| “ | What the what?! | „ |
| ~ Gumball's catchphrase. |
| “ | Gumball: HOW CAN YOU NOT BE ANGRY AFTER ALL I'VE DONE TO YOU?! *Gasps* After all I've done to you. I made you lose all your friends, your girlfriend, sold your parents. Even worse, I ate your last meatball -- all of this to prove you can be just as bad as me? Could it be that… that… that I was wrong? Darwin: IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION?! Gumball: Oh thanks man, I almost doubted myself there. |
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| ~ Gumball Watterson reflecting on his treatment of Alan, "The Saint." |
Gumball Tristopher Watterson is the titular main protagonist of The Amazing World of Gumball, an animated series by Cartoon Network.
He is a student at Elmore Junior High, along with his adoptive younger brother, Darwin, and his younger sister, Anais. He is also the son of Richard and Nicole Watterson, Penny Fitzgerald's boyfriend, and Rob's arch-nemesis. He is a fun-loving, impulsive, mischievous blue cat, but despite generally having good intentions, his unpredictability has led to him committing numerous heinous acts in the series.
He is voiced by Logan Grove from seasons 1-3 (until "The Kids"), Jacob Hopkins from seasons 3-5 (until "The Copycats"), Nicolas Cantu from seasons 5-6, and currently Duke Cutler.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
In General[]
- He is very self-centered and egotistical, often only acting nice to others for self-benefit or approval.
- In fact, it was even shown in "The One" that his ego is literally bigger than his house.
- He constantly manipulates vulnerable characters, such as Bobert and Hector, under the guise of friendship.
- He shows irrational hatred towards Alan, who is very charitable and always sees the best in everyone, for very petty reasons, mostly due to trying to make himself feel better about his own flaws.
- He also frequently engages in rivalries with characters like Tobias, Leslie, and even his own family members for similarly pointless reasons.
- Sometimes he belittles his own family members, especially Darwin, whom he exploits for his occasional naivety and lack of independence.
- Coinciding with this, while Darwin often participates in Gumball's heinous actions, Gumball is the main instigator and culprit due to Darwin being roped in unwillingly and often criticizing Gumball for his behavior.
- He is highly chaotic and impulsive, which often causes him to make poor and reprehensible decisions without thinking of the consequences.
Season 1[]
- In "The Responsible," he, along with Darwin, are revealed to have racked up a huge bill through all the damage they caused around the school, including somehow managing to set fire to a swimming pool.
- In "The Debt," in his attempts to save Mr. Robinson’s life, he ends up endangering him multiple times, such as performing the Heimlich maneuver on him with such intensity he spat out his own heart, and using a defibrillator on him even after seeing that he was still alive, stating that he was better safe than sorry.
- In "The Laziest," he (along with Darwin) causes Larry to get fired from all of his jobs, provokes him into launching his car off a cliff, and makes his fiancé break up with him just so he could beat Richard in a "lazy-off" contest.
- In "The Ghost," he lets Richard get possessed by Carrie to fuel her cravings for food, all while knowing how unpleasant it was having experienced it himself.
- In "The Prank," he pranks his own father, Richard, in a very cruel manner by stranding him in the middle of the ocean with nothing to eat besides his own clothes.
- However, he later felt remorseful for it and made up for it by letting Richard prank him and Darwin back.
- In "The Picnic," his idiocy leads to him getting Darwin lost in the forest of doom, where he also throws away Darwin’s food and has him eat a rock, all while scolding him to tears despite the entire situation being his own fault.
- In “The Secret," it is revealed that he took a creepy picture and put it into Darwin’s school book to frame him for creating it, resulting in Darwin being sent to counseling, losing his entire summer, and being put into an isolation tank.
- In the same episode, he uses spicy food to torture Darwin into telling him his secret, only relenting when Darwin’s mouth literally caught on fire, and also locks himself and Darwin in the school bathroom to force him to reveal the secret, causing them to have to go through the sewers to escape.
- In "The Sock," he and Darwin leave Mr. Small trapped inside a filing cabinet because they were afraid of the "Silence Snake." Granted, Mr. Small had emotionally manipulated them into fearing the snake.
- This incident has been shown in future episodes to have given Mr. Small claustrophobia.
- In “The Mustache," he recklessly drives without having a license, endangering two other cars in the process.
- In “The Car,” it's shown that one of his previous games of Dodj or Daar resulted in him and Darwin setting their house on fire.
- In "The Club," after he is defeated by the Rejects Club (Colin, Felix, Bobert and Ocho), he and his family tie them up, tape their mouths, throw them in the trunk of their car and suggest cruel punishments for them, with Gumball who ultimately decides on dropping them off naked at the mall.
- While the members did deserve some form of punishment for attempting to humiliate Gumball, kidnapping his fellow classmates and implying that he and his family forcefully stripped them and left them in a public area is far too harsh over a poorly made school record video.
Season 2[]
- In “Halloween.” he and Darwin frame Larry for being a wanted criminal, resulting in him being arrested.
- They also harass numerous other people around Elmore, including Tina, whom they possess and face planted into the sidewalk before bailing, along with Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson.
- In "The Flower," under Jealousy's influence, he tries to kill Leslie after falsely believing he is in a relationship with Penny, and later glues him to a bench before covering him in herbivorous insects, which begin to eat him.
- However, his moral agency is somewhat impaired as, over the course of the episode, he becomes less and less in control of himself due to a sentient manifestation of his jealousy possessing his body.
- In "The Job," he and Darwin accidentally drop the Pepperoni family's infant pizza child and killed it.
- In "The Bet," he abuses Bobert in "slave mode" after losing a bet by having him perform various humiliating tasks, such as embarrassing himself in the infirmary or trying to have him divide by zero, which causes him to freak out. His carelessness also inadvertently cause Bobert to shoot lasers at Mr. Small and eventually try and terminate Gumball, which Darwin is caught in the middle of.
- Later, when Darwin insists Gumball stop him from self-destructing and obliterating the two of them, with Darwin trapped behind a fallen bookshelf, Gumball's only plan is to run out of the library and leave Darwin alone. When this is met with disapproval, he wastes time without devising a plan. At the very end of the episode, he is implied to have started another bet with Bobert, therefore not learning his lesson.
- In "The Bumpkin," he tries to live by Idaho's Amish lifestyle, but when he cannot bring himself to do so, he manipulates his family into doing it while secretly having parties with junk food, video games, technology, etc., at night.
- He also convinces Idaho to indulge, causing him to get severely ill, even nearing death, because he cannot handle Gumball's lifestyle.
- In "The Hero," after his mockery of his father causes a rift in their relationship, he pettily refuses to make amends with him and doubles down on what he said.
- Later, when Darwin orchestrates a scenario so that Richard can feel like a hero and save the two from a dangerous predicament, Gumball constantly mocks him for his failure, even though he is trying to save them.
- In "The Dream," he became irrationally angry at Darwin for kissing Penny in a dream, even though it never happened in real life, and also attempted to throttle him on multiple occasions because of it.
- In the same episode, he feeds Penny a blueberry cupcake despite her insisting that she didn't want it, which caused her to swell up due to her blueberry allergy, and when she told him to get her orange pills, he ended up giving her a container of blue thumbtacks.
- In "The Tag," however well-intentioned, he still locked Mr. Robinson and Richard, who are on house arrest, into a garbage can to try and force them to make amends by finding their way out together.
- This eventually caused them to get tased by the Donut Cop.
- In "The Limit," he, along with Darwin, Richard, and Anais, harassed Nicole at the store all day by throwing tantrums, giving her an unwanted "makeover," and getting her tackled by customers, which eventually drove caused her to go into a flying rage, all because she wouldn't give them a treat from the supermarket.
- In "The Promise," he manipulated Darwin into bailing on Banana Joe, whom he was looking to make amends with by helping him make a video, and insisted that he is being a disloyal brother in doing so, even causing Darwin to land on a pile of bricks when he tries to depart for Banana Joe.
- Darwin's absence caused Banana Joe to fail his workout video and become horribly injured and disemboweled as a result.
- In the same episode, Gumball mentioned the following in attempt to understand why Banana Joe was initially angry at the Watterson brothers:
- They didn't defend Banana Joe when Tobias said his mother was so overripe that she had fruit flies.
- They left him at a gas station on the way to DaisyLand on his birthday, but because they were so close to their destination, they decided to just pick him up on the way back.
- They forgot about him on a camping trip, which forced him to sleep under a tent of his own skin and eat a bit of himself to survive. Then, he waited for three days in the woods, but then decided to walk home and got lost. Later, winter came, and he tried to light a fire with the "lighter fluid" that they sent him, but it was actually shampoo. Finally, he got frostbite as a result, which is revealed to be the reason he has no feet.
- In "The Boombox," he was completely insensitive to Juke, who is trying to communicate to him and Darwin through music, and begins mocking him for his culture and inability to speak in English.
- At one point, he even chained him to a water fountain to avoid him.
- In "The Finale," in order to help pay off an $800,000 debt to the town of Elmore that was accumulated through the Wattersons' reckless actions throughout the series, Gumball and Darwin disguised themselves as Bobert and Alan in order to receive money for a made-up British boarding school.
- After running from the police for this, getting arrested, but ultimately escaping prison, Gumball and Darwin compressed Mr. Small into a tiny envelope and shipped him to the smallest country on Earth because he sued them for giving him claustrophobia.
Season 3[]
- In “The Fan”, he repeatedly assaulted and obliterated Sara while running, with all of it being targeted at her head.
- The same episode also reveals that he, alongside Darwin, somehow caused the entire Rainbow Factory to explode.
- In "The Recipe," he violently murdered Anton fifty times in a row to figure out why he always comes back to life. This included, but was not limited to:
- Crushing him with a bowling ball.
- Giving him a heart attack.
- Replacing him as the bread on Tobias' sandwich, causing him to get eaten.
- Shredding him in a paper shredder.
- Blowing him up.
- Crushing him with a door.
- Launching a baseball through his face.
- Getting him stomped on by Tina.
- Getting him consumed by birds.
- In the same episode, he shows a complete disregard for Anton's autonomy and the rules of nature by cloning him over and over. This also inadvertently gets all of the Anton clones murdered by Ant-One, whom he also callously threw in the trash after discovering he was burnt.
- In “The Password”, he and Darwin attempted to become Richard’s favorite kids, endangering him numerous times in doing so:
- Feeding him a massive sandwich that fills up his entire body and causes him to choke, along with having mayonnaise pour out of his nostrils and eyes.
- Setting up a bath surrounded by candles that accidentally lit him on fire, only for him to try and cool off in the water that is revealed to be scorching hot, so much so that it burns his skin red.
- Trapping him in a car with an aggressive dog, only to cause him to get hit by a car by throwing a piece of meat in front of one that Richard tries to catch.
- Attempting to sabotage Anais by editing pieces of footage of her to make it look like she's saying hurtful things about Richard.
- Also, when Richard gets fed up with their recklessness and rightfully grounds them, Gumball tries to justify his actions and hurtfully calls Richard his second-favorite family member.
- In “The Mothers," Gumball, alongside Darwin, Banana Joe and Tobias, though the last is revealed to be conspiring and cheating with his mother, put their mothers through various dangerous challenges at the Elmore Mall to see who is the best. This results in the following:
- Banana Barbara getting a can chucked at her head numerous times, along with her shattering into pieces, getting squished by an elevator, getting obliterated by a revolving door, getting crushed by a piano that catches on fire, getting hit with a shopping cart, and eating hot sauce that causes her backside to explode.
- Nicole sprinting across an accelerating escalator, jumping across people's heads before getting launched through the roof of the mall, and braving other comparatively minor obstacles as well.
- In “The Friend”, he helped Darwin and Anais setup traps that severely injure and mutilate the police so that they'll leave Anais’s friend alone, resulting in the coffee cup getting impaled from the bottom, the burger cop getting decapitated, and the hot dog cop getting sliced into several pieces.
- In "The Void," he was initially going to bail on rescuing Molly from the titular dimension due to his cowardice, claiming, "and if the world decided she was a mistake, then who are we to-" before getting cut off.
- In "The Move," he tried to frame another student for knocking out Tobias when it was his, Darwin's, and Clayton's doing, inadvertently dropping him out of a window in the process.
- He and Darwin also decide it would be funnier if he was framed for getting knocked out by a girl, even though this served no purpose in their plan to avoid consequences.
- In "The Saint," he tried to psychologically break Alan by framing him for cheating on Carmen and being xenophobic online, stealing his lunch to eat it in front of him, and even selling his parents to human trafficking so they could be contorted alive and used as balloon animals, which was excruciatingly painful for them.
- This was simply because he had nothing else to do that day, and also because he wanted to prove Alan could be broken to feel better about his own character flaws.
- In "The Society," he begun physically and even sexually harassing the students and staff members at Elmore Jr. High by looking for "membership tattoos" of a non-existent cult because he was paranoid.
- In "The Countdown," Gumball and Darwin began to cause a lot of mischief in Elmore after time is frozen:
- Gumball plopped Tony's ice cream on his head, and put his dog in place of his ice cream.
- He came across Sal Left Thumb carrying the Hexagon Lady's bag, with Gary watching in surprise. Gumball makes it so that Gary looks like he beat up Sal Left Thumb, and Hexagon Lady looks lovestruck, but shortly after, he puts lipstick on his mouth and pulls down his pants.
- He begun throwing candy balls at Pantsbully's mouth as a game. However, a tooth comes out, and as they are trying to fix it, they accidentally make it worse by pulling his arm off. They simply tuck it in his underwear and leave a "sorry" note.
- In "The Spoiler", he ate Anton alive and hit Rocky with a shovel to avoid them from spoiling a movie.
- He also tried to sell out Anais and Darwin when he got stuck in a seat. While Anais somewhat deserved it considering she tried to pirate the movie, Darwin didn't do anything wrong.
- In "The Nobody," he and Darwin convinced a lost, undefined, and pitiful Rob that the only purpose he can play in the world is that of a villain.
- In "The Money," purely out of his own pride and dignity, he refused to take the acting job at Joyful Burger, even though the entire world's animation began to deconstruct as a result of the Wattersons going broke.
- It's also important to remember that the own show was falling apart instead of just Elmore, which includes whole planets, stars and even the universe as they were shown to also be in the same show, and given how planets and stars are sentient like most objects in Elmore, and how pretty much almost everything in Gumball is sentient, that means Gumball endangered the lives of countless of people just for his own pride and "dignity" to not sell out.
Season 4[]
- In "The Nemesis," they persisted in helping Rob become a better villain and annoy him the entire day, even after he briefly gave up and wanted nothing to do with them.
- They also refused to help him fix the "Elmore dam" simply because he destroyed Darwin's cookies earlier.
- In “The Pest”, it's revealed Gumball messed up Anais's sunscreen so she'd look cursed so Nicole wouldn't love her more than him, and put stones in her pockets as a baby to stop her from growling taller than him.
- In the same episode, he attempted to use Teri, Carrie and Alan as human shields during his fight with Billy.
- In "The Sale," he and Darwin helped sabotage Mr. Robinson's house sale because they want him to stay in Elmore.
- Later, Gumball inadvertently covered his house in raw sewage under the impression that it was oil.
- In "The Parking," Gumball accidentally stabbed the milk carton guy with his car keys, and when he tried to fix it, he caused him to start "bleeding out" his milk. Afterwards, he ran away from the scene.
- In “The Romantic”, he sent Penny on a treasure hunt that endangers her multiple times by feeding her blueberry, leaving her stranded in a desert, leaving her with dangerous chemicals, riding with Rocky who crashes the bus into the school, and leaving her to fight predators in the forest.
- In "The Hug," he tried to strike revenge against Hot Dog Guy by turning down the heat while he was showering to shrink him, and even pressured him into eating a hot dog, his own kind.
- In “The Advice," during Mr. Small’s song, he summoned the Abraham Lincoln goat causing several people to get seriously injured.
- In the same episode, he, alongside Darwin, tried to cheer up the victims of Mr. Small's advice, but ended up making cruel jokes, destroying all of the medical equipment, tearing Teri in half and blowing up Tobias.
- In “The Parasite," believing Anais’s new friend is taking advantage of her, he attempted to kill her by poisoning her with a contaminated sandwich.
- Richard accidentally ate this sandwich instead, which left him incapacitated and extremely ill while trying to call 911.
- In “The Roots”, he followed the advice in a book about plants, believing it to be about fish, and buried Darwin alive.
- In the same episode, he chucked a walkie talkie into a pond that electrocutes and kills all of the fish.
- In "The Traitor," he performed surgery on Alan and his mother without consent, and when he botched it by causing his mom to talk out of her balloon knot, he chastised Alan for being "ungrateful".
- In the same episode, Darwin mentioned when Alan apologized to Gumball for making him feel bad over his lackluster Christmas gift, he roundhouse kicked him. After Alan said not to worry about it because his father would fix it, Gumball tried to pop him with a pencil.
- Gumball also sped across town and obliterated four people and a dog in the process by running through them and blowing them up.
- In the hospital, Gumball accidentally knocked out Alan’s father Dexter and pops his uncle Phil, and later equipped his remains on his hand like a glove by mistake.
- In "The Bus," he popped Alan just because he was trying to encourage everyone to not skip school, not to mention the many other times he popped Alan for little to no reason.
- In "The Slap," he sexually harassed Tobias over and over because he wants the latter to slap his butt, and even tricked him into coming to the roof of the school under the impression that he would meet Masami there. This inadvertently gets the two of them trapped for days, nearly dying as a result.
- In "The Scam," he and Carrie helped scam the entire school by staging a Gargaroth haunting, for which they would receive candy from each victim that they "save."
- Later in the episode, Gumball was extremely reluctant to stop Gargaroth from destroying the world and forcing Carrie into marriage just because he wanted a single lollipop, which was a necessary "hero's sacrifice" to stop Gargaroth.
Season 5[]
- In "The Guy," he and Darwin harassed Anais' new friend, Josh, all day, looking for dirt on him as they cannot believe that a normal person would want to be friends with their sister. While they were proven right in being suspicious of him by the end, it doesn't justify their actions.
- In “The Test," he vomited all of his venom at Tobias’s face, causing it to completely disintegrate and leaving his head with a giant hole.
- In "The Slide," he, alongside Rocky and Darwin, assaulted various people, stole medical records, pushed a guy down the stairs and even ran someone over to meet a girl Rocky fell in love with.
- In "The Copycats," he and the Watterson family tried and get their rival copycats to kill themselves by copying their dangerous stunts, only because they were mimicking them on TV.
- In "The Potato," he and Darwin folded Teri's parents into origami.
- In "The Outside", he joins his family in trying to make Frankie's visit at their home feel like prison, tormenting him in the process.
- In “The Vase," he placed the indestructible vase in the middle of traffic, leading to a truck flipping over and crashing.
- In "The Matchmaker," he used a love potion to try and force Teri and Darwin into a relationship. When he thought that Darwin was in love with Teri he rubs it on Carrie’s Face while leaving her heartbroken.
- In "The Console," he trapped Elmore into a Game Child, which relocated all of Elmore into the video game and forces all of its residents to conform to it, making it effectively a Fate Worse Than Death. When they won, Gumball decided to do it again simply because he only scored 84% completion.
- Earlier in the episode, he attacked many innocent pedestrians and animals so he could gain experience points. He also annihilated the Awesome Store and attacked the Van Shopkeeper after falsely assuming he was the antagonist.
- In “The Cycle”, when Harold Wilson began bullying Richard, Gumball immediately begun suggesting they brutally murder him.
- In "The Stars," he and Darwin essentially enslaved Larry under the threat of giving him a poor rating, forcing him to cater to their every need.
- In "The Ex," he harassed Rob the entire day to try and gain him back as his nemesis, which inadvertently ruined all of his traps against Banana Joe.
- He also ignored and belittle Penny's advice all the while because he is too focused on Rob, and when he finally apologized to her, he did so by locking Alan in her locker with an apology written on his face.
- In the same episode, he set up a booby trap in Tobias' house that caused a massive explosion, set him on fire and launched him across Elmore.
- In "The Menu," he, Richard and Darwin kidnapped and psychologically tortured Larry just so he could tell them the name of a secret menu item.
- Gumball is also complicit in letting Richard consume a burger from every Joyful Burger in one hour, even though it clearly takes a massive toll on his health.
- In the same episode, he and Darwin cut Larry’s paycheck in half and created mutant cows just to find out the name of the secret burger.
- In "The Uncle," Gumball accidentally decapitated the rotten cupcake trying to stage a fight for Ocho's approval.
- Later, when they asked him to call an ambulance, he walked away because he believes their pleas are "hammy."
- In "The Best," he overreacted to Carmen's annoying attempts at giving him advice by attempting to leak a damning video of her to the entire school.
- After regretting his actions, he, alongside Darwin, decided to destroy the phone of every person who could receive the video. Some victims, such as Alan and Bobert, were simply obliterated instead, and Tobias was sucked into a black hole opened through his phone dividing by zero.
- In “The Worst”, on their way home, he and Darwin aged Idaho and the milk carton guy to death.
- In “The Deal”, after he, Darwin, and Anais go feral, they ate Donut Cop alive, destroyed everything in the household, and try to catapulted Gary Hedges across the town.
- In "The Petals," he and Darwin tried to decapitate Leslie and chase him around Elmore.
- In “The Puppets," he and Darwin agreed to having their puppets sold at a yard sale, despite knowing that they are possessed and evil.
- In “The List," he and Darwin almost caused Gary to suffocate by shoving crystals in his nose.
- In the same episode, they forced two runners to carry them on their backs during a marathon, causing them to lose the ability to walk by the end.
- In "The Nuisance," he helped his family turn Elmore into a disaster area by destroying a house with termites, pouring bath salts (or soap suds in the English version of the episode) into Elmore's water supply, and trying to convince Sal Left Thumb, a wanted criminal, to mug pedestrians in the neighborhood.
- Ultimately, he also helped burn down the entire town of Elmore.
Season 6[]
- In "The Rival," Gumball and Darwin trapped a newborn Anais in a box to trick her into thinking she would go to the dog food factory as unlabeled meat in an attempt to scare her. While Anais was trying to murder him and Darwin, this is still a cruel way to punish an infant.
- In "The Vegging," Gumball became so lazy that he refused to leave the house, even on account of his family and their car dangling off of a bridge.
- When he eventually went to save them, he did so lazily by moving only with an office chair and shipping himself to the location.
- In "The Cringe," Gumball tried to force Hot Dog Guy into taking off his clothes in front of him.
- In "The Faith," Gumball beat up a group of rebel kid scouts before callously remarking that they should’ve earned self defense badges.
- In "The Candidate," Gumball became the leader of the entrapped students, began denying the school’s temperature is rising, and purposefully planed to scam everybody to starvation so he can hoard all of the food.
- This ended up sparking a highly destructive, violent, and nearly fatal war between the students, and he later tried to make Anais take the blame. He also inadvertently became responsible for the school exploding.
- In “The Pact," he began stalking and psychologically torturing Principle Brown for not fulfilling his end of their deal.
- In "The Neighbor," Gumball and Darwin endangered Gary Hedges by alerting a duo of assassins that he is nearby, and when he insisted that they leave him alone in light of this, they continued chasing him.
- Later, they blew up his house as part of a botched scheme to stage his death.
- In “The Shippening," he threw Idaho at Rocky, which folded the top of his head backwards, which also caused him to fall off the mall balcony.
- It is even stated that he’ll need physiotherapy as a result.
- He also harms several people when trying to fix Sarah's mistake, such as turning Mr Small and Larry blind and destroying the latter, causing Tina and Jamie to eat Bobert because he forgot to put a comma before Bobert, sending Clare and Hot Dog Guy to outer space, and much more.
- In "The Parents," he emotionally manipulated Nicole into apologizing to her controlling parents and saying she wants them back just so that Nicole's parents could give him his overdue Christmas presents.
- In “The Potion”, he had Hector drink a potion which had a chance of causing, as per Gumball's words, "Total annihilation, a fate worse than total annihilation, and a fate worse than a fate worse than total annihilation".
- In “The Ghouls," he gave permission for a spell that makes everyone scared of the ghouls again, resulting in chaos and anarchy ensuing across Elmore.
- In "The Stink," Gumball sarcastically mocked the sensitive Mr. Small for his failure to be eco-friendly, so much so that he broke down and endangered himself by living in the woods.
- In "The Awareness," Gumball engaged in a petty rivalry with Leslie over his appreciation for plants, during which he convinced him to eat a bucket of dirt, entrapped him in a room full of angry bees, and nearly drowned him.
- In "The Future," Gumball, Darwin, and Banana Joe completely erased Rob from existence despite him having been disarmed and pleading for dialogue, and he also recklessly fought with Rob over the paintbrush, which caused incisions in reality and the near-collapse of the warehouse, and also nearly killed Darwin.
- Later, when Rob is painted back, he told Banana Barbara to give him a pig tail for humiliation.
- In "The Mess," Gumball made a false promise to Penny that he will be well-slept before he babysits her younger sister, Polly, and when this turned out to be a lie, he caused chaos around Elmore because of his sleep deprivation, which includes attempting to cover-up the crime scene of what he assumed to be a man he assaulted and knocked out.
- It also inexplicably caused a bus to land on the roof of the Watterson house.
- In "The Heart," Gumball ripped Mr. Robinson's heart out of his chest, temporarily killing him.
- He and Darwin later tortured the Heart to force him to accept to love.
- In "The Revolt," Gumball showed no care for the sentient objects of Elmore being used as mere tools by the citizens, chucking a sentient phone on the ground to buy a new one, which kills it.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- All of his heinous acts are played for laughs due to the comedic nature of the show, as well as a large majority of the humor coming from how selfish, petty and downright idiotic he can be.
- He is On & Off, as he is capable of committing genuinely admirable things and is mostly portrayed as heroic. His heroic acts include, but are not limited to:
- Restoring Earth's colors and positivity in "The Faith."
- Helping Clare stay in Elmore when she didn't want to move back to her hometown, making her house free from repossession, giving her father a new job at the Rainbow Factory, and getting Clare and her boyfriend declared prom king and queen in "The Others."
- Stopping Rob numerous times and even saving his life in "The Rerun."
- Saving the Rainbow Factory from a toxic gas outbreak in "The Factory."
- Helping Penny become comfortable with who she truly is and becoming her boyfriend in "The Shell."
- Saving Darwin and Anais from the house flood in "The Responsible."
- For all the things he puts others through, he has many people he cares for:
- He cares extensively for his family and is highly protective of them, especially Darwin and Anais, who he believes he has to look after.
- He also shows care for his classmates like Leslie, Bobert, Banana Joe, Sarah, Carrie, and to an extent, rivals like Alan or Tobias, seeing them as friends.
- He often even views "enemies" such as Rob or Mr. Robinson as friends, with him saving the latter's life in return for saving his in "The Debt," and also rescuing Rob from the Void in "The Rerun." Additionally, in "The Disaster," he showed remorse and was on the verge of tearing up after he briefly killed Rob. He is also a loyal student to Miss Simian, despite her hating Gumball with a passion.
- He also deeply loves Penny Fitzgerald, eventually becoming her boyfriend. This is best demonstrated in "The Romantic," where he devises an extremely elaborate and theatrical quest for Penny to embark on just to demonstrate his love for her, and also when he chases her across town to calm her down in "The Shell."
- He is capable of showing genuine remorse for his actions, and he often tries to learn from his mistakes. Examples are in "The Mothers," where he feels bad about mistreating his mom at the mall and tries to create a Happy Mother's Day gesture with Darwin, "The Rival", where he and Darwin were mortified when they thought they nearly got a newborn Anais killed in the garbage disposal, and in "The Triangle," where he feels bad about being jealous over Darwin landing the band flute solo and makes up for it by stopping Leslie from sabotaging it.
- He is frequently a nice and affable person to those at school and citizens in Elmore.
- While not tragic, he is a scapegoat, as he is unjustly tormented in episodes like "The Curse," where he experiences a string of bad luck and painful misadventures, "The Robot", where he gets his entire life stolen by Bobert, "The Rival", where he and Darwin are tormented and framed by Anais, or in "The Rerun," where Rob eliminates his entire family and forces him to watch. None of this is truly deserved, given that Gumball isn't inherently evil and mostly tries to do the right thing.
- He also has insecurities that are played for sympathy in some episodes when they aren't used for jokes, such as in "The Shell," where he is saddened after failing to connect with Penny and believing she is leaving Elmore, or in "The Gi," where he is bullied to tears after other students mock his passion for karate.
- Some of his heinous acts were not caused by straightforward malice but rather his stupidity and impulsiveness, and they often had good intentions behind them, frequently making him an extremist.
- He is often repulsed by the actions of other villains in the series, such as Rob's plan to blow up the bus and his other plan to transform the students, or Mrs. Robinsons plan to wreak havoc around Elmore before framing him and Darwin, showing that he does have standards. This can also be said about other heroes, as he also shows disgust when he thinks that his father is cheating on his mother with another woman named Samantha in "The Lady" (who is really just his father in disguise), when Carmen tells him to kiss her to make Alan angry in "The Storm", and when Darwin kidnaps Tobias's mom in "The Sidekick."
- He sometimes has honor. In "The Pest,' he deliberately handicaps himself before fighting Billy (a little kid) so that the fight will be more fair, and in "The Pact," he holds up his end of the deal between him and Principal Brown. He also found it dishonorable and cowardly when Bobert used his robot powers to fight him and when the Virus utilized a bunch of cars, even if it was also self-serving.
Trivia[]
- He alongside Annoying Orange, Harry Morgan and Jumba Joobka are currently the only former non-villains to have been reevaluated and decided they were villains while being approved on this wiki.
- Jumba was approved during the non-villains ban, and Orange and Harry were approved prior to the ban and got VW pages before the ban was lifted, this makes Gumball the first former non-villain to have been approved after the non-villains ban while being considered a non-villain during while he was being proposed, even if he was to shortly be considered a villain afterwards, and also even if he was considered a villain several times before when his page was deleted on the Villains Wiki several times in the process.
External Links[]
- Gumball Watterson on the Heroes Wiki
- Gumball Watterson on the Villains Wiki
- Gumball Watterson on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Gumball Watterson on the The Amazing World of Gumball Wiki
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