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    Anton Clones 
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Voiced by: Anthony Hull (Clones), Stefan Ashton Frank (Ant-One)

Numerous clones of Anton that Darwin and Gumball made in "The Recipe" using an everyday toaster. Among them, only the first two clones were named: the burnt first one, who named himself "Ant-One", and the second, which Gumball and Darwin named "Ant-Two".



  • Evil Twin: After surviving being burnt, Ant-One comes out of the garbage can to try and replace the original Anton.
  • Expendable Clone: Although Darwin and Gumball worry about getting in trouble for making them, almost all of them die, and nothing seems to come of it.
  • Literal Genie: They're so naive that they'll follow whatever orders they hear first as literally as possible, even taking "split up" to mean "tear yourself in half".
  • Not Enough to Bury: Ant-One falls into a pool and is torn to pieces by the grate of the drain he's sucked into.
  • Sole Survivor: Ant-Two is the only clone left at the end of "The Recipe". The "real" Anton also died, but he was just a different line of clones that would presumably be replaced again by his parents, raising the question of exactly what happened to Ant-Two.
  • Too Dumb to Live: All but Ant-One have even fewer self-preservation instincts than the real Anton, even directly causing their own deaths just because some random people told them to.
  • Verbal Tic: Ant-Two repeats the last words of something someone else said.

    The Copycats 
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Voiced by: Jacob Hopkins (Chi Chi), Terrell Ransom Jr. (Ribbit), Teresa Gallagher (Mother), Dan Russell (Father)
Debut: Season 5, "The Copycats"

A family of goats and a frog who relentlessly copy the Watterson family, putting the results online as The Wonderful World of Chi Chi to make ad revenue. They have no equivalent of Anais, though. They're a parody of a series of Chinese commercials, for a brand of goat milk called Miracle Star, whose mascots and scenes blatantly plagiarize The Amazing World of Gumball.


  • Allegorical Character: They don't make much sense as literal characters, they're more like personifications of plagiarism, especially the Miracle Star characters they're based on.
  • Captain Ersatz: They're stand-ins for the family from the Miracle Star commercials who themselves are ripoffs of the Watterson family—essentially Lawyer Friendly Cameos of very lawyer unfriendly characters. In the storyboard, the copycats just were the characters from Miracle Star, unaltered in name or appearance.
  • Diabolus ex Nihilo: We don't know anything about them personally except that they're trying to make money and are almost incapable of original thought. Why do they look almost identical to the Wattersons? Did they alter their own appearances or were they already a bunch of Identical Strangers? Are they a real family, or just actors? How do they know everything the Wattersons do so they can copy them? Within the universe of the show, their existence is only really justified by the Rule of Funny.
  • Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: All of them.
  • Funny Animal: Mom, Dad and Chi Chi are goats, DELETED is an unknown animal, and Ribbit is a frog.
  • Greed: The only thing we know about their real personalities, rather than their affected ones copying the Wattersons, is that they want money and they're not sharing it with the guys they make it off.
  • Hoist by Their Own Petard: To drive off the Copycats, the Wattersons start doing increasingly dangerous things in the hope that the Copycats will either give up or off themselves trying to replicate them. This culminates in them attempting a stunt so dangerous that it's doubtful that even they would survive it, but they escape at the last second thanks entirely due to Anais. The Copycats intentionally removed their Anais counterpart, however, so when they tried to ripoff the stunt they're unable to save themselves in time and they plummet to their fiery, brutal de- er, severe maiming.
  • Intentional Engrish for Funny: Their website is written in Chinese, and the Wattersons can only read it by putting through a translator. This leads to them laughing at the translations.
Chi-Chi: This goat is the attention of the center. He is serious, don't you trust him? A heavy party-love hero with powerful personality defectives.
Ribbit: This frog is a frog, but why? He is so green and mighty you wouldn't trust him with lunch. What's that? Yes, he is determined.
Dad: I'm a tired lazy belly male lurking inside sofa. Watch him obnoxious. Laugh and spoil yourself.
Mom: Wowee - What a mother. Who cares if she's annoying? You?
DELETED: Woman no right to celebrate in republic of people.
  • Oddball Doppelgänger: They're pretty much the Watterson family with slight alterations to make them look like different species. Of course, the real reason they're like this is they're a parody of ripoff characters in a real-life Shoddy Knockoff Product.
  • Meaningful Name: The ripoff of Gumball is a goat named Chichi, which is Japanese for milk. The work he's parodying is a character named "Kiki" from a goat milk advertisement.
  • Parody Names: Chi Chi and Ribbit's names are plays on Kiki and Gua Gua, the Miracle Star ripoffs of Gumball and Darwin.
  • Monster of the Week: Of "The Copycats".
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: It's implied they didn't copy Anais because they figured their videos would be more profitable with one less female character. (The real Miracle Star lacked one mostly because of the one-child policy, along with general Values Dissonance regarding desirability of female children.)
  • Significant Double Casting: They share voice actors with the Wattersons.
  • Unnamed Parent: The children's names are found listed on their website, but it just calls the parents "mom" and "dad". (For the curious, their Miracle Star equivalents are called Chun Ni and Miao Cheng Gong, respectively.)
  • Unperson: Disturbingly, the website implies a little sister existed in some form, but was removed. There's a blurred picture of a character with Anais' silhouette that's crossed out and marked "DELETED".
  • Villain Has a Point: When Gumball introduces himself to Chi Chi, Chi Chi responds back with the same phrase except with his name instead of Gumball's. Gumball, unsurprisingly, goes ballistic but Chi Chi points out that's how you respond to someone's greeting.

    Evil Turtle's Babies 
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Evil Turtle's army of children. They wreak havoc across Elmore when their mother goes missing.
  • Expy: They are a strange combination of Gremlins and the eggs from Aliens.
  • Groin Attack: One of them does it to Goblin while he was in the shower. It was much deserved.
  • Monster of the Week: Of "The Nest".
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Subverted. The Wattersons believe that they weren't evil and just lashing out because they miss their mother. When they finally reunite, they swim away into the ocean - but not before sinking an entire ocean liner. Anais argues that it's probably both.
  • The Swarm
  • Zerg Rush: They may not be as strong as their mom, but they make it up in sheer numbers.

    Fuzzy 
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Voiced by: Jack Simmons
Debut: Season 6, "The BFFS"
Gumball's original BFF before Darwin came into the picture. A pink, furby-like creature who supposedly comes back from Minnesota.

  • Always a Bigger Fish: He too, has a Yandere friend that kidnaps him.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Darwin. They are both BFFs to Gumball, they're both insecure that Gumball may eventually abandon them for another friend, and they both have there jealous / Yandere moments when Gumball shows affections to others. However, while Darwin is usually well-meaning and makes up for his nastier moments, Fuzzy double downs on his jealous nature and tries to kidnap Gumball to keep him all for himself.
  • Monster of the Week: Of "The BFFS".
  • Old Friend: Gumball's original BFF.
  • Robotic Reveal: Is revealed to be a robot when Darwin whacks him in the head with a shovel, revealing a metallic skeleton. Just like a real Furby.
  • The Stoic: Spends most of the episode with a relative calm and chill persona. Then the climax comes...
  • Yandere: To Gumball. He imprisons Gumball in a cabin so he can "make-up" for all the missing time.
  • Zero-Effort Boss: Played-with. He proves to be a formidable foe to Gumball and Darwin, but he is immediately dispatched right when it seems like he's won when Hank takes him away in fear of losing his best friend.

    Gargaroth the Devourer  
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Debut: Season 4, "The Compilation"
Last appearance: Season 4, "The Scam"
A blob creature who is the Monster of the Week in "The Scam". Carrie pretended to be him and thought he was fake, but it turned out he is not, and he rises from the Underworld to haunt the school.

    The Ghouls 
A class of horror-movie expies that used to be feared across Elmore. Nowadays not so much due to how much everyone has become desensitized with their brand of horror.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: The final shot of the episode has them causing chaos in Elmore to an almost apocalyptic degree.
  • Butt-Monkey: No one treats the Ghouls with respect anymore and most of them are stuck in dead end jobs.
  • Harmless Villain: What they have become. People in Elmore are too desensitized with horror and view them more as just a mere annoyance.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Once Gumball and Darwin give them their scare back, they waste no time in enacting their revenge across Elmore for humiliating them.
  • You Will Be Spared: From the looks of it, Gumball and Darwin seemed to be spared by the ghouls for making them scary again. As the titular spooks don’t chase the duo unlike the rest of the citizens of Elmore and the Scary Clown even thanks them for bringing their scare back.

    Mr. Gruber 
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Voiced by: Rob Rackstraw
Debut: Season 6, "The Slip"
A bald eagle. He's one of Elmore's delivery guys. Friction is caused between him and Richard over a late package.

    Jealousy 
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Gumball possessed by Jealousy.
Voiced by: John Kassir
Debut: Season 2, "The Flower"
A ghostly spirit that possesses anyone who gets violently jealous.
  • Demonic Possession: He possesses Gumball. Darwin, Leslie, and even Carrie (despite also being a ghost). He is also implied to have possessed Penny in the end, after she gets jealous over Gumball and Carrie's friendship.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: What those who are possessed by it become, with them having literally green glowing eyes.
  • Monster of the Week: Only appears in "The Flower", though Darwin exhibits similar behaviour of it in "The Bros" and "The BFFS".

    Joao Diga 
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Voiced by: Javier Fernandez Pena
Debut: Season 6, "The Cage"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Buddy"
A strong Russian fist cage fighter. Was once assigned to fight Mr. Corneille in a match.

    Joy 
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A Mystical Plague that is caused by a "Wonder Hug". It forces you to smile and act happy.


    The Puppets 
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Voiced by: Rebecca Sloan (Howdy), Baker Terry (Frank, Grady)
Debut: Season 5, "The Puppets"

A trio of puppets named Howdy, Frank, and Grady. Darwin and Gumball played with them about seven years ago, but kept them packed away in the attic since. They may or may not be alive, but either way they have a bone to pick.


  • Ascended Extra: The Monster of the Week in "The Puppets", but they also star in about half of the ''Waiting For Gumball" shorts.
  • Big Ol' Unibrow: Grady sports the villainous version.
  • Bright Is Not Good: Frank and Howdy are brightly colored children's toys, and Grady's clothes are similarly colored, and they all want to torture their owner for not playing with them.
  • Creepy Monotone: Grady always speaks in a monotone voice. He lampshades this when he betrays Gumball.
Grady: This... was a trap... for you... Dum, dum, dum...
Gumball: What was that?
Grady: A dramatic music cue. It probably would have been better if my voice wasn't so flat.
  • Dark Reprise: Downplayed, in that said "The Fun Will Never End" was already a Villain Song (albeit an upbeat one), but after it's revealed that Grady tricked Gumball, the tune shifts into that of a creepy musicbox/carnival feel and the lyrics get darker.
  • The Ditz: Frank is easily the most dimwitted and silly of the trio.
  • Evil Brit: They all have a British accent... due to being played by British people
  • Faux Affably Evil: They act like they just want to play with Gumball and Darwin, but really want to sadistically torment them to get back for being abandoned. Howdy and Frank are more blatant examples than Grady, considering they kidnap Darwin and force him to party with them.
  • Incredibly Lame Fun: Howdy and Frank's ideas of "fun" is stuff like wearing a hat (or two hats at once, or no hat at all, which they declare the only options since they only have two hats), baking cakes all day (apparently without ever intending to eat them), counting to 7 (which Frank claims is "the funniest number"), standing in a corner, and arranging a spoon.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's not really clear if they're actually sentient, albeit requiring a puppetmaster, or just a figment of Darwin and Gumball's imagination. The show seems to lean more on them being real, given that everything in Elmore is alive at one point.
  • Monster of the Week: Of "The Puppets".
  • Oh, Crap!: The Puppets have a moment like this when Darwin pulls on their loose strings.
  • Revenge: Though the puppets nominally wanted Darwin and Gumball to play with them again, they eventually decided the "fun" they want is a Fate Worse than Death in retribution for being left in the attic. They also smash up their gaming console, because video games were what diverted the kids' attention away from their puppets in the first place.
  • Shout-Out: Their live-action sequence with people in large costumes in a studio background is heavily reminiscent of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, which makes sense considering both were made by the same people.
  • Two Guys and a Girl: The villainous trio consists of Howdy (female) and Frank and Grady (male).
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It's implied in "Waiting for Gumball" that at least Frank was lashing out because he missed Gumball and Darwin.

    Razor 
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A gigantic, muscular student who wants his Revenge on Gumball, Darwin, and Clayton for framing him for their accident and getting him expelled from school. At least that's what Clayton says. In truth, while he was framed and expelled, he's not actually mad at them. His appearance was also lied, he's actually really scrawny in real life.
  • Easily Forgiven: In reality, he forgave Gumball and Darwin for framing him, as it got his band popular online.
  • Geek: In real life he's a short skinny Cartoon Creature wearing glasses and has a very dorky voice.
  • Implacable Man: In Clayton's lie, he was an unstoppable behemoth who chases Gumball and Clayton across the school.
  • Monster of the Week: Of "The Skull".

    Richwood High Tennis Team 
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Voiced by: Hugo Harold-Harrison (Carlton), Fergus Craig (Troy), Steve Furst (Mr. Kreese)
Debut: Season 2, "The Sweaters"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Spinoffs" (Carlton and Troy)

A trio of poorly-animated humans: two high-school tennis players named Carlton and Troy and their coach, Mr. Kreese. They're the first humans to appear on the show in person (not counting Santa Claus, who may be a sort of elf/fairy).



  • Ambiguously Brown: Troy has a somewhat dark skin tone, but it might just be a tan.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In spite of their delusional behavior, Carlton and Troy are actually extremely skilled at playing tennis. The one time Gumball actually tried to return one of their serves, the spin alone was enough to tear the racket out of his hand.
  • The Bus Came Back: After a three season long absence, Carlton and Troy finally make another prominent appearance in "The Spinoffs".
  • A Day in the Limelight: In "The Sweaters."
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Ironically it's after they win that Darwin and Gumball get their respect. They're impressed that Gumball managed to keep playing after a minor injury, despite neither one trying to win before or after it.
  • The Dividual: Carlton and Troy look different besides their clothes but are, for most purposes, the same person. They receive some Divergent Character Evolution in "The Spinoffs".
  • Divergent Character Evolution: In "The Spinoffs", Carlton is shown to be not as indulgent with 80s tropes and even has his limits with them. Troy on the other hand double downs on them.
  • Expy: Carlton/Troy and Mr. Kreese blatantly parody the arrogant but honorable student/ruthless coach dynamic of Johnny and John Kreese in The Karate Kid. Although unlike John Kreese, Mr. Kreese has a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Heel–Face Turn: They decide to become friends with Gumball after seeing just how "hardcore" he really is.
  • Impossibly Tacky Clothes: They wear extremely stereotypical 1980s clothing, including tennis shoes and high-socks with rainbow highlights, long wavy hair, rectangular shades, and brightly colored sweaters—worn as clothing and accessories, for the shoulder and waist, all at the same time.
  • Genre Refugee: All of them act like they're in a cheesy 80s sports movie when they're really in an episode of a cartoon parodying those movies. Unfortunately, their presence seems to cause almost everyone else to act the same.
  • Manchild: Mr. Kreese engages in Unsportsmanlike Gloating with all the grace, eloquence, and enthusiasm of a five-year old.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Their designs look like they're from a 70s or 80s cartoon made by Filmation or Sunbow. Even with the show's extremely diverse art style they're all very out of place.
  • Opposing Sports Team: Relentlessly parodied: all three continuously insist that they're "more hardcore" than Darwin and Gumball, despite facing no disagreement, and won't stop bothering them until the two accept their challenge to prove it.
  • Only One Name: Mr. Kreese's first name is unknown.
  • Retraux: Their 80s-ness extends not just to their clothes and character design, but also their animation: their movement are all very choppy, they make flamboyant mannerisms reminiscent of Speed Racer, closeups show them with non-uniform outlines and bleeding colors to make them look like they're cel-animated, and there are some deliberate art errors like Carlton suddenly having freckles for just one scene.
  • Rich Bastard: Carlton threatens to have his rich dad bulldoze Elmore Junior High to make a golf course if Gumball and Darwin don't have a tennis match with them.
  • Satellite Character: Troy to Carlton; while the latter has several lines in his debut episode, the former only has two, and doesn't do much besides being around his brother.
  • Token Human: They are the first and one of the few human characters seen in-person. However, Carlton, Troy, Mr. Kreese, and the background characters of Richwood High are animated rather than live-action like the humans shown on television, so they might not be quite the same thing.

    Ripley 2000 Manager 
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Voiced by: Dan Russell
Debut: Season 1, "The Refund"
Last appearance: Season 3, "The Question"
The diminutive plush toy-like manager of the Ripley 2000 video store who bullies Larry and likes to cheat his customers.

    Mr. Robinson's Heart 
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Voiced by: Unknown
Debut: Season 1, "The Debt"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Heart"
Mr. Robinson's Heart. Just like his host, he's a grump who refuses to show his true feelings.
  • Allegorical Character: He's less of a character and more of a phsyical manifestation of Mr. Robinson's fear of showing his true feelings.
  • Antagonist Title: Of Season Six's "The Heart", where he forces Mr. Robinson to not show any positive emotions.
  • Chekhov's Gag: Remember that quick gag where Mr. Robinson's heart came out in "The Debt"? Turns out that his heart is actually it's own sentient being.
  • Pet the Dog: He does begrudgingly admit that he felt something when Gumball and Darwin pour all their love out to him.

    Superintendent Evil 
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Played by: Garrick Hagon
Debut: Season 6, "The Inquisition"
"I've had enough of your cartoonish conduct. From here on, any abnormal behavior is to be corrected."

A live-action human being who is the school's superintendent.


  • Adoption Diss: He calls Darwin "Watter-adopted-son".
  • Dean Bitterman: Evil is an incredible overbearing enforcer of what he considers "proper", even before showing himself to be outright villainous.
  • The Dreaded: Everyone is scared and intimidated by him.
  • Dirty Coward: Acts like he's a threat to everyone after taking over the school. But after Gumball and Darwin free everyone from his control. He prepares to engae into a fist fight with Gumball but he then runs away like the coward he truly is.
  • Fantastic Racism: Subverted He seems to hate the students of Elmore Junior High for being Toons, until it's revealed he is actually Rob and his motives turn out to be much more benevolent than they initially appeared.
  • Final Boss: Played-with. He’s the final antagonist faced in the show — but he's also Rob in disguise, who reveals himself to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist and barely puts on a fight.
  • Humanity Ensues: Plans on trying to turn all the students into humans (first cartoon humans, then live-action ones like him). It turns out to have been a plan by Rob to let them escape to "the other place" before Elmore is sucked into the Void..
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: His criticisms towards all the students almost lean on the fact that this show has no real central art style. Considering that he's Rob in disguse, who is aware that they are in a TV show, it makes sense.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: As Gumball points out, his name is literally "Evil". But his insistence that it is pronounced as "EV-ul" (as in "Neville") instead of "ee-VIL", is enough to fool most of the students and faculty at the school.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: Does no action, but makes up in his supreme power over the school and scary intimidation.
  • Oh, Crap!: His expression is this when he hears Gumball singing to the human Banana Joe before he changes back.
  • Tyrant Takes the Helm: Overrules Principal Brown's authority to take over the school almost the instant he shows up.

    Virus 
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Voiced by: Kerry Shale
Debut: Season 2, "The Virus"
A sentient virus and leader of a new strain that mutated on Gumball's unwashed hand. Teri forced Gumball to wash that hand, killing all his soldiers and setting him off for revenge.
  • Adaptive Ability: It's constantly mutating, causing it to gain strange properties such as flight and infecting computers instead of people.
  • Avenging the Villain: The virus was the commander of a virus army and Sole Survivor of Gumball washing his hands. He swears he'll avenge them by infecting and killing Gumball, his family, his friends, and everyone else until "nothing is left alive on the surface of the Earth".
  • Boisterous Weakling: Its ability to infect and control things make it genuinely dangerous, but in spite of all the boasts, it does not understand that its extremely small size makes it physically harmless to anything close to human-sized.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being an evil virus, he did truly care for his comrades.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Played with; anytime it's in closeup, it's voice sounds very deep. Farther shots, however, show that its voice is extremely high-pitched from a subjective perspective because it's so small.
  • Extra Eyes: It has three eyes, though given it's a virus any of the eyes are "extras".
  • Monster of the Week: Of "The Virus". He's dead by the end of the episode he premiered in.
  • Monstrous Germs: He has flagella that are like limbs and give a humanoid build, three eyes, and his visible organelles act like a face.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: It has eight tentacle-like protrusion that it uses like two legs and six arms.
  • No Name Given: He never goes by any name, and as a virus, he probably doesn't even have one.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: It speaks of infecting a body like waging a war and is extremely offended at Gumball calling it a coward.
  • Undignified Death: For the sake of proving its might, it agrees to fight mano-a-mano against Gumball, who is millions of times his size, and is immediately Trampled Underfoot.

    The Snatcher/Vladus Lokowitchki 
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An apparition that curses Gumball and kidnaps the family. Is Carrie's father.
  • Expy: He has a lot of similarities with Sadako Yamamura.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: His sadistic curse and anger is the cause of being trapped in the mirror for so long, away from his lover and daughter.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Breaking the mirror not only breaks Gumball's curse, but also restores Vladus back to normal.
  • Killed Off for Real: Once he comes back to life, he tries to hug Carrie, his daughter, for the first time. Obviously, since she's a ghost, he immediately goes through her and accidentally falls out of a window. In an odd turn of events, this was actually good, as he turns into a ghost and can now physically hug her.
  • Monster of the Week: Only appears in "The Mirror".
  • Retraux: His "human"/ghost design resembles a Fleischer Studios character.

    Zach 
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Voiced by: Jacob Hopkins
Appears in: Season 3, "The Name"

An intolerable split personality Gumball develops upon finding out his real first name in "The Name".



  • Asshole Victim: Gumball more or less kills Zach, albeit in self-defense and maybe by accident. Considering Zach was an independent consciousness, this might have significant moral implications... but he's such a jackass that no one gives it a second thought.
  • Cool Cat: Zach definitely tries to invoke the "confident" form of this trope, even wearing sunglasses, but everyone just thinks he's a tremendous douche. He even proudly declares that "There's a new cat in town!" shortly after appearing.
  • Cool Shades: He suddenly starts wearing neon-purple rimmed shades from nowhere, which really aren't very cool looking, and work more like Sinister Shades.
  • Crazy-Prepared: One genuine skill he demonstrates is planning all sorts of tricks to delay the other Wattersons, even putting a trap in his pocket for when they'd try to frisk him.
  • Enemy Within: To Gumball. They both have huge egos and usually fall flat on their face because they try to look cool. However, while Gumball can show compassion and empathy belatedly, Zach is a straight up jerkass. Also, unlike Gumball, who recognizes his own failures, and lives with them, Zach refuses to acknowledge any of his shortcomings or losses, going so far as to alter the memories of his/Gumball's failures to turn them into victories.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: When Zach is in control, Gumball speaks in a deeper voice. However, it's so obviously affected that instead of being intimidating it just makes Zach sound like more of a poser. In his last scene in Gumball's mind, however, his voice starts getting pitched down and slightly distorted, being more of a genuine example of this trope.
  • Fascinating Eyebrow: He's raising one of his eyebrows almost constantly, which leads Darwin to tell him he "spent the whole day with one eyebrow raised, behaving like a horrible jock".
  • I Reject Your Reality: He maintains his disillusions of greatness and popularity in the face of all evidence and words of others. He goes so far as to consciously and completely alter his memory of events so he'll look better in them.
    Zach: Hey Carrie, I think we really nailed the song last night. We're totally gonna win the battle of the bands, man.
    Carrie: You're not in a band. I'm not in a band. I bet you can't even give me the name of a band.
    Zach: Psh, yeah, like... Germany.
  • Jerkass: Zach is amazingly impolite, has an almost pathological disregard for and lack of awareness of other people, and literally won a contest for being obnoxious.
  • Jerk Jock: Zach thinks he's a jock, despite not being on any sports teams, not being able to ride his skateboard well, and generally not being any more athletic than Gumball was before.
  • No Body Left Behind: When Gumball finally beats Zach at something, bits of him start chipping off, showing a bright light in his silhouette as he's torn to pieces. Although this of course wasn't really a "body" to start with.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: For all the misplaced confidence Gumball has expressed, Zach is much worse in this regard than Gumball ever was. Gumball would always acknowledge his shortcomings eventually; Zach does not and seems to believe his own hype with all his heart.
  • Split Personality: Gumball initially seems to be acting obnoxious when he finds his real name, but Zach becomes a separate entity before he even notices.
  • Split-Personality Makeover: You can tell when Zach is controlling Gumball's body because he pops the (non-existent) collar on Gumball's sweater.
  • Split-Personality Takeover: He attempts to fully replace Gumball's original personality by altering their memories until he's erased.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Played with. There isn't as much focus on Zach being evil as being a huge jerk, though he really is evil, as he planned to erase Gumball's original personality so he didn't have to share. He's also not really that much better at most things than Gumball, he's just extremely confident and obnoxious. But when mentally confronting his other, less-confident side, said confidence provides a tremendous advantage. But it's also his biggest weakness, as Gumball is mentally resilient enough to take losing all the time, but the one time Zach is forced to face defeat it literally destroys him.
  • Smug Snake: His boundless pride directly leads to Gumball beating him.
  • Third-Person Person: Zach always refers to himself in third person, likely to emphasize he's not Gumball, and it's definitely the "arrogant" form.
  • The Unapologetic: He accidentally bites part of Kayvon's face off and shows no regrets for it, because "Zach does what he wants".
    Zach doesn't apologize, he uses his charm.
  • Undignified Death: Zach is destroyed in Gumball's mindscape, then Gumball immediately farts, his body literally clearing out the hot air.

Locations

    Chanax 
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The looming office complex in Elmore. Has an infamous reputation for being "pure evil". Was originally runned by Paperball, but since his disposal, Green Goblin has seized control.

  • Evil, Inc.: They literally steal your soul if you work there and force you to work 24/7. During Gumball's expedition to the CEO's office, the building turns into an ominous trap-filled complex with filing cabinets try to crush you, tidal waves of paperwork to drown you, and man-eating secretaries.
  • MegaCorp: Chanax's imposing presence stretches across Elmore, whether it be owning smaller businesses or to many of it's citizens working there.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: The building finally collapses in "The Founder" and it makes no signs of recovery in later episodes.

    Elmore 
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Population: Weird
Debut: Early reel/Season 1, "The DVD"
Last appearance: Season 6, "The Inquisition"

Not only is every individual object in the Elmore alive and sentient, but Elmore in its totality seems to possess some sort of intelligence. Although it hasn't talked or shown a face like any of the others objects or the planets, "The Void" heavily implies the world itself was responsible for the void's creation and "mistakes" being sent into it.


  • Allegorical Character: Its modus operandi is pretty much that of an author who doesn't mind changing their world retroactively or doing terrible things to their characters for the sake of making the story more interesting.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Maybe not "bad", but it can be considered an antagonist. And regardless, it succeeded in drawing Elmore into The Void in the finale.
  • Eldritch Location: It's an entire town that can warp reality. It seems to exist beyond its own time, having banished the platybelodon (an elephant ancestor) to the Void.
  • Genius Loci: Elmore is able to decide what things the world would be better without, then send them to the void. Mostly, it gets rid of dated fads and inefficient technology, but people may go out as well. Being sent to the void isn't necessarily a one-way trip; it's possible to enter the void and retrieve something within it, though it is very dangerous to do so.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: It is responsible for Molly's disappearance and is the reason how Rob turned into the Big Bad. It is also implied that the events that occurred in "The Vegging" where not just its doing, but also by someone!
  • Reality Warper: The world can send things and people to another dimension, suppress most memories of them, and cover up evidence that they ever existed. Given the void's pattern flashed at the end of "The Kids", it might also be responsible for Gumball and Darwin's voice changing. It doesn't have absolute power, however, as Mr. Small, Darwin, and Gumball were able to remember anyway and break Molly out of the void before they were all sealed in. But even then The Void erased their memories of the whole ordeal so they wouldn't be able to tell anyone.
  • Totalitarian Utilitarian: If it will make the world better, it will take people and make them spend the rest of their life in an infinite nothingness with only other mistakes for company. Naturally, it also wants to keep this a secret, even if it means sealing people who it didn't think of as mistakes in that same void. Of course, since it is the world, utilitarianism and selfishness are one and the same. In "The Vegging", it ends up trying to get Gumball and Darwin to do something for the episode to the point they put their family in a dangerous situation only they can solve! Then it is implied at the end that someone was behind the events as the message was trying to warn them.
  • Walking Spoiler: Simply knowing that the world has a will of its own is a major part of the twist of "The Void".
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When the world feels like a thing goes out of style or out of its usefulness, it sucks it up back into the Void. In the final episode, it does so to the entire world of Elmore in the ending, starting with Rob!

    Elmore Junior High 
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Elmore's public junior high school.
  • Academy of Adventure: The school is teeming with all sorts of strange students and insane adults that Gumball and Darwin frequently interact with. A lot of episodes in the show take place here.
  • Sucky School: Elmore Jr. High is not a school you'd want to be in. The people running it are all either insane, neurotic, or too apathetic to care, or even all three of these combined. Many students have all sorts of strange abilities and powers. The school is regularly destroyed by its students, teachers, or natural elements. At one point, the school had to merge with a prison to keep it running.

    The Void (MAJOR SPOILERS
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Mr. Small: Look, children. All the mistakes the world has ever made.
A mysterious TV-static dimension where all the world's mistakes are put in forever, including people.


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