- Note: This page is only for the Vampireworld version of the Vampire King. For his Prime World counterpart, see here.
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| “ | Does kitty want attention? Does she also seek annihilation? | „ |
| ~ The Vampire King threatening Cake the Cat for trying to steal the Ice Crown. |
The Vampireworld version of the Vampire King is the main antagonist of the Max adult animated series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake episode "The Star".
He is an alternate reality version of the Vampire King who belongs to the Vampireworld, a universe where Marceline Abadeer was raised by him while he claimed the Ice Crown once worn by Simon Petrikov. Consequently, the Vampire King takes over the world and has his legions of vampires, commanded by his adoptive daughter, eat all humans they can find by blacking the skies to protect them from sunlight.
Like his main counterpart, he was voiced by Billy Brown.
Biography[]
Years before the events of the series, at some point after the Mushroom War, the Vampire King came across the young Marceline Abadeer, who had found the corpse of the late Simon Petrikov, an archaeologist who had uncovered the Ice Crown before being killed by a vampire. The Vampire King proceeded to take Marceline under his wing, raising her as his daughter and second-in-command, becoming known as "The Star". Somehow claiming the Ice Crown, the Vampire King was able to use it to black out the skies so his vampires could roam over the Earth without the danger of being killed by the sunlight, leading his species, commanded by Marceline, to take over the world and claim all human lives as possible.
By the present day, the Vampire King's vampires come across Fionna Campbell, her pet cat Cake and the Prime World's Simon Petrikov, who travel to this reality while being pursued by the Scarab, leading them to be rescued and join Bonnibel Bubblegum's Resistance, which has faced Marceline previously and is working to overthrow the Vampire King after getting rid of his inner circle. Bonnibel lets them join her group in their plan to rig all of the Vampire King's castle with garlic bombs and steal the Ice Crown from the Vampire King to stop blacking out the sky so all vampires leave the abode only to die by the sunlight. However, the plan goes wrong thanks to Marceline, leading the Vampire King to stab Huntress with her own arrows and face Bonnibel and her party himself.
As Marceline and Bonnibel fight each other, the Vampire King throws the arrows towards the direction of Cake, Fionna and Simon due to Cake demanding the Ice Crown, boasting that he doesn't need the artifact but likes to use it to go outside. He then tells Marceline to either kill Bonnibel or play with her in a more interesting way and flicks Simon off his castle due to calling him out a bad father, though Fionna saves him. Taking a chance due to the Vampire King being distracted with his daughter's fight, Cake attempts to wipe his Ice Crown, but Fionna's attempts to stop her accidentally break their multiversal control and alert the Vampire King, who nearly bites Cake off before Cake, Fionna and Simon barely manage to escape to another reality, surprising the Vampire King. Bonnibel and Marceline then roll off the castle and the Vampire King summons his forces to rescue Marceline. Whether his adoptive daughter survives her confrontation with Bonnibel or not, the Vampire King has most likely defeated the Resistance for good and is likely to still rule the Vampireworld unopposed.
Trivia[]
- While the episode doesn't confirm who killed the Vampireworld's Simon Petrikov, it's possible that maybe it was the Vampire King who killed Simon and stole the Ice Crown from him, thus preventing him from raising Marceline Abadeer rightly like his Prime World counterpart did, leading to her transformation into The Star.
- If this were confirmed, then this would reveal that Simon Petrikov's tragic transformation in the Prime World, as harsh as it was, was ultimately beneficial for all of the Earth, as if not for him, the Vampire King would have possibly raised Marceline Abadeer to become an outright evil vampire like in the Vampireworld.
