SV Proposal: Gumball Watterson

“	Gumball: HOW CAN YOU NOT BE ANGRY AFTER ALL I'VE DONE TO YOU?! Gasps …After all I've done to you. I made you lose all your friends, your girlfriend, I sold your parents. Even worse, I ate your last meatball - all of this to prove you can be just as bad as me? Could it be that… that… that I was wrong? DARWIN: IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION?! Gumball: Oh thanks man, I almost doubted myself there.	„
	~ Here, Gumball decides to finally reflect on his actions; his treatment of Alan.

My dumbest proposal yet.

What's the work/who is he?[]

The Amazing World of Gumball is an animated television series that follows the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year-old blue cat, and his adopted brother Darwin, a former pet goldfish who grew legs and became part of the family. They live in the quirky and surreal town of Elmore with their family: their intelligent younger sister Anais (a pink rabbit), their short-tempered mother Nicole (also a blue cat), and their lazy but loving father Richard (a pink rabbit).

As mentioned, our candidate is the series' hero (?), Gumball Watterson. He is the main character in the series, a blue cat,and a 12-year-old student at Elmore Jr. High. At times he is fun-loving, optimistic, and tries to help others. Other times he is cynical, selfish, sociopathic and causing mayhem in Elmore. However, he has a good heart and usually tries to do the right thing.

Just hear me out...

What makes him a Shonen Villain?[]

Basic Traits[]

Villainous/Anti-Villainous: Gumball is the "hero" and yet the biggest menace in the whole series:
- In "The Recipe," he murders his toast friend Anton in various brutal ways fifty times a row just to test why he keeps coming back to life.
- In "The Saint," he harasses Alan all day just because he's too nice and ends up selling Alan's parents into the balloon equivalent of human trafficking, where they get contorted alive by a clown.
- In "The Scam," when faced with a life-destroying monster known as Gargaroth, Gumball refuses to feed him the last lollipop needed to kill him out of pure greed and thus risks the death of all life.
- In "The Console," Gumball traps Elmore inside the Game Child's video game for a second time just to completely beat the game, which forces all residents to conform to it and is effectively a Fate Worse than Death.
- In "The Stars," he uses a magic reviewing website to enslave Larry under the threat of giving him a poor rating, forcing him to cater to their every need for the entire day, including creating a new, mutant lifeform. By the end of the episode, Larry is driven so mad by this that he snaps and tries to give the website five stars out of pure spite.
- In "The Nuisance," he helped his family turn Elmore into a disaster area by destroying a house with termites, pouring bath salts into Elmore's water supply, and trying to convince Sal Left Thumb, a wanted criminal, to mug pedestrians in the neighborhood. Ultimately, he helps burn the entire town down.
- In "The Traitor," he performed surgery on Alan and his mother without consent, and when he botched it by causing his mom to talk out of her balloon knot, he chastised Alan for being "ungrateful".
  - Gumball also sped across town and killed four people and a dog in the process by running through them and causing an explosion each time
- In "The Candidate," Gumball became the leader of the entrapped students, began denying the school’s temperature is rising, and purposefully planed to scam everybody to starvation so he can hoard all of the food.
  - This ended up sparking a highly destructive, violent, and nearly fatal war between the students, and he later tried to make Anais take the blame. He also inadvertently became responsible for the school exploding.
- If I listed everything we would be here all day.

Powerful/Skillful: He has strong Toon Force that sometimes has him transforming into demonic creatures or exhibiting insane amounts of durability and athleticism.
Power-Hungry: In "The Candidate" his goal literally is just to hoard everything for himself and fuel his ego by becoming the leader of the students.
Pursues a Big-End Goal: Across various episode he pursues major goals. One notable instance is his goal to wreak as much havoc as possible in Elmore during "The Nuisance"
Arrogant: Gumball is constantly arrogant and acts smug or self-centered
Intelligent: Ok, not really. But he has his moments.
Cold-Hearted/Ruthless: He kills people routinely without any remorse, albeit impermenently
Short-Tempered: He is wrathful and can lose his temper.
Laughably Evil: This is Gumball. He is not taken seriously in the slightest
Narcissistic: A creature representing his ego is shown to be literally bigger than his house in "The One"
Has a Sinister Laugh: He has a maniacally evil laugh when he plans to frame Alan in "The Saint."

Bonus Traits[]

Sadistic: Finds sadistic joy in tormenting Alan in "The Saint" or Larry in "The Stars."
Freudian Excuse: He often gets treated like a punching bag, but it has nothing to do with how heinous he is.
Bloodthirsty: He kills Anton 50 times in a row purely for his own self-interest
Has Black Air Force Energy: He is literally just does whatever random thing comes to his mind.
Immature: Needs no explanation

Cautionary Category[]

On & Off: Yeah... While Gumball is the main hero, the times where he isn't, he doesn't hold back at all. Even if his good side is more prominent, which is debatable even then, I don't think that should necessarily preclude him.

Verdict?[]

Personally, I'm going with a surprisingly easy yes for this delinquent blue cat. He somehow manages to be more heinous than the show's actual villain, and he has a rather unhinged aura during his villainous roles that fit the archetype strangely well imo. I think it's fair he joins the likes of Mr. Krabs or Peter Griffin.