History Characters / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballTheWattersons

* HappilyAdopted: Darwin is Gumball and Anais' brother without question, and even though he calls them ''Mr.'' Dad and ''Mrs.'' Mom, they're his real Dad and Mom to him; obviously the feeling is completely reciprocated. 3/4 of his family have even openly stated that he's their respective favorite. In front of each other. [[AngstWhatAngst They actually hardly bat an eyelash at it]].

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: When Jamie forces him to be her boyfriend, Gumball suggests that he try to look ugly, to which Darwin replies that Gumball knows Darwin can only look adorable; [[LampshadeHanging "its (his) curse"]

* CutenessProximity: Other characters, especially Darwin's family, (yes, this includes [[WomenAreWiser Nicole and Anais) are susceptible to to losing IQ points when Darwin is involved because of how cute he is. To the extent that they [[ExaggeratedTrope let him tie them up and take over the world as a dictator]] because he was cute. Nobody can tell him no. [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Over the series he starts to learn how to use it as a tool]]

* CharacterDevelopment: In the first season, Darwin was carefree, naive, and often had the moral high ground in many situations, not to mention often speaking with a grin on his face or his mouth going into a characteristic c-shape. In the second season, he's a lot more irritable and often no better than Gumball, though Darwin also gained the tendency to commit random acts of violence and became more of a DeadpanSnarker.

* ParentalTitleCharacterization: Darwin calls his parents "Mrs. Mom" and "Mr. Dad"--[[HappilyAdopted not because he's distant from them]], but because he's polite and slightly eccentric. "The Origins" showed this started when Richard asked to be called "Dad" instead of "Mr. Watterson", and Darwin [[ComicallyMissingThePoint partially missed the point]].

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: ''Several'' somebodies, but the most obvious, is, of course, [[CharlesDarwin]]

* OnlySaneMan: Though not necessarily the ''smartest'' person in any episode he's in, he's traded off on the role of "the only person being objective while everything's going nuts" with Anais on occasion, and has started playing the StraightMan [[StraightManAndWiseGuy to Gumball's antics more]]. Gumball basically says in "The Sidekick" that his role in their dynamic is to stop him from doing really crazy things. Though at times, such as "The Sidekick", "The Phone", and "The Banana", roles switch and he actually acts ''worse'' than what Gumball does.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: ''Several'' somebodies, but the most obvious, is, of course, [[UsefulNotes/Charles Darwin]]

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: ''Several'' somebodies.

-->'''Gumball:''' [[LampshadeHanging Don't you see what you’ve become?!]]

* UpliftedAnimal: Notably, while anything can become humanlike, he's the only character stated to have become human-like rather than being born that way. "The Origins" gives us an explanation of how he got uplifted; [[spoiler: He was always as intelligent as he is now (as well as being fully capable of speech), but it was Gumball's love and refusal to give up on him coming home after accidentally being flushed down the toilet that caused his lungs and legs to grow in so that he could actually get back to Elmore. The love is also presumably what caused him to grow in size, as he was regular goldfish sized when they first bought him, but by the time he gets home he is as tall as a 4-year-old Gumball.]]

* WhenSheSmiles: In "The Pony", Darwin and Gumball consider the hoops they'd jumped through to watch a movie with her worth it because they get to see [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/theamazingworldofgumball/images/a/a5/Tpony57.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20140922044917 "the happy face"]].

* HappilyAdopted: Darwin is Gumball and Anais' brother without question, and even though he calls them ''Mr.'' Dad and ''Mrs.'' Mom, they're his real Dad and Mom to him; obviously the feeling is completely reciprocated.

** For most of "The Banana", Darwin remains patient and friendly in regards to Banana Joe apparently chewing on his pen despite Gumball's insistence of Darwin getting revenge. What finally made Darwin angry was how he thought that Banana Joe trashed his desk.

--> '''Richard''': And all because you two wanted to be my favorite, when we all know in fact that [[TheCutie''Darwin'']] is my favorite!

--> '''Richard''': And all because you two wanted to be my favorite, when we all know in fact that [[''Darwin'' TheCutie]] is my favorite!

* AbusiveMom: Sometimes, she could 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 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]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Rex]] than to incur Nicole's wrath.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Given by the fact that she deals with hot anger issues and a tremendous amount of emotional stress, it's likely that she deals with either intermittent explosive disorder or anxiety.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He's initially portrayed as lazy and grossly incompetent, to the point that he's only ever shown to be employed for one shift of one job in his entire life (though granted, him having a job is actually so antinatural that when he did have it, it nearly broke reality.) Nonetheless, he's capable of wrangling the Watterson kids where Nicole cannot, and regularly helps Nicole manage her own copious issues. Given his vivid fantasy life but utter lack of real world skills, it's possible he's mildly autistic or schizophrenic.
** It should be noted that laziness is a large result of how his mother raised him as we saw her nearly do the same to her grandkids before Nicole stopped it.

* PetTheDog: Inher last episode, "The Nest", after the Watterson family brought her and her children to the water, she parts amicably with them, even nuzzling Gumball as a form of thanks.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: The human version of him Sarah drew in "The Shippening" has brown skin and orange hair.

* ShorterMeansSmarter: The shortest of the Watterson family and is usually the most intelligent, [[OnlySaneMan normal]] and level-headed of the family (other than Nicole.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: His full name (see OverlyLongName below) includes a famous scientist, a sea, a captain from classic literature, and the Greek god of the seas.

* FighterMageThief:
** [[CheerfulChild Gumball]]: Fighter
** [[ChildProdigy Anais]]: Mage
** [[TheCutie Darwin]]: Thief
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Gumball
** TheLancer: Darwin
** TheBigGuy: Richard
** TheSmartGirl: Anais
** TheChick: Nicole

* DoNotTauntCthulhu:

* JerkassHasAPoint: She's controlling, easily angered, and extremely competitive. But there are some cases where her anger is justified.

* ProperlyParanoid: She ends up ''fainting'' from shock when Richard tells her he got a job and is disturbed and on edge the whole time, with Anais trying to calm her down. Turns out she was right to freak out as reality starts breaking down, all because Richard having a job is just that antithetical to the natural order.