Flame Princess and Ice King battle, prompting Finn to have an exciting dream.
Tropes
- Beam-O-War: Happens during Flame Princess's and Ice King's big fight. Flame Princess wins.
- Calling Your Attacks: Played straight with FP's Inferno Shot, Played for Laughs with Ice King just saying his name for an attack.
- Cassandra Truth: The Cosmic Owl warns Finn about the consequences of continuing to make Flame Princess and Ice King fight, but Finn ignores this.
- Continuity Nod: Finn calls Ice King "Simon", though Ice King doesn't remember this being his real name.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Finn's first dream involved FP setting his nethers on fire... and he liked it. The way it's portrayed makes it seem like a wet dream.
- Domestic Abuser: Finn tricks his girlfriend into fighting against the Ice King because it turned him on. The tricking involves writing a pretty hurtful letter where he uses the personal details he's learned about Flame Princess to provoke her — insulting her comfort, scented candles, playing on her insecurity about having smelly feet, and remarking how unstable she is that she cannot even kiss her boyfriend without nuking the planet. Basically using her the same way her family does. This behavior costs Finn his first genuine Love Interest.
- Downer Ending: Flame Princess breaks up with Finn.
- Easily Forgiven: Finn assumes Flame Princess will forgive him once he says he's sorry. She doesn't.
- Groin Attack: Finn's dreams involve both Flame Princess and Ice King attacking his crotch.
- Ironic Echo: "You blew it."
- Jerkass Ball: Finn is a particularly dickish teenage boy in this because he had a wet dream about Flame Princess setting fire to his crotch, and gets off on her fighting Ice King. He decides to play chessmaster in order to have Flame Princess and Ice King fight. It doesn't pay off in the end.
- Kamehame Hadoken: Ice King and Flame Princess fire elemental ones at each other.
- Karma Houdini: Jake does not receive any repercussions for encouraging Finn to write and send cruel letters to Ice King and Flame Princess so he could get them to fight.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Manipulating others to satisfy your inner Blood Knight causes you to lose your girlfriend.
- Manipulative Bastard: Finn of all people, proves to be this in this episode, manipulating Flame Princess into fighting Ice King. It results in the latter's kingdom being destroyed and the former breaks up with him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Finn's selfish and short-sighted attempts to continue getting excited by Flame Princess' and Ice King's fights devastates the Ice Kingdom, almost gets Ice King killed, and ultimately concludes in Flame Princess breaking up with him.
- Rejected Apology: Finn apologizes to Flame Princess for tricking her into fighting Ice King but his attempts to explain his actions, only cause Flame Princess and not accept the apology as the moment he mentions The Cosmic Owl causes Flame Princess to not want to hear anymore from Finn and conclude that his apology was insincere.
- Shout-Out: The big fight between Ice King and Flame Princess contains visual references to attacks from Dragon Ball Z.
- Spit Take: Jake upon hearing Finn saw the Cosmic Owl in his dream.
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Finn invokes this with the Flame Princess and Ice King. It ends up destroying the Ice Kingdom and Finn's relationship with Flame Princess.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's ultimately Jake who drives Finn to make FP and Ice King fight again at the cost of the former's relationship.
- Virgin-Shaming: Metaphorically. Finn shows just how bad he can be when he includes "you can't kiss Finn without freaking out" in his insulting letter to Flame Princess.
- Wham Episode: Ice King now lacks a home and Flame Princess breaks up with Finn.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Finn is called out on manipulating Flame Princess into fighting Ice King using his knowledge of both of their private, personal insecurities and secrets, leading to the destruction of the Ice Kingdom. Flame Princess dumps him in disgust. He did indeed blow it big time.
