Adventure Time (franchise)
Adventure Time | |
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Created by | Pendleton Ward |
Original work | "Adventure Time" from Nicktoons Network's Random! Cartoons |
Owner | Cartoon Network (Warner Bros. Discovery) |
Years | 2007–present |
Print publications | |
Book(s) | See below |
Comics | See below |
Graphic novel(s) | See below |
Films and television | |
Animated series |
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Television short(s) | "Adventure Time" (2007) |
Games | |
Traditional | See below |
Video game(s) | See below |
Adventure Time is an American
The original series centers on the
Main characters
Adventure Time follows the adventures of a boy named
Television series
Three television series make up the Adventure Time franchise: Adventure Time, Distant Lands, and Fionna and Cake. All series in total amount to 297 episodes across 12 seasons of television.
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally released | Showrunner(s) | |||
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First released | Last released | Network | |||||
"Adventure Time" | Short film | January 11, 2007 | Nicktoons | Pendleton Ward | |||
Adventure Time | 1 | 26 | April 5, 2010[c] | September 27, 2010 | Cartoon Network | ||
2 | 26 | October 11, 2010 | May 9, 2011 | ||||
3 | 26 | July 11, 2011 | February 13, 2012 | ||||
4 | 26 | April 2, 2012 | October 22, 2012 | ||||
5 | 52 | November 12, 2012 | March 17, 2014 | ||||
6 | 43 | April 21, 2014 | June 5, 2015 | ||||
7 | 26[c] | November 2, 2015 | March 19, 2016 | ||||
8 | 27[c] | March 26, 2016 | February 2, 2017 | ||||
9 | 14[c] | April 21, 2017 | July 21, 2017 | ||||
10 | 16[c] | September 17, 2017 | September 3, 2018 | ||||
Distant Lands | 1 | 4 | June 25, 2020 | September 2, 2021 | Max | Adam Muto | |
Fionna and Cake | 1 | 10 | August 31, 2023 | September 28, 2023 |
"Adventure Time" short (2007)
The series can trace its origin back to a seven-minute, stand-alone animated
Adventure Time (2010–2018)
Distant Lands (2020–2021)
On October 23, 2019, Cartoon Network announced that four hour-long specials—collectively titled
Fionna and Cake (2023)
On August 17, 2021, it was announced that a third series, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, had been ordered by HBO Max.[13] The series follows Finn and Jake's gender-swapped complements, Fionna the Human and Cake the Cat. The series also stars Simon Petrikov, a character who for most of Adventure Time had been identified as the Ice King. Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake sees the trio travel throughout the multiverse, while also being chased by "a powerful new antagonist" who is "determined to track them down and erase them from existence."[14]
Crossovers
Cameo in Futurama
"Leela and the Genestalk" is the twenty-second episode of the
Parody in The Simpsons
"Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" is the season premiere of the
Comic series
On November 19, 2011, KaBoom! Studios announced plans for an Adventure Time comic book series written by independent web comic creator Ryan North, who wrote the series Dinosaur Comics.[17][18] The series launched on February 8, 2012, with art by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb.[19][20] In October 2014, it was revealed that North had left the comic series after three years. His duties were assumed by Christopher Hastings, the creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja.[21] This comic book line ended in April 2018 with its seventy-fifth issue, which North returned to co-write.[22]
Comic books
- Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens (2012)
- Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake (2013)Adventure Time: Playing with Fire (2012* Adventure Time: Candy Capers (2013)
- Adventure Time: Flip Side (2014)
- Adventure Time: Banana Guard Academy (2014)
- Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift (2015)
- Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: Card Wars (2015)
- Adventure Time: Ice King (2016)
- Adventure Time/Regular Show (2017–2018)
- Adventure Time: Season 11 (2018–2019)
- Adventure Time: Marcy & Simon (2019)
Graphic novels
- Adventure Time: Playing with Fire (2012)
- Adventure Time: Pixel Princesses (2013)
- Adventure Time: Seeing Red (2014)
- Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets (2014)
- Adventure Time: Graybles Schmaybles (2015)
- Adventure Time: Masked Mayhem (2015)
- Adventure Time: The Four Castles (2016)
- Adventure Time: President Bubblegum (2016)
- Adventure Time: Brain Robbers (2017)
- Adventure Time: The Ooorient Express (2017)
- Adventure Time: Princess & Princess (2018)
- Adventure Time: Thunder Road (2018)
- Adventure Time: Marceline the Pirate Queen (2019)
Video games
The series has spawned several major video game releases; various minor video games have also been released. Several, including Legends of Ooo, Fionna Fights, Beemo – Adventure Time, and Ski Safari: Adventure Time, have been released on the
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! (2012)
The first game based on the series, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!, was announced by Pendleton Ward on his
Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know! (2013)
The second game based on the series, Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know!, follows Finn and Jake as they strive "to save the Candy Kingdom by exploring the mysterious Secret Royal Dungeon deep below the Land of Ooo",[37] was released in November 2013.[37]
Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom (2014)
On November 18, 2014, Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom was released for Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows.[38] In October 2015, the fourth major Adventure Time video game, titled Finn & Jake Investigations, was released for 3DS, Windows and other consoles. It is the first in the series to feature full 3D graphics.[39]
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion (2018)
Another game, Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion, was released for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows, and Xbox One in July 2018.[40] The game was published by Outright Games, developed by Climax Studios, and features the show's original cast.[41] That game won the award for "Performance in a Comedy, Lead" with John DiMaggio at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards, in which Jeremy Shada was also nominated for the same category.[42][43]
Books
The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia, published on July 22, 2013, was written by comedian
Epic Tales from Adventure Time (2014–2016)
A series of prose novels have been published under the header "Epic Tales from Adventure Time", which include The Untamed Scoundrel, Queen of Rogues, The Lonesome Outlaw, and The Virtue of Ardor, all of which were written by an author under the pseudonym "T. T. MacDangereuse".[49][50][51][52]
Merchandise
Home releases
On September 27, 2011, Cartoon Network released the
On March 30, 2013, the first season of Adventure Time was made available on the Netflix Instant Watch service for online streaming; the second season was made available on March 30, 2014.[57][58] Both seasons were removed from Netflix on March 30, 2015.[59] The series was made available for streaming via Hulu on May 1, 2015.[60]
While in the United States, Max becomes the primary platform to watch Adventure Time: Distant Lands, there are debuts of "BMO," the first special of the spin-off series, in different countries and regions in respective Cartoon Network channels worldwide, on different dates mainly in 2020; such as October 24 (Turkey),[61] October 25 (France),[62][63] November 21 (the United Kingdom),[64] December 12 (Germany, Australia, and Taiwan),[65][66][67][68] and December 27 (Russia).[69] In South Korea, the debut was on January 1, 2021.[70]
Board and card games
A variety of officially licensed merchandise—including action figures, role-playing toys, bedding, dishware, and various other products—have been released.[71] Since the dramatic increase in popularity of the series, many graphic T-shirts have been officially licensed through popular clothing retailers.[72][73][74] Pendleton Ward hosted T-shirt designing contests on the websites of both We Love Fine and Threadless.[74][75] Other shirts can be purchased directly from Cartoon Network's store.[76] A collectible card game called Card Wars, inspired by the fourth-season episode of the same name, has been released.[77]
Lego
On March 11, 2016, it was announced by Lego via Lego Ideas that an official Adventure Time Lego set from an idea by site user, aBetterMonkey, had met voting qualifications and was approved to be produced in cooperation with Cartoon Network.[78][79] The set was released in January 2017.[80]
Other
On July 21, 2013,
Many official or unofficial Adventure Time books such as episode guides have been published.
Notes
- ^ Also known by his birth name, Finn Mertens.
- ^ 282 regular, plus one special. Ten shorts (i.e., mini-episodes roughly two minutes in length) were also produced.
- ^ a b c d e See the notes concerning episode releases in the Adventure Time series overview table at List of Adventure Time episodes § Series overview.
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External links
- Adventure Time[permanent dead link] at Cartoon Network
- Adventure Time: Distant Lands at HBO Max