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Adventure time the lich12/8/2022 The healing substance Finn tosses at the Lich “heals” the skeletal creature, transforming it into an innocent baby, Sweet P, who soon joins the cast of characters as another friend. While the Lich is essentially evil incarnate, a single-minded killing machine, planning to invade and annihilate millions of worlds with an army of ancient evildoers, he is stopped not by Finn’s blade, but by a blob of rejuvenating, life-giving … stuff. My favorite example of change within Adventure Time is the story of the Lich, Finn’s most frightening antagonist. People and circumstances change constantly purity leads to corruption, and redemption can arise in even the darkest soul. The characters are revealed to have past lives, different timelines, even gender-swapped doppelgangers that exist in fanfictions. While the direction of each episode can veer wildly, the theme of change is ingrained throughout. ![]() Watching Finn develop (even keeping the same voice actor), from a dumb kid looking for a fight, into an emotionally balanced pacifist, reflects their own personal growth into adulthood. Young children watching Adventure Time from the outset will have grown up with Finn, as the previous generation grew up alongside Harry Potter. It’s patronizing, really children’s lives are all about change, and they’re certainly capable of understanding it on screen. Which is interesting, perhaps even groundbreaking, seeing as most animated children’s series tend to deeply underestimate their audience, keeping characters static and resetting the story at the end of each episode. Through a series of flashbacks, the cold-hearted sorcerer was revealed to be a confused old man, the victim of an ancient curse, and at heart, an immensely good person.Įach character has evolved substantially since the series inception, as has the world of Ooo. The Ice King, the original antagonist, changed from a princess-obsessed aggressor into a deeply sympathetic oddball. Princess Bubblegum was no 19-year-old damsel-in-distress - she was an ancient, hugely intelligent lifeform that emerged from an irradiated lump of chewing gum, a mad(?) scientist who built an entire kingdom, populating it with subservient, simple-minded candy people.īut Bubblegum wasn’t the only simple-on-the-surface archetype who fleshed out into a complex character capable of supporting their own series - almost every character with a speaking role seems to have a story worth telling. The series gradually revealed that a nuclear war, known as The Mushroom War, almost destroyed the world, annihilating our current civilization and sparking a weird new one, the radiation seeding strange forms of life. The lore of Adventure Time would eventually unravel through multiple, seemingly unconnected episodes, some providing a tiny piece of the puzzle, others merely hinting, and multi-episode epics answering the really big questions. The Land of Ooo was clearly not their natural habitat, and seeing as Finn seemed to be the only human left alive, questions arose. While the creatures didn’t threaten Finn and Jake, they were an eerie remnant from a past age, only capable of understanding the world through a dull, corporate lens. One of the first signs that something was amiss in the Land of Ooo, was the appearance of humanoid zombies, frozen in blocks of ice, known only as the Business Men. ![]() Tolkien said of his epic, “this tale grew in the telling.”Īnd the tale of Adventure Time would eventually reach some very dark places, yet, somehow, never stopped oozing optimism and positivity, with friendship and love being the only constants in a chaotic universe. The creators of Adventure Time didn’t drip-feed the audience a pre-planned story - they crafted one as they went along.
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