Penny Fitzgerald

Heroine Overview

Gallery

Do-gooder

Present
Shell

Full Name

Penny Fitzgerald

Alias

Peanut Butthead (formerly)

Origin

The Amazing World of Gumball

Occupation

Student of Elmore Junior High School

Leader of Elmore Junior High School cheerleading squad

Powers / Skills

Shapeshifting

Intelligence
Flight
Illuminating light

Hobby

Going on dates with Gumball.

Hanging out with her friends.
Studying.
Cheerleading.

Goals

Become Gumball's girlfriend

Break out of her shell and embrace her true self (both succeeded).
Dependent on episode.

Family

Patrick Fitzgerald (father)

Judith Fitzgerald (mother)
Polly Fitzgerald (younger sister)
Leslie (cousin)
Mr. Cuddles (pet)

Enemies

Rob

Lucy Simian
Nigel Brown (sometimes)
Jamie Russo
Tobias Wilson (sometimes)
Felicity Parham
Jealousy †
Game Child †
Forest Creatures

Type of Hero

Insecure Supporter

“	Hey, leave him alone! If he wants to wear karate clothes, let him! At least he's brave enough to be himself.	„
	~ Penny standing up for Gumball in "The Gi," also foreshadowing her transformation.

Penny Fitzgerald is a major character in The Amazing World of Gumball. She is the love interest and eventual girlfriend of Gumball Watterson. She is a student in Miss Simian's class at Elmore Junior High and a member of the school's cheerleading team.

Gumball and Penny have always had massive crushes on each other, but the two of them had always struggled to express their feelings until the events of the episode "The Shell," when Gumball finally confesses his feelings to her and the two kiss. The two have been dating since that moment. She was part of the Treehouse Girls until it was disbanded due to the treehouse being cut down by Tobias Wilson and Banana Joe.

She is voiced by Teresa Gallagher.

Appearance[]

Peanut[]

In Season 1, Penny was a tall, brown, anthropomorphic peanut. Like the rest of her family, she had a set of antlers that grew out of her head. She wore orange slippers with white knee socks and red and white wristbands.

In Season 2, the design of Penny's shell was slightly altered. Previously, it was rounded and shaped more like her father's, but it was curved into an hourglass-like shape that more closely resembles her sister's and her mother's. Her antlers also became darker and smaller. Also, the holes in the shell on her arms were removed.

Fairy Form[]

In Season 3, the episode "The Shell" revealed that Penny underneath her shell is a glowing, shape-shifting, fairy-like creature. She can shape-shift into any creature, depending on her emotions, but her default form is a yellow-orange gradient fairy-like humanoid with antlers. Her body takes on the shape of her shell, and the upper half of her body gets progressively lighter shades of orange and yellow in coloration. Her real eyes and mouth are now seen, and she also has visible white eyelashes connected to her eyes. She also has wings, which she can use to hover above the ground.

Personality[]

Penny is a very nice and friendly individual, often seen sticking up for her friends and others, showing that she has a strong sense of integrity. She stands out among the students at Elmore Jr. High for being uniquely mature, calm, emotionally and academically intelligent, and compassionate overall.

She is one of the few people to understand Gumball, whom she has a crush on. The feeling is mutual, but neither of them had ever had a chance to properly express their evident feelings until "The Shell." She will often act as the "voice of reason" around her boyfriend, contrasting his antics and impulsive behavior with consideration and rationality. She is also very lenient, patient, and forgiving towards him, and is quick to let him off the hook when he does something wrong, along with others.

Despite her generally good-natured personality, she can be fairly irritable on occasion, such as when she became angry (even resorting to deception) at her father in the episode "The Knights," because he forbid her from seeing the Wattersons, and growing tired of the conflict between Gumball and Tobias in the same episode. She can also be quite sassy, sarcastic, and dry-witted, especially when growing tired of the antics of other characters.

She also seems to be athletic, as she is an excellent cheerleader, and was/is part of the synchronized swimming club. Also, in "The Dress," she was one of the first people to finish running around the track.

Without her shell, she is very self-conscious, running away at the first sign that someone believes her true form to be monstrous. Even worse, she transforms into the said monster as she runs away, fulfilling their expectations and seemingly believing it to be true herself. After coming to terms with herself, though, she has become more open and enthusiastic.

Abilities[]

Shapeshifting[]

According to whatever emotion she is feeling, Penny can transform into a wide variety of creatures. Notable examples include her transforming into a dragon or gorgon when angry, or into a frail mouse when she feels inadequate or scared.

Flight[]

In her fairy form, she has wings, but they mostly seem to give her the ability to hover slightly above the ground as opposed to the ability to outright fly.

Quotes[]

“	What are they talking about? [Darwin splashes Penny with a milkshake again] Darwin! [Leaves the room]	„
	~ Penny in "The Storm."

“	[Sighs] Okay. It's the... [Sighs] It's the real me.	„
	~ Penny in "The Shell."

“	Look! You need to take things a little easier, okay? By which I mean less terrifyingly intense. Gumball: Gotcha. No more marriage proposals and stuff. And no big gestures!	„
	~ Penny in "The Romantic."

“	ARE YOU INSANE?!	„
	~ Penny yelling at Gumball.

“	Red Riding Hood is pretty bizarre, [Shapeshifts into her wolf form] where a wolf dresses up as a girl's grandma.	„
	~ Penny in "The Blame."

“	If we follow that logic, the ancestors before those ancestors were primates, and yet I've never seen you guys eating each other's lice.	„
	~ Penny in "The Transformation."

“	Gumball!	„
	~ Penny in multiple episodes, also her last words in the series.

Trivia[]

She is allergic to blueberries.
She had the most major roles of any character that is not a Watterson with thirteen, being tied with Rob.
- Furthermore, both have a permanent change in Season 3 and have strong relationships with Gumball, with Penny being his girlfriend and Rob being his arch-nemesis.
In "The Flower," it is stated that her tonsils are not yet taken out.
In "The Void," it is shown that her limbs can detach in her peanut form when she falls from a great height.
In "The Romantic," it is shown that Penny and Gumball met each other in the mall and they talked to each other on the school bus.
A running gag is Penny choking right in front of Gumball, who is oblivious to her choking.
In "The Blame," when she is singing "Books Are Violent," she transforms into a wolf, despite having no emotion at all. It's possible she gained better control of her powers.
Penny is the only member of the Fitzgerald family to break out of her shell.
Her Gorgon form was cut in some dubs.