Its not nice to do Crack Pairing
Magic Man secretly slips Finn a bag filled with miniature versions of Finn and all his friends.Tropes
- Alternate Universe: For the Mini people. From their end, the world looks just as normal as the regular one. But from the regular world, it looks like Finn is playing with them like toys.
- Jake describes them as existing on different dimensional planes where they can see the little people but they can’t see them. And whenever Finn does something with them on his end it affects how they behave and what events happen in their world. When Finn shakes his counterpart it allows them to interact somewhat due to them "vibrating at different frequencies" but even then the little Finn only sees big Finn as clouds.
- A God Am I: Finn doesn’t feel this way but to the little people he is essentially an otherworldly force manipulating their lives and actions from behind their world. When Finn manages to get them too see him he appears to them manifesting in the clouds and appears godlike to them.
- Betty and Veronica: Mini Bubblegum being the Veronica and Mini Flame Princess being the Betty.
- Bowdlerise: Censored versions of this episode cut the BDSM relationship between Turtle Princess and Xergiok, the three-way relationship between Abracadaniel, Choose Goose, and a Lollipop Girl, and the reveal that Marcelline has almost completely eaten Peppermint Butler.
- Cat Fight: Mini-Princess Bubblegum and Mini-Flame Princess get into a rather intense one, while Finn watches.
- Continuity Nod: Donnie and Xergiok are among the mini people Finn finds in the bag.
- Crack Pairing: In-universe. Finn creates a lot of these with the little people — Marceline and Peppermint Butler; Cupcake and LSP; Lady Rainicorn and Finn; Lolipop Girl, Abracadaniel, and Choose Goose; Xergiok and Turtle Princess.
- Karma Houdini: Magic Man gets zero comeuppance for everything that happens in this episode, see Small Role, Big Impact below.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Finn lampshades the Chekhov's Army stating that several characters that don't seem important would reappear eventually.
- Meaningful Echo: "I'm not coming back." Magic Man says it in the beginning, and when Finn decides to leave the miniature people alone, he says this to them as well.
- Ocular Gushers: Mini PB uses a weeping Mini Lady as a hosepipe to attack Mini Flame Princess.
- Sadist: Mini Turtle Princess is to Mini Xergiok, much to his horror.
- Shipper on Deck: The whole episode makes fun of this with Finn as the shipper.
- Shipping: Amazingly, done In-Universe by Finn.
- Shout-Out: The strange language of the minis bring The Sims to mind.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Magic Man is responsible for the chaos of this episode, but appears only in the beggining and it is Lampshaded and Invoked when he says "I'm not coming back".
- The minis are also quite similar to the Dr. Pretorius' homunculus experiments
from Bride of Frankenstein. Jake even describes them as "black magic", which is the same expression that Dr. Frankenstein used to describe the homunculi.
- The minis are also quite similar to the Dr. Pretorius' homunculus experiments
- Take That!: To Melodramatic Soap Opera shows.
- Take That, Audience!: The episode can also be seen as a huge satire of fanfiction, with
Crack Pairings and artificial drama. - Time Skip: 16 weeks no less.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: A magical version of this. The little people are essentially magical AI that Finn manipulates into doing bad things.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jake calls Finn out on his obsession with Crack Pairing, being reasonably upset when the latter has a mini version of himself date the former's mini version of his pregnant lover.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: At first Finn sees the little people as toys and “not real” so he has no qualms of putting them through different love scenarios for his own amusement. He changes his mind after seeing the drama and heartbreak he causes.
