Darwin Watterson

“	So you thought you could drag me to the bottom of the lake just to eat me later? Well guess what punk. I'm a fish, WITH LEGS	„
	~ Darwin in "The Puppy"

“	Yeah! Then we can kick his butt there!	„
	~ Darwin’s last words.

Summary

Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson Ⅲ is the deuteragonist of The Amazing World of Gumball, and is Gumball and Anais' adoptive sibling.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 8-A, potentially Low 2-C limited Environmental Destruction

Name: Darwin Raglan Caspian Ahab Poseidon Nicodemius Watterson Ⅲ

Origin: The Amazing World of Gumball

Gender: Male

Age: 10 years old

Classification: Anthropomorphic goldfish, part suckerfish

Powers and Abilities:

• Regular Abilities
• Deuteragonist Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Toon Force, Regeneration (Low-High, likely Mid-High, possibly Low-Godly; during The Secret, he and Gumball instantly reformed after being in a machine that reduced them to droplets; spontaneously reshaped himself after shattering to pieces in The Crew; recovered from becoming dust during The Procrastinators, Eventually came back from eating himself into nothing alongside Gumball during The Procrastinators), Underwater Breathing (Type 2. Although he is a fish, he can breathe on land perfectly fine), Basic Fighting Skills (During The Remote and The Parents, he showed competent basic fighting skills against Nicole while trying to snatch a TV remote from her or while trying to put sweets in her shopping cart, although Darwin is nowhere near as proficient as her. Darwin knows a basic pacifistic grappling technique, as shown during The Cage. During The Words, he was comparable to Gumball in a Street Fighter -esque battle, although he lost. During The Faith, he and Gumball defeated boyscouts armed with basic weapons), Supernatural Willpower (As seen during The Origins, he was able to develop the ability to survive on land, overcome starvation, and walk with legs, so he could return to Gumball because of their friendship bond), Immortality (Type 1, 2, 3 His age has been reset by the universe on two occasions, Can survive without a heart, has frequently regenerated from fatal damage) Age Manipulation (Aged Gumball and himself into elders through incoherent chattering), Light Manipulation (Darwin's bishie sparkles are in-setting and can overwhelm Gumball), Fourth Wall Awareness, Passive Limited Plot Manipulation (As established during The Finale, the Watterson family canonically returns to the status quo in between almost every episode, preventing them from facing long-term consequences), Perception Manipulation and Limited Subjective Reality (Darwin's perception went along with Gumball's in the following scenarios: During The Others, Gumball was revealed to have been inadvertently entirely filtering out many students from his perception if they weren't in his class, which he can intentionally activate. During The Vegging, he was able to ignore an alien apocalypse by waiting until his brain tunes it out, and simply waited for the problem to fix itself. In the latter case, Gumball was able to even prevent himself from getting affected by the immediate threats of the alien apocalypse), Preparation (Evolution - Trained Richard to go from being obese to muscular in a timeframe stated and shown to only be under one minute), Broadway Force, Imagination Empowerment (Fought Tobias with imaginary weapons. Created and drove an invisible car), Enhanced Senses (Knows how to use an invisible car), Energy Manipulation (seen here), Law Manipulation (Censored an episode to make anything unpleasant impossible by "turning on the child filter"), Levitation, Mind Manipulation (Was literally brainwashing Gumball and used the power of guilt to nearly make Gumball cave into his demands. Has also used Hypnosis and induced sleep by looking into Gumball's eyes), Limited Shapeshifting (Partial change of appearance when Gumball and Darwin were looking like Richards for a few seconds ago in the "The Kids" episode and becoming temporary older in "The Finale" episode), Information Absorption (Type 1; In The Lesson, he and Gumball learned new dialects and languages just by eating books and absorbing the knowledge), Time Stop (Briefly paused time so he could finish reading off a card), Teleportation, Immersion, Fire Manipulation (if he gets annoyed enough), Magnetism Manipulation, Fusionism (By merging with Gumball), Death Manipulation (With his glare), Sound Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (Can raise his voice loud enough that it can damage ears, and it stunned Gumball and Anais so much that they couldn't move), Non-Physical Interaction (Could bring his soul back to his body), limited Reality Warping (The universe will reset itself in order to prevent Darwin from aging), Acausality (Type 1; during The Job, Darwin realized that time was rewinded by employed Richard; Tobias as the protagonist was able to make it so that the previous events of the episode The Test were all just a dream, still through his status as the protagonist that he achieved during those events, which Darwin was able to directly know about even while only being the deuteragonist). Unconventional Resistance to Soul Manipulation (Was fine when his soul left his body), Limited Resistance to Time Stop, Resistance to Age Manipulation (The universe has reset itself to prevent him from aging) and Empathic Manipulation (Broke through the effects of a love potion by his love for Carrie)

As a result of Darwin being the deuteragonist of The Amazing World of Gumball, which is a TV show in-setting in which being a primary character is a canonical in-setting detail, Darwin most likely somewhat scales to the protagonist status that Gumball has and the following abilities, albeit on an inferior scale due to not overriding Tobias Wilson usurping Gumball's position as the protagonist: Data Manipulation (The stability of reality in The Amazing World of Gumball depends on the budget of the Wattersons, the family that the show is centered around; the Wattersons becoming bankrupt meant Gumball's whole world deteriorating and falling apart, glitching and decreasing in production quality until it was becoming worse than a storyboard), Breaking the Fourth Wall, Plot Manipulation and Reality Warping (During The Test, when Gumball changed his personality so his classmates could like him more, Tobias changed the style of the show into a comically clichéd sitcom in accordance to the theory of nature abhors a vacuum, replacing Gumball as the star loser in the grand sitcom of their lives, and making the show centered around Tobias, therefore implying that these effects normally apply to Gumball when he's normally the protagonist), Empathic Manipulation (Tobias being the protagonist led to Masami and Penny accepting Tobias for dating, despite Tobias' personality not changing as the protagonist and Tobias having been rejected by those characters during other episodes), Causality Manipulation (As a result of the lazier writing of the show with Tobias as the main character, there were multiple continuity mistakes so the show could center around Tobias' antics), Time Manipulation (Despite a school day not being finished, Tobias as the protagonist was able to skip to nighttime, and then to Christmas), Acausality (Type 1; Tobias as the protagonist was able to make it so that the previous events of the episode The Test were all just a dream, still through his status as the protagonist that he achieved during those events)

Attack Potency: Multi-City Block level+ (Able to consistently damage Gumball Watterson. One of his sneezes was able to destroy many houses, casually generating this much energy. Another sneeze was able to send every object in town into the air, and later Darwin accidentally sneezed the Banana family from California (where Elmore is located) to China, across the North Pacific Ocean), potentially Universe level+ limited Environmental Destruction (Darwin might have the potential to get the show canceled due to being the deuteragonist and sharing similarities with Gumball having a protagonist status, and getting the show canceled would mean Gumball's whole world deteriorating and falling apart on a metafictional scale, which would be contextually more consequential than Richard accidentally tearing apart the fabric of the universe)

Speed: Relativistic with Massively FTL attack speed (Has consistently been shown to keep up with the likes of Gumball and the rest of his family. Has consistently dodged lasers from Bobert)

Lifting Strength: Average Human

Striking Strength: Multi-City Block level+ (Comparable to Gumball Watterson)

Durability: Multi-City Block level+ (Has survived the destruction of Elmore Junior High, tanked a giant paint explosion. Should be comparable to Mrs. Robinson, who survived a massive oil explosion)

Stamina: Varies, from Average to Superhuman

Range: Standard Melee Range, Universal+ using his deuteragonist abilities

Standard Equipment: None notable

• Optional Equipment: Baseball bat, shovel

Intelligence: Varies. Below Average normally, Gifted in his best showings

• Below Average
• Gifted

Darwin is the most childlike of the siblings, such as not knowing what a girlfriend was in The Pressure and expecting the best out of everybody, including people who clearly hate him (such as Mrs. Robinson). The only numbers Darwin knows are 2, 7 and 9. He is unable to go to the restroom without Gumball's help, can easily be manipulated due to his naivety, and according to himself, it took him five years to learn facial expressions. During The Goons, Gumball and Darwin treated themselves as experts at being dumb and were teaching Anais how to be dumb. During The Brain, a doctor said that Darwin has an underdeveloped brain. During The Flakers, Darwin demonstrated a lack of understanding of obvious sarcasm. During The Finale, when the consequences of previous episodes affected the Wattersons, Gumball and Darwin were put back in kindergarten because they didn't focus on their work. Darwin is poor at independently making decisions, as seen during The Decisions. Darwin is slow at comprehending ideas, as seen during The Oracle, and he lacks the ability to extrapolate, as seen during The Web.

Darwin is morally grounded and oftentimes more reasonable than Gumball, considering he usually tries to talk him out of his reckless decisions and often gives him advice. Has spoken fluent Mandarin Chinese in The DVD and The Others, and demonstrated being capable of speaking to non-anthropomorphic animals during The Question. When he and Gumball got jobs at Joyful Burger during The Menu, they worked their way up to become the CEOs of the entire company, sold their shares and retired as multi-billionaires - all in just a bit over one year. During The List, Gumball and Darwin were able to become millionaires and learn to speak Spanish in less than a day. During The Traitor he performed a successful organ transplant between Alan and his mother despite their organs being invisible, and during The Schooling, he also temporarily worked as a surgeon. He is a talented ukulele player and once drew Gumball in perfect detail, although later episodes portray him as a terrible illustrator. There was one time that Darwin was able to outsmart Anais, during The Detective.

Weaknesses: Darwin is pacifistic and generally non-violent. He lacks combat experience and is very naive. He is allergic to feathers. He has samhainophobia, the fear of Halloween. As shown during The Procrastinators, Darwin is a chronic procrastinator, going to absurd lengths for hours to intentionally not do a simple chore. Darwin is a toxic troll online, as seen during The Voice. During The Others, Darwin shared Gumball's self-centered point of view that that the world literally revolved around him, and that his class is the only one in Elmore Junior High.

Gallery

Darwin Season 1 design

Darwin Season 2 design

Darwin Season 3-6 design

Baby Darwin

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Discussions

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