User blog:Valkerone/PE Proposal - GOLB (Archived)


 * Original by TheMegabug: https://villains.fandom.com/f/p/3179493162221867162

Adventure Time ended and with it brought a new, quite interesting, villain that it's been building up to for years. I was wondering whether to effort-post him but as he's been quite divisive on whether he counts or not, I thought, why not.

GOLB is basically a deity from before time itself began - it's implied it created the world of monsters that the Lich hails from, as in the finale, it uses his breath to fuse Candy People into horrific beings not unlike the Lich. GOLB is mentioned to be the embodiment of chaos, but I would argue it still has agency and sentience - it just isn't capable of speech. Other characters explain it in flashbacks, for instance, when a character is researching GOLB they bring up how GOLB sees basically everything as meaningless. As well as that, near the end of the finale, GOLB, when it finally gets actually attacked, is absolutely furious and finally stands up before being defeated. GOLB most likely did not move from his spot before that because it had no reason to - nothing was harming him and he was winning. GOLB isn't chaos or discord in and of itself, he predates it - it is the source of it.

As for the heinous standard... yeah nah. GOLB's goal is to destroy all of existence and cause chaos seemingly just for the hell of it. At a random point in the past, GOLB attacked Mars for no apparent reason and "took" Magic Man's wife Margles, presumably eating her and reverting her to her primal form like it was going to do to Finn, Simon and Betty. I guaruntee you, from the information we have, if GOLB was capable of speech it would be akin to the Lich if not worse.

So I know a lot of people will for sure be split on this, which is understandable. I don't see it as a Megabug type situation because it's quite a bit more explicit that GOLB is indeed aware of what it's doing and it has agency. If the Lich counts as having agency then GOLB does, basically. We'll see how this goes.