Alan Keane is a supporting character in the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball. He is an optimistic, teal colored balloon who likes to make the world a better place.
He attends Elmore Junior High as a student, where he achieves good grades and tries to bring the best out of his fellow peers. Alan is currently dating Carmen Verde, a green cactus who also attends the same school.
He was voiced by Kerry Shale in Season 1, and later by Hugo Harold-Harrison from Season 2 and onwards.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- He is a highly charitable, optimistic, pacifistic, and overall good-natured person in nearly episode he is in. He also cares about Gumball Watterson and views him as a friend, even though the latter constantly attacks him for no reason.
- In "The Friend" he befriends Gumball even though Gumball can't even remember his name, and later convinces him to make amends with his brother Darwin after Gumball expresses sadness.
- In "The Kiss," he cheers on Gumball trying to get over his kiss with Granny Jojo.
- In "The Photo," after Darwin impulsively pops him over a misunderstanding, he says its ok and asks Darwin to flip over a piece of his plastic to "turn the other cheek."
- In "The Storm," he calmed down Masami Yoshida over her jealousy and prevented her from destroying the school.
- In "The Voice," he insists on apologizing to Gumball and Darwin for, ironically, making them feel like they owed him an apology. When they tell him that they just want him to say sorry (even though he didn't do anything), he apologizes for "apologizing too much" and "being annoying." According to Gumball, this went on for over an hour.
- In "The Boombox," he claims that he learned some of Juke's language so that he could feel more welcome at their school, and later tries to help Gumball and Darwin understand what he is saying. While it later turns out that he was incorrect in his translation, the effort was genuine.
- In "The Recipe," he expends all of his air just to prevent Tobias Wilson from suffocating.
- In "The Gripes," believing Gumball and Darwin are now poor, he donates to them and calls upon a crowd of people to donate to them as well.
- In "The Void," he asks Gumball to recall more details about Molly Collins so that all of the students can try and remember who she is together (unaware that she was sent to the Void).
- In "The Question," he tells Gumball and Darwin that the meaning of life is to be kind to others, and that one day, those you help will help someone else and create an endless cycle of positivity. When Julius Oppenheimmer and Mowdown trash his lemonade stand and threaten to beat him up, he "allows himself" by diving into Julius's fist and giving Gumball and Darwin the opportunity to help him.
- In "The Saint," he covers for Gumball accidentally destroying the library computer by claiming it was him who did it, resulting in detention. He also gives a little kid popsicles and makes the Hobo a multi-millionaire by giving him twenty dollars to invest.
- In the same episode, Gumball infamously torments him the entire episode just to prove that Alan has negative qualities. Even after Gumball frames him for a xenophobic post online and cheating on his girlfriend, steals his food, and sells his parents into torture, Alan still remains positive for the entire episode and refuses to get angry at Gumball, and briefly changes Gumball's outlook by telling him to be positive.
- In the final scene, Alan pretends to get annoyed at Gumball dragging his feet just to make him happy.
- In "The Comic," he enthusiastically sings Gumball's LaserHeart theme song as he runs through the hallway to encourage him.
- In "The Traitor," because his mother is sick and due for surgery, he spends the entire day making her as happy as possible by bringing her to Joyful Burger for lunch, watching a movie with her, and later spending time at the park. When he reveals this to Gumball, he sincerely apologizes to Gumball for not arriving to his house for food together as they planned. Even after Gumball forcibly conducts the surgery on his mom instead of a trained professional, he still thanks him for saving her (though when she talks out of her backside as a result, he gets irritated).
- The same episode also reveals that on one Christmas during Secret Santa, Alan gave Gumball a video game titled The Tale of Zelmore: The Golden Lake, which Gumball claims that he loves and notes how thoughtful and expensive it was. Nevertheless, Gumball yells at Alan for making him feel bad about his own gift, but instead of arguing, Alan simply apologizes for it. After, Gumball roundhouse kicked him, and Alan simply told him not to feel bad about hurting him because his father is a surgeon.
- In "The Diet," he throws a coin into a fountain and wishes for world peace.
- Alan's positivity is so prevalent that he is literally the source of all positivity and color in the world of Elmore. This is seen in "The Faith," where, once he loses his titular faith, Elmore loses its color, an aura of unwavering depression surrounds him, and the loss of all of his charitable deeds begin causing major issues in Elmore, including, but not limited to, the following:
- The loss of color creates a giant traffic jam in Elmore, in which numerous cars begin crashing into each other
- His work as a duck feeder at the park prevents the ducks from going on a rampage and murdering people, which begins to unfold once he quits. The same is true for the zoo he also works at.
- His work as a community recycler singlehandedly prevented a hole being torn in the ozone layer, which begins to burn Jeff Benson (who is humanoid popcorn and begins popping painfully as a result) and also burns and melts Gumball and Darwin's skin.
- As the scout leader, he prevents the group of scouts from becoming malevolent, and afterwards they begin antagonizing Gumball and Darwin over territory.
- As Gumball approaches Alan and enters his aura, he initially experiences overwhelming sadness and pessimism which causes him to violently cry and burst out in anguish.
- In summary, Alan seems to be responsible for keeping all of the world's positivity in check singlehandedly.
- In "The Decisions," he blocks a pipe and prevents the entire Elmore Mall from flooding by filling himself with the water.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He has a villainous role in "The Vision," where Alan conspires to take over the entire globe as a dictator and forcibly lock depressed individuals into "happy camps" to force-feed them happy thoughts, laughing malevolently as he does so. However, it is debatable as to whether or not this is considered canon overall, as it was a one-time thing for a single episode.
- It is implied that he acts extremely charitably and positively in part due to his hidden inflated ego.
- In the "Alan" episode of "Darwin's Yearbook," after Darwin decides to put Gregor on the yearbook instead, Alan "accidentally" sends Darwin a bunch of pictures, vainly and ingenuinely saying "Oh my bad. They weren't meant for you, I was trying to drag them to the trash! PLEASE, delete them, I look AWFUL." Afterwards, he becomes so desperate for his face to be on the cover that he literally pops.
- Gumball notes in "The Decisions" that Alan has always had an "inflated opinion" of himself.
- In "The Gift," he tries to deliver a corny speech about "love" to the audience by hogging the camera, but when it keeps panning away from him, he grows annoyed.
- He acts like a jerk and exhibits questionable behavior a fair amount of times in the series:
- He briefly chastises Gumball when the former screws up his mother's medical operation, causing her to speak out of her balloon knot instead of her mouth (though it is highly understandable)
- In the "Teachers" episode of "Darwin's Yearbook," he insults Miss Simian by calling her a "grotesque butt-monkey"
- In "The Storm", While he doesn't act on it, he maliciously stares down Gumball as the latter stages a relationship with his girlfriend, Carmen. Later, he repeatedly bonks his head in contempt at Masami because he finds her annoying, Finally, he jerkishly screams at Gumball when the latter interrupts his speech to Masami to try and calm her down, saying, "JUST SHUT UP, OKAY?!"
- In the same episode, he arguably manipulates Gumball into perform a (implied) sexual act on him in order to inflate again, something Gumball is visibly uncomfortable with afterward.
- He watches and encourages Gumball and Darwin's fight in "The Apology," and even sadistically claims that it would be better with "poison nunchucks"
- Following the apocalypse in "The Pizza," Alan becomes an anarchic rebel amidst a group of other violent criminals and attempts to antagonize the Wattersons (although he fails due to fragility)
- He does the same in "The Candidate," where he turns insane along with the other students, as the class is locked in and increasingly boiling room with no water, and he begins to fight over sparse resources.
- In "The Decisions," he manipulates Darwin and others by instructing him on how to make his own decisions by telling him exactly what to do in every situation, and tries to pass it off as legitimate at first. Later in the episode, he screams at Gumball and engages in a petty rivalry with him over what he perceives as poor advice, and over very minor things, like yelling at Gumball just for singing a song that isn't relevant to their situation.
- Throughout season 1, like many characters who lacked characterization, he could be seen as a legitimate bully. He mocked Gumball karate skills in "The Gi," he gets angry at Bobert 6B in "The Robot" and is complicit with Tobias saying he isn't a "real boy", and he cheers on the fight between Gumball and Tina Rex in "The Fight" even though the former doesn't want to. However, this is mainly a result of the inconsistent characterization that permeated season 1 and its characters, and was generally fixed in season 2, so it is a minor prevention in comparison to the more consistent behavior that comes afterwards.
- In "The Faith," while not entirely his fault, he becomes dejected, knowing that his lack of faith will cause the world to lose positivity, his reasoning being "the world will never be perfect."
External Links[]
- Alan Keane on the Heroes Wiki
- Alan Keane (The Vision) on the Villains Wiki
- Alan Keane on the The Amazing World of Gumball Wiki
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