What this wish changed was that Simon used the crown to stop the bomb, rather than just making sure The Lich never came to be.
That's Monkey's Paw for you.
I kind of wonder why this Marceline looked so different. Maybe that's what happens to half-demon vampires when they don't eat enough red.
Indeed.
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Since the Lich was supposed to never exist, the wish had to stop the mutation bomb from going off. It did this by having Simon stop it from going off. Until Finn accidently triggered it in the alternate timeline, there was no Lich. The Lich DID never exist, but Finn accidently allowed him to be created after the fact.
As for Marceline, maybe her immortality/eternal youth was tied to the mutations? Not all of it could've been negative... The Candy People aren't the brightest bunch, but they seem pretty happy and they are more or less indestructable.
Since the Lich was supposed to never exist, the wish had to stop the mutation bomb from going off. It did this by having Simon stop it from going off. Until Finn accidently triggered it in the alternate timeline, there was no Lich. The Lich DID never exist, but Finn accidently allowed him to be created after the fact.
As for Marceline, maybe her immortality/eternal youth was tied to the mutations? Not all of it could've been negative... The Candy People aren't the brightest bunch, but they seem pretty happy and they are more or less indestructable.
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Did it ever say that this one was a vampire?
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Well, a lack of magic would probably mean a lack of Vampires. I mean, her Father probably keeps in relative shape thanks to the occasinal soul-sucking
Ah, but...
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There WAS magic, it just wasn't as wide-spread. The crown still existed. Marceline still had a demonic father. She just aged for whatever reason. Something supernatural about her kept her alive over those 1000 years, but it didn't keep her looking young like in the real timeline.
There WAS magic, it just wasn't as wide-spread. The crown still existed. Marceline still had a demonic father. She just aged for whatever reason. Something supernatural about her kept her alive over those 1000 years, but it didn't keep her looking young like in the real timeline.
Hmm...
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Well, her dad still has access to the magical item that transforms him into the ...oddly shaped incarnation of chaotic evil, so it's possible that he was a demonic creature before he put it on. Or, if one goes by his statment that ruling the Nightosphere is a "family business", he's looked the same since he put on the darned thing and Marceline never reconciled with him, hence her not currantly mutating poor demons in the Nightosphere in the no-war timeline.
Good glob, this is getting complicated.
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As I understand it, the True History of Ooo (Season 5 spoilers ep 1)
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The one major assumption here is that Finn's wish is granted straightforwardly, and the timeline was not changed randomly in ways other.
At some point in the future-past, Simon discovered the crown and the Enchiridion and began falling under the crown's influence. But then WW III happened and he met Marceline in the ensuing chaos. Some time after that the war escalated to the point where not only nuclear weapons where used, but some kind of necromantic doomsday weapon that gave birth to the Lich and caused rapid mutation in the survivors. Billy defeats and seals the Lich before all life on the planet is extinguished. Humanity is then hunted to near extinction.
Meanwhile the Mars colony continues on, having lost contact with Earth. And Abraham Lincoln is involved somehow, I don't know.
This was a great start to the season!
Enjoyed the craziness of Finn saving the world with a wish, then being the one to cause the end by once again putting on a magic item. Shame the Sword Arm didn't get much use.
Jake ending up as both the savior and the Lich was a twist I did not see coming.
... And oh god Ice King and Marceline. I just can't begin to even get into that.
Anyway: WOW the power of the crown. It could destroy the world in such a snap if it wanted.
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Well, we always knew the Ice Crown is crazy-powerful. I mean, one could reasonably say that it created the ice-kingdom over the course of the end of the world, and Ooo's entire coast past said kingdom is dotted with iceburgs. Heck, the Ice King's only limit on magical power is his cookoolanderhood.
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Oh Pokonic, never change. And never become my D.M.
There WAS magic, it just wasn't as wide-spread. The crown still existed. Marceline still had a demonic father. She just aged for whatever reason. Something supernatural about her kept her alive over those 1000 years, but it didn't keep her looking young like in the real timeline.
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Actually there is one little tid bit of info we learned about marceline... she's only HALF demon (little hint there about her mother). This might explain her aging, being only half demon she doesn't have all of her father's natural longevity, but enough of it to keep her around for 1000 years. As for why she's young in the normal timeline, that's because she's a vampire. Because of the change in the timeline, Marceline may have never become a vampire, and thus we have old-half demon non-vampire Marceline.
Jake's stupidity seemed rather exaggerated. Sure, he has never been the sharpest brick in the tree, but he has always cared very, very deeply about Finn. His initial casualness of Finn being i great danger seemed Out of Character for him.
Also, aside from the Lich being back and Billy being dead, things basically snapped back to normal at the end through a practically literal Deus ex machina.
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Jake's stupidity seemed rather exaggerated. Sure, he has never been the sharpest brick in the tree, but he has always cared very, very deeply about Finn. His initial casualness of Finn being i great danger seemed Out of Character for him.
Also, aside from the Lich being back and Billy being dead, things basically snapped back to normal at the end through a practically literal Deus ex machina.
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If you ignore the Sandwich thing, it's not that stupid. Jake literally has a "reset reality" button he can use. By the time he starts watching Finn, he already knows it can reset time.
Before he starts watching Nosefin, he, like Fin, probably assumes that the wish just erased the Lich. He didn't know about the Monkey's Paw rule. With the world saved, he defaults to a sandwich. AFTER he starts watching Nosefin, he knows that, no matter how bad things get, he can always just erase it.
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Jake's stupidity seemed rather exaggerated. Sure, he has never been the sharpest brick in the tree, but he has always cared very, very deeply about Finn. His initial casualness of Finn being i great danger seemed Out of Character for him.
Also, aside from the Lich being back and Billy being dead, things basically snapped back to normal at the end through a practically literal Deus ex machina.
Did you forget the episode where Finn gets kidnapped by gnomes and Jake is too busy teaching bugs how to dance and telling bad jokes to strangers to find him? Or the one where Finn literally jumps headfirst into a pit that he had just spent the last half hour putting signs in front of warning people never to enter, and Jake is too engrossed in his sandwich to follow him and make sure he's alright? It's not that he doesn't care about Finn, it's that he thinks everything is going to work out anyway without him intervening, and he's really lazy.
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Did you forget the episode where Finn gets kidnapped by gnomes and Jake is too busy teaching bugs how to dance and telling bad jokes to strangers to find him? Or the one where Finn literally jumps headfirst into a pit that he had just spent the last half hour putting signs in front of warning people never to enter, and Jake is too engrossed in his sandwich to follow him and make sure he's alright? It's not that he doesn't care about Finn, it's that he thinks everything is going to work out anyway without him intervening, and he's really lazy.
With the gnomes, if I remember correctly, it was more he was distracted. Once he realized what was going on, he strived his best, even using a wish from the Wolf Head Party God, to get back on track.
I could be wrong, but I still feel it was more exaggerated this time.
Either way, his stupidity seems to flip flop. Sometimes he is the wiser, more mature of the two, and sometimes not.
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With the gnomes, if I remember correctly, it was more he was distracted. Once he realized what was going on, he strived his best, even using a wish from the Wolf Head Party God, to get back on track.
I could be wrong, but I still feel it was more exaggerated this time.
Either way, his stupidity seems to flip flop. Sometimes he is the wiser, more mature of the two, and sometimes not.
I blame it on account of him being a dog. No, realy. He is mature enough to presumably claim a litter of corn-dogs as his own, serve as the default cook in the household, is the general "homemaker", and generaly be the "older" brother, but he can still be distracted by a peice of ham in the snow, be distrustful of outsiders, and have long lapses in judgement. Just like how even the most well-trained of dogs can still do increadably stupid things.
In essance, he is the more world-wise of the two, but has a attention span shorter than his tail.
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In magical dog years xD
If they're anything like real dog years, he is only four human years old. Which would make no sense as Jake and Finn at some points were both kids together and Finn was found when he was still an infant.