Rob vs The Spot (Amazing World of Gumball vs Marvel)


Rob VS The Spot






“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

- James Joyce




Rob, the Amazing World of Gumball’s universally declared mistake turned vengeance seeker.




The Spot, Marvel’s portal-hopping scientist, mercenary, and joke turned remorseless villain.




Imagine If your creator took a good long look at you and decided, after some thoughtful consideration, that you’re nothing, a nobody, a loser and slid you into the attic to forget you ever existed. But, for these two, they wouldn’t accept that they were just a forgettable mistake. They clawed their way back to relevancy, not through courage or virtue, but through spite and self-serving schemes to feed their self-loathing and take it out on the ones who hogged the spotlight and refused to lend them a hand when they were disfigured for life. The world decided they were a joke? They’d work hard to show you that they’re anything but! Which of these two zero-to-not-quite-heroes would win a fight if they ever crossed paths? Let’s find out!




DISCLAIMER: Considering Rob also doesn’t appear to have any Toon Force properties despite his nemesis being a Toon Force user, scaling for him will be determined by relatively more “grounded” feats, so if some of his scaling seems a bit low balled for Gumball characters, that’s why. Also, The Spot will be using feats and scaling only from mainline comics, so his Spider-Verse movie self won’t be used here (so there are NO Spoilers for the movie) as the fight is close enough without it anyway, we don’t know the extent of his new powers, and they basically have the same powerset aside from the dimensional hopping. Additionally, with new content for Gumball and the new Spider-Verse movies confirmed to be coming, new feats could definitely come out later that could sway this fight in either direction.
Background

Rob



“I clung to life, and I came back. But at a cost. You left me disfigured, a nobody, but now you've given me a part to play in the world.”




In the strange city of Elmore, there exists those that are not so strange, plain even. One such example was Rob, a cycloptic humanoid with no family that attended Elmore Junior High, not that anyone ever noticed. Even the audience barely paid attention to him. See, Rob is what one might call a background character, an NPC, a nobody. If you squinted hard enough, you could’ve seen him jamming at a house party or watching fights break out in school. He even once confronted Gumball and Darwin, only to be met with awkward silence and blank stares, because neither of them even knew his name, or could even get it right after they were told by him. All his minutes of screentime would net him a kick down a manhole by Darwin and a moment where he joined an angry mob forming against the Wattersons, the true main characters of the show.




It wasn’t long until the universe sensed something was off…or, rather, someone. In the eyes of the world, the creation of Rob was a mistake, a plain, boring character who didn’t deserve to exist. As a result, the Void called to him and abducted him and his entire home, erasing him from the memories of everyone that, somehow, might’ve known him. There he stood, stuck in a limbo of the universe’s mistakes until one day Gumball, Darwin, and Mr. Small found a way inside the Void in search of their missing friend, Molly. They rescued her and either didn’t hear or simply ignored Rob’s cries and pleas for rescue and help. So, he hitched a ride on the van they used to escape to leave the Void, being left permanently disfigured and glitched upon re-entry. While in this state, Rob lost his memories and began living in the basement of the Wattersons’ home, until he was finally discovered by Gumball and Darwin. They managed to jog his memory after suggesting he play a role Elmore didn’t have yet: a villain!




What he remembered was an enormous grudge, great feelings of spite, and pain at having no role or identity or personality. They abandoned him! Gumball never bothered to remember his name and, worse yet, didn’t even attempt to save him from irrelevancy. From that day forth, Rob swore to become his nemesis! Although…he wasn’t very good at it. He was a regular Wile E. Coyote with constantly failing traps, but after some encouragement by Gumball and Darwin and a voice change, Rob took up the moniker: Dr. Wrecker. Still, he was pretty terrible at what he did, trying to break the town dam that didn’t exist and earning a pity entrapment into one of his devices by the Watterson brothers.




However, something began to snap inside of him. Maybe they encouraged him too much, because he still held some much self-loathing and hatred being directed and blamed on them. He even went so far as to hijack an Elmore Junior High school bus and hold it for ransom with the threat of a time bomb hidden in a briefcase! Though this plan ultimately failed, Rob kept on pushing the envelope on his cruelty and obsessive desire for revenge, buying a Universal Remote as the Wattersons visited the mall to exact as much pain as possible on Gumball before destroying him. This resulted in Gumball’s parents divorcing, Anais getting lost, Darwin believing Gumball thought he was a mistake to adopt, and even forcing Gumball to shove his girlfriend, Penny, off a balcony. After battling Gumball, he found himself back to the start of that fateful day, his nemesis managing to reverse time up to that point, where he did much, much worse. Rob de-aged Gumball’s parents to infancy, which caused Anais to stop existing, and even killed Darwin in front of Gumball while making him push Penny off the balcony again.




Yet, when he had the opportunity to abandon Rob in the Void, Gumball felt…remorse for how his actions snowballed and led to Rob’s state, and went to rescue him. Though, Rob took advantage of this and… couldn’t go through with killing him. Without Gumball, who was he? Had he started to enjoy his company even? After a brief break and bringing Gumball’s loved ones back, he dabbled in other schemes, like becoming Banana Joe’s nemesis and kidnapping the Internet. However, after kidnapping the prophecy-painting Banana Barbara, he soon realized that Elmore had an odd future: complete TV static. Rob then realized the responsibility his knowledge burdened on his shoulders. If he couldn’t save the town through any means necessary, such as trying and failing to turn the characters into live action versions of themselves, the entire universe of the Amazing World of Gumball would be consumed by the Void. On his road to redemption, Rob found the ground crumbling beneath his feet as his failure to save the town dawned on him as he fell back into the Void, just as prophecized, where the show’s fans patiently and eagerly await to see if Rob’s now selfless, heroic efforts were in vain.



The Spot



"Sir, please, just let me rob you!"




Dr. Jonathan Ohnn was a simple scientist, MIT graduate, best buddy to a totally virtuous man, Quentin Beck, and family man…who just so happened to work for infamous crime boss, Kingpin. Ohnn was a man of ambition, sick of his stagnant position as a pencil-pushing egghead to the brutish Kingpin that wanted more out of life, and his new project may have just been the big break he needed. Tasked with replicating the Dark Dimension powers of the superhero, Cloak, the scientist got tirelessly worked late nights, but midway through the process of finally managing to create a dark portal to said dimension, a blackout swept the city as a result of the device's drain on the city’s electricity. Fearing losing all of his tireless, groundbreaking work, Ohnn threw all scientific precautions to the wind and ran inside the portal!




Inside, he found himself inside a weightless void of nothing but pure white littered with pitch black dots. Hoping to find his way back home, the good doctor swam his way to the spot he came from, and soon found himself back at the lab…but horribly, ridiculously disfigured. His skin was all pure white and covered in black dots, to the point that you could barely see his face anymore. Yet, to his surprise, he found that these spots were detachable and could instantly portal him anywhere he wanted if he reached into them. Seeing an opportunity to become the Kingpin’s replacement hitman and escape the drudgery of his egghead lifestyle, he decided to test out his powers by…immediately challenging Spider-Man to a fight?! He’s a bold one. Upon meeting Spidey, he dubbed himself as “The Spot” and was almost instantly mocked. Yet, despite being a scientist with no prior combat experience, he kind of kicked Spidey’s ass…until he realized he could run out of spots.




After this encounter, Spot realized something. He couldn’t return to his family looking like this. He was useless to them the way that he was, his entire professional life went down the drain, and he couldn’t go back to living a normal life looking the way that he did. With no options and a heavy heart, he left his past life behind and pursued a life of petty crimes, becoming a mercenary to anyone willing to pay him a decent buck. He had no loyalty anymore, he would only do a job if it served him well, and there was not a single soul that respected him, not even the writers. Already having been written as a joke villain, he began to suffer from Flanderization, losing his intelligence and coming off as a bumbling loser in every single issue that he starred in because, quite frankly, his entire concept came off as ridiculous. He even began to get strapped to strange devices as a human battery and effectively being tortured by the writers as an easy “portal making MacGuffin”.




That is, however, until he secretly worked for the Mandarin while helping M.O.D.O.K. during a heist on the Infinicide. After handing the billionaire the destructive device, or so he thought anyway, the Mandarin stabbed Spot in the back and forcibly sent him into his own Spotted Dimension, where he lost track of which spot he came from and became lost for a very, very long time. While he was trying to find a way home amongst the countless black dots there, Ohnn was only able to keep himself from going fully mad by clinging to the one good thing he ever had in his entire life: his son.




However, once he found a way back, he was hit with the news that his son was hospitalized by an accidental drive-by Russian mob shooting. Something broke inside Ohnn that day, because he finally crossed a line later. The Spot would return, and Spider-Man would bear witness as his former joke nemesis began assassinating each and every mafia member he could get his hands on to avenge his son, until Spidey stopped him enough to receive a package to deliver to his son as he was recovering: Treasure Island, the book he used to read to him every night. From that point onwards, The Spot became much more ruthless, teaming up with Mr. Negative in hopes for a cure to his condition, attempting to exact revenge on the organization that replicated his powers and mutated his body further, kidnapping Jessica Jones, and even revealing he could regenerate after being slaughtered by Carnage. With the new Spider-Verse movies finally shining a spotlight on how terrifying The Spot’s powers can actually be in Ohnn’s hands, it seems that The Spot will finally be getting the respect he deserves and wants.



Equipment

Rob

Universal Remote



Running on AA batteries with the durability of a regular TV remote and costing $12.99, Rob was able to purchase this Universal Remote from a shady merchant in a shopping mall parking lot. Sure, you could destroy this thing and watch as it un-exists itself, or you could use one of its many buttons to warp the fabric of reality itself. For most of the remote’s functions, Rob or Gumball needed to aim it at their opponent, implying that the infrared waves that all television remotes use are what end up striking the target, which move at the speed of light like a laser. That means it is technically possible to dodge some of the functions, such as when Gumball and Darwin dodged out of the way as Banana Joe instead got obliterated. However, it is also possible to slightly knock the batteries inside out of place or last long enough until the remote runs out of batteries for it to stop functioning entirely. But, the real threat comes from what all the buttons on the remote do, which are listed below:




Power: Remotely activate one or more vehicles. Instant Death and Resurrection. Existence Erasure.


Directional Arrows: Control the direction a vehicle travels.


Stop: Turns off vehicles.


Eject: Forcibly eject objects from inside objects. Force back someone in any direction.


Rewind: Reverse Time. De-Aging. Butterfly Effect of Existence Erasure via De-Aging.


Fast Forward: Fast Forward Time. Targeted Speed Boost/Time Skip/Mild Teleportation.


Pause: Time Stop. No aim required.


Play: Resume after a Time Stop. Place object stored after using Record.


Subtitles: Display false/deep thoughts. Attach a fragile barrier of text on an enemy.


Brightness: Darkness and Light Manipulation of a specific targeted area.


Parental Filter: Forces inner and honest thoughts to be spoken aloud in conversation.


Format: Switch the aesthetics of a scene. Smack opponent with aspect ratio.


AV: Opens a portal to The Void.


Music: Adds music to a scene.


Slow Motion: Slows Time. This affects the force behind physical attacks. No aim needed.


Zoom: Smack characters in foreground with Fourth Wall.


Mute: Turn Sound On or Off. No aiming required.


Repeat: Induce an infinite Time Loop of a few seconds in time when pressed.


Channel: Switches the user to a different channel, arguable Dimensional Travel.


Record: Store an object in the remote from existence.


Unknown Buttons: Swap from Nighttime and Daytime. Blur to induce legal blindness.



Time Bomb Briefcase



While the timer for the time bomb within the briefcase is unclear as it started before the people Rob manipulated brought it onto a school bus, it still went off on him after he mixed it up with the briefcase full of ransom money. He was also able to fight Gumball with the briefcase.


Wrecking Ball



In order to break open a wall to get into what he thought was the control panel to the Elmore dam, which was actually for a vending machine, Rob used a wrecking ball to crack the wall.




Burger Bomb



Rob somehow created a burger that was also a bomb that only went off in a small explosion if it was bitten into after a few seconds.



Night Vision Goggles



When Rob was neme-seeing someone else, that being Banana Joe, he acquired night vision goggles at some point to spy on him at night.



Metal Bar



While keeping Banana Barbara hostage in a warehouse, Rob once used a rusty metal bar to bludgeon Banana Joe and incapacitate him.



Axe



Rob also owns an axe that he used for his trap attempts, which very much can be a weapon.



Dr. Wrecker Armor



Clearly the most dangerous armor in the multiverse. It’s made out of pure cardboard, tissue boxes, empty paper towel rolls, what looks like a plate, a milk carton, and a spaghetti strainer. It offers no durability boost or meaningful protection at all.



The “Fixing” Machine



While disguised as Superintendent Evil, Rob was trying to oppress the characters of Elmore Junior High into being less goofy. At a certain point, he would kidnap these characters in order to either zap or smoosh them into animated, more grounded human versions of themselves, as the point of the machine was that it could remove Toon Force and Powers. Then, these animated human versions would also get hooked up to a containment tube that would further this process and turn them into live action versions of themselves in order to help them survive the Void’s attempts to end the cartoon and, thus, the world and escape to the “Other Place”. However, if the characters act like their silly selves again, they can revert back to their Toon Force-like, original forms.



The Void



Imagine if the universe had its own will, where it had preferences over its own creations, and it had a special pocket dimension where it could sweep everything it viewed as a “mistake” or “too boring” into it. They’re all out of sight and out of mind! This is what The Void is in Gumball’s universe, where it can store things such as landmasses, vehicles, inventions, fashion statements, concepts such as memes, and even characters from the universe itself, such as Rob. According to Mr. Small, once something is erased from the universe and stored in The Void, the universe will have every sentient being forget that whatever or whoever they nabbed ever existed from their memories, and the only way to protect against it is with…tinfoil hats.




However, this process isn’t perfect, as indents in the world could be found where they were erased and photos will have signs of where characters used to be. Getting near the gaps in space will result in a level of suction too, and inside it is full of all the mistakes the world has ever made, all while under a backdrop of a television that seems to reflect the show itself. While inside, gravity is floaty and chunks of land have their own centers of gravity. When entities are taken, there’s also a small chance they’ll be frozen in time at the moment of abduction. When holes are opened at these indents, the Void will attempt to slowly shrink them, but if a portal is made, such as by Rob with the Universal Remote, it can be manually closed and isn't targeted to be closed by the Void.




It can also seemingly detect when a show is going to be over, and will move to try and suck up the entire universe itself, something Rob was trying to find a solution to. While trying to escape through a gap in The Void, without sufficient protection, it can also leave a character permanently disfigured, such as what happened to Rob when he hitched a ride out.



The Spot

Spots 



The Spot’s namesake weapons and his most versatile set of abilities all derive from how he uses the spots littered all over his body. These spots can be flung to any surface and even defy the laws of physics and hang in midair. Once Dr. Jonathan Ohnn puts his limbs through a spot he placed, he quickly discovered that it instantly came out the other side of another spot that can appear at a different area, which eventually became his primary combat tactic of overwhelming an opponent with spot punches. He has control over where this second spot will pop up with an absolutely ludicrous range to boot, where it has the capability to appear across countries, such as from New York City to Seattle or possibly from Switzerland to Harlem, New York. They can even pop up in places that The Spot has never been to, such as inside of a bank vault or even, horrifically, on people’s bodies. However, apparently, his range does have a limit.




Ohnn can manipulate the sizes of these spots himself to any size he can manage, and others can also manipulate them via magic or by simply grabbing them like a Looney Tunes hole. He can target multiple places at once with multiple spots, and if gunfire is directed at Spot’s spots, the bullets will fire unpredictably out of the various spots on his body or within the Spotted Dimension. Spots can also be willed to shrink or grow without having to physically do so by combining multiple spots into one big one or shrinking a spot to slice off a limb. He can also will these spots to entirely envelop his body for him to teleport away to the Spotted Dimension.




Probably the most helpful ability in combat is the way Ohnn’s spots negate all physical attacks as, so long as his body can react in time, they will simply go in one spot and out the other. This includes projectiles and even lasers and photons given the Living Laser was able to traverse through one. These spots also help Spot bypass certain kinds of Enhanced Senses, such as Spider-Sense, but not Daredevil’s Radar Sense detecting both his sound and teleportation energy, plus a device made by Reed Richards was able to track his dimensional portal energy as well. These spots can also eventually run out from overuse unless he collects the spots he’s already placed, which would leave him vulnerable to attacks and projectiles. He can also concentrate to temporarily will his spotted form away to use his original look.



The Spotted Dimension



Integral to the entirety of The Spot’s powers is the Spotted Dimension, a dimension that Jonathan Ohnn accidentally created a doorway to after an experiment to replicate Cloak’s Darkforce/Dark Dimension powers went awry. Inside, the realm feels weightless like outer space, and is able to be traversed by making swimming motions in the direction he wishes to travel to. In order to enter the Spotted Realm and not just have limbs or objects travel instantly through another spot, Spot usually has to enter his entire body into a spot.




While there, he can hang out as long as he wants, and can basically reappear anywhere he wants through another spot, along with tossing or pulling opponents into the dimension to have some home field advantage. However, if his whole body is flung into a spot not of his own volition, Spot will likely get lost for what feels like “a thousand lifetimes” in the Spotted Dimension as he won’t be able to tell which spot he entered in from. Thankfully, it can also be used as free storage space! That definitely balances that out.



Darkforce



Mr. Negative confirms that The Spot draws his power for the Darkforce, which was where Cloak, whose powers he was trying to replicate in his original experiment, also drew his powers. The Spotted Dimension is likely an adjacent realm to the Darkforce Dimension (also sometimes called the Dark Dimension), which is where the Darkforce draws its power from. In fact, M.O.D.O.K. also confirms that, in the instant that objects are transported from spot to spot, they first quickly traverse through the Dark Dimension. The aspect of the Darkforce that’s important for The Spot specifically is the fact that portal travel and teleportation using the Darkforce is confirmed to be instantaneous here as well.



Extra Limbs



Before Coyote, a random criminal subjected to a recreation of Ohnn’s original experiment that made him into The Spot, was created, Ohnn was subjected to experiments in an attempt to make his powers more “imaginative” and “threatening”. This didn’t work, so they strapped him to a machine to be used as a battery, and once he was freed later on by Daredevil, his body mutated further. The Spot began to grow several extra arms out of his spots, granting him more dexterity when using his spots to attack and much more trauma. He also has to crawl like this, just for the extra eldritch horror factor.



Abilities

Rob

Trap Making



On numerous occasions, Rob has shown himself to make various Wile E. Coyote-esque traps for both Gumball and Banana Joe. Although, it’s worth noting that none of these traps ever worked, some even backfiring on him.



Disguising



Rob once masqueraded as Elmore Junior High’s superintendent, Superintendent Evil. While disguised, he was able to completely seem as if he was live action and had a different voice. However, after simply slipping on a banana peel and hitting his head on the floor, the disguise began to fail. The disguise is a costume, shown when the cast literally Scooby-Doo reveals Rob.



Fourth Wall Awareness



Rob has displayed, on numerous occasions, to be entirely aware of the show’s existence as a piece of fiction and media. He’s used this knowledge before to hijack and attempt to pitch a show to the audience that exists entirely without Gumball after holding the Internet, who is its own character, hostage. He even acts as a director in some of the spinoff clips in his version of the show. Rob would also likely bear witness to the show’s end credits, which are shown to be running along the border of The Void. Eventually, Rob would kidnap Banana Barbara to have her paint her visions of the future in order to understand why it only showed static for a while.




Using his knowledge gained after that episode, Rob then attempted to use his “Fixing” Machine to turn all the characters in Elmore Junior High into more human-like, grounded characters that lack any Toon Force, a process which would begin to transform them into live action characters. Rob’s assumption was that the visions of the future signified both the end of the world and the show, so his theory was that turning the characters into live action people would save them and let them survive the impending end being brought about by The Void.



Voice Modification



With any regular remote, Rob can change his voice to sound like BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor David Warner, with the same voice as Ra’s al Ghul in Batman: The Animated Series, which he used when under his alias as Dr. Wrecker in his identity crisis phase.



The Spot

Projection



When Ohnn was lost in the Spotted Dimension after being flung in by the Mandarin, he was able to, on occasion, project his image back onto the world from the Spotted Dimension. While doing this, nobody he attempted to contact could see or hear The Spot. There was also no indication that he could interact with anything even a little bit, so at best this could allow him to spy on his opponents if used as a tactic in battle. Funnily enough, something that was psychological torture to Spot is actually a fairly tactical ability.



Teleportation



By enveloping his entire body in his own black spots, which seems to be as fast as his body can physically react, The Spot is able to entirely teleport away to the Spotted Dimension even while encumbered or within Invisible Woman’s forcefield. Although, it appears that if Spot is ever being used as a battery of some kind for a device, which happens fairly often to poor Ohnn, his abilities to use his spots to escape in any capacity appear to be suppressed.


Regeneration



There have been a few times where The Spot has “died” to Tombstone or has been “downed” by Wolverine, yet he managed to seemingly reappear in future comics issues despite his story carrying over with some level of continuity. At first, this could just be seen as the writer forgetting about The Spot existing because of his low tier existence as a character, but a possible explanation was dropped when Carnage managed to shred The Spot to pieces and his remains could still speak. Here, The Spot claims that he can’t be killed by Carnage because he’ll “return” thanks to the Spotted Dimension, implying his body reconstitutes itself inside the Spotted Dimension after fatal blows, which Carnage also confirms to be expecting. Truthfully, this ability is rather vague and this was Spot’s latest appearance in the comics, but it can explain away the strange occurrences of Ohnn being downed or killed in the past.



Durability Negation



Simply put, The Spot’s spots shrinking to nothingness while someone’s limb is put through it is guaranteed to slice it off by virtue of closing and erasing the portal and, thus, the space that doorway was occupying. It’s like quickly hydraulic pressing a doorway while someone is halfway through it and has no way to push back against it. This has been done to Winter Soldier and its danger is confirmed by both Invisible Woman and Deadpool to be a possibility for them as well. It should be noted that the spots have never appeared clipping through limbs, as if they’re spawning in to slice through them. The body parts have to enter inside one of the portals partially first. Of course, it can be argued spots have a level of power instead considering they can be manipulated by other people, which will be taken into account.
Stealth Assassination



After The Spot’s son was hospitalized by the Russian Mob, Spot went on an ice-cold killing spree at a Russian Mob hideout. There, Ohnn was able to stealthily and, without detection, nearly systematically kill every single mafia member there by silently stealing their own knives and stabbing them with it, strangling them, knocking them out with his punch from behind, and snapping their necks until Spider-Man intervened. According to Spider-Man, after witnessing all of this, Spot’s skills could potentially make him an unstoppable assassin.



Feats

Rob

Overall



  • Joined an angry mob to attack the Wattersons
  • Escaped the Void after being taken for being a boring background character.
  • Lived in the basement of the Wattersons before remembering his abandonment grudge.
  • Used the alias “Dr. Wrecker” and hijacked a school bus for $1 Million in ransom money.
  • Managed to buy a reality warping device for only $12.99.
  • Manipulated Gumball’s parents to divorce and Darwin and Penny to leave him.
  • De-aged Gumball’s parents, which made Anais stop existing, forced Penny off a balcony, and killed Darwin in front of Gumball.
  • Ultimately won a fight with Gumball twice but spared him.
  • Held the Internet hostage and hijacked the show.
  • Learned about the the show’s future unexistence in the Void and becomes an antihero
  • Turned lots of characters in Elmore Junior High live action to help them survive the Void
  • Survived a beatdown by Tina Rex
  • Has the last lines of the series as of Season 6




Power






Speed






Durability






The Spot

Overall



  • Inspired by Bugs Bunny, the “Johnny on the spot” idiom, and a Looney Tunes cartoon
  • Was roommates with Mysterio at MIT
  • Gained access to the Spotted Dimension while trying to replicate Cloak’s powers.
  • Immediately laughed at by Spider-Man
  • Blitzed Spider-Man with zero combat experience as soon as he got his spots.
  • Joined the Spider-Man Revenge Squad, aka the Legion of Losers.
  • Used as a battery by the Gideon Trust.
  • Broke both himself and Tombstone out of prison.
  • Recruited by M.O.D.O.K. as an integral part of a heist on the Infinicide.
  • Escaped being sent to and lost in the Spotted Dimension by the Mandarin
  • Avenged his son’s hospitalization by killing countless Russian mob members.
  • Worked for Mr. Negative under the promise of getting cured.
  • Used as a battery again by those that created Coyote
  • Kidnapped Jessica Jones
  • Used as a battery once again by Kingpin and Norman Osborn
  • Was torn to shreds by Carnage and could still speak
  • Redeemed as a villain in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse




Power






Speed






Durability






Weaknesses

Rob


Funnily enough, a big weakness of Rob’s is his depth perception, or lack thereof. When he kidnapped Banana Barbara, he tried to intimidate her by eating a banana, but entirely missed his own mouth as he tried to eat it, claiming he has “really bad depth perception”. This, because a lot of the Universal Remote’s features require aiming, could absolutely be a disadvantage in a fast-paced fight. It should also be worth noting that, rather than killing Gumball outright during a time stop, he wanted to sadistically destroy everything he held dear first, although this could just be because Gumball specifically is his nemesis.


It should also be worth noting that the Universal Remote is incredibly fragile and sensitive, with buttons activating after bouncing along the ground, being destroyed with just a slam on the ground, and even just failing to work because the batteries were barely knocked loose. Without the Universal Remote, Rob could easily be trapped in other realms or the Void and have no way out again. He’s also susceptible to Existence Erasure, with him permanently dying to Banana Barbara whiting him out of her prophecy paintings and needing to resurrect him later the same way. Perhaps most notably, as it affects his scaling, is that Rob has never displayed any Toon Force feats or abilities, being probably one of the more relatively grounded characters in the show, meaning it’s harder to justify scaling him to the more ridiculous feats on the show.




The Spot



Just to get this out of the way, despite Ohnn being a brilliant scientist, he’s consistently getting backstabbed by the people he does business with and was, for a time, a joke villain and an idiot. He might be one of the more perfect examples of book smarts versus street smarts in comic books. His spots can also run out from overuse, requiring him to collect them while vulnerable to attack, and the range on his spots, while crazy long, do apparently have a limit.


Not only that, but Spot’s spots can also still be manipulated by other people by grabbing them or by magic. He can also still be tracked if his opponent has access to devices or enhanced senses that detect sound or teleportation energy, which he is riddled with. The biggest fatal flaw his spots have, however, are how he can get lost for what feels like “a thousand lifetimes” according to him if he’s sent into the Spotted Dimension not of his own volition. He’d eventually come back, but he’d lose his mind while trapped there, especially considering this happened once before thanks to the Mandarin. Spot also has quite a tendency to be trapped in machinery that uses him as a battery, unfortunately for him, despite his powers making it difficult to actually pin him down somewhere.



Fight Script

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Summary

Rob



"You really don't get it, do you? So happy to star in your amazing world! Can't you see that none of this is real?! It doesn't matter. Once you're out of the picture, I can be whoever I want!"

Advantages:
+Physically stronger
+More consistently durable
+Can use the spots for himself
+Could manipulate Spot with a promise to cure him via the “Fixing” Machine
+Far more instant and unpredictable win conditions and techniques via Universal Remote
+Could learn about the Spotted Dimension with Subtitles or Parental Filter
+Has more actual wins against his nemesis
+Evolved from background character to fan favorite villain/antihero




Disadvantages:
-Slower
-Universal Remote is fragile
-Permanent incapacitation via BFR if the Universal Remote is broken
-Too difficult to trap opponent in the “Fixing” Machine
-Far less combat experience and no Toon Force
-Poor depth perception affects his aim
-Majored in Canadian History
-Stuck in limbo waiting for Season 7/The Gumball Movie



The Spot



"This is gonna be good for us, Spider-Man. You and me, we're finally gonna live up to our potential. You'll finally have a villain worth fighting and I won't be just a joke to you!"




Advantages:
+Faster and can teleport
+More versatile range and projectile redirection
+Possible durability negation with spots / If not: Spots are still strong enough to harm Rob
+Negates physical damage and aimed remote usage
+Safety in and spying from the Spotted Dimension
+Much more combat and stealth experience
+Actually has a family
+Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse




Disadvantages:
-Physically weaker
-Spots can be stored or manipulated
-No defense against Time Manipulation
-Can run out of spots if the fight lasts too long
-Regeneration doesn’t help against instant death and existence erasure
-Wouldn’t guess what the Universal Remote does at first glance
-Fell for a billionaire’s cryptocurrency scam
-Apparently forgot he doesn’t need a car anymore, how to write, and how to brag



Verdict






Stats

So, let’s start with how these stats were determined. Rob, as a character who lacked Toon Force, couldn’t exactly scale to some of the crazier Gumball feats like kicking balls to the sun or traveling to a galaxy in a second, and his Universal Remote also had its own stats to consider. Likewise, The Spot wasn’t exactly a heavy hitter in the world of Marvel comics, and his spots had different properties than his actual physical capabilities, but he was still a respectable fighter despite his status as a joke villain for most of his life.

In terms of power, The Spot was definitely physically weaker than Rob, who could deal damage to characters that survive enormous city-level explosions constantly, while Spot normally only scaled to characters that could survive building explosions. Luckily for Ohnn, his spots more than made up for it by being able to slice through limbs belonging to Winter Soldier and, by the merc’s own admission, Deadpool. This is notable because even if you don’t buy that his spots shrinking is a form of durability negation, it would still be strong enough to deal damage to Rob. In terms of durability, Rob had The Spot beat, again tanking hits from and scaling to characters that could consistently cause city-wide chaos, so if this was a battle of fisticuffs, Rob would certainly have the spotty nerd beat. However, his Universal Remote is a different story. Just knock it from his hands a certain way and it’ll stop working if the batteries are nudged out slightly or it just smashes on the ground, so Rob would need to be extra careful with it.

Funnily enough, however, neither power nor durability are really factors here thanks to the power or hax that Spot’s spots have and the abilities that the Universal Remote sported. This means that speed would be a major factor here, as this could come down to a quickdraw, but obviously it’s a bit more complicated than that. Especially since their speed is actually kind of close! The Spot can clash consistently with characters that deal with speed of light reactors, nano- or microsecond reactors, and laser dodgers, and his spots allow his punches or portal travel to happen instantly. Meanwhile, Rob can, at most, be scaled to Gumball laser dodging and Bobert’s headbutt attack feats, which gets up to 33% the speed of light! Speaking of which, his Universal Remote can aim and affect targets at the speed of light as well! Super close, sure, but Spot has a slight speed advantage. Will this be enough for either fighter to take the win?

Abilities / Equipment

Here’s where the debate gets kind of crazy, because both Rob and Spot have a certain tool in their arsenal that has a crazy amount of utility. Let’s be frank here, if Rob can manage to press the Power button and aim it at Spot, it’s game over for him. Similarly, he could hit the Pause button to simply pause time to forgo any need to actually aim at all. Frankly, his time bomb, physical weapons, fists, and access to the Void would pretty much be dead weight or useless here. Other useful hax from the remote include possibly using the Subtitles to block Spot from getting into a spot, turning an area pitch black and putting on his night vision goggles to be able to see, de-age Spot back to his powerless form with Rewind, or even Record his spots and pop them up wherever he needs to. However, this relies on the fact that Rob can press the button faster than Spot can do anything he can do.


In the other corner, Ohnn could do numerous things to avoid Rob’s remote or bend the flow of the battle to his rhythm. He could always escape into the Spotted Dimension right as the battle starts and observe via projection to see what Rob does, since Rob has no way of accessing that dimension fast enough, even if he stopped time. Spot could also simply trap Rob in an infinite portal loop where he’d be falling from two different portals directly above and below each other or just portal punch the remote out of Rob’s hand, where it might just break and cease to exist. He could even trick Rob into putting a body part through a spot or summoning one under Rob and shrinking it to slice through him, possibly even landing a rather brutal fatal blow that way. Plus, if all else fails, he could always simply teleport away, where his location would be impossible to determine considering the sheer range he can pop out of one.

Of course, Spot could run out of spots if he stupidly tries to blitz Rob with his weaker physical blows or give himself away if he tries to assassinate Rob with a stealth kill. But, what Rob wouldn't be prepared for is how his aimed Universal Remote buttons could be redirected back at him. Thanks to Ohnn’s spots being shown to allow lasers and photons to travel through them, thanks to our boy the Living Laser, Spot could very much turn a lot of the button features around on Rob if he can figure out the Universal Remote is actually a threat, given it very much is just a TV remote. Both of these villains could theoretically win in at a 60-40 ratio percentage if this fight goes any number of ways, but only one of them can win slightly more often.

Tertiary Factors

Let’s talk about range. This is probably the easiest factor to determine, because Spot has countrywide range with his spots, so it’s a bit of a no-brainer he’d have an advantage over Rob in that regard. In terms of combat experience, while Rob could clash with Gumball, who is nothing to scoff at despite being a 12 year old cat, Ohnn was trading blows with super soldiers and superheroes, so this is another easy point in Spot’s favor, especially with Rob’s shaky aim with the remote when factoring in his depth perception. Theoretically, Rob could manipulate Ohnn into volunteering himself to remove his powers with the Fixing Machine or even try to strap Spot to it, but this would rely on Rob being able to catch him or talk him down.

We can also talk about the flaw of the Spotted Dimension, being that if Rob manages to Eject Spot into it, he’d likely be lost for a very very long time. However, in the comic, Spot may have gone mad, but he also came back with a vengeance, taking out an entire mafia and killing for the first time after managing to return. So, while this would certainly not be pleasant for our favorite evil scientist, it wouldn’t incapacitate him in any way. Rob could also try using the Fast Forward button to give himself a speed boost or skip forward in time, or even hit Rewind if he sees that he’s losing, but something like this would rely on his personal reaction speed to hit the buttons on the remote. Now, Rob could also try to play it strategically and hit Parental Filter or Subtitles to learn about how the Spotted Dimension or Spot’s spots work as well to give himself an edge that way, but ultimately that would just give Spot more time to attack him while he’s reading or listening, and knowing how they work wouldn’t actually give him an advantage. The Void also sounded a lot more grandiose on paper, but truthfully opening a portal to it would just let the Spot end the battle via Battle Field Removal if he broke the remote and sent Rob inside.

Conclusion

On paper, Rob certainly seemed like he had a few instant wins at the literal press of a button against the infamously bumbling D-List Spider-Man villain, but when taking a look at this matchup under the magnifying glass, lots of different factors start to come to light. Truthfully, despite Rob’s power and durability certainly being physically higher, this fight was never going to end in a bare knuckle brawl, so his best stats ended up being kind of irrelevant. What The Spot and Rob needed were speed advantages, because both had ways of instantly ending the fight or escaping to safety, almost like a Wild West quickdraw.

In the end, The Spot’s spots and abilities were too much for Rob to handle despite having his own broken abilities thanks to the Universal Remote. Before Rob could even hit a button, Ohnn could simply teleport away, hide in the Spotted Dimension before a time stop or instant kill and spy on him safely, punch his remote away, or even find a way to fatally slice off a body part.

Taking into account the massive experience gap when it came to fighting and the range advantage Spot had, Rob would need to try to mash buttons as fast as he could and try to land a lucky hit while praying that Spot didn’t redirect some of those abilities back at him. Surprising though it may be, Rob, while he could snatch up a few wins, just didn’t have the speed, counters, or skills needed to put down the sleeper threat that is Dr. Jonathan Ohnn.

The winner is The Spot.






(Fan Art by John Patrick Ganas)




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Blog Written by: SpaceJellO

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