Courage Vs. Gumball Watterson is a What-If? Death Battle episode by GoCommitDi, and was originally made by Desert Croc before being adopted. It features Courage from Courage the Cowardly Dog and Gumball Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball in a battle between Cartoon Network's premier animal heroes, with one always saving the day from supernatural trouble and the other having a habit of causing supernatural trouble.
8/1/2023 Note: I originally wrote this back in May 2020, but my writing skills (lol "skills") and thought process from both 2020 and 2021 are absolute cringe, so I'm leaving those days behind me and decided to remaster this fight because it's still a fun general matchup idea to me in spite of my cringy past. Why not, right?
Description[]
Courage the Cowardly Dog vs The Amazing World of Gumball! Cats and dogs collide in cartoon style! Both of these iconic, goofy animals from some of the utmost weirdest Cartoon Network shows are scared of anything dangerous and won't hesitate to run as their first course of action, but will brave up if their loved ones or their strange worlds are in danger. Which anthropomorphic hero will win this match: the loyal, clever, cowardly pink dog of Nowhere, or the lazy, sarcastic, egotistical blue cat of Elmore?
Intro[]
Potty: Dogs and cats. They are the most popular household pets in the world, yet they just never seem to get along.
Patchy: Wait, but didn't Nickelodeon make CatDog?
Potty: Well, yes, but not even that duo got along very much.
Patchy: Anyway, two of one of Cartoon Network's most beloved and surreal shows are home to malleable, regenerative animals who are easily frightened about many things no thanks to the unusual worlds they live in where virtually anything imaginable can come to life, but they will step their game up if their family is in any sort of trouble.
Potty: However, they have...different mindsets when it comes to trouble. One is a selfless hero who confronts all sorts of paranormal, supernatural trouble in their town to save their owners, while the other is a selfish hero who causes immense trouble to those around them, typically out of self-gain and approval, and is quite infamous across his town even by that world's standards.
Patchy: Courage, the cowardly dog of Nowhere who actually lives up to his first name.
Potty: Gumball Watterson, the cynical, troublemaking cat and slacking protector of Elmore.
Patchy: I'm Patchy the Pirate, and he's Potty the Parrot.
Potty: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win...a Death Battle.
Courage Cowers in Fear at DEATH BATTLE![]
Patchy: Ah, Courage - the last Cartoon Network character to originate from the 1990s. But his show wasn't like any other at the time. Unlike Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo or Cow and Chicken, Courage didn't come from a silly, Hanna Barbera-like world. Instead, this little pink dog originates from a world where all sorts of terrifying creatures run rampant.
Potty: Starting off with his backstory, Courage is a pink beagle who was raised by an identical mother and father in a private gated house. Life was peaceful for him, until the day he learned how to catch a ball.
Patchy: Courage ended up getting his head stuck between the bars of the family's fence, so he was transported to a veterinarian to get freed. And he was, but suddenly, things went south from there.
Potty: The veterinarian requested Courage's parents to "have a talk" with him, so before they left the room, he distracted Courage with a lollipop. Courage ended up getting his tongue stuck on the sucker before having it get torn off, so he cried and tried to go to his parents for comfort.
Patchy: Courage instantly forgot about the pain once he heard his parents shouting for help, and what he found wasn't pretty. They were locked inside of a rocket ship about to blast off into space so they could be used as experiments.
Potty: He tried with all of his might to get them out of there, but it was too late. After getting launched into a trash can, he witnessed an event that would change his life forever.
Patchy: (sniffles) Damn, there's no need for a cartoon to make me cry harder than the time Steve Burns left Blue's Clues.
Potty: YOU still watch Blue's Clues?
Patchy: Yeah, so what?
Potty: I think I may hate you a little less now.
Patchy: That was unexpected, but thank you, Potty. (exhales) Um, anyway, as I try my best to hold back any further tears, Courage's life made a turn for the better when he was discovered by Muriel Bagge. And have we mentioned Courage wasn't named Courage until Muriel found him?
Potty: ...damn.
Patchy: Yeah, I can't blame anybody for crying over that. But it's alright now; Courage has been under Muriel's care ever since then. Yes, Muriel is the damsel-in-distress who always needs to get rescued from paranormal and supernatural phenomena, and yes, Muriel's husband Eustace is a greedy asshole. But Courage wouldn't live life any other way.
Potty: Notice the "paranormal and supernatural phenomena" part? We thought so. We're emphasizing it because it shows Courage has many feats underneath his non-existent sleeve.
Feats
- Thwarted the diabolical schemes of Katz on numerous occasions
- Defeated a chicken from outer space - twice
- Saved Muriel and the family's farmhouse from all sorts of creatures, aliens, demons and spirits
- Talked a shadow out of their harmful deeds (scaring everybody in Nowhere for his own amusement)
- On a similar note, has convinced a few other villains to turn good
- Had a food fight with Bigfoot
- Saved the entire town of Nowhere from Dr. Zalost's depression-inducing cannonballs with Muriel's Happy Plums
- Also prevented the town from eating flan while they were hypnotized into doing so
- Rescued a rabbit from her abusive boyfriend and helped her reunite with her best friend
- Defeated brain-controlling alien worms and prevented the sun's heat from dying out
- Fixed the ozone layer
- Stole three of four heads on Mount Rushmore
- Saved an endangered race of underwater species
- Defeated an evil empress of China and restored the village's power
- Went inside cyberspace and defeated a virus that had full control over the universe within the family's computer
- Has sneaked into many heavily-guarded areas without making a peep, such as banks and military bases
- Fought Eustace while they were giant kangaroo monsters
- Lead an army of dogs against swarms of tree monsters
- Outlasted his superior robotic counterpart, Mecha-Courage, in a fight with his sheer pain tolerance
- Rescued the offspring of an alien star-creating squid from the government
- Got revenge on the insane veterinarian by sending him into space, where he was mauled by every single dog he kidnapped, including his Parents
- Learned it's okay to be imperfect
- Overall, despite his show only lasting three years in production, it is the longest-reran Cartoon Network series (not counting third-party properties like Looney Tunes), lasting 13 years in reruns (2002-2015)
- His show also has a cult following to this day, and is one of the very few Cartoon Network shows to have its entire series officially released on DVD
Patchy: And it's a good thing he has an abundance of feats, because they come with his enormous strength. To start things off, Courage is strong enough to completely shatter the sun to pieces with a scream.
Potty: He once left a huge mark on the moon, and he could hold a star with his goddamn bare hands! For reference, this star was made by a Starmaker, which are a species of alien squids who can create multiple stars at once.
Patchy: Courage is capable of trading blows against Eustace; how powerful is Eustace, you may ask? Quite a lot - Eustace has tanked a firework explosion that turned him into a constellation, as well as a bite from The Shadow, who instantly turned into a starry sky of 325 stars upon flying into deep space. Yeesh, I'd rather catch rabies than survive a bite from THAT shadow.
Potty: Courage can destroy his house by screaming, and his house is durable enough to live through the entire Earth getting smacked by an asteroid and spinning around the sun! We'll elaborate on that in a bit.
Patchy: Courage was able to defeat the Hard Drive Virus, who infected Courage's computer, which contains an entire digital world, and it's important noting the Virus also had complete control over it! Courage also once literally fixed the sun and prevented its death by swapping light bulbs that were fully powering it!
Potty: Courage has shown he is on par with Robot Randy, who was claimed to be the strongest robot there is. This makes sense, as Randy should easily scale past a robot who vaporized a mountain with a single blast, reducing it to nothing but a crater. Courage was also able to destroy a rocket that withstood the force of moving Saturn's asteroid ring by crashing into it.
Patchy: He can stash an entire whale, accordion and anchor in his non-existent pockets without any delay in his speed! The whale appears to be a mature blue whale, meaning Courage can easily carry and lift objects weighing anywhere between 110,000 to 330,000 pounds. Not as good as him holding a STAR of all things, but still worth mentioning.
Potty: On the topic of heavy lifting, Courage has also lifted Muriel and Eustace on too many instances to count, as well as a metal door, a doorknob while Le Quack tried to suck him in with a high-powered vacuum, an airplane while it was flying at top speed, a colony of frogs, and the massive God Bone (to the point where he used it as if it were a baseball bat and sliced it through a metal ceiling)!
Patchy: But one of Courage's biggest strength feats are how he can harm himself, as well as characters who can hurt him, such as Eustace, Katz, the Black Puddle Queen, and many others, so that brings us to...
Potty: ...Courage's durability. Courage once survived being shot into outer space, crashing through the moon hard enough to leave a gigantic hole, and getting slammed back down to Earth by a large alien!
Patchy: This isn't the only time the alien appeared. It's important to know that in a previous episode, the alien casually struck a meteor into Earth so hard that it repeatedly spun around the sun until the planet was sent 1,000 years into the future! This feat is worth 391.9 Ninatons of TNT!
Potty: He can withstand the heat of the sun's surface, which we previously stated has a temperature of 9,940 degrees Fahrenheit. But this loyal dog has also lived through the heat of the sun's CORE like it was nothing, which has a temperature of 27,000,000 degrees!
Patchy: He lived through a no-holds-barred beating from Mecha-Courage, who was designed to be superior to him in every way possible. He was stretched, slammed, run over, and crushed to goop by an oversized nail bat, yet he still had enough energy to laugh off the pain and come out victorious!
Potty: That wouldn't be the only time he's taken hits from a character considerably tougher than him, because he took a ruthless beating from Valkyries before getting thrown out of a tower by Valhalla!
Patchy: And if you thought Courage never received any breaks, he's been bashed through planets hard enough for each of them to explode, yet he came out with minor burns!
Potty: He was once jammed into a rocket launcher and shot across the planet, only to get back up fine without any injuries. The timeframe here is 11 seconds, and the circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles. Speed was 3643120 m/s, which gives us 15.828 kilotons of TNT.
Patchy: He no-sold an explosion that was big enough to leave a huge crater into the ground, as well as a direct blast from a rocket launcher missile!
Potty: For speed, it's quite obvious dogs are faster than humans...but Courage FAR exceeds that! Perhaps his most notable speed feat is from when he ran from the sun's surface to its core.
Patchy: According to his rocket's timer earlier in the episode, he only had eight seconds to repair the sun, so an eight-second timeframe will be used here. Our distance is the radius of the sun, which is 695,510 kilometers. 695510/8 equals 86938.75 km/s, or 29% the speed of light!
Potty: This doubles as a strength/durability feat as well. Let's assume Courage weighs 50 pounds, which is the official average weight for medium-sized dogs. Since he had to move 86938750 m/s, this would give us 9.15251986E+16 joules, or 21.9 megatons. This is as powerful as most of the United States' nuclear weapons!
Patchy: On top of that, Courage should easily be comparable to The Shadow, who flew into deep space within a second, and he could pilot a spaceship that went to an entirely different solar system in seconds.
Potty: While we don't know how far away the solar system was, we do know it went from Earth to the sun in seconds, resulting in speeds of 1038.7x the speed of light. Oh yeah, and it also went to Saturn just as fast.
Patchy: Courage is no stranger to dodging lasers...
Potty: ...and lightning too, even though Courage had his back turned! For reference, the average lightning bolt travels at 270,000 miles per hour.
Patchy: He ran all the way from Kansas, to Tibet, to Paris, and then back to Kansas within a matter of seconds! Bear in mind it's very unlikely he did this over the course of several days or through transportation, given how he was in a rush to save Muriel.
Potty: He was able to keep track of a rocket ship rapidly moving through the solar system with a pair of binoculars. Which reminds me, Courage once dug through 1,000 years of dirt in five seconds without stopping, and he can react to incoming asteroids, with one instance being where he reacted to one accurately enough to launch a hook into it!
Patchy: Courage can easily outrun Eustace, who walked across the world in less than an hour, and he has no issues dodging close-range cannonballs either, even when he's tied up!
Potty: For intelligence, pay no mind to the "stupid dog" nickname that Eustace gives him, because Courage is incredibly smart. To start things off simply, he's capable of speaking English despite being a dog...although to be fair, this was drastically toned down starting from the second season. It's still impressive, though, since not all of the animals in his universe can speak.
Patchy: He's solved just about all of the problems throughout the show within a reasonable timeframe, which normally includes outsmarting clever villains, like con men, demons, scientists, and whatnot. And it's all thanks to how he's an on-the-fly thinker, being capable of reprogramming alien spaceships, wiring a train to explode, and finding oxygen while stranded underwater with no gear - the last of which he did by burping out bubbles. Seriously.
Potty: Courage is never unprepared, as he will do anything to save his life in a fight, whether it be creating a fortress, inventing gadgets, setting up traps and barricades, and researching. In fact, he always keeps several objects stashed around for emergencies - like everything necessary for killing a vampire. Yeah.
Patchy: It's nigh-impossible to trick Courage or catch him off-guard, as he has an undying tendency to never trust strangers and is always alert. He's a highly skilled cook, survivalist, tracker, repairman, puzzle solver, hypnotist and dancer - but the cherry on top of the sundae is how he's a licensed therapist!
Potty: Courage can use his therapist skills to his advantage by convincing his opponents to reform themselves and stop their evil deeds. Just ask The Shadow.
Patchy: Courage is an expert instrument player as well, as he can play a mean piano, tuba, violin and guitar. I bet he doesn't come close to my xylophone skills!
Potty: They're only good at making my ears bleed.
Patchy: You don't have ears! You're a parrot! (clears throat) Courage is also an outstanding artist, given how he painted a perfect replica of the Mona Lisa in under a second. Overall, Courage is very competent at defeating threats with skills he has developed on the spot, such as piloting an airplane, purging Muriel of a demon possessing her, mastering magic after seeing someone perform it once, and many more!
Potty: First up on Courage's abilities is his regeneration, which would most certainly make Deadpool proud.
Patchy: Oh definitely. The poor dog has been poofed into mist, melted to a puddle, disintegrated, shattered to pieces, decapitated, ripped in half, reduced to his skeleton, dismembered, blown up, turned inside out, deflated and flattened, only to instantly heal!
Potty: However, Courage's best regeneration feat comes from when he instantly regenerated from blowing up into literal nothingness, with no traces left behind - not even any smoke. Because of this, Courage has Low-Godly regeneration, meaning it's impossible to kill him through physical force alone.
Patchy: I don't even...HOW?!
Potty: On top of regeneration, Courage has immense pain tolerance. All of his intestines can roll out of his stomach and he won't react at all! He can relax himself while getting eaten alive, and as a baby, he shrugged off his own tongue being torn out!
Patchy: Even the most gruesome of butt-kickings won't delay his stamina. He still had enough energy to defeat all of his enemies after being placed in a deadly game of dodgeball against them, and as mentioned earlier, he outlasted Mecha-Courage in a stomp battle!
Potty: Another highly consistent feature of Courage is how he has complete control over his body, being able to rearrange his features without any negative effects whatsoever. He can use his tongue as a slingshot and even use it like a third hand. Plus, he can unscrew his head off his body and put it back on to escape from predicaments.
Patchy: He can stretch his limbs as far as he wants, possess control of his separated limbs, manipulate his size, create perfect duplicates of himself, and even divide himself to have both of his sides go about!
Potty: Courage has incredible shapeshifting capabilities. He can take forms of characters, creatures, clouds, and fully-functioning vehicles! He can also become completely invisible, turn into inanimate objects, make his body two-dimensional, and perfectly replicate the voices of others.
Patchy: But the best part is that Courage's shapeshifting is very useful in combat, given how he can utilize it to confuse opponents and turn into weapons.
Potty: Thanks to having complete control over his body, Courage can use himself to cure diseases. Which may sound heavenly, but he does this by laying an egg. Yuck.
Patchy: He can cause ranged attacks from any of his opponents to backfire on them by catching them with his mouth and blowing it back out at his target! He learned this from a Chinese lady who sold noodles, so the next time you see a vendor, they might just teach you this technique.
Potty: Being a dog, Courage has an impeccable sense of smell and hearing. He can track down opponents and objects by sniffing the air, and he was able to hear a man snoring from the highest tower of a faraway castle.
Patchy: If Courage goes inside of a dryer, he can shrink himself down, with the hard limit being the size of a red blood cell! Granted, he can already manipulate his size without the need of a dryer, but hey, it's fun to go over.
Potty: He can touch intangible things, whether it be ghosts, clouds, smoke, sound and gas. Which reminds me, he has immersive powers, being able to go inside computers and paintings as if he were in Super Mario 64!
Patchy: Should Courage ever meditate himself, his spirit will exit his body, making himself intangible and also allowing him to enter the astral plane, as well as go into other people's minds. Odds are, whatever Courage can do in the real world, he can in the astral plane too.
Potty: By howling, Courage will end up summoning hordes of dogs from far and near to help him out in the midst of combat. They will rush to the scene and always fight by his side no matter what.
Patchy: He can also summon Mr. Mouse for help at any given moment. I don't even know how the hell he appears, but he will always beat up anybody that's after Courage, in exchange for some money and cheese.
Potty: But hey, who needs summoning when Courage has the ability to COMPLETELY remove someone's soul by performing an exorcism dance?
Patchy: Or how he can scream very loudly?
Potty: I-I don't see how that's useful.
Patchy: Oh really? Well, Courage naturally has powerful lungs. By screaming, he can stun opponents to where they can't move, shatter ears, and cause his surroundings to shake and crumble! But his most powerful scream is his Super Scream, which is louder than ever, and should thus scale far past his scream that shattered the sun! With this move, he screams at full power for almost an entire minute, and any of his foes are sent underground...although doing this does leave him exhausted afterwards.
Potty: Goddamn! Alright, you changed my mind. For once.
Patchy: But before we wrap up his list of powers, we better list his resistances. Firstly, he resists mind manipulation on a damn big scale. He's been hypnotized into eating flan alongside the entire town of Nowhere, yet he shrugged this off! In another episode, he was around the God Bone, which forces dogs to lick it until they die, but he controlled this temptation pretty well!
Potty: Can't put him down with aging hax either, as he, Muriel and Eustace were the only ones unaffected after Earth was sent 1,000 years into the future, causing everything to drastically age. Ice-centered attacks are out of luck too, as Courage can thaw himself out, either through sheer force, or by making a light bulb appear above his head.
Patchy: For equipment, Courage typically carries around just about any melee weapon you can think of, but the most notable ones are a mallet, a nail bat, a slingshot, all kinds of explosives (he can disguise these as foods), a jackhammer, a chainsaw, a frying pan, and the most important of them all - pies!
Potty: Courage also never forgets to carry around a flashlight, a gas mask, cardboard cutouts of himself (for tricking people), and disguises.
Patchy: Given how Courage is a skilled hypnotist, he keeps a yo-yo and pocket watch on him, but they function the same. By that, I mean whoever looks into either of them will instantly be hypnotized! Courage can then make any of his targets fall under his commands or look into their past lives. His hypnotism has been effective enough to stop the entire town of Nowhere from eating flan.
Potty: They can even be used to turn people into small, weak animals!
Patchy: Up next is a ray gun he stole from an alien chicken. It shoots out energy beams, but not just any ordinary beam - anything that it hits will instantly turn into an inanimate object!
Potty: Courage has an industrial-sized vacuum that he invented to clean up large loads of The Loud House- oops, I mean filth.
Patchy: The vacuum is strong enough to suck the Statue of Liberty all the way to Nowhere. Since Nowhere is in Kansas, this is a distance of 1193.3 miles. Since it took five seconds, this means Courage's vacuum can go at 384086.039 m/s! Also, the Statue of Liberty weighs 450,000 pounds, so in other words, Courage's vacuum can easily suck in and contain objects weighing THAT much.
Potty: The God Bone is a colossal bone that Courage used to fight a group of skeletons, he has paintings that he can drop on opponents to suck them into said paintings, and he's got another thing called Instant Quicksand, which is exactly what the name says.
Patchy: And with Instant Eels, he pours dehydrated eggs into any body of water. These eels are powerful enough to attack Eustace, and may I remind you the newly-hatched eels will always be adults?
Potty: Happy Plums were cooked by Muriel, and they can be fed to opponents by flinging them into their mouths. They are so good that they turned a raging beast into a crybaby, and it undid the effects of Dr. Zalost's cannonballs, which turns anybody depressed!
Patchy: Courage has a trustworthy plunger gun that he found while digging. How does it work? Think of it like a grappling hook, except instead of a hook, it's a small plunger.
Potty: Courage has used it to latch onto objects and reel them in, and as you can see, it's strong enough to support Muriel.
Patchy: The Kangaroo Monster Bone Fragment will turn Courage into the extinct kangaroo monster once inserted into his body. He can do this by literally hammering it into himself with a mallet.
Potty: Courage's Kangaroo Monster form is as big as a skyscraper, and it greatly increases his strength! He can carry people in his pouch and pull out croissants that are so delicious people will become distracted, eat it, and want more.
Patchy: And last but not least, there's an offbrand Thanos- oops, I mean, the Magic Tree of Nowhere.
Potty: This purple tree can grant any wish or desire; when Muriel wished for a new oven, it immediately appeared. when Courage wished for a new construction vehicle, it popped up too. Later, Muriel wanted her and Courage to see a movie, which suddenly caused a projector to form out of the tree's branches.
Patchy: You may be thinking, "How the hell would Courage use a tree in a fight?". Well, at both the beginning of the titular episode, it sprouted to life after being planted through seeds. At the end, the seeds were still intact. So Courage could potentially take out the seeds, water them, and voila.
Potty: However, while Courage is undoubtedly stronger than he looks, he doesn't come without flaws. Of course, his most obvious weakness is that he's cowardly. He tends to panic and run at first, although this may not mean much considering he'll always conquer his fears for the sake of Muriel.
Patchy: Performing his Super Scream will render him weary, he can get distracted by dog whistles, and most of all, he is very selfless, as he's usually willing to save Muriel's life with little to no regard for his own safety.
Potty: So although it's no secret Courage is very easy to terrify, he always manages to save the day from all sorts of supernatural threats regardless due to the care he has for his owners, his willingness to help strangers with their own problems, and the desire to see the right thing done.
Patchy: Man, the things he does for love...
Courage: But I don't wanna sleep in the attic! I'm telling you, there's someone in here, or my name is Shirley! ...and it's not.
Gumball Watterson Imaginates an Amazing World of Trouble in DEATH BATTLE![]
Patchy: Gumball Watterson's amazing world starts in Elmore, which is a peculiar city in California where all sorts of cartoony shenanigans can occur, and anything can come to life.
Potty: What...what am I looking at?
Patchy: Why, a normal cartoon city, of course. It's got talking animals; okay, sounds normal so far. But then there's clouds, balloons, paper bears, cacti, robots, bananas, slices of toast, a talking sun, and even a goddamn t-rex, which went extinct over 66 million years ago!
Potty: Seems like paradise for someone as imaginative as Gumball...and it also sounds like a bad LSD trip. In the heart of Elmore many years ago, Gumball Tristopher Watterson was born to a lazy, kindhearted rabbit named Richard, and a hardworking, badass mother named Nicole.
Patchy: Nicole and Richard had rough childhoods. Nicole was born as "Doctor" to a set of very strict parents who already wanted her to work as a CEO right away. Is that even legal?
Potty: So, uhhhh...to clear up any confusion, Nicole is not her first name, as you can see. Her middle, in fact. So ever since she was a newborn, Nicole had to do lots of backbreaking work.
Patchy: Being forced into over dozens of school clubs. Studying to become a martial artist, baseball player, violin player, chess player, track runner, and drama actor. Ending up with a dead-end job at a factory, OH MY!!!
Potty: Yeah, that should give you the general idea. Nicole and Richard didn't want to raise Gumball like how their own parents did to them, so they made sure to give him all the unconditional love a parent could possibly give to their own child. They gave him everything he wanted and raised him in a quiet suburb.
Patchy: Well, actually, Gumball's real name is Zach, but you don't see people calling him "Zach" like it's nobody's business, right?
Potty: Gumball wasn't born as the perfect child, though. Gumball did just about every mischievous thing in the book, like putting random items in the washing machine, overflowing the bathtub, and catapulting oranges.
Patchy: NO, NOT THE ORANGES! (clears throat) Uh, what I meant to say was that Gumball was a living migraine for his parents, but it wasn't out of malicious intents at all. These rebellious acts were simply out of natural naivety and curiosity, as well as his hyperactivity. They put in all their effort to taming him, and it seemed like nothing worked - until Richard bought a pet goldfish.
Potty: But then the fish died.
Potty: Ok, not really, because soon enough they ended up with Darwin. He came from a shady van otherwise known as The Awesome Store.
Patchy: Notice how Potty said "brother" and not "pet". THAT'S how inseparable their brotherhood is. So much so that the care Gumball provided to Darwin gave Darwin legs and the ability to breathe oxygen!
Potty: But one day, Darwin was flushed down the toilet on accident, and Gumball became depressed!
Patchy: Well, it was a good thing Darwin had legs then, because not only did he return to his family that way, but it improved his bonding with Gumball.
Intermission/Roots and Bets[]
Death Battle[]
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Trivia[]
- The connections between Courage and Gumball are that both are goofy, cowardly Cartoon Network protagonists who live in extremely surreal and cynical worlds where virtually anything imaginable can happen even at the most inconvenient times, and they constantly have all odds placed against them in situations, with most of these situations starting off as everyday problems only to have a supernatural twist to them. Despite this, however, they always come out on top against their enemies in order to protect the ones they love (Muriel and Eustace; the Watterson family and Penny). They constantly travel out of their welcoming homes and end up meeting bizarre entities in the process, such as their own revenge-obsessed, sworn nemesis (Katz and Rob) who serve as their foils (Katz is a cat of pure evil, and Rob was a forgotten character who wants to be the star of the show).
- For contrasts, Courage was tragically separated from his parents at a young age and had to live a rough life on the streets fending for himself, while Gumball keeps a tight bond with his family and has lived a cheerful, easy life with them. Courage is also the type of hero who actively protects his home from various threats and takes all of them seriously, while Gumball is a far more carefree hero who has a habit of causing trouble himself and is practically known as a notorious criminal across his town, often committing mischief such as trying to break the eternally optimistic Alan by framing him for cheating on Carmen and even selling his parents to have them turned into balloon animals at a birthday party. One is also a dog, and the other is a cat.
- I know it ain't much but I vibe with this as a general matchup. Why? I dunno, maybe it's because of how weird their shows truly are along with the personality clash, I'm just not sure. I do prefer Scooby-Doo vs Courage and Eddy vs Gumball if that's anything to go by.
- For contrasts, Courage was tragically separated from his parents at a young age and had to live a rough life on the streets fending for himself, while Gumball keeps a tight bond with his family and has lived a cheerful, easy life with them. Courage is also the type of hero who actively protects his home from various threats and takes all of them seriously, while Gumball is a far more carefree hero who has a habit of causing trouble himself and is practically known as a notorious criminal across his town, often committing mischief such as trying to break the eternally optimistic Alan by framing him for cheating on Carmen and even selling his parents to have them turned into balloon animals at a birthday party. One is also a dog, and the other is a cat.
Track Cover - Cowardly Catastrophe (by The Saints Jigglypuff)[]
