The DARKEST Adventure Time Moments 

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The saddest part in adventure time is when it ended.

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

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

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?

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

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 ❤️

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?

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

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

"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.

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.

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:(

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

This was excellent. Peace, and love!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

17:42 Perfectly cut PUNCH

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Great video 🔥

This honestly felt like a list of the best adventure time episodes.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Oh my god Finn literally got “de-flowered” OH MY GOD

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

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

I breathed a sigh of relief when “no one can hear you” was number 1. It deserves it

2 episodes I always think of is the 1 where Finn goes into that pillow world, and lives a whole life and then just forgets it. The other is when he is trapped in that dungeon and can't open his eyes.

There is one quote from Adventure Time that will ALWAYS stay with me "That must be so confusing for a little girl"

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

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

I feel so lucky to live in the same universe that this show exists

Fern isn't a clone, he IS Finn from another timeline/dimension. Great video! I love Adventure Time 🥰