History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E2TheColossus

** Gumball flails around on his {{witch broom}} at one point, imitating a famous scene in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''

* WitchBroom: Gumball thinks Hector's mom is a witch and that the brooms at the front of the cave let her fly. He picks one up and [[SubvertedTrope it turns out to just be a regular broom because she's a cleaning lady]]... [[DoubleSubversion who is also a witch that keeps the flying brooms right behind those]].

* MortonsFork: At the end, Gumball and Darwin finally get a friend request from Hector. Problem is, they now know that accepting ''or'' rejecting it could make him emotional enough to go on another rampage. [[TakeAThirdOption So Gumball smashes the monitor with a hammer.]]

* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: See MortonsFork above.

* TheExtremistWasRight: Hector's mom seems to be excessively controlling of her son, making him almost devoid of emotion (his diary reads "I must not laugh, I must not get overexcited, I must not shout, I must not ''sneeze''.") But she's actually doing this to protect ''everyone else'' because Hector will wreck the town if he has a fit. On the other hand, Gumball has something of a point, [[sHasAPoint even if he only told Hector to confront his mother as a way to get back at her]]: besides being bad for Hector himself, all this sheltering seems to have made him that much ''easier'' to upset.

* TheExtremistWasRight: Hector's mom seems to be excessively controlling of her son, making him almost devoid of emotion (his diary reads "I must not laugh, I must not get overexcited, I must not shout, I must not ''sneeze''.") But she's actually doing this to protect ''everyone else'' because Hector will wreck the town if he has a fit. On the other hand, Gumball has something of a point, [[JerkassHasAPoint even if he only told Hector to confront his mother as a way to get back at her]]: besides being bad for Hector himself, all this sheltering seems to have made him that much ''easier'' to upset.

* WitchBroom: Gumball thinks Hector's mom is a witch and that the brooms at the front of the cave let her fly. He picks one up and it turns out to just be a regular broom because she's a cleaning lady... who is also a witch that keeps the flying brooms right behind those.

* TheExtremistWasRight: Hector's mom seems to be excessively controlling of her son, making him almost devoid of emotion (his diary reads "I must not laugh, I must not get overexcited, I must not shout, I must not ''sneeze''.") But she's actually doing this to protect ''everyone else'' because Hector will wreck the town if he has a fit. On the other hand, Gumball has something of a point, [[JerkassHasAPoint even if he only told Hector to confront his mother as a way to get back at her]]: besides being bad for Hector himself, all this sheltering seems to have made him that much ''easier'' to upset.

* WitchBroom: Gumball thinks Hector's mom is a witch and that the brooms at the front of the cave let her fly. He picks one up and it turns out to just be a regular broom because she's a cleaning lady... who is also a witch that keeps the flying brooms right behind those.

* NoExceptYes: Darwin says he doesn't think Hector is boring... just much less interesting than ''anyone'' else he knows.

* AnimationBump: The animation of Hector on the rampage approaches Disney quality. [[WordOfGod Ben Bocquelet]] based most of the animation of that sequence on ''Shadow of the Colossus'' and ''SpiritedAway''.

Gumball and Darwin help Hector the giant be less boring after accepting a friend request from him and visiting his cave.

* AnimationBump: The animation of Hector on the rampage approaches Disney quality.

* GagCensor: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where any and all scenes of violence, crude language, or criminal activity is whited out and rewritten/redrawn into something more family-friendly: [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms all the guns are replaced with big, Mickey Mouse hands and flowers or removed entirely]], [[BlatantBurglar bank robbers in ski masks]] are "ski enthusiasts", Captain Punch [[GroinAttack booting a criminal in the crotch]] is changed to ask if there's something on his shoe (despite the boot-shaped mass of whiteout over the man's groin). For reference, [[http://yearinmerde.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/captain-punch.html this]] is what the comic looks like intact.

* GagCensor: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where any and all scenes of violence or crude language is whited out and rewritten/redrawn into something more family-friendly: [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms all the guns are replaced with big, Mickey Mouse hands and flowers or removed entirely]], [[BlatantBurglar bank robbers in ski masks]] are "ski enthusiasts", Captain Punch [[GroinAttack booting a criminal in the crotch]] is changed to ask if there's something on his shoe (despite the boot-shaped mass of whiteout over the man's groin). For reference, [[http://yearinmerde.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/captain-punch.html this]] is what the comic looks like intact.

* GagCensor: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where any and all scenes of violence or crude language is whited out and rewritten/redrawn into something more family-friendly: [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms all the guns are replaced with flowers or removed entirely]], [[BlatantBurglar bank robbers in ski masks]] are "ski enthusiasts", Captain Punch [[GroinAttack booting a criminal in the crotch]] is changed to ask if there's something on his shoe (despite the boot-shaped mass of whiteout over the man's groin). For reference, [[http://yearinmerde.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/captain-punch.html this]] is what the comic looks like intact.

* ColossusClimb: Gumball has to do this to get to Hector's ear and play a tune that will put him to sleep and stop his rampage.

* GagCensor and {{Bowdlerization}}: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where any and all scenes of violence or crude language is whited out and rewritten/redrawn into something more family-friendly. For reference, [[http://yearinmerde.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/captain-punch.html this]] is what the comic looks like intact.

* GagCensor and {{Bowdlerization}}: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where any and all scenes of violence or crude language is whited out and rewritten/redrawn into something more family-friendly. For reference [[http://yearinmerde.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/captain-punch.html this]] is what it looked like without the white-out.

** As evident by the name, Gumball climbing Hector in is an homage to ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' including climbing to a giant's weakspot by grabbing their fur and the way Hector falls over when he goes to sleep.

* GagCensor and {{Bowdlerization}}: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where any and all scenes of violence or crude language is whited out and rewritten/redrawn into something more family-friendly.

Gumball's efforts to help Hector stand up for himself backfire when Hector goes on a colossal rampage through Elmore.

* ContinuityNod: When we see Gumball's Elmore Plus account, the photos and video seen in the corner are the same ones featured on Anais' flickr account and the [=ElmoreStream=] Youtube videos.
* GagCensor: Gumball discovers Hector has a "Captain Punch" comic, then the following scene is a sequence where all the violent scenes and dialogues from the comic have been edited to be more friendly using whiteout and pen.