Marceline Abadeer



Marceline Abadeer is a female, half-demon/half-vampire. She is one of the main characters from the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time and serves as the secondary antagonist of season 1, and a supporting anti-hero and eventual protagonist for the rest of the series.

She was voiced by singer/actress Olivia Olson, who is known for voicing Vanessa Doofenshmirtz.

Personality
Marceline is described as a wild rocker girl. Centuries of wandering the Land of Ooo have made her a fearless daredevil. She is a lover of all things exotic and still travels across the land often. She has a mischievous personality and is rarely intimidating. Despite seeming evil in her first two appearances ("Evicted!" and "Henchman"), Marceline is a trickster at heart, and her "evil plans" often turn out to be nothing more than elaborate jokes. She is described by Finn as "a radical dame who likes to play games." She loves to play pranks on Finn and Jake. She also occasionally has violent outbursts, as shown in "It Came from the Nightosphere." Though during her line in the song, in "Evicted!" she stated that she was a thousand years old and had lost her moral code. It is implied that some of her more malevolent traits are solely based on her vampire instincts. In "Red Starved", Marceline slowly becomes vicious and sinister after having been deprived of food, trying to tempt Jake so that she could eat him. In "Vamps About", Marceline was fine with Peppermint Butler creating weapons meant to kill her as a contingency, stating that she could have snapped and killed everyone at any given time. She can also be sentimental. She was very emotionally attached to her teddy bear Hambo, which was given to her by Simon Petrikov; after Ash sold it to Maja, she was furious and broke up with him. Later, Princess Bubblegum got Hambo back in the episode "Sky Witch". Marceline seems to be very emotional. For example, in "What Was Missing", she seemed to be more aggressive towards Princess Bubblegum than she usually is. She is also very independent, and in early episodes would often act without concern for Finn or his friends. It is easier for Marceline to express her feelings through music, as seen with the "Fry Song" and "I'm Just Your Problem," but has trouble expressing them otherwise. She keeps a diary that she uses for inspiration for songs as seen in "Marceline's Closet." When Marceline read the lyrics to "Remember You", the song that Simon Petrikov wrote for her, she began to cry. Near the end of "The Dark Cloud", her personality changed slightly. Marceline had learned how to be more mature which is proved by her saying that she will be able to hang out with Princess Bubblegum "forever". She also said the learned how to be more empathetic to others too. Yet, it is still unknown if she got over her emptiness in the end.

Trivia

 * It is suggested that she was not always a vampire, do to having no bit marks on her neck in "Memory of a Memory"
 * She eats shades of red, instead of only blood.
 * Olivia's real life father, Martn Olson is also the voice actor of Marceline's father.
 * She is over 1,000 years old.
 * Pendelton Ward has mentioned that she killed The Vampire King thus earning her the title Vampire Queen.
 * While she does not appear in the original Animated Short, she becomes a main character in the series.
 * She was the main antagonist in the online game Righteous Quest 2.
 * She has a gender-swapped character named Marshall Lee.
 * There is a Farmworld version of her that appears in the episodes "Finn the Human" and "Jake the Dog".
 * Farmworld Marceline is voiced by Cloris Leachman instead of Olivia Olson.
 * There are 3 voice actors that voices Marceline. Olivia Olson, Cloris Leachman, and Ava Acres.Marceline's last name may be a homage to the real-life city Aberdeen, Washington. The city is known for being a "tough city" and the hometown to Kurt Cobain, the lead singer for Nirvana
 * The Ice King (Simon Petrikov) served as a father figure for her after the Great Mushroom War. He then left her when the crown was driving him further down into insanity.
 * Some of the pictures in her house seem to show Mary hold baby Jesus, implying that Marceline could be religious.