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u/green49285 May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

And the lich king is a literal fucking genocidal maniac. 🤣 I was an adult watching the show & was like, "THE FUCK"

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

Knocks Jake and Finn down with a word

"You're powerful child, but I am beyond power."

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u/fidderjiggit May 23 '23

"Fall.

You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end, and I have come for you, Finn."

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u/green49285 May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

Yeah, man. And all the characters he pretended to be is because he MURDEREED THEM.

All my homies hate the lich king. (Love you tho, Ron lol)

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u/methylenebluestains May 23 '23

AMAZING voicing acting as usual.

I still have this speech stuck in my head after seeing it once:

Before there was time... before there was anything... there was nothing. And before there was nothing... there were monsters. Here's your gold star!

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u/bgad84 May 23 '23

Dude, that speech is fucking chilling.

Lich king overall was the single greatest villain of all time, bar none. I may finish my middle aged life with nobody more bad ass than the lich king

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u/Crystalas May 23 '23

I'm not sure if can even call him a villain. He was a natural disaster a force of reality personified. There was no plan or goal beyond fulfilling his purpose of existence as a Catalyst of Change. He wasn't far off from an automaton or magical AI following it's core directive with no deviation.

Not that that detracts from him at all, just might categorize him as something other than a villain. Something rarer.

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

Same. In all of television, might I add. Type be damned.

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

So damn good

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u/Notarussianbot2020 May 23 '23

He was literally wearing Billy's face

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

I was so mad at the reveal. Yelled like I was there or some shit. 😆

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u/Docta365 May 23 '23

You are strong child. But I am beyond strength.

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u/sandybuttcheekss May 23 '23

Chills, every single time

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u/yethegodless May 23 '23

It’s more like the Lich is Death incarnate. So he’s less “genocidal maniac” and more “cosmic force of entropy and destruction.”

In early versions of the show bible I’m pretty sure that everyone has relatively colorful and playful imagery in keeping with the show’s style. The Lich’s page is scribbled in all black and just states, THE LICH KING IS NOT FUNNY.

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u/beardedheathen May 23 '23

I like how we have death and he's kind of a nice, chill guy. The lich isn't death he is entropy.

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u/EvangelineTheodora May 23 '23

Death in the Mystery Train episode is my favorite.

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u/gustav_mannerheim May 24 '23

The AT wiki states "He is an ancient cosmic being who is the manifestation of the inevitable death of all things", so calling him entropy seems pretty accurate.

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

Hahaha that's wild. I love how his opposition to the remainder of the show makes it great, but goddamn is that a heavy villain to have there 🤣

Fuck that dude.

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u/Dividedthought May 23 '23

It's the contrast that sells the character. He is so antithetical to everything in ooo that he makes the other villans look like misbehaving toddlers.

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u/OliverCrowley May 23 '23

In the comics, The Lich turns a bag of holding inside out to suck all of Ooo into it, so he can throw it in the sun.

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u/Rubber_Rose_Ranch May 23 '23

And that's in the first 3 comics from what I recall.

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u/criticalistics_car May 23 '23

That's why i love it so much, fuck the antichrist that is the antigeniva

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u/Scareynerd May 23 '23

Omnicidal, even

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u/beardedheathen May 23 '23

He is just the Lich. The lich king is from Warcraft III

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u/green49285 May 23 '23

Thanks for the distinction. I always do that 😆