| 1 | [[center:[-[[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballTheWattersons The Wattersons]] | '''Students of Elmore Junior High''' | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballElmoreJuniorHighStaff Elmore Junior High Staff]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOtherCitizensOfElmore Other Citizens of Elmore]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOther Other]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballExtremelyMinorCharacters Minor Characters]]-]]] |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 7 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gbinquisition_00017.png]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:Most of the relevant students (and some of the staff). L-R: [[HairTriggerTemper Ocho]], [[CuteGhostGirl Carrie]], [[CountryMouse Idaho]], [[CasanovaWannabe Tobias]], [[NiceGuy Alan]], [[TheBully Tina Rex]], [[CloudCuckoolander Principal Brown]], [[TheChewToy Banana Joe]], [[TheHero Gumball]], [[PlantPerson Leslie]], [[TheConscience Darwin]], [[HippieTeacher Mr. Small]], [[LoonyFan Sarah]], [[RobotBuddy Bobert]], [[MindOverMatter William]], [[LoveInterest Penny]], [[HolierThanThou Carmen]], [[RichBitch Masami]].]] |
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| 10 | [[hardline]] |
| 11 | * AmusingInjuries: Most of them are subjected to slapstick. |
| 12 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Every classmate eventually got one over the course of the series. |
| 13 | * HumiliationConga: "The Advice" is almost entirely about Gumball and Darwin [[TheChewToy brutally injuring everyone in school]] by complete accident. |
| 14 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: The show ''[[SadistShow loves]]'' to routinely kill off most classmates for a quick gag and they [[UnexplainedRecovery usually return the next scene as if nothing ever happened]]. Anton, Idaho, Banana Joe, and Alan are the most common victims. |
| 15 | * WackyHomeroom |
| 16 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Some episodes depict most of them as this, mainly in times where [[AdultsAreUseless all the adults are incompetent]] and the kids have to solve the problems. |
| 17 | [[/folder]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | !!Miss Simian's Class |
| 20 | [[folder:Alan Keane]] |
| 21 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alan_s2_2802.png]] |
| 22 | ->''"I apologize for apologizing so much."'' |
| 23 | |
| 24 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale (season 1), Hugo Harold-Harrison (season 2 onward), Creator/TakuyaSato (Japanese) |
| 25 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 26 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 27 | A [[AnimateInanimateObject balloon with a face drawn on it]] and a sickeningly nice person. He's [[InterspeciesRomance romantically interested]] in Carmen the cactus, which has rather obvious problems. |
| 28 | ---- |
| 29 | [[hardline]] |
| 30 | * AllBalloonsHaveHelium: He can be re-inflated with a person's breath but still keep floating afterward. |
| 31 | * AllLovingHero: There isn't a single person Alan has refused to act kind and charitable toward: not even people who are ''currently beating him up''. It usually pays off eventually: in one episode where Gumball effectively ruined his life, Alan himself is blessed with a massive string of fortunate LaserGuidedKarma that effectively acted as a ResetButton. [[spoiler:The "hero" part is subverted in "The Vision", however, when he gets the idea to create happy camps to force people to be happy, though that never goes anywhere thanks to Gumball.]] |
| 32 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Even though he's romantically interested in Carmen, "The Upgrade" showed that he had no qualms about being married to Leslie, though this can be interpreted as part of Alan's personality of being an AllLovingHero. In "The Storm," Gumball had to manually [[VisualInnuendo reinflate him.]] Gumball looks annoyed afterward, but Alan was [[VisualPun walking on air]]. |
| 33 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A balloon. |
| 34 | * ApologizesALot: Apologizes so much that he even apologizes for ''apologizing all the time''. In "The Voice" he even apologizes for making someone feel they need to apologize, and continues to apologize until Gumball pops him to make him stop. |
| 35 | * BalloonOfDoom: An antagonist in "The Vision", attempting world domination. |
| 36 | * BarrierMaiden: Much like Larry keeps Elmore running with all his jobs, Alan does so much volunteer work that when he stops it, everything turns to anarchy. |
| 37 | * BerserkButton: Gumball finally managed to find something that irritated Alan in "The Saint": the sound people make when they drag their feet on linoleum. [[spoiler:Actually, that was just a lie just so Gumball would feel better.]] |
| 38 | * BlueIsHeroic: A very nice balloon. |
| 39 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Turns out to be EvilAllAlong in "The Vision".]] |
| 40 | * BigDamnHeroes: Alan uses his balloon knot to block the pipe, in order to stop the mall from being flooded, although he ends up filling up with water. Luckily, Darwin is able to turn off the water, by turning the crank around, thus stopping Alan from filling up with more water. |
| 41 | * BizarreAlienBiology: "The Traitor" shows balloons like Alan have a complete system of organs inside them, but they're made of ''air''. Gumball refers to him as a "biological mystery" when he couldn't tell how Alan was crying, but Alan explains: |
| 42 | -->'''Alan:''' Air comes in the knot, air comes out the knot.\ |
| 43 | '''Gumball:''' Hmm, hmm... What about the spaghetti, though?\ |
| 44 | '''Alan:''' Spaghetti goes in, [[NoConservationOfEnergy turns into air]], comes back out.\ |
| 45 | '''Gumball:''' (beat) [[ToiletHumor So technically you weren't only crying just now.]] |
| 46 | * BizarreAlienLimbs: The string around Alan's knot is prehensile, though quite weak. |
| 47 | * ButtMonkey: He's basically TheChewToy and an ExtremeDoormat for Gumball. Although, this does lead to a KarmicJackpot in "The Saint". |
| 48 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his few speaking appearances in the first season, he didn't seem particularly nice to anyone, just incredibly sensitive about his lack of hands. |
| 49 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 50 | ** "The Storm" has him and Carmen break up, and he starts dating Masami. |
| 51 | ** "The Saint" focus on Gumball trying to see if he can make Alan mad by slowly destroying his life. |
| 52 | ** "The Traitor" has Gumball invite Alan over for dinner, but Alan seemingly blows him off. |
| 53 | ** "The Vision" has Gumball finding his pen drive and looking through his files, finding his manifesto. The rest of the episode is narrated by Alan describing his vision. |
| 54 | ** "The Faith" has the entire city falling apart when Alan loses faith in humanity and Gumball and Darwin have to help him. |
| 55 | ** In "The Decisions," he becomes Darwin's new mentor. |
| 56 | * DespairEventHorizon: In "The Faith", he loses all faith in the world. Plunging Elmore into a black-and-white world where the city is falling apart due to his [[BarrierMaiden inaction to help anyone]]. It takes a well-meaning song from Gumball that the world does indeed suck, but it's faith that makes people go on, to finally cheer him up. To make things better, Gumball finally admits that Alan is his friend now. |
| 57 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He was darker in Season 1 and his mouth was shaped differently. |
| 58 | * EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:"The Vision" reveals that he's secretly plotting to TakeOverTheWorld and create a dystopia where anyone who is unhappy for any reason will be sent to "happy camps" where they will be [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul forcibly brainwashed into not feeling negative emotions.]] It appears to be subverted when it turns out that Gumball and Darwin misunderstood him... [[DoubleSubverted But then their assumptions inspire him to do it for real]] before Gumball pops him.]] |
| 59 | * FisherKing: Alan is such a force for good in the world, that when he gives up, the world gives up. In "The Faith" when Alan is depressed the colour drains out of the world, huge rain clouds form overhead and anyone who steps into the rain feel overwhelming sadness. |
| 60 | * FlyingFace: Alan is just a balloon with a face drawn on it. His lack of limbs is a frequent frustration of his. |
| 61 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[spoiler:Alan plans to force all sad people across the globe into "happy camps" where they will be forced to be happy, no matter what. Well, it wasn't exactly what he was planning at first but he doesn't objects to doing the idea once he gets a demostration of it.]] |
| 62 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: In "The Saint," Gumball does a bunch of horrible things to him (including framing him for cheating on Carmen and having his parents [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment tortured by the Creepy Clown]]) all for the sake of trying to find ''something'' that upsets him. Not only does Alan forgive Gumball [[TurnTheOtherCheek right off the bat]], but he views Gumball's actions in such a ridiculously optimistic light that he doesn't even believe he did anything wrong. |
| 63 | * HeliumSpeech: Justified, as he's a [[AnimateInanimateObject balloon]]. |
| 64 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Somewhat. Compared to Carmen, he only appears taller because he's floating. |
| 65 | * InterspeciesRomance: Alan (balloon) is madly in love with Carmen (cactus). |
| 66 | * KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:He's written a plan to install himself as a tyrannical dictator in order to make everyone happy.]] |
| 67 | * LaterInstallmentWeirdness: "The Vision" reveals that Alan may not be as squeaky clean as we thought. However, this immediately dropped after this episode and he goes back to being a saint. |
| 68 | * MeaningfulName: His last name is a homophone for "keen", which can mean "willing and full of enthusiasm". |
| 69 | * NiceGuy: So nice, that it makes Gumball ''sick''. [[spoiler:Subverted in "The Vision", as it turns out he was EvilAllAlong.]] |
| 70 | * NotSoAboveItAll: |
| 71 | ** In "The Storm", after Gumball interrupts his speech to Masami for the third time in a row, he breaks his usual behavior to tell him '''''"Just shut-up, O.K.!!!"''''' Alan was also seen as one of the members of Mr. Small's apocalyptic tribe about to cannibalize The Wattersons in "The Pizza." |
| 72 | ** It's implied that Alan either being ignored in "The Gift" by the camera moving away from him while he's making a speech or Bobert interrupting him while he's doing the Ice Bucket Challenge in "The Uploads" does get him under the skin. |
| 73 | ** "Darwin's Yearbook" has him act extremely humble and continue suggesting Darwin put people other than him on the yearbook... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor until Darwin actually goes with his suggestion for Gregory]]. Alan initially tries brushing it off, then bombards his messages with dozens of photos of himself [[BlatantLies he sent by mistake]]. He resorts to popping himself just to get Darwin's attention again. As Carrie pointed out just prior, Alan secretly has an ego beneath his humble demeanor. |
| 74 | * OfficialCouple: With Carmen, starting in the second season. Although he was also dating her in a promo for the show. |
| 75 | * ParodySue: Is ludicrously good and perfect - a PuritySue parody. Gumball spent an entire episode ("The Saint") trying to make him angry. [[spoiler:He completely failed.]] [[invoked]] |
| 76 | * PerpetualSmiler: Defaults to a smiling expression if nothing causes him to emote. |
| 77 | * RidiculouslyPhotogenic: His face looks [[PrettyBoy a LOT different]] in photos than it does in real life. His ''mole'' is even beautiful. |
| 78 | --> '''Gumball:''' (Trying to blow Alan away) It's bad enough-[blow]-that you're a million times prettier than I am!-[blow]-I don't need you to rub it in my face-[blow]-on how mature and deep you are! [blow] |
| 79 | * RunningGag: He has no hands! |
| 80 | * SickeninglySweethearts: In "The Storm", he is sickeningly sweet with Carmen, much to their classmates' disgust. |
| 81 | * SitcomArchnemesis: Gumball and Alan consider themselves friends, but Gumball has a deep-seated, [[TallPoppySyndrome envy-based]] hatred for Alan's happiness and nobility that comes up with little provocation. Gumball realizes this is insane and tries to make up for it, but goes back to hating him just as quickly. |
| 82 | * SkintoneSclerae: As his face is drawn on only in black, his eyes lack any coloration, fitting this trope as much as you can consider any of his body to be "skin". |
| 83 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: While he's a boy, [[InvertedTrope he has obvious eyelashes that make him appear to be a girl]]. |
| 84 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: He's been popped 14 times, plus once in the [[{{Pilot}} early reel]] and once in the launch trailer, but always comes back. |
| 85 | * ThrowTheDogABone: After being put down and popped constantly by Gumball, he finally admits to Alan in "The Faith" that he's his friend. |
| 86 | * TotalitarianUtilitarian: [[spoiler:Alan's plan is to eliminate sadness by making camps that [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul would condition people sent there to be happy. Though he only intended for them to be simple educational camps, once Gumball and Darwin give him the idea of making them outright dystopian happy camps unwittingly he decides to actually do them.]]]] |
| 87 | * {{Tuckerization}}: "Alan Keane" is the name of one of the show's script editors. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Anton]] |
| 91 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anton_gumball.png]] |
| 92 | ->''"'''[to a clone of himself]''' Hey, since when do we have a mirror here?"'' |
| 93 | |
| 94 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Anthony Hull |
| 95 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 96 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 97 | |
| 98 | A [[AnthropomorphicFood piece of toast]] subject to endless and fatal misfortunes. |
| 99 | ---- |
| 100 | [[hardline]] |
| 101 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: He wears only shoes and gloves. |
| 102 | * AnimalsHateHim: Ducks and other birds don't hate him, but they do find him ''delicious''. |
| 103 | * AnthropomorphicFood: A piece of toast. |
| 104 | * BlackBeadEyes: His eyes look like dots burned onto the surface of his face. |
| 105 | * CarnivoreConfusion: He's often seen eating a sandwich during the school lunch breaks. |
| 106 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: His face takes up the entire front surface of his body. |
| 107 | * TheChewToy: Dies frequently, sometimes by literally being chewed on. |
| 108 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Recipe," although he was mainly used as a plot device. |
| 109 | * DemotedToExtra: In seasons 5-6, he [[OutOfFocus appears much less than in previous seasons]]. |
| 110 | * TheDitz: He was one of the contestants in the dumb race and thought a mirror could talk. It's possible some or all of Anton's memories don't pass on to the next clone when he dies, and thus he can't learn anything because he's always dying--or him already being that stupid is why no one notices him forgetting so much. |
| 111 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He was more burnt in the first season. |
| 112 | * GangOfBullies: The website described him as a member of Tina and Jamie's gang, whether he wanted to be or not, but this was almost never shown in the actual show. |
| 113 | * MadeOfPlasticine: One of the reasons he dies so easily. He is just as tough as you would expect a piece of toast to be. |
| 114 | * NiceGuy: He's one of the nicest characters in the series. |
| 115 | * NoNameGiven: His last name is unknown. |
| 116 | * OutOfFocus: Starting in the fifth season he barely appears anymore. He only made four real appearances in the fifth season. |
| 117 | ** He also never gets ADayInTheLimelight episodes, and the one time he did, he was used as a plot device instead of his character being explored. |
| 118 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: He's been eaten (not even [[JustEatHim whole]], actually torn to piece and eaten) several times now. "The Recipe" shows him being killed many times in a DeathMontage[[note]](besides being eaten by birds, Anton has been turned to mush in the school swimming pool, crushed by a bowling ball, had a heart attack while watching a screamer viral video, eaten by Tobias, blown up in chemistry class, put through a paper shredder, blown up in music class from playing a slide whistle, hit in the face with a baseball, slammed between a door frame, and crushed by Tina Rex's foot)[[/note]] and each time, [[ExpendableClone his parents clone him]]. Later on in the episode, Darwin suggests that they go find out how he keeps coming back by going to his house, because this was getting them nowhere. |
| 119 | -->'''Darwin:''' Maybe we should just ask him. \ |
| 120 | '''Gumball:''' Maybe you should've said that before we iced him fifty times in a row. |
| 121 | * TooDumbToLive: Many of his [[TheyKilledKennyAgain frequent deaths]] are a direct result of a lack of basic self-preservation skills. Coach Russo once told him to jump into the school pool. By all rights he should know that, as a piece of toast, he'll turn into mush if he gets wet, [[ForgotICouldntSwim yet he jumps in without a second thought.]] |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Joseph A. "Banana Joe" Banana]] |
| 125 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s2joe_3820.png]] |
| 126 | ->''"Hey! What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsssssssssshhhhhh! Ahahahahahahahaha!"'' |
| 127 | |
| 128 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Mic Graves (English), Hiroki Eto (Japanese) |
| 129 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 130 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 131 | A constantly jovial and clownish [[AnthropomorphicFood banana.]] |
| 132 | ---- |
| 133 | [[hardline]] |
| 134 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: A strange example; his arms, legs, and facial features have a normal range of movement compared to each other, but his banana "body" freely flips around without any horizontal fixed relation to the rest of him. |
| 135 | * AnthropomorphicFood: A banana. |
| 136 | * {{Autocannibalism}}: It's mentioned in "The Promise" that the last time he went camping, he was left alone in the woods and had to use his banana skin and eat parts of himself to survive. That, and the winter storm that came when he walked home, is why he has no feet. |
| 137 | * BerserkButton: Do not ruin his family's pen. Or his school picture. |
| 138 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Subverted, as even if you provoke his wrath he's too tiny, weak, and incompetent to be a threat to anyone. |
| 139 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's the one to finish off Rob in The Future. |
| 140 | * ButtMonkey: Mutilated, crushed, abused, stepped on, run over, eaten, traumatized, manipulated... you name it. |
| 141 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: His characterization in the first season was all over the place: sometimes he was kind of a jerk or even [[AxCrazy utterly psychotic]] and other times he was cheerful to the point where he literally could not stop making jokes constantly. From the second season on, [[TookALevelInKindness he's a lot nicer]], but still capable of being pushed too far, and is capable of being serious for a minute. He also didn't strip off his peel as much in the earlier episodes. |
| 142 | * TheChewToy: Tends to be one of the more abused classmates, which is prominently shown in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E32ThePromise The Promise]]", where he suffers a MutilationConga while trying to use the gym equipment. |
| 143 | * ClassClown: Constantly making jokes, but no one really thinks he's funny. |
| 144 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 145 | ** In "The Banana," where he ends up in a feud with Gumball and Darwin over a chewed pen. |
| 146 | ** In "The Promise," where Darwin makes a promise to him to mend their friendship. |
| 147 | ** In "The Future," where he attempts to rescue his mom from Rob. |
| 148 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In season one, his peel was darker, his limbs were thinner, and he had no visible eyebrows. |
| 149 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: His peel is considered his clothes. |
| 150 | * JigglePhysics: His eyes in the first season were literal googly eyes whose pupils shook around as he moved. |
| 151 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: He constantly strips off his peel, his equivalent of clothing, for the sake of a joke. Ms. Simian claims that it's becoming a real problem in class. |
| 152 | * NoBrows: He has no eyebrows in the first season. |
| 153 | * PlantPerson: A walking, talking banana. |
| 154 | * PungeonMaster: Most of his jokes consist of painful puns. |
| 155 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: When compared to Tobias, he likes telling jokes and being silly while Tobias likes sports and flirting with girls. |
| 156 | * SpeciesSurname: Although "Banana" is the first part of his name, it seems to be his surname anyway given he's stated to be from the "Banana family". |
| 157 | * TookALevelInKindness: He was an annoying nusiance in the first season. After that, he becomes a total NiceGuy -- though [[BewareTheNiceOnes he can be more aggressive when the time calls for it]]. |
| 158 | * TurnTheOtherCheek: He forgives Gumball and Darwin for their numerous and unwarranted attempts at violent revenge in "The Banana" and their horrible negligence in "The Promise". |
| 159 | * WouldHitAGirl: In "The Photo", he pushes Teri away. |
| 160 | * YourSizeMayVary: Depending on the needs of a scene, Joe's size varies from as small as an actual banana to about as large as a human toddler. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Bobert [=6B=]]] |
| 164 | [[quoteright:145:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s2bobert_8156.png]] |
| 165 | ->''[[AC:"Computing... Negative. My processor cannot take things any more literally."]]'' |
| 166 | |
| 167 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale |
| 168 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 169 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 170 | |
| 171 | A socially-ignorant {{robot|Kid}} who wishes the other students would be his friends--when he's not busy being condescending toward them. |
| 172 | ---- |
| 173 | [[hardline]] |
| 174 | * AIIsACrapshoot: In "The Robot", he decides to steal Gumball's life. Conversely, turning super-obedient in "The Bet" made him a vicious LiteralGenie. He tends to lose control and try to kill Gumball and Darwin with startling regularity. |
| 175 | * CharacterDevelopment: His main desire is to be just like a regular student and not an emotionless robot. By the final season, he has become much more humanlike and expressive. Most particularly in "The Buddy" and "The Agent" where he physically emotes and acts like an actual student instead of a cold robot. |
| 176 | * CuteMachines: Appearance-wise, he is quite cute. In terms of personality, he can vary from [[EndearinglyDorky endearingly awkward]] to [[InsufferableGenius intolerably smug]] or even [[AIIsACrapshoot frighteningly amoral]]. |
| 177 | * CranialProcessingUnit: Bobert's processors isn't just in his head, a large part of it is shaped like a human brain. |
| 178 | * CyberCyclops: He has a single, off-center eye. |
| 179 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 180 | ** "The Robot" has him try to take over Gumball's life. |
| 181 | ** "The Bet" has him become Gumball's slave for a day because he lost a bet. |
| 182 | ** "The Upgrade" focus on Bobert's system being upgraded and the following issues he has to face when the system is awful. |
| 183 | ** "The Loophole" has Gumball and Darwin trying to teach him to be less LiteralMinded. |
| 184 | * DoAnythingRobot: Besides a large variety of weapons [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids of questionable necessity]] and [[AxesAtSchool legality]], Bobert has a large number of other functions like video recording, vocal imitation, and spontaneously growing an extendable fan. |
| 185 | * DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Gumball learns this the hard way when they play punchies. |
| 186 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He had a black bar under his eye in the first season, and his arms and feet were darker. Also, his pupil was bigger and the black ring around his eye was smaller. |
| 187 | * GoodOldRobot: As of "The Upgrade", Bobert's hardware is no longer the latest and his software can't upgrade without breaking because he's on the short end of a planned obsolescence scheme. He gets replaced by a newer model, but Darwin and Gumball get their old Bobert back because he's their friend--and because the new one bends when they sit on it. |
| 188 | * IJustWantToBeYou: He tries to [[IJustWantToHaveFriends learn how to make friends]] by copying Gumball in "The Robot", but instead decides to become him exactly, [[KillAndReplace steal his life, and try to get rid of the real one.]] |
| 189 | * InstantAIJustAddWater: Bobert frequently displays sapience and independence, yet getting an upgrade made him act more like a robot servant and the newer model Bobert acted the same way. This [[ImpliedTrope gives the impression]] that this Bobert became self-aware by accident because of something unique to the older operating system. |
| 190 | * InsufferableGenius: He's downright condescending towards his classmates despite wanting to be friends with them. |
| 191 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be [[InsufferableGenius intolerably smug]] or even [[AIIsACrapshoot frighteningly amoral]] at times, but [[IJustWantToHaveFriends all he really wants is to have friends]]. |
| 192 | * LiteralMinded: He tends to take things literally and to the furthest extreme. Gumball says he wants to "skip the whole hassle of life"? Bobert blows his head off with a laser. Darwin asks him what he would do if someone asked him to give him a hand? Bobert tries to chop Darwin's hand off with a circular saw. |
| 193 | -->'''Gumball:''' Could you take things any more literally?\ |
| 194 | '''Bobert:''' Computing- negative. My processor cannot take things anymore literally. |
| 195 | * NoMouth: He doesn't have a mouth, though [[TalkingLightbulb when he speaks two blacks bars on his face, which are possibly a speaker, light up]]. |
| 196 | * NukeEm: Is capable of this in his fighting robot form. Hiding behind a nearby trash can is enough protection though. |
| 197 | * OutOfFocus: In Seasons 3, where he does not play a significant role in any episode. |
| 198 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Even at normal size he can easily [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punch someone across a room.]] |
| 199 | * RobotBuddy: While initially [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E19TheRobot stirring trouble with them at first]], Bobert became Gumball and Darwin's friend. He's even carried them around with his jets a few times and in "The Agent" he helped them with their Film/JamesBond styled mission. “The One” reveals that Gumball considers him one of his six closest friends. |
| 200 | * SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Average Joe: knows a lot of math and science and is the best student in school, but has NoSocialSkills. |
| 201 | * TheSmartGuy: He's the smartest student in the whole school by a landslide, simply for being a robot. |
| 202 | * TeachersPet: Considers himself to be this. |
| 203 | * TinMan: When some kids says he has no emotions, he seems to agree, despite emoting quite regularly. |
| 204 | * TransformingMecha: Capable of [[TelescopingRobot increasing his size]] into a fighting robot about 5 meters tall. |
| 205 | * YourSizeMayVary: His size compared to Gumball and Darwin tends to vary from episode to episode, showing him as either a little shorter than them, or around their size. |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:Carmen Verde]] |
| 209 | [[quoteright:142:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s2carmen_2922.png]] |
| 210 | ->''"The only time you're allowed to make noise in the library is when you tell someone else ''not'' to make noise in the library. So I will permit what you just said, but nothing else."'' |
| 211 | |
| 212 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TeresaGallagher (Season 1); Alix Wilton Regan (Season 2 onward) |
| 213 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 214 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 215 | |
| 216 | A [[AnimateInanimateObject cactus]]. She's [[InterspeciesRomance romantically interested]] in Alan, which has rather obvious problems. |
| 217 | ---- |
| 218 | [[hardline]] |
| 219 | * AnimateInanimateObject: Cactus. |
| 220 | %%* BlackBeadEyes: Like her parents. |
| 221 | * CactusPerson: She's a cactus with stick figure limbs and a simplified smiley face. She swells up with water in the rain, and doesn't shed tears when she cries because her body is meant to retain moisture. |
| 222 | * CondescendingCompassion: She likes to criticize and lecture Gumball ''a lot''. But it is out of genuine concern to make him a better person. Unfortunately, she can be quite condescending and smug about and it bothers Gumball to no end. |
| 223 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 224 | ** In "The Storm," she gets into relationship troubles with Alan. |
| 225 | ** In "The Best," her CondescendingCompassion gets on Gumball's nerves, so he plots to bring her down his level. |
| 226 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Her face was lower, her body was thicker and shorter, and she had a thinner, pointier outline in Season 1. |
| 227 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the Season 1 episodes, she wasn't dating Alan; she claims she did not have a boyfriend in "The Pressure", and in "The Party", her date was Banana Joe. |
| 228 | * ExpelledFromEveryOtherSchool: [[spoiler:She was expelled from Franklin Jr. High in fifth grade. At some point before coming to Elmore Jr. High, she made a pretty significant turnout.]] |
| 229 | * {{Foil}}: She and Alan are both upstanding people that Gumball resents, but while Alan is absurdly accepting and forgiving, Carmen does not hesitate to tell someone they're making a bad decision. |
| 230 | * FurryReminder: In "The Storm" when it rained, she started to swell up as cactuses can retain moisture. However, she didn't do so in "The Flower" or "The Triangle" despite also being in water. |
| 231 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's definitely one of the smaller girls of Elmore Jr. High, while Alan is one of the larger guys (height wise). Although it's only due to his balloon string. Without it, she's slightly taller than him. |
| 232 | * IconicItem: Her math book. |
| 233 | * InterspeciesRomance: Carmen (cactus) is madly in love with Alan (balloon). |
| 234 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She likes to criticize and lecture others a lot, but the reason she does this is that she genuinely wants to help them be better. |
| 235 | * MeaningfulName: Her last name means green in Spanish, fitting for a cactus. |
| 236 | * OfficialCouple: With Alan as of Season Two. Although she was dating him in a promo for the show too. |
| 237 | * ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In "The Best", she was revealed to be a VERY violent, abrasive delinquent in Franklin Jr. High until she was expelled and went to Elmore Jr. High.]] |
| 238 | * RightlySelfRighteous: She spends "The Best" constantly criticizing Gumball for everything, but she's right about all of it. |
| 239 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Most of her roles involve being Alan's girlfriend, until she gets a major role in "The Best". |
| 240 | * SickeninglySweethearts: In "The Storm", she is sickeningly sweet with Alan much to their classmates' disgust. |
| 241 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Even if Gumball finds [[AllLovingHero Alan's]] {{nice guy}} personality incredibly sappy and sickening, Carmen wouldn't have him any other way. [[spoiler:Even more surprising that she used to be a violent delinquent in her previous school before being expelled.]] |
| 242 | * TheSmartGuy: Carmen is one of the smartest girls in school according to the website. |
| 243 | * SphereEyes: Her BlackBeadEyes are spheres. |
| 244 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Averted. She has no distinguished trait that shows she's female. |
| 245 | * UnableToCry: She can cry, but there aren't any tears [[FurryReminder because her body is meant to retain moisture.]] |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Carrie Krueger]] |
| 249 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carries2_1112.png]] |
| 250 | ->''"Tell me, is it wrong for a punk rock chick who lives in a haunted, malevolent mansion to be touched by the magical friendship of a pony?!"'' |
| 251 | |
| 252 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JessicaMcDonald (English), Creator/RieTakahashi (Japanese) |
| 253 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 254 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 255 | |
| 256 | An emo ghost girl, though she's more Goth than emo. |
| 257 | ---- |
| 258 | [[hardline]] |
| 259 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only part of her body that is visibly clothing is her hair bow. |
| 260 | * AllGirlsLikePonies: Despite everyone else finding ''[[MyLittlePhony A Pony's Tail]]'' impossibly terrible, Carrie loved it, completely shocking herself. |
| 261 | * AmicableExes: With Aziel, as seen in "The Drama". |
| 262 | * BetaCouple: [[spoiler:With Darwin as of "The Matchmaker".]] |
| 263 | * BigEater: She hasn't eaten since she became a ghost, so when she possesses someone's body she'll eat until it ''passes out''. |
| 264 | * BlackBeadEyes: She has ghost eyes. |
| 265 | * TheBully: In a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, she and Tobias take Anais's doll from her in "The Quest" and play keep away with it, even throwing the doll of the bus when asked to give it back. |
| 266 | * CartoonCreature: Whatever she is the ghost of, it isn’t something that exists in real life. |
| 267 | * CuteGhostGirl: Darwin sure seems to think so when he kissed her. |
| 268 | * DaddysGirl: [[spoiler:In "The Mirror", she defends her father from the insults of Gumball and is overjoyed over reuniting with him.]] |
| 269 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 270 | ** In "The Ghost," she starts possessing Gumball's body against his will to satiate her hunger. |
| 271 | ** "Halloween," where she takes Gumball and Darwin to a ghost party. |
| 272 | ** In "The Mirror," she helps Gumball remove his curse and reunites [[spoiler:with her father]]. |
| 273 | ** In "The Scam," she teams up with Gumball to trick Elmore into thinking that the town is haunted. |
| 274 | ** "The Matchmaker," she's upset that Darwin has supposedly fallen in love with Teri. |
| 275 | ** "The Ghouls," she shows Gumball and Darwin why Halloween isn't scary anymore. |
| 276 | ** "The Drama," where Gumball becomes suspicious of her relationship with Darwin. |
| 277 | * DeadpanSnarker: Carrie is almost always deadpan and occasionally snarks. She once has her face sucked into a vacuum and distorted, then replied with a flat "Gross." |
| 278 | * DemonicPossession: She can possess someone's body by [[OrificeInvasion flying into their mouth and down their throat.]] |
| 279 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the first season, she was lighter, less transparent, had no visible shoulders, and her head was rounder. |
| 280 | * EmoTeen: Carrie is described as emo, though she has a lot of {{goth}} elements like her occult room decorations and loving the smell of death. One time she even described herself as ''[[PunkRock punk-rock]]''. |
| 281 | * ExorcistHead: Her head can flip around freely both as a ghost and when she possesses Gumball. |
| 282 | -->''I can do this forever. I don't have bones.'' |
| 283 | * FogFeet: She has has a ghostly tail instead of feet and floats around. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d during "The Flower" |
| 284 | -->'''Jealousy:''' [[AllWomenLoveShoes How many pairs of shoes do you need!?]] You don't even have feet! |
| 285 | * FriendlyGhost: Despite her morose demeanor, Carrie is good friends with at least some of her classmates, and mantains a very close friendship with Gumball to the point of being PlatonicLifePartners. Gumball initally[[note]]Until she went overboard[[/note]] allowed her to possess his body whenever she wanted to eat food. She regulary shows concern for his safety as shown in "Halloween" and "The Mirror". In "The Scam," they both enact a plan together (Darwin would eventually join in) to scam the whole town. "The One" reveals that she is number two in Gumball's ring of closest friends, right behind Darwin. |
| 286 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: Carrie's performed an exorcism, owns a potion that can let mortals see ghosts (and remove their spirit from their body if they take too much), and was familiar with a bunch of curses caused by a TomeOfEldritchLore. Though the first is rather humorously subverted when she reveals she'd just looked up everything about the exorcism on the internet. |
| 287 | * HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Her father was a mortal and her mother is a ghost.]] |
| 288 | * TheHedonist: It's been so long since she's been able to do things like eating, that when she has a body, she'll immediately starting [[BigEater binge-eating]] [[ExtremeOmnivore absolutely anything]] (except, apparently, pickles). |
| 289 | * HiddenDepths: Carrie, of all people, wound up enjoying ''A Pony's Tail''. |
| 290 | * ISeeDeadPeople: Most ghosts are InvisibleToNormals, but Carrie can see them since she's partway into the afterlife. |
| 291 | * {{Intangibility}}: Because Carrie is a ghost, she is able to pass through objects and/or people. If she's able to ''[[PowerIncontinence not]]'' pass through objects generally depends on the needs of a scene. |
| 292 | * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:[[BoyMeetsGhoul With Darwin]] although she simply blushed after being kissed by him in "Halloween" but as of "The Scam", it is mutual and they are dating as of "The Matchmaker".]] |
| 293 | * JerkassBall: Even though she has a good heart, in "The Quest," she had no problem taking Daisy from Anais and playing keep away with Tobias, and possessing Gumball's body in "The Ghost." |
| 294 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She has her moments of rudeness, but shows concern for her friends' well-being when they're in danger. Carrie is also noble enough to [[HeroicSacrifice volunteer herself for a pretty terrible fate]] (being married to a horrific monster) to save Elmore. |
| 295 | * {{Kuudere}}: In front of everyone, Carrie seems to be an emotionless, but in front of her boyfriend, Darwin, she is gentle and caring. |
| 296 | * LuminescentBlush: She blushes [[CrushBlush when Darwin kissed her in "Halloween"]] and in "The Coach" when she said that all the work-out made her feel alive. When Gumball implies that Darwin reciprocates her crush in "The Matchmaker" she glows like a Christmas tree. |
| 297 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Darwin and Carrie. Darwin is cheerful, similarly optimistic, and sensitive just like his adoptive father, and less edgy in personality. Meanwhile, Carrie is a punk rock chick, a hardcore horror movie fan, with a fondness for gross smells and food eating sprees, and has a strong tendency to be a Deadpan Snarker. In "The Drama" Darwin likes softer music, like a band called "The Lollipuppies", while Carrie is shown to like cool, heavy music that literally melts people's faces off. |
| 298 | * MindOverMatter: Carrie can move objects, with or without possessing them. |
| 299 | * MissingReflection: [[RuleOfFunny Sometimes]] Carrie lacks a reflection or doesn't show up in film (which involves projecting reflections), like when Mr. Small took her class photo ("I'm not paying for that."). Conversely, when she's possessing someone, she replaces ''[[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf their]]'' reflection. |
| 300 | * NightmareFetishist: She is a ghost and all, but this does not stop her from obsessing over horror movies and ideas of death. And she apparently found Darwin attractive enough to kiss even when he'd turned into a decrepit gremlin. |
| 301 | * NomDeMom: When Carrie says her dad's full name, it ends with "Lokowitchki", not "Kruger". Whether this is because [[HeroicBastard her parents never married]] or for some other reason isn't specified, though in the case of the former it's likely because [[spoiler:her dad turned into the Snatcher before they could.]] |
| 302 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:As of "The Matchmaker", she and Darwin are a couple.]] |
| 303 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the resident NightmareFetishist is freaked out over scare email from the Snatcher, than it should be taken seriously. |
| 304 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: In "Halloween" she claims she was ''[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum born]]'' a ghost[[note]]Neither Gumball or Darwin could guess how that works.[[/note]] which means she stays in the living world and can be seen by anyone, even though most other ghosts can only come there on Halloween and are InvisibleToNormals. "The Mirror" provides an actual explanation to this: [[spoiler:Her mom was a ghost and her dad a mortal who used magic to be able to touch her.]] Both of these, however, came after her [[MultipleChoicePast mentioning that she used to have a body]]. |
| 305 | * PerkyGoth: On some occasions, Carrie behaves rather cheerfully for an undead. Still, she has her moments as a more stereotypical goth. |
| 306 | * PerpetualFrowner: Usually has a morose expression on her face, though she's sported a [[ScaryTeeth sharp-toothed]] grin a few times. |
| 307 | * PickyEater: When Carrie takes over Gumball's body and starts binge-eating everything in sight, she takes a moment to remove the pickle slice from a hamburger before devouring the whole combo meal. |
| 308 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks like a young girl but is actually 327 years old. [[CompulsorySchoolAge For some reason, she's still in middle school.]] |
| 309 | * RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:She becomes a couple with Darwin in "The Matchmaker".]] |
| 310 | * ShoutOut: Given that she's a ghost and a horror film afficionado, her name is likely inspired by two famous horror characters: [[Literature/{{Carrie}} Carrie White]] and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. |
| 311 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She has a mutual crush on [[AllLovingHero Darwin]]. |
| 312 | * {{Teleportation}}: Carrie shows she can disappear and reappear at a different location, though her aim isn't perfect. |
| 313 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Anais and Teri. |
| 314 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: "I thought I was a hardcore horror movie fan, but I was living a lie! Tell me, is it wrong for a punk-rock chick who lives in a haunted malevolent mansion to be touched by the magical friendship of a pony?" |
| 315 | * TookALevelInKindness: As seen under JerkassBall, she was much more unpleasant in season 1, such as taking Daisy Donkey from Anais and possessing Gumball several times against his will and going on binge-eating sprees while in his body. However come season 2 she had mellowed into a sometimes rude but overall much friendlier and nicer JerkWithAHeartOfGold who was good friends with Gumball and Darwin, and by season 5 had started dating the latter. |
| 316 | * TragicIntangibility: As a ghost, she cannot experience things like touch and taste. At one point she asks to posses Gumball to do things like eat. She goes overboard and keeps possessing Gumball to experience more. |
| 317 | * TransformationOfThePossessed: Anyone she possesses turns into wrinkly, green, and decrepit for the duration. |
| 318 | * TwiceShy: Carrie's crush on Darwin is mutual, but both struggle to ask each other out [[spoiler:before “The Matchmaker”]]. |
| 319 | * UndeadChild: Carrie's earliest appearance mentioned her having been alive, but this was soon retconned to her having been born as a ghost, and presumably aging. Although even later she's stated to be ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, so she either [[TheAgeless has no real age]], or [[ProportionalAging is growing up very slowly]]. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Clayton]] |
| 323 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s2clayton.png]] |
| 324 | ->''"I prefer to call it 'creative truth'."'' |
| 325 | |
| 326 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RupertDegas (Season 1), Maxwell Cazier (Season 2 onward) |
| 327 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 328 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 329 | |
| 330 | A [[AnimateInanimateObject blob of red clay]] and a formerly compulsive liar. |
| 331 | ---- |
| 332 | [[hardline]] |
| 333 | * AllThereInTheManual: The character descriptions from before the first season stated he "told absurd tales about himself", but that was never explored until "The Skull" in Season 2. |
| 334 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A talking lump of red clay. |
| 335 | * CharacterDevelopment: As seen in "The Anybody", he has finally moved on from his compulsive lying -- though he still expresses his desire of being [[IJustWantToBeSpecial someone special]]. |
| 336 | * CompulsiveLiar: Clayton lies to make himself seem more interesting (to others [[BelievingTheirOwnLies and himself]]), but is constantly making up so many new ones he couldn't possibly keep his story straight. |
| 337 | * ConsummateLiar: He's able to lie constantly with complete conviction because [[BelievingTheirOwnLies he convinces himself at the same time]], but people rarely fall for them because they're so ridiculous. Seemingly the only one who believes him is Tobias. |
| 338 | * {{Claymation}}: Although actually computer-animated, Clayton's animation is deliberately similar to a stop motion clay figure. |
| 339 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 340 | ** In "The Skull," he forms a friendship with Gumball and Darwin, though his ToxicFriendInfluence begins to mar things with them. |
| 341 | ** In "The Move," Gumball and Darwin try to help him get over his compulsive lying. |
| 342 | ** In "The Anybody," he begins to steal the identities of everyone in Elmore. |
| 343 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He looked significantly different in the first season compared to season two onwards. His body was less smooth, he lacked eyebrows, and the inside of his mouth was purple rather than pink. |
| 344 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: In "The Move" he admits he lies so much because he thinks his actual life is boring. Comes to head in "The Anybody", where he begins to take over people's lives that he thinks are more interesting than his own. |
| 345 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: "The Skull" and "The Anybody" show that he can be quite manipulative at times, but he really isn't that bad of a person deep down. |
| 346 | * ALizardNamedLiz: A ball of clay named Clayton. |
| 347 | * TheMunchausen: He constantly tells improbable stories about himself and his family. |
| 348 | * NoBrows: His design in the first season lacked eyebrows. Adding them was the most noticeable difference in his second season redesign. |
| 349 | * NoNameGiven: Unknown last name. |
| 350 | * OutOfFocus: He has always been OutOfFocus, but in Season 4 and 5 he has no focus episodes. |
| 351 | * SphereEyes: He has them. |
| 352 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: In "The Skull", Clayton constantly includes Darwin and Gumball in his lies and causes them to start lying the same way themselves. To their credit, Gumball and Darwin figure out he's a bad influence on them almost right away and break it off with him... only for him to attempt to lie his way back into their good graces. |
| 353 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can change into a lot of things, including other people (and fake their voices as well). He's a ball of clay and clay can be molded into whatever you want it to be, even though it's still clay, no matter what (which also explains why a ball of clay would be a compulsive liar). Before “The Anybody”, he stayed red even when turning into inanimate objects, but in that episode, he can change color when becoming inanimate objects too. |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
| 355 | |
| 356 | [[folder:Colin and Felix]] |
| 357 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s02e32hereforzelmore.png]] |
| 358 | ->'''Colin:''' ''"Is this the line for the first screening of Stellar Odyssey?"'' |
| 359 | ->'''Felix:''' ''"Please Colin, use the full title. Stellar Odyssey, colon, The Force Rehashed."'' |
| 360 | |
| 361 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale (Colin), Creator/RupertDegas (Felix, season 1), Hugo Harold-Harrison (Felix, season 2 onward) |
| 362 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The End" (Colin), “The Quest” (Felix) |
| 363 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 364 | |
| 365 | A pair of intellectual, nerdy [[EggFolk eggs]]. |
| 366 | ---- |
| 367 | [[hardline]] |
| 368 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: They look extremely similar and are always together, but it was never confirmed they're related. |
| 369 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: They're "eggheads" both literally and figuratively. |
| 370 | * BigOlEyebrows: Their eyebrows are very thick and [[BigOlUnibrow there's a good bit of hair inbetween]]. |
| 371 | * BlackBeadEyes: Colin has these in some episodes. |
| 372 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: Arms, legs, and faces on an egg. |
| 373 | * TheChessmaster: They have their moments, notably in The Line [[spoiler: where they manipulate ''everyone'' into going into the wrong theater so they can see the first screening of Elmore's Star Wars expy by themselves.]] |
| 374 | * TheDividual: They're almost always shown together and acting in unison. |
| 375 | * EggFolk: They're brown eggs with faces and limbs. |
| 376 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: They wear gloves, pants, and shoes, although their pants and shoes look like one clothing item. Colin wears braces and glasses. |
| 377 | * {{Gonk}}: Really ugly, with thick eyebrows and crooked teeth. |
| 378 | * HateSink: While they aren't the worst people out there, they're still really scummy. |
| 379 | * InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: They may be brothers, but it was never stated; they could just happen to be identical friends. |
| 380 | * InsufferableGenius: Intelligent and can be very condescending. |
| 381 | * {{Jerkass}}: They're extremely condescending to everyone who isn't in "The Reject Club". |
| 382 | * KarmaHoudini: They face no consequences for making the entire city lose the premiere of a movie to get the cinema to themselves. Granted, they were made fun of before by everyone in the line, so this was more of a case of them [[TheDogBitesBack getting their revenge]]. |
| 383 | * LongPants: Their pants and shoes appear as a single black-painted section of their body. |
| 384 | * NoNameGiven: It took five seasons until they were named in "The Line". Much earlier, one of the writers came up with the names "Frank" and "Bean" on Formspring. Their last name(s) is still unknown. |
| 385 | * NoSocialSkills: They belong to the Reject Club and unlike Ocho and Bobert, the Eggheads rarely seen to hang out with other classmates. One of the few times they talk to anyone else, they call Carrie a loser and she storms off. |
| 386 | -->''This is what happens when you spend all your time flaming people on web forums.'' |
| 387 | * RecurringExtra: Had a prominent role in season one's "The Club" as part of the Reject Club, and much later in season five's "The Line", but for the most part they're just barely more prominent than background characters. |
| 388 | * SmugSnake: When they try to get back at Gumball for rejecting their invitation into the Rejects Club, they are very condescending and stuck up. |
| 389 | * SphereEyes: Both of them have these. |
| 390 | * StereotypicalNerd: Both have [[NerdyNasalness nasally voices]], NoSocialSkills, literal "eggheads" and always talk about academics or science fiction. One has NerdGlasses and braces, the other has a face covered in acne. |
| 391 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Always walking around together. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Hector Jötunheim]] |
| 395 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hector_joetunheim.png]] |
| 396 | ->''"'''I'M NOT BORIIIIIINNNNGGGGGG!!!'''"'' |
| 397 | |
| 398 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale |
| 399 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 400 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 401 | |
| 402 | A giant covered in colorful fur. His mother is a witch who has to keep him sedated so he won't destroy Elmore. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | [[hardline]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | * AbridgedForChildren: Gumball and Darwin are shocked that Hector's mom edited the violence out of Hector's rare comics. She explains it's part of her efforts to keep Hector's giant-sized emotions in check. |
| 407 | * AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: His dad never appeared on-screen and it's unknown where he lives, as he was never seen in Hector and his mom's cave. |
| 408 | * ArtEvolution: Sorta. In Season 1, originally the only thing that can be seen of him was usually just his feet due to him being too big to fit in the screen. Other body parts of his would occasionally be seen also, but he never appeared in full body view. In Season 2, he still retains his original depiction but with a different colored outline and his knees are bent and not straight, but from time to time, his entire body would be shown in full view, most notably in "The Colossus". |
| 409 | * BareBottomedMonkey: While not explicitly a primate, Hector's design is ape-like and one of the few parts of him not obscured by his hair is his enormous blue backside, which gets used for a gag from time to time. |
| 410 | * BerserkButton: Do ''not'' badmouth his mother. Nicole exploits this in "The Finale" to get him to trash the town. |
| 411 | * TheBigGuy: He's the biggest student in school and easily the strongest of them, and even the strongest in ''the entire show'' (possibly besides Nicole, Mr. Rex, Kenneth, Yuki and Joao). However, he is only violent when someone makes him angry. |
| 412 | * BlessedWithSuck: Being way bigger than everyone else hasn’t made his life much better. He has to remain calm and careful or he’ll wreck everything just by accident. [[IJustWantToBeNormal Hector dreams of being regular-sized]] to enjoy such wonders as wearing clothes and using a toilet that ''isn’t'' a volcano. Probably the only thing worse than being Hector is [[PersonOfMassDestruction being anyone else when Hector is mad]]. |
| 413 | * CartoonCreature: It isn’t clear what he is. |
| 414 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 415 | ** In "The Colossus," he begins to grow wary that his life is too boring thanks to his mom's overprotective nature. |
| 416 | ** In "The Potion," he shrinks down to normal size only to learn that being small isn't that great. |
| 417 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Granted, in season one, we never really saw anything beyond his legs. However, his legs looked longer, relatively more vibrant, and moved rather stiffly compared to subsequent appearances where we finally get to see his full body. |
| 418 | * TheFaceless: His face was always offscreen in season one. From season two onward his head is visible, but his fur covers all of his facial figures. The four exceptions to this so far are a view of his ear when Gumball plays music into it in "The Colossus", a brief shot in season three's "The Butterfly" showing [[https://theamazingworldofgumball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Butterfly57.png Hector's mouth and nostrils when he falls down]], his mouth is seen several times in "The Potion", and his mouth is seen when he kisses Masami in "The Shippening". |
| 419 | * GentleGiant: His mother [[EnforcedTrope makes sure he's always extremely calm and gentle]], because if he wasn't, he'd quickly wreck up the whole town. [[SubvertedTrope In practice]], everyone trying to avoid upsetting him [[HairTriggerTemper has left him rather thin-skinned and easily excited.]] |
| 420 | -->'''Gumball:''' You're not boring, dude. You're nuts. |
| 421 | * HiddenDepths: In "The Night", it's revealed that he secretly wishes he was normal sized and that he has a crush on Sarah. "The Potion" would later expand upon the former idea. |
| 422 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With both of his love interests, Tina and Sarah. They are the tallest girls in the school, especially the former, but compared to him they're pretty tiny. |
| 423 | * MeaningfulName: His last name refers to Jötunheimr, the land of giants from Norse mythology. His first name is from the prefix "hecto-", which is a factor of 100. |
| 424 | * NiceGuy: He's extremely calm and gentle most of the time. |
| 425 | * OurGiantsAreBigger: He's taller than the building for the school he attends, and thus is only seen hanging around the playground. Judging by a comment he made about his dad on "The Hero" (he mentions his father's so big that three mountain climbers got stuck in his belly button), '''''he's not even fully grown yet'''''! |
| 426 | * OutOfFocus: In Season 3, he only made one real appearance. In Season 4, this gets better, but he is OutOfFocus again in Seasons 5 and 6. "The Potion" from Season 6 was his second major role since Season 2's "The Colossus", in a gap of almost '''six''' years. |
| 427 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: He's strong enough to destroy the entirety of Elmore. According to a FreezeFrameBonus on "The Apology", one of the offenses that warrants a suspension from school is "upsetting Hector", as it's equivalent to "destruction of property". |
| 428 | * SmallParentHugeChild: Hector is a giant, but it's revealed in "The Colossus" that his mother is a witch who is even shorter than Gumball, and a [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]] {{Expy}} to boot. |
| 429 | * WouldHitAGirl: In "The Finale" he goes after Nicole in a rampage when she makes hurtful remarks against his mother. |
| 430 | * YoungerThanHeLooks: At first glance you wouldn't expect him to be a student. |
| 431 | * YourSizeMayVary: His size varies even more than Tina's; Hector can fit himself in a house or even in the school locker room despite being far larger than any opening that would let him in. This is lampshaded in "Welcome to Elmore", as Gumball sings "Hector rides the bus to school but no one knows just how he does!" (though he doesn't in the actual show). |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Idaho]] |
| 435 | [[quoteright:142:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s2idaho_7189.png]] |
| 436 | ->''"Well, plow my furrow! This ain't sunscreen, it's tanning oil! Look at me, gettin' all crispy!"'' |
| 437 | |
| 438 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale (season 1), Hugo Harold-Harrison (season 2 onward) |
| 439 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 440 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 441 | |
| 442 | A [[AnthropomorphicFood potato]] from a farm on the outskirts of Elmore. |
| 443 | ---- |
| 444 | [[hardline]] |
| 445 | * AnthropomorphicFood: A potato. |
| 446 | * BlackBeadEyes: His eyes are just black dots. |
| 447 | * ButtMonkey: He constantly endures abuse like being stepped on by Tina, getting hit with a golf club, and being stabbed with a fork and almost eaten by Principal Brown. He also explodes in shock after seeing Miss Simian's butt and seeing Gumball naked, [[UnexplainedRecovery but he always comes back unharmed in a later episode]]. |
| 448 | * CarnivoreConfusion: In "The Storm" he's shown eating potato chips and in "The Bumpkin", he ate the French fries that he was baked with in the oven during Gumball's BingeMontage. Justified in that he doesn't consider edible potatoes as the same as anthropomorphic ones like him, as revealed in "The Potato". |
| 449 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: His face is his body. |
| 450 | * CountryMouse: He commutes to school from a farm and doesn't know what a TV is. |
| 451 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 452 | ** In "The Bumpkin," where he teaches Gumball how to live a simpler life. |
| 453 | ** In "The Potato," Darwin believes that he is offending Idaho by eating potatoes in front of him. |
| 454 | * DisneyDeath: When he appears to die in "The Bumpkin", his parents bury him, and after a short time in the "dirt bath" he pops out good as new. |
| 455 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: His face was larger, his limbs were shorter, and his body was darker in season one. |
| 456 | * EmbarrassingNickname: He gets annoyed being called "Bro-tato" by Gumball. |
| 457 | * GoodOlBoy: He's a jovial hick. |
| 458 | * MeaningfulName: He's a potato named after a state famous for producing potatoes. |
| 459 | * NiceGuy: He's one of the more nicer students in their school. He rarely ever gets mad at anyone. |
| 460 | * NoNameGiven: No last name. |
| 461 | * OutOfFocus: Has always been, but is even more so in later seasons. |
| 462 | * PlantPerson: A walking, talking potato. |
| 463 | * SphereEyes: His BlackBeadEyes are spheres. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Jamie Russo]] |
| 467 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jamies3_nobackground.png]] |
| 468 | ->''"Look, if you don't get out of here, there will be serious consequences involving you, me, an electric fan, and a pair of dice."'' |
| 469 | |
| 470 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica [=McDonald=] (seasons 1-2, "The Uploads"), Maria Teresa Creasey (season 3 onward) |
| 471 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 472 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 473 | |
| 474 | A schoolyard [[TheBully bully]] that [[CartoonCreature vaguely resembles a minotaur]], animated in 3D. |
| 475 | ---- |
| 476 | |
| 477 | * AxCrazy: She has her moments. |
| 478 | * BadassAdorable: An adorable critter who is extremely strong and intimidating. |
| 479 | * BarbaricBully: Jamie is easily-angered, physically violent, and has been known to eat some of the students based on food items. |
| 480 | * TheBully: She is constantly bullying and intimidating her classmates. |
| 481 | * CartoonCreature: [[MixAndMatchCritters Has horns like a bull, but a lion's tail]] and the body of a human. Darwin insults her by claiming she's a "half-cow, half-troglodyte". To make it weirder, her mother is a giant red cube and her father is probably the same species as her but with a pointy hair or hat with straight horns and without a tail. |
| 482 | -->'''Gumball:''' Coach saw what we were all too blind to see. That you're really a sweet, kind... orange thing with, uh, a hat or a wig or some kind of a helmet and horns that we're proud to call our friend. |
| 483 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In season one, Jamie wasn't as much of a barbaric, cannibalistic bully. She was still mean, but was more of a snooty DeadpanSnarker. Mostly, she hung around with Tina Rex and [[InformedAbility was said to be a part of Tina's gang, even though she didn't beat up or threaten anyone]]. In fact, her most destructive act back in the earlier episodes was trying to throw the TV out of the window of Tobias' house (only for the TV to do it itself) in "The Party". Also, she was a PerpetualSmiler rather than a PerpetualFrowner and (much like Miss Simian) her 3D animation in the earlier episodes looked primitive compared to the later designs. |
| 484 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Jamie's strength massively exceeds her size, making her capable of things like deadlifting a treadmill and smashing steel lockers with her head, apparently just because she works out a lot. |
| 485 | * ClothingAppendage: It's unclear if the orange part of her head is a hat, hair, or some kind of solid body part, something Gumball points out. |
| 486 | * CuteBruiser: A tiny, ridiculously cute looking girl who can overpower people several times her size. |
| 487 | * CuteAndPsycho: Some of Jamie's attempts to be Darwin's girlfriend are quite cute. Others are quite terrifying. |
| 488 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 489 | ** In "The Coach," where the new coach stands up to her. |
| 490 | ** In "The Girlfriend," where she becomes Darwin's (and later Gumball) new girlfriend. |
| 491 | ** In "The Buddy," where she forms an unlikely alliance with Anais. |
| 492 | * DumbMuscle: She's strong and athletic enough to overpower full-grown adults, but rarely uses her brain, and takes forever when she does. This actually ends up making her ''scarier'' because she's so irritable and illogical that there's no way of knowing what she'll take offense to. |
| 493 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: As mean as she is, she immediately toes the line anytime her mother (the Coach) is around. |
| 494 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She's no doubt a bully, but she was just as upset as the others when they thought Gumball kissed Carmen in front of Alan. |
| 495 | * HeelFaceTurn: In "The Buddy", she becomes nicer after forming a friendship with Anais. |
| 496 | * FieryRedhead: It isn't clear if it's hair, but, being a bully, she definitely has a fiery personality. |
| 497 | * {{Foil}}: To Sarah, as they both display EntitledToHaveYou traits, but while Sarah is a socially awkward LoonyFan sometimes, she's still Darwin and Gumball's friend and can also be seen being friendly with their girlfriends. Jamie has a HairTriggerTemper and just decides both are her boyfriends. |
| 498 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Although she's easy to mistake as a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal because her shirt is so similar to her skin in color. |
| 499 | * FunnyAnimal: She is a mix of different animals. |
| 500 | * HairTriggerTemper: Jamie reacts violently to insults that are completely in her imagination. She even got mad at Darwin for giving her a gift that ''she'' picked out. |
| 501 | * HiddenDepths: Her "SAANG IT JAMIE" video on "The Uploads" reveals that she has a great singing voice. |
| 502 | * InformedFlaw: The characters page on the official website describes her as being a bully because Ms. Simian [[HeldBackInSchool held her back a year]] so she developed an extreme resentment for authority and her new classmates, which was never mentioned in the show. It also says she is Tina's sidekick, but the two were only shown working together once in "The Fight" where Jamie's presence was not commented upon. |
| 503 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Jamie gives Darwin a present, but inside is another box she explains [[EncouragedRegifting is actually a present for her]]. [[InsaneTrollLogic Then she gets mad at "his" choice in gifts.]] |
| 504 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: |
| 505 | ** She apologizes to Gumball when Coach came into the scene, but only because she was afraid of getting into trouble or Coach getting angry. |
| 506 | ** At the end of "The Girlfriend", Jamie [[HeelRealization genuinely realizes]] she can't [[EntitledToHaveYou make someone love her]], then immediately shows she hasn't learned any of her ''other'' behavior is wrong. |
| 507 | * {{Jerkass}}: She is a bully, after all, though she becomes better in "The Buddy". |
| 508 | * KarmaHoudini: She's never faced any consequences for her physical violence besides her mom becoming a teacher to reign her in. The rest of the staff and other adults are actually ''[[AdultsAreUseless physically incapable]]'' of stopping her. The only times she's even got injured were in "The Gift" where Gumball throws Ocho at her and knocks her down and later Tina knocks her aside into a plant, and in "The Advice" where she's one of the many students fallen in the hallway. Subverted in "The Buddy", when she's called to the principal's office ([[spoiler:though she was actually innocent that time]]) and mentions she was punished by her actions before. |
| 509 | * LaughablyEvil: Her insane acts of brutality are played purely for humor. |
| 510 | * MixAndMatchCritters: She has features of a bunch of different animals. |
| 511 | * MoodSwinger: When Jamie decided Darwin was her boyfriend, she'd make sweet-talk and violent threats in practically the same breath. |
| 512 | * TheNapoleon: Very short in height, and a very aggressive bully. |
| 513 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Even when Jamie is ''trying'' to be nice to someone, she traumatizes the target of her affection and physically harms a bunch of bystanders. |
| 514 | * OnlyFriend: In "The Buddy", Jamie becomes Anais' first friend she can hang out with normally. |
| 515 | * OutOfFocus: In Season 5 she only appeared four times and did not speak at all. In season six, she makes only two appearances before finally having another major role in "The Buddy", late in the season and appearing in two more cameos in "The Silence" and "The Decisions". |
| 516 | * PerpetualFrowner: Her default facial expression from season three on is a frown. Before that she was, ironically, [[PerpetualSmiler almost always smiling]]. |
| 517 | * RedheadInGreen: She has orange hair and wears a light green shirt. |
| 518 | * SillyWalk: She doesn't have knees, so she basically goose-steps when she walks. |
| 519 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In seasons 1-2, Jamie was not as agressive as she is in seasons 3-6. |
| 520 | * TookALevelInDumbass: Jamie's intelligence seemed average for the first three seasons. In "The Girlfriend", Jamie comes off as a [[PsychopathicManchild mentally-challenged psychopath]]: pondering simple questions causes her to go nigh-catatonic for hours, her spelling skills are years below her grade level, and [[NoSocialSkills she misreads nearly every social situation]] [[HairTriggerTemper as a grave insult against her]] (even if she caused it). |
| 521 | * TomboyishVoice: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Her character being established as a tough bully]] is apparent in her changing voice, which started out as normal, [[VocalEvolution got deeper in the second season]], then became raspy in the third [[TheOtherDarrin when provided by a new voice actress]]. |
| 522 | * VocalEvolution: Her voice is somewhat more deep in season 2, and has a raspy-sounding voice as of the third season. |
| 523 | * {{Yandere}}: After proclaiming Darwin as her “boyfriend”, she goes from [[BarbaricBully barbaric bully]] to this, not surprisingly. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Juke]] |
| 527 | [[quoteright:146:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/juke_gumball.png]] |
| 528 | ->''[beatboxing noises]'' |
| 529 | |
| 530 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Jack "Hobbit" Hobbs (in music mode), Hugo Harold-Harrison (in voice mode) |
| 531 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 532 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[NonHumanHead A short humanoid with a boombox for a head.]] Can speak English, but because his radio switch got stuck to "music" instead of "voice", he can only speak in beatboxing. |
| 535 | ---- |
| 536 | |
| 537 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A boombox. |
| 538 | * BigOlUnibrow: His buttons visually invoke a unibrow, but they do not [[ExpressiveMask move with his facial expressions]]. [[ArtEvolution In season two]] he [[SuddenAnatomy gains regular eyebrows]] when necessary. |
| 539 | * CartoonCreature: A humanoid with a boom box for a head. |
| 540 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Boombox", where Gumball and Darwin try to translate what he's saying. |
| 541 | * FacialDialogue: Juke's alternate way of expressing emotion is through his face. Sadly, Gumball and Darwin have a hard time understanding this. |
| 542 | * ForeignExchangeStudent: He's from some country in a continent called Boomboxembourg. |
| 543 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Wears a shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. |
| 544 | * TheGenericGuy: Aside from The Green Bear, He currently develops the least amount of personality out of all of the Elmore Junior High students who had a speaking role. |
| 545 | * LineBoil: Very subdued compared to most examples, but his outline shakes slightly. |
| 546 | * NiceGuy: Juke is pretty outgoing. |
| 547 | * NoNameGiven: No last name known. |
| 548 | * NonHumanHead: Has the head of a boombox, and a body that's humanlike besides the skintone (the same gray color as the boombox). |
| 549 | * OutOfFocus: He still appears frequently in the background, but starting at about Season 3 he is much less important. |
| 550 | * TheSilentBob: Juke tries to communicate normally, but his beatbox mode stops him to do so. Thus, he usually uses other way to communicate, though, not everyone understands it. |
| 551 | * TheUnintelligible: He speaks (and ''writes'') in beat box and as a foreign exchange student everyone assumes he's speaking a foreign language. He actually ''knows'' how to speak English fine, but when a switch on his head is in the wrong position he can only play music instead of talking. Since he can't reach the switch or tell anyone else, it's been stuck like that for over two years. |
| 552 | * YankTheDogsChain: He once had a dream where he can finally talk like a normal person... in a world where everyone can only speak in musical instruments. Thus making him TheUnintelligible in his own ''dreams''. |
| 553 | [[/folder]] |
| 554 | |
| 555 | [[folder:Leslie]] |
| 556 | [[quoteright:146:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leslie_140.png]] |
| 557 | ->''"Calm down, honey, you're being over-grammatic!"'' |
| 558 | |
| 559 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale |
| 560 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 561 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 562 | |
| 563 | An effeminate, sensitive [[AnimateInanimateObject flower]]. |
| 564 | ---- |
| 565 | |
| 566 | * AgentPeacock: Despite his literally flowery appearance, "The Triangle" revealed that Leslie can rig his flute to act as a dart gun (and is a crack shot) and can use years of dance training [[DanceBattler to fight]]. |
| 567 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Mostly blatantly shown in "The Mustache", when Gumball's butt suddenly becomes incredibly muscular and Leslie just stares. In "The Pressure", he's shown hanging out with a group of girls throughout the episode, with his presence never being noted; the other male characters mention him when talking about "the girls", and wordlessly joins in their expressions of interest in the idea of watching or kissing boys. It might not be so ambiguous anymore, as "The Upgrade" showed that he had no problem being married to Alan and that he had his eyes on Banana Joe (who was unaware of it). He was also seen in line for Gumball and Darwins kissing booth in "The Mess" |
| 568 | -->'''Leslie:''' There's a lot of things you don't know about me, Gumball. |
| 569 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A flower that can walk and talk. |
| 570 | * AssholeVictim: He's a total ButtMonkey in "The Petals" and "The Awareness" but deserves most of it due to how much of a {{Jerkass}} he was. |
| 571 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 572 | ** In "The Flower," Gumball suspects that he's in a relationship with Penny. |
| 573 | ** In "The Petals," Leslie starts losing his beauty and seeks the help of Gumball and Darwin to find the cause and fix his beauty problem. |
| 574 | ** In "The Awareness," a rift is formed between him and Gumball over plant culture. |
| 575 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: His pot is treated as clothes. |
| 576 | * GenderBlenderName: Male, despite the more commonly female name and appearance. |
| 577 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He shows signs of this concerning his looks in "The Petals". |
| 578 | -->'''Leslie:''' I don't care about the people who love me; I've already got their validation! It's the people who ''don't'' love me I need to impress! |
| 579 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He is the only male cheerleader among his classmates. |
| 580 | * {{Malaproper}}: He keeps mispronouncing things in "The Words" and "The Test", much to Darwin and Gumball's annoyance. |
| 581 | * NoNameGiven: His last name is unknown. |
| 582 | * PlantPerson: A walking, talking flower. |
| 583 | * ShesAManInJapan: In some dubs, he was referred to as a girl in Season 1. However, as of "The Flower", he is only treated as a boy. |
| 584 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Starting with "The Petals" he shows his shallow and insensitive side of himself more often. |
| 585 | * {{Troll}}: Once he finds out that Gumball doesn't know anything about "plant culture", he makes him stand outside in the seering hot sun and smugishly spills cold water down his feet, claiming that it's his culture. [[LaserGuidedKarma This bites him in the ass later on once Gumball wises up]]. |
| 586 | * VegetarianCarnivore: {{Inverted|Trope}}; as a plant, he refuses to eat vegetables and tries to bug Penny into ''only'' eating meat. |
| 587 | * VitriolicBestBuds: He's been anatagonistic with Gumball and Darwin in several episodes ("The Triangle" comes to minds,) but "The One" shows that he is apparently one of Gumball's closest friends. |
| 588 | [[/folder]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[folder:Masami Yoshida]] |
| 591 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s2masami_6697.png]] |
| 592 | ->''"Well, before you so rudely interrupted us, we were talking about how Darwin is gonna kiss me in the tree house!"'' |
| 593 | |
| 594 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica [=McDonald=] |
| 595 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 596 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 597 | |
| 598 | A [[AnimateInanimateObject white cloud]] obsessed with popularity and generally having her way. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | [[hardline]] |
| 601 | * AccentsArentHereditary: Both of her parents have Japanese accents, while she has an American one. |
| 602 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: She always wears socks on her hidden legs, revealed in “The Gift”. |
| 603 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A living cloud. |
| 604 | * AttentionWhore: Masami is always trying to impress the other girls, faking a relationship with Darwin to seem more mature and partially being interested in Alan because she thought they'd make a popular couple. In "The Gift" however, [[spoiler:it becomes ironic when she doesn't like the attention around her going overboard.]] |
| 605 | * BlackBeadEyes: Her eyes actually appear to be a pair of holes in her face (similar to what Penny looked like before she broke from her shell), but give this appearance. |
| 606 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: Appear to be a floating face without legs until [[spoiler: she reveals to have legs in "The Gift"]]. |
| 607 | * CharacterDevelopment: By season 3, Masami has become much less of a SpoiledBrat which is what she was in the first and second season. Lampshaded in a Season 4 episode "The Gift". |
| 608 | * {{Cumulonemesis}}: In the climax of "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E27TheStorm The Storm]]", she goes on a violent, [[WeatherManipulation weather-based rampage]] during which [[GameFace she changes to a darker storm cloud]] with sparks and GlowingEyesOfDoom. |
| 609 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 610 | ** In "The Pressure," she peer pressures Darwin into being his girlfriend. |
| 611 | ** "The Gift" is her BirthdayEpisode where Gumball and Darwin frantically seek a gift that reaches her standards -- [[HalfwayPlotSwitch only to inadvertantly kidnap and trap her in their basement]]. |
| 612 | * DirtyCoward: She came to Elmore Jumior High's gym to stop the fight between her mom and Nicole in "The Fury", only to be scared of getting annihilated if she tries. |
| 613 | * FlyingFace: She usually appears to have no limbs, appearing at just a face on a cloud. She'll [[RetractableAppendages grow/extend arms]] when she needs to hold something [[spoiler:and she also has legs hidden inside her body]]. |
| 614 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she's angry, her eyes have an electric glow to them. |
| 615 | * HiddenDepths: In "The Gift", it really says a lot that [[spoiler:she wants to be treated normally on her birthday, the day when she can make it ALL about her especially with her status.]] |
| 616 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Masami starts to hate the fawning she gets by "The Gift", and only wishes to have a normal birthday with normal gifts. |
| 617 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Before she TookALevelInKindness, she was bitchy. But she has been shown to hang out with anyone despite their appearance and can be nice sometimes. |
| 618 | * KarmaHoudini: She usually gets away with her bad actions if "The Pressure" and "The Storm" are any indication. |
| 619 | * ManipulativeBitch: Forces Darwin to be her boyfriend and then fake-cries to make him feel guilty when he tries to break it off then. After Gumball accidentally breaks up Carmen and Alan, she pretends to help them get back together with an OperationJealousy, but she actually wanted to be with Alan and tried to blackmail Gumball into keeping quiet. |
| 620 | * OutOfFocus: In Season 3 & 5. Even more so in Season 6. |
| 621 | * RichBitch: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Darwin in "The Words". One of the lyrics in his song, "What He Thinks About Us", states that Masami only has friends because she's from a rich family. In "The Gift", everyone thinks people who give her bad birthday presents have their family run out of town by her father. [[spoiler:This isn't true and she actually wishes people would treat her more like everyone else.]] |
| 622 | * SphereEyes: Her eyes are this. |
| 623 | * SpoiledBrat: Daughter of the rainbow factory owner and has a smug sense of superiority. [[spoiler:In "The Gift" however it's implied she's growing out of it when she's okay with having a normal birthday present.]] |
| 624 | * TookALevelInKindness: Masami becomes less and less of the spoiled snob she was in seasons one and two. |
| 625 | * WhatTheHellHero: She gets mad at Darwin and Gumball for making her and the students believe that Miss Simian is retiring in "The Boombox". |
| 626 | -->'''Masami:''' [[SarcasmMode Good job, Watterson]]. |
| 627 | * WeatherManipulation: Can pull off minor things like raining and lightning at will, and when she's really angry she can generate a stormy tornado around herself. Precipitation, however, is depicted as either crying (as seen on "The Words" and "The Pressure") or urination (as seen on "The Gift"), depending on the situation. |
| 628 | * {{Yandere}}: She lies to hook up with Alan in "The Storm" and starts destroying the school when he breaks up with her. She stops once she realizes he's "such a wet cheeseball" and loses interest. |
| 629 | [[/folder]] |
| 630 | |
| 631 | [[folder:Molly Collins]] |
| 632 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/molly_collins.png]] |
| 633 | ->''"You're gonna love my other stories. So I got this uncle, and he's a huge practical joker. And last time I saw him, guess what he did? He made me a sandwich!"'' |
| 634 | |
| 635 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica [=McDonald=] |
| 636 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 637 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 638 | |
| 639 | A dorky, black, boxy-looking [[FunnyAnimal sauropod]] who mostly appeared in season one. After being absent in season two, she appeared again in season 3's "The Void" with an explanation of why she was gone and why no one realized it. She's considered very boring by her classmates. |
| 640 | ---- |
| 641 | [[hardline]] |
| 642 | * TheBore: In "The Stories", Molly's stories are ''incredibly'' boring. Played for drama a bit because when they think about confronting her about it they accidentally come across her and find out she's aware of this and highly self-conscious about it. |
| 643 | * TheBusCameBack: Reappears in "The Void." [[spoiler:Apparently the dynamics of the world deemed her [[FlatCharacter too boring]] so she got sucked into a void full of bad ideas. Darwin, Mr. Small, and Gumball manage to get her out, and she's eventually seen back in the backgrounds again later in the season, even though she doesn't appear in classroom scenes that often]]. |
| 644 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Stories," where Gumball and Darwin are subjected to her incredibly boring stories. |
| 645 | * FunnyAnimal: A dinosaur. |
| 646 | * LivingDinosaurs: A sauropod, although she looks more like a CartoonCreature. |
| 647 | * NiceGirl: She’s incredibly nice, though in Season 1 she was less nice doing things like making fun of Gumball in “The Gi” and being happy when Tina was going to pelt Gumball with dodgeballs in “The Mustache”. |
| 648 | * OutOfFocus: Disappears entirely from Miss Simian's class without explanation in season two, save for a single cameo in the background of a photo in "The Words", and another in the yearbook in "The Sidekick". After she [[spoiler:comes back]], she still appears less than she did before. Her only real focus being her ADayInTheLimelight episode, "The Stories". |
| 649 | * RetGone: [[spoiler:The reason for her disappearance]]. |
| 650 | * ShaggyFrogStory: In "The Stories", all of Molly's stories are endless droning leading to the most mundane events possible, so the entire school goes through a lot of trouble to give her an interesting story to tell, but it just gets weirder the further it goes. |
| 651 | * TheQuietOne: She rarely ever talks. in fact, she's only had seven speaking roles in the whole series.[[note]]("The Pressure", "The Party", "The Robot", "The Void", "The Comic", "The Stories" and "The Petals")[[/note]] |
| 652 | * WalkingSpoiler: In a sense, considering that [[spoiler: her being sent into the void for being a FlatCharacter]] is, by definition, far more interesting than anything about her actual character. |
| 653 | [[/folder]] |
| 654 | |
| 655 | [[folder:Harry "Ocho" Tootmorsel]] |
| 656 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ocho_tootmorsel.png]] |
| 657 | ->''"I still sleep with the blanket I had as a baby. I use it as a gag when I take people's pets hostage."'' |
| 658 | |
| 659 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Maxwell Cazier |
| 660 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 661 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 662 | |
| 663 | A very-intense spider [[RefugeeFromTVLand who looks like a character from a late 1970s video game]], similar to the aliens from ''Space Invaders''. |
| 664 | ---- |
| 665 | [[hardline]] |
| 666 | * AxCrazy: Though Ocho's [[HairTriggerTemper explosive temper]] was previously established, in "The Uncle" he comes off as a psychotic delinquent who starts fights unprovoked, [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor pretends to kidnap someone as a "prank"]], and was implied to have wanted Gumball to beat Darwin with a hammer just to prove his friendship with Ocho was more important. |
| 667 | * BadassAdorable: He looks cute, especially without a mouth, and is very powerful and intimidating. |
| 668 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: At first, the most interesting thing you could say about him was that he was video game-themed. Eventually becomes a bigger character with proper characterization (a kid with comically exaggerated anger issues). |
| 669 | * CuteBruiser: He easily wins a fight against Julius, who is much bigger than him and seems to be fairly strong. |
| 670 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 671 | ** In "The Phone", Darwin becomes obsessed with texting Ocho with their new phone. |
| 672 | ** In "The Uncle," Gumball tries to be best friends with him in hopes of meeting his famous uncle, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario]]. |
| 673 | * TheDreaded: Gumball lives in fear of the guy when he's near. For good reason. |
| 674 | * FourLeggedInsect: A six-legged spider, but since he's a video game character this was probably an in-universe example caused by sprite limitations. |
| 675 | * FunnyAnimal: A six-legged spider. |
| 676 | * HairTriggerTemper: He literally tries to kill Gumball for insulting him. [[ObliviouslyEvil He is not aware this kind of behavior is inappropriate]] because people are too terrified to give an honest answer whenever he asks if he's overreacted. |
| 677 | * HavingABlast: He can fire exploding pellets at will. |
| 678 | * {{Jerkass}}: A psychotic, [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] delinquent who starts fights unprovoked, "pranks" people by kidnapping them, and was implied to have wanted Gumball to beat Darwin with a hammer just to prove his friendship with Ocho was more important. |
| 679 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yes, he can be an overly tense {{Jerkass}} with a HairTriggerTemper, but he can be nice when he's not being a jerk |
| 680 | * MeaningfulName: Ocho is Spanish for eight, like an 8-bit video game processor, though Ocho is based on [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames a graphic style]] that's older than [[MediaNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames the games most people consider "8-bit"]]. Spiders are known to have eight legs, though [[FourLeggedInsect he doesn't]]. |
| 681 | * NoIndoorVoice: Thanks to his temper, he tends to zigzag this trope quite a bit. |
| 682 | * NoMouth: He usually doesn't have a mouth, only when he is speaking. |
| 683 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In "The Uncle", Ocho states his real name to secretly be [[UnfortunateNames Harry Tootmorsel]], which he says is old Flemish for "[[{{Gasshole}} hot wind from the south]]". |
| 684 | * OutOfFocus: He doesn't make a proper appearance from "The Tape" (late season 2) until "The Gift" (early season 4). He appeared on “The Safety” though that was his only appearance in Season 3 and it was a very brief background appearance on a security camera and he was onscreen for about two seconds, although he also appeared in the yearbook in "The Void". After he comes back, he still appears less. |
| 685 | ** He also doesn't show up at all in episodes like "The Console", which is entirely video-game themed, and "The Sorcerer", where Gumball notices his classmates powers. |
| 686 | * PersonalSpaceInvader: He stops Gumball from intercepting the video in "The Club" by latching on to his head. |
| 687 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: He can cause big explosions and shoot beams which may kill people if shot three times. He also easily beat up Julius and Scythe. |
| 688 | * SeriousBusiness: He gets '''very''' mad at things like him breaking his pencil or Gumball accidentally pushing the straw to the bottom of his juice box. |
| 689 | * SuddenlyVoiced: He speaks normally from season two onward. |
| 690 | * TheUnintelligible: Spoke in ArcadeSounds in season one. |
| 691 | * WasOnceAMan: {{Parodied|Trope}} and {{subverted|Trope}}. "The Blame" suggests Ocho was once a human boy (who either looked like -- or was -- Gumball's current voice actor, Jacob Hopkins) whose video game addiction turned him into an 8-bit character. This is in spite of the fact his mother is also an 8-bit character, and more to prove the idea of the adults hating kids playing video games. "The Spinoffs" would confirm this by revealing he was born looking like an 8-bit character, the short "Everyday Heroes" stating he was born with three pairs of legs like he currently has. |
| 692 | [[/folder]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Penny Fitzgerald]] |
| 695 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penny_fitzgerald_s2.png]] |
| 696 | [[caption-width-right:160:[[labelnote:Click here to see her appearance from Season 3 and onward.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penny_f_glow.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 697 | ->''"You're going for the cheerleader effect? Sorry, but for boys it's the opposite. We call it the frat-guy effect, makes you look like medieval pillaging creeps. [...] You'd still be the shining sun of my life! Impossible to live without... But it would really hurt my eyes to look at you directly."'' |
| 698 | |
| 699 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TeresaGallagher (English), Mai Yamane (Japanese) |
| 700 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 701 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 702 | |
| 703 | A good-natured [[AnimateInanimateObject peanut]] [[MixAndMatchCreatures with antlers]]. Inside that shell, however, turns out to be something entirely different. Is the love of Gumball's life, despite Penny's father feeling he's not good enough for her. |
| 704 | %%Don't put spoilers in the body of the text; that's what the examples are for |
| 705 | ---- |
| 706 | [[hardline]] |
| 707 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Only wore shoes and a sweatband on her arms. [[spoiler:After she literally broke out of her shell and revealed that she's a shape-shifting spirit, she no longer wears any clothing normally, but puts the sweatbands back on (plus a third one on her head) when cheerleading.]] |
| 708 | * ArtEvolution: Went from [[https://theamazingworldofgumball.fandom.com/wiki/File:ThePressure9.png this]] during season 1, to what you see above in season 2 up until the season three episode "The Shell”. |
| 709 | * AlphabeticalThemeNaming: Her sister is called Polly, and her dad is called Patrick, all starting with the letter P. Her mother is OddNameOut, since her name is Judith. |
| 710 | * BeautifulAllAlong: [[spoiler:In "The Shell", it's shown that Penny is a flying, multicolored creature with wings, who morphs into different shapes depending on her mood. Gumball definitely thinks she looks "extraordinary". Penny wasn't by any means "ugly" before, just decent-looking, compared to the form she was hiding beneath.]] |
| 711 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: In the very few times Penny has become truly angered, it is ''not'' pretty. The reason Gumball never told her about her laugh described above was because "he prefers his heart beating safely inside his chest rather than being held in front of his screaming face", so, even if it never happens on-screen, Penny can be extremely dangerous and scary. |
| 712 | * BlackBeadEyes: Like Masami, her eyes have the appearance of Black Bead Eyes, but actually seem to be holes in her shell--Gumball once said she looked like a "coconut with holes in it". Given her shell turns out to be removable, it could be considered a form of ExpressiveMask. |
| 713 | * CartoonCreature: She's an anthropomorphic peanut with antlers. [[spoiler:Until "The Shell" and onwards, when it turns out to be a fake body to hide her true form as a fairy.]] |
| 714 | * ADayInTheLimelight |
| 715 | ** In "The Date," Gumball goes on (what he assumes to be) a date with Penny. |
| 716 | ** In "The Knights," where her father forces her and Gumball to seperate. |
| 717 | ** In "The Flower," where she is forced to deal with a jealousy-possessed Gumball. |
| 718 | ** In "The Shell," where she literally (and figuratively) comes out of her shell. |
| 719 | ** In "The Bros," she becomes paranoid that she is causing a rift in Gumball and Darwin's friendship. |
| 720 | ** In "The Romantic," she goes on Gumball's "romantic treasure hunt". |
| 721 | ** In "The Misunderstandings," she witnesses all the misunderstandings Gumball has to go through. |
| 722 | ** In "The Transformation," her family has a meltdown over a dispute about whether or not she should remain out of her shell or follow family tradition and go back in. |
| 723 | ** In "The Mess," she lets Polly explain what happened during Gumball and Darwin's delirious adventure across town. |
| 724 | * DemotedToExtra: In Seasons 5, she has little screentime (besides the episodes "The Ex" and "The Petals"). She has much bigger screentime in seasons 1-4, though the writers have said that her arc was practically finished now. Thankfully, Season 6 gave her a lot more relevance again. |
| 725 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Penny's body was circular in the first season, making her look more like her dad than her mom. |
| 726 | * {{Foil}}: She is this to Rob. Both of them did consider of running away from everyone, but Gumball stopped her from doing so - unlike Rob, who became more paranoid due to isolation. She became Gumball's girlfriend while Rob became his Arch-Enemy. While she became beautiful, Rob became hideous. Sometimes Penny knows when she's wrong and she accepts it. Rob blames his owns failures on Gumball. |
| 727 | * GenerationXerox: Both ways, as she can be rage-filled and insecure like Nicole and Gumball will be a good guy to calm her down, but also he's inherited his mother's temper (never aiming it at Penny though, and only coming out when he's motivated enough) and she'll take his crazy, like a subtext-laden obsession with his male ex enemy, in stride like Richard would. |
| 728 | * IconicItem: In Season 1, she always carried pom poms. In Seasons 2 and 3, she had a yellow book she was often holding, but after breaking out of her shell, she no longer is seen with it (likely to avoid it from blending with her yellow body). |
| 729 | * InterspeciesRomance: Her (a peanut with antlers, [[spoiler:later revealed to be a shape-shifting fairy-like creature]]) and Gumball (a cat). |
| 730 | * LikeParentLikeSpouse: Like Nicole, Penny is the serious, down-to-earth female counterpart to their more eccentric male partners that nonetheless fell in love with them and only them because of their positive qualities. |
| 731 | * LittleMissSnarker: Penny can be amazingly snarky when putting down [[CasanovaWannabe Tobias]]. |
| 732 | * LivingMoodRing: [[spoiler:Her real form inside her shell. How she looks depends upon her self-image and possibly other emotions, from a rabbit, to a dragon, to a form that looks somewhat similar to how she was with the shell still on. Being distressed or confused causes her to [[ShapeshifterSwanSong rapidly change between forms]]. She still always [[MorphicResonance has antlers]], though.]] |
| 733 | * LovableJock: She seems to be athletic--she is a very good cheerleader, and is part of the synchronized swimming club-- and she's one of the nicest characters in the series. |
| 734 | * {{Metamorphosis}}: Penny could have stayed in her shell for her entire life, and even have minor damage repaired, but once she breaks out entirely it's clear that there's no going back, although her parents want her to go back to the shell in "The Transformation" implying that she could. |
| 735 | * MoralityPet: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Gumball is far from anything evil or even a straight {{Jerkass}}, Penny is probably the only person he never speaks sarcastically or cynically towards. |
| 736 | * NiceGirl: Popular, cheerleader, and sweet as can be. In "The Bros", she told Gumball she needed space just so he and Darwin can have time to repair their friendship as the latter was very envious about Penny getting attention from him and she doesn't hold a grudge about it since she also cares for Darwin's well-being. |
| 737 | * NotSoAboveItAll: The end of "The Flower" shows she's capable of the same illogical jealousy that Gumball had been going through when Carrie playfully punches Gumball. Although she was possessed and didn't mean to say mean things to Carrie, she was still jealous. |
| 738 | ** In "The Transformation", she threatens to ''physically harm'' Gumball if he does not take her side during her family's argument. This is mostly PlayedForLaughs until [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Gumball justifiably gets too scared of them and bolts away the moment they're distracted by his story]]. |
| 739 | * OfficialCouple: With Gumball. In general - especially post-"The Shell" - while she's more sensible than Gumball, she shares his sense of humor and legitimately finds most of his antics hilarious. Unless he takes things too far, she has little problem going along with his misadventures even though they always end in chaos. |
| 740 | * OurFairiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Her true form is a fairy-like creature that can shapeshift depending on her emotions.]] |
| 741 | * OutOfFocus: Penny has very little screentime in the fifth season, only have a supporting one in "The Ex" and a minor role in a few others. |
| 742 | * PhosphorEssence: Her fairy form glows slightly. This is most noticeable when she is standing on a reflective surface or is in a dim area. This also gives her skin a slightly reflective quality. |
| 743 | * PlotAllergy: In "The Dream", Gumball gives her a choice between two cupcakes: a blueberry one symbolizing him, and an orange one representing Darwin, in hopes that she'll choose the former. However, when Penny chooses the orange cupcake, he crams the blueberry one into her mouth, only to realize she's actually allergic to blueberries after she swells up. |
| 744 | * PomPomGirl: She's a cheerleader. |
| 745 | * RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:After their BigDamnKiss at the end of "The Shell" she and Gumball are now dating.]] |
| 746 | * TheRunaway: In "The Shell", she decides to run away from home and [[spoiler:go live in the forest, because she believes everyone, even her dad, thinks she's a monster. Gumball convinces her to come back.]] |
| 747 | * ShapeshifterDefaultForm: [[spoiler:It's not clear whether it's a Type A or B, but when she isn't worried about what other people think of her, under her shell she looks similar to how she did with it on, but with red and orange skin, a larger head, [[WingsDoNothing static]] (until "The Shippening") wing-like appendages, and [[FingerlessHands no hands or feet]].]] |
| 748 | * SingleTargetSexuality: The only person Penny is romantically interested in is Gumball. |
| 749 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Penny is romantically interested in the fundamentally good guy, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Gumball.]] Examples of Penny being attracted to Gumball's side are as followed -- |
| 750 | ** In "The Gi", [[GenerationXerox like Nicole with Richard]], Penny admires how Gumball is true to himself. |
| 751 | ** "The Sweaters", after she finds out that Gumball (along with Darwin) was challenged to a tennis fight with two kids from Richwood High she gave this bit of dialogue: |
| 752 | --->'''Penny:''' Gumball! I heard you're gonna sacrifice yourself to save the school. I know it's heroic and selfless and- (looks aside) kind of attractive. |
| 753 | ** [[spoiler:They become an OfficialCouple after Gumball convinces her she's not the monster she thinks she is in "The Shell".]] |
| 754 | ** On their [[spoiler:first date in "The Burden"]], Penny also liked Gumball showing his paternal side to the school's pet hamster. Heck, she even called this side ''"attractive"''. |
| 755 | * SphereEyes: Both her and her shell have these. |
| 756 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: Penny is always shown as being taller than Gumball, [[YourSizeMayVary though by how much varies by scene.]] |
| 757 | * TwiceShy: Her feelings for Gumball are mutual, but both struggle to confess to each other. [[spoiler: As of "The Shell", they're official.]] |
| 758 | * UnfazedEveryman: Despite arguably being one of the most "normal" of the school's students, Penny generally accepts Gumball's hijinks with little more than amused but level-headed bemusement. She's surprisingly accepting of everything but the most completely insane of situations, and it takes a lot to make her upset. |
| 759 | * WomenPreferStrongMen: She gets giggly imagining Gumball older and shirtless, with muscles, abs and a boy-band fringe. But she also likes him as he is. |
| 760 | [[/folder]] |
| 761 | |
| 762 | [[folder:Rob / Dr. Wrecker]] |
| 763 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rob_s2.png]] |
| 764 | [[caption-width-right:200:[[labelnote:Click here to see his appearance from Season 3 and onward.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/disfiguredrob_9.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 765 | ->''"I clung to life, and I came back. But at a cost. You left me disfigured, a nobody, but now you've given me a part to play in the world."'' |
| 766 | |
| 767 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Charles Philipp (season 2, season 3, "The Nemesis" pre-voice change, returns in "The Disaster"), Creator/DavidWarner ("The Nemesis" post-voice change until "The Disaster") |
| 768 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Party" |
| 769 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 770 | |
| 771 | A skinny blue cyclops. Was seen often in season one and rarely in season two (his last major appearance was in "The Pony"). He appeared in the background of the dimension of the world's mistakes in "The Void" and "The Nobody" established that he escaped the void and is seeking revenge for being ignored. |
| 772 | ---- |
| 773 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Is often the subject of this by Gumball. |
| 774 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: Whenever he swears vengeance on Gumball, he makes sure to let him know he's also targeting his loved ones. |
| 775 | -->"I will destroy you and everyone you love." |
| 776 | * AntiVillain: Started out as the Woobie version of this trope, as being left in The Void is bound to be traumatic, but becomes the Well-intentioned type in Season 6. |
| 777 | * AssholeVictim: Even though he did try to warn them, he did brainwash the students and staff. So Tina beating him up was a bit justified. |
| 778 | * ArchEnemy: Becomes this to Gumball after the events of "The Nobody", choosing it to be his role to take revenge on him for leaving him in the Void. This gets to the point that almost every time they meet, Gumball immediately refers to Rob as "my arch-nemesis"/"my mortal enemy". |
| 779 | * ArtEvolution: He was CGI in his background appearances in the first season, but in the second season he switches to a 2D design. In season three's "The Nobody", he returns and is back to being in CGI, but the CGI is more well-done than it was in season one. |
| 780 | * AscendedExtra: Went from being a RecurringExtra who had a few lines in a single episode to becoming one of the show's most important characters. |
| 781 | * BeingEvilSucks: Even though he chose to be Gumball's ArchEnemy as revenge for leaving him in the void, he recognizes that being a villain is harder than it looks. |
| 782 | * BerserkButton: Forgetting his name and Gumball makes him lose it. |
| 783 | * BigBad: Since Rob needed a new place in life and Elmore only had room for villains, he decides to become Gumball and Darwin's ArchEnemy. |
| 784 | * BigGood: Of a ByronicHero type, but he turns out to be this for Season 6. [[spoiler:[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Not that]] [[ApocalypseHow it mattered]], [[DownerEnding anyway]].]] |
| 785 | * BigNo: When he loses the second fight with Gumball in The Rerun. He says this before being sent to the void. |
| 786 | * BodyHorror: Escaping from the void caused his body to become all [[OminousVisualGlitch glitchy]] and disfigured. Part of his body even displays the void's background pattern. |
| 787 | * ByronicHero: Becomes this in Season 6, [[spoiler:where he tries to save Elmore from cancellation. Though thanks to his reputation as a villain, and his [[PoorCommunicationKills less-than-satisfactory communication skills]], he wasn't heard out and Elmore got canceled anyway.]] |
| 788 | * TheBully: As Superintendent Evil he bullies the students and staff to become humans. |
| 789 | * CardCarryingVillain: He became a villain because he literally had no other role he could fit into. |
| 790 | * CartoonCreature: A cyclops. |
| 791 | * CharacterCatchphrase: “I will destroy you and everyone you love.” |
| 792 | * ChekhovsGunman: His cameo in "The Void" turns out to be significant in "The Nobody". |
| 793 | * TheChessmaster: His first truly diabolical scheme in "The Bus" involves tricking the adults into supposedly teaching the kids about skipping school by faking a HostageSituation with ransom and a secretly real bomb and making sure the police thought it was real to blow up the bus and get away with the money. |
| 794 | * {{Cyclops}}: Just one eye. |
| 795 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 796 | ** "The Nobody": He's found out by Gumball and Darwin living in their hidden basement because he forgot who he was. In attempting to help him find a new identity, the boys inadvertently made him remember how they abandoned him in the void, making him swear to be their nemesis. |
| 797 | ** "The Nemesis": After many failed attempts to kill the duo, Gumball and Darwin help Rob become a much more threatening villain. |
| 798 | ** "The Bus": He's revealed to be the true mastermind behind the plot of the episode, planning to blow up everyone on the bus and getting away with the money. |
| 799 | ** "The Disaster": Rob buys a universal remote from The Awesome Store and uses it to ruin Gumball's life. |
| 800 | ** "The Rerun": Like the previous episode, he has the universal remote and plans to destroy Gumball with it. |
| 801 | ** "The Ex": Gumball is saddened to discover that Rob is being Banana Joe's nemesis instead and becomes determined to win him back. |
| 802 | ** "The Spinoffs": He holds The Internet hostage in order to hijack the show and replace Gumball. |
| 803 | ** "The Future": He kidnaps Banana Barbara so he can use her painting abilities to see the future. |
| 804 | ** "The Inquisition": [[spoiler:He's revealed to have been Superintendent Evil all along, and he was trying to turn the characters into humans so he can save them before The Void destroys Elmore completely]]. |
| 805 | * DirtyCoward: When it looks like he's about to lose or is cornered he runs away or pleads for his life. He also does this in the finale when he loses control after Gumball and Darwin free everyone it looks like he's about to fight Gumball but then runs away. |
| 806 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Rob is thwarted and unmasked in the SeriesFinale and all looks to be resolved until he begins explaining that his apparent EvilPlan of turning everyone into humans was for a reason, but he wasn't heard out. ''Then'' [[WhamShot the floor begins cracking under Rob, revealing the Void...]]]] |
| 807 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In Season 1, he was animated in CGI. |
| 808 | * EasilyForgiven: Despite making Gumball's life a living hell which included erasing Anais from existence and killing Darwin, Gumball still tries to save him and considers him a friend, although [[SympathyForTheDevil this is due to how very tragic of a villain Rob is]]. |
| 809 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his hatred towards Gumball specifically and Elmore citizens in general for forgetting him, he still goes out of his way to try and save them when he learns that [[spoiler:Elmore might get cancelled]]. |
| 810 | * EvilBrit: Rob let Darwin and Gumball change his voice to one with a British accent [[InvokedTrope specifically because they thought it would be a better "evil" voice]]. [[spoiler:With the remote he got from the Awesome store, he reset it back to his normal voice.]] |
| 811 | * EvilCounterpart: He is this to Penny. Both are involved in their respective WhamEpisode that changed the status quo in a good or bad way for the protagonists, have permanent changes to their appearances with Penny's beautiful true form from breaking out of her shell while Rob's disfigured from coming out of the Void, and both have their roles changed in more personal fashion with Penny becoming Gumball's girlfriend while Rob becomes his ArchEnemy. |
| 812 | * FatalFlaw: He has 5 of them; His CardCarryingVillain tendencies, PoorCommunicationKills, [[DirtyCoward his cowardice]], [[NeverMyFault his refusal to blame himself]], and [[HairTriggerTemper his anger]]. |
| 813 | * {{Foil}}: He's also this to Penny. While Penny has many friends and learned to love her new look, Rob has no one and hates what has happened to him. He can't trust anybody and refuses to blame himself. Penny trusts Gumball and her friends and realizes when she's wrong, improving from her mistakes. They also both had a moment where they fell to their deaths (though not by choice). |
| 814 | ** He's also one to Gumball. Both are the most "normal" people in Elmore. They make very complicated plans that always backfires on them. While Gumball is ignorant about the damage he causes sometimes. Rob really doesn't care who he has to hurt as long he can have his revenge on Gumball Watterson. |
| 815 | * ForgettableCharacter: Gumball and Darwin keep forgetting who he is, and they don't even notice him in the void when they go in there to rescue Molly. He escapes by hitching a ride but becomes disfigured and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forgets who he is]]. |
| 816 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: After coming back from the void but not remembering who he is, Rob literally calls himself "nobody". Darwin and Gumball suggest he strive for a new place in the world as the worst person ever. Rob then remembers who he is and how they left him behind in the void, and swears to take revenge by destroying everything they care about and taking away everyone they love. [[spoiler:In "The Disaster", he makes good on his promise and does just that with a special remote.]] |
| 817 | * GoneHorriblyRight: ZigZagged; Gumball and Darwin suggest that he become a villain, and help him with that goal, but he doesn't get very far beyond petty schemes, but later on, [[spoiler: Rob comes ''very'' close to killing Gumball and his entire family]]. Afterward, however, he goes back to being relatively harmless. |
| 818 | * HeartwarmingOrphan: He doesn't have any family, implicitly because he was originally a background character not important enough to have one. |
| 819 | -->'''Gumball:''' Oh, you know what else is thick? Your mom's chin! \ |
| 820 | '''Rob:''' I don't have a mom.\ |
| 821 | '''Gumball:''' Yeah, I meant your mom's skin. \ |
| 822 | '''Rob:''' I still don't have a mom. |
| 823 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Gumball decides to [[SaveTheVillain save Rob from the Void]], Rob ends up with Gumball at his mercy again, but decides he doesn't deserve to be erased or forgotten. So Rob reverses all the destruction he'd done with the remote and destroys it. PlayedWith in that Rob promised to be a good enemy to Gumball again so he's NecessarilyEvil knowing what's going on in this world.]] |
| 824 | ** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He goes back to being a villain by being Banana Joe's arch-enemy in "The Ex". [[spoiler:He ends up going back to being Gumball's arch-enemy after foiling his plot to hurt Banana Joe despite trying to be friends with him by HELPING him.]] In the final season, however, [[spoiler:it turns out Rob, though acting in a very antagonistic way, was somehow trying to either prevent Elmore from being sucked into the Void or make everyone capable of moving somewhere else before it happened]]. |
| 825 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: After swearing vengeance in "The Nobody", Rob's evil plans are all so self-defeating that Gumball and Darwin don't even notice them, and they help Rob [[TookALevelInBadass become more threatening]] in "The Nemesis". His plan to destroy Elmore's dam fails because Elmore doesn't ''have'' a dam, but the ending implies his increased confidence may make him [[NotSoHarmlessVillain a genuine threat]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, he manages to trick the adults into hijacking a bus with an explosive device, getting $1 million from the cops, and nearly getting away with it.]] |
| 826 | * KnightOfCerebus: His villainous role was PlayedForLaughs... until "The Bus", where he hatches a plan to steal $1 million and nearly gets away with it. "The Disaster" and "The Re-run" are easily the series most serious episodes. After those, though, he's back to being comedic. [[spoiler:That is until "The Future".]] |
| 827 | * LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't care about the people he endangers or kills as long as he gets revenge on Gumball. However, this becomes subverted starting from "The Rerun" where it's shown that despite everything, not all humanity inside Rob died off. |
| 828 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He uses lack of communication on Gumball to break his family apart and made Penny nearly fall to her death in "The Disaster" then erases Anais, Darwin, and nearly Gumball in "The Re-Run" then decides to become Banana Joe enemy in "The Ex". Cut to Season 6 in "The Future", [[spoiler:he is erased from existence by Banana Joe (through his mother) and in "The Inquisition", where his lack of communication skills gets him beat up and a portal opens up below him and he falls into the void, possibly to his death.]] |
| 829 | * MeaningfulName: 'Rob' is both a generic, forgettable name and a crime, neatly encapsulating both ends of Rob's character. |
| 830 | * MeaningfulRename: Since "[[TomTheDarkLord Rob]]" wasn't exactly a great villain name, Gumball and Darwin come up with a bunch of new names for him to go by. After many terrible ones they come up with "[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Wrecker". After deciding to stop being such an over-the-top villain, he abandons his alias to go by his regular name again. |
| 831 | * NeverMyFault: Blames Gumball for turning him into the villain, despite the fact he '''chose''' to take the role as revenge. He's also mad at the students and staff for not listening to him even though he tried to force them to be something they're not in "The Inquisition". |
| 832 | * NonActionBigBad: A rare example for a Cartoon Network show. He has seemingly no special powers or fighting skills, relying on schemes and booby traps that rarely ever work. He does come dangerously close to pulling off a deadly heist in "The Bus", though. |
| 833 | * NoticingTheFourthWall: His time in the Void and using the universal remote in "The Disaster" have left him aware that Elmore isn't real--and he's the ''only'' one who knows because everyone else's memories were erased. The revelations leave him rather nihilistic and spiteful toward Gumball for being the hero, with the only solace being the chance for a HostileShowTakeover when Gumball is gone. |
| 834 | -->'''Rob:''' You have [[NeverMyFault only yourself to blame.]] You being the hero of all this means that I have to be the villain. [[BeingEvilSucks But I never wanted to be the villain!]] I wanted to be the cute sidekick that gets his own plush toy and a {{Spinoff}} show!\ |
| 835 | '''Gumball:''' What are you talking about? \ |
| 836 | '''Rob:''' You really don't get it, do you? So happy to star in [[TitleDrop your "amazing" world.]] Can't you see that none of this is real?!\ |
| 837 | '''Gumball:''' [[AudienceWhatAudience I don't understand.]]\ |
| 838 | '''Rob:''' It doesn't matter. Once you're out of the picture, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial I CAN BE WHOEVER]] [[ItsAllAboutMe I WANT!]] |
| 839 | * TheNthDoctor: In "The Nemesis", part of Darwin and Gumball's attempt make him a better enemy is to give him a more intimidating voice. His partially-static body could be altered by a television remote, causing him to change voice actor from Charles Phillip to Creator/DavidWarner. In "The Disaster" he uses another (much more powerful) remote to change his voice back again. |
| 840 | * NoLastNameGiven: His last name is unknown. |
| 841 | * OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: Rob gets a hold of numerous dangerous implements, including a car, NightVisionGoggles, and several bombs, without any apparent income source. Considering he's implicitly a MinorLivingAlone, one wonders how he even gets by. |
| 842 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Rob's natural voice can sound incredibly Irish at certain points, especially when he's angry. |
| 843 | * OutOfFocus: In the first two seasons. |
| 844 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Touched by Gumball attempting to save him in "The Rerun", Rob uses the universal remote to reverse all the damage he's done to his life]]. |
| 845 | * PutOnABusToHell: He's seen floating around the bad idea dimension in "The Void", indicating he was RetGone. Unlike Molly, Gumball and Darwin do not remember him, so he ends up being left there without comment -- [[TheBusCameBack until it was revealed]] that he actually broke out of the void and has been living in the Wattersons' basement with no memory of who he was until Gumball and Darwin tell him that he can be their worst enemy. |
| 846 | * PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:One of his {{Fatal Flaw}}s. This causes his downfall in both "The Future" and "The Inquisition". If he just told everyone what was going on rather then being the bad guy, they might have listened to him.]] |
| 847 | * RunningGag: Gumball forgetting his name. |
| 848 | * TeensAreMonsters: Rob is the BigBad of the show, and he's only around Gumball's age of 12, though that's easy to forget given how he sounds and acts. |
| 849 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: When Gumball suggests his role is being the villain, Rob decides to live that role to the fullest. |
| 850 | * TookALevelInBadass: Goes from being unable to harm Gumball and Darwin with booby traps to planning a million dollars heist and manipulating everyone to pull it off. And he nearly succeeded too! |
| 851 | * TookALevelInJerkass: He becomes very aggressive after becoming a villain. |
| 852 | * TragicVillain: {{Exaggerated}}. Rob never ''wanted'' to be evil, and simply took up the role of BigBad since the universe didn't have room for him to be anything else, lest he be swallowed up by the Void again. He also has literally *never* had any family due to being the universe's mistake or any friends. However, once he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil becomes a villain]], he ''[[CardCarryingVillain goes all the way]]''. |
| 853 | * TurnTheOtherCheek: By the end of "The Rerun", [[spoiler:Rob is on the receiving of this. After all the edginess and horrific scenarios that Gumball [[BreakTheCutie encountered with everyone he loves]], he decides to go overboard and forcibly throws Rob into the Void. In that instance, his HeelRealization kicked in and decides to undo the problem by jumping along to save him. After doing so with the near climactic death, Rob [[VillainousBSOD was touched to see Gumball giving his all]] to rescue him from ''Gumball's'' mistake and decides to reverse this scenario before Gumball tosses him at the Void only to receive a heartfelt hug.]] |
| 854 | -->'''Rob:''' [[spoiler:Ugh, couldn't do it. You came all that way to save me. [[AllLovingHero You're actually quite hard to hate]].]] |
| 855 | * UnknownRival: Even after he swears to be Darwin and Gumball's nemesis, they still ignore him and immediately forget about him for a long time. |
| 856 | * UnmovingPlaid: It's very hard to see, but if you look closely, you can see that the static parts of him don't move when he moves. This is especially noticeable when he makes slight movements during closeups of him. This is apparently because those parts aren't static patterns on this body, they're transparent patches where you can see ''through'' his body and into [[PhantomZone the Void]]. |
| 857 | * VagueAge: According to an old promotional image, he is in Miss Simian's class, putting him around 12-13 years old, but he claimed to be a major in Canadian history, even though he was never confirmed to have graduated. |
| 858 | * VocalDissonance: His Dr. Wrecker voice makes it pretty easy to forget that Rob is still a seventh-grader. |
| 859 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 860 | ** He loses it at the end of "The Ex" when Gumball ruins his plans to destroy Banana Joe trying to befriend him. |
| 861 | ** A minor one in "The Inquisition" after he gets beat up by Tina. |
| 862 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: As of "The Disaster", he is potentially the evilest character in the entire series (besides Margaret, and maybe Evil Turtle). He makes good on his promise to ruin Gumball's life, first by causing the cars in the parking lot to crash into the Wattersons' car, leaving everyone mad at Gumball and more broke then they were before, then (through the use of mean subtitles) makes Darwin think that Gumball thinks the Wattersons would be better off without him, making him run away in tears, then takes the parental filter off of Nicole and Richard, resulting in an argument so massive that they decided to ''get a divorce,'' and then Anais runs off to try to convince Nicole otherwise, with Gumball losing track of her thanks to Rob turning down the brightness, causing Gumball to slam into Sarah face first, making it look like he kissed her right when Penny walks by, and then fast-forwards Gumball when he tries to go after her, making him push her off of the second floor. |
| 863 | * WalkingSpoiler: The fact that he has any plot significance at all is a rather huge spoiler for "The Nobody" and the following plotline in the fourth season. |
| 864 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: His actions in "The Future" has nothing to do with Gumball, and while he did kidnap Banana Barbara, it was for the intent of having her paint the future. Exactly what he wanted this for though is [[VaguenessIsComing left unknown]], as before he can say anything, Gumball [[CessationOfExistence erases him]]. |
| 865 | ** [[spoiler:Rob was trying to save everyone he can to get them into another world, ''the real world'', before the world they are in ends.]] |
| 866 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Like Molly, he was [[RetGone Ret Goned]] to the Void, but unlike her, he wasn't rescued. Instead, he had to grab onto Janice and the resulting tear through the Void which horribly disfigured him and gave him amnesia. With nowhere to go and no idea who he is, he hid out in the Watterson's secret basement (which they had no idea they had) until they start catching onto the fact that their stuff is going missing, which is when Gumball and Darwin discover him. After trying to figure out what kind of personality Rob could adapt, but unable to think of any "good" ones, they bring up the possibility of him adopting a "bad" one. This brings back his memories, and he reveals his deep-seated hatred for them and decides to become their mortal enemy. [[spoiler:Then he purchases the remote that allows him to control anything and he accidentally rewinds to when he was left behind in the Void and came out disfigured. This rekindled his hatred towards Gumball as he realized he became a villain because of him...]] |
| 867 | ** As of "The Rerun", [[spoiler:he becomes NecessarilyEvil after having a change of heart by undoing "The Disaster" before destroying the remote and goes back into being a villain with knowledge of what happened.]] |
| 868 | * WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Put Penny in moral danger by controlling her boyfriend Gumball into pushing her off the ledge then pausing a second before her likely death just to rub it into him. He even kidnaps Banana Barbara and continuously threatens her whenever she doesn't give him what he wants.]] |
| 869 | * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Anais is not safe from him in The Rerun, as de-aging Richard and Nicole led to her literally being erased from existence]]. |
| 870 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: He's actually 13, but looks, acts and sounds far older. |
| 871 | [[/folder]] |
| 872 | |
| 873 | [[folder:Sarah G. Lato]] |
| 874 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarah_the_ice_cream_8655.png]] |
| 875 | ->''"I was just writing some non-canon AT and AR ships. The odd oneshot here and there, and a bit of OOC, some OC drawings of course, but mostly OTP stories and fanservice!"'' |
| 876 | |
| 877 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica [=McDonald=] |
| 878 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 2, "The Banana" |
| 879 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 880 | |
| 881 | An [[AnthropomorphicFood ice cream scoop in a cone]] who transferred to Elmore Junior High in the second season. She's a LoonyFan of Gumball and Darwin and a spoof of amateur fan artists and fanfiction writers. |
| 882 | ---- |
| 883 | |
| 884 | * AnthropomorphicFood: An ice cream cone. |
| 885 | * AscendedExtra: She was a background character until late in season 2. |
| 886 | * BlushSticker: She has oval-shaped ones on her cheeks at all times. |
| 887 | * CharacterDevelopment: She dials back on her stalker actions towards Gumball and Darwin in "The Fan" and becomes much more like a regular friend to them in later episodes (though not without her crazy moments). It's enough for Gumball to consider her one of his six closest friends in "The One". |
| 888 | * CharacterTic: When she's extremely excited, she clasps her hands together, smiles widely and makes a strange "Ah!" noise. |
| 889 | * ConvenientReplacementCharacter: She was [[http://williamlaborie.blogspot.com/2014/06/here-is-selection-of-my-work-as-lead.html originally designed]] as a replacement for Molly as a background character, even being played by the same voice actress. Sarah would then become [[AscendedExtra something more than a background character]] while Molly came back anyway. |
| 890 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 891 | ** In "The Fan," she reveals her LoonyFan status and starts to stalk and harass Gumball and Darwin. |
| 892 | ** In "The Comic," she writes a comic about Gumball's amazing adventures. It inspires him to become a super hero. |
| 893 | ** In "The Test," she's the MetaGuy who helps Gumball take back the spotlight from Tobias, who turned the show into a painfully unfunny cliche sitcom. |
| 894 | ** In "The Shippening," she starts writing romantic fan fiction of everyone in Elmore, unaware that she's writing it in a RealityWritingBook. |
| 895 | * DirtyKid: She showed signs of lusting after Darwin and Gumball in "The Fan" and also in "The Comic", drawing Gumball's character Laserheart in BoobsAndButtPose several times for the FemaleGaze. |
| 896 | * FanOfUnderdog: She's still Gumball's LoonyFan despite openly considering him a loser, even considering it a positive quality. |
| 897 | * FemaleGaze: In "The Comic", she draws Gumball as a {{Hunk}} and bends his anatomy to make almost all shots of him focus on his ass and/or pecs. |
| 898 | * HeldBackInSchool: Strangely, she's in Ms. Simian's 7th grade class even though she was previous attending Richwood ''High'', which would imply her transfer involved going back at least two grades. This is probably just an oversight on the writers' part. |
| 899 | * HiddenDepths: "The Comic" shows she has a talent for making comics. |
| 900 | * HopelessSuitor: Beside being Gumball and Darwin's LoonyFan, Sarah is clearly attracted to them, which neither reciprocates. For her part, Sarah doesn't expect them to, and seems happy just being their friends. She's also shown no signs of hostility towards Penny or Carrie, and In "The Test", rather then taking advantage of the fact that Penny was now dating Tobias (the universe made him the new protagonist after Gumball decided to change himself), she uses this point to convince Gumball to go back to being the loser protagonist. Though one of her stories ended with her dating Gumball and Darwin on alternating days, so maybe she's a {{Polyamor|y}}ist. |
| 901 | * HugeSchoolgirl: With the exception of Tina, she's the tallest girl at the school. |
| 902 | * IconicItem: Her “How to Draw Superheroes” book. |
| 903 | * ImMelting: As expected from a frozen ice cream-like dessert. She can also bring this to herself if she [[BurningWithAnger gets angry enough]], as shown in "The Potato". |
| 904 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's really not that bad of a person, despite being weird and a bit of a creep. |
| 905 | * ALizardNamedLiz: A gelato (G. Lato) is a frozen Italian dessert that's a lot like ice cream, though Sarah is modeled after American-style ice cream. |
| 906 | * LoonyFan: She's obsessed with following Darwin and Gumball's adventures, sometimes trying to get them into more or fit herself into them. |
| 907 | * LosingYourHead: The ice cream part of her can fall off the cone without any ill effects. Her body can even move independently, though this is difficult for obvious reasons. She's even shown to sleep with her head stored in a freezer. |
| 908 | * MetaGuy: Not only was she GenreSavvy about "the sitcom of their lives" in ''The Fan'', she sings the show's end credits jingle shortly before the end of said episode. It becomes useful during "The Test", where her savvy nature makes her more or less incorruptible of being forcibly placed in Tobias' HostileShowTakeover and she convinces Gumball to stop Tobias. |
| 909 | * TheMillstone: In "The Sweaters", she keeps pushing for Darwin and Gumball to fight the kids from her old school, [[HypocriticalHumor despite saying they're not to be messed with]], even going behind Gumball and Darwin's backs to provoke them. Some of the pictures in "The Fan" implied Sarah was stalking Darwin and Gumball even before transferring to Elmore, so it's a strong possibility she was solely responsible for Gumball and Darwin's "reputation" at said school that brought the pair in the first place. |
| 910 | -->'''Gumball:''' (watching Sarah hanging around his house) This girl's trouble, man. |
| 911 | * MysteriousMiddleInitial: Sarah "G." Lato. |
| 912 | * NewTransferStudent: In "The Sweaters" it's explained she transferred to Elmore Junior High from Richwood High. In "The Fan" she lets it slip that she transferred just to be closer to Darwin and Gumball. |
| 913 | * OccidentalOtaku: Self-confessed. Her art is (initially) very anime-influenced, her T-shirt in "The Shippening" [[BilingualBonus outright has "Otaku" written on it in Katakana]], and she seems to read ''untranslated'' manga. |
| 914 | -->'''Sarah:''' I'm an otaku. Light could kill me. |
| 915 | * RememberTheNewGuy: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Sarah is a transfer student at Elmore Junior High, explaining why she never appeared until season two. However, she mainly served as a background character for the majority of the season, not getting properly introduced until "The Sweaters" where she's treated as if she had ''just'' transferred there. Even then, her one speaking role before that in "The Voice" showed that Darwin and Gumball didn't know her yet. |
| 916 | * SanityBall: She holds this in "The Test" when she's the only character besides Darwin and Gumball aware of the damage Tobias is doing to their world when he becomes the protagonist, listing off every bad sitcom cliche he's using and trying to get Gumball to be "The Loser" again so the series itself doesn't get canceled and their world is destroyed. |
| 917 | * SelfFanservice: InUniverse. Her art in "The Comic" portrays herself as an extremely shapely girl with wide hips and Gumball as a big and mature looking {{Hunk}} with a LanternJawOfJustice. |
| 918 | * ShipperOnDeck: She ships herself with Gumball and sometimes Darwin as well, her stories often has them fighting for her. She mentions that, since her works are all fan-fiction, then it needs at least a bit of shipping. |
| 919 | * SphereEyes: Her eyes are perfect circles separated from each other. |
| 920 | * StalkerWithACrush: Her fascination with Gumball and Darwin reaches its apex in "The Fan", including a StalkerShrine and video of her watching them in secret. |
| 921 | * StrawFan: She has a lot of traits of a stereotypical fangirl: she draws [[TerribleArtist very bad]] {{animesque}} fanart and writes overly-dramatic, romantic fanfiction about Gumball, Darwin, [[SelfInsertFic and herself]]. Darwin and Gumball end up humoring her and acting it out to cheer her up (before tearing it to shreds). Subverted when, in "The Comic", she is much more sympathetic and an infinitely better artist, even if still very much prone to self-insert and [[RuleOfSexy using impossible anatomy]] [[FemaleGaze to focus on Gumball's butt]]. |
| 922 | * SuddenNameChange: Her character models and [[https://theamazingworldofgumball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Yearbook.jpg the Elmore Junior High yearbook]] call her "Dolly". |
| 923 | * TerribleArtist: Initially, her art is very {{Animesque}} and quite poor. Over the course of the show, [[ArtEvolution her art improves]]. |
| 924 | * {{Tuckerization}}: She is [[http://imaginationstudios.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/video/meet-the-executive-producer-of-gumball/ named after]] the series' executive producer, Sarah Fell. |
| 925 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Aggressively so. Sarah tends to force the boys into whatever kind of story strikes her fancy that week. She even brings her own soundtrack. |
| 926 | [[/folder]] |
| 927 | |
| 928 | [[folder:Sussie]] |
| 929 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sussiefullbody.png]] |
| 930 | ->''"Don't be silly. Sussie not crazy, she keeps different sauces in different pockets! This one's for mustard, this one's for ketchup, and this one's for toothpaste!"'' |
| 931 | |
| 932 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Fergus Craig (Seasons 1-4, speaking), Aurelie Charbonnier[[labelnote:*]]Also plays the physical puppet in all seasons[[/labelnote]], (Season 5, speaking) Ben Bocquelet (wails, screams, and laughs) (English), Creator/RieTakahashi (Japanese) |
| 933 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Ghost" |
| 934 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 935 | |
| 936 | An obnoxious [[BareHandedPuppetry live-action chin puppet]] who can't stop eating, drools on herself, and is considered gross and a bit of an outcast. |
| 937 | ---- |
| 938 | [[hardline]] |
| 939 | * AllLovingHeroine: "Sussie likes all the things in the world". |
| 940 | * BareHandedPuppetry: She and her family are chin puppets. |
| 941 | * BigEater: Rarely seen not eating. |
| 942 | * CartoonCreature: A chin. |
| 943 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She acts extremely spacey. At one point she held a party and "practiced" welcoming guests by randomly opening the door to greet thin air. |
| 944 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Weirdo," where Gumball and Darwin try to make her less weird, in hopes of no one bullying her. |
| 945 | * TheDitz: Not especially smart, due to ChildhoodBrainDamage as revealed in "The Origins". She mistook a dog ([[CartoonCreature maybe]]) for a bird, failed to recognize money, and did not know what ''spiders'' are. Although there is some indication [[SmarterThanYouLook she may not be really stupid]]. |
| 946 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A lot of her characteristics paint her as a representation of special needs children, particularly those with Down syndrome and autism. |
| 947 | * DumbBlonde: Sussie is very eccentric, and is played by a [[https://theamazingworldofgumball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Ben_gf.jpg blonde woman]], as seen in her nightmare in "The Night". |
| 948 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She may be gross herself, but even she was sickened by the sight of Miss Simian's backside. |
| 949 | * FatIdiot: Moreso in season 2, though "The Question" shows that she is smart enough to give an insightful answer on what the meaning of life is and "The Origins" two-part episode established that she became an idiot due to ChildhoodBrainDamage after her parents dropped her on her head (by courtesy of Darwin inadvertently scaring them). |
| 950 | * FatSlob: Her body being a head suggests a heavy build, and she tends to act annoying and gross. |
| 951 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Her lower half is shown [[http://theamazingworldofgumball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Ponything.png extremely few times]], but these times show she wears shoes. |
| 952 | * HiddenDepths: In "The Question", she turns out to be more philosophical than she lets out, citing probably the most insightful answer to Gumball and Darwin's question of what's the meaning of life[[note]]that's it's not about the destination; it's about the journey and who you meet along the way and what you decide to do with your life to get the most out of it[[/note]]. She also implies [[SmarterThanYouLook she actually isn't stupid]], she just acts that way because [[ItAmusedMe to her, that's how she enjoys and finds meaning in her life]]. She gets a song confirming that last bit in "The Weirdo" called "I Am Free". |
| 953 | * KindheartedSimpleton: Despite her kookiness, she is easily the nicest character in the whole show. |
| 954 | * LethallyStupid: In "The Weirdo", she gives Darwin a "dancing raisin" which turns out to be a venomous spider that knocks him out cold when it bites him. |
| 955 | * NiceGirl: As noted above, she's a bizarre creature, but she means well and just wants to spread love to everyone. |
| 956 | * NoNameGiven: Her last name is unknown. |
| 957 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: In "The Question", she says she acts the way she does only because that's how she gets to enjoy life. |
| 958 | * OutOfFocus: In Season 5, she only made 3 appearances; a small cameo in "The Test", a flashback to a previous episode in "The Matchmaker", and her only major role in "The Weirdo". In Season 6, she doesn't appear until "The Web" and isn't mentioned until "The Buddy". Her only physical appearance is in the season/series finale. |
| 959 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Parodied on "The Uploads", where her sloppy make-up application in her beauty vlog somehow turns her into a beautiful human girl. |
| 960 | * SphereEyes: Her googly eyes. |
| 961 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Bordering on HulkSpeak after her [[TookALevelInDumbass vanishing intelligence]] in season 2. |
| 962 | * UndesirablePrize: She has a tendency to give these out to her classmates. Gumball, for example, gets a gob of mayonnaise from her pocket. Meanwhile, an actually ''desirable'' prize often gets ruined by her bizarre vernacular: she offers Darwin a "green picture of an old man," he refuses. It turns out it was a $100 bill, which she promptly rips up. |
| 963 | * VerbalTic: |
| 964 | ** She tends to repeat the last word she hears. |
| 965 | ** Sussie makes a lot of sudden, indistinct vocalization, usually right after someone talks about her or does something by her. |
| 966 | [[/folder]] |
| 967 | |
| 968 | [[folder:Teri]] |
| 969 | [[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teri.png]] |
| 970 | ->''"You do know that the keyboard you just used has more germs on it than a toilet seat?"'' |
| 971 | |
| 972 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Teresa Gallagher |
| 973 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 974 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 975 | |
| 976 | A [[AnimateInanimateObject paper cutout]] of a teddy bear girl. Very afraid of germs and catching any disease, much to the annoyance of Joan. |
| 977 | ---- |
| 978 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A paper cut out of a bear. |
| 979 | * BadassBookworm: She's constantly researching germs and in "The Virus" she manages to save Darwin from an infected computer. |
| 980 | * BearyFriendly: She's definitely not violent or intimidating (being about as strong as you'd expect a crumpled piece of paper to be) and is on the school's cheer team, though her obsessive, somewhat egocentric behavior gets on people's nerves. |
| 981 | * BlackBeadEyes: She has them, since her face is drawn on. |
| 982 | * BrattyHalfPint: Despite being kind, she can be whiny and self-centered, though not to the extent of Gumball. |
| 983 | * ButtMonkey: From the third season onward, she's subject to a lot of physical injury, humiliating situations, or other unpleasantness. |
| 984 | * ClothingAppendage: Part of her body is shaped like a skirt and the details drawn on indicate sleeves, a collar, and buttons. |
| 985 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Virus", where she steps up as a part of the PowerTrio and helps Gumball and Darwin face a vengeful virus. |
| 986 | * FaceDoodling: She draws on her own face at times when necessary (e.g. "The Virus", where she draws tears under her eyes to represent crying, and later draws a surgical mask over her mouth) and was seen passed out and drawn on in "The Party." [[JustifiedTrope Her paper body gives her the capability of erasing face doodles quite easily]]. Teri's face was much more crudely drawn when she was younger, which suggests her face is entirely self-drawn. Her NotWearingPantsDream in "The Night" likewise shows that she draws her "[[OurNudityIsDifferent clothes]]" on as well. In "The Best", she even draws her pocket and pulls out a phone that is also paper but functional. |
| 987 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: She wears drawn on clothes. |
| 988 | * FunnyAnimal: She's a paper bear. |
| 989 | * {{Hypochondria}}: Teri is a hypochondriac with serious germophobia. It's implied it's the result of her mother (who is a doctor who also has a website with graphic images on various diseases and conditions, so she likely was raised with an... overtly cautious mentality.) The irony is that she is also a paper bear (as in a living paper cutout of a bear) so she probably wouldn't deal with any diseases. This was shown off in her DayInTheLimelight episode, spending the day with Darwin and Gumball. The school nurse is '''severely''' annoyed by her due to her hypochondria and both Gumball and Darwin grow annoyed with her about this (and her somewhat smug attitude). Ironically enough, she is somewhat right in this episode as Gumball not cleaning his hand for weeks lead to the birth of a super-virus (though her forcing to wash his hand drowned all but one virus, [[ItsPersonal who vengefully chases the three down to infect them and later the world]]). |
| 990 | -->'''Teri:''' I can feel myself getting ill... \ |
| 991 | '''Joan:''' Hmm, like Monday, when you thought the foam in your mouth was rabies only to discover it was toothpaste? Or Tuesday, when you thought you broke your leg even though you don't have bones? Or yesterday, when you thought you'd gone deaf because nobody had spoken to you for five minutes. |
| 992 | * IconicItem: Her origami book. |
| 993 | * MadLibsCatchPhrase: "You do know that [noun] has more germs on it than a toilet seat?" |
| 994 | * MadeOfPlasticine: She becomes victim to an incredible amount of physical trauma in season three, likely because being made of paper makes it all BloodlessCarnage. This includes having a hole burned into her face, one arm being torn off by Miss Simian during the Joy virus attack, Jamie ripping off one of her legs, chewing it, and spitting it in her face, and being impaled on Carmen's needles. |
| 995 | * MasterOfYourDomain: Teri seems to more or less have complete control of her body, folding her head completely backwards to keep herself from being decapitated by a saw blade and crumpling up her entire body and hiding in a trash can. |
| 996 | * MeaningfulName: Teri sounds similar to the word tear, as in ''tearing paper''. |
| 997 | * MotorMouth: When something causes her to talk about a disease, Teri tends to go on a detailed clip without any letting anyone else talk. |
| 998 | * MrViceGuy: She is a pretty friendly and sensitive girl, but her hypochondria can inspire some selfish behavior. |
| 999 | * NervousWreck: It really doesn’t help that she’s a hypochondriac. |
| 1000 | * NiceGirl: She’s usually very nice. |
| 1001 | * NoNameGiven: Her last name was never stated. |
| 1002 | * PaperPeople: A crumpled-up one. |
| 1003 | * PunnyName: Being made of paper, she is very "tear-y". |
| 1004 | * SkintoneSclerae: Like Alan, she has a drawn-on face with no coloring, though in this case that just happens to make her sclerae white. |
| 1005 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Teri is generally strong enough to perform everyday tasks unassisted (like opening doors or lifting miscellaneous objects), but jokes often show her as literally as weak as paper. |
| 1006 | * TerrifiedOfGerms: She's constantly spraying things clean while talking about how many germs are covering everything. This is apparently a result of her looking at a lot of pictures of infections her doctor mother posted on her medical website. |
| 1007 | * {{Wangst}}: InUniverse. The nurse is constantly exasperated by Teri's tendency to exaggerate her problems. In "The Allergy," Teri goes to the nurse office just because she feels something is wrong by being hungry. |
| 1008 | [[/folder]] |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | [[folder:Tina Rex]] |
| 1011 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/240px-tinas2_7448.png]] |
| 1012 | ->''"That's very touching, but now you better start running. My dad ''eats'' trespassers."'' |
| 1013 | |
| 1014 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Russell (Season 1), Stefan Ashton Frank (Season 2 onward), Creator/RieTakahashi (Japanese) |
| 1015 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 1016 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1017 | |
| 1018 | A 3D [[FunnyAnimal Tyrannosaurus rex]] bully, though despite her fearsome appearance, she's only a bully because everyone expects her to be like her father (who is said to be worse than her). |
| 1019 | ---- |
| 1020 | * ArtEvolution: In Season 1, she originally had a cartoon-like design similar to the old ''T. rex'' depictions. In Season 2, she is given a more realistic design similar to modern ''T. rex'' depictions. |
| 1021 | * BarbaricBully: She's a ''pre-historic'' bully. |
| 1022 | * TheBully: A very intimidating one. A combination of CharacterDevelopment and being DemotedToExtra shedded this role to the likes of Jamie and Julius. |
| 1023 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Fight," where she is mistaken to be bullying Gumball (wherein truth, she thought he was her friend). |
| 1024 | * DemotedToExtra: Tina is one of the only classmates of Gumball's to have become ''less'' prominent as the show has progressed: In the first season, she was one of the more frequently recurring characters in Elmore Junior High and had two episodes centered around her ("The Quest" and "The Fight"). From the second season onward, she still appeared sporadically, but the one episode planned to be about her was scrapped. Ultimately, her role as the school bully was taken over by Jamie and Julius. |
| 1025 | * TheDreaded: Not just the students, but the school's ''counselor'' are terrified of her. This lessened over time. |
| 1026 | * FemaleMonsterSurprise: The other characters have all known her long enough to know Tina is a girl, but her male voice and monstrous, gender-neutral appearance definitely lead most viewers to think she's male until stated otherwise. |
| 1027 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Her name is Tina, but with her last name, it becomes NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast. |
| 1028 | * FunnyAnimal: A dinosaur. |
| 1029 | * GonkyFemme: Tina doesn't normally act very feminine, but she did try to be in the cheerleading squad and was upset when Darwin told her trying to act girly doesn't work for a huge ''Tyrannosaurus''. |
| 1030 | -->'''Darwin:''' And how about you clip those stupid nails?! They're not gonna make you look more feminine. In case you haven't noticed, you're a ten ton sack of reptile flesh! |
| 1031 | * HiddenDepths: Tina apparently dreams of being a pianist, despite her short arms and having four fingers total. |
| 1032 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: It is revealed in "The Fight" that she wasn't intentionally bullying Gumball, she just acts that way because of her scary father and the fact that it is what people expect when they see a ''T. rex'' that [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength does not know her own strength.]] |
| 1033 | * IAmNotMyFather: |
| 1034 | -->'''Tina:''' Everyone thinks I'm a brute, just like my dad. ''But I'm not!''\ |
| 1035 | ''([[IResembleThatRemark Tina kicks a scrap car away]])'' |
| 1036 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She shows a softer and nicer side of this from time to time. Eventually, she stops being a bully and now gets along with all her classmates. |
| 1037 | * LarynxDissonance: Has a very deep male voice (and has been voiced by a man since her introduction episode), due to being a ''Tyrannosaurus''. |
| 1038 | * LivingDinosaurs: A ''Tyrannosaurus'' living in the modern day. |
| 1039 | * ALizardNamedLiz: T.(na) Rex the ''T. rex''. |
| 1040 | * OutOfFocus: [[DemotedToExtra Ever since]] Season 3, she has little screentime. |
| 1041 | * TookALevelInKindness: Gets a lot less intimidating and more approachable after Season 1, and her peers seem to not fear her as much. Jamie, and later, Julius, seem to have completely displaced Tina's "feared bully" role by the third season. In "The Blame", Felicity started insulting her, and she didn't do anything about it. |
| 1042 | * YourSizeMayVary: More so in Season 1, Tina can fit into a car and other small locations on occasion. |
| 1043 | [[/folder]] |
| 1044 | |
| 1045 | [[folder:Tobias Wilson]] |
| 1046 | [[quoteright:129:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tobias_s2_4038.png]] |
| 1047 | ->''"I should be more important! I should be the one with a sidekick and exciting adventures! I'm more handsome, richer, ''and'' more colorful than you guys, and ''YET'', it's like I'm the supporting character of my own life!"'' |
| 1048 | |
| 1049 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RupertDegas (season 1), Hugo Harold-Harrison (season 2 onward) |
| 1050 | -->'''Debut:''' Early reel/Season 1, "The Third" |
| 1051 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1052 | |
| 1053 | A [[CartoonCreature many-colored stylized cloud]] with a very overinflated self-image. |
| 1054 | ---- |
| 1055 | |
| 1056 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Tobias is not only rejected by Penny, but also many other girls as well. He has hit on almost every girl in his class (except for Molly, Sussie, Tina and Jamie) plus Clare, and got rejected by every single one of them. |
| 1057 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Only wears shoes and sweatbands around his wrist and forehead. |
| 1058 | * AscendedExtra: He was originally pretty unimportant in the first season, only having one actual relevant role in "The Third". After establishing his CasanovaWannabe and loser traits, he is arguably one of the most biggest recurring characters in the school (right behind Penny and Carrie). |
| 1059 | * AssholeVictim: It's a little hard to feel bad for Tobias whenever something bad happens to him due to how smug and jerkish he can be. |
| 1060 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Say what you will about how pathetic he is, but "The Curse of Elmore" reveals that he can pull a damn scary (and immensely eloborate) prank on his friends. |
| 1061 | * TheBully: In a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, he and Carrie take Anais's doll from her in "The Quest" and play keep away with it, even throwing the doll of the bus when asked to give it back. |
| 1062 | * ButtMonkey: He has been put through several humiliating situations as the show goes on and is seen as very unpopular in the school. In fact, Tobias in particular, is a frequent victim of Gumball's (usually painful and/or humiliating) antics. |
| 1063 | * CartoonCreature: A colorful, cloud-like biped. |
| 1064 | * CasanovaWannabe: Showed hints of being a wannabe lady's man in the second season, especially when he tried to make a video about talking to girls in "The Tape". By the third season, he's hitting on and being rejected by every girl in school. He's basically the only person in the whole show [[NiceGirl Penny]] is ''not'' nice to. |
| 1065 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: His body is like a giant head. |
| 1066 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Applies not so much to him as to how everyone else treats him: during his first appearance in "The Third", it's pretty obvious to the audience that he's not as great as he claims, yet [[FakeUltimateHero everyone thinks he's genuinely cool and interesting.]] Later on, he's usually portrayed as one of the least popular people in the whole school. |
| 1067 | * TheChewToy: AmusingInjuries are common for all the classmates, but Tobias in particular gets a lot of them. |
| 1068 | * CompressedVice: In "The Points", he becomes hopelessly addicted to an online video game which he spends hundreds of dollars in micro-transactions. |
| 1069 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 1070 | ** In "The Third," where he becomes the third best friend to Gumball and Darwin. Though he begins to steal Darwin from Gumball. |
| 1071 | ** In "The Knights," where he fights against Gumball over Penny's affection. |
| 1072 | ** In "The Points," he cons Gumball and Darwin into doing his chores. |
| 1073 | ** In "The Slap," where he is harassed by Gumball over his infamous butt slap. |
| 1074 | ** In "The Test," where he steps in place of Gumball (who decided to dial back on his loser status) and plunges Elmore into a terrible sitcom starring himself. |
| 1075 | ** In "The One," he attempts to become Gumball's friend and embarks on a ''Highlander''-esque journey to murder all of his closest friends. |
| 1076 | * DumbJock: Tobias isn't very smart. |
| 1077 | * {{Foil}}: He and Gumball are both egotistical losers, but Tobias is often at odds with Gumball in a way that highlights the latter's more sympathetic traits: |
| 1078 | ** Gumball will often, though reluctantly, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold put asides his own interests]] or [[CowardlyLion endanger himself]] for someone else's wellbeing. Tobias, while not completely heartless, is very rarely kind and never willing to risk personal injury or make a sacrifice for another's gain. |
| 1079 | ** Gumball often is aware of, and admits to, his own flaws and limitations. Tobias' self-awareness is much lower and he is never humble--at best he'll be ashamed of his own failures. |
| 1080 | ** While Gumball [[SingleTargetSexuality only has eyes for Penny]], Tobias [[CasanovaWannabe pathetically hits on any and every girl he meets]]. |
| 1081 | ** Gumball sometimes tries to be (or insists he is) manly, but is more frequently shown to be InTouchWithHisFeminineSide. Tobias is ''constantly'' trying to seem macho, down to wearing sweatbands at all times to pretend he's an athlete. |
| 1082 | ** The whole Watterson family suffers from PerpetualPoverty. The Wilsons are well-off enough for Tobias to get a generous allowance and numerous conveniences (in earlier seasons, he was the only one besides [[RichBitch Masami]] [[StatusCellphone shown to own a smartphone]], [[TechnologyMarchesOn at a time when smartphones were less common place then today]]). |
| 1083 | ** "The One" highlights a major difference in their particular form of egotism: deep down, Tobias [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex is desperate for people's approval]], but Gumball really, ''[[{{Narcissist}} really]]'' loves himself. What's unusual is this doesn't keep Gumball from generally being a better person than Tobias. |
| 1084 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Gradually becomes one of the most unpopular kids in the school. |
| 1085 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Despite being a friend to Gumball, Tobias ends up being the [[TemporarilyAVillain antagonist]] to him in many episodes, including: "The Sidekick", "The Points", "The Test", and "The One". Even when he's not the villain, he and Gumball are frequently at odds with each other. |
| 1086 | * HopelessSuitor: He constantly goes after Penny in "The Knights", despite her openly rejecting him at every opportunity. His attempts are so hopeless that [[CrazyJealousGuy Gumball]], the guy who was furious over a ''dream'' of Darwin kissing Penny, doesn't see Tobias as any kind of romantic competition. |
| 1087 | * HostileShowTakeover: Played with, while not fully hostile, it happens suddenly and there's little other can do about it in "The Test", where he assumes Gumball's role in the show when the latter decided he no longer wants to be the loser, forcing the show to now be a lousy sitcom focused on Tobias. |
| 1088 | * HypocriticalHumor: In "The Worst", he makes fun of Gumball and Darwin for not conforming to masculinity by using a feminine shower gel not long before letting it slip that he sometimes uses his mother's makeup to cover blemishes. |
| 1089 | * IconicItem: He sometimes wears a blue and white hat. |
| 1090 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Tobias' bravado is paper-thin at times. When something disproves his inflated self-opinion, he'll do things such as walk off sulking and [[TryingNotToCry hold back tears]]. |
| 1091 | * JerkJock / LovableJock: He definitely ''thinks'' he's a jock, and can be pretty well a jerk, but unlike other jocks, he's not as bad since he's not as threatening and is decent to his friends. |
| 1092 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's cocky and a failed [[CasanovaWannabe Casanova Wannabe]], but he can be civil to people. |
| 1093 | ** In "The Slap", he saves Leslie from choking on a piece of food and would have done the same with Gumball. In that same episode it is revealed that the reason why he never gave Gumball one of his unpopular "butt slaps" less out him seeing as a loser and more that he was the ''only'' person that Tobias took thought into considering who would not like it. |
| 1094 | ** "The One" puts it in a slightly negative light. He ends up accepting that he won't ever be Gumball's best friend, but the two end sharing a FriendshipMoment anyways. Right after that, he smugly refuses to help Darwin, who was pinned under couch by him and is suffocating; stating that he's a friend but not ''that good'' of a friend. |
| 1095 | * LonelyRichKid: He comes from a wealthier household but he still has friends. He has a conflictual relationship with girls and his friends, including Gumball. |
| 1096 | * MrViceGuy: While all these tropes in his page leaves him quite unflattering, he is very much capable of being nicer (on his better days). |
| 1097 | * ShoutOut: "Tobias Wilson" is also the name of a villain character from WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries. |
| 1098 | * SketchySuccessor: In "The Test", after Gumball starts holding in his less likable qualities to stop being "The Loser," Tobias slowly takes over as the show's protagonist. With Tobias as the main character, the show's quality immediately goes downhill, with MetaGuy Sarah acknowledging and pointing out how the humor and dynamic of the series has turned into an incredibly cheesy and lazy sitcom with bad jokes, an obnoxious laugh track, and desperate attempts to boost ratings. As a protagonist, Tobias does nothing but shill awful one-liners while slowly usurping Gumball's friends and family from him (much to their confusion). It takes Gumball seeing Tobias has stolen Penny from him that gets Gumball to unleash his bile on Tobias to take his role as the protagonist back. |
| 1099 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks he's super athletic and popular, but he's incredibly scrawny, all the girls hate him, and he's generally thought of as a loser. In "The Voice" he [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall can't understand why]] everything important happens to [[WeirdnessMagnet Gumball]], and thinks [[WrongGenreSavvy if anyone should be the main character it should be him.]] "The Test" shows that if he ''was'' the main character, the show would turn into a flaming dumpster fire on the fast track to cancellation. |
| 1100 | * SpoiledBrat: His parents are notably better off than the Wattersons, and he has the ego and entitlement to match. |
| 1101 | * {{Tuckerization}}: His name [[https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/316286786622070784 comes from]] Tobi Wilson, one of the show's writers. |
| 1102 | * TwoFirstNames: "Tobias" and "Wilson" can both be used as a first name. |
| 1103 | * WouldHitAGirl: In "The One", Tobias ([[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness believes that he]]) eliminates Gumball's other friends, which includes [[ImMelting melting Sarah's head]] and beating Carrie on the head with a (ghost) stick. |
| 1104 | [[/folder]] |
| 1105 | |
| 1106 | [[folder:William]] |
| 1107 | [[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_s2.png]] |
| 1108 | ->''"You cannot hide from me. Turn around, ''TURN AROUND AND FACE ME LIKE MEN!'' ...I am talking to you."'' |
| 1109 | |
| 1110 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Mic Graves ("The Voice", "The Compilation"), Rob Rackstraw ("The Agent") |
| 1111 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 1112 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1113 | |
| 1114 | A winged eyeball that never talks because he doesn't have a mouth. |
| 1115 | ---- |
| 1116 | [[hardline]] |
| 1117 | * AngelicAbomination: His designed is meant to be reminscent of this. |
| 1118 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: [[spoiler:He's incredibly powerful and dangerous ''because'' he can't talk, but doesn't know it.]] |
| 1119 | * CartoonCreature: A flying eyeball with wings. He actually can float without his wings, because in “The Uploads”, he keeps floating even when he stops moving his wings but probably has to move his wings to move around. |
| 1120 | * {{Cyclops}}: He is an eye. A single eye. |
| 1121 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 1122 | ** In "The Voice," he is the titular mystery voice who is seeking revenge on Gumball and Darwin. |
| 1123 | ** In "The Agent," he is revealed to be the person who is stealing all the objects in Elmore Jr. High. |
| 1124 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:PlayedForLaughs in "The Voice". When he realized Gumball and Darwin weren't ignoring him and just couldn't hear him, he tried apologizing to them. And then Gumball whacks him with a tennis racket that he [[HammerSpace pulled from seemingly nowhere]]]]. |
| 1125 | -->'''Gumball:''' (''whispering'') There he is! Creeping up on us in silence again!\ |
| 1126 | '''William:''' "In silence"? [[OhCrap Oh, gosh they can't hear me]]. It makes sense, I don't have a mouth. I thought you ignored me on purpose all my life. And when [[DisproportionateRetribution you blocked me on Elmore Plus something...snapped]]. What was I thinking? I'm so sorry, you must be terrified and confused, I cannot apologize enough--\ |
| 1127 | '''Darwin:''' '''Now!''' (''Gumball whacks William with a Tennis racket'') |
| 1128 | * EmotionalPowers: His [[spoiler:telekinesis]] seems to be powered by [[UnstoppableRage anger]]. |
| 1129 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:He was the one after Darwin and Gumball in "The Voice" because when he asked them to be friends, they didn't understand him, and seemed to reject him.]] |
| 1130 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's incredibly dangerous, but feels bad about attacking Gumball and Darwin, and tries to apologize to them about the misunderstanding. |
| 1131 | * MindOverMatter: [[spoiler:He has telekinesis that's strong enough to crush lockers and smash down walls.]] |
| 1132 | * NoNameGiven: Unknown last name. |
| 1133 | * {{Oculothorax}}: An eyeball with wings, though he can still blink with fleshy eyelids [[SuddenAnatomy that suddenly appear when he needs them]]. |
| 1134 | * OutOfFocus: He’s always been out of focus, considering he was originally intended to be just as important as the rest of the supporting cast, but he was more important in the first two seasons, even getting his own episode in Season 2. After that, his only other major role is in late Season 6. |
| 1135 | * TheSpeechless: He can't speak because he has NoMouth, [[spoiler:but until the end of "The Voice" he didn't know that and assumed everyone was just ignoring him.]] |
| 1136 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: [[spoiler:His internal monologue is provided by the show's director, who is clearly trying to mask his British accent but doesn't quite sound American either, or trying to do an impression of Creator/AlanRickman and almost getting it. Whatever it is, it's kind of creepier.]] |
| 1137 | [[/folder]] |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 | !!Mr. Corneille's Class |
| 1140 | [[folder:William "Billy" Geoffrey Fitzgerald Kitchener Parham III]] |
| 1141 | [[quoteright:245:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/billy_parham.png]] |
| 1142 | ->''"Mother, why is that woman trying to pay for her groceries with scraps of newspaper?"'' |
| 1143 | |
| 1144 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Overall |
| 1145 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 2, "Christmas" |
| 1146 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 1147 | A very intelligent child who is an [[CartoonCreature egg-shaped blob]] colored blue. He is about Anais's age and, at least by the fourth season, is also in her class. |
| 1148 | ---- |
| 1149 | [[hardline]] |
| 1150 | * AccentsArentHereditary: Billy speaks in British ReceivedPronunciation, even though his mother and the rest of Elmore do not. However, he could have got it from [[TheGhost his father]], who hasn't appeared. |
| 1151 | * AscendedExtra: He and his mother started as {{Recurring Extra}}s throughout season 2[[labelnote:before that]]A completely different-looking boy, who once spoke with the same voice as Billy, and his mother were seen several times in the first season, who were confirmed to be prototype versions of Felicity and Billy[[/labelnote]], then they got a skit in "The Extras" and major roles in "The Law" and "The Egg". In "The Pest" he makes a major appearance completely separate from his mother. |
| 1152 | * BlueOrangeContrast: He's blue while his mom is orange, leading to online jokes about how the two of them look like the logo for Nickelodeon's preschool block, Nick Jr. |
| 1153 | * CartoonCreature: A blue egg-shaped blob. |
| 1154 | * ChildProdigy: Billy is about as smart as Anais, and a bit more of an InsufferableGenius. |
| 1155 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 1156 | ** In "The Egg," where him and his mom have a playdate at the Wattersons and forms a friendship with Anais. |
| 1157 | ** In "The Pest," where he's the titular pest that has been bullying Anais (after getting his heart broken by her). |
| 1158 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Prior to "The Egg", he had no eyebrows. |
| 1159 | * {{Foil}}: In "The Pest", Billy proves himself a direct foil to Gumball himself: Gumball is terrible at almost everything [[RelationshipUpgrade except love]] yet can live with failure and be satisfied with his life. Billy succeeds at practically everything, but starts lashing out when he can't have the girl he loves. |
| 1160 | * GradeSkipper: Like Anais, Billy is an eighth grader younger than most first graders. |
| 1161 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Billy does not have a very good mom. |
| 1162 | ** In "The Extras", she crashed her car (with her son in it) into a house and left him in there while she walked out and beaned herself on the head with a shovel. |
| 1163 | ** In "The Gripes", she threw her son in the trunk of the car and buckled up her groceries [[HypocriticalHumor as she accused Gumball's father of being a bad parent]]. |
| 1164 | ** In "The Law", she leaves her son behind when she hijacks the ice cream truck and goes on a crime spree. |
| 1165 | ** In "The Butterfly", she shoved her own son out of the way when he was chasing after the $20 bill that the hairy hobo lost. [[LaserGuidedKarma Fortunately, she got what was coming to her when Mrs. Robinson shoved her out of the way to get the $20 bill]]. |
| 1166 | ** In "The Founder", we see Felicity in Chanax with her son, later we see her running out of the collapsing building to save herself and Billy is not with her. |
| 1167 | * {{Hipster}}: Billy seems rather disdainful of suburban living. He [[BirdsOfAFeather gets along with Anais very well]], celebrating how they'll do hipster things like tour Europe and get tattoos, until she admits she likes Daisy the Donkey, which he thinks is a mindless show that exists solely to sell merchandise. |
| 1168 | * InnocentProdigy: He studies on Junior High, can use complex words and sentences, but sometimes he simply takes the role of a normal little kid and loves to play on puddles and eat ice cream. |
| 1169 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's an InsufferableGenius, but has a JerkassRealization in "The Pest", and is much more congenial and independent of his mother from then on. |
| 1170 | * NotGoodWithRejection: He's so used to success that Anais rejecting him turned into a bitter jerk despite how great the rest of his life still is. |
| 1171 | * OverlyLongName: His full name is [[PreppyName William Geoffrey Fitzgerald Kitchener Parham III]]. |
| 1172 | * ParentalTitleCharacterization: He's unfailingly formal and polite, and so always addresses Felicity as "mother". |
| 1173 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Although Billy had been seen elsewhere previously, "The Pest" shows him attending Elmore Junior High for the first time without explanation. Most likely he's either a NewTransferStudent or one of the students Gumball and Darwin were ignoring because they weren't in their class. |
| 1174 | * SphereEyes: He has these. |
| 1175 | * SpoiledBrat: Billy doesn't seem to be as much of a [[RichBitch smug elitist]] as his mother, but he is still extremely used to getting his way. |
| 1176 | * TookALevelInKindness: In his earlier appearances, he was constantly agreeing with his mother's petty condemnation of whoever she walked by. In "The Pest", he escalates to condescending bullying because Anais rejected him. Once Gumball points out this was a horribly unreasonable reaction, Billy has a JerkassRealization, and in future appearances is much more congenial and independent of his mother. In "The Blame", for example, he has a friendly conversation with Gumball on video games. |
| 1177 | * {{Tuckerization}}: His last name comes from one of the show's writers, Joe Parham. |
| 1178 | [[/folder]] |
| 1179 | |
| 1180 | [[folder:Clare Cooper]] |
| 1181 | [[quoteright:189:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clare_cooper.png]] |
| 1182 | ->''"My name is Clare, and today is the worst day of my life. My dad has lost his job, we've lost our house and now we're forced to move back to Detroit. I only have one day to say goodbye to the ones I love. One last day to say goodbye... To my so-called world."'' |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaomiMcDonald |
| 1185 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 4, "The Others" |
| 1186 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1187 | |
| 1188 | A melancholic and unusually normal-looking humanoid who is one of Anais's classmates. |
| 1189 | ---- |
| 1190 | * AlliterativeName: '''C'''lare '''C'''ooper. |
| 1191 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: She's very human-looking, but unlike the [[NonStandardCharacterDesign Filmation/Sunbow-style "humans" from Richwood High]] or the [[MediumBlending live-action humans]] on TV, Clare and her father are very stylized, like most other people in Elmore. Even then, she still has [[TheNoseless no nose]], FingerlessHands, [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation a grayish skin tone]], and green hair (it might be dyed; her father's hair is brown). |
| 1192 | * CartoonCreature: She looks almost human, but isn't. |
| 1193 | * CharacterDevelopment: Clare is a borderline nihilist in her first episode, refusing to accept any reality other than a sad one, because she thinks that's just how life is. Following this however, she's regularly shown in group shots acting much more accepting of the craziness around her. |
| 1194 | * TheCynic: Even more so than Gumball! He doesn't think highly of life or people, but at least thinks they can EarnYourHappyEnding. Clare is a total defeatist. |
| 1195 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Others," where Gumball and Darwin see a peek into her melodramatic life and decide to take it over. |
| 1196 | * DistaffCounterpart: PlayedForLaughs in "The Others" where she's the complete opposite of Gumball: boring, plain-looking (she's barely a human), isn't trying to get on everyone's affairs, and even the made up "The So-Called World of Clare" title. The only thing they share in common is their different views of cynicism. |
| 1197 | * DramaQueen: She makes a FailedAttemptAtDrama in basically every scene she's in in "The Others". |
| 1198 | * TheEeyore: Clare is all [[PerpetualFrowner frowns]], long faces, and somber gazes from the side. She even [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance literally looks]] [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation gray]]. |
| 1199 | %%* EmoTeen: |
| 1200 | %%-->'''Clare:''' Listen, this is not a story with a happy ending, OK? It's a story I write in my diary using my tears as ink. |
| 1201 | * EsotericHappyEnding: InUniverse. Gumball ''forced'' one on her, fixing all the issues going on with her life in an unbelievable fashion. |
| 1202 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: She actually isn't a human, and wears clothes. |
| 1203 | * GenreBlindness: Beside acting like she's in a teen drama, she says the world doesn't revolve around Gumball in a series literally called "The Amazing '''WORLD''' of '''GUMBALL'''." |
| 1204 | * GenreRefugee: She acts as if she's the heroine of a mundane and super-depressing teen drama, rather than a goofy MundaneFantastic comedy. Clare even provides an angsty internal monologue, which she may be [[ThinkingOutLoud saying out loud]], and is [[SelectiveObliviousness totally oblivious]] to how ridiculous her teachers and friends are. |
| 1205 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "The Others". Anais tells Gumball that there are lots of other students at the school, "some of whom have even more interesting lives than [Gumball does]", and gives Clare as an example. |
| 1206 | * HiddenDepths: "The Comic" suggests she's a fan of Sarah's "[=LaserHeart=]" comic, and she can be seen happily singing the theme with the rest of the hallway, a far cry from her usual moody and emo behavior. |
| 1207 | * LogicalLatecomer: Played with; she and her social circle are "latecomers" with regards to Gumball and Darwin, because they'd never noticed them until "The Others", and consider the show's usual cast and events crazy and unrealistic. But they've ''always'' lived in the same town and attend the same school, so Clare and her friends come off as out of touch with the world they're living in and their own weirdness. |
| 1208 | * OutOfCharacter: "The Candidate" sees her as a SoapboxSadie for the political commentary of the episode, and has her acting much more belligerent towards others, Anais in particular. While this could be chalked up to being stuck in a sweltering hot room and listening to everyone argue, it stands out when her other appearances like "The Comic", "The Hug", and "The Test" show her as sociable and a DeadpanSnarker at worst, and she only acts like this for "The Candidate". |
| 1209 | * ShoutOut - To teen dramas in general. Specifically, the style resembles a 90s show called ''Series/MySoCalledLife'' that starred ''Claire'' Danes. |
| 1210 | * SoapboxSadie: Acts as on for the political commentary in "The Candidate", acting as the stereotypical young voter who cares about a single issue, environmentalism in her case, but is dissatisfied with the candidates who seemingly don't care about it. Said traits don't appear before or after here, suggesting it was just for the sake of the commentary. |
| 1211 | * SphereEyes: She has them. |
| 1212 | * ThickLineAnimation: Most 2D characters in ''Gumball'' already have thick outlines, but [[ExaggeratedTrope Clare's are much thicker than anyone else's]]--they look more than a whole inch wide. |
| 1213 | * TokenHuman: Even if she isn't human, she's definitely the most human-''looking'' student at Elmore Junior High. |
| 1214 | [[/folder]] |
| 1215 | |
| 1216 | [[folder:Hot Dog Guy]] |
| 1217 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hot_dog_guy.png]] |
| 1218 | ->''"Could you, uh, like, not breathe directly into my mouth?"'' |
| 1219 | |
| 1220 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Alex Jordan, Dan Russell ("The Check") |
| 1221 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 1222 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1223 | |
| 1224 | A [[AnthropomorphicFood living hot dog]] who started out as a background character, but is now semi-regular. Has an awkward friendship with Gumball. |
| 1225 | ---- |
| 1226 | [[hardline]] |
| 1227 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: A hot dog that wears sunglasses. |
| 1228 | * AmbiguouslyGay: He rushed to thinking "the inevitable" in his relationship with Gumball is kissing. Later, he's seen in line for a kissing booth Darwin and Gumball ran in "The Mess". |
| 1229 | * AnthropomorphicFood: It's right in his name. |
| 1230 | * AscendedExtra: He was a background character since almost the show's beginning, then had a speaking role in "The Check" and joined in the HostileShowTakeover in "The Extras". He gets a prominent role in "The Hug", "The Awkwardness", and "The Cringe" and has since become a recurring character. |
| 1231 | * BlatantLies: Both him and Gumball agree in the end of "The Hug" that they are not friends. Yet, he is still willing to do a favor for Gumball that involved getting back at Darwin, who was touch too smug about their easily-avoidable, yet awkward situation. |
| 1232 | * ButtMonkey: His 3 major appearances so far, "The Hug", "The Awkwardness", and "The Cringe" definitely puts him in this role as he and Gumball get put through various embarrassing situations with each other. |
| 1233 | * CoolShades: He is almost never seen without his shades. |
| 1234 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 1235 | ** In "The Hug," where he and Gumball get into a series of embarrassing situations after they perform an awkward hug. |
| 1236 | ** In "The Awkwardness," where he gets into even ''more'' awkward situations with Gumball on his way to Elmore Mall. |
| 1237 | ** In "The Cringe," him and Gumball decide to embrace their cringe-inducing events and become real friends, all the while discovering their forgotten origins. |
| 1238 | * DeadpanSnarker: Once he and Gumball decide to start reveling in their awkwardness in "The Cringe", he throws a couple snide remarks at him throughout the episode. |
| 1239 | * ADogNamedDog: "The Hug" reveals that Hot Dog Guy is actually his name. |
| 1240 | * EyelessFace: He normally has eyes beneath his shades, but they're completely invisible when he closes them. |
| 1241 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: It turns out that him and Gumball's awkward relationship has spanned across their entire lives. All the way since they were ''babies''. |
| 1242 | * FurryReminder: He was born conjoined to his brothers, connected head to backside in a row, like sausages are usually made. He still bears a scar on both ends from the surgery to separate them, also like sausages. |
| 1243 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: His bun is treated as clothing, but it's lampshaded that it only covers his back and sides. |
| 1244 | * HeyYou: Even though Gumball knows his name thanks to a lucky guess, Hot Dog Guy doesn't know Gumball's name, only referring to him as "anonymous blue stranger", "little blue stranger", "him", and "that guy" in his internal monologue. |
| 1245 | * IconicItem: He usually has a phone in his hand. |
| 1246 | * NotSoAboveItAll: While Gumball ''is'' the cause for their awkwardness, Hot Dog Guy frequently and accidentally makes their already embarrassing situations worse. Such as his infamous "legend phone" tangent he did in the school yard or barging into Gumball's bathroom stall and getting it stuck. |
| 1247 | * PhoneaholicTeenager: He is often seen using his phone, even at school. |
| 1248 | * RecurringExtra: Usually seen in the background of the Elmore Junior High cafeteria. |
| 1249 | * SatelliteCharacter: All three of his DayInTheLimelight episodes are about his strange relationship with Gumball. Averted in the final season, where he gets a handful of scenes (In "The Shippening", "The Candidate", and "The Revolt") that don't directly revolve around Gumball. |
| 1250 | * UncattyResemblance: "The Test" shows him in the park walking a red weiner dog. |
| 1251 | [[/folder]] |
| 1252 | |
| 1253 | !!Other Students |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | [[folder:Detention Kids]] |
| 1256 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thelesson13_1.png]] |
| 1257 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rottencupper.png]] |
| 1258 | [[caption-width-right:254:From left to right: Julius Oppenheimer Jr., "Reaper", "Scythe", Phillip "Mowdown" (bottom: Rotten Cupcake)]] |
| 1259 | -->Voiced by Hugo Harold-Harrison (Julius), Kerry Shale (Reaper, "The Sucker"), Alex Jordan (Scythe, "The Sucker"), Simon Lipkin (Mowdown, "The Sucker"), Naomi [=McDonald=] (rotten cupcake, "The Weirdo" onward) |
| 1260 | -->Debut: Season 2, "The Lesson" |
| 1261 | -->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Sucker" (Reaper), "The Potion" (Rotten Cupcake), "The Inquisition" (Mowdown, Julius, Scythe) |
| 1262 | |
| 1263 | A group of students at Elmore Junior High introduced as regulars in detention hall in "The Lesson", then shown sporadically elsewhere. Includes Julius Oppenheimer Jr.([[NonHumanHead a black-and-white 1920s cartoon character with a bomb for a head who is the leader of the group]]), Reaper ([[HelpingHands a tattooed human hand]]), Scythe ([[YouDirtyRat a rat]] in a hoodie), Philip/Mowdown ([[KillerTeddyBear a giant teddy bear]]), and [[AnthropomorphicFood a rotten cupcake]]. |
| 1264 | ---- |
| 1265 | [[hardline]] |
| 1266 | * ActionBomb: Julius [[NonHumanHead has a bomb for a head]]. Making him mad causes him to explode, incapacitating him while reducing his head to a much smaller size. |
| 1267 | * AmbiguousGender: The cupcake has been identified as both male and female. It's possible he/she is gender non-conforming. |
| 1268 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Scythe and Rotten Cupcake are a couple, despite the latter previously identifying as male. |
| 1269 | * AnimatedTattoo: Reaper is a hand which has a tattoo of a skull wearing a crown, which acts as his face, being capable of moving around and talking. |
| 1270 | * AnthropomorphicFood: One is a (rotten) cupcake. |
| 1271 | * BarbaricBully: They look more like prison inmates than middle school students, and most of their appearances have them beating or intimidating other students. In "The Pact", Julius, Cupcake, and Mowdown were willing to kill Gumball and rip his head off. |
| 1272 | * CaptainErsatz: Mowdown's appearance is based on the Franchise/CareBears, being pink like Cheer Bear, and the heart on his T-shirt is based on Tenderheart Bear. |
| 1273 | * CartoonCreature: Julius has a [[Main/NonHumanHead bomb for a head]] and a humanoid body in the style of old rubberhose cartoons. |
| 1274 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Julius gets one in: |
| 1275 | ** "The Lesson," where he, along with Gumball and Darwin, try to break out of detention. |
| 1276 | ** "The Sucker," where he tries to mess with Darwin -- only for it to backfire on himself. |
| 1277 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: The cupcake guy's pink coloration, mouth that looks like it has lipstick on it, and heeled boots cause Darwin and Gumball to mistake him for a (very ugly) girl. From "The Potion" onward, though, the character actually '''[[RetCon is]]''' [[GenderFlip female]]. |
| 1278 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Julius genuinely cares about his parents, and feels bad if they’re disappointed in him. |
| 1279 | %%FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Scythe. |
| 1280 | * FunnyAnimal: Scythe is a rat. |
| 1281 | * GenderFlip: The Rotten Cupcake had to state he's a boy in "The Lesson" despite his appearance, but in "The Potion" she's a female (and implied to be Scythe's girlfriend). He gained a screechy female voice in "The Weirdo", but was seen in the boys' bathroom in "The Nuisance" which came after. |
| 1282 | * HelpingHands: Reaper is a giant human hand and wrist [[TattooedCrook covered in tattoos]], one of which acts as his face. |
| 1283 | * GangOfBullies: They pick on and mug other students when they aren't fighting among themselves in detention. |
| 1284 | * HateSink: Julius is a violent, sadistic {{Jerkass}} who enjoys abusing smaller and/or weaker students and [[BullyingTheDisabled makes fun of Sussie for being developmentally-disabled]]. |
| 1285 | * KillerTeddyBear: Philip is a giant pink teddy bear who comes off as harmless at first until he squeezes Gumball's head and [[VisualPun pops the cupcake guy's cherry]]. His body even plays a recording (of a different voice) that says "I love you this much" when you hit him. |
| 1286 | * MeaningfulName: Julius is a living bomb, and his full name is Julius Oppenheimer, Jr., [[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous a reference to]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer Julius Robert Oppenheimer]], who helped develop the world's first atomic bomb. His first name itself, Julius, could also be a reference to the character Julius the Cat from Disney's [[WesternAnimation/AliceComedies Alice Comedies]], considering the shorts are old rubberhose cartoons, just like the style Julius himself is inspired by. |
| 1287 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Reaper. |
| 1288 | * NoNameGiven: None are ever referred to by name until "The Sucker", over three seasons after their introduction. Even after then, Reaper and Scythe [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname only gave nicknames]], while the cupcake doesn't even have that. In relation to surnames, only Julius' is known. |
| 1289 | * NonHumanHead: Julius has a cartoon bomb for a head, which is capable of exploding. |
| 1290 | * ReformedBully: Julius briefly goes from being the manipulative leader of a GangOfBullies to being friends with Darwin at the end of "The Sucker", stating that "The world needs more buddies, not more bullies". He goes back to being a {{Jerkass}} in later episodes because StatusQuoIsGod. |
| 1291 | * ThemeNaming: "Reaper", "Scythe", and "Mowdown" are just supposed to be generic scary nicknames, but Darwin points out they have an unintended ''agricultural'' theme. |
| 1292 | * TwitchyEye: Scythe has one. |
| 1293 | * VagueAge: They're at most a grade older than Darwin or Gumball, but mostly seem like they're well into their teens or even adults. It's possible some of them have been held back ''a lot''. Scythe was also seen driving a car in "The News". |
| 1294 | * SuddenlyVoiced: Mowdown and Scythe were silent for three seasons after being introduced, then spoke in "The Weirdo" to heckle Sussie. Scythe, Mowdown, and Reaper's voice changed in their appearances in "The Sucker". |
| 1295 | * WhiteGloves: Julius wears these, as part of his retro design. |
| 1296 | * WouldHitAGirl: Mowdown, who is brown in this episode, fights with Alison in "The Roots", and she wins despite him being strong. |
| 1297 | * YouDirtyRat: Scythe is a rat with a [[GoodScarsEvilScars facial scar]] that always wears a hoodie. |
| 1298 | [[/folder]] |
| 1299 | |
| 1300 | [[folder:The Green Bear]] |
| 1301 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greeen_bear.png]] |
| 1302 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Simon Lipkin (singing, screaming) Dan Russell (Speaking) |
| 1303 | -->'''Debut:''' Season 1, "The Third" |
| 1304 | -->'''Last appearance:''' Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1305 | |
| 1306 | What appears to be a [[CartoonCreature green teddy bear]] or a [[AnthropomorphicFood giant sentient Gummy Bear]], as well as a background character who wants to take the stage. |
| 1307 | ---- |
| 1308 | [[hardline]] |
| 1309 | |
| 1310 | * AnthropomorphicFood: He might be a green Gummy Bear. |
| 1311 | * AscendedExtra: Somewhat. He was a background character until leading a musical number and a HostileShowTakeover in "The Extras". Then he sank back into the background, although he still appears more than he did before and appears outside of the cafeteria a lot. |
| 1312 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Before "The Extras", he was shaped like a peanut. |
| 1313 | * FunnyAnimal: A (gummy) bear. |
| 1314 | * HiddenDepths: He's quite a good singer. |
| 1315 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: His name, revealed on the out-of-show yearbook, is actually "The Green Bear". |
| 1316 | * LivingProp: Never said or did anything but stand in the background until "The Extras". |
| 1317 | * PaletteSwap: In "The Choices", a pink version of him can be seen. |
| 1318 | * RecurringExtra: Usually seen in the background of the Elmore Junior High cafeteria. After "The Extras", he is a background character in places other than the cafeteria. |
| 1319 | * SeriesContinuityError: In "The Slide". Firstly, he is on Trawlr despite being in junior high, and is portrayed as a girl. Rocky and him get matched and Rocky even refers to him as her. Although it could've been a female using his picture as her profile picture. It could also be his mother if she is identical to her son and divorced/is cheating on her husband. |
| 1320 | * VagueAge: He looks and sounds like an adult, yet he studies in a middle school. |
| 1321 | [[/folder]] |
| 1322 | |
| 1323 | [[folder:8-Bit Dog]] |
| 1324 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0e1b5723_edad_4a03_84de_612e26b49344.png]] |
| 1325 | -->Voiced by Steve Furst (speaking), Richard Overall (signing) |
| 1326 | -->Debut: Season 1, "The Third" |
| 1327 | -->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Inquisition" |
| 1328 | An 8-bit dog who is often seen in the background at the school cafeteria, but had some major roles. |
| 1329 | ---- |
| 1330 | [[hardline]] |
| 1331 | * AscendedExtra: Originally a background character in the first four seasons, he later got his first speaking role in "The Singing". |
| 1332 | * HiddenDepths: Similar to the green bear, he's quite the singer. |
| 1333 | * LivingProp: Often in the background with Hot Dog Guy & Green Bear. |
| 1334 | [[/folder]] |
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