Jake

Unnamed grandmother (grandmother or adoptive grandmother, mentioned in "Ignition Point")
Beth (descendant)
Roselinen (adoptive sister-in-law in Pillow World)
Jay (adoptive nephew in Pillow World)
Bonnie (adoptive niece in Pillow World)
Finn's grandson (adoptive grandnephew in Pillow World)
Tiffany Oiler (future adoptive brother)
Erin (sister-in-law in "Food Chain"; non-canon)
Shoko's tiger (past incarnation)

### Allies

Finn (adoptive brother)
Lady Rainicorn (girlfriend)
Marceline
Princess Bubblegum
BMO
Simon Petrikov/Ice King
Lumpy Space Princess
Prismo
Flame Princess

### Enemies

The Lich (archenemy)
GOLB
Earl of Lemongrab
Gumbald
Orgalorg
Patience St. Pim
Dr. Gross
Me-Mow
Squirrel
Simon Petrikov/Ice King (formerly)
Magic Man (formerly)

### Powers and abilities

Magical elasticity, nicknamed "stretchy powers"

### Fate

Infected by the Darkness

**Jake** (**the Dog**) is the deuteragonist of *Adventure Time*. He is a magical shape-shifting dog hybrid that goes on many adventures with his best friend and adoptive brother Finn Mertens.

Due to the Darkness, Jake, along with Finn, have been infected by it. Their minds have been twisted to attack the non-infected, such as the trio, Pibby, Melira and Beta-Kid.

## Appearance

### Body

Jake can morph into all sorts of fantastic shapes with his powers, but typically takes the form of an average sized yellow-orange bulldog.

### Clothing

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."

## 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.

Jake can be rather fickle at times. A prime example of this is in "The Duke," when he convinces Finn to blame the Duke of Nuts for turning Princess Bubblegum green and bald, but later spends the rest of the episode trying to convince Finn to confess that he did it. In "Freak City," he spends most of the episode trying to convince Finn to remain a "good-smelling" foot, and uncharacteristically tells Finn to give up hope. This behavior is somewhat explained later by his confession that he kind of always wanted to be a foot.

At times, Jake is shown to have somewhat of a dark side. Throughout the series, Jake makes some questionable comments and actions that come off as evil or selfish, such as in the episode "My Two Favorite People," when he laughs evilly. Furthermore, in "Susan Strong," he says "We can rule them like gods. Angry gods." Another example of Jake's darker side is seen in the episode "Apple Thief," when he mentions that he used to "[steal] old ladies' purses" and "hock stolen bikes." Jake also acts questionably in "Conquest of Cuteness," when he suggests squishing all the cute people instead of helping them feel better like Finn wanted to do. In "Morituri Te Salutamus," Jake shouts at the cute animals to go away after saving them. Jake has a tendency to steal items without realizing what he is doing, as seen in the episodes "The Witch's Garden" and "City of Thieves." He also steals valuables from the graveyard in "Ghost Princess," but his excuse was that he "didn't know it was wrong." This could be a result of his criminal past. In the episode "Hot to the Touch," when Finn and Jake are flying in the robot suits Neptr made, Jake says "I feel like I could touch the heavens and sock angels."

Jake is generally easy-going, but certain things have been known to set him off. In "Goliad," Jake yelled and barked at the children when they would not calm down. He is also shown to take some games very seriously, such as Card Wars and Kompy's Kastle. In "Card Wars" Jake becomes visibly upset when Finn starts to beat him, and BMO reveals that when it won against Jake before, he would not talk to BMO for a month. In "Who Would Win" Finn breaks Jake's portable Kompy's Kastle game (which Jake has to play every day in order to maintain his rank) and Jake responds by physically attacking Finn. Jake is not afraid of death as shown in "The New Frontier."

It is possible that Jake has a particular phobia of intruders, and or interlopers. As in the episodes: "Conquest of Cuteness," "Evicted!," and in "Earth & Water," when he perceives that someone has entered their house without permission, and remains unseen, he is quite petrified with fear; rushing to Finn and clinging to him, or simply screaming and falling prone on the ground. This could imply that he is not a natural guard dog, either by nature or by nurture; despite his career path of adventuring, perhaps preferring the up-front adversity. In Davey, when Finn (dressed as Davey) runs into Jake, he forms his hand into a cage, traps the "intruder," and yells for Finn.

He is a firm believer in fate and destiny. Jake also believes in Grob Gob Glob Grod and Glob World. He is also not very willing to do things that require effort sometimes as shown in "The Witch's Garden" when he is unwilling to run and save Finn from Gary. His lack of effort is also shown in "Who Would Win" when he states that he would rather play Kompy's Kastle than train. Jake's firm belief in determinism is underpinned, or at least is indicative, of a possible commitment to the philosophical creed of stoicism. In the episode "Puhoy" Jake consoles Finn's love induced melancholy by suggesting he 'focus on what's real' as opposed to "getting all hung up on imaginary problems." To explain this he throws his favorite cup out the window in order to make it "not real" so he does not care about it anymore. This is a direct reference to the third aphorism of stoic philosopher Epictetus' Enchiridion (135AD), which in turn may be the influence on the Enchiridion that was destroyed by the Lich. However, later that episode he fishes the cup out so his belief in determinism is somewhat inconsistent.

Jake also seems to like boots, as seen in "City of Thieves" Jake steals boots from a store, and also in "Incendium" when he goes out to find Finn a new love interest, he puts on a pair of boots, meaning that Jake likes wearing boots sometimes. He has also been known to have a great love for sandwiches as seen in "Jake the Dog," "The Limit," and "Dungeon." "Jake the Dog" and "Dungeon" being more prominent seeing as how he was willing to waste his only wish for a sandwich, and choose a sandwich as a weapon, respectively.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Shape-shifting**: Jake can change his entire body in all sorts of shapes and structures. These are nicknamed as his stretchy powers.

## Trivia

* Jake is a Bulldog. Therefore, his family and very likely the dog pictured with Bob are the same breed.
	+ On the other hand, Pendleton Ward has several pugs.
* 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.
* In "The Pods" Jake reveals that his favorite food is ice cream.
* He has been to 4 dead worlds: one in "Sons of Mars," one in "Death in Bloom" and one in "Ghost Fly," although in "Sons of Mars," only his unconscious body is shown there and in "Together Again"
* In "Shh!" and "Video Makers" (briefly), Jake writes with his right hand which means he is right handed.
* In "Princess Potluck" Jake mentions that he does not like cats.
* In "One Last Job," Jake returns with his criminal group Gareth, The Flying Lettuce Brothers, and Tiffany to save Jake Jr. This tells us that Jake was once a real criminal as he says in "Apple Thief."
* Jake's behavior as a dog is running and standing with his legs and arms, barking (his usual voice is still heard), and wagging his tail.
* In the episode "The Pit," Jake almost refers to himself as "Jay T. Doggzone," further suggesting that they may be the same person.
* Although he has an extremely powerful imagination as seen in "Rainy Day Daydream," Jake is very bad at remembering things.
* Although in "Still," Ice King mentions one of the things he knows about Jake is that he doesn't have ice in his drink because of his sensitive teeth, Jake has iced tea in "Princess Potluck."
* As seen in the episode "Sad Face," Jake has an unusual multiple personality disorder, in which his tail is the 2nd personality of him. Similarly, his hand is seen to be in a relationship with Princess Bubblegum's in the episode "A Glitch is a Glitch."
* In "Joshua and Margaret Investigations," it is revealed that Jake was 'given birth to' by his dad after he was bitten by a shape-shifting creature.
	+ Jake Jr.'s face resembles the creature's face, meaning those genetics were passed on by Jake.
	+ Jake's first words were "Hello, Daddy, hello, Mommy, it's so nice to be here with you now."
* In the episode "Dentist," it is revealed by Tiffany that if Finn never came into Jake's life, he would have continued his career as a criminal and was aiming at becoming a powerful mob boss.
* He was previously in a relationship with Moniker as revealed in "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars." It is unknown how they broke up.
* In "Jake the Starchild," Jake's alien father Warren mentions he had other unknown children, this would mean Jake had half-siblings.
	+ According to Jeremy Shada, he was originally going to be voiced by Steve Little, who voices Peppermint Butler.

* Jake's character was based on Tripper, Bill Murray's character in *Meatballs*.
* Jake played the following viola pieces in the episode "The Eyes": "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (Mozart), "Moonlight Sonata" (Beethoven) and "Symphony No. 5" (Beethoven).
* In "I Remember You," Jake speaks in a Batman voice when he says to the Ice King, "Your constant harassment of the female gender makes me sick."
* Jake has a go-kart in the Cartoon Network app "Formula Cartoon," which you can purchase with the adventure time pack, also including 7 more tracks and karts of Princess Bubblegum, Ice King and Gunter.
* Jake's birth could be a reference to the Greek goddess Athena, who was born from the head of her father, Zeus.
* Jake's appearance is similar to Dogbert from *Dilbert*.

* The form Jake uses to play viola with is inconsistent, as Jake holds his viola in his left hand in the episode "Evicted!," but holds it with his right hand in the episode "My Two Favorite People." Violas are normally held in the left hand and switching hands means that Jake would have to string his viola in reverse order.

* Adventure Time released an official 3D design of Jake the Dog on MyMiniFactory.
* There is a licensed Halloween costume of Jake.
* Jake appeared with Finn in three episodes of *MAD*. See References in other media for further details.
* In the Cartoon Network game Splashback, Jake is seen as a background character.
* Finn and Jake make a cameo in the *Futurama* episode "Leela and the Genestalk." This may have been a reference to him and Bender both being voiced by John DiMaggio.
* Finn and Jake had a balloon depicting them in the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The balloon has been since retired after the 2015 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
* Jake is a playable character in Adventure Time Battle Party.
* In *The Simpsons*, Santa's Little Helper dresses as Jake in "Treehouse of Horror XXV."
* Jake is a playable character in the 2015 video game Lego Dimensions. His Team Pack including him, BMO, and Lumpy Space Princess was released on September 27th, 2016.
* Finn and Jake make another cameo in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Crossover Nexus." Jake was a stone in the episode, and he and Finn were later used as one of Ben's transformations.

* Jake is colorblind, as Finn stated in the backstory comic, "Laundromarceline."
	+ While Jake is colorblind in the comics, Finn is colorblind in the series.

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