Anomaly

> "*They were an anomaly in this timeline that wasn't ever supposed to occur. They got everyone we've fought on their side and turned them against us because they believed those like Spongebob had taken away their chance to shine. While others like Danny had an ending and crossed over many times before, the rest of us haven't, which leads to jealousy.*"
> ― Phoebe to Jimmy Neutron[[source]]
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An Anomaly in the Multiverse can be described as an oddity that disrupts the natural flow of time and space, as stated by Clockwork. In a detailed sense, characters who become anomalies most often change the entire course of history for better or worse due to an unscripted event. The worst and biggest case of this took the form of the Syndicate, who became responsible for breaking the Fourth Wall and using their knowledge to manipulate other cartoons to start the Toon Wars.

In some cases, characters who have been known to break the Fourth Wall constantly are also referred to as anomalies. However, they are still bound by their script limitations much of the time and cannot affect those around them should said limits refuse to dictate it. When a character IS affected, they themselves become part of the anomaly, essentially making it a permanent part of history rather than an error in reality.

In comparison, in the New Beginnings Timeline by Jenniferthehuman, though characters from Teen Titans GO were essentially given access to Cartoon Network's resources and actively affect the other cartoons in an unscripted event, they themselves are not necessarily an anomaly as it was a deliberate circumstance done by their creators instead of a glitch.

In a different timeline introduced in the short "Into the Wereverse," Strike had become an anomaly himself during *Crossover Nexus* by breaking the Fourth Wall to the heroes and manipulating them enough that they killed each other in their confusion. He then seized the opportunity to borrow a Time Portal from Aku in *Samurai Jack* to invade other timelines. But with the combined efforts of many Alternate Universe versions of Gumball Watterson, he was quickly defeated and redeemed.

T.K.O. later acts as an anomaly in the timeline, having been separated as a character from K.O. when the Toon God used his friends to kill him. What resulted was the trashbin confusing T.K.O. as his own being rather than part of K.O., allowing him to survive beyond his counterpart's reach. Fink later becomes part of the anomaly when she and Turbo return as adults for the fight against the Toon God and remain separated from the actual cartoon. This left the Toonverse with two versions of Fink and K.O (the latter original having since merged with his turbo half in the show).

Almost the entirety of the Villainous cast were considered anomalies thanks to their material surfacing prior and during the Toon Wars despite only being a pilot at the time. This allowed them to witness the events of Toon Wars: The Final Days from the comfort of their unfinished cartoon and learn of the Fourth Wall's existence without being modified by the reality controls. Second to them, Catra also appeared coincidentally the same time as the final battle against the Toon God, having also disturbed the flow of reality to the point of it nearly being erased in her own cartoon in the Netflix Omniverse. Late in Crossover Forces, its also learned that Entrapta and Emily were duplicated like Catra and transferred to the Toonverse by accident.