Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-26535207-20160213153226

Let me introduce you to my theory which explains how some of Gumball's actions are possible and why is he called Gumball. I realise that I may be wrong but who knows ;-)

So I think that Gumball has supernatural abilities (in TAWOG everything is possible) similar to Mister Fantastic from Fantastic 4 or any other movie/cartoon character with super elastic body and stretching or shapeshifting power. There are many scenes in TAWOG that show Gumball's body behaving like literal gum (that would also explain the origins of his name (previously nickname)). I won't list all of them here as you probably know them but let me give you some examples:

- Darwin molded his whole face in The Photo like it was made of plasticine

- Gumball's head splitted in half like clay (there were even separate strands of this "material" between both halves) just because of him turning it too fast

- he was literally melting because of contact with hot ground in The Law

- he stretched a lot when trying to hold Darwin on the playground in The Triangle

- his body was twisted like a towel in The Law and one more episode (I don't remember which one was that)

- he was splashed on the wall in The Comic

- his face was spread on the floor by Rocky in The Hug

- he elongated and then shortened his tail in The Others

I do understand that these scenes may be just typical cartoon gag but we all know that in case of TAWOG it's really hard to say what is fact and what is just a joke. And maybe one day this theory will be confirmed by show's creators ;-) 