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** He also gets VERY angry when someone messes with Darwin or Anais.
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** [[BigBrotherInstinct He also gets VERY angry when someone messes with Darwin or Anais.Anais]].
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Gumball Watterson might be a lot of things, but he is not a cheap, corruptible bimbo!"'' [[note]]replaced with "coward" in most English-speaking versions[[/note]]]]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Nicky Jones (Early reel), Creator/LoganGrove (seasons 1–the season three premiere "The Kids"); Jacob Hopkins (season 3-season five's "The Copycats"); Creator/NicolasCantu (rest of season five-season six), Duke Cutler (''The Gumball Chronicles'')
->'''Japanese:''' Creator/JunkoTakeuchi
->'''Latin America:''' Paolo Filio (episodes 1-6), Creator/IsabelMartinon (rest of series)
->'''Brazil:''' Eduardo Drummond (Seasons 1-2), João Victor Granja (Season 3 onwards)
->'''Italy:''' Creator/AlessioPuccio
->'''Poland:''' Creator/MateuszCeran
->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Nicky Jones (Early reel), Creator/LoganGrove (seasons 1–the season three premiere "The Kids"); Jacob Hopkins (season 3-season five's "The Copycats"); Creator/NicolasCantu (rest of season five-season six), Duke Cutler (''The Gumball Chronicles'')
->'''Japanese:''' Creator/JunkoTakeuchi
->'''Latin America:''' Paolo Filio (episodes 1-6), Creator/IsabelMartinon (rest of series)
->'''Brazil:''' Eduardo Drummond (Seasons 1-2), João Victor Granja (Season 3 onwards)
->'''Italy:''' Creator/AlessioPuccio
->'''Poland:''' Creator/MateuszCeran
->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
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-->'''Voiced
--->'''Voiced by:'''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Sorry, what was that? I was distracted by--Oh look, a shoe!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series)
->'''Japanese:''' Creator/YumikoKobayashi
->'''Italy:''' Andrea Di Maggio (first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (second voice)
->'''Latin America:''' Creator/GabyUgarte (promotional material)
->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series)
->'''Japanese:''' Creator/YumikoKobayashi
->'''Italy:''' Andrea Di Maggio (first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (second voice)
->'''Latin America:''' Creator/GabyUgarte (promotional material)
->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
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-->'''Voiced
--->'''Voiced by:'''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"This plan already reeks of failure."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Kyla Rae Kowalewski
->'''Japanese:''' Yukiko Hinata
->'''Korean:''' Creator/KimYeonwoo
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Kyla Rae Kowalewski
->'''Japanese:''' Yukiko Hinata
->'''Korean:''' Creator/KimYeonwoo
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
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[[caption-width-right:260:''"No, it was the school of life. I have raised three kids and one husband."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Creator/TeresaGallagher
->'''Japanese:''' Mai Yamane
->'''Italy:''' Creator/BeatriceMargiotti
->'''Dutch:''' Creator/LauraVlasblom
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Heart"
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Creator/TeresaGallagher
->'''Japanese:''' Mai Yamane
->'''Italy:''' Creator/BeatriceMargiotti
->'''Dutch:''' Creator/LauraVlasblom
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Heart"
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-->'''Voiced
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"They shouldn't say 'All you can eat' if they don't mean it!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Dan Russell
->'''Japanese:''' Yoshinori Muto
->'''Latin America:''' Creator/BenjaminRivera
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The BFFS"
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Dan Russell
->'''Japanese:''' Yoshinori Muto
->'''Latin America:''' Creator/BenjaminRivera
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The BFFS"
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"A good mother prevents incidents before they happen."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SandraDickinson\\
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SandraDickinson\\
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->'''Voiced
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"I was gonna suggest we could settle this by sitting down, and having a calm, reasonable conversation."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Russell (The Colossus and The Kids) Shane Rimmer (The Extras onwards)\\
->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Russell (The Colossus and The Kids) Shane Rimmer (The Extras onwards)\\
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->'''Voiced
-->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Russell (The Colossus and The Kids) Shane Rimmer (The Extras onwards)\\
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's perfectly normal to be nervous your first time driving... a getaway car."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Rich Fulcher\\
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[[caption-width-right:300:'''Daniel:''' ''"We only wanted the best from you. Why settle for B-minus when you can have A-plus?"'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:'''Mary:''' ''"We gave you every possible chance to succeed!"'']]
->'''Daniel Senicourt voiced by:''' Clive Russell\\
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->'''Daniel Senicourt voiced by:''' Clive Russell\\
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->'''Mary:''' ''"We gave you every possible chance to
->'''Daniel
-->'''Daniel Senicourt voiced by:''' Clive Russell\\
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* DysfunctionalFamily: They are this as they are out of line and cause problems for everyone and Elmore, Gumball is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] AttentionWhore, Darwin is sometimes prone to doing bad things and going along with Gumball's schemes, Anais is very [[BrattyHalfPint bratty]], and [[InsufferableGenius insufferable]], Nicole has a [[HairTriggerTemper very short temper]] and can resort to going insane, and Richard is very [[BumblingDad irresponsible]], [[FatIdiot stupid]], and [[{{Manchild}} extremely childish]] who [[LazyBum does nothing but sit at home all day]].
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* DysfunctionalFamily: They are this as they are out of line and cause problems for everyone and Elmore, Gumball is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] AttentionWhore, Darwin is sometimes prone to doing bad things and going along with Gumball's schemes, Anais is very [[BrattyHalfPint bratty]], bratty]] and [[InsufferableGenius insufferable]], Nicole has a [[HairTriggerTemper very short temper]] temper]], is prone to violence, and can resort to going insane, and Richard is very [[BumblingDad irresponsible]], [[FatIdiot stupid]], and [[{{Manchild}} extremely childish]] who [[LazyBum does nothing but sit at home all day]].
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* [[TheFriendNobodyLikes The Friends Nobody Likes]]: Sometimes. Particularly in the middle seasons, the Wattersons are occasionally written as widely disliked and just barely tolerated by the rest of Elmore -- especially in episodes that focus on their flaws (collectively or individually) and how others can't stand them. But the series weaned off of this gag as it went on, and towards the end they typically had a more normal relationship with their neighbors. Even "The Nuisance," a later episode about this, plays their reputation more as something the town's corrupt government exaggerates, compared to the much earlier "The Finale" which has the populace be a hair's breadth from running them out of town.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Nicole and Darwin only share few scenes with just the two them. Despite being in a lot of plots together with the rest of the family there aren't a lot direct one-on-one interactions between them in those scenarios. They also never shared an episode together without any other family member around.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Nicole and Darwin only share few scenes with just the two them. Despite being in a lot of plots together with the rest of the family there aren't a lot direct one-on-one interactions between them in those scenarios. They also never shared an episode together without any other family member around.
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* [[TheFriendNobodyLikes The Friends Nobody Likes]]: Sometimes. Particularly in the middle seasons, the Wattersons are occasionally written as widely disliked and just barely tolerated by the rest of Elmore -- especially in episodes that focus on their flaws (collectively or individually) and how others can't stand them. But the series weaned off of this gag as it went on, and towards the end they typically had a more normal relationship with their neighbors. Even "The Nuisance," Nuisance", a later episode about this, plays their reputation more as something the town's corrupt government exaggerates, compared to the much earlier "The Finale" which has the populace be a hair's breadth from running them out of town.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Nicole and Darwin only share few scenes with just the two of them. Despite being in a lot of plots together with the rest of the family there aren't a lot direct one-on-one interactions between them in those scenarios. They also never shared an episode together without any other family member around.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Nicole and Darwin only share few scenes with just the two of them. Despite being in a lot of plots together with the rest of the family there aren't a lot direct one-on-one interactions between them in those scenarios. They also never shared an episode together without any other family member around.
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* HatedByAll: As revealed in "The Finale," their various antics have made them rather infamous, or at least thought of poorly, throughout Elmore. By the end of the episode, the ''entire town'' is breaking into their house to get back at them.
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* HatedByAll: As revealed in "The Finale," Finale", their various antics have made them rather infamous, or at least thought of poorly, throughout Elmore. By the end of the episode, the ''entire town'' is breaking into their house to get back at them.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Whenever a problem or crisis occurs in an episode, it's usually at least one of them who causes it. Case in point: in "The Pizza," the entire plot kicks off because the Wattersons treated Larry so badly that he finally got sick of it and quit all of his jobs, resulting in all of Elmore falling into chaos.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Whenever a problem or crisis occurs in an episode, it's usually at least one of them who causes it. Case in point: in "The Pizza," Pizza", the entire plot kicks off because the Wattersons treated Larry so badly that he finally got sick of it and quit all of his jobs, resulting in all of Elmore falling into chaos.
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* SuperDeformed: The members of the Watterson Family all have rather large heads even compared to the cartoonish proportions most characters in the show have.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The Wattersons have a distinct head shape unique to the family, but somehow shared by all ''five'' of them, even both parents and Darwin, who is ''adopted.'' The same even applies to Nicole's father and both of Richard's parents.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The Wattersons have a distinct head shape unique to the family, but somehow shared by all ''five'' of them, even both parents and Darwin, who is ''adopted.'' The same even applies to Nicole's father and both of Richard's parents.
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* SuperDeformed: The members of the Watterson Family family all have rather large heads even compared to the cartoonish proportions most characters in the show have.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The Wattersons have a distinct head shape unique to the family, but somehow shared by all ''five'' of them, even both parents and Darwin, who is''adopted.'' ''adopted''. The same even applies to Nicole's father and both of Richard's parents.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The Wattersons have a distinct head shape unique to the family, but somehow shared by all ''five'' of them, even both parents and Darwin, who is
->'''Italy:''' Creator/AlessioPuccio
->'''Poland:''' Creator/MateuszCeran
->'''Poland:''' Creator/MateuszCeran
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series), Creator/YumikoKobayashi (Japanese), Andrea Di Maggio (Italian; first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (Italian; second voice)\\
'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
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->'''English:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook"
->'''Japanese:''' Creator/YumikoKobayashi
->'''Italy:''' Andrea Di Maggio
'''Debut:'''
->'''Latin America:''' Creator/GabyUgarte (promotional material)
->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
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->'''Voiced by:''' Kyla Rae Kowalewski (English), Yukiko Hinata (Japanese)\\
'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
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->'''English:''' Kyla Rae
->'''Japanese:''' Yukiko
'''Debut:'''
->'''Korean:''' Creator/KimYeonwoo
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TeresaGallagher (English), Mai Yamane (Japanese)\\
'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The DVD"
'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The DVD"
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->'''English:''' Creator/TeresaGallagher
->'''Japanese:''' Mai
'''Debut:'''
->'''Italy:''' Creator/BeatriceMargiotti
->'''Dutch:''' Creator/LauraVlasblom
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The DVD"
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->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Russell (English), Yoshinori Muto (Japanese)\\
'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
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->'''English:''' Dan
->'''Japanese:''' Yoshinori
'''Debut:'''
->'''Latin America:''' Creator/BenjaminRivera
->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Responsible"
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* InsufferableImbecile: DependingOnTheWriter. He is BookDumb, ignorant, lazy, reckless, hedonistic, and petty, although he is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
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* InsufferableImbecile: DependingOnTheWriter. He is BookDumb, ignorant, lazy, reckless, hedonistic, and petty, although he is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.JerkWithAHeartOfGold on his better days.
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* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicole in "The Flakers", trying to impersonate Richard (while speaking in his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
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* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: BadImpressionists: On the phone with Nicole in "The Flakers", trying to impersonate Richard (while speaking in his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
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[[center: [-[[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Main Character Index]] | '''The Wattersons''' | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballGumballWatterson Gumball Watterson]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballStudentsOfElmoreJuniorHigh Students of Elmore Junior High]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballElmoreJuniorHighStaff Elmore Junior High Staff]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOtherCitizensOfElmore Other Citizens of Elmore]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOther Other]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballExtremelyMinorCharacters Minor Characters]]]]-]
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[[center: [-[[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Main Character Index]] | '''The Wattersons''' | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballGumballWatterson Gumball Watterson]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballStudentsOfElmoreJuniorHigh Students of Elmore Junior High]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballElmoreJuniorHighStaff Elmore Junior High Staff]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOtherCitizensOfElmore Other Citizens of Elmore]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOther Other]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballExtremelyMinorCharacters Minor Characters]]]]-]
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For tropes related to him, see [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballGumballWatterson this page]].
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[[folder:Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson III]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Sorry, what was that? I was distracted by--Oh look, a shoe!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series), Creator/YumikoKobayashi (Japanese), Andrea Di Maggio (Italian; first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (Italian; second voice)\\
'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson III]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darwin_s3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Sorry, what was that? I was distracted by--Oh look, a shoe!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series), Creator/YumikoKobayashi (Japanese), Andrea Di Maggio (Italian; first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (Italian; second voice)\\
'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson III]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jake Pratt
-->'''Voiced by:'''
->'''English:''' Nicky Jones (Early reel),
'''Debut:'''
->'''Japanese:''' Creator/JunkoTakeuchi
->'''Latin America:''' Paolo Filio (episodes 1-6), Creator/IsabelMartinon (rest of series)
->'''Brazil:''' Eduardo Drummond (Seasons 1-2), João Victor Granja (Season 3 onwards)
->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
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Gumball's ten-year-old [[UpliftedAnimal pet goldfish-turned-family member]] who sprouted legs, grew in size, and began to talk. Gumball and Darwin are seen as brothers (Darwin even calls Nicole "Mrs. Mom" and Richard "Mr. Dad") and attend the same school and class. Darwin is a bit naive due to his forced adaptation among the "normal" world, though he is more rational and moral than Gumball.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only clothing Darwin wears are shoes, and [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes he's the only one in his family who does so]] (though Anais wears socks and the shoes were Gumball's before he gave them to him). Lampshaded by how Darwin's feet will often be [[OurNudityIsDifferent subject to pixellation in the same way Gumball's crotch is]].
-->'''Darwin:''' That's all I have left to hide!
** Mentioned by Anais in "The Job", where she states that they've been wearing the same clothes for a year and that it's time for Darwin to start wearing pants.
** When series director Mic Graves was asked in an interview why Darwin didn't wear pants, he pointed out Darwin doesn't have any buttocks to put them on. Although Darwin actually [[SuddenAnatomy does have them, sometimes]].
* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] in [[BewareTheSillyOnes Season 2]].
* AllLovingHero: Darwin always tries to see the goodness in others and will often go out of his way to selflessly help those who are sad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ok, he's a goldfish, but he has a mild African American affect to his speech, no doubt owing to his voice actors being African American. His anthropomorphic counterpart in "The Shippening" is indeed black.
* AnthropomorphicTransformation: Started off as a regular pet fish for Gumball, but soon learned to talk after bonding with him, although it's implied that he was intelligent even before this. Eventually, he developed legs and lungs through sheer [[TheDeterminator determination]] to make his way back to Gumball after they were separated.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mostly averted. While he does get on Gumball's nerves sometimes, he's not that bad compared to other examples of this trope.
* ApologeticAttacker: On occasions where he is forced to get physical he will often do this such as in "The Copycats" where he fights his doppelganger.
* BackFromTheDead: Briefly after being killed off the show in "The Mirror", he was brought back as a revived corpse and went through an UnexplainedRecovery shortly afterwards. Later in the episode "The Rerun", he died in front of Gumball only to be brought back by Rob going back in time to prevent his death and anything else that occurred in the episode from ever happening.
* BadassPacifist:
** In "The Sweaters", he and Gumball both refuse to engage the Richwood High students in their idiocy, and ultimately "win" (in the sense of being the only ones who don't look like complete idiots) because they don't play along.
** In "The Loophole", Darwin managed to stop Bobert from destroying all of mankind by reminding him that one of his rules include protecting all life, even viruses like mankind.
* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicole in "The Flakers", trying to impersonate Richard (while speaking in his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
-->'''Nicole:''' Can you pass me onto him, please?\\
'''Darwin:''' Um, yeah... one minute!\\
''(clears throat and tries to impersonate Richard)''\\
'''Darwin:''' Hello, [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Mrs. Mom]], what's for dinner?\\
'''Nicole:''' ''[unconvinced)'' Really?\\
'''Darwin:''' ''[defeated]'' Y-ep.
* BadLiar: Neither he nor Gumball could resist darting their eyes to the side when lying to Anais. And in "The Plan" Darwin had to be given a script because of his difficulty to improvise when lying.
-->'''Darwin:''' That's all I have left to hide!
** Mentioned by Anais in "The Job", where she states that they've been wearing the same clothes for a year and that it's time for Darwin to start wearing pants.
** When series director Mic Graves was asked in an interview why Darwin didn't wear pants, he pointed out Darwin doesn't have any buttocks to put them on. Although Darwin actually [[SuddenAnatomy does have them, sometimes]].
* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] in [[BewareTheSillyOnes Season 2]].
* AllLovingHero: Darwin always tries to see the goodness in others and will often go out of his way to selflessly help those who are sad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ok, he's a goldfish, but he has a mild African American affect to his speech, no doubt owing to his voice actors being African American. His anthropomorphic counterpart in "The Shippening" is indeed black.
* AnthropomorphicTransformation: Started off as a regular pet fish for Gumball, but soon learned to talk after bonding with him, although it's implied that he was intelligent even before this. Eventually, he developed legs and lungs through sheer [[TheDeterminator determination]] to make his way back to Gumball after they were separated.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mostly averted. While he does get on Gumball's nerves sometimes, he's not that bad compared to other examples of this trope.
* ApologeticAttacker: On occasions where he is forced to get physical he will often do this such as in "The Copycats" where he fights his doppelganger.
* BackFromTheDead: Briefly after being killed off the show in "The Mirror", he was brought back as a revived corpse and went through an UnexplainedRecovery shortly afterwards. Later in the episode "The Rerun", he died in front of Gumball only to be brought back by Rob going back in time to prevent his death and anything else that occurred in the episode from ever happening.
* BadassPacifist:
** In "The Sweaters", he and Gumball both refuse to engage the Richwood High students in their idiocy, and ultimately "win" (in the sense of being the only ones who don't look like complete idiots) because they don't play along.
** In "The Loophole", Darwin managed to stop Bobert from destroying all of mankind by reminding him that one of his rules include protecting all life, even viruses like mankind.
* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicole in "The Flakers", trying to impersonate Richard (while speaking in his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
-->'''Nicole:''' Can you pass me onto him, please?\\
'''Darwin:''' Um, yeah... one minute!\\
''(clears throat and tries to impersonate Richard)''\\
'''Darwin:''' Hello, [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Mrs. Mom]], what's for dinner?\\
'''Nicole:''' ''[unconvinced)'' Really?\\
'''Darwin:''' ''[defeated]'' Y-ep.
* BadLiar: Neither he nor Gumball could resist darting their eyes to the side when lying to Anais. And in "The Plan" Darwin had to be given a script because of his difficulty to improvise when lying.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only clothing Darwin wears are shoes, and [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes he's AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Grades", when he tries to study, he has no idea where to start. When he tries to cheat, going over the only one material to write crib sheets lets him remember everything he needed to.
* AerithAndBob: He has the most strange name in his familywho (since it is not a family name like Darwin, or foreign like Anais), and possibly in the entire cast since the other strange names are [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]]. However, before "The Name", it was just a nickname.
* AesopAmnesia: Basically the whole point of his character. Whenever he gets into major trouble for whatever scheme he devises, he NEVER learns from his past mistakes and continues implementing the same schemes that got him in trouble before. Of course, Darwin doesso]] (though Anais wears socks and try to talk him out of it, but is completely ignored most of the shoes were time.
* AbsurdPhobia: Gumball loathes being filthy to any amount. One drop of anything on Gumball that isn't clean water tends to get him upset, annoyed or saddened in seconds. This fear gets over-exemplified in "The Cage" to the point that at the end of the scene when Gumball'sbefore entire head is CoveredInGunge he gave looks extremely pissed.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Subverted in "The Name", where he seems to become crazy egotistical after finding out his real name is Zach, [[spoiler:but is actually suffering from [[SplitPersonalityTakeover a much more serious problem]], which required his name being changed to Gumball to "cure" it.]]
* ActionSurvivor: He survives a ton of encounters that would kill anyone in real life.
* AntiRoleModel: Certainly not someone children should look up too due to being mischievous, self-centered and selfish. It also doesn't help that he has AesopAmnesia.
* AgentMulder: Gumball can really be this trope but in some cases, [[JustifiedTrope he's right usually due the world he lives in.]]
* AffectionateNickname: "Gummypuss" by his mother.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: 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 [[CannotSpitItOut neither of them are capable of expressing it]], [[spoiler:until the events of 'The Shell' in which Gumball admitted his feelings for her and they began dating.]]
* AmbidextrousSprite: He always has three whiskers on one side and two on the other, but the pattern tends tohim). Lampshaded by how Darwin's feet flip as a result of this. It is likely meant to convey perspective, where his face is actually symmetric [[CheatedAngle but never seen from the front]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: He is obviously in love with Penny, but in "The Ex" he is very desperate to get Rob's nemesity back and is very amused when it happens, while a song plays with the lyrics "You willoften be [[OurNudityIsDifferent subject to pixellation in always love me". He has also kissed Fenton Benson the same way corn cob guy during "The Misunderstanding"; as the title hinted it was a misunderstanding (he'd accidentally won an auction and thought his prize was a kiss with him) but it's worth noting how he just went for it without any reluctance. There's also the weird homoerotic tension he's got going on with Hot Dog Guy. Masami and Teri have a SideBet going on that he likes boys as well as girls. According to Ben Bocquelet, "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20201216220614/https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/1122226256978771968 he loves whoever he loves]]".
* AnimalsHateHim: Penny's pet tarantula viciously attacked him on sight, and the family's turtle is stated to especially like biting him. Even Gumball'scrotch is]].
-->'''Darwin:''' That's all I have left to hide!
** Mentionedown species hates his guts, as he gets mauled by Anais a white kitten in "The Job", where she states that they've been wearing the same clothes for a year and that it's time for Darwin to start wearing pants.
** When series director Mic Graves was asked in an interviewNest":
-->'''Gumball:''' That is whyDarwin didn't wear pants, he pointed out Darwin doesn't have any buttocks to put them on. Although Darwin actually [[SuddenAnatomy does have them, sometimes]].
* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be[[YouAreWhatYouHate I'm not a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] in [[BewareTheSillyOnes Season 2]].
* AllLovingHero: Darwin always tries to see the goodness in others and will often go out of his way to selflessly help those who are sad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ok, he's a goldfish, but he has a mild African American affect to his speech, no doubt owing to his voice actors being African American. His anthropomorphic counterpartcat person]].
** [[CallBack Called back to]] in "TheShippening" is indeed black.
* AnthropomorphicTransformation: Started off as a regular pet fishSlip" when the kitten orphanage slaughters him for Gumball, but soon learned to talk after bonding with him, although it's implied that he was intelligent even before this. Eventually, he developed legs and lungs through sheer [[TheDeterminator determination]] to make his way back to a couple of seconds.
* AttentionWhore: Gumballafter they were separated.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mostly averted. While he does get on Gumball's nerves sometimes, he's not that bad compared to other examples of this trope.
* ApologeticAttacker: On occasions where he is forced to get physical hewill often do this such as anything in his power to have ''some'' sort of importance in anyone's life. Taken to its absolute extreme in "The Copycats" where Others" when Gumball has been ''denying the whole existence of other students in Elmore High'' until Anais told him to notice them... and he fights promptly tried to shove himself into Clare's parody of a dramatic ADayInTheLimelight by making sure she got a ''forced'' EsotericHappyEnding thanks to him.
* AttractiveBentGender: When he's forced in a dress in "The Dress", everyone instantly likes him and calls him beautiful. It helps that he takes after Nicole, though it might have just been the dress which was really nice. In "The Worst" when Gumball and Darwin decide to [[ItMakesSenseInContext go in Nicole's shoes by applying for a job as a woman]], the Green John and Red Security Guard fight over who gets to leave the door open to inside for them.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Zach" was this for him, only. Later, Zach became hisdoppelganger.alter-ego.
*BackFromTheDead: Briefly after being killed off the show in "The Mirror", he was brought back as a revived corpse BadassNormal: Compared to his peers and went through an UnexplainedRecovery shortly afterwards. Later in the episode "The Rerun", family, he died in front of Gumball only to be brought back by Rob going back in time to prevent doesn't have any magical or special powers but what he does have is his death [[GuileHero quick-wit and anything else that occurred in the episode from ever happening.
silver tongue]].
*BadassPacifist:
BadassPacifist:
** In "The Sweaters", he andGumball Darwin both refuse to engage the Richwood High students from the other school in their idiocy, and ultimately "win" (in the sense of being the only ones who don't look like complete idiots) because they don't play along.
**In "The Loophole", Darwin Gumball managed to stop Bobert from destroying all ''erase a troll out of mankind existence'' by reminding simply annoying him that one of his rules include protecting all life, even viruses like mankind.
* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicolein "The Flakers", trying Sorcerer".
* BadLiar: On occasion, Gumball can bluff, doing an excellent (unnecessary) job of PlayingTheVictimCard in "The Sweaters" and taking advantage of the killer virus's pride in "The Virus", but he acts incredibly nervous any time he tries toimpersonate Richard (while speaking in lie to his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
mother.
-->'''Nicole:'''Can Honey, are you pass me onto him, please?\\
'''Darwin:''' Um, yeah... one minute!\\
''(clears throat and tries to impersonate Richard)''\\
'''Darwin:''' Hello, [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Mrs. Mom]], what's for dinner?\\
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:'''''[unconvinced)'' Really?\\
'''Darwin:''' ''[defeated]'' Y-ep.
Are you lying?\\
'''Gumball:''' Ha! Oh, no, of course not.\\
'''Nicole:''' Right. You're lying. I'm coming home now.
*BadLiar: Neither he nor BarbieDollAnatomy: He has no nipples, and in the uncensored frames where he's naked, there are no genitals where there realistically would be.
* BarrierMaiden: An extremely meta example. If Gumballcould resist darting their eyes to drops his loser qualities, the side when lying to Anais. And in "The Plan" Darwin had entire show would be plunged into a cliche sitcom starring Tobias. As Gumball would be too much of a boring character without being a loser to be given a script because of his difficulty the main character now. Sarah (who at times, seems to improvise when lying.be aware that they're a cartoon) claims that the show would get cancelled ''really fast'' had they continue it.
* AerithAndBob: He has the most strange name in his family
* AesopAmnesia: Basically the whole point of his character. Whenever he gets into major trouble for whatever scheme he devises, he NEVER learns from his past mistakes and continues implementing the same schemes that got him in trouble before. Of course, Darwin does
* AbsurdPhobia: Gumball loathes being filthy to any amount. One drop of anything on Gumball that isn't clean water tends to get him upset, annoyed or saddened in seconds. This fear gets over-exemplified in "The Cage" to the point that at the end of the scene when Gumball's
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Subverted in "The Name", where he seems to become crazy egotistical after finding out his real name is Zach, [[spoiler:but is actually suffering from [[SplitPersonalityTakeover a much more serious problem]], which required his name being changed to Gumball to "cure" it.]]
* ActionSurvivor: He survives a ton of encounters that would kill anyone in real life.
* AntiRoleModel: Certainly not someone children should look up too due to being mischievous, self-centered and selfish. It also doesn't help that he has AesopAmnesia.
* AgentMulder: Gumball can really be this trope but in some cases, [[JustifiedTrope he's right usually due the world he lives in.]]
* AffectionateNickname: "Gummypuss" by his mother.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: 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 [[CannotSpitItOut neither of them are capable of expressing it]], [[spoiler:until the events of 'The Shell' in which Gumball admitted his feelings for her and they began dating.]]
* AmbidextrousSprite: He always has three whiskers on one side and two on the other, but the pattern tends to
* AmbiguouslyBi: He is obviously in love with Penny, but in "The Ex" he is very desperate to get Rob's nemesity back and is very amused when it happens, while a song plays with the lyrics "You will
* AnimalsHateHim: Penny's pet tarantula viciously attacked him on sight, and the family's turtle is stated to especially like biting him. Even Gumball's
-->'''Darwin:''' That's all I have left to hide!
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** When series director Mic Graves was asked in an interview
-->'''Gumball:''' That is why
* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be
* AllLovingHero: Darwin always tries to see the goodness in others and will often go out of his way to selflessly help those who are sad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ok, he's a goldfish, but he has a mild African American affect to his speech, no doubt owing to his voice actors being African American. His anthropomorphic counterpart
** [[CallBack Called back to]] in "The
* AnthropomorphicTransformation: Started off as a regular pet fish
* AttentionWhore: Gumball
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mostly averted. While he does get on Gumball's nerves sometimes, he's not that bad compared to other examples of this trope.
* ApologeticAttacker: On occasions where he is forced to get physical he
* AttractiveBentGender: When he's forced in a dress in "The Dress", everyone instantly likes him and calls him beautiful. It helps that he takes after Nicole, though it might have just been the dress which was really nice. In "The Worst" when Gumball and Darwin decide to [[ItMakesSenseInContext go in Nicole's shoes by applying for a job as a woman]], the Green John and Red Security Guard fight over who gets to leave the door open to inside for them.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Zach" was this for him, only. Later, Zach became his
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** In "The Sweaters", he and
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* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicole
* BadLiar: On occasion, Gumball can bluff, doing an excellent (unnecessary) job of PlayingTheVictimCard in "The Sweaters" and taking advantage of the killer virus's pride in "The Virus", but he acts incredibly nervous any time he tries to
-->'''Nicole:'''
'''Darwin:''' Um, yeah... one minute!\\
''(clears throat and tries to impersonate Richard)''\\
'''Darwin:''' Hello, [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Mrs. Mom]], what's for dinner?\\
'''Gumball:''' ''[laughing nervously]'' Trouble? No, we're fine. Absolutely fine. No trouble here, bye.\\
'''Nicole:'''
'''Darwin:''' ''[defeated]'' Y-ep.
'''Gumball:''' Ha! Oh, no, of course not.\\
'''Nicole:''' Right. You're lying. I'm coming home now.
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* BarrierMaiden: An extremely meta example. If Gumball
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** Same as Darwin, they both don't react well when someone badmouths Mr. Robinson, as seen in "The Sale". It's enough to scare the pants off Nicole, who is usually TheDreaded of the family.
** He also gets VERY angry when someone messes with Darwin or Anais.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Gumball is usually a hedonistic, lazy, and mischievous kid who is also one of the main sources of comic relief. However, when something becomes serious to him, he. DOESN'T. MESS. AROUND.
* BookDumb: He is stupid but is still in seventh grade, and his report card has mostly average grades.
* BoomerangBigot: In "The Nest", he says that he doesn't like cats. Downplayed, as he seems to only apply this to non-anthropomorphic cats.
* BornUnlucky: Especially in "The Curse". [[WhatCouldHaveBeen In his early concept]], he was a black cat who was always unlucky.
* BigBrotherInstinct: In spite of his cowardly and lazy nature, Gumball will get ''serious'' if someone hurts (or threatens to hurt) Darwin or Anais.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Him and Darwin. They both share many interests (like video games, the Web, and Mr. Robinson). They spend most of their time together.
* BlueIsHeroic: Gumball is the hero of the series and is a blue cat.
* BrilliantButLazy: When he puts his mind to it and isn't trying to show off, Gumball shows a surprising amount of intelligence and athleticism. This is best demonstrated in "The Grades" where Gumball assumes he'd need to cheat on placement test, but passes just because writing crib notes was enough study even though he didn't use them. "The Triangle" [[DeconstructedTrope put this trait is a rather negative light]]:
-->'''Gumball:''' You see, when you try but fail people think you're a loser, but if you skip the try and decide to fail right away, [[InvokedTrope then everyone thinks you've got the talent but you're to cool to waste it on them]]! It's like chickens. No one knows if they can really fly or not. That's what makes them cool.\\
'''Darwin:''' So that's your life plan, huh--[[AnalogyBackfire be a massive chicken]]?\\
'''Gumball:''' ''Yes''. And cackle at the eagle when they crash and burn.
** "The Brain" shows that Gumball is in the dead middle of the family's intelligence. He's not as smart as [[BrainyBaby Anais]] or [[WomenAreWiser Nicole]], but he's smarter than [[NotSoAboveItAll Darwin]] and [[BumblingDad Richard]].
* BuffoonishTomcat: Played entirely straight in the first season while justified since he's [[KidHero a young cat]], especially compared to his mother. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed after that]], where he's halfway between this trope whenever he is characterized by {{slapstick}} humor and CatsAreSnarkers.
* ButtMonkey: He gets tons of DisproportionateRetribution, ends up filthy nearly all the time or hurt so badly to the point that an official toy states Gumball has broken 271 bones. That's more bones than there are in ''a cat's skeleton''.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[http://theamazingworldofgumball.wikia.com/wiki/Fourth_Wall According to the wiki]], he breaks the fourth wall the most often.
* CannotSpitItOut: Does this in "The Bros" when he's trying to ask Penny to marry him.
* CatsAreMean: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that he's not usually cruel and can be very kind, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold but tends to be quite judgmental and insensitive]]. Later on he takes this attitude and combines it with CatsAreSnarkers, constantly making lines [[BrutalHonesty that are as mean as they are accurate]].
-->'''Darwin:''' ''[imitating Gumball]'' Duh, hey Sussie! While conveniently ignoring my own character flaws, I'm happy to point out that you eat with the grace of a one-toothed camel!
* CatsHateWater: Despite proving many times in the past that he was [[DependingOnTheWriter inconsistently]] competent at swimming and usually the one chore he almost never ignores is showering, Gumball in Season 6 flat out [[ForgotICouldntSwim can't swim]] without panicking, fussing and nearly drowning to the point putting him in any amount of water, or pointing out that he is in water will [[FurryReminder freak him out]] to [[ExaggeratedTrope not wanting to die levels.]]
* CatsAreSuperior: While a LoserProtagonist, the boy is also a bit of an egotistical narcissist.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "*sigh* (aggravated) Fine..."
** "What the what!?" became a semi-recurring line of his in the second season--it was even used as a MadLibsCatchPhrase a couple times ("What the droid?", "What the wasp?") and mocked by Darwin's impersonation of Gumball in "The Sidekick". It was used as early as "The Prank" in early season 1, however.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Initially very childlike and naive (much like Darwin), it wasn't until season two that he became a cynical, [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* TheChewToy: AmusingInjuries are quite common, but Gumball seems especially prone to them.
* CheerfulChild: In the first season and when he was a toddler.
* ChickMagnet: Zigzagged. In "The Robot", he becomes this... Except it is actually ''Bobert'' pretending to be him. Gumball is actually a downplayed version, as he has a mutual attraction with Penny while Sarah has a StalkerWithACrush on him and Darwin.
* ClassicalAntiHero: In spite of his lack of physical fitness, intelligence, and maturity, he's usually the most likely one to save the day. Although he often causes these problems, or even '''[[TemporarilyAVillain is]]''' the problem.
* ChildProdigy: Despite often seeming idiotic and lacking in common sense, he displays an unusually high amount of talent in various areas. His talents include, but are not limited to, archery, cooking, singing, and drawing realistic art. Of particular note is how intelligently he acted as [[BrainyBaby as a four-year-old]], with his overall development in "The Origins" being quite a bit ahead of schedule, having a very large vocabulary and speaking in unusually complex sentences for that age. He's even occasionally able to pull of some Mad Scientist-esque feats that not even ''[[BrainyBaby Anais]]'' is ever indicated to be capable of replicating, such as building a ''functioning time machine'' in "The Cringe". Unfortunately, his talents are [[DudeWheresMyRespect rarely acknowledged]].
* CompanionCube: The lump of Principal Brown's hair in "The Burden", which he believed to be Chris Morris.
* CoolCat: Gumball often attempts to give off this type of cool, collected confidence, but rarely lives up to it. Perhaps [[EstablishingCharacterMoment best demonstrated]] in "The Responsible", where he nearly drowns, vomits up a bunch of water in a panic, then immediately snaps into a relaxed posed and acts unfazed. Even in 4th grade Gumball was trying to show this off by wearing a Fedora to school to impress his friends. They laughed.
* CowardlyLion: Gumball is a self-described coward, but manages to get by in dire situations even if he spends most of them freaking out.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He gets insanely jealous at the ''suggestion'' of another guy dating Penny, even getting MadAtADream where Darwin kissed her despite him showing no interest in real life.
* CrazyPrepared: He often plans ahead to ensure he has to exert as little effort as possible.
** One example would be in "The Spoiler" where he has a checklist of items for seeing a movie such as "affordable candy 'cause the stuff at the movies is a total rip-off" and "Clippers in case someone with big hair sits in front of us."
** Another example would be in "The Vegging" where Darwin commends him for "thinking of everything" so that their day off would go uninterrupted.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: If his loved ones are threatened or insulted, Gumball can prove much more mature, clever, and determined than he usually is, and can be as strong and athletic as his mother.
* CuteKitten: He can be cute when he wants to be. "The Origins" shows that at the age of four, he was absolutely adorable.
* CuteLittleFangs: His canines aren't visible when his mouth is closed, but are any time it's open and the teeth on his upper jaw aren't being used as part of his expression, even if no other teeth are shown.
* DeadpanSnarker: He gets increasingly snarky as the show goes on, especially regarding Darwin. It becomes especially apparent throughout the second season, and compliments his VocalEvolution (see below) quite nicely, actually.
* DependingOnTheArtist: The white part of his pants is either a button or just a texture.
* DependingOnTheWriter: 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 OnlySaneMan. Since the latter half of Season 2, his OnlySaneMan status became the more distinct of them all, as he's often able to see through another character's insane plot in a deadpan manner.
* DetachmentCombat: It's not used for combat, but Gumball seems to be able to function perfectly whenever a body part gains autonomy.
* {{Determinator}}: When properly motivated, Gumball will go through insane lengths to accomplish his goals. Both good ''and'' bad goals. God help you if you end up on his bad side.
** In "The Third" he rides a tricycle through miles of hills, 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.
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Anais doesn't respect Gumball very much, given he's less mature than her or Darwin, and tends to bother her much more than vice-versa. On a few occasions, he can even be a BigBrotherBully, most prominently when he left Anais out of a party in "Halloween" by hanging her from a tree branch.
* DisguisedInDrag: In some episodes like "The Dress" and "The Worst", he dresses up as a girl.
* DitzyGenius: Other than an [[NoFourthWall in-universe]] case of DependingOnTheWriter, the universe itself trying to enforce his role as "the loser", ObfuscatingStupidity, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs some combination of all three]] this is the most believable interpretation for his seemingly inconsistent level of intelligence.
* DontTellMama: He preferred to go to Tina's cave to get Daisy back than not go and Anais telling mom about it.
* DumbassNoMore: He went from unintelligent to a more normal level of intelligence after the first season.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Besides Darwin, his design was the one who changed the most from the early reel to the actual show.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: "The Club" reveals that his middle name is Tristopher, or in shortened form, "Trisha"--it was supposed to be Christopher, but Richard wrote it down wrong.
* EmbarrassingNickname:
** "The Meddler" has his mom calling him "Gummypuss".
** In "The Club", Colin calls him "Trisha" from his middle name Tristopher.
** In "The Kiss", Granny Jojo calls him "The Blue One".
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** For all the mischief he causes, he finds himself ''physically incapable'' of shoplifting even a candy bar and slaps himself in the face for trying. Ironic, given he's several times demonstrated he's [[ImpossibleTheft extremely good]] at stealing things, even from his own mother, or planting them on other people.
** In "The Dream", he states that once, he squashed a fly, and never got over the guilt.
** In "The Storm", he objects to kissing Carmen just to make Alan jealous because he considers it cheap and below even someone like him.
* ExpressiveEars: Depending on his mood, Gumball's ears can either stand on the top of his head, or move down and hang below it.
* FatalFlaw: His large ego, heck, even his fandom video introduction lampshades this!
* FashionableAsymmetry: He has two whiskers pointing forward and three pointing backward, [[AmbidextrousSprite regardless of the direction he's facing]].
* FirstKiss: He had two or three or even four {{Accidental Kiss}}es, with [[spoiler:Darwin, Carmen, and Teri who flew to his face and possibly Sussie]], then had his first ''intentional'' kiss [[spoiler:with Penny.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: Gumball may be despised by nearly everyone that is a non-friend, the world itself, animals, and even [[YouAreWhatYouHate cats]] but "The Grades" shows that he can easily get along with kids. Helps that they were nice to [[ButtMonkey him]].
* FurryReminder: There are times where Gumball will display cat-like traits befitting of his appearance, such as purring, meowing or brandishing his claws.
* GenerationXerox: While obviously similar to his father, Gumball is also similar to his mother in the past, as they both get called losers by the kids or Miss Simian, which is why Nicole wanted to make him a winner in "The Fridge". He and Penny's relationship mirrors Nicole's with Richard growing up as well as Gumball, like his mother, encourages Penny to be herself [[spoiler:and come out of her shell]]. More depressingly (though at least Nicole murders Harry and Gumball's is an ImagineSpot), both him and his mom had potential {{bad future}}s with shitty partners who make them emotionally abused housewives.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Gumball frequently uses non-profanity, often with the emphasis and tone people [[ParentheticalSwearing usually reserve for actual profanity]] (including an [[AtomicFBomb Atomic]] ''Darn'' Bomb in "The Third"). In "The Safety" he claims that he doesn't even ''know'' any real swear words.
* {{Goth}}: According to "The Fraud", he had this phase once.
* GreenEyedMonster: While it doesn't surface too often, Gumball tends to do insane things when he's jealous of someone. In "The Flower", he tries to ''kill'' Leslie over Penny, although that was because a spirit was possessing him, he didn't do it; in "The Dream", he obsesses over a kiss between Penny and Darwin that he knows he imagined; and in "The Triangle", he tries to stop Darwin from getting to a band rehearsal because he knows Darwin is achieving more than him. However, most of Gumball's jealousy is reserved for Alan, the local ParodySue that Gumball loathes for how seemingly perfect and popular he is. In "The Saint", he tries to destroy Alan's life to expose his flaws, and in "The Traitor", he stalks Alan all over town to confront him about 'lying' to him.
* GuileHero: Gumball is a LoserProtagonist, has no special powers or high intellect, and is frequently shown to be the physically weakest in the family (including Anais). But his quick thinking and zany ideas (that usually work) more than make up for it.
* HealingFactor: Mainly played for laughs. Many episodes show that Gumball can regenerate his head, which adds on to his MadeOfIron trait.
* HeinzHybrid: He is half cat and half rabbit as his mom is a cat and his dad is a rabbit.
* HeroWithAUniqueName: Most of the cast have mundane names, so the main character going by "Gumball" makes him stick out pretty clearly.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Darwin. They are brothers, best friends, and even sang a song in "The Compilation" about how close they are. In "The Origins", Gumball's love for his missing (then) pet actually ''caused Darwin to evolve into the form he has today.''
* HiddenDepths:
** Some episodes show that Gumball is a really good cook: he did very well in home ec class and seems to make his own meals a lot because his mom is so busy.
** "The Photo" reveals that Gumball wants to be a doctor (or a lifeguard) when he grows up.
** He's able to sketch a pretty decent (if [[FourthWallPortrait strange]]) portrait of Darwin in "The Procrastinators".
** "The Compilation" shows he can play the ukulele fairly well.
** Surprisingly enough, he's shown to have considerable skill with a bow and arrow across a couple episodes.
*** In "The Society", he lands a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] on Mr. Small from across the stage when he's asked for a [[LiteralMinded headshot]] when auditioning for the school play with a PreAsskickingOneLiner to boot (though he claimed to have been aiming for the portrait of Tobias that Mr. Small was holding)
---->'''Gumball:''' ''[suddenly using a deep voice]'' How's ''this'' for a headshot? ''[proceeds to shoot Mr. Small in the forehead with his bow and arrow prop]''
*** In "The Matchmaker", he casually and effortlessly scores multiple direct hits with arrows tipped with love potion, first on Darwin and Teri (from a great distance no less) to make them fall in love with each other when he and Carrie mistakenly believed that Teri was Darwin's crush, and later on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Teri's spray bottle]] to deal with Teri when Carrie's love breaks the spell on Darwin and allows the two to become an OfficialCouple.
*** His first instinct is also to use his [[ItMakesSenseInContext stuffed bullfrog with a harp as a make shift bow and arrow to attempt to shoot an enraged Tina at a kissing booth]] in "The Mess". This doesn't go [[EpicFail quite as well]], [[EyeScream however]], though it may be justified as he was operating on a lack of sleep the entire day.
** "The Grades" shows that Gumball can do fine academically if he actually studies (by accident).
** Gumball has a wonderful singing voice (unless the humor comes from his terrible singing). This is displayed in several episodes such as "The Kids", "The Compilation", "The Uncle" and "The Parents".
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: More like Hilariously Abusive Babyhood. When he was little, his dad dropped him on the ground and that may be the reason he had a deformed head at one point.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Not usually but when it comes to Mr. Robinson, for some reason Gumball can't see he's a bitter, miserable, old jerk who hates everything for no good reason.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Gumball can get [[HonorBeforeReason stubborn]] and [[SoapboxSadie preachy]] about beliefs he'll suddenly take up without being able to live by. For example in "The Money," he refuses to sell out the family to do a Joyful Burger commercial despite them in desperate need for money [[ItMakesSenseInContext after Richard tosses it all in the ocean]]. When the family is forced to sign the contract lest all of Elmore is destroyed, Gumball still has one last stubborn stand for his principles of the day... except when he sees the contract.
-->'''Gumball:''' I got principles! Just turns out I can't live by them.
%%* IdiotHero: Played straight in Season One though Downplayed starting with Season 2.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A recurring gag is Gumball engaging in reckless behavior so he can do something out of the ordinary. One of his ''own'' fantasies has him allowing unprotected exposure to dangerous mutagenic processes in the slim hope of gaining superpowers.
* ImaginaryFriend: In "The Catfish", it's revealed he has an imaginary friend called Mr. Smiggles... which turns out to be real. "The Puppets" shows several more.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Gumball acted rude in the first season, there was a general implication that he did so because he didn't know any better. The biggest difference in his character from the second on is that he's less innocent ''and'' more sensitive: he's portrayed as more culpable for his immaturity, ignorance, and insults, but he's also better at realizing when someone needs his help or if he's done something wrong.
* InsufferableImbecile: DependingOnTheWriter. He is BookDumb, ignorant, lazy, reckless, hedonistic, and petty, although he is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* InterspeciesRomance: He (a cat) and Penny (a peanut with antlers, [[spoiler:later revealed to be a shape-shifting fairy-like creature]]).
* InterspeciesFriendship: He (a cat) and Darwin (a fish).
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide:
** Gumball once had his hair permed and then asked if he could have a pet pony.
** In "The Meddler", he showed a real (and comical) interest in being a cheerleader, even thinking it would prove how manly he was.
** He dressed as a girl playing Anais as a doll in a commercial he did in "The Tape".
** In "The Roots", he wore a mermaid outfit so Darwin could feel more right at home.
* IrrationalHatred: Of Alan, who he hates for being a kinder, more generous person than he could ever be. Gumball even acknowledges that he has no good reason to hate Alan, but [[IgnoredEpiphany keeps doing it anyway]].
* IronButtMonkey: Gumball is, to put it bluntly, [[NighInvulnerability indestructible]]. He's survived [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou falling off a cliff]], [[BarrierBustingBlow being punched through a wall]], and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being flushed down the toilet]].
* ItRunsInTheFamily: He orders his whole family around frantically to make his study date with Penny in "The Knights" perfect, showing he is capable of being just as neurotic, controlling and raging as his mom.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Gumball is oftentimes a selfish jerk towards others. In fact, he's probably the most self-obsessed out of all the main characters.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: 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... [[UnwantedAssistance Even when explicitly told not to]]. You can't say he isn't a good boyfriend, either, as Penny is [[MoralityPet the only person he has never been rude towards, no matter the circumstances]]. Even when he's bumbling or fouling things up, he never means it.
* JerkassToOne: He's generally a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but despises [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Alan]] and takes every opportunity to abuse him. Gumball will occasionally acknowledge having [[IrrationalHatred no good reason to hate Alan]], but keep doing it anyway as [[TallPoppySyndrome he hates that Alan is a kinder, more generous person than he could ever be]]. [[spoiler:Or at least that's how Alan acts like.]]
* {{Keet}}: Early on in the series, he is almost perpetually bright and energetic. This trait becomes less pronounced later on, as he becomes plenty capable of apathy and cynicism. In "The Origins" when he was a toddler, he was so hyper that his parents ''couldn't find the time to rest as long as he's active''. "The Gumball Chronicles" reveals that, while still acting like this, he could also be just as destructive as he is in the present, since he once tried chasing a toddler Leslie with a pair of scissors, implicitly to cut his bud off.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He tends to get this way about Anais most of the time, like in "The Parasite" where he attempts to poison Anais' [[spoiler:seemingly]] [[ToxicFriendInfluence toxic friend]] by poisoning her sandwich or in "The Rival" where in he fantasizes about football punting Kayvon, who he imagines as a toddler bully. This is played with however, as he also quickly deduces how irrational it sounds when he says it aloud.
* LikeParentLikeChild:
** From his father's side, being a slacker and EndearinglyDorky enough to touch the hearts of their respective romantic interests.
** From his mother's side, he's a lot more athletic, determined, and can have as much temper and strength as his mother than he realized deep down as long as he is motivated.
* LoserProtagonist: Lazy, irresponsible, unathletic, BookDumb to a sometimes dangerous degree, and usually falls victim to endless abuse each episode. Worsened in that he isn't ''enough'' of a deadbeat loser like his father, who can [[IdiotHoudini reverse it around in his favor]]. However, he's growing out of this in later seasons.
** Shown in a positive light in "The Name". The Wattersons believe that while he is a loser, it humbles Gumball a lot and he's a better person personality-wise because of it.
** Again, in "The Fridge". He's pretty much the lowest-achieving Watterson (according to the fridge chart anyways) but he is content with his life and feels no envy for the others. He ends up becoming the OnlySaneMan when the Wattersons become dangerously obsessed with being winners and ends up saving them before the whole family tears apart.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: A lot of Gumball's negative traits are things he has in common with his father.
* LovableCoward: Gumball may be frightened about a lot of things but it's pretty difficult to not feel bad when he gets in a more nasty situation than he's used to.
* MadeOfIron: It takes '''A LOT''' to fully stop Gumball, especially when he becomes a [[TheDeterminator Determinator]]. "The Virus" and "The Photo" effectively prove that Gumball's body is almost like clay. Can easily be warped and stretched, but hard to break.
* MasterOfYourDomain: Gumball claims to possess this in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E20TheVirus The Virus]]", and he proves it via AbnormalLimbRotationRange (which also involuntarily rearranges his internal organs and forces him to visit the infirmary).
* MommasBoy: Specially in "The Meddler". In general, Nicole is very protective of him.
* MotorMouth: In the Japanese dub, courtesy of [[Creator/JunkoTakeuchi his voice actress]]. He has his moments in the original English version too, such as in "The Schooling" when he tells Larry what he learned from taking his jobs for five minutes.
%%* MouthyKid: And ''how''! Zero context example.
* MrViceGuy: Gumball can be sarcastic, prideful even when he can't live up to his beliefs, envious especially around Alan, and unmotivated but he is overall loyal, is willing to help out of good intentions even unwarranted, and cares for his family and loved ones. Not to mention having his own moral compass after he realized his mistakes.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Out of all the characters in the entire series, he will appear nude the most to his embarrassment. Though ironically he is one of the few characters to wear clothes to begin with.
* {{Narcissist}}: Despite his underachieving, several episodes are based around Gumball going to extreme lengths to prove himself right for some trivial reason, purely to validate his own ego.
* NeatFreak: Gumball [[RunningGag occasionally]] looks ticked whenever he gets dirty and is known to adore taking showers while in "The Burden" he took a bath smiling.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He himself has assumed he doesn't have powers, but sometimes he gets temporary ones. For instance, he shapeshifts in his imagination song in "The Money" and transforms his head into a goat's in "The Advice" to call the Abraham Lincoln Goat.
* NewTransferStudent: He pretends to be one in "The Dress", going under the name [=GumballOopsEggWobbleUnderpants=].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: There are ''too many'' episodes to count where Gumball causes the main conflict of the plot.
* NoodlePeople: He is incredibly skinny, similar to Rob, Julius, Nicole, Larry, Gary, Hexagon Lady, and Miss Simian.
* NoSenseOfDirection: 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.
* ObliviousToHatred: He and Darwin worship the ground Mr. Robinson walks on, unable to understand all the obvious hints that he's a bitter, miserable old {{Jerkass}} who hates the Watterson family, especially Gumball and Darwin themselves, with a red-hot burning passion. It isn't until the events of "The Heart", near the ''very end'' of the series, that they finally get it.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Overlaps with BrilliantButLazy. It's often [[ImpliedTrope hinted]] that, for various reasons, including being too lazy to put in any more effort than is strictly necessary, Gumball intentionally portrays himself as much less capable than he actually is.
* OfficialCouple: With Penny.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Gumball" is actually a nickname, but until "The Name" nobody but Nicole knew his real first name was "Zach"--not even ''Gumball himself''. [[spoiler:Then "Zach" becomes a [[{{Jerkass}} intolerable]] SplitPersonality [[SplitPersonalityTakeover who tries to replace Gumball]], so he [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep legally changes his name to "Gumball"]] to get rid of him.]]
* OnlySaneMan: While he was a mix of this, being simply mischievous, hyperactive or stupid, this is slowly becoming his most seen side. The best example is in "The Fridge," being the only family member not worked up into a competitive spirit (started by his mother) and forced to bring the family back to normal.
* OrangeBlueContrast: The blue to Darwin's orange.
* ThePowerOfLove: It's apparently so powerful that [[spoiler: it's what allowed a young Darwin to grow lungs and legs just by Gumball's sheer determination and inability to give up on him coming home.]] Spoilered example aside, underneath his DeadpanSnarker attitude he is actually a pretty sweet kid who's more than willing to help where he can, and he has had a crush on Penny for a long time before finally winning her heart. Not to mention, [[spoiler:being able to appeal to Rob's good side in "The Rerun" to undo the events of "The Disaster".]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:After their BigDamnKiss at the end of "The Shell" he and Penny are now dating.]]
* RidiculousProcrastinator: He's puts off things like returning/replacing [=DVDs=], studying, and chores as long as possible. According to Nicole, his first sentence, said at the age of four, was "I'll do it tomorrow."
-->'''Darwin:''' You said you'd deal with it.\\
'''Gumball:''' I said I'd do it in a minute. You don't have to remind me every hour.
** Being squeaky clean is usually Gumball's highest priority over most of those.
* RubberMan: Gumball has been shown numerous times to be incredibly elastic. In "The Virus", he shows that he has complete control over his entire body to an unsettlingly complex degree...though he will unintentionally move his internal organs around, requiring him to go to Joan. In "The Wicked", he manages to stretch out his arm and extend it up through Mr. Robinson's shirt. "The Photo" also shows that his face is exceedingly malleable, with Darwin able to mold his lips into a mustache (and an infinitely repeating copy of his mustachioed face) as well as completely alter the bone and muscle structure of his face to give him a handsome face for his school picture.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Darwin's blue.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The more impulsive Manly Man to Darwin's naive Sensitive Guy.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: His screams are very high pitch, especially in the first season when his first actor's voice was cracking.
* SelectiveObliviousness: He's completely incapable of understanding that Mr. Robinson is a cantankerous old man who can't stand him ''or'' his family, even when the evidence is right in front of him.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Darwin and Carrie. [[spoiler:When they have their first OfficialCouple kiss, he smiles warmly and doesn't bother closing his eyes.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: The only girl that has stolen Gumball's heart: Penny Fitzgerald. When he needs to get a date in "The Party" but can't bring himself to ask Penny, he doesn't show romantic interest in any of the other girls he asks, instead treating it like some strange chore. He literally has eyes for no girl but Penny.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Early on Gumball is very vocal of his non-existent competence and ability, and how sincere he's being [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex is rather questionable]]. This tended to make him TheMillstone toward the smarter but less assertive Darwin, and a frequent subject to BreakTheHaughty. Later on, he's far more self-deprecating and aware of his own flaws, albeit seemingly [[DeadpanSnarker mocking everyone else]] a lot more to compensate. This trait still shows up occasionally; he's still particularly reluctant to acknowledge his own physical weakness.
** This trope is quite literal in ''"The One"'', where Gumball peels back the layers of his personality, and his ego is revealed to be a colossal blob-like EldritchAbomination
* SmartBall: [[AccidentalPun No Pun Intended]]. He is sometimes the OnlySaneMan, such as in "The Bus" (while everyone else gets the IdiotBall instead).
* StalkerWithoutACrush: "The Sale" shows him, alongside Darwin, to have an obsessive and stalker-esque HeroWorship of Mr. Robinson. When they find out Mr. Robinson is moving away, Gumball asks to take a lock of his hair to cook and eat so that Mr. Robinson will be a part of him forever.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: His level of physical fitness is ''heavily'' subject to the RuleOfFunny and RuleOfCool. He's stated to be in such terrible shape that he can't overpower a girl made of paper and his organs have a fit doing basic exercises, but when a ChaseScene happens he's perfectly capable of keeping up or even pulling LeParkour moves that rival his mother's and [[PlotPoweredStamina running for blocks without slowing down]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks almost exactly like a shorter version of his mother. Comparing how she looked at his age, the only difference besides clothes was that she was taller, usually has visible eyelashes, and her whiskers look different. In "The Plan" and "The Blame", he even tries to impersonate Nicole; the former was amazingly effective because he stood in a bush to obscure his height.
* SupportingProtagonist: In some episodes, like "The Butterfly" and "The Night".
* SuperPoweredEvilSide:
** Jealous Gumball in "The Flower", which was strong enough to [[FoeTossingCharge smash through giant football players]].
** Zach in "The Name", who supposedly succeeds at [[ButtonMashing almost]] everything Gumball fails at and [[CrazyPrepared "always thinks ahead"]]. However, he ''refuses'' to admit where he fails at unlike Gumball, but his ego is big enough to cloud such mistakes.
* SuperSpeed: When the plot calls for it, he's fast enough to set people on fire when he passes by them, such as "The Traitor" and "The Best". Otherwise, he's as fast as a normal kid his age.
* SupremeChef: 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. Also in "The Traitor" he singlehandedly prepares a rather impressive dish from a hodgepodge of ingredients.
** Though he did make a hilariously bad meal for Anais in "The Responsible" and tried to make a meatloaf out of bread crumbs, an onion, an egg and toothpaste in "The Downer", though it may have been RuleOfFunny at work.
* TallPoppySyndrome: Gumball can be both [[LazyBum very lazy]] and [[{{Pride}} very stubborn]]. This leads to him resenting when others, especially [[ParodySue Alan]], succeed when he's not even trying.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. He definitely doesn't seem to be as pleasant as Darwin and can be very rude & harsh towards others, especially to [[NiceGuy Alan]] and is frequently abrasive, but when it comes to his family, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he truly loves them]].
* TemporarilyAVillain: In "The Saint," Gumball becomes a VillainProtagonist, doing a series of increasingly cruel and harmful things to Alan solely to prove that Alan can't possibly be as perfect as he appears and that ''something'' must upset him, going so far as selling Alan's parents to Elmore's resident MonsterClown and showing Alan a tape of them being twisted into balloon animals; at this point, Darwin remarks that Gumball has long since crossed the line and will most likely go to prison.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "The Mustache" (which was in Season 1, when he was much more of a wimp), he becomes a grown man and throws a dodgeball at Tina. It makes her break the walls.
* TookALevelInCynic: There is a significant shift of optimism to cynic that hit him heavily ever since Season 2 rolled. Justified, he's been effectively TheChewToy since his debut.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In the early reel, he was able to make a complex plan to escape school, and even said that one was simplified. His intelligence was passed to Anais when the series started. Downplayed in that he does still [[DependingOnTheWriter occasionally]] demonstrate intelligence comparable to what he showed in the early reel and seems to practice ObfuscatingStupidity.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Gumball is almost as much a CheerfulChild as Darwin in the first season, and considerably more acerbic from the second season onward. Granted, even back then Gumball was repeatedly shown as [[InnocentlyInsensitive rude and destructive]], so it's more a shift in attitude than benevolence.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: Season 3 onwards has him be slightly less abrasive then he was in Season 2. He's still as snarky as ever, but not quite as bad as that season.
** Incredibly zig-zagged in Season 6 he's a lot closer to how he interacted with others in Season 1 being almost as sweet as he was then but also keeping up being a lazy, easily annoyed snarker at the same time.
* TookALevelInSmartass: Gumball was an energetic CheerfulChild in early episodes, but as of Season 2, he becomes more cynical and dabbles in CatsAreSnarkers quite frequently.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Inevitably but justifiably teaches Darwin to say anything that's on his mind. Of course [[GoneHorriblyRight it backfires just as much as it is successful]].
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: He's considerably shorter than Penny, though how much varies by the scene.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In "The Awkwardness", he mentions that ketchup is his favorite sauce.
* TwiceShy: His feelings for Penny are mutual, but both struggle to confess to each other. [[spoiler: As of "The Shell", they're official.]]
* UnfazedEveryman: He is perhaps the most normal person in Elmore. Or at the very least he is aware of all the weirdness that surrounds him and is quite comfortable with it.
-->'''Gumball:''' Wait a minute, this here's a talking, dancing banana who somehow has a butt. We go to school with a T-Rex, a ghost, a toast, and whatever Principal Brown is. Now who dares to say the world isn't amazing?
* UsedToBeASweetKid: "Origins" showed that the cynical, snarky Gumball was once a sweet, energetic toddler.
* VerbalTic: He tends to squeak, usually when he's yelling. Some of this just seems to be due to Logan Grove's voice cracking.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-flipped. Hurting or insulting Penny will get the same reaction to the point that in "The Shell", [[spoiler:he ''scathingly'' calls out her '''father''' for calling her a monster after she broke out of her shell and he actually agrees with Gumball that he was wrong.]] And in "The Test", he goes back to being his brutally blunt self after seeing Tobias who took over the show get close to his girlfriend and even unleashes his tirades on him in form of an ''acid attack which burns his face off''!
* VitriolicBestBuds: Gumball can have a pretty acerbic attitude toward all of his classmates but Darwin and Penny, yet most of them seem to consider him their friend. "The Return" has everyone worried over Darwin and Gumball's absence even though they all thought things were way nicer without them (''too'' nice even).
* VocalEvolution: His voice cracked a lot in the first season and, along with Darwin's, got deeper over the course of the first two seasons as his VA got older. His second voice actor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXF2kD1gv5g stated in an interview]] that his performance is specifically based off how he sounded in the second season.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Elmore is already pretty weird, but whenever something especially weird happens it always happens to him.
* WeakButSkilled: Often ends up playing this role when he has to fight someone. What he [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe usually]] lacks in physical strength,he makes up for by being both [[SuperSpeed physically]] and [[GuileHero mentally]] faster than any opponent he faces. That said he ''is'' shown to be capable of much greater physical strength than he's normally willing to exert,but seems to only let it out if he truly feels he has ''[[GodzillaThreshold no other choice]]''.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His odd (nick)name is sometimes commented on, most notably by Mr. Small in "The Banana".
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He has no problem dressing up like a girl if need be. Some examples would be in "The Tape", "The Meddler" and "The Worst".
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "AHHH, spider! Knock his block off!"
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: He missed the extreme luck he got from the eponymous hat in "The Helmet" and went insane with using its power once he got it back.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** When he becomes a full grown man in "The Mustache", he throws a dodgeball on Tina and launches her over the gym wall.
** He also slaps Jackie's hand in "The Spoiler".
** Overlaps with WouldHurtAChild in "The Faith", where he's implied to have beaten some little kids with a baseball bat, two of which were girls.
** When Gumball thinks Jodie is taking advantage of Anais, he tries to knock her out and then ''poison'' her.
** In "The Slide", he pushed Betty twice and the blue triangle woman once, and in "The Fan", he pushes Sarah many times.
* WouldHurtAChild: In "The Faith", it's implied he beat up a bunch of child scouts who tried to hold him up.
-->'''Gumball:''' Meh. Shame they didn't earn their self-defense badges either.
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[[folder:Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson III]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Sorry, what was that? I was distracted by--Oh look, a shoe!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series), Creator/YumikoKobayashi (Japanese), Andrea Di Maggio (Italian; first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (Italian; second voice)\\
'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
Gumball's ten-year-old [[UpliftedAnimal pet goldfish-turned-family member]] who sprouted legs, grew in size, and began to talk. Gumball and Darwin are seen as brothers (Darwin even calls Nicole "Mrs. Mom" and Richard "Mr. Dad") and attend the same school and class. Darwin is a bit naive due to his forced adaptation among the "normal" world, though he is more rational and moral than Gumball.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only clothing Darwin wears are shoes, and [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes he's the only one in his family who does so]] (though Anais wears socks and the shoes were Gumball's before he gave them to him). Lampshaded by how Darwin's feet will often be [[OurNudityIsDifferent subject to pixellation in the same way Gumball's crotch is]].
-->'''Darwin:''' That's all I have left to hide!
** Mentioned by Anais in "The Job", where she states that they've been wearing the same clothes for a year and that it's time for Darwin to start wearing pants.
** When series director Mic Graves was asked in an interview why Darwin didn't wear pants, he pointed out Darwin doesn't have any buttocks to put them on. Although Darwin actually [[SuddenAnatomy does have them, sometimes]].
* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] in [[BewareTheSillyOnes Season 2]].
* AllLovingHero: Darwin always tries to see the goodness in others and will often go out of his way to selflessly help those who are sad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ok, he's a goldfish, but he has a mild African American affect to his speech, no doubt owing to his voice actors being African American. His anthropomorphic counterpart in "The Shippening" is indeed black.
* AnthropomorphicTransformation: Started off as a regular pet fish for Gumball, but soon learned to talk after bonding with him, although it's implied that he was intelligent even before this. Eventually, he developed legs and lungs through sheer [[TheDeterminator determination]] to make his way back to Gumball after they were separated.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mostly averted. While he does get on Gumball's nerves sometimes, he's not that bad compared to other examples of this trope.
* ApologeticAttacker: On occasions where he is forced to get physical he will often do this such as in "The Copycats" where he fights his doppelganger.
* BackFromTheDead: Briefly after being killed off the show in "The Mirror", he was brought back as a revived corpse and went through an UnexplainedRecovery shortly afterwards. Later in the episode "The Rerun", he died in front of Gumball only to be brought back by Rob going back in time to prevent his death and anything else that occurred in the episode from ever happening.
* BadassPacifist:
** In "The Sweaters", he and Gumball both refuse to engage the Richwood High students in their idiocy, and ultimately "win" (in the sense of being the only ones who don't look like complete idiots) because they don't play along.
** In "The Loophole", Darwin managed to stop Bobert from destroying all of mankind by reminding him that one of his rules include protecting all life, even viruses like mankind.
* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicole in "The Flakers", trying to impersonate Richard (while speaking in his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
-->'''Nicole:''' Can you pass me onto him, please?\\
'''Darwin:''' Um, yeah... one minute!\\
''(clears throat and tries to impersonate Richard)''\\
'''Darwin:''' Hello, [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Mrs. Mom]], what's for dinner?\\
'''Nicole:''' ''[unconvinced)'' Really?\\
'''Darwin:''' ''[defeated]'' Y-ep.
* BadLiar: Neither he nor Gumball could resist darting their eyes to the side when lying to Anais. And in "The Plan" Darwin had to be given a script because of his difficulty to improvise when lying.
* BerserkButton:
** He also gets VERY angry when someone messes with Darwin or Anais.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Gumball is usually a hedonistic, lazy, and mischievous kid who is also one of the main sources of comic relief. However, when something becomes serious to him, he. DOESN'T. MESS. AROUND.
* BookDumb: He is stupid but is still in seventh grade, and his report card has mostly average grades.
* BoomerangBigot: In "The Nest", he says that he doesn't like cats. Downplayed, as he seems to only apply this to non-anthropomorphic cats.
* BornUnlucky: Especially in "The Curse". [[WhatCouldHaveBeen In his early concept]], he was a black cat who was always unlucky.
* BigBrotherInstinct: In spite of his cowardly and lazy nature, Gumball will get ''serious'' if someone hurts (or threatens to hurt) Darwin or Anais.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Him and Darwin. They both share many interests (like video games, the Web, and Mr. Robinson). They spend most of their time together.
* BlueIsHeroic: Gumball is the hero of the series and is a blue cat.
* BrilliantButLazy: When he puts his mind to it and isn't trying to show off, Gumball shows a surprising amount of intelligence and athleticism. This is best demonstrated in "The Grades" where Gumball assumes he'd need to cheat on placement test, but passes just because writing crib notes was enough study even though he didn't use them. "The Triangle" [[DeconstructedTrope put this trait is a rather negative light]]:
-->'''Gumball:''' You see, when you try but fail people think you're a loser, but if you skip the try and decide to fail right away, [[InvokedTrope then everyone thinks you've got the talent but you're to cool to waste it on them]]! It's like chickens. No one knows if they can really fly or not. That's what makes them cool.\\
'''Darwin:''' So that's your life plan, huh--[[AnalogyBackfire be a massive chicken]]?\\
'''Gumball:''' ''Yes''. And cackle at the eagle when they crash and burn.
** "The Brain" shows that Gumball is in the dead middle of the family's intelligence. He's not as smart as [[BrainyBaby Anais]] or [[WomenAreWiser Nicole]], but he's smarter than [[NotSoAboveItAll Darwin]] and [[BumblingDad Richard]].
* BuffoonishTomcat: Played entirely straight in the first season while justified since he's [[KidHero a young cat]], especially compared to his mother. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed after that]], where he's halfway between this trope whenever he is characterized by {{slapstick}} humor and CatsAreSnarkers.
* ButtMonkey: He gets tons of DisproportionateRetribution, ends up filthy nearly all the time or hurt so badly to the point that an official toy states Gumball has broken 271 bones. That's more bones than there are in ''a cat's skeleton''.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[http://theamazingworldofgumball.wikia.com/wiki/Fourth_Wall According to the wiki]], he breaks the fourth wall the most often.
* CannotSpitItOut: Does this in "The Bros" when he's trying to ask Penny to marry him.
* CatsAreMean: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that he's not usually cruel and can be very kind, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold but tends to be quite judgmental and insensitive]]. Later on he takes this attitude and combines it with CatsAreSnarkers, constantly making lines [[BrutalHonesty that are as mean as they are accurate]].
-->'''Darwin:''' ''[imitating Gumball]'' Duh, hey Sussie! While conveniently ignoring my own character flaws, I'm happy to point out that you eat with the grace of a one-toothed camel!
* CatsHateWater: Despite proving many times in the past that he was [[DependingOnTheWriter inconsistently]] competent at swimming and usually the one chore he almost never ignores is showering, Gumball in Season 6 flat out [[ForgotICouldntSwim can't swim]] without panicking, fussing and nearly drowning to the point putting him in any amount of water, or pointing out that he is in water will [[FurryReminder freak him out]] to [[ExaggeratedTrope not wanting to die levels.]]
* CatsAreSuperior: While a LoserProtagonist, the boy is also a bit of an egotistical narcissist.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "*sigh* (aggravated) Fine..."
** "What the what!?" became a semi-recurring line of his in the second season--it was even used as a MadLibsCatchPhrase a couple times ("What the droid?", "What the wasp?") and mocked by Darwin's impersonation of Gumball in "The Sidekick". It was used as early as "The Prank" in early season 1, however.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Initially very childlike and naive (much like Darwin), it wasn't until season two that he became a cynical, [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* TheChewToy: AmusingInjuries are quite common, but Gumball seems especially prone to them.
* CheerfulChild: In the first season and when he was a toddler.
* ChickMagnet: Zigzagged. In "The Robot", he becomes this... Except it is actually ''Bobert'' pretending to be him. Gumball is actually a downplayed version, as he has a mutual attraction with Penny while Sarah has a StalkerWithACrush on him and Darwin.
* ClassicalAntiHero: In spite of his lack of physical fitness, intelligence, and maturity, he's usually the most likely one to save the day. Although he often causes these problems, or even '''[[TemporarilyAVillain is]]''' the problem.
* ChildProdigy: Despite often seeming idiotic and lacking in common sense, he displays an unusually high amount of talent in various areas. His talents include, but are not limited to, archery, cooking, singing, and drawing realistic art. Of particular note is how intelligently he acted as [[BrainyBaby as a four-year-old]], with his overall development in "The Origins" being quite a bit ahead of schedule, having a very large vocabulary and speaking in unusually complex sentences for that age. He's even occasionally able to pull of some Mad Scientist-esque feats that not even ''[[BrainyBaby Anais]]'' is ever indicated to be capable of replicating, such as building a ''functioning time machine'' in "The Cringe". Unfortunately, his talents are [[DudeWheresMyRespect rarely acknowledged]].
* CompanionCube: The lump of Principal Brown's hair in "The Burden", which he believed to be Chris Morris.
* CoolCat: Gumball often attempts to give off this type of cool, collected confidence, but rarely lives up to it. Perhaps [[EstablishingCharacterMoment best demonstrated]] in "The Responsible", where he nearly drowns, vomits up a bunch of water in a panic, then immediately snaps into a relaxed posed and acts unfazed. Even in 4th grade Gumball was trying to show this off by wearing a Fedora to school to impress his friends. They laughed.
* CowardlyLion: Gumball is a self-described coward, but manages to get by in dire situations even if he spends most of them freaking out.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He gets insanely jealous at the ''suggestion'' of another guy dating Penny, even getting MadAtADream where Darwin kissed her despite him showing no interest in real life.
* CrazyPrepared: He often plans ahead to ensure he has to exert as little effort as possible.
** One example would be in "The Spoiler" where he has a checklist of items for seeing a movie such as "affordable candy 'cause the stuff at the movies is a total rip-off" and "Clippers in case someone with big hair sits in front of us."
** Another example would be in "The Vegging" where Darwin commends him for "thinking of everything" so that their day off would go uninterrupted.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: If his loved ones are threatened or insulted, Gumball can prove much more mature, clever, and determined than he usually is, and can be as strong and athletic as his mother.
* CuteKitten: He can be cute when he wants to be. "The Origins" shows that at the age of four, he was absolutely adorable.
* CuteLittleFangs: His canines aren't visible when his mouth is closed, but are any time it's open and the teeth on his upper jaw aren't being used as part of his expression, even if no other teeth are shown.
* DeadpanSnarker: He gets increasingly snarky as the show goes on, especially regarding Darwin. It becomes especially apparent throughout the second season, and compliments his VocalEvolution (see below) quite nicely, actually.
* DependingOnTheArtist: The white part of his pants is either a button or just a texture.
* DependingOnTheWriter: 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 OnlySaneMan. Since the latter half of Season 2, his OnlySaneMan status became the more distinct of them all, as he's often able to see through another character's insane plot in a deadpan manner.
* DetachmentCombat: It's not used for combat, but Gumball seems to be able to function perfectly whenever a body part gains autonomy.
* {{Determinator}}: When properly motivated, Gumball will go through insane lengths to accomplish his goals. Both good ''and'' bad goals. God help you if you end up on his bad side.
** In "The Third" he rides a tricycle through miles of hills, 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.
* DisappointingOlderSibling: Anais doesn't respect Gumball very much, given he's less mature than her or Darwin, and tends to bother her much more than vice-versa. On a few occasions, he can even be a BigBrotherBully, most prominently when he left Anais out of a party in "Halloween" by hanging her from a tree branch.
* DisguisedInDrag: In some episodes like "The Dress" and "The Worst", he dresses up as a girl.
* DitzyGenius: Other than an [[NoFourthWall in-universe]] case of DependingOnTheWriter, the universe itself trying to enforce his role as "the loser", ObfuscatingStupidity, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs some combination of all three]] this is the most believable interpretation for his seemingly inconsistent level of intelligence.
* DontTellMama: He preferred to go to Tina's cave to get Daisy back than not go and Anais telling mom about it.
* DumbassNoMore: He went from unintelligent to a more normal level of intelligence after the first season.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Besides Darwin, his design was the one who changed the most from the early reel to the actual show.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: "The Club" reveals that his middle name is Tristopher, or in shortened form, "Trisha"--it was supposed to be Christopher, but Richard wrote it down wrong.
* EmbarrassingNickname:
** "The Meddler" has his mom calling him "Gummypuss".
** In "The Club", Colin calls him "Trisha" from his middle name Tristopher.
** In "The Kiss", Granny Jojo calls him "The Blue One".
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** For all the mischief he causes, he finds himself ''physically incapable'' of shoplifting even a candy bar and slaps himself in the face for trying. Ironic, given he's several times demonstrated he's [[ImpossibleTheft extremely good]] at stealing things, even from his own mother, or planting them on other people.
** In "The Dream", he states that once, he squashed a fly, and never got over the guilt.
** In "The Storm", he objects to kissing Carmen just to make Alan jealous because he considers it cheap and below even someone like him.
* ExpressiveEars: Depending on his mood, Gumball's ears can either stand on the top of his head, or move down and hang below it.
* FatalFlaw: His large ego, heck, even his fandom video introduction lampshades this!
* FashionableAsymmetry: He has two whiskers pointing forward and three pointing backward, [[AmbidextrousSprite regardless of the direction he's facing]].
* FirstKiss: He had two or three or even four {{Accidental Kiss}}es, with [[spoiler:Darwin, Carmen, and Teri who flew to his face and possibly Sussie]], then had his first ''intentional'' kiss [[spoiler:with Penny.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: Gumball may be despised by nearly everyone that is a non-friend, the world itself, animals, and even [[YouAreWhatYouHate cats]] but "The Grades" shows that he can easily get along with kids. Helps that they were nice to [[ButtMonkey him]].
* FurryReminder: There are times where Gumball will display cat-like traits befitting of his appearance, such as purring, meowing or brandishing his claws.
* GenerationXerox: While obviously similar to his father, Gumball is also similar to his mother in the past, as they both get called losers by the kids or Miss Simian, which is why Nicole wanted to make him a winner in "The Fridge". He and Penny's relationship mirrors Nicole's with Richard growing up as well as Gumball, like his mother, encourages Penny to be herself [[spoiler:and come out of her shell]]. More depressingly (though at least Nicole murders Harry and Gumball's is an ImagineSpot), both him and his mom had potential {{bad future}}s with shitty partners who make them emotionally abused housewives.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Gumball frequently uses non-profanity, often with the emphasis and tone people [[ParentheticalSwearing usually reserve for actual profanity]] (including an [[AtomicFBomb Atomic]] ''Darn'' Bomb in "The Third"). In "The Safety" he claims that he doesn't even ''know'' any real swear words.
* {{Goth}}: According to "The Fraud", he had this phase once.
* GreenEyedMonster: While it doesn't surface too often, Gumball tends to do insane things when he's jealous of someone. In "The Flower", he tries to ''kill'' Leslie over Penny, although that was because a spirit was possessing him, he didn't do it; in "The Dream", he obsesses over a kiss between Penny and Darwin that he knows he imagined; and in "The Triangle", he tries to stop Darwin from getting to a band rehearsal because he knows Darwin is achieving more than him. However, most of Gumball's jealousy is reserved for Alan, the local ParodySue that Gumball loathes for how seemingly perfect and popular he is. In "The Saint", he tries to destroy Alan's life to expose his flaws, and in "The Traitor", he stalks Alan all over town to confront him about 'lying' to him.
* GuileHero: Gumball is a LoserProtagonist, has no special powers or high intellect, and is frequently shown to be the physically weakest in the family (including Anais). But his quick thinking and zany ideas (that usually work) more than make up for it.
* HealingFactor: Mainly played for laughs. Many episodes show that Gumball can regenerate his head, which adds on to his MadeOfIron trait.
* HeinzHybrid: He is half cat and half rabbit as his mom is a cat and his dad is a rabbit.
* HeroWithAUniqueName: Most of the cast have mundane names, so the main character going by "Gumball" makes him stick out pretty clearly.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Darwin. They are brothers, best friends, and even sang a song in "The Compilation" about how close they are. In "The Origins", Gumball's love for his missing (then) pet actually ''caused Darwin to evolve into the form he has today.''
* HiddenDepths:
** Some episodes show that Gumball is a really good cook: he did very well in home ec class and seems to make his own meals a lot because his mom is so busy.
** "The Photo" reveals that Gumball wants to be a doctor (or a lifeguard) when he grows up.
** He's able to sketch a pretty decent (if [[FourthWallPortrait strange]]) portrait of Darwin in "The Procrastinators".
** "The Compilation" shows he can play the ukulele fairly well.
** Surprisingly enough, he's shown to have considerable skill with a bow and arrow across a couple episodes.
*** In "The Society", he lands a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] on Mr. Small from across the stage when he's asked for a [[LiteralMinded headshot]] when auditioning for the school play with a PreAsskickingOneLiner to boot (though he claimed to have been aiming for the portrait of Tobias that Mr. Small was holding)
---->'''Gumball:''' ''[suddenly using a deep voice]'' How's ''this'' for a headshot? ''[proceeds to shoot Mr. Small in the forehead with his bow and arrow prop]''
*** In "The Matchmaker", he casually and effortlessly scores multiple direct hits with arrows tipped with love potion, first on Darwin and Teri (from a great distance no less) to make them fall in love with each other when he and Carrie mistakenly believed that Teri was Darwin's crush, and later on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Teri's spray bottle]] to deal with Teri when Carrie's love breaks the spell on Darwin and allows the two to become an OfficialCouple.
*** His first instinct is also to use his [[ItMakesSenseInContext stuffed bullfrog with a harp as a make shift bow and arrow to attempt to shoot an enraged Tina at a kissing booth]] in "The Mess". This doesn't go [[EpicFail quite as well]], [[EyeScream however]], though it may be justified as he was operating on a lack of sleep the entire day.
** "The Grades" shows that Gumball can do fine academically if he actually studies (by accident).
** Gumball has a wonderful singing voice (unless the humor comes from his terrible singing). This is displayed in several episodes such as "The Kids", "The Compilation", "The Uncle" and "The Parents".
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: More like Hilariously Abusive Babyhood. When he was little, his dad dropped him on the ground and that may be the reason he had a deformed head at one point.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Not usually but when it comes to Mr. Robinson, for some reason Gumball can't see he's a bitter, miserable, old jerk who hates everything for no good reason.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Gumball can get [[HonorBeforeReason stubborn]] and [[SoapboxSadie preachy]] about beliefs he'll suddenly take up without being able to live by. For example in "The Money," he refuses to sell out the family to do a Joyful Burger commercial despite them in desperate need for money [[ItMakesSenseInContext after Richard tosses it all in the ocean]]. When the family is forced to sign the contract lest all of Elmore is destroyed, Gumball still has one last stubborn stand for his principles of the day... except when he sees the contract.
-->'''Gumball:''' I got principles! Just turns out I can't live by them.
%%* IdiotHero: Played straight in Season One though Downplayed starting with Season 2.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A recurring gag is Gumball engaging in reckless behavior so he can do something out of the ordinary. One of his ''own'' fantasies has him allowing unprotected exposure to dangerous mutagenic processes in the slim hope of gaining superpowers.
* ImaginaryFriend: In "The Catfish", it's revealed he has an imaginary friend called Mr. Smiggles... which turns out to be real. "The Puppets" shows several more.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Gumball acted rude in the first season, there was a general implication that he did so because he didn't know any better. The biggest difference in his character from the second on is that he's less innocent ''and'' more sensitive: he's portrayed as more culpable for his immaturity, ignorance, and insults, but he's also better at realizing when someone needs his help or if he's done something wrong.
* InsufferableImbecile: DependingOnTheWriter. He is BookDumb, ignorant, lazy, reckless, hedonistic, and petty, although he is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* InterspeciesRomance: He (a cat) and Penny (a peanut with antlers, [[spoiler:later revealed to be a shape-shifting fairy-like creature]]).
* InterspeciesFriendship: He (a cat) and Darwin (a fish).
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide:
** Gumball once had his hair permed and then asked if he could have a pet pony.
** In "The Meddler", he showed a real (and comical) interest in being a cheerleader, even thinking it would prove how manly he was.
** He dressed as a girl playing Anais as a doll in a commercial he did in "The Tape".
** In "The Roots", he wore a mermaid outfit so Darwin could feel more right at home.
* IrrationalHatred: Of Alan, who he hates for being a kinder, more generous person than he could ever be. Gumball even acknowledges that he has no good reason to hate Alan, but [[IgnoredEpiphany keeps doing it anyway]].
* IronButtMonkey: Gumball is, to put it bluntly, [[NighInvulnerability indestructible]]. He's survived [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou falling off a cliff]], [[BarrierBustingBlow being punched through a wall]], and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being flushed down the toilet]].
* ItRunsInTheFamily: He orders his whole family around frantically to make his study date with Penny in "The Knights" perfect, showing he is capable of being just as neurotic, controlling and raging as his mom.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Gumball is oftentimes a selfish jerk towards others. In fact, he's probably the most self-obsessed out of all the main characters.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: 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... [[UnwantedAssistance Even when explicitly told not to]]. You can't say he isn't a good boyfriend, either, as Penny is [[MoralityPet the only person he has never been rude towards, no matter the circumstances]]. Even when he's bumbling or fouling things up, he never means it.
* JerkassToOne: He's generally a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but despises [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Alan]] and takes every opportunity to abuse him. Gumball will occasionally acknowledge having [[IrrationalHatred no good reason to hate Alan]], but keep doing it anyway as [[TallPoppySyndrome he hates that Alan is a kinder, more generous person than he could ever be]]. [[spoiler:Or at least that's how Alan acts like.]]
* {{Keet}}: Early on in the series, he is almost perpetually bright and energetic. This trait becomes less pronounced later on, as he becomes plenty capable of apathy and cynicism. In "The Origins" when he was a toddler, he was so hyper that his parents ''couldn't find the time to rest as long as he's active''. "The Gumball Chronicles" reveals that, while still acting like this, he could also be just as destructive as he is in the present, since he once tried chasing a toddler Leslie with a pair of scissors, implicitly to cut his bud off.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He tends to get this way about Anais most of the time, like in "The Parasite" where he attempts to poison Anais' [[spoiler:seemingly]] [[ToxicFriendInfluence toxic friend]] by poisoning her sandwich or in "The Rival" where in he fantasizes about football punting Kayvon, who he imagines as a toddler bully. This is played with however, as he also quickly deduces how irrational it sounds when he says it aloud.
* LikeParentLikeChild:
** From his father's side, being a slacker and EndearinglyDorky enough to touch the hearts of their respective romantic interests.
** From his mother's side, he's a lot more athletic, determined, and can have as much temper and strength as his mother than he realized deep down as long as he is motivated.
* LoserProtagonist: Lazy, irresponsible, unathletic, BookDumb to a sometimes dangerous degree, and usually falls victim to endless abuse each episode. Worsened in that he isn't ''enough'' of a deadbeat loser like his father, who can [[IdiotHoudini reverse it around in his favor]]. However, he's growing out of this in later seasons.
** Shown in a positive light in "The Name". The Wattersons believe that while he is a loser, it humbles Gumball a lot and he's a better person personality-wise because of it.
** Again, in "The Fridge". He's pretty much the lowest-achieving Watterson (according to the fridge chart anyways) but he is content with his life and feels no envy for the others. He ends up becoming the OnlySaneMan when the Wattersons become dangerously obsessed with being winners and ends up saving them before the whole family tears apart.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: A lot of Gumball's negative traits are things he has in common with his father.
* LovableCoward: Gumball may be frightened about a lot of things but it's pretty difficult to not feel bad when he gets in a more nasty situation than he's used to.
* MadeOfIron: It takes '''A LOT''' to fully stop Gumball, especially when he becomes a [[TheDeterminator Determinator]]. "The Virus" and "The Photo" effectively prove that Gumball's body is almost like clay. Can easily be warped and stretched, but hard to break.
* MasterOfYourDomain: Gumball claims to possess this in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E20TheVirus The Virus]]", and he proves it via AbnormalLimbRotationRange (which also involuntarily rearranges his internal organs and forces him to visit the infirmary).
* MommasBoy: Specially in "The Meddler". In general, Nicole is very protective of him.
* MotorMouth: In the Japanese dub, courtesy of [[Creator/JunkoTakeuchi his voice actress]]. He has his moments in the original English version too, such as in "The Schooling" when he tells Larry what he learned from taking his jobs for five minutes.
%%* MouthyKid: And ''how''! Zero context example.
* MrViceGuy: Gumball can be sarcastic, prideful even when he can't live up to his beliefs, envious especially around Alan, and unmotivated but he is overall loyal, is willing to help out of good intentions even unwarranted, and cares for his family and loved ones. Not to mention having his own moral compass after he realized his mistakes.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Out of all the characters in the entire series, he will appear nude the most to his embarrassment. Though ironically he is one of the few characters to wear clothes to begin with.
* {{Narcissist}}: Despite his underachieving, several episodes are based around Gumball going to extreme lengths to prove himself right for some trivial reason, purely to validate his own ego.
* NeatFreak: Gumball [[RunningGag occasionally]] looks ticked whenever he gets dirty and is known to adore taking showers while in "The Burden" he took a bath smiling.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He himself has assumed he doesn't have powers, but sometimes he gets temporary ones. For instance, he shapeshifts in his imagination song in "The Money" and transforms his head into a goat's in "The Advice" to call the Abraham Lincoln Goat.
* NewTransferStudent: He pretends to be one in "The Dress", going under the name [=GumballOopsEggWobbleUnderpants=].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: There are ''too many'' episodes to count where Gumball causes the main conflict of the plot.
* NoodlePeople: He is incredibly skinny, similar to Rob, Julius, Nicole, Larry, Gary, Hexagon Lady, and Miss Simian.
* NoSenseOfDirection: 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.
* ObliviousToHatred: He and Darwin worship the ground Mr. Robinson walks on, unable to understand all the obvious hints that he's a bitter, miserable old {{Jerkass}} who hates the Watterson family, especially Gumball and Darwin themselves, with a red-hot burning passion. It isn't until the events of "The Heart", near the ''very end'' of the series, that they finally get it.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Overlaps with BrilliantButLazy. It's often [[ImpliedTrope hinted]] that, for various reasons, including being too lazy to put in any more effort than is strictly necessary, Gumball intentionally portrays himself as much less capable than he actually is.
* OfficialCouple: With Penny.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Gumball" is actually a nickname, but until "The Name" nobody but Nicole knew his real first name was "Zach"--not even ''Gumball himself''. [[spoiler:Then "Zach" becomes a [[{{Jerkass}} intolerable]] SplitPersonality [[SplitPersonalityTakeover who tries to replace Gumball]], so he [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep legally changes his name to "Gumball"]] to get rid of him.]]
* OnlySaneMan: While he was a mix of this, being simply mischievous, hyperactive or stupid, this is slowly becoming his most seen side. The best example is in "The Fridge," being the only family member not worked up into a competitive spirit (started by his mother) and forced to bring the family back to normal.
* OrangeBlueContrast: The blue to Darwin's orange.
* ThePowerOfLove: It's apparently so powerful that [[spoiler: it's what allowed a young Darwin to grow lungs and legs just by Gumball's sheer determination and inability to give up on him coming home.]] Spoilered example aside, underneath his DeadpanSnarker attitude he is actually a pretty sweet kid who's more than willing to help where he can, and he has had a crush on Penny for a long time before finally winning her heart. Not to mention, [[spoiler:being able to appeal to Rob's good side in "The Rerun" to undo the events of "The Disaster".]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:After their BigDamnKiss at the end of "The Shell" he and Penny are now dating.]]
* RidiculousProcrastinator: He's puts off things like returning/replacing [=DVDs=], studying, and chores as long as possible. According to Nicole, his first sentence, said at the age of four, was "I'll do it tomorrow."
-->'''Darwin:''' You said you'd deal with it.\\
'''Gumball:''' I said I'd do it in a minute. You don't have to remind me every hour.
** Being squeaky clean is usually Gumball's highest priority over most of those.
* RubberMan: Gumball has been shown numerous times to be incredibly elastic. In "The Virus", he shows that he has complete control over his entire body to an unsettlingly complex degree...though he will unintentionally move his internal organs around, requiring him to go to Joan. In "The Wicked", he manages to stretch out his arm and extend it up through Mr. Robinson's shirt. "The Photo" also shows that his face is exceedingly malleable, with Darwin able to mold his lips into a mustache (and an infinitely repeating copy of his mustachioed face) as well as completely alter the bone and muscle structure of his face to give him a handsome face for his school picture.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Darwin's blue.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The more impulsive Manly Man to Darwin's naive Sensitive Guy.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: His screams are very high pitch, especially in the first season when his first actor's voice was cracking.
* SelectiveObliviousness: He's completely incapable of understanding that Mr. Robinson is a cantankerous old man who can't stand him ''or'' his family, even when the evidence is right in front of him.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Darwin and Carrie. [[spoiler:When they have their first OfficialCouple kiss, he smiles warmly and doesn't bother closing his eyes.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: The only girl that has stolen Gumball's heart: Penny Fitzgerald. When he needs to get a date in "The Party" but can't bring himself to ask Penny, he doesn't show romantic interest in any of the other girls he asks, instead treating it like some strange chore. He literally has eyes for no girl but Penny.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Early on Gumball is very vocal of his non-existent competence and ability, and how sincere he's being [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex is rather questionable]]. This tended to make him TheMillstone toward the smarter but less assertive Darwin, and a frequent subject to BreakTheHaughty. Later on, he's far more self-deprecating and aware of his own flaws, albeit seemingly [[DeadpanSnarker mocking everyone else]] a lot more to compensate. This trait still shows up occasionally; he's still particularly reluctant to acknowledge his own physical weakness.
** This trope is quite literal in ''"The One"'', where Gumball peels back the layers of his personality, and his ego is revealed to be a colossal blob-like EldritchAbomination
* SmartBall: [[AccidentalPun No Pun Intended]]. He is sometimes the OnlySaneMan, such as in "The Bus" (while everyone else gets the IdiotBall instead).
* StalkerWithoutACrush: "The Sale" shows him, alongside Darwin, to have an obsessive and stalker-esque HeroWorship of Mr. Robinson. When they find out Mr. Robinson is moving away, Gumball asks to take a lock of his hair to cook and eat so that Mr. Robinson will be a part of him forever.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: His level of physical fitness is ''heavily'' subject to the RuleOfFunny and RuleOfCool. He's stated to be in such terrible shape that he can't overpower a girl made of paper and his organs have a fit doing basic exercises, but when a ChaseScene happens he's perfectly capable of keeping up or even pulling LeParkour moves that rival his mother's and [[PlotPoweredStamina running for blocks without slowing down]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks almost exactly like a shorter version of his mother. Comparing how she looked at his age, the only difference besides clothes was that she was taller, usually has visible eyelashes, and her whiskers look different. In "The Plan" and "The Blame", he even tries to impersonate Nicole; the former was amazingly effective because he stood in a bush to obscure his height.
* SupportingProtagonist: In some episodes, like "The Butterfly" and "The Night".
* SuperPoweredEvilSide:
** Jealous Gumball in "The Flower", which was strong enough to [[FoeTossingCharge smash through giant football players]].
** Zach in "The Name", who supposedly succeeds at [[ButtonMashing almost]] everything Gumball fails at and [[CrazyPrepared "always thinks ahead"]]. However, he ''refuses'' to admit where he fails at unlike Gumball, but his ego is big enough to cloud such mistakes.
* SuperSpeed: When the plot calls for it, he's fast enough to set people on fire when he passes by them, such as "The Traitor" and "The Best". Otherwise, he's as fast as a normal kid his age.
* SupremeChef: 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. Also in "The Traitor" he singlehandedly prepares a rather impressive dish from a hodgepodge of ingredients.
** Though he did make a hilariously bad meal for Anais in "The Responsible" and tried to make a meatloaf out of bread crumbs, an onion, an egg and toothpaste in "The Downer", though it may have been RuleOfFunny at work.
* TallPoppySyndrome: Gumball can be both [[LazyBum very lazy]] and [[{{Pride}} very stubborn]]. This leads to him resenting when others, especially [[ParodySue Alan]], succeed when he's not even trying.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. He definitely doesn't seem to be as pleasant as Darwin and can be very rude & harsh towards others, especially to [[NiceGuy Alan]] and is frequently abrasive, but when it comes to his family, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he truly loves them]].
* TemporarilyAVillain: In "The Saint," Gumball becomes a VillainProtagonist, doing a series of increasingly cruel and harmful things to Alan solely to prove that Alan can't possibly be as perfect as he appears and that ''something'' must upset him, going so far as selling Alan's parents to Elmore's resident MonsterClown and showing Alan a tape of them being twisted into balloon animals; at this point, Darwin remarks that Gumball has long since crossed the line and will most likely go to prison.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "The Mustache" (which was in Season 1, when he was much more of a wimp), he becomes a grown man and throws a dodgeball at Tina. It makes her break the walls.
* TookALevelInCynic: There is a significant shift of optimism to cynic that hit him heavily ever since Season 2 rolled. Justified, he's been effectively TheChewToy since his debut.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In the early reel, he was able to make a complex plan to escape school, and even said that one was simplified. His intelligence was passed to Anais when the series started. Downplayed in that he does still [[DependingOnTheWriter occasionally]] demonstrate intelligence comparable to what he showed in the early reel and seems to practice ObfuscatingStupidity.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Gumball is almost as much a CheerfulChild as Darwin in the first season, and considerably more acerbic from the second season onward. Granted, even back then Gumball was repeatedly shown as [[InnocentlyInsensitive rude and destructive]], so it's more a shift in attitude than benevolence.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: Season 3 onwards has him be slightly less abrasive then he was in Season 2. He's still as snarky as ever, but not quite as bad as that season.
** Incredibly zig-zagged in Season 6 he's a lot closer to how he interacted with others in Season 1 being almost as sweet as he was then but also keeping up being a lazy, easily annoyed snarker at the same time.
* TookALevelInSmartass: Gumball was an energetic CheerfulChild in early episodes, but as of Season 2, he becomes more cynical and dabbles in CatsAreSnarkers quite frequently.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Inevitably but justifiably teaches Darwin to say anything that's on his mind. Of course [[GoneHorriblyRight it backfires just as much as it is successful]].
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: He's considerably shorter than Penny, though how much varies by the scene.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In "The Awkwardness", he mentions that ketchup is his favorite sauce.
* TwiceShy: His feelings for Penny are mutual, but both struggle to confess to each other. [[spoiler: As of "The Shell", they're official.]]
* UnfazedEveryman: He is perhaps the most normal person in Elmore. Or at the very least he is aware of all the weirdness that surrounds him and is quite comfortable with it.
-->'''Gumball:''' Wait a minute, this here's a talking, dancing banana who somehow has a butt. We go to school with a T-Rex, a ghost, a toast, and whatever Principal Brown is. Now who dares to say the world isn't amazing?
* UsedToBeASweetKid: "Origins" showed that the cynical, snarky Gumball was once a sweet, energetic toddler.
* VerbalTic: He tends to squeak, usually when he's yelling. Some of this just seems to be due to Logan Grove's voice cracking.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-flipped. Hurting or insulting Penny will get the same reaction to the point that in "The Shell", [[spoiler:he ''scathingly'' calls out her '''father''' for calling her a monster after she broke out of her shell and he actually agrees with Gumball that he was wrong.]] And in "The Test", he goes back to being his brutally blunt self after seeing Tobias who took over the show get close to his girlfriend and even unleashes his tirades on him in form of an ''acid attack which burns his face off''!
* VitriolicBestBuds: Gumball can have a pretty acerbic attitude toward all of his classmates but Darwin and Penny, yet most of them seem to consider him their friend. "The Return" has everyone worried over Darwin and Gumball's absence even though they all thought things were way nicer without them (''too'' nice even).
* VocalEvolution: His voice cracked a lot in the first season and, along with Darwin's, got deeper over the course of the first two seasons as his VA got older. His second voice actor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXF2kD1gv5g stated in an interview]] that his performance is specifically based off how he sounded in the second season.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Elmore is already pretty weird, but whenever something especially weird happens it always happens to him.
* WeakButSkilled: Often ends up playing this role when he has to fight someone. What he [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe usually]] lacks in physical strength,he makes up for by being both [[SuperSpeed physically]] and [[GuileHero mentally]] faster than any opponent he faces. That said he ''is'' shown to be capable of much greater physical strength than he's normally willing to exert,but seems to only let it out if he truly feels he has ''[[GodzillaThreshold no other choice]]''.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His odd (nick)name is sometimes commented on, most notably by Mr. Small in "The Banana".
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He has no problem dressing up like a girl if need be. Some examples would be in "The Tape", "The Meddler" and "The Worst".
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "AHHH, spider! Knock his block off!"
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: He missed the extreme luck he got from the eponymous hat in "The Helmet" and went insane with using its power once he got it back.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** When he becomes a full grown man in "The Mustache", he throws a dodgeball on Tina and launches her over the gym wall.
** He also slaps Jackie's hand in "The Spoiler".
** Overlaps with WouldHurtAChild in "The Faith", where he's implied to have beaten some little kids with a baseball bat, two of which were girls.
** When Gumball thinks Jodie is taking advantage of Anais, he tries to knock her out and then ''poison'' her.
** In "The Slide", he pushed Betty twice and the blue triangle woman once, and in "The Fan", he pushes Sarah many times.
* WouldHurtAChild: In "The Faith", it's implied he beat up a bunch of child scouts who tried to hold him up.
-->'''Gumball:''' Meh. Shame they didn't earn their self-defense badges either.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jake Pratt (Early reel), Kwesi Boakye (season 1–season three's "The Kids"); Terrell Ransom, Jr. (the end of season three's "The Kids"-the end of season five's "The Copycats"); Donielle T. Hansley, Jr. ("The Copycats"-"The Cage", with a small part on "The Anybody"), Christian J. Simon ("The Faith"[[note]]though "The Anybody" had a short joke that lampshaded the voice change[[/note]]-"The Inquisition", the "Darwin's Yearbook" mini-series), Creator/YumikoKobayashi (Japanese), Andrea Di Maggio (Italian; first voice), Creator/MauraCenciarelli (Italian; second voice)\\
'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition"
Gumball's ten-year-old [[UpliftedAnimal pet goldfish-turned-family member]] who sprouted legs, grew in size, and began to talk. Gumball and Darwin are seen as brothers (Darwin even calls Nicole "Mrs. Mom" and Richard "Mr. Dad") and attend the same school and class. Darwin is a bit naive due to his forced adaptation among the "normal" world, though he is more rational and moral than Gumball.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only clothing Darwin wears are shoes, and [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes he's the only one in his family who does so]] (though Anais wears socks and the shoes were Gumball's before he gave them to him). Lampshaded by how Darwin's feet will often be [[OurNudityIsDifferent subject to pixellation in the same way Gumball's crotch is]].
-->'''Darwin:''' That's all I have left to hide!
** Mentioned by Anais in "The Job", where she states that they've been wearing the same clothes for a year and that it's time for Darwin to start wearing pants.
** When series director Mic Graves was asked in an interview why Darwin didn't wear pants, he pointed out Darwin doesn't have any buttocks to put them on. Although Darwin actually [[SuddenAnatomy does have them, sometimes]].
* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] in [[BewareTheSillyOnes Season 2]].
* AllLovingHero: Darwin always tries to see the goodness in others and will often go out of his way to selflessly help those who are sad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ok, he's a goldfish, but he has a mild African American affect to his speech, no doubt owing to his voice actors being African American. His anthropomorphic counterpart in "The Shippening" is indeed black.
* AnthropomorphicTransformation: Started off as a regular pet fish for Gumball, but soon learned to talk after bonding with him, although it's implied that he was intelligent even before this. Eventually, he developed legs and lungs through sheer [[TheDeterminator determination]] to make his way back to Gumball after they were separated.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mostly averted. While he does get on Gumball's nerves sometimes, he's not that bad compared to other examples of this trope.
* ApologeticAttacker: On occasions where he is forced to get physical he will often do this such as in "The Copycats" where he fights his doppelganger.
* BackFromTheDead: Briefly after being killed off the show in "The Mirror", he was brought back as a revived corpse and went through an UnexplainedRecovery shortly afterwards. Later in the episode "The Rerun", he died in front of Gumball only to be brought back by Rob going back in time to prevent his death and anything else that occurred in the episode from ever happening.
* BadassPacifist:
** In "The Sweaters", he and Gumball both refuse to engage the Richwood High students in their idiocy, and ultimately "win" (in the sense of being the only ones who don't look like complete idiots) because they don't play along.
** In "The Loophole", Darwin managed to stop Bobert from destroying all of mankind by reminding him that one of his rules include protecting all life, even viruses like mankind.
* {{Bad Impressionist|s}}: On the phone with Nicole in "The Flakers", trying to impersonate Richard (while speaking in his own usual high voice) after discovering that he has escaped the house:
-->'''Nicole:''' Can you pass me onto him, please?\\
'''Darwin:''' Um, yeah... one minute!\\
''(clears throat and tries to impersonate Richard)''\\
'''Darwin:''' Hello, [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Mrs. Mom]], what's for dinner?\\
'''Nicole:''' ''[unconvinced)'' Really?\\
'''Darwin:''' ''[defeated]'' Y-ep.
* BadLiar: Neither he nor Gumball could resist darting their eyes to the side when lying to Anais. And in "The Plan" Darwin had to be given a script because of his difficulty to improvise when lying.
* BerserkButton:
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Carrie and Darwin. Carrie is a punk rock chick, a hardcore horror movie fan, with a fondness for gross smells and food eating sprees, and has a strong tendency to be a Deadpan Snarker. Meanwhile, Darwin is cheerful, similarly optimistic, and sensitive just like his adoptive father, and less edgy in personality. In "The Drama" Carrie is shown to like cool, heavy music that literally melts people's faces off, while Darwin likes softer music, like a band called "The Lollipuppies".
** He's also this to Nicole, who's short-tempered and skilled in fighting.
** He's also this to Nicole, who's short-tempered and skilled in fighting.
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* DirtyCoward: Several times, Darwin refuses to be the one to tell someone something negative about them, not because he wants to be nice, but because ''he'' refuses to be the one responsible for doing it. Even when Gumball tries being BrutallyHonest anyway, Darwin immediately doubles down and forces Gumball to shut his mouth so that ''he'' doesn't get blamed by proxy.
** In "The Advice", in a mix of NeverMyFault, Darwin refuses to tell Mr. Small about the damage "his advice" did to the school, even when it was Darwin being LiteralMinded about said advice that caused said damage. When Gumball calls him out on refusing to say anything, Darwin outright says he "refuses to be the kid who breaks his positive spirit", and regularly contradicts Gumball when he tries to call Mr. Small's advice negative in any way.
** In "The Stories", despite agreeing that Molly's stories are [[TheBore horrifically boring]], he chickens out on telling her when Gumball tries making him, forcing Gumball to say it. After that, every time Gumball tries to say anything negative about Molly's stories, Darwin either shuts his mouth or immediately tries to spin Gumball's words into something positive, telling Gumball he doesn't have "the heart" to hurt her feelings... but is perfectly fine passing the burden onto someone else before realizing everyone ''already'' passed it off to him and Gumball and subsequently let Jamie maim them with a dodgeball to avoid having it passed back to them.
** In "The Advice", in a mix of NeverMyFault, Darwin refuses to tell Mr. Small about the damage "his advice" did to the school, even when it was Darwin being LiteralMinded about said advice that caused said damage. When Gumball calls him out on refusing to say anything, Darwin outright says he "refuses to be the kid who breaks his positive spirit", and regularly contradicts Gumball when he tries to call Mr. Small's advice negative in any way.
** In "The Stories", despite agreeing that Molly's stories are [[TheBore horrifically boring]], he chickens out on telling her when Gumball tries making him, forcing Gumball to say it. After that, every time Gumball tries to say anything negative about Molly's stories, Darwin either shuts his mouth or immediately tries to spin Gumball's words into something positive, telling Gumball he doesn't have "the heart" to hurt her feelings... but is perfectly fine passing the burden onto someone else before realizing everyone ''already'' passed it off to him and Gumball and subsequently let Jamie maim them with a dodgeball to avoid having it passed back to them.
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* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inverted with her and Nicole. Anais loves playing with dolls and can be rather socially awkward while Nicole has a short temper and skills in karate.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Nicole's Tomboy.
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* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inverted with her and Anais. Nicole has a short temper and skills in karate while Anais loves playing with dolls and can be rather socially awkward.
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** In "The Pet", he largely advocated for Gumball being nice to Evil Turtle, regularly chastising him and acting condescending when Gumball was rightfully afraid of it, only to try and beat the shit out of it when it dragged him to the bottom of a lake to chew on later, requiring Gumball pull him away before the Awesome Store blew up, Darwin even saying SeeYouInHell when it looked like it died.
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** In "The Pet", Puppy", he largely advocated for Gumball being nice to Evil Turtle, regularly chastising him and acting condescending when Gumball was rightfully afraid of it, only to try and beat the shit out of it when it dragged him to the bottom of a lake to chew on later, requiring Gumball pull him away before the Awesome Store blew up, Darwin even saying SeeYouInHell when it looked like it died.
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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: In "The Wicked", he insists nobody's truly evil, and he spends the episode trying to prove that Mrs. Robinson has some good in her. [[spoiler:He changes his mind when he makes Mrs. Robinson think he's choking, and ''she just smiles and watches''.]]
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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: In "The Wicked", he insists nobody's truly evil, and he spends the episode trying to prove that Mrs. Robinson has some good in her. [[spoiler:He He changes his mind when he makes Mrs. Robinson think he's choking, choking before choking for real, and ''she just smiles and watches''.]]
* MoralMyopia: Darwin has a bad habit of not being able to practice what he preaches, lashing out when he is the one directly affected, and more often than not to DisproportionateRetribution levels.
** In "The Banana", he was content telling Gumball to TurnTheOtherCheek when it looked like Banana Joe chewed his pen, only to lose it when Joe accidentally trashed his desk and homework, vandalizing Joe's locker and belongings, then trying to beat the crap out of Joe when in Mr. Small's office while Gumball struggled to hold him back.
** In "The Pet", he largely advocated for Gumball being nice to Evil Turtle, regularly chastising him and acting condescending when Gumball was rightfully afraid of it, only to try and beat the shit out of it when it dragged him to the bottom of a lake to chew on later, requiring Gumball pull him away before the Awesome Store blew up, Darwin even saying SeeYouInHell when it looked like it died.
** In "The Wicked", Darwin repeatedly insists that there is good in everyone, even the blatantly vile Mrs. Robinson, and goes to repeated lengths to prove it, even attempting to fake choking before actually choking for real on a plastic toy, stopping Gumball from helping him ''just'' so Mrs. Robinson could. When she doesn't and instead just sadistically watches him nearly choke to death, he ''snaps'', calling her pure evil and taking it upon himself to make her pay.
** In "The Banana", he was content telling Gumball to TurnTheOtherCheek when it looked like Banana Joe chewed his pen, only to lose it when Joe accidentally trashed his desk and homework, vandalizing Joe's locker and belongings, then trying to beat the crap out of Joe when in Mr. Small's office while Gumball struggled to hold him back.
** In "The Pet", he largely advocated for Gumball being nice to Evil Turtle, regularly chastising him and acting condescending when Gumball was rightfully afraid of it, only to try and beat the shit out of it when it dragged him to the bottom of a lake to chew on later, requiring Gumball pull him away before the Awesome Store blew up, Darwin even saying SeeYouInHell when it looked like it died.
** In "The Wicked", Darwin repeatedly insists that there is good in everyone, even the blatantly vile Mrs. Robinson, and goes to repeated lengths to prove it, even attempting to fake choking before actually choking for real on a plastic toy, stopping Gumball from helping him ''just'' so Mrs. Robinson could. When she doesn't and instead just sadistically watches him nearly choke to death, he ''snaps'', calling her pure evil and taking it upon himself to make her pay.
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** In "The Sidekick", Darwin laments that he is seen as Gumball's sidekick and believes that he is capable of taking charge for once. Gumball (rather insensetively) insensitively) says that he can't handle the responsibility. He is proven right when Darwin's idea of making Tobias give back their game is to ''kidnap'' his mother; Gumball outright calls him a psycho for doing so.
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* TheComicallySerious: She’s surprisingly more calm, serious and mature than the rest of her family, which is a bit hilarious since she’s only four years old. She still has childish tendencies, despite her intelligence.
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* HolierThanThou: In many episodes Darwin tends to take on a more self-righteous attitude, trying to enforce his morals onto Gumball despite him being completely off base in regards to his beliefs.
** "The Wicked" has him adamant that there is good in everyone, and that Mrs. Robinson is NotEvilJustMisunderstood while making an effort to find the good in her. This is in spite of Gumball trying to point out she is devoid of good and the ''numerous'' moments of Mrs. Robinson doing horrible things to the point of being heartless, only conceding after he nearly chokes to death from a poorly thought out plan to prove she's good, by which point he takes it upon himself to try and make her pay, only resulting in him and Gumball being arrested for ''her'' crimes.
** "The Girlfriend" has him refuse to correct Jamie on her toxic beliefs about being a girlfriend or show any fear to her, adamant she has to [[FigureItOutYourself learn the lesson on her own]]. He also refuses to let ''Gumball'' say anything either, even as her actions terrorize the school and even cause bodily harm to Richard, and she only stops after Gumball becomes her second "boyfriend" and he actually makes clear how terrified he is to her, Darwin getting beat up by Jamie once she realizes what he was doing and seeing it as CondescendingCompassion.
** "The Revolt" has him become a SoapboxSadie over how the objects of Elmore are treated like... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin objects]]. He's the ''only'' one with a problem though, since the objects themselves don't mind, and Gumball repeatedly points out the flaws in his logic, the objects only "revolting" once they learn about how they're discarded when broken, upon which they overthrow Elmore and force the citizens to act like objects themselves. Only after he's been reduced to a pencil sharpener and about to suffer an AssShove does Darwin admit his self-righteousness was poorly thought out.
** "The Wicked" has him adamant that there is good in everyone, and that Mrs. Robinson is NotEvilJustMisunderstood while making an effort to find the good in her. This is in spite of Gumball trying to point out she is devoid of good and the ''numerous'' moments of Mrs. Robinson doing horrible things to the point of being heartless, only conceding after he nearly chokes to death from a poorly thought out plan to prove she's good, by which point he takes it upon himself to try and make her pay, only resulting in him and Gumball being arrested for ''her'' crimes.
** "The Girlfriend" has him refuse to correct Jamie on her toxic beliefs about being a girlfriend or show any fear to her, adamant she has to [[FigureItOutYourself learn the lesson on her own]]. He also refuses to let ''Gumball'' say anything either, even as her actions terrorize the school and even cause bodily harm to Richard, and she only stops after Gumball becomes her second "boyfriend" and he actually makes clear how terrified he is to her, Darwin getting beat up by Jamie once she realizes what he was doing and seeing it as CondescendingCompassion.
** "The Revolt" has him become a SoapboxSadie over how the objects of Elmore are treated like... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin objects]]. He's the ''only'' one with a problem though, since the objects themselves don't mind, and Gumball repeatedly points out the flaws in his logic, the objects only "revolting" once they learn about how they're discarded when broken, upon which they overthrow Elmore and force the citizens to act like objects themselves. Only after he's been reduced to a pencil sharpener and about to suffer an AssShove does Darwin admit his self-righteousness was poorly thought out.
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* AgeGapRomance: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Louie is 72 years old, with Granny Jojo, his new wife, being nine years younger than him at 63. The difference is negligible though considering they're already in a DecemberDecemberRomance.
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* DivergentCharacterEvolution: When originally part of the seniors group, he didn't have much distinguishing himself from the rest of them, being a ScatterbrainedSenior and acting somewhat crotchety. After marrying Jojo and joining the Watterson family, he distinguishes himself from his friends by showing himself to be a CoolOldGuy, being very calm and hard to anger, but also a bit of a [[RamblingOldManMonologue rambler]].
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Heavily {{downplayed|Trope}}. He's 72 years old, but looks and acts just as old as his friend Marvin, who is described as an "octogenarian" in "The Watch", and called "ninety-something" by Darwin in "The Faith", making him likely in his late eighties.
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* WorthyOpponent: Downplayed in "The Detective". While she's obviously cross with [[spoiler: Darwin]] for [[spoiler: mistakenly throwing Daisy in the trash]], when she speaks about how he "played her", her tone implies genuine admiration for that fact.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. Nicole is sincerely a NiceGirl and she does love her family, and sincerely wants to befriend the residents of Elmore [[JerkassToOne (except those she hates)]], but she masks her HairTriggerTemper with that kind personality most of the time she's given focus, and when someone pushes her too much, she instantly turns to a violent rage. She's also shown herself to be an AbusiveMom on occasion.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. Nicole is sincerely a NiceGirl and she does love her family, and sincerely wants to befriend the residents of Elmore [[JerkassToOne (except those she hates)]], but she masks her HairTriggerTemper with that kind personality most of the time she's given focus, and when someone pushes her too much, she instantly turns to a violent rage. She's also shown herself to be an AbusiveMom on occasion.occasion, and [[NotSoAboveItAll can be just as much of a troublemaker]] as [[ItRunsInTheFamily Gumball]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. Nicole is sincerely a NiceGirl and she does love her family, and sincerely wants to befriend the residents of Elmore [[JerkassToOne (except those she hates)]], but she masks her HairTriggerTemper with that kind personality most of the time she's given focus, and when someone pushes her too much, she instantly turns to a violent rage. She's also shown herself to be an AbusiveMom on occasion.
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* AbusiveMom: Sometimes she can be this despite usually being the OnlySaneMan. She leaves Gumball alone in a desert at one point in her well-meaning but insane attempt to mold Gumball into a winner (though this was the episode where Gumball was OnlySaneMan here.) Another has her refuse to provide for Gumball and Darwin (including food and running water) after the two upset Richard through BrutalHonesty. Her children are so scared of her that, in the episode "The Quest," Gumball and Darwin agree without hesitation that they'd rather face [[TheBully Tina Rex]] than to incur Nicole's wrath.
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** Sometimes she can be this despite usually being the OnlySaneMan. She leaves Gumball alone in a desert at one point in her well-meaning but insane attempt to mold Gumball into a winner (though this was the episode where Gumball was OnlySaneMan here.) Another has her refuse to provide for Gumball and Darwin (including food and running water) after the two upset Richard through BrutalHonesty. Her children are so scared of her that, in the episode "The Quest," Gumball and Darwin agree without hesitation that they'd rather face [[TheBully Tina Rex]] than to incur Nicole's wrath. This is largely [[CharacterizationMarchesOn phased out by Season 3]] in favor of her just having anger issues, with her kids just more afraid of pissing her off than her actually hurting them.
** Sometimes she can be this despite usually being the OnlySaneMan. She leaves Gumball alone in a desert at one point in her well-meaning but insane attempt to mold Gumball into a winner (though this was the episode where Gumball was OnlySaneMan here.) Another has her refuse to provide for Gumball and Darwin (including food and running water) after the two upset Richard through BrutalHonesty. Her children are so scared of her that, in the episode "The Quest," Gumball and Darwin agree without hesitation that they'd rather face [[TheBully Tina Rex]] than to incur Nicole's wrath. This is largely [[CharacterizationMarchesOn phased out by Season 3]] in favor of her just having anger issues, with her kids just more afraid of pissing her off than her actually hurting them.
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* TheAce: She pretty excels at anything she tries. This is best shown in "The Choices" where its revealed had she never met Richard she would have gone on to ruling the world! Or at the very least, that's what she imagines.
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* TheAce: She pretty much excels at anything she tries. This is best shown in "The Choices" where its revealed had she never met Richard she would have gone on to ruling the world! Or at the very least, that's what she imagines.
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For Want Of A Nail isn't a trope anymore and I tried to get rid of all Administrivia.Chained Sinkholes.
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* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes in Season 2]].
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* ActualPacifist: Darwin claims to be a "[[{{Pun}} Pacifish]]" in the first season. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This changes]] in [[BewareTheSillyOnes in Season 2]].
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Gumball's sister, a genius four-year-old [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink]] [[FunnyAnimal rabbit]]. Due to her high intelligence, she attends Gumball and Darwin's middle school as well, one grade ''higher'' than them. Despite her competency, she still displays some traits of a typical four-year old.
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Gumball's sister, a genius four-year-old [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink]] [[FunnyAnimal pink rabbit]]. Due to her high intelligence, she attends Gumball and Darwin's middle school as well, one grade ''higher'' than them. Despite her competency, she still displays some traits of a typical four-year old.
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The maternal member of the Watterson family (and a [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue]] [[FunnyAnimal cat]] like 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 and/or husband).
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The maternal member of the Watterson family (and a [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue]] [[FunnyAnimal blue cat]] like 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 and/or husband).
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* CatsAreSuperior: A [[ControlFreak very]] [[KillerRabbit literal]] [[{{Workaholic}} example]].
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* CatsAreSuperior: A [[ControlFreak very]] [[KillerRabbit literal]] very]] literal [[{{Workaholic}} example]].
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** In "The Choices", it turns out that her parents have been abusive in controlling her life. She gets her ControlFreak and CompetitionFreak nature from her mother, who is a ''staunch'' perfectionist and doesn't show love for her, only wanting success. It's no wonder Nicole fell in love with Richard, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe who showed kindness to her]] and liked her for being herself, otherwise Nicole would have been [[GoneHorriblyRight everything her mother wanted]] [[EvilOverlord and much worse]]. Her HairTriggerTemper, meanwhile, comes from her father. Furthermore, her ControlFreak tendencies could also be a way of asserting the newfound liberty that Richard had showed her, it's just channeled aggressively because of her background.
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** In "The Choices", it turns out that her parents have been abusive in controlling her life. She gets her ControlFreak and CompetitionFreak nature from her mother, who is a ''staunch'' perfectionist and doesn't show love for her, only wanting success. It's no wonder Nicole fell in love with Richard, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe who showed kindness to her]] and liked her for being herself, otherwise Nicole would have been [[GoneHorriblyRight everything her mother wanted]] and [[EvilOverlord and much worse]]. Her HairTriggerTemper, meanwhile, comes from her father. Furthermore, her ControlFreak tendencies could also be a way of asserting the newfound liberty that Richard had showed her, it's just channeled aggressively because of her background.
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* UnstoppableRage: She's plenty strong and athletic by default, but when she's angry, she gets [[SuperStrength superhuman strength]] and [[RuleOfFunny sometimes]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands other, stranger abilities]] (like melting objects and reducing grown men to tears by staring at them). In "The Club", she even has to ''ask'' her family to enrage her somehow so she can pull a locked door open.
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* UnstoppableRage: She's plenty strong and athletic by default, but when she's angry, she gets [[SuperStrength superhuman strength]] and [[RuleOfFunny sometimes]] other, stranger [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands other, stranger abilities]] (like melting objects and reducing grown men to tears by staring at them). In "The Club", she even has to ''ask'' her family to enrage her somehow so she can pull a locked door open.
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Gumball's father and Nicole's [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink]] [[FunnyAnimal 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, but she's not home a lot, so Richard's often the only one available.
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Gumball's father and Nicole's [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink]] [[FunnyAnimal pink 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, but she's not home a lot, so Richard's often the only one available.
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** He was also this to his wife Nicole, as seen in "The Choices". In flashbacks when they were children, it turns out she would've been prone to [[GoneHorriblyWrong making horrible life choices brought on by other people]] [[ForWantOfANail if they hadn't met]], and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he wouldn't have inspired her to live a good and happy life her own way.]]
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** He was also this to his wife Nicole, as seen in "The Choices". In flashbacks when they were children, it turns out she would've been prone to [[GoneHorriblyWrong making horrible life choices brought on by other people]] [[ForWantOfANail if they hadn't met]], met, and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he wouldn't have inspired her to live a good and happy life her own way.]]
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Richard's mother, another [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink]] [[FunnyAnimal rabbit.]] She is overprotective of Richard, antagonistic towards Nicole, and a pretty bad care-taker to Gumball, Darwin, and Anais.
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Richard's mother, another [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink]] [[FunnyAnimal pink rabbit.]] She is overprotective of Richard, antagonistic towards Nicole, and a pretty bad care-taker to Gumball, Darwin, and Anais.
