Revealing GOLB's Secret True Purpose in Adventure Time

Dive into the world of Adventure Time and discover the enigma that is GOLB! Explore this mysterious character's powers, origins, and influence on the Land of Ooo. Get ready for an epic journey through dimensions, battles, and a wild theory that might change how you see GOLB forever!
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[@Neotenico]

I think you're onto it when you say he "restores order." My perspective was always that Golb is the embodiment of entropy. It isn't really good or evil, it simply consumes and eventually will bring everything in the cosmos back to nothing. It's not a desire to maintain order in the sense that Golb sees people breaking the cosmic rules. It's more that Golb is simply a manifestation of the end of everything.

[@paxw37]

Yeah I can see where you're going here. I think that makes a lot more sense. I agree with you

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

Oblivion from Marvel has entered the chat.

[@spaz9000]

you worded this so well

[@blaberstab.]

You see golb is the embodiment of chaos and when we first saw him was when finn died and when you die golb takes your soul for him and consumes it sending it to the after life how finn jumbed off his tongue and didnt die cus that was not a real reality so golb did not deserve his soul so he got to live

[@aaronphelps9591]

Yeah he's similar to galactus in a way. The personification of a force of nature.

[@calamityatom9070]

I think Golb isn't.. exactly an all powerful being. But he also does not stand within time or reality. What if.. he represents the end. Not of life, but of existence. He cleans up dead universes, corrects cataclysmic Universal events. The Lich mentioned he is a Scholar of Golb, and is the embodiment of an inevitable death. What if he only follows one aspect of Golb, where the thing itself represents Chaos and an End of Chaos.

[@paxw37]

This is pretty good. This could very well be true.

[@johnlucas2838]

What comes after the end is the beginning. What's no better to begin something than a baby, a beginning.

[@alysmally7998]

honestly i always thought this was the true meaning of Golb. it backs up that one idea where fin made up the pillow world. As fin dies/ wakes up, Golb signifies the end of the pillows. He wasn’t necessarily trying to take fin away, he was more of a sign that that world was ending and that fin was joining the real world.

[@hunter5822]

You gotta remember that the lich is also a cosmic being alongside fin and jake. Not as powerful as golb, but still strong in their own right. Golb probably doesn’t have much agency in his own direction what so ever, and simply goes where there’s an end to be found…. Hence the final episode of adventure time he just SHOWS UP at the end. But of course, the message of the show is the adventure will go on, so he’s fought off. I like to think that his in ability to make his own decisions, operating off of pure instinct, more like a machine than even an animal, is why ice kings wife was able to take over… because he had no intentions of his own.

[@ominimonzwartalterb5526]

​@@hunter5822 so you theorize that Golb is, for a example, like mecha without a pilot that is constantly in a rampage state since there is a no mind behind the power to guide it?

[@partyman8848]

I don't think GOLB is evil I think his purpose is to end realities that should no longer exist so when Betty summoned him he was only doing what he exists for. Picture it like telling a fish not to swim or a wolf not to howl. It lives beyond space and time to stop different realities from clashing and colliding with each other. It creates chaos to stop multi-dimensional chaos. But that's just my theory.

[@paxw37]

I think you used a perfect analogy, I agree

[@piegumplays9059]

​@@paxw37I think that would work because when fin got out the pillow world maybe glob was in fact coming to end it

[@imperialofficerremusblackw8452]

Golb retcons plot points.

[@dote3222]

You should have said "that's just a theory A GAME THEORY"

[@cormacsmall9442]

I think you said in another video that the reason finn bumped into Golb as he left the pillow world may have been because he was on his way to consume that universe. I like this theory because it makes sense as Finn and Jake would have dismantled the pillow fort, which would destroy the universe. After your theory of Golb not being "bad", I like to think that rather than destroying universes, he is there to "clean up" what's left of a universe when it gets destroyed by other means.

[@KellsKats]

Maybe Golb showed up in the finale of the show because once the show ends… then that universe ends.

[@Salvador-312]

Damn that’s a cool theory

[@Salvador-312]

@@KellsKatswell they also summoned him there intentionally. But yeah maybe.

[@liamjones8532]

It also makes sense because finn doesnt remember the pillow fort seconds after leaving it, as if it never happened. Usually when he has adventures like that he remembers it for the rest of the series, so it stands out as being wierd.

[@lemagicbaguette1917]

Cosmic janitor

[@natratcritter]

I think it’s not a coincidence that Golb is so similar to Glob, Grod, Gob, Grob. They both red, pyramid head and powerful with little lore behind the characters.

[@paxw37]

Agreed.

[@N0noy1989]

4G's head isn't pyramid. It's just a head gear he uses to hide his baldness that Magic Man caused. He used to have hair when Magic Man was still sane.

[@GeneralTaco155555a]

@@N0noy1989 it's still presented as a powerful artifact though, and as so many have pointed out; the fact that the shape, the color, and the names are all the same/similar can't be a coincidence. Also, iirc, they never said GGGG _only_ wore it after going bald, they just say that that's why they wear it all the time now. Before going bald it was probably just worn on occasion, after balding it became a permanent part of their outfit.

[@microjohnson3432]

also 4 heads 4 eyes swaggy?

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

General taco threw in conjecture at the end... js.

[@JujuToobootie]

That monster not attacking BMO once he began singing was no coincidence. The universe and everything in it vibrates at a varying frequencies. And BMO singing was creating some sort of cosmic resonance and vibrating with the very nature of existence.

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

You’re close. BMOs vibrations weren’t resonating with the creatures and Golb. He created a counter frequency/vibration to “destroy” parts of Golb. I think it only works because Golb is made of one type “material”? since you’d need a counter frequency for skin, bones, flesh and what not. It didn’t kill Golb since he can regenerate fast enough. Counter vibration is like a universal duraneg thought fiction

[@JujuToobootie]

@@marvynjeanbaptiste3206 true. I forget which comic volume and issue it was, but Superman was talking to Orion on New Genesis and they were talking about vibrations & frequencies. Superman told Orion that in order to create counter frequencies, you must first understand the frequency you're trying to counteract. It's how Flash is able to run thru walls or use the speed force to traverse the timestream or go to different universes.

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

@@JujuToobootie Happened in a superman comic and in One piece from I know

[@JujuToobootie]

@@marvynjeanbaptiste3206 you're a One Piece fan too? I'm literally watching a OP theory right now!! I think we just became Nakama!! 😁 #WeAreOnePiece #TheOnePieceIsReal

[@JujuToobootie]

@@marvynjeanbaptiste3206 I'm already subbed to Steinxos. He's rapidly becoming one of my favorites. 👏🏼 And I do like powerscales & theories.

[@CitanulsPumpkin]

I like the theory that Golb is cosmic/multiversal entropy. Think back to his first appearance in puhoy. In the depths of his relationship melodrama, Finn essentially creates a tiny world populated by pillow people. Golb shows up at the end when Finn "dies" and can no longer sustain that universe. Golb is the being that is there every time a universe dies. His priest, The Lich, worships him and seeks to destroy universes. All of them. But Golb itself probably doesn't actually care about the universes it ends, or consumes, or just watches as they die. But once merged with Betty all bets are off as to how Golb views the inevitable end all universes are heading towards.

[@nameynamd9212]

Defintely not a one to one comparison, but the description makes him assume the role of destroyer like Shiva

[@acidaspida8885]

Yeah but the pillow world exists in Fionna and Cake? Or is that a different world?

[@shn--zj9dl]

huh, that theory might explain why Finn couldn't remember his "dream". Golb wiped this universe out of existance, so he either deleted it and everything that was somehow connected to it (like Finn's memory), or it was inside of Finn's head and just got deleted

[@Rainbow_dash67.]

⁠@@shn--zj9dlis golb mindless?

[@playitcool1963]

I love the resurgence of the A.Tuber community that's been going on

[@jakckiluejdbx4520]

What are A.Tubers?

[@Advanced_Barnacle]

@@jakckiluejdbx4520Adventure Time youtubers, I presume

[@mertensiam3384]

Same, it's really cool

[@fullmetaltheorist]

They might make the show return too.😂

[@mertensiam3384]

@@fullmetaltheorist i mean *looks at Fionna and cake* we were already supposed to have it return

[@iTrapa]

Maybe Golb is a natural force that gets drawn to chaotic worlds/individuals, gobbling them up before these potential threats to multiverse could spread and cause havoc?

[@paxw37]

Yeah, this could very well be.

[@2kgod219]

But the lich

[@tsuhgiaiko4294]

⁠@@2kgod219Golbetty does finally “cube” the Lich once he gets mad that fulfilling his “purpose” of destroying life in that universe made him feel purposeless. Perhaps he WAS going to attempt to move on to another universe and that’s why he was cubed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@yoshifly2337]

One interesting hypothesis is that betty doesn't belong in this world, hence why golb had to step in and erase her. Perhaps because she had too much influence on this world?

[@paxw37]

You bring up a good point. Or maybe she doesn't belong in this world because she jumped through the time portal that brought her 1000 years in the future.

[@B_4035mn]

I would say that this theory and the concept of Golb being some form of keeper of balance is a bit bad, Don't all the primordials have the ability to bend reality and time? So if Golb is so powerful and is meant to keep balance in reality, why are so many of the primordials still alive, (Even though there used to be millions of them and now there is only like, idk 3-5?) also, why would Golb be making MORE primordials then? (The Lich is evidence. ) In my personal opinion, Golb is a nihilistic god, possibly an all-consuming devourer of sorts, as he doesn't really seem to be keeping any actual balance in reality, also I believe he might be a normal primordial, as primordials have been shown (I believe.) to be able to relatively do the same things he can do, and can only be killed though other primordials. (I think.)

[@prabs1047]

​@@B_4035mn probably almost all the primordials are still alive. Because they existed before the multiverse was created when it was created they got duplicated in each universe.

[@tanandalynch9441]

This brings up another interesting point. Betty was literally trying to stop Simon from becoming the ice king once she got the gems in Elementals. She also said "maybe I can stop the mushroom wars!" Perhaps the reason Golb didn't step in then is because the Ice King beat him to it? Or perhaps he was on his way to eliminate Betty. Golb does seem to move pretty slow.

[@tanandalynch9441]

​@@B_4035mnGolb is much higher than a primordial. So he himself isn't one. Note that we don't see Golb in the sea of monsters, implying he didn't exist until time did

[@knuckle12356]

Elsewhere in the show, one of the characters talks about how he will live his life the best way he knew, and when he passes on from this world to the land of the dead, his life's actions will be weighed by Golb. I got the impression that Golb functioned as the representation of entropy. "He" is the embodiment of chaos, and as the universe expands and cools, the life in the universe going from ordered to disordered, alive to dead, they fall into the realm of Golb. And with the cosmic imagination, the destruction of life has implications in the destruction of the multiverse I dunno about any cosmic judgements, that sounds like the kind of thing some religion or cult of Golb would include as their dogma; that Golb would judge you... but it seems in actuality it is just a consumer of order. Betty Simon and Finn didn't seem to get any sort of audience or trial; though they are still alive when he swallows them. Maybe it's different for ghosts/souls. There is one thing i could think of for cosmic judgements; perhaps when Golb consumes you, and you are stripped down as you are digested, perhaps your essence is excreted through some psychic mechanism and is placed inyour afterlife in the appropriate dead world... the various dead worlds are the only judgement/dividing metrics I could think of involving the afterlife. What gets REALLY weird is what happens to the form of the universe, and to Golb Itself, when everything loses the last erg of energy, do the monsters return? Orgalorg has his kitten child, so it stands to reason that more primordials could be created... ...showers thoughts... [shrug]

[@paxw37]

I don't think there is an episode where some character says that his life's actions will be weighed by GOLB. Maybe he said Glob, as in Grob Gob Glob Grod. I mean you could think of the Lich saying that he is the last scholar of GOLB as, maybe there was some sort of religion or cult surrounding GOLB. It would be far out there and reaching if the Lich didn't say this, but to this day no one really knows what the Lich means by that. I don't even think they get to go the dead worlds after being consumed by GOLB. I think whoever gets fully digest by GOLB literally ceases to exist all together. That's why Prismo couldn't wish back Margles. Yeah the whole primordials stuff is really confusing. That would be really interesting though if they could make more primordials.

[@kadijah_kargbo]

@@paxw37it was glob i think, and i remember somewhere else someone mentioned that those consumed by golb never appear in the dead world. totally wiped

[@paxw37]

@@kadijah_kargbo Yup, I found the episode. It's season 3, episode 18, "The New Frontier". It's when Jake has a croak dream and Finn is trying to save him. Then Jake says, "Finn, when I die my individual earth conscious is gonna go all everywhere while glob tallies my deeds!"

[@zachb8012]

You've got that a little backwards and it makes more sense if you flip around the fact life is disorder and entropy is balance. The literal scientific definition of life is a self-contained chemical system that seeks to keep itself at imbalance with its environment. When molecules and atoms are in a state of order the universe is cold and quiet, unchanging and eternal, when things are in a state of imbalance you find heat and the fleeting nature of life. I don't know what Golb is, I think he's just supposed to be an allegory for death, but death is definitely still, quiet, and orderly.

[@amphibicsociopath2713]

glob isnt the holder of life or is not basically the judger of someones soul in there universe because as we can see in the distant lands series there were afterlife and there were 2 roles one was the afterlife or where the souls chill and one was the reincarnation system (i call it that way because idk) where deaths mom would form souls to reincarnate as new living thing.

[@cencent2189]

This is a pretty good theory. It's an interesting way of seeing Golb, just because he's evil and mysterious for us it doesn't mean that it's actually evil. The only thing is that the Lich is a scholar of Golb which could mean he is against life aswell

[@materwelone6026]

I think the Lich just misunderstands Golb's motives. Golb is just the incarnation of entropy, and entropy leads to disorder and disorder tends to cause chaos and kill people

[@lost_flower4412]

Golb is the embodiment of the end, his scholars represents a part of that end, an end to life

[@Isuream6331]

It’s entirely possibly that the scholars of Golb, ironically, don’t understand what Golb is, and simply believe it to exist for the sake of destroying all life.

[@erubianwarlord8208]

funny how nobody considers that Golb could be the embodiment of the multiversal cycle beginning and end I.E. he devours everything 'digests' it down to its basial form and once he is full births a new reality

[@572089]

this is a good hot take. plausible.

[@TheJoey22334]

I always thought of Golb as a Living Tribunal type character. One that’s there to preserve some sort of balance and is indifferent towards any one “side”.

[@benjamonoakes173]

What a grand and intoxicating innocence

[@Fenriskoll]

I always thought of GOLB as a blind idiot god, an entity sort of like Yog Sothoth or other Lovecraftian "gods" that are fathomlessly powerful but not wholley aware of their influence or power, or at the very least live on a scale that they don't care about the small creatures around. Kind of like how we as humans cant relate or fully understand the perspective of an ant or microbe; even if we wanted too. And thats if we even notice them. In GOLBS case, he seems like an entity of chaos and entropy that simply is, like the other ancient beings with unknowable names and shapes. But it's the people who muck stuff up, with cults (like the Lich) and people willing to sacrifice anything to achieve what they desire (in Betty and Magic Man's case). Either way, I love how much cosmic horror influence AT has utilized over the years. As a genre, it really allows for the mind to run wild.

[@paxw37]

Exactly. The Adventure Time writers have provided just enough content for the fans to let their imagination take over. And I do agree with you, that he's a blind idiot god. Because he does seem like he isn't aware of anyone around them, just there to take care of business, which could also explain his baby like appearance.

[@dmin5782]

Only Azathoth is a blind idiot. On the other hand, Yog Sothoth is THE source of intelligence and sentience in the Lovecraft mythos and closest thing to the Christian God.

[@lambda1863]

My golb theory is hes not prismos boss but hes just like so powerful he has no boss and hes not associated with prismo, a thoery i do have is that maybe golb created all the priomordials because they all look like his chaos monsters. Also i believe golb is kind of just doing his job like you say

[@paxw37]

Yeah that would make sense. He was probably there before the monsters and maybe even made them like you said.

[@lambda1863]

@@paxw37 I think a part of the reason he's so feared is due to him not being associated with anyone else like no one can really contact him or control him or tell him what to do golb plays by his rules

[@paxw37]

@@lambda1863 Yeah I think you're spot on. That's why I don't think Betty "summoned" GOLB. I think he only shows up because Betty is doing some crazy cosmic crime that requires his attention. Even Prismo and The Cosmic Owl are in awe.

[@synerzu]

I fully support this theory. One more thing too is in the AT universe, characters express their surprise by saying "Oh my Glob!" which is the equivalent to "Oh my God!" which furthermore backs up what you said.

[@angerypotato7430]

@@synerzu Glob Grob Gob Grod is the god of mars and has no confirmed connection to Golb

[@theshipmasterbanished3902]

Nah, fionna and cake kinda blew that theory out the window.

[@mostafaasla3530]

golb is a child with his chaotic nature who wants to play with everything and put anything in his mouth, he opened his heart to music calming him down and destroying chaos monsters. he evolved into his mature form after devoring betty.

[@OneReallyGrumpyJill]

I think the fact that Betty tries several wishes with the crown before settling on the one that works suggests that Golb indeed seeks some sort of cosmic balance - following that logic, we might even theorize that Golb might've been one of the initial monsters who actually came up with what we refer to "laws of physics".

[@kenzieafent6291]

What's the point of a fantasy world if you dont have eldritch horrors thay reflects on to the unstoppable wave of destruction with the only way of "stopping" it is delaying it?

[@wolfo5317]

Now with Fionna and Cake airing and seeing how the Scarab (full of Golb's motives) entire thing is to mantain order this video starts to make a lot of sense

[@holaamigos8698]

He didn't have Golb's motives at all. He literally told Golb to no interfere. Golb even attacked him.

[@darthmarr4155]

I think Golb might've played a big part in the creation of the universe.(if the monsters created the universe) I think he was the one managed to unite or overpower the monsters to creat a chaotic universe of love and hate. I mean what's more chaotic than a universe full of people with different views, emotion and abilities.

[@KelpoTheCereal]

Something I see no one bring up is the way too coincidental parellels to Golb and Glob. Four eyes, four heads, red, Glob's helmet, their names literally being one letter switched around.

[@moraymarodriguez5126]

In other words... He is a force of nature. Neither malicious nor benevolent, just fulfilling his purpose indiscriminately even though it may seem cruel.

[@EsauEntertainment]

I don't think golb is a hero or villain he is simply the embodiment of nothing and chaos. the reason Finn seed him when he dies in pillow world is because he was nothing for a second until returning to ooo

[@monsterfanatic5344]

I wonder if Golb recognized Finn after their super brief meetup when Finn was coming back from the Pillow dimension. "Oh hey, it's that dude that parkoured off my tongue. Weird."

[@paxw37]

😂 yeah it makes you wonder...

[@Nyghtking]

I think what GOLB actually is is just a representation of entropy. Like during that final battle he doesn't actually do anything really, he doesn't even move, he just breaths out and creates monsters. He doesn't react when anyone tries to attack, and he seems to appear only when a dimension is ending unless summoned, then he consumes that universe. Like from what i've seen of him during the final battle he is unmoving and just stares off into space the whole time, and even when they deal damage to him he doesn't react, the only time he does is when the fusion occurs.

[@paxw37]

Yeah you bring up a good point, and you're right. Maybe he's not suppose to have this deep meaning, but it's something to think about and could explain what GOLB is. Although maybe he doesn't need to be explained, he just is. It's confusing.

[@michaeltenn983]

I wonder if Golb has like, consciousness, it almost seems like he's just a force without a mind, almost like an ant or something, like an animal, he just does, he doesn't think, he IS chaos, but like, chaos personified instead of a person that causes chaos, kinda like Godzilla but with less brain power

[@paxw37]

Yeah I agree. I wish we got more episodes about Golb or just anymore info on him

[@gamer1X12]

Everyone's talking about how Golb is the embodiment of entropy and chaos but... in a way doesn't he also keep order? Like he steps in and munches on interdimensional trouble causers or when one being seems to amass too much power or control. He is a law-keeper just as much as a world-eater if you think about. Making sure things meet their proper end is just as much a means of order as it is chaos. "Cosmic cop" is a great descriptor lol!

[@hissextoy]

he is not order pls dont be slow

[@75PercentJuice]

This theory checks out when you notice that the solution to Golb's chaos was to bring Ooo together in harmony

[@Memnoch_the_Devil]

I love this fresh perspective on Golb. When characters are this mysterious, you have to keep an open mind. My daughter who got me watching the show in the first place is gonna like hearing this too, so thx again for posting!

[@aqua0452]

Maybe Golb is a personification of entropy, hence why harmonious singing is able to mess with him, since it represents order.

[@Scorpintiime]

for some reason I feel like Golb and Glob are like brothers of some sort

[@Parrotlad]

Like your idea, but im pretty sure in the episode they say that Betty is "doing a ritual to summon Golb." which is like, the reason why he shows up. And Golb is looks like a baby and is probably just existing and just has all these powers that just happens because its a baby. And then when Betty fuses with Golb they become adult Golb.

[@idlehour]

I never noticed Golb was trying to eat Finn after he dies in pillow place I always thought when Finn was in pillow land he lived out a lifetime in another dimension cause Golb passes the ones gravitating around him & returns without kuch memory of it. I haven't watched the show since it came out when i was in college but i remember watching it a ton there was like a dedicated TV in the place i stayed that always had this on n it grew on me as a great show that would do semi vague things for the viewer to discover instead of being spoon fed it. Thats why i loved the show. It was smart and this theory makes sense. I wish they made more but they ended it so well.

[@voicedbygarry4140]

This is probably the most interesting take i've seen about GOLB, Good work.

[@paxw37]

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

[@6YXNGLEXN9]

"There is no order without chaos" is a perfect yet simple quote to explain Golb's role in AT universe. Fantastic video!

[@PaletteBegonia]

It's not solely the music that disrupts Golb , it's actually Order. Music was just a source that has absolute order.

[@darkphoenix4620]

Wasn't Benny was taken from the past to the future thus causing a time paradox like the Terminator. And Benny shouldn't exist in Finn time line

[@BloodDripss]

i dont understand why this video has such a large number of dislikes? i can only assume most of them are people that just assume golb being chaos means there is no purpose, but just his existence alone should be more than enough to justify that he has purpose. he goes places, and sometimes does things. i think it makes far more sense for an uncaring entity of chaos to at least have some specific job to play rather than just "i am chaos rawr"

[@BloodDripss]

also i forgot to mention that typically in shows, the embodiment of chaos is almost always created for the purpose of keeping a universe, well, chaotic. if there is too much organization, then chaos shall ensue to correct that. if there is too much randomness and no order, well perhaps his job then is to create beings that eventually lead to a more balanced and organized world. golb is the personification of ying and yang.

[@paxw37]

This is actually very well said. I think if anything, what's what GOLB stands for. Providing balance to the universe in his own way by providing chaos.

[@memenazi7078]

You mean giratina?

[@cake2806]

Hes like the janitor at your school. He keeps everything clean and he's relatively chill. But if he catches you doing somthing you shouldnt be doing then he'll made you stop, in a not very safe way. This analogy also goes with the theory that Glob was there to clean up the pillow world since Jake and BMO were taking it down

[@PuReWiReZ]

The shape of Golb's head is a pentagonal prism. similar shape and same color of the demon blood sword.

[@paxw37]

Hmmm... interesting...

[@IzzyToTheStars]

Golb represents the viewer watching the show. That's why his form is like a child sitting expectantly in front of the t.v. and his extra eyes drive the point home that he's watching. Even his hanging tounge and transe-like expression convey the personified face of pure entertainment consumption, ready to lap up every second of anything attention worthy poured into it from the "boob-tube". When finn died in pillow world he just bounced him back because we still want to see where his story leads. When he turns the lich into a tetris block it's because we're done with his b.s. already. He was ready to digest Simon and betty the same way the audience was ready to finally find satisfaction in witnessing the culmination of their shared storyline at long last. ..And his love of chaos is the epidemy of what truly exists in the core of the heart of the viewer of any spectacle.. when he created havoc at the end of the gum war,, he could have just destroyed anything or everything easily and simply but the choice to create interesting and exciting monsters to do epic battle with the forces of good that would have otherwise stood no chance at all against golb directly was a choice directly in line with what the audience wants to see in the series finale of a show like adventure time. Although he only reps the viewer (or audience) he does also have power to influence the AT-universe., much in the same way real viewers' of a show in the real world 's feelings and wants and opinions can and do influence it over time and even during it's very conception through ways of feedback of all sorts that get to the makers and writers, whom wouldn't get to make a show at all if they don't give the viewers what they want. BUT now that he's merged with betty it's not that cut and dry anymore because of that character's will and personality's influence and, I suspect more importantly, the overwhelming influence of Betty's crown wish. I theorize that Betty's wish to save Simon (or perhaps that's not exactly the right way to state what her wish was..?) is still in the process of being fulfilled during the first batch of episodes of fiona n cake. That's why, even after cake had already traveled through the portal of blue sparkles connecting ice/cold in the magicless gender swapped f&c world to the back of Simon's head in "our" f&j's land of oooo,, cake could still hear the song that should only be known to Simon and Betty and why she saw more blue sparkles at the ice kingdom even from far away and so felt compelled to travel there! Why would she be seeing blue sparkles if she's already escaped Simon's head and in the same world he's existing in too? Because they're not just a detail of the portal but are in fact guiding cake to the ice kingdom for some reason that ultimately has to do with Simon finding happiness or fulfillment or etc.. She prevented Simon from putting the crown back on because she knows that's sure to make him never happy again if he does and it's also why she interferes with scarab. I have a theory of why her picture, not gender swapped either, was in the newspaper the squirl was reading/eating back in f&c's magicless world that fits with this and why the clouds are turning into golb tetris blocks too but I still haven't watched the next episode after that one (the second of the 2 for this week) so it might sound stupid to say now if that becomes clear after watching it. Maybe I shouldn't have written any of this until then but I know I wouldn't have come back here later so I just lived in the moment. Shmowzow

[@captaincmoore]

I never thought of golb as the viewer!! That's really interesting and I like that take!!

[@emris2697]

Golb gives off lawful neutral vibes

[@paxw37]

Agreed.

[@thetruetwili]

As I take it, Golb is a physical representation of a law, which is chaos. Music effects Golb, since it's a close thing to the polar opposite, which is harmony/order. I think Golb makes things vanish, that try to put it under the laws of order/harmony. So it selfcorrects whatever tries to rewrite the law, selfcorrect whatever tries to put chaos into order.

[@paxw37]

Agreed

[@mikudayo9727]

I’m now naming the combination of Golb and Betty Bolby. I love Bolby’s look with the ribbons and EVERYTHING

[@paxw37]

Amazing name. I know, the new look, looks so good. I hope we get to see more of Bolby in the future!

[@AGO339]

its interesting how somewhat backwards his physical existence is. he's an embodiment of chaos. so something harmonic rather then stabilizing, destablizes his form. a being who's form is about destabilize reality, spawning chaos in his presence, is itself torn apart by stability, like a harmony

[@emmanuelweinman9673]

Whether or not we call Golb good or bad doesn’t really matter. Golb is way beyond our rationalizing of what is good or bad. He was there before the universe even existed when we can say something is good or bad. He is just a force of nature.

[@Tetra392]

Golb backwards is blog. Dudes just a multiverse blogger and when people summon him he gets shy and starts messing things up.

[@paxw37]

Could be 😂

[@justjoshing7646]

Ok so Fiona and Cake came out, and Prismo said something about his boss, but also we can finally understand what Magic Man was doing! Spoilers: In one of the episodes, (I think the first) we can see Simon doing the exact same dance, but we can finally hear him saying “REVEAL THE PATH AND GRANT ME PASSAGE. REVEAL THE PATH AND GRANT ME PASSAGE.” Which we later get to figure out you have to think about someone to summon them. He was trying to summon Betty! AKA Golb, so maybe Magic Man was thinking about Golb while doing the dance! Also when Prismo hears Simon summoned Fiona and Cake rather then Betty, he gets mad and says “Come on dude! You can’t just mess with my stuff like that even if it’s in your head!” Which wow- anyway it would probably be worse if he summoned Betty, imaging future Ooo seeing that colossal monster just descend on them

[@Jormungandr633]

Ya know what there’s also some color consistency too. The random chaos before time is yellow, just like magic man’s hat. So maybe the same can be said about golb and the universe map

[@paxw37]

That's true

[@DailyBasicG]

GOLB is a child. Kid just chillin, and breathing. Was?

[@austinwest1734]

Golb isn’t evil, he’s just a being of chaos, that’s why he keeps punishing different Lichs by turning them into those shapes, because the lich keeps killing everyone which was never golb’s intent. There can’t be chaos where there’s no life. Death is order and life is chaos.

[@mattoon1674]

This guy’s an actual scholar of Golb

[@RileyMeta]

I feel like Golb is basically the Alduin of the Adventure Time universe. He's there to keep the balance.

[@Ezzekiel73]

One theory I heard that makes perfect sense for Golb is he's an entity of a higher plane, and simply an eater of worlds/universes.

[@joshkitto3943]

Galactus level character who does Galactus level stuff, I understand.

[@RipVanWinkleJr]

I don't think Golb is Prismos' boss, but the other theories you said make a lot of sense. I kinda have another theory. When Golb is seen, he rarely moves. He just sits their waiting for food. What if Golb is just a baby. He just sits there and breathes, and it creates monsters. I don't think he's directly trying to make monsters. I think he's just a baby doing baby things, and when he fused with Betty, he became full-grown. This doesn't make sense with a few things like why Golb came to Ooo if he's just a dumb baby, but I think it's still a cool theory

[@paxw37]

That's actually a pretty cool theory. Definitely would explain his appearance and why he doesn't move much. You bring up a good point.

[@RipVanWinkleJr]

@@paxw37 Yours makes more sense.

[@paxw37]

@@RipVanWinkleJr Honestly, him being a baby makes a lot of sense though. His appearance, the way he acts, etc... But that also makes you wonder, does this guy have parents? I couldn't even imagine their strength.

[@RipVanWinkleJr]

@paxw37 If Golb as a baby is this powerful, then if he had parents, they would be unimaginably powerful.

[@digishade7583]

Actually Golb being a baby when he comes to Ooo makes a lot of sense he just followed Normal man and Simon’s girlfriend because if you remember Normal man does say “we done goofed” they were the reason Golb came to Ooo during that fight

[@cofeespear4992]

Isn't Golb said to represent chaos in a way? Chaos isn't right or wrong it just is. so saying he's restoring order isn't really chaotic? if anything I think he goes wherever order is the most weak (I mean the whole finale you can say was pretty chaotic especially with Betty doing whatever she did to summon him) but I'm just guessing

[@_eIIiot]

i thought golb was there when finn was leaving the pillow world because he just happened to be traveling there at the same time. which would imply golb went there to destroy pillow world and all of finns pillow family became dead or deformed

[@_eIIiot]

finn being a catalyst comet could explain why he was able to travel to that dimension in the first place. golb was probably confused cause there was a random old human guy hopping on his tongue in the pathways between universes

[@_eIIiot]

the primordial war theory that truelocalweirdo brings up in his videos would explain the lich being a scholar of golb. half of the primordials couldve created time and existence for whatever reason. golb hates order, so therefore was against that and started an uprising. his goal is to make things like they were before time (monster soup). which is why the lich wanted to destroy all natural life. except most of the primordials were wiped out in the war, so now golb has to do it mostly by himself; one universe at a time.

[@paxw37]

Yeah that could very well be true. Except for the fact that GOLB opens his mouth as Finn approaches, as if he is going to eat and digest Finn. Of course this could be just a coincidence, but. As for the primordial war, that very well could have taken place. I actually have my own theory about primordials that I'm excited to share in the future!

[@_eIIiot]

@@paxw37 yeah ur right, i guess i didnt rlly think about that part enough. im excited to hear about your theory!

[@Dersill6]

If you think about it this theory makes a little bit more sense about a 'Cosmic superhero' or something that keeps order with in the universe considering betty's wishes the first ones being to 'Banish golb' but it refused because it may do more bad than good but the second one is to 'Keep simon safe' which was taken as yes since golb just let betty fuse with him to keep simon safe and to keep simon alive while also making up for what ever crime she did by also banishing herself, And when i think of this i imagine betty fusing with golb is a sort of 'Community service' since she also has the power to keep simon safe

[@DarkestVoid]

This really isn’t a far fetched theory. Basically he’s the Galactus of the Adventure Time universe.

[@572089]

Golb doesnt "judge" people. He's the embodiment of entropy; the natural force of chaos in the universe. being that he is the embodiment of entropy, it makes sense that he's attracted to the largest concentrations of energy, and order. someone pulling some mega powerful magic and having lots of crazy destiny crap happen to them would certainly be both lots of energy and lots of order; both food for the chaos god. Breaking a super powerful or ordered being down to their components would lower the concentration of "order", that's my guess. like putting an entire pencil though a sharpener; now its just a chaotic mess of shavings.

[@nulls5408]

From what we see of the ending of the series, Golb is essentially the concept of chaos and can only be weakened by harmony or order. -Spoilers after this part- And we see in the new Simon show that prismo’s boss is scarab and his boss is essentially the concept of order. And it got me thinking what does chaos and order specifically mean in the structure of adventure time’s multiverse. With order you would think that it’ll just mean neat and orderly, but we see prismo create worlds like farm world, vampire world, jerry’s world that are a complete mess in comparison to the world we’re use to. Which made me theorize some groundwork principles of how these worlds could still be counted as order via status quo. 1. New worlds are created via a wish of the individual, and said world will follow the guidelines of said wish in the vaguest terms possible. With this potentially explaining how the multiverse was created from one prime universe (all-a dc multiverse style) with each new one being a long outlived wish. 2. Each wish universe still has to follow the rules of reality to some degree as a counterbalance. Turning any wish into a monkey’s paw scenario for the one who wished for it. 3. Each universe is a encolosed environment that’s entities cannot normally inflict properties exclusive to their world onto entities from others if they were to crossover. This explains why jerry’s world didn’t get golb’s attention since it still followed its own universes status quo despite being utterly chaotic (not to mention the lack of all organic life would make it inherently less chaotic in the natural terms of the word). But simon got Golb’s attention (if you don’t acknowledge betty’s involvement if she’s still in their) because once he got freed from the crown prismo fanfic world he hid in simon’s head was revealed due to the crown no longer being there to hide it and stabilize it. It’s characters could through contact of other characters like the hotdog people turn them into just normal hotdogs. And then simon jumped between multiple universes and completely destroyed the status quo of said worlds to a point that the concept of order deemed him to be too dangerous to be kept alive. Leaving Golb no choice but to intervene to save their pawn of chaos from undoing all they caused. In a sense chaos (in terms of AT’s multiverse) is the destruction of a specific universe’s tailored version of the status quo. Leading to its universes fate to go off the rails of its primordial wish and become unpredictable. And pretty much anyone who makes contact with golb in one way or another will be infected by their chaotic nature and inevitably doom their reality to entropy via steering off the status quo. (Prismo is infected by the lich and creates his fanfic, magic man inevitably helps betty that got her powers from him to summon golb, finn and jake destroy the afterlife’s realms, wake prismo and free the citadels prisoners, send the lich to every reality, and are the basis of prismo’s fanfic, and we see how Simon’s tale goes eventually…)

[@nulls5408]

Additionally, in case someone asks how prismo is infected to created his fanfic if it existed before the liches visit - prismo is not bound to follow time as we do. Being able to exist even when he’s technically dead from a different time period version of himself entering said time, as well as, make a process that should take thousands of years elapse to those watching from the outside as only a few seconds. He could have written the fanfic initially at a time before the crown was even made if he wanted to. Meaning that the infliction of Golb’s Chaos will corrupt your entire existence even before you technically meet them since they altered your fate to be such. Likewise meaning that no matter who you are, you will progress Golb’s goals whether you want to or not.

[@bongcloudopening5404]

Well there's probably a hierarchy of the cosmic beings, and even then Scarab was definitely afraid of Golb but still needed to kill Simon so he told Golb to mind his own business. Golb then attacked Scarab for attempting to attack simon, causing Scarab to sht his pants especially at the last split.

[@WastelanderSky]

"... keeping the multiverse all nice and balanced." (9:21) Oh my Glob... Golb is the Thanos of the multiverse...

[@NewDealChief]

This video aged well in terms with the new Fionna and Cake show.

[@pumpkinteen9192]

A cosmic cop sounds about right! Prismo and MAYBE cosmic owl work under golb to medicate lesser chaos, like the tax wolves overpopulating and being eaten by cosmic owl (and you know dream stuff) or the whole ice finn stuff with prismo, this might also explain why the 2 are so close, they’re not just friends, they’re business partners!

[@Tks_bunker32]

That’s probably why the lich lost all purpose. Cuz killing everything wasn’t Golbs intent and probably only realized it til he was done

[@nicul.t]

I can help you understand who Margles is. Margles asked for a divorce from magic man because he had mania and thought he could conquer the world. Margles was a therapist. Someone who was trying to help children with disorders. She became golb (baby golb) and her mother (Betty) tried to fix her parenting mistake with Margles.

[@blackbird6385]

impossible. Golb is rather ancient. He's the equivalent of the big bang, the beginning of anything and Margles, while the timeline of her origins are unknown, is not ever mentioned as a being who had been in existence since before Golb

[@WizardDudeman]

No one can convince me that the Adventure Time creators didnt do drugs.

[@Walta_Woit]

Golb be like: "hey don't bounce on my tongue :( "

[@IvaHaze]

Everybody wonders who is Glob, but i think we should all be thinking “How is Glob?”

[@carljensen333]

The farther back we go looking at levels of progenitors the further they become from our perception or understanding. Something always comes from something, but beyond Golb is nothing we’d be able to feasibly grasp.

[@Tosa_Capital]

Mate; you called it with this video, most of the theories if not all you suggested about Golb are literally proven in the Fiona and Cake series. A definite must watch, didn’t think I would enjoy it this much tbh

[@bloodblues85]

The way you talk and the words you choose sound so much like they're ripped straight from Adventure Time!! I love it! 💛 Good job!

[@Barbaraska]

I like it too but sometimes he doesn’t fully pronounce and I have to turn subtitles on 😂

[@luckycatdad8369]

I think I can explain Golb using Marvel comics. The Cosmos has several Abstract Entities on one side you have Eternity and Infinity, on the other you have Oblivion and Death, they're considered siblings and they oversee balance. I think Golb represents Entropy which is an aspect of Oblivion. A purely destructive force with the eventual goal of the destruction of everything. The Lich King is a scholar of Golb and his goal is to kill all living things since at his level of power that's all he can really hope to do, whereas Golb (Entropy) wants to destroy everything to appease his master, Oblivion. Prismo's boss is likely the equivalent of Eternity or Infinity, Prismo is the opposite of Golb, a balancing force.

[@figarofigarini]

I just think Golb have no moral basis of what he does like humans do since he's a cosmic being. So i think he's not really evil, just not good either

[@thehale_]

I’ve always sort of seen Golb as like a multiversal janitor, rather than a universal cop. Like Galactus from Marvel. When a universe meets its destined end or has existed for long enough, it’s Golb’s job to erase it from the multiverse. Hence why he appears in the pillow episode. The pillow universe was created because of Finn’s dream. Finn then wakes up, meaning that universe ends since it’s his dream. That’s why you can see Golb flying in the opposite direction as Finn is flying out of the pillow world. Golb is on his way to consume the pillow world, since it no longer has a purpose, since it only existed to be a dream for Finn. Edit: This is also why I think it makes sense for the Litch to worship Golb the way he does. The Litch might admire Golb for bringing about extinction, but doesn’t understand that Golb only does it out of universal balance. This causes the Litch to imitate Golb in an attempt to please it, by causing as much genocide as possible.

[@davidyoungsr1065]

Lemon grab said pb created him and she was his glob. I just thought that glob was the creator of the Adventure time universe.

[@paxw37]

Glob seems to be the God in the land of Ooo. But it's a little weird because we see who Glob is and he seems to just be the right hand man to Abraham Lincoln on Mars. Until you know...

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

I love the parallels between GOLB and Grob Gob Glob Grod. GOLB is an anagram of GLOB. GOLB is red, Glob is red. GOLB has four eyes, Glob has four heads. GOLB’s head is the same shape as Glob’s hat.

[@Aaaarchie]

My theory is Gulb is an ending, the "puhoy" episode ended so it was no longer important he just went to destroy the non important universe. the episode ended so gulb went to destroy it one the gum war ended Gulb came the show ended it was no longer important therefore it no longer needed to exist.

[@memenazi7078]

To think if finn spent a few more minutes in pillow world golb would eat him.

[@jiddah7478]

Adventure time: Fiona and Cake explains everything. It’s got all the answers to all these questions.

[@theplayermakes]

Post Fiona and Cake... uhm... pretty spot on, bro 10/10

[@beegman27]

im convinced that golb, embodying that which reduces things to nonexistence, was about to annihilate puhoy BECAUSE it was a dream and would recede into nonexistence upon Finn's awakening. perhaps this is related (as well as the astral projection episode) to Finn's innate comet essence. that is to say, this was a rare occurrence, abnormal to the way Finn (and all other beings) normally sleep.

[@noro329]

I doubt that Golb would be policing the universe but is just IS yknow what I mean I think Golb just doesn’t have a consciousness at all that’s why it was surprisingly easy for Betty to replace Golb as her consciousness can just fill in the gap

[@Kurumitron1000]

My opinion is that adventure time runs on quantum mechanics and string theory, in string theory there are some theories about quantum forces and we know only have a actual theory on one force and five sub forces with that one force, glob could be a unknown fundamental force in adventure time’s version of string theory.

[@Elec.T]

So in adventure time, not only universes exist because they were observed, but everything is made up by smaller everything

[@infinitestare]

well since the whole show is kind of magical, we could presume the creators are following the general guideliines of the Gnostic cosmogenic worldview which in itself is really complex, but if you follow that, Golb would be something like the Demiurge (God) of our physical reality who created it (us) through emanations (breathing), or he created the monsters first, and out of the monsters was later formed the more ordered physical reality. OR he's the Monad (original highest God), out of whom emanated the lower gods, one of whom (Sophia) in turn produced the Demiurge (the god creator of our physical universe, confused by the Judeo-Christians for the ultimate God creator of all) But there's definitely something happening around breathing, emanations, the breath of life creation etc. so he's a god of some sort. Also makes me remember Jake's mention of "we could end up fighting some soda monster computer god baby or whatever", so there's a theme of god-babies.

[@tannyart6408]

After watching Fionna and Cake I must say, well done - you were basically right about Golb being Prismo's boss 🤘

[@mintmittens]

I think its more like. Golb and Betty were meant to fuse. From the perspective of smaller beings, Golbs actions look chaotic, but from Golbs perspective, if meant to be an omnipotent creature, then Golb acting out was the catalyst for Betty to make the wish that ended up fusing her to Golb.

[@timesphere5199]

I like this theory but it doesn't line up with what he is, golb is the pure embodiment of chaos and chaos doesn't have a purpose, to imply that he has a job also means that he has some sort of rule set to follow which is the exact opposite of what chaos is. I think that golb goes where there is a huge event going on that will effect the life of thousands, think about it, the mushroom bomb is where is scholar the lich showed up, the gum war where he shows up for real, maybe something with the deal between death and King of Mars got golbs attention and all that chaos summoned him to check it out and what if margles was just an unnecessary casualty much like finn and simon would've been

[@paxw37]

Yeah you actually bring up a good point. Because that would also explain why he showed up in the pillow world. The pillow world's existence is solely created by Finn and his imagination. So when Finn dies from that world, so does all the pillow citizens, thus effecting the lives and thousands, and causing GOLB to show up. You might be on to something there.

[@timesphere5199]

@@paxw37 yeah, I mean I could be wrong since there are also a few example of this where golb doesn't seem to show like with the purple catalyst comet or when king of Mars dies, but I think that if golb has a job it is to exist because if golb doesn't exist neither does chaos and without chaos there wouldn't be the multiverse

[@tritebs1673]

Golb is like the Living Tribunal from Marvel Comics.

[@Yetta_]

6:38 JOJO REFERANCE!!! Bites the dust

[@HistoricalGeology56]

I kinda forget that there is technically a Glob as well, I wonder if that is the opposite of Golb, so instead of the God of Chaos, it’s the God of Harmony

[@aretoadish]

I think Golb's power is up there with The Maid, or Prismo's boss

[@ShadowReaper1227X]

I think the word you're looking for is Entropy. He exists at the very end of absurdity (chaos) in order to remain as the universal Omega. When something threatens to overtake his role, he steps in.

[@amandabushore7890]

I love your energy in this one

[@kingdm8315]

Like how adventure time lore analysis is coming back

[@the_only_carlos2776]

Hopefully it’s explained in Fiona and cake episode 9 is gonna be so good this Thursday

[@angerypotato7430]

Honestly I just think Golb is a big baby doing what Golb do, because honestly what does he really do beyond sit there and eat things? Like yeah, he turns people into monsters by breathing, but like... he's *breathing*, that's something every living thing does. He destroys universes but like, how do we know that the dying universe isn't just what Golb eats? He doesn't really chase Finn after leaving Pillow World, and just looks confused, he kinda just... watches some food run off, shrugs, and eats the rest of it. He brings Chaos and Entropy, but with people like the Lich who essentially acts as this crazy machine, how do we know that's not just Golb's nature? Can we really blame him for ripping apart universes to eat when the same thing to us would be killing a cow to eat a steak? Golb kinda just do what Golb do, and maybe when fusing with Betty, he gained some of her personality and intelligence while also getting aged up (Betty-Golb definitely looks far more mature than normal Golb who straight up looks like a baby), so who knows what Golb is like now? Golb just be Golb, and as for the "Scholars of Golb" thing, like, what if it's just a cult that worships Golb as some bringer of destruction, despite Golb just... being Golb? It's usually how cults work; a bunch of people trying to appease a god, despite said god not really being aligned with or caring about what they're doing. A good example might be Coconteppi, who really doesn't care about his cult beyond maybe a means to get his blood into people so he can resurrect. tl;dr Golb is a big cosmic baby and the Lich is crazy

[@paxw37]

Yeah, that could definitely be the case. We don't really get a lot to go with, but with the little we have, him being just a baby doing baby things, does make a lot of sense.

[@MikesFavoriteThings1996]

This sounds familiar