SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a platform video game based on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ.

In the game, Plankton creates the Duplicatotron 3000 and attacks Bikini Bottom with an invasion of robots. SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy must stop the evil force and save their town.

The original Windows version of the game, developed by AWE Games, is a point-and-click adventure game, while the Game Boy Advance version by Vicarious Visions is a 2D platformer.

Tropes used in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom include:

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Technically averted. Plankton's robots betray him because the lever is set to Don't Obey. Played straight at the final boss.
• Arrow Cam: When you use the Bubble Missile.
• Band Land: Squidward's Dream.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: SpongeBob thinks this is the reason for the game's premise at first.
• Big Boo's Haunt: Flying Dutchman's Graveyard.
• Dream Land: SpongeBob's Dream.
• Gotta Catch Them All: Getting all 100 Golden Spatulas gets you a bonus clip featuring nearly every character in the game singing the series theme song.
• Green Hill Zone: Jellyfish Fields.
• Ground Pound: Patrick & SpongeBob.
• Multi Platform
• No Problem With Licensed Games
• Palmtree Panic: Goo Lagoon.
• Plot Coupon
• Squishy Wizard: SpongeBob.
• The Lost Woods: Kelp Forest.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: There are numerous citizens around the levels, all of them vulnerable to attack. In addition to this, one particular citizen has an ecstatic reaction to this.