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---Gumball, The Prank

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Gumball is the main protagonist in the Cartoon Network show, The Amazing World of Gumball.Gumball subpropnavoverlay

Appearance[]

Gumball is a blue cat. On his oversized head, he has six whiskers, but only five are visible because his head is always at an angle. He usually wears gray trousers coupled with a tan sweater which is bordered with brown on the cuffs and collar (Which is shockingly revealed in The Date to have been found by his dad in a sewage outlet). Like his mother and father, Gumball doesn't wear shoes, and is the only member of the Wattersons (including Darwin) without visible eyelashes.

Personality[]

Gumball is a troublemaker, but also has a soft side. Like his soft side, he can be much more kind and thoughtful too.

Although, Gumball can be quite rude and have a sarcastic nature sometimes. Like his mother, Nicole, he can be excessively aggressive.

Relationships[]

Darwin Watterson[]

Gumball and Darwin are best friends and have a very close brotherly relationship. The two boys have a big

The Secret

Gumball trying to figure out Darwin's secret

imagination and like to get into mischief. They get along very well, although they argue at times. However, Gumball can be a bad influence on Darwin. Gumball sometimes turns his nose up at Darwin's ideas and they both go for a more childish or foolish approach. Darwin was once Gumball's pet, who sprouted legs for some reason, learned to talk and became able to digest food other than fish flakes.

Anais[]

Gumball usually relies on Anais with his problems. She likes to inform Gumball that she is right and he is wrong. Although Gumball will never admit it, he actually loves and admires his sister and knows that she is right about things most of the time.

Nicole[]

Gumball loves his mother very much, though he does believe she is terrifying. He does not like to face the consequences of his actions and tell her if he does something wrong, because of Nicole's fiery temper.

Richard[]

Gumball loves his father very much, and inherits his silliness from him. However, Richard can be tough on Gumball when the situation demands it and he's also been known to make fun of him sometimes and use their foolishness to his advantage. As seen on an Elmore Stream video, Gumball likes to poke Richard's 'weird bit on his belly when he is unaware of it. Richard reacts strongly to this, making the same "dah!" noise after every poke.

Penny[]

Penny is Gumball's love interest. Gumball has a gigantic crush on her, and Penny has one on him, too. He often blurts that he loves/likes her and gets away with it either by keeping it as a secret, hiding it, twisting it, or hoping she ignores it. Despite it being somewhat obvious that Penny likes him back, he is always nervous when he has to ask her out on a date or even talk to her because he is afraid she might reject him. When they are about to kiss, the moment is usually interrupted. She has seen him naked in The Dress and in The Club.

Mr. Robinson[]

Gumball always idolizes him to earn his favor. Ironically, Mr. Robinson despises Gumball for irritating him all the time. Although, in The Debt, Mr. Robinson does thank Gumball for saving his life, but then yells at him for ruining his great performance.

Tobias[]

Gumball and Tobias have a history of rivalry behind them, although their relationship is somewhat unclear. In The Pressure, Tobias and Gumball form a no-girls pact and Gumball doesn't keep up with it very well. Also, in The Third, Tobias becomes Gumball and Darwin's friend for twenty dollars, but he ends up ignoring Gumball and befriending Darwin. It is clear that Tobias did this to upset Gumball.

Alan[]

Although the two never interact very much, their general relationship is always somewhat strained. Gumball has even said to Darwin that he never really did like Alan. Gumball has a tendency to forget his name, despite constantly being reminded. He usually calls him names like "Adam", "Adrian", "Arthur", "Alfred", "Augustus", "Albert", "Andrew", etc. He also seems to not acknowledge the fact that Alan is armless, being a balloon, thus ruining any activities that require hands (such as raising hands to prove innocence in The Mystery or playing games in The Third.

Miss Simian[]

Gumball and Miss Simian strongly dislike each other. Miss Simian despises Gumball due to his mischievousness. Gumball despises her because she often gives him detention and gives out too many quizzes. Miss Simian usually gives Gumball detention if she catches him and Darwin planning something.

Banana Joe[]

Gumball and Banana Joe have gotten along well in some episodes (The Pressure, The End, and a few others). However, in one episode, Banana Joe actually teases Gumball to tears, humiliating him in front of his classmates.

Carrie[]

Gumball reluctantly lets Carrie use his body in The Ghost because of how Darwin said she was their friend. Carrie quickly took advantage of this, and did

The Ghost

Gumball possesed by Carrie

not respond well when Gumball forcefully told her to stop. Gumball later convinced her to stop, and it is implied that they got along fine after that. It is also interesting to note that in The GI, the final time the kids laugh at Gumball (before Penny stands up for him), Carrie does not appear to laugh.

Bobert[]

Bobert, being a robot, has trouble making friends because of his lack of emotions. This doesn't stop Gumball and

The Robot

Gumball and Bobert

Darwin from trying to befriend him, though. First in The Third and again in The Robot, both times ended in pain for Gumball.

Gallery[]

The gallery for Gumball Watterson can be found here.

Notable Quotes[]

  • "I think cheese is better than cake, because you can have cheesecake, but you can't have cake-cheese!"

  • [getting up a large hill using a tricycle borrowed from a little girl] "GOSH DARN IT!" [Gumball's Echo]

  • "79% of stair accidents happen on the stairs."

  • "Aww, nobody cares about the summer of '83!"

  • [cheering up Darwin] "It's better to have loved, and watched that love burn before your very eyes, than to have never loved at all."

  • "Save yourself! There's no time for me!"

  • [Mr. Robinson is slowly parking behind a car while Gumball believes that he is being run over] "I just saw my life flash before my eyes! And it's boring!"

  • "Welcome home, Mr. Robinson! I booby-trapped your front door!"

  • [after reading a letter that states Gaylord Robinson will be assassinated at the talent show] "This is terrible! No, wait, this is what I've been waiting for!"

  • [yelling at a squirrel] "There is no happy place!" [Gumball's Echo]

  • "Hey Penny, I love you. Your painting! I love your painting!"

  • "I love you! ...Ugh! What did I say that for?!"

  • [reading Penny's note] "Will you be the jelly in my peanut butter sandwich?"

  • "Do you know what I do when I feel like a loser? I look at this." [holds up a photo of a comical gopher holding up a large barbell]'

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  • "Stop throwing stuff at me!!! I'm innocent!"

  • "I am a predator, hear me roar! [meows]

  • "I'm bringing you back to life!"

  • Darwin: "Okay, the answer is...[phone runs out of time]
    Gumball: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

  • "Hey how its going?"

  • [almost gets hit by a bucket full of solid concrete) "What the WHAT?!" (Awwww so close to a live swear...)

  • "Check THIS out."

Voice Actors[]

  • Logan Grove (US/UK)
  • Arthur Dubois (France)
  • Junko Takeuchi (Japan)
  • Federico Bebi (voice) and Leonardo Caneva (sing) (Italy)
  • José Antonio Toledano (Mexico/Latin America)
  • Rebekka Weissfeld (Danish)

Trivia[]

  • In The Dress, Gumball's alter-ego is Gumballoppseggwobbleunderpants.
  • Gumball, despite being an anthropomorphic creature, sometimes exhibits more naturalistic cat behaviors such as his ears and tail occasionally drooping, meowing and retracting his claws
  • Gumball is terrible at catching things, as shown in The Quest.
  • Gumball hates watching the shopping channel, as shown in The Laziest.
  • Gumball is shown to be a horrible liar on numerous occasions.
  • Although Gumball has six whiskers, only five of them are normally visible because his head is always at an angle.
  • In The Picnic, he is shown to have claws, though he had never used them previous to this episode.
  • He has very wide hips, which is unusual because this feature is more common on female characters in animation.
  • Both Gumball and Anais placed 4th in the Dumb Race, since they both forefeited at the same time.
  • In The Club, Gumball's middle name is revealed to be Christopher, although Richard confuses it for Tristopher.
  • Gumball has arachnophobia, which is a strong fear of spiders, as shown in The Date.Gumball gumball 174x252
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