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When it comes to cool villains

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adventure time has more than it's

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fair share

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and I don't just mean the ice king

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the show is littered with villains

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like memow, lemongrab, hundson abadeer

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gumbald, just to name a few

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all wickedly wonderful in their own way

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but one villain stands alone

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as easily the most evil

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and even dubbed as one of the

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most terrifying villains in all of

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animation - The Lich

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an ancient, enigmatic, and

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extremely powerful spirit

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who's hell bent on destroying

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life as we know it.

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Think of him as more of a

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force of nature than a villain.

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The mysterious being captured

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the imagination of adventure time

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fans

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and with a powerhouse performance

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from actor Ron Pearlman

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all the ingredients were there to

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create one of the most memorable

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villains in media.

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"fall"

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the beauty of The Lich is that

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you always want to know more

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and so today, hopefully I can

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satisfy your cartoon cravings

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as we're about to go on a

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deep dive through The Lich's

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lore from beginning to end.

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Fair warning, there's gonna be a lot

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of spoilers for both the

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original series, and more recent

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fiona and cake spinoff

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so if you care, get caught up

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but with that covered,

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let's get on with the show

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A very, very long time ago

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when dinosaurs still walked the earth,

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a mysterious but unbelievably

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dangerous comet was plummeting

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towards the earth

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known as the catalyst comet

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what made this comet interesting

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is that it contained the pure

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essence of what it would become:

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The Lich

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at the time

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the four basic elementals

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candy, ice, fire, and slime

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feared for the safety of their planet.

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and they were trying to come up with a

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way to destroy the comet

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the ice elemental Urgence Evergreen

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thought creating a mystically powerful

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crown which would grant it's user

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their deepest wish would be able to

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stop the comet in it's tracks

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however the other elementals

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had other ideas as they deemed

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evergreen's idea far too dangerous

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so dangerous that it could do

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irreparable damage to the fabric

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of their universe.

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"But a misplaced wish could cause

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irreversible damage

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to the very structure of existence"

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but despite his fellow elemental's fears

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evergreen was in no doubt that

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his plan would work

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being so convinced that he'd

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be successful that he decided

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to freeze his opposers in place

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and get to work to put his plan

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into action with gunter his dinosaur

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assistant by his side, urgence evergreen

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set out on a quest to find the ruby

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eyes of an ancient lava dog

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called magwood

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the eyes being a perfect power source

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for the crown

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however things took a turn

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as while the two were about

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to snatch the eyes for themselves,

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magwood awakened

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though eventually, evergreen

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steals the eyes

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and does indeed create the crown

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magwood returns at the worst

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possible moment to get even

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with the person that stole his prized

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posessions

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"oh wow, did you see that?"

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evergreen's quarters are destroyed

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and he's displaced far away

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from the crown, right as the

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comet is about to strike

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the only person who was near

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the crown is gunter

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but just as the elementals fortold

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all was not 100% with evergreen's

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crown as it can only achieve it's

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host's deepest desire, and

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in this case it's host wanted to be

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just like their master

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gunter is transformed into a miniature

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version of his master as evergreen

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is left to watch the planet go into

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oblivion, wiping out the dinosaurs

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and most of life on the planet's

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surface

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"gunther no! gunther no! gunther no!"

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centuries pass and despite the lich's

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essence being present,

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it lays dormant.

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well.. until the great mushroom war

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that is. A war that involved

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countless nuclear strikes between

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a whole host of countries

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which ended with a gigantic

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mutagenic bomb being dropped over

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what used to be north america

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a bomb which wakes the lich

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and allows him to manifest

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in a physical body

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side note- this war is also

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how we get to Ooo as we know it

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you know, all the wonderful creatures

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being a result of the countless

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nuclear strikes

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anyway, back to the lich

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throughout the next millennia the lich

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hides away studying the ways of Golb

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one of the most evil entities in existence

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who embodies discord and chaos

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this is where the lich picks up

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his nickname as the last

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scholar of Golb

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basically being so captivated by

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the chaos of Golb that he too

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wants to be seen as a beacon of

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true evil

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things didn't quite go to plan for

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the lich though as he soon clashes

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with a ledgendary hero of Ooo

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named Billy "billyyyyy!"

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who defeats him and imprisons

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him in amber, locking him away

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in a giant tree in the candy kingdom

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and this was all before the

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time of finn and jake

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side note - what a name for a

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legendary hero. also - I heard

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the guy fought a bear

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anyway... finn and jake's time

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with the lich was fast approaching