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Ok. I'm taking a shot at this. SpongeBobs town level feats being rejected seems hardly legit. I'll cover the reasons that I've seen most popular to reject them, if there are anymore, I'll go over what I think of them. But here's these for now
1. Stomped by Humans/Animals
This means absolutely nothing. Humans outclassing spongebob doesn't mean spongebob can't be town level. It just means Humans, Seagulls, and animals upscale it, or it's just PIS. Humans have shown they can clearly be superhuman. David Hasselhoff (The Spongebob Squarepants Movie), Jim Bob, and most importantly. Someone who literally has survived a town area feat, Patchy the Pirate and Potty the Parrot. Another example. Burger Beard survived a MCB level attack and was just fine afterwards. All these people are obviously superhuman, and some even showed urban level survivability.
2. Stock footage is unreliable and not animated
This is because this show still takes place in a real world setting. There has been only 1 instance in the over 20 year show where it showed above ground animated. This being the mermaid man and Barnacle boy origins. However this is even on thin ice at best due to how inconsistent they are with their past, and the footage shown isn't the original footage, as nobody was around to actually be recording all of that. The fact it was animated likely means the people running the show just made it that way, and simply got the story from mermaid man and barnacle boys perspective, and on top of that, they even have trouble remembering how their past actually was. They Kept arguing about what actually happened, meaning it all together could be unreliable.
Aside from that, The only animated thing is the spongebob cast. The movies above ground is IRL, the explosion is IRL, they went onto land in a few episodes and it wasn't animated above ground, The movie had The Cyclops as a real person, as well as his shop, The Birthday Bash had above ground IRL, and Patchy the Pirate even stayed non animated when he went to spongebob himself. Considering they have even referred to the bomb as nuclear and it once was caused through literal atom splitting, saying it's not animated and stock footage isn't reliable has no real ground to stand on. This show has been consistent on what above ground looks like (which says a lot coming from a cartoon). And they did In fact animate the explosion when it was underwater. We clearly see it being drawn as it grows bigger than bikini bottom, then stock footage taking over as it got above ground into IRL territory. They show this footage as that's what happened, but they wouldn't animate an explosion over real waters in how weird that would look. Look at Patchy being under water in an animated world already looks strange. This backed up even more by the fact they swapped to 3D models for the movie when going above ground. So stock footage is reliable.
3. The explosions doesn't destroy the town
That's just because cartoon logic. Realistically, an explosion that big, also happening underwater would do far more damage that is shown on the town. So that kind of logic would contradict itself when looking at it like that, and we shouldn't even look at it like that. It wasn't destroyed for the same reasons a planet level person punching the ground doesn't destroy the planet. If anything, just just says more about thr towns durability than it does the explosions force. They are meant to be nuclear, it's even downright staged by plankton once to be nuclear.
4. They tend to be comically weak
We don't use their comical gags that make them planet level, which they have a few of. Why would we go back on that logic here? Spongebob is made to be haha funny weak at times with being unable to lift a q-tip, when on a Much Much MUCH more consistent basis, he shows to be vastly stronger than his haha funny moments. This is essentially a Mr. Burns thing. Burns is made to be comically weak at times, but when you actually sit and look at his average feats, he isn't as weak as he is placed out to be. Not to mention, LS and AP are different, and a show isn't always to be accurate on their strength levels. They aren't making it with the intention of always making him one level of strength. Spongebob is going to vary on what he can do, as will a lot of other characters. But that's not reason to downright deny town stuff. Using that logic, Spongebob wouldn't even be allowed a wall level key considering what he fails to lift or is shown to be would be under wall level at times.
So the reasons I've seen behind this don't seem to stand. Being stomped means nothing, considering these people clearly show to be superhuman anyway, and it really just means they upscales. Stock footage is reliable considering how consistent they are about above ground. (And considering this is a Cartoon like sponge bob being consistent above something, it's pretty clear what they intend), the explosion not destroying the town has several flaws in it and essentially is cartoon physics, and their comically weak moments is just haha funny humor moments and are far more contradicted by their normal feats than their funny moments. They mean for these to be nuclear, Plankton even literally states it. Calling it nuclear, I'm not sure there's a more clear way to make it that these should be legit.
1. Stomped by Humans/Animals
This means absolutely nothing. Humans outclassing spongebob doesn't mean spongebob can't be town level. It just means Humans, Seagulls, and animals upscale it, or it's just PIS. Humans have shown they can clearly be superhuman. David Hasselhoff (The Spongebob Squarepants Movie), Jim Bob, and most importantly. Someone who literally has survived a town area feat, Patchy the Pirate and Potty the Parrot. Another example. Burger Beard survived a MCB level attack and was just fine afterwards. All these people are obviously superhuman, and some even showed urban level survivability.
2. Stock footage is unreliable and not animated
This is because this show still takes place in a real world setting. There has been only 1 instance in the over 20 year show where it showed above ground animated. This being the mermaid man and Barnacle boy origins. However this is even on thin ice at best due to how inconsistent they are with their past, and the footage shown isn't the original footage, as nobody was around to actually be recording all of that. The fact it was animated likely means the people running the show just made it that way, and simply got the story from mermaid man and barnacle boys perspective, and on top of that, they even have trouble remembering how their past actually was. They Kept arguing about what actually happened, meaning it all together could be unreliable.
Aside from that, The only animated thing is the spongebob cast. The movies above ground is IRL, the explosion is IRL, they went onto land in a few episodes and it wasn't animated above ground, The movie had The Cyclops as a real person, as well as his shop, The Birthday Bash had above ground IRL, and Patchy the Pirate even stayed non animated when he went to spongebob himself. Considering they have even referred to the bomb as nuclear and it once was caused through literal atom splitting, saying it's not animated and stock footage isn't reliable has no real ground to stand on. This show has been consistent on what above ground looks like (which says a lot coming from a cartoon). And they did In fact animate the explosion when it was underwater. We clearly see it being drawn as it grows bigger than bikini bottom, then stock footage taking over as it got above ground into IRL territory. They show this footage as that's what happened, but they wouldn't animate an explosion over real waters in how weird that would look. Look at Patchy being under water in an animated world already looks strange. This backed up even more by the fact they swapped to 3D models for the movie when going above ground. So stock footage is reliable.
3. The explosions doesn't destroy the town
That's just because cartoon logic. Realistically, an explosion that big, also happening underwater would do far more damage that is shown on the town. So that kind of logic would contradict itself when looking at it like that, and we shouldn't even look at it like that. It wasn't destroyed for the same reasons a planet level person punching the ground doesn't destroy the planet. If anything, just just says more about thr towns durability than it does the explosions force. They are meant to be nuclear, it's even downright staged by plankton once to be nuclear.
4. They tend to be comically weak
We don't use their comical gags that make them planet level, which they have a few of. Why would we go back on that logic here? Spongebob is made to be haha funny weak at times with being unable to lift a q-tip, when on a Much Much MUCH more consistent basis, he shows to be vastly stronger than his haha funny moments. This is essentially a Mr. Burns thing. Burns is made to be comically weak at times, but when you actually sit and look at his average feats, he isn't as weak as he is placed out to be. Not to mention, LS and AP are different, and a show isn't always to be accurate on their strength levels. They aren't making it with the intention of always making him one level of strength. Spongebob is going to vary on what he can do, as will a lot of other characters. But that's not reason to downright deny town stuff. Using that logic, Spongebob wouldn't even be allowed a wall level key considering what he fails to lift or is shown to be would be under wall level at times.
So the reasons I've seen behind this don't seem to stand. Being stomped means nothing, considering these people clearly show to be superhuman anyway, and it really just means they upscales. Stock footage is reliable considering how consistent they are about above ground. (And considering this is a Cartoon like sponge bob being consistent above something, it's pretty clear what they intend), the explosion not destroying the town has several flaws in it and essentially is cartoon physics, and their comically weak moments is just haha funny humor moments and are far more contradicted by their normal feats than their funny moments. They mean for these to be nuclear, Plankton even literally states it. Calling it nuclear, I'm not sure there's a more clear way to make it that these should be legit.
