Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-30307603-20161211010948/@comment-28485972-20161215215625

ThatGuy456 wrote: Valer22 wrote: Yes, but Gumball is much like his mother. Aside from her caring personality, he also has her temper. Which might explain why he was so mean to Richard (though he probably wouldn't have said any of those things in the first place if he knew he was listening) and was impatient when he tried to save him and Darwin. But Gumball never really saw Richard as anything but a fat idiot manchild incapable of doing the most simple tasks. I personally think the point of The Hero was to prove him wrong. In later episodes, Gumball appears to be more patient with Richard

If anybody inherited Nicole's temper, it's definitely Anais ("The Vacation", "The Pest"), but that's besides the point. I will give you that; Gumball does seem nicer to Richard some time after the episode. Still, did Gumball need to be a complete [REDACTED; memes] towards Richard when he was saving his life? Like I said before, the combination of Gumball's aggravating aggressiveness and Nicole's borderline child cruelety makes this episode a "meh"-"weakball" even though Richard did get some development (for the better). If we know Gumball right, he is generally very proud and protective of his self-image. And up until that episode, like I said, he saw Richard as nothing but an incapable slob and looked down on him, so he was probably not willing to soften up his ego and let Richard save him until he was in desperate need. The reason he didn't do it up until then is probably because he was naive to think it was embarrassing to be saved by Richard. Besides, it's not the first time he's done a thing like this. When he needed to be saved from Bobert in "The Robot", he indirectly referred to Darwin as "insignificant".