Princess Bubblegum's relationships



This page describes Princess Bubblegum's relationships with other characters in the Adventure Time series.

The Earl of Lemongrab


Princess Bubblegum created the Earl of Lemongrab for the purpose of ruling the kingdom if she ever became unable to do so. However, being the first of her "experiments gone wrong," her creation is exceedingly temperamental, and a terribly inexperienced ruler. Princess Bubblegum and The Earl of Lemongrab dislike each other, and Princess Bubblegum calls the Earl a "butt." According to Princess Bubblegum, "it's complicated." While in power, Lemongrab is intent on sending everyone, including Princess Bubblegum, to the dungeon for conflicting with his rigid agenda. However, when the Princess returns to the age of 18, she fires the Earl by shouting "Yo, Earl! Hey! You're fired, ya butt!" Princess Bubblegum is treated with the same rudeness, obnoxiousness, and sense of entitlement as Lemongrab treats everyone else. Although he does think of her as his creator, he also blames her for the difficulties in his life.

In "You Made Me," Princess Bubblegum is much kinder to Lemongrab when he articulates that he is lonely. He refers to her as "his glob," saying "you are my glob and you made me this way." Although he is hostile and threatening towards her, and reacts with fear, she continues to help him and speak to him in a gentle, coaxing manner, and eventually makes him a Lemongrab clone to be his friend. By the end of the episode, the two Lemongrabs and Princess Bubblegum are on good terms. Princess Bubblegum says "Take care, boys!" to them, and they respond by requesting she visit them.

In "Mystery Dungeon," Lemongrab cries out "MOMMY!" as he has the life-juices squeezed out of him, in reference to Princess Bubblegum, indicating that he does see her as a parental figure. In "All Your Fault," the Lemongrabs refer to her as "Mother Princess" and "family." In "All Your Fault," she sees them as a frustrating nusiance, but is still willing to be kind to them and help them when they are in a tough situation. When Jake calls the Lemongrabs "selfish," Princess Bubblegum says, "Oh, no. Their hearts are fine. They're just like this," and they smile.

Lady Rainicorn


Lady Rainicorn is Princess Bubblegum's best friend and trusty steed. Lady Rainicorn is one of four creatures she uses for transportation; the others are her swan, Jelly Horse, and the Morrow. She and Princess Bubblegum appear to be very close, similar to Finn and Jake. Princess Bubblegum understands Korean (though, she never speaks it) and converses to Lady Rainicorn in "Video Makers" and "Lady & Peebles." Also in "Lady & Peebles," Princess Bubblegum shows to be loyal to Lady Rainicorn and would not give up on her, even when she was injured. Princess Bubblegum was the first to find out that Lady Rainicorn was pregnant.

Finn


Princess Bubblegum was the former crush of Finn, although it wasn't clear whether or not the feeling was mutual. She often rolled her eyes at his advances, but at other times seemed genuinely flattered, having kissed him numerous times from the animated short until "Wizard Battle." Princess Bubblegum cites the hero as a great friend and will never hesitate to call on him for aid in royal matters. She has referred to him as, "my hero" on several occasions. Finn and Princess Bubblegum share the same moralistic nature and often work together to right any wrongs in the Land of Ooo.

Finn has a few nicknames for her, such as PB, Princess, Bubblegum, Probbles, Preebos, P-bubs, Prubs, and Peebles.

In "Slumber Party Panic" she called Finn "adorable." The princess sees Finn as her "flawless champion," as said in "The Duke." It is also shown that there is a picture of Finn on her wall. Still in the same episode Princess Bubblegum reveals she could never hold a grudge against Finn. In "To Cut a Woman's Hair," she says explicitly that she likes Finn, although she could have meant as a friend or in a motherly way. In "The Real You," she gives Finn a kiss on the cheek for saving the Candy Kingdom from the black hole he created and making her Science Barbecue a huge success. In "Go With Me," she exiles Finn from the Candy Kingdom after he releases a pack of wolves into her room, but her feelings are only temporary as Princess Bubblegum appears to have forgiven Finn by her next appearance.

In "Mortal Folly," she said to Finn, "I care about you," and gives him a pink sweater with a white heart stitch to the left that she made with the power of "liking someone a lot" which ended up helping Finn defeat the Lich. At the end of "Mortal Recoil," Princess Bubblegum ages down to 13.

In "Too Young," Princess Bubblegum acts very loving and affectionate toward Finn during the time she is 13, even going on a "date" with him, leaning on his shoulder, and holding his hand. Finn's former feelings for her might have been reciprocated while she was 13, and this may have been Bubblegum's true feelings for him, which might only apply when they are the same age. She expresses some regret when she has to turn back to 18 because she never gets to "act like a kid." She also says to Finn that she would rather "stay like this, with you." During the transformation of her being back to 18, they share a hug and she kisses Finn on the lips. When she changes back to 18, she returns to her normal personality, but without the same kind of affection for Finn. When Finn asks whether they could "hug some more," she replies by saying, "That was like 5 years ago. You really gotta move on." She makes this remark with a smile and mutters "Such a silly boy" as she walks back into the castle.

In "Wizard Battle," she forgives Finn for cheating in the contest, then they share a quick kiss on the lips (their final real kiss together to date), after which she slaps him on the cheek for cheating.

In "What Was Missing," it was revealed that Finn keeps a clump of Princess Bubblegum's hair that he got in "To Cut A Woman's Hair" as a prized possession. It was also seen in "Incendium" while Finn was singing All Gummed Up Inside, and again when he saves Flame Princess from falling.

In "Incendium," Jake says that Princess Bubblegum is too old for him. This might also be the reason she keeps pushing him away, because when she turned thirteen she showed how much she really liked Finn.

In "In Your Footsteps," Jake refers to Princess Bubblegum as Finn's "ex-girlfriend" and Finn responds by saying "She's not my... We never went steady."

In "Burning Low," Princess Bubblegum becomes pleasantly interested when the news comes up that Finn is hanging out with another girl, but then she acts distraught when she finds out Finn has been hanging with Flame Princess. She attempts to explain to Finn and Jake why he shouldn't date her through complicated scientific facts, though Finn leaves to meet Flame Princess and Jake falls asleep. Jake comes to the conclusion that Princess Bubblegum is jealous of Flame Princess and shares this with Finn. She confronts Finn the next day and attempts to console him, believing that he knew about the situation. However, when she starts talking about responsibility demanding sacrifice, Finn misinterprets this as her displaying jealousy for his relationship and shouts to her about his past feelings towards her. She finally tells Jake that she was the one who had Flame Princess locked up so she does not fall in love and destroy the earth from the inside.

One of her metaphors indicates that (sometimes) when one loves someone enough to kiss them, one has to make sacrifices for the greater good. She applies this to Finn kissing Flame Princess, which could cause the destruction of the earth, although Finn takes it the wrong way.

In "Lady & Peebles" she struggles to find Finn and Jake, finds out that they were both captured by Ricardio, saves them and treats them back in the Candy Kingdom.

In "You Made Me" Lemongrab attempts to hit Princess Bubblegum with a blast from his Sound Sword, but Finn dives in front of her and takes the hit instead.

In "Reign of Gunters," although Finn says he is over Princess Bubblegum, he takes the advice of a dating book called Mind Games and tries to act more mysterious. He claims he needs to keep all the ladies in a state of confusion; that way, he has "options in case Flame Princess doesn't work out." In "King Worm" he dreams of Princess Bubblegum being his wife, and in "All the Little People" he induces little Princess Bubblegum to massage little Finn's shoulders and kiss him several times.

In "The Lich," Princess Bubblegum becomes angered when Finn tries to take her royal gem from her crown and starts struggling to push him away, causing her to accidentally cut him on the cheek with scissors. Finn staggers backwards and hisses in pain, glaring angrily at the Princess before taking the gem from the fallen crown and leaving through the roof with Jake despite Princess Bubblegum's calls and her saying that it was an accident.

Jake


Princess Bubblegum and Jake have a rather strange relationship, with Jake being well aware of Finn's former crush on her. Despite this, they seem to maintain a healthy friendship with Princess Bubblegum even calling Jake "puppy" and allowing him to rest his head on her lap in "Incendium." It was revealed in "Mortal Recoil" by Jake that Princess Bubblegum likes it when Jake plays songs.

Even though they are good friends, in "Princess Cookie," Princess Bubblegum wanted her guards to arrest Jake after he helped Baby-Snaps, and in that same episode Jake pretended he hated her, saying that he hated her because she made him be a milkman instead of a mailman, as he went undercover to stop Baby-Snaps.

In "Burning Low," Princess Bubblegum seemed content to speak with Jake about the possibility of Finn having a girlfriend. When Jake becomes under the impression that Princess Bubblegum is jealous, he becomes angry with her for hurting Finn and threw a box at her and said: "You're sick!". However, when the princess clears up the misunderstanding, Jake is more than willing to help. At the end of the episode, Jake teases Princess Bubblegum by calling her "jealous," to which she responds with a deadpan, "Shut up."

Lumpy Space Princess


Lumpy Space Princess is one of Princess Bubblegum's best friends. Despite their drastically different personalities, the two are often together and Lumpy Space Princess is a frequent visitor to the Candy Kingdom during many of its parties and ceremonies.

Ricardio
Ricardio seemed to have common interests as Bubblegum and they became friends very quickly. They are seen dancing together and preparing to perform scientific expierements. However, at the end of the "Ricardio the Heart Guy," it's revealed Ricardio is Ice King's sentient heart who wishes to bring Bubblegum's heart to life and marry it. Ricardio's plan was foiled by Finn and Jake.

The two meet again in "Lady & Peebles," where Ricardio escapes, builds himself a body out of Ice King's flesh and poisons Finn and Jake to lure Bubblegum into a cave in the Ice Kingdom. When they meet, he reveals that this time he wants to marry Bubblegum herself. Shocked and horrified by Ricardio's actions, Bubblegum beats Ricardio in hand-to-hand combat, leaving him in a bad condition.

Duke of Nuts
Princess Bubblegum is shown to have an outright hatred for the Duke of Nuts because he eats all of the Royal Pudding. In the episode "The Duke," he explains to the princess that it is due to a medical condition; his pudding deficiency causes him to lose control and eat all of the pudding. Princess Bubblegum tells him that all is forgiven, but reveals to Finn that she still does not trust the duke. And states, "I don't believe a word from him."

Marceline


In the original pitch documents, Princess Bubblegum and Marceline are shown to be friendly rivals. Though having been in the same place at the same time in several occasions, nothing of their relationship with one another was known until "Go With Me," where we see Marceline trying to be civil towards Princess Bubblegum while the princess shows displeasure in being around her. Bubblegum's perspective makes her see Marceline as wild to the point of corrupting Finn into being exiled out of her kingdom, showing that she tries to avoid contact with her as best she possibly can. Marceline is the first and only character to call Princess Bubblegum by her first name (Bonnibel) and usually shortens it to Bonnie.

Marceline sees Princess Bubblegum as boring and stiff. Princess Bubblegum is generally a woman of grace and poise, but in Marceline's presence she is less refined. In "What Was Missing," when Princess Bubblegum miscalculates the music needed to open the door, Marceline says, "Looks like you aren't as perfect as you thought! Guess you can't judge me anymore." Princess Bubblegum angrily replies, "I never said you had to be perfect!" hinting that whatever previous relationship the two had ended on bad terms. However, in the same episode it is revealed that the item stolen from Princess Bubblegum was a t-shirt Marceline had given her, and that it means a lot to her. This admission causes Marceline to blush for the second time in the series. This resulted in a lot of fan speculation about their relationship.

Princess Bubblegum and Marceline's friendship is further explored in the comic Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens Issue 1, in which Bubblegum becomes the manager of Marceline's band.

In the episode "All the Little People," Princess Bubblegum's and Marceline's mini-selves civilly wave to each other.

Ice King


Ice King spends a great deal of his time obsessing over capturing princesses. His most targeted princess is Bubblegum, who is annoyed with the Ice King's actions but generally seems to put up with them. The kidnapping is mostly due to having Finn to rescue her whenever the Ice King comes around. One of the few times that Bubblegum shows particular anger towards Ice King is in the episode "What Have You Done?" When Ice King's attempt at a kind gesture (making it snow) ends up making nearly the entire kingdom sick. When the Ice King selfishly neglects to acknowledge Princess Bubblegum's purpose in asking him to help, she becomes frustrated with him, ultimately forcing Princess Bubblegum to order Finn and Jake to capture the Ice King at all costs without telling them why she wants him imprisoned.

In "Mortal Folly," Ice King's obsession with Bubblegum nearly leads to the destruction of Ooo. As Finn is fighting the Lich, the Ice King captures her, intending to marry her. After the Lich is defeated, Ice King accidentally drops the princess into the Lich's evil power source, corrupting her. However, he is still loyal enough towards her to help save her life after her broken body was possessed by the Lich to destroy Ooo. Regardless of Princess Bubblegum's feelings on the situation, the Ice King really does care for her. Ice King cries hysterically when she is hospitalized in the episode. By the end of "Mortal Recoil," Ice King becomes uninterested in her. Once Princess Bubblegum is revealed to have turned thirteen, he says, "Ah, dang it! Well, I'm out of here. Goodbye, everyone!" and leaves through the window. Since her return to the age of 18, he is once again interested, as seen in "Wizard Battle."

Despite the awkward nature of their relationship, they are capable of being civil and even hanging out. This is shown in the ending of "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II" when the Ice King and Princess Bubblegum sat next to each other drinking hot cocoa. Although the Ice King was annoyed by Princess Bubblegum also being close to Finn, she didn't seem to mind the Ice King being so near her. This indicates that perhaps he has learned some restraint, and Princess Bubblegum does not dislike his company as much as she used to.

She likely still strongly dislikes the Ice King after he stole part of her head in "Princess Monster Wife." However, she describes the Ice King, in "Lady & Peebles," as not usually being "a serious threat." She saves the Ice King at the end of the episode, giving him a new heart after she defeated Ricardio. She didn't appear to show malice towards him, and said "please" before asking him to stop being annoying and to leave.

Flame Princess
In "Burning Low," Princess Bubblegum reveals that she had Flame King contain his daughter, Flame Princess, in a lantern because she is physically unstable; if she were to experience extreme romance she could cause a catastrophic meltdown of the planet. Princess Bubblegum seems to be okay with Finn having a relationship with her, although she feels sorry for them both.