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* [[Almost Kiss]]: With Penny, several times.
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: He always has three whiskers on one side and two on the other, but the pattern tends to flip as a result of this.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling|Annoying Older Sibling]]: ToInverted; he annoys his younger sister, Anais, most of the time.
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: When he's forced in a dress.
* [[Bad Liar]]:
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* [[Catchphrase (game show)|Catchphrase]]: "*sigh* (aggravated) Fine..."
** "What the what!?"
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Gumball was kind-hearted, optimistic, and very sensitive in Season 1, but it's not long until he becomes [[Flanderization|cynical and rude when Season 2 kicks in.]]
* [[Classical Anti-Hero]]
* [[Cute Kitten]]
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: He is a cat.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: In "The Ghost" by Carrie, and in "The Flower" by a jealousy ghost.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: His level of intelligence varies from episode. Sometimes he's a complete idiot, sometimes he's just mischievous, sometimes he just acts like a dork, sometimes he's the [[Only Sane Man]]...
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* [[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").
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In "The Banana", when he decides to get back at Banana for chewing on Darwin's pen. Subverted, when he finds out what Banana accidentally did to Darwin's stuff. Then he starts to realize that this is is getting out of hand, but Darwin takes a far more step. In the end, a "huge" fight goes on between the three of them and it turns out {{spoiler|the chewed pen was actually Gumball's and he actually chews on it all the time.}}
* [[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".
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* [[First Kiss]]: {{spoiler|With ''Carmen'' of all people, though subverted as she says it's more of a headbutt than a kiss.}}
* [[Flanderization]]: Season 2 really ups his negative qualities, like his selfishness and sarcasm.
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]] Gumball and Darwin are the Foolish Siblings to Anais Responsible Sibling.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: He gets a little smarter later on in the second season, though.
* [[Hartman Hips]]: A rare male example. Clearly, he gets it from his mom.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: He seems to be prone to these.
* [[Idiot Hero]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: While heGumball can be exasperated with others and often does some dumb or insensitive things, he's a good kid and will go out of his way to try and help.
* [[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.
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|With Penny as of "The Shell."}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Following Season 2, this is his main characterization, though he still catches the [[Idiot Ball]] from time to time.
* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: Blue Boy to Anais's Pink Girl.
* [[The Protagonist]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Gumball is the fun-loving, mischievous and passionate Red Oni to Darwin's naïve, friendly, and sympathetic Blue Oni.
* [[Rubber Man]]: Gumball has been shown numerous times to be incredibly elastic.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: In "The Bumpkin" and "The Helmet".
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* [[The Ditz]] / [[Genius Ditz]]
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: A literal example.
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]] Gumball and Darwin are the Foolish Siblings to Anais Responsible Sibling.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Like Gumball in "The Sweaters".
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Darwin's treated like as much of a member of the family as Gumball is.
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* [[Morality Pet]]: He has a higher moral sense than Gumball does.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: ''Several'' somebodies.
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|With Carrie, as of "The Matchmaker."}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Though not necessarily the smartest person in any episode he's in, he's traded off on the role of "the only person being objective while everything's going nuts" with Anais on occasion, and has started playing the [[Straight Man]] to Gumball's antics more. Gumball basically says in "The Sidekick" that his role in their dynamic is to stop him from doing really crazy things.
** [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]
* [[Overly Long Name]]: In "The Party", he reveals that his full name is Darwin Radlin Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemus Watterson III.
* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]: In "The Party", he helps Rachel clean up her home at her party before her parents come home. She rewards him with a kiss on the cheek, resulting in him crashing head first to the floor with a goofy smile on his face.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Darwin is the naïve, friendly, and sympathetic Blue Oni to Gumball's fun-loving, mischievous and passionate Red Oni.
* [[Sarcasm Blind]]: In season 1. In season 2, he snarks with the best of them.
* [[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.
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* [[The Comically Serious]]: Usually involved in her brother's wacky antics.
* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]] Anais is the Responsible Sibling to Gumball and Darwin's Foolish Siblings.
* [[Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Though she seems to just be wearing socks instead of shoes.
** However, in "The Goons", she was seen briefly not wearing (at least one of her) socks. Also, in "The Castle", she's wearing magenta footless pajamas for most of the episode, making her a [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]].
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* [[Walking Techbane]]: Judging from how automatic doors, elevators, and self-checkout scanners treat him.
 
== Gumball's classmates ==
 
=== Alan ===
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* [[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 [[Big Eater|binge-eating]] [[Extreme Omnivore|absolutely anything]] (except, apparently, pickles).
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: When Darwin kissed her in "Halloween".
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|With Darwin as of "The Matchmaker".}}
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Much like Gumball's whiskers, subject to [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] and [[Ambidextrous Sprite]].
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* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Forces Darwin to be her boyfriend and then fake-cries to make him feel guilty when he tries to break it off.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Daughter of the rainbow factory owner and has a smug sense of superiority.
* {{spoiler|[[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]]}}: {{spoiler|For Alan in "The Storm". Until she remembers he's "such a wet cheeseball".}}
 
=== Molly ===
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* [[The Cheerleader]]: Averted.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: In "The Storm", when Alan is in danger as {{spoiler|Masami becomes [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] and literally becomes a living tornado which abducts him}}, Carmen tells Gumball to save him only for Penny to stop him and decides to do it herself because Gumball made Alan and Carmen's relationship complicated despite him trying to fix it. But because she is not the protagonist nor the character focus of the episode which are Alan and Carmen, she gets hurt for her effort and changes her mind for Gumball to do his part.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Penny is a peanut with antlers.
** In other words, a [[Stealth Pun|doe nut]]
* [[Nice Girl]]: Popular, cheerleader, and sweet as can be.
* [[Not So Above It All]]: The end of "The Flower" implies she's capable of the same illogical jealously that Gumball had been going through.
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|With Gumball as of "The Shell.}}
* [[Smitten Teenage Girl|Smitten Tweenage Girl]]
 
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* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: She shows shades of this from time to time.
** {{spoiler|[[Jerkass Facade]]: It is revealed in 'The Fight' that she isn't really a bully, she just acts that way because of her scary father and the fact that it is what people expect when they see a T-rex that [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|Does Not Know Her Own Strength.]]}}
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: Has a very deep male voice, due to being a Tyrannosaurus.
* [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful]]/PunnyName: T.(na) Rex the T. Rex
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A blue cyclops who was the most generic character on the show. “The Nobody” revises his character, revealing he was trapped in the void and was left disfigured while following Gumball and Darwin out of it. Enraged that Gumball and Darwin had abandoned him to his fate (they really didn’t notice him), he vowed to become their arch nemesis.
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* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|From Season 4 onward}}.
* [[Evil isIs Cool]]: In-universe; Gumball and Darwin genuinely like him and would rather be his henchmen. [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|At least at first, anyway...]]
* [[HarmelessHarmless Villain]]/[[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: [[Depending on the Writer]], he alternates between scarily competent or being a total failure of a villain. {{spoiler|He eventually settles on [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] territory in "The Nemesis."}}
* [[Only One Name]]: His last name is never mentioned in-series.
* [[Ret-Gone]]: [[Played for Drama]]. {{spoiler|Like Molly, he was sentenced to the Void because the universe deemed him a mistake. Gumball and Darwin were so focused on rescuing Molly that they didn't even notice that he was also there. He was able to cling to Mr. Small's van, Janice, to escape from the Void, but as a consequence, his body had become disfigured and polygonal. This whole ordeal is what lead to Rob becoming Gumball's [[Arch Enemy]]}}.
* [[Walking Spoiler]]: Let's just say that if you knew more about him, you would be spoiling the ''heck'' out of his character arc in Season 4 and onward.
 
== Other adults ==
 
=== Principal Brown ===
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: So, so much.
* [[Cartoon Creature]]: [https://twitter.com/#!/benbocquelet/status/171333727501295616 He's suppose to be a rock-man], but his design makes this slightly hard to tell.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: If he tries to propose to his girlfriend Karen, expect something to ruin it for him.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Goes through one at the hands of Gumball and Darwin of all people, but he gets better.
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: He used to be the laziest guy in all of Elmore and was given the nickname "Lazy Larry." He gave up his lazy lifestyle after Richard proved to be even lazier than him during the Summer of '83 (though what''exactly'' happened and how [[Noodle Incident|is never elaborated upon]]).
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Lazy Larry.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Runs pretty much every shop in town.
 
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A tall, fluffy creature who is the counselor of Elmore Junior High. He is interested in New Age culture and possesses hippie-like qualities in terms of appearance and behavior. Mr. Small's strange and unorthodox teaching methods are usually more confusing to the children than helpful, and most of the kids leave his office confused and not any better, if not worse from the time they entered. With this, many Elmore Junior High students are left wondering why he still has his job. Like other characters, Mr. Small is afraid of Tina Rex. He is also shown to have violent mood swings, which could possibly be attributed to bipolar disorder.
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* [[Ambiguously Bi]]/[[Ambiguously Gay]]: In "The Night," he is shown to have a rainbow flag on the headboard of his bed, and he is more than happy to marry Larry ([[It Makes Sense in Context|who was actually trying to propose to his girlfriend, Karen]]) in "The Shippening."<ref>It should be worth noting, however, that this only happened because Sarah was unknowingly making her in-universe [[Shipping|shipping]] fanfics real by writing in a mysterious golden notebook.</ref> On the other hand, in "The Wish," he mentions that he has tried to date women online. Whatever the case, he definitely doesn't seem to be straight.
* [[FlanderizationCharacterization Marches On]]: Later episodes ignoredownplay his [[Jerkass]] qualities in favor of making him a possible [[The Stoner|stoner]] and conspiracy[[Conspiracy theoristTheorist]] who is in love with a van.▼
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Him being injured as the result of the protagonist's actions is starting to become a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]
* [[Companion Cube]]: His van Janice.
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: He has some rather weird beliefs, such as redheads being descended from aliens and there being a void where "mistakes" are sent to. {{spoiler|Turns out he's right about the latter}}.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: His short rant/speech in "The Meddler".
* [[Hippie Teacher|Hippie Counselor]]: ThoughDownplayed in the show's first season, where he's rather less patient than the typical example. Played straight from Season 2 onward, however.▼
▲* [[Flanderization]]: Later episodes ignore his [[Jerkass]] qualities in favor of making him a possible stoner and conspiracy theorist who is in love with a van.
▲* [[Hippie Teacher|Hippie Counselor]]: Though he's rather less patient than the typical example.
* [[Large Ham]]:
{{quote|"Don't hate me because I'm ''beautiful!''"}}
* [[Mood Swinger]]: Can go from an easy-going hippie to an enraged maniac in a snap, [[Early Installment Weirdness|especially in the first season]].
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: More noticeable from Season 2 onward.
* [[New Age]]
* [[Nothing but Skin and Bones]]: On a few occasions where he wears skin-tight clothes we can see his ribcagerib cage with a disturbing amount of detail.▼
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]
* [[Piss-Take Rap]]: Has one about honesty; [[It Makes Sense in Context|while dressed in a ''bear costume'']].▼
▲* [[Nothing but Skin and Bones]]: On a few occasions where he wears skin-tight clothes we can see his ribcage with a disturbing amount of detail.
* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: Does this to Gumball and Darwin in "The Sock" 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.▼
▲* [[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.
* [[Straw Vegetarian]]: In "The Castle", he states he's only a vegetarian for the feeling of superiority. “The Potato” shows he is still secretly addicted to meat.
* [[The Stoner]]: A G-rated version. In one episode, he drinks a strange kind of [[G-Rated Drug|herbal tea]] that basically makes him high.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: In Season 1, he had a bit of a temper and would sometimes lash out at students. Starting with Season 2, while he still has some [[Jerkass]] moments, he's a lot nicer and more laid back.
* [[Tuckerization]]: Named after a friend of the show's creator that also works in animation—the same one that made his character design, in fact.
* [[Unmoving Pattern]]: His shirt.
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* [[Fan Disservice]]: What her body shows.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Her mug even says, "I Love Myself".
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]: {{spoiler|In the Ape, she was a complete [[Jerkass]] to Nicole when she was young and would even use Gumball and Darwin just to get the Teacher Award. When she was given a choice to either get the form with the signature on the car and fall out of the bridge or get off the car and redeem herself by staying friends with the Wattersons. She went "Nah!" to the latter and does the former which leads to her fall.}}
** And yet she has also shown to not be COMPLETELY heartless as she {{spoiler|gave up her attempts to frame or catch Gumball and Darwin when they attempted to ACTUALLY get in trouble to save her dignity, her job and her relationship, and even attempted to clean up the mess they made to keep them out of trouble. Even when Darwin COMPLETELY milks the fact that she's actually saying sorry for her behavior, she just chuckles. It's a surprisingly sweet moment for such a mean character.}}
* [[Not So Above It All]]: She's a [[Jerkass]] to end all Jerkasses...but she loves a good party.
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