These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
Finn: Princess! Put your butt here! Now, shove this in your mouth! It's hot! Princess Bubblegum: Finn, I don't understand— Finn: Please, Princess! Just stick it in your mouth!
From "Freak City":
Finn: Kim! Get underneath Trudy! Kim: No, man, please! I frickin' hate Trudy! Finn: KIM! I WILL DESTROY YOU!! Kim: Okay, okay! Jake: Heh-heh-heh... Yeah...
Ice King—sociopathic irredeemable loser-jerk who always forceably tries to make princesses marry him and only cares about himself, or Jerkass Woobie who just needs a hug and a reason to be happy?
Ice King: I don't know... I'm complicated.
The truth is slightly worse. He's a now immortal human who has fought and lost a battle for his own sanity. While this implies that there is good in him, it also means that he is extremely, extremely insane.
Could the Earl of Lemongrab be a major Jerkass Woobie like Ice King? His tendencies of obsessive cleanliness, the preference for non-flavored food, the shaky voice, tries to have a sense of humor and tries to rule the kingdom the best to his ability but fails due to it being something he can't specialize in. Whether this makes him look autistic and the ep making him the villain comes with Unfortunate Implications is up to the viewer.
Alternatively, Princess Bubblegum may simply be a stressed out young adult with a lot of responsibility on her head (having to run the candy kingdom while also trying to keep everyone safe and calm with all the calamities that seem to occur on a rather frequent basis), trying to let down a child 5 years younger than her with as much tact as possible.
Finn: Actually, I've never even met any other humans. If I think about it too much, I get all soul-searchy, and weeeird.
Actually, this seems to be Finn's mentality with everything (not surprising since he lives in a very weird world, and it's inevitable that he'll have to block things from his mind). For example, in the "The Creeps", he happily stores away his memory of the real ghost in his "vault". In "No One Can Hear You", when Jake asks how Finn's legs are doing, he replies "Still broken," with a smile.
Basically, if you can hear it, and it's music, it'll be awesome in some way. Never mind all of the awesome songs and montages. Here's a sampling of the BACKGROUND music.
In "What Have You Done" when PB flips a table and starts shouting in German before fainting from exhaustion. The table flipping is understandable, but it's never mentioned why she is exclaiming in German.
Some fans like or even love the idea of Princess Bubblegum being a thirteen year old, while others... are not particularly fond of the change.
With her being returned to her regular age, it probably won't be an issue anymore.
Now the base is broken between those who like the restoration of the status quo and those who wish the change had stuck.
Some people were psyched with the announcement of the Gender Flip episode. Others...not so much.
Marceline/Bubblegum has brought up all kinds of controversy.
As of "Incendium", the base is broken between those who embrace Finn having a crush on Flame Princess, and those who still support Fubblegum.
Fans who want to see more adventurous episodes (because the show has "Adventure" in its name) versus fans who want more episodes focusing on Finn's love-life. However, this tells us far more about the broken base than the show itself, since as this chart shows◊, the episodes of the former kind vastly outnumber the latter (less than one-sixth of the total number of episodes have shipping elements). It's just that the shippers are much more visible or vocal online, which may give a false impression of the actual show. See how often shipping is mentioned on this very page.
Taken to extremes by some of the former who grouse about relationship-themed episodes where Finn's not even one of the involved parties.
Interestingly, the entire conflict is represented very well in "Hot to the Touch" when Finn is conflicted between saving the goblin people and not hurting Flame Princess. Jake sums it up pretty well.
Jake: Finn, what's more important [to you]? Your love for that screw-ball dame, or being a heroand saving the lives of innocent goblin folk? Finn:(sigh) Being a hero. *
(However, he finds himself unable to resolve his inner conflict, leading to a Heroic BSOD.)
Beemo: (singing) Romance or action, does not matter. [...] Guys, you know, you're much more than this.
Similarly, the episode "Dream of Love" can be interpreted as a Take That to (or Affectionate Parody of) this whole aspect of fandom, intendedor not. The Candy People freak out to public displays of affection. The characters involved are forced into secrecy which only makes them more intrusive to others. In the end everyone is convinced to just leave them alone and mind their own business, and all is well.
Ice King. Some find him sympathetic (albeit worth no shortage of caution). Others think he's just a jerk.
Chaotic Evil: The concept is mentioned by name in "Daddy's Little Monster". Whoever wears the amulet will be filled with it and turn into an eldritch Nightosphere demon.
The Lich. For one, the guy is a Walking Wasteland that destroys everything in his path just by touch. And after performing a Body Surf into Princess Bubblegum and going One-Winged Angel, he goes on a rampage of destruction for no justifable reason. Not only does he have no concern for life, it's said he outright hates it and would love nothing more than to kill everything in all of Ooo. What futher pushes him into this turf is the fact he's about one of the few villains in the series to be portrayed completely straight with no comedy in his character at all.
The Fight King from "Morituri Te Salutamus". He lures pairs of warriors into his cursed arena and forces them to fight the ghots of ghosts, saying they'll be freed if they win, but ultimately, the only thing they earn is being forced to kill one another in his arena while their spirits remain trapped in the arena, forced to fight new victims, all the while begging their fallen friends to forgive them. No motivation is given for this other than his own enjoyment. Like the Lich, he's played completely seriously with no element of comedy to him.
The Freak Deer. He broke Finn's legs, damaged Jake's brain, kidnapped the entire Candy Kingdom, and imprisoned them in the sewers so he could slowly lick them to death. And he was doing this for six months. (although it was possibly shorter, as Jake was insane when he told Finn that it was six months.)
Me-Mow. She does nothing but attempt and/or threaten to murder in cold blood during her entire episode.
Ash, Marceline's ex-boyfriend. He got dumped for selling the teddy bear he knows she likes just to buy something to impress her. When this miraculously backfires in his face, he takes up the disguise of the Rag Wizard to trick Finn and Jake into allowing him into getting the memory removed. The latter alone earns him this entry, but as if that isn't enough, when he gets back to Marceline after being distracted away by Jake, he just tells her to make him a sandwich. Needless to say, the beating he gets thanks to Marceline having recovered the memory is VERY satisfying.
In-universe, Marceline's dad thinks Gunter is this. Of course, he could be joking.
Continuity Lock-Out: Susan Strong refers to her people as "Hyoo-man" in her second episode, which sounds exactly like "Human". The term "Hyoo-man" was clarified to mean Fish People only in supplementary materials. Anyone who hadn't seen them would be confused, since the difference between Human and Hyoo-man happened to be a plot point that was brought up and discussed.
Counterpart Comparison: Since "Holly Jolly Secrets", viewers have been comparing Ice King to Mr. Freeze, though the circumstances in which they were separated with their lovers are fairly different.
Designated Hero: Jake, arguably. He's pretty lazy sometimes and he has stolen on more than one occasion.
Designated Villain: The Ice King, very very arguably. Throughout the course of "Holly Jolly Secrets", Finn and Jake still think he's evil.
In "Princess Monster Wife" we find out that he would actually treat his bride right if he actually got married. It's the ways he tries to get a wife that's the problem. If he ever found someone who genuinely loved him without obtaining them through outright evil means, he'd be all set.
Draco in Leather Pants: The Ice King, now that we know his past. Worthy of woobiedom, but this passage from the Headscratchers page describes the reality of the situation best:
Look, I know we're supposed to feel kinda bad for him, but enough is enough. He isn't some poor innocent who everybody picks on, he's a petulant bratty manchild who's only goal in life is to force women who he finds beautiful and imprison them. See the episode Loyalty To The King, people were finally being nice to him, and he still treated them like **censored**.
To be fair, the Ice King has matured a little bit since then. He isn't as much of a jerk as he used to be. Wasn't Loyalty to the King two seasons ago?
WHAT. Did you not see Princess Monster Wife? Even if his intentions are good, HOW is stealing BODY PARTS and RUINING LIVES a MATURE thing to do?!
Ice King is known for maturity? (Granted, he is immature either way.)
Lemongrab of all characters. Either his fans are sincere and the overly-zealous "Leave Britney Alone!" guys of Adventure Time fandom, or they're trolling us. Lemongrab isn't evil- he's a dumb, inconsiderate jerk- but his fans tend to forget this and justify all of his actions with LG's scientific failure-induced Ambiguous Disorder as an excuse.
The Lich got a lot of attention from fans before he even appeared in the show, mostly due to the creator's claims (that the Lich is "not funny"), causing a lot of speculation about what he was going to do and who he was going to be. This has continued even after he was defeated, likely due in part to him not being completely gone.
"Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake". So much so that it is currently the highest rated episode for the entire series. It reached 3.3 million views. Normal Adventure Time episodes reach about 2 million. The whole concept of gender-swapped Adventure Time predates the actual episode by several months. The episode was based on comics and sketches character designer Natasha Allegri made just for fun — which became memetic on their own, spawning tons of their own fanart and ensuring the episode was heavily anticipated. Nat herself sang the theme song for the episode.
Flame Princess. There's already fanart of her as well as shipping between her and Finn. And she's already been "impersonated" on the show's official Facebook page, something that only happens to the main/most popular characters, such as Lumpy Space Princess and Marceline.
GutsFinn. (That muscular adult Finn with the robot arm from "Mortal Folly".)
Jake's dad, Joshua, seems to be rather popular. Similar to Flame Princess, he has been impersonated on Facebook (though alongside his wife), despite having only three episodes.
Possibly the ending of "Tree Trunks"; she did look happy...and then subverted when we find out what really happened in "Crystals Have Power".
The ending of "Holly Jolly Secrets" definitely. It shows the start of a new, Christmas-like tradition for Finn and friends (also Phil), but anything involving the Ice King will never be the same again after what we saw in the final minutes of that episode.
Ice King's female counterpart, Ice Queen. Presumably, this is to contrast with Ice King's... undesirable appearance. Nonetheless, Natasha Allegri said that she made Ice Queen attractive because she thinks attractive villains are scarier. (And she has a point. Ice Queen is scarier than Ice King.)
Also a bit of Fridge Brilliance since the entire episode is the Ice King's fanfiction. Of course he'd make his female counterpart sexy!
The moral of "His Hero" is that sometimes violence can be more helpful than nonviolence. Considering the show's nature (see Broken Aesop), this might be a joke, but it's not entirely wrong.
Also, don't take advice from old people.
The moral of "Freak City" seems to be that some people are just jerks and that sometimes you have to deal with them. Once again, not entirely wrong.
"Ocean of Fear" teaches us that you shouldn't try to conquer your fears, because its just a flaw.
The backlash over Marceline/Bubblegum ship teasing in "What Was Missing" (and that's all it was ever intended to be, as far as we know. Most of the team is apparently pro-GLBT rights, but the point of the episode was comedy and not trying to make a political statement) got Dan Rickmers fired and Mathematical shut down. Congratulations, Fandom!
Supporters of the ship often dismiss anyone who doesn't support it as "homophobic". One even did this to Adam Muto, one of the writers who put the exploitable subtext in the episode in the first place. Notice the Ruined FOREVER attitude.
People are already screaming 'Mary Sue!' at Flame Princess, even though she hardly appeared in her debut episode and only spoke 6 lines of dialogue, tops!
Some fans complaining about the show's alleged shift from "adventure to shipping" don't seem to realize how few the episodes relating to the latter really are, and are confusing a segment of the fandom and its activities with the actual show. See Broken Base above. While an increasing emphasis on, or development of, Finn's "girl issues" has been happening, that can be attributed to Finn's voice actor not getting any younger, leading the writers to age Finn up one year and to gradually tackle puberty-related issues.
Although to be fair, the third season has three strongly shipping-conducive episodes in a row, and two of these were "Fionna and Cake" and "What Was Missing", which may have given bird's-eye-viewers misleading impressions of the show at the time they were aired. The second and third season finales are also shipping-conducive. But the point is these episodes themselves aren't as prevalent as some think; their effect on fandom is a different matter. *
To illustrate this concept: there is only oneGender Flip episode, yet almost half all the fan art includes the gender-bent cast.
Also, fans don't seem to realize how much the staff itself values adventure. For example, the original plot of "Fionna and Cake" (a favorite target for the fans who complain about the alleged shift) had no fighting whatsoever, so the episode's storyboarders just took matters into their own hands and decided taking a more Adventure Time-y route.
People berating Finn for "un-heroic" behavior connected to "girl issues" in "Incendium" and "Hot to the Touch" - when the wider point of the storyline was Finn himself becoming all too aware of his own young teen vulnerabilities and inner conflicts. In short, there being a problem in the story is the story, in this case. One would guess these fans are opposed to Character Development. Besides, so far these developments simply have not affected later episodes, when Finn acts as cheerful as ever instead of angsting, even when hanging around Princess Bubblegum. He can even mention his past relationship with PB without breaking his composure. The writers will cross the bridge and resolve stuff when they get to it; Finn hasn't "forever changed".
A lot of people actually believed Marceline when she said, "I don't wanna hang out with you anymore." She really is a good Troll.
Until proven otherwise, Lemongrab's small yet devoted fanbase can be considered as this. In their point of view, Lemongrab is basically traumatized and retarded, and therefore, can't be held accountable for how much of an idiot he is, and how much he ruined the Candy Kingdom. They tend to overlook the fact that even though good ol' LG is retarded, AND an idiot, AND unadjusted... he's also an asshole. Being just plain mean can't really be excused by any mental disorder- no matter how severe. Sure he's troubled, but he's also a huge jerk. He isn't even a nice guy like the Ice King. LG deserves a great deal of the backlash he receives.
Lemongrab's fans are the "Leave Britney Alone" guys of the Adventure Time fandom. Their hearts are in the right place, but they almost always seem to ignore, or forget, the fact that their favorite character is a selfish jerkass who deserves to have some sense beaten into him, even if he is as troubled as he appears.
Either his fans are idiots, overly-forgiving, or the littlest big group of trolls in Adventure Time fandom. They could be only half-serious. We don't know. They're a strange lot.
Fan Preferred Couple: Finn and Princess Bubblegum, or Princess Bubblegum and Marceline.
Fan Yay: Marceline/Bubblegum is highly favored within the LGBT community.
Foe Yay: Wait... Did Ice King just write a fanfiction about a girl version his arch-enemy being in love with him?? That's... unsettling.
In "Fionna and Cake", after Ice Queen switched places with Gumball, she... spent the day on a date with Fionna.This post examines some of the implications there.
"Funny Aneurysm" Moment: After "Holly Jolly Secrets," pretty much anything the Ice King has ever done that was meant to be funny could be called this.
There is such a thing as an enchiridion. This also counts as Bilingual Bonus. Enchiridion is a Greek word (although spelled differently) meaning, among others, 'manual'.
The cat that knows "where you might be" might be a reference to Schrödinger's Cat.
The White Mask of Doom Princess Bubblegum wears in "What Have You Done", is the mask the Beak Doctors wore during the times of the Black Plague.
There are SO MANY in "The Real You". Special mention goes to the "WE WERE ALL BORN TO DIE!!" joke by Finn, by which he actually means that the body is specifically geared to know how to die. Either that, or he is referring to the fact that the end "goal" of everyone's life is dieing, thus its the reason you are born.
PB's chalkboard in "Too Young" describes and demonstrates the Big Bang. Also counts as Freeze Frame Bonus.
Princess Bubblegum instructs Marceline "begin playing triplet quavers in mixolydian mode", which is just full of advanced music lingo known only to those who have studied music at a college level.
A chalkboard in "Goliad" shows a molecular line diagram for the molecule carbon trioxide. Not much of a Genius Bonus if you paid attention in high school chemistry.
More specifically, the beard was starting to show in the Season 2 finale two-parter "Mortal Folly-Mortal Recoil" where it featured Finn and Jake's first Saving the World adventure by defeating The Lich, an Eldritch Abomination bent on killing everyone.
So Marceline's dad just ate her fries. Doesn't seem like it's bad enough to refuse to talk to him ever again, right? But in "Memory of a Memory" we see the fries he was eating were in a broke down abandoned diner after the apocalypse. Chances are food of any kind was scarce and teenage nonvampire Marceline probably needed them more than her deathless father...
That makes so much sense!
Basically everything about the Ice King after Holly Jolly Secrets.
Related to the above: In the Fionna and Cake episode, Cake wore the Ice Queen's tiara and Fionna knocked it off Cake's head yelling "Take that off! You might catch her crazy!" As "Holly Jolly Secrets" revealed, the Ice King's crown caused him to go crazy. Now the whole episode is a Fan Fic by the Ice King...so he knows to a certain extent that he is not the person he used to be.
Hate Dumb: Some people complain that the show has "no logic" behind it, and that it's just crazy randomness. Can't argue with that, but the stupidity comes when people think this is one hundred percent of the show.
Still others claim that the show's creators can't draw— the art style is simplistic on purpose. The show is often described in terms like "childlike" so it looks like a kid's doodles coming to life.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Many people complained that "Incendium" felt short and should've been a two-parter. Welp, turns out that the season 4 episode "Hot to the Touch" continues directly from where "Incendium" left off, so the two episodes may as well be considered parts of the same episode!
Hollywood Pudgy: Just because Flame Princess has an irregular arm size compared to the rest of the characters (most of whom have noodle arms), she has endlessly been called "fat" by some fans.
Completely ignoring the fact that her arm size makes sense. Fire seems to be... for lack of a better word, thicker near the bottom. Seeing as she's basically made of fire, it only makes sense.
She's also younger and (normally) shorter than the other humanoid princesses, so the "camera" does zoom in on her more.
Most of the female characters are very skinny- with noodly arms and small breasts. The backlash over "fat" characters started when Natasha Allegri called Fionna "chubby-cute." Which is odd, because Fionna looks very average- it's the other girls who look skinny. Flame Princess received the same criticisms as Fionna from fans- though in a much less endearing way.
Finn: There's a big sleepy lava man in our front yard! And he is so hot! Jake: Mm-hmm... (nudges Finn) Finn: No—no wait, I take it back—I don't mean like... sexy hot... Jake: No... you do mean sexy hot!
The marauders like to wrestle. And then they like to pet each other. Pet each other raw.
From the same episode:
Mountain: Those men and their disgusting fantastic bodies!!
And then...
Finn: You can't be stealing gold in your sleep. I watch you while you sleep. Jake: What?!? Yo, Finn, that is creepy, man. Finn: I can't help it! I take pictures!
This too...
Jake: Hey, Finn's gonna need a queen. (beat) I'll do it.
When Death kisses Jake on the lips, with a Foot Pop from Jake.
"Kiss of death, baby."
And then there's this:
Finn: If you weren't so darn handsome, animals wouldn't always be staring at you! Jake: You're just mad at me for being... (smiles) handsome?
The very first gladiator in "Morituri Te Salutamus":
Lumpy Space Princess:No, Jessica! Don't cheat on Tony with me!
So muchHo Yay between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline in "What Was Missing"... So much...
Marceline:(singing) I'm gonna drink the red from your pretty pink face...
After the preview for a certain episode was shown, the fandom practically EXPLODED with Princess Bubblegum and Marceline Ho YayFan Art. Even people who don't watch the flipping show began to ship them!
According to an interview with Natasha Allegri, it's canon too. She also has drawn the pair several times on her Tumblr, long before the preview. Then again, she is a bit of a troll.
Adam Muto gives a Shrug of God - it's still up to the viewer to decide whether their relationship was romantic or merely friendly. Unfortunately, his objection to a definite confirmation of the former was construed as "homophobic" by certain fans, regardless of the fact that he co-wrote the episode, with all its possible ship teasing.
The Ice King. He really does seem to just want a nice wife and make her happy. His modus operandi, on the other hand...
The "Holly Jolly Secrets" episode reveals that the Ice King was an ordinary human with a fiancée when he found a mysterious crown that gave him horrifying visions. Sadly, after first putting it on for a brief moment, he never saw his fiancée again, and as time wore on, with the crown adorned on his head, he slowly transforms into what he is now.
Marceline. Yeah, she's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but from what we've seen of her past, it's hard not to feel sorry for her.
Lumpy Space Princess, once The Monster aired.
When one takes a certain point of view, the Earl of Lemongrab can be considered one. This is backed up by how Adam Muto specifically said that he was "...completely unadjusted to living". In addition to this, we never see PB- who's his mom, treating him with anything but contempt and shame. Jesse Moynihan also implied that she abandoned him and isolated him from the rest of the Candy People.
Jesse Moynihan said that his jerkass woobie status was completely intentional. In the rough draft, LG was originally a one-dimensional jerk like Xergiok. But Jesse fleshed out his character by making him "weird, angry, isolated," and "with an inability to read social cues." We're SUPPOSED to feel bad when PB and Finn punch him- even though he's a jerk- for this reason. He may be a jerk, but he's a deeply troubled jerk with a lot of issues to sort out.
Flame Princess, if you construe her desire to destroy a kingdom to make her own fire kingdom to be evil and selfish... which it kind of is. However, there's always an alternative interpretation. It could be that she believes that this is her only purpose, which is kind of sad. It can also be assumed that since she is implied to be sheltered, and the daughter of an evil king, she has been taught nothing in the vein of right and wrong at all, and she possibly didn't even know that people could live without fire unlike her; therefore, she possibly wasn't intentionally being malicious. She's still kinda dangerous.
Magnificent Bastard: Possibly Marceline in "Marceline's Closet". Up until she tried calling Finn's house to see if he was there, she had no idea the duo were in her closet. They started laughing at their taped message and she realized right away they were there, and started doing things like recording the song and taking a shower. The ending cements this to make Finn and Jake paranoid as retribution for breaking in her home in the first place. She is very much a Troll.
"In Your Footsteps": Doubly subverted with the bear. At first it seemed that the bear was getting close to Finn so that he could steal his identity. Then it's revealed that no one actually thought the bear was Finn, and the bear just wanted to be more heroic by emulating Finn. Finn gives the bear the Enchiridion so that the bear can get along on the way to becoming a hero. HOWEVER... it turns out that the bear is a henchman for the Lich, and he was after the Enchiridion all along... so that he could give it to the Lich.
Pen:(singing) You know you should've stayed / And fought that sexy vampire lady...
Mis-blamed: The Fan Dumb were quick to pin the blame for Mathematical's "What Was Missing" video being removed and Mathematical's downfall on Cartoon Network and the AT crew, even though neither party was involved in any way, shape, or form to the upload and removal of the video and the channel.
The scene of Lemongrab being "born" would have been completely, genuinely horrifying... if it weren't for the fact that when he screams (or even says anything,) he sounds like an awkward 17 year old with laryngitis going through uber-puberty.
Nausea Fuel: Ice King's giant pile of boogers in "Holly Jolly Secrets". Just... eugh.
In "Five Short Graybles" Princess Bubblegum makes Cinnamon Bun a sandwich. He eats with a second mouth and then shits it out at her. This is one of the grossest gags in the show and a possible Take That, Scrappy! for recent PB actions.
According to Word Of God, it wasn't shit... It was bile mixed with mushed-up food, which might be grosser for some people.
Projectile vomiting into people's faces. There were two instances- one of Jake puking in Finn's face, and one of Lemongrab puking in Peppermint Butler's face.
Which isn't even mentioning Finn and Jake spitting food into each others' mouths in "Jake vs. Me-mow".
In "From Bad to Worse" when the group starts making their formulas, they observe the rat (Science) "dancing". She was actually pointing to her nametag.
All of the "clues" in "Mystery Train".
The alpha hug wolf being infected by the tree of blight in "Hug Wolf".
Ruined FOREVER: Rabid Finn and Princess Bubblegum fans will find that after "Incendium", Finn had focused his attention on Flame Princess.
"Fubblegum/Bubblefinn" (Finn/Princess Bubblegum) and "Farceline/Finnceline" (Finn/Marceline) show up often in forums. Lately we have "Bubbline/MarceBubble/Marcegum/etc." (Princess Bubblegum/Marceline), though it's usually shortened to Pb/M.
Bubblegum and Marceline is also known as Sugarless Gum.
Ship Mates: The recently-surfaced ship of Finn/Flame Princess really makes it a whole lot easier for Marceline/Princess Bubblegum shippers.
Shipping Goggles: The song at the beginning of "What Was Missing" most likely only implies that Marceline wants to be friends with PB and nothing more... but there's no arguing that it's completely Ho Yay-ridden.
There may be a fourth candidate in the rising Finn/FlamePrincess ship.
And now that Nat has just designed Flame Princess's gender-swapped counterpart, Flame Prince... welp, The Great Mushroom War might as well be occurring in this fandom.
In the final page of issue four of the comic, there's a flashback of young Marceline from "Memory of a Memory" but before she gains vampire appearance. She says that the mushroom war awakened her powers and is hiding in a cave, where the Lich's magic bag is being held and the world is going to hell outside.
Squick: Tree Trunks has a crush on Finn. Tree Trunks, by the way, is a very old small elephant woman, while Finn is a twelve (now thirteen) year old boy.
Also, the fact that that the Ice King ships Fionna, Finn's Distaff Counterpart, with himself. This is made even more troubling when it's revealed that Fionna is in fact a character in the Ice King's fanfiction about Finn and Jake.
Prince Gumball's (Ice Queen's)song in "Fionna and Cake", and really any song that was written by Rebecca Sugar on the show (except the Fry Song and "I'm Just Your Problem", of course, which can be real downers).
90% of the fans' reactions when Princess Bubblegum turned 18 again at the end of "Too Young", thus restoring the status quo. The writers' reasoning is that no good stories would have been effected by her age other than Pandering to the Base.
More than a few fans had this reaction to Too Young for a totally different, if not outright opposite, reason. For whatever reason, Lemongrab charmed many Adventure Time fans, and many were sad to see him go. Jesse Moynihan created an EXTREMELY charismatic, weird, and interesting character, just to kick him out in the same episode. However, it looks like the Lemongrab Brigade will be getting what they want, after a year of waiting, in the upcoming episode, You Made Me!.
In the end of "Hitman", Ice King fakes killing Finn and Jake to get Scorcher off all their backs, which he does by freezing them. And in "Still", Ice King uses a potion to freeze F&J. This is stated to be two different stories, so why didn't they bother having them connected?
Ugly Cute: Princess Bubblegum becomes this in "The Duke".
BMO. It doesn't help that even the characters can't decide what he/she is.
In "Five Short Graybles", Beemo confirms that he considers himself male-gendered.
Many fans were surprised to find out that LSP is actually a girl. (Apparently the 'princess' part of her name wasn't enough of a clue.)
Visual Effects Of Awesome: The 3D animation in "Guardians of Sunshine" (all animated by one CalArts graduate) and the fourth-dimensional bubble animation in "The Real You".
Wangst: A few people are calling Finn a whiny crybaby after what happened in "Incendium" and "Hot to the Touch". Of course, people often ignore that in "Hot to the Touch", Finn was partly crying because he thought he was letting innocent people die because of his own weakness. Jeez, man up, Finn!
Also, in "Dad's Dungeon" he says only heavy, serious stuff ever makes him cry, and the events of "Incendium" and "Hot to the Touch" qualify as that. Again in "Hot to the Touch", when he is mistaken for a crybaby, he's embarrassed and insists he really isn't - a call-back to "Dad's Dungeon".
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Despite the PG content and rather mature overtones once in a while, Adventure Time is still very much meant for kids. The writers do a very good job of leaving in enough to imply, but never any literal words to be inappropriate.
Win Back The Crowd: After CNReal bombed and Adventure Time turned out to be a break away success, Cartoon Network gained a renewed interest in animated series.
Writer Induced Fanon: The relationship between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline. Whether intentional or not, the relationship can be interpreted as a friendship that went sour, or a romantic relationship that went sour thus subjecting both of them to UST.
Finn, as demonstrated in his backstory for "Memories of Boom-Boom Mountain", Marceline in "It Came From The Nightosphere", "Memory of a Memory", and "What Was Missing", and the Ice King in "The Eyes" and "Holly Jolly Secrets".
Finn's woobie status may be almost on par with the Ice King now, since he's gotten his heart broken way too many times now.
The goblins in The Silent King most definitely count as this, particularly Gummy.
Now we have Abracadaniel from "Wizard Battle".
Simon Petrikov. He was a regular, sensible human being who was forcibly and slowly Mind Raped by a mystic artifact, fighting every step of the way, into an idiotic Cloudcuckoolander children's cartoon character: The Ice King..
Marceline gave us more evidence with her song in "Marceline's Closet", where she basically states that she's sad that she has no friends due to the fact that they cannot understand her immortality.
If you don't take all of her actions and reactions to be wayoutofline, Flame Princess, big time. In "Incendium", she is informed that Finn likes her, only for Finn (Jake pretending to be Finn) to tell her "Nevermind." In "Hot to the Touch" she may have intentionally hurt people, but she was just fulfilling her purpose as a fire elemental: to burn things. Each time the heroes tried to put the fires out, they only hurt her, and she simply can't understand why they would do that. When Finn cries, she reasons that Finn must be some kind of "water elemental", so she thinks that they can't be together, even if they like each other. This is strengthened by the fact that when she hugs Finn, he is hurt and he cries, and his tears, in turn, actually hurt her physically. So yeah, no prince Finn for her... for now.
While, at the same time, we're supposed to forget PB and her connection with Finn and everything that happened between them as if it no longer matters. This makes Finn the woobie for being depressed and rejected by a girl we not only knew cared about him, but also returned his affections (albeit being much younger at the time), but also makes the inevitable PB/Flame Princess meeting have all the more potential hurt feelings and fandom consolation for Finn, PB, or the Flame Princess. It really matters on how the fans will take it.
