Characters / Adventure Time: Kingdoms of Ooo

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The inhabitants of the many kingdoms of Ooo in Adventure Time.

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Kingdoms of Ooo

The Ice Kingdom

Gunter

^{Click here to see his other form.}

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

Wenk.

The Ice King's favorite penguin and servant. May be the ultimate evil power in Ooo, if Marceline's dad is correct. It has been suggested that the Ice King just calls whatever penguin is closest Gunter.

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• Affably Evil: As Orgalorg, he's quite chatty and friendly while discussing the destruction of whole worlds.
• Ambiguous Gender: Referred to as "he" In-Universe, but Gunter's gender matter of debate what gender they are. This one has a dream self that takes the form of a bird woman, voiced by a woman. He's voiced by Tom Kenny as Orgalorg, but given the circumstances may be some case of No Biological Sex or Bizarre Alien Sexes.
• Ambition Is Evil: His attempt to absorb the powers of a Catalyst Comet caused Abe Lincoln and Glob to strike him down.
• Amnesiac God: His memories as Orgalorg were sealed when he was banished to earth.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: They still act on their motivations as Orgalorg even though they're not entirely conscious why. After corrupting Princess Bubblegum's dream without any conscious reason causes the Cosmic Owl to break it off they seem upset and they sound wistfully bemused about why they manipulated others so they could go into space. It all goes away when they're actually in space and can return to their true form though.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • In the Fionna and Cake universe, Gunter is giant, and serves as Fionna and Cake's mount for obvious reasons. He/she/they also shoots Frickin' Laser Beams.
  • As Orgalorg, he's also a huge Eldritch Abomination.
• Badass Boast: You can't stop me, I'm Orgalorg!
• Becoming the Mask: Once Orgalorg is compressed into Gunter, his motivations may remain the same, but he seems all too willing to be the Ice King's pet. Even in the finale, once putting on the crown which everyone believes they're using to revert back into Orgalorg, Gunter uses this opportunity to instead become Ice Thing, a carbon copy of the Ice King.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Orgalorg can be briefly seen in the background as one of the Eldritch Abominations during The Lich's Mind Rape sequence in "Gold Stars".
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Well, slap him to be accurate.
• The Dreaded: Martin has an Oh, Crap! moment when he sees Orgalorg. The Lich didn't even get Martin's notice but this guy terrifies him.
• Egg-Laying Male: In the episode "The Chamber of Frozen Blades", he lays an egg, which later on hatches into a floating pink kitten. Jake points out that this must mean Gunter is female, prompting the Ice King to casually check his genitalia before shrugging it off. An explanation of this could be that the Ice King has many penguin minions, and it is sometimes implied he just simply refers to the nearest one as "Gunter". Another explanation is that at least one "Gunter" is later on revealed to be an Eldritch Abomination known as Orgalorg, which of course does not have to adhere to logical biology.
• Eldritch Abomination: Revealed to actually be one.
• Evil Is Petty: In "Reign of Gunters," he's given the power to summon a powerful army to attack all of Ooo. What does he use this power for? To smash bottles. This turns out to be a primal instinct from when he was Orgalorg, where he used to smash planets!
• Eviler than Thou: Marceline's dad said so. He was truly right.
• Foreshadowing: Marceline's dad actually said in the earlier episodes that Gunter was the most evil thing in the galaxy. He's right.
• Gasshole: Double Subverted; accused by Ice King of this, when the source of the stench turns out to be his own armpits; later on, it turns out that Gunter farts when being held by the Ice King.
• Gender-Blender Name: Maybe, given his Ambiguous Gender status and all.
• Happily Married: In the future, to Turtle Princess after becoming the Ice Thing.
• Immortality: He's actually a space god older than the universe. When he was crashed to Earth and turned into a penguin he spent countless millennia Walking the Earth and he's been with the Ice King for at least a century.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Pronounciation, but sometimes Ice King says Gunther instead of Gunter. This fits with Ice King's scatterbrained nature.
• Killer Rabbit:
  • When Marceline's dad attempts to steal his soul, he promptly slaps him.
  • In "Gumbaldia", when he and Ice King are introduced as part of Gumbalds Legion of Doom Ice King acts like a Cloud Cuckoo Lander and doesn't seem to understand what he signed up for, Gunther on the other hand pulls out a sharp sounding dagger.
• Legacy Character: In the finale they get the Crown of Evergreen and fuse with it after Simon is cured by Betty and wish themselves into being the Ice Thing.
• Meaningful Name: "Gunter" means "warrior" or "battler."
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Unless their brain is exposed and expanded they don't have any conscious recollection of who they were though they still seize opportunities to further their goals. Otherwise they're just an exceptionally mischievous penguin.]
• Omnicidal Maniac: All Orgalorg cares about is power; nothing else matters.
  Orgalorg: It's all yours if you're willing to take it. Destroy worlds, crush anyone blocking the door, feel their bones crumple and their goo spill out.
• One-Steve Limit: Played with. As stated above, it's possible Ice King's physically-nearest penguin is Gunter by default; yet in "Princess Monster Wife," he calls on over half a dozen penguins, each with a different (though only slightly) name. The name Gunter seems to be connected to the Ice King's crown, since in "Simon and Marcy" Simon also calls Marceline Gunter when he's under the crown's control. It is eventually revealed in "Evergreen" that Gunther was the name of the abused dinosaurian assistant to the crown's creator that desired to be an ice mage like his master, so much that he became a distortion of Evergreen, chanting "Gunther no!" while randomly shooting around his newly-gained ice powers. It's later revealed there's a specific penguin that's actually the sealed form of Orgalorg, but they haven't been given a unique name and are just referred to as Gunter like the rest, with Jake outright calling Gunter and Orgalorg different things once it looks like the Orgalorg Gunter has a chance to attain his true form again.
• One-Winged Angel:
  • He transforms into a massive octopus/jellyfish-like monster so he can envelop the comet.
  • One thousand years in the future after living as the Ice King for centuries, being permanently fused with the Crown of Evergreen mutates them further, from the Ice King into an avian monster called the Ice Thing.
• Pronoun Trouble: Ice King regularly switches which pronouns he refers to them with and more than that he just calls the nearest penguin Gunther or some variation of it. It's not a matter of whether Gunther is male or female but which Gunther being referred to is male or female.
• Really 700 Years Old: Gunter turns out to be Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear, and his/her true form is a monster older than all of reality.
• Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: "Orgalorg" reveals that Gunter is actually an Eldritch Abomination older than time and defeated by Glob thousands of years of ago, crash-landing on Earth where he became a penguin.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Orgalorg is feared in the present day as an immortal planet-destroying god-monster. But as shown by the Lich's vision of the time before time, he was but one hideous monster in an endless eternity of them. And Orgalorg was one of the smallest ones.
• Time Abyss: Orgalorg was one of the monsters that predated the nothingness before creation, making them in the running for the oldest characters in the series. Even in the future 1000 years later they're still kicking as the Ice Thing
• Villainous Friendship: He is the best friend of Ice King. After Flame Princess destroys the Ice kingdom, the Ice King puts him in charge of rebuilding and lets him use his crown. This ends about as well as you expect.
• Vocal Dissonance: Orgalorg is a cosmic-destroyer monster with a flat, nasal voice that has a hint of a southern accent.
• Walking Spoiler: His existence isn't a spoiler, but his real identity as Orgalorg makes him this.
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Is revealed to be so at one point. With a pink cat-thing, no less. Whether this means Gunther is really male or female is left unanswered.

The Lemongrab Earldom

Earl of Lemongrab

"UNACCEPTABLE!!!"

^{Click here to see Lemongrab between seasons 3 and 5.}

Voiced by: Justin Roiland (original series), Jinkx Monsoon (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake)

Rocks... Dripping water... More rocks... Mmmm I'm becoming stressed!

A very loud and extremely uptight lemon drop man created in a lab by Princess Bubblegum in case she was ever unable to rule the kingdom. The first one of the princess's experiments gone wrong, he has a... "special" way of thinking and looking at the world. He lives with a clone of himself (so aptly named Lemongrab 2) and their Lemon Children/Subjects in Castle Lemongrab. He eventually became a power-hungry tyrant who ate his brother, but thanks to Lemonhope, he was defeated and PB combined the two Lemongrabs into Lemongrab 3, who has mellowed out. As Lemongrab 3, he becomes much more empathetic and retains at least some of his earlier incarnations memories, if not all of them.

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• 0% Approval Rating: As established in "You Made Me!", just about everyone in the Candy Kingdom completely despises him and vehemently protest against Princess Bubblegum's request that some of them go to Castle Lemongrab to keep him company. One Candy Person, Mr. Cupcake, actually goes so far as to break his own arm to have an excuse not to hang out with Lemongrab. Averted as Lemongrab 3, at least in his kingdom.
• Abusive Dad: In "Too Old", Lemongrab becomes this when he goes over completely to the dark side, especially toward Lemonhope. As Lemongrab 3, however, he becomes a very good parent.
• Adipose Rex: Lemongrab becomes this after he almost eats his own clone.
• All Crimes Are Equal: He treats extremely small offenses as if they were serious, terrible crimes.
• Ambiguously Gay: Lemongrab does not show any flamboyance but he lives and raises children with Lemongrab 2, whom Princess Bubblegum created for him. What pits him in the ambiguous category though is that he frequently calls Lemongrab 2 his brother.
• Ambiguous Situation: His status as of "Together Again". Finn sees a skeleton resembling him in the bird nest, but it could be the skeleton of the original Lemongrab or Lemongrab 2, as both died in Finn's lifetime and were reborn as the current Lemongrab.
• Anti-Hero: Became one as Lemongrab 3, especially in the Grand Finale. He is still as weird as ever, but he was willing to help Bubblegum in the war against Gumbald. He also managed to help Bubblegum in the war against GOLB, eventually becoming one of the co-saviors of the world.
• Ax-Crazy: While Lemongrab is usually more weird and disturbed than dangerous, on his bad days he becomes dangerously unhinged and violent to the point of almost devouring his own brother. He is worse in "Too Old", becoming a completely Ax-Crazy dictator who is very open to sadism and senseless violence. Fortunately, he returns to being sympathetic once he is fused with his brother.
• Backhanded Apology: He's still learning about how to interact with other people- and this ineptness leads to this:
  Tree Trunks: I can make an apple pie for all of us!
  Lemongrab: Make them FAST, servile!
  Tree Trunks: If you wanna taste MY juicy apple pie, you'd better be nice! You got that?
  Lemongrab: ...I am sorry. Make pies, slave.
  Tree Trunks: Okay, that's better. Now let's see about this pie business.
• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Has a bit of this, most strongly after his Face–Heel Turn. To wit, he calls Lemonhope, by far the least malformed lemon, ugly, and while his melodious harp music was physically painful and ultimately deadly to Lemongrab, the cacophony Lemonhope created on Finn's flute sent both him and his brother into a blissed out trance.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Like most candy people.
• Berserk Button: Things taking an unexpected turn pisses him off. For example, in "Diamonds and Lemons" he plants a lemon hoping that a lemon tree will grow, and is outraged when an apple tree grows instead.

  Lemongrab: Unacceptable! UNACCEPTABLEEEEE!!!

• Beware the Silly Ones: He seems like an awkward doofus, but he is capable of being dangerous. He's surprisingly strong, surprisingly smart, and you can never tell when he's going to do something incredibly... stupid.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With the Lich in Season 5.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Cemented in "You Made Me," claiming that he does what his "lemon heart" tells him to do, which are things decidedly different than what a normal candy person- or any normal person for that matter- would do. If anything, almost every bad thing he does as Lemongrab 1 can be justified using his bizarre, twisted logic.
• Buffy Speak: Frequently, due to his excess zeal and childishness. WHO DID THE THING?!
• Butt-Monkey: Despite how creepy, intense and unbalanced Lemongrab is, sometimes it's hard not to feel bad for him when he suffers constantly especially because of his mental health.
• Captain Obvious: Due to being complete idiots, both Lemongrabs are this:
  Lemongrab 2: They broke the door!
  Lemongrab: The door is broken now!
• The Caligula: Became one as Fat Lemongrab. Fortunately, he is redeemed as Lemongrab 3.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "UNACCEPTABLE!"
  • "_____ (number) _____ (length of time) dungeon!" Even Lemonjon said this at one point.
• Cloudcuckoolander: If his odd mannerisms and voice, and the psychedelic appearance of his children, is any indication of his general strangeness.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: When Lemongrab is "born," the first thing he does is flap his arms and scream in terror, much like a newborn baby. In "You Made Me," he has a psychotic breakdown from loneliness, which compels him to run through the night screaming and crying bloody murder and tearing off his clothes.
• Composite Character: Lemongrab 3 is this In-Universe - he's essentially Lemongrab 1, but now has the understanding, empathy and potential for good of Lemongrab 2.
• Control Freak: As Lemongrab 1, he was unpleasantly tyrannical and incompetent. As Lemongrab 3, however, he is the complete opposite.
• Cool Sword: Has a tip shaped like a tuning fork and shoots sonic blasts.
  IT'S A SOUND SWORD!!
• Creating Life Is Awesome: They liked it so much, they needed the formula erased from their heads.
  Lemongrab 2: I looked deep inside myself and found that I am a guy who can't stop making candy life from the food he needs!
  Lemongrab: Me too!
• Creating Life Is Bad: Lemongrab started off as being a nearly perfect example of this trope. However, he got better when Lemongrab 2 was made Until Too Old.
• Creepy Monotone: When the earl is at his angriest, he stops screaming and assumes a quiet, sometimes monotone voice. Examples include how he speaks when torturing Finn, Jake, and the Pup Gang (smiling, too!), and his line in "Mystery Dungeon" just before he KO's the Ice King.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Lemongrab and Lemongrab are respectively this and Light Is Not Good. Their morality seems to alternate between light grey and dark grey.
• Evil Wears Black: Starting to lean towards it in 'Too Old' with Lemongrabs 1 becoming more abusive and Lemongrabs 2 trying to give at-least some hope to the Lemon Children in some doses. Played completely straight in "Lemonhope".
• Death Equals Redemption: Very literally for the original Lemongrab, he became so irredeemably Ax-Crazy by "Lemonhope" that the only possible way to redeem him was to kill him and then recreate him entirely.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: When Lemonhope returns to the Lemon Kingdom and plays his harp, Lemongrab explodes.
• Depending on the Writer: The depths of Lemongrab 1's instability (and to a lesser extent, the exact nature of the Lemongrabs' relationship). It's resulted in a wild ride of a character arc.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Will send anyone to the dungeon for a random amount of time (from three hours to a million years).
  • Taken to a much darker extreme in "You Made Me." The Pup Gang had been being a bunch of insubordinate brats ever since they arrived at his castle- he loses his temper when they called him "crazy." Then he electrocuted them. It only gets worse from there.
    Lemongrab: Maybe... maybe ten units for trespassers?
  • Taken to an even worse extreme in "Another Five More Short Graybles." When Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 accidentally break their toy, Lemongrab attempts to eat Lemongrab 2.
• Domestic Abuse: He grows increasingly cruel and violent towards Lemongrab 2, eventually eating him in "Too Old". Not to mention all of his poor kids.
  • Averted as Lemongrab 3. He never commits any kind of abuse against his children.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In "Come Along With Me", he is seen smiling happily, as the cracked ceiling of his bedroom that bothered him so much in "The Mountain" is papered over with a beautiful mural by Jermaine. Despite all the misfortunes that happened to him throughout the series, he finally obtained what he always wanted: A happy life.
• Entitled Bastard: He claims that his royal blood gives him the legal right to break in to the Candy Castle and watch the candy people sleep.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas:
  • It's a complicated, dysfunctional relationship, but the Lemongrabs both hold Princess Bubblegum in high regard, feel comfortable with asking her for help, value her opinions, and think of her as a mother even though she has never referred to them as her sons.
  • Seems to be averted and played straight in "Too Old," in which he expresses loathing and resentment towards PB, but still goes to great, frightening lengths to impress her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While definitely not evil, the Lemongrabs certainly are petty, spiteful assholes, and very vindictive people. But they are openly doting to their children, loving to one another, and seem to care about their mother, though their relationship with her is complicated. This ends up all undone for Lemongrab 1, at least in regard to his fellow lemon folk, but amplified for Lemongrab 2. Averted as Lemongrab 3. In contrast to his former personality, he becomes a good king.
• Evil Twin: Inverted. Lemongrab 1 is more Ax-Crazy than 2.
• Fat Bastard: When Lemongrab becomes morbidly obese, it's no wonder he turns out to be this.
• Faux Affably Evil: In "Too Old," he invites Finn and Bubblegum to a dinner in his castle to impress them, and addresses them in a very friendly way. However, this is completely avoided when he becomes into Ax-Crazy in the climax of the episode.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason he's a miserable, sour and paranoid jerk is because he's lonely, being the only one of his sour, lemony kind, mostly because he was a failed experiment. That is, until Lemongrab's clone shows up. After that, he's a bit less of a jerk, and noticeably happier. Sadly, it doesn't last. Fortunately, he got a happy ending as Lemongrab 3. This might also explain why Lemongrab 1 goes crazy while Lemongrab 2 does not. 1 suffered all the effects of loneliness, while 2 has never known a life without his beloved brother.
• Freudian Trio: Played with, as Lemongrab has been all three at various points of his life.
  • Lemongrab 1: Id
  • Lemongrab 2: Superego
  • Lemongrab 3: Ego
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He starts off as just a failed experiment. He later went on to become an Ax-Crazy tyrant in Season 5. Fortunately, he went back to being harmless as Lemongrab 3.
• Gag Nose: Basically, a yellow version of Ice King's nose.
• Genius Ditz: Although he comes across as an idiot, he's apparently frighteningly good at designing and building non-lethal weapons and torture devices; including his own Sound Sword, and the Reconditioning Chamber. He also has a photographic memory and was able to understand making Candy Life.
• Gilded Cage: Princess Bubblegum stuck him in the faraway Castle Lemongrab, where servants tended to his every whim, and he ended up as a spoiled, friendless brat.
  • Not so much anymore, however. Castle Lemongrab is now inhabited by two Lemongrabs, and all of their young children.
  • After he got merged with his clone at the end of season 5, he lives alone with his children but seems to be more stable.
• Gonk : Lemongrab is one of the strangest-looking candy people, and his more humanoid appearance is a bit unsettling. His kids seem to be a mix of this and adorable.
• Good Feels Good: Invoked when they tell Finn and Jake about their experience of being dads:
  Lemongrab 2: It just felt so pretty okay inside greeting each new placid face!
  Lemongrab: And hearing each new piercing song!
• The Good King: As Lemongrab 3, he's a benevolent, peaceful king.
• Good Parents: Became one after his resurrection as Lemongrab 3. This is shown in "The Mountain", where he treats his children very well.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Initially he started to grow out of it, but it came back, literally violently.
• Hanlon's Razor: The Lemongrabs' main problem, is that they are far too stupid to realize how much their actions harm people, including themselves. They are dangerously yet unaware of the extent of their incompetence at... well, everything.
• Hate Sink: He was a Hate Sink during his most hateful moments back in Season 4 and especially Season 5. He tortured several children and Jake with Electric Torture ("You Made Me"), threw Princess Bubblegum in the dungeon twice and even tried to attack her with his sound sword, was physically abusive towards his children and his brother with a sadistic glee ("Too Old"), and unlike most villains in the show, his Ax-Crazy behaviour was downright nightmarish. Thankfully, he returned to being sympathetic in Season 6 due to now being combined with his brother, who had learned actual kindness and empathy.
• Hates Being Touched: Initially, gradually became less irritated by it.
• Hates Everyone Equally: He dislikes pretty much everybody. Don't talk to him or even look at him. This actually stemmed from a failed science experiment.
• Headbutt of Love: He and his clone do this shortly after they meet each other and decide they like each other.
• Heavy Voice: When Lemongrab becomes obese, his voice becomes a bit more strained, and slightly muffled.
• Heel–Face Turn: Played completely straight as Lemongrab 3. He is redeemed again through dying and being reconstructed, merged with Lemongrab 2. As shown in "The Mountain", he now runs the Lemon kingdom in a much more fair and efficient manner.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 before Lemongrab 2 got eaten. Considering their overall relationship and the fact that they have dozens of children together, the "heterosexual" part may be arguable.
• Hidden Depths: There's a lot going on in this guy's head, and he's far more complex and complicated than the "annoying jerk" archetype he initially appears to be, both character-wise and literally, there's an image of his brain full of his weird thoughts.
• Idiot Savant: Most of the time, Lemongrab is portrayed as a bumbling idiot with no social skills, no common sense, no logic, no inhibitions, no shame, and no knowledge about the world around him. However, he's surprisingly accomplished in his scientific pursuits, is occasionally extremely proper and well-spoken, and occasionally reveals great insight about himself and his place in the world.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Lemongrab views his creator, PB, as his "mother". While he is very hostile at times with her, he still wishes for her approval deep down. When scowering the cave of Matthew, Lemongrab 3 comes across a path that shows his greatest desire; Princess Bubblegum who wants to be play catch with him and get to know him better.
• I Just Want to Be Normal:
  • Related to the trope below, though it's an interesting example. He does try to be normal and do the right thing, but he just can't seem to manage it, and his failures cause him to become frustrated and lash out at others. He also becomes increasingly bitter that he's the one expected to change when no one is willing to put up with him the way he is, despite his "defects" being beyond his control.
  • It's been confirmed the "catcher's mitts" represent Lemongrab's secret, incessant scrutiny of "the normal" and "the mundane," and his repeated (and obvious) failures at "understanding normality." The catcher's mitts themselves, set on pedestals, represent the fact that Lemongrab holds normalcy in such high esteem.
• I Just Want to Have Friends:
  • Implied to be Lemongrab's reason for even coming back to the Candy Kingdom. It was thanks to Bubblegum creating a second Lemongrab, exactly the same in every way, to ease up on their sour attitudes. Both of the Lemongrabs then use the Princess's formula to endlessly create life, thankfully they had the formula removed.
  • Unfortunately, Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 couldn't avoid disagreeing on things because they have different backgrounds despite their similarities, leading Lemongrab to become even more corrupt while Lemongrab 2 became nicer but crippled by his brother's abuse. Eventually, Lemongrab eats Lemongrab 2 alive after finally being pushed off the deep end. However, he returned to being sympathetic in Season 6 as a good king without a brother.
• I'm a Humanitarian:
  • In "Mystery Dungeon," he seems really interested in eating the Ice King.
  • In "Another Five More Short Graybles," he attempts to swallow Lemongrab 2 whole and in "Too Old," he tries it again, and this time he succeeds. He proceeds to eat several of his children alive in "Lemonhope". Fortunately, they're Swallowed Whole. Unfortunately, they wind up exploding with him.
• Incoming Ham: His unforgettable entrance in "Too Young," in which his delightfully memetic catchphrase is firmly established.
  • A kind of scary version appears in "Too Old" when he's first shown on-screen.
• Insane Equals Violent: Deconstructed and played with. He was born with an inherent lack of rationality, which shows in "Too Young." However, he didn't show violent tendencies until "You Made Me," when he went crazy from loneliness.
• It's All About Me: Demonstrates many traits of this trope, particularly in "Too Old". Averted as Lemongrab 3. As a good king, he really seems to care about his children.
• I Want My Mommy!: He cries "Mommy!" in the episode "Mystery Dungeon" as a giant monster is literally squeezing all of his juices out of him.
• I Reject Your Reality: According to the creators, Lemongrab is under the delusion that he is always right. He also loves order and can only function properly in a society where everyone obeys and agrees with him. After becoming Lemongrab 3, however, he displays more conscious awareness of his faults and past sins.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Occasionally, he does bring up some fair points that are often overlooked- for example, calling Princess Bubblegum out for tinkering carelessly with life and not thinking of the possible consequences, saying that his perspective is no less valid because he happens to be a failed experiment, et cetera.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Zig-zagged. Lemongrab's a big jerk, there's no denying that. But he's a big jerk who also happens to care immensely for his best friend, and he loves his children, enough to starve himself just to welcome more children into his family. It's taken a while, but his lemon heart has sweetened up just a little bit. Until he got even worse than before in "Too Old".
  • "The Mountain" shows he has gotten a lot better after being combined with 2 into Lemongrab 3, where his castle is in order, he is much more mellow, and he has come at peace with who he is.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Lemongrab 1 lets his Freudian Excuse, which Lemongrab 2 does not share, consume him and corrupt him thoroughly.
• The Kirk: Applies to Lemongrab 3 and he is by far the most stable and logical out of the 3 Earls. He is neither as compassionate as 2 nor as tyrannical as 1 was. But as a result, his Lemon Kingdom has prospered under his fair rule and his citizens respect and revere him for that.
• Lack of Empathy: He is described by a writer on the show as being "isolated" and with an "inability to read social cues." Obviously, Lemongrab is completely unaware of how much he annoys and upsets people around him.
  • In "You Made Me," when he is given three delinquent candy kids to govern, he locks them up in a dungeon and tortures them. When Finn and Jake break in to rescue the kids, he locks to door to the chamber behind them and tortures them too. AND SMILES AS HE DECIDES HOW MUCH PAIN TO GIVE THEM.
  • The Lemongrabs' capacity for empathy and outright affection seems to extend only to other lemon creatures, and Lemongrab 1 even loses this when he becomes single-mindedly obsessed with pleasing Princess Bubblegum.
  • Played totally straight in "Too Old." Not only does Lemongrab become a full-blown Ax-Crazy, but he actually laughs as he hurts his children and seems to get off from their pain.
  • Averted as Lemongrab 3. Due to being merged with his brother, he is really able to feel empathy for his children.
• Large Ham: He shouts so much that it would be a miracle if his voice actor didn't end up having a sore throat after each recording session.
• Last-Minute Hookup: In the finale, Lemongrab 3 and Lumpy Space Princess smooch when all looks lost. The creators stated that they probably dated for at least a little while afterwards, but shrugged when asked if the relationship would last.
• Lawful Neutral: In-universe-assigned aligment in the comic series.
• Let's Have Another Baby: The earls took this trope to an extreme level.
• Loners Are Freaks: Invoked and deconstructed - and it seems to go both ways. The Candy People think he's a freak, and dislike him, because he's annoying, loud, rather stupid, socially inept, and unintentionally rude. As a result of this, Lemongrab is often very mean and aggressive to others. However, his aggression also further drives people away, and the Candy People are afraid of him for his tendency to become Ax-Crazy when pushed too far. At the end of "Lemonhope Part 2", Princess Bubblegum surmises that being his usual lonely self seems to be the only way Lemongrab will stay stable.
• Made of Iron:
  • His skin is so thick that it's literally impossible for him to explode, according to the creators. He also fell head-first out of the top-story window of a castle, and landed on his head with such force that he had to physically strain to pry himself out of the earth... and he was completely unharmed.
  • He did explode in "Lemonhope" from Lemonhope's harp music.
• Manchild: He's implied to be an older teenager or young adult, but he has all of the emotional and psychological maturity of a five-year-old.
• The Mentally Disturbed: Lemongrab was intentionally written to come across as (among many other things) severely autistic.
• Modest Royalty: Despite being high up in the line of succession, he generally wears simple jumpsuits.
• Mood-Swinger: He'll frequently shift from calm to insane at the drop of a hat.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: "Mystery Dungeon" shows that he has a row of extremely sharp teeth, which he reveals by unhinging his jaw like a snake.
• My Greatest Failure: Lemongrab 3 sees the event where he, as Lemongrab 1, turned on Lemongrab 2 and became a monster as his biggest regret in life.
• Naked First Impression: Lemongrab first meets Lemongrab 2 when LG 2 walks into the room butt naked (because he was created mere minutes ago, he didn't yet own any clothes.) Lemongrab doesn't seem to care much- he's more concerned with figuring out who the hell the guy is, then finding out whether or not he is dangerous. Which leads to some awkward poking.
• Neat Freak: He starts off this way in "Too Young," but this aspect of his character seems to have been abandoned, or he simply grew out of it.
• Nervous Wreck: Lemongrab started off as a perfect example of this trope, but he's mellowed out as the show has progressed.
• Never Be Hurt Again: One of the reasons he tries to attack Princess Bubblegum in "You Made Me." He's tired of her making mistakes when trying to deal with him, and he doesn't want her to do anything else to upset him.
• Never My Fault: Both Lemongrabs are incapable of taking responsibility for their actions. They'll blame whoever is nearby when they do something wrong. Subverted in "Too Old" for Lemongrab 2, who states that he has "learned his lesson," showing that he at last knows his behavior in the past has been wrong and that lemon people don't need to act like that.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Easily one of the series' scariest characters. Fortunately, this is very downplayed as Lemongrab 3.
• No Indoor Voice: It's as if the writers wrote his dialogue in all caps, with no spaces.
• No Sense of Humor: He tries, though. But...
• No Sense of Personal Space: He sincerely did not understand why Princess Bubblegum was upset when he sneaked into the Candy Castle to watch people sleep.
• No Social Skills: He's a social pariah because of his mental instability and erratic behavior, and he doesn't know to get along with others.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood:
  • The creators of the show repeatedly have to assure fans that Lemongrab is not evil. (At least, not intentionally so.) Even his full-on cross to the dark side has more to do with his mind deteriorating completely than with any actual malice.
  • He does seem to become Ax-Crazy at the climax of "Too Old", though. Even though he still expresses anguish over his tragic backstory, the writers take pains to still make him hateful. Fortunately, Lemongrab is finally redeemed; he explodes, effectively ending his irredeemably evil life to that point, then gets reconstructed by Bubblegum and effectively has a Reset Button pushed. Plus he's combined with the infinitely more compassionate Lemongrab 2 now, so there's that.
• Nothing but Skin and Bones: Happens to the Lemongrabs in "All Your Fault," after they make all of their food into children and nearly starve to death. They get better again, fortunately.
• Non-Standard Character Design: His eyes are vastly different from most of the other characters' eyes, and he's one of the few to have a nose.
• Obliviously Evil: Really- he didn't know that imprisoning everyone in the Candy Kingdom for one million years, torturing children and small animals, and attempting to take over the world were bad things to do! He's just special! Also very stupid. He later becomes an Ax-Crazy tyrant who unabashfully abuses everyone in his family. The only way to fix him is to basically kill him and then push the Reset Button on his entire life.
• Obsessively Organized: He's obsessed with order, symmetry and following certain patterns of behaviour.
• Open-Minded Parent: Lemongrab, unlike Princess Bubblegum, don't seem to care in the least how misshapen and weird his children are- because those are his children, and they love them like family. Although for a time he was a tyrannical, Ax-Crazy dictator (as Fat Lemongrab), he is finally redeemed as Lemongrab 3, being part of this trope again.
• Parental Issues: Lemongrab and Princess Bubblegum have a strained creator-creation relationship.
• Pet the Dog:
  • The end of "You Made Me".
  • Lemongrab 3 shows this in his one scene in "Normal Man", actively putting himself out there socially through a dating site, and when he has to abruptly leave his date with Lumpy Space Princess for reasons related to his mental issues, is very direct in his reason why and is polite to LSP in doing so, making sure to add "This was nice". Later, in "Come Along With Me", he accepts being kissed by LSP, saying he finds it "acceptable".
  • In "Come Along With Me", he also helped defeat GOLB in the war against it.
• Photographic Memory: As demonstrated in Mystery Dungeon, where he manages to memorize the entire map of a dungeon in less than a few seconds.
• Planet of Steves: He and his clone are both named Lemongrab. Their castle is called Lemongrab. Their earldom is called Lemongrab. The surrounding territory is also called Lemongrab.
• The Proud Elite: Lemongrab is an earl, the heir to the Candy Kingdom throne, and the son of the princess. And he will not hesitate to use this as one of his many excuses for being a spectacularly condescending jerk.
  Lemongrab: That's why I am royal and you are servile!
• Psychopathic Manchild: Taken to hilarious, sad, and frightening extremes. As Lemongrab 3, he's just a neurotic Manchild.
• Rage Against the Reflection: In "You Made Me," when Blombo calls him "crazy," he actually starts to say "Yes" as he walks over to a mirror, looks furiously at his reflection, and points at his own face.
• Raise Him Right This Time: Bubblegum now has the chance to do this at the end of "Lemonhope", and as "The Mountain" shows, she did so.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: As Lemongrab 3.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: Lemongrab 3 isn't the outright tyrant that Fat Lemongrab was, but his rule is still very strict nonetheless; dinner only lasts long enough to take a bite out of whatever you're eating, he's carried almost everywhere, and when he says "Lights out" you're expected to drop whatever you're doing and fall asleep right where you stand. The citizens of Lemongrab seem fine with all this, though.
• Reluctant Psycho: When asked, "Are you crazy?" he actually agrees, and is clearly distraught.
  Earl of Lemongrab: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU...MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!
  • "No one... no one understands!"
  • "We warned you! We warned you about us!"
• Royal Brat: He was taken away to live in isolation and given whatever he wants by servants after his birth, making him spoiled and entitled.
• Sanity Strengthening: He becomes a lot less deranged and maniacal as Lemongrab 3, as he is no longer completely dysfunctional and unhinged, yet still eccentric and prone to screaming as ever. He undergoes this even further in "The Mountain" after he undergoes a journey of self discovery that ends with him learning to accept himself for who he is.
• Sanity Slippage: He isn't exactly inherently "sane", but he gets even more unhinged in Season 5 on thanks to his mommy issues. Averted as Lemongrab 3. Although he is still as weird as ever, he is not dangerous.
• The Scream: He gets this very often.
• Screaming Warrior: When he's fighting, of COURSE he becomes this. After all, he's Lemongrab.
• Serious Business: For him, everything is serious business.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: "Also, I don't know where FOOD comes from!" He's become a little more worldly since then, though.
• Sissy Villain: While not exactly "effeminate", per se, he has a whiny, high-pitched voice and is also an overly-emotional, obsessive-compulsive neat freak drama queen.
• Sonic Scream: His sword runs on this principle. It's powered by the frequency of his deafening screams, and shoots sound-blasts powerful enough to knock people unconscious, physically injure people with blunt force, and destroy clothes and hair.
• Sophisticated as Hell: He has exceedingly pedantic speech, and goes from speaking in a very proper and dignified way to screaming in Hulk Speak to speaking very casually with slang. This exchange probably sums it up best.

  Lemongrab 1: Hm, yes, for the candy food was not consumed, but was given life!
  Lemongrab 2: You see, Finn...
  Lemongrab 1: When Mother Princess last visited Castle Lemongrab-
  Lemongrab 2: When she saw fit to create me, Lemongrab-
  Lemongrab 1: She left behind a little something something!

• Spoiled Brat: He definitely counts. If he doesn't get what he wants (be it a reasonable or unreasonable demand), SOMEBODY is going in the dungeon. There are many reasons for his sour personality (mental illness, stupidity, immaturity), but he was raised in a castle in which everything was handed to him. That probably didn't help him much, in the long run.
• Stalker without a Crush: He sneaked into the Candy Castle every day for two weeks (and one extra day) to watch the candy people sleep.
• Stealth Pun: Where to begin with this character? His grey outfit is a pun on "earl grey" tea, which is often served with a lemon. His name is a pun on "sourpuss," and is also a play on the expression "lemon," meaning "a product or device that is defective or dysfunctional."
• Sympathy for the Devil: In "You Made Me," Princess Bubblegum finally decides to help him after he tells her that he is lonely and runs away wailing.
• The Mentally Disturbed: As Lemongrab 1, he was mentally ill and used to be very erratic, high-strung and temperamental. As Lemongrab 3, he continues to have odd quirks, but he is not so Ax-Crazy.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: The sole reason for Lemongrab 2's existence. The writers felt bad for Lemongrab, so they made him someone with whom he could be his stupid, weird self without being judged. It circles BACK to this trope in "The Mountain", written by the character's original writer who wanted to see him find peace.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Initially he seems to be a loud-mouthed punching bag. However, he also A) built a scream-powered sword, B) built an electrical torture device, C) punched a giant rat in the face without hesitating, when it took his pie, and D) was able to understand and recreate the secret formula for creating candy life to make dozens of children.
  • In "Mystery Dungeon" definitely is one. It is proven to be incredibly strong when he props up the closing ceiling of the dungeon with his own back, with little effort.
  • Played completely straight in "Come Along With Me", where he is willing to help Bubblegum in the war against Gumbald. He was also brave enough to help defeat GOLB.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: His original self took one in Season 5, becoming much more sadistic and losing many of his sympathetic traits. Fortunately, this is averted once he becomes Lemongrab 3.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Played completely straight as Lemongrab 3. After being defeated by one of his sons, he is restored and merged with his brother, which allowed him to be much more kind and empathetic than before.
• Too Many Babies: In "All Your Fault", the earls almost starved to death because they used all of their food to make themselves a family.
• Tortured Monster: His backstory first plays out as an allusion to "Frankenstein," complete with a creepy laboratory scene and him violently jerking up and screaming hideously. Later, he tells Princess Bubblegum that he's extremely lonely and unhappy with his life.
• Too Dumb to Live: In "All Your Fault", he and his clone along with all of the Lemon court nearly starve to death because he keeps turning all the food into people. They then plan to invade the Candy Kingdom and use all its candy to create an army that can go pillage candy to eat elsewhere... instead of, you know, just using that candy to eat instead of creating an army.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • Pretty much, is a jerk to Peppermint Butler after he releases the guy from the dungeon so he can have food, electrocutes the citizens that Princess Bubblegum gave him in "You Made Me" when they end up insulting him, and demanding that Tree Trunks bake him a pie in "Mystery Dungeon" and continuously calling her "Slave" afterwards (even after he apologizes).
  • He also makes his children repeatedly punch themselves for his own amusement, and when he's unsatisfied with their "performance," he says "Do it better!" before electrocuting them and laughing.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Starting with the very fact that his Ax-Crazy behavior is not played for laughs. Notice that many of the episodes involving him such as "All Your Fault", "Another Five More Short Graybles", "Too Old" and "Lemonhope" are serious Nightmare Fuel.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Harp music. He destroys all the harps in his kingdom for this reason. When Lemonhope returns and plays his harp, Lemongrab explodes.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Almost every bad thing he does as Lemongrab 1 can be justified using his bizarre logic, on the grounds that his intentions were to accomplish something good. Even his total descent into evil dictatorship is justified by him as trying to create perfect order and stability.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Averted. No amount of power could possibly make Lemongrab any more of a psychotic idiot than he already is. He was born insane, and while he does get worse, it isn't actually due to having power.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's an annoying, unstable wreck, but after everything he went though, it's somewhat understandable.
• Would Hurt a Child: In "You Made Me!" he electrocutes the Pup Gang because they insulted him three times and wouldn't listen to his instructions. Then, as he tried to cuddle a candy baby, he had a panic attack, and started slapping the kid around, before squealing in discomfort and shoving the kid onto the ground. He got worse in "Too Old", since he abused his own children for the slightest reasons. Averted as Lemongrab 3. "The Mountain" shows that he has become quite empathetic with his children.
• You Are What You Hate:
  • The people who frustrate him the most seem to be obnoxious, rude, petulant children. Hmmm...
  • He also comes to despise his clone and his children, despite having loved them before, once again hinting at deep self-loathing.

Lemongrab 2

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Lemongrab's clone. Created by Princess Bubblegum for the purpose of giving Lemongrab a companion.

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• Clone Angst: Lemongrab 2 was created to be a companion to the first one, and, despite their obnoxious personalities, are actually both very happy together with their family until "Too Old".
• Color-Coded Characters: To differentiate between him and Lemongrab, one wears grey and the other wears white.
• Defector from Decadence: Rebels against Lemongrab 1 in "Two Old".
• Divergent Character Evolution: At first, Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 are essentially the same in every way. In "Too Old" they're shown to have become different, but with disastrous consequences: though Lemongrab 2 has become nicer and learned the error of his ways, Lemongrab has taken major levels in cruelty and insanity.
• Freudian Excuse: Lemongrab 2 turned out different then his brother because unlike Lemongrab 1, Lemongrab 2 has had a companion ever since he was born and thus had an easier time developing empathy and compassion then his brother did, despite their messed up minds.
• Good Parents: As evidenced in "All Your Fault" (despite him not really thinking through the situation he and his brother were creating for their new family, not just themselves), "Another Five Short Graybles", and especially Too Old, Lemongrab 2 is a loving father to his many children, starkly contrasting the direction Lemongrab 1 wound up going. This is most clearly demonstrated when he shares his food with one of his children, who'd just had his taken away, despite clearly being starved and sickly himself.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Though downplayed compared to his clone. In "Too Old" it's nearly nonexistent, presumably because he's very, very weak from hunger and from being sick.
• Handicapped Badass: He later suffers from the loss of his legs, most of his health, and half of his head. That doesn't stop him from being a hero and a martyr for the cause of the lemon people.
  • Well, he would have been a martyr, if he didn't survive inside of his brother's stomach.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He takes away Lemograb's ear plugs and tells Lemonhope to keep playing, even when he knows that this will result in his own death.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In his earliest appearances, he comes across as being mildly annoying, but unlike the original Lemongrab, that's the only problem he appears to have, and he still did things like immediately suggest to pardon the prisoners after meeting and bonding with his brother. The "jerk" part seems nonexistent by the time of "Too Old", as he's nothing but nice and generous throughout the entire episode, and in "Lemonhope Story", he commits a Heroic Sacrifice for his children's sake.
• Killed Off for Real: Subverted. After Too Old, he survives inside Lemongrab's stomach. Subverted again when he actually dies when his brother explodes, but Bubblegum integrates the remains of both Lemongrabs into a single Lemongrab at the end. Being merged with his brother allowed him (Lemongrab 1) to have much more empathy, eventually pushing him into Heel–Face Turn territory.
• Morality Pet: Formally to Lemongrab. Grossly averted in "Too Old."
• Naked on Arrival: The first time we see Lemongrab 2, he's butt naked.
• Only Sane Man: Well, compared to his clone in "Too Old", anyway. It's a fact that almost all of the lemon people (with the exception of Lemonhope) are totally nuts. The difference between Lemongrab 2 and Lemongrab is that Lemongrab 2 is very kind while his brother is not. Lemongrab 2 is definitely crazy, but not violent or a bad person.
• Papa Wolf: To the bitter end. In "Another Five Short Graybles," his dispute with Lemongrab 1 is born from Lemongrab 1 making the Lemonsweets doll dance, after Lemongrab 2 insisted the doll wanted to sleep. This eventually foreshadows the future treatment of the Lemon Children; Lemongrab 1 tortures them with shock collars and forces them to hurt and humiliate themselves for his amusement. Lemongrab 2 struggles to protect the Lemon Children from his brother's abuse, even going as far as to repeatedly fight his way out of his brother's mouth to undo the shock collars and beg them to help Lemonhope escape. His final act is to pull a Heroic Sacrifice as he tells Lemonhope to keep playing the harp until Lemongrab 1 explodes, finally ending the abuse the children have suffered from.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He was never a bad guy, but he was something of an intolerable, annoying prick, just like Lemongrab. He eventually stopped being quite as annoying, and became genuinely polite and friendly, even selfless.
• Vocal Evolution: Over time his voice has gotten less cacophonic, and his speech styles more coherent and eloquent, such that by the time of Lemonhope Part 2 it's lost most of the jarring qualities that simultaneously became more exaggerated in Lemongrab 1. It emphasizes his character evolution into Only Sane Man and selfless Papa Wolf.

Lemonjon

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

The eldest of the Lemongrabs's children. A lemon giant with a booming voice, he proves himself early on to be more sensible, and helpful, than his fathers. He even sacrifices his own life to protect his family and all of the Candy People. In the words of Finn, Lemonjon is "all right."

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• Cloud Cuckoolander: Not to the same extent as the earls, but he is a pretty strange dude.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His appearance is disturbing and he's pretty damn ugly, but he's a downright wonderful guy.
• Final Speech: Gives a beautiful, eloquent, and heartbreaking one just before he dies.
  Lemonjon: Whoa, hold the phone! What is this powerful new juice coursing thrumpst my core source? The juice aches. Is this the rumored ache of feeling? The feeling of caring unknown to lemons? New thoughts emerge... If I act, the candy people will suffer; if I don't, the lemon people will suffer! The greater good demands but one course only! That I dissolve the bonds uniting me and become component to all!
• First Time Feeling: "Is this the rumored ache of feeling? The feeling of caring unknown to lemons?"
• Gag Nose: He has two. Why the Lemongrabs thought it was essential that Lemonjon have two noses has not been explained.
• Gentle Giant: Absolutely. He's one of the largest Candy People ever to exist, and he's also perhaps the most selfless.
• The Giant: He's as big as the whole castle, and is the castle, kind of.
• Giant Mook: The Lemongrabs attempted to use him as this.
• Heart Trauma: Finn and Jake punch his heart to attempt to kill him. Instead, this causes his heart to start beating, resulting in Lemonjon having an epiphany.
• Heel–Face Turn: While he was never a villain, he seemed neutral, yet still willing to attack the Candy Kingdom. But he eventually Took a Third Option which resulted in his own death.
• Heroic Sacrifice: To save his family and the Candy People.
• Killed Off for Real: The second important character to suffer the fate of permanent death- the first was Billy.
• Large Ham: " Mmmmmm... MENAGERIE! "
• Like Father, Like Son: "Three weeks dungeon." He seems to have inherited the pedantic speech of his fathers.
• Literal Change of Heart: His heart actually awakens when Finn and Jake punch it.
• Living Structure Monster: He's so big he takes up the whole castle, and is essentially part of it.
• The Needs of the Many: His reasoning for his Heroic Sacrifice.
• No Indoor Voice: In a different way than the Lemongrabs. While the Lemongrabs are very shouty, Lemonjon tends to speak much more calmly, and doesn't yell. But Lemonjon is very loud, because he's a literal giant. He can't really help it.
• Sadistic Choice: "If I act, the Candy People will suffer! If I don't, the lemon people will suffer!" He eventually takes a third option that saves everyone's lives but his own.
• Take a Third Option: He explodes and reverts to lemon candy to feed his starving family rather than attack the Candy Kingdom to steal their food.
• Telepathy: He seems to have this ability. When Finn and Jake asked him about the location of the earls, Lemonjon closed his eyes, and said in a strained voice that he "sensed" that they were in the dungeon.
• Token Heroic Orc: He was the first of the lemons to display altruism, although he needed it to be punched into him, whilst the others were neutral at best. Later lemons would be just as all right as Lemonjon, namely Lemongrab 2 (during his brother's more tyrannical descent), Lemonhope, and Lemongrab 3.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: "Man... That Lemonjon was all right."
• Tortured Monster: Although the Lemongrabs view him as a child, they did attempt to use him as a weapon. And when he's slowly standing up, after months of literally being attached to the ground, he sounds like he's in pain.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: He seems much more down-to-earth and reasonable than his dads.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears for a few minutes before his Heroic Sacrifice, at least in a state in which he can express his personality or opinions. Other than that, he's only shown through organic rooms in the keep.
• What Is This Feeling?: Mentions this trope in his final speech.
• Younger Than He Looks: He's a giant and he has a low, booming voice. But the Lemongrabs say that Lemonjon is "young," and only a child. Which makes his untimely and sudden death all the more heartbreaking.

Lemon Children

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

The strange-looking and eccentric, toddler-aged children of the Lemongrabs. They reside in Lemon Castle, and there seem to be dozens of the little pooters.

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• Affectionate Nickname: According to the screenshot of Lemongrab’s brain, the earls affectionately call their babies "little pooters".
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The Lemon Children are a strange combination of person, plant, animal, and fungi- and they’re all various shades of yellow, orange, and green.
• Babies Make Everything Better: According to the Lemongrabs.
• Baby Talk: The only word we could hear them say was "hungry" and "candy." For the most part, they just babble and shriek.
• Body Horror: Some of the Lemon Children are rather grotesque- limbless, disfigured faces, lumpy and misshapen.
• Carnivore Confusion: When they are starving, they attempt to eat Finn and Jake. However, it strangely never occurs to them to eat each other, even though they are all mostly made of candy themselves.
• Children Are Innocent: Toyed with. They seem to mostly be toddlers, but they’re enthusiastic about their dads’ plan to take over the Candy Kingdom.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Obviously, given who their progenitors are.
• Conjoined Twins: Some of them.
• Creepy Child: Finn and Jake seem to think this about some of the Lemon Children, especially Lemon Head, the one whose face peeled back.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Many of the Lemon Children are rather adorable in appearance, but they have high-pitched, shrieking voices.
• Dysfunctional Family: Let's just say, they're about as functional as the Griffins if they were all three times as insane, and lemons.
• Eyeless Face: Some of them don't have eyes or faces. In fact, some of them are just lemons with wings attached.
• Gag Nose: Several of them have the long, pointy noses of their dads. Others have big, bulbous noses.
• Gonk: Some of the Lemon Children could be considered to be quite ugly.
• Grotesque Gallery: They're all twisted and lumpy.
• It Runs in the Family: Some of them seem pretty "special".
• Last-Minute Baby Naming: The earls seem to name their children at the last minute. Seconds after they brought the candy seeds to life, Lemongrab jubilantly yelled, "Ha-HA! We’ll call you SEED-WAD!"
  • The earls still haven’t decided whether their second-youngest child is named "Plop-Top" or "Dump-Dome".
• Let's Have Another Baby: The earls probably said this to each other at some point, and it just kept happening, over and over again…
• Like Father, Like Son: Many of them have the same eyes as their fathers, and many of them resemble lemons in some way.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Well... there are over twenty of them.
• Nipple and Dimed: Several of the Lemon Children have nipples and visible breasts (due to being chubby babies.)
• No Indoor Voice: Possibly due to being children, possibly due to being the sons of the Lemongrabs. In one scene, Plop-Top, who had been sitting calmly the whole time, randomly opens his mouth to emit a high-pitched, piercing shriek. He then resumes looking calm.
• One-Gender Race: According to the Lemongrabs, all of their children are male.
• Pint-Sized Kid: Some of them.
• Plant Person: Some of the Lemon Children resemble plants or mushrooms.
• Royally Screwed Up: Assuming the Lemongrabs are brothers.
• Shared Family Quirks: Their tendency to scream at random intervals. Apparently, the earls view the screams of their children as "piercing songs".
• Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: They range from being strange-looking people to being anthropomorphic to looking like actual animals.
• The Scream: They take after their fathers in this department. Seems to be a lemon trait.
• That Thing Is Not My Child!: Adorably averted. Many of the Lemon Children are downright grotesque-looking and deformed, but the earls love every single one of them and treat them all like their babies.
• Too Many Babies: Or in this case, way too many.
• The Unintelligible: Because of their age, they can only communicate using one-word or monosyllabic sentences, strange noises, and shrieks.
• Vocal Dissonance: Most of them sound like how one would imagine the children of the Lemongrabs sounding- high, shrieky voices. But Lemon Head, the one with the peeling face, has a very low voice, which he uses to bellow continuously.
  • Averted when said child appears later on and he has a high, squeaky voice.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Seed-Wad barfs all over himself after the Lemongrabs make him.
• Wave of Babies: The Lemon Children all mob Finn and Jake in a large herd, rubbing against them and attempting to chomp on them.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Invoked when one of the Lemongrabs' babies literally turns out to be a vomiting pile of colorful mush. They act like this child is the most precious and wonderful creature they’ve ever seen. Played pretty straight when the only lemon child the Princess shows any interest in is Lemonhope, who's the least Ugly Cute and strange of all them.

Lemonhope

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

One of the lemon children, who is the least disfigured of his siblings and is musically gifted, which makes Princess Bubblegum take interest in him and decide to take him to the Candy Kingdom against Lemongrab's wishes. He is, however, freed by Lemongrab 2 and the rest of the lemon children, believing he can one day return and free them from Lemongrab's reign.

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• Book Dumb: Princess Bubblegum tries to give him an education, but it doesn't leave much of an impression on him and he later admits that he faked learning how to read. Phlannel Boxingday remarks that Lemonhope learns with his heart, not with his head.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: His attempts to run away from his debt to the Lemon People, failed because of his guilty conscience.
• A Day in the Limelight: Has his own two-part episode.
• Foil: For Finn. They're both the same age more or less, and they're both seen as champions for their kingdom. But while Finn happily lives up to the challenge, Lemonhope is like a lot of kids in that he wants to be on his own and only did the right thing once because he felt guilty.
• I Just Want to Be Free: His reason for leaving the Candy Kingdom and not staying to rule Lemon Castle after defeating Lemongrab. Makes sense since he spend most of his life locked in a bathroom.
• It's All About Me: Played with. Lemonhope wants nothing more than freedom, even if it means going his own way and leaving his family to suffer under the hand of his abusive father. On the other hand, he also recognizes that freedom entitles others to do whatever they choose, even if it isn't to his benefit.
• Leitmotif: Poor little Lemonhope...Sweet little Lemonhope
• Meaningful Name: He is believed by all the Lemon Children and Lemongrab 2 to one day bring hope to all of them.
• Messianic Archetype: For the Lemongrab Earldom.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His given name is "BadLemonNoHope", but prefers "Lemonhope" and is only called that by Lemongrab.
• Only Sane Man: Compared to all the other lemon people (with the exception of Lemongrab 2) who are totally nuts, which is part of the reason Princess Bubblegum shows any interest in him.
• Sociopathic Hero: While not really a bad guy, Lemonhope is primarily driven by his desire to be free to fulfill his own wants. Only when his subconscious guilt sours that freedom is he driven to help the people he owes his happiness to, specifically to be free of his debt to them.
• Shared Family Quirks: When Lemonhope yells at Phlannel Boxingday to stop his ship (thinking he's seeing his siblings coming out of a monster's mouth), it devolves into one of Lemongrab's signature screams.
• The Unfavorite: Out of all their children, Lemonhope is Lemongrab's least favorite, to the point that he's kept locked in a bathroom.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Doesn't show concern with how Lemongrab is treating all his siblings as punishment for helping him escape.
• Walking the Earth: Does this for the next thousand years after freeing Castle Lemongrab.

The Flame Kingdom

Flame Princess

"Don't EVER mess with me again..."

Voiced by: Jessica DiCicco

The princess of the Fire Kingdom; who is made out of fire. Beneath her innocent exterior is a deeply destructive and unpredictable personality, with a terrible temper. She has no perspective on the norms of the world and doesn't seem to understand what is right or wrong, likely due to being sheltered by her father. At the end of the third season, she inadvertently becomes Finn's new love interest. By the fifth season, it's clear that she's growing into a more settled personality, having spent time interacting with the world. She eventually usurps the position of ruler of the Flame Kingdom from her father.

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• Action Girl: She's incredibly powerful and destructive.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted. She thinks destroying things is fun - but only evil things, as mentioned at the end of "Vault of Bones". While the rest of her races is played straight, She tends to handle situations like a '90s Anti-Hero. However, she will not, under any circumstances, willingly hurt her boyfriend.
• Ambiguously Evil: Was this for a good while until the truth came out: she is not truly evil after all, just emotionally disturbed due to being locked in a lamp most of her life because of her having world-destroying powers. However, her father, The Flame King, does state that she and everyone else in the Flame Kingdom are evil, but spending enough time with a good person can potentially change her over to the side of good (although she'd suffer penalties to her experience for doing so).
• Amicable Exes: With Finn as of "Bun Bun".
• Animalistic Abomination: After casting the Elemental Spell, her elemental self consumes her, turning her into rage-filled dragon-esq creature.
• Apocalypse Maiden: She is so emotionally unstable that engaging in kissing makes her physically unstable to the point of causing her to heat up enough to melt through the earth's crust and burn up the entire planet. Luckily, that appears to be the only trigger so far.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: As she is basically living flame, she's grown to the sort of size this trope covers once or twice, though it's tied to her emotions more than her destructiveness.
• Ax-Crazy: Whether you think she is good or evil, it's clear she enjoys burning things a little too much, made abundantly clear after going on a rampage in "Vault of Bones"
  Flame Princess: YES! FEEL MY FLAME, PUNY WORMS! THE POWER OF DESTRUCTION!
• Badass Adorable: Admit it, you'd totally hug her if she wouldn't accidentally burn you to a crisp.
• Better as Friends: After making up with Finn in "Bun Bun," showcases this in "Son of Rap Bear," where they spend a lot of time hanging out and nothing happens. It's debatable whether this is because Finn never tried anything or because Phoebe shut him down in "The Red Throne", but either way, they really are comfortable together now.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Tends to see the world in terms of elemental forces. This works out okay for Finn (he's a "water elemental" with lots of "magic air" in him), but she torches the Goblin Kingdom pretty good in "Hot to the Touch" just fulfilling her elemental destiny (with 0.0 casualties, thankfully). Note that this worldview appears to be unique to her, and isn't shared by any other Fire Kingdom denizens. On top of that, she seems to be trying to approach a more 'normal' worldview over time.
• Broken Bird: She's been lied to and used for the sake of keeping power, her buttons have been further pushed when Finn unintentionally made her destroy the Ice Kingdom. Her tragic childhood led her to develop violent behavior that has decreased when dating Finn.
• Burning with Anger: Flares up into a more monstrous form when angry. Kinda like a... Bedsheet Ghost made of fire? Also when using her flame powers - the more area-effect they are, the less humanoid she is.
• Calling Your Attacks: Does this a few times in "Vault of Bones" and "Frost and Fire"
  Flame Princess: SCATTER FIRE! SNAKE FIRE!
  Flame Princess: Infernoooooo Blast!!!
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: A more kid-friendly version: since her powers are influenced by her emotional state, extreme ones like passion and love brought on by something as innocent as a kiss could ignite her so much, her body could burn so hot she could end up burning a hole into the center of the planet. Naturally, she and Finn have to find other indirect methods of dealing with this.
• Character Development: Her time spent with Finn (and probably just as likely, time spent away from her father and the Fire Kingdom) has rounded her out some, and she is taking steps to be less volatile. She's also shaping up to be a far more fair ruler than her father was.
• Cute and Psycho: Justified by her background. She seemed to be improving with Finn's company, though, and by "Vault of Bones" she's more "Cute And Enthusiastic-about-burning-things". Since they've broken up, however, she's become more serious.
• Cute Monster Girl: She's much more humanoid than most Flame People, who more often look like flames in half-melted rock "clothing" with minimalist human facial features.
• Daddy Issues: She's got some animosity with her father thanks to him sealing her in a lantern for most of her life.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Poor girl was sent to the woods as a child just so her father could have power. Then was trapped in a lantern for 14 years because of her Jerkass father's carelessness. What the poor girl went through was one of the reasons why she was so violent in the past.
• Elemental Embodiment: To make matters worse, all the fire she creates is actually a part of her - any attempt to curb her destruction causes her pain. However this means that she has absolute control of her fires and so far has chosen to not harm a single non-flame non-evil creature, even when she set an entire inhabited city alight. She currently lives in a house that is a fire on the outside and wood (with books on the wall) on the inside. She is apparently the Fire Elemental of Ooo, which would explain why she is so powerful.
• Enfante Terrible: She burned down a large forest outside of the Candy Kingdom as a baby, garnering the attention of Princess Bubblegum and leading to her being sealed away.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: Gradually getting closer to an aversion with each appearance. By "Vault of Bones", it seems unlikely that she's evil at all, and certainly has no wish to be.
• Expressive Hair: When we first meet her, her hair is in the shape of a flame (as pictured above) and at that point she's very temperamental and unpredictable in her moods. In "Vault of Bones", her hairstyle has changed to a more normal-looking bob haircut, only flaring up into its former style when she's startled, and personality-wise she's calmed down quite a bit. This could mean that her first hairstyle indicated how emotionally unstable she was.
• Fatal Flaw: She has two, her inexperience and her temper. Princess Bubblegum exploits these and plays her like a fiddle in "The Cooler".
• Fiery Redhead: Has a fiery personality that meshes well with Finn's, to go with that red hair, and tends towards a direct approach and impatience. Also literally, being fire in humanoid shape and all.
• Flaming Hair: Always on, even when she's sleeping.
• Flight: Capable of it, as seen in "Frost & Fire."
• Forced Transformation: Turns several Fire People into Fire Cats for whispering. This is not the first time she's done this.
  Flambo: So that's where I came from.
• Glass Cannon: She can set whole fields ablaze in an instant, yet feels pain when those flames are extinguished, and can herself be doused like a flame. When exploring or adventuring with Finn, she's more of a Squishy Wizard.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Averted to hell and back when she becomes queen of the fire kingdom after overthrowing her dad. She simply wants people to just be honest, imprisoned her dad rather than murdered him (and did so because he was a horrible fit for the kingdom and an out and out terrible father), and forgoes a relationship with Finn for the time being to focus on keeping her people in control for the sake of all the other kingdoms out there. However, she goes into a blind rage and destroys 5 of 6 priceless artifacts in "The Cooler". Granted, this was probably a good thing overall, as while she is unlikely to have ever used them, her brother was clearly looking for an excuse to.
• Goo-Goo-Godlike: She was very powerful as a baby. To the point that her father had her abandoned in the wilderness in fear that she would become stronger than him and usurp the throne. He was right of course, but it was still a jerk move.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Most noticeable immediately after being released from her lantern ("STOP WHISPERING!!!!" -> *baby Flambos*), but appears to be trying to work it out for Finn's sake. It's less "hair trigger" with each appearance, though she still has a temper.
  • Comes to a head in "The Cooler", where it plays out as her Fatal Flaw. Whether it was on purpose or not, Princess Bubblegum was able to trick her into destroying 5 of 6 ancient weapons in a blind rage and came just short of killing Bubblegum.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Once in a great while, she'll be called "Fire Princess". It sort of makes sense, given that she's from the "Fire Kingdom".
• Kill It with Fire: Quite enthusiastic about resorting to immolation as a solution for her immediate problems. At the same time, she's only attacked direct threats ...so far.
  • "The Cooler" points out that her area effect fire attacks are a liability even in the Fire Kingdom.
• Kill It with Water: Hurt by anything that'll put out a fire, in fact (fire retardant, rain, water, tears, and simply stamping out a flame, as established in "Hot to the Touch"). She had gotten a little better at this by "Vault of Bones"; she lit a torch for Finn, and when he later doused it, didn't even react.
• Klingon Promotion: A more kid friendly variant. Since they obviously couldn't get away with a teenage girl killing her father to obtain the throne, Flame Princess instead stages a coup which results in the (now former) Flame King being trapped in Flame Princess's old lamp, while Flame Princess takes the throne and ascends to the rank of, er, 'King'.
• Knight of Cerebus: Of a much more nonstandard variety than the Lich. She doesn't appear very often, but when she does her episode will inevitably result in major shifts in the plot accompanied by Finn learning harsh life lessons. She's not a deadly serious villain, but she's a character whose presence always makes the show dive into more complex relationship plot lines than usual.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Clearly more powerful than Finn in "Vault of Bones", though they're still young enough that it's not fully clear where their limits are yet. And then there's her general lack of experience.
• Meaningful Name: Other than the obvious, she's Finn's new flame. Her first name, Phoebe, means "bright and shining" or "bright and pure", which fits her direct personality well.
• Mind Screw: In her introductory episode, Jake tries to woo her on Finn's behalf (successfully), and then shapeshifts into Finn to continue the process. But when Flame Princess is said to be evil, he immediately recants. When the real Finn meets her, he first saves her, and then tells her he likes her. So, from Flame Princess's perspective, he told her he liked her, then didn't like her, then liked her again. Flame Princess' confusion is palpable, and her reaction perhaps predictable.
• Mood-Swinger: Goes from being sweet and kind in one moment to screaming at the top of her lungs the next. Largely tapers off as time passes.
  Flame Princess: Come on, honey. Eat your soup.
  Finn: Huh? Wait, wait, wait...
  Flame Princess: EAT IT NOW!!!!^note Note that this is a dream of Finn's.
• Mundane Utility: Can control her flames well enough to sense the composition of objects around her (or something), without damaging them: "I'll just use my Heat Sense." More to the point, the fact that she's made of flame means she's a walking light in dark places.
• The Noseless: Without a nose she can still smell.
• No Listening Skills: She has this problem before Character Development kicked in. As a result of being sheltered from society, she doesn't to her peers. She is not patient enough to listen until the end. She is also quick to jump to conclusions and accuses Finn of mocking her, refusing to listen to him when he tries to explain himself or apologize to her. For example: She refuses to listen to him when he tries to apologize to her for setting her up to fight the Ice King and tries to explain himself why he did it ("Frost & Fire"), or tries to tell her he is not a Water Elemental. ("Hot to the Touch").
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She's a very destructive person who admits that she enjoys burning things, and is the daughter of an evil king of an evil kingdom. But she's not evil herself, just very sensitive. She proves this during her tenure as the queen of the Fire Kingdom, managing to shift a violent monarchy to a peaceful democracy.
• Not Good with Rejection: To say that she doesn't take rejection well would be putting it lightly. (Though, with Character Development working for her more than any other character in the show, there's a world of difference between her earliest and later reactions to it.)
• Odd Friendship: In "Earth & Water", she befriends Cinnamon Bun. She likes him because he's honest, and this inspires her to make complete honesty the cornerstone of her rule once she takes the throne.
• One Side of the Story: FP is quick to jump to conclusions, especially the wrong ones, and refuses to hear out any side of the story.
• One-Winged Angel: Can transform into a giant monster made of fire.
• The Performer King: Flame Princess takes up rapping, jamming with Finn in "Bun Bun", with Neptr in the talent show in "The Music Hole" and rapping for the right to rule her kingdom in "Son of Rap Bear."
• Personality Powers: Her emotional state swayed her fire powers to a considerable degree, initially; even when she's happy she's destructive. In fact, too happy and she could cause the end of the world. She's been getting better about it.
• Person of Mass Destruction: It gets like ten times worse in each appearance before tapering off in her later appearances such as "Ignition Point", and isn't an issue at all in "Vault of Bones" (she's more aware of her abilities and appears to be trying to avoid falling under the trope, to the point that she no longer trails fire as she walks). She still backslides on occasion if sufficiently provoked, as she devastates the Ice Kingdom and nearly kills Ice King and Gunther in "Frost & Fire". It's also shown in "Earth & Water" that when she was a baby, she set an entire forest on fire merely by walking through it. Part of the reason for this is that she was prophesied to be far more powerful than her father.
  Flame Princess: Fire's purpose is to burn. So I'm going to turn this land into my fire kingdom.
• Playing with Fire: Naturally. And literally. Skeet shooting with little fireballs appears to be a game for her.
• Politically-Active Princess: Unlike the Candy Kingdom, the Fire Kingdom has war hawks and the occasional backstabbings, so she has had to adapt very quickly and ultimately leans towards a more democratic society than you'd expect from a royal family. While clearly not the genius that Princess Bubblegum is, she genuinely wants peace, and can be seen attending the conference in "Princess Day".
• Power Incontinence:
  • She apparently has to take special precautions to safely interact with non-Fire Kingdom residents, being living flame and all. Just to play cards with Finn for an extended period of time (in "Vault of Bones"), they have to cover her spot on the couch with foil, and wrap her hands in the same. However, since Jake is able to take her place immediately after she leaves, it's likely an extra precaution rather than a necessity.
  • Later episodes make it clearer that she's gotten much better at controlling her own fire most of the time. She is also poisoned in "The Red Throne", which seems to have capped her power for some time afterwards.
• The Power of Love: One word can cause her flames to burn brightly, one drop can turn her completely around. If she gets romanced too much, she might destroy the world with her heat.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Don't let the princess outfit and general friendliness fool, it is very likely that she is the most powerful princess in Ooo. She could probably destroy an entire kingdom if she wanted to. In her second episode, she came dangerously close to doing just that (to the Goblin Kingdom, to be precise). She only stopped because she was distracted by Finn crying.
• Rebellious Princess: Keep her locked in a lamp, or she'll light up your life. And everyone else if she gets too excited. Though now it's evident that she's rebelling against her father (and nature as living flame) due to having been locked up like that.
• The Reveal: Flame Princess wasn't locked up because she was evil, Flame King locked her up because Princess Bubblegum had concluded that she was physically unstable and extreme romance would cause her to lose control of her elemental matrix, causing her to burn to the planet's core and destroy Earth in the process. A second one in "Earth & Water" reveals she was locked up because her dad attempted to abandon her in the woods to die as a baby after it was predicted she'd surpass him power-wise. However the attendant he sent to do so had a change of heart after playing with her for a bit and gave her to a foster dad whose house she accidently burned down, proceding to unintentionally take a large portion of the forest with her. Princess Bubblegum then noticed the flames and returned Flame Princess to her father, ordering him to contain her or she would, resulting in her life long imprisonment.
• Ring of Fire: When Finn is chasing her, she casts one of these.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Her father was keeping her far away from the rest of the court inside a kerosene lamp-style glass globe at Princess Bubblegum's behest, partly due to her aforementioned ability to end the world, and partly to keep himself in power.
• Second Love: For Finn.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A messenger brought news to Flame King of his daughter being destined to grow extremely powerful. Fearing that she would one day usurp his position the way he did from the former Flame King, he sent her out into the wilderness to die. But she survived long enough to burn down a large stretch of land outside of the Candy Kingdom, gaining the attention of Princess Bubblegum and causing her to bring the infant Flame Princess right back into the Fire Kingdom with a warning that she should be sealed away. The Flame King constructed a large glass lamp and placed her in it, leaving her there for 15 years, until one day Jake arrived in the Fire Kingdom to find a new love interest for his heartbroken friend. After courting her, she is freed, and after a series of dates and a breakup, Flame Princess returned to take the throne from her father.
• She Is the King: Her guards refer to her as the "new Flame King" after overthrowing her father.
• Skilled, but Naive: Despite her immense power, she understands next to nothing of the world outside the Fire Kingdom. Seems to be improving at this.
• Spam Attack: Multiple tiny fireballs.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Finn as of "Hot to the Touch". Finn cannot touch Flame Princess without getting hurt, unless she (read: her flames) is severely weakened (read: near death). By "Burning Low", he's learned to take the pain better, but still...
  Flame Princess: ...You would defy nature for me?
• Stock Light-Novel Calamity Princess: She's a princess literally made of flame, giving her the appearance of having red hair. While normally sweet-natured, she has a Hair-Trigger Temper that leads to her inadvertently sending flames everywhere, nearly destroying Ooo on more than one occasion. Her fiery nature poses challenges for her relationship with Finn. They must rely on Indirect Kisses so Finn doesn't get injured, and he has to avoid inciting too strong emotions in her, lest she destroy things. Eventually this poses too much hardship and they break up so she can wrest control of her kingdom from her evil father.
• Superior Successor: According to a royal messenger, Flame Princess was destined to become far stronger than Flame King ever would, so he sent her out to die in the wilderness to die. Naturally he failed, and 15 years later she would indeed take the throne from him.
• Surrounded by Idiots: She has actual advisers - mostly family - but they aren't much help.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: Initially has some trouble describing herself (she's an elemental rather than a typical denizen of Ooo in "Hot to the Touch"), but gradually gets better at it.
• Third-Option Love Interest: Finn initially loved Princess Bubblegum and got along well with Marceline - but ended up with her, a sort of add-and-divide-by-two version of them in terms of personality.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Has mostly cooled down by "Ignition Point" by ceasing to be destructive (consciously). Now just chills around with Finn and Jake whenever she appears.
• Tsundere: A rather harsh A-type, she's probably just as harsh as Asuka Langely Soryu! In "Incendium", she blushed at the fact that Finn "likes" her, then immediately slapped him afterwards for his(from her viewpoint) waffling. In "Hot to the Touch", when she was warming up to Finn's declaration of love, she back-pedaled a few seconds later in disgust, saying that he shouldn't toy with her. Her unpredictable and fiery personality really help the trope come out. Not so much from "Ignition Point" onward; even after she and Finn break up in "Frost & Fire", she's more sad than angry.
• Uptown Girl: For Finn.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She becomes this in "Vault of Bones" when Finn gets captured by a giant Goo Skull. Thankfully, she's gotten a LOT more levelheaded by that point.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Water. This initially applied to any flames she'd made, but that appears to no longer be the case (she lit a torch for Finn at one point, which he then put out in water to no reaction from her).
• What the Hell, Hero?: She's less than pleased when she finds out Finn has been tricking her and Ice King into fighting each other. Especially because the last fight was sparked by a fake letter. Containing stuff about her only Finn would know.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: As shown in "Vault of Bones", meticulous exploration bores her and she prefers to just burn her way through obstacles. Subverted when she uses Finn's method to free him from the cocoon, since burning up his captor would kill him, or at least greatly injure him.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Becoming a pure flame elemental causes her to become a violent hyper-aggressive Blood Knight, transforming anyone that steps into the Fire Kingdom into the same. It also turns her into a giant fire dragon.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Averted. She certainly considered taking over Ooo with fire, first thing out of the Fire Kingdom, but Finn and Jake managed to prevent it. On top of that, she seems to have considered it an elemental imperative at the time, likely stemming from a childhood spent cooped up in a glass bottle...
• Wreathed in Flames: Is in fact living flame, and has a variety of fire attacks at her disposal. Can switch forms as well, but since she defaults to her humanoid appearance, it's probably this and not Elemental Shapeshifter.
• Yandere: Had shades of this, initially.
  Jake (pretending to be Finn): (after learning she's evil and psycho) Y'know, On Second Thought, we're not really each other's types...
  Flame Princess: ...We're... what?
  Jake (pretending to be Finn): I changed my mind. I don't like you.
  Flame Princess: You... WHAT?!?!?!
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: No, you wouldn't.
  Flame Princess: You should not toy with the emotions of a fire elemental.

Flambo

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

A mischevious creature who is an informant and ally of Finn and Jake. He is a flambit, a type of fire-creature that resembles a cat made of flame, but is so far the only flambit shown to be able to speak and use magic. He works for lumps of coal, which he eats.

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• And Your Reward Is Edible: Characters are shown feeding him charcoal as payment for his services.
• Exact Words: "I know just the skirt! And she's way hot!
• Forced Transformation: "Incendium" implies that he, and all flambits, were created from normal fire elementals by Flame Princess in one of her tantrums.
• The Gadfly: He intentionally obscures his intentions and withholds information in "Incendium" to force Jake to improvise, which he finds amusing.
  Flambo: There, I cast Flame Shield on ya's. Also I spat on ya's.
• The Informant: He helps Finn and Jake keep tabs on the Ice King.
• Instant Runes: When casting.
• Kill It with Water: In the video game Flambo's Hot Mess.
• Mundane Utility: Finn uses Flambo to light his flamethrower in "Business Time," and Princess Bubblegum uses him to light the grill for her Science BBQ in "The Real You."
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Flambo's fairly nice if mercenary, but supposedly everyone in the Fire Kingdom is evil.
• Playing with Fire: It may just be an extension of his natural body, but Flambo can keep things warm and set them on fire.
• Put on a Bus: Andy Ristaino has stated that Flambo is hard to get ahold of, explaining why he's not usually around to cast Flame Shield on Finn for his dates with Flame Princess.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Lampshades this himself after Jake rescues him in "Incendium."
  Flambo: Bet you thought I was a dame on account of my girlish screamin'.
  Jake: (frustrated) I did think that.
• Status Buff: The only magic ability he's shown so far was Flame Shield, which protects mortals from fire.
• Unexplained Accent: He may not be from the Bronx, but his accent sure is.
• Uplifted Animal: In contrast to the other fire elemental victims, who merely turned blue and spouted flame, he gained a full humanoid body and set of clothes.

Flame King

Voiced by: Keith David

The former ruler of the Fire Kingdom and father of Flame Princess. He is evil, like everyone in the Fire Kingdom.

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• Abusive Dad:
  • Sure, locking his daughter in a lantern for her entire life wasn't a terribly nice thing to do, but considering how powerful and destructive she is, he had a good reason... but then Earth and Water reveals that the lantern was actually Plan B. His first idea upon learning how powerful she was as a baby was to leave the newly born Flame Princess in the wilderness to die, not because he cared about the destruction she might cause, but because he was afraid she would usurp him.
  • Somewhat Subverted, he eventually does stop being hostile toward her and even becomes supportive of her, but he still never becomes apologetic for having been one.
• Acrofatic: Subverted, it seems like it on the surface, but when you take into consideration that fire doesn't really have weight and the only thing holding him down is his armor it starts to make more sense.
• Affably Evil: He's quite polite for an Evil Overlord.
• Animal Lover: Surprisingly, according to Flame Princess he has always had a soft side for animals.
• Bad Boss: Was fine with "Finn" killing his court jester and in Playing With Fire he chastised his cook for dinner being ready 10 minutes early.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He may not be of the diabolical Laughing Mad variety, but he's still pretty open about the fact that he's evil.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Evil though he may be, apparently letting Flame Princess destroy the entire planet is a little too much for him, so he followed Princess Bubblegum's advice on locking her up. Later subverted since it turns out that he didn't really care about the destruction his daughter might cause; he only locked her in there so she wouldn't take his throne from him.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: The Flame King, anyone?
• Evil Overlord: He rules over the Flame Kingdom.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Inverted (sort of) since his definition of "good" is evil. So he sneaks into Flame Princess's house through her scented candle flames and starts whispering in her ear..

  Flame King: Evil. Evil evil evil. Evil evil evil evil!

• Evil Sounds Deep: Comes with being voiced by Keith David.
• Evil Uncle: He is this to Furnius and Torcho. He had their father—his own brother—murdered to seize the throne for himself. They try to kill him in a vengeance plot but are caught and sentenced to be executed by their dear uncle.
• For the Evulz: Playing With Fire shows him terrorizing the citizens of the Flame Kingdom just because he can.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: While he no longer acts hostile towards Flame Princess and even supports her during her rap battle in "Son of Rap Bear", he also refuses to apologize for how he mistreated her or even acknowledge any wrong doing on his part.
• Klingon Promotion: He became the king by killing his older brother. Later on, he's on the receiving end of this trope when his daughter takes control.
• Large and in Charge: He's a big dude, to say the least.
• Laughably Evil: He is evil, but that doesn't stop him from being a comedic character. His idea of making FP more evil is by whispering "evil" into her ear over and over.
• Morality Pet: He gains one with Bun Bun.
• Orcus on His Throne: Just sits around in the Fire Kingdom, despite the rest of Ooo being inflammable and presumably ripe for conquest. Could apply to the Fire Kingdom people in general. On the other hand the rest of Ooo also contains a large amount of water, which has been shown to be fatal to Flame People, making a full scale invasion costly at best and suicidal at worst.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Usurped by his daughter and put inside the same lantern he put Flame Princess in.
• Sibling Murder: Extinguished his own brother to become king.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Sort of. While still a jerk, he at least attempts to support Flame Princess in "Son of Rap Bear" and no longer wants to dethrone Flame Princess; now content with peacefully ruling a chipmunk kingdom alongside Bun Bun.
• The Usurper: He became Flame King by extinguishing his brother. He ends up on the other side of this trope at the hand of his own daughter.

The Slime Kingdom

Slime Princess

Voiced by: Maria Bamford, Melissa Villaseñor ("Elemental")

The Princess of the Slime Kingdom.

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• The Assimilator: In the "Elements" miniseries, her awakened elemental state causes her to become a lazy tyrant who absorbs people into herself.
• Damsel in Distress: Frequently needs rescuing by Finn and Jake.
• Elemental Embodiment: Of Slime, according to "Elementals". Ooo's elements are ice, fire, slime, and candy.
• Mole Men: The Slime Kingdom is underground.
• One of the Kids: In "Loyalty to the King", Slime Princess is playing in a sandbox when she meets the "Nice King".
• Out of Focus: Between the elementals, she's nowhere near as important as PB, FP or Patience, being mostly relegated to a few episodes in the limelight as opposed to the other princesses being main characters and Patience being a major recurring antagonist.
• Princesses Rule: Is the ruler of the Slime Kingdom.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Patience St. Pim forcibly transforming her into a pure slime elemental causes her to become a massive, unintelligible and hedonistic Blob Monster who assimilates people into her.

Blargatha

Voiced by: Maria Bamford

Slime Princess' younger sister, who seeks to claim the royal throne as her own.

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• Beauty Is Bad: She is stated to be the most attractive woman in the Slime Kingdom. Played With, however, in the sense that her beauty has made the men in the kingdom too nervous to approach her, leading her to resort to some rather shady tactics in her quest for power.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Is only distinguishable from her sister by the fact that she wears a band with a green gem on her head as opposed to a tiara.
• Informed Attractiveness: She's supposedly super attractive, but she looks just like her sister (a slimy little pile) with a different crown.

The Breakfast Kingdom

Breakfast Princess

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

A princess of the Breakfast Kingdom.

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• Alpha Bitch: Very stuck-up and condescending to LSP.
• Anthropomorphic Food: Made up of breakfast items, including little egg shoes.
• Damsel in Distress: Has gotten pretty used to it.
  "Oh hey Finn, I've got another Ice King situation here."
• Planet of Hats: The Breakfast Kingdom, pretty much.
• Princesses Rule: Her and her younger sister, Toast Princess, appear to be the sole royalty of The Breakfast Kingdom. As of "Princess Day", Breakfast Princess has lost the throne to her other younger sister, Strudel Princess.

Strudel Princess

Voiced by: Melany Ochoa

Breakfast Princess' younger sister.

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• Nice Girl: Shown to have an upbeat, chipper attitude as she wishes everyone a happy Princess Day.

The Glass Kingdom

Glassboy

Voiced by: Michaela Dietz

A young Glass citizen with a noticeable crack on his head.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: He is bullied by the glass people for his crack on his head and for being a Bookworm.
• Bookworm: The first time we see him, he was holding a book since he spent a day in the library. He also shows to his people that the dragon’s pit was supposed to fix any cracks of a glass person. He also likes reading manga.
• Comically Missing the Point: Idolizes the person Marceline used to be and wants to channel his "punk rock anger" like her. Marcy's whole arc in this special is about learning to embrace the happiness she's found in her relationship with PB.
• Fanboy: He’s a big fan of Marceline.
  “Half-vampire, half-demon, HALF-GOD!”
• Intergenerational Friendship: Glassboy has a close friendship with See-Thru Princess, despite her being an adult.
• Nice Guy: Glassboy is a very friendly and kind hearted hero.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Glassboy goes into the mountain Larvos is trapped in so he can fix the crack in his head. This inadvertently wakes up the dragon. Glassboy then loses the key keeping the magic door sealed thus giving the dragon the opportunity to escape, kickstarting the plot of this special.

See-Thru Princess

Voiced by: Charlotte Nicdao

The young and inexperienced ruler of the Glass Kingdom

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• Extreme Doormat: She’s constantly bossed around by her advisors, who always denigrate her decisions and tell her she’s unfitting to rule the Glass Kingdom. Thanks to Princess Bubblegum, she starts to stand up for herself.
• Grew a Spine: After spending much of "Obsidian" being bossed around and ridiculed by her royal advisors, she eventually comes to assert herself and put them in their place.
• Intergenerational Friendship: She's Glassboy's only friend in the Glass Kingdom and there's a notable age-gap between the two.

The Royal Advisors

Voiced by: Maria Bamford (Sandy), Jeff Bennett (Limeston), Kevin Michael Richardson (Sir Soda)

A trio of buttheads that "advise" the princess, usually by saying she's bad and should put them in charge

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• The Dividual: All three of them serve the exact same purpose as See-Thru Princess' Treacherous Advisors and are never seen apart from each other.
• Dirty Coward: Their time to "act" was to run
• Hate Sink: They are all cowardly, incompetent, xenophobic jerks who try to control the princess through intimidation, and constantly tell her she should give up the crown and put them in charge. When the dragon attacks they run away and hide, then try to kill Glassboy, Marceline and Bubblegum by locking them in the furnace with the Dragon.
• Hypocrite: They, along with the rest of the Glass Kingdom, ridicule Glassboy for having a crack, but in the end, it's revealed that all three have multiple cracks of their own.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In trying to shatter Glassboy, they get shattered and swept up at the end of the episode.
• Treacherous Advisor: It's made very clear that they don't believe See-Thru Princess should be ruling the Glass Kingdom and are actively gunning for her position.

The Duchy of Nuts

The Duke of Nuts

"Why would you want to sack MY Nut Castle on my second son's first birthday?"

Voiced by: Steve Little

The Duke of Nuts is a generally nice member of royalty, ruling over the Duchy of Nuts. An all-around family man, his only major flaw is that a physical deficiency makes him uncontrollably eat any pudding in range.

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• The Bus Came Back: Returns in the Grand Finale as part of Princess Bubblegum's army.
• Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: The Skinny Papa to The Duchess' Chubby Mama.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After the first season, he only made two appearances (one of them as a toy). Probably because he's just too nice a guy to be that interesting, and because Princess Bubblegum having an irrational and emotional grudge against him shows her to be flawed in a very different way to the one which they would later explore. Averted when he returns for the finale.
• Happily Married: His wife quickly jumps to his defense in the pudding case. Also, he 'lies with her' often.
• Nice Guy: Ridiculously nice. Almost obscenely nice. Hell, he was willing to take the fall for Finn even though he was totally innocent.
• Poke the Poodle: About the only thing he's ever done wrong is eat all of Bubblegum's pudding.
• Quirky Household: Him and his family are pretty weird, but love each other. His wife is nuts, in both the figurative and literal sense of the word.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Princess Bubblegum, who despises him solely because he ate all of her pudding once.
• Sweet Tooth: He loves him some pudding.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pudding.

The Duchess of Nuts

"The nuts told me, for I am the Duchess of Nuts!"

The wife to the Duke of Nuts, and the matriarch of the Duchy of Nuts' royal family.

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• Ax-Crazy: While it can be partially chalked up to her concern for her husband, she still comes across as deeply unhinged during her conversation with Finn.
• Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: The Chubby Mama to The Duke's Skinny Papa.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: She claims to be capable of communicating with her bowl of peanuts, but we are never given any sort of confirmation either way. Although if not, then that does raise the question of how, exactly she was aware of Finn and Jake's plan to arrest the Duke.

Minor Princesses

Turtle Princess

Voiced by: Steve Little

The Princess of the Turtle Kingdom, and head of the Library of Ooo (which may be one and the same). Best friends with Lumpy Space Princess.

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• Bookworm: She is a librarian, after all.
• Bus Crash: In a flash forward sequence 1000 years into the future during Fiona and Cake it’s revealed that in the interim centuries the Turtle Kingdom grew into a city-sized library but is now abandoned save for aggressive origami people and Turtle Princess’s corpse was turned into an Artificial Zombie security drone.
• Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Ends up married to the Ice Thing.
• Eyes Always Shut: Her eyes only open a few times.
• Happily Married: To Gunter/The Ice Thing!
• Larynx Dissonance: She's voiced by a man, rather like her best friend LSP.
• Meet Cute: Mistakes Ice King Gunther picking up one of his rubies as a proposal and they're wed soon after.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She's never had any success with men, which is what convinced LSP to write a book on dating. Fortunately, she pairs up with a vulture who'd been hitting on LSP earlier.

Raggedy Princess

Voiced by: Maria Bamford

A living ragdoll that rules over the Raggenbone Kingdom (actually Ooo's junkyard). Mostly spends her time used as a scarecrow.

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• Armless Biped: Lacks visible arms, getting by with her mouth and feet to do things, though it doesn't get in the way of being a competent seamstress. She's seen with a pair in Princess Day, though.
• Awkward Poetry Reading: She likes to work on her poetry, but no one bothers to hang around her to listen to them.
• Butt-Monkey: Is rarely treated with any respect in her appearances, spends most of her time used as a glorified scarecrow, or straight up ignored otherwise. Bubblegum describes her as having no self-respect.
• Princess in Rags: She is the rags. Her crown is just a shard of glass stuck to her head, and she rules over a junkyard. She's evidently still considered an actual princess at least, as she's often seen with the rest of Ooo royalty.

Ghost Princess (formerly Warrior Princess)

Voiced by: Maria Bamford

A dead Princess who is now a ghost.

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• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the episode Ghost Princess, after learning how she died she ascends into the 50th Dead World.
• Back for the Finale: She reappears for the first time in many seasons in the "Together Again" alongside Clarence in the 50th Dead World.
• Damsel in Distress: Like most of the princesses, Ghost Princess largely existed to be rescued before ascending to the 50th Dead World.
• Dating Catwoman: She was accidentally killed by the leader of an opposing army named Clarence. The two of them were in love at the time, and continue to be in love after death.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending a long time alone and without love she and Clarence rekindle their love after remembering their past lives and ascend together to the 50th Dead World.
• Ghost Amnesia: She doesn't remember her former life at first.
• Lady of War: As Warrior Princess.

Wildberry Princess

Voiced by: Maria Bamford

The princess of the Wildberry Kingdom.

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• Anthropomorphic Food: Looks like a berry.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Dear lord, don't let her timidness fool you. If she perceives herself as insulted, she will not take it well.^note Unless she gets a written apology
• Damsel in Distress:
  • She is often seen being kidnapped by Ice King, much more frequently than most of other princesses than Princess Bubblegum, most likely because of her delicate nature.
  • In "Jake vs. Me-Mow," Wildberry Princess is the target of an assassin from the Guild of Assassins.
• Planet of Hats: The Wildberry Kingdom: a kingdom where everyone is a berry.
• Princesses Rule: Apparently the only ruler of the Wildberry Kingdom.
• Shrinking Violet: She speaks in a soft voice, and she's rather sensitive and easily Prone to Tears.

Hot Dog Princess

Voiced by: Maria Bamford

A princess who rules over the Hot Dog Knights.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: After Finn saves her, she tries to kiss him. However, he doesn't want to get kissed by her because he says that she smells like "old hot dog water".
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Instead of the knights protecting their ruler, most of the time it's the other way around.
• Damsel in Distress: She requires saving pretty regularly. Her knights are even worse.
• Princesses Rule: Apparently the only ruler of the Hot Dog Kingdom.
• Visual Pun: Instead of actual hot dogs, she and the Hot Dog Knights look like a cross between hot dogs and dachshunds—which makes them literal "wiener dogs".

Desert Princess

A princess who controls sand. She was found inside a Bag of Holding.

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• Art Initiates Life: Desert Princess's specialty is making animated sand sculptures.
• Canon Foreigner: Created for the comic book series.
• Cool Crown: Her crown is made of ice cream, with a cherry on top.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Can create objects from sand and then control them.
• Fusion Dance: The second issue implies that she is actually an amalgamation of various Candy citizens.
• Last Kiss: When Desert Princess's sand clones are told to throw themselves in the giant hole they say they want a kiss from Finn first. After they get their kiss they dissolve into lifelessness without any further objection.
• Princesses Rule: Claims to rule the Desert Kingdom.

Old Lady Princess

Voiced by: Kerri Kenney-Silver

A princess that the Ice King gets engaged to.

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• Eye Scream: Her eyes get painfully huge.
  "I'm not crying, Finn. My tear sac is broken."
• Mind-Control Device: The Ice King gets her to accept his engagement with a cursed engagement ring.
• Mind-Control Eyes: You can tell she is hypnotized because when you examine her eyes closely enough you can see a miniature version of her behind bars in each one.
• Open the Iris: The entirety of her eyes, white, iris, pupil and all get huge under mind-control.
• Younger Than They Look: Old Ladies are their own race of people in Ooo, so Old Lady Princess may not actually be that old.

Engagement Ring Princess

Voiced by: Maria Bamford

A princess of an unknown kingdom.

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• All There in the Manual: The Adventure Time Encyclopædia refers to her as a "Candy Kingdom Princess", implying that despite being an officially registred princess she's in fact part of the Candy Kingdom and doesn't have a domain of her own.
• Broken Record: In her first speaking appearance, she's being rescued from the Ice King by Finn and Jake, and is so traumatized that the only thing she can say is "Save me, Finn and Jake!" Repeatedly. Even as they're in the middle of saving her.
• The Ditherer: Played for laughs in "Loyalty to the King," where she tries to catch the "Nice King"'s attention by claiming she loves the opera... unless he doesn't, then she hates it.
• Heavy Sleeper: She seems to be. In "The Lich" when Finn and Jake go around stealing crystals off sleeping princesses (and the Ice King), in most cases they are very gentle and careful not to wake any of them up... Engagement Ring Princess is one exception; with her they pull on her ring with considerable force, rocking her back and forth in her bed. She never shows any signs of waking up.
• Sleeps in the Nude: Possibly, though thanks to a Modesty Bedsheet and the fact that her regular outfit is strapless, it's impossible to say for sure if she's actually naked under the sheet or if she's wearing a similarly strapless top or nightgown.

Wizard City

Grandmaster Wizard

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche

The ruler of Wizard City and judge of Wizard Battle.

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• The Archmage: He appears to be the master of all wizards.
• Cats Are Magic: He turns people into cats, and usually has cats crawling all over him.
• Emerald Power: His eyes are emeralds.
• The Magocracy: He runs one in Wizard City, where only wizards are permitted.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Again, mostly. His reaction to a foreign head of state and two of her agents illegally entering a restricted city under false identities and then disrupting the peace is to demand a formal apology, and if he had gotten it, he would have let them go without further incident. On the other hand, he sometimes turns people into cats.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Prone to mixing hammy, dramatic proclamations with slang.
  Grandmaster Wizard: Bella Noche is a being of pure anti-magic! Y'alls got played!
• Wizard Beard: He appears to be nothing but beard.

Abracadaniel

Voiced by: Steve Little

A low-level wizard who can only perform rainbow-based magic.

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• Ambiguously Gay: He's extremely effeminate, all of his magic is rainbow-based, and he acts disgusted at the idea of kissing Princess Bubblegum. He later reneges on that last one, though.
• And I Must Scream: The Ice King trapped him in a block of ice in "Friends Forever". He can only blink.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He seems goofy and harmless, but he once attempted to kill Princess Bubblegum in a knife fight.
• Bus Crash: His skull lies in the bird nest in "Together Again", confirming he died before Finn did.
• Inept Mage: All he can do is rainbow magic, and he can't do it very well.
• Nervous Wreck: By the time of "Wizard City", he's a lot more pessimistic and nervous. It doesn't help that he had witnessed a murder on school grounds very recently.
• Odd Friendship: With the Ice King. Though "Friends Forever" shows Ice King broke off that friendship because ABD "kept trying to analyze [him]" so he froze him in ice.
• Pathetically Weak: He can barely make a rainbow without overexerting himself.
• Super-Toughness: He survives a meteor being dropped on him, implicitly because his body is "squishy".
• Whatevermancy: His rainbow powers.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His magic is completely useless.

Ron James

Voiced by: Duncan Trussell

The owner of Ron James' Spell Palace in Wizard City.

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• Inept Mage: Not at the same level as Abracadaniel, but his potions have a tendency to fail.
• Made of Magic: When Princess Bubblegum asks what's in his potions, he just answers "magic", which only makes her more skeptical.
• Snake Oil Salesman: Bubblegum's impression of him. He isn't. But when you ask him for a Cold spell he'll guilelessly give you a spell to lower temperatures, not a spell to cure colds. He is also a little bit of an Inept Mage, so they don't always work.
• Totally Radical: His way of speaking.

The Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving

Voiced by: Dana Snyder

A being with life-giving powers, found dwelling in a dungeon. The Ice King seeks him out in order to bring his fanfiction to life.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: He gives any inanimate objects life.
• Daddy Issues: His mental trauma over his abusive father screws up his magic, making all of the things he animates become evil.
• Momma's Boy: But he can animate good things by thinking about his loving mother.
• Power Incontinence: He can't control his powers, so after "Little Dude" he starts wearing oven mitts to prevent this. He isn't shown wearing the mitts in "Wizard City", implying he finally managed to gain control over his powers.
• Psychoactive Powers: His powers react depending on his thoughts, his creations being evil if thinking of his abusive father and good if thinking of his loving mother.

The Secret Society

Voiced by: Tom Kenny (Bufo's Tadpoles and Laser Wizard), Pendleton Ward (Forest Wizard), Steve Little (Bufo Toad, Original Series), Bill Hader (Bufo Toad, "Wizard City")

A secretive magical order made up of Bufo the Tadpole Wizard, Forest Wizard, and Laser Wizard. Ice King sometimes sneaks into their meetings.

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• The Archmage: Bufo runs the wizard academy in "Wizard."
• Ascended Extra: Bufo. Specifically their frog vessel, who takes on more lines than he ever had in the show in Wizard City.
• Badass Creed: "Wizards only, fools."
• Druid: Forest Wizard's style of magic.
• Energy Weapon: Laser Wizard's power.
• Gone Horribly Wrong:
  • Their plan to gain additional powers by awakening Bella Noche did not go as planned.
  • Bufo's Toad body deciding to drink Coconteppi's ichor to become even more powerful results in him dying.
• Human Sacrifice: They planned to sacrifice Abracadaniel in some sort of mystic ritual.
• Killed Off for Real: During the events of "Wizard City", Peppermint Butler finds Toad Bufo's corpse by complete accident and is blamed for his and Spader's deaths. Later it's revealed that he was part of the cult worshipping Coconteppi and decided to drink his ichor to gain more power which ended up killing him.
• Mind Hive: Bufo isn't the toad. Bufo is the tadpoles inside the toad.
• Magical Society: One of many exclusive wizard societies in Wizard City.
• Put on a Prison Bus: Bufo mentions that he threw Lazer and Forest Wizard "under the bus" to get his position at Wizard City's school, implying that he sold them both out to save himself after the Bella Noche incident. While Lazer Wizard was never seen again after "Betty" besides a picture of him shown in "The Comet", Forest Wizard was seen at the end of the Elements Mini-series, implying that it might have happened after the Elements incident.
• Wizarding School: Bufo runs one of these, and is later shown to be one of the teachers at Wizard City's school.

Cadebra

Voiced by: Chloe Coleman

Pepper Mint's friend, a rookie magician, a skink wizard and the niece of Abracadaniel.

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• Be Yourself: Has already learned this lesson. She has found that stage magic is her true calling and isn't afraid to show it, making her resistant to pressure from others. She encourages Pepper Mint to do the same.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Cadebra is more interested in being a Stage Magician than a wizard, but when fighting against the Coconteppi-possessed Pepper Mint, she manages to hold her own against him with defensive magic and magician trickery after the older and more experienced dark wizards were slaughtered.
• Genki Girl: She's always lively and beaming with energy which contrasts with Pepper Mint's more calmer personality and her uncle being a Nervous Wreck.
• Nepotism: Downplayed. The only reason she gets to stay at Wizard School is because her uncle Abracadaniel works there, but she's placed into the lowest class ranking.
• Nerves of Steel: Despite being caught off-guard by Peppermint Butler's spirit, she slowly grows braver by the climax of the story where she took on a mutated Pepper Mint by using her mundane magic tricks.
• Stage Magician: Stage tricks are Cadebra's actual passion, preferring them over her actual magic. She even fantasizes about and later dons a classic black tuxedo and top hat.
• The Pollyanna: Nothing seems to bother her. Whether she is bullied, or having her magic tricks mocked, Cadebra keeps a happy composure.

Spader

Voiced by: John Omohundro

A popular and powerful kid who bullies Pepper Mint in class.

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• The Ace: Spader excels at anything related to magic, making him the star of the school and the center of Pepper Mint's jealousy and admiration.
• Advertised Extra: He prominently appears on the episode poster though he disappears on the second half.
• Academic Alpha Bitch: Spader is a male example; He's the star student at the school, very popular with both his classmates and adults, and a smug, elitist jerk who enjoys mocking "Pepper Mint" at every opportunity.
• Asshole Victim: Considering how he bullies Pepper Mint for the first half of the episode, he ultimately dies from drinking a chalice of Coconteppi under Bufo's wishes.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed. He may be a huge jerk but he seems to genuinely seem fond of his friends, especially his cousin Larry, whom he carried with him everywhere after the latter was turned into a rock.
• Killed Off for Real: He never gets better.

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