YMMV / Adventure Time S9E13 "Come Along With Me" ("The Ultimate Adventure")

• Anti-Climax Boss: After all the buildup throughout the series, GOLB is quickly defeated by Betty after she uses the crown to fuse herself with him.
• Broken Base: Finn's unresolved relationship with Huntress Wizard is either a sign that he's still too young for a serious relationship or a huge cop-out to fans after years of failed relationships who wanted to see a well deserved closure to his love life, especially with most characters in the finale having some scenes with a romantic moment. Then there were the fans who wanted to see Finn and Flame Princess get back together.
• Critical Dissonance: The finale was highly praised by critics, but it got a mixed reception by the public and fans of the show. Even Adam Muto himself expected this to happen.
  Adam Muto: Half the people will definitely hate it, because that's every show's ending, but just having that experience instead of waiting forever.
• Epileptic Trees: It has been proven by the show itself that BMO is an Unreliable Narrator, as shown in "Ketchup". No one knows if most of the finale, which was told by BMO during the entire thing, was real or not.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • Many who didn't like how the resolution between Simon and Betty ended decided to give the couple a happy ending through their own means, whether by Simon managing to turn Betty into normal again or... Simon marrying GOLBetty.
  • Since Huntress Wizard was Demoted to Extra in the finale and the ending montage didn't have a scene with her and Finn together, which ended leaving their relationship ambiguous after two episodes in the final season confirming their feelings for each other, many Finntress shippers decided to create their own resolution through fancomics, fanarts and fanfics, with both of them living together after the finale.
    • Alternatively, Flinn/Smokybear shippers decided to do the same thing, but with Finn and Flame Princess instead, with both of them getting together again after the end of the series.
    • Then there's those who Take a Third Option and either keep Finn single, put Finn, HW, and FP in a One True Threesome, or pair him with a new human female character.
  • Thanks to the kiss between Lemongrab and LSP, many fanartists decided to post and draw of fanarts of them both living happily as a couple.
  • The fact that there are two new characters having adventures, and the fact that Adam Muto provided additional content concerning the future after the finale, leaves it open to fans to come up with their own stories.
• Hilarious in Hindsight or Harsher in Hindsight: Fern's death was compared to Spider-Man's death (as detailed below). The finale was written out before the film was released.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The scene with Lemongrab's "Un-make me" note got very popular due to how easily memetic and exploitable it can be.
  • Fern's death quickly became a meme after the finale aired, especially how similar it is to Spider-Man's death in Avengers: Infinity War. Especially since he says a similar line that Spider-Man did
  • Subverted expectations ^Explanation The finale was met with a lot of backlash on 4chan's /co/ boards due to the lack of a fight between the Candy Kingdom and Gumbaldia and how Finn was relegated to a side character after the arrival of GOLB until the very end, to the point where a lot of users started parroting a well known meme within the Star Wars fandom to use it as a comparison between the finale and The Last Jedi, an already divisive movie criticized for toying with the audience's expectations. Doesn't help that the finale was advertised with Finn as the main focus, as shown in the promos, the official trailer and the official poster.
• Misaimed Fandom: LSP and Lemongrab's kiss was received by some fans as a legitimately cute shipping moment instead of the joke it was almost certainly meant to be.
• Moment of Awesome: Bubbline becoming endgame despite CN initially not wanting it to be explicitly shown or confirmed earlier on in the show's run. Adam Muto credits Rebecca Sugar's Steven Universe in helping making this possible.
• Replacement Scrappy: GOLB. Many expected the being behind the Lich to be a force to be reckoned with. Once he finally shows up, all he does is... nothing. He only turns some of the Gumbaldians into an abomination, floats at the same spot and that's it.
• Shocking Moments: Princess Bubblegum and Marceline kissing. On the lips. Onscreen and uncut. In spite of what Olivia Olson said in 2014.
• Tainted by the Preview: The airdate. When the first teaser was revealed, it only mentioned that it will premiere soon. The date the teaser was posted? March 19. Almost six months before the premiere. The fandom was not happy about this, especially during the period between the teaser and the reveal of the airdate.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • The Candy Kingdom Haters were expected by some fans to have a big battle against Princess Bubblegum's personal army, but they were barely in the episode and all of them run away after GOLB appears.
  • Many of Princess Bubblegum's allies such as Huntress Wizard, Flame Princess, Cinnamon Bun, Slime Princess and Lady Rainicorn don't have a major focus at all in the finale, despite all of them being heavily advertised in the promos and official artwork.
  • In a sense, Finn himself, despite being the main character of the show, comes off more as a secondary character here, not taking part on the final battle, not having most of his character arcs closed and having less presence during the ending montage. It doesn't help that Muto did not want to give him closure or take part in the final battle, according to an interview with Polygon. And unfortunately this also applies to Distant Lands, as Finn's life is left open once again due to Adam Muto considering the sequel miniseries as a standalone thing and to not trample on the original show's continuity, despite taking place after the finale:
    Adam Muto: Beyond that, there were so many where it's not necessarily important — where do Finn and Jake end up? What happens to them? How old do they get? Who do they marry? It's important to focus on this section. This was Finn's childhood and on the cusp of becoming a good adult. Hopefully he's a learned a lot and become a more complete person. He doesn't even have a sword through most of the finale at all. The idea of him putting down a weapon as the way to resolve a larger conflict... this won't help in the situation. I think that was an important thing, not trying to show that.
  • Many were also disappointed that The Lich didn't have a major role and was only given a single cameo.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • There's a subset of fans who are upset about Finn being reduced to a Distressed Dude in the fight with GOLB. The poor kid didn't even get to do anything heroic against the Final Boss of his own show.
  • Many fans were especially disappointed that Finn's love life didn't get any closure, or even a single mention, during the finale. While the Season 11 comic addressed this, the production crew does not consider the comic part of the canon. As such, fans hoped that Distant Lands would address this, as many wanted either resolution for Finn and Huntress Wizard's relationship, or for Finn and Flame Princess to get back together. Unfortunately for fans, Distant Lands did not address Finn's love life at all, angering those who waited three years since the finale for closure. Thankfully, Finn would later be confirmed to still be seeing Huntress Wizard in the Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake miniseries.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Many fans were pleasantly surprised when a clip revealed that Maja would return for the finale.
  • Additionally, few were expecting to see the return of The Duke of Nuts, Donny and The Jiggler, who haven't appeared since all the way back in the first season.

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