Adventure Time
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Adventure Time is an Awesome show about Finn Martens and his friend Jake as they adventure in the post-apocalyptic world of Ooo which was devastated by thermonuclear war. The planet is missing a large chunk, Finn is the last human, and Jake is a magical dog, later revealed to be the child of an inter dimensional abomination that spawned him from the forehead of Joshua the Dog.
Important Dudes
The show has a metric butt ton of people(literally hundreds), nearly all of which appear multiple times over many episodes. For obvious reasons, it would be too long to list them all here, so let's focus on the main cast in no particular order.
- Finn Martens the Human
Despite the show's thoughts, Finn is not the last human. Counting half humans, cyborgs, Simon the Ice King and mutant zombies there may be a few hundred left. For all intents and purposes however, there are only about four beings that can be called "human", and Finn is one of them. A real bad ass boy adventurer and champion of the Candy Kingdom, Finn is a teenage boy that ages as the show progresses, being sixteen during season six, and twelve during season one. Finn has horrible luck with the ladies, and basically acts like a complete retard around them. Finn has some major issues from abandonment in the forest, and being one of the last known humans.
- Jake the Dog
A dog thought to be magical, but we now know to be something completely different even if his parents never told him. His abilities become more pronounced and potent as the series goes on, starting from only being able to change his size and shape, to being able to create complicated objects and even shift himself into a fucking car. A horribly immature father of five, Jake still has it going good as a former career criminal and partner to Finn, even being a multi millionaire at one point. Jake is currently dating Lady Rainicorn the Rainicorn, although that is not focused on as much these days.
- Marceline Abadeer the Vampire Queen, heir to the Nightosphere, daughter of Hunson Abadeer.
Marceline is, as the name suggests, a vampire and half Demon about one thousand years old, and is old enough to have lived through the Mushroom War. She is a highly talented bass player who plays amazing songs that are also pretty fucking deep, and are nearly always about her shit childhood in the nuclear wastes, her daddy issues, or her woes at being immortal and outliving almost everyone she knows. Is a very sexy lady who has lost track of her moral code after hundreds of years.
- Princess Bonnibelle Bubblegum
A Gum Golem and ruler of the Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum or PB to her friends, is an amoral sociopath who decided to be a good ruler. To this end, she protects her Candy People with a single minded determination, fully able and willing to use evil methods to do so, although she will avoid it if possible because she actually has some standards. In essence, PB is the ruler of a Police State, with full video and audio surveillance and micro chipping of all her subjects at all times. Despite this, PB sets out to be the best ruler she can possibly be, resulting in a happy, healthy, and wealthy kingdom even at her own expense. Being a brilliant scientist, PB is the literal mother of the Candy Kingdom, having made them herself in her lab, and even her own city.
- Flame Princess
A Princess literally made of fire with extreme control over her flames and the ability to hurl around fire. Flame Princess became a love interest and girlfriend for Finn, before his stupidity in the face of girls and his coming to terms with his sexuality caused him to fuck up in spectacular fashion and ruin the relationship. Originally so powerful that she might of burned the world to ashes, the Flame King abandoned her in the forest. When the resulting inferno brought the attention of Princess Bubblegum, she gave two choices to Flame King. Either seal away Flame Princess, or Bubblegum would. Suffice to say, when Flame Princess found out, she was epically pissed. Flame Princess eventually usurped her evil father, and took the throne for herself, where she has proven to be a capable ruler, if a bit naive and irritable.
- Simon Petrovich, The Ice King.
Simon was originally a archeologist before the Mushroom War, and was engaged to his fiancee Betty, but all of this changed when he discovered a Crown. When he put it on for a joke, he was overcome with visions of madness, and trying to defend himself from them with the ice magic that the crown brought, he frightened the ever loving crap out of Betty. Originally a bad guy, he has developed from a evil lecherous man into a sad, largely harmless sick old man kept alive by his magic crown at the cost of his sanity. After the war Simon raised and protected Marcelline, and acted as a father figure to her in the nuclear wastes, resulting in a strong relationship that he cannot remember. Eventually, fearing his loss to the crown and it's madness, Simon left Marcelline having provided for her as best he can. In his current state the Ice King as a rather minor threat who works best with constant supervision, is a sort of friend to Finn and some other wizards, and is easily defeated if he actually starts anything.
- The Lich
The Lich is not funny. The Lich exists to destroy everything, and has managed to do so once in the series. A cunning, clever threat, the Lich in every fight immediately focuses on the biggest threat to him and destroys it, and has never been defeated the same way twice. The Lich is extremely manipulative, able to trick Finn and Jake more than once, and is capable of stupidly powerful magic that can corrupt, posses, and control those around him. Whenever the Lich makes an appearance, someone has either died, or come very close to it, and for that is considered a very scary legitimate threat by everyone. After the battle in the Cosmic Citadel, a super max prison designed for the worst of the worst (which the Lich destroyed outright in minutes) he was transformed into a twelve foot tall toddler, but despite the innocence of Sweet Pea, the Lich is inside, patient, and waiting to get out and wipe out all life.
- King of Ooo
Despite what this sack of crap would tell you, he is NOT the rightful king of the world, and is a conman, fraud, and all round horrible person. In his first appearance King seemed to be a bit of a nutjob, claiming that everything belonged to him by right (including the sun) but never actually pushing his claims or demanding authority beyond the right to marry people, which was actually legit as he had the proper authority granted through the appropriate paperwork. His second appearance quickly disabused the notion that he was a harmless idiot when he tricked Sweet Pea into being accessory to theft by lying about being a kindergarten teacher, and then tried to "take care of him" when Sweet Pea started to tell his parents about his days at "school". Is on this list solely because he is now Princess(!) of the Candy Kingdom having taken advantage of a few loopholes and pushing the law to breaking point to become a democratically elected leader, much to Princess Bubblegum's anger, rage, and disbelief. Is also made of earwax.
Other
It is quite obvious that Pendleton Ward, the show's creator, is a big nerd. He clearly took many, many pages from RPGs, specifically D&D. The show is notable for referencing cubes, bear lore, the eight schools of magic, and an endless cavalcade of fucking memes. This is probably why some fa/tg/uy chose to add this page here.
Adventure Time started out as a simple "random is funny" cartoon. Add a grim and dark background to a colorful and funny show and you attract the kiddies and adults alike! The thing most people don't see though is as other shows have mimicked is formula with mixed success, Adventure Time has actually moved away a little from the pure random and now big episodes seem to be mostly split into two groups. The artistic (or batshit insane depending on your point of view) or the extremely serious and dark. For example Finn, after the battle of the Cosmic Citadel struggles with depression. Yes, the main character of a kids cartoon has to struggle with depression after losing his girlfriend, having his father abandon him again, and becoming mutilated when he loses his arm. So grimdark. Shockingly enough they actually do the best job of representing this stuff then any other media, not overblowing it to shock or make you have feels, but gets to the core emotion and feelings that others just ignore.
Overall if you like the silly but also awesome you'll like Adventure Time. If you want something new, edgy and takes dark risks, you'll like new Adventure Time.
Plus, the Demon Cat of Approximate Knowledge would be an awesome creature to fight.
To sum up Adventure Time nicely, imagine what would happen if Spongebob Squarepants and Hunter S. Thompson played a game of Dungeon World.
Adventure Time Quest!
The first Adventure Time Quest! is viewable at http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12612753/
Gallery
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An older version of Finn.
External Links
Adventure time is rife with quotes, sayings and clips that can form-fit any occasion.