The DARKEST Adventure Time Moments

As an absolute game changer for Cartoon Network, Adventure Time houses some of the darkest, weirdest and creepiest moments found in an animated series! From the dark ramifications of the Lich to the intense, mind-scarring moments of Fern, here our are choices for the DARKEST Adventure Time moments!
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[@s8bee540]

Is anybody gonna talk about the episode where lemongrab turns into a fascist cannibalistic dictator after eating his twin alive and then gets exploded by a symbolic boy who plays the harp

[@Maya-sw3qz]

i think about that episode nearly everyday for no reason

[@tims.1615]

and he ate his brother because of a broken action figure.

[@mrpickles1245]

That episode is Funky AF

[@AslanJadeCallenreese15]

That was crazy

[@fghhfhhhf9323]

pls that episode was so horrifying to me as a kid

[@joaquinmartin2291]

You forgot the episode where Finn slipped into a pillow pile, got trapped in a pillow world with no way to escape, lived a hole life there, got married, had kids, died of old age and, when dead, got out of the pillow pile a couple minutes after falling into it and forgot that any of that happened as if it was all a dream

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That wasn't disturbing, that was somewhat of a good and relaxing alternate life. It was fun while it lasted. Don't you agree?

[@mtj8870]

@@michaelandreipalon359 finn has a memory of jake where altered memory jake says "You're getting all hung up on imaginary problems. Stay with your new wife. You've known her longer than any of us. You're not even sure if i really even existed! And i'm pretty sure i didn't look like this". The fact that finn doesn't even known if his original world/reality even existed or was just a dream is trippy af

[@Retro_Red]

It was just kinda messed up with Finn living an entire *life* and DIED.

[@angryartist3170]

I'd have to say that the pillow episode was a personal favorite. Always stuck in my mind no matter what. There's just something about it that just satisfies me in a psychological way. Almost calming, yet you can feel the hint of alarm through the entire episode

[@charlest.4723]

And also we got the first look at the overarching god of the Adventure Time Universe, Golb, when finn is dying in pillow world

[@stardust_n_gunk]

the darkest yet sweetest thing about simon is that the reason he was always after princesses was because he called betty his princess & desperately wanted her back, even though he didn't remember her

[@athenasblueprint]

🤯🤯🤯

[@cejuonline]

I saw this from another commenter. The reason he was so into PB was because she reminded him of Betty, being that she was a total nerd and independent

[@thedaystar1415]

Forget the deer's hands, what bothers me more are the eyes and the implications they hold. Those are forward facing eyes, in nature forward facing eyes are only found in predators. Also considering it had hands and very human eyes that thing is not, and probably never had been, a deer.

[@JWuKong95]

Sleeping tonight will be fun

[@x87Go]

sk*nwalker

[@MoskusMoskiferus1611]

There's a Deer in the Window

[@x87Go]

@@MoskusMoskiferus1611 stay silent

[@x87Go]

and domt move

[@tobihernandez1468]

I just realized that Fin losing his flower after only “kissing” lumpy space princess, is him being deflowered. He lost his flower like he had just lost his virginity

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Uh-huh.

[@eltonxavier5523]

Do you think his mom saw that when she was going through his memories

[@mohamedlamin2968]

@@eltonxavier5523 don't make this even worse....

[@datdatonabeat3252]

Uh I think he DID lose his virginity to lumpy space princess LOL why else would they black out the screen like something "other than kissing" isn't happening 🤔

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@eltonxavier5523 Go tell her then.

[@lazfratelli3740]

when Ice king dipped because PB turned 13 I immediately shouted "MY MAN!"

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

He's got _some_ of his priorities straight lol

[@Nightmarefoxy30000]

My lad still has some brain capacity

[@Cheezy_Bunz]

@@Nightmarefoxy30000 he may have been a kidnapper but hes not a pedo. Morals people, morals.

[@seanrafabagass]

Professional have standars

[@yukenduit1149]

Yass, LOUDER

[@alexconner3958]

8:00 Fern isn't a clone. Fern is Finn... the same Finn we know from all of the other episodes, just warped into an alternate state of being (the Finn sword) during the Prismo episode time paradox. This is Finn, killing himself. And not only that, it is Finn coming to terms with how despite being a hero, with enough of an unfortunate disposition (like the Grass Blade curse and being stuck in an alternate reality for ages) even he himself could become jaded, jealous, and turn on those around him. It is just absolutely tragic because we are watching our hero, defeated and corrupted in terrible circumstances.

[@silentxwxlf]

And like 10 year olds are watching this stuff

[@chunkymonkey7983]

Yup

[@QuokkaWaka]

Yeah that's easily the darkest part for me, seeing the most pure-hearted hero in Ooo broken like that, and what makes it even worse is that we're reminded of that every time Fern shows off his good side

[@commentbot9510]

@@silentxwxlf honestly I’m glad they were able to get away with making this show. I love how it’s very bright and colorful with dark undertones.

[@arcatia66]

the lore of adventure time is legitimately the coolest lore I’ve ever seen in a tv show, no matter who it’s targeted towards. it throws you for a loop when you first start getting backstory and then you just keep wanting more

[@synchrolord]

Lest just take a moment to appreciate that Simon dipped out when PB turned 13, he still has normal reactions

[@michaelandreipalon359]

If Simon reacted like that, how would Marcy cope?

[@Shepherd_of_Fire]

I don’t think Ice King is Simon really. They are different people almost entirely.

[@charlest.4723]

@@Shepherd_of_Fire I like to refer to the ice king as simon out of respect for all the shit his character went through and came out of

[@jatman9556]

@@Shepherd_of_Fire There are 3 different people of Simon. 1 is a smarty and likes finding weird things (even though he says that he doesn't) and loves his gf Betty. He is also slowly being engulfed by the crown's power and loves marceline :D 2 is the crazy evergreen ice king, where he goes crazy and talks about the Ice and snow (basically when Simon was slowly forming into Ice King then puts on the crown). 3 is Ice King, an 1000 year old guy who thinks he is a cool wizard and wants to be a musician. He also wants love and has short memory. But he is still cool.

[@officerspider7996]

He’s Crazy but even Crazy has its Standards

[@queenofmemes2859]

I know Simon is always referred to as Marcelines "friend" But honestly I feel like he was really a parental figure

[@jorienwachukwu466]

True, he was more like a father figure to her, he took care of her, protected her, and even sacrificed his sanity for her. He was more of a father to her than Hunson.

[@kwandamagagula9341]

I can agree

[@Nocnoc.]

ofc he was a father, u can see more origins of marcy in stakes

[@appleslice4412]

He was more of a father to her then her actual father tbh

[@Visibletoallusers12]

I know Simon was definitely a better dad than Hunson no question but at least give the guy a little credit, he does change and truly loves his daughter its just he didn’t know how to be a father, after all he is a demon, the ruler of the midnightosphere and was one of the monsters before time like orgalorg

[@Hi-yt2xk]

Is no one going to talk about the first Gunther putting on the Crown and going insane, laughing maniacally, as the ice elemental dies in the background, all while the catalyst comet looms in the background, almost consuming the entire screen

[@spence8507]

I was wondering that too they should've at least put it in the honorable mentions.

[@clematisflower1570]

@spence I’m pretty sure every episode can be put in honorable mentions for some reason or another 🥲

[@justjade256]

GUNTER NO

[@Anna-kq5tx]

The maze episode always freaked me out. Watching Jake slowly get smaller and smaller and more tired and then wishing for a sandwich

[@leociresi4292]

Jake the Dog/ Finn the Human was pretty disturbing

[@thateye49]

​@@leociresi4292Yeah, these two characters are weird, good think we see them pretty rare on Adventure Time.

[@IHateCopperGolems]

The darkest thing is how Cinnamon Bun got permanent brain damage in the fifth episode and everybody laughed at it

[@theonetruefusion8533]

did he really?

[@IHateCopperGolems]

​@@theonetruefusion8533 After he tried to do a back flip, he suffered a personality change

[@theonetruefusion8533]

@@IHateCopperGolems yeah ive seen that, thanks

[@disorganizedbones8139]

He was always a little "half baked" that's why when he gets blasted in the face with fire he becomes different

[@julispears4949]

@@disorganizedbones8139 yeah it's a common case of "random background character gets a personality for plot"

[@patrickbreska6195]

Surprised there’s no Lemongrab..... the lemonhope episodes are crazy dark

[@potatonite2340]

he literally eats his brother, how is that not on the list

[@sx.ashtxn8470]

@@potatonite2340 Fr when I saw This list that’s all I was thinking about

[@clintbaluyot8128]

The episode where lemonhope comes back to his home kingdom when it's all in ruin always stuck out to me. It's just so depressing to watch him all alone while he's singing.

[@potatonite2340]

@@clintbaluyot8128 ngl i think i skipped those for that reason, also what happened to him? He wasn't in the finale (i think)

[@raspberrycrowns9494]

@@potatonite2340 He did. There was a brief scene of him meeting Susan and then later we see him again 1000 years into the future looking very old but still kicking

[@PsychoSweethardt]

The Finn vs Fern arc always really f*cked me up because from my pov the Finn that combined with the grass demon to create the Fern WAS original Finn. If you go back to whichever episode it was (Prismo, I think) you see that original Finn gets turned into Finn Sword and duplicate Finn is the one who gets to live out the rest of their life. Also, Finn accidentally killing Fern is the SECOND time Finn unintentionally but very directly kills his original self. I think that's why he's so devastated each time

[@apple3217]

Fr dude, I always hate time travel episodes in cartoons because most of the time the main character gets replaced by one from a separate timeline. I don’t like it because while they’re “technically” the same person they really aren’t.

[@legacytag]

The episode where the ice crown was created always stood out to me. Especially with the context that everyone's consciousness is in that crown and those shared memories influence the wearer so deeply...

[@landonackerson903]

I’m surprised there was no mention of the scene of sweet pea telling the king of ooo that “before there was time there was nothing, and before there was nothing there were monsters”

[@joshuasanders162]

Yeah, looking back, there were some lovecraftian things going on, everywhere.

[@cheltan4491]

Exploiting a child's innocence is definitely dark

[@thunderfapp]

There was literally a scene of it in the video

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

The scene did show up for a spilt second. And that kinda goes in hand with the whole “lich” thing

[@DanielGhamari]

If I was king of ooo I would have committed suicide

[@aguilaestre2542]

No one seem to remember "the magic man" he literally remove the skin of a little bird and he also turn people in to limbs, just because he can and he finds it funny.

[@sleepyminkz]

UGHH ew, I remember that episode. He turned the bird inside out I believe. It was so weird.

[@aguilaestre2542]

@@sleepyminkz yeah, he do, and he constantly torture people and animals for absolutly no reason. He literally commit less humanity crimes in Mars. Very weird character for a kids/teenagers show.

[@S3Wander]

That was a weird episode and I don't wanna think about it

[@kimkillillasfuq8212]

@@aguilaestre2542 magic man became disillusioned with life after his wife passed. We know that magic man couldn't feel love because his "teleporter was broken" after he arrived in Ooo. We find out later that the teleporter was locked until magic man loved another

[@danielquinonez2735]

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@NoahHerman]

The episode where James is sacrificed to the Ooze monsters is pretty messed up ahaha

[@bananaman8939]

Yep 👍

[@justjade256]

that was definitely one of the saddest moments of Adventure Time

[@leociresi4292]

Also the episode where the citizens of Candy Kingdom are captured by the deer.

[@runsoncaffeine]

@@leociresi4292 that episode is in the list already

[@JaxontheOkay]

i will never forget the tonal shift when jake said "I've been waiting for my surprise party for SIX MONTHS"

[@kye465]

You definitely skimmed over the moment where the Lich literally kills Billy and wears his skin as a disguise to manipulate Finn and Jake into helping him end all life. Also another dark moment can be found in the islands miniseries, where we learn how after Finn and Martin left the island Minirva fell into a state of depression and ultimately she “dies” to the virus that Doctor Gross released that killed off most of the other humans on the island

[@torishadow0612]

or, the episode where sweat pea(aka lich) shows the king of Ooo and the squirrell the existence of monsters before anything in reality.

[@floorcat7985]

I was about to say the Billy thing

[@ripzmad9846]

Lich using Billy's dead body to get Finn to help him to kill everyone is definitely the darkest thing in CN history.

[@monger936]

Michael afton moment

[@funnyblog100]

What is even scarier you just see a shadow and hear Billy scream before it cuts to black. Also think of what Finn must be thinking watching someone wear the corpse of his hero. It is one of the few times in the show you see Finn panic and his heroic willpower break as he is backing away in fear.

[@SimpleJackQ]

The door of regress was definitely a dark episode. Finn spent over a year living with his eyes closed just to get out of a dungeon only to realize no time went by at all...

[@lerunya17]

Dude, I literally wanted to write the same thing! This episode was the darkest for me seeing as Jake and others never remembered anything while Finn just - existed... mindfuck..

[@masonhaxelTMV]

dude its the hall of egress

[@blackdragon7341]

yea you re right. btw its hall of egress

[@gasolinepoweredcretin251]

I love that episode

[@sorackee]

I wouldn't call the Hall of Egress dark. I think it represents some sort of mental block that Finn needed to sort through to grow as a person. That's life

[@NewTownMV]

In the commentary of the episode "No One Can Hear You" it's mentioned that the deer survived the episode and actually died later on in the series in "Sons Of Mars" after being transformed into a telescope by Magic Man

[@TomorrowSalad]

The whole episode Monster Princess is about someone who can’t accept their own identity finally committing suicide while everyone around her tries to cheer her up and ultimately can’t understand her. The end of the episode was literally her note. The message I got from it was “sometimes you can’t help someone you love and you have to come to terms with the fact that what they do is what is ultimately best for them.” Seriously dark episode.

[@neverunknown1236]

Don't forget the episode when Finn was kidnapped by gnomes and forced to dance for them while Jake partied

[@parasite-2757]

I tried to forget that but you being a wanker reminded me.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Try Gravity Falls' Mabel Pines being kidnapped by gnomes disguised as some sort of vampire.

[@mercury8610]

That episode haunts my childhood forever

[@idiotgay]

@@michaelandreipalon359 that one wasn't as disturbing as the pole dancing one-

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@idiotgay Oooookkkkkaaaaayyyyy.

[@riffshe20]

I never thought about Marceline and Simon’s relationship being like someone seeing a close relative go through dementia, it’s especially sad that way considering Simon is like a father figure to her. It’s good that he gains his senses in the last episode but man, you opened my eyes.

[@iforgotmyrealname4620]

Yeah but tbh I was pretty upset to see his love be turned into an actual chaos machine

[@jonathanhirst5062]

I was thinking what if marceline is the reason ice king is obsessed with pb I can just imagine marceline going over to simons castle checking up on him make sure he’s taking care of himself and telling him all about the very special friend she just made and it got stuck in his mind that pb is really special maybe after they stopped being friends she talked about how much she missed PB and he decided he needed to get PB to make marceline happy and that eventually got twisted to I need to get PB to be happy

[@hawktalon7890]

As someone who has lost relatives to dementia, I will say that I managed to sit through "I Remember You" exactly once. It's a great episode, they just hit the nail on the head with that.

[@doza7801]

Felt like that was obvious bro

[@sethgann9769]

@@iforgotmyrealname4620 to lmk l L I'll L L lol

[@ratsbum6026]

I always bring up the episode when Jake is going to meet Lady Unicorn's parents and towards the end, Finn is peer pressured (slightly) into eating fake human that is supposed to taste exactly like human. He finally eats it and the episode ends with him staring into the camera with a smile and the audio going silent. I thought that was weird 😐 it's one of the smaller moments, but i love it

[@lh2919]

If i recall correctly, finn even makes a comment about not disliking the food, so most likely, finn likes cannibalism

[@starqueef5303]

@@lh2919 Yeah he said "Oh! I taste delicious!" or something very similar

[@gentletal5101]

Finn is a G, his legs get broken inwards, and he literally says, "whatever". Then passes out

[@finalfroggitapproaches6418]

I’d like to add the clown nurse “It’s the only way” scene, please.

[@talentedcrown8998]

Bro, that episode gave me goosebumps. Just the thought of old clowns rubbing me is disturbing.

[@mars3210]

God I remember watching that episode when I was a kid and it still haunts me

[@User-tr3pf]

That scene was messed up!

[@squidwardshouse5431]

Not just that one but the flashing imagery finn had when the bush wouldn't let him cross the river.

[@Meowkid1000]

That one is my least favorite episode to this day

[@zestyd24]

One scene from the episode “dads dungeon” where these girls were trying to get finn and jake to eat the fruit but when jake forced her to eat it, thorns came out of her throat and she turned into an apple and the other girls started eating her and the inside of the apple showed flesh and bones

[@ecksdee9768]

how do you unread sentences

[@sourie1]

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS EXACT EPISODE. when you put the episodes into words they come off as dark, disturbing scary and makes no sense but when you watch them you kinda think of them as normal

[@toomanycooks7836]

That scared me so bad when I was younger that I never watched another episode ever again. Still haven’t

[@flipaclipanimations2169]

That was really disturbing

[@raqibahbatrisyia8109]

Dude... It still creep me out until now a bit. When I was 13 when I first watched it and I'm 21 now

[@ImEin]

Yeah the episode with Lumpy Space princess forcing her on Finn is def the creepiest and really shocking that it even made it onto CN. Like you'd expect Finn to push her off and run away or something but how the writers handled it was much more disturbing, even without showing what happened.

[@magvu]

For me, almost every Lemongrab episode had some of the shows darkest themes and moments. From his inability to stop stalking the candy citizens and eventually torturing the citizens he does get, to he and his brother compulsively creating increasingly unstable forms of candy life, while starving their entire kingdom including themselves, to the brief but incredibly shocking moment where the original eats his clone alive in a fit of rage, and then seeing him grow into a brutal and unstable dictator, as his clone feebly clings to life and gives his own life again to allow Lemonhope to escape in hopes of a better future for his people, and knowing that all this is pretty much a result of uncontrollable urges rather than premeditated decisions. It's both horrifying and heart breaking to watch, and really challenges the audience to explore some of the darkest grays on the moral spectrum. He commits so many heinous acts throughout the series, and his voice and personality are grating, but he is consistently shown to have little to no understanding of how to change any of it. He struggles with the nature of his own existence after having received very little guidance, being abandoned by his creator because he was a disappointment to her. He does finally seem to find peace with himself, only after destroying an ancient hive mind who once again challenges him in a way that he can't cope with. That action's morality is also gray, though much more self realized than his previous ones, and gives a strangely satisfying conclusion to the arc of one of the story's best and most complex providers of psychological horror.

[@Fleeingtheromansenate]

That deer appears as a background character in later episodes so he’s still alive even after getting his neck broken and thrown into a sewer

[@jackofclubs6229]

Christ

[@Fleeingtheromansenate]

@Naivet Moronta your welcome

[@gunlyte4661]

Man thats spine chilling considered that the deer is a mimicking predator.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

I did not know that. It turned out that the "freak deer" just got knocked out and survived the sewer hole.

[@adanloya5364]

I think it’s a wendigo

[@mystic0screams]

I feel like the fact that it was destined for Finn to lose his arm, especially seeing that all his past selves have no arm, should have had a mention. His arm literally detached trying to hold on to his father. That be dark.

[@fisharereallycool]

Legit he just keeps losing his arm- (I’m not kidding)

[@fisharereallycool]

@Jake Songster Poor Finn-

[@zmetroplayz2456]

@Jake Songster IKR thats what I was saying 😂

[@alarialessard-northrup8834]

yea this part was when i realized how dark this show actually is. like that was rough af

[@notlives9671]

@@fisharereallycool bucky: finnaly a worthy opponent! Our battle will be - Wait where is my arm?

[@Shin-mu7yc]

There was also that ep, when Jake got a death dream from the cosmic owl, and straight up went to commit suicide. And Finn just followed him and wanted to commit suicide with him.

[@aili_not_ally]

What makes me saddest is that, with Martin MIA and Minerva dead, Fern was the closest thing Finn had to a biological twin brother. While Fern wanted to replace Finn, Finn saw Fern as his other half and wanted to make him an important part of his life. That's probably why Finn loved him so much.

[@mikey_m114]

a flood of dark and disturbing memories from this show just cascaded through my mind as soon as I read the title of this video

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

that time finn had an existential conversation

[@synchrolord]

Same

[@theboiremastered3382]

Yes as soon as I saw the title I had Vietnam flashbacks of Adventure Time

[@jonbrewer297]

An existential what? Even if reality is just a trick by demons, there has to be something to trick. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am.

[@jonbrewer297]

There. I spared you getting deep into existentialism.

[@mtj8870]

Anybody remember "Bad timing" when LSP delete's her new boyfriend from this plane of existence and PB erases her memory to ease the trauma?

[@jamestouchette859]

The saddest episode of the show IMO

[@karbear004]

That episode made me so sad and frustrated at the same time😭

[@Loonaurtheworld]

DON'T REMIND ME ABOUT IT CHILE- 😭🤚

[@AmandaTheStampede]

That episode would be number one for me. messed my mind up D: before the show ended, I hoped they would come back to this and give it a happy ending. they never did :/

[@Ehdot]

And the fact we can see the boyfriend outside the circle, reaching out to LSP at the end, but LSP already forgot him.

[@elerdy3237]

Also, the episode at 10:30 shows that the creation of the lich was inevitable.

[@JusticeForFocalor]

Anyone remembers that scene where Jake stopped Finn from eating that apple and ended up giving it to one of those apple loves chicks in which she turned into a giant apple and started to eat it while they had bones in it? Yep.. straight up cannibalism.

[@terminalseb8528]

The saddest part in adventure time is when it ended.

[@nikolaikolev8252]

The last few seasons were full of shit, just like Regular show.

[@user-qw5sw6yw7t]

@@nikolaikolev8252 Actually no, only the 6th season was bad. The 7th season and especially the 8th season were great.

[@6scar911]

Still isn't over! We have 2 more episodes of Distant Lands!

[@NUKCYNDv]

@@nikolaikolev8252 It's the opposite lol The last few seasons were at the same level or even better than the other ones.

[@iforgotmyrealname4620]

Bruh

[@Cometcrash4700]

I’m really surprised that one early on episode where Finn is being uncomfortably harassed by a gnome man at a party then kidnapped by the gnome man in the middle of the night, taken to his lair/ underground gnome cave. Worse enough, they torture him into suggestively spinning and dancing around a pole by electrocuting his feet. At the end of the episode Finn imagines a scenario where he successfully breaks free and destroys the lair while fighting off all the gnomes and reunites with Jake in a loving embrace... only for it to cut back to him struggling, perspiring, and whimpering helplessly in the chair still. It is somewhat over shadowed by the A Plot being Jake searching for Finn while getting comically sidetracked but I will never forget how uncomfortable that episode makes me feel.

[@sants2674]

On retrospect that was one dark ass episode, I only remember it because of dance bug LMAO

[@sunsetdragonsunsetdragon5624]

The episode lokey scared me

[@androidmk5987]

*w h a t *

[@maxturner9205]

I don't if this makes it better or worse but the lead gnome is voiced by Paul Ruben (Pee-Wee Herman). I always loved that episode, me and my brother always died laughing when he says "Fire the shooty-gun-ray!"

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

I never thought that was pole dancing, bruh. Plus, dancing Jake came of that episode

[@aj5332]

When we were children and started watching a show just because it looks nice, but then in the future realizing the incredibly lucky that we are to get these series in our hearts ❤️

[@michaelwalsh9616]

One thing I think it's important to mention from Simon and Marcy is that It's because of Simon's use of the crown that Marcy got sick. When he made it snow on her

[@arceuslordofcreation8824]

"Never tell us what the deer's plan was" He wanted their sugar, but PB didn't give him any😉 Her words, not mine

[@proxidy6872]

Bruh

[@michaelandreipalon359]

If you know what she means *tongue click*.

[@splix9351]

Don't winky face about that man

[@Yamanosei95]

There’s even a +18 comic of that...

[@thequietkid5800]

@@Yamanosei95 How do you... nevermind.

[@flyingpastakitty]

Remember you was such a sad episode. Like, Marceline is literally reading what Simon wrote before he descended into madness and lost his sanity. I think Simon knew he would succumb to the crown's effects eventually. Worst part is how Ice King (Simon) doesn't understand any of it. He just thinks they're song lyrics he wrote. The way I felt about Ice King in the series was pretty much the same way I felt about Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender. I hate/disliked the character towards the beginning, but after understanding the trauma/hardship the character went through I felt bad for them and didn't hate/dislike anymore. It's so sad what happened to Simon.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Yeah. Those characters feel like people that you wanted to hunt down and kill, then you suddenly know about their rough lives to the point that when they are at gunpoint, you stand down and leave, no questions asked.

[@brandscott3037]

Couldn't of said it better myself and now both are my favorite characters in their own respected shows.but rewatched avatar 2 twice last two weeks and zuko is my favorite character prolly from anything I vibe with him . Plus son of the fire lord and avatar Roku that makes you the goat just like that

[@Juanjose-tm4qp]

I love how people are now starting to realize how good was Avatar now when everyone has nothing to do that staying in home watching Netflix. Myself included.

[@theseusvsminotaurus]

I really hated Zuko. Then I began to understand him. He's probably my favorite character in Avatar

[@ayla9260]

my dad used to sing me the song on that episode and i began to resent it as i got older cause i didn’t like talking about my feelings, but i’ve learned to love it again

[@trevorbrooks7816]

What makes fern even more ethically concerning as a character is he is not a clone of Finn, but he is Finn, just much as non fern Finn is. Fern is a constant reminder that Finn could have ended up just like fern, corrupted by evil

[@studiouspupil8189]

I think one of the darkest things about Fern is that technically speaking he's a corrupted version of the original Finn. The Finn that was trapped in the sword was the original Finn wasn't he? When Prismo did all his time shenanigans to bring himself back by making Jake the new host, wasn't it the first Finn that became the Finn sword?

[@haydenharris9754]

Let’s not forget that “human island” series , the scene where Finn fights his dad and loses his arm while just desperately grasping to his biological dad ( and loosing him eventually ) ,and how gizmo IS JAKE SLEEPING

[@madimadimad]

Prizmo

[@georginahull3559]

I WAS WAITINGFOR HIM TO SAY ABOUT THE HUMAN ISLAND

[@artsrandomstuff436]

What do you mean by “human island”? I’ve watched the show but I can’t pin what you mean by that

[@greymaulker8326]

@@artsrandomstuff436 human island is where Finn met his biological mom. I don't know why he mentioned Finn losing his arm though, that was at the space prison or something.

[@tree5538]

@@artsrandomstuff436 when he loses his grass arm trying to get his dad to stay when they were at the citadel

[@WeegeeSlayer123]

It was super dark when Farmworld Marceline died. Sure she wasn't the Marceline we knew, but her death was still really disturbing.

[@jonbrewer297]

But that's the thing. She was just as valid. As Barbara Gordon said "I only wanted to live." (It's a weird DC event. Time travel, alternate storylines, Hal Jordan is the bad guy, people meet alternate reality selves.)

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Like DBZA Mr. Perfect Cell said to DBZA Trunks, "Multiverse Theory's a bitch". (Forgive my language.)

[@JoaoBatista-dn4gx]

The more disturbing to is not the death itself, but the fact that she was alive when she handed jake to finn, there was not even flesh in her body

[@lukeframpton277]

"I warned you, you butt."

[@lambaplomb8780]

@@JoaoBatista-dn4gx In an earlier version of the episode, Marceline didn't even have a skeleton anymore; she hijacked Simon's skeleton to push Jake up the toxic pool.

[@alexwarnecke8858]

this show was the best, it always holds a special place near my heart. I remember someone i knew passed away and this shows helped me smile so yea thanks adventure time

[@skylarrush2447]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@absoutezeo2126]

"No One Can Hear You" went straight into my personal vault and I actually got chills watching this after over a decade of not seeing that. Absolutely horrifying. Great video though.

[@ianabricks160]

Remember James? Princess bubblegum sacrificed him to save Finn, Jake and herself, then made a clone of him.

[@boop3nowurded538]

Multiple, yeah. ;^;

[@kentakiman_gmd]

I also remember an episode, I don't remember what's the title, in which BMO kills one of his siblings without ever having experienced love from his father to the point he tried to manipulate Finn and Jake pretending he was the robotic version of his creator.

[@dimanvoltair993]

He litteraly gets eaten by zombies

[@wingstar3048]

Yeah Bublegum can be cinic and cruel sometimes

[@ViceMan420]

Its the darkest one 4 me dude. I almost got depressed

[@lilliannicole1293]

idk why but watching this made me finally realize that music was such a large part of marceline’s character because both her mother and simon used music to comfort her and so she used it to comfort herself kinda wholesome, but overall rlly sad:(

[@awwastor]

Tbh one of the disturbing things in AT is PB’s arc up until S7 (I’m pretty sure), where Finn & Jake are friends with her and she’s all sweet and nice to them, but at the same time she is known to be a dictator who’ll murder thousands of conscious creatures if it helps her get her way.

[@dallasl.4060]

Watching the episodes that show Simon and Marceline was always so heartbreaking. You see Simon beginning to go mad but Marceline was still hopeful. You hope and hope that Simon won't go mad and leave Marceline alone in a scary world, but you already know how the story ends

[@yviivy]

i’m surprised there wasn’t the scene where jake striaght up drowns finn to help him get over his fear of the ocean

[@permafrostthesand-icewing]

RIGHT??? That shit terrified me when I was little

[@KFLY007]

That's not even terrible

[@Alpha1918]

nah that was funny

[@T.Hebert]

That’s what friends are for

[@anstorner]

I mean he did say to not scream before

[@knightmare5478]

Don't forget the episode that finn is seeing marceline naked in the bath Actually never mind you should forget

[@jahvonkeith2833]

HAVE YOU ALL FORGOTN LEMON GRAB HE ATE HIS FRICKEN BROTHER

[@claytongriffith8323]

But Finn ever will

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

Now my memory is bad but I'm pretty sure that never happened

[@user-rx7sq8fd1p]

Wait what ep is that again

[@knightmare5478]

@@user-rx7sq8fd1p season 3 episode 21- Marceline's closet

[@marcusayala9429]

I like how this show caught all of our attention because it was a cartoon then slowly taught us real life lessons and morals through dark but funny stories

[@ShinyShepherd]

This was excellent. Peace, and love!

[@IHateCopperGolems]

*"Finn"* *"Aren't you cold?"* *"Finn?"* "No I'm NoT i'Ve GoT a SwEaTeR oN!"

[@nullandvoid42]

The power of comfort

[@Human_traain]

The power of sweater

[@jackofclubs6229]

@@Human_traain You fool, your sweater is no match For my JACKET!

[@chamberstommy]

he's literally jack from bioshock.

[@oh3681]

Lich: *gets defeated by a human with an extremely flexibly long sweater*

[@cobakhan3704]

I vividly remember the episode puhoy, where finn lives a whole life, and when he dies and wakes up he forgets everything that had happened in the matter of like 3 seconds

[@supercheesyguy9996]

Four month old comment, but you are describing fins adventures in pillow land. He lives a whole life, sees GOLB, then forgets about it entirely.

[@stackandgd3428]

He basically time traveled to his later life but changed by living his later life in a pillow world

[@stackandgd3428]

It would also be cool that if the reason Finn lost his memory of the pillow world is because GOLB erases your memory when it looks at you

[@Anafaithfulgirl]

This episode blew my mind in the pillow world

[@jamallee1510]

I just assumed he forgot it because when golb destroyed the world he legitimately deleted all traces of it from existence

[@quinntaylor1170]

Honestly my favorite storyline in this show is ice kings past because it is soooo complex and multi faceted. It’s beautiful. It’s hidden behind a facade of a crazy old man but, like you said, it’s a story about mental illness

[@wiss8082]

What about “james” when the only way out of a pit hiding the remains of the people who were mutated in a radioactive explosion was to sacrifice one of their dearly held friends towards the zombies for the rest to have a chance of escaping.

[@georgekargbo2415]

I think when Prismo died,The Lich wearing Billy as a disguise and Finn losing his arm the first time are the darkest Adventure time moments

[@walkenelus6679]

OMGGGGGGG

[@veronicapiccinini1981]

Even “Evergreen” is dark, since we know the Ice King’s crown origins and how everything is messed because of an elemental jerk that abused his “adoptive son” and made no secrets about it

[@mtj8870]

"Don't worry the elements we embody will live on" The lich catalyst comet: Sup

[@songbird3971]

Wait... WHAT!?!?!?!?

[@retardsonacid2631]

Right? Fucken Evergreen brought that shit on himself. That was such a weird episode, I felt bad for Gunther.

[@elnyfadzlinadnan6023]

Gunther did not even deserve Evergreen

[@kaueminotto6914]

I cried again in the I remember you part. Gets me everytime. Clearly the most emotional part for me. Also, watching this at the time, 2014 prob, had me crying in a moment where crying was kinda rare for me. After holly jolly secrets I was already loving the ice king and waiting for the continuation, and man.I don't really have words other than I just love the characters and the story so much

[@ghostninja0955]

very interesting i never thought of how dark the episodes are very cool its a whole new perspective

[@gergelyritter9599]

My mother always hated it, when we were watching Adventure Time. That was years ago and we were still small children. That one episode. The first time we saw the Lich, kept me up at night for several days. I hated it. I was terrified. Now its all good, but its still very scary looking.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I have the same opinion on Courage the Cowardly Dog, too (except my mom was more accepting).

[@idiotgay]

lmao I loved that show as a child- still do,, I a weird kid tho

[@josepi562]

Omg same I was so horrified

[@xander3202]

I wasn’t allowed to watch power rangers because the monsters were scary

[@josepi562]

@@michaelandreipalon359 So I woke up at the middle of the night all the time as a child, instead of going back to bed I would go to the living room and watch cartoon network and courage the cowardly dog was on and it was so scary bc it was midnight

[@thelastcrow5660]

Fun fact: There will never be a show as unique as Adventure Time

[@oh3681]

Regular show: maybe

[@vaisn]

@@oh3681 regular show is unique but definitely not on adventure times level of unique

[@ipekbozac6730]

@@davidc756 ikr

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

At least we have Midnight Gospel, which the show is like Adventure Time and Yellow Submarine having a child.

[@rubub8455]

gumball is different, but that's like the wildest show ever adventure time is still my favorite

[@cheyennehawkins8194]

There was that episode where ice king was trying to make friends by trapping himself and a variety of side characters in a dungeon Lemongrab just unhinging his jaw to prepare to eat ice king haunts me

[@raflyiansaharani3979]

The most WTF episode.. would be Treetrunk and her alien family. That one really confused me 😂😂

[@ciara8662]

ok but what about that episode where finn is a foot when the magic man literally turns a bird inside out and then they all watch it pitifully hop away

[@dachamy8316]

I hated that episode because Jake was trying to make Finn stay being a foot. He was genuinely pissing me off.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Oh god, why did you have to remind me that

[@iamrazor9831]

@@Fermin-hw5pd✨ MAGIC 💥

[@icecoldyellow]

You forgot the episode where they were trying to surprise finn because its his birthday and celebrates on a train if i remember correctly and this one guy who looks like a middle aged guy kinda looked like an uncle, operates the train. And everytime the lights went out somebody would die. That really messed my 7 year old mind up.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

While it was messed up, it was very interesting to see Finn solving the passengers' death cause. But they even faked Jake's death...

[@greymaulker8326]

@@Fermin-hw5pd Jake's death was too far man

[@kj2532]

That was really my favorite episode, it was so good

[@bloodyblue9117]

The fact they've really could of die if there was nothing at the bottom to save em (The whole train going oof the cliff part)

[@lordrathut]

I was also kinda little when that episode was new. It freaked me out but also really intrigued me.

[@yellow_flash813]

Simon is one of my favourite characters in adventure time ngl , when he sacrificed everything to save marcy and himself I bawled 😭

[@arcanecave]

Great job adding Ice King in! Him, Gunter, and Prismo we’re all my favorite characters from the beginning. Ooh and the deer hands gesture lives in my mind free.

[@spaceyBISH]

Princess Cookie was the best one off episode. It’s honestly so sad, you want to root for princess cookie and Jake but no matter how hard Jake tries the banana guards catch them. The saddest part is just how much Jake saw himself in princess cookie. The ending of the episode was bittersweet too.

[@athenasblueprint]

Yeah the voice acting and score really drove in the weight of it all, too. I remember feeling very moved my first time seeing it, and those emotions came back when this video showed the clip of Princess Cookie thanking Jake for his almost futile efforts.

[@megamindsgothplatformboots]

The way the frame lingers on him standing in a hospital in a straight jacket was kind of disturbing to me.

[@shanazblacksun7201]

Definitely one of my favorites " chips where my chips ? Chilton chipoleana, Chipton, chipler?

[@veryashton9891]

That one episode where jake almost lost his stretchy power for stealing doughnuts from a witch

[@Aaron-xr7oc]

Omg baby jake

[@ebanimations6315]

@@Aaron-xr7oc LiArS EVerYWhERE!!!

[@oh3681]

@@ebanimations6315 You forgot the *wait...YOUR A BAGEL*

[@ebanimations6315]

@@oh3681 lol I forgot that one.

[@dontgotovideos5560]

Why would you spell donuts like that. I know that’s how they spell it in some places but donut is so much easier.

[@fine_ol_chap]

I think you forgot the one where Finn was literally tortured by Gnomes and Jake didn't know where Finn was and thought he went out and is fine. Not only that but Finn had a moment where he was finally saved by Jake absolutely wrecking the place but it all turned out to be another torture device they were using on him that more or less showed Finns desires at the moment wanting to be saved so badly

[@chosoistryinghisbest]

when i didn't have internet and i only had the first three seasons on dvd, i went to the library and watched adventure time on youtube, my first episode was goliad's. that episode took something from me that i can never get back.

[@juzoinui4627]

The Deer episode was the creepiest thing I saw in Adventure Time

[@walkenelus6679]

omggg

[@UserName-gt2xx]

The episode where Simon stalkes Finn and Jake?

[@breezybaby3459]

@@UserName-gt2xx no, Simon was in a horse.

[@UserName-gt2xx]

@@breezybaby3459 oh ok i thought that was a deer.

[@stargacha2453]

u mean the episode thats called"no one can hear you"😀

[@waheedabdullah6371]

Don't forget about the weirdest one, King Worm episode

[@augustusvillanueva2008]

Oh god that episode

[@SamuelSamuelSamuel1]

That episode was weird, but the deer one tho

[@kye465]

Especially where Jakes skin just melts off his bone and his eyes fall into the back of his skull

[@MisterJohnDoe]

Lady speaking in a deep demonic voice while tape comes out a hole in the middle of her face is probably one of my weirdest memories of this show.

[@luvu9629]

king worm was WEIRRRDDD

[@mrsaturn12]

It's insane how I agree with pretty much everything you put on this list, and yet there are still so many more that I can think of that could've fit just as well just as easily could've filled like a top 20 god I love adventure time.

[@heylermariajorge5165]

I mean, Fern is actually the Finn that we known from the start, ok he is possessed by a curse, but in the inside he is the kid we saw grow up. The kid that had a crush o PB, the kid that met billy, the kid that defeated the lich, the kid that lose his arm when he met his father for the first time. It's just too hard to believe it when I stop to think about it. And of course the way the ended is sad

[@leogflames]

Let’s be honest We all wanted and did forget about that Clown episode

[@aperson9930]

That's what makes me afraid of clowns as a 10yr

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Those clowns' voices in spanish were obnoxius as hell

[@veryashton9891]

iiiiiiiiiiiiits the ooooooooooonly waaaaaaaaaaay hahahhahaha!!!

[@artsrandomstuff436]

Me at first: clown episode? What are you-? *memories come back* ... can that go back in the vault please?

[@leogflames]

@@artsrandomstuff436 Muwahahaha, NO. Every month I will remind you

[@salma-amlas]

I actually think All the little people is just as disturbing as No One Can Hear You. I just remember my reaction to first watching that episode, the part where finn is pushing the tiny people together to make them kiss, or even when he stayed up at night and for weeks just playing with people, and being like wtf finn

[@Shin-mu7yc]

At the time I just couldn’t guess what’s wrong with that episode and just liked it for some reason. Now it makes me realize how far can curiosity make a man go, and what type of wild wacky things it can push him to do.

[@guifdcanalli]

finn was playing the sims 4 Ooo version

[@ubbles5174]

For some reason I loved all the little people episode as a kid and watched it so many times (• ▽ •;)

[@AileeneSmithy]

@@guifdcanalli I was going to say this. 😂 basically me playing sims.

[@emmidh]

when I was younger this episode was my favorite thing and I have no clue why

[@Nikki_R]

No because even today those Simon and Marcy clips are making me cry 😭

[@TheDreamDetective888]

Great video 🔥

[@bopokorski5091]

There is also a pretty dark episode with root beer guy, he has depression and his wife is unsatisfied and she is trying to do stuff but he hates his job

[@jaydeegreat88]

Didn't he get killed and then resurrected as another soda or sum?

[@maxturner9205]

@@jaydeegreat88 Yeah I can't remember what caused it but he basically become a zombie, rose from the grave, but acted completely the same as before, but his wife left him because she had already married Starchy. He changed his name to Dirt Beer Guy and opened a bar.

[@greymaulker8326]

@@maxturner9205 Damn

[@damienmaldonado9212]

I am obsessed with the title art at the beginning of each episode

[@clematisflower1570]

I just love how if you look at anyone who is adding a comment they have a super cursed pfp

[@justjade256]

yES

[@maxiguess9922]

FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONS IT!

[@Redstephka]

Great list. Regarding Fern, I don't believe he was really a clone of Finn's. He had Finn's memories, but I think his spirit was actually that of the demon or soul that was responsible for the cursed grass sword, or at least a hybrid between the two. That is why Fern had a chaotic nature. With Ice King, I figured a lot of the metaphors with him were about mental illness, but more specifically about substance abuse. The crown represents the drugs and Simon used it because it felt good and gave him confidence, just like why a lot of people start abusing drugs and alcohol. It made him feel powerful. Marcy witnessed the addiction take him over and change his personality. And like a lot of serious addicts, his mind became mush and he became clinically depressed after years of abuse. Specifically, I took the ice and snow to be a metaphor for cocaine. In the series finally when he returns to being Simon, it represents him finally getting clean.

[@thepokemontrainer6094]

Adventure Time is what got me into dark fantasies like Dark Souls, Berserk, and so much more this weird childhood show is what got me into the weird dark fantasies behind it. I love this show and even though im not a fan of cartoon network at all, i still love this show if it weren't for this show i wouldn't be a fan of dark fantasy i am now.

[@synthesize5618]

A pretty dark episode of Adventure Time is “Heat Signature” just for the fact that the plot is basically how a group of ghosts try to kill Finn and Jake through a prank all just to make them laugh

[@robertgericke6481]

I almost died by the hands of my grandpa who had dementia, so I feel what Marceline felt.

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

Oh god D: Sorry that happened to you

[@puro3199]

17:42 Perfectly cut PUNCH

[@Thesloth_King12]

This is one of the only shows that made me constantly tear up. Epically the back stories of the Ice King

[@lizbizwiz1238]

Man, most of these moments either involve Simon or Marceline.

[@jahvonkeith2833]

I like how he didn't even include lemon grab once 👀 I thought I would have seen him first he liget ate his brother that's not dark enough?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

It's a good thing almost everything went well in the end ('cept for Betty becoming GOLB).

[@synitive2915]

@@jahvonkeith2833 yeah also tho i think lemonhope's story was kinda sad but not sad enough to be on list maybe in the mentions

[@jatman9556]

What about the Lich using Billy's dead body as a suit to trick Finn and Jake after the Lich kills him?

[@ishigami4622]

Or the mushroom war

[@dragonmandestructinator2847]

Remember the time that Simon loses his power and almost dies, but Betty saves him and Death says "sorry, you lose" to him living as the ice king?

[@maxiguess9922]

That was dark

[@daisywatkins5778]

I see the ice King and the crown and Marcella's despair on the I remember you ep as a metaphor for addiction in a loved one or yourself, the denial, the not knowing what to do...

[@cacaisaac]

i remember watching adventure time weekly as a kid, to this day i remember sitting at school excited to get home and watch the new episode. That week was the deer episode. 8 year old me was deeply disturbed.