| 1 | [[center:[-[[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballTheWattersons The Wattersons]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballStudentsOfElmoreJuniorHigh Students of Elmore Junior High]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballElmoreJuniorHighStaff Elmore Junior High Staff]] | '''Other Citizens of Elmore''' | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballOther Other]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballExtremelyMinorCharacters Minor Characters]]-]]] |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ! The Robinsons |
| 6 | [[folder:Gaylord Robinson]] |
| 7 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-gaylord_s2_4167.png]] |
| 8 | -->Voiced by Creator/RupertDegas (Season 1), Stefan Ashton Frank (Season 2 onward) |
| 9 | -->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Debt" |
| 10 | -->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Revolt" |
| 11 | |
| 12 | The Watterson's cranky neighbor who appears to be [[CartoonCreature a sort of Muppet creature]] or a [[LivingToys Muppet come to life]]. In spite of his attitude, Gumball and Darwin adore him. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | [[hardline]] |
| 15 | * AbusiveDad: Of the "disappointed by his current life" situation to Rocky, as revealed in "The Boss". He considers Rocky a disappointment to the Robinson name, and Rocky says he's told him as such to his face "more times than I can count on my hands." It's then zig-zagged in the end, when Rocky claims that he cannot live the office-life and decides to go back to his original janitorial job, Mr. Robinson tries his best to be supportive of him but he's clearly ''seething'' on the inside. |
| 16 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A 3D puppet animated to move like a real cloth puppet. |
| 17 | * AwfulWeddedLife: He constantly bickers with Mrs. Robinson and his dialogue in "The Wicked" implied that he only stays with her out of fear. |
| 18 | * BigOlUnibrow: His only hair left is a big unibrow. |
| 19 | * CharacterDevelopment: As seen in "The Heart", he and his son Rocky are on much more better terms. |
| 20 | * TheChewToy: He's a constant victim of the Wattersons' antics (most especially from Gumball and Darwin), even though they don't intend to be malicious toward him. |
| 21 | * CrankyNeighbor: Mr. Robinson's smug sense of superiority toward the Wattersons is one of his only sources of enjoyment, and he's constantly trying to find something wrong with them, going so far as to camp in his trash can all day to find out if they were using it without his permission. |
| 22 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 23 | ** In "The Debt," where Gumball becomes his bodyguard. |
| 24 | ** In "The Poltergeist," his marraige hits a rough patch and Gumball tries to mend things. |
| 25 | ** In "The Car," he tries to "punish" Gumball and Darwin with several chores for ruining his day. |
| 26 | ** In "The Tag," he ends up in a rivalry with Richard after the both of them get house arrest. |
| 27 | ** In "The Sale," he tries to sell his house. |
| 28 | ** In "The Heart," he tries to repair his friendship with Gumball and Darwin. |
| 29 | * DefrostingIceKing: It happens ''very'' slowly, but by the sixth season, he's become much nicer to Rocky and has warmed up to Gumball and Darwin. |
| 30 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He may be a GrumpyOldMan and a CrankyNeighbor, but even he finds his wife to be a horrifying irredeemable monster, and he tries to dissuade Gumball and Darwin from [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow attempting to understand her]]. |
| 31 | * {{Expy}}: He bears a lot of resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward]] in terms of personality (a CrankyNeighbor who the main character inexplicably adores, loves dance) and appearance (same nose, round bald head, similar coloration). He's also very similar to [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Ed Bighead]], because both [[AwfulWeddedLife CONSTANTLY argue with their wives]], [[CrankyNeighbor frequently get angry at their neighbors]], and have an adult child who is initially estranged, but whom they [[CharacterDevelopment get on better terms with over the course of the series]]. |
| 32 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: A puppet who wears clothes. |
| 33 | * GrumpyOldMan: After retirement, Mr. Robinson doesn't have much to do but complain about everything. He even sometimes drives his car around town, trying to make as many people miserable as possible. |
| 34 | * HappilyMarried: He and his wife Margaret are "happily" married because they argue, ''a lot''. However, {{Subverted|Trope}} in Season 6 where he seems to HATE his wife now and doesn't want to be married to her. He tried to get her dunked for being a witch in "The Intelligence", tried to burn their marriage certificate in "The Understanding", and said that he messed up with his Halloween costume because his wife is still his bride. (He was Frankenstein and she was his wife). |
| 35 | * HiddenDepths: Despite his uptight personality, he has a love of dance, and gives a big musical performance in his first episode. |
| 36 | * IronicName: Mr. Robinson is very grumpy and unhappy person, yet his first name means "joyful" or "lively". |
| 37 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has a smug sense of superiority and sees most people as below him, but has developed a fairly good relationship with his son, as shown in "The Heart". Likewise, he doesn't actually hate Gumball and Darwin as much as he ''thinks'' he does, and ends up going out of his way to regain their friendship when they turn against him. |
| 38 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: A ''really'' old couple with his wife, Margaret. |
| 39 | * LookAlikeLovers: Broadly; he and his wife are both CGI muppets with the same nose and color scheme, but their hair and body shapes are entirely different. Strangely, their son has his father's body shape, but neither the color or nose his parents share. |
| 40 | * MarionetteMotion: {{Justified|Trope}}, given [[Creator/JimHenson what]] [[Series/TheMuppetShow he's based]] [[{{Muppet}} off of]]. |
| 41 | * NotHelpingYourCase: Falls into this in "The Car." While he's justified in being furious at the Wattersons for destroying his new car, he doesn't do himself any favors by screaming in Donut Cop's face to arrest them (while also claiming he's his boss because [[InsaneTrollLogic his taxpayer dollars fund his salary]]), destroying the Wattersons' own car in a fit of rage ''right in front of him'' with a golfclub, and then trying to attack Donut Cop when he tasers Margaret, who was trying to attack the former first; in the end, all he succeeds in doing is getting ''himself'' and his wife arrested. |
| 42 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite claiming that he wants nothing to do with Wattersons, "The Heart" reveals that when Gumball and Darwin were little, he would [[{{Troll}} personally go out of his way to mess with them]]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This would backfire later on when Gumball and Darwin become thoroughly convinced that he's their best friend]]. |
| 43 | * OutOfFocus: In the fifth season, where he has no major roles. |
| 44 | * SingleTear: In "The Heart", where Gumball and Darwin hug Mr. Robinson, causing him to smile in response for the first time. |
| 45 | * TechnologicallyBlindElders: He doesn't know how to program his alarm clock (he says this himself ''as he sees someone else is doing it'') and mistakes a video camera for a musical instrument. |
| 46 | ** This comes to bite him heard in "The Heart" in form of the IsThisThingStillOn trope when [[spoiler:he talks with his wife on the phone on what he really thinks about Gumball and Darwin, while his phone is connected to ''and'' heard from the Bluetooth speakers the boys helped installed!]] |
| 47 | * TookALevelInKindness: As the show progresses, he has been somewhat friendlier towards Gumball and Darwin. It eventually solidifies in "The Heart" after a fallout between them in the episode. |
| 48 | * UngratefulBastard: Gumball and Darwin have done countless kind favors for him, yet he shows little to no gratitude towards either of them. |
| 49 | -->'''Mr. Robinson:''' You really did save my life... But that doesn't excuse you for ruining my performance! |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Margaret Robinson]] |
| 53 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margaret_robinson.png]] |
| 54 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TeresaGallagher |
| 55 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Debt" |
| 56 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Revolt" |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Mr. Robinson's wife, another [[CartoonCreature muppet creature]], who speaks only in mumbles and, as "The Wicked" revealed, is a violent, destructive sociopath. |
| 59 | ---- |
| 60 | [[hardline]] |
| 61 | * AbusiveMom: Rocky mentions she's regularly called him ugly. |
| 62 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A puppet. |
| 63 | * AxCrazy: She goes around town wreaking havoc burning down buildings and tries to run people over ForTheEvulz. |
| 64 | * BeyondRedemption: Both Gumball and Mr. Robinson try to convince [[AllLovingHero Darwin]] that Margaret is a completely irredeemable sociopath who cannot be reasoned with. After she leaves him to die because of her own actions, Darwin winds up agreeing. |
| 65 | * BlackComedy: All of her actions in "The Wicked" are extremely disturbing, yet darkly funny due to the fact that they're coming from a Muppet-like creature in a kids' show who can't even speak English. |
| 66 | * CainAndAbel: She apparently tried to drown her brother to death as a kid and [[UncertainDoom it's unclear whether he survived]]. |
| 67 | * CardCarryingVillain: While terrorizing the citizens of Elmore, she cheerfully dances to a song about how much she [[{{Sadist}} enjoys their misery]]. |
| 68 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Due to her limited appearances, Mrs. Robinson was initially just the nagging wife of her much more significant husband. Then came "The Wicked", which established her as being TheSociopath all along. |
| 69 | * ComedicSociopathy: "The Wicked" shows her committing a litany of horrific crimes in broad daylight, and all of it is PlayedForLaughs due to [[CardCarryingVillain how unapologetically evil she is]]. |
| 70 | * CrankyNeighbor: In "The Wicked" she's shown to antagonize Gumball and Darwin by framing them several times for her crimes. |
| 71 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Wicked," where Darwin tries to prove that she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He gets proven [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk wrong]]. |
| 72 | * EnfantTerrible: As a toddler, she began by ripping a teddy bear's head off. By the time she approached adolescence, she was already trying to [[CainAndAbel drown her own brother]] and only got worse from there. |
| 73 | * EvenEvilCanBeloved: Subverted. Although Mr. Robinson has been married to her for many years and may have loved her in the past, by the current day, he's grumpy towards her at best and outright ''terrified of her'' at worst. |
| 74 | * EvilIsPetty: Even when she's not causing outright mayhem, she still does unnecessarily mean things like sticking a butterfly in a spiderweb, throwing her neighbors' mail all over the ground, and ruining Principal Brown's car. |
| 75 | * ForTheEvulz: In "The Wicked" she commits many evil acts for no reason other than her own amusement. [[spoiler:Darwin tries to prove that she's not completely evil, but fails.]] |
| 76 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: A puppet who wears clothes. |
| 77 | * HappilyMarried: Subverted. See Mr. Robinson's entry above. |
| 78 | * HartmanHips: Her body shape is basically a tiny torso on top of large, egg-shaped hips. |
| 79 | * HumanoidAbomination: Outwardly, she appears to just be a puppet woman who fits right into the usual ArtStyleClash of Elmore. Despite that, her tag claims that she was [[MadeOfEvil made in the fiery pits of the underworld itself]]. |
| 80 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite Darwin's expectations, she's thoroughly shown to have no good side or FreudianExcuse. |
| 81 | * KickTheDog: |
| 82 | ** She commits a variety of petty crimes during her VillainSong, but the cruelest moment is when she causes a (possibly fatal) car crash while the young Billy is ForcedToWatch, [[HarmfulToMinors traumatizing him]]. She then knocks his ice cream cone out of his hand, collects his tears in a cup, takes a sip, and smashes the glass over his head. |
| 83 | ** Mrs. Robinson nearly kills Darwin when she tosses a tiny plastic car down his throat. When she notices Darwin is choking on it, not only she does not do anything to help, but she also smirks at the sight, having grown tired of the boy trying to change her throughout the episode. She gives him a mocking wave, before leaving him to die. |
| 84 | * LackOfEmpathy: She witnesses Darwin, ''a child'', choking to death… only to smile and leave him to die. |
| 85 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. After being a KarmaHoudini throughout the entirety of "The Wicked", Mrs. Robinson's luck runs out when she gets into a car wreck, gets blown up, gets hit by a jetliner and run over by an ambulance within the episode's last scene. |
| 86 | * LaughablyEvil: "The Wicked" show Mrs. Robinson doing astoundingly over-the-top acts of cruelty, even implying she's both a murderer and an arsonist, which is essentially all played for laughs. |
| 87 | * LookAlikeLovers: Broadly; she and her husband are both CGI muppets with the same nose and color scheme, but their hair and body shapes are entirely different. Strangely, their son has his father's body shape, but neither the color or nose his parents share. |
| 88 | * MadeOfEvil: According to her tag, she was made from 70% cotton, 30% polyester, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and manufactured in the fiery pits of the underworld]]. |
| 89 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Mr. Robinson is a jerk and occasionally an antagonist to the Wattersons, but he's hardly an evil man. [[TheSociopath His wife, on the other hand…]] |
| 90 | * MysteriousPast: Mr. Robinson knows absolutely nothing about her past aside from the fact that she grew up in Elmore, and theorizes that she was [[MadeOfEvil simply born evil]]. Her tag seems to support that theory. |
| 91 | * PokeThePoodle: Some of her lesser actions count as this, like [[EvilIsPetty cutting Mr. Small's flowers and knocking over trash cans]]. |
| 92 | * PracticallyJoker: She's a mysterious sociopath who enjoys causing random destruction and mayhem ForTheEvulz. Even Mr. Robinson references ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' when describing her. |
| 93 | -->'''Mr. Robinson:''' Some people aren't looking for anything logical; they can't be bought, reasoned or negotiated with. [[ForTheEvulz Sometimes man just wants to watch the world burn.]] |
| 94 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: She had a disturbing obsession with fire, to the point of trying to use her chimney to burn Santa Claus to death and committing arson against Elmore Junior High in the past. |
| 95 | * {{Sadist}}: She finds the misery of others incredibly entertaining, to the point that she's thought up a whole song about it. |
| 96 | * TheSociopath: "The Wicked" cements her as this, being an impulsive {{sadist}} who revels in spreading chaos and exhibits a chilling LackOfEmpathy towards everyone around her, including [[WouldHurtAChild children]], [[AwfulWeddedLife her husband]], and [[AbusiveParents her own son]]. |
| 97 | -->'''Darwin:''' [[PsychoticSmirk She smiled.]] I was choking, she looked straight at me, and she ''[[{{Sadist}} smiled]]''. That woman is evil personified! |
| 98 | * TookALevelInJerkass: She was originally portrayed as very unpleasant, [[AwfulWeddedLife especially toward her husband]], but came off as less antagonistic than him. Then in "The Wicked", she shows herself to be insanely cruel and sadistic, way more antagonistic than her husband could ever be. |
| 99 | * TheUnintelligible: She speaks only in mumbles of "meh". Her husband and son [[IntelligibleUnintelligible can understand her]] at least, albeit with some difficulty. [[BilingualDialogue It's apparently some kind of language]], as she's able to write diary entries by writing "meh" and an attempt to imitate her is shown "translated" from her perspective as [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels real, but random words]]. |
| 100 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: [[SubvertedTrope Nope.]] Darwin theorizes that she must have been this at some point, but by looking into her scrapbook, he and Gumball find photos of her as a youth attempting to drown her brother, burning down the school, and trying to roast Santa alive. |
| 101 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: She in the running for the most evil villain in the entire series as she doesn't have any sympathetic reasons behind her wickedness, unlike Rob who is another contender. She ''[[MadeOfEvil knows]]'' she's evil, and [[CardCarryingVillain she revels on this fact]]. |
| 102 | * VillainSong: She gets a rendition of "My Favorite Things" from ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', except her "favorite things" include [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad toothaches, sick dogs, stubbed toes, and the misery of others]]. |
| 103 | * WouldHurtAChild: In "The Wicked", she tries to run Darwin and Gumball over with her car, though she may have just been trying to scare them. [[spoiler:Then she throws a toy that lands in Darwin's throat and he starts choking on it. It was apparently an accident, but she didn't offer any help and only smiled in his face as she walked off into her home, pleased at the fact he was choking and could have died.]] |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Rockwell "Rocky" Robinson]] |
| 107 | * For tropes related to him, see [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballElmoreJuniorHighStaff here]] |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | ! The Senior Citizens |
| 111 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 112 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_men.png]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | A group of old people usually seen sitting together on a lawn. They include an OffModel Mickey Mouse-looking [[FunnyAnimal rodent]] named Louie (until he left the group), [[CartoonCreature a red jelly bean-looking blob]] named Marvin Finklehimer, a lady who appears to be [[AnimateInanimateObject a segment of a green chalkboard]] named Betty [=MacArthur=], and a man [[CartoonCreature that looks like a collection of plaid patterns]] named Donald [=MacArthur=]. |
| 115 | ---- |
| 116 | [[hardline]] |
| 117 | * AscendedExtra: Marvin and Louie end up getting major roles in "The Watch" and "The Man", respectively. Donald and Betty then have a major role with Marvin in "The Crew". After marrying into the Watterson family, Louie becomes a minor recurring character. |
| 118 | * ChildhoodFriends: "The Catfish" shows that, at least Louie, Betty, and Donald were friends since they were in school, Marvin probably was too. |
| 119 | * InterspeciesRomance: "The Catfish" reveals that Donald (a plaid square) and Betty (a piece of chalkboard) are married. |
| 120 | [[/folder]] |
| 121 | |
| 122 | [[folder:Marvin Finklehimer]] |
| 123 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marvin_4.png]] |
| 124 | ->'''Voiced by''': Unknown (Season 1) Dan Russell (Season 2 onwards) |
| 125 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 126 | ---- |
| 127 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: He wears a hat. |
| 128 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He is attracted to The Hexagon Lady and Karen and has grandchildren (and children), meaning he probably had a wife at some point. In "The Lady", he is interested in a boyfriend while dressed as Violet, but it's unknown if it was for real or he just made it up for the friends. |
| 129 | * AnthropomorphicFood: An official book for the show confirms he is a jelly bean. |
| 130 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 131 | ** In "The Watch," Gumball and Darwin try to get back a watch that he has. |
| 132 | ** In "The Crew," he lets Gumball and Darwin join their crew. |
| 133 | * DirtyOldMan: Repeatedly shown hitting on women much younger than him, usually the Hexagon Lady, but also Karen). |
| 134 | * FeudingFamilies: Marvin hated the Wattersons because they'd been feuding with his family for generations over the possession of an old watch. They stop once both sides realize no one actually cares about the thing, but the feud briefly resumed once they find out it's worth a lot of money--then ends again when the watch is destroyed. |
| 135 | * IconicItem: A cane that he doesn't need, but acts like he does in "The Tag" until he sees the hexagon lady. |
| 136 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is shown to be a DirtyOldMan, but otherwise isn't so bad. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Betty [=MacArthur=]]] |
| 140 | [[quoteright:635:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chalk_lady.png]] |
| 141 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JessicaMcDonald (The Laziest) Creator/TeresaGallagher (The Watch), Gillian Hannah (The Safety-The Loophole), Liza Ross (The Intelligence) |
| 142 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Revolt" |
| 143 | ---- |
| 144 | * AnimateInanimateObject: Chalkboard. |
| 145 | * ButtMonkey: Ever since Season 5, she seems to have bad things happen to her more. In "The Slide" she is pushed to the ground twice, in "The Loophole" her purse is stolen by Bobert, in "The Console" she is knocked out, and in "The Intelligence", Harold elbow drops her. |
| 146 | * HappilyMarried: To Donald. |
| 147 | * IconicItem: She has a purple and yellow purse that she carries around. |
| 148 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Betty seems extremely senile in "The Parking" when the Wattersons tried to help her find her car in the parking lot to take her space...until they discover that she rode to the mall on a bus, then she drops the act and starts mocking them on her way out. |
| 149 | * StockScream: She has an "Oof" sound that she made both in "The Slide" (When she was pushed to the ground), and in "The Console", (when she was knocked out). |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Donald [=MacArthur=]]] |
| 153 | [[quoteright:222:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plaidoldmanpic.png]] |
| 154 | ->'''Voiced by''': Unknown (Season 1) Unknown (The Watch) Dan Russell (Season 4 onwards) |
| 155 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Responsible" (Marvin) Season 1, "The Debt" (Donald and Louie) Season 1, "The End" (Betty) |
| 156 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Intelligence" |
| 157 | ---- |
| 158 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A plaid square. |
| 159 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: A plaid square that wears clothes. |
| 160 | * HappilyMarried: To Betty. |
| 161 | * IconicItem: He has a cane that he doesn’t need. |
| 162 | * ViolentGlaswegian: Donald has a Scottish accent in Season 2 onwards and agrees to let Gumball have his scooter if he can beat him in a fight, though [[SubvertedTrope he immediately gives up]] once he realizes he can't even get out of his chair. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | !The Fitzgeralds |
| 166 | [[folder:Patrick Fitzgerald]] |
| 167 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-pennysfather_2561.png]] |
| 168 | ->'''Voiced by''': Dan Russell |
| 169 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The DVD" |
| 170 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 171 | |
| 172 | Penny's father, another [[AnimateInanimateObject living peanut]] [[MixAndMatchCritters with antlers]]. Is very overprotective of his daughter (when she was in her shell), especially when it comes to her being romantically involved with Gumball. Since "The Shell", Patrick has loosened up, but "The Apprentice" and "The Spoiler" show that he still has qualms over it. |
| 173 | ---- |
| 174 | [[hardline]] |
| 175 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Normally wears only sandals with socks under them. When at work he also wears a hardhat and when jogging he replaces the sandals with tennis shoes and adds sweatbands. |
| 176 | * BlackBeadEyes: Like his daughter, his eyes look like this, but actually seem to be holes in his shell. |
| 177 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: He refuses to let Penny see Gumball after his family makes a bad impression in "The Knights", and flat-out refuses to even let her say anything about it. In "The Kids", when Gumball's voice sounds like a squeaky teenager due to puberty and Patrick thinks it's a prank call, he gives Gumball (whom he mistakes for somebody else) fair warning to back down or suffer the consequences. "The Shell" implies a lot of this is because their whole family are secretive about what they're like under their shells, but this ends up backfiring and making Penny feel ashamed after she leaves her shell. Since "The Shell," however, Patrick hasn't been as overprotective or as antagonistic to Gumball: In "The Spoiler," he still feels the need to eavesdrop over Gumball and Penny's phone conversation, but he's notably less hostile towards Gumball than he was before and actually feels bad about revealing a major plot point in "The Screamening". |
| 178 | * ButtMonkey: In the episodes where Gumball unintentionally torments him like "The Knights", and "The Apprentice". |
| 179 | * CartoonCreature: Under his shell. |
| 180 | * CharacterDevelopment: He was incredibly overprotective of his daughter, and didn't care much for Gumball. After "The Shell", he starts letting Penny do her own thing more often (even if he still feels the need to eavesdrop on conversations between her and Gumball), and while still having a bit of animosity toward Gumball, pulls back more often. |
| 181 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 182 | ** In "The Knights," where he forbids Penny from seeing Gumball after a bad first impression. |
| 183 | ** In "The Apprentice," where Gumball forcibly becomes his new apprentice and the two head it out in Chanax. |
| 184 | ** In "The Transformation," he triggers a family meltdown over whether or not Penny should be out of her shell. |
| 185 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Gumball, Darwin, and Nicole run through his backyard in "The DVD", when he wouldn't get a speaking role until "The Date" later that season. |
| 186 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He was originally a construction worker or a real estate agent before the show firmly established that he worked at Chanax. |
| 187 | * FatIdiot: Subverted. Mr. Fitzgerald is scarily on the ball when it comes to parenting, and seems to be a very authoritative and strict person, despite his size - which, given what the Fitzgeralds are like under their shells, may not be indicative of his weight anyway. |
| 188 | * LargeAndInCharge: The biggest in the Fitzgerald household. |
| 189 | * TheOneGuy: He's the only male Fitzgerald. |
| 190 | * OnlySaneMan: Has a justified grudge against the Wattersons, [[PapaWolf and Gumball in particular]], but is unusually quick to put it aside as events dictate. Was pretty much the only Elmore resident who was willing to work ''with'' the Wattersons in some way during the events of "The Finale" (by taking a fall in a "Dad Fight" between him and Richard, as things had clearly gotten well out of hand with the crowd and all). |
| 191 | * PapaWolf: To Penny. The fact that she likes [[IdiotHero Gumball]] doesn't help. However, as of "The Shell", when Gumball called him out on hurting Penny's feelings when she was freaking out over her new form, then consoled him and told him that "parenting is hard" and went through hell to get Penny back to her default form and back to her father, Patrick has loosened up a bit. |
| 192 | * ShipperOnDeck: After CharacterDevelopment, he approves of Gumball and Penny being an OfficialCouple. Though in "The Spoiler" he seems to have a little suspicion about their relationship and eavesdrops their phone call. |
| 193 | * ShippingTorpedo: Downplayed. Patrick was initially against Gumball and Penny being together because the former was a danger to the latter. However, after "The Shell", he becomes a ShipperOnDeck for the couple. |
| 194 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. His wife isn't fat like he is, though he seems to be in much better shape than Richard. He is just bulky, not fat. He is actually physically fit as he jogs frequently, is very strong, and works as a construction worker. |
| 195 | * UnnamedParent: His given name (Patrick) wasn't stated until "The Shell". The same episode played with it by Gumball repeatedly calling him some variation of "Robert", when the audience would have no idea that he was wrong. |
| 196 | * WouldHurtAChild: In "The Knights", he shuts the door on Tobias' foot before locking it, leaving the boy to pull it out himself. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Judith Fitzgerald]] |
| 200 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrs_fitzgerald_season_1_hd.png]] |
| 201 | --> Voiced by Maria Teresa Creasey |
| 202 | --> Debut: Season 1, "The DVD" |
| 203 | -->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Mess" |
| 204 | |
| 205 | Penny and Polly's mother and Patrick's wife, a [[AnimateInanimateObject living peanut]] [[MixAndMatchCritters with antlers]] like them, looking like Penny if she grew up never breaking from her shell. Unlike her husband, she doesn't mind Gumball being around her daughter. |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Normally wears only cowboy boots. |
| 208 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: In "The Transformation" she makes a cookie with shows Gumball ''dead, with his body ripped in half, with him bleeding''. Her [[https://theamazingworldofgumball.wikia.com/wiki/File:TRANSFORMATION48.png creepy face]] shows it was most likely intentional. |
| 209 | * BlackBeadEyes: Like her daughter, her eyes look like this, but actually seem to be holes in her shell. |
| 210 | * CartoonCreature: Under her shell. |
| 211 | * CloudCuckooLander: She is implied to be one. |
| 212 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Transformation." |
| 213 | * FlatCharacter: While her husband and youngest daughter would eventually have their own separate episodes, the same can't be said with her and by show's end, we still know little about her. |
| 214 | * HopelessWithTech: Gumball says she can't use any machines "The Romantic" which Penny agrees and even remarks about the time she brought a computer mouse to a vet because it wasn't working. |
| 215 | * OddNameOut: The only one in the family whose name doesn't begin with the letter P. |
| 216 | * SatelliteCharacter: Usually only appears with her family with her only getting ''one scene'' in the entire series where she shows a character trait independent from her family. Namely in "The Gripes" where she is shown to be generous to a fault. |
| 217 | * ShipperOnDeck: In "The Knights" and "The Shell", she gave Penny permission to visit Gumball, despite Patrick banning him, meaning that she supports them as a couple. |
| 218 | * TooDumbToLive: Subverted. During "The Gripes" she mistakes Gumball and Darwin for homeless kids and tries to help them out. Her generosity goes as far as to giving them one of her kidneys which Gumball insists she needs to keep. |
| 219 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. In a manner of speaking, she's thinner than Patrick. Though they look pretty similar. |
| 220 | * UnnamedParent: Only named in "The Transformation", halfway through the sixth season. She was the last Fitzgerald to be named. |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Polly Fitzgerald]] |
| 224 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/polly_fitzgerald.png]] |
| 225 | ->'''Voiced by''': Teresa Gallagher |
| 226 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Date" |
| 227 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Mess" |
| 228 | Penny’s sister who is in kindergarten. |
| 229 | ---- |
| 230 | [[hardline]] |
| 231 | * AnthropomorphicFood: She was thought to be one, before it was revealed Penny's family are shape shifting fairies in peanut shells. |
| 232 | * BadassAdorable: She is around four years old and managed to tackle Richard in "The Father". |
| 233 | * CartoonCreature: She's a fairy in a peanut shell. |
| 234 | * CheerfulChild: She's constantly smiling and is almost never sad or angry. Except in "The Father". |
| 235 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: She's one of the most friendly characters in the show. She affectionately plays with Gumball more than once and didn't even seem bothered when he was too sleepy to properly babysit her. She was the only person who didn't heckle or harass Gumball to choose side in her family's big arguement. |
| 236 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Mess", where a sleep deprived Gumball and Darwin have to babysit her. |
| 237 | * GenerationXerox: She is a fairy in a peanut-like shell, just like her parents. She also fights like her father in "The Father". |
| 238 | * NoNameGiven: Her name wasn't specified until "The Father", when she attacked Richard to get back a football with her name on it. [[https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/932737400987635713 Ben Bocquelet revealed her name before that on his Twitter,]] but spelled it "Pollie". |
| 239 | * SmartBall: In "The Mess", where she has to explain to Gumball and Darwin what happened during their sleep deprived misadventures. |
| 240 | * SphereEyes: Like the rest of her family, they're actually holes in her shell. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | !The Wilsons |
| 244 | [[folder:Harold Wilson]] |
| 245 | [[quoteright:204:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harold_wilson_clear_2.png]] |
| 246 | ->'''Voiced by''': Kerry Shale (Season 1-The Slide, Alex Jordan (The Cycle onwards) |
| 247 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Party" |
| 248 | ->Last appearance: season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 249 | |
| 250 | Tobias's father and Jackie's HenpeckedHusband, another [[CartoonCreature many-colored stylized cloud]]. |
| 251 | ---- |
| 252 | [[hardline]] |
| 253 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Wears only a tie and the front of a collar--he doesn't even wear shoes like his son does. Weirdly, in a flashback he [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal wore a shirt]]. |
| 254 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: Why he only has the collar of a shirt. |
| 255 | * CartoonCreature: Like his son. |
| 256 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his scarce appearances in the first season (one of which only shows him in silhouette), he comes off a mature, responsible adult. |
| 257 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Cycle," where begins to bully Richard again like he did in high school. |
| 258 | * DirtyCoward: When Harold and his wife think they're in danger, he claims he can handle it, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere but then just runs away, leaving her behind]]. |
| 259 | * HateSink: A smug, unsympathetic, misogynistic RichBastard. He's enjoyed humiliating Richard since High School and rubs his success in his face as an adult. He doesn't even seem to care for his wife much either, ranging from [[DirtyCoward leaving her in danger to save himself]], to replacing her with Jazelle, a younger woman when he thinks he's struck it rich. One vision of Nicole's future in "The Choices" shows that had she married him instead of Richard, he'd [[DomesticAbuse have degraded and insulted her]] to the point where she snaps [[KarmicDeath and kills him]]. His attitude seems to have rubbed off on [[CasanovaWannabe his son]] as well, which of course [[ButtMonkey never goes well for Tobias.]] |
| 260 | * HenpeckedHusband: In "The Castle", he stays with the Wattersons because Jackie won't let him be himself at home. Taken to extremes in "The Pizza," when Harold is shown on a leash and barking when Jackie emerges from the wrecked van, symbolizing how Harold is treated like a dog[[note]]or, if you want to get vulgar, "is a bitch."[[/note]] |
| 261 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's an obnoxious loser at best, and at worst a complete jackass. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark When he thinks he's become a billionaire]], he uses it for things such as skywriting to humiliate Richard, a golden statue of himself, and ''replacing his wife with Jazelle, a younger woman''. |
| 262 | * LaserGuidedKarma: In his youth, he was a {{Slimeball}} that picked up girls by pretending to compliment them while actually demeaning their self-confidence. In his adulthood, he ends up with the one woman he couldn't break and ends up being on the [[HenpeckedHusband receiving end]] instead. |
| 263 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: "The Choices" shows that, in his youth, he was just as much a CasanovaWannabe as Tobias, possibly even worse. |
| 264 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He likes poking people for no reason, and even went to the Watterson house in "The Castle" so his wife wouldn't stop him. |
| 265 | * PaperThinDisguise: In "The Cycle," he disguises himself by wearing a fake mustache that looks exactly like his real one. In "The Bus," he uses an opera mask in his guise as Mr. Rainbow. In both cases, everyone but Gumball falls for it. |
| 266 | * PetTheDog: In "The Anybody", he celebrates Tobias' birthday and is shown smiling. |
| 267 | * PsychoPsychologist: Works as the town hospital's resident psychiatrist, in which capacity he tricked Richard into giving up even more embarrassing secrets than Wilson already knew. When Gumball and Darwin go to him for help communicating between each other, Harold just [[TrickedIntoSigning tricks them into paying for his home renovations]]. |
| 268 | * SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: He's started pulling mean-spirited pranks on Richard when they were in highschool and hasn't stopped since. |
| 269 | * {{Slimeball}}: When he was young, Harold would try to pick up girls by [[ManipulativeBastard pretending to compliment them while actually demeaning their self-confidence]]. If he'd ended up with Nicole, he'd turn into a demeaning {{Domestic Abuse}}r. Given how he acted when he thought he got rich, he'd probably be the same today if he wasn't a HenpeckedHusband. |
| 270 | * StockScream: His screams sound the same in "The Heist" and "The Petals". |
| 271 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He's basically an older version of Tobias with a mustache, thick eyebrows, and tie. |
| 272 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: Is shorter than his wife. |
| 273 | * TwoFirstNames: "Harold" and "Wilson" can both be used as a first name. |
| 274 | * WouldHitAGirl: He elbow drops Betty in "The Intelligence". |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:Jackie Wilson]] |
| 278 | [[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jackie_wilson.png]] |
| 279 | ->'''Voiced by''': Teresa Gallagher |
| 280 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The DVD" |
| 281 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Revolt" |
| 282 | |
| 283 | Tobias's mother, also a [[CartoonCreature rainbow cloud person]], albeit a [[BizarreSexualDimorphism very different looking one.]] |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | [[hardline]] |
| 286 | * UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: She has a very nasally Joisey accent. |
| 287 | * CartoonCreature: Like her daughter. |
| 288 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: She wears clothes. |
| 289 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Many of her scenes shows her as an unpleasant person, but she does care about her son and sings for his birthday. |
| 290 | * {{Joisey}}: Jackie is currently the only character to have a New Jersey accent. |
| 291 | * LikeParentLikeChild: In "The Mothers" she shows herself to be as shamelessly self-serving as Tobias, even working with him to cheat at the Mom-off. |
| 292 | * SuperStrength: Subverted in "The Mothers". She lifts a fridge, making it seem like she is as strong as Nicole, but it turns out the fridge was made of cardboard. |
| 293 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: Is taller than her husband. |
| 294 | * TrophyWife: Harold treats her like one. |
| 295 | * TwoFirstNames: "Jackie" and "Wilson" can both be used as a first name. |
| 296 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Even though Jackie isn't a diamond, why would she marry her slimey, cowardly jerk of a husband is unknown. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Rachel Wilson]] |
| 300 | [[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rachel_wilson_0.png]] |
| 301 | -->Voiced by Creator/JessicaMcDonald |
| 302 | -->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Third" |
| 303 | -->Last appearance: Season 1, "The Fight" |
| 304 | |
| 305 | Tobias's older sister, another [[CartoonCreature many-colored cloud person]]. |
| 306 | ---- |
| 307 | [[hardline]] |
| 308 | * BigSisterBully: She didn't have a good relation with her brother in the only episode they interacted with each other. |
| 309 | * CartoonCreature: Like her mother. |
| 310 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never appeared physically after season one, only appearing in a picture and one flashback. She is finally acknowledged in the ClipShow spinoff ''WesternAnimation/DarwinsYearbook'', where Tobias tells Darwin she's gone to college. |
| 311 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: [[HumanoidFemaleAnimal Unlike her brother and dad]], she and her mom wear clothing on their bodies. |
| 312 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold |
| 313 | * NoIndoorVoice: In "The Party", she screams several times. "'''NONE OF YOU ARE INVITED!''" |
| 314 | ** Her party is for young adults, not old ''[[SuddenlyShouting BABIES]]''! |
| 315 | * PutOnABusToHell: Ben Bocquelet and some other staff members really don't like her, and she has been absent from the show since season one. Her absence is eventually acknowledged in the "Darwin's Yearbook" clipshow special; according to her brother Tobias, she's gone to college. |
| 316 | * RecurringExtra: In other season one episodes, she only had small cameos, and five physical appearances. |
| 317 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Rachel gave [[NiceGuy Darwin]] a smooch after he helped clean up the mess the party left before her parents came home. |
| 318 | * TwoFirstNames: "Rachel" and "Wilson" can both be used as a first name. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | ! Others |
| 322 | [[folder:Banana Bob and Banana Barbara]] |
| 323 | [[quoteright:318:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_bananas.png]] |
| 324 | ->'''Banana Bob voiced by''': Mic Graves \ |
| 325 | '''Banana Barbara voiced by''': Sandra Searles Dickinson (until "The Ex"), Creator/NaomiMcDonald ("The Singing" onwards) |
| 326 | ->Debut: Season 1, "The Responsible" |
| 327 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 328 | |
| 329 | Banana Joe's parents, two other [[AnthropomorphicFood bananas]]. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | [[hardline]] |
| 332 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Barbara wears a polka-dot ribbon. Bizarrely, Bob's mustache was shown in "The Shell" to actually be a detachable accessory. |
| 333 | * AllPowerfulBystander: [[spoiler:Barbara can't just predict the future, she can ''change it herself'', but seems to use it randomly without any particular purpose.]] |
| 334 | * AlliterativeName: Both of their names and surname both have "B". |
| 335 | * AnthropomorphicFood: Both are bananas. |
| 336 | * BumblingDad: Banana Bob, of course. |
| 337 | * TheChewToy: |
| 338 | ** Barbara is subject to a large amount of prat-falls in "The Mothers", many of them caused by [[TheKlutz her extreme clumsiness.]] |
| 339 | ** Banana Bob also gets injured a lot, from Richard hitting him in the face in "The Oracle" to getting run over and left behind in the hijacking plan as seen on "The Bus", and eating himself alive in “The Line”. Somehow’ in the latter two episodes, he was completely splattered but survived. |
| 340 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Both of them. |
| 341 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Banana Barbara gets one in "The Future", where she is [[spoiler:kidnapped by Rob due to her future-telling paintings]] and we learn the origins of her strange behavior. |
| 342 | * DrivenToMadness: "The Future" reveals Banana Barbara is so clumsy and weird because her old boss drove her so hard she suffered a completely mental breakdown. |
| 343 | * HiddenDepths: Banana Bob used to be a musician. And a bank robber. |
| 344 | * LookAlikeLovers: They're basically identical save their TertiarySexualCharacteristics, as seen in "The Shell" where it's revealed that Banana Bob's mustache is detachable and, without it, his voice is very high and girl-like. |
| 345 | * TheMadHatter: Banana Joe wouldn't say Banana Barbara suffers from her mental illness, because she seems to be enjoying herself quite a bit. |
| 346 | * MadOracle: In "The Shell" it's implied that Banana Barbara paints portraits that predict the future. "The Oracle" shows that she's been doing it for years, though Banana Joe never noticed because all of them were of the Watterson family. And any time she's seen making one, she [[ThousandYardStare stares around blankly]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, though, it turns out she isn't (just) predicting the future. ''[[RewritingReality She's causing it.]]'']] |
| 347 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Banana Bob mentions in "The Oracle" that people threw their hands up and gave him money any time he put on a [[BlatantBurglar balaclava]] (or "bananaclava" as he calls it) and walked into a bank, not understanding that those people thought he was robbing them. |
| 348 | * PowerBornOfMadness: Banana Barbara was worked hard to the point of suffering an immense mental breakdown that partially ''liquefied''' her brain. Seemingly because of it she can paint, and create, the future. |
| 349 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: "The Future" gives off the possibility that she isn't predicting the future, but actually ''[[RewritingReality creating the future]]'' itself. If that's the case, then we could assume that she is responsible for every episode she has painted down considering that in "The Oracle", she had made several paintings depicting episodes years before they have happened. |
| 350 | * SpeciesSurname: Their surnames actually go after the names like everyone else, but, along with their son, they prefer to use the surname first for an unknown reason. |
| 351 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Barbara has eyelashes, lipstick, and a bow while Bob has a mustache. In "The Shell," Banana Bob's mustache is detachable and the only thing keeping his voice masculine, which carries some odd implications. |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[folder:Gary Hedges]] |
| 355 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gary_hedges.png]] |
| 356 | ->'''Voiced by''': Unknown (Season 1) Dan Russell (Season 2 onwards) |
| 357 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The DVD" |
| 358 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 359 | |
| 360 | The Watterson's neighbor. He is constantly badly injured or suffers in other ways because of the Wattersons. They do not know his name, calling him "The Neighbor". He is a purple elderly moose man. He also is the mailman, a bus driver, and apparently (according to "The List", "The Mystery", "The Gi", and possibly "The Wand") works some job at Elmore Junior High. |
| 361 | ---- |
| 362 | [[hardline]] |
| 363 | * ButtMonkey: One of the biggest in the later seasons. In “The Neighbor” alone, the episode that centers around him, his [[spoiler: house is blown up]], but before that, he is run over by a train! |
| 364 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Neighbor," where Gumball and Darwin try to figure out what his name is and end up destroying his witness protection identity. |
| 365 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: A moose who wears a t-shirt, pants, shoes, and a hat. |
| 366 | * FunnyAnimal: A moose. |
| 367 | * IconicItem: A cane that he doesn’t even need, like Marvin, Alison, Louie, Betty, and Donald. He also wears a blue hat when he is the mailman. As of late Season 6, he wears a blue uniform when he works as the postman. |
| 368 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He is a bus driver, school bus driver, works some job at Elmore Junior High besides being a bus driver, an advertiser, a mailman, and delivers newspapers. He is also a construction worker in "The Choices". |
| 369 | * NiceGuy: Most of the time. Sometimes, he can be a jerk too, just like most of the minor characters. |
| 370 | * NoNameGiven: Despite being a major recurring extra, his full name was never stated until the final season of the show where Gumball and Darwin actively try to discover what his name is. His pseudonym, Gary, is only mentioned once before "The Neighbors" (in the season 3 episode "The Extras"). |
| 371 | * SeriesContinuityError: In "The Nuisance", he is shown wanting the Wattersons out of Elmore, but in "The Neighbor", he is friendly towards Gumball and Darwin [[spoiler:until they blow up his house]]. |
| 372 | * ShipTease: "The Love" reveals that he's interested in the pink cupcake woman. |
| 373 | * TheReveal: In "The Neighbor", it is revealed [[spoiler:he was in witness protection, and some secret agents tried to hunt him down and kill him, so he used a fake name (Gary Hedges; his real name is Harry Gedges)]]. |
| 374 | * UngratefulBastard: In "The Nuisance", he wants the Wattersons out of Elmore even though Nicole saved his life in "The Nest". |
| 375 | * WitnessProtection: [[spoiler:He was in witness protection because he testified against some bad people in court.]] |
| 376 | * WouldHitAGirl: In "The Schooling", he hits Carmen's mother with a chair during the Black Friday sale scrum. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Goblin (CEO of Chanax)]] |
| 380 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_1.png]] |
| 381 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Kerry Shale (as Chanax boss and repossession worker, season 3), Alex Jordan (as Chanax boss, season 4 onward) |
| 382 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, The Revolt |
| 383 | The current CEO of Chanax. He's incredibly evil, greedy, and loves to mess with his colleagues. |
| 384 | ---- |
| 385 | * AscendedExtra: Was originally recurring background character. In the later half of the show (starting with "The Boss", he becomes a more prominent character with a fleshed out personality. |
| 386 | * CartoonCreature: A goblin. |
| 387 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's the vice president turned CEO of a company that ''literally'' runs on the souls of its workers. He also laughs off Mr. Small's warnings of damage to the coral reef. In ''The Founder'' he implements all of Richard's ludicrous and dangerous workplace environment ideas after mistaking him for Chanax's founder. Case in point, when it turns out Richard accidentally lied his way to the top, the Goblin compliments him for thinking like a businessman. |
| 388 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Apprentice" and "The Founder". |
| 389 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He seemed kind to Patrick and Gumball, but you can really tell later on that he's just messing with them and has no intention of actually helping them. |
| 390 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: He wears different clothes when he works as the CEO of Chanax than when he is a prisoner or a reposession worker. |
| 391 | * GroinAttack: One of Evil Turtle's babies ends up biting his groin, causing him to let out a high-pitch scream and go into a full on VillainousBSOD for the rest of the episode. |
| 392 | * TheHyena: During his golf game with Patrick Fitzgerald in "The Apprentice", he laughs at ''everything'', including Gumball being hit on the head with a golf ball. |
| 393 | * {{Jerkass}}: His first action as the new head of Chanax was to ''reenslave'' the souls of the Chanax workers. Keep in mind, they were free for less than a minute before being forced back into work. Taken further in "The Apprentice" where he constantly humiliated Gumball and Patrick, and ultimately decides not to go through with Patrick's contract ForTheEvulz. |
| 394 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After getting away with several corrupt actions and enslaving the souls of their works for ''decades'', the entire Chanax skyscraper collapses in "The Founder" as a result of Richard's idiotic (but well meaning) ideas of improving the place. StatusQuoIsGod is [[AvertedTrope averted]]. We never see Chanax or the building make a full recovery. |
| 395 | ** Also see GroinAttack above for another instance. |
| 396 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He is a repossession worker, works at the Rainbow Factory, and (most commonly) is the CEO of Chanax. Despite being a criminal, being on the run from the police, and being in and out of prison, he is able to work. |
| 397 | ** Then again, it's also likely that there are multiple goblins who look identical, although in “The Fury”, the CEO goblin was driving a car and when the rest of his gang are seen robbing a bank the goblin isn’t with them, and the whole gang work at Chanax. |
| 398 | * NoNameGiven: Despite being the CEO of Chanax. |
| 399 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his smug and {{Jerkass}} exterior, he became a total suck up to Richard when he thought he was the founder of Chanax and went along with all of his wreckless ideas. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Laurence "Larry" Needlemeyer]] |
| 403 | [[quoteright:229:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/larrys2image.png]] |
| 404 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KerryShale |
| 405 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The DVD" |
| 406 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 407 | |
| 408 | A skinny man [[RockMonster made of rock]] who works many different jobs throughout Elmore, at the risk of losing his sanity and putting up with The Wattersons' antics. |
| 409 | ---- |
| 410 | [[hardline]] |
| 411 | * BarrierMaiden: He holds so many jobs that his continued employment is required to keep Elmore's economy (and society as a whole) from spontaneously collapsing. |
| 412 | * ButtMonkey: He is constantly working very hard and getting no respect for it, and if he take more than five minutes of a break at a time he’ll die and if he stops working the whole town will become apocalyptic, and almost never gets to sleep, usually not at all, and it seems like all his jobs are messing with his head. He has to pay for the damages the Wattersons do out of his own paycheck, and they still barely acknowledge him as a person. He keeps trying to propose to Karen, but someone (usually a Watterson) always unintentionally messes it up, and he can barely afford anything despite his many jobs because he dropped out of school and has to take low paying jobs. |
| 413 | * CartoonCreature: [[https://twitter.com/#!/benbocquelet/status/171333727501295616 He's supposed to be]] a [[RockMonster rock-man]], but his design and build make it hard to tell, and give him more of a resemblance to a humanoid bacteriophage. |
| 414 | * TheChewToy: He rarely makes an appearance where something terrible doesn't happen to him -- usually at the hands of the Watterson family. Moreover, he works EVERY crappy job in Elmore. |
| 415 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 416 | ** In "The Refund," he keeps refusing a refund to Gumball and Darwin. |
| 417 | ** In "The Pizza," he quits all of his jobs after being the resident ButtMonkey for too long. |
| 418 | ** In "The Stars," Gumball abuses online reviews to make Larry do all sorts of changes to his jobs. |
| 419 | * TheDogBitesBack |
| 420 | ** Unintentionally done in "The Pizza", where he decides to quit all of his jobs after [[DudeWheresMyRespect being humiliated so much by everyone in Elmore]]. Unbeknownst to him, this causes an economic collapse in his absence and everyone suffers from it except him. |
| 421 | ** He makes Gumball and Darwin do his nearly infinite amount of jobs for five minutes after mocking him and he's as smug as he can be when he sees just how tired and traumatized they are after enduring his shift in "The Schooling". |
| 422 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: As revealed in "The Pizza," he holds down numerous jobs and works ''very'' hard at all of them...and despite it all, everyone in Elmore, especially the Wattersons, is an ungrateful jerk to him, to the extent that they barely acknowledge his existence as a person. |
| 423 | * {{Foil}}: To Richard. |
| 424 | ** Larry has 38 jobs, and if he stops, society collapses and his heart stops from exhaustion. Richard does not work at all, and if he does, the world ends. |
| 425 | ** Larry is very skinny while Richard is obese. |
| 426 | ** Richard has stayed with Nicole since he was 12, and is now married and has three children with her. Larry can never propose to Karen because something always happens. |
| 427 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Wears a shirt plus LongPants. |
| 428 | * FunnySchizophrenia: In "The Game", he takes a pizza being ordered to his own address from a PrankCall, then argues with ''himself'' over who pays for it, ultimately throwing the pizza in his own face. |
| 429 | -->'''Larry''': I think all these jobs are messing with my head. |
| 430 | * HumiliationConga: Goes through one at the hands of Gumball and Darwin in "The Laziest", as they get him fired while causing his car to be destroyed and girlfriend to dump him. [[UnexplainedRecovery He's back to normal by his next appearance.]] |
| 431 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Runs pretty much every shop in town and does a lot of other jobs as well that isn't already covered by other characters. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the "The Finale" where it is explained that because of the Wattersons' constant antics, he has to take on more than one job in order to pay for all the damage they caused for him. In "The Pizza", it turns out he's the ''only'' one in town doing many of these things (including pest control worker[[note]]even though "The Shell", "The Origins, Part Two", "The Nest", and “The Stars” showed that a cockroach, ironically, is the town's pest control worker...unless the roach works for Larry or is from a competing company[[/note]], police station accountant, and roadside repairman), and if he goes, the town's economy falls. |
| 432 | * NiceGuy: Larry is a very hard working and serious person, and can not be fooled easily. He keeps many jobs around Elmore, from being a store clerk to a cashier, and always does his best to be civil to his customers. |
| 433 | * NoodlePeople: He is incredibly skinny, similar to Rob, Julius, Nicole, Gumball, Gary, Hexagon Lady, and Miss Simian. |
| 434 | * SkewedPriorities: In "The Job." Despite Richard's new position as a pizza delivery boy [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext threatening the very fabric of reality]], Larry refuses to fire him on the grounds that "tearing apart the fabric of the universe is not a dismissable offense." When he discovers that Richard had been eating portions of the pizzas he was supposed to deliver and trying to hide it, ''then'' Larry fires him on the spot. |
| 435 | * StepfordSmiler: While his NiceGuy behavior is genuine, he's revealed to actually be very stressed, tired and perhaps angry on the inside. |
| 436 | * ThatManIsDead: He used to be "Lazy Larry", the laziest person in Elmore, but after he lost that title to Richard he's been trying to get his life together and doesn't like being called "Lazy Larry" anymore. |
| 437 | * ThrowTheDogABone: The Wattersons finally learn just how important Larry is in "The Pizza". They apologize after giving him a HumiliationConga throughout the day and gave him a $100 tip. Granted, [[MakesSenseInContext the economy has collapsed thanks to his absence, rendering all money useless]] but it's the thought that counts. |
| 438 | * TragicDropout: It's suggested in "The Schooling" that Larry is a dropout (or was at least a poor student) who takes many menial jobs to make up for being unqualified for one well-paying one. |
| 439 | * {{Workaholic}}: Larry takes all his jobs very seriously--mostly to distract himself from how he doesn't find any of them fulfilling. |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder:Donut Sheriff]] |
| 443 | [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/260px-doughnut_s1_6751.png]] |
| 444 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/LewisMacLeod (Season 1), Dan Russell (Season 2, onward) |
| 445 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Third" |
| 446 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 447 | |
| 448 | The [[AnthropomorphicFood donut]] police officer most often seen around Elmore. He and the entire police force of Elmore (who are also food just like him) are known for being incompetent. |
| 449 | ---- |
| 450 | [[hardline]] |
| 451 | * AnthropomorphicFood: A donut. |
| 452 | * BadassDriver: [[ExaggeratedTrope Taken to a ridiculous extent]] at the end of "The Law", where he drove a truck off the road using a ''stroller'' instead of one of the bikes conveniently located next to it. |
| 453 | * CarnivoreConfusion: His [[TrademarkFavoriteFood favorite food]] is doughnuts. |
| 454 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: It’s why he has sleeves but no shirt. |
| 455 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Law," where he tries to show Gumball that being a cop can be cool. |
| 456 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The show switches between three personalities of his: |
| 457 | ** Most of the time, he's an eager and well-meaning, but utterly inept cop. Like in "The Law" and "The Shippening". |
| 458 | ** Infrequently, he's a DirtyCop who tries his best to do as little work as possible. Like in "The Nobody" and "The Pizza". |
| 459 | ** Rarely, he completely averts all his negative traits and is a straitlaced competent officer who gets the job done. Like in "The Car" and "The Understanding". |
| 460 | * DonutMessWithACop: He's a cop ''and'' a living doughnut, as well as the page image. Befitting the trope, he's also obsessed with food, and often skives off his duties to pig out. The unanswered question of ''how'' he eats, given his mouth is a giant hole, is a running gag on the show. |
| 461 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: When he was trying to show that he could be "cool", he goes on a driving spree where snaking through mailboxes was the least crazy thing he did ("Darn, missed every single one of them!"). |
| 462 | * {{Expy}}: He has a lot in common with Chief Wiggum from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', though Doughnut Sheriff is slightly more competent than Chief Wiggum and isn't as brazenly corrupt. They're both even voiced with an Edward G. Robinson-esque voice, and [[https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/618494419508043777 Wiggum is specifically cited as inspiration for the voice]]. |
| 463 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Like ''Spongebob Squarepants'', being a full dressed {{Cephalothorax}} results in him having sleeves for a shirt that isn't on his body. |
| 464 | * GenericCopBadges: His attire includes a blank sheriff star badge pinned on his face and a shield-shaped, black patch with a star on his cap. It doesn't specify that he's an officer from Elmore. |
| 465 | * IconicItem: A taser because he’s a cop. |
| 466 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be lazy and self-centered to the point of ''almost'' being a DirtyCop, but usually means well and at times actually useful. Notably in "The Shippening" he immediately refuses a generous bribe from the Awesome Store owner and tries to arrest him. |
| 467 | * NoNameGiven: He's never addressed by name and only even [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep addressed by rank]] in "The Car". People usually just call him "officer". However, in “The Uploads” he chose the Elmore Stream-It username Donut Cop (everyone else, except Melted Cheese Guy, had their actual names as usernames) and in “The News” he is credited as Donut Cop, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep suggesting that his name actually is Donut Cop]]. |
| 468 | * PoliceAreUseless: Zigzagged. There are times where he is competent and does his job, but for every time that happens, there are at least three or four times he does something reckless that, in the real world, would have gotten him thrown off the force years ago. |
| 469 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He has his moments of being this, such as in "The Car"; when the Robinsons demand he arrest the Wattersons for destroying their car, he refuses to do so without a warrant, gives the Robinsons multiple warnings to calm down, and ultimately subdues and arrests them once they smash the Wattersons' own car and attack him in a fit of rage. |
| 470 | * SanitySlippage: A combination of a sweltering HeatWave and wanting to impress Gumball and Darwin lead to him going crazy and taking them on an insane joyride that almost kills a lot of innocents. He snaps out of it quickly. |
| 471 | * TheSheriff: He's in charge of all of the police officers in the field in Elmore, though he's also been shown as subordinate to a chief of police. |
| 472 | [[/folder]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[folder:Sal Left Thumb]] |
| 475 | [[quoteright:233:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slt_s2_8846.png]] |
| 476 | ->'''Voiced by''': Kerry Shale (Main) Stephan Ashton Frank (The Boredom, speaking, The Nuisance, The Wish) |
| 477 | ->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The DVD" (newspaper) "The Spoon" (physical) |
| 478 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 479 | |
| 480 | A [[AnimateInanimateObject giant thumb print]] and resident career criminal. Though not seen often in the series, his face is shown on a lot of wanted posters posted on walls, fences, and in stores. According to "The Boredom", he got into crime because of his failed attempts at launching a singing career. |
| 481 | ---- |
| 482 | [[hardline]] |
| 483 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Only wears a mask. |
| 484 | * UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Has a thick Bronx-accent. |
| 485 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A fingerprint, somehow. |
| 486 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: He's a criminal and a walking piece of forensic evidence. |
| 487 | * BlatantBurglar: He's always shown wearing a DominoMask, except a flashback that showed him as a kid. |
| 488 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Spoon," where he attempts to rob a gas station. |
| 489 | * HateSink: A dangerous criminal who will steal anything that he can get his hands on and has no problem [[WouldHurtAChild attempting to assault Gumball and Darwin]]. |
| 490 | * IconicItem: A spoon that he uses as a weapon. |
| 491 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: He uses a ''[[FunnySpoon spoon]]'' to rob people. He never actually uses it for anything but threatening people; it's basically a [[ExaggeratedTrope very over-the-top]] form of FamilyFriendlyFirearms. |
| 492 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: His skit in "The Boredom" seems at first to reveal he UsedToBeASweetKid who wanted to be a singer, but got into crime because every producer he auditioned for rejected him. Then he shows he doesn't really want to atone for his misdeeds, and thinks being a great musician would excuse past ''and future'' crimes. [[GiftedlyBad And despite what he thinks, his singing is actually terrible.]] |
| 493 | * OddFriendship: In "The Kiss", while [[CheerfulChild Darwin]] is showing Gumball his happy place: |
| 494 | -->'''Darwin:''' Hi, dangerous criminal!\ |
| 495 | '''Sal:''' What? Oh, heya Darwin! (smashes a car window open) |
| 496 | * OutOfFocus: Apart from a poster in "The Night", he does not appear in season 4 at all. |
| 497 | * RecurringExtra: If a scene requires a criminal in the background, it will usually be Sal. |
| 498 | * SphereEyes: He has these. |
| 499 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: He wanted to be a singer when he was younger, and only got into crime because every producer turned him down, but he was still a delinquent as a kid in “The Choices” and was a jerk as a kid in “The Gi”. |
| 500 | * VerbalTic: Says 'suckers' a lot, which is what eventually gets him in trouble at the end of "The Spoon". |
| 501 | [[/folder]] |
| 502 | |
| 503 | [[folder:Felicity Parham]] |
| 504 | [[quoteright:223:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/felicity_parham.png]] |
| 505 | ->'''Voiced by''': Sandra Searles Dickinson |
| 506 | ->Debut: Season 2, "Christmas" |
| 507 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Decisions" |
| 508 | |
| 509 | A [[CartoonCreature vaguely humanoid blob colored orange]] who is very wealthy and arrogant. |
| 510 | ---- |
| 511 | [[hardline]] |
| 512 | * AbusiveMom: Despite normally spoiling Billy, she's treated him with extreme neglect at certain points when she's too caught up in herself to pay attention. She once even shoved Billy into her car's trunk because she mix up him and her groceries. In "The Founder", she leaves her son in a collapsing building and saves herself. |
| 513 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Sometimes, she wears blue high heels. |
| 514 | * ActionMom: Not nearly to Nicole's level, but Felicity does put up a good fight when she pisses off her rival (Though Nicole might have been holding back), and starts a scary police chase when she briefly becomes a crook. |
| 515 | * AscendedExtra: She and her son 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, and were confirmed to be early versions of Felicity and Billy[[/labelnote]], then they got a skit in "The Extras" and major roles in "The Law", "The Egg" and "The Blame". |
| 516 | * AxCrazy: She once stole a car, drove it through town, and threatened to kill the chief of police just because a cop didn't arrest someone for jaywalking. |
| 517 | * BerserkButton: She has one in "The Law". If someone jaywalks right in front of the police, she goes into a rage-quitting crime spree. |
| 518 | * BlueOrangeContrast: Her son is blue, while she's orange with blue lips. |
| 519 | * BullyingTheDragon: In "The Egg", she has the nerve of calling Gumball, Anais and Darwin "disappointments" to Nicole. This leads Nicole to turn into a literal demon/dragon hybrid and start literally chewing her. After that, she keeps making comments about Nicole and Anais, to which Nicole keeps answering with violence. |
| 520 | * CartoonCreature: An orange humanoid. |
| 521 | * FieryRedhead: If it counts as hair. |
| 522 | * {{Foil}}: To Nicole. Nicole is a stern, tired and sometimes bossy mother, but she deeply loves her kids and everything she does is because she believes that to be the best for them. Felicity is a jerk AbusiveMom that berates everybody else and consider Anais as a playdate to Billy only after Nicole tells her about Anais far bigger achievements. |
| 523 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 524 | ** In "The Egg," she schedules a playdate with his son, Billy, and Anais. |
| 525 | ** In "The Blame," she decides to ban all video games in Elmore. |
| 526 | * HateSink: A huge {{Jerkass}}, AbusiveMom, and a RichBitch, even to her son. She dedicates the entirety of "The Egg" to trying to make Nicole understand that she and her kids are just below her level. |
| 527 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Believes to be above the Wattersons, even though "The Extras" show her driving through a wall and hitting herself with a shovel just to get away from Billy and in "The Law" she goes berserk and tries to actually kill the police chief with an ice cream cone. |
| 528 | * IconicItem: She sometimes wears blue high heels. |
| 529 | * IronicName: Her name means “happiness,” which is funny, considering how much of [[{{Jerkass}} an unlikeable jerk]] she is, bringing upon misery towards everyone she meets. |
| 530 | * {{Jerkass}}: See HateSink above. |
| 531 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech her assessment of Nicole and her family]] is horrendously classist, she is right about two things: First, Nicole really did miss out on higher education to live with Richard, to her financial detriment (although that was as much because her parents drove her away). Second, the play date between Anais and Billy ''was'' indeed a transparent and rather pathetic attempt at [[SocialClimber social climbing]] on Nicole's part. |
| 532 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 533 | ** She gets away with hijacking a vehicle, running several people over, and almost murdering the Chief of Elmore Police in "The Law". |
| 534 | ** In "The Blame", she gets no punishment for unfairly banning all video games in Elmore -- with the implication that she's going to ban all literature also. |
| 535 | * KnightTemplarParent: She is this especially in "The Blame". |
| 536 | * MoralGuardian: She tried to ban video games in Elmore and go after Pop music next. |
| 537 | * ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: And HOW! |
| 538 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a long spiel to Nicole, trying to make understand that neither she nor her kids will ever succeed and there's nothing she can do about it. Doubles as BullyingTheDragon as it results in Nicole literally chewing her out. |
| 539 | * ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Those who got it and those who don't. |
| 540 | * RichBitch: Felicity openly thinks her wealth either makes or proves that's she is better than anyone who's poorer than her. She outright tells Nicole that she has not "got it", thus her and her whole family will always be failures no matter what they do. Nicole [[TranquilFury responds appropriately.]] |
| 541 | * SphereEyes: She has them. |
| 542 | * StepfordSmiler: Beneath her cheery demeanor, Felicity is bitchy at best and mentally deranged at worst. In her skit in "The Extras" when she got tired of Billy's pestering, she crashed her car into a house and knocked herself out with a shovel so she didn't have to listen to him. In "The Law," the sight of Gumball not being stopped by Donut Cop (who was fired) for ''jaywalking'' enrages her so much that she immediately figures law and order doesn't exist anymore, hijacks Larry's ice cream truck, leaving her son behind, and plows through Elmore until she reaches the police department and threatens to kill the Chief of Police with an ice cream cone. "The Egg" is pretty much an entire episode of her making ''incredibly'' rude and pompous remarks about The Wattersons while barely trying to keep her cheerfulness at bay. |
| 543 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Her last name comes from one of the show's writers, Joe Parham. |
| 544 | * UnnamedParent: Until "The Egg", Felicity's name was never stated. |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
| 546 | |
| 547 | [[folder:Mrs. Jötunheim]] |
| 548 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hecsmom.png]] |
| 549 | ->'''Voiced by''': Sandra Searles Dickinson |
| 550 | ->'''Debut''': Season 2, "The Colossus" |
| 551 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Ghouls" |
| 552 | |
| 553 | Hector's mother, a grumpy troll witch who has to keep her son calm to keep him from destroying Elmore. |
| 554 | ---- |
| 555 | * AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Her son is a seventh grader, yet she looks positively ancient. Turns out she's much YoungerThanTheyLook. |
| 556 | * BlueCollarWarlock: She is a rather comical mixture of a traditional witch (she lives in a cave, uses a MagicCauldron, knows about magic spells, and flies on a broom) and an everyday person (she goes into town like everyone else, she works as a custodian, and she has a son in middle school). |
| 557 | * CartoonCreature: A troll witch. |
| 558 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: She's got heavy lines under her eyes. |
| 559 | * ADayInTheLimeLight: |
| 560 | ** In "The Colossus," where her parenting ideals gets put to question. |
| 561 | ** In "The Sorcerer," where she tricks Gumball into doing her house work under the guise of teaching him magic. |
| 562 | * {{Expy}}: Her character design is heavily based on [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]]. |
| 563 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: A troll witch who wears clothes. |
| 564 | * GoodIsNotNice: Mrs. Jötunheim is fairly unpleasant to talk to, but is the main thing keeping Hector from destroying the town and helps Gumball from the Snatcher in "The Mirror" without asking for anything in return. |
| 565 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: According to Hector, his dad is even taller than him, while Mrs. Jötunheim is very small. |
| 566 | * IconicItem: Her witch broom. |
| 567 | * InterspeciesRomance: Her husband is stated to be a giant even bigger than Hector, implying she's a member of some MageSpecies, rather than a giant that shrank with old age. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction And she's not even as big as a human.]] |
| 568 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be rude at times. But she has her moments of kindness. She genuinely loves her son and goes to great lengths to make sure he lives a calm life. She can also be nicer around Gumball when the situation calls for it. In "The Mirror" she tries to help him with The Snatcher's curse. In "The Colossus" she is incredibly understanding of Gumball's mistakes to make Hector feel better and is not even mad at him. In fact, the ending implies that she is now fine with Hector sending a friend request to Gumball online now. |
| 569 | * MiniatureSeniorCitizen: Even Gumball towers over her. |
| 570 | * MyBelovedSmother: She's extremely controlling of everything Hector sees and does, even vetoing his online friend invitations and heavily censoring his comics. [[PlayingWithATrope However]], this isn't to protect Hector, it's to keep him calm, protecting everyone else ''from'' him. |
| 571 | * TeenPregnancy: She is 28 and her son is in seventh grade, thus around 12 years old, meaning she had him at '''16.''' |
| 572 | * SeniorCreep: She doesn't look very beautiful (even ''with'' makeup as seen in "The Castle") and is at first depicted as absurdly strict towards Hector, and in "The Castle" she implies the rest of Elmore doesn't take too kindly towards her looks. [[YoungerThanTheyLook She might not actually be elderly, though.]] |
| 573 | * UnnamedParent: Unknown first name. |
| 574 | * WitchClassic: She turns out to really be a witch, as Gumball had guessed, and has a lot of the visual traits, including discolored warty skin, [[SinisterSchnoz a big nose]], and a FlyingBroomstick (though she also has regular brooms). |
| 575 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: She looks ancient and decrepit, but claims to only be 28 in "The Singing". Considering her son is twelve, she probably isn't nearly as old as she looks, though 28 is [[RuleOfFunny a somewhat dubious claim]]. |
| 576 | [[/folder]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | [[folder:Mr. Rex]] |
| 579 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_rex_gumball.png]] |
| 580 | -->'''Debut''': Season 1, "The Quest" |
| 581 | -->Last appearance: Season 4, "The Routine" |
| 582 | |
| 583 | Tina Rex's father, a brutal, hardly-seen ''T.rex'' said to be just as nasty as his daughter (with the only difference being that Tina actually feels bad about being a bully and hates that people expect her to be just like him. Mr. Rex, however, doesn't care). |
| 584 | ---- |
| 585 | * TheDreaded: If you can believe it, he’s even more feared than Tina. |
| 586 | * TheFaceless: His appearance was obscured until "The Routine". |
| 587 | * FunnyAnimal: He is possibly not capable of speech, but he has a human level of intelligence. |
| 588 | * HateSink: While Tina is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Mr. Rex is a savage brute [[ItsAllAboutMe who doesn't care about anyone but himself]]. |
| 589 | * {{Jerkass}}: Unlike [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his daughter]], Mr. Rex just seems to be a rude brute who pushes around people weaker than him with no regret. |
| 590 | * LivingDinosaurs: A ''Tyrannosaurus'' living in the modern day. |
| 591 | * PetTheDog: Tina mentions in "The Blame" that they play video games together. |
| 592 | * ScarsAreForever: His first full appearance in "The Routine" shows off his right eye scarred and whited out. Nicole beating him up in "The Fight" might have had something to do with that, as both eyes were undamaged before then. |
| 593 | * WouldHitAGirl: He has no problems fighting Nicole and even roars at her, probably thinking she was weaker than him. Also tries to eat Anais in “The Quest”. |
| 594 | [[/folder]] |
| 595 | [[folder:Objects]] |
| 596 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/therevolt26.jpg]] |
| 597 | -->Voiced By: Various |
| 598 | |
| 599 | The objects all across Elmore that are capable of talking. |
| 600 | ---- |
| 601 | * AnimateInanimateObject: They're all objects. Such as: cars, fridges, lamps, globes, etc. |
| 602 | * ButtMonkey: Some objects' lives clearly suck. The bike seat from "The World" for example. Who is forced to be sat on by FatIdiot Tony. |
| 603 | * CrowdSong: The objects sing one at the start of "The World" and a reprisal at the end. |
| 604 | * ADayInTheLimelight |
| 605 | ** "The World", where they get their own VignetteEpisode focusing on their daily lives. |
| 606 | ** "The Revolt", where Darwin tries to convince them to start a revolt against their owners. |
| 607 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The show plays it fast and loose on what objects can be considered alive and which objects are not. |
| 608 | * TheDogBitesBack: Darwin rather callously throws away a soda can who is clearly heartbroken over their one-sided friendship ending. Later on, he, along with a whole army of soda cans pummel Darwin in the supermarket. |
| 609 | * DrivenToSuicide |
| 610 | ** Gumball's phone decides to fall to it's death after [[ItMakesSenseInContext imagining Granny Jojo naked]]. |
| 611 | ** The TV in "The Candidate" turns himself off with his remote (in a similar manner to a guy shooting a gun to his temples) after being subjected to nursery rhymes for too long. |
| 612 | * EverythingTalks: Damn near everything in Elmore is alive and are able to speak. However, "The Revolt" reveals that they are capable of hiding their faces so they can act like typical non-living things. |
| 613 | * FlatCharacter: Justified, they're all characters who serve to act as inanimate objects for people to use. |
| 614 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Upon discovering how the citizens of Elmore truly feel about them, they go crazy and take over the town. |
| 615 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Light Switch and Light Bulb. They both annoy and prank each other. But it's all in good fun. |
| 616 | [[/folder]] |
| 617 | [[folder:Timmy/The Internet]] |
| 618 | [[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timmy_the_intelligence.png]] |
| 619 | -->'''Voiced by''': Hugo Harold-Harrison |
| 620 | -->'''Debut''': Season 2, "The Internet" |
| 621 | -->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Web" |
| 622 | |
| 623 | The literal personification of the internet. |
| 624 | ---- |
| 625 | * OneSteveLimit. Averted. There are two other Timmys: the frog kid and the gray humanoid from "The Schooling". |
| 626 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's the whole internet, and especially the InternetJerk, personified as one room full of monitors and a screen for a face. In "The Intelligence", he's shown to apparently embody ''all'' technology, and him shutting down brings people back to the dark ages. |
| 627 | * ArtShift: He was initially 2D-animared, but in Season 6, he becomes a CGI character. |
| 628 | * AscendedExtra: In “The Internet”, he was just a MonsterOfTheWeek, but he [[TheBusCameBack returned]] in “The Love”, two seasons later, and has two important roles in "The Intelligence" and "The Spinoffs", another two seasons later. |
| 629 | * BarrierMaiden: If he's shut off, all technology follows. "The Intelligence" shows that Elmore would be plunged back to the DarkAges. Complete with rampant plague, witch hunting, and irrational beliefs. |
| 630 | * BasementDweller: Timmy lives in a dark room in his mother's basement. He might not be ''capable'' of leaving, but it doesn't seem like he'd want to anyway. |
| 631 | * TheBusCameBack: Originally just a MonsterOfTheWeek in "The Internet", but came back in one segment of "The Love" two seasons later. |
| 632 | * EverythingIsOnline: The Internet is able to hack traffic signs, police records, power lines (not just the power going through them, the physical object), and fire hydrants to keep Darwin and Gumball away. So they just take a path through the park. |
| 633 | * FourthWallObserver: "The Spinoffs" shows he is aware ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' is a TV show, and Rob capturing him lets him [[HostileShowTakeover alter the show itself]]. |
| 634 | * HeelFaceTurn: Was originally the MonsterOfTheWeek in "The Internet". Since then he's more of a nuisance and does get along with Gumball and Darwin in "The Intelligence". |
| 635 | * InternetJerk: Timmy [[InvokedTrope directly invokes]] the power of anonymity for being a jerk. |
| 636 | -->''I can be a jerk to anyone, while I'm behind the screen, in the safety and comfort of my own home.'' |
| 637 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Feels he’s entitled to meddle with people’s lives ForTheEvulz and claims no responsibility for his action. When put under threat, he will pretty much bargain that the internet's value justifies his actions. |
| 638 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When Gumball and Darwin’s decide to spare him, he viciously rejects their pleas to consider other people or take responsibility for his actions. |
| 639 | * MadeOfEvil: Gumball claims the Internet, "like a goatee", is made out of evil. |
| 640 | * TookALevelInKindness: In the “The Intelligence”, he’s in much more cordial terms with Gumball and Darwin. |
| 641 | [[/folder]] |
| 642 | [[folder:Yuki Yoshida]] |
| 643 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuki_yoshida.png]] |
| 644 | ->'''Voiced by''': Naoko Mori |
| 645 | ->'''Debut''': Season 4, "The Fury" |
| 646 | ->Last appearance: Season 6, "The Web" |
| 647 | |
| 648 | A cloud humanoid who is Masami's mother and wife of the owner of the Rainbow Factory. She and Nicole were childhood friends who trained in martial arts until they both fought each other in the tournament finals, which Nicole won. She left America for Japan so she could train harder, then came back to America for a revenge match against her old friend. |
| 649 | ---- |
| 650 | [[hardline]] |
| 651 | * AlliterativeName: '''Y'''uki '''Y'''oshida. |
| 652 | * AlmightyMom: Just like Nicole, she can cause general chaos and destruction without consequence simply because she's too strong for anyone else to do anything about it. |
| 653 | * AnimateInanimateObject: She’s a cloud. |
| 654 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: She's very strong and disrespectful. |
| 655 | * BlackBeadEyes: Shares this with Masami as she is a cloud woman. However, she did had normal eyes as a child in one of Nicole's flashbacks in "The Parents". |
| 656 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In "The Fury." |
| 657 | * {{Foil}}: Yuki and Nicole are both talented fighters who started out a lot alike, but their lives went in opposite directions after their match together. Yuki dedicated almost all of her time to training, which she was able to because she was born into money. Nicole gave up martial arts, but a demanding family and financial hardships forced her to become stronger anyway. |
| 658 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: A cloud who wears clothes. |
| 659 | * JapaneseRanguage: Pops up at times. During the Halloween song: "We dress how we ''rike'' on the night of ''Harroween''". |
| 660 | * LegFocus: Likes to show them off in her kicking poses and even uses them to flirt with Richard just to tick Nicole off. |
| 661 | * MamaBear: The first second she hears Masami (along with Gumball, Darwin, and Anais) in danger, she stops her fight with Nicole to save her. |
| 662 | * NoblewomansLaugh: She has one, befitting her heritage and personality. |
| 663 | * RichBitch: She cares about her fighting prowess much more than her wealth, but she's not above using it to bully Nicole into fighting her again. |
| 664 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Since her husband owns the Rainbow Factory where Nicole works, Yuki is able to harass her with impunity for refusing to fight. After that fails, Nicole acquiesces under the threat of being fired and having her house foreclosed on. |
| 665 | * SoreLoser: She was so offended that Nicole beat her that she left the country to train for years before insisting on a rematch. After losing to Nicole again, she refuses Nicole's wish to be friends again until their kids are in danger. |
| 666 | * StatuesqueStunner: A gorgeous woman who's nearly the same height as the [=6'4''=] Richard. |
| 667 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: Unlike Nicole, who gets her strength from the UnstoppableRage built up from being a working mother, Yuki's power comes from training. Mostly this includes superhuman physical abilities and KiManipulation. |
| 668 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Before losing to Nicole, Yuki was a friendly person. After the loss and years of training, she's become more arrogant and callous. |
| 669 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Nicole and Yuki go way back until their fated match which the latter lost. She makes Nicole's life a living hell and threatens her job as well as her home just to get her to fight, which the latter eventually accepted. They got back to being friends again when they saved their kids from the collapsing gymnasium caused by their fight, and both insists it was "[[{{Understatement}} just a little argument between friends]]". |
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