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Except that's NOT the "actual reason," unless this person is aware of some magical land far over the rainbow where they have blatant sexuality of any sort in their kids' shows.
Also, TV Tropes has no intention of making itself a battlefield for social justice warriors. That too.
^ No, she doesn't. I've only seen maybe half of the first season, but from what I've seen Princess Bubblegum is a Science Hero with impeccable grammar as would be expected of that trope. The bad grammar is all just bad tropers.
As for the note, I haven't seen enough of the show to know... is that thing about Bubblegum and Marceline being lesbians canon, or just something some fans made up? Because unless it's canon it proooooobably shouldn't be on the page at all....
EDIT: Apparently the Word of Gay for PB and Marceline is "somebody on the show said they overheard somebody else on the show possibly say this".... that sounds pretty dang tenuous to me, sort of "friend of a friend of a friend" type stuff, certainly not reliable enough that we should be plastering it all over the wiki like it's God's Own Truth.
Edited by wrm5According to The Other Wiki, it went like this:
- An episode had some Ho Yay between the two.
- A third party made an episode recap, where they implied that it's canon.
- Later both the third party and the show's producer removed the recap, and said it's not canon: "we got wrapped up by both fan conjecture and spicy fanart and went a little too far."
- Even later the voice actress for one of the characters said that she heard the creator say it's canon. The reason she gave for why it wasn't explicitly stated in the show is actually the one provided in the last edit: "I don't know about the book, but in some countries where the show airs, it's sort of illegal."
That said, I'd just move it into the example section since it's not exactly canon, and to avoid further natter and edit wars.
Edited by RjinswandHi that was me. Like Rjinswand said, my edit reason was because of what the voice actress said (link here
), and maybe it was slightly personally worded, but given other cartoons like Steven Universe showing female beings as a couples, I felt like the actual reason would be better.
It sounds like St. Paul said that God said that they dated at some point.
Not sure where exactly that lands on the canon-scale... but it's SD anyway so I inherently don't give a rat's ass. Though is there any reason for that page to... exist? She doesn't seem to have any sort of tone or gimmick to necessitate an SD page.
Between that and the grammatical issues I really wish SD pages had to go through YKTTW.
Edited by Larkmarn Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.It would probably be good for self demonstrating pages to go through YKTTW. Self-Demonstrating/Marceline also talks about the lesbian relationship. Kids shows can have romantic relationships but I don't know if this is one of them.
This whole thing is a perfect example of why speculation about a character's sexual identity should be forbidden, or at the very least restrained to canon information.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Given the same guy made both Bubblegum and Marceline, and also has links to (not yet made) pages for the two main characters on the show, should we maybe... ask him to run it through YKTTW first? Because these pages are nothing more than their character sheet but in first person.
... also kinda worrisome that the Marceline page was, as originally made, nothing but shipping the two.
EDIT: Okay, he's made at least four SD pages in less than a month. None of which are particularly... notable.
Edited by Larkmarn Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Hmm. I wonder if we need a restraint on Loekman3... sent a PM in any event.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"^^^ I would say it should be forbidden in most cases, but not all. YMMV is one thing, but when you have a Self-Demonstrating page that basically says "By the way, I'm totes gay (except Word of God says I'm not, but screw 'dem!)" ya know, that becomes a problem.
This whole thing sounds like yet another addition to my ever-growing list of why Self-Demonstrating pages are way more trouble than they're worth.

I found this latest edit on Princess Bubblegum strange. It was changed from, "That's right, we're in a lesbian relationship, something that will never be shown in the cartoon because it's a cartoon for children," to "That's right, we're in a lesbian relationship, something that will never be shown in the cartoon because then it wouldn't be allowed in less progressive countries," because "How about going for the actual reason instead of acting like kids can't deal with two girls together."
If it will never shown in the cartoon then where did this come from? Wouldn't the more simplistic way it was written fit better?