Darwin Watterson/Relationships

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

Gumball
Darwin is Gumball's best friend/step-brother/pet. They're almost always seen together, whether it's at school, or home, or off on some crazy misadventure constructed by Gumball. Throughout the show, they have worked together to overcome mainly, a sticky situation, even though Gumball was the one that usually pulled them into said situation, and showcasing their strong bond and friendship. Whether it's fighting a T-rex, babysitting their precious sister, or even shaving their dad's horrifyingly hairy back, these two definitely got each other's backs.

Anais
Though Darwin isn't as attached to Anais as he is to Gumball, the pair share a rather close relationship. They often join each other in heckling Gumball and his crazy antics. The two share an interesting dynamic in that Darwin is a romanticist, while Anais is a realist. In "The Curse," while Anais tries to prove to Gumball that his bad luck is mere coincidence, Darwin tries to form a formal (though romanticized) hypothesis to appease Anais' formal argument. The two also share a bond in holding secrets from Gumball, as seen in "The Secret," where Anais and Darwin hide from Gumball that an embarrassing video of him has been posted on the internet. Darwin also convinced Gumball to help retrieve Anais' Daisy doll in "The Quest."

Nicole
Though the two don't seem to interact very often, Nicole treats Darwin as if he is her own son and is rather affectionate with him. When she speaks to Gumball or Anais, she refers to Darwin as "your brother." Due to Nicole's general stressful character, the fact that Darwin's outlook is to appease everyone, he is rarely the center of her wrath. In "The Mothers," when Gumball offers to rework a sign to impress Nicole, Darwin strongly suggests just following her orders and sitting in the car. Darwin and Anais are the family members that generally follow her instruction, but are often sidetracked by Gumball's interference. In "The Genius," she is furious and later slips into near insanity when Darwin is taken away from the family. In "The World," Darwin and Nicole are shown to be grocery shopping alone. In "The DVD," Darwin scolded Gumball for leaving their mother behind to deal with a vicious dog.

Richard
Darwin sees Richard as more of a friend than an actual father figure. Instead of Richard teaching Darwin how to be a man, he goofs around with him. This is strongly evidenced in "The Goons," and in "The Prank," where Richard joins in on Gumball and Darwin's childish antics. Darwin is also Richard's favorite child, as revealed in "The Goons."

Granny Jojo
Darwin doesn't really interact much with his grandmother, but in "The Kiss," he says that he likes being kissed on the cheek (by her, although he does not say specifically) because it makes him feel special. In "The Authority," Granny Jojo keeps him and the rest of the family (except for Nicole) in the house to keep them safe. In "The Man," Darwin (with Gumball and Anais) helps Granny Jojo meet up with Louis.

Carrie
Carrie is a good friend to Darwin. Carrie is also the love interest of Darwin. In "Halloween," when Darwin becomes a ghost, he kisses Carrie. After he passionately kisses her on the mouth, he claims he wanted to kiss her for a long time, making her blush. However, in "The Words," he calls Carrie "one more emo freak," which means that his feelings for her are most likely mixed.

Penny
Darwin and Penny share a friendly, yet platonic relationship. In "The Voice," as a reference to Gumball's cowardice, Darwin confesses to Penny in place of Gumball. After his "confession," Gumball states in the distance that he is sorry that he lacked the courage to confess to Penny in person.

After Gumball and Penny begin dating ("The Shell"), Darwin becomes jealous about how much more time his best friend is spending with his girlfriend. This is first hinted at in "The Burden," and later explored in "The Bros," in the latter of which Darwin repeatedly attempts to either sabotage their relationship, or alienate Penny completely. This causes Penny to briefly break up with Gumball, but Darwin helps get them back together later. Nonetheless, it is still hinted that he seems to generally be at odds with being the third wheel.

Rachel
Rachel is Darwin's possible love interest, and they may have a relationship going on, as shown in "The Party." Darwin cleaned her house after it had been ruined. After this, she kisses Darwin, as a "thank you." It is unknown if their relationship is still going on, as Rachel has yet to appear in Seasons 2 or 3, while in "Halloween," it is shown that Darwin also has a crush on Carrie.

Banana Joe
Darwin has a sort of mixed relationship with Banana Joe - at times, they seem like good friends; in others, they seem to despise each other.

In "The Gi," he maliciously made fun of Darwin's karate outfit, without any remorse whatsoever.

In "The Pressure," he seemed to consider Darwin to be a close enough friend to form a pact with. He later attempts to rescue his friend from the grips of the enemy, at great personal risk.

In "The Banana," Gumball accuses Banana Joe of chewing Darwin's pen, but Darwin didn't seem to mind. Later, though, when he sees Joe trashed his desk and homework, he goes through a rampage through Joe's stuff in hatred and revenge. Later, still, when Joe offers him a new pen, Darwin feels remorse for what he has done. When Joe reaches his locker, he attacks Gumball and Darwin, but accidentally knocks himself out. Finally, Gumball and Darwin beat themselves up in an effort to make up with Joe, which succeeds, and they become good friends again at the end of the episode.

In "The Promise," it is revealed that Darwin cares a lot about his relationship with Banana Joe - when Joe gets mad at him, he does everything in his power to restore their friendship, to the point of breaking his promise with Gumball to play The Tale of Zelmore. Unfortunately, he decides in the end to play said game instead of repairing his relationship, resulting in Banana Joe sustaining grievous bodily harm, and furthering his hatred of Gumball and Darwin.

Tobias
Tobias and Darwin's relationship has never been too prominent. In "The Third," Tobias became Darwin and Gumball's friend (for the price of $20). The two quickly became close friends, due to Tobias being athletic and rich, leaving Gumball jealous and lonely. By the end of the day, Darwin and Gumball had reunited, and since then, Darwin has pretty much forgotten about Tobias. It is shown in "The Words" that Darwin finds Tobias annoying because he constantly gestures something known as "chunking the deuce."

Mr. Robinson
Mr. Robinson is somewhat an idol to both Darwin and Gumball. With his brother, he always tries to earn his favor as shown in "The Poltergeist," "The Car," and "The Boss." Ironically, Mr. Robinson despises both Gumball and Darwin for irritating him all the time. In "The Sale," Darwin, along with Gumball, worked to prevent Mr. Robinson selling his house.

Margaret Robinson
In the show, he did not interact with her until "The Wicked." At the beginning of the episode, Darwin had no ill feelings toward Margaret's evil intentions, and continuously ignores Gumball's comments about her, because he had the belief that there is no such evil that his brother is talking about in their real life. However, his belief has changed once she ignored helping him while he is choking, and closed the door on him. which made him wanting to teach her a lesson. At the end of the episode, his and Gumball's efforts failed to do so, but accidentally, Margaret gotten hurt by several incidents due to her vicious ways.

Masami
Darwin has no feelings for Masami, as seen in "The Pressure." Although Masami lies that Darwin and her are dating just to impress the other girls, this forces Darwin to go with her to the tree-house. When they were about to kiss, Banana Joe cuts down the tree, and Darwin slides away and ends up kissing Gumball, who was about to kiss Penny.

Larry
Larry and Darwin (along with the rest of his family) have an almost random relationship. Sometimes they are on good terms, and others they are not. In "The DVD," Gumball and Darwin try to trick him when they try to return a DVD they cannot (since it was destroyed). In "The Refund," they try to convince Larry to give them a refund, although Larry adamantly refuses. In "The Job," Darwin with his family take him and force him to fire Richard when the universe starts falling apart. In "The Pizza," Darwin and his siblings do not show any respect for Larry, but later on journeys with his family to find and apologize to Larry after he quit all his jobs (and caused chaos in Elmore).