When it comes to cool villains
adventure time has more than it's
fair share
and I don't just mean the ice king
the show is littered with villains
like memow, lemongrab, hundson abadeer
gumbald, just to name a few
all wickedly wonderful in their own way
but one villain stands alone
as easily the most evil
and even dubbed as one of the
most terrifying villains in all of
animation - The Lich
an ancient, enigmatic, and
extremely powerful spirit
who's hell bent on destroying
life as we know it.
Think of him as more of a
force of nature than a villain.
The mysterious being captured
the imagination of adventure time
fans
and with a powerhouse performance
from actor Ron Pearlman
all the ingredients were there to
create one of the most memorable
villains in media.
"fall"
the beauty of The Lich is that
you always want to know more
and so today, hopefully I can
satisfy your cartoon cravings
as we're about to go on a
deep dive through The Lich's
lore from beginning to end.
Fair warning, there's gonna be a lot
of spoilers for both the
original series, and more recent
fiona and cake spinoff
so if you care, get caught up
but with that covered,
let's get on with the show
A very, very long time ago
when dinosaurs still walked the earth,
a mysterious but unbelievably
dangerous comet was plummeting
towards the earth
known as the catalyst comet
what made this comet interesting
is that it contained the pure
essence of what it would become:
The Lich
at the time
the four basic elementals
candy, ice, fire, and slime
feared for the safety of their planet.
and they were trying to come up with a
way to destroy the comet
the ice elemental Urgence Evergreen
thought creating a mystically powerful
crown which would grant it's user
their deepest wish would be able to
stop the comet in it's tracks
however the other elementals
had other ideas as they deemed
evergreen's idea far too dangerous
so dangerous that it could do
irreparable damage to the fabric
of their universe.
"But a misplaced wish could cause
irreversible damage
to the very structure of existence"
but despite his fellow elemental's fears
evergreen was in no doubt that
his plan would work
being so convinced that he'd
be successful that he decided
to freeze his opposers in place
and get to work to put his plan
into action with gunter his dinosaur
assistant by his side, urgence evergreen
set out on a quest to find the ruby
eyes of an ancient lava dog
called magwood
the eyes being a perfect power source
for the crown
however things took a turn
as while the two were about
to snatch the eyes for themselves,
magwood awakened
though eventually, evergreen
steals the eyes
and does indeed create the crown
magwood returns at the worst
possible moment to get even
with the person that stole his prized
posessions
"oh wow, did you see that?"
evergreen's quarters are destroyed
and he's displaced far away
from the crown, right as the
comet is about to strike
the only person who was near
the crown is gunter
but just as the elementals fortold
all was not 100% with evergreen's
crown as it can only achieve it's
host's deepest desire, and
in this case it's host wanted to be
just like their master
gunter is transformed into a miniature
version of his master as evergreen
is left to watch the planet go into
oblivion, wiping out the dinosaurs
and most of life on the planet's
surface
"gunther no! gunther no! gunther no!"
centuries pass and despite the lich's
essence being present,
it lays dormant.
well.. until the great mushroom war
that is. A war that involved
countless nuclear strikes between
a whole host of countries
which ended with a gigantic
mutagenic bomb being dropped over
what used to be north america
a bomb which wakes the lich
and allows him to manifest
in a physical body
side note- this war is also
how we get to Ooo as we know it
you know, all the wonderful creatures
being a result of the countless
nuclear strikes
anyway, back to the lich
throughout the next millennia the lich
hides away studying the ways of Golb
one of the most evil entities in existence
who embodies discord and chaos
this is where the lich picks up
his nickname as the last
scholar of Golb
basically being so captivated by
the chaos of Golb that he too
wants to be seen as a beacon of
true evil
things didn't quite go to plan for
the lich though as he soon clashes
with a ledgendary hero of Ooo
named Billy "billyyyyy!"
who defeats him and imprisons
him in amber, locking him away
in a giant tree in the candy kingdom
and this was all before the
time of finn and jake
side note - what a name for a
legendary hero. also - I heard
the guy fought a bear
anyway... finn and jake's time
with the lich was fast approaching