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Gumball (formerly Zach) Tristopher Watterson is the main character of The Amazing World of Gumball. He is a twelve-year-old, light blue male cat that goes to Elmore Junior High, with his ten-year-old adopted brother and best friend Darwin, and his four-year-old sister Anais. Gumball is in Miss Simian's class. As of "The Shell," Gumball is dating Penny.

Appearance

Early Concept

In origine Gumball doveva essere un cane blu, sebbene l'idea foose più un placeholder che un disegno finale. Man mano che i creatori ne svilupparono ulteriormente il carattere, decisero di renderlo un gatto nero, in quanto si adattava alla personalità che avevano in mente per lui: sfortunato ma ottimista (i gatti neri simboleggiano sfortuna). The creators found this trait to be too restricting in terms of possible plots and stories. In più, a silhouette cat would be "hard to read" on the backgrounds planned for the show. Alla fine si decise di colorarlo di blu, a decision that Bocquelet liked because blue isn't a color usually found on cats, and it had a "70's-80's Japanese mascot" sort of feel.

Final Design

Attualmente Gumball è rappresentato come un gatto di colore azzurro. On his oversized head, he has six whiskers, but only five are visible most of the time, because his head is mostly shown at an angle. He usually wears grey trousers, coupled with a tan sweater, which has brown cuffs and a brown collar. Come la madre e il padre, Gumball non indossa scarpe, and 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." L'interno della bocca è rosa, la lingua è rosa chiaro e il naso è arancione.

In Season 2, his design changes slightly. His head and his whiskers are bigger, mentre occhi e denti sono più rotondi. 

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

Personality

Gumball is portrayed as a fun-loving, fantasioso, piuttosto ottimista, and a very mischievous cat. When his mishaps get himself into a mess, he usually attempts to fix things with somewhat dimwitted ideas, che spesso peggiorano soltanto la situazione. No matter how his schemes resolve themselves, Gumball's naïveté stops him from learning his lesson. He usually plans his mishaps with Darwin. Like Darwin, Gumball does not appear to notice deception, which may mean that he is too optimistic to notice most negative things around him.

Gumball has a big ego, and it is where he is most sensitive. Otherwise, he is usually positive on all matters concerning him. Gumball is smart, but that doesn't mean he's wise. At times, he acts really stupid, and goes to great illogical lengths to find something, but he has shown some degree of cleverness in other circumstances. He happens to have a superior vocabulary than that of most of his classmates, using more mature words. Gumball has also displayed extents of observance and operational ingenuity, such as being able to identify small things like the burn markings on Rocky's palms, intellectually arrange escape routes based on his surroundings, and even counter his own mother Nicole's hand-based offenses for a great deal of time, shown in both episodes "The Date" and "The Remote"; in which case, even secretly confiscating her car keys from her pocket in the process. His antics have gotten him in dangerous and often life-threatening situations, usually saved by luck or by someone more sensible at the time. He has shown skill in building, when he made a system of chain reactions to launch a bowling ball onto the moon, as seen in "The Car," though he failed miserably in the last element that held the launching spring up.

He is a decent cook, making a very good sandwich for Darwin as mentioned in "The Secret," and is shown making a (extremely spicy) meal for him in the same episode. He also got a B in home eds for his cooking, and Miss Simian called his cooking divine. However, in "The Responsible," Gumball makes disgusting food for Anais, consisting of a rotten fish between bread slices, and an old shoe. In "The Knights," Gumball made a cake for Mr. Fitzgerald.

Voice Actors

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• Logan Grove (US/UK/AU/CAN) (Season 1-2 and 3, most of "The Kids")
• Jacob Hopkins (US/UK/AU/CAN) (the climax of "The Kids," the rest of Season 3-present)
• Nicky Jones (the early reel only)
• Junko Takeuchi (Japan)
• Arthur Dubois (France)
• 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, most of "The Kids")
• Fares Smerat (Middle East, the rest of Season 3 )
• 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)

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.
• Gumball was voiced by Nicky Jones (best known for voicing the title character of Chowder) in the early reel episode, but Logan Grove started voicing Gumball for the rest of the episodes on Seasons 1/2. He voiced Gumball for the final time in "The Kids." Later, Jacob Hopkins takes his place for the rest of the show.
• In Project Exonaut, Gumball is available as an exosuit for 1,000 coins.
• In Cartoon Network: 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."
• In "The Promise," it's revealed that the name "Gumball" is just a nickname.
• Gumball is terrible at catching things, as shown in "The Quest."
• Gumball has been shown to be a horrible liar on numerous occasions.
• In "The Poltergeist," when Gumball impersonates a pea on a fork in the attic, you 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 shocked and 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.
• Both Gumball and Anais placed 4th in the Dumb Race, since they both forfeited at the same time.
• 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's face is shown to be extremely stretchy, 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 Fight," it's revealed that Tina actually thought of herself as Gumball's friend.
• In "The Treasure," it is revealed that Gumball was a really ugly baby, though this may have been contradicted in "The Hero."
• Gumball is shown to be good at whistling, demonstrating his skill in "The Colossus" and "The Fridge."
• The first time we heard Jacob Hopkins voicing Gumball was on the "Welcome to Elmore" promo.
• In "The Name," his real name is revealed to be Zach. At the end of the episode, he legally changes his name to Gumball, which was previously his nickname.

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