History WMG / AdventureTimeMushroomWar

In an episode of Family Guy, there was a CutawayGag in which the setup is that Peter has gotten a spiritual message before. The clip shows Peter as he claims there is a message in his Alpha Bits cereal saying "Ooo." Brian says they're Cheerios, but actually, they were Alpha Bits and it was a spiritual message. Specifically, one giving a vague hint of the future state of the world. Hey, talking dogs and [[WidgetSeries weird shit]] exist in both shows, so why not?

*** It's like the nuclear bomb in the first ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' game; which blew Earth deep into the spirit world. However, in this case humanity didn't survive. What sentience that eventually came about was not human; and thus the old gods, demons, and spirits died and were replaced by those of a non-human perspective.

[[WMG: The Great Mushroom War indirectly put the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs WHOLE UNIVERSE]] on drugs.]]

[[WMG: The Mushroom War was a [[Wiki/SCPFoundation XK-End of the World Scenario]]]]

First, the Enchiridion is a powerful mystical book that existed before the Mushroom War, and was discovered by Simon. Second, [[NuclearNasty the Lich]], who's a product of the war, immediately knows that its a powerful mystical book. And most importantly, the Enchiridion can access a portal to [[CosmicEntity Prismo]], a being capable of granting any wish whatsoever and is implied ''to be GOD.'' [[FridgeHorror Think of what people would do]] to get the chance of having any wish come true, especially as these wishes [[CosmicRetcon can alter all of creation]]-which would explain why they felt it necessary to create the Lich.

[[WMG: The Great Mushroom War was not actually a real war, but the War on Drugs taken UpToEleven and then failing hard.]]
Instead of prohibiting illegal substances as intended, drug usage increased to [[UpToEleven wild proportions]]. It got to the point where nobody is experiencing reality, but rather everyone is experiencing one huge MushroomSamba- the Land of Ooo. The war got its name because the primary drug was [[GRatedDrug hallucinogenic mushrooms]].

* [[spoiler: At the series finale, Betty summoned Golb, possibly a Greater Daemon of one of the Chaos gods, possibly Tzeentch or Nurgle, seeking to gather a way to deactivate the Ice crown, either with decay or more sorcery. ]]

During that time, Terra was scorched by innumerous doomsday devices, nuclear weapons and other "dark horrors", including psychic weaponry. What if, during that period one isolated island , bombarded by Warp weaponry and tainted by constant use of sorcery, became Ooo?
Due to the use of such Warp tainted weapons, "magic" came back, allowing all the fantastic and surreals things there are in Ooo to be born. Princesses could have been brought to life from warp effects on their respective elemtents, wizards would be wsykers that dominated a part of their power , possibly making pacts with daemons and chaos to learn sorcery and prohibited Knowledge. That could possibly explain why Princess Bubblegum hates magic soo much, she knows it is corrupting and chaos related, and that's why she avoids it.

* Maybe Bubblegum has even some relation to the Emperor to have such knowledge/Scientific orientated view?

Honestly, there's not a single Homestar Runner character who wouldn't fit right into Adventure Time if the art style were slightly adjusted. Homestar Runner takes place in what's left of North America, the so-called "Free Country, USA," while the Land of Ooo is Europe. While the few maps of Ooo that we see are unrecognizable, some of the colonists from ''Islands'' (who left Ooo in ''Stakes'') spoke a Nordic language, implying that Northern Europe was part of the landmass that became Ooo.

Instead of prohibiting illegal substances as intended, drug usage increased to [[UpToEleven wild proportions]]. It got to the point where nobody is experiencing reality, but rather everyone is experiencing one huge MushroomSamba- the Land of Ooo. The war got its name because the primary drug was [[GRatedDrugs hallucinogenic mushrooms]].

To clarify, C-bombs were a throwaway gag in one strip, where they were said to be destructive Fat Man-size projectiles of Calvin's imagination. It stands to reason that a global war fought with these things would result in almost everything gaining life, sentience, and intelligence. Finn and Jake are the reincarnations of Calvin and Hobbes, and share their dynamic. Because of the fact that no other residents of Calvin's hometown have gone on, or at least haven't appeared yet, Finn and Jake don't have any memories of a past life other than being friends and exploring the world around them. However, several people were {{Flanderization Flanderized}} from their pre-war personalities into magical and powerful beings: Marceline was probably an EmoTeen, who was cosmically retconned into being an actual vampire, her dad was a CorruptCorporateExecutive who ordered the C-bombings in the first place, Lumpy Space Princess was a spoiled teen experimenting with drugs, and so on.

Instead of prohibiting illegal substances as intended, drug usage increased to [[UpToEleven wild proportions]]. It got to the point where nobody is experiencing reality, but rather everyone is experiencing one huge MushroomSamba- the Land of Ooo. The war got its name because the primary drug was hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Pen has said that the Land of Ooo is the way it is because of a combination of an apocalyptic war and the return of magic. One notable thing we learn in "Holly Jolly Secrets" is that before discovering the crown, Simon Petrikov didn't believe in the supernatural, meaning magic was at least mostly unheard of at the time. So we have a case of magic entering the world, giving a random man super-human powers, driving him mad so he abuses those powers, and all of this happening shortly before a ''civilization-destroying (probably nuclear) war''. Perhaps magic slowly leaked into the world, building over time, creating more and more people like Simon. They would have wreaked havoc on the planet, and the rest of humanity would have united to try to stop them, creating a global war of sane muggles versus mad wizards. The world's governments eventually used nukes in an act of desperation, inadvertently wiping out most of humanity. But the magic continued to leak into the world, so by the time the few survivors had rebuilt, it had completely reshaped them and the place they lived in into the Ooo we know now.

To clarify, C-bombs were a throwaway gag in one strip, where they were said to be destructive Fat Man-size projectiles of Calvin's imagination. It stands to reason that a global war fought with these things would result in almost everything gaining life, sentience, and intelligence. Finn and Jake are the reincarnations of Calvin and Hobbes, and share their dynamic. Because of the fact that no other residents of Calvin's hometown have gone on, or at least haven't appeared yet, Finn and Jake don't have any memories of a past life other than being friends and exploring the world around them. However, several people were [[Flanderization Flanderized]] from their pre-war personalities into magical and powerful beings: Marceline was probably an EmoTeen who was cosmically retconned into being an actual vampire, her dad was a CorruptCorporateExecutive who ordered the C-bombings in the first place, Lumpy Space Princess was a spoiled teen experimenting with drugs, and so on.

[[WMG: The Great Mushroom War put the WHOLE UNIVERSE on drugs.]]

[[WMG: The Mushroom War takes place during the events of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', and both series have connections with other CartoonNetwork shows]]

[[WMG: The Mushroom War takes place during the events of Samurai Jack, and both series have connections with other Cartoon Network shows]]

* Further supported in the mini-series ''Stakes'' where in a flashback (Episode 2:''Everything Stays'' where after the Mushroom War the [[spoiler: surviving humans]] pass along their culture by singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15mU4FADgYY ''According to Our New Arrival'']] from the 1985-1990 sitcom MrBelvedere.

*** And the theme songs from Series/MrBelvedere and Series/{{Cheers}} being sung by characters immediately post-war.

[[WMG: The apocalyptic war was with the [[{{Mario}} Mushroom Kingdom]]]]

* The Mushroom Bomb was based on [[spoiler:lumps?]] Huh...I guess that explained why Sweet P wasn't affected by the transformation.

The Lich existed long before the bomb went off, as a sort of death spirit. Whether he was always present or [[TheHeartless born out our self-destructive tendencies]] is unclear, but existed as a sentient being before the bomb went off. However, the Lich could never enter into the physical plane until it went off-maybe Death [[SealedEvilInACan kept the Lich restrained]], which explains why he was creeped out by him.

the crater is where the orginal mushroom core was. the inhabitants managed to create a crude mushroom bomb, which blew up the core.

* This Catalyst Comet "re-awakened" previous Catalyst Comets, letting them gain back their former power. [[OhCrap This included the green comet]], which went from "semi-sentient WMD" to "super-intelligent [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] [[OurLichesAreDifferent mutant lich.]]"

In the Farmworld Timeline where the regular version of the Lich existed, Simon made a HeroicSacrifice to stop the bomb. One wonders why he didn't try it in the main universe, however that may be because ''someone else did so.'' Given Lich!Jake didn't seem to have the regular version's magical powers(pyrokinesis, telepathy and [[MindRape mind-raping]]), it could be inferred that a wizard or magical person decided to step in and stop it-why he didn't let Simon do so was because he saw that he'd be important in healing the rest of the world/stopping him if this fails(which proved to be a really good call in "Mortal Recoil.") [[ForegoneConclusion This backfired, BIG TIME.]] [[FridgeHorror Of course]], this makes the Lich even more horrific--a would-be hero who tried to save the world [[FaceMonsterTurn warped and defected]] into an undying monster of [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy extreme cunning]] and [[OmnicidalManiac malice]]. [[TearJerker Grod help whatever's left of him]], [[AndIMustScream especially if there's a lot of it.]]

The Lich's Lair appears to be where we was born, given the same dilapidated subway was seen in the Farmworld Timeline with the Mushroom Bomb. It's a power source for the Lich, remains energetic even after 1000 years, and the Lich used it [[DemonicPossession to possess PB]] when she fell in it. The Well of Power is the exact point on Earth where whoever was hit by the Bomb in this timeline was mutated into the Lich, and acts as [[SoulJar his heart.]] Since the Well is also [[AchillesHeel the one vulnerable spot the Lich has]], he made sure to protect it with skeleton guards. If that didn't work, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy the Lich had a set detonators]]-the Lair would collapse whenever somebody tried to destroy the well, killing everyone else while simply burying the Well for the Lich to make a better fortress around it later.

[[WMG: The Ice King caused the conflict in {{Battlefield 2142}} and the Great Mushroom War.]]

[[WMG: The Great Mushroom War was fought between humans and [[GeneratorRex Evo Mushrooms]].]]

*** And the theme songs from MrBelvedere and {{Cheers}} being sung by characters immediately post-war.