Here is the whole plot of Adventure Time explained!

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According to the Lich, before the universe existed there was nothing, and before there was nothing, "there were monsters". The Lich and Orgalorg, existed as far as back then. On Earth during the Cretaceous period, an Elemental, Urgence Evergreen, attempt to stop a green Catalyst Comet (the Lich) from hitting Earth, but the other Elementals, Chatsberry, Balthus, and Slimy D were opposed. The Ice Crown is created in an attempt to stop the comet from hitting earth, and as a result of Gunther's usage, causes its victims to become like his master Evergreen; or rather, how he saw Evergreen as: someone who is constantly firing ice magic and ordering people around.
Millennia ago, Orgalorg the warlord was banished by Grob Gob Glob Grod to Earth for attempting to intercept a yellow Catalyst Comet to gain its power. He is transformed into a penguin due to the planet's gravity. At an unknown time, a blue Catalyst Comet hits Earth. It is later reborn as a butterfly and a pink lump with a gold outline (a "thing").

Primordeval Monsters Orgalorg comet S6e24 Comet approaching Earth S6e24 Horned comet S6e24 Evergreen with frozen elementals S6e24 Gunther donning crown S6e24 Gunter No Up to the Mushroom War Human civilization takes over the Earth. Possibly 1500+ years ago - A human, Santa, becomes one of the Ice Crown's past victims. Medieval times - Another human, Sveinn, becomes one of the Ice Crown's past victims. What is now the Land of Ooo (or a part of it) was the "Wut-Wut State", as shown on a food truck's registration plate. ~44 years B.M.W: Simon Petrikov is born. ~20-40 years B.M.W: Betty Grof is born. ~5-10 years B.M.W: Betty Grof Meets Simon and cancels her trip to Australia. 4 years B.M.W: Marceline is born. She is the daughter of the Lord of Evil and ruler of the Nightosphere, Hunson Abadeer, and a human. Marceline was seen living with her mother in a trailer, with her father seemingly absent. ~5 years B.M.W: Simon and Betty discover the Enchiridion. ~1-2 years B.M.W: Simon purchases a crown from an old dock worker in northern Scandinavia, and is influenced by its powers, slowly losing his sanity, memories, and personality, becoming the Ice King. The powers of the crown is seemingly the reason he survived the mushroom bomb. Upon wearing the crown he had said things that drove his fiance, Betty Grof run away from him, to later being brought to the present by a time machine that Simon built to say sorry to her. ~1-0 years B.M.W: The Elementals of that time saw a future vision of the Mushroom War and Patience St. Pim freezes herself to survive. Year 0: the Mushroom War takes place. The Mushroom Bomb kills most humans on the Earth and mutates many lifeforms. It also causes a major climate change, like Nuclear Winter. Year 0: Lich's body arises during the explosion of the Mushroom Bomb, he begins his crusade to annihilate all life in the universe.

Post-Mushroom War to the near present day 1 year A.M.W: Marceline and her mother wander around the post-apocalyptic world until Elise dies from an illness. 5 years A.M.W: Simon Petrikov adopts a half-demon girl, Marceline, and raises her in the new post-apocalyptic world up until he's forced to abandon her as a result of his eroding sanity, eventually becoming Ice King. 10 years A.M.W: Marceline is left under the care of her father, before their relationship is strained from Hunson eating her fries. 15 years A.M.W: Two Bread Tom leads a tribe of surviving humans into a freighter. Marceline grows up to be a vampire hunter and protects him and his tribe, eventually becoming a vampire herself after killing the last of them all. Tom and his group of humans settle on an archipelago at the southwest of the surviving continent of Ooo and build its Guardian. Still, other humans were not so fortunate—they were hunted down, killed, and eaten by vampires, oozers, and rainicorns. ~200- years A.M.W: Princess Bubblegum and Neddy were born, by dropping from the Mother Gum.

~200- years A.M.W: Princess Bubblegum creates Uncle Gumbald, Aunt Lolly, and Cousin Chicle as she felt lonely. Gumbald later tried to gain the power and created a Dum Dum Juice to make her more docile and simple-minded. The act fails and the trio all become candy people, forgetting their previous identities, leading Bubblegum to the creation of the Candy Kingdom. ~700- years A.M.W: Shoko and her tiger go on adventures, up until Shoko's death from an attempted theft of Princess Bubblegum's amulet. Shoko's remains eventually grew into Finn and Jake's future Tree House. ~700- years A.M.W: Molto Larvo is orphaned and scarred by a sea predator and buried himself within the Glass Kingdom. ~800- years A.M.W: Magic Man's wife, Margles is abducted by GOLB. Magic Man later magically creates a defense device appearing as Margles to protect Mars from GOLB. Magic Man hiked to Olympus Mons with the Margles device, but of course had feeling for it as she resembled his lost wife. She then turns into a defense system, and Magic Man tries to stop them realizing it was made from his nightmares. This led to Magic Man becoming "a jerk." Magic Man is banished from Mars by the King of Mars and Grob Gob Glob Grod and sent to Earth/Ooo.

~950+ years A.M.W: Billy casts the Lich down, imprisoning him in amber in the heart of the tree in the middle of the Candy Kingdom. ~950+ years A.M.W: Princess Bubblegum creates the Earl of Lemongrab. -950+ years A.M.W: Tree Trunks travels the world, meeting Randy, Danny, and Wyatt respectively and briefly marrying each, until she settles in the apple orchard in Ooo after retiring from adventuring. 985 years A.M.W: Moe builds MO Co. and creates the MOs, including AMO and BMO. 985 years A.M.W: Marceline briefly dated Princess Bubblegum until Larvo attacks the Glass Kingdom. 985 years A.M.W: Marceline dated Ash and they settle in the Tree House, until Ash sells Marceline's teddy bear to Maja for a potion, leading to their breakup. 985 years A.M.W: Flame Princess is born, only for her father to attempt abandoning her, but Princess Bubblegum forced him to take her back to the Fire Kingdom and isolate her from the rest of the world. 985 years A.M.W: Warren Ampersand comes to the Land of Ooo, to pass on his stretchy powers into a compatible breeding partner. Warren finds Joshua the Dog and infects/impregnates him, leading to the birth of Jake while Margaret gives birth to Jermaine.

985 years A.M.W: Finn Mertens is born on Hub Island to Martin Mertens and Minerva Campbell. 985 years A.M.W: Martin tries to surround his home island to escape Widow, is confused by the Guardian as a Hider and has to avoid it in order to save Finn's life and his own. He leaves Finn behind on the raft and he drifts to Ooo, where he is eventually found, adopted, and raised by Joshua and Margaret. 985 years A.M.W: Susan Strong is assigned to search for and bring Finn back until she loses her memories for unknown reasons and adopted into the Hyooman tribe as their leader. Sometime after, Dr. Gross becomes rogue and accidentally releases a virus throughout the Islands that killed a majority of humans and forced Minerva to upload her consciousness into a computer. ~995- years A.M.W: Finn and Jake's parents, Joshua and Margaret, pass away, leaving their brother Jermaine to continue their work, while Finn and Jake move out into their Tree House. -995- Years A.M.W: The events of "BMO (episode)" take place. BMO is sent into space to terraform Mars, only for Olive to make them crash into The Drift instead. BMO also meets Y5 and they save the space station from Hugo and Mr. M. BMO then returns to Earth, where they meet a young Finn and Jake near their new Tree House. ~995 years A.M.W: Lady Rainicorn leaves the Crystal Dimension, breaking up with her boyfriend Lee and moves to the Land of Ooo. Jake was a criminal in a gang with Tiffany Oiler, the Flying Lettuce Brothers, and Gareth. He also was Card Wars groups and had a girlfriend named Moniker, whom he eventually broke up with. Jake writes "Mind Games" with the pen name "Jay T. Doggzone."

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Present day

997 years A.M.W: Finn and Jake go all across the Land of Ooo, helping others, going on quests, destroying evil, making new friends, and much more. This is the start of the series. Princess Bubblegum rules the Candy Kingdom, working hard and goes anywhere to protect the candy citizens. She is often assisted by Finn, Jake, Lady Rainicorn, and other people. The Ice King occasionally attempts to kidnap various princesses but is thwarted by Finn and Jake. 997 years A.M.W: Finn and Jake go to Mount Cragdor and obtain the Enchiridion. Finn and Jake go on an adventure with Tree Trunks to find the Crystal Gem Apple. After finding it, Tree Trunks bites it, and suddenly disappears and is transported to the Crystal Dimension. Finn and Jake meet Marceline. Finn and Jake meet Magic Man. Finn and Jake meet Billy. Finn summons Marceline's dad Hunson Abadeer to Ooo from the Nightosphere. Finn and Jake are transported to the Crystal Dimension, only to find Tree Trunks now the Crystal Queen. She has gone mad since becoming ruler, but Finn and Jake remove the Crystal Gem Apple from her, reverting her back to her old self and returning home.

Finn and Jake meet Susan Strong. The Lich is accidentally released from the amber prison. Supposedly defeated, the Lich still lives on, possessing the Snail. Lemongrab comes to Candy Kingdom claiming reign due to Princess Bubblegum's temporary youth. The Ice King writes about Fionna and Cake. Finn and Jake find out about Ice King's origin and begin to pity him more. 998 years A.M.W: Finn and Jake meet Flame Princess, who later becomes Finn's girlfriend. Tree Trunks meets Mr. Pig and they fall head over heels in love with each other. Lemongrab 2 is created to live with Lemongrab in Castle Lemongrab. Finn gives away the Enchiridion to a Bear, who unbeknownst to him, is working for the Lich-possessed snail. Grob Gob Glob Grod comes to Earth looking for Magic Man, planning to put him on trial for his past offenses on Mars, only for the King of Mars to sacrifice himself to save Jake's life after he was mistakenly executed. Lady Rainicorn announces her pregnancy. The Lich leaves the snail and possesses and kills Billy. The Lich uses Finn's trust with Billy to lure him into using the Enchiridion to create a portal to the multiverse, in which he can wish for the extinction of all life. However, Finn and Jake stop the attempt. Finn and Jake meet Prismo, and Finn's wish leads to the creation of the Farmworld timeline. Jake and Lady's five children are born. Castle Lemongrab has gone through major changes, now inhabited with Lemon People, one of them being Lemonhope, who later leaves, but returns to free the Lemon people. Ice King stops kidnapping princesses. Finn and Flame Princess break up after the former tricked the latter into destroying the Ice Kingdom, leaving Ice King to briefly stay in the Tree House while Gunter is rebuilding it. Flame Princess also usurps Flame King as ruler of the Fire Kingdom.

999 years A.M.W: Finn gets the Grass Sword. Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig marry, while the King of Ooo begins plotting to overthrow Princess Bubblegum. The Ice King's curse is temporarily broken, and he is reverted back to Simon. He creates a time portal and accidentally brings his former fiancé Betty to the future. Simon ages rapidly afterwards and is forced to revert back to the Ice King, but Betty vows to find a cure. Finn finds out about his biological father Martin and goes with Jake to the Citadel to meet him. The Lich is (mostly) destroyed and becomes a giant baby known as Sweet P, after being covered with the citadel guardian blood. Martin does not care for Finn and climbs up a giant stem with alien creatures to leave with. Finn then grabs the two halves of the severed stem tighter in an attempt to prevent his father from leaving, telling he won't let him escape and he struggles to hold on. The Grass Sword then takes over Finn's right arm, allowing him one last tremendous pull. Martin is grossed out by this and asks the void caster to enlarge the void. This causes much pressure on Finn's hand and at last, Finn's arm gives out and is severed from his body. Sweet P is then adopted by Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig just as the former was temporarily contemplating a divorce. Breezy brings Finn's arm back. The arm is later revealed to actually be made from grass as a result of the Grass Sword. Jake revives Prismo by trapping one of his alternate selves in a time loop.

Finn gets the Finn Sword. Martin pilots a spaceship and is about to crash into Mars, but Grob Gob Glob Grod sacrifices himself to divert it towards Earth, mistaking it for another blue Catalyst Comet. By mistake, Magic Man loses his magic powers along with his insanity, and they are transferred to Betty. 1000 years A.M.W: The Candy Kingdom has its very first election. Princess Bubblegum is outvoted and her opponent, the King of Ooo, becomes the new ruler of the Candy Kingdom. Orgalorg emerges from Gunter and attempts to swallow the current purple Catalyst Comet to gain its powers but is defeated. Martin accepts its offer and disappears from the universe. Princess Bubblegum cures Marceline's vampirism, but in the process, accidentally revives the five vampires she gained her powers and vampirism from. In the end, the vampires are defeated, and Marceline becomes a vampire once more. The Candy Kingdom overthrows the King of Ooo and gives the throne back to Princess Bubblegum. Prismo sends Finn and Jake to the Farmworld to stop the Farmworld Ice Finn and the Farmworld Lich/Jake from creating a portal into the multiverse with their timeline's Enchiridion. Finn and Jake cure both of their counterparts, and Finn secretly takes the Enchiridion back with him.

Magic Man, turned Normal Man, leaves Earth and returns to Mars, taking the place of Grob Gob Glob Grod and Abraham Lincoln as King of Mars. Patience St. Pim emerges from her 1000-year hyper-sleep, as she froze herself to survive the mushroom war. She is obsessed on unleashing the full magical potential of herself and the other elementals. The Finn Sword and Finn's grass sword/arm merge into a being, which is later known as Fern. Due to the grass sword leaving Finn, he is amputated once more. Finn, Jake and Susan Strong leave Ooo to visit the islands, in which they find out the fate of the humans. Finn and Jake come home from the islands, only find out that Patience St. Pim had set up a mega-elemental spell, in which all of Ooo was transformed/possessed by the elements. The act is countered by the anti-elemental lumps of Lumpy Space Princess, reverting everyone back to their "true shape." At this same time, Betty had kidnapped Ice King using the new Farmworld Enchiridion to change time and prevent Simon from wearing the Ice Crown. However, Ice King interferes, and Betty is teleported to Mars.

Due to the anti-elemental lumps of Lumpy Space Princess, Gumbald, Lolly, and Chicle are reverted back to their original selves and immediately resume usurping Princess Bubblegum. Jake was also briefly reverted back to his true form, only for Jermaine to help him become a dog again. 1001 years A.M.W: The hand of the Lich-possessed Farmworld Jake, which had fallen into the multiverse portal, taunts Sweet P, wanting the two to reign together. Sweet P, however, does not approve of this and destroys the hand. Due to time slips set off by Clock Bear, Jake sees his own birth. Not much later, he is abducted by Warren Ampersand and taken to his supposed homeworld. Jake finds out the source of his stretchy powers and Warren's motive, which was to kill him and steal his powers before deciding to target his grandchildren. Jake throws his father into a black hole to protect his pups but is left stranded on the deserted planet. Finn and Jermaine travel to Mars to seek guidance from Normal Man turned King Man, looking for Jake. They come across Betty and the three enter a Mars temple to undergo mind challenges. Betty was supposed to be cured of her obsession with curing the Ice King but instead comes up with a plan to save Simon and King Man's wife Margles from GOLB. In the process, Jake is retrieved and goes home with Finn. Gumbald forms a powerful city-state called Gumbaldia. The Candy Kingdom and Gumbaldia declare war on each other beginning the Gum War. Finn and Jake used nightmare juice on Princess Bubblegum, Gumbald and Fern in an attempt to call off the war. In the dream, Finn and Fern confront the Grass Demon controlling Fern. They kill the grass demon, but Fern (or simply alternate Finn) can have nobody without the grass demon. The group wakes up. Princess Bubblegum forgives Gumbald and wishes to call off the war. Gumbald did not forgive his niece and attempted to betray her with his Dum Dum Juice, but Lolly stopped him, tripping him and making him splashed with his own Dum Dum Juice, reverting him back to the Punch Bowl, making peace with her niece and agreeing to share rule over their kingdoms. Betty and King Man use Maja as an attempt to bring back their respective loved ones, but accidentally summon GOLB to Ooo. Finn, Betty, and Ice King are consumed by GOLB. Inside GOLB, Ice King and Betty are reverted back to their "essential forms". Ice King becomes Simon Petrikov again, and Betty loses her magic powers. The Ice Crown is also reset to its essential form and will grant its wearer their deepest, truest wish. Betty intended to wish GOLB away from the world but instead has to wish to protect Simon. Betty is then merged with GOLB into one being. Finn and Jake's Tree House is destroyed by one of GOLB's monsters. The new GOLB-Betty leaves Ooo and leaves the Ice Crown. Gunter wears it and is transformed into the Ice Thing, as his truest wish was to become the Ice King. Fern disintegrates and what remained of him was a small seedling in the shape of the Finn Sword. Finn and Jake plant the Fern seedling at what remained of the Tree Fort. It immediately grew into a new tree resembling the tree fort, with a new Finn Sword growing out of it. The humans of the islands come to the Land of Ooo after nearly 1000 years of near-absence.

EE!120 Finn and Jake, moments before receiving the Enchiridion Finn and Jake meet Marceline S1e4 tree trunks biting crystal gem apple Tree Trunks bites the Crystal Gem Apple S1e20 Magic Man with Finn and Jake Finn and Jake meet Magic Man S1e25 Billy in his cave Billy, in his older days S2e1 Hunson Abadeer and Finn Finn meets Hunson Abadeer

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Well of Power Finn’s first battle with The Lich Snail S2E25 The Lich, who is possessing the Snail Lemongrab candy people Finn meets the first Earl of Lemongrab S3e9 Throw it, Cake Fionna and Cake FinnJakeIKJoy

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Lady Rainicorn announces she is pregnant S4 E26 Lich laughing The Lich, mere seconds from entering the portal to the Time Room S5e1 Finn and Jake in Prismo's time room Prismo The Wish Master S5e6 Lady, Jake, Finn and pups 2 Jake, Lady Rainicorn, and their five pups S5e31 Lemon People The Lemon People help Lemonhope escape the earldom S5e30 Flame Princess I-I need some time alone Finn and Flame Princess’ breakup S05e45 Finn learns of how to control the sword Finn gains control over the Grass Sword S5e48 Betty leaping through portal Betty enters the portal to the future. S6 E2 - Well... Un, you see, son Finn with his father, Martin Mertens S6e2 Lich as humanoid Sweet P

S6e2 Finn's arm.... gone Finn loses his arm for the first time S6e6 Reborn8 Finn gets his arm back S6e19 Finn Sword Finn obtains the Finn Sword S6e25 Martin steering Martin, about to crash-land on earth Betty gains Magic Man’s powers, leaving the latter powerless Orgalorg overtakes Gunter’s mind S6e42 Banana Guards wearing campaign pins The Candy Kingdom’s first election, between Princess Bubblegum and the King of Ooo. Orgalorg attempts to absorb the Catalyst Comet S7e7 vampire community The Vampire Court returns S7e23 Crazy Stuff The battle for Farmworld S7e33 Normal Man in Mars Normal Man arrives on Mars S7e33 elemental juice Patience St. Pim unlocks the other elementals’ powers Grass Sword Touches Finn Sword The Grass Sword merging with the Finn Sword That one

The Grass Finn, thinking he is the real Finn. Minerva Bots corner Finn and Jake on Founders’ Island The Land of OOO 4 Elemental Zones (2) Elemental takeover of Ooo S8E23 LSP saves Ooo Child you have failed. The vessel has turned. We reign now “The Twin Kings of Ruin” S10e10 Jake alone on barren planet Jake, left stranded on Ni’Rah. Temple of Mars (36) King Man, with Finn, Jermaine, and Betty Temple of Mars (73) The Ice Thing Gumbaldia (42) Peace Dinner at Gumbaldia Gumbaldia (57) Princess Bubblegum announces war Gumbaldia (81) “It’s Gum War.” X720-1BP

PB and Gumbald reconcile. Marcy Bubblegum's official kiss Princess Bubblegum confirms Marceline as her girlfriend. S10E13 PB kisses Finn Golb1 The Second Coming of GOLB Bett GOLB, who has fused with Betty Fern Dies Fern’s death Come along with me (55) The humans arrive in Ooo Come along with me (26) 80s adventure time girls Come along with me (50) Princess Bubblegum and Marceline live together Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake timeline The events of "Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake" take place. Fionna and Cake join forces with Simon Petrikov to stop a villain from erasing them across the multiverse. Distant Lands events Obsidian

The events of "Obsidian" take place. Molto Larvo awakens from the Glass Kingdom's furnace because of Glassboy's presence and rampages the kingdom once again. Glassboy brings Marceline and Princess Bubblegum in order to counter the threat of the Glassassins and drive Larvo back to the furnace. Marceline discovers the truth about her mother's death and peacefully neutralizes Larvo with a love song to Bubblegum. Wizard City The events of "Wizard City (episode)" take place. Peppermint Butler is haunted by his past self as he starts Wizard School again where he meets Cadebra. Coconteppi's cult plot to revive Peppermint's darkness within himself to summon him, killing Spader Petersen and Bufo in the process, only for Peppermint to overcome and expel his past self. Together Again Originally, Together Again was supposed to be the last episode of the Distant Lands series.

? (Many years later)
New Death is influenced by the Lich to kill Death and become his successor. Jake and Finn separately pass away from old age and are taken to the Land of the Dead. Finn transcends into the 37th Dead World. Finn finds Jake in the 50th Dead World. New Death destroys the other Dead Worlds. Outraged that her son was destroying the Dead Worlds and preventing reincarnation, Life gives Finn the Kiss of Life as his weapon. Finn and Jake fight New Death, who reveals that he is possessed by the the Lich, but soon turn against each other over the role of New Death's successor. Mr. Fox kills New Death instead and takes his place as the ruler of the Dead Worlds. The Lich's hand, one of the many copies in the multiverse, is thrown into the Land of the Dead. Finn asks Mr. Fox to bring him back to a new life, while Jake decides to remain in the 50th Dead World. Jake changes his mind and joins Finn in reincarnation. Chilllin

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