Mindrick

Mindrick is the het ship between Patrick Star and Princess Mindy from the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie fandom.

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Meeting in the first SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Mindy makes several appearances in the movie to assist and encourage both SpongeBob and Patrick. Early into the run-time, Patrick becomes infatuated with Mindy upon seeing her for the first time. In the few scenes they have together he repeatedly fawns over her, calling her hot and otherwise trying to get her attention. However she neither seems to be aware or quite reciprocate his feelings. Though they aren't shown to be especially close outside of his crush on her, the two are definitely shown to be allies.

As she has not been given the opportunity to interact with him much outside of dire circumstances, it isn't entirely clear what their dynamic would be like outside of her being concerned with more pressing matters. But even if she may not explicitly reciprocate his crush, she clearly does not resent or dislike him. The two have been featured in one of the posters for the movie, subtitled Big Romance, illustrated by storyboard artist and character designer Sherm Cohen. In the poster, she seems pleased by the offer of a potted sea anemone.

SpongeBob SquarePants
Currently Patrick and Mindy have not had any interactions in the original series, as she could not be used in the cartoon until 2015. Mindy has so far only made a cameo appearance in the original series, appearing at SpongeBob's birthday party in SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout. Though the two never directly interact in the episode, her presence suggests that she remained friends with SpongeBob and possibly Patrick as well. However, Patrick and Mindy are circumstantially very unlikely to be romantically involved as of this time. But since Patrick has been shown to be attracted to other mermaids in the series, it is very likely he may still be infatuated with Mindy.

Fanon
One of the oldest and most-talked about relationships due to Patrick's confirmed crush on her. When the movie first released in theaters, it was one of the most popular ships for the SpongeBob SquarePants fandom alongside Spandy and Kruff. Many were fond of his naive and childlike fumbled expressions of infatuated combined with her patience and kindness. However with Mindy's character designer Sherm Cohen stating that Mindy is only about 13 or 14 years old, the relationship can be seen as controversial in light of the fact that Patrick is easily proven to be over the age of 18.

However, the statement was made in the context of Sherm Cohen being one of the boarders at the time who always viewed SpongeBob and Patrick as being children around the age of 10 to 13 years old. Though it is something a few boarders believed, it may not necessarily be canon and can easily be proven not to be true based on the production history of the series as well as circumstantial evidence found in the cartoon. Presumably this would mean that despite his statement, Mindy could actually be between ages 26 to 32 like Patrick has been proven to be. But due to the debatable nature of this situation, some fans would still rather not acknowledge the relationship unless Mindy were to appear again with this discrepancy being cleared up in some way. Despite this controversial detail, there are still a number of fans who have continued to support the idea of their relationship.

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