Gumball Watterson/Relationships

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

Darwin
Even though Darwin was adopted into the family later, Gumball shares a genuine sibling connection with him. The two boys have a 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.

Anais
Gumball usually relies on his sister with his own problems. She likes to inform Gumball that she is almost always right and that he is usually wrong. 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 believe she is terrifying. He often dislikes her need to win. He does not like to admit to wrongdoings to his mother because of Nicole's fiery temper.

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 her 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
Penny has always been Gumball's love interest, and Gumball had always been Penny's love interest as well. 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. They have had 2 kisses on the cheek and they have had 3 attempts to kiss on the lips which were interrupted, however, in "The Shell" they finally kissed on the lips after Gumball confirmed his feelings to Penny, and so they are now dating, and this is confirmed in "The Burden" when they are shown on a date. In "The Bros" Gumball wanted to marry Penny, But Penny refused because she and Gumball were only 12 years old.

Carrie
Carrie is a really good friend of Gumball. In the episode "The Ghost", Gumball allows Carrie to use his body. Towards the end of the episode, Gumball refuses to let Carrie use his body. She becomes angry by this and decides to take it. Gumball convinces Carrie to leave his body. But from then they remain good friends. 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 short Jealousy too. In these two episodes Carrie and Gumball seem to care for each other. In "The Ghost", Gumball helps her at the end and in "The Flower", Carrie helps Gumball overcome his jealousy.

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.

Patrick Fitzgerald
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. The status quo was restored at the end of the episode, so Patrick once more keeps a wary eye on Gumball in "The Knights." But the status quo is restored at the end of the episode once more. His suspicions only end in "The Shell" when Gumball finally stands up to him after he unintentionally insults his daughter, out of her shell. In the end, he finally keeps his approval of Gumball and Penny's relationship, with, for the first time in an episode, the status quo remaining permanently at the end.

Tobias
Gumball and Tobias have a history of rivalry behind them, although their relationship is somewhat unclear. 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. They also fought for their love interest, Penny, in "The Knights".

Banana Joe
Similar to Tobias, Gumballs relationship with Banana Joe is somewhat unclear. While Joe is often depicted as a bully in general, there have also 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 really wanted, but both Gumball and Darwin changed their minds on him after he proved to be a bit too over the top, and in The Pressure where Gumball, Darwin, Banana Joe and Tobias are all shown to be playing together happily at the beginning, however, this is quickly derailed when Banana Joe, with back-up from Tobias, kept telling Gumball and Darwin they shouldn't like girls just because he didn't, being sexist is more to how he is often depicted as a bully. Instances where Banana Joe had bullied Gumball include in The Gi where he was the one making fun of Gumball the most, and was practically driving the other kids to make fun of him as well. In The Promise, it is shown at the beginning that he was mad at Gumball and Darwin for something they had done, but it is not made clear how he thought of them before.

Clayton
Although Gumball is usually friendly to Clayton, there have been instances in which the two argue about whether or not Clayton is lying such as in "The Skull" in which when Gumball sets up a lie detector test in which they ask each other questions and they have to answer using only the truth and end up finding out that Clayton didn't have his Shock Collar on. He also didn't believe him in "The Move" in which Gumball didn't believe Clayton's martial arts move only to find that when he did it on Tobias that he was not actually lying.

Miss Simian
Though Miss Simian hates the Wattersons very much, Gumball doesn't really hate her. In "The Ape," she befriends the whole family, including Gumball. Even after Miss Simian reveals that she only did this to earn an award, Gumball still offers her a chance to still be friends. In "The Apology," Gumball and Darwin try to tell Miss Simian (kindly) about her sensitive side showing. Later, Gumball even tries to save Miss Simian's relationship with Principal Brown (although he could have done this out of fear). Despite this, he celebrates in "The Boombox" when he thinks Miss Simian is retiring.