The Amazing World of Gumball/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Catchphrase (game show)|Catchphrase]]: "*sigh* (aggravated) Fine..."

** "What the what!?"

* [[Classical Anti-Hero]]

* [[Cute Kitten]]

* [[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]]...

* [[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".

* [[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.

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[The Protagonist]]

* [[Rubber Man]]: Gumball has been shown numerous times to be incredibly elastic.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: In "The Bumpkin" and "The Helmet".

* [[The Ditz]] / [[Genius Ditz]]

* [[Fish Out of Water]]: A literal example.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Like Gumball in "The Sweaters".

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Darwin's treated like as much of a member of the family as Gumball is.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[The Comically Serious]]: Usually involved in her brother's wacky antics.

* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]

* [[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]].

* [[Walking Techbane]]: Judging from how automatic doors, elevators, and self-checkout scanners treat him.

 

 

=== Alan ===

* [[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, due to being a Tyrannosaurus.

* [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful]]/PunnyName: T.(na) Rex the T. Rex

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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=== Principal Brown ===

* [[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.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Goes through one at the hands of Gumball and Darwin of all people, but he gets better.

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Runs pretty much every shop in town.

 

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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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Later episodes downplay his [[Jerkass]] qualities in favor of making him a possible [[The Stoner|stoner]] and [[Conspiracy Theorist]] 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]].

* [[Companion Cube]]: His van Janice.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: His short rant/speech in "The Meddler".

* [[Hippie Teacher|Hippie Counselor]]: Downplayed in the show's first season, where he's rather less patient than the typical example. Played straight from Season 2 onward, however.

* [[Fan Disservice]]: What her body shows.

* [[It's All About Me]]: Her mug even says, "I Love Myself".

** 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.