"Your dad is pretty scary." "So is your mom."
Gumball: You're just a dangerous friend with a terrifying amount of strength.
Anais thinks Tina is bullying Gumball, but her attempts to stop her instead results in Tina demanding a "meeting" with Gumball after school the next day.Tropes:
- Abuse Mistake: Gumball gets a black eye from running into a door. When he tells his family they think he's hiding that he's being bullied by Tina. Granted, she did cause it accidentally by chasing him and he did crash into Mr. Small's office door because he wouldn't let him in.
- Accidental Pervert: Gumball accidentally runs into the girl's shower room when running from Tina, then quickly runs back out and apologizes. When he sees Tina again, he reluctantly runs back through it, getting screamed at and pelted with sneakers and toiletries.
- Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: The pile of janitorial equipment Gumball uses to block a door doesn't even slow Tina down.
- Adults Are Useless: Ms. Simian comes to break up the fight... until she learns it's Gumball vs. Tina and goes on a "coffee break."
- Banana Peel: Gumball tears off Banana Joe's peel to trip Tina.
- Battle Discretion Shot: Nicole goes into Mr. Rex's house to "talk to him" about Tina's behavior. We hear some sounds from the outside that Gumball and Tina talk over, then Nicole steps out of his house and it collapses. Note that he is a T-Rex whose eyes were shown to each be larger than Nicole's entire body.
- Bear Hug: Gumball asks Tina for a "friend hug" and learns the hard way that a T-Rex's arms being disproportionately small doesn't make them weak compared to him. Despite their size the arms of a T. rex are actually quite powerful and can lift one ton.Too... friendly!
- Clothing-Concealed Injury: Gumball tries to hide the black eye that he got with sunglasses. His mom isn't fooled for a second.
- Color Failure: When Mr. Small hears the one Gumball is having trouble with is Tina, all the color in his body drains down into a puddle at his feet.
- Cruel Mercy: Ms. Simian prefers not to give Gumball detention, due to how it'll cause him to avoid his fight with Tina, but states that it's a part of her "coffee break," and therefore unable to give him one.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Tina.
- The Dreaded: Even the school counselor is terrified of Tina. Of course, Tina reveals that she would rather much not be this trope, lamenting to Gumball that others fear her because they expect her to be like her dad.
- Fake Special Attack: Richard's "old family technique", the Bunny Hop: rolling over, giving your opponent all your money, and hopping away like crazy.
- Foreshadowing: Throughout their titular fight, Tina does not actually attempt to harm Gumball nor does she say anything threatening to him, only telling him to stop running from her. Turns out she had no intention of actually harming Gumball at all and just wanted to speak to him.
- Freudian Excuse: Tina reveals that she's only a bully because everyone expects her to act like her dad, who was established to be even scarier than her:Tina: Everyone thinks I'm a brute... just like my dad. BUT I'M NOT! (Kicks scrap car away in a brief fit of rage)
- Horrifying the Horror: A Tyrannosaurus rex tells Gumball that his mom is scary.
- Improvised Armor: Darwin makes armor to protect Gumball from Tina out of cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, and a bucket helmet. They test it and find out it provides no protection whatsoever.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Gumball ripping off the banana peel from Banana Joe could be considered the latter's karma for making Gumball get 7 hours of detention.
- Mama Bear: When Nicole learns of Gumball's problem with Tina, she immediately brings Gumball along to solve the problem.
- Shaming the Mob: Anais tries to get the kids eager to watch Tina beat up Gumball to help him by reminding them of how much they've been bullied by her too. It works, but the power goes to her head and she instead uses their support for basically everything but helping Gumball.
- Poor Communication Kills: It would've been far easier for Tina to sort things out with Gumball if she pulled him over during the chase to say what must be said, or outright tell him before Gumball took off running.
- Truth in Television: See Bear Hug above
- Unreliable Voice Over: Gumball gives his family an obliviously-optimistic but Metaphorically True description of his day while we see what actually happened: he was hanging with Tina (upside down by his ankles as she shakes him down for his lunch money), she showed him how to donate to charity (specifically, her), Tina helped him tear through his homework (with her claws, which got Gumball an "F"), and they ate lunch together (she shoved his face into the tray).
