![]() The virtual reality island was another apparent failure, and the island where Susan went to school in her flashback has since been abandoned. Alva, the old woman with the bear that Finn met on the island with rapidly changing weather, was the last survivor of one such attempt. In other Islands episodes, we see that the humans tried to colonize other islands in different ways. Leaving the human islands was prohibited. Though we don’t learn much about the mysterious Founders, Gross’s song lets us know that the humans were creating a very rigid, somewhat dystopian society, with a rich caste system. Here’s an excerpt: We had to leave our place because / The world was dying / And everyone that wasn’t dead / Spent all of their time crying / Our ways had failed nature had failed / We made a lot of errors / The Founders had some new ideas / That made everything better Gross sings a very nice explanation of the human’s history. In the miniseries’s fifth episode, which focused on Susan Strong’s backstory, Dr. While Ooo was rebuilding itself into the wild and lush fantasy land, a small group of human survivors fled to a distant island chain to rebuild society. ![]() This conflict killed most of the humans in the world, although a few well-known Adventure Time characters, like the Ice King and Marceline, lived through it (albeit as a wizard and vampire queen instead of as normal humans). Longtime viewers of the show know that the candy-filled, magical world of Ooo is actually Earth, centuries after a nuclear apocalypse known as the Mushroom War. One of the most enduring mysteries lingering in the background of Adventure Time’s rich world is what, exactly, happened to all the humans of the world? Finn was the only human in Ooo (with a few exceptions), but where did he come from, and how many others like him were there? Thankfully, the Islands miniseries answered that question - and Finn’s not alone. ![]()
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