Sons of Mars

"Sons of Mars" is the fifteenth episode in season four of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Jake becomes a copy of the Magic Man after a run-in with him.

Plot
The episode starts with The Magic Man taunting a deer (possibly the Stag) and notices a star following him, he transforms the deer into a telescope to be able to see the star, it was actually his older brother, Grob Gob Glob Grod. Grob Gob Glob Grod activates a device that drained the Magic Man's juice in attempt to slow him down. Magic Man then taunts them and attempts to run away. Finn and Jake walks beside a train track while carrying broken parts of a robot for an unknown reason and bumps into the Magic Man. Grob Gob Glob Grod almost caught up with Magic Man, so he disguises himself as Jake and turns Jake into a duplicate of himself. Grob Gob Glob Grod confronts Jake disguised as the Magic Man and takes him to Mars.

Finn is enraged at the Magic Man for framing Jake and demands that he should help him save Jake. Magic Man refuses to help him so Finn attacks him causing the Magic Man to change his mind and take Finn back to his house. Magic man shows Finn around his Trash Palace in order to find the teleporter to find Jake. They come across a Tiny Manticore trapped inside a bottle because Magic Man locked him inside. They find a picture of the Magic Man's ex girlfriend who mysteriously died. Magic Man then takes Finn downstairs to find the teleporter to Mars. Finn is then teleported to the Martian City were Jake (mistaken for magic man) is put on court for the Magic Man's crimes against Mars and in the Land of Ooo so the King of Mars (Abraham Lincoln) gives him two choices of death and is interrupted by Finn who attacks Grob Gob Glob Grod which causes Abraham to drop his death staff on top of Jake which kills him. Finn was shocked at what happened and criticizes Abraham for not listening to Jake so he felt guilty and confronts Death. He offers a rusty coin but Death rejects it so Abraham is forced to sacrifice himself to save Jake. Finn and Jake leaves Mars and attacks the Magic Man. Finn then notices the tiny mantifore calling him a coward and breaks the bottle telling him he is free. The manticore then flies off calling Finn a coward then calling himself the true coward for his inability to show gratitude to Finn for freeing him exclaiming "shame is his new prison." He then shouts out how shame is his prison, which causes Finn to ask what he was saying and Jake repeating the manticore's words to Finn.

Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Grob Gob Glob Grod
 * Magic Man
 * Martians
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * Tiny Manticore
 * Death
 * Margles
 * Snail

Videos
Adventure Time - Sons of Mars (long preview)|Long preview. "Sons of Mars" Animatic|An animatic.

Trivia

 * Abraham Lincoln is seen for the first time since the "Animated Short," and he is also the King of Mars.
 * The penny Lincoln offers to Death had dirt on it, covering the G and O of the word "God" and the last two numbers of the year the penny was made.
 * The Magic Man is shown to have had a relationship that ended somehow similar to the Ice King. The promo art may show that she died a while back.
 * Abraham's appearance and voice seems to have been changed. He now has black hair and pale skin and his voice has similarities to the banana guards. Also in the "Animated Short", he talked more properly than in this episode.
 * The symbols in the title card that can be identified are: Jake, in the middle; possibly, Magic Man's head in the top left; the trasporter machine, in the top right; Grob Gob Glob Grod's heads, in the bottom left; Abraham's head, in the bottom right.

Cultural references

 * The rover depicted in the title card resembles NASA's Mars Exploration Rover.
 * When Abraham Lincoln sacrifices his immortality to Death as a price for Jake's life, a gunshot can be heard. This references the actual death of Lincoln by his assassin John Wilkes Booth.
 * After Abraham Lincoln is gone, where he was sitting turned into a statue that resembles The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., USA.

Episode connections

 * This is the second time a dead world was mention. The First was the 50th Dead World, mentioned in Ghost Princess.
 * The Magic Man returns in this episode since his debut in "Freak City".
 * The character, Death, returns in this episode since his debut in "Death in Bloom".
 * The earth is revealed to have a piece missing again, but it is not spherical, has more color and it now has food floating away from it in space.

Errors

 * The picture of Margles and Magic Man has an unusual dot in the background when Finn was holding the picture, but when Magic Man is looking at the picture at the end of the episode the dot is gone.
 * When Finn and Jake are seen on the Martian transporter, ready to leave Mars, Abraham Lincoln can be seen in the Space Dome alive.

Production notes

 * This preview is the second preview to use real people. The first episode to do so was "Card Wars."