Princess Bubblegum

Princess Bubblegum (Full name being Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum, often abbreviated as PB or nick-named Peables/Peebles/Poibles) is a main character in the Animated Short, as well as in the series Adventure Time. She is a hybrid of human DNA and bubblegum. She is the benevolent ruler of the Candy Kingdom and the main love interest for Finn. Her first name is Bonnibel, according to Marceline.

Originally 18 years old, she became 13 in the episode "Mortal Recoil" due to failure to reassemble her after being possessed by The Lich, and destroyed to eliminate his influence. She turned 13 because they could not find all the pieces of gum they needed to repair her.

Appearance
Princess Bubblegum dresses as a traditional princess in a flowing, pink gown with and a gold tiara with a turquoise stone at the top. Her skin and hair are varying shades of pink. Her hair is made of bubblegum, as she is a hybrid of human DNA and bubblegum. A scientist at heart, Princess Bubblegum is often seen wearing a white lab coat and goggles when she is performing experiments or solving equations. Princess Bubblegum has at least fifteen outfits, and according to Natasha Allegri's formspring, she will have more outfits during season 3. These outfits range in color and style from an orange T-shirt and white shorts to a fluffy powder blue dress and pink cardigan.

During the episode "Mortal Recoil," she has hair that falls to her shoulders and curls up at the ends. She wears a small pink dress with a purple bow around her waist and is shorter than Finn.

Personality and traits
Princess Bubblegum is a nice and kind-hearted person, and a beloved ruler. She seems to love all of her subjects unconditionally, and is known to protect them ceaselessly when trouble brews. Even beyond her own domain, Princess Bubblegum possesses a strong sense of morality and participates in politics outside of the Candy Kingdom.

Princess Bubblegum is a very cultured and educated ruler and has an undying passion for science. In "Slumber Party Panic" she tries to make the dead candy kingdom people come back to life, but ends up accidentally creating a horde of zombie candy people. Also during "What Have You Done?" she tried to fight off the plague with some form of gas before hunting the Ice King.

Though usually sweet and good-natured, Princess Bubblegum has a malicious aspect of her personality that is shown whenever she is crossed, seen when she believed the Duke of Nuts ruined her appearance, and also in her willingness to torture the The Ice King in "What Have You Done?".

Finn
Princess Bubblegum is Finn's love interest. Though seemingly unaware of his love, Princess Bubblegum cites the hero as a great friend and will never hesitate to call on him for aid in royal matters. Finn and Princess Bubblegum share the same moralistic nature, and often work together to right any wrongs in the Land of Ooo. Her friendship with Finn is unknown.

The princess sees Finn as her "flawless champion," and invests a lot of respect and faith in the young boy. In "To Cut a Woman's Hair," she said, without doubt, that she likes Finn, although it can just mean she likes him as a friend. Princess Bubblegum never gets mad at Finn. In "The Real You," she gives Finn a kiss on the cheek for saving the Candy Kingdom from the black hole he created. However, In "Go With Me," she exiles him from the Candy Kingdom after he releases a pack of wolves into her room. Then again, it was just temporarily, and he must have apologized and explained why, after the events of said episode.

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. In "Mortal Recoil," Princess Bubblegum ages down to 13. Finn comments that that's how old he is and blushes as the new younger Princess Bubblegum says, "Give me a hug, hero". It is possible that Princess Bubblegum liked Finn after her age reduction hence why her first response was to hug Finn.

Finn has a few nicknames for her, such as PB, Bubblegum, Peebles, Poibles, or just Princess.

Lumpy Space Princess
Lumpy Space Princess is mostly Princess Bubblegum's best friend. Despite their drastically different personalities, the two are often together and L.S.P. is a frequent visitor to the Candy Kingdom during many of its parties and ceremonies. In "Video Makers," PB takes L.S.P's seat and she gets mad at her, but that's probably L.S.P being herself.

Lady Rainicorn
Lady Rainicorn is Princess Bubblegum's mighty helper and one of the creatures seen to have provided transportation when needed, alongside her swan and The Morrow. In "Video Makers," she is seen talking to her before Finn serves the drinks, meaning that Princess Bubblegum may be able to speak Korean or just understand her in a way similar to Jake. She is half unicorn and half rainbow, she also has love of the viola that her boyfriend Jake plays.

Duke of Nuts
Princess Bubblegum has an outright hatred for the Duke of Nuts. Though this is all explained to be a relationship between the two in "The Duke," Princess Bubblegum still loathes the Duke and doesn't trust him because he eats all the royal pudding.

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, their relationship with one another wasn't fully disclosed until "Go With Me," where we see Marceline trying to be civil towards Bubblegum while the princess shows rather 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 minimize contact with her as best as possible. Bubblegum sees Marceline as wild and crazy, and Marceline sees Bubblegum as boring and stiff.

Ice King
As one of the main characters in the series, the Ice King particularly has targeted his time to capture a princess to marry, he mostly targets Bubblegum. Bubblegum takes great annoyance with the Ice King's actions but generally seems to put up with it mostly due to having Finn around to rescue her whenever he targets her. One of the few times that Bubblegum showed particular anger towards the Ice King was in "What Have You Done?", mostly due to the Ice King's attempt at a kind gesture to make it snow ends up making nearly the entire kingdom sick, forcing her to make Finn and Jake capture him at all costs even without telling them why she wants him imprisoned. His obsession with Bubblegum nearly leads to the destruction of Ooo due to capturing her just as Finn fought The Lich, leading to her being dropped by him into his evil power source; yet he still was loyal enough towards her to help save her life after her broken body was possessed by The Lich to destroy Ooo. It is unknown if Bubblegum's age change as of "Mortal Recoil" will change his interest in her, though once he learns that she's now 13 he leaves through the window saying, "Well, I'm out of here. Goodbye everyone," making it seem like he will no longer be romantically interested in her.

Biography
Princess Bubblegum is the beloved ruler of the Candy Kingdom. Though not much is said about her past, it is known that many of her relatives are famous (suggested in the episode "Susan Strong"). It is implied that Finn has saved Princess Bubblegum many times (and vice versa as seen in the episode "Dungeon"). It also seems that she has had previous run-ins with Marceline, the Vampire Queen (possibly from childhood). She spends most of her time in Ooo sending Finn and Jake on different quests that generally vary in difficulty. In the first part of season two's two-part finale, "Mortal Folly," she sends Finn and Jake on a quest to stop the evil Lich from killing everyone in Ooo. She gives Finn "The Gauntlet of the Hero Billy" as the weapon necessary to destroy him once and for all. The first part ends with the Ice King, who decides to capture her until Finn and Jake give him their blessing to marry her, accidentally dropping the Princess into a fiery, green pit. She is soon melted into a pile of pink-brown goo. The second part of the two-part finale, "Mortal Recoil," opens with Finn, Jake , Ice King , the Candy People , and other princesses going with her as she is rushed to the hospital. It is soon revealed that the spirit of The Lich possessed the princess earlier and eventually warps her into an eldritch abomination that nearly tears apart the Candy Kingdom. Finn realizes that his 'like like' of the Princess might not be enough to save her and the Kingdom, so he enlists the power of the Ice King to immobilize her. Unfortunately, the frozen princess topples over and smashes to pieces. The doctors reassemble her, but lack all the necessary pieces, reducing her age to 13; the same age as Finn. When the Ice King realizes she is now underage, he loses his interest in Princess Bubblegum. Then she walks up to Finn and tells him to give her a hug and they both embrace each other happily.

Quotes
See Princess Bubblegum/Quotes

Major appearances

 * Animated Short
 * Slumber Party Panic
 * The Enchiridion!
 * Ricardio the Heart Guy
 * Dungeon
 * The Duke
 * What Have You Done?
 * The Other Tarts
 * The Real You
 * Death in Bloom
 * Susan Strong
 * Go With Me
 * To Cut A Woman's Hair
 * Mortal Folly
 * Mortal Recoil
 * Too Young (Possibly)

Minor appearances

 * Trouble in Lumpy Space
 * Power Animal
 * Video Makers

Trivia

 * Princess Bubblegum was first voiced in the series by Hynden Walch, best known for her role as Starfire from Teen Titans.
 * In "Mortal Folly", it is revealed that the tourqouise stone in Princess Bubblegum's crown protects her and whoever wears it from The Lich.
 * She owns a flying swan that shoots lasers if she presses a joystick on its head forward, as seen in "Dungeon".
 * Princess Bubblegum can speak German, as seen in "What Have You Done?" and "Go With Me".
 * There is a picture of herself as an infant on her wall, seen in "The Duke."
 * In "To Cut a Woman's Hair," it is revealed that Princess Bubblegum's hair is made of bubblegum and that she loves spaghetti.
 * It was previously believed that Princess Bubblegum couldn't have children, which was disproved.
 * "Go With Me" is the first episode that features Bubblegum and Marceline interacting with each other, but the two of them do appear to have had some previous relationship with one another prior to this episode based upon their actions to one another.
 * Princess Bubblegum has many means of traveling by flight, including Lady Rainicorn, the Swan and The Morrow.
 * Even as an infant, she had her own crown.
 * Princess Bubblegum apparently had an uncle named Uncle Gumbald, who was mentioned in the episode "Susan Strong."
 * Her fumigation suit resembles an Italian plague doctor's suit when the bubonic plague has spread all over Europe in the 1600's.
 * There is a picture on a wall of her tea room of what appears to be her mother, a human woman with short orange hair and a small crown, and in the episode "Susan Strong", she had a picture of her and an old woman on her wall, maybe her grandmother.
 * She, Finn and Jake are the only (known) people who know the password to the secret wall in the Candy Kingdom (one must tickle the cheek on the wall's face).
 * She cried twice in the series (once in "The Real You" and in once in "What Have You Done?").
 * Marceline is thinner than Princess Bubblegum. However, it is also known that Princess Bubblegum is fairly thin as well.
 * As confirmed by Natasha Allegri, Princess Bubblegum was 18.
 * Princess Bubblegum has a gender-swapped version of herself: Prince Gumball.
 * It is confirmed by Adam Muto that Princess Bubblegum will have a musical number in season 3.
 * Princess Bubblegum's telephone looks as if it's made out of peppermint.
 * Princess Bubblegum has a bio suit in Project Exonaut.
 * Princess Bubblegum loves pink as seen in in "The Real You". Finn gives her a pink tray and she says, "It's pink! I love pink!"
 * She doesn't wear her crown when she goes to sleep in "Go With Me."
 * Princess Bubblegum is a nervous eater shown in Mortal Folly she ate a candy person without knowing it while she was worrying about Finn and Jake.
 * This is not the first time that PB has been shown eating a candy person, in Video Makers when Finn asks Bubblegum what drink that she would want for the viewing she replied that she brought her own: A pink smoothie/milkshake candy person.
 * Though Princess Bubblegum is now 13 her voice actress Isabella Acres is only 9.
 * An image from the storyboard of the season three episode "Door Jam" suggests a possibility that she might return to being eighteen sometime during the series. Although, if one were to look under the Trivia section of the episode page, (see link above) Adam Muto stated on his formspring that the storyboard shown was made before the decision to turn Princess Bubblegum 13.
 * In the new season 3 promo, Princess Bubblegum is shown at her regular age of 18, but this is a clip from the season 2 episode "The Other Tarts".
 * It maybe possible that Princess Bubblegum is immortal because her medical team can rebuild/reapply sugar, though the sugar procedure may be a form of adrenaline. However her 'deaths' were by accident and she had never seen real combat nor participated, yet she can still age.