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The Elementals are the embodiments of the four elements: fire, ice, candy, and slime. In addition to the four main elementals, there is also a fifth "anti-elemental" embodying the element of lumps. Cosmic Elementals also exist, though seemingly aren't linked to the rebirth cycle of the elements.

History

According to Patience St. Pim, ever since life began on Earth, there have always been embodiments of the four elements. Across eons and millennia, the four elementals lived, died and lived again.

Cretaceous Period

During the age of dinosaurs, an ice elemental named Urgence Evergreen created a magical crown that would grant his inner wish to destroy an incoming comet. Evergreen calls a meeting with his fellow elementals to discuss his need for them to activate the crown's power. The three other magical beings refuse as they see a flaw in Evergreen's plan if his true wish was not the destruction of the comet. This forces Evergreen to freeze his fellow elementals before seeking out three magical rubies which happen to be the eyes of a fearsome Lava Dog in order to power the crown. Evergreen is joined in his quest by his hopeful apprentice Gunther, a mutated therapod dinosaur who is more of a slave than an assistant.

During the fight between the magma beast, Evergreen is nearly killed, but Gunther manages to distract the creature, allowing Evergreen to defeat it and secure the rubies. Despite this victory, he berates Gunther for not staying outside as instructed. In Evergreen's lab, the crown is completed with Evergreen adding a bonding spell so that the mind of the first possessor would be forever imprinted on the crown. But before he could use it, the blinded magma beast bursts into the room and Evergreen ends up incapacitated from part of the structure collapsing as the comet approaches. Evergreen is left with no choice but to have Gunther use the crown in his place and have him wish for the comet's destruction, but once the crown is placed on Gunther's head, it reacts to the apprentice's desire to be like Evergreen. Gunther turns into a miniature version of Evergreen, and begins shouting, "Gunther, no!" This is due to the crown reacting to how he perceived Evergreen to be: a man who uses ice magic and is always ordering Gunther around. Evergreen tries in vain to tell Gunther how to block the magic of the crown but realizes too late that he never bothered to teach his mistreated apprentice any magic. The comet impacts the world, killing both Gunther and Evergreen.

Prior to the Mushroom War

The elementals of this era occasionally gathered and experienced visions of the impending apocalypse. Much like Evergreen before her, Patience St. Pim, the ice elemental, refused to accept their fate and attempted to convince the others to let her freeze them and wait out the cataclysm. When the others refused, Patience froze herself, indeed surviving while the other elementals perished.

Present day

Patience St. Pim is discovered by Finn, Jake, and the Ice King in an ice sphere-encased boat deep beneath the Ice King's castle. She freezes Finn and Jake and instructs Ice King to reunite the current incarnations of the elements — Flame Princess, Princess Bubblegum and Slime Princess. Revealing their shared elemental status and powers, Patience attempts to join forces with the princesses, but they show little interest. Escaping from her clutches, Patience insists that she will make her presence known throughout the land.

Patience soon manages to unlock the full potential of the elementals with a magical spell. This works too well however, not just awakening their elemental powers but causing the princesses to be consumed by them. Bubblegum becomes a large candy being with an overly sweet disposition; Patience becomes depressed and unmotivated by her failure in a dark region of ice; Slime Princess becomes a giant partying blob who assimilates other slime people into her body; and Flame Princess becomes a huge dragon that desires nothing but violence. The elementals divide the world into four regions, one for each, and transform all the inhabitants into elemental versions with distorted personalities. After obtaining the magical jewels that belong to the princesses, Finn manages to reverse the spell with the help of Lumpy Space Princess, the newly discovered anti-elemental, who uses her powers to restore elemental balance and return everyone to their true selves.

Characteristics

The Elementals are powerful magical beings who live on Earth and each represent one of the aforementioned elements. They possess the power to generate and shape their own element in a variety of ways. However, their powers are limited by how much magic is in the world; before the Mushroom War, the elementals' powers were limited in the almost completely non-magic world as opposed to modern-day Ooo.[1] Whenever an Elemental dies, their soul is reincarnated into a new body, meaning that there is almost always a living representative for each element at any one time. The Elementals can occasionally make contact with their past lives.[2]

At their greatest, the Elementals can transform the world around them into more of their element, including people and even other elementals. Those transformed have their personalities become corrupted by the element that absorbs them. The Candy people become creepily happy and nice. The Ice people become depressed, despondent, and unmotivated. The Slime people become energetic and party focused, eager to assimilate into the Slime Elemental and turn placid when this happens. The Flame people become violent and crazy, constantly attacking each other or anyone else they see.

The fifth element, lumps, behaves as an "anti-element", and also has an associated Elemental to embody it. According to the Queen of Lumpy Space, Lumps are the subspace molecular lattice that binds together the scientific and magical forces. More powerful than any one element, it is the force that orders reality into its true shape. The Lumps Elemental seems to be very self-involved, desiring recognition for who they are, and for everything to be "real" and how it should be (at least according to themselves). Lumps is capable of undoing the damage caused by the other elementals when they become too powerful and go out of control, thus restoring balance.

Types of Elementals

unlocking and elemental powers.

Patience St. Pim unlocking Princess Bubblegum's and Slime Princess' elemental powers.

Known Elementals

Ice

Fire

Candy

Slime

Lumps Anti-Elemental

Trivia

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ "Elemental"
  2. ↑ "Jelly Beans Have Power"