History Analysis / AdventureTime

|| The events of "Islands". A seeker ship arrives in Ooo looking for Finn, but Jake destroys it. Susan awakens from her coma. Finn, Jake, Susan, and BMO decide to journey to the island where the remaining humans live. They are soon seperated, but eventually meet up again. BMO briefly becomes a moderator of a virtual world where many humans reside. Susan regains her memories. Finn meets his mother and Susan reconnects with her old friend Frieda.

|| The events of "Islands". A seeker ship arrives in Ooo looking for Finn, but Jake destroys it. Susan awakens from her coma. Finn, Jake, Susan, and BMO decide to journey to the island where the remaining humans live. They are soon seperated, but eventually meet up again. BMO briefly becomes a moderator of a virtual world where many humans reside. Susan regains her memories. Finn meets his mother and Susan reconnects with her old friend Frieda. Finn and his friends return to Ooo. and then the events of elements when finn and jake return to ooo and only to find has changed due to patience st pim while they were gone.

|| The events of "Islands". A seeker ship arrives in Ooo looking for Finn, but Jake destroys it. Susan awakens from her coma. Finn, Jake, Susan, and BMO decide to journey to the island where the remaining humans live. They are soon seperated, but eventually meet up again. BMO briefly becomes a moderator of a virtual world where many humans reside. Susan regains her memories. Finn meets his mother and Susan reconnects with her old friend Frieda. Finn and his friends return to Ooo. || Some time later ||

|| Bonnibel and Neddy Bubblegum are born from the Mothergum. Both find a tree which gives life-sustaining juice. Neddy's anatomy converts the juice into a renewable panacea, which will eventually lead to the creation of the Candy Kingdom and Candy Life Formula. || Around this time ||

|| Season 7 continued. AMO, disguised as Mo, sends BMO on a quest to free the ALL-MOS. AMO knocks out Finn, Jake, and NEPTR, but BMO knocks AMO off a cliff, killing him instantly. Me-Mow returns but is thrown in prison. Betty kidnaps Gunter in order to get her hands on Ice King's crown. The crown is later returned to the Ice King. Prismo tasks Finn and Jake with fixing the Farmworld dimension. Farmworld Finn is cured of the Ice Crown's magic while Lich Jake is defeated, but his hand falls through a portal creating multiple copies in other dimensions. Finn has a brief fling with Huntress Wizard. Finn breaks the Finn Sword after Bandit Princess causes him to stab it with the Grass Sword. Bubblegum creates a clone of Cinnamon Bun called Bun Bun. Bun Bun frees the old Flame King from the lamp and together they live in the woods with chipmunks. The powerless Magic Man returns to Mars to become the new ruler. The Ice Elemental from before the Mushroom War, Patience St. Pim, is freed from beneath the Ice Kingdom. She tries to recruit the other elementals to her side (PB, Slime Princess, and Flame Princess), but they refuse. Finn and Jake meet Dr. Gross, a cyborg human who tries to give them "upgrades". Finn becomes aware of the existence of other humans. The Grass Sword detaches from Finn, taking his arm with it. It merges with the Finn Sword, making a humanoid grass being. || After "Stakes" ||

|| Baby-Snaps's dreams of being a princess are crushed by Princess Bubblegum. || Presumably a decade or two before the animated short. [[note]]'''Interesting fact:''' Princess Bubblegum looked the same back then as she does now. This points to an ability to '''not age.''' This has been pointed out before by [[http://www.formspring.me/skronked/q/269116405041864169 Andy Ristaino[[/note]]. ||
|| Finn Mertens is born to a man named Martin Mertens and an unknown woman on a banana boat. Soon after, Martin is abducted by a giant creature, described as a "dangerous life choice". Flame Princess is born to the Flame King and an unknown woman. Jake and Jermaine are born simultaneously, though through different means [[note]]Jermaine is born via natural birth between Joshua and Margaret. Jake is the result of a shapeshifting parasite that was injected into Joshua.[[/note]] shortly after the birth of Flame Princess. || Twelve years before the animated short ||
|| Finn makes his hat. Flame Princess is imprisoned by the Flame King and Princess Bubblegum. || A little later ||
|| Martin is imprisoned in The Citadel. Finn is abandoned by his mother and makes a vow to never abandon others in their times of need. Joshua and Margaret find baby Finn in the forest and adopt him. || Some time later ||

|| Marceline is roughly 16. She meets the colony that will become the Hyoomen, and joins them. || After killing Empress and Moon ||
|| Marceline is roughly 19. The Hyoomen attempt to sail away on a refurbished cruise ship after their leader Two Bread Tom picks up strange meteorological readings. Marceline kills Hierophant and The Vampire King, becoming the Vampire Queen in the process. || Two years later ||

|| The emergence of the Hyoomen, an irradiated species of human who have turned into human-fish hybrids. Due to the fright they experienced during the Third Catalyst Comet, they retreat to a subterranean bunker. || At some point after the Third Catalyst Comet ||

|| Season 7 continued. AMO, disguised as Mo, sends BMO on a quest to free the ALL-MOS. AMO knocks out Finn, Jake, and NEPTR, but BMO knocks AMO off a cliff, killing him instantly. Me-Mow returns but is thrown in prison. Betty kidnaps Gunter in order to get her hands on Ice King's crown. The crown is later returned to the Ice King. Prismo tasks Finn and Jake with fixing the Farmworld dimension. Farmworld Finn is cured of the Ice Crown's magic while Lich Jake is defeated, but his hand falls through a portal creating multiple copies in other dimensions. Finn has a brief fling with Huntress Wizard. Finn breaks the Finn Sword after Bandit Princess causes him to stab it with the Grass Sword. Bubblegum creates a clone of Cinnamon Bun called Bun Bun. Bun Bun frees the old Flame King from the lamp and together they live in the woods with chipmunks. The powerless Magic Man returns to Mars to become the new ruler. The Ice Elemental from before the Mushroom War, Patience St. Pim, is freed from beneath the Ice Kingdom. She tries to recruit the other elementals to her side (PB, Slime Princess, and Flame Princess), but they refuse. || After "Stakes" ||

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Around the end of "Puhoy", Elderly Finn has a pillow version of the mechanical arm that Alternate Finn had. This could lead to two possible consequences. One is that Finn will have to accept the burden of a mechanical arm at some point during the existence of any reality. The second is when Finn disrupts the flow of time after jumping through several universes, he triggers the mechanical arm to exist in every reality (see SteinsGate regarding "world lines").

* [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimesuperfans/images/e/eb/Stormo_2.png/revision/latest?cb=20120605202446 Stormo]] may be a hieracosphinx which is a sphinx with a hawk for a head and a body of a lion. The name was coined by Herodotus to the hawk-headed sphinxes that he saw in Egypt (they do not otherwise appear in Greek mythology).

* The riddle master saying that the penalty for answering a riddle incorrectly is death is a reference to the Sphinx[[note]]Like Goliad[[/note]], who kills anyone who cannot answer its riddles correctly.

* It's possible that [[http://imgur.com/V4wHu1y this]] creature from Martin's story/flashback is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Kuwana_-_The_sailor_Tokuso_and_the_sea_monster.jpg/800px-Kuwana_-_The_sailor_Tokuso_and_the_sea_monster.jpg Umibozu]]which is a spirit from Japanese folklore that is said to live in the ocean and capsize ships if anyone tries to speak to it. They are believed to be drowned priests, and exhibit the shaven head of priests and typically appear to be praying. It is usually reported as having a grey, cloud-like torso and serpentine limbs.

* The idea of King Worm using Finn's dreams and sucking his life energy is inspired by the Mara, a lady from Germanic Folklore that turns dreams into nightmares and drains life energy.

|| The Season 6 premiere. Finn and Jake return to the Time Room to wish their way into the Citadel. They find both Prismo and The Lich, [[BadassDecay now harmless after wasting his wish]]. Finn and Jake find the physical body of Prismo and return it to him in order to gain entrance to the Citadel. The Lich kills Prismo and is arrested for a cosmic crime. Finn and Jake stow away with the Lich and enter The Citadel. Once there, The Lich begins destroying the area, releasing all the criminals. Finn reunites with his dad Martin, who escapes with other criminals. In trying to prevent his dad from escaping, Finn [[AnArmAndALeg loses his right arm]] and the Grass Blade. The Lich, having bathed in the blood of the Citadel Guardians, reverts to an [[BroughtDownToNormal organic and childlike creature]]. Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig adopt The Lich. || Shortly after the Season 5 finale ||

Most male royalty with presumably humanoid origins have had a magical artifact of some kind. While the Ice King's (formerly Simon Petrikov) crown is the most well-known, it was also given to him by a person in a stereotypically cold area. However, note that such mind-bending items have been in existence for quite some time, if the words of Hunson Abadeer are true (notably, the necklace he has might be an indication that such magical items have their own wills and goals, and use their hosts as a sort of interface to interact with the universe). Also of note are the Fight and Thief Kings, one of which was immortal and had a magical sword, while the other was capable of some sort of magic but died a mortal death. The exact status of the Flame King is unknown, but if his daughter is any indication, humanoid traits coming from lines created by former humans might not be a chance occurrence. Presumably, the former Candy/Cloud/Water/Etc. kingdom rulers were also bearers of an elemental artifact.

The Lich (King) is a interesting occurrence because there is no direct evidence that he has a magical artifact of any sort (with his crown being of little importance, and no visible magical rings or such taking up any space on his body). That, combined with his sheer size and body shape (resembling the Ice King's bulky look with his robe on) makes some speculate that he was never bonded to a artifact at all, or he is the result of a artifact completely merging with its wielder.

The Lich appears to have abilities that allow him to destroy almost anything in his path. In fact, when he crosses over Ice Berg Lake the water near him turns black and oily and Jake complains of a smell, implying that the fish in the water have died. This along with the fact that he gets his power from a toxic substance (composed of bleach, ammonia, and lighter fluid) makes it seem that the Lich is a nuke personified, which was confirmed in "Jake the Dog". He also raises the dead in his lair and it requires an extreme amount of damage (Finn blasting one at point blank range with Billy's Gauntlet) to defeat him. The Lich is capable of possessing bodies as well, [[BodySurf bodysurfing]] into [[EasterEgg the Snail]] following his defeat. He did not appear in Season 3 but returned in Season 4, as the Snail and as Billy in "The Lich". He tricks Finn into using The Enchiridion's power (see The Enichridion) and as of Season 5 is in the Multiverse with Finn and Jake. The Season 5 premiere gives the origin story. He is the embodiment of a nuke that exploded during the war. In Season 6, it is revealed he was imprisoned in the Time Room after failing to erase life. However, he eventually broke his bondage and killed Prismo. His sentence was imprisonment in the Citadel. However, he freed himself and the other prisoners. Attempting to kill Finn, he came in contact with Citadel Guardian blood, and reverted to a metazoa form with a similar structure to that of a human.

Earth was once a quieter place than the brightly florescent Ooo. As explored in Season 5's premiere, there is an alternate universe existing as another Earth. In this world, Finn appears as the mirror Finn from "King Worm", Jake is a normal bulldog, and Finn's mother and father are alive, along with a sibling of indeterminate gender (and not named in the episode). They appear to live in an economically depressed, low-tech rural area (low-tech that is, except for alternate Finn's robot arm, which is never explained). Finn is the son of a farmer being tortured by the Destiny Gang who are looking for protection money. Finn's mother asks Finn to sell the family mule Bartran (or Bar-bar) in exchange for the money. Before he reaches town, he meets an older Marceline and the skeleton of Simon Petrikov. She tells Finn how Simon prevented the Mushroom War by sacrificing his life. The crown then froze the earth for 400 years. Finn doesn't believe her and takes the crown. In town, Barbar and the crown are stolen by the gang's leader, Big Destiny and Finn must save them by using a blade, given to him by Choose Bruce (alternate timeline Choose Goose). Before Finn can deliver the final blow to Big Destiny, the town and Finn's home are set on fire. Finn uses the crown, becoming the Ice King in the process.

Finn extinguishes the flames only to set off the nuke Simon originally prevented. In his manic state, Finn saves his family and viciously attacks the Destiny Gang. Alternate Timeline Jake is caught in the radioactive slime and turns into the Lich. At this point, magic dog Jake [[ResetButton uses his wish]] to alter the Lich's wish, made in the beginning of "Finn the Human". This should in turn theoretically eliminate the possibility of the Alternate Timeline, though it doesn't explain the appearance of Alternate Finn in "King Worm".

Once again we see a possible future version of Finn. Through the future orb however, he has chosen to remain on the train until he is an old man. Careful viewing reveals that his right arm has been however, been replaced by additional weaponry. This supports the theory that Finn must always lose his arm. But it might not be in the same way each time. Is it possible he willingly cut off his arm so that he could equip a cooler replacement he picked up on the train? Since this alternate spent his whole life fighting low level monsters, it seems likely.

|| The Mushroom War occurs, destroying large portions of the Earth and killing off all but a handful of humans. The Lich is born. || 1000+ years prior to animated short ||

|| Marceline is 7 years old, and is under the care of Simon Petrikov, who is 47 years old. Simon begins to feel the full effects of the crown, and records his tapes. He abandons Marceline and leaves her in the care of an unknown person. The world has been mutated enough for there to be [[NuclearNasty radioactive creatures]] and wreckage. The first pieces of candy begin to be mutated. [[AfterTheEnd The world is in ruins.]] || 996 years prior to the events of season 5 ||

|| Bonnibel Bubblegum and Neddy Bubblegum are born from the Mothergum. Both find a tree which gives life-sustaining juice. Neddy's anatomy converts the juice into a renewable panacea, which will eventually lead to the creation of the Candy Kingdom. || Around this time ||
|| Marceline's dad eats her fries. Marceline is a teenager (probably 13--15), but has yet to get her bite marks. Angry at her father, Marceline returns him to the Nightosphere, leaving Marceline independent on Ooo. In this time, she quests to slay the remaining vampires of Ooo. She kills The Fool, The Empress, and The Moon to gain her current powers. || Roughly 10 years later ||

|| The Tree Fort is now fully grown. Marceline moves into the tree fort with Ash. She is now an ageless adult (physically 18--21), and has her vampire bitemarks. || At least 500 years after Marceline started writing her journal ||

|| Finn is born to a man called Martin and an unknown woman on a banana boat. Soon after, Martin is abducted by a giant creature, described as a "dangerous life choice". Flame Princess is born to the Flame King and an unknown woman. Jake and Jermaine are born simultaneously, though through different means [[note]]Jermaine is born via natural birth between Joshua and Margaret. Jake is the result of a shapeshifting parasite that was injected into Joshua.[[/note]] shortly after the birth of Flame Princess. || Twelve years before the animated short ||

|| Billy retires from adventuring and ends his relationship with Canyon. || Around the same time as the animated short ||

This show's plot could be reduced to "two buds hanging out in any way possible". In reality, [[WidgetSeries there's no accurate way to summarize this mess.]]... but since this is an analysis page...

|| Marceline's dad, eats her fries. Marceline is a teenager (probably 13--15), but has yet to get her bite marks. Angry at her father, Marceline returns him to the Nightosphere, leaving Marceline independent on Ooo. In this time, she quests to slay the remaining vampires of Ooo. She kills The Fool, The Empress, and The Moon to gain her current powers. || Roughly 10 years later ||

* '''Princess Bubblegum:''' Benevolent, intelligent, and kind hearted individual who lives for the ultimate pleasing of her kingdom and its denizens, but who is also an introverted and pragmatic mutation of a piece of bubblegum. She has no interest in romance, in fact, her two main priorities are science and her citizens, anything else doesn't interest her.

|| Season 7 continued. AMO, disguised as Mo, sends BMO on a quest to free the ALL-MOS. AMO knocks out Finn, Jake, and NEPTR, but BMO knocks AMO off a cliff, killing him instantly. Me-Mow returns but is thrown in prison. Betty kidnaps Gunter in order to get her hands on Ice King's crown. The crown is later returned to the Ice King. Prismo tasks Finn and Jake with fixing the Farmworld dimension. Farmworld Finn is cured of the Ice Crown's magic while Lich Jake is defeated, but his hand falls through a portal creating multiple copies in other dimensions. Finn has a brief fling with Huntress Wizard. || After "Stakes" ||

-->--'''[[RPGWorld Ian Jones-Quartey]]''', storyboard supervisor

The Fight King appears in "Morituri Te Salutamus". He is the king of the magical arena and traps pairs of fighters in his arena to force them to fight and kill each other after defeating his gladiator ghosts (who were also forced to fight and kill each other). He has black skin, is skeletal, and has many weapons and a red crown. The runes on Fight King's sword, according to Tolkien's Dwarven rune set, reads: "To fight is to live." He is tricked by Finn and killed setting him, Jake, and the gladiator ghosts free.

There is one consistent authority in the series that is recognized as a king-run monarchy. Lumpy Space, which operates outside the bounds of Ooo law, is controlled by the Lumpy Space King and Queen.

** In the flashbacks to Marceline's early travels in Ooo[[note]]After Simon left, but a few years before she became a vampire[[/note]] [[http://imgur.com/a/s73fv all of the signs around her are in English]]. And during Stakes we see old-school [[http://i.imgur.com/gDwUGSO.png?1 western-style tombstones]].

* There is a American Football helmet [[http://imgur.com/e2PV6ir stuck in a tree]] and possibly an Arthurian style [[http://3.imimg.com/data3/XU/TE/MY-467796/arthurian-helmet-250x250.png helmet]] on the other side.

|| Season 7 continued. AMO, disguised as Mo, sends BMO on a quest to free the ALL-MOS. AMO knocks out Finn, Jake, and NEPTR, but BMO knocks AMO off a cliff, killing him instantly. || After "Stakes" ||

** Olmec statue heads have [[http://imgur.com/AwFGOun been seen]] in the background of Ooo[[note]]Shortly after the war and before the third catalyst comet hit in "Everything Stays"[[/note]].

* '''Marceline:''' Cool-as-ice, level-headed [[TheTrickster Trickster]] vampire who is chaotic neutral, only doing things for her own amusement--revealed to be an extremely lonely girl that desperately finds fun wherever she can with no friends who would probably [[WhoWantsToLiveForever rather not live forever]], and hides a very sad personality; she would easily cry if it wasn't so embarrasing for her, and whenever she shows her more sensitive side, she gets mad.

Is that what you want me to do? [[note]]There are parts of this song that seem sarcastic (mainly the parts where she's apologizing), but it is clear that she was being sincere since the door liked it. So she honestly laments that their relationship ended. Did their relationship end because Marceline was being the jerkass? Alternatively, she's talking about the present and PB was the jerkass.[[/note]]\\

Is that why you always avoid me? [[note]]She reveals that PB constantly avoids her. Since Marceline still seems to have fun making PB angry like a {{troll}}, as seen in "Go with Me", it's far more likely Marceline caused PB to hate ''her'' due to not treating her like a princess, as previously mentioned. PB's avoidance, coupled with her high expectations, must have annoyed Marceline, and thus this song, which was meant to sound sarcastic, but still has sincerity to it, because the subconscience tends to do that.[[/note]]\\

Finally, the shirt scene. One piece of evidence which favors the romantic side is when Marceline ''blushes'' saying, "You... kept the shirt I gave you?" although it could just be general embarrassment. The romantic side, of course, assumes Marceline is thinking, "She really ''does'' love me!" or something similar. The platonic side assumes Marceline was just embarrased that her sensitive side was let out in the open like that, because the shirt obviously has sentimental value. Of course, this begs the question, what the hell does the shirt ''mean?!'' PB claims that she wears the shirt as pajamas all the time. Cue the two sides of the fandom arguing, "FRIENDS/ROMANTIC PARTNERS DO THAT ALL THE TIME!" So... yeah. It all really depends on the viewer and how they pick up on the "evidence" of their backstory. The creators are [[ShrugOfGod keeping their mouths shut]] on this.

* How exactly would MVQ and PB act differently if they were actually daughter and mother? They don't act like friends and they don't act like lovers.
* No one ever seems to care that the show's writers have actually said, basically, "We did NOT mean to imply that PB and Marceline used to like-like each other." Remember the Frederator video which said that 'and' the fall out wherein they 'apologised' for having inferred that the episode had implied that there was a romantic relationship, and Adam Muto said the same basic thing.
** It's starting to seem that not even ''the show's creators'' know what is going on with Bubblegum and Marceline. Adam Muto once said it was meant as subtext and on purpose. Some the cast and crew have openly supported the idea (including one of the lead character designers) while others have said that it was unintentional. Whenever fans ask Pen Ward about whether their relationship is romantic or not, the answers they recieve tend to be along the lines of [[ShrugOfGod "figure it out yourselves" or "I won't say".]] It certainly dosen't help that the creators [[TrollingCreator are known to ''lie to and troll'' the fans]] sometimes when major plot points like romantic relationships are involved.

The treehouse proper has an annex built onto the west side with stepping stones that go off to the southwest. South of that path lies the pond, which the Nymphs visited in "Power Animal". To the north of the annex is the well that was also used in the same episode.

The boat gives the highest vantage point on the treehouse and it points north towards the Ice Kingdom (for spying on somebody?) And utility lines go from the southeast of the treehouse. These at least provide for phone service and possibly electricity.

* - Disorganised behaviour and lack of a sense of order

* It's possible that [[http://imgur.com/V4wHu1y this]] creature from Martin's story/flashback is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Kuwana_-_The_sailor_Tokuso_and_the_sea_monster.jpg/800px-Kuwana_-_The_sailor_Tokuso_and_the_sea_monster.jpg Umibozu]]which is a spirit from Japanese folklore that is said to live in the ocean and capsize ships if anyone tries to speak to it. They are believed to be drowned priests, and exhibit the shaven head and typically appears to be praying. It is usually reported as having a grey, cloud-like torso and serpentine limbs.

* In "The Mountain" a being named Matthew puts the character through a trial and then offers them the possibility of going through an ego death and becoming one with him. He says there will be a second age of terror, at which point Matthew (which is a hebrew name meaning "gift of god") will restore the world, acting like a Noah's Ark for the essences of the people who become one with him.
** While not strictly Hebrew in this same episode Lemongrab talks about a ziggurat which wer massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels for worshiping their local religions.