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| 9 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' '''[[Characters/AdventureTime Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 10 | '''Main Characters''' ([[Characters/AdventureTimeIceKing Ice King]]) | [[Characters/AdventureTimeAntagonistsAndEnemies Antagonists and Enemies]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimeLandOfOoo Land of Ooo]] ([[Characters/AdventureTimeCandyKingdom The Candy Kingdom]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimeKingdomsOfOoo Other Kingdoms]]) | [[Characters/AdventureTimeOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimeMultiverse Multiverse Characters]]-]]]]] |
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| 12 | The main characters of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. |
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| 16 | [[folder:Finn the Human]] |
| 17 | !!Finn Mertens/Finn the Human |
| 18 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finnthehuman_adventuretime.png]] |
| 19 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"Mathematical!"'']] |
| 20 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeremyShada, Creator/JonathanFrakes (adult), Creator/DavidBradley (elderly) |
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| 22 | -->''"Is that what you think adventurers do? Die and make all your friends feel terrible 'cause they couldn't save you?!"'' |
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| 24 | The intrepid human boy and one of the two lead characters of the series. Hyperactive with a love of adventure and good deeds. That thing on his head is actually a hat. Originally 12 years old, he gets older as the series progresses. |
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| 26 | * TenMinuteRetirement: In "Freak City", Finn goes through one of these after getting turned into a foot, during which he memorably goes into [[AutoTune Auto-Tuned]] song. Though it's more thirty seconds than ten minutes. The later episode "Davey" is built around this also with him developing a split personality. |
| 27 | * AdoptionAngst: Finn was raised by a family of talking dogs after the parents found him as a baby. Though he loves his adoptive parents, Margaret and Joshua, he also angsts over not knowing where he came from or who his birth parents are, all the more punctuated by the fact that he's never met another human being. When he does eventually meet his biological father, he is disappointed to find that Martin does not actually care about him. Thankfully, meeting his biological mother goes over much better. |
| 28 | * AesopAmnesia: Fionna and Cake shows Finn [[spoiler:continuing his previous habits of relying on adventuring to address emotional trauma instead of actually dealing with it. When he sees Simon in a depressed existential crisis over losing Betty and being stuck in a world he doesn't belong in, he decides to take Simon on an adventure. During the adventure, Simon brings back some past memories with Betty, though Finn tells Simon not to talk about sad stuff, believing it is better to forget about it. It's clear that Jake's death has caused him to regress to his previous mentality of repressing emotional trauma, given how Finn outright admits to Jake in the afterlife that a part of him was always waiting to die to reunite with Jake again.]] |
| 29 | * AmazonChaser: He often gets starry eyed whenever Flame Princess is fighting someone. |
| 30 | ** In fact, let's run down the list of his love interests: [[LadyOfWar Princess Bubblegum]], [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse Flame Princess]], and [[ForestRanger Huntress Wizard.]] Yeah, the guy HasAType. |
| 31 | ** Averted, however, in Pillow World, where he settles down for married life with the much lower-key Roselinen. |
| 32 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He had a crush on Princess Bubblegum, and went into a relationship with Flame Princess, but has kissed people of his gender willingly a few times. Finn reached puberty without ever having met somebody of the same species as him, so it's quite plausible that his sexuality might be a bit... undirected. |
| 33 | * AmicableExes: With Flame Princess. It took a genuinely long time and a lot of growing up until he could honestly become her friend and come to terms that they are BetterAsFriends, as well as genuinely apologize for his actions in "Frost & Fire" and move on. He mentions in "Elements" that he is proud of the friendship they built and that he likes having her as a friend. |
| 34 | * AnArmAndALeg: In "Escape from the Citadel", Finn loses his right arm when he tries to tether himself to his father's star ship so that he won't escape from the Citadel. His grass blade mutates and envelops his arm, twisting it into a horrific mass of grassy mutated flesh, and the force of the ship flying out of the Citadel rips his grass arm off leaving him without an arm beneath the elbow. Some of the guardian's blood manages to get on his arm afterward. Sporting a flower on his stub though it seems it'll take time for the grass blade to recover. |
| 35 | ** In "Breezy", the arm comes back when the flower left by the grass sword turns into a tree over Finn's arm stub and leaves behind the arm covered in a waxy substance; this happens after Finn finally feels a warm, loving feeling after seeing a vision of Princess Bubblegum. Yeah, it's pretty weird. |
| 36 | ** In "Reboot", Finn alienates the grass sword during a moment of pacifism, causing it to detach and merge with the Finn Sword instead, forming a new entity and taking the new arm he'd gotten in "Breezy" with it. |
| 37 | * AngstWhatAngst: {{Invoked|Trope}}. He hates the process of facing and treating traumatization, so he applies BrainBleach or [[StepfordSmiler just suppresses his emotions outright]]. In fact, when confronted with disturbing experiences, he places them ''in the Vault''. |
| 38 | ** Finn meets with a cloud spirit living in a drifting cloud who teaches Finn a lesson on this subject. The spirit tells Finn not to bottle up his feelings but to instead dwell on them, because that's the only way you'll ever comes to terms with those feelings. Finn eventually does learn his lesson at the end of the episode as he finally lets go of his anger. |
| 39 | *** Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that Finn is able to face the trauma of everything that a seasoned veteran hero has faced, especially at his age. |
| 40 | ----> '''Jake:''' You just went through [[WhamEpisode some outrageous beeswax]] with losing your favorite arm and etcetera. [[LampshadeHanging You can't just expect to bounce back to normal.]]\ |
| 41 | '''Finn''' (genuinely surprised): I can't? |
| 42 | * AnimalMotifs: [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Butterflies]]. Finn has had a lot of past lives, one of which ''was'' a butterfly, and the series goes over his metamorphosis from inexperienced boy-adventurer to a full-blown hero. This was in play from all the way back in season 3's "Still" where he summons a swarm of butterflies as his astral beast. |
| 43 | * ArtificialLimbs: Alternate depictions of Finn always show his right arm to be a crude prosthetic, such as his dream of himself as an adult. |
| 44 | ** Even applies to his past life as Shoko. |
| 45 | ** Also, his "lifetime" spent in the pillow universe. How the heck he lost an arm in a world made up entirely of pillows is anyone's guess. |
| 46 | ** Now that Finn has [[spoiler:lost his right arm]], his need for one is perfectly justified. In a recent episode we see Finn experiment with replacement arms that Princess Bubblegum made for him, which all annoy him because they don't handle anything like his old arm. Eventually the flower in his stub of an arm gives him an artificial arm made out of psychic, white glowing energy. |
| 47 | *** "Breezy" has the flower on Finn's arm grow into a large tree, which eventually bursts leaving behind a bit of a hollow log on his arm. When that's peeled off, a brand new, perfectly healed arm is revealed covered in sap. |
| 48 | *** In "The Comet," it's revealed the arm is still somewhat artificial. The thorn reappears and we see that the thorn was the Grass Sword growing. When the fake skin breaks off, we see it's a large vine that Finn uses as a whip to stop Orgalorg before it makes an arm and hand shaped vine. |
| 49 | *** As of "Two Swords", he matches his alternate counterparts'. After the grass sword freed itself from his body in "Reboot", and took his arm with it, Princess Bubblegum has outfitted him with a prosthetic replacement. She opts for a slender metal model instead of one made of candy this time. |
| 50 | *** In the series finale, [[spoiler:he loses his metal arm in the fight against GOLB. He doesn't get it back and in fact seems content with living with one arm, at least for a while.]] |
| 51 | *** "Together Again" shows that [[spoiler:in his final years up to his death, Finn's right arm was now completely mechanical, and though it was cruder than the one Bonnie had given him, it was sturdier and had a metal pauldron.]] |
| 52 | * AutoTune: He's able to switch this effect on and off for his actual singing voice after [[NoodleIncident he swallows a tiny computer]] immediately prior to "The Jiggler". |
| 53 | * AwesomeBackpack: His big, green, circular backpack. |
| 54 | * BadassAdorable: He skinned a polar bear for his hat as a baby. Do the math. |
| 55 | * BadassDecay: InUniverse. In the second half of Season 5. After his breakup with Flame Princess, he gets into a rut, he's more focused on wooing his old love interests when they want him doing heroic things instead. It's so bad, he gets overshadowed by ''Cinnamon Bun'' of all people (granted, he's TakenALevelInBadass.) |
| 56 | * BadassNormal: He fist fights monsters or uses some other mundane tool on a regular basis; including [[OmnicidalManiac the Lich]]. |
| 57 | * BadassPacifist: [[spoiler:He prevented the Gum War without fighting Fern or Gumbald, instead using the Nightmare Juice as an opportunity to work out everyone's issues, including his and Fern's.]] |
| 58 | * BarbarianLongHair: While it was long, straight and ''beautiful'' during his youth, by ''Fionna and Cake'' it's grown wild and reaches out of his hat sticking every direction, pairing well with his beard and increased muscle mass to make him look like an experienced adventurer. |
| 59 | * BarbarianHero: A downplayed, LighterAndSofter example, due to him being an adolescent, and more prevalent in the earlier seasons. Finn lives in an isolated area in the Grasslands of Ooo, is fairly unsophisticated, has BloodKnight tendencies, is stronger than you would expect from the average mortal, usually forgoes wearing armor in combat,and has unbelievably long flowing hair underneath his white hat, which he skinned from a bear as a child. He also has more than a few magical nemeses, most prominently the Ice King and the Lich, both of whom he has employed direct physical force to defeat in the past. |
| 60 | * BetterAsFriends: With pretty much everyone of his [[LoveInterest love interests]]. |
| 61 | ** With Marceline, both realized they don't have any interest in being more than friends. |
| 62 | ** With Flame Princess, the events of "Frost & Fire" have permanently damaged any possible romantic outcome of their relationship, with Finn betraying her trust. While he still chases her for a longer while, she refuses anything but friendship from him. After several events in his life, he came to understand that they won't be together, at least for a long while and is proud of the friendship and trust they built with each other. |
| 63 | ** With Princess Bubblegum, it's actually [[ZigZaggedTrope been on and off.]] While he did move on from her and to Flame Princess, it's evident even in Season 7 and 8 that he harbors strong feelings for her. During a vision when processing the trauma of his lost arm and the flower that was there, he saw Bubblegum there and the feeling of happiness allowed his arm (or a plant-based facsimile) to grow back. When LSP gets Finn to go to his happy place (after he succumbed to the rage of the corruption of the Fire Kingdom), it's him (or rather a younger him) with a younger PB. However, it's possible this is just because of feelings of friendship and family, or perhaps a hint that Bubblegum actually is bottling up her emotions. |
| 64 | *** [[spoiler:Almost certainly BetterAsFriends as of the series finale. Not only is Bubblegum now the OfficialCouple with Marceline, but when she kisses Finn for the last time, he doesn't get his usual LuminescentBlush--just smiles.]] |
| 65 | ** It's initially played straight with Huntress Wizard, who finds Finn's attraction to her and her own to him inconvenient considering "exceptional beasts" such as themselves should not be together, instead trying to take on a more platonic relationship. That said, she does progressively seem to open up to the idea of romance, possibly subverting the trope, although it remains unclear by the end of the series if they're a romantic pairing yet or not. |
| 66 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice a guy as he is, it would be unwise to get on his bad side. |
| 67 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He is ''fiercely'' protective over Jake, despite being the ''younger'' brother. |
| 68 | ** In "Evicted", Marceline kind of killed Jake for a minute. Finn's reaction was... [[http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1408/lolfinn.png not pretty.]] |
| 69 | ** In "To Cut a Woman's Hair", the witch merely uses Jake as a cushion (albeit in the context of Finn's requiring someone to be in "danger" in order to help her), and Finn charges. |
| 70 | ** When Jake is transformed into a Lumpy Space guy. |
| 71 | ---> ''"I f-f-f... AAAAHHHHHH I'LL KILL YOU LUMPY'' '''''SPAAACE!'''''''"'' |
| 72 | ** He also shows this towards Fern by constantly supporting and encouraging him, getting over the trauma of [[spoiler:killing Fern]] by picturing him as someone Finn needs to save and [[spoiler:killing the Grass Demon]] to protect him. |
| 73 | * BloodKnight: He may be in it mostly to slay evil, but there's no denying that he really likes fighting for its own sake ("If you're an evil witch, I will punch you for FUN!") When he wins the Fight King's "[[BloodLust favor]]," he really hams it up. |
| 74 | ** Toward the end of the series, he's moved on from this, and spends the last few episodes [[spoiler:actively working to prevent a war between Bubblegum and Gumbald.]] |
| 75 | * BodyguardCrush: On Princess Bubblegum, though as time goes on he has more or less gotten over it, with only tiny hints that he still has feelings for her. |
| 76 | * BookDumb: See IdiotHero. |
| 77 | ** Seemingly repaired as of "Dentist." |
| 78 | * BrokenAce: Multiple times, but he always manages to pick himself back up. |
| 79 | * CelibateHero: After [[spoiler:his breakup with Flame Princess]] Finn decides to forgo romance entirely. [[spoiler: That is, until he mets Huntress Wizard.]] |
| 80 | * CharacterDevelopment: Happens twice, both negatively and positively. First becoming a teenager with hormones makes him more selfish, self obsessed, putting a wet dream before doing good and being prone to depression. And then in season seven/eight, after going through all that, he's an emotionally mature young man who can apologize to Flame Princess for manipulating her and can have more chill relationships. |
| 81 | ** On a grander scale, Finn's grown from a rowdy kid that loved fighting to a generally rational young man that's more interested in helping people as a whole. |
| 82 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early episodes had him be the more wild ChaoticGood half of the main duo ("I'll slay anything that's evil, that's my deal."), before making him into TheParagon. |
| 83 | * ChickMagnet: So far, lots of princesses want to give Finn a peck on the cheek. |
| 84 | ** Also he foolishly promised a pack of princesses that he'd get them married to whomever they wanted. Slime Princess wanted him (and was only the first one to speak up). |
| 85 | ** During "To Cut a Woman's Hair," every princess he talks to seems to think he's in love with them (except Princess Beautiful, [[TheUndead fortunately]]). He eventually gets Princess Bubblegum to go to the forest and have dinner with him. |
| 86 | --->''"If there's one thing I learned today, it's that I'm ''awesome'' at talking to ladies."!'' |
| 87 | ** The fact that [[http://i.imgur.com/ivocxL8.jpg Huntress Wizard is still hanging around him]] in "Wheels" proves it: Finn has so much game he pulls the ladies in his sleep. |
| 88 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: In one episode, he displays this, the reason being when he was a baby, he was left alone in the forest and nobody came to help him. It's {{downplayed|Trope}} in general; he takes his hero work as a calling in life, but tries not to step on anyone's toes. |
| 89 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: In "The Jiggler" it's revealed he has a glass eye collection. It's never mentioned again. |
| 90 | * ColorblindConfusion: In "Red Starved", Finn's shown to be red-green colorblind after he mistakes a green emerald for a red ruby. Strangely, Jake (a ''dog'') CAN tell the difference, and is the one to correct him. |
| 91 | * CombatSadomasochist: The kid jumped into a volcano for ''fun''. You finish the math. |
| 92 | -->''"You just gotta imagine that every bruise is a hickey from the universe. And everyone wants to get with the universe."'' |
| 93 | * CompressedHair: Hair that would probably go down to his feet, until he cut it off. |
| 94 | * TheConscience: ''Good grief yes.'' Finn's heroic nature counterbalances his closest's friends amoral tendencies. While it tends to be played for laughs with Jake, it's played more seriously (and more subtlety) with Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. |
| 95 | -->'''Jake:''' Look at all this grave booty! CHA-CHING!\ |
| 96 | '''Finn:''' Jake! You ''LOOTED?'' That's ''bad'', man!\ |
| 97 | '''Jake:''' Oh... [[RunningGag I didn't know it was wrong...]]\ |
| 98 | '''Finn:''' ''(sigh)'' Come on, let's put all of this back.\ |
| 99 | '''Jake:''' What?! ''All'' of it?!\ |
| 100 | '''Finn:''' Yes, Jake. |
| 101 | * CoolSword: |
| 102 | ** His first one has a blade of gold. The second has an interesting, woody handle and an AbsurdlySharpBlade. |
| 103 | ** It doesn't get any cooler than a ''black hole sword'' in "The Real You". |
| 104 | ** From "Dad's Dungeon" to "Play Date", he gets a sword made out of a demon's {{blood|yMurder}}. |
| 105 | ** From "Blade of Grass" to "Escape from Citadel", he gets a cursed blade made of grass that can cut through ''anything''. |
| 106 | ** As of "Is That You?", he has the Finn Sword, a sword made from an alternate version of himself. |
| 107 | ** After the Finn Sword and Grass Sword combine to create Fern, Finn wields the rapier-like blade he got from [[TheObiWan Rattleballs.]] |
| 108 | ** He gets his final sword in "Marcy & Hunson," when Peppermint Butler summons the Lord of Evil to make Finn a sword infused with the power of the Nightosphere. [[spoiler:A giant version of this is still being used by an adult Sweet P 1,000 years in the future.]] |
| 109 | * CoolUncle: He seems to be so in Distant Lands while hanging out With Bronwyn. Or in Fionna and Cake where he also do quests with TV |
| 110 | * CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler:"Together Again" shows he remains just as awesome as an old man, having continued adventuring up until his death.]] |
| 111 | * CrazyJealousGuy: He gets extremely jealous when someone comes in the way of him and Princess Bubblegum ''or'' Jake ''or'' FP. |
| 112 | * CreepyChild: From snuggling a piece of Princess Bubblegum's hair to watching Jake sleep and taking pictures, Finn can be a disturbing child at times. It's implied this is the result of some serious abandonment issues. |
| 113 | * CursedWithAwesome: The Grass Sword. [[spoiler:It is literally cursed, and while it gives him exceptional swordsman skills, he can't remove it from his person. It tried to slowly take over his arm, but once he accepted that the sword would be a part of him forever, the sword retracted to form a bracer around his wrist. He can summon it at will.]] |
| 114 | ** In the Season 6 premiere the grass sword overtakes his arm once more, this time to help him, only this time he finally loses his arm. He regains the arm some episodes later but seems have lost the grass blade in the process. |
| 115 | ** And then in the Season 6 finale, the grass sword triumphantly returns. [[spoiler: Only for it to be gone for good in the Season 7 finale]]. |
| 116 | * TheCutie: He is quite adorable at times, especially when in pain. |
| 117 | * DatingCatwoman: Flame Princess is quickly [[WhamLine revealed to be evil]], or at least a dangerous wild card. Finn develops a crush on her after she attacks him. This becomes more of a downplayed example after Flame Princess's second appearance, as she becomes more emotionally stable. |
| 118 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's of course very excitable, but as his voice got deeper (and he knew what apathy felt like), Shada's voice got quite excellent for deadpan lines. |
| 119 | * DeathSeeker: {{Downplayed}} as he's not exactly trying to get himself killed, but [[spoiler:after Jake passed away, Finn admits that part of him is waiting for his own death just so he can reunite with him again.]] |
| 120 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Two big deconstructions: |
| 121 | ** KidHero: Finn has been fighting and killing monsters and supernatural beings since at least the age of twelve (his age when the series begins). Even though he's quite cheerful and upbeat most of the time, psychologically he's ''really'' messed up. In fact the reason he manages to stay upbeat despite the horrors he's seen is because he's very good at suppressing traumatic memories (he refers to the process as "putting them in the vault"; the fact that he does it so often that he ''has a term for it'' is a bad sign). Because he's spent so much of his life fighting and adventuring, he doesn't know much about making personal connections. His emotional immaturity and BloodKnight nature drove his girlfriend away, and his tendencies toward white knighting are steadily getting creepier as he gets older. All he really knows how to do is punch things; life situations that require a more complex solution are beyond his ability to navigate. |
| 122 | ** InsecureLoveInterest: Sure, Finn has a PrecociousCrush on PB and he frequently rescues her, but she only thinks of him as a close friend at most. They come ''very'' close to confirming their ship when she is de-aged, but it's thoroughly nixed when she returns to her original age. One episode involved him singing a song about how confusing it was ("What am I to you? Am I a joke, your knight, or your brother?") that also includes his sentiment that it doesn't really matter as long as they are ''at least'' friends and get to hang out. He eventually gets over the romantic aspects when he meets [[SecondLove Flame Princess]], although he makes a few attempts to re-kindle something with PB after ''that'' relationship ends. |
| 123 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Showcased in "Escape from the Citadel" when The Lich reaches out his hand to finish him off. Finn defiantly smacks the hand away [[spoiler:despite the fact that The Lich immobilized him with just a single word, and Finn had no guarantee that such a feeble attack would keep The Lich at bay.]] |
| 124 | * {{Determinator}}: His very first appearance has an amusing double-subversion. Finn is told to believe in himself in order to escape his prison of ice; Finn refuses, but then [[HeroicWillpower breaks out through sheer willpower]]. In the series proper, he soldiers past numerous injuries, breaks out of the Lich's mind control, ''literally ignores two broken legs'' to save the day(s). |
| 125 | ** In "You Forgot Your Floaties," he's transformed into an egg. Through sheer force of will, he forces himself into a bowl of batter, and then ''bakes himself a new body made of bread.'' |
| 126 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Twice, he tried with Bubblegum after her age down but this was dashed when she had to restore her age to save the kingdom from Lemongrab and she's shown no interest in pursuing romance (though the end of the series gives a very good reason why in her case). Then came Flame Princess and that lasted for awhile, but she broke it off after the incident with Ice King and any hope of getting back together with her was crushed when Cinnamon Bun professed his love for her. He ''does'' fall in love, get married and have children when he travels to the pillow world, being his most lasting relationship until he "dies". But it's ambiguous if that was real or not. Huntress Wizard seems to have likewise taken an interest in him, but due to the finale not directly focusing on their romance, this is more of a MaybeEverAfter.]] |
| 127 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: The reason he lost Flame Princess. Though that was just one of ''many'' examples he displays through the series. He has a tendency to act first without really assessing the situation, often making a bad problem worse. |
| 128 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He frequently goes there. For instance, in "Freak City" he, in a fit of rage, decides to beat up ''Life''. In another episode he attacks a fourth-dimensional black-hole type construct, and destroys it. [[spoiler:After he gets the cursed blade of grass he slays the Fear Feaster with it in "Billy's Bucket List". In "Escape from the Citadel", he takes down [[GreaterScopeVillain The Lich]] by gooping him with the blood of the fallen Guardian, which has massive amounts of healing properties, thus bringing the Lich to life into an innocent giant baby.]] |
| 129 | ** Has gone toe to toe with the Lich no fewer than four times and has always managed to throw a wrench in the Lich's plans. Of note, this makes him the ''only'' being to ever defeat the Lich more than once. |
| 130 | ** In "Crossover" he takes out an alternate universe version of the Lich using a WavemotionGun given to him by Prismo. |
| 131 | ** [[spoiler: And not just our Finn... after the Lich was spread throughout the Multiverse, the Lich mentions being bested by Finn in many worlds, implying the Alt-Finns have been able to stop their Liches as well.]] |
| 132 | * DisappearedDad: His dad was being held in the Citadel. He doesn't care that Finn exists at all. |
| 133 | ** [[spoiler:Complicated by later revelations that Martin was actually on his way to being a loving and present father when his past intervened and started him on the road to JerkAss-dom.]] |
| 134 | * DistaffCounterpart: Fionna. |
| 135 | * DumbBlonde: He has blonde hair under his hat, and he can be quite clueless sometimes. |
| 136 | * EasyAmnesia: Finn can put frightening memories in his "vault". What's disturbing is that [[DissonantSerenity he does it so casually]]... |
| 137 | -->'''Finn''': That one's going in the vault. Aaaaaaand... it's gone. |
| 138 | ** Once Finn opens the vault just a crack, he's apparently easily able to discover his ''past lives.'' |
| 139 | *** [[spoiler:"Come Along With Me" reveals the Vault to contain representations of the monsters Finn was most traumatized by fighting--the Lich, the Lich-possessed Bubblegum, BrainwashedAndCrazy Susan, and [[ArchnemesisDad his own father]].]] |
| 140 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: He eventually gains the ability to generate a psychic limb, giving him super powers. He loses that, but later on the Grass Sword's remains give him the power to turn his arm into a powerful vine tentacle. He eventually loses that during "Reboot" when it detaches itself from Finn to join with the Finn Sword. |
| 141 | * EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Finn has shown high knowledge in spiritual matters, introspection and various powers born from pure enlightenment: summoning his astral beast, astral projection, controlling his own memories of past lives and making the universe give him a way to stop Gunter/Orgalorg, with auto-tuned singing, no less. It's implied this is the result of being a reincarnation of a past Catalyst Comet. |
| 142 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Sympathetic example, but nevertheless, "All Gummed Up Inside" has him despairing about not being able to "keep" Bubblegum, not really grasping the fact she was never his in the first place. |
| 143 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While a BloodKnight, Finn largely refuses to kill anyone or anything that's not evil, to the extent that, in "The Enchiridion," he let out a BigNever to being ordered to kill a "neutral" ant. Also, in "What Have You Done?", despite being enemies with Ice King, Finn made it clear that he wouldn't beat him up when Ice King hadn't actually committed any recent crimes, stating it as "against his alignment." |
| 144 | * EvilLaugh: Non-evil example; in "What is Life?", Finn mischievously does this, while thinking to prank Jake after he pranked Finn himself, as a type of revenge. |
| 145 | * FatalFlaw: {{Lust}} seems to be this for Finn in later seasons, particularly in Season 5, where it's what caused his relationship with Flame Princess to fall apart |
| 146 | * TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Princess Bubblegum making it clear she didn't want him made him wallow for a while. |
| 147 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: A lot of hints were dropped that Finn would lose his right arm starting with his Farmworld depiction. This eventually happens in the Season 6 opening. |
| 148 | * ForGreatJustice: His reasoning for why he fights evil. |
| 149 | * ForHappiness: When he and Jake aren't busy fighting evil, they're just trying to have a good time. |
| 150 | * {{Fetish}}: As established in the AmazonChaser entry above, he has a sexual fetish for seeing women fight and/or fighting together with them. Wallowing in this while not being honest about it destroys his relationship with Flame Princess. |
| 151 | * GenerationXerox: While not as bad as Martin, Finn has shown he's able to be be as manipulative as his father if given the opportunity to do so. It's not all bad, as his father showed [[LightningBruiser physical feats]] that easily match his son's. [[spoiler:Apparently, Finn shares most of his positive traits with his mother, a genuine [[FantasticCasteSystem Helper]] who enjoys aiding others just as much as her son does.]] |
| 152 | * GivenNameReveal: In "Finn the Human", it turns out his AlternateSelf has the full name "Finn Mertens". By "Dentist" he indicates he's learned the name and taken to using it himself, and "The Visitor" shows it is his father's surname in this timeline as well. |
| 153 | * GoodCounterpart: To the Lich in a sense. The Lich was born from a Green Catalyst Comet that killed the dinosaurs, Finn's the {{Reincarnation}} of the Blue Catalyst Comet. |
| 154 | * GrowingUpSucks: After his breaking up with Flame Princess, Finn starts to feel things become more complicated as he grows up, and wishes to have things be like they were before. |
| 155 | ** Note that his romantic attachments tend to retire from dating him to spend more time leading their people (while he has none to lead). |
| 156 | ** The realization that his human father never loved him and never will also left him very depressed. |
| 157 | *** [[spoiler:Well, not ''never'' loved him. But never will again.]] |
| 158 | * GuestFighter: DLC skin for Jhala in ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}''. |
| 159 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Although his hair color was originally only mentioned by the creators, it's since been seen. And it is ''[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/4/49/S2e10_HatlessFinn_longhair.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110111205300 glorious]]''. He has the associated purity. |
| 160 | %%* HappilyAdopted: By Jake's family. |
| 161 | * TheHeart: He's the only one who can get Bubblegum and Marceline to stick together; in 'What Was Missing', it's clear that their attempt to get through the Door Lord's door would have fallen apart easily without his influence. He also serves as TheConscience to them. |
| 162 | * HeartbrokenBadass: His love life hasn't exactly been kind to him. Being abandoned by his human dad '''twice''' doesn't make things any easier either. |
| 163 | * TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:"Together Again" ''opens'' with him having already died and found himself in the Dead World, after briefly being trapped in a LotusEaterMachine by a parasite.]] |
| 164 | * HeroesFightBarehanded: Despite owning at least two swords, Finn often fights with his bare hands. |
| 165 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Though he uses GoodOldFisticuffs much more and an ax at least once. |
| 166 | * HeroicBSOD: He goes through a (hilariously brief) one every time somebody reminds him that he's almost certainly the [[LastOfHisKind last human]]. |
| 167 | ** Spends half of "Dad's Dungeon" like this because he thought [[EtTuBrute Jake and Joshua turned against him]]. It's bad enough that he actually [[DrivenToSuicide tries to eat]] [[BodyHorror the apples]]. Twice, the second time he's [[HarmfulToMinors actually watching what the apples do to a person]]. Jake has to [[InterruptedSuicide stop him both times]]. |
| 168 | ** In "Hot to the Touch," when he realizes he can neither fight or hurt his new crush the Flame Princess, nor allow her to destroy the goblin kingdom, he curls up and cries, right before briefly passing out. |
| 169 | ** The end of "Escape from the Citadel" leaves him with Prismo dead, his arm and sword gone, and his dad having abandoned him. He doesn't even try and swim to the surface of the lake he's in and Jake has to pull him out. He spends "The Tower" singing a MadnessMantra about how he intends to tear off his father's arm to replace his, and then spends "Breezy" having a series of meaningless relationships in a futile attempt to feel better. |
| 170 | ** [[spoiler:After killing Fern in "Three Buckets," Finn loses his ability to be Ooo's protector, as every monster he fights reminds him of his dead doppelganger.]] |
| 171 | * HeroicWillpower: Goes hand-in-hand with his many {{Determinator}} feats. |
| 172 | * [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: [[spoiler:As of "Obsidian", he's now on his 20s, and he grew a lot by the time between the finale and ''Distant Lands''.]] |
| 173 | * HesBack: "Billy's Bucket List". Season five zigzagged on his heroism with hormones taking precedence and making him act like a jerk, but in said episode he's determined to finish Billy's list and conquers his fear of the ocean. Though, with the revelation of his human father still being alive, more angst was to follow. |
| 174 | * HiddenDepths: Lightly hinted at a few times. In particular, he may hide a desire for civilized life, as well as trauma stemming from his ParentalAbandonment. [[AngstWhatAngst He rarely if ever dwells on such things.]] |
| 175 | -->'''Finn''': I... [[PlayedForLaughs am complicated]]. |
| 176 | ** If the video game Pirates of the Enchiridion is anything to go by, Finn, despite normally being BookDumb in more than a few areas, is surprisingly skilled in cartography. |
| 177 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: His yearly aging leads to more complicated relationships with girls. |
| 178 | * {{Hotblooded}}: Doubles with LargeHam. Throughout the series, there have been several instances where he has been intensely agitated. |
| 179 | ** From the "Hero Boy Named Finn" song: |
| 180 | -->'''Finn''': And I'm not gonna be cool... 'cause I'm pipin' ho-oooooot! |
| 181 | * HulkingOut: Whenever something happens to Jake. |
| 182 | * IAmNotWeasel: Flame Princess comes to the conclusion that he must be a Water Elemental due to him crying each time she's seen him and him repeatedly hurting her without realizing it. Also, the squirrel from "Up a Tree" mistakes him for a chipmunk. |
| 183 | * ICanChangeMyBeloved: After the Flame King explicitly explains that his daughter, like everyone else in his kingdom, is evil, Finn makes influencing her to good his goal. (It definitely helps that she's on board with it.) |
| 184 | * IdiotHero: |
| 185 | -->Why is Finn missing so many teeth?\ |
| 186 | The creators' answer: He bites trees and rocks and stuff. He's stupid. |
| 187 | ** Which makes it that much more interesting when his brain works perfectly, like in "Morituri te Salutamus". |
| 188 | ** As shown in "The New Frontier", Finn occasionally forgets how the sun works, and is seemingly floored when Jake re-explains it to him. |
| 189 | ** In "In Your Footsteps", he freely gives away the Enchiridion, a "hero's handbook" he got dozens of episodes ago, because he's mostly used it for sitting on. It falls into the Lich's hands. |
| 190 | ** In "From Bad to Worse," he mixes random potions to stop the candy zombies. The result was a bunch of random effects, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero most of them made the zombies even stronger]]. |
| 191 | ** In "The Real You", Finn himself says that he's "full of stupid." |
| 192 | ** This is more of an early season character trait as he becomes more intelligent as the series goes on, especially emotionally. |
| 193 | * IGaveMyWord: Deconstructed as the events of "Slumber Party Panic" get more and more out of hand because of his promise. |
| 194 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: In both a familial and romantic sense. He's at that age where he's looking for a girlfriend and is utterly devastated to find that his dad barely cares about him. |
| 195 | * IllKillYou: A couple of times. When his picture frame of Bubblegum is set on fire after he spent hours crying over it, he snarls: |
| 196 | ---> ''"WHO LIT THAT FIRE? I'LL KILL YOUUU!"'' |
| 197 | * ImportantHaircut: To save Jake from eternity in a witch's butt. Since then he seems to be letting it grow out again. |
| 198 | ** Averted when he cuts it again right before visiting Mars with Jermaine. It's not actually very important at all. |
| 199 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: With paper airplanes. He manages to get one to ''cook him eggs''. Unfortunately, it doesn't stick the landing. |
| 200 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: It's eventually revealed that he is pure good, since he is the {{Reincarnation}} of the Blue Catalyst Comet, which incarnated as a butterfly, a symbol of rebirth. His goodness extends to the point that he tries to beat his purity into others. This is noticeable in the episode "Goliad": when the golem that Princess Bubblegum created turns evil, what does she do to stop it? Make a new one with Finn's DNA instead of her own. The original tries to invoke WeCanRuleTogether, but because of the pureness, it refuses and sacrifices itself to stop the other. On another occasion, [[BigBad the Lich]] uses Finn's innocence against him to open up a portal to the multiverse by a means Finn thought would prevent it. Throughout the series, he also has helped countless characters. Despite his BloodKnight tendencies and HotBlooded moments, Finn is still a purely good person. |
| 201 | * InASingleBound: He pulls one off in "Mystery Train" when he jumps between two fast-moving trains. |
| 202 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He's a cutie who openly shows his emotions and affections. He also spends the night with the Ice King in "Thank You". Downplayed though, since he's a BloodKnight who loves fighting, wrestling, adventuring, rescuing princesses, etc. |
| 203 | ** His instrument of choice is the traditionally feminine flute. |
| 204 | * InUniverseCatharsis: In "Fionna and Cake", Finn has shown to have adopted a fairly unhealthy coping mechanism for dealing with his problems (re: Accepting Jake's death), which involves carelessly throwing himself into danger to distract him from his problems, which he tries to use on Simon to help him deal with his depressive rut. He even shrugs off a nasty series of back gashes given to him by a bear. |
| 205 | * InexplicablyAwesome: Finn, besides his robot arm, has zero cybernetic or biological augmentations, while a pretty sizable chunk of humanity does, including his own mother. Despite his, he consistently seems to be a great deal stronger, faster, and tougher than most of humanity besides the explicitly superhuman Seekers, and even in that case they're not that much stronger than him. It's very telling that, as an adult, he's able to treat a mutant bear the size of a bus like a literal plaything. |
| 206 | * InnocentBlueEyes: According to Andy Ristaino, Finn's eyes are blue. |
| 207 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He refers to Fern as something even closer to him than a brother. Of course, this is because he was Finn up until he was turned into the Finn Sword, and still wants to be Finn. |
| 208 | * InterClassRomance: Has romanced two princesses. |
| 209 | * InterspeciesRomance: So far he's crushed on a candy person (princess) and a girl made of flames. And in "Puhoy", he even married and had two children with a pillow-girl. Of course, seeing as how there aren't very many pure-bred humans left on Earth, he doesn't have a lot of choice in avoiding this. |
| 210 | ** It's unclear what Huntress Wizard is, but she's not human. |
| 211 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: Like his father, [[DissonantSerenity Finn often keeps up a cheerful demeanor]] no matter what kind of stuff is blowing up around him. |
| 212 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Not at first, but he can be a typical self-absorbed teenager later on, especially when it comes to romance (Bubblegum isn't talking about sacrificing her love life with ''you'', Finn). Self-obsession is one of the flaws that make him think he's a monster in "Don't Look". |
| 213 | * ItsAllMyFault: Starts blaming himself for the state of Ooo during the ''Elementals'' miniseries, wondering if he subconsciously ''wanted'' Fern to fail at protecting the kingdom. |
| 214 | * JerkassBall: A couple of episodes from season 5 showcase some of his more selfish, dishonorable traits: In "Jake Suit" he doesn't care that Jake gets hurt when he wears him as armor and tells him to toughen up then at the end of the episode he wears the 'Jake Suit' and jumps down a volcano hurting Jake and himself (of course it's more of an example of him holding the IdiotBall then). And later in "Frost & Fire" and "Too Old", the former of which has him ruining his relationship with Flame Princess, and the latter lying to Jake in hopes of getting alone time with PB. It doesn't work. |
| 215 | * {{Keet}}: Finn is hyperactive, joyful, and sometimes surprisingly tender-hearted, [[BoisterousBruiser when he's not beating his enemies to a bloody pulp.]] |
| 216 | ** His ceaseless energy is used as a plot point in "Power Animal", where a society of malevolent gnomes kidnaps him and attempts to harness his energy for a machine they built which would allow them to essentially take over the world. |
| 217 | * KidHero: 12 when the series starts, 17 when it ends. |
| 218 | * LargeHam: Not just large, ''massive''. He competes with a WorldOfHam and manages the impressive feat of being one of, if not the hammiest ham in the land of Ooo. |
| 219 | * LastOfHisKind: At first, it was assumed that Finn is the last human in Ooo. However, this later turns out not to be the case as it's revealed that Ice King used to be human, other humans (namely Betty) appear in the series [[spoiler:and, in the Islands mini series, it's revealed that humanity is thriving in a series of distant islands]]. |
| 220 | * LightningBruiser: Finn has been shown to excel in ''all'' types of combat within the series, plus he is quick to his feet & able to take a ''HUGE'' beating. He just destroys any foe that stands in his way. |
| 221 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Despite having never met them, or at least before he did meet them, Finn took a lot after his parents, at least on some level or another. He mostly takes after his mother who dedicated her life to helping and protecting people. While he has none of his father's {{Jerkass}} tendencies, Finn does have his sense of Adventure and the ability to turn problems into solutions, along with Martin's [[LightningBruiser barefisted fighting skills]]. |
| 222 | * LimitedWardrobe: Invoked a couple of times. For example, a plot point in "[=BMO=] Noire" and "Princess Potluck"[[note]]They happen concurrently[[/note]] is that he seems to only have one pair of socks, and in "Little Dude" he has to go slay (another!) evil bear if he wants a replacement hat. |
| 223 | * LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Finn's romantic interests don't tend to work out well for him. It reaches the point that one interest admits that she likes him then follows up by saying they wouldn't work together, because of the reasons that she likes him in the first place! |
| 224 | ** Fortunately for those hoping for any hint of a happy romantic ending for the poor kid, he meets Huntress Wizard again and they decide to [[EarnYourHappyEnding give dating a shot after all]]. |
| 225 | * LoveAtFirstPunch: Finn developed his crush on Flame Princess after she smacked him in the face with her (burning) hand and nearly destroyed his house with her fire powers. |
| 226 | * LoveHurts: Both princesses have caused him no small amount of emotional (and physical) hurt. |
| 227 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: He tells Flame Princess she has this effect on him. |
| 228 | --> '''Finn:''' When I look at you, my brain gets all... stupid! |
| 229 | ** Several episodes ("Too Old", "The Red Throne") have even had Finn taking a ride on the JerkassBall as well because he put trying to impress girls ahead of actually thinking. |
| 230 | * MadeOfIron: The kid has survived battles against multitudes of monsters, cosmic horrors and falling into a volcano, the last of which he did for fun. '''Painfully''' subverted in the season 6 premiere, where he loses his right arm. |
| 231 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In Reboot, when the grass vines take off the lower half of his right arm, all he has to say is "AH! m'arm!" |
| 232 | ** He barely reacted when he lost his original arm, as he was more in shock over his father caring so little for him and fleeing. |
| 233 | * ManipulativeBastard: Downplayed. Finn has a manipulative-obsessive streak. His tendency to manipulate people to instigate conflict so he could resolve it (since he is TheHero) was explored in ''All the Little People'' and bit him in the ass in ''Frost & Fire''. |
| 234 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:His relationship with Huntress Wizard is left open-ended after the finale, especially after "The Wild Hunt" and "Seventeen" established a relationship between the two. After all, she did [[LiteralMetaphor give him her heart.]]]] |
| 235 | ** The [[ComicBook/AdventureTimeSeason11 Season 11 sequel comic]] implies that [[spoiler:they're still together.]] |
| 236 | ** The status of their relationship in ''Distant Lands'' [[spoiler:is a complete mystery, as the miniseries doesn't give any hints if they're still together or not.]] |
| 237 | ** ''Fionna and Cake'' implies [[spoiler:they're still together]]. |
| 238 | * MeaningfulName: "Finn" means "fair-haired." He's blond. |
| 239 | ** It can be also understood as related to the word "final", as in "the last". |
| 240 | ** And might also conjure comparisons to legendary Irish hero ''[[Myth/CelticMythology Finn McCool]]''. |
| 241 | * MindOverMatter: The flower growing from the stump of his right arm allows him to manifest a shapeshifting arm out of pure psychic energy as well as levitate large objects using what remains of the Grass Sword's magic. |
| 242 | * MissingMom: [[spoiler: His biological mother is actually still alive, ([[BodyUploading sort of]]), and has been wishing for his return for years. It's the reason Susan was sent to Ooo in the first place.]] |
| 243 | ** [[spoiler:At the very end of the finale, [[Heartwarming/AdventureTime she and the other humans arrive in Ooo.]]]] |
| 244 | * MoralityChain: Finn may be the protagonist, but it becomes increasingly clear that he's also the Morality Chain to... damn near everyone else. He consciously takes on the role of turning Flame Princess good, but it's also strongly implied that without him Jake would still be a thief and conman, Princess Bubblegum might be much more of a TotalitarianUtilitarian, Marceline would be the psychopathic troll she likes to see herself as, and Ice King would be doing some seriously squicky things to Princesses. |
| 245 | ** He tried to be this to Fern during Season 8. [[spoiler: He initially failed after Fern tried to kill him in "Three Buckets", but he does help Fern redeem himself during the series finale.]] |
| 246 | * MorphicResonance: It's implied Finn's reincarnations and alternate timeline selves are all destined to lose their right arms, to the point where after it happens to Finn he notes that - in retrospect - having two arms felt weird. |
| 247 | * MotiveDecay: In "Too Old," Finn focuses on flirting with Princess Bubblegum instead of focusing on the diplomatic mission, rescuing Lemonhope, or being a hero. |
| 248 | ** In "The Red Throne," Finn focuses on trying to get back with Flame Princess, ignoring the Fire Kingdom's tyrant problem. |
| 249 | * MuggleBestFriend: To anything that isn't completely evil. It makes him slide towards AllLovingHero. |
| 250 | ** Princess Bubblegum tends to show off her creations to him. |
| 251 | ** Marceline trusted only Finn with her Fries song. |
| 252 | ** Heck, even the Ice King seeks Finn out when he wants somebody to chat to. |
| 253 | * MundaneMadeAwesome - "ALGEBRAIC!" |
| 254 | ** "Mathematical!" |
| 255 | ** His hat. |
| 256 | * MysteriousPast: A ZigZaggedTrope. Finn does have a known and simple past in which he was HappilyAdopted by Joshua and Margaret and raised to fight evil. But how he wound up where they found him and the whereabouts of any other humans were complete mysteries until the "Islands" mini-series. |
| 257 | * TheNapoleon: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; he's more short than [[GentleGiant Princess Bubblegum]], but he has also a lot of moments when he acts like a {{Jerkass}}. |
| 258 | * NeutralGood: In-universe assigned alignment in the comic series. |
| 259 | * NiceGuy: Probably one of the nicest members of the cast. |
| 260 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 261 | ** Season 4 Finale. [[WhamEpisode Congratulations, Finn. You've single-handedly released the Lich into]] TheMultiverse. |
| 262 | ** In "Frost & Fire", his obsession to see Flame Princess and Ice King fighting [[spoiler:almost causes Ice King's death and the destruction of Ice Kingdom, and also ends up hurting Flame Princess' feelings, leading to their breakup at the end of the episode.]] When ''the Ice King'' tells you that you blew it, you know you '''really''' blew it. |
| 263 | ** Taken to an extreme in the Season 6 opening two-parter. The plan to get Finn to meet his father gets Prismo killed and ends up freeing a whole bunch of cosmic criminals, which, sadly, includes his birth father. |
| 264 | * TheNoseless: He isn't drawn with a nose. The creators state that it's a mutation. |
| 265 | * NoSell: In "Flute Spell" he gains immunity to electricity. |
| 266 | * NotAllowedToGrowUp: Averted. In fact, he grows up in real-time! He ages every year, according to the creators. Though he's only had one on-screen birthday from 12 to 13, his Website/{{Twitter}} profile identifies him as 14 as of 11/2012. He claims to be 16 as of "The Comet," and is 17 as of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Seventeen."]] |
| 267 | * OurFounder: In the GrandFinale [[spoiler: [[ToppledStatue the ruins]] of a gigantic memorial statue and grave complex for Finn are shown 1000 years in the future, having been constructed directly outside of Marceline's/Shermy and Beth's cave on the Grass Lands. There's also fallen statue of either Jake or Jermaine as well, and the remains of a plaque that appears to read "Finn" and "Jermaine" nearby.]] |
| 268 | * TheParagon: In "Freak City", Finn refuses to let any of the freaks lay down and let life kick them around. So instead, Finn kicks them around until they decide to stand up for themselves. |
| 269 | * ParentalAbandonment: Not only was had he lost his birth-parents from babyhood, it is heavily implied that his foster-parents, Joshua and Margaret, are also dead, leaving him with only Jake at 12. However, "Billy's Bucket List" reveals that Finn's biological father is still alive. [[spoiler:As well as his mother in "Islands".]] |
| 270 | * ParentheticalSwearing: He ''loves'' this trope. |
| 271 | -->"Holy ''stuff!''"\ |
| 272 | "What the jug is ''that?''\ |
| 273 | "Dump ''that'' mess!''\ |
| 274 | "Math this..." |
| 275 | * PermaShave: PlayedForLaughs[=/=]explained in "All's Well That Rats Swell", as BMO plucks any growing facial hair out (to keep him looking forever young) before he wakes up. |
| 276 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Despite being just a boy, he's a full-fledged adventurer who can hold his own in most fights. He's even been known to put the hurt on beings many times his size and experience, especially [[UnstoppableRage when properly motivated]]. |
| 277 | * PrettyBoy: His Website/GaiaOnline AlternateUniverse self is this in the ''Adventure Time'' themed chance item, while his ''VideoGame/FusionFall'' self is a winsome {{Gonk}}. |
| 278 | * PsychicStatic: Even mentally he's a small erratic target. Especially mentally. |
| 279 | * PsychoactivePowers: The grass sword responds to Finn's wishes and could modify itself to suit them if necessary. [[spoiler:The flower remnant growing from the stump of his right arm does so as well. From levitating large objects to forming a shapeshifting psychic limb, it does whatever it can to grant its masters wishes.]] |
| 280 | * PungeonMaster: He loves to drop puns. |
| 281 | -->"I'm weddy for the wedding!"\ |
| 282 | ''(pushing a zombie into the ground)'' "You're grounded, mister!"\ |
| 283 | ''(blasting a pig with ice cream)'' "''FREEZE'' TO MEET YOU!!" |
| 284 | * RaisedByWolves: They were magic talking dogs, and they were as intelligent as humans. "Boom Boom Mountain" reveals Finn was [[ParentalAbandonment orphaned]] as a baby and taken in by Jake's parents. Jake is explicitly his big brother. |
| 285 | * {{Reincarnation}}: In "The Vault", Finn is revealed to have lived several past lives, including [[ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex the ghost woman haunting him, who was a mercenary named Shoko]]. "The Comet" reveals that Finn was originally the blue Catalyst Comet, and has been reincarnating on Earth since it first crashed there, starting as a humble butterfly. [[spoiler: "Come Along With Me" suggests he'll be given yet another life as a hyperactive tomcat named Shermy--complete with a descendent of Jake for a companion.]] |
| 286 | * ReincarnationFriendship: It's shown that several of Finn's current relationships have spanned across multiple lifetimes in one way or another. His prior life Shoko had a companion in the form of a white tiger, a past incarnation of Jake's, and developed a close bond with Princess Bubblegum before Shoko's death, something that triggers PastLifeMemories in Finn prompting him to return the amulet Shoko stole. [[spoiler:His future incarnation, Shermy, is close to one of Jake and Lady Rainicorn's descendants, Beth, who just so happens to also be Jake's reincarnation.]] |
| 287 | * RevengeBeforeReason: In the aftermath of the incident with his Dad, Finn comes to dislike all of his replacement arms and contemplates getting revenge on his Dad for the loss of his right arm. The flower coming out of Finn's remaining right arm grants his wish by giving him a phantom limb made out of pure telekinetic energy that allows him to move objects with his mind. Using this arm, he builds a tower to space with the intention of finding his Dad to rip off his arm as revenge for the loss of his own right arm. Princess Bubblegum notes that this plan is ridiculous and dangerous, but Finn continues it anyway. |
| 288 | * RhymesOnADime: Has made up songs on the spot on several occasions, just for the heck of it. With [[AutoTune his singing voice]] the effect is pretty rad. |
| 289 | * SamaritanSyndrome: |
| 290 | ** In "Memories of Boom-Boom Mountain", Finn reveals his underlying drive to help everyone and everything with their problems because when he was a baby, he once went 'boom-boom' on a leaf and got stuck to it, and went unaided for hours until Jake's parents found him (and eventually adopted him). Finn helps people because someone helped him once. |
| 291 | ** Subverted on at least one occasion, where he mentions that he probably should help the Ice King, but he's too inexperienced and has no clue how to deal with the Ice King's issues. So he beats him up. |
| 292 | * ScreamingWarrior: Goes into this anytime he's in a fight. |
| 293 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: On occasion, usually when he's startled. |
| 294 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Regarding Princess Bubblegum. Jake even calls her his ex at one point. |
| 295 | ** He does the same thing with Huntress Wizard, though [[CharacterDevelopment compare the two ways he puts it several years apart]]. |
| 296 | * ShipperOnDeck: In "All the Little People", Finn finds sentient miniature AT characters and puts them all in crazy pairings. Even before this, he tells Jake that he thinks BMO and Ice King might make a good couple. |
| 297 | * SignatureHeadgear: The iconic white hat he wears almost all the time, even while sleeping. He apparently ''skinned a bear'' to make it. As a baby. |
| 298 | --> '''Finn:''' ''My... hat... is... '''''AWESOME!!!''' |
| 299 | * SingingVoiceDissonance: Throughout the series, he sings with an auto-tuned voice that supposedly comes from a tiny computer he swallowed at some earlier point. Subverted in 'What Was Missing', where he sings a heartfelt song to (and about) his TrueCompanions [[HappilyAdopted Jake]], [[TheSmartGuy Bubblegum]] and [[OddFriendship Marceline]]. |
| 300 | ** The Auto-tune singing returns in the Season 6 finale, though it appears to be a mix of this and his normal singing. |
| 301 | * TheSleepless: Invokes it at least with the line "Justice never sleeps!" He does sleep regularly. |
| 302 | * SpeciesSurname: He's known as Finn the Human, mostly because dogs apparently don't have real surnames and he's the only pure human in all of Ooo, so he really is ''the'' human. It's eventually revealed his real surname is Mertens. |
| 303 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Flame Princess as of "Hot to the Touch". Finn cannot touch her without getting hurt. |
| 304 | * StepfordSmiler: He has his tendencies, placing traumatic memories "in the vault". After [[spoiler:Jake's death]], he tries to help a depressed Simon by punching the issues away. [[spoiler:Even after he dies in "Together Again", Finn admits to Jake that he was never able to get over his death and secretly waited for his own so he can reunite with him, even though he did live a good life.]] |
| 305 | * StockShonenHero: {{Deconstructed}}. At the series' start, Finn was a simple-minded yet righteous KidHero who lived to right wrongs and go on dangerous adventures. The problems started when he slowly came to see the GrayingMorality of the world around him, and his impulsiveness bit him in the buns as he entered adolescence, leading him to make some really dumb moves and miss out on two {{Love Interest}}s. While he's never stopped being a hero and fighting evil, he's a lot more of a mature MellowFellow, a sharp contrast to the early days when he was well known for his proud declaration of "I'll slay anything that's evil, that's my deal!" |
| 306 | * SummonMagic: It takes him many hours to summon his spirit animals in "Still", but at least he gets a whole bunch of them and they're rather badass, for their species. Hunson is quicker to summon, but his allegiance remains in doubt. |
| 307 | * SuperSpit: Finn is able to hack loogies across a yard's length, and in "The Real You", he was able to create a full-scale model of the Candy Kingdom entirely out of his saliva. |
| 308 | * TagalongKid: In "What Was Missing", Finn admits that he fears the others see him this way. An odd example, as he's arguably more proactive and competent than nearly everyone else in Ooo most of the time. |
| 309 | -->'''Finn:''' Do you look down on me 'cuz I'm younger? |
| 310 | * TokenHuman: Occasionally a plot point. |
| 311 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Displayed prominently in "Jake Suit." In that episode, Jake is sick of Finn [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext using him as a battle suit and seriously hurting him]], so he does the same to Finn to get him to admit that it sucks. Unfortunately, even non-conventional forms of torture (getting Finn to read a boring book, embarrass himself in front of his girlfriend's family, etc.) prove ineffective, and when Jake decides to make Finn [[ConvectionShmonvection jump in a volcano]], he's completely freaked out when Finn actually ''begs'' him to go through with it; as soon as Jake backs out, Finn uses Jake as a suit once again and jumps headfirst into the volcano for the hell of it. |
| 312 | * TraumaticHaircut: Once had the side of his hair forcibly shaved off. He bemoans that his “style” is ruined. And in the next time he’s seen without his hat, he is shown to be bald, so he can redo his style. |
| 313 | * TrueCompanions: With Jake, emphasized by both [[BigBrotherInstinct family bonds]] and [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]], and with Bubblegum to a slightly lesser extent. As characterization has developed, he may possibly also have this with [[DarkIsNotEvil Marceline,]] given how highly [[IJustWantToHaveFriends she regards friendship.]] All of them take some steps towards becoming TrueCompanions in "What Was Missing", though with Jake being the WildCard, and Marceline and PB not getting along very well, it takes some considerable effort on Finn's part. |
| 314 | * {{Tritagonist}}: While still a main character he’s demoted to this in the Stakes miniseries with Marceline taking his place as the protagonist. |
| 315 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: For all his heroic deeds, he likewise seems to have a habit of unknowingly causing just as many disasters. Up to reviving the Lich, being an indirect cause to Lincoln's death, giving the Lich what he needed to (nearly) take over the world, heck even trying to wish away the Lich wound up backfiring. |
| 316 | * VengeanceFeelsEmpty: When Finn finally reaches his destination in "The Tower," he meets his dad and punches him out, only to realize that he can't bring himself to go through with tearing his arm off. Princess Bubblegum reveals that she dressed up as Finn's dad in order to let him relieve his stress regarding his personal issues with his Dad. Observing his expression she notes that his revenge probably didn't make him feel all that better. Finn agrees, and the next time he meets Martin, he's less angry than he is incredulous at how many levels in JerkAss the guy takes every day. |
| 317 | * VocalEvolution: In earlier seasons, his voice was much higher. As his voice actor went through puberty, his voice lowered, mirroring the series' gradual CerebusSyndrome and Finn's growth in maturity. |
| 318 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Finn's fear of the ocean, although he does get over this by the end of Season 5's "Billy's Bucket List", thanks to help from the Grass Sword. (He has a few others, but they are rare or unlikely to occur.) |
| 319 | * WeAreAsMayflies: Inverted - it's strongly implied that his canine adoptive family ages in dog years. |
| 320 | * WellDoneSonGuy: He can only carry on if he knows his dad cares for him, as seen in "Dad's Dungeon". Eventually averted in the case of Finn's ''actual'' dad. Despite being initially devastated that Martin apparently didn't care about him, by "The Visitor", Finn realizes he's better off without a deadbeat like his dad. |
| 321 | * WhatTheHellHero: Delivers one to Bubblegum in "What Have You Done?" when she has the Ice King imprisoned despite him not doing anything wrong. Turns out she intended to beat pained cries out of him. True, it was to cure the Candy Kingdom of a plague he accidentally started, but it's still a bad thing to do because she wanted him to beat the Ice King up for nothing and her lack of communication. Finn and Jake call her out on it and she does seem to get a WhatHaveIDone moment as a result. |
| 322 | ** Also, in "Frost & Fire", where Finn tricks Flame Princess and Ice King into fighting using her own private issues against her. Ice King even flat out states to Finn, "You blew it." |
| 323 | * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: His response to the black hole he created? |
| 324 | -->'''PB''': You blew it, Finn! With this! ''[Shows bubble-blowing device]''\ |
| 325 | '''Finn''': Then I'll kill it with [[HeroesPreferSwords this]]! |
| 326 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's terrified of the ocean and ''only'' the ocean--not rivers, lakes, or puddles. He is also afraid of the body of water in question only if he consciously knows it's the ocean or not. [[spoiler:Eventually it's revealed that this fear probably stems from him almost drowning in it as a newborn while stuck on a raft with his dad]]. |
| 327 | ** He's also scared of clowns. He especially hates the Clown Nurses. |
| 328 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Even at only 12 years old, Finn was a street-smart young boy with an ace in fighting off villains with fantasy swords and saving princesses. |
| 329 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After putting on the Glasses of Nerdicon. Possibly subverted as he knew how ''everything'' would proceed, including the madness and subsequent removal of the glasses. |
| 330 | ** Any time he gets any sort of artifact of power it will quickly be taken away from him. ("Wizard", "Daddy's Little Monster", etc.) |
| 331 | * WouldHitAGirl: Finn would hit ''anything''. ''Except'' a princess. He's very uncomfortable punching princesses. However, that's not to say he's above hitting females in general. Just ask Marceline (who he punched in the face in "Evicted") and Me-Mow (who he bashed with a rock). He was also willing to fight Patience st. Pim (even if he never got a chance to). |
| 332 | * YouCantFightFate: In every alternate universe shown so far, [[AnArmAndALeg some event happens that makes Finn lose an arm]]. As of "Escape from the Citadel", Main!Finn lost his as well. |
| 333 | * ZanyScheme: One day he may be the master of these. Other days he gets egg on his face (or Marceline's kitchen floor). Simply lifting Tree Trunks is insufficient--instead he has to out on thick layers of makeup first. And so on. Except for those times that he's CrazyEnoughToWork it, or lumpified. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Jake the Dog]] |
| 337 | !!Jacob "Jake" the Dog, Sr./Jake the Dog |
| 338 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jakes_at_transparent.png]] |
| 339 | [[caption-width-right:250:"[[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Fine, it's fine. Everything's gonna be fine. It's fine!]]"]] |
| 340 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnDiMaggio |
| 341 | |
| 342 | Finn's chummy, shape-shifting bulldog friend (not pet) and foster-brother. He is more laid back than Finn, but also enjoys adventure. He sometimes gives Finn brotherly advice, but it is not often helpful. |
| 343 | ---- |
| 344 | * AnimalisticAbomination: While he's introduced as a dog with stretching and shapeshifting powers, his parents were ordinary dogs. It turns out he was spawned from a bump that appeared on his father Joshua's head after he was bitten by a shapeshifting monster. |
| 345 | * AmbiguouslyBi: While Jake is unambiguously attracted to Lady Rainicorn, more than a few of his comments to guys have hinted at attraction that is more than just platonic, outright declaring love a couple of times such as when he blatantly admits to having a secret crush on Billy and the fact that he occasionally dates Cinnamon Bun while shapeshifting and putting on a bow to be his "girlfriend". There's also his very strong attachment to Prismo, and more than a few comments shared between the two can be seen as romantic crushing or platonic confessions. |
| 346 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: His picture in the Xmas special suggests this. |
| 347 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Part of what his powers entail, the other being shape-shifting. |
| 348 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: "Power Animal" deals with how this affects Jake; he wants to find Finn, but keeps getting distracted. |
| 349 | -->'''Jake''': ''(giving his sandwich to BMO)'' Take my sammich, BMO. I'm gonna look for... (looks at the ground, gasps) A dancing bug! |
| 350 | * BadassAdorable: He's a shape-shifting dog who's super flexible and makes the cutest faces. |
| 351 | * BetaCouple: Becomes part of one with [[InterspeciesRomance Lady Rainicorn]]. |
| 352 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's for the most part a pretty lackadaisical and apathetic guy who likes a great meal, sleeping, jokes, and fun times with his friends and loved ones. He's also a shape-shifting part-alien AnimalisticAbomination and ReformedCriminal who can be insanely dangerous when provoked and has no problems with killing threats. For example, when Finn broke his videogame console as punishment for ignoring training, his response was to declare he was going to break every bone in Finn's body and tried to do just that. |
| 353 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Played with. He's not as physically protective as most examples of this trope, but he is very tuned into Finn’s emotional well-being, and hurting his little brother’s feelings is the surest way to get on Jake’s bad side. He even claims to have a “Finn sense” that tells him when Finn is about to cry, and the angriest we ever see him is when he’s ripping a new one into Princess Bubblegum for breaking Finn’s heart. The last season even suggests that he denies his own emotional well-being and processing of trauma in order to put on a brave face for Finn and protect him. |
| 354 | * BigBrotherMentor: Sometimes acts as one to Finn. |
| 355 | * BigEater: When given a choice of weapons, he chooses sandwich over sword. |
| 356 | * BigFriendlyDog: [[SizeShifter Sometimes he's big]] but he's always friendly. |
| 357 | * TheBigGuy: Given that he's a SizeShifter, he definitely qualifies. |
| 358 | * BigLittleBrother: He might be slightly younger or the same age as Finn (he was a puppy when Finn was a toddler), but he's clearly taken the big brother role, along with being his general protector. |
| 359 | * BrilliantButLazy: His shapeshifting powers could easily allow him to defeat most enemies if he used them strategically, but he's far too lazy to learn to use them to their fullest. |
| 360 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Brought on by a witch. Jake turns out to be completely useless without his powers. |
| 361 | * BrutalHonesty: Jake is not known for his tact or patience so he tends to blurt out whatever he's thinking. |
| 362 | * BusCrash: It's heavily implied in ''Obsidian'', and later confirmed in the ''Fionna and Cake'' series that he died some time after ''Come Along With Me''. The exact circumstances of his death remain a mystery. |
| 363 | * CanineCompanion: Or rather, canine best buddy. Do not call him Finn's pet. |
| 364 | * ChaoticGood: In-universe-assigned alignment in the comic series. |
| 365 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early episodes painted him as the more NeutralGood reasonable half of the duo, before settling on making him a ChaoticGood JerkWithAHeartOfGold. |
| 366 | * CloudCuckoolander: He can be fairly odd at times, to say the least. |
| 367 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: In "The Jiggler" he reveals he has a mint condition eyepatch collection. It's never mentioned again. |
| 368 | * TheCorrupter: He sometimes tries to convince Finn to commit morally questionable deeds and even murder when it suits him. |
| 369 | * CovertPervert: It's implied throughout the series that Jake and Lady Rainicorn are a pretty dirty couple when not on-screen. They ran naked together through a farmer's property, and Rainicorn asked him to make a "tape" for her, which he did. |
| 370 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: In "Apple Thief", Jake says he knows the darker side of the Candy Kingdom. He used to be a criminal who stole purses and hawked stolen bicycles which could explain his actions in "City of Thieves". A later episode actually shows that he was a criminal ''mastermind'' who managed to get out of the business (because he [[HeelRealization realized it was wrong]]). |
| 371 | * DentedIron: Jake is incredibly powerful when he really gets his mind on something, but as the series progresses his age starts to catch up to him. By the later seasons, Jake is noticeably slowing down and far less capable, and [[spoiler: while he survives the finale, later content strongly implied that he passes away not too long afterward.]] |
| 372 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 373 | ** Like Finn, Jake's morals can shift from episode to episode, though he's always on the good side of the scale. |
| 374 | ** Similarly, how mature Jake is can really shift from episode to episode, there are times when he seems more worldly and knowledgeable than his brother, and there are times when Jake is ''much'' less mature or reasonable than Finn. |
| 375 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: It's "Adventure Time with Finn ''and Jake''" after all. |
| 376 | * DisappearedDad: He has better intentions than most of the ''Adventure Time'' fathers, and he really does love and miss his kids, but "Ocarina" framed this approach as not a good thing. |
| 377 | ** It's implied that since his puppies matured into adulthood faster than he thought they would (to the point that he's actually ''younger'' than them), he's under the impression that they really don't need him anymore; unlike Finn a growing boy who definitely needs him. Or it could be Jake just being Jake. |
| 378 | * DistaffCounterpart: Cake. |
| 379 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:It's not clear when or how, but Jake passed away some time after the series' end, made apparent by both "Obsidian" and ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake''.]] |
| 380 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference; Early in ''Adventure Time'', Jake was rather skinny with a square-shaped body, long jowls, and large ears. As the series progressed, he gained weight and a rounder body shape, and his jowls and ears shrunk. |
| 381 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Prismo and Tiffany both seem to really like Jake. There's also the [[StalkerWithACrush bellhop]] in the ''Seeing Red'' graphic novel. |
| 382 | * EvilLaugh: In "My Two Favorite People", Jake pulls this off surprisingly well. |
| 383 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: His eyes have black sclera and large white pupils taking up most of the space. |
| 384 | * ExplosiveBreeder: By the time of Ooo's future, [[spoiler: Jake and Lady's pups have exploded into a gigantic Kingdom called the Pup Kingdom, ruled by Jake's tyrannical immortal GodEmperor grandson, Gibbon. The Kingdom has a space elevator and is implied to have offworld colonies and has totally driven the Candy Kingdom into hiding in the Prizeball Guardians. Finn and Jake's successors Shermy and Princess Beth fight against Gibbon's empire to free the magic stolen from Jake's other descendants.]] |
| 385 | * FatalFlaw: His inability to pay attention or focus on a task often acts as a hindrance for both himself and Finn, particularly in "Morituri Te Salutamus" and "Power Animal". |
| 386 | * FemaleFelineMaleMutt: His gender-bent counterpart is a cat. |
| 387 | * {{Fetish}}: Jake has a weird interest in boots, for some reason. |
| 388 | ** In "Freak City", Jake tells Finn he always wanted to be a big foot, and that Finn will understand [[ParentalBonus when he's older.]] |
| 389 | ** In "Blood Under the Skin" he seemed to really like dressing in lady armor. |
| 390 | * FurryReminder: Exhibits canine-like behavior once in a while (i. e. barking). |
| 391 | ** In "The Gut Grinder", he admits that he likes to stick his nose in poop due to there being a lot of interesting smells in it. |
| 392 | * {{Gasshole}}: Often farts and makes fart jokes, usually for fun. |
| 393 | * GuestFighter: DLC skin for Kor in ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}''. |
| 394 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Jake appears to be completely naked, [[SubvertedTrope but it's revealed in an episode that he's actually wearing pants.]] Spun by pixies. [[DoubleSubverted They're just invisible.]] |
| 395 | * HeelFaceTurn: Off-screen one. Jake apparently led a gang of criminals in the past. |
| 396 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Yes, he has a sword he sometimes uses. [[ShapeshifterWeapon Why he needs it, no one knows.]] |
| 397 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Borders on this. Sometimes he's caring, and sometimes he can be quite an asshole, holding off on helping Finn (when he really needs it too) just to suit his own needs (but he usually ends up saving the day). Takes this to eleven in "Furniture and Meat." |
| 398 | * IdiotBall: While Jake is more or less defined as wise but not smart, there are various episodes where Jake firmly grasps the ball and does extremely impulsive, reckless, or idiotic things without any real explanation given. It seems like he's just dumb, but it is established in the series that he was a successful criminal ''mastermind'' capable of pulling off heists. Though this seems to ensure he doesn't use his StoryBreakerPower to solve the plot. |
| 399 | * InterspeciesRomance: With Lady Rainicorn. At one point, he's afraid to meet her parents lest they should display FantasticRacism towards him (there was a war between the two species not so long ago), but [[spoiler:it turns out her parents are crazy about dogs since a dog saved her father's life during the war]]. |
| 400 | * IncredibleShrinkingMan: He can shift his size, and is capable of making himself smaller than normal. |
| 401 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The latter part is typically far more obvious than is usual for the trope, but he'll pull out the Jerk occasionally. |
| 402 | %%* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Sometimes. |
| 403 | * KryptoniteFactor: Belly-rubs. They render him almost catatonic with pleasure and in extreme cases prone to suggestibility. |
| 404 | * TheLancer: To Finn, given that he's his best friend and all. |
| 405 | * LargeHam: He's voiced by Creator/JohnDiMaggio, whose forte is LargeHam characters. |
| 406 | * LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: He cracks himself up so hard when he teaches a couple of nymphs how to carry a joke, he passes out. However, that last part happens after the scene cuts in the middle of his laughing. |
| 407 | * LazyBum: He ''is'' BrilliantButLazy, after all. This is most prominent when he doesn't have his powers. |
| 408 | * LikeFatherUnlikeSon: In contrast to his serious-minded son, Kim Kil Whan. |
| 409 | * MellowFellow: Every bit as laid back as Finn is HotBlooded, to the point where he accepted his apparently incoming death after his "croak dream". By his own admission, he doesn't care about much of anything and simply takes life as it is. This actually becomes a FatalFlaw in the ''Elements'' arc where his lazy and passive personality becomes so overwhelming he almost lets himself and Finn die. [[spoiler: In "Together Again," it's this generally relaxed attitude and lack of any real desire that causes him to ascend to the 50th Dead World, which is essentially nirvana]]. |
| 410 | * MrImagination: In "Rainy Day Daydream", it manifests as RealityWarper powers. Outside of that episode, it's more subtle, but he often does consult with figments of his imagination, daydream, or otherwise let his [[{{Metaphorgotten}} imagination run away from him]]. |
| 411 | * MundaneUtility: Will use his powers in any way that seems useful. |
| 412 | * MundaneWish: His first choice will always be a sandwich. It appears this is because the idea of wishing for something important terrifies him. Indeed, when Prismo explains to him how he has to make an important wish and word it just right; because [[TheTimeTravellersDilemma worlds will end, babies won't be born, and life hangs in the balance]], he throws up. Fortunately, Prismo walks him through word by word what he should wish for. |
| 413 | * TheNapoleon: Small, but very aggressive. |
| 414 | * NiceGuy: When he's not being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, he's normally very friendly and easygoing. |
| 415 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Margaret isn't his biological mother. Jake was born from a lump on Joshua's head that formed after he was bitten by an EldritchAbomination, and it's highly implied that this is the origin of his strechy powers. |
| 416 | * NonHumanSidekick: Not actually all that odd, given the setting. |
| 417 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:At the end of the ''Elements'' miniseries, the WorldHealingWave awakens his full alien shapeshifter heritage, though he doesn't seem to initially notice]]. |
| 418 | * NuclearMutant: In the alternate universe featured in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E2JakeTheDog Jake the Dog]]", the radiation of the first Mushroom War bomb turns him into ''the Lich.'' |
| 419 | * OfficialCouple: He and Lady Rainicorn. He's dead set on eventually starting a family with her, and as of "Jake the Dad", the two have kids. |
| 420 | * OlderSidekick: Finn started the series at 12 years old and Jake is 28 (this is in "magical dog years" though, and it turns out they were actually born around the same time). |
| 421 | * OneOfTheKids: Somewhat. He's old for a dog, but he acts a lot like the KidHero (eventually childish-acting Teen Hero) Finn. |
| 422 | * OutOfFocus: As the show delved deeper into other character's relationships, Jake took a noticeable drop in plot importance as the seasons went on, examining less on Jake and more on Finn himself, tellingly, while Finn would have many adventures that didn't involve/focus on Jake despite being present. Most damningly, a lot of the more important characters have some personal connection to Finn, but not so much to his brother. |
| 423 | * PalsWithJesus: While Prismo falls more into RealityWarper than PhysicalGod, the trope sort of applies. He befriends both Prismo and Cosmic Owl by the end of the Season 5 premiere episode. It benefits Jake greatly because Prismo goes out of his way to help Jake word out his wish to screw the Lich over. He even invites Jake to drop by any time. |
| 424 | * PapaWolf: He often acts like a father figure to Finn. He is usually very lazy and indifferent about most things, but when something serious happens to his younger companion, you better not be around. He can sense when Finn is about to cry, calling it a "mother-daughter thing" (which is rather ironic, since he and Finn are both male). He's also generally protective of Finn. |
| 425 | ** His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he made to Princess Bubblegum in "Burning Low": |
| 426 | --->'''Jake:''' (...) YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER! Do you have any idea how much he's CRIED OVER YOU?! (...) |
| 427 | ** He later tries to be this to his own children, but he ends up veering into being overprotective instead. |
| 428 | * ParentalNeglect: Played with in an extremely depressing way. Jake is initially a devoted father who gives up adventuring with Finn to be with his family and dotes on the pups to the point of being overprotective. However, being half-Rainicorn, they grow to adulthood within a few days. While this initially comes off as NegativeContinuity, later episodes featuring his family make it clear that the moments we see are the ''only'' moments Jake has spent with his children since their birth, to the point where he hasn't ''spoken'' to two of them. He seems to be under the impression that they don't need him anymore (like real animals are with their young), but some such as Kim Kil Whan are quite resentful of Jake for choosing adventuring over his family. Although "Apple Wedding" suggests that he's depressed that he never got the chance to raise them properly, and the fact that technically they are actually older than him is something he can't cope with. |
| 429 | * RealMenCook: If there's cooking to be done, he's usually the one to do it. He's also exceptionally talented at it. |
| 430 | * RealityWarper: Using his imagination. [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Though only for one episode]], and for no explained reason. |
| 431 | * ReformedCriminal: He once ran a gang of bank robbers who were quite successful when he was younger, but he left the life behind. He pulls his gang back together in "One Last Job". |
| 432 | * RhymesOnADime: He seems to enjoy a good rhyme. He once forced Finn to communicate via rhyme during "Ocean of Fear". |
| 433 | * RubberMan: Has stretching powers that could give [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]] a run for his money. |
| 434 | * RunningOnAllFours: Well, yeah, he's a ''dog''. He usually goes around on his hind legs, but he'll go on all fours if he needs to go fast or if Finn is riding him. |
| 435 | * SeriousBusiness: Whenever he makes sandwiches, burritos... well, anything with lots of ingredients, let's just say he becomes attached to his creations like an overprotective mom. |
| 436 | * ShapeshifterBaggage: While Jake sometimes merely stretches or compresses his body, there are also times when he seems to be outright altering his mass. In multiple episodes, he shrinks himself down, which also makes him lighter and easier to carry. The other way around, in "Jake vs. Me-Mow", he counteracts Me-Mow's poison by making his liver larger, which also makes it more effective at filtering toxins. |
| 437 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: His arms can turn into anything, such as swords, hammers, and even giant weights. |
| 438 | * ShapeshiftingSound: He makes a sound like rubber stretching whenever he shapeshifts. |
| 439 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: He has stretching powers and can turn himself bigger or smaller than usual. |
| 440 | * ShipperOnDeck: Or at least loves to needle Finn about his crush on Princess Bubblegum. He also looked very pleased when Finn and Flame Princess hugged... And he also got quite excited when he thought PB was jealous. Most likely Jake approves of ''any'' sort of relationship Finn has with a girl, so long as Finn's happy with it. |
| 441 | * TheSlacker: He'd rather go with the flow sometimes. |
| 442 | * SoreLoser: Well, at least when it comes to Card Wars. He grows out of this in "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars", with the help of his daughter Charlie. |
| 443 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Jake has trouble sticking to any of Finn's plans. |
| 444 | * SpiderSense: Jake has the ability to sense when Finn is about to cry. |
| 445 | * StoryBreakerPower: Many Finn-centric episodes would actually be solved in two seconds by having Jake around, so his BrilliantButLazy personality is used to allow Finn to fly solo and rely on his wits instead, and explain why Jake isn't there ''(to the point where a couple of episodes [[DeusExitMachina actually have Jake shrink down and ride Finn so he can see how it all turns out]].)'' |
| 446 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: "Joshua and Margaret Investigations" reveals that [[spoiler:he inherited his powers from a monster that implanted an egg sac in Joshua's head.]] |
| 447 | * SuperStrength: Jake seems to have this as a RequiredSecondaryPower to his stretchy powers. |
| 448 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ice cream. Also sandwiches. |
| 449 | * UncertainDoom: Post-main series content strongly implies that Jake passed away not too long after the finale, which is in line with the fact that he was getting on his years by the end of the series. While "Together Again" shows him outright dead, this over 70 years later, at the end of Finn's life as well (and showing more or less the entire mortal cast dead too), leaving it unclear just ''when'' he died. Not helping is "Obsidian" and the ''Fionna and Cake'' series once again very strongly implying that he is gone [[spoiler: by showing both Finn and Prismo deeply grieving]] but never even stated it outright, nevermind explaining if he passed of natural causes or if it was violent. |
| 450 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shift when he wants to, but he has a limit that makes him super tired if exceeded. |
| 451 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: The wacky parent to most of the kids, but especially the very serious Kim Wil Whan. Even T.V. is more grounded than Jake. |
| 452 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He used to have a great fear of vampires, especially Marceline. |
| 453 | * TheWorfEffect: His powers are extremely versatile, but he's too lazy to use them to their fullest. When facing high-tier threats such as the Lich, he usually gets knocked out pretty quickly. |
| 454 | * YouCantFightFate: Jake is a ''very'' firm believer in this, to the point where [[spoiler:he repeatedly attempted to rush to his death due to a supposedly prophetic dream he had.]] |
| 455 | [[/folder]] |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[folder:Princess Bubblegum]] |
| 458 | !!Princess Bonnibel "Bonnie" Bubblegum/Princess Bubblegum |
| 459 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bubblegum_7328.jpg]] |
| 460 | [[caption-width-right:100:"Hurry, sweet citizens..."]] |
| 461 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Paige Moss (2006 pilot), Creator/HyndenWalch (the series), Isabella Acres (13 years old; from "Mortal Recoil" until "Too Young"; "Hero Heart" via archived audio), Livvy Stubenrauch (Young; in "Bonnibel Bubblegum") |
| 462 | |
| 463 | The young-looking princess and current ruler of the Candy Kingdom. She cares deeply about her citizens. She's also a giant nerd, said to engage in "every branch of geekdom", but not (as far as we can tell) in the CosplayOtakuGirl way-- she's more of a math and science whiz. She's also a hybrid of human DNA and bubblegum DNA (which Finn [[RunningGag finds a-TRACTT-ive~!]]), [[RuleOfCool despite bubblegum not having DNA]], hence her name. She's close friends with Finn, who seems to have a crush on her (however much he [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend tries to deny it]]), but she brusquely [[CelibateHero refuses any romantic advances]]. She finds Jake funny and charming, and has a complicated relationship with Marceline. Although she looks [[{{Pun}} sweet]], and is, in general, rather nice, she is actually quite quick to anger, and her wrath is [[BewareTheNiceOnes best avoided]]. She also speaks German, apparently. The second season reveals her first name is Bonnibel, and her true age has also been revealed: [[spoiler:827]]. |
| 464 | ---- |
| 465 | * ActionGirl: If the beatdown she gave Ricardio is anything go by, she definitely qualifies. And just to make sure it sticks, the chase and knife fight in "Wizard City". |
| 466 | * AffectionateNickname: Finn sometimes calls her "Peebles", among others. "Bonnie" is a pretty big one as only her closest friends are the ones who call her by her first name to begin with, let alone a nickname based off it. |
| 467 | * TheAgeless: In "The Suitor," PB's suitors say they have been waiting for centuries. In the flashback of "Earth & Water" (fifteen years ago), PB still looks the same age. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that she's over 800 years old.]] |
| 468 | * AlliterativeName: Her proper name (thus far spoken only by Marceline) is Bonnibel Bubblegum. |
| 469 | * AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler:At this point, her BigDamnKiss with Marceline is a well-known moment,]]. There's some subtext with Shoko. The ambiguity comes from her lack of attraction to males: rejecting Finn (under-aged/[[MayflyDecemberRomance mortal]]) Braco (a third generation professional suitor who's hopelessly InLoveWithLove), Ice King, and Ricardio (both [[StalkerWithACrush stalkers with a crush]]). However, there's her [[AmicableExes former boyfriend]], Mr. Creampuff, whom she tried bringing BackFromTheDead in the [[Recap/AdventureTimeS1E1SlumberPartyPanic first episode]], but [[spoiler:he was made for her specifically as a boyfriend, although she does keep it going with him for a while at least]] There's also her seeming immunity to Broco's love curse-- only for it to be revealed that she did have some feelings for him at the end, the fact that they were not nearly as strong as say, Peppermint Butler's is notable. |
| 470 | * AmicableExes: She tries to revive her ex-boyfriend Mr. Creampuff in the first episode, so there's likely no negative feelings on her side [[spoiler:even considering he was made by Gumbald to distract her from his plans]]. |
| 471 | * AnthropomorphicFood: Her body is actually a mass of gum. In "Princess Monster Wife", we get to see a [[BodyHorror cross-section of her head, and she has no physical brain.]] This is in contrast with Turtle Princess, where we can actually see her brain. See BlobMonster below. |
| 472 | * AntiHero: She shows sign of this as early as Season 1 when dealing with the Duke of Nuts, but it becomes much more evident as the show goes on. She does whatever she has to for the Candy Kingdom, but her devotion to being the best ruler possible makes her distrustful and emotionally cold, and she sometimes makes very morally dubious choices for what she considers the greater good, or engaging in sneaky political maneuvering. It's been revealed that she constantly spies on the entire world, including her most loyal allies and servants. |
| 473 | * BadassAdorable: Aww, look, how [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirky]] and [[TheCutie cute]]- Wait, is she firing [[EnergyWeapon lasers]]? AWESOME! |
| 474 | * BadassBookworm: She has ''singlehandedly'' created a formula to ''reverse death itself'' with ''no side effects!'' Aside from being a skilled scientist, she's also surprisingly skilled in hand to hand combat, being strong enough to tear Ricardio's limbs off with her ''bare hands''. |
| 475 | * BenevolentDictator: She has complete control and power over her candy citizens, having created them herself. However, the show mostly depicts her as being a genuinely caring, if often authoritarian, ruler. |
| 476 | * BetterAsFriends: With Finn. After various ups and down, Finn also settles for just being happy being friends with her. |
| 477 | ** On the other hand, "King Worm" and "The Lich" imply that Finn still harbors romantic feeling for Princess Bubblegum. Hinted further when Finn was dealing with depression over the loss of his arm in "Breezy" and it's the sight of her (along with what would be his next sword) that fills him with a loving warm feeling that causes his flower arm to sprout into a tree and getting his arm back. Further still, his happy place as shown in "Hero Heart" is himself with Princess Bubblegum or rather her younger self, showing he clearly still cares about her beyond platonically. |
| 478 | ** Then there's the fact how Finn is an emotional crutch for Princess Bubblegum and the uniqueness of their relationship. It ends up being PlayedWith since while they are BetterAsFriends for the sake of allowing Bonnibel to run her kingdom and Finn being a hero, it's evident that the emotional aspects remain complicated. |
| 479 | * BettyAndVeronica: The Archie to Finn's Betty and Marceline's Veronica. |
| 480 | ** She also is the Betty to Flame Princess's Veronica for Finn's Archie. |
| 481 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: As sweet as she is, to invoke her wrath would be inadvisable. Ricardio learned that the hard way. |
| 482 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Temporarily served as the main antagonist of the ''Elements'' miniseries along with Betty and Patience St. Pim.]] |
| 483 | * BigGood: She serves as the main authority figure of the series and is usually the one who provides Finn and Jake with their missions. |
| 484 | ** Later episodes imply that she has been helping rebuild society in Ooo after the Great Mushroom War. |
| 485 | * BigBrotherIsWatching: She has ''extensive'' surveillance network throughout Ooo, reaching even neighboring kingdoms. At the end of "The Cooler" she takes it down, reminiscent of the scene from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' where Lucius Fox destroyed their surveillance network. |
| 486 | * BlobMonster: The pink goo in "Simon & Marcy" can easily be seen as proto-Bubblegum, but the creators confirmed that such pink goo in one of the games is Bubblegum's parents. In "Bonnie and Neddy", it's revealed that she was originally part of a massive wad of gum that she refers to as "the Mother Gum"; she eventually broke away from it and over time she grew into what she is now. |
| 487 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Toes the line. Some of her experiments don't exactly seem all that humane or safe, for example, but it seems her priorities are too long-term to show in 11 minutes a week. |
| 488 | ** There are things that can be guessed at. She is centuries old, but she has explicitly stated that she's ''not'' immortal. Considering she's also TheAgeless, she may very well not be certain of how long her lifespan really is. Between that, how often she and/or the Candy Kingdom are in danger, and how incredibly high-maintenance the candy people are, it's not really surprising how desperate PB is to have either a competent successor or a way to stave off/undo death as soon as possible. |
| 489 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Her quirks don't show ''too'' much, given the setting. |
| 490 | * BrokenBird: Not quite as bad as Marcy, but trauma over being possessed by the Lich is what drove her to create Goliad, she's a {{workaholic}} who emotionally detaches herself from problems, and the stress of being a {{No Respect G|uy}}irl ruler can get to her, as well being the subject of several {{dogged nice guy}}s' scary affections. |
| 491 | ** The season six finale sees her realize how much of a jerk she was to the candy people on top of losing her throne (aka her one purpose in life) to the King of Ooo. |
| 492 | ** "Bad Timing" reveals that she keeps cyanide pills in case her castle is attacked, and the events of the episode drive her to drink at the end. |
| 493 | ** "Something Big" implies that she's repressed so many negative emotions in order to keep herself and the kingdom going, that she's a walking well of raw emotional power, and a prime target for Maja. |
| 494 | * CelibateHero: Of the "Love is a Distraction" variety. Finn, Ice King, Ricardio, Braco, and a throng of other suitors have all tried to woo her at one point, but she all turned them down in favor of ruling over her kingdom properly. It's also heavily implied that the reason she and Marceline originally broke up years before the series started was because she needed to focus on the growing Candy Kingdom. |
| 495 | ** Nearly subverted in the episode "Too Young". She clearly is indulging her time being a younger girl free of the responsibilities of running the Candy Kingdom. She spends much of the episode having fun with Finn and their time together is ''saturated'' with ShipTease. In fact, in Candy Prison, Bonnibel notes that she wishes to remain young with the heavy implications of her growing up alongside Finn in a not-so-platonic way. However, she chooses to become her older age (namely because Lemongrab's rule of Candy Kingdom is tearing the place to pieces.) though her way of growing up invovles sharing a kiss with Finn. |
| 496 | ** [[spoiler: This is finally subverted in "Come Along With Me" where her renewed relationship with Marceline was confirmed. However, this also came with PB befriending her Aunt Lollie and thus being able to have someone to share power with.]] |
| 497 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: PB occasionally expresses that she'd be relieved to abandon the responsibilities of her position, the problem being that there's no one capable enough to take over for her. "Too Young" was the first prominent example of her revealing this; she would've been more than happy to remain as a younger lady (and [[ShipTease spending time with Finn]]). |
| 498 | * CharacterDevelopment: In "The Cooler", she gets a WhatTheHellHero speech from Flame Princess and after admitting she doesn't want to be considered a bad person, she stops her SinisterSurveillance. In "The Pajama War" and later episodes of season six, as difficult as it is for her, she's also trying to mellow out and not be so controlling. After losing the throne, she realizes just how neglectful and controlling she was to her subjects and has started to mellow out more. [[spoiler:During "Come Along With Me" when she almost started a war against her Uncle Gumbald after he returned to normal, she is out into a nightmare where both of them swap places and she experiences how Gumbald, Lolly and Chicle [[AndIMustScream could still think like normal, but were unable to express it due to the dum-dum juice]] and finally apologized to Gumbald for taking away his kingdom due to not thinking about how he felt.]] |
| 499 | * CheerfulChild: Due to a plot-relevant age-down, she was physically 13, and cute as a button to boot. |
| 500 | * CoolCrown: It can even protect her from the Lich's mind control. She stopped wearing it when she lost the Candy Kingdom's throne to the King of Ooo, but she got it back after regaining her position. |
| 501 | * CrazyPrepared: In "Lady & Peebles" she tells Rainicorn that she has calculated every possible disaster and has brought everything they would need. And also implanted a GPS tracker in Finn's ear at some point in the past. |
| 502 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: Her creations have a bad habit of turning against her: |
| 503 | ** Goliad went power mad and has to be trapped in a psychic battle with another sphinx. |
| 504 | ** Lemongrab became a dangerous dictator, who had to be rebuilt to make himself stable. |
| 505 | ** And the biggest of all is her "Uncle" Gumbald. He's just as smart as she is -- but infinitely more dangerous and with zero morals. |
| 506 | * CuteAndPsycho: She can be a bit crazy sometimes, but she's still ultimately on the side of good. |
| 507 | * CuteMonsterGirl: She's a very humanoid Candy Person, with most of the others looking like sweets or cakes with faces and limbs. |
| 508 | * DamselInDistress: She was captured by the Ice King in the pilot, and being his 'number one', is targeted by him on a frequent basis. |
| 509 | ** During the climax of Ricardio's debut episode, he has her held hostage, leading Finn, Jake, and [[EnemyMine Ice King]] to come save her. |
| 510 | * DamselOutOfDistress: |
| 511 | ** She's only kidnapped by the Ice King when she doesn't have effective countermeasures on hand. When she does, she often out-and-out attacks him successfully (with a tranq gun in "The Glitch", apparently working his pinky over in "Wizards Only, Fools"...). |
| 512 | ** She finds herself in trouble with Ricardio in "Lady & Peebles", but she manages to beat him up this time, and [[CurbStompBattle it wasn't even close]]. |
| 513 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: She is the secondary focus of the ''Stakes'' miniseries not only having a big role in Marceline’s character development, but also due to the King of Ooo arc being resolved in the miniseries as well. Same goes for the "Obsidian" special, with it going into Marceline and Bubblegum's history. |
| 514 | * DemonicPossession: The Lich pulls this off on her, ultimately leading to her being [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] in the fight against Finn and the Ice King and put back together, but since some pieces were missing she [[FountainOfYouth came back younger]], [[PuppyLove as old as Finn to be exact]]. |
| 515 | * DoingInTheWizard: Even though the magic and such in Ooo was implied to be something else, even early on in the show, she's the only one to openly debunk it. |
| 516 | * DudeMagnet: She has [[AllLovingHero Finn]] and [[DirtyOldMan Ice King]] (and [[CuteMonsterGirl Marceline]]) vying for her affections, along with all the wizards competing for her kiss in "Wizard Battle" and all the suitors in "The Suitor" (which reveals that at least one Candy Kingdom family have been trying to court her for ''generations''). Lumpy Space Princess points this out in "Bad Timing" and is furious, because while LSP ''tries'' to be this PB succeeds without any apparent effort, and isn't interested in any of them. |
| 517 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: She gets plenty of worship and romantic attention, but not a whole lot of respect. Comes to a head in "Apple Wedding", where everyone immediately views the King Of Ooo, a complete fraud, as having more authority than her and she rages so much that she nearly ruins the whole wedding. |
| 518 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: PB was a lot sillier in the first few seasons of the show and carefree, even attending talent shows and relaxing with her fellow citizens compared to the {{Workaholic}} she would become. She also isn't against magic, as she volunteers to kiss the winner in "Wizard Battle"[[note]]On the mouth![[/note]], which goes against both her FlatEarthAtheist views against magic and her CelibateHero status. |
| 519 | * ElementalEmbodiment: She is the embodiment of Candy, one of Ooo's four elements, the others being Fire, Ice, and Slime. She learns in "Elemental" that she can shoot candy out of her hands. |
| 520 | * EmperorScientist: She's the ruler of Ooo whose power seems to be from the fact that she ''made'' most of her candy subjects. (And can make replacements, if necessary.) |
| 521 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: [[spoiler:She becomes the "Terrible Tower" in the ''Elements'' arc, turning into a giant bubblegum tower who turns people into candy with her presence alone.]] |
| 522 | * FaceHeelTurn: Came dangerously close to turning into a full-on BigBad at several points in Seasons 5 and 6. Fortunately, she was reined in by Flame Princess in "The Cooler". |
| 523 | ** [[spoiler: Temporarily under went this when she became a pure candy Elemental. Thankfully she was restored back to her normal self at the end of the ''Elements'' miniseries]]. |
| 524 | ** [[spoiler:She almost went through one again during the final season when she almost started a war with her Uncle Gumbald in an aggressive manner until Finn forced both of them into a nightmare where they were eventually forced to swap places with each other and experience what the other went through. She was finally reigned in when Bubblegum ended up realizing how her relatives could still think like before after being doused with dum-dum juice, but were forced to act stupid and unable to properly express what they really thought. After waking up, she immediately apologized to Gumbald for taking away his kingdom.]] |
| 525 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Bubblegum makes it clear that she would gladly give up being ruler of the Candy Kingdom because of [[TheChainsOfCommanding how demanding the job is]]. Unfortunately when she has actually stepped down she is shown as lost and longing for it back, both because she has already devoted almost the entirety of her life to it and because her successors are inadequate. So she either keeps at a job she doesn't want or finds herself without purpose. |
| 526 | * FlatEarthAtheist: She can be very dismissive of magic, considering it an ignorant term for the use of scientific principles that its users simply don't understand, despite the extremely bizarre nature of Ooo making her skepticism seem arbitrary to everyone else. It should be noted that it's less she doesn't believe magic isn't real, but rather everything called magic is just a subset of science, and goes so far as to call out what scientific principles are being used when she sees magic in action. This is in spite of the fact that one of her friends is a half-vampire/half-demon who is the daughter of a demon lord, one of her associates is a ghost princess, Death is an actual character in the show, and multiple afterlives (called "Dead Worlds") are stated by ghosts and Death to exist. She is implied to have lost this skepticism at the end of "Wizards Only, Fools" when she saw the cold spell in action. Strangely, she didn't have this open skepticism and hostility towards magic earlier in the show, having a fairly cordial relationship with the wizards and even agreeing to give a kiss to the wizard who won a magic competition in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS3E8WizardBattle Wizard Battle]]". She even used a magical incantation to turn dough into a loaf of bread in "Five Short Graybles." |
| 527 | * FirstNameBasis: At least some people like Finn have started calling her Bonnie after she lost her throne to the King of Ooo. Finn and Marceline continued to do this after she regained it. |
| 528 | * FoodBasedSuperpowers: Princess Bubblegum is a "Candy Elemental" and has the power to generate and fire jawbreakers as weapons. She just doesn't use the power because she scorns magic and favors science. |
| 529 | * ForScience: She does most of her exploits for science when it's not diplomacy or just hanging out. |
| 530 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The very first episode hints at her being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Finn refers to PB's first subject of her revival potion as ''Old Man'' Creampuff, following it up with the fact they used to date. Given the fact PB isn't into a DirtyOldMan like the Ice King, it's pretty clear she's much older than she says. |
| 531 | * FountainOfYouth: Got de-aged to 13, briefly. Otherwise, she either ages slowly or not at all. |
| 532 | * GiantPoofySleeves: On her 'princess' dresses. |
| 533 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's a ProperLady who presents herself as a PrincessClassic and always wears pink. However, she's also a gifted EmperorScientist and a [[PrincessesRule Ruling Princess]] who can be quite ruthless and calculating in the interests of her realm. |
| 534 | * GivenNameReveal: "Go With Me" Marceline reveals that her first name is Bonnibel, and is the only character to refer to her as such until Season 7 where Finn occasionally calls her such as well. |
| 535 | * GratuitousGerman: Uses it fairly often in "What Have You Done?", and a few others. She sometimes breaks into it when surprised or worried. |
| 536 | * GrowingUpSucks: She tells Finn that she would rather stay 13 than turn 18 again and have to deal with the responsibilities that come with being an adult ruler. |
| 537 | * GuestFighter: She's a DLC skin for Lord Vraxx in ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'' |
| 538 | * HeelRealization: |
| 539 | ** After Season Five ramped up her less than desirable traits, Season Six had her realize the error of her ways, [[CharacterDevelopment with Season Seven being her redemption.]] |
| 540 | ** [[spoiler:During "Come Along With Me" when she wanted to wage war on her Uncle Gumbald, she has another one in a nightmare when learned that her uncle and other relatives could actually still think intelligently when they were doused by the dum-dum juice, but we're unable to properly express themselves and were forced to act stupid because of it. When she goes though the experience herself, Bubblegum begins crying at what she forced them to go through and immediately apologized to Gumbald after waking up for taking away his kingdom.]] |
| 541 | * HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While she normally has difficulty using her candy powers, her fully awakened candy elemental form is able to easily overpower Flame Princess' army, turns Flame Princess into a candy person, and begins turning people and objects in the other kingdoms into candy as well. This implies that she is actually the strongest of the four elementals and only has trouble with her powers because her rational mind is a poor match for using magic.]] |
| 542 | * HollywoodScience: In general, she pulls this off quite nicely. It's taken to a whole new level in "Five Short Graybles" when she uses [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens centrifugal force]], growth and shrink serums a la ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', TwoBeingsOneBody teleportation of a jellyfish and a balloon, WhiteMagic with a BlackMagic feel, [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], molecular fabrication, [[MartialArtsAndCrafts karate]], a [[BatterUp baseball bat]] and levitation. All to '' '''[[MundaneMadeAwesome make a sandwich]]'''.'' Keep in mind that this was "the most perfect sandwich to ever exist, or will exist in the confines of space-time". |
| 543 | * HowDoIShotWeb: In "Jelly Beans Have Power" she is shown to have difficulty using her powers intuitively like the other elementals, initially causing her to be limited to a weak jelly bean projectile. She is eventually able to get past this block by thinking through the chemical formulations of different kinds of candy, but she still lacks experience and inadvertently injures several candy subjects in the aftermath. This causes her to largely ignore her magic after that point and fall back on technology most of the time. |
| 544 | * HypocriticalHeartwarming: As much of a schmuck as Lemongrab is, he's still ''her'' schmuck, darn it! |
| 545 | * IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: She is clearly aware of Finn's infatuation with her since the beginning, but only wishes to have a courtly albeit casual friendship with him. However, after the first battle with the Lich resulted in her becoming 13 years old (physically and mentally), she becomes much more openly affectionate to her hero. Her first action was to embrace him affectionately and the next episode we see them together, she indulges in spending plenty of time with him while being a CheerfulChild, hinting that she is being much more open wih her wants and desires, up to wanting to remain 13 with the implications of growing up alongside Finn. However, she dismisses these moments as "that was five years ago" when she turns back to normal of 18. Then there's this moment from "Burning Low", where she thinks Jake listened to her about Flame Princess, but Jake interpreted it differently and told Finn she's jealous. Then there's this line (referring to how Finn being with FP is dangerous because the intense emotions could cause FP's power to go out of control), but Finn (and the audience) understandably interprets this differently: |
| 546 | --> '''Princess Bubblegum''': Finn, sometimes you want someone and you want to kiss them, and be with them. But you can't, because responsibility demands sacrifice. |
| 547 | --> '''Finn''': What are you trying to say?! |
| 548 | --> '''Princess Bubblegum''': I'm trying to say that you're a hero, Finn. You're my hero. |
| 549 | ** After the episode, it appears that she does not have any romantic feelings for Finn. However, her tendency to put the kingdom above her own desires or that of her friends along with her own secretative nature and bottling up her feelings mean it is difficult to guage her honesty. Them being BetterAsFriends is for her since it allows her to properly rule her kingdom and based on her word choice, let Finn be the hero Ooo needs him to be. [[spoiler: Seems to become rather moot by the end though.]] |
| 550 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Bonnibel has been forced to take actions that she's regretted for the greater good. Shown clearly in "Burning Low" when she is nearly forced to allow Finn and Flame Princess to suffocate to prevent the latter from destroying the world. |
| 551 | ** Season 5 throws a lot of this her way. She almost always has a good (or at least [[AmbiguousSituation plausible]]) reason for everything she does, but she's not above [[ShootTheDog making sacrifices]]. |
| 552 | ** This excuse is turned on its head in "The Cooler" where Bonnibel nearly dooms the Fire Kingdom based off the idea the Sleeping Fire Giants ''might'' pose a problem later, with Flame Princess chewing her out that this isn't a matter of PB doing it for the sake of her people as much as she simply a bad person. This shakes PB to her core, having never considered herself as such, and stops her SinisterSurveillance and her acts against the Flame Kingdom in general. |
| 553 | * IdiotBall: Shares this with Peppermint Butler in ''Stakes'' as somehow both of them saw no real issue in having the recently blinded Peppermint Butler dispose of Vampire King's vampiric essence. Unsurprisingly he almost immediately sets off a chain of events that results in the raw essence being unleashed. |
| 554 | * ImAHumanitarian: Or, Candytarian in this case. It's a downplayed case as she never eats an entire candy citizen and it only happens a couple times, but Princess Bubblegum has been shown to eat parts of her candy citizens when stressed if they're too close, which is pretty disturbing considering that she chose to create them from candy in the first place. |
| 555 | * ImmortalityBisexuality: Bubblegum had a romantic relationship with fellow immortal Marceline in the past, [[spoiler:which they rekindle by the series finale.]] |
| 556 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Ambiguous. With an UnwantedHarem of men (both Good, Evil and Neutral) pining for her affections, the only person who's affections she openly reciprocates is [[spoiler:Marceline.]] Whether or not she's attracted to men is up to debate. |
| 557 | * InelegantBlubbering: Bonnibel is ''not'' attractive when she cries. When Finn agrees to help her cure her subjects of Freezer Burn Flu, the happiness plus the stress of having her entire kingdom sick nearly makes her burst into tears. Bulging, tear filled eyes, loud sobbing. |
| 558 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: After she sends Lumpy Space Princess back to a form before she met her true love (who was accidentally erased from existence), she sighs and pours herself a glass of [[GRatedDrug root beer]]. |
| 559 | * InsufferableGenius: Pops up from time to time, in the sense that the intelligence gap between her and just about everyone else in the area is wide enough to cause problems. It's been present since "Slumber Party Panic", but really only hits a boil in "Wizards Only, Fool" - they wouldn't have had to leave the hospital if she'd just played along with Starchy's need for a 'magic' cure. |
| 560 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Did this to the Ice King in "Wizards Only, Fools." |
| 561 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Rattleballs" when she makes it ''look'' like she destroyed Rattleballs. |
| 562 | ** Comes close to it in "The Cooler" when she attempts to destroy the Fire Kingdom's sleeping fire giants, but has a HeelRealization thanks to Flame Princess and backs off from the slope as a result. |
| 563 | * KickTheDog: One of her lowest moments is conspiring with the Ice King against the Fire Kingdom and cooling its core while getting most of the sleeping fire giants destroyed in order to ensure that they would not be used against the Candy Kingdom, ignoring the fact Flame Princess legitimately had no intention to act against the other kingdoms and this action could doom the entire kingdom. Phoebe rightfully calls her out on this. |
| 564 | * LastNameBasis: No one (apart from Marceline and Finn) calls her Bonnibel. |
| 565 | * LawfulGood: InUniverse-assigned alignment in the comic series. |
| 566 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: She is this to her brother, Neddy, a candy dragon. Unlike his sister, he is very sensitive, docile and is quite fearful of the outside world (implied to be a result of his first experience of living is pain). As such, she is the only person who can comfort him and who he feels comfortable with for the most part. |
| 567 | ** It is heavily implied that Finn serves as this to her as well. Her relatonship with him is unique, being one of her true bonds beyond her maternal figures toward the Candy citizens and said bond possesses a close intimacy surpassing PB's friendship with her fellow princesses with the only other bond being close being with Lady Rainicorn. She relies on him heavily and thinks highly of him. At the same time, she is the one dictating the terms of their bond, at least in the sense of it remaining platonic for the sake of her duties. She also is willing to be secretative with him on a fair bit of matters. Ultimately, she does very care about him alot, including his emotional well-being. |
| 568 | * MadScientist: Some episodes seem to indicate that [[CuteAndPsycho she's not exactly quite right in the head]]. Add that and the fact that her [[ForScience scientific exploits]] (case in point: [[TheMentallyDisturbed Lemongrab]]) tend to go wrong half the time, and we get this. In "The Lich", Finn and Jake find her working late into the night creating tiny candy people who farm in a tiny candy sandbox. Then she cuts off one's limbs with a scissor and attaches them to another (which they don't seem to mind much), for no stated reason. |
| 569 | * MamaBear: She acts this way towards Lemongrab in "You Made Me!", and is in general willing to go to extreme lengths for the sake of the Candy citizens. |
| 570 | * MeaningfulName: Her first name is Bonnibel, which means "beautiful girl". Which makes sense considering she was Finn's crush from Seasons 1-3 and is the main princess the Ice King targets. It also sounds very similar to "bonbon," the French word for "candy." |
| 571 | * MiniMecha: Seems to be wearing one in "Wizards Only, Fools". What's odd is that it only covers her upper torso and [[MotionCaptureMecha follows her arms' movements]], leaving her legs fully exposed (with the undersuit she's wearing possibly acting as PoweredArmor, though there's nothing for or against this). It's unclear why ''exactly'' she felt the need to wear it, though she likely came directly from getting the Ice King to reveal the Wizard City password - [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]]-style by the sound of it. |
| 572 | * ModestRoyalty: During her off-hours, she's generally very content to hang out with Finn and Jake on their adventures wearing clothing much more simple than you'd expect for royalty, with the exception of [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/84568447@N00/5617101485/in/photostream/ keeping]] [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/84568447@N00/6166909562/in/photostream/ her crown]]. |
| 573 | * MoreDakka: Whenever there is a pressing need for her to save her kingdom/friends through direct action, Peebles will do so with as much force as she can reasonably pull together. Note that she already has a laser-firing joystick-controlled swan bigger than she is - she had ''at least'' two guns in "Lady & Peebles", one of which was roughly equivalent to a ''grenade launcher''. |
| 574 | * MotherlyScientist: Played with; she mainly comes across as a MadScientist, and as a result initially had a rather strained relationship with Lemongrab, who she considered to be a failed experiment. Later on, she tries to be more motherly towards Goliad, but when Goliad goes mad with power and attempts to take over the Candy Kingdom [=PB=] has no choice but to abandon that attitude in order to stop her. However, she's slowly improving her relationship with Lemongrab, and he even calls her "Mother Princess." She treats the Lemongrabs the way a frustrated but patient mom would treat her annoying "special needs" children, and calls them "boys" affectionately. She even says something along the lines of "I need to keep a closer eye on these two, so they won't get into any more trouble. " As of "Too Old" and "Lemonhope Part 1 and 2", how well this applies to the way she views the Lemongrabs is questionable. |
| 575 | * MrViceGuy: Or vice girl in this case. Most of the time, Bubblegum is a [[{{Pun}} sweet-natured]], kind girl. Unfortunately, she's layered with deep-suited trauma, dishonest tendencies and her insistence in trying to bring order to Ooo. |
| 576 | * MsExposition: Often. Unfortunately, she tends to explain things from a broader perspective than necessary - "Burning Low" would have been a lot shorter if she'd given Finn the same explanation she finally gave Jake, for example. |
| 577 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 578 | ** "Nemesis" strongly implies that her IDidWhatIHadToDo tendencies are freaking even her out, as she's awkward when asked about the rattleballs robots, and she thinks ''she's'' the evil one Peace Master is looking for. She's not, it's Peppermint Butler. |
| 579 | ** [[spoiler:After being put in a nightmare by Finn with her Uncle Gumbald during "Come Along With Me", both of them are forced to swap places with each other and experience what the other went through. While Gumbald experiences Bubblegum's issues with TheChainsOfCommanding, she experiences how [[AndIMustScream he could still think intelligently after being doused with dum-dum juice, but could only act stupid and was unable to express how he truly felt at the time]]. After realizing this, she begins to cry and immediately apologized to him for taking away his kingdom after they both wake up.]] |
| 580 | * NecessarilyEvil: Creator/HyndenWalch describes her as a "selflessly evil" character, since she wants to do good and stabilize the land of Ooo, but unfortunately her methods of doing so border on dictatorship. Following "The Cooler", she has begun to move away from this. [[spoiler:During the final season, she almost starts a war against her Uncle Gumbald in an increasingly aggressive manner. After experiencing what he went through after being doused by dum-dum juice however, she realized how cruel her actions were and immediately apologized for taking away his kingdom in the past.]] |
| 581 | * NerdsAreSexy: Again, at least according to Finn. Even if he doesn't admit it. |
| 582 | ** Although he {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it himself. |
| 583 | * TheNoseless: Like most people in Ooo, she lacks a visible nose. |
| 584 | * {{No Respect G|uy}}irl: She was the one who created the Candy Kingdom and the majority of the candy people, so is angry when the King Of Ooo waltzes in out of nowhere, is proven to be a fraud and her subjects would still rather obey him than her just because he has a higher title. |
| 585 | * NoSell: Ultimately subverted. In "The Suitor," a demon makes Braco ugly in exchange for becoming a love magnet, and it seems to work as Pep-But is immediately infatuated with him (although given he's something of a NightmareFetishist, it could also be Braco's [[BodyHorror appearance]] that made him attracted to him). [[IncompatibleOrientation She still doesn't display any notable affection for him]]. That is, until after he leaves, tenderly whisper "My love" as he goes into the distance. |
| 586 | * NotSoAboveItAll: With a little coaxing from Finn and Jake, even she finds the antics of the Banana Guards chasing the Jameses funny. |
| 587 | * ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: When Bubblegum was overrun by her Elemental powers and became a pure candy Elemental she began turning everyone she could into idiotic candy zombies, but did not realize what harm she was doing to them at the time, and actually thought that everyone was happier that way]]. |
| 588 | * OddNameOut: She's the only princess in the series whose name doesn't follow the "(Descriptive Noun) Princess" formula. (There's also Princess Business, but she's only mentioned, never shown.) |
| 589 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Marceline as of "Come Along with Me".]] |
| 590 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: Bubblegum is usually a DamselOutOfDistress, saving herself or at least angry that she's in peril. Which is why it's weird in James II where she's just standing in the same place scared when Zombie!James menaces her, thus letting the other James save her and prove himself. |
| 591 | * ParasolOfPrettiness: She holds a pink and purple one in the beginning of "Incendium", accentuating both her femininity and royal status. |
| 592 | * PetTheDog: Although she has done many unscrupulous things in her life, in [[GrandFinale "Come Along With Me"]], [[spoiler:she ordered her Banana Guards to run for their lives from the [[EldritchAbomination Monstrosity]] that GOLB created, clearly cementing her as empathetic]]. |
| 593 | * PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: She does a lot of princess-ing in the main series, but in "Obsidian" and ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'' she's only really shown living with Marceline as opposed to ruling the Candy Kingdom. [[spoiler:Given she now shares power with Aunt Lolly]], it's not like she's leaving the kingdom in incapable hands. |
| 594 | * PlagueDoctor: When the plague accidentally caused by the Ice King was afflicting the Candy Kingdom, she is seen in this outfit. |
| 595 | * PlotRelevantAgeUp: In "Too Young", she has to become eighteen again to regain the throne from Earl Lemongrab. |
| 596 | * PottyEmergency: Happens to Princess Bubblegum at the beginning of "Trouble in Lumpy Space". "I should not have drank that much tea!" |
| 597 | * {{Pride}}: A major FatalFlaw of hers. She's so adamant that magic isn't anything special that she refuses to pretend to use magic on Starchy to make him feel better. So she's forced to go to Wizard City and drag Finn and Jake along. The Grand Master Wizard offers them forgiveness for trespassing, so long as PB says that "wizards rule." Of course, she refuses and degrades and derides their beliefs about magic, and thus gets herself, Finn, Jake, and Abracadaniel thrown in Wizard Prison. |
| 598 | * PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: Princess Bubblegum is prim, proper, poised, ''very'' pink and also one of the best defenses that her kingdom has. She also singlehandedly defeated Ricardio, even when he hurts Lady Rainicorn. Even Finn, her champion, occasionally needs her to bail him out of trouble. |
| 599 | * PrincessClassic: Mostly an AffectionateParody of the trope, but is often played straight. She is prim, proper, poised, is frequently a DamselInDistress, and [[PrincessesPreferPink loves pink]]. |
| 600 | * PrincessesPreferPink: Note that she does have other outfits, several of which aren't very pink - the ones she wears as Princess are all pink-ish. |
| 601 | * PureIsNotGood: She is sweet, kind, friendly, and has a strong sense of justice. Precisely, that is the reason why her methods of justice are morally questionable or dictatorial. |
| 602 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: |
| 603 | ** She's at least 300. In the game ''Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW!'', she tells the Ice King that she's [[spoiler:827 years old]]. |
| 604 | ** In "The Suitor", it's revealed PB's various suitors have been waiting to court her for ''hundreds'' of years. |
| 605 | ** It's been demonstrated via flashback that scales back centuries (and [[LampshadeHanging finally outright acknowledged]] by Finn) as of "The Vault". |
| 606 | --->'''Finn:''' PB, you are like a bazillion years old! You're not freaking 19! What the heck?!\ |
| 607 | '''PB:''' ''(embarrassed)'' Hahaha...\ |
| 608 | '''Finn:''' Weirdo. |
| 609 | * {{Realpolitik}}: Has been steadily getting more willing to keep tabs on ''everyone'', and is willing to directly sabotage other kingdoms (particularly the Fire Kingdom) to maintain peace. However, she also emphasizes using peaceful means first, only stepping up to more violent methods when those have failed. |
| 610 | * RoseHairedSweetie: Her hair is pink (as is her whole body), and she's a sweet princess ([[BewareTheNiceOnes most of the time]]). |
| 611 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: May actually be the most active of all the Princesses in Ooo. Not that the bar is set terribly high; the only other princesses who seem to do anything other than "exist" are Turtle Princess, who is a librarian, Lumpy Space Princess, who is basically a hobo and occasionally picks up odd jobs (like being an "adventure secretary"/"writer" in "Gotcha!"). The only other princess with a decent track record of doing stuff is Fire Princess, who threatened Candy Kingdom, adventured with Finn, and usurped her father and turned Fire Kingdom's CardCarryingVillain nature around. Also deconstructed as she often burdens herself with too much to do and [[TheChainsOfCommanding she feels crushed by her responsibilities]]. |
| 612 | * RubberWoman: Far more downplayed than Jake, but in "Have You Seen The Muffin Mess", when the plague cuts off her arm, she can stretch her bubblegum self into a new one with fingers. |
| 613 | * SanitySlippage: PB gets more and more... stressed... over the course of the series. Hints about it are first shown in "The Duke" when Finn accidentally hits her with a bottle that turns her skin green and makes her hair fall out causes PB to go... well, [[{{Pun}} nuts]]. |
| 614 | -->'''Princess Bubblegum:''' Bring [the Duke of Nuts] to justice! ''(suddenly maniacal)'' The justice of a ''cold dungeon!'' ''(cackles insanely)'' |
| 615 | * ScienceHero: Bubblegum's scientific intellect has gotten Finn, Jake, herself, and the whole kingdom out of trouble at times - even if it was her [[ForScience scientific exploits]] that got them into trouble in the first place. |
| 616 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Experimenting on living creatures? Creating new life from your friend's DNA without asking? Preemptively destroying other kingdom's forces? Dictating her subject's lives to the point of who marries who? Hating someone for eating pudding? Sending your hero off to beat the snot out someone for the greater good? Don't worry, it's fine. It doesn't really matter how questionable her activities are, because Princess Bubblegum is the sole ruler of the Candy Kingdom. She gets to do what she wants, no matter how morally questionable. Though she is sometimes persuaded by her friends to stop certain behaviors, there's nothing making her do anything. Starting with season 6 however, she eventually begins to realize that she is causing more harm than good and starts toning this down. |
| 617 | * SherlockScan: Bubblegum is shown to have this ability in "Sky Witch". |
| 618 | * SinisterSurveillance: She admits that she spies on everybody in "The Cooler", and doesn't find it to be an issue that people are disturbed by this. By the end of the episode, she seems to get the hint, and unplugs her entire secret surveillance system and locks up the door. |
| 619 | * TheSmartGirl: She's very skilled when it comes to scientific matters. |
| 620 | * SociopathicHero: Creator/RebeccaSugar described her as a sociopath, though clarified that she wasn't a ''literal'' example and more a case of [[BrokenBird someone trying to be like one, suppressing emotions and empathy for what they perceive to be the greater good.]] Starting with Season Six, she's started to change upon realizing how unhealthy this way of living is. |
| 621 | * SophisticatedAsHell: She provides shades of this, shifting from words like "shall" and "beseech" and phrases like "You seem genuinely penitent" to words like "hun" and "ah-ight" and phrases like "You'd better not freakin' tell ''anyone!''" and "Mondo momma brains!" and "ballblamburglerber". |
| 622 | * SourSupporter: Spends most of "Wizards Only, Fool" like this. As she's clearly having to go considerably out of her way (both physically and philosophically) to satisfy a request from one of her subjects, it makes sense. |
| 623 | * SpearCounterpart: Prince Gumball. |
| 624 | * StereotypeFlip: Of PrincessClassic. She's so pink she's bubblegum, with a modest pink dress and long hair as her default look, but she's actually a BrokenBird {{workaholic}} who'll protect her kingdom no matter what the cost and keeps cyanide pills in her meeting room. |
| 625 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Most of her subjects are pretty dumb. [[JustifiedTrope Turns out she made them that way to ensure their loyalty,]] [[IgnoranceIsBliss and also because they appear to be a lot happier as such.]] Whenever they become intelligent rational beings, they tend to be treacherous jerkasses. However, this eventually bites her during the season 6 finale when the King of Ooo easily manipulates them to turn against her and elect him as their ruler instead. When she attempts to call them out on it however, she sees them smiling, blissfully unaware of what they done with her realizing that she made them too stupid as well as how she treated them. [[spoiler:After experiencing what Gumbald, Lolly and Chicle went through after being doused with dum-dum juice in a nightmare, she begins crying as she realized how cruel she actually was to them and immediately apologized to Gumbald after waking up.]] |
| 626 | * TeenGenius: Subverted; early on her age is given as 18, and she's one of the smartest beings in Ooo. It then turns out she's actually ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld far]]'' older. |
| 627 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Marceline's Tomboy, with appropriate consequences to [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Marceline's dating advice for Finn.]] (The show makes it clear that Bubblegum is fully capable of doing 'tomboy' things, and the trope as it is applies primarily to their preferences.) |
| 628 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 629 | ** She saves Finn and Jake at the end of "Dungeon" by swooping in on her magic flying swan, controlling a joystick to make it shoot lasers from its mouth. |
| 630 | ** In "What Have You Done?" Princess Bubblegum was about to beat the stuffing out of Ice King... using pink {{Power Fist}}s. |
| 631 | ** In "Lady & Peebles",she [[AnArmAndALeg rips Ricardio apart]] with her bare hands and [[GrievousHarmWithABody beats him to a pulp with his own severed limbs]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard that he made for himself]]. |
| 632 | ** "Reign of Gunthers" solidifies her badass status as she is seen for the first time with a sword and battle attire. |
| 633 | * ToughLeaderFacade: She's composed and has the well-being of her kingdom as her foremost concern. However, it's been shown to be detrimental to her emotional well-being and mental health. She desires time and time again to be free of the mask and it left her isolated. It's implied that it's what cost her [[spoiler: first]] relationship with Marceline and why she ultimately never ended up with Finn. |
| 634 | * TreehouseOfFun: Her castle is built around a tree. |
| 635 | * UnfitForGreatness: Half the time she calls on Finn, it's to make up for her own oversights. Understandably, a lot of this is due to how thinly stretched she is as top scientist and best living diplomat in Ooo, in addition to running the Candy Kingdom part time with little help better than Cinnamon Bun. |
| 636 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: At least fifteen outfits besides her stock pink dress. |
| 637 | * UniversallyBelovedLeader: Her subjects would do nearly anything for her (up to and including donating parts of themselves to her) and she returns that devotion. |
| 638 | ** It seems a large part of this is because she views the majority of the candy people as small children who require constant supervision. Honestly, given their actions, she's not that far off. The fact that she literally ''created'' them adds to this. |
| 639 | ** However, this seems to wane in later seasons, where we see some of her subjects resent her [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]] ways, culminating in electing King of Ooo as their new ruler. Luckily she eventually wins her throne back by Season 7. |
| 640 | * UnscrupulousHero: Don't let [[PrincessClassic first]] [[UniversallyBelovedLeader impressions]] fool you: she's willing to stoop pretty low in various situations. |
| 641 | * UnwantedHarem: There was a point that Finn, Ice King and Ricardio all had crushes on her. She's not comfortable with their romantic pursuits (with the exception of Finn, where there are hints her feelings for him are not entirely platonic.) |
| 642 | ** She literally has a harem of suitors waiting to date her as seen in "The Suitor". She makes it clear that she wants to focus on her studies and doesn't date. Because of this, some of the suitors have been waiting ''hundreds of years.'' |
| 643 | * WellExcuseMePrincess: Marceline kinda implied this regarding her relationship with Princess Bubblegum in her song in "What Was Missing". "Sorry I don't treat you like a goddess", indeed. |
| 644 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: She means well overall, but is willing to pull drastic action if she believes it will aid her citizens. It says something when her own voice actress describes her as a "selflessly evil" kind of character. Flame Princess calls her out on this in "The Cooler". |
| 645 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Considers her subjects expendable, as she can [[OpeningACanOfClones make more]]. She has prevented Finn from sacrificing himself and allowed a candy subject to do so because of this specifically. |
| 646 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:In the ''Elements'' miniseries, Patience transforming her into a pure Candy elemental makes her into a giant, perpetually cheerful tower of bubblegum who [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul forcibly transforms people into constantly happy candy elementals.]]]] |
| 647 | * YouDoNOTWantToKnow: Finn, Jake, and Marceline all agree it is best not to know what PB is up to in her lab. |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | [[folder:BMO]] |
| 651 | !!BMO |
| 652 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bmo_7.png]] |
| 653 | [[caption-width-right:200:"Who wants to play video games?"]] |
| 654 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Niki Yang |
| 655 | |
| 656 | BMO, pronounced ''[[FunWithAcronyms Beemo]]'', is Finn and Jake's {{cute|Machines}} {{Animate Inanimate|Object}} VideoGame system. A bit of a rebel and with a tendency to get lost in his imagination, Beemo sometimes enjoys turning up his volume too loud and running out of batteries during a game. Speaks with a Korean accent, and looks like cross between a Platform/GameBoy, Platform/{{Macintosh}} and a Platform/{{Vectrex}}. [[spoiler:Was built by pre-Mushroom War robotics engineer Moseph Maestro Giovanni to be a companion and best friend to the son he never had and eventually sent into the world by said inventor to "Be More" and find a family]]. |
| 657 | ----- |
| 658 | * AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed in the ''Pirates of the Enchiridion'' video game, while BMO's arsenal in that game is best suited for being a SupportPartyMember, she's still tough enough to keep up with Finn, Jake, and Marceline in fighting alongside them, something that would be difficult for them to pull off in the show. |
| 659 | * AmbiguousGender: Typically referred to as a "he", but was referred to as "M'lady" by Finn in the season 3 premiere. However, he called himself a boy in "Five Short Graybles". And in "Five More Short Graybles" her alter ego claimed to be a "real baby girl". The version of him seen in the Fionna and Cake stories looks ''exactly the same'', so that's no help either. |
| 660 | ** In the ''Pixel Princesses'' comic BMO wishes to become a princess and is eventually made an honorary one -- and the GrandFinale reveals that in the far future [[spoiler: they have become the legendary King of Ooo.]] |
| 661 | ** The [=WonderCon=] Q&A panel confirmed that BMO is genderfluid, and both male and female pronouns apply. |
| 662 | ** In the ''[[TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} Munchkin Adventure Time]]'' card game, every character has a card with two sides, depicting the normal character and gender-bent Fionna and Cake counterpart (as in ''Munchkin'', your character's STARTING gender is the same as your own). While BMO's card has two sides and two different pictures, no gender can be derived from them, and the card outright states that BMO ignores any gender-related stuff in the game. |
| 663 | * AnimateInanimateObject: He's a living video game console. |
| 664 | * BecomeARealBoy: Or he wants to, anyway. |
| 665 | * BreakoutCharacter: Went from a fairly minor character in the first couple of seasons, to being a main character in his own right with several ADayInTheLimelight episodes. |
| 666 | * CassandraTruth: When Jake tells BMO not to mention any of his past life of crime to Finn in "One Last Job", BMO manages to forget keeping it a secret from him. Finn dismisses it as BMO being [[CloudCuckooLander over-actively imaginative]] anyway. |
| 667 | * CharacterDevelopment: While developed initially as a comedic character to play off of Finn and Jake, BMO has grown to be a very complex character, particularly in his ADayInTheLimelight episodes. His association with minor episodic characters is often actions of brutality, love, matronly care, or despair. |
| 668 | ** In "James Baxter the Horse," BMO sings about being pregnant, and carrying around an egg. A butterfly knocks the egg out of BMO's grasp, it shatters on the ground, and BMO starts crying. |
| 669 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: BMO was first treated like a sentient video game console that happened to live with Finn and Jake for the sake of entertainment, but as they got extended focus, they essentially were considered to be their own person and Finn and Jake grew extremely attached to them as a result, viewing them as a child. |
| 670 | * CloudCuckoolander: BMO has a bizarre imagination and can get completely lost in it when left alone. |
| 671 | * CovertPervert: She watches two slugs make out in "Slow Love". |
| 672 | * {{Cute Machine|s}}: Lampshaded by Marceline in "Evicted!". |
| 673 | --> '''Marceline''': "I'm invested in this very cute video game!" |
| 674 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "BMO Noire", "BMO Lost", "Be More", and "The More You Moe, The Moe You Know" |
| 675 | * DoAnythingRobot: BMO can serve whatever function is convenient for the plot. For instance, one time he edited and played back a home movie with a custom background song. |
| 676 | ** And sometimes subverted, like the "ghost-detecting machine" in "The Creeps". |
| 677 | --> '''Bubblegum:''' So, who's the ghost, BMO? |
| 678 | --> '''BMO:''' Oh, um... I don't have ghost-detecting equipment. I just like taking nice pictures. |
| 679 | * EatingMachine: BMO's very fond of hot chocolate despite not actually having a mouth. BMO [[SubvertedTrope can't actually eat anything]], but tries anyway. |
| 680 | * FutureBadass: In the last few episodes it's stated that sometime in the future [[spoiler: BMO becomes a legendary ruler of all of Ooo for a period of time before retiring to live atop a mountain]]. |
| 681 | * GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: [[spoiler:Mo built and programmed him to "Be More" then just an average robot]] |
| 682 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: BMO's main purpose is to give love. Most of the time this means that she's not very helpful in a fight. However, [[spoiler: it makes BMO the HopeBringer in the final battle with GOLB, allowing him to turn the tide when virtually every major character was about to perish.]] |
| 683 | * InformedFlaw: Claims to not have not feel pain or emotions, but very clearly reacts to pain and displays emotions freely. |
| 684 | * JerkassToOne: While pretty much every character gets along well with BMO, BMO doesn't like NEPTR that much, outright admitting in "Skyhooks" that he does not see him as an equal. |
| 685 | * MagicFromTechnology or {{Magitek}}: No further explanation is given as to how a video game came to life and gained consciousness, which leads to fan speculation. |
| 686 | ** [[spoiler:Eventually is revealed to be a unique robot built by the MO robotics company programmed to "Be More"]] |
| 687 | * {{Malaproper}}: Especially in "BMO Noire". |
| 688 | --> '''BMO''': "I feel like I was hit with a {{Dracula}} by Film/KingKong". |
| 689 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: While unique, BMO's creator made a large number of other Mos, who recognize BMO as family. |
| 690 | * MeaningfulName: Mo revealed BMO is short for Be More. |
| 691 | * MirrorMonologue: Only in the graybles... usually. |
| 692 | * MrImagination: Takes it to really bizarre heights. |
| 693 | * NoBiologicalSex: Since BMO's a robot, he isn't programmed with sex protocols. |
| 694 | * PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Ultimately, when they turn the tide of the GOLB battle in the finale:]] |
| 695 | -->'''BMO''': [[spoiler: It's okay, Jake. You always try to protect me and Finn, but sometimes we are going to get hurt. How about today, you let me be the papa?]] |
| 696 | * PhantomZone: It's only ever been seen in one episode so far. |
| 697 | * {{Protectorate}}: Jake orders BMO to watch over a distraught Finn while he heads off to the Flame Kingdom. BMO's reacting a little ''too'' enthusiastically is par for the course. |
| 698 | -->'''BMO:''' If anyone tries to hurt Finn, I will kill them! |
| 699 | -->'''Jake:''' ...Okay, good. |
| 700 | * {{Retraux}}: Crosses over into this, as BMO displays pixellated graphics and plays 8-bit music. |
| 701 | * SplitPersonality: Football [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not]] be this to BMO. |
| 702 | * SpoiledBrat: Fitting of his child-like behavior, BMO can act like a rotten child who will cry or freak out because he can't get what he wants. However, this is downplayed, as BMO is mostly well-behaved. |
| 703 | * TalkingApplianceSidekick: More of a supporting character than "sidekick" but it still counts. |
| 704 | * TagalongKid: While certainly not a kid in the ''conventional'' sense, he's often treated like a rebellious child by Finn and Jake, particularly in "Slow Love". This may qualify as HypocriticalHumor, given that Finn is a KidHero and Jake acts like OneOfTheKids. |
| 705 | * TimeAbyss: BMO actually predates the "Mushroom Wars". [[spoiler:By the end of the series, in the Shermy and Beth scenes (set 1000 years in the future), he's the only character we recognize who hasn't changed]]. |
| 706 | * TinMan: In "Donny", BMO states how as a machine she can not feel pain or emotion but states that she very much hates Donny. |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:Marceline the Vampire Queen]] |
| 710 | !!Marceline Abadeer/Marceline the Vampire Queen |
| 711 | [[quoteright:133:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marceline_the_vampire_queen.png]] |
| 712 | [[caption-width-right:133:"Dang, man, I didn't think you'd ''ever'' catch on!"]] |
| 713 | [[caption-width-right:133:[[labelnote:''Click here to see her as a 7-year-old'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marceline_de_nia_7.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 714 | [[caption-width-right:133:[[labelnote:''Click here to see her as Marshmaline the Campfire Queen'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marshmalineelements.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 715 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/OliviaOlson, Creator/AvaAcres (Young Marceline, show-only), Audrey Bennett (Young Marceline, "Obsidian") |
| 716 | |
| 717 | The queen of the vampires [[spoiler:(by default as she killed all the other vampires, including the king)]]. Known to be extremely unempathetic but never cruel, simply doing whatever she pleases even at the expense of others. Was alive at the time of the apocalyptic 'mushroom war'. |
| 718 | |
| 719 | Usually decked out in punk-rock apparel. She generally tries to be cool and rather unfeeling, she harbors a very broken spirit due to loneliness in living forever, among other things. Whenever her more sensitive or emotional side is shown, she gets angry. She and fellow immortal Ice King also share a long and painful history together, and she spends much of her time finding and moving into new houses to avoid him, until the events of "I Remember You". |
| 720 | ----- |
| 721 | * AbsentAnimalCompanion: Marceline has a pet poodle named Shwabl, who's been her companion since before she was turned into a vampire. The book "The Enchiridion & Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook" reveals that when she turned, she accidentally sucked the pink out of Shwabl's fur and nearly killed him, but was able to bring him back as a half-ghost thanks to a spell from the Enchiridion. In the show however, Schwabl only appears in the background at her house in a handful of episodes. |
| 722 | * ActionGirl: She can definitely handle herself in wild situations. Although her lazy side makes it so she doesn't get to show it off much. |
| 723 | * AffablyEvil: When she was an antagonist (which lasted for about one episode, not counting her trickery in "Henchman"); since then she's settled into a more neutral type of personality with a general LackOfEmpathy, being more Affably Amoral than anything. |
| 724 | * AffectionateNickname: Finn and Jake sometimes call her "Marcie". Ash calls her "Mar-mar". |
| 725 | * AllPowerfulBystander: As one of the most powerful creatures in Ooo, she could easily defeat almost any other character in the show, especially if she started eating souls and stealing powers, but she prefers to either stand back and watch, or simply ignore everything. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], As after spending centuries traversing the Land of Ooo, Marceline had become rather cynical and does not believe much will change in the end even if she did help. |
| 726 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: To the vampires. In a more literal twist on this trope, this isn't due to Marceline being significantly more powerful than the vampires, but because [[IronicDeath she devours them just as they devour humans]], and more effectively for that matter since Marceline devours their entire physical forms and [[CannibalismSuperpower even get their powers.]] |
| 727 | * AmazonChaser: Shows very obvious signs of attraction to Susan Strong in the Islands mini-series, as well as telling Princess Bubblegum that she "always looks great after fighting monsters" at the end of "Obsidian". |
| 728 | * AndThenJohnWasAZombie: She used to ''hunt'' vampires, even dedicating herself to wiping them all out, but was turned while taking down the Vampire King and his minions. |
| 729 | * AntiAntiChrist: It's suggested because her father is evil incarnate and a SatanicArchetype. |
| 730 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Does this all the time, but thus far never in her CuteMonsterGirl look; she prefers scaling herself up into monstrous forms for combat purposes. See OneWingedAngel below. |
| 731 | * AuthorAvatar: For Rebecca Sugar. She's a bisexual musician with a sensitive and soulful heart. |
| 732 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: In the ''Stakes'' miniseries. |
| 733 | * BatOutOfHell: Frequently turns into an odd-looking bat when she wants to hide, and she has a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant version]] that she assumed in her first appearance. She also begins transforming into this state when extremely hungry. |
| 734 | * BettyAndVeronica: She's the chaotic, black-haired Veronica to Finn's sweetheart and blonde Betty for Princess Bubblegum's Archie. |
| 735 | * BlessedWithSuck: Her regeneration powers are shown in "Simon Petrikov" to make tattoos a difficult prospect, as her skin heals over them. |
| 736 | * BrokenBird: She's had a ''very'' harsh life, been betrayed by a ''lot'' of people, and scared people away out of fear of it happening again. |
| 737 | * BroughtDownToBadass: When her vampire essence was removed, she reverted back into a half-demon with soul-stealing abilities. |
| 738 | * CannibalismSuperpower: She got her [[ComboPlatterPowers wide variety of powers]] by eating the souls of other vampires who previously possessed them. |
| 739 | * ChaoticNeutral: In-universe-assigned alignment in the comic series. |
| 740 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Goes from being antagonistic to a HeroicNeutral. |
| 741 | * CombatSadomasochist: A minor case. |
| 742 | --> "Yeah, it hurts, but I kinda like it. It reminds me of when I'd scrape my knees up as a kid, and my mom would patch me up. You know what I'm sayin'?" |
| 743 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Has a large and varied set of abilities and an ability to easily get more. |
| 744 | * CompanionCube: Her childhood teddy bear, Hambo, mainly because it was given to her by her father figure and best friend Simon Petrikov. It was sold to Maja the Sky Witch by her abusive boyfriend Ash, causing them to break up. She reclaims it in the episode "Sky Witch", only to lose it again in an effort to help Simon say goodbye to his lost love in "Betty". |
| 745 | * ConnectedAllAlong: |
| 746 | ** She was close to the Ice King as a little girl when he was still in mid-transformation as Simon Petrikov; he acted as a father figure to her while journeying in the post-apocalyptic wastes, and he's the one who gave her Hambo. |
| 747 | ** While not outright said in the series, it's heavily implied in various episodes and confirmed by the creators that she and Princess Bubblegum used to date in the past, [[spoiler:and they renew their relationship in the series finale.]] |
| 748 | ** She used to live in the Tree House where Finn and Jake now live. A flashback in the ''Stakes'' miniseries shows that she befriended and protected a group of human survivors who would go on to colonize The Islands, the archipelago where Finn was originally born. |
| 749 | * ConsistentClothingStyle: She favors a dark, muted color palette (greys, blacks, dark blues, with purples or red accents), denim, and either boots or sneakers. |
| 750 | * CoolBigSis: She occasionally acts like this toward Finn. |
| 751 | * CreepyChild: As a child. She once spoke to her teddy bear as she was fixing it: "I'm hurting you because I love you." What really drives it home is that she's completely unfazed by the SceneryGorn that the Mushroom War has brought. |
| 752 | * CreepyGood: She may be an ally, but Finn and Jake are still terrified of her. |
| 753 | * CuteLittleFangs: Though it's fairly clear that her entire mouth is full of sharp teeth. |
| 754 | * CuteMonsterGirl: She's even referred to as "that sexy vampire lady" in her debut episode. |
| 755 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Sure, she's a Vampire Queen responsible for kicking Finn and Jake out of their house (although she does return it), but for the most part she just wants to jam on her axe and record albums with friends. |
| 756 | * DaywalkingVampire: Direct sunlight can still burn or even kill Marceline, but things as minor as a shaded hat or sunscreen can protect her. Her HealingFactor can also quickly reverse minor damage from the sun, which isn't surprising considering the vamp she got the power from could totally ''ignore'' sunlight. |
| 757 | * DefrostingIceQueen: As the series progresses, Marceline becomes more open towards her friends. |
| 758 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 759 | ** In "Evicted!" Marceline is far more antagonistic than the rest of the series paints her out to be, even before she TookALevelInKindness ''or'' TookALevelInJerkass. She willing to ''kill'' Finn and Jake, she fully bites down and nearly drains Jake of all his blood and threatened to do so to Finn moments earlier, and might very well done so had she not changed her mind at the last minute. This level of aggressiveness is shown nowhere else in the show, as even people who did much more to her got off with lesser punishments, even in flashbacks. |
| 760 | ** In the same episode, she both slaps Finn's butt and kisses him on the cheek and causes him to blush, not only does Marceline not do anything like this again and voices a desire of being BetterAsFriends, she's never this openly teasing to either of her on-screen partners who one would think ''would'' get this treatment. |
| 761 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Refer to her page image. And yes, she can get really creepy when she wants. |
| 762 | * EtTuBrute: Almost everybody Marceline has ever loved has either betrayed her and/or abandoned her. Following her mother's death who she believed abandoned her, she was raised by the Ice King, who became a father figure to her during the early years of the apocalypse, but he too has to abandon her out of fear he's too dangerous and mentally unstable to be around her. After that, communication with her birth father is infrequent and often results in him hurting her feelings. Later, her boyfriend steals and sells her stuffed bear, the only memento she had of her days with Simon. Finally, she had a major and public fallout with Princess Bubblegum while they were dating. As a result, she has a tendency to bottle up her emotions and drive others away before they can get close to her. |
| 763 | * EvilIsPetty: Kicking Jake and Finn out of their treehouse because it originally belonged to her was ''at the very least'' understandable, her appearing to kick Finn and Jake out of her cave ''just'' as they were settling in was already over the line. Attempting to steal Jake because Finn finds comfort in him and then attempting to kill Finn AND Jake due to stopping her attempted theft? That's truly petty. |
| 764 | * ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Marceline is quite protective of her ParentalSubstitute Simon Petrikov/Ice King, and he's one of the few characters that can bring out her softer side. In the ''Stakes'' miniseries, the Empress angers Marcy by insulting Simon, and she angrily exclaims "That's the last time you toy with his heart!" before staking the vamp through the heart. |
| 765 | * FallenHero: The Stakes mini-series reveals her to be this. She used to be as heroic as Finn, and dedicated her life to protecting humanity from the vampires. However, after all the trauma she has experienced (and her immortality making her realize the ciclical nature of history), she has become too jaded to care about other people. |
| 766 | * FanservicePack: The outfits she wore in the later episodes tended to be a little more revealing. |
| 767 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: By itself, her dad eating her fries would seem this, but with a little closer look it serves as another indication that her father never took her thoughts or feelings into consideration and that taking something that belonged to her, which at this point happened to be something completely trivial, was the final straw. |
| 768 | --> (singing) "Daddy, do you even love me? Well, I wish you would show it because I wouldn't know it. What kind of dad eats his daughter's fries, and won't look her in the eyes? There were tears there. If you saw them would you even care?" |
| 769 | ** Then we find out he ate those fries in the aftermath of the apocalypse where Marceline was scrounging around for anything edible. He's a deathless immortal, she was a starving teenager. |
| 770 | * {{Flight}}: Her most used power. It's fairly rare to see her actually touch the ground. |
| 771 | * FriendlessBackground: In "Memory of a Memory" we see a flashback of her as a child, describing her stuffed animal Hambo as her only friend; in "Marceline's Closet" she writes a song to the same effect. We later discover that she ''did'' have an IntergenerationalFriendship growing up with Simon, who gave her Hambo, but [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity that didn't end well]]. |
| 772 | * FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Depends how she sees you. She can be your best friend or worst enemy. |
| 773 | * FurAndLoathing: The dress she wears in "Henchman" is made from [[ContinuityNod a Whywolf]]. "Marceline's Closet" shows that she also has a large fur-lined coat, with the head and claws built into it. |
| 774 | * GiantFlyer: Again, see OneWingedAngel. |
| 775 | * GirlWithPsychoWeapon: If she doesn't want to kill you with her powers of vampirism, she could use her demonic axe bass. |
| 776 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: PlayedWith. She's the Vampire Queen, and she can be unpleasant but is nice mostly. |
| 777 | %%* GoodAllAlong: Sort of. (see HeelFaceTurn) |
| 778 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: She's a PerkyGoth with a punk rock style, and has supernatural powers as a vampire and demon. |
| 779 | * HalfHumanHybrid: She's a cambion (half human, half demon) who later became vampirized, giving her a unique set of abilities. |
| 780 | * HeelFaceTurn: In her original appearance, she comes in the middle of the night and kicks Finn and Jake out of their own house, leaving them out in the open trying to find a place to live. When they finally do find a place, it just so happens to have been Marceline's... and so she almost kills Finn and Jake, but in the end, gives them their house back because she forgot how much she liked the cave. In her second appearance, Finn and Jake still consider her an enemy. Finn unwillingly becomes her accomplice in her many dark deeds that all turn out DoubleSubverted. The last scene shows that Finn and Marceline have gained some trust for each other. In her third appearance, Finn is hanging out at her house playing music with her and they spend the entire episode together, trying to get her soul-sucking father back into the Nightosphere. |
| 781 | * HeroicNeutral: She's far and away the most powerful ally that Finn and Jake have, but is very difficult to motivate into helping solve a problem due to her general apathy. And in some situations, she's either outclassed by the threat (facing her father) or some supernatural rule prevents her from doing much. |
| 782 | * HumanDemonHybrid: She is the child of a demon lord and a human woman, who subsequently got turned into a vampire. |
| 783 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Strongly implied. In "What Was Missing", the Door Lord didn't actually steal anything from her, she just wanted to hang out with her friends and gets intensely embarrassed when this is pointed out. In "Memory of A Memory", it's shown that she was a borderline ExtremeDoormat when it came to her abusive boyfriend Ash until he sold her only fond childhood treasure for an entirely pointless reason. |
| 784 | ** If you don't take it as an expression of LesYay, Marceline's song to Bubblegum can be considered an expression of this; she doesn't even remember why Bubblegum is angry at her and feels she shouldn't have to apologize but implies she still wants to. |
| 785 | ** She outright admits that she [[NotSoStoic hides tears]] because she has no friends in "Marceline's Closet". And in "I Remember You", she desperately cries while unsuccessfully trying to make Ice King remember his life as Simon and their old friendship. |
| 786 | * ImAMonster: The episode "Go With Me" indicated Marceline occasionally feels this way about herself, likely due to her semi-demonic heritage. |
| 787 | --> '''Marceline: '''Oh, Yeah? No one would want to go to the movies with... (turns into giant tentacle monster) this! |
| 788 | ** This gets further explored in the special "Obsidian", thanks to a series of flashbacks that explain how Marceline came to view herself as a monster. [[spoiler: After using her demonic soul-sucking powers to save her mother from a mutated wolf, she believed that she scared her mother away after she told her to leave (in reality, Marceline's mother tricked her into doing so, so she wouldn't see her dying). During a conversation with her imaginary friends, she convinced herself that, the reason why everyone was afraid of her, was because she wanted them to]]. |
| 789 | * ImmortalImmaturity: She's been around for at least a thousand years, but she's really not too much more mature than Finn himself is. At times, he's even more mature than her. [[spoiler:She acknowledges this in ''Stakes'', and thinks she can only move on with her life if she starts aging, and that sentiment is defied, acknowledging that being immortal had nothing to do with her immaturity, and starts maturing emotionally.]] |
| 790 | * ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Zig-zagged. If she were never bitten, her demon ancestry would have just made her LongLived, with her aging being slowed after hitting adolescence. She only fully ''stopped'' aging when she became a vampire, with the fact that she was physically in her late teens/early twenties at the time just being a coincidence. |
| 791 | * ImmortalityBisexuality: The series finale reveals that [[spoiler:not only did Marceline and Bubblegum have previous romantic history, but also has them rekindling the relationship.]] |
| 792 | * ImportantHaircut: Signifying her depression and wanting to grow up, ''Stakes'' cuts her hair short. |
| 793 | * InstrumentOfMurder: She turned the [[AncestralWeapon family axe]] into a [[InstrumentalWeapon bass guitar]]. |
| 794 | * {{Invisibility}}: Uses it to sneak in on Ice King's Fionna and Cake reading session in "Bad Little Boy", and for cheap laughs in "Heat Signature". (It's apparently a vampire power... but she's in the midst of messing with Finn and Jake when she says so.) Given her personality, it's not surprising that she doesn't use it often. |
| 795 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Had one with Simon Petrikov during the aftermath of the Mushroom War. Has one with Finn and Jake. |
| 796 | * ItAmusedMe: This is her reason for everything she does, {{Jerkass}}y or [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold not]]. |
| 797 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 798 | ** Seemed to be a straight-up {{Jerkass}} in her introduction episode (in the "House Hunting" song, she sang that she was "1000 years old and just lost track of her moral code"). "Henchman" would then reveal that she's actually a pretty cool chick who simply enjoys screwing with people but never actually aims to hurt them, and by the end of the episode she and Finn strike up a friendship. |
| 799 | ** By "Heat Signature" even Jake has warmed up to her, with that same episode also providing a good example of this; she pranks Finn and Jake into believing that they're vampires and fools them into doing various embarrassing things, but draws the line at her old ghost gang brutally kicking them for no reason and goes berserk when Finn and Jake are tricked into nearly jumping to their deaths. |
| 800 | * JustJokingJustification: During her more dickheaded early days in the show, she leads Finn on a massive mind-scarring prank day as her minion. However, he takes it in good stride when he finds out. |
| 801 | * TheLadette: Clearly demonstrated (in a kid-friendly way) through her willingness to fight everyone and everything, in the same way that Finn does. Not to mention several episodes clearly demonstrate her lack of appreciation for hygiene, whether it be her picking her nose, not washing her hands, or remarking that her armpits stink. |
| 802 | * LastOfHerKind: |
| 803 | ** Although the non-canon comics show other vampires, the show eventually establishes her as the last vampire on Earth. [[spoiler: It's revealed that she killed all of the others in order to protect what remained of humanity, and the last one made her into a vampire in the instant he was dying.]] |
| 804 | ** For much of the series, Marceline could also be considered the last living member of Pre-Mushroom War Humanity, or at least the only one who actually remembers what humanity was like. Though, [[spoiler: this is Averted after Simon regains his memories and other Pre-Mushroom War humans are brought to Ooo like Betty Grof and Patience St. Pim.]] |
| 805 | * LeadBassist: Marceline's bass often accompanies her when she sings, making her a Type B. |
| 806 | * LesbianVampire: While not a lesbian per se (she's actually bisexual), [[spoiler:she ends up in a relationship with PB in the series finale.]] |
| 807 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Finn. "Go With Me" confirms that neither of them has feelings for each other ''that'' way. |
| 808 | * LivingForeverIsAwesome: Of the two immortal characters, she's the one that has the most fun. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Stakes'', when she believes her lack of aging is keeping her from solving her personal problems, and tries to get it taken away. She then accepts that her lack of aging is not preventing her from solving her personal problems, and it was her own mentality keeping her from addressing them.]] |
| 809 | * LongLived: Originally; the Farmworld version reveals that as a half-demon, her lifespan is well over 1000 years naturally, but without the added bonus of vampirism, her body and magic will vastly deteriorate into old age. |
| 810 | * LooksLikeOrlok: When she gets too hungry, as seen in "Red Starved". She also makes her nose look more bat-like when she wants to pick it. |
| 811 | * MasterOfNone: In regards to the [[CannibalismSuperpower various vampire abilities she has acquired.]] While Marceline has used all of the powers she's acquired to some degree, she doesn't seem to be capable of some of the more extreme feats that the other vampires displayed, most notably The Moon's NighInvulnerability and [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight-nullifying]] HealingFactor, or the Vampire King's more impressive [[MindOverMatter telekinetic abilities]]. |
| 812 | * MoralityPet: Even a thousand years later, Simon/Ice King still cares about her, even if he can't remember why, and she's notably one of the few characters he's actually ''cared'' about when he believed they were hurt. |
| 813 | * MsFanservice: Lampshaded/Discussed in the "House Hunting" song in "Evicted!". |
| 814 | --> “You know you should have stayed and fought that sexy vampire lady”. |
| 815 | * MundaneUtility: She uses her powers whenever convenient. |
| 816 | * {{Necromancer}}: [[MagicalIncantation "Corpses buried in mud that's black, from death I command you to come BACK!"]] She did it to [[MundaneUtility throw a party.]] |
| 817 | * NightmareFace: Marceline can do this voluntarily and to great effect. In "Henchman", she just does it for the reaction on Jake's face, as he is still afraid of vampires. The ''Adventure Time'' Team's portion of the Frederator blog has a small collection of the faces she made [[http://frederatorblogs.com/adventure_time/2010/08/18/its-more-marceline/ throughout the episode.]] |
| 818 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She was already a [[HalfHumanHybrid demon/human hybrid]] before becoming a vampire. |
| 819 | * NobleDemon: |
| 820 | ** Noted by Finn in her second episode, she releases him from being her minion as it's "not as fun when they realize it." |
| 821 | ** She and Lumpy Space Princess raise havoc in Breakfast Princess' place, stealing her things, vandalizing the castle, and assaulting the guards, but they do draw the line at killing them, being visibly relieved when the guy they pushed through a high improvised window landed in something soft. |
| 822 | * TheNoseless: Like the other humanoids. Though she can [[SuddenAnatomy morph a nose]] when she wants to smell something or pick it. This carries over to the Farmworld, where she appears to be the only denizen without one. |
| 823 | * NotADate: Goes to watch a movie with Finn in "Go With Me", with both insisting it's not a date. |
| 824 | * NotSoStoic: Under her cool and trickster-like demeanor lies a sensitive girl who will cry easily if the right buttons are pushed. [[BloodLust (Pissing her off is still a no-no.)]] |
| 825 | * OddFriendship: With [[TheHero Finn]], which doubles as an extreme form of an IntergenerationalFriendship. Later on, she's befriended Jake (though she likes to scare him) and appears to have had one with Bubblegum in the past, though Finn seems to have helped her and Bubblegum patch things up. |
| 826 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Princess Bubblegum as of "Come Along with Me".]] |
| 827 | * OneWingedAngel: She often employs this in a serious fight (or when she's trying to scare people), and one of the most memorable is a giant, bat-like creature. |
| 828 | ** [[spoiler: In the finale, when she briefly thinks that Bubblegum was killed, she takes on the Vampire King's giant cloud ram form]]. |
| 829 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: She is a half-demon, with the demon half from her father's side. Apparently, it's responsible for her unique anatomy, such as the white skin, the fangs, and the pointy ears, since she only became a vampire when she was a teenager, and young Marceline already had said traits. [[DarkIsNotEvil It also doesn't influence her morality much]]. |
| 830 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: Marceline claims that she sometimes drinks blood, but only because it's red, and she mainly "eats" shades of red, and sleeps in a normal bed instead of a coffin. Other vampires ''could'' just eat red, but they didn't want to [[spoiler:which is why she killed them before even becoming a vampire herself]]. Sunlight and garlic aren't instantly fatal, but they still hurt like a mother. As long as she takes precautions not to be struck directly by sunlight (generally by wearing a sunhat or, more often, a parasol), she can be active at any time of day. All of her abilities come from vampirism except the soul-sucking power that lets her absorb those powers from other vampires. There's also the fact that she was a HalfHumanHybrid with her dad being a demon, being that being a cambion vampire makes her unique. |
| 831 | * OutOfFocus: Does not receive as much screen time in season 6 compared to previous seasons, having only one episode featured on her ("Princess Day") along with a couple of minor appearances. Previous seasons feature her at least twice per season. Season 7 reversed this and gave her much more screen time including the eight-part miniseries ''Stakes''. |
| 832 | * OverlyLongTongue: Either when she's shapeshifting or not, Marceline has a pretty long tongue, probably most evident by her little counterpart in ''All the little people'', where her tongue is almost as long as Peppermint Butler's entire body. |
| 833 | * ThePerformerKing: Marceline is often referenced as "Marceline the Vampire Queen" and is usually found writing songs and performing them publicly on her bass. While [[spoiler: she is no queen to vampires (having exterminated all of the other vampires centuries prior)]], her father is the Ruler of the Nightosphere, so the trope still technically applies. |
| 834 | * ThePigPen: She generally couldn't care less about her personal hygiene, picking her nose, not washing her hands after using the bathroom, and commenting that her armpits stink. |
| 835 | * PointyEars: Comes from being half-demon, assuming her father is an appropriate representation of demons. |
| 836 | * TheQuincyPunk: Slightly; she's a wild and reckless sort of person, but Ooo in general doesn't seem to find her particularly dangerous. She seems to like the aesthetic more than anything. |
| 837 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's an immortal half-demon vampire who is a thousand years old at the start of the series, with her childhood (where she was just half-demon) taking place during the [[AfterTheEnd events of the Mushroom War]]. |
| 838 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Does this when she gets upset. Usually an extremely bad sign for whomever made her upset. |
| 839 | * SadClown: Unfortunately she sings from the soul and gets upset when she notices she's let her defenses down. |
| 840 | -->'''Marceline''': How can- anyone relate to me? When they cannot see what I see- My vampire eyes see... only blood red- skies. Blood-red skies make tears inside that I always hide. |
| 841 | * SenseFreak: [[spoiler: When she briefly became mortal again, she gorged herself on non-red food]]. |
| 842 | * SoleSurvivor: For much of the show, Marceline could be considered the last remaining member of Pre-Mushroom War Humanity, or at least the only one left who remembers anything about them. This becomes Averted [[spoiler: once Simon is freed from the Crown and other Pre-Mushroom War humans like Betty and Patience come to Ooo or are revived.]] |
| 843 | * SourOutsideSadInside: She drives people away out of fear of being abandoned and betrayed again. |
| 844 | * SpearCounterpart: Marshall Lee. However, because his only characterization came from when ''Marceline'' was telling a Fionna and Cake story - that is, she's describing him and how he would act - he ends up coming off to the viewer as a self-deprecating parody of her. |
| 845 | * SuddenAnatomy: In "Marceline's Closet," she grows a pair of bat-like nostrils when trying to sniff out Finn and Jake. |
| 846 | * SuperpowerLottery: She has an enormous list of supernatural abilities. Though, it wasn't so much a lottery, as she had to earn every single one of her various vampiric powers. |
| 847 | * TankTopTomboy: Over half her costumes have involved tank tops, and she has all the tomboy characteristics. |
| 848 | * {{Telekinesis}}: Briefly uses some on Finn in "Henchman", curling his arms so he can't interfere with her pranking. It's unclear if it's a demon or vampire power, but the affected object glows red. |
| 849 | * TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: She's a vampire rock star who acts like a gentle CoolBigSis towards Finn and Jake while Princess Bubblegum, the pink-haired monarch of the Candy Kingdom, frequently threatens people with violence. |
| 850 | * TentacledTerror: She has the ability to turn into a giant tentacle monster. She did it in order to dissuade Finn from [[BetterAsFriends asking her out]] before realizing that he wasn't interested in a date. |
| 851 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Princess Bubblegum's Girly Girl. |
| 852 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She does wear dresses and fairly pretty blouses on occasion. |
| 853 | * TookALevelInKindness: While she started out as an antagonistic {{Troll}}, Marceline would become notably more considerate and friendly over time. She would later show genuine concern and even go out of her way to save Finn, Jake, and Bubblegum in a few situations. |
| 854 | * {{Troll}}: Finds a lot of joy in screwing with people in general and Finn in particular, though she seems to draw her limits at actual physical harm, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn at least lately.]] |
| 855 | * {{Tsundere}}: Shows quite a few signs of being one to her friends in general, and very strongly suggested to be one in "What Was Missing". |
| 856 | %%%* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: |
| 857 | * TheUndead: She ''is'' a vampire, after all. |
| 858 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: ''How'' many outfits has she worn now? Notably, since she had a different outfit for each of her appearances, she was the first character to avert LimitedWardrobe. Considering that she's over a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld thousand years old]], it's probably not that weird to see her having many clothes. |
| 859 | * UnscrupulousHero: She sometimes saves the day only because she wants to, and screwing with an evil person like herself is more fun than screwing mortals over. |
| 860 | * VampireHickey: Marceline has two noticeable bite marks on her neck, giving the indication that she was turned sometime in the past. The ''Stakes'' mini-series eventually reveals in a flashback, to when she was just a common cambrion half-demon (human mother, demon father), that this was from the vampire king who bit and turned her just as she was staking him. In the present day of the story, when she regains the last of his vampire power, the vampire essence puts the marks back on her neck as she's absorbing the power. |
| 861 | * VampireHunter: [[spoiler:She used to hunt vampires to keep her human friend (later friends) safe. She personally would have wiped them out if not for the last one turning her as he died.]] |
| 862 | * VampireMonarch: Specifically, she's the Vampire Queen. There aren't any other vampires left ''to'' rule over (she refuses to turn anyone as she rarely drinks blood, instead getting by draining out the color red from objects), but her presence at the meeting of Ooo royalty suggests that her position is at least somewhat meaningful. |
| 863 | * VegetarianVampire: She'll drink blood if she's desperate, but she mostly just drains the color from red objects. Sometimes the objects are fine afterward, sometimes they seem shriveled up. |
| 864 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Thinking GOLB's abomination murdered Bubblegum, she cries her name before turning into Vampire King's cloudy form and nearly tearing it to shreds.]] |
| 865 | * VisualPun: Her bass is an ''axe''. |
| 866 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Has a habit of going from her cute normal form to very grotesque monster forms and back again at the drop of a hat. Her second episode really plays this up. |
| 867 | * WeakenedByTheLight: Though, oddly, only by ''direct'' sunlight. She'd be just fine on a sunny day with as little as a large hat or parasol, though she does mention that it is painful in a very minor way. It appears to burn quite severely - barely a second's exposure results in a bunch of painful-looking boils (that she can heal away, but still). |
| 868 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: She wishes for the approval and attention of her neglectful father, as she isn't secure if he even loves her. He does, but is not good at showing it. |
| 869 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Marceline has occasionally griped about this, with this serving as the catalyst for the ''Stakes'' miniseries. However, her big complaint is less about being long-lived and more about the eternal youth, as her vampire nature has trapped her in a state of arrested development, mentally unable to truly mature as a person due to being physically in her late teens forever. |
| 870 | -->'''Marceline:''' ''(singing)'' They don't know what it's like to live forever and forget who they even are... |
| 871 | * WoundThatWillNotHeal: She has two bite marks on her neck from the bite that turned her. [[spoiler:They go away when her vampirism is removed.]] |
| 872 | * YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She became the Vampire Queen by killing the Vampire King. |
| 873 | * YourSoulIsMine: She inherited the ability to suck out a person's soul from her father. Besides a longer lifespan, she's said it's the only special ability she has from being half-demon. |
| 874 | [[/folder]] |
| 875 | |
| 876 | [[folder:Ice King]] |
| 877 | !!Simon Petrikov/Ice King |
| 878 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ice_King_6609.png]] |
| 879 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as Simon Petrikov.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simonpetrikov_at.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 880 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnKassir (2006 pilot), Creator/TomKenny (the series) |
| 881 | |
| 882 | An unruly monarch from the Ice Kingdom. Once a close friend or even a father figure of Marceline's, he's spent years pestering her. She says that she tolerates his presence because she loves him unconditionally, and remains one of the few characters to bestow compassion upon him to date. In truth, these are but the remnants of a pre-apocalypse professor of archaeology and antique enthusiast once named Simon Petrikov, before he was driven insane and transformed by the arcane forces of ice and snow within a crown he bought. The subsequent bouts of madness estranged him from his beloved fiance, Betty, and his nickname for her, "princess", was warped by time and insanity into his compulsion to kidnap and marry princesses in the present-day Land of Ooo. |
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| 884 | See his page [[Characters/AdventureTimeIceKing here.]] |
| 885 | [[/folder]] |
| 886 |
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