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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.
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* [[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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* [[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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* [[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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* [[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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