King Man

Magic Man (also known as Mysterious Man) is the main antagonist of the episodes "Freak City" and "Sons of Mars".

Background
He was banished to Earth by Grob Gob Glob Grod for his crimes against the inhabitants of Mars. Instead of turning his life around as they planned, he acted as a jerk for 200 years. In "Sons of Mars," when Magic Man held up a picture with him and Margles together, it was the first time he was emotionally sad.

Abe Lincoln mentioned that Magic Man used to be real cool until the night that Margles died on Olympus Mons, the largest mountain/volcano on Mars. That tragedy may have caused Magic Man's behavior to change dramatically.

Episode roles
In "Freak City," he poses as a homeless man to travelers, begging for food. If someone gives anything to him he'll do them "a mystical magical favor" in return by turning them into mutated freaks resembling body parts. He is a gaudy and jolly soul out to teach a "magical life lesson": that he's a jerk. Magic Man winds up turning Finn into a giant foot, which makes him depressed. Despite Jake's urges for him to remain a foot, Finn overcomes his depression in the end and helps the other freaks Magic Man cursed to beat him up. Magic Man taunts the freaks to make them riddle out the lesson he wishes to teach them as he does battle with them. Finn thought it was a message on teamwork, confidence, or charity. In the end, the lesson that the Magic Man is trying to teach is to not help out jerks. He returns the freaks to their normal selves after Finn states that he should've never helped Magic Man. Magic Man teleports away in the end to find more suckers to transform into freaks.

He returns in the episode "Sons of Mars." He is followed by Grob Gob Glob Grod to arrest him for his past crimes on Mars; however, he morphs Jake's body into his own and morphs his own body into Jake's to avoid the Grob Gob Glob Grod and let them arrest Jake in his stead. After Finn demands that he take them to Mars, Magic Man takes him to his house, where he shows Finn his machine. After Jake dies, the rest of Magic Man's magic returns to him, and he proclaims that he has won. However, then Abraham Lincoln trades his immortality for Jake's life. After Finn and Jake return to Earth, Finn punches Magic Man in the face for revenge.

He appears briefly in "All the Little People" first on the title card, where he appears to be creating the miniature toys. He appears again while Finn and Jake sit on a cliff, peering out at them from an underground passageway. He then sneaks the bag of toys in the back of Finn's pants before leaving. Even though this is actually the first time he teaches Finn a legitimate lesson (never play with people's lives), he likely left the bag, knowing it would mess with the duo's minds and hearts, as a gleeful act of revenge for the events of "Sons of Mars."

Appearance
Magic Man is a humanoid that has green skin and wears tattered yellow clothes and a matching yellow wizard hat. He also wears mismatching boots, with one boot being purple and the other red. His eyes are white, like the Ice King's eyes. He wears a red backpack with orange and green straps, the backpack has a rolled up pink blanket on top of it. He also has a pouch strapped to his leg. While disguised as a beggar, he covers himself with a tattered brown blanket that hides his features. He is one of few characters with a nose. Magic Man is smiling constantly when not in his beggar outfit. When he turns the bird inside out, it is revealed that his skin is uneven.

Abilities
Magic Man has a number of magical powers including the ability to transform people into body parts and back, teleport, throw energy bolts and magic confetti, turn birds inside out, create portals, and float. He can create fireworks that spell out the words "EAT IT." Magic Man isn't exactly seen "fighting" (the only magic he uses on the freaks is harmless sparks and confetti, which he uses to taunt them), but he seems to be adept at defending himself in combat. He protected himself from Gork's lava blasts by conjuring portals and redirecting it behind him. He also was able to quickly recover from being punched and launched a great distance by Zap, making a perfect landing. When he changes the freaks back to normal form he appears to do nothing but lightly clap his hands, suggesting it took little effort. In light of how carefree he was about the fight, it is likely the Super Freak wasn't really a challenging opponent for him. As seen in "Son of Mars," it is possible to use the same sound that he says before teleporting through the firework void in order to make copies of himself. Although he prefers simply to tease and taunt Finn and Jake, Magic Man could easily pose as the biggest threat the duo have faced, as he seems to leave pure chaos in his wake, not thinking twice about turning Finn into a foot or Jake into himself.

Quotes
See Magic Man/Quotes

Trivia

 * In an interview with the creators of the show it was said that Magic Man was originally planned to be the guardian of the 50th Dead World testing people to see if they were worthy to be sent there. However, this idea was scrapped.
 * Magic Man is also the main antagonist in the Cartoon Network game Jake's Tough Break.
 * In "Sons of Mars", whenever there is a close up on his hands he appears to have five fingers, where other times he has only four, even when he is morphed as Jake.