BOB THE KILLER GOLDFISH

'Bob the Killer Goldfish' is a fictional villain in the Earthworm Jim video games and animated series. He is featured as a boss in all three of the console games. Bob, being just a goldfish, rides around in a small glass bowl and gets his feline minions, particularly Number Four, to do all the work for him. In the cartoon series, his home planet is La Planeta De Agua (''Arriba!'') and he wants Earthworm Jim's supersuit so that he can have legs, as well as a nice, big, juicy, worm to eat.
Bob himself doesn't put up much of a fight. In the first game, Jim simply knocks his bowl off a table and leaves him to flop around on the floor as Jim exits the level. In the second game, in a parody of video game boss encounters, Bob is introduced with much drama in what appears to be a pre-boss-battle cutscene (including a ''Mortal Kombat''-style "Fight!" message), only to have Jim suddenly pluck him from his bowl and eat him. In Earthworm Jim 3D on the Nintendo 64, Bob and Number Four appear in a boss fight at the end of the fourth world, which has a cowboy theme. This boss fight involves retrieving Jim's marbles and stealing them from Bob. It is often agreed amongst fans that this is the easiest boss battle in the game, just like the Bob the Goldfish fights in previous games.
In the first game, Number 4 and several other cat guards wander Bob's stage, and will clobber Jim senseless if they get ahold of him.

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Cartoon series

Quotations

Cartoon series

In the television series, Bob has a deep southern drawl. Bob also focuses his attention on universal conquest. He spends much of his time attempting to convince the fish of La Planeta De Agua (''Arriba!'') to embark on a destructive rampage, usually to no avail. On several occasions, Bob has attempted to take over the universe without help, and at one point did succeed in conquering the earth by hyper-evolving himself into another life-form. However, his evolutionary accelerator soon returned him to his original fish form, and he was forced to attempt a retreat. Bob's dialogue, especially when attempting to inspire his fellow fish to " (Go forth and) Destroy! Destroy! DESTROY!", is often backed by slow instrumental gospel music, and he speaks in a bombastic voice with a Southern accent that makes him sound much like a Televangelist.
On the cartoon, Bob was voiced by Jim Cummings who also does Psy-Crow for that show.

Quotations

★ "How many times have I told you? I am NOT to be used as a projectile!"

★ (''Jim is zooming back and forth with a modified egg beater.'')"My Robo-squid! My Cyber-tuna! My Techno-Sturgeon! My MING VASES!!"