Princess Bubblegum X Marceline: The Best SHIP in Adventure Time

Fun Fact: the creator of Adventure Tume wanted them to be as a couple sooner. But TV supervisors said Not a Chance in Hell. So when they found out it was the Last season. She dropped the kiss durring the Finale as a Big Middle Finger. Saying "we were cancelled Anyway, so I'm ending it on my own terms"

One of the big reasons I think the Bubbiline in the finale works so much better than so many other 'Last Episode Hookups' is that Marcy and PB kissing in the finale ISN'T actually them getting back together. I think it's pretty clear they got together some time BEFORE the finale, and the Big Damn Kiss is simply an affirmation/confirmation that Yes, they are a couple again. Personally, I think the ending of 'Stakes' is when PB and Marcy actually started dating again (Macy's 'Now we can be together forever' line REALLY feels like a 'I'm ready to give US a try again' line), and after that we tend to see PB and Marcy together a LOT leading up the finale.

I like to think of PB's characterization as seen through Finn's perspective. In the early season he really idealized her, but as he grew up, he started realizing that she's multidimensional. Also as he grew up he realized that she's more like a mom to him than a peer, lol.

They actually make a lot of sense as partners not just because of personality types but also the fact that they're both old asf despite looking like teenagers. Both are prolly a hundred or a thousand years old at this point.

Until the kiss and Obsidian, my mom was in full denial they were once a couple. She was a firm believer that they were just friends. I was under the same impression that's what I'm Just Your Problem had meant, but a couple seasons later (I don't remember which episode) I was starting to think they had been something more than friends. When it finally came out that my dad and I were right and my mom was wrong, we basically rubbed it in her face like a couple of kids, haha (all in good fun of course).

I can just imagine how all of the writers collectively sighed in relief when they were allowed to make them kiss, it would've been so frustrating to put so much time into them as individual characters and their backstory together to just leave as friends

obsidian has been out for like 2 years now, and that episode still hits me so hard. it made my inner child so unbelievably happy

We needed this precident to be set. Canon Bubbline is like water in the desert. Their relationship was handled so well even if it wasn't meant to exist in the first place. I hope they set the tone for all future lesbian couples, I love them so much

Honestly, the fact that these two had a thing for each other went over my head for the first few years/seasons honestly

I absolutely HATE when people say this relationship came out of nowhere or that they just “made them lesbians and ruined the show” or some shit, it’s like no bruh, you just weren’t paying attention 💀

23:41 the whole “I think I’ve been tired for a long time” just always hits me really hard because I remember that they’re both basically immortal

It deeply saddens me that i will probably never experience anything close to the love these two have for each other.

I did love Marceline and Bubblegum's relationship. It is perhaps the most mature one in Western Animation (that includes Adult Animation), seeing why they broke up and then managed to get together again after working on themselves is something I think people, not just kids need to see to form actual healthy relationships in the future.

I want to bring this up. One of the biggest reactions to seeing Marcy and Bonnie kiss in the finale was along the lines of: “Man, poor Finn. His two crushes got together instead of getting with him. That’s a rough L to take.” Excuse me, what? If you watched the show, Finn stopped having romantic feelings towards Bubblegum a LOOOOOOONG time before the finale. They were good friends for a while and he literally saw her as “one of the boys”. And Finn NEVER had romantic feelings towards Marceline in any fashion at any point in the show. He even says this when he was asking to go to the movies with her when he was like 13. Knowing the mature young man that he was at the end of the show, Finn was probably elated that two of his closest friends were able to come together as a couple. People were so focused on their own shipping agendas that they didn’t even recognize what a beautiful and organic moment Marceline and Bubblegum finally coming together was. Their whole story is pure magic.

i ship Finn with therapy

The growth from season 1 is maybe my favorite growth in tv history simply because the show was released for kids and had the appeal of fantasy and it fits all those classic tropes that were perfect for someone's childhood imagination before maturing and breaking those tropes, while still having the tropes there they would explain the issues with them or that it's not realistic and that even fantasy has its problems and that people must go through change and that growing up has so much beauty behind it. Also adds to why the credit's theme and final song of the show go from never wanting to grow up to growing up and learning from those memories.

Surprisingly this relationship between a vampire and a bubble gum felt more human than other shows I’ve seen

Am I the only one who feels like Marceline was intentionally trying to screw Finn's chance with Bubblegum? I mean she made him do absolutely horrible stuff and I just can't believe she genuinely thought it was a good idea. I think she was actually scared Finn would take Bubblegum and then he will never let go of her.

I think this is a great ship. It isn't rushed, like in other shows. After all, love takes time.

“Shes got daddy issues TWICE” This is js a perfect way to explain marceline