and talking to Heykill. Taking advantage of his already damaged psyche, the Jester managed to convince Heykill to take the law into his own hands, handing him a spatula and a burned patty, a patty the Jester had burned himself. Heykill's father had been a frycook in the late 1800's until being fired for misconduct.
The Jester finally granted Heykill a grease gun, and Heykill redubbed himself Double-Face. He then escaped the hospital as the Jester blew up the empty Shady Shoals, and then began killing all of the politicians involved in his fiance's death, making decisions by flipping the burnt patty and using the grease gun to turn his victims into cooked fish.
As Bikini Bottom began to fall into panic, the Jester announced that he had rigged 2 boats in the tunnel of glove amusement park ride with explosives. Each boat would have the chance to blow up the other one to survive, but if neither chose to pull the trigger, they would all be blown up by midnight. The Bat-Sponge managed to track the Jester to Glove World, where the two engaged in a hand to hand battle in the tunnel of glove.
As they fought, the BBPD began rescuing the hostages. Eventually, by midnight, neither of the boats decided to blow the other up. The angered Jester attempted to eliminate both boats, but the Bat-Sponge managed to stop him. He told the Jester that not everyone was as ugly as him, but the Jester simply laughed. He proclaimed that while the Bat-Sponge had proven incorruptible, Heykill was his ace in the hole.
The Jester then snapped his own neck, horrifying the Bat-Sponge. However, the hero quickly refocused and headed towards where he knew Heykill would be: The place his fiance was killed. He found Double Face preparing to kill Crustus's 8 year old son, and desperately attempted to reason with his old friend.
Double-Face decided to flip his patty to decide their fates, but before he could decide the fate of Crustus's son, the Bat-Sponge tackled him off the building they were on. He tried to save him, but his grapple hook was just too slow, and Heykill plunged to his death. The Bat-Sponge told Crustus that if Bikini Bottom knew how Heykill had fallen, then the Jester would win and everyone would lose hope.
He told Crustus to say that he had killed Heykill and his victims in order to preserve their faith in him. Crustus protested this, but the Bat-Sponge simply told him that he was what the city needed him to be before riding off into the moonlight. After this, the Bat-Sponge was charged with the murder of the Jester, Heykill, and Double Face's victims. A city-wide manhunt was issued for him, but it would be unnecessary.
The Bat-Sponge saw this as the perfect opportunity to finally retire, and so once he returned to Hailfish manor, he recorded a final message on an acoustic disc. The recording consisted of Thomas talking about his regrets in being the Bat-Sponge, and once it was contained in a special glass case, Thomas Hailfish officially retired as the Bat-Sponge. A few weeks later, Crustus publicly smashed the Bat-Signal, and Thomas was present in the crowd.
Chapter 6: The Black Bat returns
8 years would pass after the deaths of Double-Face and the Jester, and during that time Bikini Bottom would undergo the longest period of peace it had ever seen up till then. During this time, the Wright act, an act that denied parole to the 550 mobsters Heykill had locked up in his career, was passed, virtually eliminating organized crime in Bikini Bottom. Crustus hated this act, but continued to serve on the force while mentoring a new recruit named John Fisherson, who had joined the force in 1936.
Thomas Hailfish had also kept himself busy. No longer burdened by being the Bat-Sponge, Thomas had delved more resources into his philanthropist ventures. In fact, thanks to the help of top scientists, he had managed to develop something that even the humans of the surface hadn't yet: a Nuclear energy generator. However, when he discovered that it could be turned into an ultra powerful bomb if modified, he shut the project down and became a recluse.
3 years after this, in the summer of 1938, a group of terrorists were seemingly apprehended trying to kidnap a scientist named Doctor Leonid Anchfish, including their leader, the infamous Alhalak. Alhalak had taken leadership of the League of Secret Ninjas following the death of Fu Manchu, and had committed numerous terrorist attacks over the last 19 years. He also wore a gas mask that pumped anesthetics into his body.
The authorities who captured him began pretending to shoot his men and throw them off the plane in order to get him to talk, but Alhalak was not fooled. Before he could be thrown off as well, a plane piloted by more of his men pulled the other down, allowing Alhalak and his men to escape and fake Anchfish's death.
Meanwhile in Bikini Bottom, a large gathering was being held at Hailsih Manor celebrating Heykill and what he had done for the city. At this function while being asked to speak, Crustus almost read a resignation note he had created explaining the truth behind Heykill and the Bat-Sponge, but decided that the time wasn't right and put it away. He had also divorced his wife because of the Jester incident and she and his son had moved to the other side of the ocean.
As this speech was happening, Thomas Hailfish had been watching from the roof. As he re-entered his home after it ended, he discovered what appeared to be a maid attempting to steal his mother's pearl necklace. Angered by this, Thomas attempted to stop the thief, but she began fighting him with a combination of elegance and aggression that was incredibly familiar to him.
Due to not having fought in 8 years, Thomas began to get overwhelmed by this, until the unknown female sponge kicked him in the crotch and escaped. Luckily Thomas didn't have any testicles due to being a sponge, but the attack still hurt. Having escaped with Thomas's fingerprints, the woman, who was actually Spongebarbara Roundpants, abducted a congressman and made her way to a bar, where she placed him there for insurance and gave the fingerprints to an employee of Squilliam Fancyson I.
However, this employee was planning to betray her, and anticipating this, she had had one of her friends secretly notify the police of their location. She took down a few of Squillum's men as the police stormed in, and escaped into the night as they chased Squlliam's men into the sewers. These henchmen manage to capture Crustus in the ensuing mayhem, and take him to Alhalak.
After killing one of the henchmen for bringing the police commissioner to his head, Alhalak had the other one search Crustus, and he discovered his resignation speech. While he was reading it, Crustus took the opportunity to escape and fall into an open pipe. However, as he was carried away by the current, Alhalak's men opened fire on him, nearly killing him.
He was eventually found by John Fisherson, who brought him to Bikini Bottom General Hospital. As Crustus was placed in the care of the facility, he decided to promote John to the role of detective, allowing him to report directly to him. After this, John decided to head to Hailfish manor and confronted Thomas in his study, telling him that he had been trying to figure out the Bat-Sponge's true identity for years.
He had put together from gathering information on Cletus that involved the Bat-Sponge that Thomas was the most likely suspect, and this was only confirmed by his research about Thomas, including how he had barely been seen in public during the Bat-Sponge Murders. He threw a picture of Cletus on Thomas's table to prove he knew who he was, and implored him to come back.
After John left, Thomas began considering it, but Albert attempted to dissuade him, telling him that the Bat-Sponge was dead. However, the next day Alhalak attacked the Bikini Bottom stock exchange, using Thomas's fingerprints to verify bankrupting trade options. Now bankrupt and suspecting that Squillium ordered Alhalak to launch the attack, Thomas entrusted Hailfish industries to a newer board member named Shulan.
He also showed her the generator. Following the meeting that announced Shulan's takeover of Hailfish enterprises, Alhalak executed Squilliam. Afterwards, after sleeping with Shulan, Thomas tracked Spongebarbara to her apartment and talked to her, having realized who she was. He was surprised to learn about how she didn't remember anything up until 14 years prior.
Thomas asked her for help in finding Alhalak, and said that in exchange he would tell her about her past. Eventually she accepted, and that night she met Thomas outside a subway station, both dressed in their costumes. Black Cat led the Bat-Sponge to Alhalak's lair in the sewers, beating up his guards in the process.
However, as soon as they arrive, Black Cat locked the door behind the Bat-Sponge, trapping him in with Alhalak. And despite the Bat-Sponge having gotten back into peak fighting shape in preparation for his battle with Alhalak, he was easily and brutally beaten down by his foe. During the fight, Alhalak told the Bat-Sponge he was going to fulfill Fu Machu's destiny, and that he was using Squilliam's construction firms to stage a heist on Hailfish Enterprises applied science division as they spoke.
Eventually, as his arsenal was stolen, the Bat-Sponge's back was broken by Alhalak. As he was dragged off afterwards, the Black Cat saw through his broken facemask that he was Thomas Hailfish, shedding a tear as she sensed a familiarity with him. As she then attempted to flee the city but was captured by the BBPD, Thomas was brought to an ancient prison known as the pit, which was known to be inescapable.
Alhalak told him that he would leave him behind with a radio so that he could listen to the destruction of Bikini Bottom, and then returned to the city to enact his plan, kidnapping Hailfish Enterprise's board of directors. As Crustus, who had been told of the Bat-Sponge's apparent death by Black Cat, sent every cop in Bikini Bottom into the sewers to stop Alhalak once and for all, Alhalak detonated bombs that he and his men had placed throughout the city, trapping the police in the sewers.
The explosions also destroyed the Bikini Bottom football stadium, killing the current mayor and several other politicians. As the panicked crowd looked at this destruction, Alhalak came onto the football field with Leonid Anchfish, who he forced to explain that they had turned the nuclear reactor they had stolen from Hailfish industries into a bomb.
After he said this, Alhalak snapped his neck and told everyone that the bomb would be detonated if anyone tried to enter or leave the city, including the false King Neptune and his knights. He then took out Crustus's resignation letter and read it, revealing to the Bikini Bottomites the truth of Heykill's descent into insanity and the Bat-Sponge's innocence.
Alhalak's men then used one of the stolen batmobiles to blast open a door in the Bikini Bottom jail, freeing and arming the prisoners kept there under the Wright act. Over the next 6 months, Bikini Bottom descended into anarchy. As the months went on, Alhalak's men occupied most of the city. However, there was a resistance, led by John Fisherson. Calling themselves the sons of the Bat-Sponge, they covertly stopped any small crimes they came across and saved innocent bottomites whenever they could.
There was also another faction that was made up of Crustus, Shulan and Black Cat. SpongeBarbara had realized that there was no stopping Alhalak from detonating the bomb any time she wanted, and despite her fear of him, had decided to team up with the disgraced commissioner Crustus and Shulan to try to find a way to stop him. Kangaroo courts judging and executing the 1% had also formed, led by Joseph Marabou, who had fully embraced the Scarecrow title.
As all of this was happening, Thomas had recovered and had been trying to make his way out of the pit, having heard from one of the prisoners that one child had escaped once; the child of Fu Manchu. At the moment, the Bat-Sponge believed it to be Alhalak. 3 months in, he heard over the radio that a group of 'King Neptune's' soldiers had managed to sneak their way into the city, but had been caught and hung by Alhalak. Enraged by this, Thomas attempted and failed one last time to escape the pit before being persuaded to jump without the safety rope.
Thomas did so, and also noticed that there was a small protruding rock that only a child low to the ground could have seen. Using it, he finally managed to escape the pit. As Thomas breathed fresh air for the first time in 3 months, he wasted no time hurriedly moving, knowing he had to get home. And so, for the next 3 months, Thomas struggled his way across the ocean to find a way to return to Bikini Bottom.
Eventually, he managed to get himself a plane ride to a place nearby Bikini Bottom, and using secret tunnels, he managed to get into the abandoned Hailfish manor. Donning a new mask resembling more closely the face of a bat, the Bat-Sponge suited up and headed out to stop Alhalak once and for all. As this was happening, commissioner Crustus was leading a small group to try and mark a truck that was containing Alhalak's bomb.
The group consisted of Shulan, Black Cat, a few police officers, and a few members of the sons of the Bat-Sponge. They all did their best to keep a low profile, having put aside their differences for this one mission to save the city. John Fisherson was keeping watch up above, but the group were soon apprehended by Alhalak's mercenaries.
John was forced to stay quiet as his friends were hauled away. They were all brought to Scarecrow's kangaroo court, and after a mock trial, the group were sentenced to walk on thin ice. However, Alhalak took Shulan away. Before the emergency flare placed on the ice could be ignited by gasoline, the Bat-Sponge appeared and took down Alhalak's goons. Relieved to see the hero alive, Crustus ignited the fuse and threw it onto gasoline, revealing a giant, fiery bat signal painted on the bridge they were on.
Alhalak saw this signal in the sky and was shocked. After the lighting of this signal, the Bat-Sponge found and saved John and the other members of the sons of the Bat-Sponge from Alhalak's men while they were trying to save the trapped cops, and then used his Bat-Plane to do that for them.
He told John to get his men out of the city, as the next day they were going to be launching an all out assault on Alhalak, but John refused, telling him that wherever he went, they went. The Bat-Sponge then led the Black Cat to his personalized motorcycle and told her to blast open the midtown tunnel, hoping people could escape through it during the fight with Alhalak. However, her natural survival instincts kicking in, the Black Cat prepared to flee the city.
She offered the Bat-Sponge to come with her, but he refused. The two then shared a brief kiss before the Black Cat left on the motercycle. Later, as the sun rose on Bikini Bottom, 2 large groups filled a main thoroughfare. On one side were all of Alhalak's mercenaries, and on the other side was the Bikini Bottom's newly released police force and the sons of the Bat-Sponge.
The nervous silence was broken by two tumblers pulling up and preparing to fire on the police. Just then, gunfire disabled the aiming tumbler's turret as everyone looked up. The Bat hovered over the two groups, as the Bat-Sponge lept out and used his cape to glide to the ground, landing right in front of FIsherson. As soon as he landed, both sides let out a warcry and charged at each other.
Within the violent sea of fish battling it out, the Bat-Sponge and Alhalak singled each other out and began fighting one on one. Unfortunately, the beatdown was as terrible as before. While the war was hitting its stride, the Black Cat blasted open the midtown tunnel, but found it more difficult to leave than she previously thought. Her memories were slowly returning.
At the same time, Crustus and a small team had managed to find the reactor. As that was happening, the Bat-Sponge finally managed to overpower Alhalak after disconnecting one of the tubes on his mask, but as he got him on the ground, he was literally stabbed in the back by Shulan. Shulan then revealed herself to be the daughter of Fu Manchu, who had been conceived by Manchu and a warlord's daughter, with said warlord sentencing him to the pit for marrying his daughter.
Shulan's mother had offered to take Fu Manchu's place in the pit and have him exiled, and the warlord had agreed. Shulan had later been born in the pit, and as a young child she had witnessed her mother get beaten to death by the inmates. She said that she was the child who had escaped the pit, and that Alhalak had protected her as she did, being grievously wounded in the process.
When Shulan had found her father, she begged him to save Alhalak's life, and to do so the league of secret ninjas performed cruel and inhumane experiments on hm, injecting him with a super drug that not only kept him alive, but made him extremely strong. However, due to Alhalak's closeness to Shulan, he was eventually exiled from the league, causing Shulan to cut all contact from her father.
After finishing the story, she attempted to detonate the bomb, but Crustus and his men had managed to block the signal. Shulan then left to find the bomb, and Alhalak was killed by Black Cat. she then helped the Bat-Sponge pursue Shulan, hoping to bring the bomb back to the reactor chamber where it could be stabilized.
After a short chase, Shulan's truck crashed, but before she died she remotely flooded and destroyed the generator, Iassac Seafox barely avoiding death. With no safe way to stop the generator, the Bat-Sponge strapped it to the underside of his bat-plane, and shared a final kiss with Black Cat, with it fully restoring her memories. He then took off into the sky, with Black Cat calling him Thomas causing Crustus to realize who he was.
As the Bat-plane flew outside the city limits, the Bat-Sponge closed his eyes, and the bomb exploded safely, saving the city. Following these events, the Bat-Sponge was assumed dead, and a city-wide funeral was held for him. A statue was erected for the hero in city hall, and after the funeral was over with, Crustus attended the small funeral of Thomas Hailfish.
The official story was that Thomas had been killed in the 6 months of chaos, but the 4 men at the funeral knew the truth. Those men were John Fisherson, Crustus Krabton, Albert Fishington, and Issac Seafox. As the other 3 left the funeral, Albert mournfully begged Thomas for forgiveness for failing him and leaving him to die. John also decided to tell Crustus that he was quitting the BBPD.
Following the funeral, Hailfish manor was converted into an orphanage for the youth of Bikini Bottom, being run by John. Issac Seafox also discovered that the Bat-Plane's experimental autopilot had been repaired 6 months prior. Meanwhile, Albert had decided to take a vacation to the surface state of Texas, wearing a water helmet to avoid suffocating.
While having a picnic alone, he discovered to his shock Thomas Hailfish alive and well, having a picnic with SpongeBarbara Roundpants. Both were obviously wearing water helmets. He had ejected from the Bat-Plane right before it exploded and used an experimental jetpack to make his way to Texas. There he had met SpongeBarbara again, as she had been living there to avoid authorities. The two had taken this chance to finally retire for good and live a life of peace.
Thomas and Albert shared a knowing nod at each other, and went back to eating, in the following years after Albert returned to Bikini Bottom, Crustus decided to reveal to the ocean the truth about who the Bat-Sponge was, with Albert publishing the journal Thomas had kept during his crime fighting career. Although there were still some of Alhalak's forces and escaped prisoners in the city to clear out, once they were by 1941, the sons of the Bat-Sponge disbanded. Albert passed away that same year.
Despite the new mayor recognizing his heroism in the battle against Alhalak, Crustus still retired from the Bikini Bottom Police department in 1940, being tired of the constant mayhem and believing that it was time to pass on the torch to the younger generation. He afterwards moved to where his wife and son lived to attempt to reconcile with them. He never learned of the Bat-Sponge's survival, and died in 1966 from old age.
A decade after the 'death' of the Bat-Sponge, the age of super-heroes began with the debut of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. This breed of hero was impossible to contain, and as super villains rose to challenge them, the police had no choice to work directly with them. Following the super-being civil war in 1976, the BBPD, without heroes or villains or the right guiding hand, would eventually return to its corrupt and inept state by the end of the 20th century.
As for Thomas Hailfish, he died peacefully in the year 2001 at the age of 109, surrounded by his family. Despite everything that had happened in his life, it had ultimately been worth it to reach this happy ending. And so, in this world at least, this is where the legend of the Bat-Sponge ends.
Equivalents
Thomas Hailfish/the Bat-Sponge-Bruce Wayne/Batman
Crustus Krabton-James Gordon
Albert Fishington-Alfred Pennyworth (Based off the character from Crazyfilms1121's Patrick Man series)
Heykill Wright/Double Face-Harvey Dent/Two-face
Fu Manchu-Ra's Al Ghul
Misato Mizuguchi/Red Robin-Robin
Joseph Marabou-Johnathan Crane
Otto Fancyson-Max Shrek
Squilliam Fancyson I-Chip Shrek/John Dagget
Spongebarbara Roundpants/Black Cat-Selina Kyle/Catwoman
Pudgy Penguin-Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin
Killer Crocodile-Weland Jones/Killer Croc
Friedrich Queer-Hugo Strange
Yango Yin/the Sponge-Bat-Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat
The Jester-The Joker
Alhalak-Bane
Shulan-Talia Al Ghul
