Adventure Time Explained: The Lich

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I have found myself obsessed with Adventure Time. It is fantastic, it provides me with a way to spend time with my small son, but it actually is interesting enough to make me think. This show has a very unique theme and there is a lot of depth to it that children probably can't quite understand. So why don't we go on an adventure and discover the lore of Adventure Time together.

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[classydays]

Mind the text block, but:

The Lich has an interesting backstory. He existed before the beginning of the universe created by Golb and pretty well acts as an anarchist against the particular order Golb created.
In essence, the things Finn want to protect embody the things the Lich feels he must destroy.
He was capable of reincarnating himself in to anyone if that person's body or soul is corrupted in some way - PB via a chemical corruption, the snail via incantation (snail consciousness and body being simpler) and Billy via the Enchiridion - allowing the body to be more attuned to his essence, so to speak. Everything he works for is for the single purpose of undoing creation and, as seen during his imprisonment in the citadel, had the power to do so.
Everyone, including Death, Prismo, GGGG, and Hunson Abadeer consider him a threat to the Order of Things. What these guys do is literally their day job.
It's reasonable to assume the Lich Comet was also possessed. Catalyst comets are conscious beings in their own right, either created out of the monsters before the beginning or are the embodiment of something else. They reincarnated in to someone and insert time their essence affects the nature of biological development. Because the Lich Comet was corrupted, it didn't work and became Uranium, a catalyst material in deciding the fate of the Mushroom War.
This is probably why Finn is such a problem for the Lich, as Finn, on his home turf, contained the innate ability to thwart his every move having been reincarnated from a comet himself.
The current state of the Lich is indicative of this theory.
Since before the beginning of the Universe, the Lich had never been properly incarnated - that is, he forcibly incarnated himself in to whatever and kept his persona intact, allowing him to fulfill his goal and remain immortal. Since his transformation, his 'persona' had been overtaken by a newly formed vessel whose biological material isn't affected by the residual force of a Catalyst Comet (CC affects how life develops overall, like a drop of food dye in a glass of water), meaning for the first time he had been born yep, Finn's his dad. See how the stuff is a sticky white substance?
Skipping the finer points of reincarnation, the Lich's persona is now suppressed in Sweet Pea's subconscious made from material created in Golb's Order in its purest form and is only capable of revealing himself in dreams or traumatic experiences. The Lich, therefore, will over time be affected by this and slowly fade in to another normal soul ; Finn had, indeed, defeated him once and for all. Like Finn, Sweet Pea will become a catalyst for major events to follow in his time, like how Skyrim's Civil War is decided by what side the DB chooses. See a pattern with Catalysts of Fate?
That, my friend, is how you explain the Lich.

[nothisispatrick]

first episode: Finn can't do math
last episode: War between family escalates to everyone fighting the literal embodiment of anarchy

[jalonglover]

Thanos - "The solution is to take out 50% of life."

The Lich - "Nah we taking the whole thing."

[sebastianmccabe]

Y'all remember when this show was just a boy and his magical dog going on adventures? Well...

[mista_dev]

I remember when I was younger and I literally could not sleep because the lich scared the absolute shit out of me

[hangiderswing]

The Lich says that he's older than the war- he says he came from a time before our world.

[drakeleezaround]

Me: gets this recommended

Everyone else: 2 years ago.

[theannouncer]

He was wearing Billy’s corpse as a suit. That’s a little intense for Cartoon Network😂😂

[xyl_dri]

the snail is waving in EVERY SINGLE episode

[gabrielmarks]

Everyone: Sweet Pea
Me, an intellectual: Son of a Lich

[kashsmith]

According to him, it went monsters, nothingness, universe. He's seems to be striving for the nothingness that once was. As if it is his idea of perfection.

[calebunga]

Golb: creates the universe
The lich: what we do here is go back

[thebreadman]

Holy shit I remember Adventure Time. Damn has it gotten very serious. I stopped keeping track at 2013 lol.

[mika-lwpd]

For being in a kids show, this is a creepy ass villain

[DavidGoli]

Adventure Time Lore is too deep. Everything is in loops and it’s like everyone has a set purpose. Like every incarnation of the ice king has attempted to stop some form of the Lich. Evergreen created the crown in order to stop the catalyst comet. Simon used the crown to stop the nuke of the mushroom war in the other reality and even OUR Ice King helped defeat the Lich when it possessed Bubblegum.

[plaguedoctorj.c]

The Lich: "Before there was time,
before there was anything,
there was nothing,
and before there was nothing,
there were monsters"

[LegoCaptainRex]

If u think about it adventure time is a incredibly long creepypasta

[beryyll]

Me: Adventure time is such calm and funny show

Adventure time: we can change that

[Saynt]

The Lich is one of the scariest characters ever...my wife has legit screamed at the tv when he has appeared...we're in our 30's.... this is technically a kids show

[thomashell]

Ok so The Lich's origin is from a Catalyst Comet. Just like Finn. So the idea is that after the dinosaur goes extinct because of the Lich comet, the Lich essence gets buried for many many years. Then one day, the humans found the Lich essence, and created the weapon of mass destruction, the Mushroom Bomb. As the Mushroom Bomb explodes, the nuclear waste makes contact with some sort of living thing, thus creating The Lich we know now.