Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17276108-20131224141342/@comment-1784834-20140110025652

They did this on Adventure Time in season 3. At the beginning of the season, following the events of the second season finale, Princess Bubblegum had regressed back to age 13 (which was how old Finn was at the time; he's 15 now), and the shippers went crazy. The episode "Too Young" came up, and people were anticipating big things. The end result: PB was forced to become 18 again to get the throne back from the Earl of Lemongrab, and coldly brushed off her affectionate behavior towards Finn during the episode. The community exploded in pure anger and threatened a boycott. Then, at the end of season 3, they introduced a new love interest, Flame Princess. It was a rocky start, mainly because FP is a walking disaster prone to extreme anger and causing destruction. Mid-season, the two hooked up, and the Flinn shippers were happy. But many fans saw her as a Mary Sue with no development aside from being Finn's girlfriend. Season 5 rolled around, and it was slow seeing her come up. FP finally showed up in "Vault of Bones", and shippers were pleased when she called Finn her "boyfriend". After a period of uncertainty in "Puhoy", she appeared in "Jake Suit" in a more minor role than usual.

Then came "Frost and Fire". Through a series of events relating to Ice King and wet dreams, Finn staged a fight between FP and Ice King for his own amusement by writing false letters. When Finn confessed, FP only heard gibberish, was shocked that Finn "betrayed" her, and cryptically said she needed space, which eventually translated to "we're finished". The community exploded once again.

In "Too Old", Finn made one last attempt at PB while accompanying her to Castle Lemongrab. Some of us thought it would be the opposite of "Too Young", and PB would become young again. But PB just angrily revealed that she hates fun.

In "Earth and Water", the final part of the arc, PB conducted testing on FP. Most of us assumed that Finn would resuce her and they'd make up, but Cinnamon Bun said something that made FP not want Finn back or something. He also revealed FPs past, and that Flame King left her for dead as a baby. FP then usurped her own father, and later friendzoned Finn. Fans were angered once again, and just about ready to rage-quit the show.

Since then, Finn has been moping a bit about being friendzoned. In "Love Games", he sang about missing her. In "Dungeon Train", he's in sort of a gray area about it. And at the end of "The Pit", he confesses to still loving her.

There's a third girl, Marceline the Vampire Queen, but she and Finn mutually gave up on any romantic relationship in "Go With Me?" Even still, there is a legion of delusional fans.

The fourth option that fanfic writers like is his genderswapped counterpart, Fionna. But she's nothing more than fanfiction made by Ice King. In fact, both Fionna and Cake episodes are romance-dominant, and deconstruct common fanfiction tropes.

Finn's situation is like Mordecai's. I keep suggesting a new love interest for Finn: a human girl named Chloe who is very xenophobic against mutants (and since almost everyone is a mutant in Ooo, her life is very hard). But other AT Wiki users either say Susan Strong fits the criteria (minus the xenophobia; I say Susan's a little on the old side, enough to be Finn's mother even), or just say that the concept is the ultimate cop-out, a jumping the shark moment.