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“ | GOLB would say ice cream is without meaning. Just empty calories devoid of purpose. | „ |
~ Simon about GOLB. |
GOLB, also known as the Original Being or the Embodiment of Discord, is the overarching antagonist of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time franchise. He is the embodiment of chaos and can corrupt and fuse creatures into fearsome monsters or erase people from existence altogether. While devoid of actual goals, GOLB's power and presence make him the indirect driving force of the franchise's events.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Chaos embodiment: TBA
- Nigh-Omnipotence: Being a Deity of Chaos transcending the Ancient Primordials who have pre-existed so transcendent to both existence and nonexistence simultaneously
- Absolute erasure: Anything swallowed by GOLB will end up in his stomach to be erased by being broken down layer by layer to its most primordial, essential form before being irreversibly erased. Even nigh-omnipotent beings such as Prismo can't restore something erased by GOLB.
- Levitation: Everywhere GOLB is he in seen hovering in the air/levitating in a position as if he were sitting.
- Transmutation: TBA
- Consiousness Tranferal: TBA
Personality[]
Initially, GOLB was devoid of much personality, being the embodiment of chaos. He shows no malice, cruelty, or even desire to spread destruction, instead mostly floating aimlessly across the void and only coming to those who summon him, either on purpose or by accident. While he destroys entire worlds, it's implied to be an act of casualty due to the natural order of existence rather than malice. Given his reaction to the Lich telling him of the destruction of his universe's life, it can also be assumed it detests the complete annihilation of an entire world done by those who follow him, presumably since it prevents chaos from existing which GOLB embodies.
After being merged with Betty Grof, GOLB remained all the same but gained some of Betty's personality traits when dealing with Simon per her wish of "keeping Simon safe". While GOLB's influence has caused the person Betty once was to be all but erased from existence she still can influence the entity enough not to harm Simon even if by accident.
Appearance[]
GOLB has the appearance of a gigantic red baby-like being with a square-shaped head with a pyramid on top of it and four yellow eyes.
As GOLBetty, it gains a more feminine body type with a defined waistline, eyelashes, and two of its eyes become ovaloid in shape resembling Betty's glasses, it also gains a cape.
History[]
Adventure Time[]
GOLB first appears near the end of "Puhoy" where an old Finn the Humans bounces off his tongue when Finn goes back home to his reality from the Pillow World following his death in the dimension.
He then makes an appearance in "You Forgot Your Floaties" while Betty Grof is viewing Magic Man's mind and memories. It is revealed in the episode that GOLB attacked Mars some time ago and killed Magic Man's wife, Margles. In Magic Man's memory, it shows himself and his brothers, Grob Gob Glob Grod talking about GOLB returning so Magic Man builds a security system in the form of Margles to protect themselves. He later changes his mind claiming that GOLB is not coming back.
In "Whispers", the Farmworld version of The Lich refers to himself as "the last scholar of GOLB", hinting that he is possibly a follower of GOLB.
Near the end of the episode "Temple of Mars", Betty talks to Magic Man (now known as King Man) about her plan to save Simon Petrikov and get Margles back from GOLB.
In the four-part finale "Come Along With Me", GOLB was summoned by King Man, Betty and Maja the Sky Witch to Ooo. After he comes to Ooo, Ice King realizes in his past memory, which states that GOLB is the embodiment of "every chaos where he lurks". He began corrupting Uncle Gumbald's soldiers and turning them into a monster. The monster battles with the Candy Kingdom and Gumbald's army. When the fight continues, Ice King distracts Betty's meditation and GOLB swallows them. Finn also follows them and he loses his robotic arm when GOLB closes his jaw. His monster also mutates a Gumball Guardian and some Banana Guards into another monster that spits out monster birds.
GOLB begins to digest them, by reverting them back to their past selves (except Finn), Simon and Betty reunited once again, as they embrace each other as space they are trapped in begins to shrink. With the bulk of Candy Kingdom army defeated, the monster Gumball Guardian and revived mutated Gumbaldian army begin to wreak havoc on the rest of Ooo. Jake the Dog, transforming into his blue form, tries to stop them, but the treehouse is destroyed with BMO inside. Jake is devastated after seeing the wreckage but is comforted by BMO, who has suffered damages to his face screen. BMO begins singing "Time Adventure", which prevents GOLB's mutated monsters from touching them. Eventually, realizing that GOLB's essence is vulnerable to music, Finn and Jake's friends and allies join in on the singing. Jake is able to amplify the sound of their voices, which allows Finn and Simon to escape from inside GOLB, but Betty decides to stay instead to make a wish. She wishes for Simon to be protected, which causes her to become one with GOLB and take over his mind completely (as confirmed by the show's creators). The battle ends with a victory and GOLB/Betty leaves the Land of Ooo through a portal, likely for another dimension where he would never escape nor cause harm to anyone again. As he is immortal, GOLB is still around in another dimension thousands of years by the time Shermy and Beth find Finn's sword and become Ooo's new protectors.
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake[]
In "Simon Petrikov", it's shown that even years after his defeat, GOLB/Betty hasn't been forgotten by Simon, who now suffers an existential crisis over being the last 20th century human in the Land of Ooo and missing Betty, even having a shrine dedicated to GOLB/Betty in his zoo-like room. He even tries to conjure a spell to bring Betty back using Choose Goose (who'd turned evil) as a sacrificial pawn, but it fails and instead opens a portal in his head twice that transports Fionna Campbell's pet cat Cake, and later Fiona herself in "Cake the Cat", from their universe into Simon's.
In "Prismo the Wishmaster", flashbacks of GOLB when he consumed Finn, Betty and Simon are shown when Prismo explains to Fionna, Cake and Simon how he created Fionna's and Cake's universe and stored it inside the Ice King's consciousness to prevent his boss from finding out. Prismo even reveals that GOLB reverting Simon and Betty to their past non-magical selves was why the universe where Fionna and Cake live lost its magic and turned into a normal mundane one.
In "Jerry", as Simon, Fionna and Cake get ready to depart the Extinct World, a reality where The Lich succeeded at wiping out all life, Simon mentions how the Lich is GOLB's last scholar before making a ritual to send Fionna and Cake back to their home reality. However, Scarab interferes in the process and accidentally gets himself and Simon send to GOLB due to making Simon think about Betty, leading to GOLB appearing in one of the eyes of the Extinct World's Lich.
In "Casper & Nova", Simon wakes up in GOLB's, now GOLBetty's dimension, on top of one of GOLBetty's pieces floating around its head. When the Extinct World's Lich confronts GOLB over how his idol hasn't responded to his attempts to appeal to them with his omnicide of his world's life, GOLBetty responds by transforming his body into a floating hendecahedron and sealing his still-screaming head inside of it, condemning him either to a definitive death or to an eternal prison.
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Trivia[]
- GOLB may have attacked Mars at Olympus Mons because that is where Magic Man planned to install the defense system meant to protect Mars from him.
- As such, GOLB is the reason why Magic Man became a jerk in the first place as he took his wife and devoured her, causing her to disappear from existence.
- In "Whispers", it is implied that he has some sort of connection to The Lich, likely that he created him when GOLB influenced a Catalyst Comet incarnation with his breath, although it's not confirmed.
- GOLB was designed by Tom Herpich.
External Links[]
- GOLB on the Adventure Time Wiki.