Jake

Jake is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Jake was conceived when his parents, Joshua and Margaret, were on an investigation tracking down a shape-shifting creature in the forest near

Tree Trunks's house. During the investigation, they were attacked by the creature, and it bit Joshua on the head. Jake was later born from the pustule that formed from the bite on his father's head and was taken in by Joshua and Margaret to live alongside their natural-born son Jermaine. It is inferred that Jake's Stretchy Powers that he has had since he was a puppy are a result of his biological relationship with the shape-shifting creature, although Jake himself never learned this until the creature (revealing his name to be Warren Ampersand) returned in "Jake the Starchild." Before this point, Jake believed he had gained his powers from rolling in mud as a puppy. Little is revealed of Jake's past with his family. At some point, when Jake and Jermaine were still infants, Joshua and Margaret found a human baby named Finn abandoned in the woods, raising him as their own. Jake would develop a lifelong friendship with Finn over the years. Joshua was known to push his three sons to be tough, while Margaret was often more protective and nurturing towards them. Jake regardless generally holds fond memories of being raised by them in their old house.

Sometime around Joshua and Margaret's deaths, Jake moved into the Tree Fort with Finn while Jermaine stayed at their parents' house. For a while, Jake was known to be a successful criminal until he retired to take part in a more respectable life as an adventurer with Finn, later settling down with Lady Rainicorn to become a father.

Outside of Ooo, he is also a member of the New Action Squad. He usually goes on adventures with Finn and Sora.

## **APPEARANCE**

Jake can morph into all sorts of fantastic shapes with his powers, but typically takes the form of an average sized yellow-orange bulldog. As revealed in "Donny," he wears transparent pants made of spider webs spun by pixies. In "What Was Missing," he borrows the pair of pants that Marceline wore in "It Came from the Nightosphere."

In the animated short, he looked very similar to how he does now, but his eyes stayed the same throughout the episode, and his hands had no fingers except for when he was meditating.

In earlier seasons, Jake's design was drawn more thin and streamlined, but as the series progressed, he became more textured and bulbous, to add a realistic appeal.

Due to a curse placed upon him by a wizard some point before the series began, his innards emit a vanilla odor, as stated by him in "The Silent King."

After the events of *Elements*, Jake has turned into a giant, blue-skinned, five-eyed monster that resembles a hybrid between his former self, and Warren Ampersand which is his true form. However, he quickly got changed back into his smaller, two-eyed, yellow self in "Abstract." It was later revealed in "Come Along With Me" that Jake is able to change between his shapeshifter alien form and his dog form.

## **PERSONALITY**

Jake is generally laid-back and tends not to worry about things. He relies heavily on his powers (or Finn) to get him out of any dangerous predicament. While he often cracks jokes at serious times, Jake always has a lecture or a song to cheer Finn up if he is feeling disheartened. Acting as Finn's world-wise mentor, Jake is always willing to give input and advice about a situation, but his suggestions are usually inconsistent, ranging from encouraging and helpful suggestions to ridiculous nonsense. He can be somewhat irresponsible at times, frequently leaving Finn to fight most of a battle on his own, but he always pulls through when he is needed most.

Jake may be dyslexic, as evidenced by the fact that he writes backward, as shown on his note to Finn in "Storytelling." However, Finn also writes backwards in several episodes, indicating that this may be the result of Joshua and Margaret's parenting style or a common mistake in the Land of Ooo. Jake is easily persuaded into doing dangerous and irresponsible things, as in "The Limit" when he states that he will do anything if someone says his name three times.

Jake loves to eat. He likes junk food, especially pie, burgers, and ice cream, but he has stated in "Slumber Party Panic" that eating chocolate or fudge would probably kill him, much like a normal dog. He is not afraid to try new foods (as seen in "Her Parents") and invents many of his own foods. There is evidence of his ability to cook; he makes Korean food for Finn at the beginning of "Apple Thief," and he cooked all the food that he used to make the Everything Burrito. He made coffee in "Beautopia," bacon pancakes in "Burning Low" and also scrambled eggs in "Frost & Fire." He used his cooking skills to create an incredible sandwich in "Time Sandwich" that contained several unusual and original ingredients such as lobster soul and a bird from the kitchen window.

Jake also possesses symptoms of ADHD. He can literally forget about a conversation in a moment and start doing something completely unrelated, such as putting an ice cream cone in a toaster. This is shown in "Power Animal" when he gets continually distracted by his surroundings while looking for Finn. Cinnamon Bun summarizes it quite nicely, saying, "Jake, you don't really focus at all." This is also shown in "Burning Low," when he falls asleep twice: once when Princess Bubblegum is trying to explain why Finn cannot be with Flame Princess, and again when Finn tries to get poetry ideas from him.

## **TRIVIA**

* Jake is a Bulldog. Therefore, his family and very likely the dog pictured with Bob are the same breed.
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* Jake writes a newspaper column titled *Begs the Question*.
* In "Daddy's Little Monster" Jake is able to use his Stretchy Powers to change the shape and increase the number of his teeth.
* Jake wears transparent pants spun from spider webs by pixies, as seen in the episode "Donny."
* Jake has an eye patch collection, as seen in the episode "The Jiggler"; however, due to the events of the episode, their condition is no longer mint.
* Jake stars in the Double Rainbow promo where there are two Rainicorns as the double rainbow.
* According to Jake in the *Legends of Ooo* game, he does not like touching Slime Princess.
* In the game *Legends of Ooo*, he says that he bathes once a year.
* In the episode "The Silent King," Jake reveals that his insides were cursed to smell like vanilla by a wizard.
* Jake's gender/species-swapped character is Cake.
* Jake has a bio suit in the game *Project Exonaut*.
* Jake gets annoyed or even angered when Finn plays his viola badly, as seen in the episode "Gut Grinder."
* Both he and Finn are afraid of spiders as seen in the episode "Marceline's Closet."
* In the episode "Return to the Nightosphere," it is revealed that Jake knows at least one Japanese phrase.
* In "Sons of Mars," it is mentioned by Grob Gob Glob Grod that he was prophesied to meet them.
* In "The Hard Easy," Jake has a pocket (in his skin/fur) when he kept the lollipop bag the mudscamps gave them.
* In the alternate universe into which Finn travels at the end of "The Lich," Finn's family pet is a non-magical dog named Jake that looks nearly identical to normal Jake.