Unraveling The Secrets Of The Four Primordial Elements - Adventure Time Lore 

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I like the idea that the elements represent the four temperaments: sanguine (candy), choleric (fire), melancholic (ice), and phlegmatic (slime)

One reason I loved PB during elementa; is because I will always love the concept of TOO much happiness. its just such an interesting concept

You know Adventure Time might be one of the few shows that show just how scary having candy as a power can be. Also you know looking back this video makes me wonder if the Lich possessing Bubblegum was more intentional then we believe. I mean with the context of the later seasons it makes sense

I wish we could have seen MORE of the slime element. We basically got a major character and their arc representing the three other elements, BUT Slime Princess basically got VERY LITTLE airtime and was reduced to a minor MINOR side character!

I think the other big power that goes with the Candy Elemental is Ambition/Hubris. The Mother Gum sent her children out into the world, PB obviously had big dreams as far back as her early days, the more intelligent Candy People like Gumbald or Pep Butt scheme and plan for their own reasons, and Giant Elemental PB cranks it up to 11.

I think the Adventure Time elements are specifically associated with Life. Fire and Ice are opposites, being the release of energy and the lack of energy respectively, while Candy and Slime represent "the stuff you consume to live" (sugar is the main source of energy for most animal life) and "the stuff secreted by the body either to serve a function or as waste". Just as Heat and Cold are relative, Candy and Slime are relative because one organism's secretions may be another organism's food. Note that the introduction to the elements says that the elementals have existed "since the beginning of life", NOT "since the beginning of the universe". So they're a little bit different from the classical elements. The Lich is immune to elemental magic because as the embodiment of Death, he naturally opposes Life. Sweet Pea's an odd entity because he is Death that has been reborn after contact with pure LIfe essence. I think it would have been better for him to have turned out to be the Anti-Elemental rather than LSP, but that's just my personal opinion so whatever.

5:25 PB said that while embodying a "Pure Elemental" form. Which is litteraly the elemental at it's purest having been consumed and overtaken by their respective element. Such a form can only be reached through a HUGE surge of magic, and a certain spell that needs be performed by all 4 elementals united. Without such circumstances, and without such a pure form, it's unlikely any of the elementals could ever truly connect with their element on such a deep level especially over such infinite distances

I thought that the candy elemental was more powerful because of PB, perhaps she had more potential than other elementals due to understanding her element to a greater extent. She regularly creates candy life and has a great understanding of its structure and function unlike the other elementals which simply may not have understood the element on a deeper level.

Im not gonna lie when the show first revealed the elements part of me wanted to see a storyline where some random Villian in the land of Ooo basically tries to absorb the elemental’s powers, basically turning themselves into the Adventure Time version of the Avatar

I think candy could also represent control or assimilation, seeing as literally the first thing that any of the candyfied people did upon meeting people who *aren't* candy is try to force them to become candy.

Maybe candy is also the most broken for one thing: our bodies are made of enzymes and sugar, specially DNA (there's also oxygen and carbon, but you get it anyway)

Why do i feel like the cosmic imagination is child like when it comes to certain aspects of the world. They created everything but they made the 4 elements candy, slime, fire, and ice. 2 of those arent like the others. Something akin to a child would think of for elements of creation.

Fin is clearly the hair elemental

I also like the elementals from the comics who seems to be primordial or at least cosmic level beings Candy being a great devourer of worlds, slime a being a infinite energy and having the great want to create but no way to do so, fire a living sun with a need to burn and ice the one who cared and is our moon and who sealed the others away and created a weapon to so again and but then went into a deep slumber.

Ok I've been reading some comments and thinking about why they went with slime and candy as elements rather than earth and wind since fire and ice covers fire and water. And I think I've figured out why: The elements as we use them are more alchemic/scientific based, think of things like playing doodle god/devil. But as you pointed out this world's magic works on emotion and imagination. And it's strongest with madness where both have gone wild. And in the world of magic they are elements of basic emotions and somewhat fits into the emotion wheel/emotion theory. Ice: sadness, grief, pensiveness. Polar opposite to that is actually candy with joy, serenity, and ecstasy. Then there's fire with rage and aggression. But slime is where I may have to fudge it, logically it should be fear. I could explain how it fits but this is long enough and I'm running late doing this. But I can make it work. Edit: I'm back and although I could make the fear angle work as it is the opposite of flame's anger and aggression I realized my mistake. I'm using just 1 of the many emotion wheels. On a different wheel Slime is Powerful rather than fear. Including feelings of importance, respected, appreciated and feeling proud. (End edit) So where does LSP fit into all of this? What emotion or anti emotional element is lumps? Indifference. LSP even unwittingly foreshadowed it when she writes it in her fanfic with LSP proclaiming 'I don't care'. As they say the opposite of love isn't hate it's indifference, and that is true of any emotion. It's the ultimate neutral emotion. LSP is the fifth element. Or this could just be a big coincidence and I'm reading things that just aren't there.

THEN SOMETHING JUST SNAPPED! SOMETHING INSIDE OF ME-

There are four elements. Fire, Ice, Candy, Slime. Seems a little odd, no? I mean, Fire and Ice make sense... but why Candy and Slime? I feel that there is more to it then meets the eye. I feel that Candy and Slime are not the real concept behind the elements, but rather how humans are able to articulate the powers gained from those elements that they represent. Candy is actually Matter. Slime is actually Time. Fire and Ice are easier concepts to visualize, while these concepts maybe harder to do so. These four individuals are conduits of these concepts.

So. I've been rewatching Adventure time. And watching your lore videos has given me things to think about. I'd catch new stuff in this 4th rewatch thanks to your videos. Where the hell are banana guards from. And the banana guy who wanted to go to space. They aren't candy people, right?

Amazing video! I also have a request; could you consider making a community post every once in a while talking about your upload schedule/a timeline for future video release plans?

Candy is the most Fascist of the four primordial elements given Fuhrer Bonnibel’s actions.

If you ever wanna lose sleep at night just think of how terrifying it would've been if Marceline was corrupted by the Fire and not Candy. CHARCOALINE THE HELLFIRE QUEEN!!!!! or more likely since AT aired on Cartoon Network CHARCOALINE THE WILDFIRE QUEEN!!!!!

That foreshadowing is next level with tart toatter

People have been commenting all over about what candy and slime could be, so I’m gonna throw my two cents in too. I feel like the four elements represent two sets of opposite things, like a weird four dimensional political compass, except instead of authoritarian vs libertarian and left vs right, it’s ice vs fire and candy vs slime. We know what ice and fire are, they’re pretty easy to understand as there have been hundreds of stories using them, but candy and slime are weird. So here’s what I think they represent. Candy is something that isn’t found in nature, if we want it we have to make it. Even most natural candy like apples were made to be sweet over the course of hundreds of years of selective grafting and breeding. Sure, sugar is found everywhere, but candy? Not so much. Candy is something we have to make. And it doesn’t last long either, so we have to keep making it constantly, and if we forget about it it’ll go off, get stale, melt, become gunky. It’s something that has to be maintained if you want it. Slime, meanwhile, is *everywhere*. Anywhere you go, I guarantee that it’ll take less than 5 minutes to find of make something slimy. You can’t escape it. And everything becomes slime or something like it eventually. Bodies break down and rot, slime like liquids going everywhere, leave a glass of water out somewhere for a few days and it’ll start going slimy too. It’s something that will come eventually. So, candy is something that has to be constantly maintained, and slime is something that everything will become one day. There’s something pretty similar to that that has been used in hundreds of stories. Order vs Chaos. Candy is order, something to be maintained, and we can see that in how meticulously planned the candy kingdom is, but everything can go wrong in a moment, and how the citizens are actively breaking down, with ice cream citizens melting in the sun and fairy floss citizens dissolving into water at a moments notice, becoming *slimy gunk*. But then everything gets fixed by the authority over them, bringing it back to normal and keeping it there. Sure, PB is a mad scientist who’s constantly testing new things on her citizens, but that’s just order trying to find something that’ll stay working. Plus, she made the candy people to be simple specifically so they will never question her rule and rebel remember? And remember how obsessed she was with making the perfect sandwich for cinnamon bun? Then, slime, is just waiting, content to sit, consuming things slowly as it inevitably comes to them. Because no matter how hard you try, entropy will eventually win, and everything will die. Side note, I do feel fire vs ice fits with order vs chaos better if you think of fire as action, and ice as patience. So it would be more, Action vs Patients and Chaos vs Order, as an overlapping political compass. I think I’m about 2/3rds of the way towards the Chaos end, and I’m just a little bit more on the side of Patience than Action. My elemental leaning is Ice Slime, aka, Patient Chaos! What’s yours? Edit: just a thought I had but the above idea is probably only a single facet of them. You can also say that Fire and Slime are opposite, and Ice and Candy are opposite. With Fire representing passion and Slime representing apathy, with Ice representing hate and Candy representing love, becoming passion vs apathy and hate vs love. Or, Fire can represent destruction and Candy represent creation, with Slime representing flexibility and Ice representing inflexibility, becoming Destruction vs Creation and Flexibility vs Inflexibility. I think all of these and more are part of the big ‘ol elemental political compass, being a weird complex 4 dimensional thing that we barely comprehend. Pretty cool idea honestly!

I heard a theory of missing elementals like water. As I remember, Phoebie once mentioned the water element

I knew you'd put something at the end eventually, i was not wrong

Tbh I think fire’s relation to candy is more so that you need heat for a lot of sweets. Cupcakes, brownies, pies, cookies, macarons etc, are obvious, but cotton candy is made via heating up sugar, cocoa beans need to be roasted before becoming chocolate, hell, most candy is just heated up sugar + something else.

another reason candy is so strong is because its effectively the element of chemistry and organic material while not every living thing is made of ice or slime, every living thing is made of living thing, which is why it's distilled form with Bonny as "The Tower" is so easily able to corrupt living things

How powerful is Marcaline then? She admits in a letter episode that she was able to resist the power of both Ice and Candy in her story to BMO at least for a time.)

What episodes where these clips from??? I don’t remember everyone becoming an elemental. Also love the music choices in ur vid

You don't think I caught that RuneScape music? Niceeeee

I like this part, the most. 3:40

This theory adds up with the fact that PB literally attempted to conquer space in an episode of the show

Is anyone familiar with Cosmic Elementals from the comics? The only things I could find of them online are the adventure time wiki and a reddit post from a week ago. I'm just curious to see how they fit into all of this and what everyone else thinks of them.

I know this video is a month old but I'm personally willing to bet that while Candy appears to be the most powerful Element we have evidence that Ice is more powerful. when Evergreen fought the Candy Elemental of his time Evergreen rather casually overpowered him with a single Ice Blast, and in the admittedly non-canon Adventure Time Comics when we see the Cosmic Elementals it was the Ice Elemental named Lun the Betrayer who defeated the other three. I have little doubt that Patience St. Pym was probably more than powerful enough to bring the other three to heel like Evergreen and Lun before her, but she was too consumed by melancholy to do such a thing.

Im enjoying watching these Very good video

Ooh yeah that's the stuff some more adventure Time Lore UGH 😩😩

elementals!!!

The Adventure Time elements are just a rebranding of the four humours theory. Fight me.

I just realized what if finn's hair symbolizes the trail his comet left when he was still a comet

love the Hollow Knight soundtrack btw

The fact the irl version is the exact same as the one in the video is scary

They picked a really strange set of elements. The typical wheel is Earth, Fire, Water, Air/ Lightning and occasionally Void or Null. There are usually sub categories when combining the based elements.

Damn video crisp

What soundtracks did you use for this video????

Everyone knows that the element of suprise is the BEST element. Anyways make a cheese tierlist

He’s back

So..what would happen when we have 2 wizards 1 cup ? The moment you said "cup" you set this up

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Make a video on the dungeon train

Its 2 o'clock in the morning but i dont care

I had to wait, but I got there I got to see the meme

After fionna and cake. We need a sweet pea series.

Will you ever do a theory episode on the old crazy tart totter?

That thumbnail looks filthy

Chaos Gods ≈ Primordial Elementals

Nice videos

wait your using hollowknight music? NICE, would love to see a video on that game

Eyy hollow knight music!

All this talk about demiplanes and elemental magic just makes me think that somebody should make an tabletop rpg based on the adventure time universe.

Fire consumes you candy is sticky so it’s hard to get out of ice chill you out and you slip and slime likes to stick together

Just call them elemantals!

fire vs slime

Coin could be Lucy's chiald

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The elements vs prismo

Do you mean the 5 eleamentl because lumps

Oh hey its tierzoo music

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Weirdly, they also seem to embody the personality types associated with the four humours: Fire shows the choleric (angry) temperament, which means an unusually high amount of yellow bile. Yellow bile is depicted as the fire element in humanity. Ice shows the melancholic (sad) temperament, which means an unusually high amount of black bile. Black bile is depicted as the earth element in humanity. Slime shows the phlegmatic (calm) temperament, which means an unusually high amount of phlegm. Phlegm is depicted as the water element in humanity. Candy shows the sanguine (joyous) temperament, which means an unusually high amount of blood. Blood is depicted as the air element in humanity. Lumps have no humour associated with them, but are probably a stand in for other fifth elements, like aether and void, which were considered to fill the space between the elements.

The outro was a bit long 😭😭

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In "Evergreen", the one eyed lobster guy says "The four elements we embody: candy ice slime and fire, will live on" Unless you meant it in a metaphorical way. But even then I think it's pretty far fetched. There's really no evidence to support your claim

is it me or did ur voice change

I'm fairly certain the choice of elements is purely satirical and a nod to the nonsense nature of the world and show. Which of these elements makes up, say, a brick? Is a brick a type of candy? Is it a type of ice? Fire? Slime? I suspect the reason these were chosen was specifically and very firmly for the purpose of reminding everyone that the gods of the Adventuretime universe and the adjacent universes, are batshit insane--or, conversely, we the viewer are insane, for we are so unable to make sense of it all. We, the viewer, are deeply flawed in our perception of what is and is not logical.

Am i the only one who is hearing hollow knight bgm

Greenpath in the background🤌

Nuh uh

Adventure time theory the show might take place in what was modern day Iraq because for example in the episode three buckets Finn and fern travel to the sigorat which is real and in Iraq in the episode about fight kingdom Finn and Jake enter a Roman colosseum and Iraq was part of Roman and in the islands mini they might have been traveling through the Mediterranean Sea which Iraq is conectes to and the islands could have been in Greece or turkey

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