Gumball Watterson

The blue one (by Granny Jojo in "The Kiss")

GumballOopsEggWobbleUnderpants (in "The Dress")

Greg (by the Internet in "The Intelligence")

The blue Watterson (by Principal Brown in "Darwin's Yearbook: Banana Joe")

Nicole Watterson (mother)

Richard Watterson (father)

Granny Jojo (paternal grandmother)

Frankie Watterson (paternal grandfather)

Louie Watterson (paternal step grandfather)

Mary Senicourt (maternal grandmother)

Daniel Senicourt (maternal grandfather)

### Friends

Darwin, Penny (girlfriend), Carrie, Tobias, Banana Joe, Leslie, Rocky, Tina, Mr. Robinson (unrequited), Bobert, Molly, Sarah, Sussie, Alan (at times), Clayton, Rachel, Jared, Clare

### Enemies

Rob (nemesis), Miss Simian, Jamie, Mrs. Robinson, KiKi, Gua Gua, Chun-Ni, Miao Cheng Chong, Frank, Howdy, Grady, Zach, William (at times), Alan (at times)

### First appearence

“The DVD”

> "*Fine, I, Gumball Watterson, have a stupid face, Stuck on a big stupid head, With a tiny stupid brain, And stupid is my favorite color.*"
> ― Gumball Watterson
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**Gumball** (formerly **Zach**) **Tristopher Watterson** is the protagonist of The Amazing World of Gumball. He is a twelve-year-old, blue male cat that goes to Elmore Junior High, with his adopted brother Darwinand his four-year-old sister Anais. Gumball is in Miss Simian's class. As of "The Shell," Gumball is dating Penny.

## Appearence

### Early Concept

Originally, Gumball was meant to be a blue dog. Not much thought was put into this choice as it was more of a placeholder than a final design. As the creators developed the character further, they decided to make him a black cat, as it fit the personality they had in mind for him: unlucky, but optimistic (black cats symbolize bad luck in European culture). The creators found this trait to be too restricting in terms of possible plots and stories. In addition, a silhouette cat would be "hard to read" on the backgrounds planned for the show.

The decision was finally reached to have him blue, a decision that the show creator Ben Bocquelet liked, because he thought blue was not a color usually found on cats, and it had a "70's-80's Japanese mascot" sort of feel.

### Final Design

In the actual show, Gumball is a light blue cat. On his oversized head, he has six whiskers, but only five are visible most of the time. He usually wears grey trousers, coupled with a tan sweater, which has brown cuffs and a brown collar. Like his mother, father, and sister, Gumball lacks shoes, and he is the only member of the Wattersons without visible eyelashes, although, in some episodes, he is seen with visible eyelashes, like in "The Refund" and "The Boss." One of his sharp canine teeth can also be seen hanging out of the corner of his mouth. The inside of his mouth is pink, his tongue is light pink, and his nose is orange.

In Season 2, his design changes slightly. His head and his whiskers are bigger, while his eyes are rounder. His canine teeth are rounder and no longer present when his mouth is closed. The corner of his snout can sometimes be seen bending down at a sharp angle.

In Season 3, Gumball's eyes are permanently round along with the rest of the Wattersons.

## Personality

Gumball is a very imaginative person. Despite his mediocre academic performance, he can be surprisingly brilliant when it comes to formulating all sorts of mischievous schemes. This side of him can be seen in episodes such as "The Plan," in which he quickly formulates a basic outline to he and his siblings plan to "save" their mother, and in "The Scam," in which he forms a crafty scheme that will allow him to cleanly heist the town's candy effortlessly. Such a side may also suggest Gumball is smarter than he lets on, as hinted by his expansive vocabulary, cooking skills, and ukulele skills as well.

Gumball is also pretty optimistic. Despite his cynicism towards society itself, as seen in episodes such as "The Bumpkin" and "The Money," he is still fairly positive in what to expect out of people (though there are exceptions). When his family is financially suffering in "The Money," he reminds them of the joys of family and pushes them to be more optimistic. In "The Others," he is quick to reject Clare's notion of "no happy ending," only wanting to see her have a happy ending (no matter how forced it was). He's also happy to help others, as seen in "The Void," "The Upgrade," and "The Slide," in which in all three he went great lengths to assist Molly, Bobert, and Rocky, respectively.

In general, Gumball is very protective of his loved ones. On multiple occasions, he is quick to go into a sort of "over-protective" mode whenever anybody tries to hurt his siblings, Darwin and Anais, as seen in "The Parasite," in which he tried to nearly poison Jodie when he thought she was hurting Anais, or in "The Rerun,"in which he aimlessly tried to attack Rob out of rage when Darwin died.

Gumball has a very sarcastic nature. He is quick to diffuse all sorts of quips towards others, ranging from fairly harmless to sometimes blunt and rude. As demonstrated in episodes such as "The Stories" and "The Test," these snarky comments are impulsive.

Gumball also has a fairly massive ego, which seems to be a fault of his. When not tamed properly, his ego can drive him to do some pretty jerky things. Darwin tapping into his musical talents in "The Triangle" causes Gumball to have short-lived jealousy towards him before he realizes he is wrong. His ego also explains his relationship with Alan; the fact that Alan is so effortlessly loved drives Gumball to expose him for being scummier than he lets on (which later turns out to be accurate). This ego also makes him very sensitive, as seen in "The Meddler," in which he becomes an emotional wreck when he is told his cheerleading performance was terrible.

## Relationships

### Darwin

Even though Darwin is adopted, Gumball shares a genuine sibling connection with him. The two boys have a big imagination and like to get into mischief. They get along very well, though they do argue at times. However, Gumball can be a bad influence on Darwin. Gumball sometimes turns his nose up at Darwin's ideas and they both go for a more childish or foolish approach.

### Anais

Gumball usually relies on his sister with his own problems. She likes to inform Gumball that she is almost always right and that he is usually wrong. Although Gumball will never admit it, he actually loves and admires his sister and knows that she is right about things most of the time.

### Nicole

Gumball loves his mother very much, though he does believe she is terrifying. He does not like to admit to wrongdoings to his mother because of Nicole's fiery temper.

### Richard

Gumball is seen spending more of his play time with his dad more than his mom, mainly because the child inherits his silliness from his dad and enjoys his company due to it. However, Richard can be tough on Gumball when the situation demands it and completely aloof otherwise. He's also been known to make fun of him sometimes and use their foolishness to his advantage. As seen on an Elmore Stream video, Gumball likes to poke Richard's "weird bit on his belly" when he is unaware of it. Richard reacts strongly to this, making the same "Dah!" noise after every poke.

### Penny

Penny is Gumball's love interest. Gumball has a gigantic crush on her, and Penny has one on him as well. He often blurts out professions of love and tries to get away with it either by denying it, hiding it, twisting it, or hoping she ignores it - most of the time in an unconvincing way. Despite it being somewhat obvious that Penny likes him back, he is always nervous when it comes to potentially romantic events because he is afraid that she might reject him. When they are about to kiss, the moment is usually interrupted.

### Mr. Robinson

Mr. Robinson is somewhat an idol to both Gumball and his companion Darwin, but mostly to Gumball. He always tries to earn his favor, most of the time failing at it such as in "The Debt" and sometimes actually being successful to convince him like in "The Car," though only for a very minuscule time span. Ironically, Mr. Robinson despises Gumball for irritating him all the time. Though most of time Mr. Robinson despises Gumball's presence, a moment in The Debt actually resulted in Mr. Robinson thanking Gumball for saving his life, but still yells at him for ruining his great performance.

### Tobias

Gumball and Tobias have a history of rivalry behind them, although their relationship is somewhat unclear. In "The Pressure," Tobias and Gumball form a no-girls pact and Gumball doesn't uphold it very well. Also, in "The Third," Tobias becomes Gumball and Darwin's friend for twenty dollars, but he ends up ignoring Gumball and befriending Darwin. They also fought for their love interest in "The Knights"

## Voice Actors

* Logan Grove (US/UK/AU/CAN) (Season 1-2, most of "The Kids")
* Jacob Hopkins (US/UK/AU/CAN) (the end of "The Kids," the rest of Season 3-"The Copycats")
* Nicolas Cantu (US/UK/AU/CAN) ("The Copycats"-present)
* Nicky Jones (the early reel only)
* Junko Takeuchi (Japan)
* Arthur Dubois (France, Seasons 1-4)
* Sophie Pyronnet (France, Season 5-present)
* Federico Bebi (voice) and Leonardo Caneva (sing) (Italy)
* Paolo Filio (Season 1, only 5 episodes) / Isabel Martiñón (present) (Latin America)
* Mario García (Season 1) (Spain)
* Pilar Martín (Season 2) (Spain)
* Rebekka Weissfeld (Denmark)
* Omar Hakeem (Middle East, Seasons 1 and 2 until "The Lesson")
* Hadi Baydhoun (Middle East, Season 2, starting with "The Game" - "The Finale")
* Hassan Mahdi (Middle East, Seasons 1-2, most of "The Kids")
* Fares Smerat (Middle East, the end of "The Kids" and the rest of Season 3-present)
* Eduardo Drummond (Brazil, Season 1 and 2)
* João Victor Granja (Brazil, Season 3)
* Christian Nieuwenhuizen (Netherlands)
* Miłosz Konkel (Poland, Seasons 1 and 4)
* Jakub Zdrójkowski (Poland, Seasons 2 and 3)
* Elif Erdal (Turkey)
* Valgeir Hrafn Skagfjörð (Iceland)
* Lev Akselrod (Ukraine)
* Лев Аксельрод (Russia)

## Trivia

* He can play the ukulele and sing well, as seen in "The Knights." Despite this, he is shown to be failing music class in "The Apology."
* He apparently had his appendix removed and also kissed Sussie, as said by Darwin in "The Skull."
* Gumball was voiced by Nicky Jones (best known for voicing the title character of Chowder) in the early reel, but Logan Grove started voicing Gumball for Seasons 1 and 2. He voiced Gumball for the final time in Season 3's "The Kids." Jacob Hopkins then took his place for the rest of Season 3, 4, and part of 5. Nicolas Cantu then replaced Hopkins in the Season 5 episode "The Copycats."
* In Project Exonaut, Gumball is available as an exosuit for 1,000 coins.
* In FusionFall, Gumball is available as a Nano.
* Gumball's sweater was revealed to have been found by his dad in a sewage outlet in "The Date."
* Gumball is terrible at catching things, as shown in "The Quest."
* Gumball has been shown to be a horrible liar on numerous occasions.
* Although Gumball has six whiskers, only five of them are visible because of the angle of his head. In "The Poltergeist," when Gumball impersonates a pea on a fork in the attic, one can see that he has six whiskers.
	+ In "The Pressure," when Gumball squishes between Masami and Darwin at the girls' lunch table, his six whiskers can be seen.
		- In "The Bros," when Penny says she needs space, Gumball is so shocked that all his whiskers pop out, similar to Richard's whiskers.
* He has very wide hips, which is unusual because this feature is more commonly seen on female characters in animation.
* In Season 1, he has a slightly wobbly outline in certain scenes.
* In "The Club," Nicole reveals that she and Richard agreed to give Gumball the middle name "Christopher," but Richard confused it for "Tristopher" on Gumball's birth certificate. His middle name was also confirmed as "Tristopher" on James Lamont's Formspring.
* Gumball has arachnophobia, which is a strong fear of spiders, as shown in "The Date."
	+ Gumball may have a fear of drowning, or perhaps, claustrophobia, as reflected in a dream where he hyperventilates and panics in a sinking car in "The Dream."
* Gumball's face is shown to be extremely malleable, as in "The Photo"; Darwin was able to mold it into various poses, and it has been shown to go very floppy on occasions.
* In "The Treasure," it is revealed that Gumball was a really ugly baby, though this may have been contradicted in "The Choices."
* Gumball is shown to be good at whistling, demonstrating his skill in "The Colossus" and "The Fridge."
* The first time Jacob Hopkins could be heard voicing Gumball was in the "Welcome to Elmore" promo.
* In "The Promise," it is revealed that the name "Gumball" is just a nickname.
	+ In "The Name," his real name is revealed to be Zach. At the end of the episode, he legally changes his name to Gumball.
* Gumball has appeared in every episode except for "The Singing," "The Sucker," and "The Spinoffs."