Finn the Human

Finn is currently 17 years old as revealed in the season 10 episode "Seventeen". At the beginning of the series, Finn was a 12-year-old boy who is supposedly the only known human in the Land of Ooo. During the episode "Mystery Train", Finn turned 13; it has been stated that the episode's air date (March 14) is Finn's birthday.[3] After season 3 ended, Pendleton Ward stated in an interview that Finn was 14. Finn was 15 years old in the second half of Season 5, according to Adam Muto.[4] In the Season 6 finale, "The Comet", Finn reveals that he has reached 16 years of age. And finally, during the episode "Seventeen", Finn turned 17 years old. This means that unlike in many other cartoons where characters stay the same age and age through time skips, in Adventure Time, time passes mostly regularly (from Seasons 1 to around 5). However, at some point, the rate time passed in the show became slower and it stopped being in real-time, as Finn is only 17 by the ending instead of 20. Due to Jeremy Shada, Finn's voice actor, going through puberty, Finn's voice is noticeably deeper in the later seasons, compared to his childlike voice in the first four seasons.

Until the episode "Susan Strong", Finn was the only known human in the Land of Ooo. The cause for him being the last human is alluded to by Finn and many other characters as "The Great Mushroom War", a nuclear war that wiped out the majority of humanity. Up until the character "Susan Strong" is introduced, Finn believes that he has never met another human. When Finn encounters Susan Strong, the other members of Susan's tribe of "Hyoomen" are revealed to be mutants, and Susan's identity as a human or mutant was left ambiguous. In the episode "Beautopia", it was hinted upon that Susan may also be human, but was not confirmed at the time.

In the Season Six episode "Dark Purple", Susan's hat was taken off, revealing that she is indeed human, but with a cybernetic implant on the left side of her head. The businessmen that Finn meets in "Business Time" were once human, though they had mutated over time. In the episode "Her Parents", Lady Rainicorn's parents, Bob and Ethel, attempt to eat Finn because they thought they would never get the chance to eat one, as they believed humans were extinct. Finn's female counterpart Fionna the Human is a human living in the Land of Aaa; however, she does not actually exist, as she is a character in a fictitious parallel universe conceived by the Ice King, when he wrote a fan fiction based upon his life and experiences with Finn and Jake. There are many other characters in the show that appear to be human but have been confirmed to be humanoids or mutants. In the episode Be More, the character Moseph "Moe" Mastro Giovanni, the creator of BMO, was once human, but to ensure his immortality, he has replaced most of his body parts with artificial ones. In the episode "Betty," Betty Grof, Simon Petrikov's former fiancée, was brought from the past into Ooo, and later in "Escape From the Citadel" Finn's father, Martin, is introduced, making Finn no longer the last human.

However, during the season 6 finale, two episodes and their events bring a return to Finn's status as the last human on Ooo. In "You Forgot Your Floaties", Betty Grof becomes Magic Man's apprentice and in return for helping Magic Man, he promised her a cure for her fiancé. Things go awry and at the end of the episode, where Betty takes Magic Man's hat, thus becoming a wizard and losing her status as a human. Additionally, in the season finale episode, "The Comet", after Finn learns of his past and declines an offer to become a higher being, his father, Martin, takes the offer and ascends to another level of being, likely bringing an end to his human form. In the episode, "Preboot", it is revealed there are other humans outside of Ooo, and at the end of "Reboot", Finn destroys Susan's cybernetic implant, making her fully human in the process.

During the miniseries "Islands", Finn's status as the last human is completely dispelled. It is revealed that centuries after the Great Mushroom War, a group of surviving humans left Ooo and moved to a chain of islands. Finn's mother, Minerva, lives on one of the islands known as Founders' Island, and was a medic in service to her society, until she uploaded her mind to a network of robots after the island was ravaged by an illness. In addition to meeting his biological mother, Finn meets an entire population of humans. Although Finn requests that the humans of the archipelago may venture out of the islands and back to Ooo, they refuse to emigrate. However, in the episode "Come Along With Me", the humans return to the land of Ooo in several ships, bringing Minerva with them.

Finn typically wears a Munsell blue T-shirt, blue shorts, a two-toned lime green circular backpack, rolled-down white socks, and a pair of black shoes. Finn's most prominent attire is a white hat with two "ears" sticking out on top that covers his entire head minus his face. The hat's appearance resembles Bueno the bear, another character created by Pendleton Ward.[5] Finn can occasionally be seen in variations of his standard outfit. In "Ocean of Fear," his footwear appears to be black booties with white cuffs. In "It Came from the Nightosphere", Finn has a small pocket sewn onto his shirt that he carries Jake in. This appears again in "Davey" where he uses it to hide Jake while Finn steals the keys from the guards as he breaks the former out of jail. During "In Your Footsteps," the Bear wears Finn's clothes, which suggests that Finn has multiple sets of the same outfit, including his hat. However, in "Little Dude," when Finn's hat comes to life and is set free, Jake tells Finn that they should go skin an evil bear, which implies that Finn only had one hat.

Aside from his normal outfit, Finn can be seen wearing a cream-yellow sweater in colder areas such as the Ice Kingdom but currently wears his pink sweater made by Princess Bubblegum. In "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II," he wears a dark blue sweater with Christmas decorations on it and a green scarf. Finn also wears white briefs that make their first appearance in "City of Thieves". In "Who Would Win," he was shown to wear a different pair with red elastic. Finn sleeps in red footed pajamas that appear in many episodes, but in the animated short, he sleeps in a red sleeping bag in his regular clothes. In the series, the sleeping bag is beige.

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• McDonnell, Chris (2014). Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-1-4197-0450-5.