Anais Watterson

**Anais Errrrrr Watterson**, also known as **Anais Watterson**, **Clever Girl**, **Gumball**, **Jimmy** and **Runtus Decepticus**, is one of the main characters from *The Amazing World of Gumball* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Gumball's sister, a genius four-year-old pink rabbit. Due to her high intelligence, Anais attends Gumball and Darwin's middle school as well, one grade higher than them. Despite her competency, she still displays some traits of a typical four-year old.

Anais is by far the most intelligent member of her family, although her young age prevents her from really being noticed and taken seriously by adults. She is rather mature and rational in the way she acts and speaks. She has been shown on numerous occasions to have a knack for solving problems, such as when she figured a way out of the house when it was flooded in "The Responsible," and the time she developed a complex solution to solve the problem of getting her grandmother's luggage up a flight of stairs in "The Kiss".

Anais can also be considered the most mature member of her family, aside from her mother. She often takes care of her brothers in many ways, like helping them with their homework, and making their breakfast, as said in "The Responsible." Due to her young age, however, she is prone to occasionally acting childish and still has stuffed animals.

## **Appearance**

### **Cartoons**

* The Amazing World of Gumball
* The Amazing World of Gumball Season 2
* The Amazing World of Gumball Season 3
* The Amazing World of Gumball Season 4
* The Amazing World of Gumball Season 5
* The Amazing World of Gumball Season 6

### **Comics**

* Kaboom! Summer Blast! Free Comic Book Day Edition
* The Amazing World of Gumball
* The Amazing World of Gumball 2015 Special
* The Amazing World of Gumball 2017 Grab Bag Special
* The Amazing World of Gumball 2018 Grab Bag Special
* The Amazing World of Gumball: Adventures in Elmore
* The Amazing World of Gumball: Cheat Code
* The Amazing World of Gumball: Fairy Tale Trouble
* The Amazing World of Gumball: Recipe For Disaster
* The Amazing World of Gumball: Scrimmage Scramble
* The Amazing World of Gumball: The Storm
* The Amazing World of Gumball: Tunnel Kingdom

## **Trivia**

* Alongside Darwin and Granny Jojo, Anais has footwear unlike the rest of her family.
* In "The Responsible," it is revealed that Anais helps Gumball and Darwin with their homework, and she also makes Gumball and Darwin's breakfast every morning. That may have stopped in "The Wand," as she is not in the episode, and Gumball and Darwin make their own cereal.
* In some preview pictures, Anais has whiskers like the rest of her family, except Darwin, but in the show, she does not. This was likely a late change that the creators made for an unknown reason, possibly to make her look younger or cuter.
* Anais' name has two different pronunciations in the show: it is usually pronounced according to the name's French origin ('An-ni-ese') but is occasionally pronounced according to English phonetics ('An-ni-is') instead, usually by Darwin and Granny Jojo.
* Anais has been seen acting dumb six times in the series: in "The Goons," Gumball teaches her how to be dumb; in "The Genius," she acts dumb to trick Principal Brown; in "The Job," she becomes dumb when she switches heads with Gumball; in "The Authority," when she becomes a "Richard"; in "The Castle," where she actually wanted to be dumb on Saturday and in "The Brain," where she gives herself brain damage due to the number of times she facepalms at her family's stupidity.
* Anais, like her mother, seems to have anger issues, as seen in "The Quest," "The Kiss," "The Tape," and the Elmore Stream-It video "Annoying Brother."
* Anais is based on and named after creator Ben Bocquelet's younger sister, Anaïs Bocquelet, who works as a computer programmer for EA Games.
* Anais shares the same room with Gumball and Darwin, but in "The Date," she is seen having her own room.
* In "The Vacation," "The Tape," and "The Pest," it is shown that Anais may have inherited Nicole's fighting skills.
* In "The Pest," it is revealed that due to Gumball stuffing stones in her pockets due to his fear of her growing taller than him, Anais is medically classified as a cephalopod.
* In some early press release materials, it was stated that Anais attended junior kindergarten class. It is confirmed in "The Others," however, that she is in eighth grade, a grade higher than her brothers.
* In "The Parasite," in the list of Gumball and Darwin's pros and cons of reading Anais' diary, Anais is claimed to know how to keep someone both alive and in pain for a long time.
* In "The Choices," it was shown that Anais was already quite intelligent as an infant, as she corrected her misspelled name on her hospital wristband. But in "The Rival," she got her name before the Wattersons depart the hospital.
* Technically, Anais is the one responsible for the events of "The Joy," along with her father, as she convinced him to hug Gumball and Darwin to begin with.
* In "The Copycats," Anais is the only Watterson family member who does not have a copycat, due to the copycat family being a parody of *Miracle Star*, a *Gumball* ripoff from China, where she also has no ripoff character due to the country's two children policy. In the copycat family's place, they apparently preferred two sons over a daughter.
* In "The Rival," it was shown that Anais had sadistic tendencies when she was a newborn and had tried to harm Gumball and Darwin multiple times, although since then, she has mostly grown out of it.
* Like Darwin, Anais' first word was also revealed to be "Gumball," with her first sentence being "Gumball did it".
* Unlike Gumball and Darwin (whose voice actors were replaced several times by younger successors due to puberty), Anais is the only child of the Wattersons who is still voiced by Kyla Rae Kowalewski since her debut in "The Responsible."
* Anais is the first character to speak in "The Quest," making her the first character to speak in the show in order of production. In order of airing, Nicole is the first to speak, or Gumball if one counts the early reel.
* In the show, Anais is four years old, but in Issue 8, she claims to be an eight-year-old.
* In seasons 1 and 2, Anais' voice sounded high-pitched, childish and whiny. Starting with season 3, her voice becomes deeper and older-sounding, due to her voice actress going through puberty.
* In "The Gumball Chronicles: Ancestor Act," it is revealed that Anais' middle name is "Errrrrr," because Richard did not have enough time to pick it out.

## **External Links**

* Anais Watterson at The Amazing World of Gumball Wiki