Line #21 Recap/AdventureTimeS3E1ConquestofCuteness


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2	Finn and Jake's tree house is invaded by the Cute King and his army of Cuties. The problem is, they're too small and adorable for Finn and Jake (or anyone else) to take seriously.
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4	!! Tropes
5	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Cuties have this as their central plot, as they try to take over the treehouse. Sadly for them, it backfires somewhat.
6	* BadBadActing: Finn and Jake do this with some success, when they throw a fight against the Cute King's army.
7	* BatmanGambit: Finn and his friends fake being defeated by Cute King so he will be happy and they will leave him and Jake alone, while also giving them a taste of victory for their own sake.
8	* BerserkButton: Cute King becomes murderous when he isn't taken seriously or when people [[IResembleThatRemark find his army cute]].
9	* BigLittleMan: In the second battle a bunch of Cuties combine together to create a giant mega-Cutie, shot from a low angle and with intimidating music... but it's still about as tall as Finn's knee.
10	* BigStupidDoodooHead: The Cuties' laughably ineffective attempt to break Finn and Jake by pretending to be their mother's malicious ghost.
11	* ABloodyMess: Finn uses ketchup to resemble bloodshed, and the Cuties fall for it at first.
12	* BreakTheCutie:
13	** Cute King did not take it well when his army cried and began bawling with them.
14	** [[LiteralMetaphor Later and rather literally]], it also happens to Cute King when he finds out Finn, Jake, BMO, Lumpy Space Princess, Cinnamon Bun and a duck faked their deaths using ketchup as blood.
15	* CombiningMecha: The Cuties combine together in battle, though the result isn't even big enough to reach up to Finn's waist.
16	* {{Corpsing}}: Happens InUniverse; Jake ruins Finn's plan to make the Cuties think they won the battle when he bursts out laughing at the Cute King's ridiculous [[HappyDance victory dance]].
17	* CurbStompBattle: The Cutie army vs. Finn and Jake. They all either trip, incapacitate themselves, fall apart, or explode during their attack on Finn and Jake's house before even reaching the front door.
18	* CuteIsEvil: The Cuties would like to embody this trope, but are not particularly good at it.
19	* CutenessProximity: At the end of the episode, Finn convinces the Cute King and his Cuties to weaponize their cuteness against their enemies. It works, as seen on Ice King.
20	* EpicFail: The Cuties' siege on the Tree Fort is laughably terrible. They trip over each other, lose limbs, and one of them ''explodes'' for no reason.
21	-->'''Finn:''' These guys are a threat to ''themselves''.
22	* EverybodyCries: Cute King and his army begin bawling at their second failure.
23	* FaceOfAThug: Inverted: Cute King and his legion of Cuties are certified cuties but unfortunately they are monsters, too bad they aren't taken seriously.
24	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Cutie Army barely passes as a threat despite their desire to be taken seriously.
25	* MetaTwist: The early part of the episode and the Big Little Man scene hint that the Cuties are [[KillerRabbit genuinely dangerous]], and several previous episodes have featured secretly evil and dangerous cute things, but actually they are just as harmless as they seem.
26	* ParanoiaGambit: When the Cute King tells Jake to "enjoy your burrito!", Jake thinks they might have poisoned it somehow, and ends up unable to bring himself to eat it.
27	* PuppyDogEyes: The Cute King does this to control Ice King at the end and so he will make him a sandwich.
28	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: All the Cuties.
29	* StarCrossedLovers: Lumpy Space Princess' idea of letting the Cuties win is to pretend to fall in love with one and then die of unrequited love.
30	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Played With. Jake doesn’t eat the Everything Burrito he made out of paranoia the Cuties poisoned it, and buries it in a grave that evening but it likely wasn’t edible anyway considering all that was in it.
31	* ThrowingTheFight: Finn, Jake, and their friends pretend to fall in battle to the Cuties to get them to leave Finn and Jake alone.

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