Gum War

The **Gum War** (also known as the **Great Gum War**) was a short-fought war from *Adventure Time*. It deals with Princess Bubblegum and the Candy Kingdom fighting against Uncle Gumbald and the kingdom of Gumbaldia. The war takes place in the series finale episode, "Come Along With Me."

## History

### Background

It all started in the aftermath of the Mushroom War where a young Princess Bubblegum tried to create relatives for her and her brother, Neddy. So she created Aunt Lolly, Cousin Chicle, and Uncle Gumbald and together they all lived a happy life. But then Uncle Gumbald started to get ideas of his own like chopping down the taffy trees to make a cabin and planning to build a big candy city. So Bubblegum decided to stop Uncle Gumbald's plans by making a butterscotch lake where Gumbald was going to build his city. This greatly upset Uncle Gumbald and he started to become more treacherous toward Bubblegum so he created Mr. Creampuff as Bubblegum's boyfriend to keep her busy while he, Cousin Chicle, and Aunt Lolly planned to overthrow her. When Bubblegum got back from her date with Mr. Creampuff she overheard Gumbald, Chicle, and Lolly planning to poison her with a special chemical called Dum Dum Juice to make her dumb and simple-minded like Mr. Creampuff. But then Gumbald poisoned both Chicle and Lolly with it which turned them into simple-minded Candy People named Crunchy and Manfriend. When Bubblegum confronted Gumbald he tried to poison her with it too and threatened to do the same to Neddy but was stopped when Bubblegum used her pea shooter to spill the Dum Dum Juice on Gumbald which also turned him into a simple-minded Candy Person named Punch Bowl. After that, Bubblegum decided to keep her relatives like that believing that they seemed happier as Candy People. She then used the Dum Dum Juice to create more Candy People like them so they would never try to overthrow her then she founded the Candy Kingdom to keep them all safe while declaring herself their Princess. However, hundreds of years later right after Lumpy Space Princess fixed all of Ooo from the Elements spell after the Fire Kingdom-Candy Kingdom War which not only reversed the spell but returned certain people back to their original forms like Sweet P growing back his broken horn and Jake turning into his shapeshifter form. Lumpy Space Princess also unintentionally brought back Uncle Gumbald, Cousin Chicle, and Aunt Lolly who then went into hiding then afterwards, Gumbald started planning his revenge on Princess Bubblegum.

His first action was picking up the remains of Fern, a grass clone of Finn that was created by a combination of both Finn's Finn Sword which was made from an alternate timeline Finn, and Finn's Grass Sword which was cursed. Who Finn unintentionally killed when Fern was taken over by the Grass Demon curse of the Grass Sword. Gumbald then took up residence in the old temple Fern trapped Finn in and quickly turned the temple into his base of operations where he conducted experiments to try and destroy Princess Bubblegum, the Candy Kingdom, and Finn. First, he tried sending a monster banana sloth creature called the Grumbo to attack the Banana Guards and then he tried sending baby versions of Finn to attack the real Finn which were created from Finn's own baby teeth that were sold to him by BMO and Ice King. When both plans failed, Uncle Gumbald tried to attack both Finn and Princess Bubblegum directly by recreating Fern as the Green Knight and having him crush Finn both physically and mentally by beating him at challenges on his seventeenth Birthday. That's when Uncle Gumbald, Cousin Chicle, and Aunt Lolly revealed themselves and explained their return then they prepared to attack but were backed off by Marceline and left in triumph. Cousin Chicle then tried to find out Marceline's weakness by exploiting her strained relationship with her dad, Hunson Abadeer but was stopped by Finn and Jake. Much later, Uncle Gumbald had transformed the old temple and the area surrounding it into a second Candy Kingdom inhabited by Cake People known as Gumbaldia. Princess Bubblegum was prepared to go to war with him and his kingdom but Finn and Jake decided to visit Gumbaldia in order to prevent the war. After a friendly get-together with Gumbald, Lolly, and Chicle they all decided to make peace with Princess Bubblegum and the Candy Kingdom by signing a peace treaty, splashing Finn and Jake with some sparkling liquid, and telling them to give Princess Bubblegum a big hug. But when Finn and Jake returned to the Candy Kingdom to have Princess Bubblegum sign the peace treaty the sparkling liquid got on Peppermint Butler and transformed him into a child-like state. Princess Bubblegum soon found out that the liquid Uncle Gumbald splashed Finn and Jake with was his Dum Dum Juice which also splashed on Chicle and turned him back into Crunchy. Realizing that Uncle Gumbald tried to poison her, Princess Bubblegum furiously had the Candy Kingdom declare war on him and Gumbaldia.

### The Battle

Both sides prepare for war with each of them gathering up their armies and recruiting allies to help them fight in the war with Princess Bubblegum gathering up some of Finn and Jake's friends and Uncle Gumbald gathering up some of Finn and Jake's enemies. After a few days into the war, Finn and Jake scouted something that had been appearing during those days in the war which was Betty, King Man, and Maja on Betty's flying carpet chanting only to disappear later. Finn and Jake suspect that they might be helping Gumbald and the Gumbaldians so they return to the Candy Kingdom battle lines to report it back to Princess Bubblegum and their allies at Princess Bubblegum's war tent. Within the war tent, Princess Bubblegum goes over the details of her latest battle plan to defeat Gumbald and win the war with one big battle at sunrise but both the Duke of Nuts and Lemongrab start to come up with their own different plans to win the war. But Princess Bubblegum convinces everyone to go with her plan then Finn and Jake report to her about Betty, King Man, and Maja. But soon they find a Gumbaldian spy secretly recording them with a camera who was sent by Gumbald to learn about Princess Bubblegum's plan which Huntress Wizard later beats up. As a result, both Princess Bubblegum and Uncle Gumbald decide to begin the battle right away, despite Finn and Marceline's protests to Princess Bubblegum to call it off. Then after Finn has a talk with Jake about the war, he comes up with his plan to stop it by using the Nightmare Potion he got from Nightmare Princess. As both sides prepare to fight each other on the battlefield with Princess Bubblegum having her Banana Guards, Gumball Guardians who are wearing big battle helmets, and even newly made advanced Banana Guards known as Banana Guard 500s while Uncle Gumbald has his army of Cake People, giant Cake Titans, and even his giant cake automaton called the Cake. Princess Bubblegum then prepares to begin the battle at the sound of her war horn but just as just as she starts it, Finn convinces Princess Bubblegum to give Uncle Gumbald one last chance at peace. When Princess Bubblegum, Finn, and Jake meet up together with Gumbald and Fern in the middle of the battlefield. Princess Bubblegum orders Uncle Gumbald to surrender but when he refuses, Finn has Jake use the Nightmare Potion to trap them all in a dream. Within the dream, Princess Bubblegum fights off and chases Uncle Gumbald until they both begin to see their problems through each other's eyes and understand each other's actions. This was done by having their roles swapped where Uncle Gumbald is the ruler of the Candy Kingdom and Princess Bubblegum got poisoned by the Dum Dum Juice and was turned into a simple-minded Candy Person named Taffy Girl. Meanwhile, Finn fights off Fern when he attacks him after being abandoned by Gumbald but Jake gets them both to stop fighting by getting and showing them Finn's vault which is filled with Finn's most traumatic memories and experiences. So both Finn and Fern confront their fears, free Fern from the Grass Demon's influence by killing it, and the two make amends with each other. After everyone wakes up from the dream, both Princess Bubblegum and Uncle Gumbald make amends, prepare to make peace, and end the war. However, just as Gumbald is about to hug Bubblegum, Aunt Lolly trips him onto the ground which breaks his flask of Dum Dum Juice onto himself which he was going to use on Princess Bubblegum when she hugged him. This causes Gumbald to turn back into Punch Bowl but Lolly makes amends with Bubblegum and declares peace between both the Candy Kingdom and Gumbaldia, thus ending the war.

### Aftermath

When the war is declared over everyone celebrates but it is cut short when a large portal appears out of the sky and from the portal emerges King Man and later GOLB who was summoned by Betty, King Man, and Maja which eventually transforms the Gum War into the Battle of Ooo.

## Belligerents

### Candy Kingdom

* Princess Bubblegum
* Finn
* Jake
* Marceline
* Flame Princess
* Lemongrab
* Huntress Wizard
* Lumpy Space Princess
* Slime Princess
* Duke of Nuts
* Cinnamon Bun
* Colonel Candy Corn
* Lady Rainicorn
* Banana Guards
* Banana Guard 500s
* Gumball Guardians

### Gumbaldia

* Uncle Gumbald
* Aunt Lolly
* Cousin Chicle
* Fern
* Ricardio
* Bandit Princess
* Peace Master
* Me-Mow
* Pete Sassafras
* Ash
* Sir Slicer
* Scorcher
* Ice King
* Gunter
* Cake People
* Cake Titans

### Other

* Peppermint Butler
* Betty
* King Man
* Maja
* GOLB

## Videos

Adventure Time - The Candy Kingdom Goes to War - Cartoon NetworkAdventure Time - The Ultimate Adventure Clip - Cartoon NetworkAdventure Time - Come Along with Me Movie Sneak Peek - Cartoon Network
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