History TearJerker / AdventureTime

** Ice king tends to go after younger women. Much younger women. Maybe he's not looking for a wife. Maybe he wants to reclaim the happiness he had with Marcy, but, due to his insanity, cannot separate love for a wife from love for a daughter.
*** This makes more sense when one looks back at his interactions with most princesses: overprotective, tactful, essentially treating them like a child. Up until now, it was an example of classic chauvinism, degrading women by treating them as though they were incompetent. But after this episode...Maybe he just wants the little princess Marcy back.
** During Ice King's "Oh Bubblegum" song, Marcy's face shows a hint of joy and amusement. Maybe it reminds her of some goofy games she played with Simon when she was younger. Or maybe it was Simon who sparked her interest in music. Maybe she had hoped it would cause him to remember... From there, however, when Ice King starts singing about Bubblegum, her face becomes angry. There is a possibility that she, as a child, had an innocent crush on Simon. It's like in Film/TheProfessional: Marcy never knew the love of a good father, her father being an obsessive demon business man. Simon, on the other hand, did his best to take care of her. She probably feels a hint of jealousy at the mention of Bubblegum.
*** Another possibility is that she could be feeling disgusted by it. Imagine if the guy who you viewed as a father figure started to try and hit on your old friend/ex-girlfriend (estranged or not) that you still have platonic/romantic feelings for and has enlisted your help in doing that. Just think about that for a moment...

* In "The Comet", after Finn rejects the eponymous entity's proposal for a new way of existence, Martin decides to take it in his place. Finn gets angry and calls him out for wanting to escape once again, and Martin responds in perhaps the most honest and open ever, admitting that he's burned so many bridges that he can't help but move forward, and that no answer he gives will ever satisfy anyone. Finn just accepts with a broken smile that there's no point trying to change his father. Martin tells him he's glad they've come to an agreement before dissapearing along the Comet forever.

* [[CerebusSyndrome Season three]] in regards to Finn if you think about it. He finally gets to be with his dream girl in "Too Young" when PB gets de-aged and that only lasts a short time. They kiss and she doesn't remember any of it and treats it like it was years ago. Then comes "What Was Missing" when he just wants to hang out with his friends Marceline, PB and Jake to form a band to get their stuff back but the three all just fight until he sings his sad little song. In "The Creeps" he apparently made PB a sweet sixteen b-day card and she doesn't remember. Then in "Holly Jolly Secrets" Ice King turns out to be formerly human, making Finn and Susan Strong both alone and not alone at the same time. Then in "Dad's Dungeon" he feels like his adopted father never loved him. Add in the above quote from the same episode and it seems like he's having a hard time trusting people. Hopefully this [[LighterAndSofter lightens up]] for season 4.

---->'''Jake''':Gah... BMO?

---->'''BMO''':Shhhh... It's OK, 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?

** Compare how the Ice King acts a thousand years later, to how Farmworld Finn acts only two after two years (assuming time passed in Farmworld the same as in Ooo). The crown is driving Farmworld Finn to freeze the entire world - which Ice King hasn't even come close to doing after so much time. Simon Petrikov's noble soul is still in there, fighting off the worst whisperings of the Crown after all this time, which even the hero can't seem to do. And he's paying for it.

[[HurtingHero Because it feels like there's a\\

If I keep waiting for this thing to start.]]''

[[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime What time is it?]] [[TearJerker It's sad-]][[IncrediblyLamePun venture time...]]

** A kind of meta example. When describing their profound joy about their newfound fatherhood, Lemongrab describes this feeling as "so pretty okay." He has been chronically depressed for ''so long'' that he's unable to adequately articulate what it feels like to experience true happiness.

** On a more Meta level; one of the episode's writers, Cole Sanchez, revealed in a [[http://4ms.me/13wJPPn Formspring post]] that originally, little Marcy was so sick that Simon legitimately believed she would '''''die''''' if he didn't get her medicine, but Creator/CartoonNetwork thought that would traumatize children, so it was changed to her illness being less severe and the two looking for chicken soup. Sure, we know that either way, she would have turned out all right in the end, but the mere thought of that would make anyone's heart sink.
*** Learning this makes a lot of scenes fall more into place. Simon's panic about Marceline's state seemed a bit extreme if it was something as simple as a cold (which does suck breadballs, but for the most part everyone knows that you are able to recover eventually), and his anger concerning the "Clambulance" makes more sense. Rather than being picky about the type of soup was best, his reaction was because he was looking for an actual ambulance.

** Meta example, crossed with a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: Goose (and many of the other "Jakepeople") is voiced by Creator/BillyWest. In other words, [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Fry and Bender]] are reunited!

** Finn venting all his frustrations at PB. The boy barely kept from bursting into tears by the end. Props to Creator/JeremyShada for his [[SugarWiki/HeRdallyCanAct great acting.]]

** Finn venting all his frustrations at PB. The boy barely kept from bursting into tears by the end.

* [[http://abarero.tumblr.com/post/59154069126/can-we-just-talk-about-this-panel-can-we-talk The Ice King doesn't even remember]] why he's fighting off the crown anymore. Remember all that stuff from the entry above where he JUST WANTS TO DIE? Yeah, remember the crown wants [[KillEmAll EVERYBODY to die.]]

* Major Fridge TearJerker on someone you ''never'' thought would evoke sympathy of any kind: after what happened to Farmworld Jake, we know that the Lich isn't the cause of the Mushroom War-[[FromNobodyToNightmare he's someone who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got turned into a living weapon.]] The guy would've had nothing to do with the Mushroom War conflict, yet he gets [[FaceMonsterTurn unwittingly warped]] into an undying, UltimateEvil OmnicidalManiac [[LossOfIdentity with nothing left of him but his mutated body.]] The Lich may be terrifying, but [[AlasPoorVillain to see why...]]

* The titular character of "Breezy" gives up her free life in order to save Finn from a mob of angry bees. When he rejects her (and by "rejects her," we mean "refuses to go under a BalefulPolymorph into a mating drone"), she cries.

* Bubble getting popped in "BMO Lost". Poor BMO is [[CryCute devastated.]]

** Bubblegum every time Lady Rainicorn is hurt, especially towards the end. It's ''very'' clear she cares about Lady immensely and you can practically hear how much it hurts her to see her hurt. Taken UpToEleven when she realizes that Lady Rainicorn was ''pregnant'' the entire time and just how much danger she was really in. Is it any wonder she beat Ricardio to a pulp for what he did?

** Lady at the end of the episode, when he was revealing that she is pregnant. She looked like she was either scared Jake won't accept that or that something could've happened to [[AdultFear the babies after all that beating she received]].

* "The Nemesis". The AdultFear in this episode all culminates to just this one single word. "Yes..?"

** BMO has a bit of an existential crisis throughout the episode. First, after getting stuck in the trash compactor, he wonders if being an adult means not knowing if things are going well or going badly. Then, after [[CainAndAbel having to kill AMO in self-defense]], he has a conversation with himself where he worries he'll turn out like his selfish "brother".

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* "Earth & Water" has the Flame Princess desperately trying to figure out how to "fix" herself, to the point that she's willing to let Bubblegum lock her up and experiment on her, accepting some not very comforting {{False Reassurance}}s just because she wants to ''trust'' her.

* Shoko from "The Vault," her whole life is one long line of tear jerker moments. Including her parents cutting off her arm and selling it for a computer, then abandoning her at a dojo. Then when she finally finds a good friend in PB she has to rob her to keep her life but ends up dying anyway.
* In "Love Games," Finn bares his soul and sings a sad song lamenting that he misses Flame Princess. How Finn can't get over her because everything reminds him of her. And the look in his eyes when he finishes his song and states "Just can't get over you".

* At the end of "[[WhamEpisode Play Date]]," Keeoth kidnaps Jake and the episode... just ends.

* "Thanks For The Crabapples Giuseppe" is for the most part a cute road trip episode with Ice King and his wizard friends. But then there's a random tragic scene where Ice King reads Giuseppe's magic; it's a poem for his daughter, with a flashback to little girls trying to wake up their dead fathers, and then Ice King cries but he's not aware of it until the others (who are also crying) point it out to him. Bet you weren't expecting Simon/Marcy feelings.

-->'''Flame Princess:''' You're cold PB, and it’s not because you're a scientist or leader, it's because ''you are a bad person''. Something inside you is messed up girl, and whatever it is... '''sigh''', whatever.\\
'''Princess Bubblegum:''' Alright, keep one last fire giant. I'm not a bad person... I want you to see that.

*** When Sugar played it at the show's final [=ComicCon=] panel, she dedicated it to Adam Muto, showrunner and Sugar's old storyboarding partner, who visibly teared up as it was playing, as did [=DiMaggio=] and Olivia Olsen (Marceline).