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

Family

Darwin

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Gumball and Darwin running to each other after reuniting.

Darwin is Gumball's adopted brother and his fully-fledged friend. The two are often seen together, and thus, are prone into getting into mischief with each other. Through thick and thin, the two seem to have each other's back.

Gumball's love for Darwin is what allowed Darwin to be the way he is in the first place. "The Origins," part one and part two, gives more insight into the strength of the two brothers' bond. Gumball's love for Darwin is so strong that it allowed Darwin to quickly evolve and return home to the family.

Gumball describes Darwin as a sort of "moral" guardian to him, for Darwin is the one usually to call out his brother when his plans cross into immoral territory. As seen in "The Sidekick," Gumball sees Darwin in a better light than he lets on.

Despite this, Gumball is known to occasionally retaliate again, specifically when it involves Darwin achieving more than he does. Such is the case in "The Triangle," in which Darwin discovers his secret talent for the swanee whistle and gets a part in the school band. This prompts Gumball to impede his brother's progress as much as possible.

Anais

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Gumball hugging Anais.

Gumball loves his little sister very much and sometimes appears to be very proud of her. Despite her seeming not to reciprocate this love and his occasional snarkiness towards her, Gumball does truly care for her.

Anais can often act as a counter-balance to Gumball's tomfoolery. In episodes such as "The Plan" and "The Lie," Anais is quick to point out all the flaws in Gumball's brash actions. In "The Plan," Darwin also plays that role with her, making for a double wham.

Gumball is also very protective of his little sister. In "The Pest," Gumball is quick to get into a duel with Billy after he catches him insulting her. Gumball also tries to sabotage her relationship with Jodie in "The Parasite," and even try to poison Jodie when he believes that Jodie is abusing Anais' social awkwardness. Gumball can at times show responsibility with Anais. In "The Spoiler," he refuses to take his sister to watch The Screamening with him and Darwin, as its scary premise would traumatize her. He even goes as far as to refuse the many items she attempts to bribe him with.

Nicole

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Nicole and Gumball in "The Fridge."

Gumball loves his mother very much and looks up to her. Despite this, Gumball often fears his mother's temper, as seen in episodes such as "The Fridge," in which he comments how her scary temper and desire to win has torn the family apart.

That aside, Gumball does legitimately hold his mother up in high regard. In "The Mothers," both he and Darwin are eager to prove to their friends that their mother is the best. In "The Fury," he is blown away by his mother's abilities.

Nicole also genuinely desires to be closer to her son. In "The Meddler," she takes time out of her work to give her sons the attention they desire, and in "The Shell," she goes out of her way to comfort Gumball when he fears he may have lost Penny forever.

Richard

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Gumball as a baby and Richard.

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Gumball, Darwin & Richard hug at the end of "The Hero."

Richard is Gumball's father, but Gumball sees Richard more as an older brother rather than an actual father figure. Gumball often plays video games with his father, and in general, he can be seen goofing off with his children as opposed to showing any parental authority. As shown in "The Password," however, Richard can exercise some authority, specifically when Gumball and his brother pushed him to his limit.

Because of this, Gumball fails to take his father seriously. This can be seen in "The Hero," in which he insults his father, believing him to be a joke. This is rectified by the end of the episode, as Gumball rebonds with his father.

It is shown that earlier in Gumball's life, such as 'The Hero," "The Origins," and "The Choices," Richard was very much an active parent in Gumball's life; he always had his eye on him and did everything in his power to be the best father possible.

Granny Jojo

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Granny Jojo is very overprotective of her grandchildren.

Granny Jojo is a very overprotective grandmother towards Gumball and his siblings. In "The Authority," she takes over Nicole's job as caretaker of the house, and in her new position, she scares Gumball and his siblings straight. Despite this extreme method to parenting, Granny Jojo only has the best intentions for Gumball. In "The Man," Gumball agrees to help Granny Jojo reunite with Louie despite such actions being against his father's wishes. He is also very supportive of the marriage between Louie and her, and helps them fix their tense relationship in "The Catfish."

Louie

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Louie hopes to become closer with his grandchildren.

Even though Louie is a fairly recent addition to the Watterson family, he still loves Gumball and his siblings as if they were his biological grandchildren.

In "The Man," Gumball was very supportive of Louie's relationship with Granny Jojo, wanting both parties to be happy despite his father's obvious disdain.

When he is later married to Granny Jojo and becomes the Watterson children's step-grandfather, Louie gives a gift of $50 (that the children initially believed to be $5000) as a gift for "being his favorite grandchildren."

In "The Catfish," Gumball and Darwin both feel sorry for Louie when they realize their grandfather has no online friends and create a fake online persona to try to give him company, though this winds up backfiring and causing a fight between him and Granny Jojo.

Girlfriend

Penny

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Gumball and Penny kissing.

Gumball and Penny had always had a mutual crush on one another, with evidence of this feeling being produced as early as the In trailer of the series, where Penny kisses Gumball on the cheek in the cafeteria, and Gumball blushes and falls. Before the big confession, both Gumball and Penny were shy and awkward with each other. Both seemed to be especially introverted when speaking with each other. This is until "The Shell," when Gumball finally admits his true feelings to Penny and kisses her on the lips. Penny reciprocates their kiss and they began their special relationship forth onwards.

In "The Shell," Gumball helps Penny get over her insecurities when she comes out of her shell. He is there to tell her how her appearance does not matter, and that he will always love her. After that, Gumball and Penny seem to share a healthy romantic relationship, often spending time together as seen in "The Blame" and "The Misunderstandings." Gumball also occasionally likes to shake things up, as seen in his romantic quest in "The Romantic."

It is clear that between her and Gumball, Penny is the more mature and understanding, as she was willing to put up with his shenanigans in "The Romantic" despite being put through perilous and often painful situations (the reckless bus ride, the monster in the chemistry lab, the walk in the desert and even her allergy to blueberries, all caused by Gumball). Penny is not ignorant of other relationships in Gumball's life and does her best not to let hers overtake them, most evidently in "The Bros," where Penny advised Gumball to work things out with a jealous Darwin, not wanting to ruin their relationship. At the end of the episode, she even helped solidify Gumball and Darwin's brotherhood with a jokey "marriage" ceremony.

Gumball's and Penny's trust in each other is so strong that when Gumball accidentally kisses Sarah in "The Disaster," Penny trusts Gumball that it was not on purpose, but instead she gets upset over the language change.

In "The Transformation," Gumball is asked to help settle the argument between the Fitzgeralds' whether to come out their shells or not. Gumball tells them a story which is a metaphor of how they keep arguing over and over. He is able to fix things between them, albeit not in the way he had intended, and they turn to thank him. However, Gumball has already run out of the house in total fear due to their previous threats.

Penny trusts Gumball enough to have him babysit her sister Polly in "The Mess," but he ends up getting insulted in the end for almost having Polly get in trouble.

In the final episode, "The Inquisition," Gumball accidentally kisses Sarah thinking it is Penny in human form, but he gets burned by the real Penny.

The series seems to leave the ultimate fate of their relationship ambiguous.

However in The Gumball Chronicles episode, "Vote Gumball and Penny," their relationship seems to be fixed as Gumball asks Penny to be his running mate for the elections for class president. Penny points out all of Gumball's previous flaws, but at the end says they are "totally good."

Friends

Carrie

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Gumball and Carrie seem to be good friends.

Carrie and Gumball are really good and close friends. Although Carrie initially took advantage of the friendship, as seen in "The Ghost," in which she possessed Gumball's body for a junk food spree, the two later become good friends. In episodes such as "Halloween" and "The Flower," Carrie is quick to goof off with Gumball and his brother. "The Scam" also further highlights the mischievous side the two share.

In the episode "The Mirror" she came to Gumball's aid when he was cursed by the Snatcher, who is her long lost father, and Gumball also helped to reunite her with her father. In "Halloween,"  when Gumball, Darwin, and Anais get sucked into the underworld, Carrie seems sad and distraught.

However, in "Darwin's Yearbook: Carrie," Carrie thinks of Gumball as a wuss and when she saw the scene from "The Shippening," she described it as a nightmare. When the scene from "The Mirror" played, she described hitting Gumball satisfying.

According to "The One," Carrie is Gumball's second best friend, only below Darwin.

Billy

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Although Billy was initially nasty and annoying to Gumball in "The Pest," after he explains himself, that he was lovesick over Anais, he learns that everybody is a little dissatisfied about something, after this, he and Gumball make amends and are on good terms.

In "The Blame," Gumball introduces Billy to video games, which his mother never allowed him to play and he loved it. Later in that episode, Billy stands up for Gumball and the other kids as they try to lift her ban on video games.

Banana Joe

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Banana Joe trying to tag along with Gumball.

Although Banana Joe was initially unfriendly towards Gumball, as the series progressed, the two soon began to befriend each other, and as a result, they are each now one of the other's closest friends. Such is the case in "The Banana," in which Banana Joe is temporarily upset with Gumball and Darwin because of a misunderstanding with a pen, but appears apologetic when he thinks that he had hurt the boys.

In "The Mothers," Banana Joe agrees to participate in Gumball's and Darwin's arranged "Mom-Off."

In "The Misunderstandings," Banana Joe tries to join Gumball, but because of the urgency of the situation Gumball respectfully declines Banana Joe's offer.

In "The Ex," Gumball becomes exceedingly jealous when Joe becomes Rob's new nemesis. He steals Banana Joe's gimmicks in an attempt to make Rob hate him again, but only succeeds in angering Joe.

However, in "The One," Gumball appears to consider Banana Joe his fourth best friend, after Sarah, Carrie, and Darwin.

In "The Vegging," Banana Joe appears to be very enthusiastic about being contacted by Gumball, answering the phone in an excited manner and complying with everything Gumball tells him to, including holding his breath for several minutes, without question.

The two also sing and dance together in "The Inquisition," and Joe is the first of the humanized students that Gumball corrects.

Bobert

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Gumball and Darwin hugging Bobert.

Gumball and Bobert appear to be greatly friendly between one another. In "The Bet," Gumball and Darwin feel sorry for Bobert having no one to play with, so they include him in one of their games.

In "The Upgrade," Gumball and Darwin convinced him to upgrade into a new version. During the same episode, he also expressed his feeling of replacing him with the New Bobert, but remarked at the end that he likes Bobert as he is. In "The Loophole," Gumball and Darwin grow concerned about the potential danger he poses on everyone around him and set up a few rules to prevent him from hurting anyone.

They both proved to be a great team together in "The Agent" and according to "The One," Gumball considers Bobert his fifth best friend, after Banana Joe, Sarah, Carrie, and Darwin.

Rocky

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Despite their age differences, both Darwin and Gumball are friends with Rocky.

Despite the age gap, Rocky finds a good friend in Gumball Watterson. In "The Boss," Gumball and Darwin help Rocky land an office job so that he may gain the respect of his father.

As seen in "The Slide," Darwin, Gumball, and Rocky are all gaming buddies, often playing an online MMORPG together; in that same episode, Gumball helps Rocky find his true love.

Idaho

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Gumball and Idaho have a little too much fun.

Gumball and Idaho are on good terms with each other, and seem to share a relatively close friendship. In "The Bumpkin," Idaho tags along with Gumball to his house so that Idaho may teach Gumball how to live a "clean" lifestyle. Although their initial disdain, Idaho managed to get all of Gumball's family aboard the concept of living a clean lifestyle.

Later that night, Gumball decides to teach Idaho the fun of "the party life"; even after Idaho nearly dies of such a lifestyle, Gumball and Idaho still manage to remain on decent terms.

In "The Potato," Gumball refers to Idaho as his "number one brotato," unaware that Idaho dislikes the nickname. He is shown to value Idaho's happiness when he convinces Darwin to stop eating potatoes for Idaho's sake, despite Darwin's addiction to them. He is horrified when he believes that Darwin has killed Idaho, crying out in grief and refusing to be interrupted in his mourning, and is overjoyed to see Idaho alive.

Sussie

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Gumball originally saw Sussie as weird and ugly, but soon learned to appreciate her oddities.

Sussie and Gumball have a close, but occasionally tense relationship, with the tension mostly coming from Sussie's odd behaviour and how she can be annoying. Despite this, most of their interactions are positive. In "The Ghost," Gumball makes her puke up her hot chocolate by breathing with his new gross breath. In "The Party," Gumball considers taking her as a date to the Wilsons' party, but she burps in his face, instantly removing her from the list.  In "The Words," Gumball asks Sussie to quiet down on the bus. Sussie very politely agrees to do so. According to Darwin in "The Skull," Sussie was Gumball's first kiss, as he once kissed her while on morphine. Gumball is extremely embarrassed about the encounter. They are shown to not be very close at the time of "The Pony," where Gumball and Darwin are extremely awkward at her birthday party, only staying when offered a large sum of money. In "The Dream," Gumball takes advantage of Sussie's weird appearance to abuse Darwin in their shared dream, showing that he views Sussie as ugly. She also shouts "Names! Names! Names!" at him in "The Storm," angering him.

Their first notable interaction comes in "The Voice," where the Watterson brothers apologize to her in case she is angry with them. She is not, and claims that she likes them. Gumball, wanting to apologize for something, drums on her head, accidentally knocking one of her eyes off. He is very apologetic, but Sussie claims that she liked that as well. Gumball and Darwin seem endeared by this, and hug her before they move on. They are still shown to be friendly in "The Promise," where Sussie is the only student to offer her seat to Gumball and Darwin on the bus. Gumball is very honoured, and thanks Sussie, claiming that one should not judge Sussie by her appearance, despite how weird and scary she looks. He calls Sussie a gentleman and a lady, but is grossed out when he sees that her seat is covered in sweat, due to leather making her sweaty. He tells her to keep the seat, but pretends that he is doing so because she is a fine lady and it would not be gentlemanly to take her seat, proving that he values her feelings and does not want to insult her.

In "The Question," Gumball seems to admire Sussie's carefree attitude to life, and is amazed when she helps him and Darwin on their philosophical quest by giving them her idea of the meaning of life: life is not about the destination, but about the journey, and the friends one makes along the way; the search for life is what gives life meaning, and the only true meaning of life is finding one's own way to enjoy it. The boys take her advice, and decide to simply enjoy themselves rather than trying to find some greater purpose.

However, in "The Test," Sussie is one of the people that Gumball has to stop himself from berating for her annoying habits, implying that he still finds her annoying. Their relationship is explored in depth in "The Weirdo." First, Gumball seems grossed out and confused by Sussie's unusual gifts, but seems to want one for himself. He seems perturbed when he gets one, however: it is a glob of mayonnaise. Sussie explains that it is very precious and useful, implying that she wanted Gumball to get something good. When the others fail to hide their displeasure, Gumball defends Sussie, telling his classmates to make some effort to spare her feelings. When he sees Julius bullying Sussie, he is enraged and instantly decides to fight the bullies. When Darwin dissuades him from doing so, he decides instead to poison the town water supply so that everybody becomes as weird as Sussie, showing that he cares about her a lot. Darwin advises him instead to help her fit in with everybody else.

Gumball tells Sussie that she should stop being herself, and asks her how she became so odd-looking. She provides several unrelated stories, which annoys Gumball. He also refers to her as a "little freak-show," which somewhat upsets Sussie. She is upset even more when they try to massively alter her appearance, and Gumball seems guilty. He accidentally insults her again, however, and she leaves in sadness. Gumball and Darwin both sigh in sympathy, but Sussie comes back to offer them a chance to see life through her eyes— literally. She gives them each a pair of googly eyes, and they put them on. The three then embark on a whimsical adventure through town, and the boys come to understand that Sussie does not need to change: she is happy, and is not hurting anybody with what she does.

From this point on, Sussie and Gumball are closer, although he still sees her as somewhat weird-looking, as shown in "The Inquisition," where he claims that her appearance as a human is a massive improvement. Despite this, he is otherwise horrified by the transformation.

Frenemies

Tobias

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Gumball and Tobias have a weird relationship.

Gumball and Tobias have a history of rivalry behind them, although their relationship becomes more positive later down the line. He tends to be jealous of Gumball at times, expressed in "The Voice," where he is furious that he is not the "main character" in his own story, and he should be the one on cool adventures and in "The Knights," it is shown that he has a crush on Penny as well but she only has feelings for Gumball. Also, in "The Third," Tobias becomes Gumball and Darwin's friend for twenty dollars, but he ends up ignoring Gumball and befriending Darwin. They had a competition of who has the best mother, showing rivalry between them, in "The Points" Gumball and Darwin help Tobias, but then they discover that he was tricking them all the time, causing a fight between them.

They may be on somewhat decent terms as Gumball allowed Tobias his own segment on his home movie in "The Tape." Also, in "The Slap," Gumball felt left out when Tobias does not slap him with his special high-five slap. He tried his best to make Tobias slap him on the butt but failed.

In "The One," Tobias appears to view Gumball as a good friend, and wants to be his best friend. He tries to convince Gumball that they are close friends, and is upset when Gumball claims that he is only sixth in line to be his best friend. Tobias appears to accept this, but in reality sets out to remove all of Gumball's friends who are above him in the ranks— Leslie, Bobert, Banana Joe, Sarah, Carrie and Darwin— and get their powers. When he supposedly takes their powers and comes to take out Darwin, Gumball angrily points out that he did not actually get any powers and that he would not become a better friend by hurting Gumball's other friends. Tobias is upset, but Gumball comforts him, telling him that he may not be his best friend, but he is still a good friend. Tobias accepts this, and he departs on good terms with Gumball.

Tina

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Tina and Gumball are now on decent terms.

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 Fight," it appeared to be that Tina had been bullying Gumball and had challenged him to a fight, but 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 have 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 could not 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 did not take it back. Another example of the two not getting on is in "The Mess," where Tina comes to the boys' kissing booth, and refuses to kiss Gumball, asking to kiss Darwin instead. When Gumball refuses due to him being the only one allowed to kiss Darwin, Tina attacks him.

There have been some occasions on which the two have gotten along, however: in "The Others," for example, Tina lets Gumball and Darwin ride her so they can catch up with Clare's bus, even knocking the bus over for them.

Clayton

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Gumball has a somewhat unhealthy relationship with Clayton.

Gumball disapproves of Clayton's compulsive lying, but likes him enough to want to give him a chance to quit as followed in "The Skull," in which Clayton also states he thinks Gumball is really cool and really just wanted to impress him.

This is explored further in "The Move," where one hard to believe thing Clayton told him turned out to actually be true, about a martial arts move which temporarily paralyzes its victim.

In "The Anybody," Gumball is mentioned to have told Clayton wild stories in the past of his bravery, causing Clayton to look up to him. He does not appear to care when Clayton sits his detention for him. However, when Clayton takes the imitation game too far by stealing other people's lives, Gumball is guilty, and realises he is at fault, telling Clayton that he should not have to be somebody else. Clayton decides to save Gumball from a sewer alligator, but Gumball appears annoyed when he is not much help. Clayton rescues him, but Gumball is traumatized from the experience, and despite Clayton's best efforts, he remains that way for the remaining few seconds of the episode, although Clayton does not seem to notice.

Overall, while Clayton sees Gumball as almost an idol, and looks up to him greatly, Gumball does not really seem to care that much about him, seeing him more as someone to boost his ego than a true friend.


Leslie

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Leslie and Gumball are good friends, despite their occasional feuds.

Gumball and Leslie have had some great highs and some terrible lows between one another. Leslie appeared very keen to be Gumball and Darwin's friend in "The Third," but the boys saw him as creepy and weird. They did not interact notably again until "The Flower," where it is Leslie's closeness to Penny that fuels the rise of Jealousy in Gumball's mind. Throughout the episode, Leslie becomes more afraid of Gumball, unaware that it is not him but Jealousy, as he is continuously tortured by him. However, when Gumball realises that Leslie is not in love with Penny but is in fact her cousin, he is apologetic, and the two appear to be on good terms. However, they appear to still not actually be friends in "The Words," where Gumball considers Leslie's use of malapropisms very annoying, and does not seem to be particularly close to him.

Moreover, they engage in a fight in "The Triangle" when Leslie attempts to take out Darwin due to him claiming Leslie's instrument in the marching band. The boys reconcile when Gumball points out that Leslie is acting like him, and that they should be proud of their friend. Leslie agrees, and the two watch Darwin play with pride, even though he plays terribly.

In "The Petals," Gumball is shown to consider Leslie an expert on fashion, as he and Darwin try to consult him on which of them looks worse. When Leslie starts to wilt, Gumball tries to assure Leslie true beauty is on the inside, but Leslie is eminent that looks are everything. These differences prove too big to get past as when the boys try to help Leslie the plan goes awry, with nothing else working, he and Darwin decide the best solution is to decapitate him, so that he can grow a new head. They chase him throughout the town, eventually catching up to him in their basement. Leslie agrees to be beheaded after some convincing, even doing it himself, but, when the boys reveal his head will not grow back until spring, he chases them around the basement, ending the episode.

In "The One," Gumball appears to consider Leslie his sixth best friend, after Bobert, Banana Joe, Sarah, Carrie, and Darwin. When he sees Tobias' dancing skills, he claims that he must have taken out Leslie, as "no-one can match him on the dance floor," indicating that Gumball admires Leslie to some extent.

Their rivalry inflames further to fatal levels in "The Awareness," wherein Gumball insults plants due to not understanding them, and Leslie takes offence. Gumball tries to make it up to him by pretending that he does indeed respect plants by performing activities common among plants— drinking with his 'roots,' photosynthesising (this one leaving Gumball dehydrated and Leslie happy about it), eating dirt (which is not actually something plants do, but Leslie refuses to lose the feud by admitting this and thus the two eat it anyway), etc. Leslie takes advantage of this to punish him for insulting plants by exaggerating the activities to dangerous levels. Soon, Gumball reverses the torment by forcing Leslie to perform ridiculous and painful activities (such as getting attacked by bees), claiming them to be things that plants do, guessing correctly that Leslie will be unwilling to end the feud and be seen as less knowledgeable about plants, and so will go along with Gumball's commands.

This culminates with the boys skydiving without parachutes, upon which Gumball finally gives in, admits that he does not know much about plants, and apologises to Leslie, who accepts the apology, and in turn apologises for making him stand in manure. They agree to be friends "'til the end," and embrace. They are saved before hitting the ground when Leslie loses his petals and sprouts dandelion seeds, with the parachutes of the seeds slowing the boys' fall. The two separate as better friends than they were previously.

Masami

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Gumball wants to give Masami the best possible birthday gift.

Though not always interacting, Gumball tries to help Darwin avoid kissing her in "The Pressure. Masami and Gumball work together to help Alan in "The Storm." After she reveals that she intends to keep Alan for herself, she threatens Gumball by telling Penny about his supposed kiss with Carmen.

In "The Voice," Gumball and Darwin apologize to her, although they only do this to prevent themselves from being harmed by an angry anonymous student (who soon turns out to be William).

In "The Gift," Masami reveals to him and Darwin she would be happy being treated like a normal kid overlooking her dad's riches. They soon appreciate each other as friends for this.

They appear to be former enemies following this, but Masami would still do bad things to Gumball, like get into his head alongside Leslie for no reason in "The Drama" and cause him to look for flaws in Darwin and Carries relationship, leading to unnecessary conflict.

Patrick

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Patrick and Gumball have a mixed relationship.

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. Patrick once more keeps a wary eye on Gumball in "The Knights," where he now seems to be aware of Gumball's crush on Penny. Patrick's apprehensive attitude towards Gumball only ends in "The Shell," in which he unintentionally insults his daughter, who has broken out of her shell. Gumball finally stands up to Patrick and calls him out on his actions. In the end, Patrick approves of Gumball and Penny's relationship, with continuity prevailing over the status quo for a time.

Despite this, their relationship is shown to be on the rocks again in "The Apprentice," where Gumball seems to view Patrick as a respectable figure and idol not unlike Mr. Robinson, but Patrick views him as a nuisance, and is afraid of his bad DNA corrupting Penny's if the two have children in the future. Gumball is determined to prove himself to Patrick, and ends up help him in his business affairs with Chanax Inc. by becoming his apprentice. He watches Patrick play the Chanax CEO in a game of golf, and tries to support him, but ends up putting him off his swings, leading to Gumball getting knocked out cold by the ball. He then has a fever dream, wherein he finally impresses Patrick with the help of a magical wizard frog, and Patrick claims that there is no-one in Elmore more worthy to be his son-in-law, and the two hug, showing that Gumball wants Patrick to respect him. However, in reality, he is being carted off on a stretcher while Patrick watches in concern.

Anton

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Anton and Gumball are usually not very friendly.

Anton and Gumball's friendship is not particularly healthy, but they have occasionally been shown to be friendly. Anton was among the students chasing Gumball down in "The Mystery," but this was only because he suspected him of attacking Principal Brown. According to "The Goons," Gumball considers him one of the dumbest people in town, although this is not necessarily a negative thing to him. He also makes fun of him in "The Meddler," although he was presumably forced to by Jamie and Tina. However, they sit next to each other on the bus in "The Words."

Their first major interaction comes in "The Recipe." They do gym class together. Gumball is horrified when Anton drowns in the pool, and desperately tries to revive him. When he fails, he cries out in grief. However, he is very suspicious of Anton when he comes back to life the next day, and decides to discover his secret by killing him. When he changes his plan to simply going to Anton's house and discovers that Anton is just revived by putting a piece of bread in a toaster and turning the dial a certain way, he and Darwin decide to create their own Anton, known as "Ant-One," eventually creating a whole host of clones. He and Darwin try to hide it from the real Anton, but Gumball inadvertently sends Anton straight to the second clone, Ant-Two (however, this is one of their few positive interactions: Anton thanks Gumball for telling him he is late for class, which is how Gumball makes him go towards the clone). Anton mistakes him for an echoing mirror, prompting Gumball to call him dumb when he is out of sight. Anton overhears Gumball mention that the 'mirror' is actually a clone, and angrily asks them how many clones they made. Anton is then killed by Ant-One, but Gumball and Darwin assume it is Ant-Two who dies. However, he apologises to 'Anton' for cloning him at the end of the episode, admitting that we was wrong, and asking Anton if they can still be friends. He seems horrified when he realizes that Anton was killed earlier, not Ant-Two.

However, the two still do not seem to be friends, as Gumball kills him with no remorse in "The Spoiler," and evidently does not particularly value him.

Hot Dog Guy

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Gumball and Hot Dog Guy hugging awkwardly in "The Hug."

The relationship between Hot Dog Guy and Gumball is weakly considered a friendship, with them considering each other as enemies occasionally. Hot Dog Guy's second major appearance in "The Hug" brings the start of their rocky relationship. In Gumball's effort to prove to Darwin that he is unpredictable, he calls out to Hot Dog Guy and hugs him, despite the two not knowing each other before. This ultimately spirals into multiple awkward moments between them. This includes being unable to not hug in public, singing as they hug each other, and Gumball inviting him to a sleepover because Hot Dog Guy paid for his lunch, amongst other examples. After Hot Dog Guy finally fails to engage in a hug, the rest of the episode is spent on the two trying to break their friendship by being worse friends to each other. Finally, nearing the end, they admit that the two of them never even wanted to be friends in the first place.

Additionally, they continue being paired together in "The Awkwardness" and "The Cringe." "The Awkwardness" revolves around Hot Dog Guy and Gumball failing to avoid each other's awkwardness as they head to the mall. In "The Cringe," the two finally attempt to get to the bottom of why their relationship is so awkward by exposing themselves to even more amounts of awkwardness. This episode reveals that the two have had repressed childhood memories of cringe, which they decide to destroy those memories. It ends with them hugging, surprisingly without feeling awkward, before they are punched by two hands, making them land in awkward positions, making their relationship awkward again.

Unrequited admirers

Sarah

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Sarah has a massive crush on Gumball.

Sarah has a crush on Gumball as shown in "The Comic," though he does not reciprocate her feelings. Although he is generally on friendly terms with her, he does find her irritating as a result of her stalking, as seen in "The Fan."

In "The Fan," even though Gumball is pretty upset with the fact Sarah has been stalking him for years, he still decides to act out her erotic fanfiction as an act of friendship. Gumball also takes part in the "LaserHeart" universe that Sarah created in "The Comic."

As of late, the two appear to be on much friendlier terms, as they work together in "The Potato" to help Darwin, and Gumball even considers her his third best friend (after Carrie and Darwin), according to "The One." However, he is still prone to be annoyed by her, as shown in "The Shippening," where he angrily asks her "What did you do this time?" Overall, however, the two appear to share a mutual feeling of amity, likely due to Sarah apparently no longer stalking him.

One sided

Alan

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Gumball cannot stand Alan's sticky sweet personality.

Although Alan has nothing against Gumball, Gumball finds him very irritating due to his flawlessness and nobility, feeling envious of him and insecure about his perceived perfection. This is first shown in "The Storm", disgusted at how overly lovey he is with Carmen, although in this episode, he also shows willing to help Alan to please Carmen, encouraging him to be heroic and fight him. In "The Photo" though, Gumball is plain disgusted listening to the level of charitable deeds Alan has done.

In "The Saint," Alan's saintly behavior got on Gumball's nerves and he decided to break Alan down to his level. But no matter what Gumball did, Alan remained the same. Even though he can not stand his personality, Gumball does try to make up for it in "The Traitor," only for him succumb back to his former disdain for him. In "The Faith," Gumball finally starts to let up on his irrational grudge against Alan after singing him an inspirational song and cheering him up out of a depressed state.

In "The Decisions," Gumball seems jealous when Darwin picks Alan to be his mentor instead of him. He and Alan argue throughout the episode, with Gumball even managing to annoy the usually unperturbable Alan at one point. However, the two seem to be getting along at the end when they both go for ice cream with Darwin and talk pleasantly.

In "The Vision" however, Gumball is very shocked when he found out about Alan’s plans to take over the world and even tries to assassinate him.

Mr. Robinson

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Gumball views Mr. Robinson as some sort of idol.

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. The boys' admiration towards Robinsons is taken to the extreme in "The Sale." They are shown to have a shrine built around him, have a breakdown when they learn he is moving, and are so angered when Nicole speaks ill of him that they even manage to intimidate her. They decide to try driving the buyers away from the house, and actually succeed in both driving them away and temporarily getting in the good books of Robinson by supposedly striking oil. Unbeknownst to the ecstatic Robinsons, the so-called oil is actually raw sewage from a sewage pipe.

In "The Heart," the roles are reversed. Here, Mr. Robinson finally gets it through to the boys that he despises them, but he soon regrets it when he sees how upset and angry they are. He remembers the memories they have shared (mostly Mr. Robinson bullying them) and decides to attempt to win back their friendship. However, all his attempts simply drive them further away and often land him in prison. His heart attempts to prevent it, but he cannot help himself, and Mr. Robinson lets a single tear out. Gumball and Darwin return, and realize that Mr. Robinson is so cruel because his heart is afraid of feelings. They convince him to embrace his feelings with a song. While annoyed, Robinson realises that he actually loathes the boys slightly less. The three hug, and Mr. Robinson lets a tear fall from his eye again, but this time with a smile.

In "The Poltergeist," Gumball tries his best to make Mr Robinson smile again (even self-hurt) and soon after tries to revive Robinson’s relationship with Margaret. When Mr. Robinson finally gets his anger back, he thanks Gumball and Darwin, although he still wants them to use his formal name.

Ocho

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Gumball and Ocho getting on well.

Initially Gumball used to be afraid of Ocho because of his anger, as seen in "The Phone," but it is shown that Ocho had no intention of scaring him, and wanted to make sure to not do it. In "The Code," Gumball approached him and had more confidence in talking to him, proving that now he is not so afraid to hang out with Ocho. However, he unintentionally offends Ocho by using internet terminology despite the seriousness of their conversation. He also tells Ocho that he cannot be bothered to express his sympathy further than a "like" due to them being "only Elmore Plus friends." Later in "The Uncle," the sides are turned around when Gumball wanted to be best friends with Ocho to meet his uncle Mario, leading Ocho to antagonize him, putting him through harsh trials and never coming to accept him as a friend. However, he later discovers that Ocho's uncle is not the famous Mario, so he tells Ocho that he does not want to be best friends, and Ocho understands him, as well as the fact that he was being too intense in their friendship, improving their relationship.

Enemies

Rob

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Rob preparing to eject Gumball into the Void.

Before season 3, Rob used to be friendly towards Gumball. However after the latter (and Darwin) unintentionally abandoned him in the Void, he swore revenge on Gumball and Darwin.

In "The Bus," Rob became more focused on defeating Gumball than Darwin. His evil plan was to blow everybody up in the hijacked school bus with an explosive suitcase, but his plan was foiled and got arrested by the police for his crimes.

In "The Disaster," he purchased the universal remote from the magic van, giving him new powers to control the universe. He was responsible for ruining Gumball's life by taking away his family and nearly killing his girlfriend, Penny. Gumball confronts his nemesis in a battle, but Rob defeats him by banishing him to the Void. Gumball was able to save himself by rewinding himself back to the beginning of the disastrous day.

In "The Rerun," after saving Rob, Gumball tries to befriend him, but the circumstances makes their friendship short-lived as Rob has to rewind back to the beginning of the day.

In "The Ex," Rob makes Banana Joe his nemesis instead of Gumball, making him sad. Gumball later tries to become friends with him, but inadvertently saves Banana Joe from his trap, causing him to snap, saying that he is the most insufferable, annoying, selfish person that he had ever met, making Gumball happy.

Fuzzy

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Fuzzy making Gumball put on toddler clothes.

In "The BFFs," it is revealed that Fuzzy was Gumball's best friend before Darwin. Upon returning to Elmore, he seems not to care too much about his former best friend and just calmly shares a few words with him. However, once Gumball accepts to visit him, he shows his true psychotic nature and makes Gumball put on toddler clothes. He wants to make up for all those years he never spent with Gumball, showing how obsessive he really is. This, of course, makes Gumball terrified. During the chase, Gumball and Darwin do everything in their power to get rid of Fuzzy. In the end, when Fuzzy gets carried away by Hank, they refuse to help him and go for a taco instead.

Mrs. Robinson

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Gumball views Mrs. Robinson as an enemy.

In stark contrast to her husband, Gumball harbours nothing but loathing for Mrs. Robinson, viewing her (rightfully) as pure evil, due to her cruelty and sadism. He and Darwin take the opportunity to scare her when they become ghosts in "Halloween" by possessing a moose head in her house. This animosity is not notably reciprocated, although Mrs. Robinson appears to like Gumball no more than the majority of the other Elmore citizens, until "The Wicked," wherein Gumball and Darwin try to find a single redeeming quality of hers.

They fail, and change their plans to attempting to teach her a lesson, so that she can reform. Their decided punishment is a jail sentence for Mrs. Robinson, and their means of achieving this are baiting Mrs. Robinson into stealing their car by leaving the keys in the door. This she does, but their victory is cut short when she goes on a mad rampage through the mall in the car. They catch up to her and scold her.

She feigns shame, and Gumball softens his demeanor, explaining that they stopped her rampage for her own good. She shakes hands with the boys, but places the bandana she wore in the act in Gumball's hands, causing the policeman who shows up to arrest the car thief to believe Gumball to be the criminal. As Mrs. Robinson drives away in sadistic triumph, Gumball (and Darwin) look on in horror and disbelief. However, when Mrs. Robinson is horribly injured in a series of unfortunate coincidences, he appears to be concerned, calling out for an ambulance, which arrives on cue, only to back over Mrs. Robinson by mistake. The boys look away from the scene, cringing, implying that despite the mutual bad terms between them and Mrs. Robinson, they still feel some empathy for her.

Miss Simian

Miss Simian seems to be one of Gumball and his family’s worst enemy. It is known that Miss Simian hates Gumball, which make her always tease Gumball. In "The Ape," Miss Simian pretended to befriend Gumball, but soon it was revealed that it was all a lie. In "The Apology," Miss Simian tried to make Nigel think Gumball is delinquent.

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