History TheAmazingWorldOfGumball / TropesAToM

* HammyVillainSeriousHero: [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballGumballWatterson Gumball Watterson]] is a DeadpanSnarker who acts as a common ground in a place as bizarre as Elmore. As such, a lot of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] that he faces are silly and hammy to coincide with the strange place that they all live in.

** In [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E1TheKids "The Kids"]], Gumball and Darwin start undergoing puberty when their voices start cracking -- which results in them going so BassoProfundo that the world around them shakes from the bass and [[NoIndoorVoice uncontrollable volume]]. This leads to further confusion and hijinks. When asked what is happening to them, the doctor can't help but giggle at the situation because they don't know what it means that their voices are breaking.

* AnachronismStew: The show is set in [[TheNewTens the 10's]], having episodes set in 2010, 2014, 2015, and 2017, and cell phones appearing recently. However, most of the technology is from the [[TheEighties late 80s]] and [[TheNineties early 90s]] (like computers, video-games, televisions and video tapes). Flat screen computers or televisions are rarely seen in the show.

** [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E5TheChoices "The Choices"]] flashes back to the day Nicole met Richard, and examines what her life would have been like if [[ForWantOfANail she made different choices that day.]] One of those has Harold (Tobias' father) manipulating Nicole into marrying him, making her get hideous plastic surgery, and constantly treating her like dirt. Him demeaning her for having the sushi be too cold is the RageBreakingPoint that causes her to set the house on fire, possibly killing Harold while she screams "IS THAT HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?". [[BlackComedyBurst This is played for laughs.]]

* BubblePipe: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/theamazingworldofgumball/images/b/b2/GB404OTHERS_CHARACTERS2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160211222751 A scrapped character who was originally going to be one of the new characters from "The Others"]], as an art teacher, had this.~

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** A frequently played video game, with a six-pack rat and hotdog fighting, is called [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Kebab Fighter]]. The gameplay itself is similar to ''Franchise/MortalKombat''.

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* DarkerAndEdgier / DenserAndWackier: Manages to be both simultaneously. Season 1 took fairly realistic, lighthearted SliceOfLife plots and contrasted them with the surreal, wacky world of the show. From season 2 onwards, however, the humor got much darker, [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball raunchier]], and less subdued, Gumball TookALevelInJerkass, and an actual story arc involving a genuinely dangerous villain and the idea that [[spoiler:the universe is sentient and controlling the world]] emerged. At the same time, however, the episode plots became increasingly surreal and nonsensical, [[NoFourthWall the fourth wall started to disappear,]] and [[BizarroEpisode Bizarro Episodes]] started to become the norm. The end result of this is the show [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools becoming far funnier.]]

** Rachel appeared to be this to Tobias in "The Party", but as she [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared from the show entirely]], and even though there are only fourteen episodes left she didn't make a single physical appearance since Season 1, this was never further explored.
*** It's later said in "Darwin's Yearbook" that she [[{{PutOnABus}} went to college.]]
* BigDamnMovie: The series' GrandFinale and PilotMovie The Amazing World of Gumball: [[ExcitedShowTitle The Movie!]] is about one of the show's [[AscendedFanboy biggest fans]] discovering the lost final episode to the series and upon watching it accidentally opening a gateway to Elmore. Gumball, Darwin, Anais, Nicole, and Richard must team up with the fan to prevent The Void from erasing Elmore while unintentionally unleashing another threat that seeks to end all of existence.
* BigNo: Richard does one after dropping a piece of toast in the series trailer.

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]], as there is not only anthropomorphic [[FunnyAnimal animals]], [[AnthropomorphicFood food]] and [[AnimateInanimateObject objects]], but the fact that [[EverythingTalks everything in Elmore can talk]].

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: [[ExaggeratedTrope|Exaggerated]], as there is not only anthropomorphic [[FunnyAnimal animals]], [[AnthropomorphicFood food]] and [[AnimateInanimateObject objects]], but the fact that [[EverythingTalks everything in Elmore can talk]].

* LimitedWardrobe: All of the Wattersons have one set of day clothes and clothes that they sleep in (unless they're wearing something that only appears for that episode). This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the episode "The Job" where Anais states that she and the rest of the family have been wearing the same clothes every day for a year, hence the reason why Richard having a job and bringing in more money for the household is a good thing .