Adventure Time became a Cartoon Network hit in no time, thanks to its action-packed comedy
and often optimistic world views.
But the show has significantly changed over the seasons, with writers introducing prominent
adult themes and some strangely dark moments.
In this list, we bring you the ten darkest moments from Adventure Time.
Kicking off the list, we have the episode titled Red Starved.
This episode from season five will certainly remind you of the horror associated with blood-thirsty
vampires.
It will leave you just as terrified of suffocating caves.
Titled “Red Starved”, this episode shows Finn’s desperate attempts to find a red
object for Marceline, the Vampire Queen, before she feeds on his friend Jake.
While still staying in the scary underground sand city, Finn continues his search while
Jake tries to calm Marceline’s hunger.
That is, until the creepy vampire lets out an evil laugh, telling him that she can’t
control herself any longer.
As if this wasn’t dark enough for young audiences, the episode goes ahead to show
the Vampire Queen grabbing Princess Bubblegum before biting and draining her.
Next up is the episode where Finn watches his town burn.
Another dark moment from the cartoon’s history is from season five when Finn enters an alternate
universe where his family and town still exist.
Also, in this universe, Jake means nothing more than a pet dog.
The scene shows what Finn’s life would look like if the Mushroom Bomb never exploded or,
in other words, what his town would look like set on fire.
While the local thugs in The Destiny Gang cheer “Destiny!
Destiny!” the rest of the village gets engulfed by flames, including Finn’s helpless parents
and younger siblings.
More surprisingly, Finn watches this disturbing and horrifying sight as his family is gradually
reduced to ashes.
Although he eventually finds his way out of the unforgettable alternate universe and returns
to his actual timeline, it’s hard to ignore how frightening the fire scene was, especially
for kids.
Moving on, we also see Prince Cookie commits suicide.
There’s probably nothing darker than someone willingly ending their life with their own
hands.
And, it’s something you’d never expect to see on a kids’ cartoon.
This is why viewers were left in shock when Prince Cookie commits suicide in season four
of Adventure Time.
After holding the residents of Candy Kingdom hostage, Princess Cookie expresses how deeply
upset he is because of Princess Bubblegum making fun of his dreams of becoming a princess.
As a result, Jake feels sorry for him and tries to help him escape.
However, Princess Cookie becomes extremely disheartened and agrees that he’ll never
be a princess.
To avoid being sent to prison by the Banana Guards, he attempts to kill himself by falling
backward off a cliff, dropping steadily through the air.
Princess Cookie survives the fall, and he is later re-assembled at the Candy Kingdom
Mental Hospital.
Nonetheless, the suicide scene was definitely too much even for adults, let alone young
children.
Featured on the list is the moment when The Earl of Lemongrab eats his clone alive.
Next on the list is a wild, dark scene where the earl of Lemongrab goes all violent and
crazy on his clone, Lemongrab 2.
The two identical characters are first shown playing with their ‘son,’ Lemonsweets,
which is nothing more than a toy doll.
Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 soon find themselves in a heated argument, where one of them wants
to put Lemonsweets to bed while the other one wants it to dance.
The Earl of Lemongrab forcefully makes the toy doll dance and even says that they both
hate the clone.
This instantly angers Lemongrab 2 then tries to snatch the doll away.
After some majorly intense fighting, Lemonsweets breaks into pieces after shattering on the
floor.
At this point, Lemongrab is more furious than ever and can no longer control the hate he
has for his clon.
So, he chooses to do something petrifying that most Adventure Time fans were definitely
not ready for.
With his fang-like teeth, he jumps on Lemongrab 2 and eats him alive while the clone continues
screaming in agony.
Included in our ten darkest moments comes from an episode titled The Creeps.
For all those who haven’t watched season three’s “The Creeps,” do not underestimate
this episode because its title isn’t an exaggeration.
The episode follows Finn, Jake, and some other friends attending a dinner with a mysterious
host, who later reveals itself as a murderous ghost.
The host aims to possess the body of one guest to kill everyone else.
Soon, the night changes from a masquerade party into a scary whodunit as the guests
start getting murdered one by one.
From flickering lights to a terrifying skeleton and guests trapped in the house, the scenes
in this episode are sufficient to give you the worst nightmares.
The next darkest moment involves a scene where The fruit witches eat another witch.
As soon as the Fruit Witches appear in the season three episode “Dad’s Dungeon,”
it’s obvious that they’re on to something sketchy and super creepy.
Perhaps Jake sensed this too, which is why he knocks the apple out of Finn’s hand when
the witches try to make him eat the fruit.
Jake feeds it to one of the Fruit Witches instead, which causes vines to crawl out of
her mouth and eyes, wrapping around her and turning it into a giant apple.
This clearly confirms that Jake’s suspicion was correct.
It turns out the fruit indeed was cursed.
But perhaps one of the most disturbing scenes in the show came afterward when the two other
Fruit Witches begin to eat their third companion, devouring her in a mess of creepy bones and
apple gut.
It’s both disgusting and horrifying at the same time, which is why the scene was nowhere
near appropriate to be included in a kids’ animated show.
Another darkest moment in the show is featured in the episode titled All Your Fault.
In season five episode titled “All Your Fault”, Finn and Jake find themselves on
a mission to help the Earls of Lemongrab.
However, it all goes wrong when they discover freaky and terrifying new developments in
the Lemon Earldom.
Upon their arrival, Jake and Finn come across distorted creatures, the Lemon people, who
are so starved that they try eating Finn and Jake, forcing them into the Castle Lemongrab.
The episode displays other disturbing scenes, including conjoined lemon twins twitching
in a corner and a giant lemon’s organs spread throughout the lemon castle.
But nothing is scarier than Lemon Head screaming and gradually shedding its own peel.
Another episode on this list displays a gruesome scene where Stag slowly eats Candy People.
There are multiple reasons why Jake calls the Stag “freak deer.”
For starters, this deer is recognized as the creepiest character on Adventure Time.
But what’s even more shocking is how he likes to gradually eat away the people of
Candy Kingdom by licking them.
The Stag’s orange-colored saliva acts as an adhesive that he uses to capture Candy
People.
He drags them into the sewers and then sticks them to the walls in a drainage room because
he “wanted their sugar.”
In a truly dark moment, he pulls off his hooves to reveal real human-like hands with opposable
thumbs, not to mention his ability to walk upright, which he uses for his final showdown.
Next, it’s impossible not to include the spooky appearance of the Blank-Eyed Girl.
Perhaps one of the most spine-chilling Adventure Time episodes is season seven’s “Blank-Eyed
Girl.”
The episode shows Jake and Finn coming face to face with a terrifying urban myth on a
truly spooky night.
It all begins with the two friends listening to Starchy’s paranormal radio show at the
pizza place.
All of a sudden, Banana guard calls to report a sighting of the blank-eyed girl, followed
by another call reporting mysterious paranormal girls.
This freaks out Jake, who returns home with Finn, but the two soon see the blank-eyed
girl for themselves.
If one wasn’t enough to send chills down their spine, an entire group of blank-eyed
girls emerges to haunt everyone in the Land of Ooo.
As the episode progresses, the theme only gets darker as these frightening species take
complete control over the plot and the viewers’ minds.
Finally, we are concluding the list with a feature on the Mortal Folly.
In season two episode titled “Mortal Folly,” the Lich accidentally escapes from its amber
prison in Princess Bubblegum’s castle, after which Finn and Jake must stop it from regaining
its full power.
Known as the main antagonist of Adventure Time, the Lich is an ancient cosmic being
associated with the inevitable death of all things.
He also seems to possess an aura of death and rot around him.
Besides his deadly, evil magic, the Lich also has the power to control people’s minds.
He is notorious for scheming all his plans of causing massive destruction.
In “Mortal Folly,” the Lich is freed from his prison and out on the loose to regain
power and destroy the Land of Ooo, making this episode one of the darkest ones from
Adventure Time.
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