User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Darwin, The Good Goody-Two-Shoes/@comment-31194372-20170527084746

I do agree with you. I really, really do agree with you.

BUT. (dramatic cue)

The issue with Darwin is that the show never lets him serve more than as a moral compass. It's his principal trait, I get that, but the show just can't figure out how to use him beyond that anymore. If it wasn't for Gumball, the show would give him nothing to do, and even with Gumball around, he hardly does anything aside from exist for the sake of balancing the situation out.

That's where the issue with Darwin lay: he's so useless to the writers at this point that they basically just shove him to the side for the sake of having the full cast in the loosest terms possible.

Seriously. Guess how many lines he had in "The Parking," where he's credited as a major character. The answer's 6. Even episodes where he's the explicit spotlight and motivates what happens toss him aside midway through: as great as "The Safety" is, the meat of it plays out while Darwin sits snugly tucked away, and "The Matchmaker" focuses more on Gumball and Carrie than anything else.

The situation only worsens when he exists as a prerequisite while simultaneously serving as the butt of a joke, like in "The Ex," where Darwin both looks stupid and is jokingly neglected, and "The Box," where Darwin finally gets a chance to shine before Gumball literally robs him of his little moment five seconds in.

He's a character that's simultaneously incredibly important and lacking in any real punch. The voice of reason is no doubt necessary to any comedic duo, and Dawin serves his duty well, but that's all he gets, and his voice hardly even has an outcome.