What you need to know from Adventure Time’s end to watch Fionna and Cake

You can also find out more about Adventure Time’s finale aired in 2018, many fans suspected it wasn’t You can also find out more about the following:The end. And there is “some amazing force outside of time to take us back to where we were.” Viewers were invited back to the Land of Ooo in 2020-2021 for a four-part limited series, Distant LandsThe answer to some of the lingering question about Finn, Jake and their friends’ fate was revealed in. Now there’s a spin-off. Adventure Time Fionna and Cake, is set to debut on Max this week, following Finn and Jake’s gender-bent counterparts on a new quest. So… where did the original show leave off? What should people know about the original series before they jump into this new one?

You can also find out more about Adventure TimeWhen it premiered in 2010 on Cartoon Network, its premise was pretty simple: A boy in human form and his dog in shape-shifting go on adventures to a fantasy world. Simple! The series started episodically with seemingly inane subplots. But over 10 seasons, and the final miniseries it became a cohesive whole. It was able to coalesce into a cohesive story, though dense. The Land of Ooo, more than 1,000 years before the series’ events began, was a planet similar to Earth. But the “Mushroom War,” a cataclysmic nuclear event, destroyed civilization, creating mutated humanoid beings like an immortal princess made of bubblegum and a sentient gaming console. Over the years, the beloved series built on that lore considerably, transforming from a whimsical Dungeons & Dragons-inspired children’s cartoon to an ambitious meditation on life, loss, and connection enjoyed by teens and adults as well as kids.

Finn and Jake go on adventures in the postapocalyptic, battling increasingly dangerous threats. They make friends, but also enemies. During their years of adventures, they learn where all the humans went, what Ice King’s deal is, whether Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen are really “just friends,” and where beings go when they die. It would be impossible for us to keep track of all the alternate timelines and worlds that are outside space-time. Everything is better with a little helpThere are a few surprises in this series but it’s pretty obvious how the story ends.

[Ed. note: The rest of this post contains spoilers for Adventure Time.]

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Last season is the last one before The Great Gum War. After feeling lonely, Princess Bubblegum (ruler of the Candy Kingdom) created Gumbald, her Uncle, out of candy. In the following years, the relationship between the two has deteriorated. In the last season, Gumbald creates the city-state Gumbaldia which is able to declare war against the Candy Kingdom.

During the battle, Ice King (the human Simon Petrikov, who has lost his memory and sense of morality due to the magical crown he wears that gives him his ice powers) and his former fiancée, Betty, accidentally summon GOLB, a godlike entity embodying chaos and disorder, which ups the stakes of the scuffle considerably.

Ice King is reverted to human form, along with Betty and Finn. His memory will be permanently restored. Betty merges into GOLB, leaving Ooo to save Finn and Simon. After more than 1,000 year of living in islands, humans have returned to Ooo. Finn and Jake’s close friend BMO (the aforementioned sentient video game console) outlives nearly everyone and recounts these events to future Oovians, Beth and Shermy, in the series finale.

You can also find out more about the following: Distant Lands, we learn that Finn and Jake both die eventually, and after finding each other again in the Land of the Dead, they’re reincarnated (as what, no one knows), presumably fated to go on more adventures together. Marci, Princess Bubblegum, and Simon share their lives together following the events in the main series. Simon appears to be visiting wearing his Gunther-like slippers and his old blue gown.

So where do Fionna and Cake — the protagonists of the new spinoff — fit into all of this? Both are human girls. The latter is also a shapeshifting feline. In the world Adventure TimeIce King created these gender-swapped Finn and Jake versions for his fanfiction. Natasha Allegri, a storyboard reviser and character designer on Earth, created the characters. Pendleton Ward was so impressed by the online response to Fionna’s and Cake’s drawings that they decided to create a full-length film. Adventure Time’s creator, decided to add them to the series.

While we don’t know much about Adventure Time Fionna and CakeSimon is also returning to the series, despite what was shown in the Aug. 17, 2017 trailer. The official synopsis on Max teases a “multiverse-hopping journey of self-discovery,” a “powerful new foe,” and special appearances from other Adventure Time characters. It’s sure to be mathematical!

Adventure Time Fionna and CakeMax premieres two episodes on August 31.