Revealing GOLB's Secret True Purpose in Adventure Time

Dive into the world of Adventure Time and discover the enigma that is GOLB! Explore this mysterious character's powers, origins, and influence on the Land of Ooo. Get ready for an epic journey through dimensions, battles, and a wild theory that might change how you see GOLB forever!
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[Neotenico]

I think you're onto it when you say he "restores order." My perspective was always that Golb is the embodiment of entropy. It isn't really good or evil, it simply consumes and eventually will bring everything in the cosmos back to nothing. It's not a desire to maintain order in the sense that Golb sees people breaking the cosmic rules. It's more that Golb is simply a manifestation of the end of everything.

[calamityatom]

I think Golb isn't.. exactly an all powerful being. But he also does not stand within time or reality. What if.. he represents the end. Not of life, but of existence. He cleans up dead universes, corrects cataclysmic Universal events. The Lich mentioned he is a Scholar of Golb, and is the embodiment of an inevitable death. What if he only follows one aspect of Golb, where the thing itself represents Chaos and an End of Chaos.

[cormacsmall]

I think you said in another video that the reason finn bumped into Golb as he left the pillow world may have been because he was on his way to consume that universe. I like this theory because it makes sense as Finn and Jake would have dismantled the pillow fort, which would destroy the universe.

After your theory of Golb not being "bad", I like to think that rather than destroying universes, he is there to "clean up" what's left of a universe when it gets destroyed by other means.

[partyman]

I don't think GOLB is evil I think his purpose is to end realities that should no longer exist so when Betty summoned him he was only doing what he exists for. Picture it like telling a fish not to swim or a wolf not to howl. It lives beyond space and time to stop different realities from clashing and colliding with each other. It creates chaos to stop multi-dimensional chaos. But that's just my theory.

[natratcritter]

I think it’s not a coincidence that Golb is so similar to Glob, Grod, Gob, Grob. They both red, pyramid head and powerful with little lore behind the characters.

[iTrapa]

Maybe Golb is a natural force that gets drawn to chaotic worlds/individuals, gobbling them up before these potential threats to multiverse could spread and cause havoc?

[JujuToobootie]

That monster not attacking BMO once he began singing was no coincidence.

The universe and everything in it vibrates at a varying frequencies.

And BMO singing was creating some sort of cosmic resonance and vibrating with the very nature of existence.

[CitanulsPumpkin]

I like the theory that Golb is cosmic/multiversal entropy.

Think back to his first appearance in puhoy. In the depths of his relationship melodrama, Finn essentially creates a tiny world populated by pillow people. Golb shows up at the end when Finn "dies" and can no longer sustain that universe.

Golb is the being that is there every time a universe dies. His priest, The Lich, worships him and seeks to destroy universes. All of them. But Golb itself probably doesn't actually care about the universes it ends, or consumes, or just watches as they die.

But once merged with Betty all bets are off as to how Golb views the inevitable end all universes are heading towards.

[yoshifly]

One interesting hypothesis is that betty doesn't belong in this world, hence why golb had to step in and erase her. Perhaps because she had too much influence on this world?

[cencent]

This is a pretty good theory. It's an interesting way of seeing Golb, just because he's evil and mysterious for us it doesn't mean that it's actually evil. The only thing is that the Lich is a scholar of Golb which could mean he is against life aswell

[playitcool]

I love the resurgence of the A.Tuber community that's been going on

[TheJoey]

I always thought of Golb as a Living Tribunal type character. One that’s there to preserve some sort of balance and is indifferent towards any one “side”.

[EsauEntertainment]

I don't think golb is a hero or villain he is simply the embodiment of nothing and chaos. the reason Finn seed him when he dies in pillow world is because he was nothing for a second until returning to ooo

[knuckle]

Elsewhere in the show, one of the characters talks about how he will live his life the best way he knew, and when he passes on from this world to the land of the dead, his life's actions will be weighed by Golb.

I got the impression that Golb functioned as the representation of entropy. "He" is the embodiment of chaos, and as the universe expands and cools, the life in the universe going from ordered to disordered, alive to dead, they fall into the realm of Golb. And with the cosmic imagination, the destruction of life has implications in the destruction of the multiverse

I dunno about any cosmic judgements, that sounds like the kind of thing some religion or cult of Golb would include as their dogma; that Golb would judge you... but it seems in actuality it is just a consumer of order. Betty Simon and Finn didn't seem to get any sort of audience or trial; though they are still alive when he swallows them. Maybe it's different for ghosts/souls.

There is one thing i could think of for cosmic judgements; perhaps when Golb consumes you, and you are stripped down as you are digested, perhaps your essence is excreted through some psychic mechanism and is placed inyour afterlife in the appropriate dead world... the various dead worlds are the only judgement/dividing metrics I could think of involving the afterlife.

What gets REALLY weird is what happens to the form of the universe, and to Golb Itself, when everything loses the last erg of energy, do the monsters return? Orgalorg has his kitten child, so it stands to reason that more primordials could be created...

...showers thoughts... [shrug]

[monsterfanatic]

I wonder if Golb recognized Finn after their super brief meetup when Finn was coming back from the Pillow dimension.

"Oh hey, it's that dude that parkoured off my tongue. Weird."

[erubianwarlord]

funny how nobody considers that Golb could be the embodiment of the multiversal cycle beginning and end I.E. he devours everything 'digests' it down to its basial form and once he is full births a new reality

[OneReallyGrumpyJill]

I think the fact that Betty tries several wishes with the crown before settling on the one that works suggests that Golb indeed seeks some sort of cosmic balance - following that logic, we might even theorize that Golb might've been one of the initial monsters who actually came up with what we refer to "laws of physics".

[kenzieafent]

What's the point of a fantasy world if you dont have eldritch horrors thay reflects on to the unstoppable wave of destruction with the only way of "stopping" it is delaying it?

[wolfo]

Now with Fionna and Cake airing and seeing how the Scarab (full of Golb's motives) entire thing is to mantain order this video starts to make a lot of sense

[Fenriskoll]

I always thought of GOLB as a blind idiot god, an entity sort of like Yog Sothoth or other Lovecraftian "gods" that are fathomlessly powerful but not wholley aware of their influence or power, or at the very least live on a scale that they don't care about the small creatures around. Kind of like how we as humans cant relate or fully understand the perspective of an ant or microbe; even if we wanted too. And thats if we even notice them. In GOLBS case, he seems like an entity of chaos and entropy that simply is, like the other ancient beings with unknowable names and shapes. But it's the people who muck stuff up, with cults (like the Lich) and people willing to sacrifice anything to achieve what they desire (in Betty and Magic Man's case). Either way, I love how much cosmic horror influence AT has utilized over the years. As a genre, it really allows for the mind to run wild.