Thusly, Peacemaster’s uncompromising nature manages to alienate himself from all company, even his own children. Interestingly enough, when Peacemaster manages to capture Peppermint Butler at one point, Starchy and friends come to his rescue the Candy people are family, and when they move to protect their own, Peacemaster threatens to give them the same treatment. Despite being craftier and crazier than a snake’s armpit, PepBut is overwhelmed, but manages to escape, and the two agree to a final showdown at the ruins of Wizard Battle Stadium. “Wizard Battle” was one of my favorite episodes, and the same kind of wacky action sequences get a repeat here, as we get smokebombs, digestive Quaker hats, Shinto-style paper talismans, pacifiers of. In fact, it’s likely he had no part in it at all, and that Peacemaster is simply overprotective and irrational when his infant child pukes in his face and causes him to crash his family van, he blames PepBut and his black magic for no apparent reason, sort of like back when parents thought Dungeons and Dragons and Ozzy Osbourne were actual mediums for Satanic plots.Īside from starring Peppermint Butler, “Nemesis” also boasts some satisfying magic duels: we get a taste of the extent of the tiny mint’s real power, as he adorns himself with spiritual armor and a flaming sword, and bends space to arrive at Peacemaster’s precise location. The bandaged zealot has to ditch the club meeting to pick up his kids, whom we learn are quite interested in shadow magic, but it’s unclear how Peppermint Butler caused this exactly. Precisely what sort of history PepBut and Peacemaster share is not explained, but it seems that PM blames him for perverting his children towards the dark arts, which complicates things considerably. He spots the hidden camera in the room immediately and uses it to deliver a challenge-Princess Bubblegum believes him a threat to her reign, but PepBut immediately recognizes Peacemaster’s true goal. Unbeknownst to his comrades, however, his target is Peppermint Butler, not Princess Bubblegum, and he’s much better at his job than they are. While Starchy and his friends are clearly no threat-in fact, they just feel like over-theorizing fanboys-it’s still nice that her motherliness towards the Candy people trumps her need to be Obeyed and Beloved By All.īut amongst the hobbyists is one called Peacemaster: a hilarious parody of the Solomon Kane-type character, with the Puritanical clothes and unflinching hatred of evil, or his own definition of evil, anyway. Nonetheless, Bubblegum’s a great sport-she’s completely cognizant of the Veritas Brigade’s seditious goal, but kicks back and snacks on pickles while secretly watching them in good humor. It’s one of the few times we see her doubt, one way or another, her own morality. When questioned by Colonel Candy Corn about the Rattleballs project, wherein the Candy Kingdom’s early robot defenders were executed for being too decidedly violent, PB nervously changed the subject and shies away. Though I suppose I should qualify ‘simpleton’ as magic is quite potent in Ooo, and PB really was a lizard in that one episode, and she actually does engage in some shady business. He’s steadily gone from your standard janitorial donut-hole (I think) to being your simpleton every-man who believes in magic over science and that Princess Bubblegum’s not as she seems. I was delighted to revisit Starchy as a conspiracy theory-loving bumpkin, who now has his own paranormal fanclub, the Veritas brigade (I love this adorable goddamn episode), which is the next logical step after having a late night conspiracy talk show and workshops. Or has he? After all, Peacemaster isn’t exactly the Candy Kingdom’s most upright citizen either, and you could even make the case that he’d brought about his own misfortunes due to his zealotry. It’s an interesting situation in that Peppermint Butler has never done anything that evil, just stuff that’s normally regarded as evil: imprisoning and extorting demons, being bros with Death, trying to swindle Finn and Jake out of their flesh, and so forth, nothing so outright terrible, but he may have crossed the line last night. Turning children into human/monster hybrids is sort of really, really dark, even by his own standards. I thought Peppermint Butler was adorable even before it was revealed that he’s a shadowy magus of the Golden Dawn, but even I have to admit that “Nemesis” complicates my PepBut fandom quite a bit. On last night’s episode of Adventure Time, “Nemesis,” Peppermint Butler’s dark magicky ways finally catch up to him when a zealot in Puritan dress vows to bring him to justice.
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