Gumball Watterson/Relationships

These are the relationships Gumball has with the other characters in the series.

Darwin
Darwin is Gumball's adopted brother, and thus shares a genuine sibling connection with him and loves him very much. The two boys have a very 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. The fail in his life, does hurt Gumball to a high extent, to the point that he hates when Darwin success in something and becomes jealous, as seen in "The Triangle."

Anais
Gumball loves his little sister very much and sometimes appears to be very proud of being her brother. However, he also tends to be overprotective as shown in "The Responsible," much to Anais' dismay. He usually relies on Anais with his own problems. She likes to inform Gumball that she is almost always right and that he is usually wrong. Anais is shown to be aware of how others are acting towards Gumball, even when he is unaware of their behavior. For instance, in "The Fight," Gumball was initially unaware that Tina was bullying him, while Anais immediately identified Tina's behavior as bullying and even tried to confront her over the phone. This shows that Anais knows when she needs to protect Gumball, and despite being annoyed with his childish behaviors, she loves him. In "The Friend," Gumball helps Anais become friends with Chimera when she says she has no friends. 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 find her very intimidating at times. He often dislikes her need to win. He does not like to admit to wrongdoings to his mother because of Nicole's fiery temper as shown in "The Quest," when he said that he would rather fight a T-Rex than being told off by Nicole. At the same time, Gumball does respect his mother and admires what she had done to him and the family. He also wanted to prove his mother the best in "The Mothers."

Richard
Gumball is seen spending more of his play time with his dad more than his mom, mainly because he 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.

Granny Jojo
Gumball does not like being kissed by his grandmother (although in "The Kiss," he unluckily gets kissed by her two times on the mouth, both accidentally). In "The Man," he also helps her unite with Louie, even though it is against his father's wishes.

Penny
Gumball and Penny had always had a mutual crush on one another. Whenever Penny would be around, Gumball would often blurt out professions of love to her and try 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 which usually left her confused and sometimes, though rarely, slightly irritated. This is until "The Shell," when Gumball finally admits his true feelings to Penny and kisses her on the lips. Penny reciprocates their kiss and they began their special relationship forth onwards. Beforehand, Penny had kissed Gumball on the cheek twice and they had unsuccessfully attempted to kiss on the lips 3 times. Their newfound relationship as a couple is confirmed in the next episode, "The Burden," when they go on a date. In "The End" and "The Bros" Gumball wanted to marry Penny, but she politely refused as they are both underage.

In "The Romantic," Gumball sets a crazy treasure hunt for Penny, which only gets her into mishaps. Although Penny was furious with him once Gumball reveals he put her up to all this for insignificant reasons, but later ended up forgiving him. They went on their second date in "The Misunderstandings." In this episode, they were having lunch together in a place called 'Dinner'. Near the episode ending, Penny was choking on a hamburger, which Gumball misinterpreted as a sign that she had to leave and kissed her goodbye.

Carrie
Carrie and Gumball are great friends. In the episode "The Ghost," Gumball allows Carrie to possess his body for food consumption. However, as she keeps forcing him to go on a junk food spree, Gumball refuses to let her borrow his body. They end up fighting over his body, but they eventually make up. In "The Flower," Carrie helps Gumball get rid of his jealousy over Leslie. At the end of the episode, Carrie playfully punches Gumballs arms causing Penny to show Jealousy too. Plus, in "Halloween," Carrie acts cautious of Gumball's safety, as when he and Darwin turned into ghosts and left the party, she went after him to get him back into his body. At the end of the episode when Gumball, Darwin, and Anais get sucked into the underworld, Carrie seems sad and distraught. In these three episodes, Carrie and Gumball seem to care for each other. In the episode "The Scam," she and Gumball convince everyone that the school is haunted as a part of a big scam.

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.

Bobert
Gumball and Bobert appear to be greatly friendly between one another despite. In "The Bet," Gumball and Darwin feel sorry for Bobert having no one to play with, so allow him to play with them. Huge, sometimes catastrophic troubles are often caused when Gumball and Bobert interact, due to Boberts different modes, capabilities and flaws as a robot, like Boberts slave mode in "The Bet," but Gumball never intends these things to happen. In "The Upgrade," Gumball and Darwin convinced him to upgrade into a new version. During the same episode, he also expressed his feeling of replacing him with the New Bobert, but remarked at the end that he likes Bobert the old he is.

Patrick
Because he is very protective of his daughter Penny, Patrick used to view Gumball with suspicion. He first meets Gumball in "The Date," and initially views him with disdain. Patrick once more keeps a wary eye on Gumball in "The Knights," where he now seems to be aware of Gumball's crush on Penny. Patrick's apprehensive attitude towards Gumball only ends in "The Shell," in which he unintentionally insults his daughter, who has broken out of her shell. Gumball finally stands up to Patrick and calls him out on his actions. In the end, Patrick approves of Gumball and Penny's relationship, with continuity prevailing over the status quo.

Tobias
Gumball and Tobias have a history of rivalry behind them, although their relationship is somewhat unclear. He tends to be jealous of Gumball at times, expressed in "The Voice," where he is furious that he isn't the "main character" in his own story, and he should be the one on cool adventures and in "The Knights," it is shown that he has a crush on Penny as well but she only has feelings for Gumball. 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.

Banana Joe
Similar to Tobias, Gumballs relationship with Banana Joe is somewhat unclear. On one hand, there have been instances where they are shown to get along well, like in "The Third," where Gumball offered Joe to be his and Darwin's third best friend and he was keen to be, however, both Gumball and Darwin changed their minds on him after he proved to be a bit too over the top. On the other hand, there have been instances where Banana Joe had bullied Gumball, like in "The Gi" where he was the one making fun of Gumball the most, and was practically what was driving the other kids to do so as well.

In "The Pressure" Gumball, Darwin, Banana Joe and Tobias are all shown to be playing together happily at the beginning, but soon, Banana Joe, with back-up from Tobias, kept telling Gumball and Darwin they shouldn't like girls just because he didn't. In "The Promise," it is shown at the beginning that he is mad at Gumball and Darwin for something they had done, which might possibly indicate that they were on good terms before despite events of past episodes between them.

Tina
Throughout Season 1, Tina bullied Gumball on occasions like in "The Mustache," pelting him with dodge balls and even one bowling ball, and in "The Meddler," insulting him for how he looks with his mum with him at school holding his hand. In "The Quest," she took Daisy the Donkey and Gumball, Darwin and Anais had to face her to get it back, but she explains she only did this to help her sleep better in her spooky home, and she did want to give it back. In "The Fight," It appeared to be that Tina had been bullying Gumball and had challenged him to a fight. In the end, she explains that the physical abuse she had inflicted on him was her idea of having fun with him (it is presumably her natural instincts as a T-Rex that make her think this way), and so, she had actually always thought of Gumball as her friend.

Since their resolution in "The Fight," Gumball and Tina had been considered former enemies, but there have still been instances of conflict between the two, like in "The Flakers" where Gumball told Tina that she couldn't make it as a pianist because she only has 4 fingers only to be honest, which upset her greatly regardless and her retaliation was to stomp him if he didn't take it back.

In "The Party," Tina agreed to be Gumball's date when he asked her, meaning she might even have/have had feelings for him of some degree, however, she said she would only go with him if he said he was stupid, this could either have been to be nasty or that she was displeased that she wasn't "exactly" the first girl he asked and just wanted him to make up for it in her way first.

Clayton
Gumball disapproves of Claytons compulsive lying, but likes him enough to want to give him a chance to quit as followed in "The Skull," in which Clayton also states he thinks Gumball is really cool and really just wanted to impress him. This is explored further in "The Move," where one hard to believe thing Clayton told him turned out to actually be true, about a martial arts move which temporarily paralyzes.

Sarah
Sarah has a crush on Gumball as shown in "The Comic," though he does not reciprocate her feelings. Although he is generally on friendly terms with her, he does find her irritating as a result of her stalking, as seen in "The Fan."