Max has finally released its Adventure Time spin-off Fionna & Cake, starring the fictional characters that Ice King (now, Simon Petrikov) created during the original show, with familiar faces also joining them, like Marceline, Princess Bubblegum, and most importantly, Finn the Human. However, people noticed that someone was missing in this series.
It’s not just Fionna & Cake where we saw Jake missing after the events of Adventure Time‘s final season. In the Adventure Time: Distant Lands episode, titled “Obsidian,” the yellow dog was also missing in action and we only saw the human adventurer hanging out with one of Jake’s children. While it was revealed in “Together Again” that he and Jake had died and reincarnated, did Jake die during Finn’s adulthood?
Is Jake dead during Adventure Time spinoff Fionna & Cake?
In episode 2, titled “Simon Petrikov,” Finn was seen without his talking dog partner, Jake. This yellow dog has been with Finn since the pilot episode. Unfortunately, he was nowhere seen in the first two episodes of this spin-off and many wondered where he went.
In an interview with Inverse, Fionna & Cake showrunner, Adam Muto revealed that that they’ve left Jake’s fate ambiguous since “it wasn’t important” for this series. He pointed out that the show had shown Finn and Jake at the end of their lives in previous Adventure Time episodes and believes that showing how and when these two die would be a downer.
“Yeah. Jake’s current state is probably left the most mysterious out of everybody…
“…I mean, if there’s a really simple answer to that, I don’t think it would be satisfying. We’ve shown Finn and Jake at the end of their lives. How it resolves. That’s the more important ending to me. You’ve shown them dead, basically. We don’t really show how Finn dies either. The how of it isn’t necessarily as interesting to me to show on screen because that’s kind of a downer.
“So we left it ambiguous. It wasn’t important for this series.”
However, The Direct reported that Muto confirmed the pair’s return in Fionna & Cake since he wants to show the differences between Fionna and Cake’s dynamic to Finn and Jake’s. He also believes it wouldn’t make sense if the iconic duo didn’t show up in this show.
“We do still kind of show a snapshot of them where they’re at because it didn’t make sense to not show them at all. And we also want to see what the contrast is between Finn and Jake and Fionna and Cake’s dynamic. So, yeah, expect to see some versions of them.”
While it’s unknown if Jake is dead or not, the trailer shows that he will be making an appearance alongside an adult version of Finn. However, it is currently unknown if these two are the same versions from the initial series or just multiverse variants of these iconic characters, based on the spin-off’s plot.
If you want to see Finn and Jake’s potential reunion, new episodes of Fionna & Cake will be released every Thursday on Max.