Courage Vs. Gumball Watterson

Courage Vs. Gumball Watterson is a What-If? Death Battle episode by KickTheBuddy7029. It features Courage from Courage the Cowardly Dog and Gumball Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball.
== Description ==
Courage the Cowardly Dog Vs. The Amazing World of Gumball! Cats and Dogs collide once again in cartoon style! Both characters are scared of anything dangerous, but will brave up if their loved ones are in danger. Both of their shows are extremely surreal. Will Courage save the day as usual, or will Gumball make Courage's show go back to its grave?
Note: I originally wrote this back in May 2020, but my writing skills and thought process from both 2020 and 2021 are absolute cringe, so I'm leaving those days behind me and decided to remaster this fight because it's still a fun general matchup idea to me in spite of my cringy past. Why not, right?
== Interlude ==
Wiz: Cats and dogs seem to never go together.
Boomstick: But, didn't Nickelodeon make CatDog?
Wiz: Well, yes, but even that duo didn't get along that much. Anyway, you think if a dog and cat come from the same company, they'll get along, but not today.
Boomstick: This duel features Courage, the cowardly pink dog of Nowhere, Kansas...
Wiz: ...and Gumball Watterson, the troublemaking blue cat of Elmore, California.
Boomstick: He's Wiz, and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win in a Death Battle!
== Courage Screams for DEATH BATTLE! ==
(Static)
Boomstick: We interrupt this Death Battle, to bring you...Courage the Cowardly Dog's bio!
Wiz: Starring Courage, the Cowardly Dog!
(Courage screams and runs from his shadow)
Boomstick: Abandoned as a pup, he was found by Muriel, who lives in the middle of Nowhere with her husband, Eustace Bagge!
Eustace: Bagh!
Wiz: But creepy stuff happens in Nowhere! It's up to Courage to save his new home!
Eustace: STUPID DOG! YOU MADE THIS PRELUDE LOOK BAD! OOGABOOGABOOGABOOGA!
Boomstick: And that's Courage's backstory summed up. While Courage may be scared of everything, including HIS OWN FUCKING SHADOW, he lives up to his name by directly conquering his fears and defeating his enemies in every episode.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIR0a7jryaw)
Wiz: On a daily basis, Courage has to save his owners from perilous enemies, such as monsters, demons, ghosts, aliens, and zombies.
Boomstick: However, once in a blue moon, he does have his encounters with beings that intend no harm, such as The Hunchback, The Starmakers, or even Eustace's mom.
Wiz: Courage has thwarted the diabolical schemes of Katz on several occasions, and has saved the farm from vengeful spirits and curses. He has even saved the entire town of Nowhere from Dr. Zalost's cannonballs with Muriel's Happy Plums, and prevented them from eating flan.
Boomstick: He saved a rabbit from her abusive boyfriend and reunited her with her close friend. He defeated an evil empress of a Chinese village and returned its power to the rightful good ruler, and he rescued the offspring of an alien star-creating squid from the government. He has met Bigfoot before and had a food fight with him.
Wiz: He helped steal three of the four heads on Mount Rushmore, and has reformed some of the creatures that have terrorized him.
Boomstick: Courage prevented the Sun's heat from dying out and he saved a race of underwater beings known as the Coralites from having their civilization destroyed.
Wiz: But we can't forget how he got revenge on the insane veterinarian who sent his parents into space by sending him to space, who was then mauled by the dogs he kidnapped in the first place.
Boomstick: Courage is very fearful and paranoid as a result of what he's had to put up with for all his life. The tragic memories of losing his parents drives him to protect Muriel at all costs, as he does not want to lose another loved one at all.
Wiz: But what about Eustace?
Boomstick: Oh, that guy's an asshole. He always treats Courage like Satan incarnate. Eustace usually starts the conflict of an episode, and as karma, he often gets left behind once everything is resolved, only to meet a disastrous end, whether it be getting eaten by a monster or being trapped somewhere.
Wiz: Courage is rather childlike, as he loves to assist Muriel with chores, rest in her lap, chew on a boot, or play with toys in his free time.
Boomstick: Not much else to say about Courage's background and personality. Why don't we start off with his strength?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb9TUYtstHc)
Wiz: Gotcha. Courage may look like a small dog you can kick around, but in reality, he is a lot tougher than he seems. To start off with, he can scream loud enough to shatter the sun within a matter of seconds!
Boomstick: This is surprisingly fairly consistent, considering how he once left a huge mark on the moon, and he could hold a star with his goddamn bare hands! And let's not forget how he could repair the sun just by applying a light bulb. He also repaired the ozone layer with a mere needle!
Wiz: He regularly trades blows with Eustace Bagge, who survived getting bitten by The Shadow. And keep in mind The Shadow can turn into a starry sky!
Boomstick: Eustace also survived a firework explosion that turned him into a constellation of 88 stars! Trust me, we've counted. Or at least tried to.
Wiz: Courage can uproot a gigantic tree off his back while chained to strong metal chains and casually walk around with it.
Boomstick: He can lift several weights that would normally be way too heavy to handle and become buff in a heartbeat. Damn, does this dog have One For All or something?
Wiz: Courage can lift Eustace's truck over his head without breaking a sweat. Pickup trucks usually weigh 1,000 kg!
Boomstick: He destroyed a spaceship that could withstand moving the entire asteroid ring around Saturn by crashing into it.
Wiz: He can also destroy his house, which lived through the entire Earth getting hit by an asteroid that was strong enough to make it spin around the sun. We'll elaborate on that feat more once we get to his durability.
Boomstick: He can stash an entire whale, accordion and anchor in his non-existent pockets. Somehow, these never worsen his speed!
Wiz: The whale appears to be an adult blue whale, so with that in mind, full-grown blue whales are capable of weighing anywhere from 110,000 to 330,000 pounds, which means Courage can carry and lift objects weighing that much with ease!
Boomstick: He can rip a metal door off a wall, bend it, crush it and toss it with no problem.
Wiz: On one occasion, Courage has been shown to be physically on par with Robot Randy, who effortlessly one-shot a robot that destroyed a mountain!
Boomstick: Courage can lift a heavy anvil out of a long tunnel, and he once pumped a water well so hard that it created a tidal wave!
Wiz: He held onto an airplane moving at top speed and could also hold onto a doorknob as Le Quack tried to suck him in with a high-powered vacuum.
Boomstick: He could hold up the God Bone and swing it around as if it were a baseball bat! Shortly afterward, he sliced it through a metal ceiling.
Wiz: He ran through a wall without a care in the world and bit off an automatic alarm. In a fit of rage, he ripped a wooden door off its hinges and threw it.
Boomstick: Courage was capable of wrapping an entire colony of frogs by their tongues with a cord, and then he tossed them to the horizon!
Wiz: He successfully bit through a leash that was completely unscathed from a flamethrower, a saw, a chainsaw, and even a small chemical explosion!
Boomstick: Courage is a mean digger, being able to dig through caves and rubble. He can give a nasty bite as well; he can chew through doors, walls, floors and steel in seconds!
Wiz: On instances that are way too many to count, he can sprint while carrying Muriel and Eustace over his head. With a pickaxe, he split an entire frozen lake into chunks!
Boomstick: He can scream loud enough to blow him up into his own skeleton!
Boomstick: It is not faulty to assume Courage's strength matches his durability, because he can consistently cause noticeable harm to himself.
Wiz: Speaking of which, we will get to Courage's durability... right now.
Boomstick: Whew...where do we begin?
Wiz: When it comes to durability...oh lord, Courage is the Spongebob of Cartoon Network! He can withstand BOATLOADS of abuse and punishment, sometimes even laughing it off!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OoScXurYUE)
(SpongeBob SquarePants suddenly appears from thin air)
Spongebob: (gasp) Did one of you mention me?! Spongebob Squarepants?!
Wiz: Spongebob, please, this isn't what it looks-
Spongebob: OH BOY! I hope I can befriend this pink dog! He looks so friendly! I wonder why he's pink, maybe he's related to my best friend Patrick, 'cause he's pink. He's pink because he's a starfish, but I've never heard of a pink dog. I wonder if this little dog likes jellyfishing, or-
Wiz: Please, Spongebob, listen to me. We are giving a prelude for a fight, and it's going to get pretty violent once we're done. So please step back.
Spongebob: Awwww... (walks away)
Wiz: Alright, now where were we?
Boomstick: Courage's durability.
Wiz: Ah, alright. Let's get back to it.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-MZ9XDK1Us)
Boomstick: To begin with, Courage once survived being shot into outer space, crashing through the moon hard enough to leave a large hole, and getting slammed back down to Earth!
Wiz: It's important noting the alien who smacked him is strong enough to strike a meteor with a tennis racket and make it hit Earth, causing it to spin around the sun repeatedly and send it 1,000 years into the future!
Boomstick: He was jammed into a rocket launcher and shot across the planet, only to get back up fine without injuries immediately after! How much would this yield, you may ask? Wiz, do your thing.
Wiz: Sure thing. The timeframe is 11 seconds, and the circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles. Speed was 3643120 m/s, which gives us... 15.828 kilotons of TNT.
Boomstick: Courage was completely fine from being on the scorching surface of the Sun. Hell, he even went inside the core and survived scratch-free!
Wiz: The surface of the Sun has a temperature of 5,778 K, whereas the core's temperature is 15,700,000 K.
Boomstick: He endured a brutal beating from Mecha-Courage, who was designed to be superior to him in every way possible! He was stretched, slammed, run over, and crushed into goop with an oversized nail bat - yet he still had enough energy to stand still, and he came out victorious. After that, he was in the middle of said robot's destruction, which was an explosion that covered most of the colosseum they were in, and he came out with only his fur blackened!
Wiz: He was bashed through several planets and came out in tip-top shape.
Boomstick: Sweet Jesus, this dog never receives any breaks.
Wiz: But that's not all. He withstood a giant bank explosion and was launched into the air.
Boomstick: He took a ruthless pummeling from Valkyries and was thrown out by Valhalla.
Wiz: He was in a room filled with numerous explosives, which left a deep crater upon detonation. He has also no-sold a blast from a rocket launcher.
Boomstick: He was electrocuted so hard he was launched out of the nuclear plant he was in and made a rough landing on the ground!
Wiz: He has been beaten up by aliens, thugs and robots. He has also been stung by swarms of jellyfish and wasps.
Boomstick: Courage once sustained a direct blast from Eustace's high-tech laser gun, Big Bob. He can get back up fine from getting hit by cannonballs.
Wiz: He survived a curbstomp battle against all his enemies in the episode, Ball of Revenge! It's so brutal you'd have to watch the full episode to see what went on.
Boomstick: For speed, Courage is no slouch at all. In the episode Mission to the Sun, he ran from the surface of the Sun to its core!
Wiz: He only had 8 seconds to repair the Sun according to his rocket's timer, so we will use an 8 second timeframe for this calculation. Our distance is the radius of the Sun, which is 695,510 kilometers. 695510/8 equals 86938.75 km/s, or 29% the speed of light!
Boomstick: I wonder how much kinetic energy this would give...
Wiz: Good question. Let's assume Courage weighs 50 pounds, which is the official average weight for medium-sized dogs. In kilograms, this is 22.6796 kg, and since he had to move 86938750 m/s, this would give us 9.15251986E+16 joules, or 21.9 megatons. This is as powerful as most of the United States' nuclear weapons!
Boomstick: HOLY SHI-
Wiz: Courage has even pedaled and piloted a spaceship that flew from Earth to Saturn in an incredibly short amount of time.
Boomstick: He reacted to The Shadow charging at him, who's fast enough to fly into space in a second.
Wiz: Courage is no stranger to dodging lasers. In the pilot episode, he dodged a laser that fired to Easter Island, given how it shot a Moai statue. The closest Easter Island to the center of Kansas is Poike, and the distance between them is 4,625 miles. The beam came back in 9 seconds, which would be 827024 m/s, or Mach 2411. However, since the beam returned, the numbers would be doubled at Mach 4422!
Boomstick: He also dodged lasers from the Evil Chicken's offspring, and he reacted to lightning despite having his back turned.
Wiz: He ran all the way from Kansas to Tibet, to India, to Paris, and then back to Kansas within seconds! It is highly unlikely he did this over the course of several days, because he was in a rush to save Muriel.
Boomstick: He could keep track of a spaceship that was moving through the solar system at rapid speeds with his telescope. He once dug through 1,000 years of dirt without stopping!
Wiz: He is often portrayed as faster than Eustace, who walked across the world in less than an hour.
Boomstick: Courage has reacted to a passing meteor quickly enough to accurately launch a hook to it.
Wiz: He can successfully outmaneuver speeding close-range cannonballs, even when he's tied up.
Boomstick: He can outrun Eustace's pickup truck and burrow underground at swift paces.
Wiz: He moved an entire family of deer out of the way of a blast from Big Bob before it even hit them!
Boomstick: He is capable of lunging away from speeding darts and can even catch them with his teeth!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmnZgBpYG_4)
Wiz: When it comes to intelligence, don't ever believe in Eustace's catchphrase, "Stupid dog!". Courage can speak English coherently despite being a dog, and he solved most, if not all the problems in the show within a reasonable amount of time, which normally requires outwitting clever villains of all sorts, whether it be scientists or con men.
Boomstick: Courage is an exceedingly skilled tactician, as he has quickly built numerous contraptions and tools that have saved him in life-or-death situations. He can infiltrate highly guarded areas with little to no planning, such as military bases and banks.
Wiz: He is an on-the-fly thinker, being capable of reprogramming an advanced alien spaceship, wiring Le Quack's train to explode, and finding oxygen while stranded underwater without a submarine or scuba gear. He can think of unusual ways to escape from dangerous predicaments, such as screwing his head off his body or melting himself.
Boomstick: In a fight, he will do anything to arrange plans that will save his life, such as setting up an entire fort with a moat, inventing gadgets, setting up traps, and creating barricades. In fact, he has several objects stashed and buried around in case of emergencies.
Wiz: It is extremely difficult to trick Courage or catch him off-guard, as he is always alert for the well-beings of Muriel and himself, not to mention he has an undying tendency to never trust strangers.
Boomstick: Courage knows how to use a computer, and despite relying on it for information at times, he can figure out threats on his own. Obviously, he outsmarts monsters, creatures, demons, aliens, zombies and psychopaths every day.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGro4NpgCg)
Wiz: He is a highly skilled cook, survivalist, tracker, repairman, puzzle solver, hypnotist and dancer. And believe it or not, but he is an official licensed therapist. He takes his job as a therapist to his advantage during his encounters with villains, as he has talked a few of them out of their harmful deeds.
Boomstick: Courage is a talented painter. He painted a perfect replica of the Mona Lisa with normal paint faster than you can say "Jack Robinson"!
Wiz: He is knowledgeable in playing the piano, tuba, violin, guitar, and many other musical instruments.
Boomstick: Let's go over Courage's abilities, shall we?
Wiz: No problem-o. The first of Courage's numerous powers is Toon Force, which is what practically every cartoon character has, unless you're from King of the Hill. It is comedic reality warping, since it allows cartoon characters to defy the laws of physics.
Boomstick: Courage has extreme regeneration, which allows him to heal from fatal catastrophes in no time. He has been burnt to ashes, disintegrated, melted to a puddle, poofed into a cloud of dust, shattered to pieces, blown up, turned inside out, deflated, sliced in half, reduced to his skeleton, decapitated, flattened, ripped apart, and dismembered, only to be fine and well instantly. He would make Deadpool proud!
Wiz: On top of regeneration, Courage has unbelievable pain tolerance as well. All of his intestines can roll out of his stomach and he won't even react at all! He can relax himself while being eaten by a tiger, and when he was a baby, he shrugged off his own tongue being torn off. And as we mentioned earlier, he took a massive beating from Mecha-Courage and won.
Boomstick: He can take a hell lot of butt kickings and it won't delay his stamina that much. In the episode Remembrance of Courage Past, he sat still for an ENTIRE night and until the next morning, where he didn't seem exhausted at all!
Wiz: Surprisingly, Courage knows martial arts. He battled the Evil Empress of China in a one-on-one karate duel and he came out on top. On another occasion, he beat the living daylights out of two professionally trained bodyguards.
Boomstick: He has a little thing called hammerspace, which allows him to pull objects out of nowhere at any time from behind his back or his pockets.
Wiz: He does not oxygen to live, considering how he can breathe normally in outer space. He can create clones of himself, which could be useful for backup.
Boomstick: Courage can control his body to impossible degrees. He can extend his limbs to reach faraway objects or his ears to enhance his hearing. He is capable of using his tongue as a slingshot to launch himself somewhere. Speaking of his tongue, he also used it to divert a train, so basically, he can use it like a third hand.
Wiz: Courage possesses incredible shapeshifting capabilities. He can take on forms of other characters, animals, creatures, clouds, and even fully-functioning vehicles. He can turn into inanimate objects, make his body two-dimensional, and perfectly replicate someone's voice whenever he impersonates them.
Boomstick: His shapeshifting has proven to be useful in combat, because he can confuse foes or turn himself into weapons.
Boomstick: He can cause attacks to backfire by catching them with his mouth and blowing it back out at his opponent. He used this when a dragon shot fire at him, where he sucked up the fire and made it incinerate into ashes. Not only would this be immensely helpful toward fire attacks, but it will also come in handy if he's facing an opponent with energy or laser attacks.
Wiz: Being a dog, Courage has a remarkable sense of smell and hearing. He can track down opponents and objects via sniffing the air, and he can use this to properly identify things. He could hear a faraway man snoring from the highest tower of his own castle.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRP-F-TOOo)
Boomstick: If he hops into a laundry machine, he can shrink himself, thus rendering him difficult to hit. He can shrink himself down to the size of red blood cells as he did this to go inside Eustace's body and fight off alien bacteria.
Wiz: He can physically touch intangible things, whether it be ghosts, spirits, clouds, smoke, sounds or gas.
Boomstick: Courage has immersive powers. He can enter and travel through paintings as if he were in Super Mario 64! He can go inside phone lines and pop out of telephones.
Wiz: There was even an entire episode about him going inside the Internet, which was Hard Drive Courage.
Boomstick: I hope they didn't rip off The Fairly OddParents...
Wiz: No, not really. Anyway, Courage can perform astral projection, where he gets his spirit outside his body. To do this, he must calm down and then meditate. As a spirit, Courage went to the astral plane and traveled into other people's dreams.
Boomstick: Odds are, whatever Courage can do in the real world, he can do in the astral plane as well.
Wiz: By howling, he can call other dogs from far and near for help.
Boomstick: They will rush to the scene and loyally fight by Courage's side.
Wiz: He can also call Mr. Mouse for assistance in exchange for some money and cheese. Moving on, Courage is very acrobatic. He dodged Dr. Zalost's cannonballs by performing swift acrobatic moves, and he can do 16 backflips without breaking a sweat.
Boomstick: He is highly skilled with just about any weapon he can get his hands on. Even if he hasn't held a certain weapon before, he can quickly learn about its functions and become a pro with it in no time.
Wiz: Also, we're not kidding when we say this, but he can remove people's souls by performing an exorcism dance!
Boomstick: WHAT THE FU-
Wiz: Language!
Boomstick: Courage's most notable powers next to his regeneration are his powerful lungs, or in simple terms, his loud screams. His screams can severely injure ears, stun people to the point where they can't move, and cause his surroundings to shake and crumble.
Wiz: But his most powerful scream is his Super Scream, which includes all of that, albeit tenfold. His Super Scream can send people underground and destroy his entire house! He used it against all his enemies as a last resort in a deadly game of dodgeball.
Boomstick: When he uses his Super Scream, Courage puts all his power into his lungs and screams bloody murder for almost an ENTIRE minute! However, it leaves him winded afterward.
Wiz: I think we got all his natural abilities out of the way. Time to go over Courage's weapons.
Boomstick: To start off with, Courage regularly carries around baseball bats (including a nail bat), an axe, a jackhammer, a mallet, a chainsaw, a frying pan, pies, a crossbow, a drill and a blow torch.
Wiz: He has a spring loaded boxing glove that can knock people out cold, and he always carries around a flashlight and gas mask with him. He is capable of switching places with a cardboard cutout of himself, and he often has disguises in handy.
Boomstick: Given how he's a skilled hypnotist, Courage has a yo-yo and pocket watch on him a lot. Whoever looks into either object will instantly be hypnotized. Courage can make his victims believe they're a different thing or turn them into whoever they were in their past lives.
Wiz: He can even turn people into small, weak animals!
Boomstick: He also hypnotized the entire population of Nowhere via television broadcast to stop eating flan.
Wiz: Up next is Courage's ray gun, which he stole from the Chicken from Outer Space to protect Muriel and Eustace. It shoots an energy beam, and whoever it hits will turn into an inanimate object.
Boomstick: When it hit an airplane, the plane turned into a toy. It turned a mountain into an Easter Island Head and it turned the Chicken into a roasted turkey.
Wiz: He once invented an industrial-sized vacuum, which he used to clean up large loads of filth.
Boomstick: It comes with a giant red balloon. It can make opponents float away like how it did to Conway.
Wiz: The vacuum is strong enough to suck the Statue of Liberty all the way to Kansas. This is a distance of 1193.3 miles. Assuming it took 5 seconds, this means Courage's vacuum can go at 384086.039 m/s! Also, the Statue of Liberty weighs 450,000 pounds, so in other words, Courage's vacuum can easily suck in and contain objects weighing THAT much.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iJxWe_jTY)
Boomstick: His plunger gun shoots a plunger attached to a rope. It works very similarly to a grappling hook and it can be used to attach to objects and reel them in. It can support Muriel, who is quite heavy, mind you.
Wiz: Courage's computer has a mind of its own and can directly talk back. Courage uses it whenever he needs answers. The computer is extremely cynical and stuck-up, but at the end of the day, it provides him useful information for dealing with problems, although sometimes it doesn't have all the answers, leaving Courage to figure things out by himself.
Boomstick: His computer has the ability to scan photos or small samples, such as fungus. It can connect itself to another living being by inserting wires into the back of their heads and uploading its personality to their bodies, taking them over. Unfortunately, just like any computer, it is vulnerable to viruses and needs to be plugged in to work.
Wiz: Courage's signature weapon might have to be explosives. Where he gets them from, we will never know, but whenever there's a time that calls for blowing stuff up, he is ready. He carries bundles of TNT sticks, boxes of dynamites, black bombs, TNT barrels, and detonators!
Boomstick: I bet Michael Bay would want him as his pet.
Wiz: Sometimes he will disguise an explosive as something else, like beef jerky, and forcibly feed it to his opponent.
Boomstick: The God Bone is a colossal, mythical dog bone that Courage used as a bludgeoning weapon to defeat a group of skeletons. Although the bone forces dogs to lick it until they die, Courage actually controlled this temptation pretty well.
Wiz: Instant Quicksand can be poured into a hole alongside a glass of water to immediately create a pit of quicksand. Once an enemy stands on it, they will sink to their doom in a flash. For ages 3 and up, 60-day money back guarantee, order online for only $19.95, patent pending.
Boomstick: And with Instant Eels, he pours dehydrated eggs into water. The eels instantly hatch and become full-grown adults once planted. They will spontaneously attack anything that gets too close.
Wiz: Happy Plums were cooked by Muriel. They can be fed to opponents by flinging them into their mouths. They are so good that they will turn anybody happy and pacified. It even reduced a raging beast to a crybaby. They successfully undid the effects of Dr. Zalost's cannonballs, which leaves people eternally depressed.
Boomstick: The Kangaroo Monster Bone Fragment will turn Courage into the extinct kangaroo monster once inserted into his body. He can do this by literally hammering it into himself with a mallet.
Wiz: Courage's Kangaroo Monster form is as big as a skyscraper, and it greatly increases his strength! He can carry people in his pouch and pull out croissants that are so delicious people will become distracted, eat it, and want more.
Boomstick: The Magic Tree of Nowhere is a tree who looks like an off-brand Thanos. After Courage planted a couple of seeds that ruined his sand castle, the tree was born upon being watered by a rainstorm.
Wiz: As its name implies, the tree can grant any wish or desire. When Muriel wished for a new oven, it immediately appeared. When Courage wished for a real construction vehicle, it instantly popped up. Later, Muriel wanted her and Courage to see a movie, which suddenly caused a projector to form out of the tree's branches.
Boomstick: Courage has craptons of weapons, right? Well, you'll be surprised when you find out he resists certain powers.
Wiz: Freezing Courage with ice will not work. He once broke himself out when he was frozen after falling into a lake in the South Pole. His brain remains active when frozen, as he can make a light bulb appear above his head, which quickly thaws him out.
Boomstick: Mindhax won't work much on him, either. Courage resisted the urge to eat flan despite being hypnotized into wanting to eat it. And what's impressive is that the King of Flan managed to hypnotize the entire town of Nowhere, and potentially the whole planet!
Wiz: He also resisted the temptation to lick the God Bone, which, as stated previously, forces dogs to lick it forever.
Boomstick: Good luck trying to affect him with agehax. When Earth was sent 1,000 years into the future, he and the Bagges were the only ones unaffected.
Wiz: Extreme heat won't put him down for good. He has been to the core of the Sun and out.
Boomstick: Courage is not flawless, however.
Wiz: Courage's weaknesses are that he's...well, cowardly. He makes Luigi look like a fearless warrior. However, he is capable of overcoming his fears and confronting them directly for the sake of his loved ones.
Boomstick: His critical thinking skills fall apart when in a panic, causing him to scream, run, and blabber incoherently instead of going up to the problem.
Wiz: He tends to be selfless, since he is usually willing to save Muriel's life with little to no regard for his own well-being.
Boomstick: But despite his weaknesses, Courage should never be underestimated when it comes to a fight.
== Gumball Watterson's Amazing World is in DEATH BATTLE! ==
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30lgcIzA5QM)
Wiz: Gumball Tristopher Watterson lives in Elmore, a wacky town where beings of all sorts reside. Paper bears, potatoes, ghosts, robots, dinosaurs, bananas, giants, clay, 8-bit spiders, bombs, CGI monkeys, clouds, you name it.
Boomstick: He was born to goofball rabbit Richard, and the short-tempered cat Nicole.
Wiz: Somehow, Gumball gets his intelligence from his dad, but his appearance from his mom. Anyway, Gumball was a rebellious, hyperactive kid to the point where his parents only got a few seconds of sleep.
Boomstick: But then Gumball's life changed when his mom decided to adopt a pet goldfish for him, which he named Darwin, and that started a wholesome, inseparable brotherhood.
Wiz: Gumball, Darwin, and their young sister, Anais, go on all sorts of adventures around Elmore, but believe it or not, he sometimes has to save the day.
Boomstick: Gumball has been in multiple fights with his family, saved his school bus from blowing up, stopped his arch-nemesis Rob from ruining his life, survived a night against an evil ghost being, rescued one of his classmates from being forgotten, stopped Hector from destroying the town, survived a full-scale school riot, and prevented his peers from permanently turning into humans!
Wiz: He helped his girlfriend Penny Fitzgerald find out who she really was, escaped from an exploding van, and survived being stranded on the roof of the school.
Boomstick: He saved his show from running out of budget money, stopped doppelgängers from stealing his fame, and he rescued his family on his day off while putting in as little effort as possible!
Wiz: He survived an evil turtle attack, brought back the world's color by singing, and saved his mother's workplace from getting overblown with poison.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--T6qS8uRR4)
Boomstick: It may not look like it, but Gumball can hold his own in a fight.
Wiz: Let's start off with the most important: Gumball is a notable user of Toon Force. We've already explained it earlier, so let's move on.
Boomstick: Gumball has impressive regeneration abilities, which have allowed him to come back from serious injuries within a very short, or sometimes instant, time span. He's been melted to a puddle, decapitated, flattened, burnt down to his skeleton, blown into tiny bits, reduced to droplets, shattered to pieces and dismembered, only to come back fine and well.
Wiz: Gumball can control his body at will. He can rearrange his limbs and internal organs in many ways without negatively affecting himself. He can peel off his body and become different emotional states -- literally. He can inflate his body like a balloon and gain limited flight.
Boomstick: He can stretch his tail to reach an airplane, and just for fun, he extended his arm far enough to reach outer space, near the Moon.
Wiz: Gumball can modify his own DNA. He can change his species, body, voice, and more.
Boomstick: Gumball can kill people just by glaring at them. It can even affect grass. However, there is a drawback to this: It requires him having to get EXTREMELY up-close to his opponent, so it's not the most ideal if his opponent has ranged attacks or if they simply punch him before he can do that.
Wiz: If he's close enough, he can hop on someone and fuse with them to turn them into a...zombie thing.
Boomstick: Gumball once hypnotized Darwin by saying "Look into my eyes". He proceeded to make him allergic to cheese, made him fluently speak French, and caused him to look at his past lives.
Wiz: He can make and drive invisible cars that even come with windshields! He can also create invisible guns, which surprisingly work like actual guns! Well, he hasn't actually shot anything with it, but it's not faulty to assume it would work like Anais', which shot through metal pipes.
Boomstick: He can take out bowling balls from his you-know-what and use them to hurt his foes.
Wiz: However, after long enough, he will have to run back to retrieve them.
Boomstick: He once accidentally stopped time upon running into the screen and breaking it since he was in a rush to get to school!
Wiz: Upon accidentally pausing time, he was able to interact with a clock that allowed him to travel through time as far back as prehistoric times.
Boomstick: After going on Ramblur, the show's parody of Tumblr, Gumball learned the argumentative styles of social justice warriors.
Wiz: His opinions shook the cafeteria with a shockwave, causing Carmen to fly into a wall.
Boomstick: In the same episode, he formed a sword out of his faulty accusations.
Wiz: If Gumball holds in his own toxicity, he can spew out venom, which proved to be strong enough to melt off Tobias' face. However, if he holds it in for long enough, he will die unless he expunges it.
Boomstick: He can cause people to spontaneously explode just by running into them!
Wiz: He has immersive powers that allow him to go inside picture frames, photographs, movies, and even books, where he can change the text to have them written in the story. He and Darwin once ran across every TV channel as Richard flipped through the channels, and were in a book he immediately picked up afterwards.
Boomstick: By constant chattering, he turned Darwin and himself into wrinkly old men.
Wiz: Not unlike his mother, Gumball can control energy. When he insults his opponent, energy balls grow in his hands and he can throw them to hurt them, both physically and mentally. When he was trapped under cement, he broke out by using an energy burst.
Boomstick: But what his mother CAN'T do is teleport. When Gumball was shown leaving a store, he was immediately at the counter again and appeared inside a jar, an egg carton and a cash register within an instant.
Wiz: Gumball has shown some shapeshifting capabilities. He can make his fingers keys, or turn himself into eggs.
Boomstick: He can also make himself look like his dad!
Wiz: Now that we got his Toon Force out of the way, let's get to the real deal by starting off with his strength. For one, Gumball is strong enough to punch a hole in a wall and break down a wooden door.
Boomstick: He once carried a treadmill that Anais was running on, and chunked it through toilet pipes, causing Banana Joe's toilet to explode.
Wiz: Gumball can rip a locker off its hinges and break out of encased cement. He casually threw Darwin out of a window, flipped an entire car over, and casually brought down a tipping car with his legs.
Boomstick: He can bend a steel crowbar and break a hole through a wooden door.
Wiz: Not to mention, he broke a TV screen with a baseball bat.
Boomstick: Gumball's strength matches his durability, as he has traded blows with those who can hurt him. One example is how he has fought on par with Rob on a few occasions. This is pretty important because Rob can survive a massive explosion, followed by being launched hundreds of meters in the air and landing on a car.
Wiz: Gumball has consistently beaten himself up several times as well.
Boomstick: Speaking of durability, now's a good time to discuss that.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb9TUYtstHc)
Wiz: Gumball has consistently survived being struck by lightning numerous times. He once tanked one of Darwin's sneezes at a close range, which was strong enough to send vehicles into the stratosphere.
Boomstick: He has survived terminal velocity falls. He has also survived being launched into outer space by Mr. Robinson's car, only to withstand the ensuing fall. Not only was he fine from the vacuum of space, but he can also breathe in there.
Wiz: He has taken barbaric pummellings from Bobert, including being punched hard enough to go through several walls. He's been squished by Tina Rex, a living dinosaur strong enough to fight Bobert, only to come out fine.
Boomstick: He fell off a skyscraper with no injuries and once tanked 4 explosions in a row without major damage. He has taken many beatings from Anais, who can shake their entire house just by kicking.
Wiz: Gumball has even survived his entire school blowing up. The worst that happened to him was a few burns and some messy clothes.
Boomstick: He was hit by a laser that was capable of destroying a house and he endured the destruction of Gargaroth the Devourer, which was an explosion the size of the school.
Wiz: Gumball can even take hits from his own mother, who brought down a warehouse after stomping Mr. Rex, and she also destroyed a gym during her fight with Yuki Yoshida.
Boomstick: Dayum.
Wiz: As for speed, Gumball can run so fast that he can create a trail of fire on the ground. He also once pedaled a bike so hard he became a fireball, tipped over a cop car and set a police scanner ablaze. When time was frozen, Gumball set a book on fire from sheer movement! He once traveled 4,000 miles, although the time it took for him to do so is unknown. All of these feats mean Gumball can run at speeds of Mach 5.
Boomstick: He can run at speeds where he appears faster than the eye can see, such as how he can appear as a blur or make the background appear blurry.
Wiz: And when he was a toddler, he ran so fast Nicole or Richard couldn't perceive him just so he could rescue Darwin!
Boomstick: He and Darwin once mowed Mr. Robinson's lawn with a nail clipper in 5 seconds and painted his fence in a second a dozen times.
Wiz: He could take over most of Larry's jobs, and Larry is, to say the least, a workaholic. And he did this in the span of his five minute break!
Boomstick: Gumball could somehow get out of Penny's grip, grab Darwin, swap clothes with Darwin, put him in Penny's grip and then leave the room before either of them could notice.
Wiz: He has kept pace with his mom, who can run faster than the speed of sound!
Boomstick: He can outrun Tina Rex and keep up with speeding cars. He is able to keep pace with a school bus.
Wiz: Tyrannosaurus rexes were officially reported to have ran at 20 meters per second, which is 45 miles per hour...
Boomstick: ...whereas the average car regularly drives at 50 kilometres per hour, or 31 miles, on residential or busy roads, and 80-90 kilometres per hour, or 50-56 miles, on main roads. School buses, on the other hand, have a maximum speed of 50 mph.
Wiz: For intelligence, Gumball is surprisingly very imaginative and creative. He usually comes up with plans that sound outright dumb, but they end up working even if not in entirely. In the pilot episode, he formed a complex plan to escape school, and in the episode The Mystery, he told many analytical theories about how he didn't put his principal in a locker in order to explain his innocence.
Boomstick: Gumball has his fair share of street smarts as well. He is a pro in sleight-of-hand, as he can successfully manipulate people in the heat of the moment to get out of trouble and into better positions, even if they don't last that long. He is somehow highly proficient in pickpocketing, being able to steal other people's money without making a peep.
Wiz: And despite being 12 years old, he can drive a car without any issues. Sometimes he notices small details that nobody else would really pay attention to. But his best intelligence feat might have to be when he got a job at Joyful Burger. He quickly worked his way up to become the CEO of the entire company, sell his shares and retire as a multi-billionaire; all in just the span of one day!
Boomstick: Not to mention he made a board game with Darwin called Dodj or Daar, which can bend space and time.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN4e73k6x-s)
Wiz: HOWEVER, Gumball's moments of idiocy are more prominent than his brilliance.
Boomstick: For one, his ego is so massive that he makes Ben Tennyson weep in shame.
Wiz: He once ignored his family's clear warnings they were being watched by cameras at one point. He constantly makes bad grades in school and has even admitted to failing middle school. TWICE.
Boomstick: He gets himself and sometimes even his entire family into trouble on a daily basis, stemming from his ignorant decisions.
Wiz: Now, let's go over Gumball's weapons. First thing's first: paintball equipment.
Boomstick: It includes a visor, armor and a loaded paintball gun. With his paintball gun, he is a crack shot, hardly missing a mark. The paintball can temporarily blind or stun enemies and the armor gives him some form of protection. And we can't forget getting hit by a paintball hurts like a bitch; they can cause welts on the skin especially at close-range.
Wiz: With the Universal Remote, Gumball can send people to The Void, where characters are deemed mistakes and erased from the world. It can reverse time, age people, slow down time, mute people, change the background music, literally eject someone, turn people off, and make the user teleport to wherever they point the remote at.
Boomstick: And with the Magic Notebook, he can open up to a page and write down stuff to create a real life fanfiction.
Wiz: The Console can warp the universe into a video game upon activation. By pushing the Start button and selecting which location the game should start at, then Gumball is all set with it.
Boomstick: Its real name is the Game Child, serving as an obvious spoof of Nintendo's Game Boy. Bought from The Awesome Store by Richard, The Console takes form of a demon and has the ability to shoot lasers.
Wiz: He also has The Phone, which summons his friends and family for assistance within the click of a button, and the Ghost Potion, which he takes out and drinks to become a ghost. He becomes intangible and can possess people. In this state, there is a 24-hour deadline. If the time's up, he remains a ghost forever.
Boomstick: And last but not least: Gumball's weaknesses.
Wiz: Gumball is very impulsive, gullible and egotistical. He is not very experienced in actual combat and is prone to cowardice.
Boomstick: In fact, his main method is dishing out damage rather than giving it.
Wiz: His Toon Force and regeneration does not mean he's invincible. He can still feel pain and get knocked out or incapacitated.
Boomstick: Gumball is vulnerable to poison, as he received a major loss of motor skills when his mother's workplace was bombarded with heavy doses of toxic gases in the episode The Factory, and in The Date, he required medical attention after repeatedly getting bitten by a venomous spider. Plus, let's not forget how holding in his toxicity for too long will kill him.
Wiz: He is also susceptible to radiation, since he almost died when Bobert released it into the air in The Loophole.
Boomstick: He never takes anything serious at first and has a bad habit of underestimating his opponents. He works better in a group rather than on his own.
Wiz: Gumball is lazy to high degrees. He once slacked off when he had to take out the trash, he regularly thinks dumb "solutions" that require no effort, and he spent an entire day vegging out. Even when his family was in trouble, he still never got out of his chair.
Boomstick: The Universal Remote is as durable as your average TV remote, given how it was easily smashed to pieces, and it can run out of batteries.
Wiz: The Magic Notebook can easily be ripped from his possesion and destroyed, because whenever Gumball decides to use it, he will have to think of something, take out the book, open it and write down a sentence.
Boomstick: As you can see in the image above, he is highly afraid of water and can't swim, even if his life depended on it.
Wiz: Gumball certainly wasn't made for perfection, but he should not be taken for granted when it comes to combat.
== Interlude #2 ==
A coin was flipped, but we accidentally tossed it so hard that it was launched into outer space, never to be seen again. In simple terms, both characters will be in neutral territory for the fight.
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, let's end this debate once in and for all!
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!!!!
== Pre-Fight ==
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzQmc7Cx86Y)
Courage was dementedly running around an open field, trying to find his owner's whereabouts. "Oh, where could Muriel possibly have disappeared?!" he worriedly asked himself. He looked behind an oversized boulder. Nothing. He lifted up a palm tree. Nothing. He uprooted an entire house. Wyoming.
"Ooooohhhh!" he groaned. The last time he saw Muriel, she was inexplicably disappearing from thin air and screaming for Courage's help, which he couldn't do anything about except panic. Suddenly, as he ran some more, he bumped into a blue blur (no, it wasn't Sonic): Gumball Watterson. "Oouf!" they both said. They fell to the floor.
"Huh?" Courage asked. He looked up and saw a blue cat with a head much bigger than his body, wearing a brown sweater even though it was the middle of summer. "Hey, watch where you're going!" Gumball spat out, but then he realized he bumped into a small, timid dog. "Oh shoot," he said. "Sorry, dude, I didn't mean to. I'm just trying to find my girlfriend, Penny. One minute I was holding her hand, and then - poof - she vanished!"
Courage signaled he was also trying to find the person in his life he held closest to, and that if he didn't rescue Muriel, who-know-what would happen to her. "Uhh, okay," Gumball said. "I don't know what the heck you're saying, but if I'm correct, you're also in the same situation?" Courage nodded. "Ohh, alright," the blue cat responded. "Well...good luck, I guess." They ran off.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5NX4v3TL3U)
Meanwhile, in a dim interrogation room, Muriel Bagge and Penny Fitzgerald were stuck to chained wooden chairs. They had barely woke up.
"Aah! Where am I?!" Muriel asked.
"A better question is, where are we?" Penny said.
"Oh, hello," Muriel greeted to the shapeshifting fairy. "How did you end up here?"
"I have no clue," Penny told the elderly Scottish woman. "All I remember is I was out on a date with my boyfriend Gumball, and now I'm here."
"Hmm, I figured," Muriel said. "I had my pet dog Courage on my lap until I went through the same thing!"
"Say, do you have anything that can get us out of here?" Penny asked.
"Sadly, I don't." Muriel responded, putting her head down in shame.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZnHvbv92c)
Two silhouettes appeared from a distance, and when they walked up towards them, they were revealed to be Courage and Gumball's worst enemies: Katz and Rob. Muriel and Penny screamed in utter fright.
"Ah, Penny, I never thought I would see you again," Rob monologued. "But why would I be surprised about THAT? You so-called 'heroes' are always forgetting about people like me and treat me like trash." Jeez, has Rob been watching too much Joker recently? Didn't matter. "That dumb cat is always foiling my perfect plans!"
"And quite frankly, that stupid dog is a burden," Katz gently said. "And fortunately, I've teamed up with Katz to ensure Gumball and his 'amazing world' ends for good!" Rob sneered. "Watch and learn."
"No! Don't do anything to my Courage!" Muriel cried, struggling to break free to no avail.
"You can't do this!" Penny bawled. "It's not human at all!"
"The only way your mutt is getting out, is if he wins this fight..." Katz replied.
"A fight?!" Muriel yelped. "No! Please, no!"
"We'll do anything you guys want!" Penny wailed.
"Hey, square head," Katz told Rob. "Show them what we mean."
Rob pressed a big red button on a remote.
Meanwhile (again), Courage was running out of breath...
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yw5jkAHgME)
...until he found himself getting dragged away by a ray of light. He screamed in terror and desperately tried to hold onto a flower with dear life, but he vanished. Gumball found himself going through the same fate. "Help!" he shouted. "Somebody help me!" But there was nobody around to do that. He disappeared as well.
Both Cartoon Network heroes eventually found themselves teleported into a large, dark, abandoned warehouse. They dropped to the floor and groaned in pain, weakly getting back up. "You again?" Gumball asked in clear confusion. Courage shrugged.
Suddenly, a television screen mounted to the wall started up by itself, briefly displaying static. "What the what?!" the blue cat yelled. The pink dog stepped back, scared what was going to happen.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebXrZsLsIpA)
And soon enough, his worst nightmare was shown on the screen: Muriel in peril. Rob was facing the camera. Courage's eyes bulged out as he screamed.
"HEY!" Gumball shouted. "GIVE PENNY BACK TO ME, YOU MONSTER!!!!"
"Alright, I promised my therapist I'd quit monologuing so much, so I'm gonna get straight to the point," Rob told them. "If you so-called 'heroes' want to see your respective loved ones again, one of you must defeat the other in a fight." he said. Katz was heard in the background laughing.
Courage and Gumball were scared, and they stared at each other. "Last one alive can get out of here," Katz said. "That stupid dog better lose."
The TV cut to static, and Courage smashed it with a baseball bat. "NO! NO! NO! NOOOO!" he yelled. He panted after he was done. "Look, I don't want to fight you. We can escape without having to fight."
Unfortunately, Courage's words fell on deaf ears, because Gumball was in combat position.
"I'm fighting for my life here!" the feline said. "Nobody's gonna prevent me from ever seeing my girlfriend again, and I know you're at fault for that!"
Courage gulped and then he put on a knight costume in no time flat. He whistled, which summoned a horse carrying a chariot. He quickly hopped on. If he was going to save Muriel, he had to embrace this.
But before he began fighting, he faced the camera.
"The things I do for love..."
== Fight! ==
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnv9FyyKno)
Courage rushed at Gumball in his chariot with a baseball bat and smacked him to the floor before he had a chance to attack. "OW!" Gumball yelped. "Hey, be careful with that thing. Ya could really hurt somebody, you know." But then Courage smacked him for the second time in a row, hitting the back of his head. And again. And again. And again. And again.
POW! WHACK! WHAM! SLAM! BAM! OUCH!
Stars circled Gumball's head. He developed a black eye as he began to feel dizzy, and he slightly gagged. "Ohhh...I hope I don't blow chunks..." he painfully groaned. Courage rode the horse to a faraway place in the warehouse and he signaled it to halt. He got off the chariot and fed his horse an apple. "Good horsie," he said, gently petting her. He pulled out a toolbox from his non-existent pockets and began building a mini-fort.
After he was done vomiting, Gumball stood up, clenching his fists. "Now, where did that pink dog go?"
He looked around, but suddenly, he saw a metal structure at one of the corners, complete with a moat.
"He's gotta be in there..."
Gumball ran, but once he reached the fort, he tip-toed, making sure he wouldn't fall into the water. He somehow managed to squeeze himself through the door, and once he was inside, he looked all over his surroundings, but Courage was nowhere to be found.
"Where is he?!"
It turns out Courage was underneath him, disguised as a rug! Courage grabbed Gumball by the collar of his sweater and began kicking him, but the blue cat quickly got up. Claws emerged from his paws and he scratched the pink dog as if he were a scratch-and-sniff sticker. Courage dodged most of the attacks, although one ended up landing on his stomach. It was sliced open and all of his organs spewed out!
"What the heck?!" Gumball asked in clear disgust. Courage showed no signs of pain. He took out a sew from his pockets and stitched his guts back together, perfectly healing it in a second. He ate his organs to place them back in his body.
"Eugh, you're so gross, dude!" the feline said, facing away. Suddenly, Courage delivered a karate chop to his abdomen, causing Gumball to spit out his entire friggin' mouth! "Wait, come back here!" he told his mouth, as it tried to bounce away. He placed it back onto his face and sighed in relief, but then he screamed in terror when he saw the dog about to deliver more physical attacks.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BQh_f4UZA)
Both began punching each other, with Gumball receiving a black eye and a bump on his head, and Courage landing blocks on his opponent's attacks, visibly annoying Gumball. "AAAUGH! GOSH DARN IT!" the big-headed cat shouted. He tackled the cowardly dog down to the ground and was about to glare at him to death, but in the span of a split second, Courage broke free and took off, nowhere to be seen.
"Man, this mutt's fast. Maybe if I-"
KA-POW!
With a karate chop to the back of the head, Gumball was sent flying through the roof! He was launched into space. "Hey, I can see Buzz Aldrin's footprints from-" Suddenly, started choking (due to the lack of oxygen, of course), and at that moment, he fell back down to Earth, leaving a crater in the shape of his body. Courage charged at him, but Gumball ducked, causing the former to hit the floor. Before Courage had a chance to get back up, Gumball ran up to him and...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
The smoke cleared...and Courage was still alive! "What the what?!" Gumball exclaimed. At that moment, Courage got an idea and hoped it would work. He pretended to look weak.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khHdqKGnGA)
"WAIT!" he shouted. "Time out, time out! I give up! Please spare me! I'll do anything you want!"
"Heh, that's all you had to say," Gumball said.
"Truce?" Courage asked.
"Truce."
Gumball reached his hand to him and helped him up. And then out of nowhere, the pink dog gave him a present.
"A gift?" Gumball questioned. "Uhh, you didn't have to, but-"
KWA-BLAM!
A TNT stick blew up inside of the box, which caused Gumball's head to explode, but he grew a new one in an instant. "Alright, that's it!" he declared.
In the nick of time, his eyes became different. "You should have CHECKED YOUR PRIVILEGE!" A shockwave covered the warehouse, slightly blowing back Courage. "Ow!" he yelled. "There's something wrong here," he said, facing the camera. "Or my name isn't Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen. And it's not."
Gumball summoned a sword. Courage screamed, until he got an idea. He remembered he was once in a fencing duel with the Chicken from Outer Space, so he took out a sword as well. They began an epic sword fight, with both even falling from the second floor of the warehouse and continuing to duel! "Tally-ho!" Courage shouted as his sword pierced through Gumball's chest, ripping his heart out, but he ended up growing a new one.
Oh man, Courage frantically thought. He has a healing factor a bit like mine. Better think out of the box...
Gumball became furious and swiped his sword at the pink dog, but he leaped out of the way. causing the blue feline to hit himself instead! "OW!" he yelped.
They fought even more for dear life, but Courage's sword left a dent on Gumball's. The blue cat's eyes turned back to normal as his sword was slashed in half.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYIaHS_5bQk)
"That's it!" the pint-sized cat said. He took out a paintball gun, a visor, and armor. "Back off! Back off, I said!"
Courage let out a sharp scream, until he thought TWO could play at that game. Gumball shot barrages of paintballs at him, but he opened his mouth and made them land inside! Then, he spat them out at Gumball, who was now covered in (fifty) shades of gray. He wiped them off and shot more, but Courage jumped, causing him to miss his target. He morphed himself into a jet and flew circles around Gumball, which made him miss even more!
"STOP DODGING!" Gumball commanded.
"Stop missing," Courage replied.
The dog turned back to normal and entered a door, and Gumball chased after him, but what came out was Mr. Mouse!
"What the what?!" Gumball exclaimed. Mr. Mouse grabbed the cat by the legs and flipped him upside down. He bonked Gumball's head against the floor numerous times and slammed him around like a ragdoll. Then, he tossed him to a wall, leaving an imprint the shape of his body.
"Thanks, Mr. Mouse," Courage said, handing him $5 and a block of cheese.
"No prob," he told him, walking away.
(https://youtu.be/5FzHo6x91cY?t=75)
Stars circled Gumball's head, but he was not going to give up. He cupped his hands together, and a blue ray of light emerged from underneath. "You look like a fifth Teletubby!"
Courage instantly saw the source of the sound and screamed as he saw a ball of energy coming for him. But right before it hit him, he placed a cardboard cutout of himself and it blew up, which tricked Gumball into thinking he defeated him.
"Yes!" Gumball uttered. "I won! In your face, stupid dog!"
But what he didn't know was that Courage was hiding in one of the rooms in the warehouse's second floor. He took his trustworthy computer from his pocket, plugged it in, and rushed for it to start up.
"Come on!" he impatiently whined. "Hurry UP!"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw)
"Phew."
(PS2 Red Screen of Death ambience continues playing)
"You twit, you shouldn't have dragged me here," the British-voiced computer said, clearly annoyed. "What do you want?"
"Blue cat in brown sweater trying to kill me," Courage frantically muttered as he smacked those words in.
"Alright, go easy on me!" the computer shouted. "From what my data has collected, you are dealing with Gumball Watterson."
"Why would a kitten be named after food?" he asked.
"A computer may appear to have the answers to everything," the computer told him. "But I certainly don't know about THAT."
Meanwhile, at the first floor, Gumball's ears perked up, and he ran up the stairs. "I hear something..."
"How do I deal with him?" Courage typed in.
"Well, for one, you are-"
The door barged open and Gumball unleashed an energy ball, destroying the computer! Courage screamed and dodged all of his blasts, until midway through where he caught one with his mouth and spat it out at Gumball, who was now set ablaze!
"Hey, it feels warm in here."
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEUXjgoI3lk)
"OH MY GOD! I'M ON FIRE!"
Gumball did what he learned in elementary school: stopped, dropped, and rolled. Courage jumped out of his way and opened a door, which the cat rolled into. Courage quickly built a barricade to block it.
"That oughta hold him," he said, wiping sweat from his forehead.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUDsoqQ4OZ0)
Suddenly, Gumball's claws began cutting through the wall, and the door fell on Courage, flattening him like a pancake! Gumball ran for his life, but Courage dropped a cage on him!
Gumball smirked and took out a familiar journal from his pockets: the Magic Notebook. "Get me out of this cage!" he wrote. And poof, it worked.
"Huh?" Courage asked himself. As Gumball began writing down another sentence, Courage thought, Why would someone write during the middle of a fight? Can't be any good.
But before Gumball could finish writing, Courage took out a blowtorch and set it ablaze, rendering it useless! The dog threw a pie at the cat's face, which worsened his anger. He took off, and Gumball tried to catch up, until he found another dummy of Courage.
"About time you give up," Gumball mocked. He punched it, but it blew up right in his face! The real Courage was seen running in the background. Suddenly, Gumball felt his toxicity building in. His face turned purple, his eyes grew bloodshot, and his body started violently shaking. He ran behind Courage and shot out a wave of acid from his mouth, but he made Gumball miss by using his tongue as a lasso and swinging high into the air.
"HOW IS THIS GUY SO FAST?!" Gumball shouted.
Courage maneuvered around with his tongue, just like Tarzan with vines, and he aimed it for his opponent.
"Uh oh," Gumball mumbled.
He grabbed Gumball with his tongue and slammed him around, not unlike a certain frog girl. Black eyes and swollen cheeks formed on Gumball's face. He started feeling nauseous again - from the intense beating, and he could already feel his dinner coming up...
Courage launched him through the air, causing him to repeatedly hit the ground. "Oooohhhh... my everything hurts..." Gumball weakly told himself. Courage turned himself into a slingshot and shot out Happy Plums, which made Gumball scratch himself in confusion. At that moment, when he was about to say something, he ended up choking on one of them!
"HELP!" he clamored. "IT TASTES OF BAD FOOD!"
As he performed the Heimlich Maneuver on himself, he spat it out and coughed profusely. "That was close. It could've been poison, for all I know."
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyT7pde7Kgc)
Courage managed to sneak up behind Gumball and swing an oversized hammer aiming for his skull. Upon landing a huge impact, Gumball's head was flattened like a pancake, but he reformed it in no time. He grabbed ahold of Courage and attempted to strangle him like Homer Simpson with his son.
"I've got you now!"
Suddenly, Courage melted himself into a puddle, allowing him to escape from the feline's grip. Gumball tried to grab him, but he ended up slipping and falling flat on his face. As Courage reformed himself, a light bulb shined over his head (which he flickered off), and he took out a box of Instant Quicksand from his non-existent pockets.
Gumball was slowly getting up, but Courage had already applied some water to the ground and he made no mistake to put in the quicksand.
"What are you doi- OH MY GOD! QUICKSAND!"
The quicksand fully developed, and in a panic, he extended his tail and used it to grab onto Courage, which pulled him out. Gumball did not hesitate to turn his fingers into the shape of a gun, and he began shooting.
"Pew pew pew pew!"
However, the bullets did not affect Courage. They merely broke upon impact of his skin. Gumball tried shooting "harder", but it was no use (no, that's not a reference to the worst Sonic game).
"Crap."
Gumball ran off screaming, desperately trying to think of a solution, but Courage wasn't going to let him get away if Muriel's life was on the line here.
"I hate doing this, but I must do it..."
He jammed a TNT stick into his mouth, which blew him up. Tiny pieces of him dropped to the ground, and they began forming several Courages!
"Well, three's a crowd, I always say," Courage said to himself.
Each Courage clone pulled out all sorts of weapons from their fur. Chainsaws, mallets, nail bats, axes, frying pans, you name it.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvpfCMvomz8)
Gumball looked behind him and saw a whole army of Courages coming for him! He screamed, attempting to run faster, but it was no use. He got cornered.
What do I do?! What do I do?! Gumball quickly thought. What would someone strong like my mom do? What would Batman do? What would some other third thing do in a situation that causes them to ask these sort of ineffective questions to themselves?!
As the clones got closer, he remembered something.
Wait! Yesterday, I ate a page of the Magic Notebook 'cause I thought if I swallowed at least a part of a book, I would get smarter. So maybe I still have a chance.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqPWwNG_Os)
Unfortunately, he talked to himself for too long, because he was greeted with a CLANK!, and a WHAM!, and a KA-POW!. Or in simple terms: Gumball got beaten up by a whole colony of Courages. He was hit from all over, and even bitten on his legs. And just to make matters worse for the cat, Courage decided to call in some more trustworthy dogs.
"AROOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
In the distance, several dogs of all kinds perked their ears up.
"Courage needs help!" a pit bull said, rushing into the scene with an army of other dogs.
"Fellow dogs unite!" Courage announced. "This blue cat will stop at nothing! He might go after your doghouses next! So, my friends... FETCH!"
Each and every dog followed the pink one's commands, ripping Gumball to shreds. Once they thought they were done, they looked at their handiwork and smoothly walked away. "Yes!" Courage exclaimed... but then he saw the blue specks form back into Gumball. "Oh no!"
Each clone turned back into the real Courage. Gumball, using his trustworthy claws, sliced Courage's arms off as if they were lunch meat, but the not-so-stupid dog's fingers had a mind of their own - they poked Gumball in the eyes. He screamed in great pain as Courage's arms went up to the blue cat's tail and grabbed it. They swung him around and threw him to a faraway distance, exactly like how Mario does to Bowser in the boss fights from Super Mario 64.
Courage's arms crawled back to him and reattached themselves back where they originally were. Gumball regained his posture and coughed out his spare page of the Magic Notebook. It was the last remnant of it, so he had better used it wisely. Especially with his life on the line.
"The sun was rising over the day," he spoke aloud as he wrote. "Something was intoxicating the air."
At that moment, the air became poisonous. Courage coughed and quickly put on a gas mask. He tried to figure out where the source was coming from.
"It was love!" Gumball wrote down even more.
The pink dog saw the blue cat writing down on the page.
Great. No wonder why I knew that book was suspicious.
"Which brings us to a stupid pink dog who lived his life in the safety zone," Gumball wrote. "But there's no medication for that. He found himself in a sticky situation."
Highly adhesive glue emerged from the floor, but Courage took out his plunger gun to escape. He attached the rod to a wall, swooped out, and grabbed the page.
SWIPE!
"HEY!" Gumball exclaimed. "Give me back my page!"
Courage ignored his order, and ate it as if it were a tasty snack.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UaxObreDaE)
"GRRRRRR! YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!" Gumball commanded, a lot more angry than before. His body turned blood red, and he started breathing heavily like Darth Vader.
"The things I do for-"
KA-BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdGAVDkQfko)
"LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
The explosion sent Courage flying, and a large hole in the warehouse was made from it. He landed on a boulder, which blew into smithereens upon impact. As he got back up, he groaned. "Well, at least I still have my personality."
"Not for long!" Gumball said from a distance. "You're going to get crushed to death once I apply this to ya!"
He took out a bowling ball and rolled them against the ground. Courage's eyes popped out of his sockets once he saw it approach him, but then he started thinking. Inside of his brain, an egg was developed. Within seconds, it hatched, and a light bulb came out of it, indicating he had literally hatched an idea.
The bowling ball came close to him, but Courage kicked it back, striking Gumball flat in his face. His entire face was caved into his skull, but then it popped right back out. He rolled more bowling balls, but all they succeeded in was being redirected right back at him. He dodged a few, but the amount of bruises on him from his failed attacks greatly outnumbered any of his attempts to dodge.
Courage charged at him and they got into a cartoony fight cloud, with their fists, legs and heads occasionally coming out of it. The cowardly canine released a flurry of punches to the egotistical kitten's face and crushed him into the shape of a pretzel. Gumball slowly began to reform himself, and in the midst of it, he thought of a way to potentially take care of this dog once and for all.
"Look into my eyes."
Courage's vision became swirly before he knew it. Yeah, it's a cliché, but that's actually what happened.
"You will do as I say."
Courage slowly followed his command, until he noticed something was off. He was under mind control. He wasn't going to go down like this. He imagined a picture of Muriel and fought hard against Gumball's orders.
"Now, sit still," Gumball demanded.
Courage was getting on his all fours, until he slapped himself hard, wiping out the hypnosis.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Qh6_SQ9xQ)
"WHAT THE WHATTING WHAT?!" the kitty shouted. He took off in fear, not knowing what to do. When he was running, he felt something jiggle in his pockets. Oh yeah, I still have that ghost potion Carrie once gave me.
Courage was getting tired of playing a game of cat-and-mouse, so instead of chasing after his opponent, he was going to take out the big guns... his vacuum that he once built to clean up his house's filth. Meanwhile, Gumball was hiding in a bush (Team Rocket would nod in approval for that corny hiding spot) and looked both directions to make sure the coast was clear. He took the potion out of his pants and popped the cork open. "Over the lips and past the gums - look out, stomach, you're not gonna like this."
Courage arrived on the scene inside his colossal-sized vacuum, sniffing the air to discover the feline's whereabouts. He drove behind the shrubs, and all he found was... his dead body? Guess all of that proved to be too much for him.
But at the spur of the moment, the small pooch heard a voice behind him.
Oh, I'm sorry, were you looking for me?
Courage shrieked at the top of his lungs, leaving his wide-open mouth a desirable target for Gumball. The eldest Watterson child swiftly flew into the worrisome puppy's mouth. He gained control of Courage and forcibly made him punch himself all over.
"OW OW OW OW!"
Gumball couldn't help but laugh. "Stop hitting yourself!" he taunted. "You must have some serious self-loathing issues!"
The tables turned when Courage grabbed one of his arms and reached into his mouth, dragging Gumball out. "WAIT! STOP IT!" Gumball demanded. But it was too late. Courage took the ghost Gumball by the neck and threw him out of the vacuum, which he activated. The creator of Dodj or Daar screamed bloody murder as he got sucked into the vacuum (Luigi would be proud) and then spat out back into his original body.
"Should I even be surprised that failed?" Gumball asked himself. Scavenging through his pockets, he felt something blocky, and he discovered it was The Console! Grinning, he pushed Start, but he was too late to react to Courage lunging at him with the almighty God Bone.
BWAM! SBAM! SOC! SMACK! SKREEEECK! POM!
Courage resisted the temptation to lick it, even for just a nanosecond. As good as it was, now wasn't the time for treats if his owner's fate rested in his hands. With another series of solid strikes from the giant bone, Gumball saw himself outmatched, especially because the sheer impact of the God Bone smashed The Console into smithereens. Courage jumped high into the air with intents of crushing him, but the Watterson prankster screamed and ran out of the way before it had a chance to send him underground. He leaped onto Courage's back and tried to blind him - anything to delay danger - but the dog grabbed him by the arms and threw him off.
"Come on, Gumball! Think of something that can end this for good!" the cat loudly told himself as he tried to find somewhere to stay out of sight. "Huh?" Courage questioned. But then that's when something hit him like a boomerang: if Gumball was coming up with a plan, maybe there was something he could do to read his mind. And that's when he remembered his learned arts of astral projection.
Courage laid out a mat and relaxed himself. "Ommmmm...ommmmmm...ommmmm..." he muttered. Soon enough, an intangible version of himself exited his true, physical body. "I hope I get this right," he uttered. "This is for Muriel!"
Wasting no time, he entered Gumball's head. "Eh?" the infamous troublemaker of Elmore said. "My head feels funny..." He rubbed his forehead, but thought it was no big deal. "Now where was I? Oh yeah."
Inside of Gumball's mind, there were several ideas flowing through. Courage could see a good chunk of them, and they certainly weren't looking any good for him. He could see images of a TV remote and a phone. How imposing they were, he had no idea, but they had to be weapons. What else was there to do if this cat was going to pull out two items that could be dangerous for all he knows?
He exited and went back into his body. But before he had a chance to take out something from his rear end, Gumball was behind him. "You shouldn't have pushed my buttons!"ENTER THE FINAL BATTLE!(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq-g3iiZdnQ)
When he turned around, he saw Gumball with the grand motherload of his weapons: the Universal Remote! Courage screamed in terror and backed up. Gumball clicked on the Pause button, freezing the environment around them. "Huh?" Courage questioned. "None of us are getting out of here until I take care of YOU," Gumball told him. "Wait, that didn't sound right..."
What DID sound right to Courage, though, was this: get the fuck out of here. The overprotective canine screamed for dear mercy as Gumball chased him, wielding the remote.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
Darwin and Anais' older brother tried to aim for Courage, but he was too fast. Upon trying to use the Power button on him, he unintentionally deleted a few of their surroundings, such as trees and bushes. "Am I bad at working this thing, or was I right about this stupid dog being too dang fast?"
He aimed for Courage and clicked the Play button, teleporting him next to him, but it was almost useless - the pooch proved to be too fast. He had to stop some time; nobody can run forever. But Courage's energy was monstrous. He did not choose to give up, and to make the chase more intense, he was performing complex acrobatic moves around whatever was left of the environment. "Oh, it's on!" Gumball declared. He tried to do parkour, but he failed. Each leap, he collapsed face-flat on the ground. Each climbing attempt, he landed on his butt. Each roll, he found himself in backflips and falling.
He sighed, wishing he REALLY didn't use the Ghost Potion earlier, because at least he didn't have to worry about running. Right when he thought he finally found Courage, he stopped. "Alright, this is too suspicious," he noted. "What if he pops out of nowhere?"
Out of nowhere, he felt an overwhelming bite on his arm. "OW!" The remote fell to the ground, now on the verge of its batteries spilling out. "Oh no you don't!"
But that's when he realized: Courage was now invisible.
"Ha ha...ha ha...ha ha...haaaahhh. AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Courage was now visible again. Both characters wrestled for the remote, whacking each other's faces and whatnot, but the dog's strength proved to be superior. However, Gumball briefly touched it, and struggling to use his thumb, he clicked the AV button, activating a portal to The Void a few feet away.
"You're going in there!" Gumball shouted. Courage looked ahead and his eyeballs widened, with his pupils shrinking as well. "NEVER!" he shrieked, kicking Gumball away, now holding the Universal Remote. He looked down, trying to figure out the basics behind this contraption. He clicked on Pause, which unfroze the world. He looked up and saw Gumball charging at him, so he frantically tried to think of what else to press. About half a second later, he knew which one to click on: Slow Motion.
The world was now in, well, slow motion. Gumball was about to tackle Courage, but he moved out of the way and put a rock in his original place. Then, he turned time's speed back to normal, and the blue cat stubbed his toe and tripped. "Ow! Ouch! Ow ow ow!"
Upon getting back up, he saw Courage with the remote and dropkicked him. They contended for it once again, until one of their hands pressed the Music button, which changed the background music to...something a lot, LOT less unfitting.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL5fbozc3kU)
"Is it me, or does this music have a whole different vibe to this situation?" Gumball asked.
Courage nodded and reached for the remote. He pressed the Music button, thinking it was at fault. And it was, so the music turned back to normal.
("Final Showdown Theme - Medium" continues playing)
The feline swiped the remote from his own hands and pushed his thumb down on the Eject button, which forcibly shoved Courage near The Void. "Any last words... stupid dog?" Gumball taunted.
Courage was shivering nonstop, until he instantly came up with yet another idea. He took out a ray gun from his "pockets", and before Gumball was aware on what was going on, the Universal Remote was zapped and turned into a strawberry. "OH MY GOD!" Gumball shouted. In a huge panic, he took out The Phone to ensure this wasn't going to be his last day breathing air. Within the click of a button, his friends and family arrived on the scene to help him. The cowardly dog's heartbeat increased as he saw Sarah G. Lato, Hector, Banana Joe, Carrie, Granny Jojo, Nicole and Richard come in to beat him up.
Wait a minute, this wasn't his first time cornered by a gang. Courage remembered when he was challenged to a deadly game of dodgeball by his villains, and at the end, he was about to get his butt kicked by them. There was no doubt his screams were shattering.
That's it! All Courage needed to do was use his big lungs. He inhaled as deeply as he could, and before Sarah could even lay out the first attack...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
Gumball, as well as his parents and friends, were left completely immobilized. There was no such thing as stopping Courage. The cowardly dog was not holding back at all. He put all of his power into his lungs. The scream was so powerful that a few cracks tore right through the earth and broke open, but it's not like that mattered, because the sheer power of Courage's scream reduced everything of Gumball and co. into nothingness.
A KNOCK-OUT!
After screaming hardcore for almost a whole minute, Courage was out of breath, and he let out a huge sigh of relief, collapsing to the ground in exhaustion. After a few seconds, he got back up and cheered. "Yes!"
Courage looked around his surroundings. Gumball Watterson and most of his loved ones were no more. Not even a speck of their atoms were left intact; they were just gone. That scream was too much for them.
Meanwhile in Nowhere, Muriel was back with Courage and Eustace, whereas Katz and Rob were arrested, but who knows how long they were going to be in the big house for? They could break out any day now.
Muriel: My! What big lungs you have, Courage!
Eustace: No wonder you haven't gotten deaf from that stupid dog. And when are you going to make me some grub?!
Muriel: Settle down Eustace, or else it's cold cuts for dinner!
Eustace: No, please! Anything but that!
Courage grinned and giggled at the camera as it irised out on him.
== Results ==
Boomstick: Dayum. That was intense.
Wiz: You got that right, Boomstick. Let's go over why the dog beat the cat, shall we?
Boomstick: Let's.
Wiz: First and foremost, Gumball was massively outclassed in everything. Sorry Gumball, we love ya, but- Oh, that's right, he's dead. Anyway, to start off with, Courage destroys Gumball in the physicals department. If we weren't generous, this fight would have been over in two seconds.
Boomstick: I mean, Gumball can be quite strong, sure, but he is "nowhere" near Courage levels of strong. Courage can break the SUN into little pieces, hold a star over his head, destroy a house that withstood the planet spinning around the sun, leave a huge mark on the moon, generate kinetic energy equivalent to nuclear weapons, physically repair the ozone layer, destroy a spaceship that survived moving the asteroid ring around Saturn, be on par with a robot who stomped a mountain-destroying one, AND lift up a blue whale.
Wiz: Some may think Gumball is a lot more durable because he survived the Big Bang, but that "feat" is an outlier. Not only is that his only universal feat to his name, but he was incredibly far from the explosion, so when you think about it, he never really tanked it per se.
Boomstick: You might be thinking "But Gumball took blasts from The Console, who warped the universe into a video game!".
Wiz: Sure, two's better than one, but that's only two universal feats compared to his plethora of durability feats that are much, much lower than that. Even if it was legitimate, it's important noting The Console almost KILLED him!
Boomstick: Courage, on the other hand, has survived getting shot into space, going through the moon and slammed back down to Earth. But wait, there's more! He's also withstood a meteor clashing with Earth, getting launched across the world, being on the sun's surface and even inside its core, and a violent beating from his superior temporary replacement, Mecha-Courage. So with all of those in mind, Gumball had no chance of ever hurting the not-so-stupid dog.
Wiz: He couldn't hope of catching up with him either. Gumball's best speed feats are at Mach 5, whereas Courage can run at 29% the speed of light, dodge point-blank lasers and asteroids, react to lightning, run to several countries within seconds, rapidly dig through thousands of years worth of dirt, and pedal a spaceship that flew from Earth to Saturn within a very short amount of time.
Boomstick: In terms of stamina, Courage's is better than the blue cat's. He has the energy for DAYS. He once sat still for an entire night and until the next morning, with no signs of drowsiness.
Wiz: He's taken tons of violent beatings and curbstomp battles, only to continue standing still and laugh off his injuries!
Boomstick: And let's not forget how he is a lot smarter than Gumball as well. Courage can build life-saving inventions, outwit clever villains within a short amount of time, and instantly come up with complex plans, not to mention he's also highly multitalented in several different subjects. Gumball's ignorance, impulsivity, massive ego, and little academic knowledge pale in comparison to all of those.
Wiz: Also, if this was a laziness battle, Gumball would've sealed a victory, because he's so lazy that he once spent an entire episode being lazy. Even when his parents were in grave danger, he NEVER left his chair!
Boomstick: Yup. That factor only worsened matters.
Wiz: Courage's arsenal is better and more versatile. With melee weapons, explosives, a hypnotism yo-yo, happiness-inducing plums, a transmutation gun and others, he had a lot to choose from. Gumball's Universal Remote may have looked dangerous at first, but he's definitely not as ruthless and experienced with it as Rob.
Boomstick: His Ghost Potion was countered by the fact Courage can touch spirits, his Paintball Gun couldn't hope of hurting him, and the Magic Notebook is easily prone to getting ripped from Gumball's possession and destroyed.
Wiz: It also takes too long to form an attack, as he needs to ponder, take out the book, open it, and write something down in there. It's even worse given how Courage was much faster than him. Additionally, Courage is not a moron. He wasn't going to stand there once he saw his opponent writing something down.
Boomstick: In fact, Gumball wouldn't use the book out of harmful intentions, because he only used it to make fanfictions come true.
Wiz: Yeah. It's not like he would use it to erase Courage from existence or anything.
Boomstick: When it comes to experience, Courage had it in the "doghouse". He faces many threats from demons, creatures, ghosts and psychopaths almost every day in his life, whereas Gumball's daily routine is head to school, cause trouble, get into a misadventure from his clumsy decisions, and go home.
Wiz: A good chunk of Gumball's abilities aren't things he would think of doing even on the verge of death. The first is his time stopping powers. The reason he didn't halt time during this fight is because...well, when he was late for school, he unintentionally broke the camera. So in simple terms, he only paused it on accident, he's not aware he can do that, and it's not like he has ever used it against someone.
Boomstick: His time traveling is also combat inapplicable. He has never used it in a situation where he needed to save his life. Even if he did, he can only time travel if a countdown appears on the screen, which he can't summon at will or anything.
Wiz: The third is his ability to age people into elderly beings. He only used it so he and Darwin could join a senior group, so, again, not something he'd do in combat. It's not like it would work against Courage anyway; as we've stated before, he didn't age a bit after Earth fast-forwarded 1,000 years. His zombie fusion wouldn't come up in a fight either, because he only did it to lecture Anais about parasitic friends.
Boomstick: Don't forget his Super Saiyan form!
Wiz: Oh, right. That's useless in combat, too. While Gumball did turn Super Saiyan in the episode The Pest, he has never shown the powers of one because he only did it to look cool. Even Darwin told him to stop posturing!
Boomstick: Some other powers were too close-range as well, especially his death glare. Courage had numerous ways of keeping his distance with his arsenal.
Wiz: Gumball may have impressive regeneration, but it doesn't automatically make him unkillable. Courage's physicals are WAY too much for him to handle, and since he has never survived anything like Courage's power, there was no way he could heal from his attacks. The only advantage Gumball truly had was being a lot less cowardly. He may be a chicken, but not to Courage's extent. However, that may not mean much, since Courage is always willing to directly conquer his fears, and the problems he encounter each day are things that would leave Gumball traumatized.
Boomstick: Looks like Courage put Gumball in a "doggy bag"!
Wiz: The winner is: Courage.
Courage (Winner)
* WAY more stronger (+)
* WAY more durable (+)
* FAR faster, to the point of speedblitz (+)
* Smarter by a long shot (+)
* More skilled and experienced (+)
* Better weapons and versatility (+)
* Superior range (+)
* A lot more cowardly, although he can get over his fears for the sake of his loved ones (-/+)
Gumball Watterson (Loser)
* Not as cowardly (+)
* MUCH weaker; couldn't compete in strength at all (-)
* Nowhere near as durable (-)
* MUCH slower, to the point of speedblitz (-)
* A lot less intelligent (-)
* Not as skilled or experienced (-)
* Not as versatile (-)
* Inferior range (-)
* Has never faced anything like Courage (-)
* Arsenal wasn't as good (-)
* Certain abilities are not combat applicable (-)
* Incredibly arrogant to a fault (-)
== Trivia ==
* The connections between Courage and Gumball are that both are goofy, cowardly Cartoon Network protagonists who live in extremely surreal and cynical worlds where virtually anything imaginable can happen even at the most inconvenient times, and they constantly have all odds placed against them in situations, with most of these situations starting off as everyday problems only to have a supernatural twist to them. Despite this, however, they always come out on top against their enemies in order to protect the ones they love (Muriel and Eustace; the Watterson family and Penny). They constantly travel out of their welcoming homes and end up meeting bizarre entities in the process, such as their own revenge-obsessed, sworn nemesis (Katz and Rob) who serve as their foils (Katz is a cat of pure evil, and Rob was a forgotten character who wants to be the star of the show).
** For contrasts, Courage was tragically separated from his parents at a young age and had to live a rough life on the streets fending for himself, while Gumball keeps a tight bond with his family and has lived a cheerful, easy life with them. Courage is also the type of hero who actively protects his home from various threats and takes all of them seriously, while Gumball is a far more carefree hero who has a habit of causing trouble himself and is practically known as a notorious criminal across his town, often committing mischief such as trying to break the eternally optimistic Alan by framing him for cheating on Carmen and even selling his parents to have them turned into balloon animals at a birthday party. One is also a dog, and the other is a cat.
*** I know it ain't much but I vibe with this as a general matchup. Why? I dunno. Maybe it's because of how weird their shows truly are along with the personality clash, I'm just not sure. I do prefer Scooby-Doo vs Courage and Eddy vs Gumball if that's anything to go by.
* Although I forgot to include some feats for Gumball in this fight (e.g. the Lucky Helmet, the Love Arrows, his magic from The Sorcerer, and everything else that can be seen on Izuku, Bakugou, Todoroki and Iida Vs. The Wattersons), it is completely unfeasible a rematch will ever be made as of April 18th, since I firmly believe Courage still stomps no matter what the conditions are.
* After nearly a year of writing this, I just want to say I have mixed feelings about this fight. On one hand, I think I wrote it all well (though I think I made Courage talk a little too much), but on the other hand...I just think Courage stomps in every single way possible, so I have no idea if writing a stomp matchup was worth all the effort. Seriously, SpongeBob Vs. Courage is infinitely more fair than this.