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“ What the what?! „
~ Gumball's catchphrase.
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“ Gumball: HOW CAN YOU NOT BE ANGRY AFTER ALL I'VE DONE TO YOU?! (gasps) After all I've done to you… I made you lose all your friends, your girlfriend, I sold your parents. Even worse, I ate your last meatball — all of this to prove you can be just as bad as me? Could it be that… that… that I was wrong?
Darwin: IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION?!
Gumball: Oh, thanks, man, I almost doubted myself there. 		„
~ Gumball reflecting on his treatment of Alan in "The Saint".
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“ I'm tired, Darwin. I'm tired of having to wear a mask on Halloween because people wouldn't give me candy if they knew if it was me. Because of my reputation, Darwin. My reputation… Alright, fine, it's because I'm greedy! But don't worry, there'll be plenty for you too! „
~ Gumball in "The Scam" regarding his plan to con everyone for free candy.
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Gumball Tristopher Watterson, born Zach Tristopher Watterson, is the titular main protagonist of Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball franchise.

He's a 12-year-old blue anthropomorphic cat who attends Elmore Junior High School along with his two siblings: Darwin, a goldfish that grew legs and became Gumball's best friend and adoptive brother, and his younger sister Anais, a four-year-old pink rabbit who is one grade higher than them. He is also the son of Richard and Nicole Watterson, Penny Fitzgerald's boyfriend, and Rob's arch-nemesis.

The series revolves around his multiple adventures and shenanigans in the city of Elmore with Darwin, where they interact with an extended cast of supporting characters. Although he is the series’ protagonist and "hero," there are numerous moments where he takes on villainous roles and commits various crimes throughout Elmore for his own enjoyment.

Portrayals[]

Appearance[]

Gumball is a bright blue, short, anthropomorphic cat. He wears a beige sweater with brown cuffs and a brown collar, along with dark grey pants with a white buckle. He has a large head and wide hips. The inside of his mouth is pink, his tongue is light pink, his nose is orange, and he has six whiskers, though his sixth one is rarely seen.

In pajamas, he wears a white and red ringer shirt and dark grey shorts.

Personality[]

“ Gumball: What I meant was, violence is never the answer. Dude, you're supposed to be happy for your friend's success! This isn't about Darwin being good at something, it's about you refusing to make the effort to better yourself. You know what the definition of that kind of person is?
Leslie​​​​​: You.
Gumball: Exactly.
 		„
~ Gumball to Leslie in "The Triangle"

Gumball can best be described as insensitive, obsessive, and selfish in his worst moments, especially toward those close to him. He has an incredibly inflated opinion of himself; his ego is literally represented as the size of his own house, as seen in "The One," and he’s not afraid to admit to these traits. In fact, sometimes he’s even proud of his worst qualities. His selfishness and ego are so extreme that he once believed, for an entire year, that there were no other students at Elmore Jr. High because he thought the world revolved around him, as revealed in "The Others." During the same episode, and in spite of his good intentions, he constantly invades Clare Cooper's personal life and mocks her for crying about her problems, and also tries to become the "hero" of her story despite clear rejection from her, aiming to be the center of attention as always. There even existed an alter-ego of Gumball that briefly took over his mind in "The Name" (Zach Watterson), who is an obnoxious, self-absorbed rogue symbolizing all of Gumball's worst attributes.

Gumball’s self-absorption and lack of care for others are the cause of conflicts in several episodes, such as "The Faith," "The Best," and "The Triangle," where he wants everyone to be on his level and resents the idea of people being above him. His ego is on full display in "The Candidate," where he becomes the leader of the students trapped at school, denies that the school’s temperature is rising, and purposely plans to scam everyone into starvation so he can hoard all the food. This sparks a highly destructive, violent, and nearly fatal war between the students, and he later tries to make Anais take the blame. The entire time, he refuses to admit to any wrongdoing or cater to any criticism, merely allowing the students to praise him for his authority as everything falls apart.

However, Gumball isn’t always this way, because sometimes he realizes the error of his ways and tries to change for the better, even feeling remorse for some of his actions. Despite his many flaws and questionable moments that make you wonder if he’s truly a good person, at heart, he’s a good-spirited kid who wants to be a good brother and friend. He’s even willing to selflessly put his life at risk for his loved ones.

While Gumball isn’t inherently evil, he’s also not above hurting or tormenting people for his own gain or amusement. In "The Prank," for instance, he pulls cruel pranks on Richard along with Darwin, which end up injuring him. The pranks escalate to the point where they leave Richard stranded in the middle of the ocean with nothing to eat but his own clothes. Gumball (along with Darwin) also ruins Larry Needlemeyer’s life by constantly harassing him into competing in a "lazy-off," against his will. This leads to Larry losing his job, his car, and even his fiancé, all just so Gumball can win a competition, without any regard for Larry’s wishes.

“ Darwin: That was terrifying.
Gumball: Yeah, well, at least your soul was going upwards. 		„
~ Gumball to Darwin in "The Rival" after their souls were briefly scared out of them.

From Season 3 and onwards, his most corrupting qualities got worse and worse, to the point where he wasn't above torturing, harassing and even killing some of his friends. A lot of his behavior is rather petty and downright ridiculous, and it's often a result of his warped sense of pride or the idea that he can just do whatever he wants. His ruthlessness is evident in "The Recipe," where he kills Anton 50 times in a row in various brutal ways with no remorse, all to discover the truth of his immortality. Gumball can also be invasive; in "The Society," he began to sexually harass Elmore's Junior High School students and staff to discover "membership tattoos" of a nonexistent secret cult; in "The Slap," he sexually harassed Tobias Wilson the entire day by constantly trying to get him to slap him in the butt; in "The Cringe," he tried to force Hot Dog Guy into taking off his clothes in front of him in the school shower.

Gumball's most infamous streak of actions is in "The Saint" where he tried to psychologically break Alan Keane out of mere boredom and a desire to bring him down to his level. He did so in various ways, such as making him lose all his friends by framing him for a xenophobic post online, using a balloon with Darwin's face to forcibly kiss a number of girls at the school to frame Alan for cheating on his girlfriend Carmen Verde, and even selling his parents into what is essentially the balloon equivalent of human trafficking so they could be contorted alive and used as balloon animals. Gumball's rivalry with Alan is a recurring plot point in the series (seen again in "The Traitor"), with Gumball detesting how Alan is such a "perfect" do-gooder, looking to prove at any cost that Alan is flawed to feel better about himself.

In many episodes, he will manipulate people to get what he wants or fuel his own vanity. For example, in "The Parents," he emotionally manipulates Nicole into apologizing to her controlling parents and telling them she wants them back, just so they can give him birthday presents. He often exploits vulnerable characters like Bobert, Hector Jötunheim, or even his own brother Darwin, under the guise of guidance or companionship to serve his own ends.

Gumball has been willing to endanger the entirety of Elmore or even the universe on three separate occasions for completely vapid reasons, serving as the best (or morally worst) examples of his selfishness: in "The Scam," he hesitates to feed a mere lollipop to Gargaroth, despite knowing that it would prevent him from destroying the entire world, as he wants it for himself; in "The Console," he purposely traps all of Elmore's citizens inside the Game Child's video game for the second time only because he couldn't beat the game at 100%; and in "The Money," he refuses to "sell out" to a corporation offering a commercial acting gig despite his family losing everything. Even as the world, the universe, and the entire show begin collapsing into nothingness as a result of the Wattersons losing money, he still refuses to sign the contract that would save everyone because of his pride, only agreeing once he saw the payment for himself.

Despite all of this, Gumball still preserves some of his most heroic traits over the course of the seasons, and much of his selflessness remains intact. This is seen in the multiple times he saves Elmore without expecting anything in return, when he helps Penny be comfortable with herself after breaking her shell, when he fixes Clare’s personal problems, when he tries to save Rob from the Void despite everything Rob has done to him, and when he saves the whole school from Superintendent Evil’s brainwashing (who was actually Rob in disguise).

Villainous Acts[]

“ Book lawyer: This is exactly what I mean. Trouble just seems to follow you. Thirty-eight counts of breaking and entering, fifty-four cases of damage to public property, 280 reported cases of causing a public nuisance. As an adult, you would be given 402 life sentences. No parole.
Gumball: Um, okay, and what does that mean?
Book lawyer: It means stop doing anything, right now, forever. 		„
~ Gumball getting legal assistance in "The Wrinkle."
Villainous acts of Gumball Watterson

Season 1[]

  • In "The Laziest," he and Darwin torment poor Larry to participate in a lazy-off against their father, Richard, despite Larry’s clear reluctance to revisit his past lifestyle as "Lazy Larry." Gumball and Darwin stalk and harass him, repeatedly pleading for his participation, until Larry becomes so desperate and paranoid that he accidentally yells at a customer, getting himself fired. Things only worsen when he sees Gumball and Darwin in his car's back seats through the rearview mirror, causing him to panic, jump out, and let the car fall off a cliff and explode. Gumball and Darwin ignore the destruction and continue begging him. Larry finally snaps when they follow him to a restaurant where he’s with his girlfriend. Overwhelmed, Larry hurls objects at Gumball and Darwin, but accidentally hits his girlfriend, who then breaks up with him. After losing everything he worked for, Larry reverts back to being "Lazy Larry" with Gumball and Darwin’s help, who show no remorse for ruining his life.

Season 2[]

  • In "The Flower," under Jealousy's influence, he tries to kill Leslie after falsely believing he is in a relationship with Penny, and later glues him to a bench before covering him in herbivorous insects, which begin to eat him.
  • In "The Bet," Gumball mistreats Bobert after losing a bet, activating his "slave mode" to force him into a series of humiliating tasks, like embarrassing himself in the infirmary and attempting to divide by zero, which triggers a meltdown. Gumball’s negligence also leads to Bobert accidentally firing lasers at Mr. Small and ultimately turning hostile, setting out to eliminate Gumball with Darwin caught in the crossfire.
    • Later, as Darwin pleads with Gumball to prevent Bobert’s self-destruction, with Darwin trapped behind a fallen bookshelf, Gumball’s only response is to try escaping the library alone. When this is met with disapproval, he wastes time instead of coming up with a solution. By the end of the episode, he appears to initiate another bet with Bobert, indicating he hasn’t learned his lesson.
  • In "The Bumpkin," Gumball attempts to follow Idaho's Amish-like lifestyle. When he can't stick with it, he slyly persuades his family to follow the rules instead, while he secretly throws late-night parties with junk food, video games, and technology. He also tempts Idaho into joining him, feeding him french fries (ironically made from potatoes like Idaho himself), which makes Idaho dangerously sick and nearly kills him, as he’s unable to handle Gumball's lifestyle.
  • In "The Promise," Gumball manipulates Darwin into ditching Banana Joe, whom Darwin wanted to make amends with by helping him make a video. Gumball insists that Darwin would be a disloyal brother if he goes, even causing Darwin to fall onto a pile of bricks when he tries to leave for Banana Joe. Due to Darwin’s absence, Banana Joe’s workout video fails, leaving him severely injured and disemboweled.
  • In "The Finale," to help cover an $800,000 debt owed to the town of Elmore due to the Wattersons' reckless behavior over the series, Gumball and Darwin disguise themselves as Bobert and Alan to collect donations for a fictitious British boarding school. After a chase with the police, getting arrested, and eventually escaping prison, they retaliate against Mr. Small, who sues them for causing his claustrophobia, by compressing him into a tiny envelope and shipping him to the smallest country on Earth.

Season 3[]

  • In "The Recipe," he brutally kills Anton 50 times in a row to discover the source of his immortality. Methods include crushing him with a bowling ball, giving him a heart attack, using him as bread in Tobias’s sandwich (resulting in him being eaten alive), shredding him in a paper shredder, blowing him up, crushing him with a door, launching a baseball through his face, getting him stomped on by Tina, and having him consumed by birds.
    • Later, he disregards Anton’s autonomy by cloning him without concern for his friend’s feelings. He creates an entire army of Ant-Clones and hides them in a shed, making himself indirectly responsible for all of Ant-One’s actions, who ended up exterminating them all.
  • In perhaps his most infamous streak of actions, after Alan took the blame for him damaging a library computer in "The Saint," Gumball decides to psychologically break Alan out of boredom and to prove he can bring him down to his level. He starts by making a xenophobic post on Alan’s Elmore Plus account to turn Alan’s friends against him, then uses a balloon with Darwin’s face to forcefully kiss other students to ruin Alan’s relationship. He eats Alan’s last meatball, and even sells Alan’s parents into what is essentially the balloon equivalent human trafficking to be contorted into balloon animals by a clown — all to feel better about his own flaws.
  • In "The Spoiler," he eats Anton alive just to prevent him from spoiling a movie.
  • In "The Money," purely to preserve his own pride and dignity, Gumball initially refused to take the acting job at Joyful Burger, even though the entire world's animation began to deconstruct as a result of the Watterson family going broke.

Season 4[]

  • In "The Sale," he and Darwin helped sabotage Mr. Robinson's house sale because they want him to stay in Elmore. Later, Gumball inadvertently covers his house in raw sewage under the impression that it's oil.
  • In "The Parking," Gumball accidentally stabbed the milk carton guy with his car keys, and when he tried to fix it, he caused him to start "bleeding out" his milk. Afterwards, while he stopped the bleeding by plugging the wound with dollar bills, he simply ran away from the scene.
  • In "The Hug," he tried to strike revenge against Hot Dog Guy through a streak of harmful actions, including turning down the heat while he was showering to shrink him, and even pressuring him into eating a hot dog, his own kind.
  • In “The Parasite," believing Anais’s new friend is taking advantage of her, he attempted to kill her by poisoning her with a contaminated sandwich.
    • Richard accidentally ate this sandwich instead, which left him incapacitated and extremely ill while trying to call 911.
  • In "The Traitor," Gumball spends the episode spiting and stalking Alan after falsely assuming that he bailed on him during their scheduled time to eat together. He obliterates four people while trying to catch Alan, knocks out Alan’s dad, accidentally pops Alan’s uncle, and later performs surgery on Alan and his mother without consent. When the surgery goes wrong, he blames Alan for being too hard to please.
    • In the same episode, Darwin mentioned when Alan apologized to Gumball for making him feel bad over a lackluster Christmas gift, he roundhouse kicked him. When Alan said not to worry because his surgeon father would fix it, Gumball tried to pop him with a pencil, purely out of bitterness towards' Alan's honorability.
  • In "The Bus," he convinced everyone to skip school, as well popping Alan just because he was against it.
  • In "The Slap," he sexually harassed Tobias over and over because he wants the latter to slap his butt, and even tricked him into coming to the roof of the school under the impression that he would meet Masami Yoshida there. This inadvertently gets the two of them trapped for days, nearly dying as a result.
  • In "The Scam," he and Carrie Krueger helped scam the entire school by staging a Gargaroth haunting, for which they would receive candy from each victim that they "save."
    • Later in the episode, Gumball was extremely reluctant to stop Gargaroth from destroying the entire world and forcing Carrie into marriage just because he wanted a single lollipop, which was a necessary "hero's sacrifice" to stop Gargaroth.

Season 5[]

  • In “The Test," he vomited all of his venom at Tobias’s face, causing it to completely disintegrate and leaving his head with a giant hole.
  • In "The Copycats," he and the Watterson family tried and get their rival copycats to kill themselves by copying their dangerous stunts, only because they were mimicking them on TV.
  • In "The Outside", he joins his family in trying to make Frankie's visit at their home feel like prison, tormenting him in the process.
  • In "The Stars," he and Darwin essentially enslave Larry by making him provide them new and free items under the threat of a bad review, even forcing him to create a disfigured elephant-bird hybrid against the laws of nature.
  • In "The Console," he traps all of Elmore in a video game with the Game Child, which forces everyone to conform to the game’s rules. While he is initially shocked, he soon begins enjoying it and attacks innocent citizens and animals to gain experience points. In the end, he restarts the game simply because he scored 84% instead of 100%, freezing everyone inside yet again.
  • In "The Ex," he harasses Rob all day, trying to reestablish their rivalry, inadvertently ruining all of Rob’s traps set for Banana Joe. He also dismisses Penny’s advice, focusing only on Rob. Near the end, assuming he’s at Banana Joe’s house, he sets up a trap at Tobias’s house, causing a massive explosion that sets Tobias on fire and launches him across Elmore.
    • At the end of the episode, he tries to apologize to Penny by trapping Alan in her locker with an apology spray-painted on his face.
  • In "The Best," he overreacted to Carmen's annoying attempts at giving him advice by attempting to leak a damning video of her to the entire school. He antagonizes her all day, and at one point, he violently launches her through the school's wall by using a supernatural level of self-righteousness to generate shockwaves.
    • After regretting his actions, he, alongside Darwin, decided to destroy the phone of every person who could receive the aforementioned video. Some victims, such as Alan and Bobert, were simply obliterated instead, and Tobias was sucked into a black hole opened through his phone dividing by zero.
  • In "The Petals," after Leslie's petals begin falling off and he feels like his good looks are fading, Gumball and Darwin eventually decide to terrorize and chase him around town in order to decapitate him.
  • In "The Nuisance," he helped his family turn Elmore into a disaster area by destroying a house with termites, pouring bath salts (or soap suds in the English version of the episode) into Elmore's water supply, and trying to convince Sal Left Thumb, a wanted criminal, to mug pedestrians in the neighborhood.
    • Ultimately, he also helped burn down the entire town of Elmore. Due to him causing regular destruction and chaos to the town, the episode also shows that the entire residence of Elmore has shown general dislike to the Wattersons to such an extreme that they voted to kick the family out of Elmore and move them to Ohio.

Season 6[]

  • In "The Rival," Gumball and Darwin tried to ship a newborn Anais to the dog food factory as unlabeled meat, which would lead to her getting disposed in a crusher if they didn't regret their actions and stop it.
    • In the same episode, when Gumball's soul is briefly scared out him, he mentions that it was going downwards, implying he's done enough bad deeds to end up in Hell before the series' present timeline.
  • In "The Vegging," Gumball became so lazy that he refused to leave the house, even on account of his family and their car dangling off of a bridge. When he eventually went to save them, he did so lazily by moving only with an office chair and shipping himself to the location.
  • In "The Candidate," Gumball becomes the leader of the trapped students, denies the rising temperature in the school, and devises a plan to scam everyone into starvation so he can hoard all the food. This eventually results in complete anarchy among the students, who begin attacking each other and destroying the school, for which he never takes accountability, even by the end.
  • In “The Pact," he began stalking and psychologically torturing Principal Brown for not fulfilling his end of their deal.
  • In "The Awareness," Gumball spends the entire day engaging in a petty rivalry with Leslie over his appreciation for plants, during which he convinced him to eat a bucket of dirt, entrapped him in a room full of angry bees, and nearly drowned him.
  • In "The Mess," Gumball made a false promise to Penny that he will be well-slept before he babysits her younger sister, Polly, and when this turned out to be a lie, he caused chaos around Elmore because of his sleep deprivation, which includes attempting to cover-up the crime scene of what he assumed to be a man he assaulted and knocked out.

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball[]

  • In "The Distance," Gumball become obsessed with "saving" his relationship with Darwin after the boys are forced to live in separate rooms. He takes advice from a stranger online (Leonard) who tells him to get Darwin back from Tobias and Banana Joe, which leads him to tie up Anais in his room and break into the basement to try to destroy Darwin's fish tank, accidentally breaking a gas pipe that later causes the house to explode. His plan was to frame both him and Darwin for property damage so they'd go to prison together forever and share a cell.
  • In "The Wrinkle," a gag is made that suggests Gumball has committed innumerable crimes in his youth, and that he would get 402 life sentences upon reaching adulthood.

Relationships[]

Family[]

Notable Allies[]

Notable Enemies[]

Quotes[]

Season 3

“ Darwin: Maybe we should just ask him.
Gumball: Uhh, maybe you should've said that before we iced him fifty times in a row. 		„
~ Gumball on his treatment of Anton in "The Recipe," attempting to learn the secret behind his immortality.
“ He was so disgustingly nice, I threw up puppies for days. But you know what? I bet he isn't really that nice! Everyone has a breaking point, and I'm gonna prove it to you! (…) For science! And because the people deserve to know! …And because I got nothing else to do today. „
~ Gumball about Alan in "The Saint."
“ I WILL BREAK YOU, MAN! No one's this nice! NO ONE! Because if they were, I'd have to ask some very difficult questions about myself! „
~ Gumball to Alan.
“ I sold your parents. „
~ Gumball, nonchalantly to Alan.
“ *Gasps* I made a terrible wish, and now my whole family has disappeared!… Good. „
~ Gumball in "The Downer."
“ Gumball: Nothing! I'm pleased for you.
Darwin: Really? 'Cause your face doesn't look pleased.
Gumball: Trust me: on the inside, I'm pleased.
[Darwin opens Gumball's inside, revealing a fiery monster clawing at him]
Fiery Monster: I HOPE YOU CRASH AND BURN, DARWIN WATTERSON! 		„
~ Gumball jealous of Darwin winning the band solo in "The Triangle."

Season 4

“ Fine. It was quite bad. But I'm not angry at him, I'm angry at myself… Ok, I'm also kinda angry at him for making me feel bad about myself. Either way, I'm gonna stuff this perfect meal into his perfect face! You know, as an apology. „
~ Gumball on Alan.
“ Gumball: Wait a minute. This Jodie's taking credit for Anais' work, getting her to carry her stuff, and eating her lunch! You know what she sounds like?!
Darwin: You?
Gumball: No, I meant!… *sighs* 		„
~ Gumball in "The Parasite."
“ Anybody else wanna go to school? „
~ Gumball after popping Alan in "The Bus" after he suggested that the students skip their field trip.
“ So why don't I feel too good about myself? Well, I got the remote back, that's good. That means I can fix everything, that's good…That's it! I just doomed a guy with no family or friends to an eternity in limbo and made a stupid quip about it! *Gasps* I've become the villain! „
~ Gumball in "The Rerun" before rescuing Rob from his own decision.

Season 5

“ Molly: Hey, did I tell you about when my brown crayon ran out? Don't worry though, this story has a happy ending.
Gumball: Does it involve the main character being slowly run over by a bus?! 		„
~ Gumball to Molly in "The Stories."

Season 6

“ Gumball: And that brings us back to now. I know they'll blame me, but it was once said that the higher we soar, the smaller we appear to salty little people who can't fly, 'cause they're losers, and therefore, blame you for every little thing, even though they kind of elected you in the first place—!
Anais: Gumball… What are you doing?
Gumball: I'm dictating my memoir. What do you think of the title? "An Eagle Amongst Pigeons." 		„
~ Gumball in "The Candidate."
“ In these troubled times, a true leader must take it upon himself to unify his people. Maybe what you need is a common enemy, someone to take the blame for the greater good. And it is my duty to inform you that enemy… is Anais. „
~ Gumball taking responsibility for his actions.
“ That's right, Anais, it's all thanks to… me. I mean, if I hadn't seized power after lying to everyone and embezzled all the food, and fueled your differences until you hated each other and started a civil war in the school that almost led to your extinction, you guys wouldn't be here being all chummy. „
~ Gumball after the students escape the school.
“ Gumball: DROP YOUR MORTGAGE IN THE BAG!
Dolphin Man: Please, I have children!
Gumball: Good to know, we'll come for them next... *grabs his arm* That's a pretty watch.
Dolphin Man: No, please, it belonged to my grandpa!
Gumball: You wanna try me?! I'll drop your credit score so low you won't even be able to get a loan at the LIBRARY, PUNK!
Dolphin Man: Well, at least I'm leaving with my dignity.
Gumball: No, we'll have that too. Ya pants, put 'em in the baaaag… 		„
~ Gumball working as a banker in "The Schooling."

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Trivia[]

  • Gumball has been said to be a caricature of a young Ben Bocquelet.
  • In "The Club," Nicole reveals that she and Richard agreed to give Gumball the middle name "Christopher," but Richard confused it for "Tristopher" on Gumball's birth certificate.
  • In "The Treasure," Gumball was revealed to have been born as an ugly baby, with pictures to demonstrate his deformity. However, this is contradicted in "The Choices," where he appears normally as a young child.
  • Many people speculated that Gumball is bisexual or pansexual based on various actions and clues in the series. Ben Bocquelet has stated on Twitter that Gumball simply "loves who he loves."[1]
  • "The Sucker," "The Spinoffs," and "The Singing" are the only episodes where Gumball does not physically appear. However, the only one out of the three in which he is not alluded to in any fashion is "The Singing."
  • Gumball makes a cameo in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Crossover Nexus as one of the Cartoon Network heroes Strike summoned & defeated, and he also appeared again as one of Ben's Cartoon Network transformations to defeat Strike.
  • Despite Gumball's name being legally changed at the end of "The Name", it is stated by Richard in The Gumball Chronicles episode, Ancestor Act, that Zach is still Gumball's legal name, and in "The Neighbor," Gumball signs a delivery with "Zach W."
  • "The Astrological" reveals that Gumball is a Sagittarius, meaning his birthday is between November 22nd and December 21st,
  • Gumball often appears in promotional materials outside the US wearing a red and white varsity jacket, white shirt with blue collar, blue jeans, and red sneakers. However, this outfit never appears in the actual show; Bocquelet said, "I guess everyone in marketing thought it would look cooler."[2]
    • In 2020, Italian brand Octopus Brand made replica varsity jackets for sale, with "The Amazing World of Gumball x Octopus" and "OG" text on the front, plus a Gumball illustration in an Elmore Athletics Team logo on the back.[3]
  • Originally, Gumball was designed as a blue dog, but this was just a placeholder without much thought behind it. The creators then changed him to a black cat to match his unlucky but optimistic personality (since black cats symbolize bad luck in European culture); however, they found this trait too limiting for storylines, and a black cat silhouette would be hard to see against the show's planned backgrounds.
    • They finally settled on making him blue. Bocquelet liked this choice because blue isn't a natural cat color and gave Gumball a "70s-80s Japanese mascot" feel.
  • Gumball's age changed during development. A 2009 character biography listed him as 10 years old,[4] which was updated to 11 by July 2010,[5] and finally set at 12 when the series was finalized.

References[]

  1. ↑ Tweet by @benbocquelet (27 April 2019).
  2. ↑ Tweet by @benbocquelet (February 12, 2018).
  3. ↑ Facebook post by @IUTERstoreMilano (December 10, 2020).
  4. ↑ Thread at animesuperhero.com (November 21, 2009).
  5. ↑ Thread at animesuperhero.com (July 14, 2010).

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