History AdventureTime / TropesIToR

* OurMonstersAreWeird: But then again, [[WidgetSeries so is the show in general]].

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: Starting from Season 3, most of the unnamed background characters' voice actors stopped being listed by the credits and were simply credited under "Additional Voices".

* JumpScare: Sleepy Sam's [[HellIsThatNoise scream]] in "Guardians of Sunshine."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ow6tXyk-ts This promo for "The Lich"]] starts with the Lich's face zooming in directly at you, and it happens so quickly that it's gone before you even realize what just happened. Made even worse since the promo aired [[MoodWhiplash directly]] after "I Remember You".

* MemeticHandGesture: The whole "Adventure Time!" fist pound between Finn and Jake.

* LongTitle: The video game is titled ''Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why�d you steal our garbage?!!'', and its follow-up, ''Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW!''

* OutOfOrder: The episodes aired during the first season are notably mixed up, with the most notable example being that [[spoiler: Tree Trunks is seemingly killed after eating part of the crystal apple in "Tree Trunks", only to appear fine in the later aired episode "Evicted".]]

* RidingInThePalmsOfGiantHands: At the end of one episode, Jake the dog and his daughter Jake Jr have got away from his former heist crew who betrayed him. Jake grows into a giant to carry Jake Jr home in the palm of his hands.

* OffModel: Many fans complained that Jake was this at the beginning of "Crystals Have Power".
** Used intentionally in "King Worm"-- during the dream, the ears on Finn's hat are longer than normal, returning to regular length when he wakes up.
** Some parts of "Up A Tree" tend to veer into this; Finn's face seems to shrink to a third of the size of his hat in some scenes.

* [[NuclearNasty Nuclear Nasties]]: "Simon and Marcy" shows us just how bad things were during the early days after the Mushroom War devastated everything, including mutations that were leaking glowing green goop from orifices in their body where eyes, ears, noses, and others should have been.

* PermanentPlaceholder: The opening title theme song

* PunBasedTitle: Averted with "What Was Missing", which was originally called "Door Jam". (The episode is about opening a locked door using music.) The crew actually prefers ''[[PetPeeveTrope not]]'' to use {{pun}}s as titles.

* RetiredBadass: Billy. How badass was he? He killed '''an evil ocean'''... by '''''PUNCHING IT'''''! Still not sure? Princess Bubblegum says Billy didn't just imprison [[UltimateEvil the Lich]] in amber, he did so by pummeling him into the tree.

* NiceHat: Quite common in the series. Finn's hood, the Ice King's crown, and Party Pat's fedora are pretty good examples.
** To that, let's add Marceline's sunhat in "What Was Missing".
** And Magic Man's trademark hat, [[spoiler:which Betty later steals along with his powers.]]
* NiceGuy: Finn has this in spades.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Finn releases the Lord of Evil from the Nightosphere.

** As it turns out, it is even MORE so for the voice actors. Creator/JohnDiMaggio said at a [=SupaNova=] 2012 Brisbane (an Australian con) panel that when he is given his script, he is just given numbered lines, completely without context. Thus when he sees lines like "Be calmed by my saliva" and "Yes Finn, just put it in my butt!", he has even [[UpToEleven LESS]] idea what's going on than we do.
** A Glitch is a Glitch. Every second of it.

* MageSpecies: Played straight or GenderFlipped, as WordOfGod gives "Wizard" as the species for [[BastardBoyfriend Ash]] and [[AnIcePerson the Ice King]] (though the latter [[spoiler:was born human]]). We also see "witches," but it's unclear if they and Wizards are the same species, two examples of this trope or what.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Lampshaded in season 5's "All The Little People" when Finn is examining the contents of the bag of action figures that [[spoiler: Magic Man]] gave him.
-->'''Finn:''' C-listers, go back in the bag.
-->'''Jake:''' Who's a C-list?
-->'''Finn:''' Uh, Tiffany, Donny...he's okay. Xergiok...A buncha these guys.
-->'''Jake:''' That's not very nice.
-->'''Finn:''' Don't worry, man. They'll get involved eventually.
-->'''Jake:''' Involved with ''what?''
-->'''Finn:''' I don't know. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Involved.]]

** {{Averted|Trope}} and played straight. In "To Cut A Woman's Hair", after Finn learns that he doesn't specifically need princess hair to save Jake from a witch, he cuts off his RapunzelHair (which, incidentally, was revealed for the first time in the series). From then on, whenever his hair is depicted, it shown being slightly longer than the last time it was last seen. Then in "Davey" (which was three seasons later), he cuts it again to adopt a disguise. By "A Glitch is a Glitch" (which was only a few episodes later), his hair's back to the sheer length it was when it was first revealed.[[note]]However, this episode is noncanon.[[/note]]

* RapunzelHair: Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, Finn, and Fionna have really long hair.

* {{Meganekko}}:
** Doctor Princess.
** Princess Bubblegum in "Goliad".

* MoralDissonance: Season 4 is the main purveyor of this trope:
** In the episode "In Your Footsteps", Princess Bubblegum seems to be very happy with the bear posing as Finn [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable giving her the "Heimlich maneuver"]]. She even knew that it was a bear. She should have backhanded him to next Tuesday. Every episode prior to this shows PB shrugging off Finn's romantic advances, saying the age difference is the main problem. Then a bear grabs her from behind and she's okay with that? Unless... she '''[[GoodBadGirl really]]''' wants a physical relationship.