He concludes that killing a Wish Master is a “cosmic crime” and they will be taken to the Citadel. Once Finn and Jake return with the sleeping man, Prismo explains that he is just the manifestation of the old man’s dream, and that when the old man is woken up, he will disappear. Prismo tells Finn and Jake that the only way to get to the Citadel is to commit a “cosmic crime.” He tells them to go find a “certain sleeping old man” and bring him back to the Time Room without waking him up. He dissuades them from going but ultimately helps them get there. Upon their return to Prismo’s Time Room, Prismo explains that the Citadel is a “nastisized prison” where only “real stink faces” go. – P.” This lovely, magical note allows Jake to return to Prismo’s Time Room anytime by pressing the “P.” Jake pulls out a note that reads, “If you want to come back and hang out sometimes. Jake thinks the best way to get to the Citadel is to ask Prismo to grant them a wish. Jake persuades him saying, “But it might be good to find out if you got any genetic risk factors or allergies or whatever” (another reason I appreciate Adventure Time is that it treats children like people), and Finn agrees to go. Finn and Jake go back and forth on whether or not Finn should seek out his human father. After Finn was abandoned in a forest as a baby, he and Jake were raised by Jake’s parents, two dogs who worked as private eyes. Finn tells Jake that he has discovered that his human dad is still alive and in a place called the Citadel. When Jake returns home from Prismo’s party, he finds Finn lying in bed awake. Although the relationship between Prismo and Jake is not specifically romantic, the subtext is that there is a sweet, tender tone that disrupts the typical unemotional relationships canonically seen between men.
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It is relatively uncommon to see affectionate exchanges between male characters on screen. I always am.” Prismo mirrors back, “I’m always smiling when I’m around you, too.” Jake giggles like a schoolgirl and finishes, “Feels so good!”Īlthough this may seem benign, exchanges like this – which happen frequently on Adventure Time – give pleasure to me as a viewer because of the way romantic relationships between same-gendered characters are coded as queer. Jake thanks him, saying, “Prismo! You make me happy, Prismo.” Prismo blushes and replies, “Oh, stop,” to which Jake responds, “I’m always smiling around you! I just noticed that. Prismo kindly “musters” some new cheese crackers for Jake, as since he is a Wish Master, he can do that.
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In a panic, he runs over to Prismo to inform him that the cheese crackers are gone. Jake, a lover of food, eats cheese crackers until they run out. In the unsavoury category is the Lich, described as a “powerful undead being and the overall main antagonist” of the show. I will take as my case study the first episode of the sixth season, “Wake Up.” Taking place in Prismo’s Time Room, a party happens wherein many quirky and loveable guests, as well as some more unsavoury characters, congregate. Prismo, a shadowy pink figure dreamt up by an elderly brown man, appears for the first time in the first episode of the fifth season, “Finn the Human.” From Prismo’s first appearance in the series, there is a homoromantic relationship between him and Jake.
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For this piece, I’d like to focus on Prismo the Wish Master – my favourite character, voiced by The Big Sick’s Kumail Nanjiani – and Jake the Dog, examining their homoromantic, potentially erotic relationship. Because of this, the stretching, changing, malleable bodies of its characters, especially Jake the Dog, make total sense to the viewer. Adventure Time presents a hermetically sealed world – the land of Ooo. (Why, then, animation typically represents reality mimetically is another question for another day). Because animation is completely unbounded from reality, it can essentially do whatever it wants. My favourite aspect of animation is its ability to transform bodies into all shapes, sizes, colours, and textures.