"Bad Little Boy" SE05 EP11
Marshall Lee is wearing red and black plaid shirt, blue pants and sneakers.
Episode directed by Larry Leichliter, storyboard by Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar
decided to post some marshall lee outfits because why not
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anyways I happened upon some thoughts on the in-universe thinking behind the song Marceline ascribes to Marshall Lee in Bad Little Boy
the biggest and most significant thing there is that Marshall explicitly has feelings for Fionna and manipulates her with those same feelings that she has for him; this raises a lot of questions if you assume that this relates to Marceline's own thoughts on Finn.
In Go With Me, she's pretty adamant that she doesn't feel that way about him. Now, of course, that episode was the Finnceline episode for a long time even with that detail because of how much it emphasized how well they mesh together, how akin they are and how much fun they have together. It's also notable in that Marceline at that point denying any feelings doesn't preclude her developing stronger romantic feelings later in life, but I don't think that's the most important possible takeaway.
Instead, consider a more significant bit; Marshall Lee's characterization is something Marceline specifically wrote, for a character she likely believes (for good reason) to be based on her. And most importantly, Marceline has a really low opinion of herself. She thinks of herself as a monster, she drives people away on purpose so she doesn't feel the pain of losing them in other ways, she deliberately acts off putting and scary because she believes she's just as much a monster as her father and everyone will leave her one way or the other.
It's not unlikely that the song she gives Marshall is probably based on her own romantic feelings in the past, exaggerating her own feelings about herself as a bad person, or a manipulator; I suggest that Marshall's entire characterization is Marceline criticizing herself, exaggerating what she thinks she's doing; manipulating the feelings of others for her own amusement or because she thinks its funny.
Now, we know she's not actually like that, and this is just her being needlessly self critical (while also trying to engage with her father substitute and bond with him somehow), but it is pretty significant how she characterizes Marshall as much more callous and even cruel; Marceline even at her most apparently antagonistic was nothing like that.
As an example, consider Go With Me again; when Finn dons the lute suit to try to get her to go with the movies before, Marceline's comment of 'uh oh' and attempts to dissuade him suggests she's at least considered the idea of him having SOME feelings for her and to head them off, and she's surprisingly gentle as possible with him once her attempts to just gross him out or scare him away have no effect on him. Even if she was planning on heading this off, she's remarkably awkward and cautious about it.
The biggest surprise is that we know what Marshall Lee is ACTUALLY like; rather than being a manipulative jerk who toys with his friends feelings even if he DOES have romantic feelings in them as well, he's not that different from her, albeit even more laid back (possibly because he doesn't have a thousand years of trauma persuading him he's a monster too, though in this case he may simply not recall it); given his attitude with Fionna, its not implausible that they DID have a romance at some point before it cooled down (which is, again, something that could well have happened if Finn was older during the on-screen seasons) and they're definitely close enough that he's implicitly crashing at her place with no suggestion that she'd find him walking around in just a towel there surprising.
So again this suggests to me that Marceline's depiction of Marshall says more about her own deep self criticism while playing it off as part of Ice King's fanfiction, airing it out in a deniable way (which is a very Marceline thing to do); from her own views as a cruel manipulator toying with the feelings of her heroic friend, to a bad break up with candy royalty that's complicated at BEST, to that heroic friend being internally tormented by those feelings, it all says a lot about what Marceline THINKS herself as a bad person even against a significant amount of evidence otherwise.
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It has been 7 years since I last covered this song. Back then I didn't have any fancy equipments, I literally recorded it on the built in mic on my laptop. I always wanted to rerecord it properly. Finally I got myself a decent mic and although my skills are lacking I wanted to give it another try. but this time I wanted to give it a new spin so I reversed the role. Thankfully Ashe had new lyrics for his full cover as well. I hope he will see this cover one day as wellll!!
Original Song: Adventure Time
Marshall Lee: @ashestoashesjc
Fionna: ADsama
Art & video: ADsama
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Day in Fandom History: February 18…
It’s another Fionna & Cake episode where Marceline tells the story to the imprisoned princesses that the Ice King captured about her genderbent character, Marshall Lee, inviting the duo to a party out in the woods. “Bad Little Boy” premiered on this day, 11 Years Ago.
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Five Short Tables: Cake tries to tell a story with her flapjacks; Prince Gumball plays a board game with Butterscotch Butler; Flame Prince accidentally sets fire to the library; Marshall Lee tries to give Lumpy Space Prince cough medicine; and Ice Queen tells her penguins a story.
Fionna and Cake and Fionna: During a book reading at the library, an old woman claiming to be the real Fionna shows herself.
Bad Little Boy: When the kidnapped princesses get sick of Ice King's terrible stories, Marceline steps in to tell her own version.
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i'm unwell!!! because in stede's eyes, ned low was right!! ned says "he [ed] only likes you because of your bumbling amateur status" and calls stede blackbeard's "pet" just like izzy did in series 1
so stede steps up as a captain, kills the man who harmed his crew, and suddenly, for once in stede's life, he isn't a joke! the gentleman pirate is taken seriously and welcomed into the pirate community!
and what happens less than 24 hours later? ed calls their night together a mistake, AND LEAVES.
yes, obviously the situation is more nuanced, and these old men are once again struggling to communicate, but i 100% understand why stede went a bit of the rails at the end of episode 7. stede's been so focused on trying to help ed, that he's completely ignored his own ongoing identity crisis and trauma, and after the incident at the academy in series 1, this meltdown was long overdue.
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Hey, everyone. It's been likely 10 years since one of my favorite Adventure Time episodes had aired, so I thought I'd post something special. I know that the 10th year has past since Bad Little Boy premiered on Cartoon Network, but after everything that has happened this year for the Adventure Time fandom, I didn't think anything was needed to be done. We'll think of some kind of celebration for a later time if anyone is interested. Until then, enjoy some ShizuLee fanart! Shizuka’s new and current design is so awesome and fun <3
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