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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, 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.
Personality[]
Initially, GOLB was devoid of much personality, being the embodiment of chaos and cares about absolutely nothing. He shows no malice, cruelty, or even desire to spread destruction It is unknown if He even has his own Free Will, Consciousness, Self-Awareness and/or Sentience at all, instead mostly floating aimlessly across the void and only coming to those who summon him, either on purpose or by accident despite that, It is extremely hinted that GOLB can act himself as he destroys entire worlds, it's implied to be an necessary act 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 implying He has some kind of care and responsibility towards the stability of the Multiverse
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 oval-like in shape resembling Betty's glasses, it also gains a cape.
Biography[]
Adventure Time[]
GOLB first appears near the end of "Puhoy". After Finn the Human dies of old age in the Pillow World, he finds himself flying towards GOLB's mouth. GOLB takes notice of Finn as he bounces off its tongue and gets back to his reality unharmed.
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.
GOLB attacks Ooo.
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.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Chaos Embodiment: He is the Personification of Chaos, Discord and Entropy. Fundamental Parts of the Adventure Time Multiverse that sustains it
- Nigh-Omnipotence/Omnipotence: Being the Deity of Chaos who transcends the Ancient Primordials who themselves transcend both existence and nonexistence simultaneously due to them pre-existing both, Being able to easily and utterly subdue and warp powerful Primordials and entities like The Lich and Scarab easily and even overcome Prismo The Nigh-Omnipotent Wishmaster. If/When Golb acts on his own accord then He is completely Omnipotent
- Nigh-Omnipresence: Being Primordial-Cosmic Entity And God of Discord And Chaos GOLB Is Omnipresent wherever chaos is, as Simon said "his presence is felt in every crevice where Chaos lurks"
- Immortality: Since He is One of The Fundamental Forces in the Cosmos that holds it together, GOLB cannot be killed as the Highest Deity in the Multiverse existing before both the Primordials and the Nothingness that Existence was birthed from giving the title of "The Original Being" as the First One to Exist at all and therefore and he is completely Immortal
- Weakness Immunity: GOLB cannot be weakened to a certain point where He is finally defeated as seen when everyone used his ultimate weakness Peace and Harmony, It is not enough to overpower him and only weakened enough to be affected by outside forces yet is still futile since in his weakened state can kill Finn, Simon and Betty easily if they are not quick enough to act
- Creation: He created the concepts of Chaos, Discord and Entropy to maintain and sustain the Multiverse
- Existential Erasure: He Can Erase Everything Like What He Created
- Resurrection: He Resurrected Finn After His Death In Other Universe
- Levitation: Everywhere GOLB is he in seen hovering in the air/levitating in a position as if he were sitting.
- Transmutation: GOLB can transform or modify others' bodies to its liking, such as turning them into a block orbiting around it or break them down into multiple components.
- Consciousness Transferal: As demonstrated by GOLBetty, GOLB can send the minds of those it meets to a different body even if said body resides in a wholly different time.
- Transformation/Soul Manipulation: GOLB can fuse people and other beings into monstrous chaotic creatures with his green breath.
- Multiverse Manipulation/Universe Canonization's: as GOLBETTY, GOLB can to align non- autorizated universes as shown when GOLBETTY easily extracts Fionna and Cake's universe dandelion-shape from Simon's head and makes it part of the Multiverse.
- Weaknesses: His weakness is Peace and Harmony like Discord but due to his immunity to such weakness, it weakens him only to a certain point and no further and It is unknown even if He has his own Free Will, Consciousness, Self-Awareness and/or any Sentience at all, allowing himself to be affected by outside forces however It is heavily implied He does have all four, Even with all four
- He is extremely nonchalant as He does not give a care to absolutely everything (which is most likely why Peace and Harmony even worked in the first place weakening him despite the limited extent since He didn't care enough to stop it's effect on him).
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Trivia[]
- Considering that Magic Man planned to install M.A.R.G.L.E.S., a system meant to protect Mars from the second coming of Golb, at Olympus Mons, it's possible that that's where GOLB originally attacked.
- GOLB was designed by Tom Herpich.
External Links[]
- GOLB on the Adventure Time Wiki.
