The Exodus
is a crossover fanfic between The Amazing World of Gumball and Worm.
In it, the city of Elmore manages to escape from the Void by traveling to another world... unfortunately, the world they pick just so happens to be Brockton Bay! Now Gumball, Darwin, and the rest of Elmore's residents are causing chaos and wreaking havoc all over Brockton Bay, and they're dragging quite a few people, including Taylor and Danny Hebert, along for the ride! Has not been updated since 2020.
This fanwork offers examples of:
- Abled in the Adaptation: Due to being turned into a human, William (an eyeball with wings) now is able to speak and pick things up. Unfortunately, this also means that he needs to get used to using things he's never used before... like a voice and legs. When we first meet him in the story, he's using crutches and his voice is harsh from lack of use.
- Adaptational Wimp: Hector as a human is now no longer the same height as a Kaiju, being a "mere" nine feet tall.
- Berserk Button: While in the past, everyone takes Larry for granted and pays him next to nothing (necessitating him taking every job he can), this treatment of him manages to mash on Danny Hebert's button... or rather, head of the Dockworker's Union hiring Danny Hebert's button.
- Denser and Wackier: Than canon Worm, thanks to Elmore's influence.
- Didn't See That Coming: A group of thieves prepare to block an alley with a dumpster in order to force a passing car to stop, allowing them to rob it as fast as they can. Then Richard barrels through the alley, smashing into the dumpster and taking it for the ride.
- Didn't Think This Through: Gumball and the Internet select a world to bring Elmore to at random, but the deciding factor is learning that there are superheroes in the new world. Gumball leaps at the opportunity to see real superheroes, and ignores the Internet when it tries to tell him that there's a couple details about the new world that make it less ideal... which he probably should have listened to, given that the world they land in is Worm.
- Disaster Dominoes: As Elmore advises Brockton Bay, the best way to get the result that you want is get things started in a way that, save for a few nudges to keep things going, the citizens do everything else, demonstrating by messing with an ATM Mr. Small is using, which leads to a much larger event.
- Genius Loci: Elmore itself and everything in it is alive just like in the show. Elmore then 'wakes up' Brockton Bay, who is less than pleased that it's hosting gangs and Nazis that spit in the face of its wartime ship building days.
- Gone Horribly Right: Elmore's waking up of Brockton was meant to give Elmore a companion and someone who would do subtle manipulation pranks for their own enjoyment. Unfortunately, waking up Brockton Bay made it enraged and attempted to murder Lung and Kaiser before it gets talked down.
- HA HA HA—No: In Chapter 6, when Danny asks if Larry is being paid the salaries of at least three men due to working at least three men's jobs, the latter bursts into slightly hysterical laughter before saying "No. Of course not".
- It Amused Me: Elmore's main drive is entertainment, and it's even willing to inflict damage upon itself if it means getting it.
- Laborious Laziness: This is how Richard explains why he's so good at playing Engineer in Team Fortress 2- it's really easy to be lazy and not do anything, but that just makes his wife mad. So what he does is be lazy for a while, then get up and do just enough to keep her happy, and then go back to being lazy. This is reflected by his gameplay, where he fully embraces "Turtling" (sitting in one place and letting his sentry gun do the work), but occasionally changing things before he can get punished for it.
- Little Bit Beastly: When the residents of Elmore become real life humans, unless it becomes a changer or breaker state they all retain some features of their old selves, with the mammal residents usually retaining animal ears and a tail.
- Ocho, previously a video game spider, and the proprieter of Elmore Exterminators, formerly a roach, are able to be affected by Taylor's powers and find themselves drawn to her locker during her Trigger Event. Ocho is even the one who insists hardest on getting her out.
- Not Me This Time:
- A double example in the second chapter, when Nicole hears a car crash outside and first blames Richard, and then Gumball and Darwin. Both prove to have a reasonable alibi; the real culprit was Skidmark and Squealer running from Donut Cop.
- When Nicole interrupts a Uber and Leet's Team Fortress live match, they do admit that while they are sometimes criminals, this time they're genuinely not doing anything wrong. Richard even speaks in their defense, pointing out that there's no crime and everyone involved signed waivers.
- Odd Friendship: Richard makes friends with Uber and Leet through Team Fortress 2.
- Only in It for the Money: Nicole wasn't going to become a superhero even at her sons' insistence... until she found out she'd get paid way more than she ever had even before she heard about possible endorsement deals.
- Outside-Context Problem: None of the Citizens of Elmore are Parahumans, but that's the only way the PRT can describe them. When Panacea touches any of them she goes into shock as their physiology appears to defy physics in many casesnote and many of them don't have powers that relate to combat.
- Refusal of the Call: When asked if he wants to join the Protectorate with his wife and kids, Richard turns them down- he's much happier being a house husband.
- Rule of Funny: It works both ways. With the citizens of Elmore and Brockton being unprepared to deal with worlds where reality and logic either does or does not take a back seat depending on whether it would be funny at the time. Panacea simply can't make heads or tails of most Elmore Citizen's biology, and she regularly examines them.
- Glen realizes that Gumball's 'power' lets him do anything as long as it's funny, and takes advantage of it while designing his costume.
- Shout-Out:
- One of Darwin's costume suggestions is clearly based on Namor, and the one he ends up going with is inspired by Aquaman.
- Richard ends up playing Team Fortress 2 with Uber and Leet.
- Stunned Silence: Both Nicole and Larry are stunned silent for the same reason. They are both offered jobs that allow them to make a lot more than the pittance they earn now.
- They Just Dont Get It: Larry has been working non-stop for so long that when Danny poaches him to work at the Union, the poor guy just can't wrap his head around the notion that he doesn't need to literally work 24/7 to earn a decent wage.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Danny hires Larry to a management position at the DWU, finally giving him a decent salary and working conditions.
- Toon Physics: Everyone in Elmore still displays a degree of their cartoony nature.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody in Elmore bats an eye about everything around them being alive, while the Brocktonites think it's the result of a dangerous master or Tinker.
- Weirdness Censor: The Brocktonites have a hard time noticing the unusual traits of Elmore and its inhabitants if they're not specifically pointed out, but it's not infallible, the more experienced parahumans and the PRT agents, who have been exposed to more "unusual" phenomena, in particular tend to notice them more.
- Elmore itself doesn't have this as a power, but it slowly cranked up the scale of its influence over time so that people would shrug off things when it did move things around.
