The stereotypical colours for boys and girls, which Finn and Bubblegum respectively exhibit – aren’t transposed for the gender-swap. Now, Prince Gumball is pink from head to toe, just as Princess Bubblegum is, which matches with Fionna’s remaining dressed in blue. The complications begin when Prince Gumball – the gender-swapped version of Princess Bubblegum – asks Fionna to accompany him to the Biennial Gumball Ball. Finn, at this point, is supposed to be around thirteen, but Fionna seems rather older – whether that’s because Fionna actually is older than Finn, or just that female humans typically develop sooner than males is left ambiguous
The episode starts out without any explanation for the change – it’s just that all the characters are now the opposite sex, and at first we only see the visual similarities and differences. As a person with a gender, I feel that I am qualified to comment on this, while I try to work out some of the implications of how Finn/Fionna and Jake/Cake were characterized, the similarities and differences, and the overall message (if any) that the episode made on both the diegetic and meta-levels. By reversing the sexes of Ooo’s inhabitants, Adventure Time made a statement about gender roles that was at once insightful and deeply problematic. There was one episode in the third season wherein all the characters in the show are gender-swapped – Finn the Human Boy becomes Fionna the Human Girl, and Jake the Dog becomes Cake the Cat (which is an adorable name for a cat, if any of you have new kitties in need of a good moniker).Īs I watched the episode, I was at first intrigued, then increasingly alarmed, and finally alarmingly intrigued (as per G.W.F.
#Genderbent overlord anime characters archive#
It’s currently in its fifth season, and though I started watching it a while ago, it took me some time to really get into it now, though, that I’ve grokked its logic, I’ve been on something of an archive binge.
I still think it’s generally more sad than funny, overall, which is in itself actually a hell of an achievement – kids’ shows with genuine pathos are pretty rare, since the end of Fraggle Rock – and thus there’s a lot to overthink up in there (although now that I do a search, OTI hasn’t got any articles on the show until this one, so maybe I’ll write some other stuff if you guys are interested). Following the exploits of Jake the Dog and Finn the Human, it takes place in the Land of Ooo – a techno-magically batstuff-insane continent on an Earth one thousand years after a devastating apocalypse known as “The Great Mushroom War.” It’s funnier than it sounds. Adventure Time, as you may know if you’ve been on the Internet at least once in the last six years, is a show on Cartoon Network (ostensibly for kids in the same way that Invader Zim and much of Animaniacs was for kids, in that it is in large part wildly inappropriate for kids).
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