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 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 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. 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 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. 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 an episode.

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
Penny had always been Gumball's love interest, and Gumball had always been Penny's love interest as well. 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. 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" and "The End," Gumball wanted to marry Penny, but Penny refused because she and Gumball are only 12 years old.

Carrie
Carrie and Gumball are good friends. In the episode "The Ghost," Gumball allows Carrie to possess his body for food consumption. 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.

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. 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. 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 Penny's hand in "The Knights, even though she only has feelings for Gumball."

Banana Joe
Similar to Tobias, Gumballs relationship with Banana Joe is somewhat unclear. While Joe is often depicted as a general bully, 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 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. In "The Pressure" 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, which might indicate that they were on good terms before despite events of past episodes between them.

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.

Tina Rex
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 said yes to being Gumball's date when she asked him, meaning she might even have feelings for him of some degree, though she said to him she would only be his date is he said he was stupid, this could have been either to be nasty or that it was her way for him to make up for the fact that she wasn't "exactly" the first girl he asked.