Anais Watterson

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Anais Errrrrr Watterson Season 3 onwards Season 2 Season 1 Baby Prototype Human (Perfect Family)

Character Information Gender: Female ♀ Also known as Jimmy (by Gumball and Darwin in "The Refund") Runtus Decepticus (by Gumball in "The Tape") The Anaihilator (by Gumball and Darwin in "The Tape") Clever Girl (by Gumball in "The Password" and Richard in "The Deal") Pink One (By Richard in "The Thing") Species Rabbit Age 4 Friends Daisy the Donkey, Chimera, Billy (formerly), Jodie (one-sided), Josh, Banana Joe (possibly), Jamie, Tina Clare (possibly) Enemies Billy, Miss Simian, Jodie (one-sided), Chi Chi, Ribbit, Chi Chi's parents, Gumball and Darwin (formerly), the tree librarian Relatives Gumball (brother) Darwin (adoptive brother) Nicole (mother) Richard (father) Granny Jojo (paternal grandmother) Frankie (paternal grandfather) Louie (paternal step-grandfather) Daniel (maternal grandfather) Mary (maternal grandmother) Occupation Student First appearance "The DVD" (in family photo) "The Responsible" (physically) Voice Kyla Kowalewski (Season 1-The Gumball Chronicles) Kinza Syed Khan (The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball-present) Gallery Quotes Color scheme fur Cloth eye other none none

Anais Errrrrr Watterson is one of the main characters of The Amazing World of Gumball. She is the youngest member of the Watterson family, the most intelligent, and can speak in full sentences despite being only four years old. She is in 8^th (and later 9^th) grade at Elmore Junior High which she attends with her older brothers, Gumball and Darwin, and is in a higher grade than them, as revealed in "The Others."

Appearance

Early concept

In the early concept, Anais was originally going to be a dark pink rabbit with a tiny pink tail. She had a much more elongated head, as well as elongated eyes. Anais wore a yellow dress with a white trim and red socks. Unlike on the show, her arms and ears were significantly shorter compared to that of her final design. At a later point in development, she most resembled her current design, but with whiskers.

She was also, according to an early bio, originally intended to be only three years old, before being made a year older in the final series.

Final design

In the show, Anais is a small pink rabbit with a white-colored tail. She resembles Richard, her father, but is much smaller and shorter in physique and stature, has a more feminine appearance, does not have whiskers, and her ears curve in opposite directions as opposed to standing straight back. The inside of her mouth is a darker pink, and her tongue is light pink. Her nose is red like her older brother Gumball. "The Castle" reveals she has wide hips similar to Gumball and Nicole.

Anais usually wears an orange dress with a white trim and white socks. She is one of the only members of the Wattersons to wear footwear, along with Darwin and Granny Jojo.

In season 2, her design changes. Her eyes are oval-shaped, along with the rest of her family. Her skin is a lighter shade of pink and she is slightly taller and larger, almost reaching Darwin because her head and body had increased in size.

She was seen in her pajamas in "The Curse," where she wore a light blue dress with white trim and light blue socks with a dark blue spot. The second time she appears with pajamas is in "The Castle," but this time, they are pink footless pajamas with a white rabbit silhouette and she wears them barefoot. From this point forward, her pajamas always appear like this.

In season 3, Anais' eyes are permanently round along with the rest of her family, although in one scene of "The Signature" and "The Compilation," her eyes are oval-shaped.

In the season 6 episode "The Rival," Anais wore a purple short sleeve shirt and a white diaper.

Personality

Infancy

As shown in "The Rival," Anais was like every innocent, newborn baby, but when she was put alone with Gumball and Darwin, she became dangerous, was able to outsmart everyone and got away with tormenting her brothers. She eventually made peace with her brothers after they show their love and appreciation with a hug, but she continued to blame them for the things that happened. Throughout the years, she matured and discontinued this behavior. It's also very likely, despite not being outright stated, that she regrets her behavior towards them as in later years she deeply cares for them.

Intelligence

Anais is by far the most intelligent member of her family, although her young age prevents her from really being noticed and taken seriously by adults. She is rather mature and rational in the way she acts and speaks. She has been shown on numerous occasions to have a knack for solving problems, such as when she figured a way out of the house when it was flooded in "The Responsible," and the time she developed a complex solution to solve the problem of getting her grandmother's luggage up a flight of stairs in "The Kiss." Even though Anais is four years old, she attends Elmore Junior High because of her extremely high IQ; however, she is not in the same class as her brothers and instead goes to an eighth-grade class located elsewhere in the school. Anais is also a valued member of the school's Physics Club, and her vast knowledge of the subject has saved her from being vaporized by Bobert in his combat form in "The Club."

As shown in "The Remote" and in "The World," Anais knows how to sew, as she sewed up a hole in Daisy, and also sewed a zipper into Daisy.

Anais is a remarkably cunning strategist as well, as revealed in the episodes "The Remote" and "The Password," plotting elaborate schemes, and decoying everybody's perceptions to achieve her goal, though she is often underestimated due to her significantly young age, which she tends to use to her advantage.

Sometimes she is respected for her intelligence like in the episode "The Password," when Gumball says "clever girl" after finding out about Anais' plan to hog the computer all to herself once again by driving the Watterson family out of the house, similar to the episode "The Remote."

Her intelligence plays an important part in preventing the copycat family from imitating her family during the near climax of "The Copycats," when she realizes that the copycats do not have a doppelgänger for her.

Maturity

Anais can also be considered the most mature member of her family, aside from her mother. Due to her young age, however, she is prone to occasionally acting childish and still has stuffed animals.

Despite being the youngest sibling, she acts like an older sister to Gumball and Darwin as she often takes care of them in many ways, like helping them with their homework, making their breakfast, pointing out their naiveness, and helping them with social issues.

Temper

Anais has shown some signs of having her mother's fiery temper. She is often very rude and condescending towards her brother, Gumball, calling him a “slack-jawed, pea-brained dimwit” because she thought on impulse that it was Gumball’s fault Darwin was sneezing. When her brother accidentally lost her doll, she was extremely upset and demanding, threatening to tell their mother what had happened. On another occasion, after finally taking Granny Jojo's bags upstairs, when asked to bring them down, she instead grew furious and kicked her suitcase out the window. In "The Limit," she, Gumball, and Darwin threw a temper tantrum over not getting candy. Also, in "The Vacation," Richard hugged her to protect her, and she violently attacked him, thinking he was a monster. In "The Pest," Gumball and Darwin awoke from their sleep and found Anais violently and mercilessly attacking her stuffed animals because she was angry at Billy for bullying her at school, and even wanted to beat him up, showing that she can be just as angry and violent as her mother.

Infantile tendencies

While Anais is certainly very intelligent and mature for someone her age, there are some occasions that show that she is still just a little kid. She is a huge fan of Daisy the Donkey, as evidenced by her great caution for her Daisy plush toy, and her extreme enthusiasm for the "Daisy on Ice" show. She also knows how to manipulate others by looking cute, as proven in "The Quest." In "The Limit," she, Gumball, and Darwin threw a fit over no candy. In "The Gift," it is revealed that she believes in the legend of kissing a frog to get a prince.

Social awkwardness

In "The Friend," it is shown that Anais is very socially awkward. She states that she does not have any friends, which is why no one shows up at her party, and in "The Egg," when she met Billy, she had her thumbs under the table twisting them into knots. This awkwardness is shown again in "The Parasite" when she became excessively clingy to Jodie. This social awkwardness is shown once again in "The Guy" when Josh and Anais first meet when they yell at each other instead of talking, and in "The Friend," when she does not know how to make eye contact, smile normally, or make small talk with her friend, Chimera. In "The Buddy," Anais was quick to make Jamie her friend and to get too deep into why. At the end of the episode, Anais did not know what friends do, as she first held Jamie's hand, then tried playing it cool.

Creativity and Imagination

As of The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball Anais's creativity has been given a much greater emphasis, with her beginning to use her vast intelligence and imagination to conceptualize and create highly advanced inventions. In "The Gut," she invents a walkie-talkie device capable of allowing organic matter such as plants and fungus to communicate with people. Richard accidentally swallows it, bringing his gut to life and allowing it to talk to him, Anais, Gumball, and Darwin. In "The Climb," she pitches an idea for an automatic robotic tree planting system to Principal Brown, Colin & Felix, and later helps Gumball by building a robotic climbing suit to help him climb the school gym's climbing wall. This inventive side of Anais is also shown in the comics, where she builds a giant robot mecha suit, codes an artificial intelligence program that gives Bobert the ability to taste food, and tries to create a cure for the common cold.

She is also shown throughout both series to enjoy drawing and painting. In "The Painting," she paints a photo of her and her family to express her love for them. In "The Rival," a baby Anais draws a photo of her parents, as well as threatening her brothers with a drawing of them both deceased and buried underground. In "The Gut," she, Richard's gut, and Richard all paint together, with her painting an abstract portrayal of the speed and anxiety of modern life. In "The Wrinkle," she reveals to the family a book she created with plans to help each of them prepare for the future. Said book is full of various drawings and sketches by her, a lot of which are shown prominently in the episode's climax during the "Leap Before I Look" song.

In "The Gut," she is also briefly shown to enjoy music, playing the drums and cymbals alongside Richard's gut playing the piano.

Relationships

Main article: Anais Watterson/Relationships

Episode appearances

Season 1

• "The DVD" (family photo)
• "The Responsible" (debut)
• "The Third" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Debt"
• "The End"
• "The Dress"
• "The Quest"
• "The Spoon"
• "The Painting"
• "The Mystery" (photo)
• "The Prank" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Kiss"
• "The Party"
• "The Refund" (video)
• "The Robot" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Goons"
• "The Secret"
• "The Genius"
• "The Poltergeist"
• "The Mustache"
• "The Date"
• "The Club"
• "The Ape"
• "The Car"
• "The Curse"
• "The Microwave"
• "The Helmet"
• "The Fight"

Season 2

• "The Remote"
• "The Knights"
• "The Fridge"
• "The Job"
• "Halloween"
• "The Treasure"
• "Christmas"
• "The Watch" (mentioned)
• "The Bumpkin"
• "The Flakers"
• "The Authority"
• "The Pony"
• "The Hero"
• "The Dream"
• "The Sidekick" (cameo in yearbook)
• "The Tag" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Game"
• "The Limit"
• "The Voice"
• "The Castle"
• "The Tape" (non-speaking)
• "The Plan"
• "The World"
• "The Finale"

Season 3

• "The Joy"
• "The Puppy"
• "The Recipe" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Name"
• "The Gripes"
• "The Vacation"
• "The Void" (photo)
• "The Allergy"
• "The Password"
• "The Procrastinators"
• "The Shell"
• "The Bros" (photo)
• "The Mirror"
• "The Man"
• "The Pizza"
• "The Lie"
• "The Question"
• "The Friend"
• "The Oracle"
• "The Safety"
• "The Spoiler"
• "The Nobody"
• "The Downer"
• "The Egg"
• "The Money"

Season 4

• "The Return"
• "The Crew" (mentioned)
• "The Others"
• "The Signature"
• "The Check"
• "The Pest"
• "The Sale"
• "The Gift"
• "The Parking"
• "The Routine"
• "The Romantic"
• "The Uploads" (cameo)
• "The Hug"
• "The Origins: Part Two" (clip)
• "The Signal" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Parasite"
• "The Love" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Nest"
• "The Points"
• "The Night"
• "The Roots"
• "The Blame"
• "The Detective"
• "The Fury"
• "The Compilation"
• "The Disaster"

Season 5

• "The Rerun"
• "The Stories" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Guy"
• "The Vision"
• "The Choices"
• "The Code"
• "The Test"
• "The Fuss"
• "The Copycats"
• "The Outside"
• "The Vase"
• "The Box"
• "The Console"
• "The Catfish" (photo on Elmore Plus)
• "The Cycle"
• "The Grades"
• "The Heist"
• "The Best"
• "The Worst"
• "The Deal"
• "The Nuisance"
• "The Line"
• "The List" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The News" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Puppets" (mentioned)

Season 6

• "The Rival"
• "The Vegging" (non-speaking role)
• "The Father"
• "The Faith"
• "The Candidate"
• "The Brain"
• "The Parents"
• "The Founder"
• "The Ad"
• "The Ghouls" (non-speaking cameo)
• "The Buddy"
• "The Possession"
• "The Master"
• "The Silence"
• "The Future" (painting)
• "The Web" (photo)
• "The Inquisition" (non-speaking cameo)

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

• "The Assistant"
• "The Distance"
• "The Thing"
• "The Traffic"
• "The Cheerleader"
• "The Gut"
• "The Wrinkle"
• "The Pool" (non-speaking)
• "The Portrait"
• "The Climb"

Scrapped episodes

• "The Rex"

Comic

• "Issue 1"
• "Issue 3"
• "Issue 4"
• "Issue 6" (Dear Penpal)
• "Issue 8"
• "Vol 1: Fairy Tale Trouble"
• "Vol 2: Cheat Code"
• "Vol 3: Recipe for Disaster"
• "Vol 4: Scrimmage Scramble"
• "Tunnel Kingdom"
• "Midsummer Nightmare"
• "The Storm (Graphic Novel)" (The Power Outage, The Rainbow {Non-speaking cameo))
• "The Tasks" (Cameo)
• "2015 Special 1" (Game On)
• "2015 Grab Bag Special" (Anais's Wand, Stories from the Cemetery)
• "2016 Grab Bag Special" (Lunch Trade, Crayon Wax On Crayon Wax Off)
• "2017 Grab Bag Special" (Night Out (Cameo), Blast to the Past (Cameo of future 34 year old self), Snow Close Yeti So Far)
• "2018 Grab Bag Special" (The Bike, The Host (Cameo), Science Fair Shenanigans (Non-speaking cameo), Grand-Mummy's Curse)
• "Spring Break Smash" (The Wild, Watterson Resort)

Voice actors

• Kyla Kowalewski (USA/UK/AU/CAN/NZ, Season 1-The Gumball Chronicles)
• Kinza Syed Khan (USA/UK/AU/CAN/NZ, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball-present)
• Agnese Marteddu (Italy)
• Gerona Karabashi (Albania)
• Yukiko Hinata (Japan)
• Mariana Toledo (Latin America, seasons 1–6)
• Elizabeth Infante (Latin America, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball-present)
• Fernanda Ribeiro (Brazil, seasons 1–4)
• Mariana Dondi (Brazil, season 5–present)
• Malena Shishkova (Bulgaria, season 1-3)
• Stoyan Tsvetkov (Bulgaria, as adult in "The Mustache")
• Radoslava Stoyneva (Bulgaria, season 4-present)
• Alayin Dubois (France)
• Karen Awda (Middle East, season 1 - The Gumball Chronicles)
• Merva Refaee (Middle East, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball-present
• Elif Acehan (Turkey, season 1)
• Didem Atlıhan (Turkey, season 2)
• Işıl Kılıç (Turkey, season 3–present)
• Kim Jeong-a (South Korea)
• Jong Ah Kim (Korea)
• Martyna Sommer (Poland)
• Lilla Károlyi (Hungary)
• Andreea Prossi (Romania, seasons 1–3)
• Olimpia Botez (Romania, season 4–present)
• Tia Theodorsen (Norway)
• Steinunn Lárusdóttir (Iceland)
• Maja Blennermark (Sweden)
• Wichanada Woraphongphisut (Thailand, season 1-6)
• Pimpisa Petthae (Thailand, The Gumball Chronicles)
• Manatsanun Petchdamrongsakul (Thailand, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball-present)

Gallery

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Quotes

Main article: Anais Watterson/Quotes

Trivia

• Alongside Darwin and Granny Jojo, Anais has footwear unlike the rest of her family.
• In "The Responsible," it is revealed that Anais helps Gumball and Darwin with their homework, and she also makes Gumball and Darwin's breakfast every morning. That may have stopped in "The Wand," as she is not in the episode, and Gumball and Darwin make their own cereal.
• In some preview pictures, she has whiskers like the rest of her family, except Darwin, but in the show, she does not. This was likely a late change that the creators made for an unknown reason, possibly to make her look younger or cuter.
• Her name has two different pronunciations in the show: it is usually pronounced according to the name's French origin ('An-ni-ese') but is occasionally pronounced according to English phonetics ('An-ni-is') instead, usually by Darwin and Granny Jojo.
• Additionally, her name means "holy", "gracious", or "merciful" in most French Culture. This is of course ironic, considering how she is known for having quite an attitude.
• Anais has been seen acting dumb six times in the series: in "The Goons," Gumball teaches her how to be dumb; in "The Genius," she acts dumb to trick Principal Brown; in "The Job," she becomes dumb when she switches heads with Gumball; in "The Authority," when she becomes a "Richard"; in "The Castle," where she actually wanted to be dumb on Saturday and in "The Brain," where she gives herself brain damage due to the number of times she facepalms at her family's stupidity.
• Anais, like her mother, seems to have anger issues, as seen in "The Quest," "The Kiss," "The Tape," and the Elmore Stream-It video "Annoying Brother."
• Anais is based on and named after creator Ben Bocquelet's younger sister, Anaïs Bocquelet, who works as a computer programmer for EA Games.
• She shares the same room with Gumball and Darwin, but in "The Date," she is seen having her own room.
• In "The Vacation," "The Tape," and "The Pest," it is shown that Anais may have inherited Nicole's fighting skills.
• In "The Pest," it is revealed that due to Gumball stuffing stones in her pockets due to his fear of her growing taller than him, Anais is medically classified as a cephalopod.
• In some early press release materials, it was stated that Anais attended junior kindergarten class. It is confirmed in "The Others," however, that she is in eighth grade, a grade higher than her brothers.
• In "The Parasite," in the list of Gumball and Darwin's pros and cons of reading Anais' diary, Anais is claimed to know how to keep someone both alive and in pain for a long time.
• In "The Choices," it was shown that Anais was already quite intelligent as an infant, as she corrected her misspelled name on her hospital wristband. But in "The Rival," she got her name before the Wattersons depart the hospital.
• Technically, Anais is the one responsible for the events of "The Joy," along with her father, as she convinced him to hug Gumball and Darwin to begin with.
• In "The Copycats," Anais is the only Watterson family member who does not have a copycat, due to the copycat family being a parody of Miracle Star, a Gumball ripoff from China, where she also has no ripoff character due to the country's two children policy. In the copycat family's place, they apparently preferred two sons over a daughter.
• In "The Rival," it was shown that Anais had sadistic tendencies when she was a newborn and had tried to harm Gumball and Darwin multiple times, although since then, she has mostly grown out of it.
• Like Darwin, her first word was also revealed to be "Gumball," with her first sentence being "Gumball did it."
• Unlike her brothers (whose voice actors were replaced several times by younger successors due to puberty), Anais is the only child of the Wattersons who retained the same voice actor, Kyla Kowalewski, since her debut in "The Responsible."
  • This is due to the fact that in puberty, female voices deepen but not as much as males.
  • However, in The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, she gets a younger successor of her own.
• Anais is the first character to speak in "The Quest," making her the first character to speak in the show, in order of production. In order of airing, Nicole is the first to speak, or Gumball if one counts the early reel.
• In the show, she is four years old, but in Issue 8, she claims to be an eight-year-old.
• In "The Gumball Chronicles: Ancestor Act," it is revealed that Anais' middle name is "Errrrrr," because Richard did not have enough time to pick it out.
• Anais seems to have an incredible amount of strength for a four year old, having shown multiple feats of extreme strength throughout the show. These include pulling both of her brothers up from the side of a cliff at the same time in "The Treasure," swinging her father across the ground multiple times in "The Vacation," dragging her mother around and out of the house in "The Car," and carrying Darwin on her back up the side of a steep hill whilst he was wearing a bunch of heavy jewelry in "The Helmet."
• She is the only Watterson member so far to have not had a solo song.
• "The Gut" reveals that she is able to play the drums and cymbals.

External links

• Anais' Flickr

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