Rob

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Rob

Character Information Gender: Male Also known as: Dr. Wrecker Superintendent Evil Species: Cyclops Friends: Teri (formerly) Alan (formerly) Leslie (formerly) Carmen (formerly) Gumball (formerly) Darwin (formerly) Tobias (formerly) Molly (formerly) Enemies: Gumball (nemesis) Darwin Banana Joe Banana Barbara Everyone else in Elmore (as of "The Nobody") Occupation: Student (formerly) Villain Voice: Charles Philipp David Warner (as Dr. Wrecker) Garrick Hagon (Superintendent Evil disguise ("The Inquisition")) Gallery

Rob is the background character turned main antagonist in The Amazing World of Gumball. He was formerly a student at Elmore Junior High before ending up in the Void. After he escaped it, he became the main antagonist of the show.

Appearance

Before "The Nobody," Rob was a tall blue cyclops with medium-length light brown hair. He had a single pink eye in the middle of his face which is partially covered by his hair. He has long, skinny limbs and pink hands. He wears a yellow T-shirt with orange sleeves that exposes his midriff, red shorts with two yellow stripes, brown shoes with black buckles, and a brown backpack.

In Season 2, he becomes 2D and gains a black eyebrow.

After he escapes the Void, his appearance changes entirely. His head, right hand, and shoes become polygonal, and his limbs and parts of his face now display static. His midriff now alternates between being pink and displaying static, and there are patches of pink on his left leg. His hair is now also polygonal, dark brown, and floats slightly above his head. The sclera of his eye is a pale yellow, his pink iris is solid black, and his eyebrow is brown. His skin is now grey, the color of his tongue changed from red to yellow, and his right hand and shoe are also polygonal and slate grey. His left shoe is wireframe and chartreuse in color. His backpack, shirt, and shorts are also polygonal, and the sleeves are missing. He also has a diamond-shaped hole in his torso.

At the end of "The Future," he gains a pink pig tail when Banana Barbara paints it onto him.

Personality

Rob was formerly a friendly, sociable person who would say hi to anyone, and would help people he knows if he happened upon them. He does, however, get deeply offended when someone forgets his name. When one of his friends forgets his name, he scolds them, and will even hinder their progress if he can. Two examples of such friends are Gumball and Darwin, who mistakenly call him several different names in "The Pony."

After his escape from the Void, he loses his memory for a while and becomes somewhat depressed. He lives in the basement of the Wattersons' house until Gumball and Darwin become suspect that someone stole their items. They eventually track him down, and after cornering him, they force him to explain his actions. When they mention that there really isn't a villain in Elmore, the boys suggest he become their arch-nemesis - a suggestion that triggers his memory. He recounts how he begged the boys for help as they passed him in the Void, and how they ignored him and went for Molly (though they failed to notice him). His villainous backstory set, he swears vengeance on the boys and agrees to become their arch-nemesis.

As a villain, Rob has a very nihilistic philosophy on life. No longer does he care about the well-being of others, and only cares about getting revenge on his self-sworn nemesis: Gumball. This is evident in "The Bus" when kidnaps both the students and the adults aboard the bus with plans to blow them up simply because he hates Gumball. Such a philosophy is explored even further in "The Disaster" and "The Rerun," in which he becomes aware of his fictional status and wants to make Gumball's life as miserable and broken as possible for the way he's treated on the show.

Despite this, "The Rerun" does show he has a heart as after Gumball attempts to save him, he sacrifices his friendship with Gumball to return to his villainous lifestyle and undo all of the damage. This attitude changes, however, in "The Ex," when Gumball foils all of his plans to destroy Banana Joe, and at the end of the episode, re-establishes his hatred for Gumball. However, in "The Inquisition," he tried to save everyone he could from a mysterious threat by turning them into humans though unfortunately he failed due to everyone either not listening or believing him.