The Amazing World of Gumball/Characters

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The characters of The Amazing World of Gumball include:

The Wattersons

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.

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.
  • Catchphrase: "*sigh* (aggravated) Fine..."
    • "What the what!?"
  • Classical Antihero
  • 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...
    • In the latter half of Season 2 his Only Sane Man status is becoming the more distinct of them all.
  • Detachment Combat: Without the combat though, but Gumball seems to be able to function perfectly whenever a body part gains autonomy.
  • 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 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".
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: He has two whiskers pointing forward and three pointing backward, regardless of the direction he's facing.
  • First Kiss: With Carmen of all people, though subverted as she says it's more of a headbutt than a kiss.
  • 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 he 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.
  • 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".
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: Especially in the first season.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: The only girl that has stolen Gumball's heart: Penny Fitzgerald.
  • Supreme Chef: Shown to be at least decent in cooking in the episode "The Secret". Miss Simian has also called his cooking 'divine' and has gotten a B in home economics because of said cooking.
    • Though he did make a hilariously bad meal for Anais in "The Responsible", though it may have been Rule of Funny at work.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He looks almost exactly like a shorter version of his mother. In "The Plan", he even tries to impersonate her and since he obscures the huge height difference by standing in a bush, it was amazingly effective.
  • Too Dumb to Live: In "The Bumpkin", when he gets stung by a wasp on his left index finger and then tries to suck out the poison. Guess what happens next...
  • Vocal Evolution: Along with Darwin, his voice has gotten deeper as of season 2, as his VA got older in the interim.
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: His odd name is sometimes commented on, most notably by Mr. Small in "The Banana".
  • Verbal Tic: He tends to squeak, usually when he's yelling.
  • Why Did It Have To Be Spiders?: "AHHH, spider! Knock his block off!"
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: He displays this in "The helmet".

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..."

    • That's if you want to consider the entirety a fish's body, a head.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Probably because he's a goldfish.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Well, usually his snarking is a lot more cheerful, but he gets more and more of it after the first season.
  • Depending on the Writer: Like above, his level of intelligence also varies depending on the episode, as does how peaceful and innocent he is.
  • Deuteragonist
  • 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.
    • Although legally he's still registered as a pet.
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness: When taken over by Jealousy in "The Flower" he's the only one with no spite or envy of anyone else, instead just stating he's "actually quite happy with my life".
  • Insistent Terminology: He prefers the term "Animal Companion".
  • 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.
    • His middle names all have nautical connections.
  • Morality Pet: He has a higher moral sense than Gumball does.
  • Named After Somebody Famous: Several somebodies.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Stepford Smiler: He is this in The Meddler.
  • They Killed Kenny: In "The Meddler", when his head explodes.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Fish flakes, apparently.
  • 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.

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 Adorable
    • Alternatingly, not at the same time.
  • Berserk Button: MANY. Being called a loser (at least by Miss Simian), threatening her family and disrespecting her authority. And DON'T YOU DARE run away from her if she finds out you're in trouble.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She is really sincere, but sometimes she can get really violent, so it's best you run for it if she does.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: Has known her husband, Richard, since they were Gumball's age.
  • Competition Freak: She has a huge drive to win. In "The Fridge", she wins the company paintball game by shooting everyone, even her own teammates, to win the game. She also tries to pull an I Surrender, Suckers moment to Gumball during the family paintball game and cheats Anais out of six spaces while playing "Dodge or Dare" with the family in "The Game" through Loophole Abuse.
  • Control Freak: Pointed out by Anais in "The Job". Anais thinks Nicole is worried about Richard working as a pizza delivery guy because she thinks it's upsetting the balance of power in the house when in reality Richard having a job will destroy the universe.
  • 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.
  • Death Glare: "The Castle" gives her Glowing Eyes of Doom swirling with ghosts enough to frighten even the most delinquent person in Elmore.
  • Determinator: She gets scary when she gets mad and probably can and will chase you down. "The DVD" and "The Limit" are based entirely on this.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: When Gumball and Darwin laugh at some of Richard's past screw-ups, not knowing he was within earshot, she hurls cement cupcakes at them and downright refuses to provide for them until they apologize, when all she needed to do was scold them for being rude.
  • Doting Parent
  • The Dreaded: Her own family is scared of her, especially when she gets made. Case in point: in "The Quest", Gumball and Darwin both agree that suffering Tina Rex's wrath is better than suffering Nicole's.
  • Full Name Ultimatum: Subverted as she never uses Gumball's Embarrassing Middle Name, it's always "Gumball Watterson".
  • 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.
  • Hartman Hips: Not including her head, her hips are the widest feature of her body.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Richard.
  • Interspecies Romance: With Richard.
  • 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: She's VERY protective of her own family.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Masculine Girl to Richard's Feminine Boy.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: In "The Authority", she's able to bend an IV rack in several different places and then bend it back to normal. Though it seems she only has this super strength when she's angry.
  • Not So Above It All: Nicole would be insufferable if not for her insecurity and occasional lapses in judgment.
  • 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: Considering Richard is dumber than a brick...
  • Rage Breaking Point: "The Limit" shows us what happens when her family pushes her buttons just one too many times.
  • Super Weight: Unclear where she lies on the scale. At first glance appears to be 1, but some incidents, such as beating up Tina Rex's father (despite being 1/100th his size) suggests it may be higher. The nature of her power is unclear other than it appears to be fueled by anger.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Anais's Girly Girl.
  • Tuckerization: Named after Ben Bocquelet's mother.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
  • Voice of the Legion: When sufficiently pissed off, her voice gets really deep as well as echoing.
  • What Does She See in Him?: Really, whatever made her marry Richard, it's a mystery. One episode implies that his bravery and self-esteem got her attention, but it has to be more than that.
  • Women Are Wiser
  • Workaholic: Played for laughs in "The Painting" when Principal Brown tells her to relax and stop working so hard for Anais's sake. But she's so used to it that she can't relax and does her household chores anyway, and then proceeds to trash the house on purpose to give herself more "work".

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.

Gumball's classmates

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.
  • 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.

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.

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".

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".

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.

Clayton the Clay

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

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.

Jamie

Juke the Boombox

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tina Rex

 A Tyrannosaurus Rex who lives in the Elmore city junkyard, she is the Elmore Junior High school bully. She often picks on her fellow schoolmates, especially Gumball, and has her own gang of bullies which includes Jamie, and, to his reluctance, Anton. As a dinosaur, Tina is the strongest person in school, contributing to her fearsome and aggressive reputation.

Tobias the Jock

 A multicolored humanoid who is heavily interested in sports and possesses an overbearing self-confidence. He thinks of himself as a heavily built jock, despite actually being rather weak, and appears to be quite wealthy.

William the Eyeball

 A flying eyeball who is Miss Simian's personal spy and only talks when reporting information to her.

Other adults

Principal Brown

 A furry slug who is the principal of Elmore Junior High. Ever since he fell in love with Miss Simian, he has been a dangerously incompetent principal and spends most of his time flirting with her, thus keeping him from properly running the school.

  • 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 by Mrs. Simian, 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.

Doughnut Sheriff

 An ineffective doughnut police officer who works in Elmore. He is rather oblivious, and as such is not a very good police officer. Similar to Carrie, Doughnut Sheriff is eternally hungry, because since he is a doughnut, anything he attempts to consume just goes out the other end of his mouth.

Laurence Needlemeyer

 A rock man who works at almost every movie/video game store, gas station, and grocery store in Elmore. He ultimately despises the Watterson family, mostly because they are consistently getting him fired.

Gaylord Robinson

 The Wattersons' stuck-up next door neighbor, and Rocky's father. He is always grouchy and deeply despises Gumball and Darwin for annoying him all the time; the boys, however, idolize him because they believe him to be a war veteran.

Margaret Robinson

 Gaylord's wife and Rocky's mother. She is just as grouchy as her husband and is always in a bad mood. Margaret never speaks; the only vocalizations she can make are hoarse whispers.

Rocky Robinson

 An orange, fuzzy Muppet-like character who has various jobs around Elmore Junior High. He is the son of Gaylord and Margaret Robinson, the Wattersons' next-door neighbors. Rocky is good-natured and gets along with the kids and everyone else much better than he does with his parents.

Mr. Steve Small

 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.

 "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful!"

  • 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

 An elderly baboon who is Gumball and Darwin's sadistic teacher. She takes great pleasure in giving her students pop quizzes and being generally unpleasant. Miss Simian is madly in love with Principal Brown, and he seems to gladly return the feeling. She utterly despises Gumball and will do anything to ruin his mischievous plans.

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

Sal Left Thumb

 A walking fingerprint who is a very dangerous criminal in Elmore. He often is seen doing some devious activity such as robbing a convenience store or trying to break into someone's car. Strangely, Sal's weapon of choice is a rusty spoon, which, for some reason, many of the male characters in the show are terrified by. He has a New York accent and also has a habit of calling people "suckers."

Granny Jojo

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