I always thought it was strange how the squids and bikini bottom act Superior to everyone else to the point that they built their own suburb with the sole purpose of keeping every other species out but it's all fake tentacle Acres looks great but everyone there seems to live a similar lifestyle to Squidward implying that most if not all of them have the same income as a fast food cashier plus we see in the world of SpongeBob that the upper class the politicians and the majority population are primarily made up of fish with squids holding far
less power in underwater Society than their Behavior would have you believe it's true that squ and fanyon has wealth but he's shown to be the exception not the rule this bad attitude seemed to come out of nowhere which didn't sit right with me so I looked through the show for answers and came to a massive Revelation Squidward and the rest of his species are all descendants of the atlantans which means they were once part of the most powerful Empire in the ocean let's start with the obvious fact Squidward is not a squid real life squids
have cone-shaped heads with fins on the side to help them swim but Squidward species have heads that are more rounded and don't have fins we can even see in the show that there are true squids that have this accurate head structure this could mean that Squidward is actually an octopus after all when he's portrayed realistically he does take on more octopus likee features but in the normal style of the show we see what actual octopuses look like in the world of SpongeBob they have eight arms no nose and don't have a human-like posture like Squidward
and more importantly Squidward in his normal style has tentacles tentacles are paddle-shaped and have suckers at the end octopuses don't have tentacles they have eight arms which are more cone-shaped and have suckers all along them that means Squidward species have traits that make them neither squid nor octopus and in my research there absolutely hasn't been a seop pod with zero arms and six tentacles if we want to take the show style more literally especially if you're green and have six tentacles which could suggest that Squidward's biology comes from a whole other planet now this sounds
like a massive leap in logic until we look at the atlantans they came to Earth from their home world over a million years ago and if you compare Squidward to an Atlantean a squid and an octopus from the world of SpongeBob you can see Squidward most closely resembles the atlantan they share light blue skin color have long downward point of noses and have wider lips as well but the similarities are more than Skin Deep it's notable that all the squids in SpongeBob seem to have a taste for European art and culture significantly more than the
other residents of the ocean Squidward makes paintings based on a variety of European Styles he also enjoys listening to and playing Western classical music meanwhile s's home interior is filled with European architecture and decorations and the most famous musician among sward species is kelpy G who plays a clarinet an instrument that was invented in Germany this is significant because the atlantans are the only other species in SpongeBob that have this much influence from European culture the first thing SpongeBob and his friends do in Atlantis is crash into the front garden and Squidward is the only
one to point out that they destroyed the atlantan topiary Garden which is a form of landscaping art that originated in France the leader of the atlantan people also wears heels which were popular among European Aristocrats in the 17th century and the art produced by the atlanteans are heavily influenced by different styles from Europe even the atlanteans focus on Art and the pursuit of knowledge is reminiscent of the Renaissance so we have two species in the world of SpongeBob that have similar facial features interests and cultures and maybe that's why Squidward is the only one who
actually gets along with the Atlantean people Mr Krabs wants to collect money sand is left alone in their lab to invent things and SpongeBob and Patrick try to get away from the tour to see the oldest bubble none of them interact with other atlantans to get what they want but Squidward wants to know more about the Atlantean culture this leads him to interact with other atlantans and even join a group painting session squibber even has a new painting to show for his time spent with the atlanteans and do you notice anything strange about this painting
like the canned bread in the foreground this is one of Squidward's favorite food items which at the time the special aired had only appeared in one other episode the one where Squidward moved to tentacle Acres this isn't a common product in SpongeBob either with Squidward implying it's difficult to find I bet they won't have wow they have it canned bread yet it's always available in a town made up of his species of all the episodes The Writers could have called back to in the Atlanta special why the one with tentacle Acres I think this detail
could have been intentional because when you look at tentacle Acres it has a striking resem Lance to Atlantis it's worth noting that these are the only two cities in SpongeBob that actively close their doors to Outsiders we're sorry but your kind isn't allowed here dispair of this quickly we can't survive any more visitors like these then there's the Golden Gate surrounding tentacle Acres which is similar to how Squidward describes Atlantis as a city paved with gold to Mr Krabs but this doesn't describe the current Atlantis it describes the version of Atlantis before they put aside
their desires for wealth with all the similarities that squ and his species have with atlantans we can either say that this is a massive coincidence or that scen species are actually atlantans who are exiled long ago and have tried to build their own version of Atlantis in the form of tentacle Acres but that can't be possible right just zoom out and look at Squidward and the atlantans they can't possibly be related because the atlantans have human-like arms and legs instead of tentacles or do they because we see from the show that these aren't the Atlantean
original bodies the brain containers on their heads are the most obvious giveaway but on top of that we see that the atlantian guards have steel chains for their arms and metal spikes coming out of their tails plus the guard's bodies can retract into a ball to roll around in a way that seems closer to a robot retracting its body instead of an animal curling into a ball this shows that while the atlanteans are biological creatures who still eat and have their internal organs they're basically piloting robot bodies but why would the atlanteans make the robotic
bodies look different than how they naturally look if they are the same species as Squidward wouldn't their new bodies look similar to Squidward's current body not necessarily the atlantans could just as likely want to make their bodies resemble the gods that they worship all right time to flex my minor religious studies body modification is a religious practice of changing one's appearance as a Mark of Faith these can range from simple cosmetic changes like clothing hairstyles facial markers and jewelry but can also include more permanent changes like Tattoos Piercings scarification and that little Barber Shop visit
for baby boys these are all incredibly common practices in religion and the atlanteans seem have their own versions of them as well in both the past and present we see that the atlantian leaders are the only ones with orange hair the same hair color as Neptune the god of the ocean this suggests that the atlantian leaders modify their hair color to resemble the gods as a display of their position of authority and if the atlanteans are already modifying their bodies with robotics and practicing body modification for religious purposes it wouldn't be a stretch to think
that they design their bodies to resemble the gods they worship after all SpongeBob takes place in a world where Greek and Roman mythology is real there is Neptune god of the ocean and he mentions the existence of Apollo the Greek god of Music in the Sun a prize worthy of Apollo on top of that there are monsters in the show pulled right out of Greek and Roman mythology like the underwater Cyclops SpongeBob and Patrick find in an abyss and fun fact Cyclops are the children of Poseidon the Greek name for Neptune which adds a whole
lay to this monster being abandoned in a trench but let's not worry about that then there's the flashback of the atlanteans bringing the oldest bubble to Earth which has quite a few references to ancient Roman culture first there's the atlantian leaders wearing Galia those crusted helmets that Roman soldiers would wear there's also the alien elephants which seem random at first but elephants in ancient Rome represented both military might because of their size and strength as well as cultural exchange since they were often received as gifts from visiting Nations and what do we see here with
the elephants a scene that expresses both the military might of the atlanteans while they're moving the most important piece of their culture to Earth the atlantans were already augmenting their bodies as shown in that flashback and they probably modeled their robotic bodies to resemble how most of the Roman gods appeared like Neptune's brother Jupiter better known as Zeus and if Neptune is humanoid but with a fin to swim in the ocean it would make sense that the other gods would be humanoid just with legs and feet now none of this outright proves that the atlantans
would look like Squidward without their body modifications but it means it's at least a possibility and considering all the other similarities these two species share I'm convinced that squ species are descendants of the Atlantean people but that still leaves us with a big question why would they leave such a shining Paradise well the show gives us a pretty clear answer sart's ancestors rejected the world's oldest bubble according to the leader of the atlantans lrh the atlantans brought this little bubble from their home world over a million years ago across billions of Lighty years and what
is something that sward and presumably the rest of his species despises bubbles that's just annoying blowing bubbles that's the lamest idea I have ever heard yet despite hating bubbles Squidward also shows that he is has a natural talent for making them he's able to blow a bubble that not even SpongeBob a professional bubble blower was able to produce but it's Squidward's response after blowing his mega bubble that's interesting come on it's in my jeans he confidently says that bubble blowing is in his genes that's an odd thing for someone like sward to say but it
is something you would probably hear from an Atlantean whose biology had millions of years to evolve in a bubble centered culture I rock what I think happened was that a small group of atlantans rejected the oldest bubble the other atlanteans didn't respond well to this heresy and this bubble hitting faction was exiled from Atlantis the exiled atlanteans were left without their augmentations forcing them to live in their completely natural forms so much time passed that the exiled atlanteans may have even forgotten their Origins but never dropped that attitude of superiority they tried to build their
own version of Atlantis with the sole purpose of rejecting the creatures they perceived as inferior to them but these former atlantans spent so much time preserving what they perceived as self-perfection that they didn't make any of the achievements that existed in Atlantis they built their new Empire to resemble a past that doesn't exist anymore and now Squidward species only has a lingering sense of superiority with nothing really to show for it and everyone just started calling these creatures squids because that was what they looked most like and what's saddest of all is that this troubled
past has an effect on Squidward he constantly feels like there's something missing in his life at first Squidward thinks going to tentacle acres is everything he wanted except he quickly learns how stagnant that places it was only when Squidward went to Atlantis that he felt like he truly belonged but at the end of the episode while everyone is singing about leaving Atlantis sward has this line to add and back to my depressing life of quiet desperation unlike the other characters sward never felt fulfilled or happy in his normal life it makes you wonder why Atlantis
had an ambulet meant to bring Outsiders to their city in the first place maybe they had Sympathy for the ones they exiled and gave them a way to come home if they truly wanted but skart species is shown to be stubborn and proud so they rejected the gift years passed and the original reason for creating the amulet was probably forgotten by both the atlanteans and the Exiles but even if the atlantans forgot the purpose of sending the amulet they remembered that they needed to give a warm welcome to whoever found it and invite them into
their otherwise isolated Empire this amulet could have been meant for sward to find and the tragedy is that this simply wasn't meant to be sward was sent away from Atlantis and any chance of healing the wounds of the past shattered when SpongeBob and Patrick popped atlantis's most important Relic atlantis's door is once again closed to Outsiders this time with no way for anyone to enter which means the past is never going to be reconciled the exiled atlantans are left clean to this past version of Atlantis and keep perpetuating this idea that they're better than everyone
else missing out on all the amazing things that exist in the world around them and none of them will ever find satisfaction unless they can drop their pride open up to others and accept something better than the stuffy World they've built around themselves
