| Gumball (formerly Zach) Tristopher Watterson | |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 14 |
| Species: | Cat |
| Also Known as: | GB Pigeon (by Nuttels) Gumbo (by Nuttels) Agent G6 (by the FBI Gumbrat Twerpball Heckman Twerp Gumtwerp Gumhead/Gumbrains Gumboil Gummypuss Geekball Gumnerd |
| Sexual/Romantic Orientation: | Bisexual |
| Occupation: | Student Agent (Gumball's Future) |
| Friends: | Darwin (best friend) Cobby (boyfriend) Nuttels Mabel Purriana Rayona Andy Caroline Penny (former crush) Charlotte Harry Lenny (for a while) |
| Enemies: | Miss Simian Jamie Tobias (at times) Nuttels (a petty rivalry than anything) Tina Rex (at times) Mrs. Robinson Purriana (frenemies) Principal Brown (when he is being inconsiderate) Alan (at times, usually one-sided) Rob ("archnemesis"; hilarity ensues with the insistent terminology) Lenny Jenny (later) |
| Relatives: | Fireball, Darwin (brothers) Mabel, Rayona, Purriana, Anais, (sisters), Nicole (mother), Richard (father) Beckie, Conny, Lily, Olivia (maternal cousins) Stanley (second cousin) |
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| Voiced by: | Logan Grove Jacob Hopkins Nicolas Cantu Lizzie Waterworth ("The Telethon"-"The Mayhem") Neel Sethi ("A Whaite in Time") Ross Lynch *(Gumball Ninja Thunder 2 and other movie sequels) |
Gumball Watterson (b. July 24h) (formerly Zach) Tristopher Watterson is the protagonist and protagonist of The Amazing World of Gumball series, also in fanon. This is an irresponsible cat that always gets into trouble. When he's in trouble, he comes up with silly ideas to get out of himself and his friends, but usually makes them more trouble. He is currently the sixteen-year-old (but still looks twelve) Blue Cat who is going to Elmore (Junior?) High along with his adopted brother Darwin and Mabel's square sisters Rayona and Purriana Grande. Gumball is in Miss Simian's class. In Nuttels Fighting the Bee, Gumball dates Cobby. I should add a strange family, in the skin to fall: Darwin, the older brother of HIS Fireball, the equipped square sisters, HIS father Richard, HIS mother Nicole, HIS younger sister Anais, grandparents and Wieluń.
History[]
Nicole and Richard were expecting to have one child, however, she was bearing quadruplets. Gumball was born 5 minutes later than his sisters, making him the youngest. Due to some complications, he was born with a really ugly facial structure, which bounded the doctors to perform several surgeries to fix this.
As a toddler, he mostly stayed with his quadruplet sisters and maternal grandparents since his parents were in debt. At home, he was the most energetic bundle Helen and Viktor could imagine, but in public he was extremely shy and easily scared by the surroundings, thing that didn't let him make many friends in Portland. Shortly after returning back home, Nicole and Richard decide to buy the kids a pet fish - several, in fact. However, one of them was considered special by Gumball, and that one fish spurted lungs and legs and become his best friend. When he was twelve, the Nuttelses moved in to their neighborhood. Gumball wanted to meet them, but Nicole told him that he would have to wait because he still had school. He talked with his siblings about this and were excited to meet them. At the end of day, they eventually met their neighbors. Mabel introduces him and Darwin to Cobby and his brothers and sisters. As he was about to introduce himself to Martha, she bit Gumball's arm and called him a "sucker" because he called her "rude". He still was nice to her, convinced that she acted like that because she was surrounded by strangers.
When the quadruplets were twelve year old, Purriana's contract ended, so she had to move back to Elmore. Mabel, Rayona and Gumball were unpleased with their sister's new personality, so they (alongside Darwin) planned to revert her old self, only to find out Purriana is, more or less, still the same, but her personality shifted because of the new entourage and the sparse contact over the years, and eventually reconciled.
Appearance[]
Gumball is a light blue cat with five visible whiskers and a mole on his right cheek. He has messy curly auburn hair with pale yellow curls, yarns and streaks sticking out. He wears a beige sweater with a field drab colored neckline and cuffs, he also wears dark gray pants with cream/light gray trimmings. He is a little chubby around his torso and waist and has wobbly limbs. He has a birthmark on his right eye shaped like a octogonal eight-pointed star.
In Gumball's Future, he has a tuft of hair on top, sometimes black sunglasses when he's wearing his agent uniform or just relaxing, or nothing depending on what he's doing now, and either a red T-shirt and red tracksuit or black tuxedo and black trousers.
Personality[]
Gumball is a rather eclectic individual with a wide imagination but zero motivation. A trouble prone, genre-savvy and somewhat upbeat cat, he is generally optimistic and unfazed by Elmore's weirdness, although he can have his moments (more than usual). He can be very over-reactive and sensitive whenever people tend of disagree with him or when he doesn't like an outcome/a situation/someone. He is reckless, usually getting in trouble because of his crazy shenanigans he had initiated. He is somewhat intelligent and polite, because he will do whatever someone asks him to do until he gets fed up with it. He is actually quite smart: he is artistically and musically gifted and is able to come up with apparently impossible plans that actually work. However he is rather lazy and unmotivated, explaining why he almost failed many, many classes. Gumball's antics and tendency to procrastinate sometimes keeps him from learning some key lessons of life. He can actually be a rather kindhearted and helpful kid, if it weren't for his views on society and mischief.
He is very cocky, moody and mischievous (and sometimes even an outright unpleasant jerk), but he tries his best to stick with his family and few friends, whom he loves a lot and will protect at all cost. In fact, hurting someone he cares about is one of the very few things that would genuinely anger him. He is somewhat a loner and has a hard time making decisions, so he always relies on his friends. He tends to be both practical and impractical (while being disinterested, he can also be rather hot-headed and really, really hardworking when it comes to something he particularly enjoys), and, thanks to Cobby's influence on him, is rather analytic and ethical, with an eye for details. On the outside, he is depressed, critical, impulsive and sarcastic, but on the inside, he is a sensitive, loving softie who tends to get scared a lot.
Gumball can be rather a geek at times, especially for movies, comics (Captain Punch) and video games (Legend of Zelmore, among others). Although not as obsessed as Sarah, he would forget about his responsibilities for a good match.
Trivia[]
- Gumball has appeared in most episodes of the series.
- Gumball has arachnophobia, which is a strong fear of spiders. In addition, may have a fear of drowning, or perhaps, claustrophobia, as well, as reflected in a dream where he hyperventilates and panics in a sinking car.
- He can play the ukulele and sing impressively well. He is also shown to be good at whistling. Despite this, he seems to be failing music class.
- According to Darwin, he apparently had his appendix removed, and he also kissed Sussie (albeit still hazed by the painkillers).
- Gumball is one of the few characters who are actually from the real show, and not OCs.
- As shown in The Quest, Gumball can't catch many things thrown at him.
- Gumball can be somewhat lazy, like Nuttels. Both hate school with a burning passion, although he does try working on his projects.
- As in "The Name" his real name is Zach, and is later changed to Gumball.
- His nickname (later "legal" name) is based on the food and candy "Gumball".
- Gumball is the only male between the Watterson Quadruples.
- Nuttels claims his arms are always sweaty.
- Gumball constantly breaks the fourth wall (as if there was one at this point).
- Gumball has a nano in FusionFall, a game in Cartoon Network. In the game, his dad, The GI, and the game Splash Master are mentioned.
- Gumball has a very imaginative mind, as shown in "The Words" where he fights Darwin, making the environment pixelated, like a old video game, the way that happened seems fairly similar to "Street Fighter".
- In the fanon, he and his family are relatives with the Peterssons, because Robin is Nicole's brother.
- If they are relatives with the Peterssons, that doesn't means that they're relatives with the Armstrongs (That means that Audrey is Gumball's cousin's cousin.)
- He hangs out with more girls than boys. Said girls are his sisters and Nuttels. This is likely because most guys his age hate him.
- He knows how to play a triangle. Nuttels unsuccessfully tried to teach him how to play the tuba too.
- Gumball used to wear braces.
- He is the youngest of the quadruplets.
- He occasionally talks in his sleep.
- Although Gumball has six whiskers, only five of them are visible because of the angle of his head.
- He is one inch smaller than his sisters Rayona and Purriana, but two inches smaller than Mabel and half a head shorter than Cobby. However, he is one inch taller and Darwin and is roughly as tall as Nuttels (most of times).
- He and Cobby have been on about twenty dates according to The Lookback. All organized and paid by him entirely
- He has a rather weird taste in music - he loves obscure genres such as slowed down variants of existent songs, remixes and that type of rap one would rather find on select music sites than Elmore Plus.
- Gumball has parallels in:
- Jim from Parallelverse;
- Caleb from the sequel;
- He his favorite foods are chocolate, cheese and ketchup, usually combined, somehow.
- Gumball always falls for Nuttels' catnip trick.
- Gumball and Frankie are the only members of the nuclear Watterson family that does not have any visible eyelashes.
- Gumball is apparently ticklish
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