![]() Princess Bubblegum is a bastion of Science in a world that is gaga for magic. She could make another James, but could not make another Finn, and so she acted accordingly. James gave up a piece of his candy biomass to PB and sacrificed himself to the radioactive zombies to save them all. It was PB, whose mad science brain had examined all possible escape plans and determined that none of them would work. When Finn comes to, he is told that it was never James who sabotaged their plans to escape. Princess Bubblegum unceremoniously knocks Finn and Jake out with a wrench. Finn, his heroic nature surfacing, volunteers. It becomes apparent that the only chance for escape is to sacrifice one of them for the group’s safety. Throughout the episode, Finn and Jake are sure that James is sabotaging their efforts to escape from the radioactive mutants (Holy Crap! The scary zombie-things from Simon and Marcy are still here!). James, a Candy Kingdom resident, is acting as PB’s assistant. ![]() I’ll make another: In James, Princess Bubblegum, Finn, and Jake are on an exploration mission to collect samples. I want an action figure of her stamping out shoddy work.ħ.) James. ![]() Slow clap for science and Combat Princess Bubblegum, who then carries her friends home and cares for them. See, I know a thing or two about building a body out of biomass, and you don’t leave your heart exposed!” Ricardio says, “I just wanted to impress you,” and my girl PB simply replies, “You didn’t.” Lights out for Ricardio. She says, “You think we’re intellectual equals? It only took me seconds to catch you off your guard! And this body you designed is self-congratulatory garbage. She pretty much stomps him and tears him apart while criticizing his science. That’s my girl! The fight is surprisingly brutal. To protect Finn, Jake, and Lady, PB agrees to marry Ricardio if he can defeat her in hand-to-hand combat. 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. Let’s tally up some of PB’s darker moments:Ħ.) Ricardio Death Match. 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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