Although he has moral standards and being a reasonable father figure for SpongeBob at best despite his greedy and recurring antagonistic behavior, the controversial Post-First Movie Seasons utterly removed it all in favor of more out of character moments where he's much more villainous that he supposed to be as much as Patrick Star. Subsequently, this turned him into a full-blown Protagonist Villain who proved time and time again more detestable than Plankton in his worst episodes. His most controversial episode was One Coarse Meal, where he exploited Plankton's fear of whales to the point where Plankton attempts suicide out of fear, an act that the series' fans and plausibly, Krab's pre-First Movie Seasons self understandably appalled with. As a result, this arguably became one of the reasons for the late Stephen Hillenburg revised the show starting from the second half of the end of Season 9 and the second movie of the franchise, reverting Krabs' portrayal back to his likable Pre-First Movie Seasons self. Even then, he is notably more ruthless than he was in the first few seasons. Even prior to controversial Post-First Movie Seasons, Mr. Krabs does has fair records of villainous and antagonistic acts, notably his recurring tendency to exploit his employees and even exhibits unnecessary sadism towards Plankton upon the latter's defeat. Krab's most prominent antagonistic role, as well as only instance where he truly came close to, if not outright crossing Moral Event Horizon without the franchise's degradation, is Jellyfish Hunter (where he abuses captured jellyfish in favor of producing as much jellyfish jelly as he can and nearly eradicate them all had the blue jellyfish save the day by exposing his crime on SpongeBob). He was also willing to harm SpongeBob for attempting to foil his scheme. Other examples include trying to kill Squidward so that he could make money from his art, trying to con Patrick out of his coupon, and several other crimes. As with most characters, however, his morality depends on who is in-charge of writing the episode. One should also note that while it doesn't excuse his actions, he did try to convince Squidward to leave, so he wouldn't have to resort to murdering him. A hideous and demonic version of Mr. Krabs that appeared for one second in the episode "Jellyfish Hunter", and now is seen frequently in videos on the internet is called Moar Krabs.
Although he has moral standards and being a reasonable father figure for SpongeBob at best despite his greedy and recurring antagonistic behavior, the controversial Post-First Movie Seasons utterly removed it all in favor of more out of character moments where he's much more villainous that he supposed to be as much as Patrick Star. Subsequently, this turned him into a full-blown Protagonist Villain who proved time and time again more detestable than Plankton in his worst episodes. His most controversial episode was One Coarse Meal, where he exploited Plankton's fear of whales to the point where Plankton attempts suicide out of fear, an act that the series' fans and plausibly, Krab's pre-First Movie Seasons self understandably appalled with. As a result, this arguably became one of the reasons for the late Stephen Hillenburg revised the show starting from the second half of the end of Season 9 and the second movie of the franchise, reverting Krabs' portrayal back to his likable Pre-First Movie Seasons self. Even then, he is notably more ruthless than he was in the first few seasons. Even prior to controversial Post-First Movie Seasons, Mr. Krabs does has fair records of villainous and antagonistic acts, notably his recurring tendency to exploit his employees and even exhibits unnecessary sadism towards Plankton upon the latter's defeat. Krab's most prominent antagonistic role, as well as only instance where he truly came close to, if not outright crossing Moral Event Horizon without the franchise's degradation, is Jellyfish Hunter (where he abuses captured jellyfish in favor of producing as much jellyfish jelly as he can and nearly eradicate them all had the blue jellyfish save the day by exposing his crime on SpongeBob). He was also willing to harm SpongeBob for attempting to foil his scheme. Other examples include trying to kill Squidward so that he could make money from his art, trying to con Patrick out of his coupon, and several other crimes. As with most characters, however, his morality depends on who is in-charge of writing the episode. One should also note that while it doesn't excuse his actions, he did try to convince Squidward to leave, so he wouldn't have to resort to murdering him. A hideous and demonic version of Mr. Krabs that appeared for one second in the episode "Jellyfish Hunter", and now is seen frequently in videos on the internet is called Moar Krabs.
