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Elmore News
Kip Schelzinger
The main news anchor of Elmore News.
- A Day in the Limelight: "The News".
- Jerkass: A more lighter example than most, but many scenes show that he can be quite rude and insensitive. Such as when he pranked Phil on live TV.
- Kent Brockman News: He's the star of Elmore News.
- Lack of Empathy: Him, along with Mike and Ken, weren't really fazed by Gary getting eaten by Evil Turtle.
- Toon Transformation: Seems to have happened to him at some point prior to the US version of "The News".
- You Don't Look Like You: The US version of "The News" turns him into a talking humanoid newspaper while other versions keep him as a live-action person.
Mike the Microphone Guy and Ken
Voiced by:Kerry Shale (usually) Stephan Ashton Frank (The Diet) Dan Russell ("The Oracle")
Debut: Season 3, "Oracle"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Web"
The on-set news reporter whose head is the microphone and isn’t attached to his body. He holds his head up to people to interview them. He is friends with his cameraman, Ken. A humanoid with a camera for a head
- A Day in the Limelight: "The News".
- The Determinator: Mike would let himself get eaten by Evil Turtle's babies if it meant the got good coverage of the outbreak.
- Lack of Empathy: Mike and Ken remained entirely unfazed over Gary getting eaten by Evil Turtle.
- Oddly Small Organization: Elmore News only has one microphone guy and one cameraman. So whenever there are multiple reports at once, the duo usually have to run across town to be there on time.
- Those Two Guys: Always seen together. Justified, considering it's Ken's job to always be near him. Though they are seen as good friends now and then.
Phil
Elmore New's weatherman. Also works at Chanax.
- Butt-Monkey: Gets pranked by Kip on live-TV. It's implied that he does this regularly to him.
- Cartoon Creature: Likely just another colorful blob person like the Parhams and Marvin.
- The Eeyore: Working in a Soul-Crushing Desk Job at Chanax and being pranked on TV has left him a tad depressed and rather unemotional in "The Founder". He perks up in the end.
- Hidden Depths: In "The Founder", he discovers that he really loves dancing.
Barry
SPOOOOOOOOOORTS!!!
A foam finger puppet that hosts the sports sections. He loves his job a little too much.
- Animate Inanimate Object: One of those giant foam fingers you put on your hand during a sports event.
- Department of Redundancy Department: His schedule:9:30am: sports1:30pm: more sports4:30pm: SPOOOORTS
- No Indoor Voice: SPOOOOOOOOOOORTS!!!!
- One-Word Vocabulary: Only ever says "SPOOOOOOOOOORTS!!!"
- Overly Long Gag: He spends almost an entire minute just yelling out "SPOOORTS!!!".
Minor Recurring Citizens
Alison Sandra Gator
Voiced by: Sandra Searles Dickinson
Debut: Season 2, "The Fridge"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
A lonely elderly crocodile lady with a pet cat named Martin who she believes is a "real boy". She is usually kind of mean. She is pretty desperate for love because she's been saving herself for marriage her whole life. She always feeds pigeons because she's an old lady.
- Crazy Cat Lady: She has a cat named Martin and in "The Butterfly", she says she has more cats.
- Freudian Excuse: She acts like a jerk sometimes but it may be because she's so lonely and lives in squalor.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: A crocodile who wears clothes.
- Funny Animal: A crocodile.
- Iconic Item: A black cane. Like all the other old people with canes, she doesn’t even need it.
- Jerkass: Generally quite acerbic to random people she runs into.
- Lives in a Van: According to herself in "The Butterfly".
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Her name is a pun on "alligator", even though she's vocal about actually being a crocodile.
- No Name Given: She was introduced early season 2, and her name wasn't known until four seasons later in early season 6.
- Tuckerization: Sandra is her voice actress' first name.
- Would Hurt a Child: In "The Roots" she fights with Mowdown (or a brown lookalike of him) over a TV.
Clown
- A Day in the Limelight: Played-with. He's the spotlight character during the climax of "The Curse of Elmore", but is actually Tobias in disguise.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: In "The Curse of Elmore", it's revealed that he watches everyone in town and has been doing it for a long time. Hidden in the background where no one will notice.
- Monster Clown: An odd non-antagonistic version. He's scary, has a deep voice, and creepily stalks people - yet, he has never actively (or intentionally) ever hurt someone.
Construction Men
- Hank voiced by: Kerry Shale (Season 2, The Kids) Stephan Ashton Frank (Sometimes, Season 3 onwards) Dan Russel (Sometimes, Season 3 onwards, all of Season 6)Gray man voiced by: Kerry Shale (Season 2) Dan Russell (Season 3 onwards, most of the time) Stephan Ashton Frank (The Diet, The Lady, The Founder, The Intelligence, The Factory) Luke McQuillan (As Angela, The Lady)Steve voiced by: Unknown (The Extras) Stefan Ashton Frank (The Misunderstandings) Unknown (The Brain)Debut:
Season 2, "The Knights" (Hank and Gray Man)
Season 3, "The Extras" (Steve)
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
Three LEGO-like men who are construction workers, and sometimes take other jobs. The red one is called Hank, the gray one's name in unknown, and the blue one is called Steve. Hank has a son named Bobby, and an unnamed wife. There is an unnamed yellow one, who appears in "The Shell", "The Choices", "The List", "The Blame," and "The Factory" and is one of the Sphere Citizens (see Extremely Minor Characters page).
- Animate Inanimate Object: LEGO-like plastic toys.
- Construction Catcalls: Subverted. They're genuinely trying to compliment everyone they see during their job but it comes off as being perverse and mean. Gumball tries to straighten them out in "The Misunderstandings".
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Hank and the gray man in "The Butterfly".
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: They wear overalls and shoes.
- Furry Reminder: In "The Butterfly", The gray man's arms are popped off like LEGOS and Hank's head is popped off. In "The Misunderstandings", their heads pop off too.
- Gentle Giant: Some of the biggest characters in the show, but are frequently portrayed as some of the more nicer citizens in Elmore and are rarely aggressive.
- Iconic Item: Hank uses a jackhammer frequently.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: They are more often construction workers, but sometimes take other jobs as well:
- Hank is a construction worker, rescue worker, fireman, truck driver, and more.
- The gray man works as a fireman, Chanax employee, truck driver, and construction worker.
- Steve is a construction worker, and crane operator.
- Older Than They Look: The gray one was in a flashback to Betty and Donald's marriage which means he is about their age, and they are in their 70s.
- Series Continuity Error: Hank states in "The Butterfly" that he has a wife. note Although in "The Parking", Anais says he doesn't have a wife and is single, noticing the lack of a wedding ring. Also, in "The Disaster", after Rob manipulates Nicole and Richard into divorcing she is seen dating him. Although he could have simply not chosen to wear his wedding ring, and he could have been dating Nicole because Rob used the remote, or because he cheated on her.
- Anais also notes the tan from a watch he is no longer wearing, correctly deducing from this that he is inattentive and can't remember where he parked, meaning he probably lost it.
- Sphere Eyes: All of them have these.
- Those Two Guys: Hank and the gray man.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Hank and the gray one seemed like jerks in Season 2, and early Season 3, but in later seasons they seem like really nice people, even if creepy.
Martha Miller
Voiced by:Sandra Dickinson
Debut: Season 1, "The DVD"
Debut: Season 1, "The DVD"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Revolt"
An indifferent, deadpan woman who has a constant sarcastic tone in her voice.- Anthropomorphic Food: A talking pink cupcake with sprinkles.
- Everyone Has Standards: While she usually keeps herself composed, she loudly screams after seeing the effects of the makeup on Gumball.
- Recurring Character: Usually appears to fill up the background.
- Ship Tease: "The Love" hints that she has feelings for Gary.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Certainly felt this way in "The Mustache". After dealing with the idiotic antics of Gumball and Darwin at her workspace, she angrily quits her job and storms out.
Hairy Hobo
Voiced by: Unknown (Season 1) Dan Russell (Season 2 onwards)
Debut: Season 1, "The DVD"
Debut: Season 1, "The DVD"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
A hairy hobo wearing a trench coat. He wears a hat that he also uses to collect donations. He is kind of eccentric.
- Ambiguously Gay: In "The Misunderstandings", he thinks Gumball asked him out on a date and he happily accepts. However Gumball's twelve years old and he's at least a middle aged man, so this rather concerning.
- Cartoon Creature: He may be the same species as Principal Brown.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Like in "The Faith", "The Gripes", "The Misunderstandings", "The Saint", and the times where he chose to spend the little money he has on going to the movies (three times) or taking the public bus.
- Continuity Nod: In "The Castle", he stole Gumball's clothes. In "The Plan", his next appearance (in Gumball's imagination), Gumball imagines him wearing his clothes.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: In "The Misunderstandings", Gumball thinks he is about to be flashed when the hobo opens his trenchcoat, but it turns out he was wearing clothes underneath the trenchcoat.
- No Name Given: He's been around since the first episode and was still never named.
- Running Gag: Him becoming a millionaire but losing all his money right after. Happens in "The DVD" (offscreen), "The Saint", "The List" and "The Castle".
Hexagon Lady
Voiced by: Alix Wilton Reagan
Debut: Season 2, "The Watch"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
Debut: Season 2, "The Watch"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
A lady who did a lot of internet dating, but is now in a relationship with the cowboy. She also works at the mall and Chanax. When she works at the mall she wears a shirt. She also has a different default pose when she's standing than other characters, seen in her picture.
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: She has a gold chain belt and a gold chain necklace.
- Cartoon Creature: She's a skinny black humanoid with a hexagon for a head and waist and skinny limbs.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Marvin is because of her in "The Tag". Previously, in "The Watch", they went on a date but he was too old for her. In "The Shippening", Sarah ships them together.
- Jerkass Ball: In "The Schooling" she goes insane and beats people like Tony up to get a better deal on something. In "The Intelligence" she tries to force Gumball and Darwin to tell her where the Internet is.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: She is extremely skinny (like Larry, Rob, etc.) but still managed to hurt Tony who is much bigger than her in "The Schooling".
- New Job as the Plot Demands: At the mall she does multiple jobs. In "The Mothers", she was a product demonstrator, and in "The Limit", she does massages. In "The Founder" she works at Chanax. She works at the town hall in "The Understanding," and the recycling center in "The Possession."
- Nice Girl: Most of the time. She tries to be nice, even when Richard was harassing her in "The Diet". She is seen running a marathon to raise awareness for ill children in "The List".
- Noodle People: She's very thin.
- No Name Given: Never was named, despite being one of the most prominent background characters.
Karen
Voiced by: Sandra Dickinson
Debut: Season 1, "The End"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
Debut: Season 1, "The End"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
Larry's girlfriend.
- Affectionate Nickname: She is called "honey" on at least one occasion by Larry.
- Anthropomorphic Food: She is a pink pear with pigtails.
- Cephalothorax: She is one considering the fact her head and neck is also her body. Justified as she is a fruit.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has these, but also had a ponytail with bangs when she was younger.
- Jerkass Ball: She attacks Gumball in "The Oracle" and went insane and beats people up in "The Schooling". In "The Intelligence" she tries to force Gumball and Darwin to tell her where the Internet is.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: She works at Elmore Shopping as a product sampler. She also works at the Elmore Help Desk and Chanax as a receptionist and as a waitress at Dinner and Joyful Burger, along with another pear woman unrelated to her.
- Series Continuity Error: She mentions having a daughter in "The Boredom", even though she is dating Larry and is not married to him because of the Wattersons, although she could have had the child with her ex, or out of wedlock.
- Sudden Anatomy: She gains eyebrows in Season 2 along with other characters that had previously had none prior, though this depends on the episode she's in.
- Nice Girl: She's consistently kind and patient with everyone.
- Prefers Proper Names: She calls Larry by his full name, Laurence, notably being the only person to ever do so in the entire series.
- Rage Breaking Point: While working at the Elmore Help Desk, she was barraged by several phone calls from impatient people seeking her advice. She tries her best to remain composed but it gets too much for her. She bitterly calls out everyone on the line and throws her desk out the window in pure unbridled rage.
Leonard Daniels
Voiced by: Mic Graves
Debut: Season 4, "The Awkwardness"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
Debut: Season 4, "The Awkwardness"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
A small yellow lightbulb who says "I don't mind" after being injured or when he does something for somebody. He also works at the Rainbow Factory and as a mailman.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A weird yellow lightbulb.
- Ascended Extra: Downplayed. He was originally a One-Shot Character in "The Awkwardness" but became a Recurring Extra in the following seasons.
- Character Catchphrase: "I don't mind."
- The Chew Toy: Many of his appearances end with him getting injured in some way, or someone mistreating him.
- Extreme Doormat: He never complains about any of the abuse that comes his way.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He is a weird lightbulb creature and wears a business suit and underpants.
- Hidden Depths: "The Ghouls" and "The Heart" imply that he enjoys stalking people.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: He works at the Rainbow Factory and Chanax and is also a postman.
- Nice Guy: He's extremely patient with everyone he meets.
- Running Gag: Gumball being weirded out by him, and him either doing something for somebody or being injured and saying "I don't mind".
- Spear Counterpart: Bernice. Who looks just like him but with long brown hair.
Martin Peaches
Voiced by: Kerry Shale
Debut: Season 4, "The Signature"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Revolt"
A chocolate cupcake with sprinkles. A rather annoying citizen who is bad at whatever job he is assigned for the episode.
- Jerkass: Comes across as one of the more ruder people in town. Not taking any of his jobs seriously and annoying clients and customers when he is bored. In "The Heist" he tries to pass himself as a hero to the police after a bank robbery and tries to pin the blame on Larry.
- Pet the Dog: In "The Founder" he comforts Tony after accidentally scaring him with his dinosaur phobia.
- Spear Counterpart: To Martha Miller; another talking cupcake person that holds many jobs across Elmore.
Mayor of Elmore
Voiced by: Garrick Hagon
Debut: Season 5, "The Nuisance"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Web"
The mayor of Elmore, who looks like a human but with a horribly oversized head.
- Ambiguously Human: He looks like a human, but is 2D animated and has extremely exaggerated proportions.
- Corrupt Politician: In private, he's flat-out admitted to putting people with money ahead of his electorate.
- Gonk: His enormous head has a creepy level of detail to it.
- Icy Blue Eyes: His eyes are light blue, and contribute to a cold stare that betrays his constant smiling.
- Mayor Pain: The mayor tries to force the Wattersons out of town for being a public nuisance. While this is morally questionable, his actual reasons turn out to be far worse: Them holding down property values is all that prevents a plan to gentrify the town into a gated community, displacing most of its current residents.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He bears more than a passing resemblance to Donald Trump (and, much like Trump, is a real estate mogul who rose to political power). In "The Nuisance", he also wants to "deport" the Wattersons and, once they become "normal", put them in his gated community (which he explicitly states is to keep criminals out). The frayed blond hair also gives him some resemblance to Boris Johnson, a British politician who was Mayor of London (where The Amazing World of Gumball was produced) for most of the show's history, and later Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.
- No Name Given: Never called anything but "Mayor".
- No-Neck Chump: His head appears to be mounted directly on his body.
- Trumplica: It goes without saying.
Pantsbully
Voiced by: Dan Russell (usually) Unknown ("The Third," "The Debt", "The Butterfly")
Debut: Season 1, "The Third"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
A blue bean shaped blob who only wears boots, a hat with a blue skull design on it, and light blue underpants. He is a truck driver and a hot dog vendor. In Season 2, his design changed drastically.- Cartoon Creature: A bean-like blob.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Look at his current design and compare with his Season 1 design
◊. It changed very drastically. - Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Underwear, a hat, and boots.
- Hidden Depths: According to "The Debt", he knows CPR, suggesting he is, or was, a medical doctor.
- Informed Attribute: He is portrayed as fat in "The Dress", "The Sidekick” and "The Limit", but, he doesn't look overweight for a bean (which is what he's meant to look like). Especially considering he has extremely skinny limbs.
- Limited Wardrobe. Lampshaded. He says that he's been serving hot dogs in his underwear for the past six years.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Besides a hot dog vendor and a truck driver, he works underground in the sewers, and may be a medical doctor because he knows CPR. In "The Third" he was a construction worker because it was the beggining of the show and the creators hadn't made the Construction Workers until Season 2.
- Sphere Eyes: He has them.
Paperball/Mr. Chanax
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A ball of crumpled paper. He's a largely unimportant background character — his evil alternate identity on the other hand, isn't. He was the original leader of Chanax Inc.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking ball of crumpled paper.
- Mean Boss: A flashback in "The Future" shows how much he overworked poor Banana Barbara. Constantly giving her menial tasks every second, some of them being outright impossible, with no break. He worked her so hard that her brain literally explodes and entered a neverending "burnout" mode.
- Minor Major Character: For being such an irrelevant character, he directly causes two major events.
- He's responsible for effectively destroying Banana Barbara's mind and giving her the ability to predict the future.
- The death of his alter-ego causes Goblin to become an Ascended Extra as the new CEO.
- Monster of the Week: His evil alter-ego, Mr. Chanax, only makes a single prominent appearance as the villain in "The Boss".
Quattro and Siciliana Pepperoni
- Quattro voiced by: Hugo Harold-HarrisonSiciliana voiced by: Teresa Gallagher (The Job and The Gripes), Maria Teresa Creasey (The Origins: Part 2) Alix Wilton Reagan (The Line onwards)Debut: Season 2, "The Job"Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions"
- Anthropomorphic Food: Pizzas.
- Beware the Nice Ones: In "The Understanding", they are revealed to be anarchists, as mentioned above.
- Book Dumb: "The Understanding" reveals they are pretty stupid at homeschooling their unintelligible son Peter, they believe the Earth is flat, their dislike of the government's laws is absolutely bonkers and honestly believed taking down a bunch of paper files would completely destroy laws forever, and they have never heard of the Internet before.
- A Day in the Limelight: In "The Understanding," where they reveal their government-hating ideals and rob Elmore City Hall.
- Every Pizza Is Pepperoni: They are pepperoni pizzas.
- Henpecked Husband: Quattro, as shown in "The Parking". He is forced to wait for his wife in the car until she comes back from shopping at the mall.
- Hidden Depths: Their surprising skills as bank robbers, which their son can do as well. It's too bad their targets are pretty useless to take.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Averted when they order normal pizza. They treat it like ordering a baby.
- Meaningful Name: Both of them are named after varieties of pizza (a "quattro" is a four-cheese pizza while a "Siciliana" is a Sicilian-style pizza).
- No Name Given: Quattro's name was never stated on the show, however Ben Bocquelet confirmed it on his Twitter during the sixth season's run.
- Nice Guy: Both of them are pretty nice people most of the time.
- Non-Human Head" Pizzas for heads.
- Perpetual Smiler: Both are frequently seen smiling.
- Pie-Eyed: Their pupils are shaped like this.
Shape People
- Speaking Simlish: They speak similarly to that of Q*bert.
- Would Hurt a Child: Ed (the blue triangle) was willing to beat up Gumball, a twelve year old. Granted Gumball misused his simlish language and incorrectly made several hurtful comments about him and his family.
Twitchy Scientist
- It Amused Me: He injected Gumball and Darwin a serum that causes severly disturbing cases of Body Horror for no real reason other than to just see what would happen to them.
- Mad Doctor / Mad Scientist: Like you would not believe. He admitted to subjecting his patients to involuntary head transplants.
- Pig Man: A lanky humanoid pig who happens to be a scientist/doctor.
- The World Is Not Ready: He believes that Elmore isn't ready for his ways.
Miscellaneous
Cartax
The Wattersons' car.
- The Chew Toy: This car gets totalled a lot.
- A Day in the Limelight: "The Routine", where he acts as Richard's noble steed.
- It Can Think: Up until "The Routine", were led to believe that Cartax was just an inanimate object. It's actually alive and acts like a horse. In his thoughts however, he speaks in a very eloquent manner.
- Undying Loyalty: To Richard. Even if he is aware that everyone sees him as a lazy idot, he will always be his master.
Daisy the Donkey
- Creepy Doll: Anais' doll is this to an extreme. It's originally Played for Laughs in "The World" where her doll creepily reveals that she's alive, causing Anais to scream in horror and kicks her away (which came right after a wholesome montage where the two bonded). It's then Played for Horror in "The Night". The Daisy doll has fantasies of torturing Anais, who is stuck as a doll.
- Expy: Daisy is combination of Mickey Mouse and Barney the Dinosaur.
- Nice Character, Mean Actor: The Daisy on the Daisy the Donkey Show. She once had a meltdown on live TV claiming that she's superior to everyone else on the show and that they're holding her back before getting into a fight. All because one of the actors wanted to improvise their script.
Dodj or Daar
Dodj or Daar (Dodge or Dare) is a homemade board game Gumball and Darwin made when they were younger. The basic gist of the game is to reach the end of the board. In order to move, the player must take a "daar" card and complete a challenge. Failing to do so, or refusing to do it punishes the player with a "dodj" card. Despite it's simple structure, it is actually a very powerful and dangerous game. "The Game" heavily implies that the titular game is actually sentient.
- And I Must Scream: As Anais discovers, one of the potential "dodj" cards has the player freezing in place until the game is over. If no one completes the game, it can be assumed that the player will be stuck like that forever.
- Artifact of Doom: A reality warping game that can harshly destroy a player's life.
- Body Horror: Poor Nicole gets two of those cards. The "You will doubt every thought you have" card sprouts a grotesque head on her forehead and the "Giant Hands" card turned her hands freakishly large.
- Cerebus Retcon: Was originally a Running Gag throughout the first season. In season two however, we learn why Gumball and Darwin have stopped playing this game.
- From Bad to Worse: The defining problem with this game. Getting one bad "dodj" card is punishing enough, but having the effects of two or more "dodj" cards at once is infinitely worse. For example, by the final round of the game, Gumball is affected by CSD (compulsive singing disorder), feeling like he's in a perpetual earthquake, and not being allowed to breathe until the game ends.
- It Can Think: Like the board game it's based off on, it's implied to be alive and aware of the thoughts of the people playing the game.
- Kick the Dog: At least two of the "daar" cards are about harassing Ms. Simian.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Some of the cards aren't as bad as the others. Like the "Order a Prank Pizza" card or "Dramatic music will play until the game is over" card.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Maybe? The game's worldbending abilities only affect the people playing the game, leading Gumball to assume this.
The Planets
- Voiced by Kerry Shale (sun), Derek Jacobi (male moon in "The Night"), Dan Russell (in "The Compilation") Alix Wilton Reagan (Female Moon)
Debut:
Season 1, "The Third" (Sun), "The Debt" (Male Moon and Saturn)
Season 2, "The World" (other planets)
Season 4, "The Love" (Female Moon)
Last appearance: Season 5, "The Singing" (other planets), Season 6, "The Cringe" (Earth), "The Web" (Sun), "The Inquisition" (Moon)
In the universe of this show, it's not just things on Earth that are alive, but Earth itself and other celestial bodies.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Pluto. The planets make fun of her and don't care about her feelings due to no longer being classified as a planet. She finds new friends with a bunch of asteroids.
- Genius Loci: They're capable of thinking, speaking both with each other and people on Earth, and singing.
- Smug Super: They're bigger than you, will live longer than you, and flat out tell Gumball that his life and everyone else's are insignificant. What they don't get is that even their existence is finite, and end up wasting the rest of their lives rubbing their superiority into the face of someone who can't hear them.
- The Smurfette Principle: Out of the planets, Pluto is the only female one (notable by her voice and eyelashes).
- Time Abyss: Since they're planets, they've been "alive" for billions of years and will be for billions more.
- Weird Moon: The male moon has visible butt cheeks, which it enjoys shoving into Sun's face, sometimes while singing.
- Weird Sun: The sun can swing around the horizon to complain about people making too much noise at night. In "The Dress" it was even small and close enough for a balloon to float into it.
- You Don't Look Like You: Since they're only characters in a loose sense (bordering on being an Allegorical Character), their voices and appearances (besides the photographs of real planets) change over time and according to the demands of the plot. The moon, for instance, was male up until "The Love", and a female from then on (except in "The Night" and "The Deal").
Gumball's Brain
- Voiced by Kerry ShaleDebut: Season 1, "The Genius"Last appearance: Season 4, "The Others"
Yes, even Gumball's brain can be considered it's own character. Despite being all brains, he's Gumball's brain, so he's not that smart.
- Allegorical Character: Is made one after his debut episode. Despite being senient character outside of Gumball, he never really becomes phyiscally relevant anymore and mostly serves as Gumball inner conscience.
- Butt-Monkey: Like Gumball, he was constantly belittled by everyone over his low intelligence. He gets better.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Initially a recurring gag character but has since physically disappeared in seasons five and six. He is mentioned in several episodes though.
- A Day in the Limelight: His debut appearance, The Genius.
- The Leader: To the rest of Gumball's (living) organs. He's quite bad it however. In both "The Bumpkin" and "The Coach" he loses control over all the organs.
- Who Even Needs a Brain?: When he leaves Gumball's body to study and become smarter, Gumball shows no difference. Likely meaning he never used his brain in the first place.
Van Shopkeeper
- Voiced by: Alex JordanDebut: Season 4, "The Origins"Last appearance: Season 6, "The Possession"
The owner of a red van which Richard describes as the Awesome Store, who sells many strange and dangerous things.
- Ambiguously Evil: The show flip flops with his morality. His store sells cursed items to whoever wants to buy. He gives little to no warning to most people, but he doesn't seem to do anything out of malice, and believes people should be aware of the dangers of purchasing stuff from a seedy store like his own. In "The Console", he also plays the role of a Good All Along character that points Gumball to the real Final Boss. He also does sell stuff that isn't evil, such as Darwin, who grew to be a loved member of the Wattersons. In "The Shippening", he is quite aware that what he is doing is illegal and flees the police.
- Artifact of Doom: Much of his merchandise is dangerous, including the Evil Turtle and the TV remote and knock-off handheld that each can warp reality. Darwin is an exception. He brushes off complaints by saying that's the risk people take by buying things from the back of a van.
- Bigger on the Inside: In the one interior shot of the van, it's subtly larger than the van's exterior should allow. In "The Shippening", the shopkeeper says there's a map on the fifth floor.
- The Cameo: His truck can be seen in the background of many episodes.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Though he tends to flip flop and it's hard to truly classify him as good or evil, for the most part, he's not really malevolent despite his appearance as a shadow.
- Expy: Of Mr. Wing from Gremlins.
- The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: His store is a van, and thus can move around.
- Living Shadow: He at first appeared to be hidden in shadow, with only his eyes visible. Then he stuck his hand out of the van, showing he is a shadow, apparently the same species as the mugger from "The Comic".
- Mysterious Stranger: We know next to nothing about this character. We don't know where he came from, where he got all his cursed objects, if he's good or bad, how he got Darwin, or even his own name.
- Pet the Dog: Gives the Wattersons' a new fridge free of charge for the trouble it caused and even calls them his best customers.
- Phrase Catcher: Described explicitly as "THE AWESOME STORE" by everyone other than Gumball in the game world in "The Console".
- Small Role, Big Impact: He was the reason that Darwin was adopted into the Watterson family.
- He is also the catalyst of several other major events within the show. He is responsible of giving the Wattersons' their Evil Turtle in "The Puppy", he gave Rob the universal remote in "The Disaster" two-parter, he gave Richard the Gamechild (which would plunge Elmore into a video game word) in "The Console", he inadvertently gives Sarah the reality warping notebook that had the Cartoon Network logo on it in "The Shippening", and in "The Possession" he gave Jojo the memory-storing fridge.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Inverted. Richard thinks it's the best store ever and cheers whenever he sees it. Gumball's the only one who seems to get that it's a dilapidated van.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He sold Rob the reality warping remote, not knowing he planned to use it to ruin Gumball's life until it was too late.
- Wild Card: Though he contributes indirectly to horrible events, he's outright helpful in "The Origins" and "The Console." The most directly villainous act he does is sell Rob the Cyclops an Artifact of Doom for a very reasonable rate, and even then he (initially) tried to take it back when Rob said he'd use it for revenge.(After mistaking Van Shopkeeper to be the Final Boss of the game in "The Console")
Gumball: Sorry, it's just you looked so evil and you sold people those cursed objects and stuff.
Van Shopkeeper: (annoyed) What do they expect when they buy things from the back of a van?
One-Offs
Anime Bride Gumball and Groom Darwin
Anime-styled humanized versions of (female) Gumball and Darwin, who are getting married. Despite being pretty minor characters, they make one hell of an impact to the audience. They are created by Sarah using the magical notebook.
- Butt-Monkey: Anime Darwin gets brutally crumpled up like paper, torn to shreds, lit on fire, and then doused by water, leaving him a mushy mess. He says that he's still alive and in a lot of pain.
- Cat Girl: Gumball is genderswapped here.
- Gender Flip: Anime Bride Gumball appears to be female.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: We see Anime Darwin get ripped up and set on fire, while Anime Bride Gumball merely watches in horror. Then again, he apparently survives this.
- One-Shot Character: Only appear briefly in "The Shippening".
Bernie and Ethel Klein
- Appears in: Season 6, "The Ad"Bernie voiced by: Garrick HagonEthel voiced by: Liza Ross
Two elderly goat siblings from Glory, Minnesota who have "toured" around Elmore. The Wattersons mistake them for a couple.
- Funny Animal: Fainting goats.
- Nice Guy: They're both nice and polite. They don't even seem that mad that the Wattersons tried to scam them (though they still refused to pay them).
- Of Corpse He's Alive: Nicole and Richard thought they killed them (when really, they're fainting goats, so they were just catatonic for a few hours). In order to save themselves from being caught, they make a convoluted plan to pose their bodies in several vacation photos and throw them into a subway, covering their tracks and becoming someone else's problem. Of course, they wake up right when their final phase was almost finished.
- One-Shot Character: They only appear in "The Ad".
- Shout-Out: Their character designs share many similarities to those of Crayon Shin-chan, including squiggly eyes and elongated, sideways mouths.
- Tuckerization: Their surname may come from Chuck Klein, a former storyboard supervisor.
Brydie
- Did Not Get the Girl: She understandably turns down Rocky.
- Recurring Extra: After her one appearance in season 5, she made a couple background appearances in the final season.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She viciously calls out Rocky (also Gumball and Darwin) for the various illegal actions he took in the name of "their" love.
The Chimera
- Voiced by: Simon LipkinDebut: Season 3, "The Friend"
- Bizarre Taste in Food: He eats hair.
- Detachment Combat: Although he doesn't use them to fight, The Friend can remotely control his detachable pieces and reassemble himself at will. He shows this off by taking his head off then comes together again after being blown to pieces.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: He barely nudges a pinata and it's sent flying into the sky.
- Living Toy: An old toymaker made him because he was lonely.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: After his creator died, he started wandering around at random and his appearance made people scared of him even though he's actually quite nice.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: And a rather bizarre one even by Elmore standards: his body is a collection of LEGO-like blocks, his left arm is robot-like and has a buzzsaw, the right arm is like a giant action figure's arm, his right leg is like a mannequin's, his left like Ben Grimm's, and he has a shark's head with long hair.
- No Name Given: He never uses any name, isn't asked for one, and might not have one.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: He shows up right after Anais, Darwin, and Gumball try to make up an imaginary friend together, and pretends to be the friend they made up.
- Odd Friendship: He forms one with Anais.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The Friend", given at the episode ends with him deciding to Walk the Earth. He promises to return however (likely offscreen).
Chris Morris
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The Burden".
- Pet the Dog: He hides Gumball and Darwin from the school faculty and police, sparing them from being charged with animal cruelty and being sent to prison.
- Smarter Than You Look: He's nearing his death, constantly out of breath, and can barely move more than an inch per minute. Yet, he's still smart enough to trigger a gas explosion in the science lab using an exposed lamp wire and a plug. Not to mention that he somehow survived a day-and-a-half alone without food and water when left at school during the weekend.
- Walking the Earth: Once he is finally freed by Gumball, he peacefully walks away into the wilderness, fully ready to pass on when he needs to.
Mr. Cuddles
Penny's pet tarantula. In "The Date", Patrick accidentally flushed him down the toilet, leading everyone to think he's dead. During his funeral, Gumball manages to get him back.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Despite the name, he's a tarantula, and a fairly aggressive one.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: What's Gumball's reward for rescuing him? Getting bit by him multiple times and getting hospitalized of course!
- Non-Standard Character Design: Somehow manages to be this despite this show having no real central art style. He's a realistic looking and anatomically correct spider.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The Date". Though he's a part of the Crowd Song in "The World".
- Unusual Pets for Unusual People: It's quite strange that Nice Girl Penny would own a tarantula of all pets.
Fake Muriel
A black-and-white 1920s styled humanoid. Gumball uses her face as his profile to catfish Louie, in a really perplexing way to give him more friends online without actually being friends.
- Hartman Hips: Has very round hips.
- No Name Given: The closest we have to her name is Gumball's fake name he made for her.
- One-Shot Character: Her biggest role is in "The Catfish" and only makes two cameos later on.
- Minor Major Character: Gumball uses her as his fake online profile picture. Leading Louie to immediately befriend him online and making Granny Jojo think that he's having an affair with someone. She doesn't even say a single line.
- The Voiceless: The only sound she audibly makes is a brief "ahh" after getting an olive branch.
GWORP
When Tobias briefly took over the show, he introduced GWORP, a new major character within the show.
- Kid-Appeal Character: As Sarah puts it, he's "the lovable alien" that draws in the viewers.
- Robot Buddy: Had Tobias continued with his show, he would've become this.
- Living Toy: A grey talking toy robot that came out of a Christmas present.
- One-Shot Character: Is a gag character that only appears in one scene in "The Test".
Hank
A pixelated creature who happens to be Fuzzy's Yandere best friend.
- Large and in Charge: He's much taller than Fuzzy and is clearly the dominant one of their (mostly one-sided) friendship.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The BFFs".
- Villainous Rescue: An unintentional example. He decides to capture and bring Fuzzy back to his place. Not to save Gumball and Darwin, but to keep him for himself.
The Hillbilly Family
- Captain Ersatz: They're practically a copy of the family from The Hills Have Eyes (1977) minus being actual cannibals.
- Good All Along: They're not crazy cannibals. They're a genuinely nice family.
- Hillbilly Horrors: They may be good, but my god are they unsettling to be around. Even Anais and Nicole get too creeped out by them and believe that they're going to murder and eat them.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: The family lives in isolation in the desert. The Wattersons believe that they're actually crazy cannibals who are planning chop them up in their sleep. The hillbillies are actually extremely nice and cordial with them and wish no harm on them.
- One-Shot Character: Only appear in "The Vacation".
Jodie Mallard
- Voiced by: Jenny FelinerDebut: Season 4, "The Parasite"Last appearance: Season 6, "The Agent"
An orange duck who appears in "The Parasite". Anais forces her to be her friend, and they eventually fuse into a parasitic entity. In the end, she just wanted a pen from Anais. She makes a cameo in "The Pact". Her surname is revealed in "The Agent".
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: An orange duck.
- Bait-and-Switch: She's not the parasite, Anais was the real social parasite.
- Big Ol' Unibrow: She has two eyebrows, but they are stuck together.
- Black Bead Eyes: She has them.
- A Day in the Limelight: In her debut role "The Parasite". She is (the assumed) social parasite that is taking advantage of Anais' kindness.
- The Quiet One: Doesn't speak much.
Josh
Voiced by: Phillip Hunt
Debut: Season 5, "The Guy"
A green humanoid who is Anais' friend, and just like her, is socially awkward.
- A Day in the Limelight: In his debut episode "The Guy". He strikes an Odd Friendship with Anais.
- Easily Forgiven: He instantly forgives Anais for all her paranoid behavior over him after seeing just how distraught she is and how desperate Gumball and Darwin have become to get him back.
- Foreshadowing: His strange pyramid hat and shirt are the telltale symbols that he's in a cult.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears normal clothes and a yellow cone-shaped hat.
- Nice Guy: He's a pretty normal guy except his social awkwardness and believing in a Scam Religion.
- One-Shot Character: In "The Guy". But he makes a brief cameo in "The Anybody".
- Sphere Eyes
Little Teddy
A fictional talking bear and the main character of a disturbing PSA video called "Watch Out! Teddy".
- Born Unlucky: Anything bad that can possibly happen to him, happens to him.
- The Chew Toy: Since he was in a PSA video on safety, he was constantly beat up, harassed, and injured.
- A Dog Named "Dog": A little teddy named Little Teddy.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Hilariously subverted. His design is supposed to invoke this, but the deranged and Limited Animation of the video makes him look very uncanny and weird. It's enough to leave Mr. Small a blubbering, screaming mess, after watching the video.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His misfortune becomes the catalyst for Darwin's eventual takeover of Elmore in his campaign to make the world safe.
Mario
- Captain Ersatz: Who do you think?
- Flat Character: The whole point of his character is to be an almost exact copy of Super Mario, but not the one that everyone thought he was.
- One-Shot Character: Only appeared in "The Uncle".
- Shout-Out: Aside from the obvious, the basis of his character is likely a sly reference to the "My uncle works at Nintendo" jokes seen online.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He appears for less than a minute yet the entire episode is about Gumball trying to suck up to Ocho to meet (what he thought) was the Mario.
Peter Pepperoni
- Voiced by Jack SimmonsDebut: Season 6, "The Spinoffs" (TV screen), "The Undersranding" (real debut)
A pepperoni boy who is a new student in Elmore Junior High. Nobody understands what he says.
- Alliterative Name: Peter Pepperoni.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He first appears briefly in a screen in "The Spinoffs", from a scene from "The Understanding" which came after.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: He only joined in the middle of the final season.
- Eye Glasses: Just like Principal Brown, his eyebrows are clearly on top of his glasses.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears a cap, glasses, a sweater, a backpack, pants and shoes.
- Homeschooled Kids: He was, until his parents' incompetence forced him to go to school.
- Little Mister Badass: He helps his parents in their bank robberies.
- New Transfer Student: He joined the school in "The Understanding" in Season 6. Before that, he was homeschooled.
- Non-Human Head: His head is pepperoni.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The Understanding," as a new student. Granted, it was near the end of the show, so he didn't really have time to become a recurring character.
- Pie-Eyed
- Species Surname: Makes more sense than his parents; while they are pepperoni-flavored pizzas, Peter is entirely made of pepperoni.
- The Unintelligible: He does speak English, but swaps words and uses weird slang to the point of being word salad. It's a side-effect of his parents being very lousy at homeschooling.
Rainbow Factory Shareholders
The two animate piggybank shareholders of Rainbow Factory, Nicole's workplace. In "The Factory", they debate whether or not they should close the factory.
- Animate Inanimate Object: They look like pigs at first. But on closer inspection, they're piggybanks.
- Anti-Villain: They may be vile, greedy, and incredibly amoral, but they're not necessarily "bad guys" like the other antagonists in the show. In the end, they decide not close the factory and go through with their promise of treating their emotionally drained workers better.
- Gluttonous Pig: Though we never see them eat, they're appearance is quite portly.
- I Have No Son!: One of them disowned his son after he went "over budget" on the amount of hugs he can receive.
- Meaningful Appearance: They're literally greedy pigs.
- One-Shot Character: They only appear in "The Factory".
- Pet the Dog: Facing death, they frantically promise the workers bigger salaries and longer vacation days - unaware that all the workers can hear them. They regret it immediately but still follow through with it.
Richwood High Duo
- Ascended Extra: The two were random background characters in "The Sweaters". But in "The Extras", they're the spotlight recurring segment.
- Butt-Monkey: They spend the entire match dealing with their literal limited movement and have to flee the stadium when one of them gets smart enough to become more animated, to the disgust of the Faceless Masses.
- Limited Animation: Deconstructed and Played for Laughs. They were intended to be faceless background characters in the show. So when the audience gets to see them move, they're just static images that move around. It's hard to live their lives when they can't move their limbs, fingers, eyes, or mouths.
- No Name Given: Probably to add on to their intentional unimportance.
- True Companions: They truly care about each other. When one gets run out of town when he became smart enough to become more animated, the other one still loyally follows.
Santa Claus
- The Bus Came Back: He makes a brief reappearance in "The Future".
- Brutal Honesty: In his amnesiac state, he ruthlessly tells Darwin and Anais why their wishes wont come true.
- Easily Forgiven: Subverted. He may have been kind to the Wattersons in the end of "Christmas," but "The Finale" shows that he is actually still quite mad at them for accidentally running him over.
- Large Ham: When he gets over his amnesia, he goes into full-on, unmistakable BRIAN BLESSED!!!!! mode.
Shadow Person
- Laser-Guided Karma: He robs Gumball and attempts to break into their car only to suffer a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Nicole.
- Living Shadow: He’s a sentient shadow creature who has no light reflecting on his body.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The Comic".
- Plot-Irrelevant Villain: He only appears to mug Gumball and make him give up his superhero persona. He had no prior setup and is quickly dispatched in the final seconds of the episode.
The Stink Ape
- Expy: Is effectively this show's Bigfoot.
- Uncertain Doom: We last see it falling in one of Mr. Small's traps. One that he says is more brutal than the others.
Wolf and Ostrich
- Captain Ersatz: They look almost like carbon copies of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Wolf is the main antagonist of the cartoon, but he's actually quite nice when talked too normally. He was shockingly patient with Darwin's overbearing censorship.
- One-Shot Character: They only appear for one scene in "The Safety". Though they make a brief cameo in "The Heist".
Wunderklopp
- Bait-and-Switch: When the Wattersons run out of food and money, they hungrily stare at Wunderklopp, who is grazing in the backyard. Cut to the Wattersons eating grass with him.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "The Ad".
- Running Gag: He randomly appears in many scenes, as if he's part of the family's antics.
