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== Personality ==
Squidward is best described as ill-tempered, pretentious, and cynical who strongly despises his neighbours for their constant boisterous, noisy behavior. However, the pair are unaware of Squidward's antipathy towards them and see him as a friend. Squidward works as a cashier at the Krusty Krab restaurant, a job that he is apathetic towards.

Squidward also has a passion and interest in reading, arts, and music, and is very fond of playing the clarinet, though no one considers him to be very good at it, the same for his artwork due to his bad taste. This, however, not always the case as on some occasions, his artistic talents somewhat more improved than it used to be.

The post-movie seasons (Season 4 and so on which set between events from both the first 3 seasons and ''The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie'') revealed that his misery, and inability to see the positive side of his neighbors' antics has developed a darker side of his personality where he sometimes became the wrathful, indifferent, and sadistic. The revelation of these negative traits was previously foreshadowed by him nearly killed SpongeBob with his brutal booby trap joke in the retaliation of the latter's annoying but harmless jokes in ''Fools in April'' episode. 

Not only that, in various cases of his antagonistic acts that he performed, he sometimes has done so in a more malicious manner where he unknowingly became slave-driver for SpongeBob as seen in ''Can You Spare A Dime?'', and ''Squidward, the Unfriendly Ghost'', fooling anyone to gain an advantage for improving his life despite the small percentage of success, or the worst, illegal acts include verbal and physical abuse that threatened him to send to jail. The worst instances of his antagonism are when expresses his lack of remorse and genuine malice was when reading SpongeBob's diary aloud, disagree with his friends' idea to brought SpongeBob back home after remorseful with their abuse on him in retaliate of misfortunes that he unintentionally caused, and lend his lawnmower to both SpongeBob and Patrick hoping that they harmed themselves by accident wherein these case, he potentially crosses MEH. These negative traits were reasons why some Bikini Bottomites antagonize him out of sheer hatred.

However, Squidward is not a heartless character as he had a softer side which hidden under his sadistic, wrathful, and narcissistic personality. To some degree, he friends with SpongeBob and Patrick but incapable to see the positive side of their childish antics, reason why he tends to loathe them more than truly love them. He also has a romantic relationship with his girlfriend Squilvia (a relationship that only explored in an episode where she featured at). Squidward has shown leniency to SpongeBob more than one time. The proof that he cares about SpongeBob was when he rescued him from an incoming truck and stood up to an angry obesed fish for hurting SpongeBob's feelings and slammed a pizza in his face in "Pizza Delivery". In "Born Again Krabs", he berated Krabs for sold the sponge's soul for the Flying Dutchman. As he did, he expresses genuine disgust on Krabs' ungrateful action that made the crab regretful over his actions. Squidward actually does like Spongebob, something that he apparently is simply unwillingly to admit most of the time: in the episode "Graveyard Shift", when he thinks he is about to get killed by the "Hash-slinging Slasher", Squidward admits to Spongebob that, despite what he has said in the past, he "actually sort of likes [him]" (Spongebob confesses in response that he uses Squidward's clarinet to unclog his toilet). In ''Sponge On The Run'', Squidward stood up for SpongeBob to Poseidon, saying that despite he thinks SpongeBob is annoying, he's still his friend who does not deserve to die.

The reason why he mostly grumpy at times can be traced back when he had a garden as seen in episode ''Truth or Square.'' At that time, Squidward appeared to have a happier personality, until a pineapple fell from a sailor's boat to the ocean and crushed his garden, destroying it. Not long afterwards, SpongeBob showed up and decided to modify the pineapple into a house that we know today as Squidward mourned over the loss of his garden. His garden's destruction depressed Squidward so much that he becomes bitter and presumably never told his new neighbor about what has happened in the first place.