In Lady and Peebles, Ricardio shows his creepy face for the second time, having built a body for himself in an attempt to impress Princess Bubblegum. You think you’re my intellectual equal? Your sinews are exposed, loser. If Goliad is made of PB’s DNA and Stormo is made from Finn’s, I feel like their eternal battle is either a metaphor for Finn and Bubblegum’s friendship and how they affect and temper one another, or some terrible vision of a future in which they are on opposite sides.Ħ.) Ricardio Death Match. Her ability to make the hard decisions and take responsibility to do what needs doing for survival is impressive. I love PB’s character because of her moral ambiguity, loyalty to friends, and strength of rulership. I have weird feelings about the possible prophetic nature of this scenario.
The pink Sphynx lacks the moral character necessary to not become a tyrant, and so she yoinks some of Finn’s DNA and creates Stormo, a griffin who immediately, heroically engages Goliad in an eternal psychic battle. The science just isn’t there yet.” In the episode Goliad, PB creates Goliad to be her successor. This little guy sums it up pretty well:ģ.) Goliad and Stormo: Eternal Psychic Battle Deathmatch of Eternity. Nope, we don’t let sleeping candy persons lie, we bring them back to life with little thought to how they might feel about that. Let’s tally up some of PB’s darker moments:ġ.) Reanimation of Dead Subjects (Scone of the Dead?): in Slumber Party Panic, she is shown to be working on a serum to reanimate dead candy people. Princess Bubblegum wants to be liked, but at the end of the day (or millenium or whatever …) she’s willing to be the bad guy when the greater good calls for it. She fully understands the burden of leadership and believes that she has become exactly who she needs to be to be an effective leader. Don’t read this as a diss on PB – she is actually my favorite character, and it is her complexity that fascinates me. But (and in Adventure Time, there is always a butt) – there is a side to this girl that is more than qualified to accept a position of leadership within Aperture Laboratories, Inc. She looks sweet (pun totally intended), with her pink skin and hair, preference for pink and purple clothing, and I think that her kind and heroic impulses are sincere – she reads to candy orphans, battles to reclaim pieces of radiation-soaked land for the Candy Kingdom, and hangs out with her friends on movie night. The weird matrix of sincere emotion, cuteness, and darkness twine around each other throughout the show, but culminate in the character of Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum.
Adventure Time is cute, never ashamed to embrace the adorable, but it also has a persistent darkness. I started watching Adventure Time about a year ago, when my brother recommended it to me with the explanation that it was like someone made a show out of the inner workings of my brain.
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