Unraveling The Secrets Of The Four Primordial Elements - Adventure Time Lore

Today, we'll be Unraveling The Secrets Of The Four Primordial Elements - Adventure Time Lore

We'll be going over the four main elements of fire, ice, candy, and slime. Their unique powers and meaning behind them a long with some theories of how the elements work as well as to why the candy element was so powerful in comparison of the other three. So be sure to watch til the end in this Adventure Time Video.

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[ridgetmacaroni]

I like the idea that the elements represent the four temperaments: sanguine (candy), choleric (fire), melancholic (ice), and phlegmatic (slime)

[SnowyEclipse]

One reason I loved PB during elementa; is because I will always love the concept of TOO much happiness. its just such an interesting concept

[hattoripool]

You know Adventure Time might be one of the few shows that show just how scary having candy as a power can be. Also you know looking back this video makes me wonder if the Lich possessing Bubblegum was more intentional then we believe. I mean with the context of the later seasons it makes sense

[TheManInBlueFlames]

I wish we could have seen MORE of the slime element. We basically got a major character and their arc representing the three other elements, BUT Slime Princess basically got VERY LITTLE airtime and was reduced to a minor MINOR side character!

[CinnamonGrrlErin]

I think the other big power that goes with the Candy Elemental is Ambition/Hubris. The Mother Gum sent her children out into the world, PB obviously had big dreams as far back as her early days, the more intelligent Candy People like Gumbald or Pep Butt scheme and plan for their own reasons, and Giant Elemental PB cranks it up to 11.

[indigofenix]

I think the Adventure Time elements are specifically associated with Life. Fire and Ice are opposites, being the release of energy and the lack of energy respectively, while Candy and Slime represent "the stuff you consume to live" (sugar is the main source of energy for most animal life) and "the stuff secreted by the body either to serve a function or as waste". Just as Heat and Cold are relative, Candy and Slime are relative because one organism's secretions may be another organism's food.

Note that the introduction to the elements says that the elementals have existed "since the beginning of life", NOT "since the beginning of the universe". So they're a little bit different from the classical elements.

The Lich is immune to elemental magic because as the embodiment of Death, he naturally opposes Life. Sweet Pea's an odd entity because he is Death that has been reborn after contact with pure LIfe essence. I think it would have been better for him to have turned out to be the Anti-Elemental rather than LSP, but that's just my personal opinion so whatever.

[ktm]

5:25 PB said that while embodying a "Pure Elemental" form. Which is litteraly the elemental at it's purest having been consumed and overtaken by their respective element. Such a form can only be reached through a HUGE surge of magic, and a certain spell that needs be performed by all 4 elementals united.

Without such circumstances, and without such a pure form, it's unlikely any of the elementals could ever truly connect with their element on such a deep level especially over such infinite distances

[hattoripool]

Im not gonna lie when the show first revealed the elements part of me wanted to see a storyline where some random Villian in the land of Ooo basically tries to absorb the elemental’s powers, basically turning themselves into the Adventure Time version of the Avatar

[Exquailibur]

I thought that the candy elemental was more powerful because of PB, perhaps she had more potential than other elementals due to understanding her element to a greater extent. She regularly creates candy life and has a great understanding of its structure and function unlike the other elementals which simply may not have understood the element on a deeper level.

[PocketDeerBoy]

I think candy could also represent control or assimilation, seeing as literally the first thing that any of the candyfied people did upon meeting people who *aren't* candy is try to force them to become candy.

[shironeko]

Maybe candy is also the most broken for one thing: our bodies are made of enzymes and sugar, specially DNA (there's also oxygen and carbon, but you get it anyway)

[TrueLocalEnthusiast]

THEN SOMETHING JUST SNAPPED! SOMETHING INSIDE OF ME-

[thekeeper]

Why do i feel like the cosmic imagination is child like when it comes to certain aspects of the world. They created everything but they made the 4 elements candy, slime, fire, and ice. 2 of those arent like the others. Something akin to a child would think of for elements of creation.

[doomqwer]

I also like the elementals from the comics who seems to be primordial or at least cosmic level beings Candy being a great devourer of worlds, slime a being a infinite energy and having the great want to create but no way to do so, fire a living sun with a need to burn and ice the one who cared and is our moon and who sealed the others away and created a weapon to so again and but then went into a deep slumber.

[MuchMOofBMO]

Amazing video! I also have a request; could you consider making a community post every once in a while talking about your upload schedule/a timeline for future video release plans?

[Jonathan_Collins]

There are four elements. Fire, Ice, Candy, Slime. Seems a little odd, no? I mean, Fire and Ice make sense... but why Candy and Slime?

I feel that there is more to it then meets the eye. I feel that Candy and Slime are not the real concept behind the elements, but rather how humans are able to articulate the powers gained from those elements that they represent.

Candy is actually Matter. Slime is actually Time.

Fire and Ice are easier concepts to visualize, while these concepts maybe harder to do so. These four individuals are conduits of these concepts.

[gierrah]

So. I've been rewatching Adventure time. And watching your lore videos has given me things to think about. I'd catch new stuff in this 4th rewatch thanks to your videos.
Where the hell are banana guards from. And the banana guy who wanted to go to space. They aren't candy people, right?

[LadyBern]

Ok I've been reading some comments and thinking about why they went with slime and candy as elements rather than earth and wind since fire and ice covers fire and water.

And I think I've figured out why:
The elements as we use them are more alchemic/scientific based, think of things like playing doodle god/devil.

But as you pointed out this world's magic works on emotion and imagination. And it's strongest with madness where both have gone wild. And in the world of magic they are elements of basic emotions and somewhat fits into the emotion wheel/emotion theory.

Ice: sadness, grief, pensiveness. Polar opposite to that is actually candy with joy, serenity, and ecstasy. Then there's fire with rage and aggression. But slime is where I may have to fudge it, logically it should be fear. I could explain how it fits but this is long enough and I'm running late doing this. But I can make it work.

Edit: I'm back and although I could make the fear angle work as it is the opposite of flame's anger and aggression I realized my mistake. I'm using just 1 of the many emotion wheels. On a different wheel Slime is Powerful rather than fear. Including feelings of importance, respected, appreciated and feeling proud. (End edit)

So where does LSP fit into all of this? What emotion or anti emotional element is lumps? Indifference. LSP even unwittingly foreshadowed it when she writes it in her fanfic with LSP proclaiming 'I don't care'. As they say the opposite of love isn't hate it's indifference, and that is true of any emotion. It's the ultimate neutral emotion.
LSP is the fifth element.

Or this could just be a big coincidence and I'm reading things that just aren't there.

[InquisitorXarius]

Candy is the most Fascist of the four primordial elements given Fuhrer Bonnibel’s actions.

[melatonin]

That foreshadowing is next level with tart toatter