Princess Bubblegum

"Hey.... I'm a tough gum. Nothing never happening to me, never."

Princess Bonnibel "Bonnie" Bubblegum (often called PB and on occasion Peebles or P-Bubs) is a main character and the most recurring Princess on the series Adventure Time, and first appeared in the animated short. She is a scientist, inventor, and the ruler over the Candy Kingdom. She was outvoted by the King of Ooo in "Hot Diggity Doom" and later quit, until a rebellion against King of Ooo allowed her to reclaim the throne in "The Dark Cloud." As revealed in "Elemental," she is the current incarnation of the Candy Elemental.

History
Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum was formed as a part of a massive, blob-like hive mind made of pink gum known as the Mother Gum in the years immediately following the Mushroom War, which spread out across the destroyed city which first appeared in "Simon & Marcy". In the aforementioned episode, the Mother Gum served as an ally for the titular characters by providing Simon with the soup he wanted for the young Marceline. In a flashback from "Bonnie and Neddy" taking place over 800 years before the events of the show, she and her brother Neddy drop from the ceiling of an abandoned building where the Mother Gum is now resting. As shown in the final cutscene of the game Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW!, after she emerged from the gum, she learned to think, feel, and be independent. Her sentient "parents" remained far beneath the Candy Kingdom, as a massive blob of bubblegum. They were eventually released into Ooo after they were defeated.

In "Bonnibel Bubblegum," it is revealed that in her childhood, Bonnibel was lonely living in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that Ooo was centuries before the events of Adventure Time. Living in a hideout next to a radioactive river (which would later become the place the Candy Kingdom was built) with only her brother, she longed for more family members, thus creating Uncle Gumbald, along with Aunt Lolly and Cousin Chicle. She had planned for them to fit specific archetypes to create a family dynamic and make her life less lonely, however, Gumbald soon revealed to his niece that he had plans to build a candy city. Bonnie, disliking this plan, created Lake Butterscotch in place of the site where her uncle wanted to build apartments. Gumbald, infuriated by this, began to devise a plan to get rid of his niece and take control over the family. Sending Bonnibel away on a date with Mr. Cream Puff, whom Gumbald had created himself, he, along with Lolly and Chicle, discussed the plan to overthrow Bonnibel and build their candy city. During this discussion, Gumbald showcased his new creation: "Dum-Dum Juice," a serum to turn Bubblegum into a docile and simple-minded candy subject like Mr. Cream Puff. Gumbald then tricked Lolly and Chicle into eating cupcakes laced with the serum, turning the two into a cheerful and simple-minded piñata and candy ball respectively. When Bonnibel returned from her date, Gumbald attempted to transform her as well, but this ultimately failed, as Bonnie managed to cause the serum to spill onto Gumbald's face, turning him into a punch bowl. Bonnie decided that the trio was best left as candy people, as she claimed they seemed happier in their simple-minded and obedient new forms, and declared herself as their "princess." Since then, the majority of the princess's subjects she created were loyal to her and simple minded, likely to prevent any future incidents similar to the one with her created family members.

It is implied that Finn has saved Princess Bubblegum more than a few times, though she winds up saving him in the episodes "Dungeon" and "Lady & Peebles." As the series continues she learns to defend herself with science. It also seems that she has had previous run-ins with Marceline the Vampire Queen (who is one of only two known characters who call her by her real name Bonnibel or just Bonnie, the other being Flame Princess), but both of them are now close friends. In the past she created Lemongrab (her first experiment gone wrong), then sent him away to live a sheltered life inside his own castle. Princess Bubblegum also performs other scientific experiments, which vary from highly successful to catastrophic.

In the second season's two-part finale, "Mortal Folly" and "Mortal Recoil," she sends Finn and Jake on a quest to stop the Lich from killing, possessing and taking over everyone's souls in the Land of Ooo. She gives Finn the Gauntlet of the Hero Billy, as it is the only known weapon that can harm the Lich, and a sweater she made herself. The Ice King captures Princess Bubblegum and chases after Finn and Jake to get their blessing to marry her, but he accidentally drops the princess into a pit of green liquid. She is soon melted into a pile of pink-brown candy goo, and is rushed to the hospital.

It is soon revealed that the spirit of the Lich has possessed the princess and eventually warps her into a giant monster that nearly tears apart the Candy Kingdom. Finn enlists the power of Ice King to immobilize her with his freezing ice powers. Unfortunately, the frozen princess topples over and shatters into bubblegum pieces. The doctors reassembled her, but lacking all the necessary pieces her apparent age decreased to 13 (the same age as Finn at the time).

As a 13-year-old, Princess Bubblegum is technically younger than the Earl of Lemongrab and he claims his right to the throne until she turns 18 again. After failed attempts of pranking the Earl until he leaves, Princess Bubblegum is forced to restore herself to her 18-year-old form with the contribution of biomass (candy) from the Candy People and a hug (and kiss) from Finn. After reverting to her proper age and size in "Too Young," she acts as if the events that happened earlier that same day (while she was 13) actually happened five years ago. Oddly, in "The Vault," it is revealed that Princess Bubblegum, during the life of Finn's previous incarnation Shoko, had stated that she was 19 and not 18, and is now apparently not being totally honest about her age.

In "Burning Low," Princess Bubblegum reveals that Flame Princess is physically unstable, and she prevents Flame Princess's Elemental Matrix from causing the end of the world: she guides Jake to block the hole resulting from the kiss between Finn and Flame Princess, thus cutting off Flame Princess's oxygen supply and stopping the reaction (and nearly suffocating her along with Finn, who had jumped down after her). She also tells Jake that Flame Princess is unaware that Princess Bubblegum is the one who locked her away as a baby.

During the events of "Lady & Peebles," Princess Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn track the missing Finn and Jake into an uncharted ice cave, believing that Ice King has captured them. After surviving dangerous encounters within the dungeon, it is revealed that Ricardio set up the situation to lure Bubblegum into the cave and force her to marry him. After having already poisoned Finn and Jake with Zanoits, Ricardio defeats Lady Rainicorn by tying her into a knot. Princess Bubblegum challenges then him to a fist fight, winning by ripping his newly attached limbs away at their exposed sinews. She then drags Finn, Jake, and Ice King back to the Candy Kingdom on Lady's back, creating a new heart for Ice King out of "Ricardio's sinews, toffee, and maracas." She is also the first person to learn of Lady Rainicorn's pregnancy (apart from Lady Rainicorn herself).

Princess Bubblegum patches up her rocky relationship with Lemongrab in "You Made Me" by making him a Lemongrab 2, so he will have a friend who truly understands him. At the end of the episode, the princess bids them a fond farewell and they both invite her to visit anytime, indicating that the three of them are on good terms. In "All Your Fault," however, she sends Finn and Jake on a mission because the Lemongrab clones have run out of food. Finn and Jake, upon arriving, find out that the Lemongrabs have been using food to create candy people, because Princess Bubblegum accidentally left the recipe for making candy people there. Luckily, after Lemonjon turned himself into food after almost destroying the Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum erases the Candy life formula from their minds.

In the Season 4 finale, she is the first person to realize that Billy is possessed by The Lich, and tries to warn Finn and Jake, but it is too late.

In "The Suitor," Peppermint Butler tried to find her a suitor, settling on Braco. Despite of all of Braco's attempts to win her heart, she has no feelings for him and she claims that Braco will never be happy with her. Out of pity and kindness she created a robotic clone of herself to be Braco's partner. PB later admitted that she loved Braco in the same way she loves all Candy People, but she will not be forced into a relationship. Throughout the rest of season five she is seen focusing on all of her science projects and isolating herself in her lab.

In "Earth & Water," a flashback reveals that 15 years ago when Flame Princess was born, a messenger of the Fire Kingdom gives Flame King word that his offspring will be more powerful than he could ever dream to be. The Flame King tells the messenger to leave the baby in the woods to perish. The messenger could not bear to let the baby perish, so he left her with a Crystal Lumberjack, whose house Flame Princess promptly burns. The lumberjack screams in shock, and Flame Princess runs into the forest, burning trees. Princess Bubblegum sees this, and, wearing a protective suit, returns Flame Princess to the Fire Kingdom. She tells Flame King that he should not let her wander in the woods because she is too dangerous. Princess Bubblegum tells Flame King to find a way to contain Flame Princess's power, and he proceeds to do so by locking Flame Princess up. The scene changes to Flame Princess in her lantern, and the flashback ends.

In "Hot Diggity Doom," the Candy Kingdom had its very first election. The election was between Princess Bubblegum and the King of Ooo. PB did not campaign, as she thought the Candy People knew she loved them and that they were smart enough to understand the King was a bad person (which he is). Unfortunately, the King convinced everyone to vote for him, causing her to lose the election. PB, unable to confront the candy people after seeing their innocent faces, turned in her crown and left (along with Peppermint Butler) to an old, dirty cabin built by her Uncle Gumbald, which they worked hard to fix and make it into a nice place to live until she got back in business as the princess of the Candy Kingdom.

In "Varmints," while chasing "varmints" that were messing with her bio-engineered pumpkins, she and Marceline come across the old Candy Kingdom crystal mines, where Princess Bubblegum had caught Marceline graffiti the walls back before they stopped being friends. Marceline had convinced her to leave her own mark on the wall, which reads "Marceline made me write this." It is also revealed that the two would tell jokes and stories for hours down there, before Princess Bubblegum got too busy with Princess business.

In the final episode of Adventure Time Mini-Series: "Stakes", "The Dark Cloud," Crunchy (who had been mistreated by the King of Ooo) pushed the King of Ooo into the fire place causing him to melt. Crunchy then took charge and ordered the candy citizens to help PB (along with Marceline, Finn, and Jake) destroy The Dark Cloud. After that, Bubblegum usurped Crunchy and got her throne back so she could put Peppermint Butler back together after he had been smashed into pieces during the explosion at the cabin. Soon Princess Bubblegum was back as the princess of the Candy Kingdom.

In "The Thin Yellow Line," it is revealed by the Banana Guards that the first Candy People turned on PB and she turned them into monsters. It is also rumored that Neddy was imprisoned under the Palace Tree, not put there for his own safety (although this is likely just an urban legend as Neddy was not chained up or forced to stay) and they said she destroyed all the rattleballs which gave the impression that she did it for no good reason.

In "Gumbaldia " Princess Bubblegum planned for war against her Uncle Gumbald's new city-state Gumbaldia. Finn and Jake confronted Gumbald, hoping to call off the war. Finn at one point got Gumbald to like him and supposedly called off all hostilities between the Candy Kingdom and Gumbaldia, while splashing Finn and Jake with a "victory juice." Finn and Jake went back the Bonnie with a signed peace treaty. Princess Bubblegum was initially excited and was about to hug Finn, but could not look past his odd smell. Peppermint Butler then walked over to Finn and Jake, wiping them off with a towel, and then became transformed into a dumber, naked, baby-like peppermint. Princess Bubblegum then realized that the victory juice was Gumbald's dumdum juice, and he had attempted to have her subjected to it. Furious, Princess Bubblegum formally declared war on Gumbaldia.

Characteristics
Princess Bubblegum is a sentient, humanoid-construct of pink gum and has been revealed to be the current incarnation of the Candy Elemental (the Elementals are the embodiments of the four main elements that make up the world: ice, fire, candy and slime. They have existed since the beginning of life, living, dying and reincarnating for eons and millennia). Although Princess Bubblegum appeared to be in her late teens, she is in fact much older than she looks.

Personality
While Princess Bubblegum is typically kind, good-hearted and well-mannered, she can be very temperamental and has shown a malicious aspect of her personality whenever she is crossed. She was willing to break into and search the King of Ooo's blimp for evidence to support her suspicions against him, believing him to be a fraud, and went as far as to arrests him and several others in an effort to silence him; however she released them within an hour after seeing the love between Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig. She also displays a non-hesitant willingness to torture Ice King after he unintentionally infects the Candy Kingdom with a Freezer Burn Flu and refuses to assist her in curing them by screaming voluntarily. However, in this case, she does understand what she was attempting to do was wrong, and cries in stress and guilt when Finn exposes this.

Even with her kind disposition, her moral code is not as strict as Finn's and there are also hints of a darker aspect in her personality. For example, she was shown randomly cutting the limbs off of tiny round creatures with scissors and reattaching them in different places when Finn sneaks in, although the creatures show no pain and seem perfectly happy to be reconfigured. Princess Bubblegum was also willing to resort to sabotage and forced sacrifice in order to survive. Her humor is also morbid and inappropriate at times, such as when Finn picks up a paralysis poison and she says, "That's paralyzing potion, Finn! Don't touch it, or it'll paralyze you forever!" and then giggles. There were also skeletons cuffed to the walls in a hidden chamber of her castle.

Bubblegum also adores the people of her kingdom and puts their safety above all else. In her dedication, she sometimes drives herself to exhaustion with her tasks. She is also a rational thinker with skepticism towards magic, labeling it as "scientific principles presented like mystical hoodoo." She also claims that "all magic is science," and Wizards just don't know what they're doing so they call it magic. She seems to regularly organizes and attends events and showpieces such as scientific conferences, parties, and talent shows.

When she regressed to being 13-years-old, she exhibits a playful attitude and a willingness to perform pranks with Finn. Just before Princess Bubblegum is returned to her normal age she mentions that she enjoyed temporarily being 13 because she was free from the responsibilities that came with being ruler of the Candy Kingdom and that she could act like a kid again. In Princess Bubblegum's own words, being thirteen was "bloobalooby," while being 18 was "plop-dumps and waggle-sags."

After the events surrounding her age regression, Bubblegum began to feel very vulnerable, and, as she considers the possibility of living forever not yet scientifically possible, she makes a clone-Sphinx of herself named Goliad. She also begins exhibiting strong authoritarian behavior, as she starts spying on all her subjects, and begins taking more assertive actions from then onwards. Furthermore, her worry about the fate of the Candy Kingdom in the event of her demise has led her to perform questionable acts and become more of a pragmatic character; evident in her consistent surveillance on anything that could be a threat (e.g. Flame Princess). Despite the moral ambiguity of her actions, they are motivated by her desire to protect, if taken to potentially paranoid levels. This could be best seen when Flame Princess called her a 'bad person' for her actions and Princess Bubblegum was visibly hurt, showing that she didn't intended to be  malicious.

Physical appearance
Princess Bubblegum has light pink skin, long magenta-pink "bubblegum" hair and usually dresses in a puffy-sleeved flowing dark pink gown with pink trim at the sleeve, purple trim at the scoop-neck collar. When ever she does any science experiments, she wears a lab coat, with her hair often tied, either up in a bun or a ponytail, otherwise let out like in her formal outfit. Usually, she wears something different than her original gown from episode-to-episode and her hair is commonly seen in different styles:

Powers and abilities

 * Princess Bubblegum has a high-level of intellect, apparent in her scientific aptitude and inventing skills. Notable examples of her intelligence are when she fashioned a formula to revive/reanimate dead Candy People and when she created the "most perfect sandwich" that has ever existed. She has also created most of her candy citizens, Lemongrab, Goliad, Stormo, and Lemongrab 2.
 * Princess Bubblegum is bilingual, speaking German and English. As she can apparently understand Lady Rainicorn, who speaks Korean, it is implied she knows the Korean language.
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 * She is an ambidextrous writer.
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 * Her biological age can be fluctuated by adding or removing candy biomass.
 * After her hand and forearm were turned into muffins by her nanobots, Bubblegum was able to stretch her stumped arm out to how it was originally; this is most likely how she increases and decreases the length of her hair.
 * Tumblr_nypra1PL4M1ud1w70o1_500.gifess Bubblegum was observed to glow when she was calming her brother down with a series of clicking noises.
 * Tumblr_okgwpdkNQP1v4j5emo1_500.gifTumblr_okh4ndXhPd1ud1w70o2_500.gif.]]Princess Bubblegum can project in various forms quantities of candy (e.g. jellybeans, scotch mints and soda pop) through her hands. She normally shoots torrents of jelly beans at high-speed from the palms of her hand, and this seemed enough to demolish some of the structures in her kingdom. Based on her knowledge of chemistry, she was able to create an explosion using soda pop and scotch mints, and the result was capable of destroying the huge ice construct made by Patience.
 * She was able to communicate with Chatsberry through her dreams.
 * S8E22_Screenshot_22.png being overrun by her elemental powers, Princess Bubblegum became connected to all candy throughout all the galaxies. She could also transform other people and objects into candy, affecting a fellow Elemental and even further altering the already candy-like denizens of her kingdom; Finn described this as the "candy curse." Those affected were uncharacteristically joyful and sweet in terms of personality.
 * Her crown and matching earrings are capable of blocking the wearer's mind from the Lich's influence. The gem of power is also used for the Enchiridion.
 * Pink bubbles may appear out of nowhere when she gets very excited. Although this was shown only once and might have been just for visual effect.

Weaknesses

 * Princess Bubblegum's own hubris sometimes acted as her Achilles heel. Her excessive pride or self-confidence occasionally blinded her to the possible consequences of her actions.
 * As with the other Elementals, Lumps acted as a stabilizer to Bubblegum's Elemental magic and could evidently negate its effects.

Quotes
See Princess Bubblegum/Quotes

Episode appearances
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Major appearances

 * Animated short (debut)
 * "Slumber Party Panic"
 * "The Enchiridion!"
 * "Ricardio the Heart Guy"
 * "The Duke"
 * "What Have You Done?"
 * "The Other Tarts"
 * "The Real You"
 * "Go With Me"
 * "Mortal Folly"
 * "Mortal Recoil"
 * "Too Young"
 * "Wizard Battle"
 * "What Was Missing"
 * "The Creeps"
 * "From Bad to Worse"
 * "Five Short Graybles" (grayble)
 * "Goliad"
 * "Princess Cookie"
 * "Burning Low"
 * "Lady & Peebles"
 * "You Made Me"
 * "Reign of Gunters"
 * "The Lich"
 * "All Your Fault"
 * "A Glitch is a Glitch"
 * "Princess Potluck"
 * "The Suitor"
 * "The Party's Over, Isla de Señorita"
 * "Wizards Only, Fools"
 * "Sky Witch"
 * "Too Old"
 * "Earth & Water"
 * "The Vault"
 * "James"
 * "Root Beer Guy"
 * "Apple Wedding"
 * "Rattleballs"
 * "Bad Timing"
 * "Lemonhope Part 1"
 * "Lemonhope Part 2"
 * "James II"
 * "The Tower"
 * "Something Big"
 * "Nemesis"
 * "The Cooler"
 * "The Pajama War"
 * "Graybles 1000+" (grayble)
 * "Hot Diggity Doom"
 * "Have You Seen the Muffin Mess"
 * "Bonnie and Neddy"
 * "Varmints"
 * "Marceline The Vampire Queen"
 * "Vamps About"
 * "May I Come In?"
 * "Take Her Back"
 * "Checkmate"
 * "The Dark Cloud"
 * "The Thin Yellow Line"
 * "Broke His Crown"
 * "Elemental"
 * "The Music Hole"
 * "High Strangeness"
 * "Jelly Beans Have Power"
 * "The Invitation"
 * "Skyhooks"
 * "Hero Heart"
 * "Bonnibel Bubblegum"
 * "Seventeen"
 * "Gumbaldia"
 * "Come Along With Me"

Minor appearances

 * "Trouble in Lumpy Space"
 * "What is Life?" (In Ice King's Imagination Zone)
 * "Dungeon"
 * "Power Animal"
 * "To Cut a Woman's Hair"
 * "Death in Bloom"
 * "Susan Strong"
 * "Video Makers"
 * "No One Can Hear You"
 * "Holly Jolly Secrets Part I"
 * "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II"
 * "Incendium"
 * "Dream of Love"
 * "In Your Footsteps"
 * "Hug Wolf" (cameo)
 * "Princess Monster Wife"
 * "King Worm" (dream)
 * "Jake The Dog"
 * "All the Little People" (as a toy)
 * "The Great Bird Man"
 * "Another Five More Short Graybles" (Grayble)
 * "Candy Streets"
 * "Frost & Fire" (cameo)
 * "Time Sandwich"
 * "Red Starved"
 * "We Fixed a Truck"
 * "Play Date" (pictured)
 * "Breezy"
 * "Food Chain"
 * "Princess Day"
 * "Everything's Jake" (pictured)
 * "Jake The Brick"
 * "Dentist"
 * "The Mountain"
 * "Friends Forever" (pictured)
 * "Hoots"
 * "Water Park Prank"
 * "The Comet "
 * "Cherry Cream Soda"
 * "The Empress Eyes"
 * "The More You Moe, The Moe You Know (Part I)"
 * "President Porpoise is Missing" (cameo)
 * "Scamps"
 * "The Hall of Egress" (flashback)
 * "Don't Look"
 * "Beyond the Grotto" (Pink Pond)
 * "Bun Bun"
 * "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars" (pictured)
 * "Reboot"
 * "Two Swords"
 * "Do No Harm" (flashback)
 * "Wheels" (cameo)
 * "Whipple the Happy Dragon" (pictured)
 * "The Light Cloud" (flashback, cameo)
 * "Orb" (dream)
 * "Bespoken For" (flashback)
 * "Happy Warrior" (cameo)
 * "Skyhooks II"
 * "Abstract" (pictured)
 * "Ketchup" (as Lollipop Girl)
 * "Whispers" (flashback)
 * "Three Buckets" (hologram)
 * "The Wild Hunt" (flashback)
 * "Son of Rap Bear" (cameo)
 * "Marcy & Hunson"
 * "Blenanas"
 * "Diamonds and Lemons"

Mentioned

 * "Business Time"
 * "Still"
 * "Apple Thief"
 * "Marceline's Closet"
 * "Hot to the Touch"
 * "Gotcha!"
 * "I Remember You"
 * "Mystery Dungeon"
 * "The Red Throne"
 * "The Visitor"
 * "Walnuts & Rain"
 * "Mama Said"
 * "Everything Stays"
 * "Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension"
 * "Winter Light"
 * "Always BMO Closing"}}

Songs

 * "My Best Friends in the World"
 * "Young Lemonhope"
 * "Lost in the Darkness/Love"
 * "Food Chain"