Summary
The Amazing World of Gumball is a British-American animated television series created by French animator Ben Bocquelet, which began airing in 2011 on Cartoon Network. The show follows the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year-old blue cat, and his adopted brother Darwin, a former pet goldfish who grew legs and became part of the family. They live in the quirky and surreal town of Elmore with their family: their intelligent younger sister Anais (a pink rabbit), their short-tempered mother Nicole (also a blue cat), and their lazy but loving father Richard (a pink rabbit).
The family interacts with an extended cast of supporting characters that consists of anything from talking bananas, dinosaurs, and sentient objects. It also has a distinctive mixed-media animation style, combining 2D animation, CGI, live-action backgrounds, stop-motion, and various other artistic techniques. The series is known for surreal and wacky humor, adult jokes, pop culture references, metafiction, contemporary social commentary, and other themes.
Morality Standard of the Verse
Admirable Standard
- Safe Nobility: The most admirable characters have saved Elmore or the entire world from various threats but have severe corrupting factors and the ones that don't just fail to stand out.
Heinous Standard
- Common Hostility: There are several villains who threaten Elmore and the entire world but they are played for laughs way too much, have redeeming qualities and/or fail the heinous standard.
The Moral Rankings
Pure Good
- N/A
Near Pure Good
- N/A
Inconsistently Admirable
- Darwin Watterson
- Anais Watterson
- Nicole Watterson
- Alan Keane
- Carrie Krueger (The Ultimate Good)
- Sarah G. Lato
- Rob
Heroic Benchmark
- Gumball Watterson
- Richard Watterson
- Larry Needlemeyer
- Penny Fitzgerald
- Steve Small
- Bobert 6B
- Yuki Yoshida
- Mrs. Jötunheim
- Tobias Wilson
- Clare Cooper
Standard Good
- Elmore Jr. High
- Banana Joe
- Carmen Verde
- Clayton
- Hector Jötunheim
- Idaho
- Leslie
- Masami Yoshida
- Sussie
- Teri
- Nigel Brown
- Rocky Robinson
- Elmore Citizens
- Banana Barbara
- Donut Cop
- Van Shopkeeper
Completely Ambiguous
- Gumball Watterson
- Rob
Standard Evil
- Elmore Jr. High
- Miss Simian
- Clayton
- Jamie Russo
- Julius Oppenheimmer Jr.
- Masami Yoshida
- Ocho Tootmorsel
- Razor
- Tina Rex
- Elmore Citizens
- Frankie Watterson
- Felicity Parham
- Gaylord Robinson
- Harold Wilson
- Mayor of Elmore
- Mr. Rex
- Van Shopkeeper
- Yuki Yoshida
- Others
- Chris Morris
- Darkness
- Evil Turtle
- Kenneth
- Mr. Gruber
- Zach Watterson
Villainous Benchmark
- Rob
- Gaylord Robinson
- Margaret Robinson
- Tobias Wilson
Inconsistently Heinous
- Gumball Watterson
- Bobert 6B
- Larry Needlemeyer
- Mr. Chanax
- Game Child
Near Pure Evil
- President Alan Keane
- Gargaroth
- The Virus
Pure Evil
- Margaret Robinson
- Ant-One
- Mr. Bildeburger
Status Under Debate
- The Void
- Miss Simian
- Ori
- Mr. Chanax
- Penny Fritzgerald