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Fridge Brilliance
- Meta Brilliance: When Larry is devoured by the Tortured One, he yells out "MY LEG!" The brilliance kicks in when you realize that Larry and Fred, the fish who's the originator of that meme, are both voiced by Doug Lawrence.
- As the Patricks were out to kill the likes of SpongeBob and Squidward for never questioning what the Krabby Patties were made out of, it provides a neat explanation as to why they allied with Plankton: he tried to discover the secret Krabby Patty formula for years.
- Also, of all of Bikini Bottom's citizens, Plankton is both the smallest — meaning he wouldn't really help the Tortured One grow any bigger — and may well be the one person in Bikini Bottom who has never eaten a Krabby Patty. The Tortured One has zero empathy, so he's still a jerk to him, but notably, the Patricks did keep their end of the bargain with him.
- If SpongeBob had been alive in the form of cells the whole time, why didn't he come back sooner when the Patricks (and thus his cells) had all multiplied? It was because he was waiting for both Krabs and Plankton to be eliminated and then a moment where his regeneration would seem heroic.
- Or perhaps he was just waiting to have enough cells to regenerate into the giant monster?
- Another thing that clued Sandy into the fact SpongeBob had deliberately undercooked a Krabby Patty: the very person who ingested it was the one who technically was the originator of the meat and not some random schmuck.
Fridge Horror
- When Squidward gets his second wind, he bites one of the Patricks crawling on him in half. We never see him spit the other half out. Hopefully, he destroyed the nerve cluster with that bite...
- Now that SpongeBob is securing a stronghold over the town due to his Engineered Heroics, one has to wonder what he will do with his newfound power? For instance, will he try to use it to get his driver's license? If so, what if the new driving teacher (Mrs. Puff has moved away) refuses to give it to him even though he saved the town? Will he use his clones to make them "disappear" alongside any other potential issue to his rule?
- Guilty Patrick's Heel–Face Turn was largely because he thought that SpongeBob wasn't aware of the Tortured One's existence, and thus didn't deserve to die. However, from the epilogue, we now know that not only was SpongeBob aware of the Tortured One, he deliberately ensured that the conflict would be resolved in the bloodiest way possible. What would Guilty Patrick do if he found out SpongeBob was guilty after all? We could be looking at another Patrick rampage.
- Or maybe he'll just decide that Bikini Bottom has seen enough violence, and leave SpongeBob the same way Sandy did.
- Had the Tortured One's plan succeeded, the humans would definitely have taken notice. They may have decided to nuke the monster(s), and if you thought lava was hot, a nuclear bomb is thousands of times hotter.
- A bit of a meta example: in "Valentine's Day", Patrick goes on a rampage around a carnival after he thinks he didn't get a Valentine's Day present. While Played for Laughs in the main series, if that episode is Canon to the comic, it provides a very grim reason for why the carnival goers were so afraid of Patrick; if he really wanted to, he could have eaten them, in a most horrifying way.
Fridge Sadness
- The comic opens up with SpongeBob asking Patrick to go jellyfishing, only to be killed by him. Later in a flashback, we find out that SpongeBob tried asking Squidward to do the same, only for him to be shut down. This means SpongeBob got rejected twice before he died...
- In his mental world, the Tortured One appears as how he was before he was set free: hooked up to Mr. Krabs' machine. This is because he is still trapped, only this time by his hatred of nearly all ocean-dwellers.
- Alternatively, while he is physically free, mentally, he's still in the machine.