Forum:Princess Bubblegum: evil or at least not good?

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(My apologies If something like this has already been posted, I checked and didn't see anything similar).

This idea got sparked from an archived 4chan thread I found a while back, when I first got into over-analyzing the show, and has really stuck with me.

The more I watch and re-watch the show, I keep feeling like Princess Bubblegum really isn't all that good. Maybe even outright bad.

Peppermint Butler is her right hand man, and (as others have stated), there are several things about him that definitely tip the scales at least towards mildly evil.

There's a bunch of things about Bubblegum that, to me at least, make her seem like not exactly the nicest candyperson about either. Her total loathing for the Duke of Nuts is a little overboard, she frequently sends Finn and Jake out to do something with little to no explanation, there are countless events where she most definitely is using Finn's crush on her to manipulate him, however mildly.

And then there's the episode where they've got to get the Ice King's wails of pain (can't remember the name offhand). I didn't catch this, my boyfriend did, but then I couldn't get the idea out of my head.

When Finn and Jake first see her, she's wearing that plague doctor's mask and spraying some kind of unpleasant looking gas all over the place. Presumably, to counteract the freezer-burn plague, right?

Well, here's something intriguing. When the Ice King 'made it snow', wasn't she standing right there, and is totally unaffected? She also has the book, and has her super-science knowledge, so wouldn't she most likely also know about the freezer-burn and how it would be cured? She, at least to me, seems almost too willing to torture the Ice King, and here's another event of her sending F&J out to do something. And not only does she give them zero reason for it, its something pretty questionable, at least to Finn.

Also, how many times have her 'experiments' gone really freaking awry?

There's also one line in the "Ricardio" episode that really caught me as just unnecessarily...rude.

Right after everything is resolved, she says something to Finn to the effect of "Now that Ricardio is gone, you don't have to be jealous anymore". The subtext, to me, being that Finn is really kind of replacable, at least in any relationship (friendly or otherwise) way.

Then there's the whole thing with the Lich, I'm probably in a huge minority here, but I keep thinking maybe the Lich is a red herring of sorts. I still think (it'd be hard not to with all the evidence right there) that he's pretty damn bad, probably one of the biggest bad guys (at least mentioned so far) in the Adventure Time universe, but something about her having him locked up just feels weird. I probably missed some integral piece of information that absolutely kicks my theory's ass, if so, by all means point it out ('cause I'd rather be proven wrong than to be going about, touting some totally unfounded crazy talk).

TL;DR Princess Bubblegum is really kind of insidious at times, at least in my opinion.

Four rusted horses 20:45, June 29, 2012 (UTC)