The Amazing World of Gumball/Characters

The characters of The Amazing World of Gumball include:

Gumball Watterson
"The main character (as indicated by the title). Gumball is a talking blue cat in middle school. A mischief maker and somewhat lazy, the show revolves around his various mishaps around Elmore. Tends to have questionable morals at times and can be a little selfish as well."

"Nicole: Honey, are you in trouble? Because my mother senses are tingling. I can smell trouble.
 * Adorkable
 * All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Gumball has a crush on Penny, a peanut with antlers who is one of the cheerleaders at Elmore Junior High. The feeling is mutual, but neither of them are capable of expressing it.
 * Annoying Older Sibling: To Anais most of the time.
 * Attractive Bent Gender: When he's forced in a dress.
 * Bad Liar:

Gumball: (laughing nervously) Trouble? No, we're fine. Absolutely fine. No trouble here, bye.

Nicole: Are you lying?

Gumball: Ha! Oh, no, of course not.

Nicole: Right. You're lying. I'm coming home now."


 * Butt Monkey/The Chew Toy: Amusing Injuries are quite common, but Gumball seems especially prone to them.
 * Iron Butt Monkey: Gumball is, to put it bluntly, indestructible. He's survived falling off a cliff, being punched through a wall, and even being flushed down the toilet.
 * It's taken Up to Eleven in "The Curse".
 * Cute Kitten
 * Cute Little Fangs: He is a cat
 * Determinator: In "The Third" he rides a tricycle for 140 kilometers, flies down a hill so fast he catches on fire, and gets covered in quick drying cement (which he promptly breaks through) just to prove that he and Darwin are still friends.
 * He's determined to repay his debt to Mr. Robinson for "saving his life" (which he just stopped his car because Gumball thought he was gonna get "run over").
 * Embarrassing Middle Name: "The Club" reveals that his middle name is Trisha, short for Tristopher--it was supposed to be Christopher, but Richard wrote it down wrong.
 * Embarrassing Nickname: "The Meddler" has his mom calling him "Gummypuss".
 * Fashionable Asymmetry: He has two whiskers pointing forward and three pointing backward, regardless of the direction he's facing.
 * Hartman Hips: A rare male example. Clearly, he gets it from his mom.
 * Heroic BSOD: He seems to be prone to these.
 * Idiot Hero
 * Keet
 * No Sense of Direction: He think he can somehow memorize a map after eating it and when the wind is directly speaking to him in plainly decipherable language he does the exact opposite of what it tells him.
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Blue Boy to Anais's Pink Girl.
 * Verbal Tic: He tends to squeak, usually when he's yelling.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Spiders?: "AHHH, spider! Knock his block off!"

Darwin Watterson
"Gumball's pet goldfish-turned-family member after it sprouted legs, grew in size, and began to talk. Gumball and Darwin are seen as brothers (Darwin even calls Nicole "Mom") and attend the same school. Darwin is a bit naive due to his forced adaptation among the "normal" world, though he is more rational and moral than Gumball."

""Yeah, he's great because... he's got legs, and, you know... a head...""
 * Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal/The One Who Wears Shoes: Lampshaded in "The Meddler", where a scene in the shower pixellates Gumball's genitals and Darwin's feet.
 * Actual Pacifish
 * Adorkable
 * Bad Liar: Neither he nor Gumball could resist darting their eyes to the side when lying to Anais.
 * Big Eater: At least, he tends to think with his stomach from time to time as most fish seem to do.
 * In "The Party", he reveals he's part sucker fish and cleans the house by eating everything.
 * Cephalothorax: As Masami put it:


 * That's if you want to consider the entirety a fish's body, a head.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Probably because he's a goldfish.
 * Fish Out of Water
 * Happily Adopted: Darwin's treated like as much of a member of the family as Gumball is.
 * Although legally he's still registered as a pet.
 * Keet
 * Meaningful Name: He was once the family pet fish but then he sprouted legs and doesn't need water to breathe anymore. Think about that for a second.
 * Named After Somebody Famous
 * Overly Long Name: In "The Party", he reveals that his full name is Darwin Radlin Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemus Watterson III.
 * Sarcasm Blind
 * Speech Impediment: In 'The Sock', Gumball points out that Darwin has a lisp where gills whistle. Darwin retorts with "You're so stinky, sailors sing sea shanties about how stinky you are!" making a whistling sound with every 'S'. This only happens for that one and only time, though. In fact, the very next sentence he says contains 'S'es without the lisp.
 * Stepford Smiler: He is this in The Meddler.
 * Uplifted Animal

Anais Watterson
"Gumball's genius little (rabbit) sister, who is his junior by eight years (Gumball is 12, she is 4). Due to her high intelligence, she attends Gumball and Darwin's middle school as well. Despite her competency, she still displays some traits of a typical four-year old."


 * Adorably Precocious Child
 * Child Prodigy: Despite being four years old, she is described as the smartest character on the show and even attends Junior High with her much older brother.
 * Closer to Earth
 * Everythings Better With Bunnies
 * Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Though she seems to just be wearing socks instead of shoes.
 * It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Subverted. Her name is pronounced both as An-ai-ees and An-ai-ahs and she never favors one over the other.
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Not So Harmless: Has clearly proven herself to be this in The Secret and arguably The Kiss.
 * Only Sane Girl: Can be her or can be her mother, depending on the episode.
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Pink Girl to Gumball's Blue Boy.
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is depicted as being able to life way more than her body weight at a very young age at that. Such as when she carried a ton of luggage Upstairs and the time she carried Darwin with a bunch of stuff on him all the way to the top of a mountain.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years
 * Not So Above It All: She's considerably more child-like when it comes to anything involving Daisy the Donkey.

Nicole Watterson
"The maternal member of the Watterson family (and the same kind of cat as Gumball). She holds down a job at the rainbow factory and appears to be the only member of the family with any sense of responsibility. She's normally collected and organized but when things go awry, she succumbs to violent bouts of anger (almost always sparked by her sons)."


 * Action Mom
 * Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: In "The Meddler" she decides to follow Gumball around at school everywhere, even in the public shower, doing things such as feeding him like a baby and calling him "Gummypuss".
 * Badass
 * Berserk Button: Being called a loser (at least by Miss Simian).
 * Blue Boy Pink Girl: Inverted with both her and Richard.
 * Closer to Earth
 * Cute Bruiser: Don't make her mad. She is a lot stronger than she looks.
 * Cute Little Fangs: Though they're visible far less often then Gumball's.
 * Determinator: She gets scary when she gets mad and probably can and will chase you down. The DVD is based entirely on this.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: Nicole cares for her family, but easily becomes upset when she discovers they did something wrong. She's even taking anger management classes, in which her behavior is far worse than she acts elsewhere.
 * Hot Mom
 * Killer Cat She has proven herself to be made of this trope in countless episodes, most notably in The Fight, where she mercilessly tears through Tina Rex's father just at the mere inkling of assuming that Gumball was being bullied.
 * Le Parkour: She's very good at this.
 * Magic Skirt: Including one scene where she's hung upside down without it moving.
 * Mama Bear
 * Only Sane Woman: Depends on the episode, which sometimes gives the role to Anais instead. If she loses her temper, though, this goes out the window.
 * Parenting the Husband
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife

Richard Watterson
"Gumball's father and Nicole's rabbit husband. Richard is very immature for his age and hates to have any sort of responsibility. He is also quite lackadaisical and sleeps frequently. As a result, Nicole is usually forced to be the parent to their children."


 * Badass Mustache: Which he can grow and retract back into his face at will.
 * Big Eater
 * Brilliant but Lazy: Most often Brilliant At Lazy.
 * Bumbling Dad
 * Cloudcuckoolander: He has his odd moments.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He can be very crafty when he wants to, such as tricking Gumball and Darwin into doing his chores in 'The Laziest'.
 * Everythings Better With Bunnies
 * Fat Idiot and Fat Slob
 * House Husband: Though he doesn't do much house work either
 * Man Child: He literally acts the exact same way as he did when he was a kid.
 * Moral Myopia: He's repeatedly expressed that bad things are only funny when they happen to someone else.
 * The Slacker: A rare version of one that has children.
 * Sleepyhead
 * Trademark Favourite Food: Sausages, apparently.
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Honestly speaking, he's kinda cute actually (he's a bunny, after all).
 * Walking Techbane: Judging from how automatic doors, elevators, and self-checkout scanners treat him.

Alan the balloon
"A teal colored balloon who, despite their physical incompatibility, deeply loves Carmen. He is overly nice and even-tempered, never showing anger or raising his voice even when the subject of insults or physical attacks, much to the annoyance of his classmates. Being filled with helium, Alan regularly speaks in a high-pitched voice."


 * Fatal Attraction: Alan and Carmen are passionately in love with one another, but because Alan is a balloon and Carmen is a cactus, their relationship is impossible.
 * Flying Face: Alan is just a balloon with a face drawn on it. His lack of limbs is a frequent frustration of his.
 * Helium Speech: Invoked as he has a high squeaky voice similar to the effects of helium.
 * Justified since he's a balloon.
 * Running Gag: He has no hands!

Anton the Toast
"A simple-minded piece of toast who was forcibly drafted into Tina's gang despite his unwillingness to do so, and only appeases them to avoid their anger."


 * Butt Monkey
 * Cephalothorax
 * The Chew Toy
 * They Killed Kenny: He's been eaten (not even whole, actually torn to piece and eaten) several times now.

Banana Joe
"A hyperactive banana, he is the class clown of Elmore Junior High and has the tendency to crack a joke whenever possible. His jokes often serve as a source of irritation to others."


 * Annoying Laugh
 * Ax Crazy
 * Class Clown

Bobert the Robot
"One of the smartest students at Elmore Junior High, he is a robot who constantly struggles to understand emotion and develop a social life. Multiple times in the series, he has showcased his ability to transform into a much larger form by triggering his "defense mode"."


 * Cute Machines
 * Does Not Know His Own Strength
 * I Just Want to Be You: Tries to become Gumball in "The Robot"
 * Kill and Replace: Which inevitably resulted in trying to get rid of the real one.
 * No Waterproofing in the Future: He lost to a sprinkler.
 * Nuke'Em: Is capable of this in his fighting robot form. Hiding behind a nearby chair is enough protection though.
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Even at normal size he can easily punch someone across a room.
 * Robot Kid
 * Teacher's Pet: Considers himself to be this
 * Transforming Mecha: Capable of increasing his size into a fighting robot the size of a very large car.

Carmen the Cactus
"A cactus who is considered to be a leader among her female classmates. She is in a relationship with Alan, though the danger of her spikes bursting him is a constant hindrance. Their relationship annoys their classmates, who are frequently annoyed by their romantic gestures and deem them "too perfect"."


 * Fatal Attraction: With Alan, as previously stated

Carrie the Ghost
"An emo ghost who lives in a malevolent mansion and "enjoys being depressed". She has the abilities to teleport and possess living bodies."


 * Big Eater: Justified, considering she hasn't eaten since she became a ghost, but she'll eat until the body she possesses passes out.
 * Cute Ghost Girl
 * Demonic Possession: She can possess someone's body by flying into their mouth and down their throat.
 * Emo Tween
 * Hair Decorations: Has a bow on the side of her head.
 * The Hedonist: It's been so long since she's been able to do things like eating, that when she has a body, she'll immediately starting binge-eating absolutely anything (except, apparently, pickles).
 * Our Ghosts Are Different
 * Peek-a-Bangs: Much like Gumball's whiskers, subject to Fashionable Asymmetry and Ambidextrous Sprite.
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Troll: As seen here.

Clayton the Clay
"A red ball of clay who is a compulsive liar, with a tendency of making up absurd stories about himself."


 * Claymation: He's literally a blob of clay.
 * Meaningful Name

Hector the Giant
"A massive but Gentle Giant who is the largest student in Elmore Junior High, to the point that only his legs and feet are seen."


 * Gentle Giant: Literally
 * Meaningful Name: His surname, Jotunheim, is a reference to Jötunheimr, the homeland of giants in Norse mythology.

Idaho the Potato
"A free-spirited potato from the rural countryside with old-fashioned beliefs, he is one of the less popular students of Elmore Junior High."


 * Cephalothorax
 * Good Ol' Boy
 * Meaningful Name: He's a potato

Juke the Boombox

 * Big Ol' Unibrow
 * Squiggle Vision
 * The Unintelligible: A foreign exchange student who speaks in beat box

Leslie the Flower
"An effeminate, friendly daisy who plays flute in the school band and can often be found hanging around the girls."


 * Ambiguously Gay: Mostly blatantly shown in "The Mustache", when Gumball's butt suddenly becomes incredibly muscular and Leslie just stares.
 * Gender Blender Name: Male, despite the name and appearance
 * It's not made entirley clear what gender Leslie is in the FIRST place. While originally introduced as a boy, Leslie hangs out with the girls, and didn't object when referred to collectively as 'the girls.'
 * He's definitely a guy, a very flamboyant and girly guy, but a guy nonetheless.
 * Leslie is a flower. Technically speaking, (s)he's both.

Masami the Cloud
"A living cloud, she is the wealthy daughter of the Rainbow Factory's owner. Spoiled by her parents, she is prone to tantrums and has threatened to have her classmates' parents fired should she not have her way. When angry, Masami has the ability to develop into a full storm cloud capable of causing mass amounts of damage."


 * Spoiled Brat: Daughter of the rainbow factory owner and has a smug sense of superiority.

Molly the Sauropod

 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: A sauropod, although she looks more like a Cartoon Creature.

Ocho the 8-Bit Spider
"An 8-bit spider and a generally friendly person, but often overreacts to what people say about him in a negative manner."


 * Meaningful Name
 * The Unintelligible: Speaks in Arcade Sounds.

Penny Fitzgerald
"A living peanut with antlers growing out of her head who is Gumball's primary love interest. She returns Gumball's affections, but both are incapable of expressing their feelings for one another."


 * Beauty Equals Goodness
 * The Cheerleader: Averted.
 * Expy: Her face resembles that of Togemon.
 * Mix-and-Match Critters: Penny is a peanut with antlers.
 * In other words, a doe nut
 * Smitten Tweenage Girl

Sussie the Chinnikin
"An upside-down chin with googly eyes and puppet-like characteristics. She is talkative, odd, and obnoxious, and as a result is generally avoided by the rest of her classmates."


 * Big Eater
 * Fat Slob
 * Cloudcuckoolander

Teri the Paper Bear
"A hypochondriac paper bear, and as a result of her condition is usually be found in the nurse's office. Although somewhat self-absorbed and paranoid, she is very nice and is one of the school's cheerleaders."


 * Everything's Worse with Bears: Not the case even if she wanted it to be, as she has about the strength you'd expect out of a crumpled piece of paper
 * Ill Girl: Or at least that what she's worried about being
 * Paper People: A crumpled-up one.

Tina Rex

 * The Bully
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Not the case, especially not when her dad gets involved...
 * Fluffy the Terrible
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She shows shades of this from time to time.
 * Larynx Dissonance: Has a very deep male voice
 * Dissonant for a Middle School girl, maybe, but not for a Tyrannosaurus.
 * Meaningful/PunnyName: T.(na) Rex the T. Rex
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex

Tobias the Jock

 * Cephalothorax
 * Jerk Jock: Although he is nicer after "The Third".
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Claims to be well-built when he's clearly very scrawny.

William the Eyeball

 * Faceless Eye
 * The Informant: For Ms. Simian
 * Oculothorax: An eyeball with wings, though he can still blink with fleshy eyelids that sudden appear when he needs them
 * Teacher's Pet

Principal Brown

 * Cartoon Creature: "furry slug" is the most accurate description of what exactly he's supposed to be.
 * Humiliation Conga: Happens to him in "The Mystery" where he was slammed with a door, leaving him dizzy and causing him to fall down the stairs, covering himself in toilet paper, then smashed into Penny's painting and falling into some burning chemicals, causing him to fall down MORE stairs and wrapping himself in more toilet paper, then finally landing inside Gumball's locker.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Miss Simian's Red Oni.

Donut police officer

 * Cephalothorax
 * Donut Mess with a Cop: A cop and a living donut. As his donut hole is his mouth, anything he tries to eat (like other donuts) goes immediately out the other end.
 * Expy/Shout-Out: He has a lot in common with Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons, they even sound similar.
 * Police Are Useless

Laurence Needlemeyer

 * Butt Monkey: So, so much.
 * Cartoon Creature: He's suppose to be a rock-man, but his design makes this slightly hard to tell.
 * Humiliation Conga: Goes through one at the hands of Gumball and Darwin of all people, but he gets better.
 * That Man Is Dead: Lazy Larry.
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Runs pretty much every shop in town.

Gaylord Robinson

 * Cranky Neighbor
 * Marionette Motion: Invoked, given what he's based off of.
 * Unhappily Married: He and his wife Margaret are "happily" married because they argue, a lot.
 * Unfortunate Name: his first name, the last name pretty normal.

Margaret Robinson

 * Cranky Neighbor
 * Hartman Hips
 * Unhappily Married: See Mr. Robinson's entry above.
 * The Unintelligible: She speaks only in unintelligible grunts and grumbles.

Rocky Robinson

 * Catch Phrase: "Word."
 * Nice Guy: In 'The Ape' he tells Mrs. Simian that not even he likes her...and he likes everybody!
 * Replacement Goldfish: LITERALLY with Rockwin in "The Genius".
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: He fills pretty much every non-teaching, non-administrative job at school from the janitor to the bus driver

Mr. Steve Small
""Don't hate me because I'm beautiful!""
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty: His short rant/speech in "The Meddler".
 * Hippie Counselor: Though he's rather less patient than the typical example.
 * Large Ham:


 * Mood Swinger: Can go from an easy-going hippie to an enraged maniac in a snap.
 * New Age
 * New Age Retro Hippie
 * Piss-Take Rap: Has one about honesty; while dressed in a bear costume.
 * Scare'Em Straight: Does this to Gumball and Darwin by showing them a grotesque diagram of the soul of a liar. This can also be applied to his sock puppet, the Silence Snake, whom he uses to scream at people and shock them into shutting up.
 * Unmoving Plaid: His shirt.

Miss Simian

 * Zero-Percent Approval Rating
 * Everything's Better with Monkeys: Eh, close enough.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni to Principal Brown's Blue Oni.
 * Sadist Teacher: Miss Simian has been teaching seventh grade for 300,000 years and really doesn't like Gumball.
 * Species Surname
 * Time Abyss: At least 300,000 years old

Video Game Store Manager

 * Bad Boss
 * Honest John's Dealership: He absolutely refuses to give refunds for anything under any circumstances, and also once sold a paper shredder claiming it was a game console.
 * Jerkass: He makes Laurence admit it was his fault that there was traffic which caused him to be late (and probably make him say it like he means it). Then he hangs up on him.
 * Killer Rabbit: Subverted; despite what Needlemeyer insists, he's physically capable of nothing more than slight annoyance. The person he was attacking just happened to be a complete wuss.
 * Money Fetish: He makes Mr. Krabs look generous.
 * The Napoleon

Granny Jojo

 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Gross Up Close-Up
 * The Nicknamer: Calls Gumball "the blue one" Darwin "walking fish" and "fish kid".