It can be noted that one of the ghosts calls the one he killed his love. Triumphus means “the triumph of” in Latin.Īccording to Andy Ristaino, all the Gladiator Ghosts are homosexual.Hyperion is a Titan in Greek Mythology, and is Greek for “The High-One.”.Romulus and Remus are the legendary brothers who supposedly founded Rome, where gladiators originated.Tetraides is a fictional gladiator from the book The Last Days of Pompeii, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.Rutuba is a gladiator mentioned in the Satires of Horace.Flamma was a famous gladiator in Roman history.Priscus and Verus were gladiators known to fight at the opening games of the Flavian Amphitheatre.Amazonia and Achillea were female gladiators whose graves were discovered in London.Several of the names of the Gladiator Ghosts in “Morituri te Salutamus” are taken from famous gladiators in history and fiction: The gay subtext is pretty explicit, and apparently entirely intentional, per the Adventure Time wiki: It’s never explicitly commented on in the episode, but the gladiator ghosts all apologise to various people before they die (one saying ‘my love’), and at the end of the episode, they’re seen walking away in pairs. I think the gladiator ghosts is the interesting bit. As a result, they reunite the gladiator ghosts with their various partners. Ultimately, Finn carries out a ruse to get in with the Fight King and then kill him, pretending to be overcome by bloodlust. Finn and Jake find their way to an arena presided over by a Fight King, and despite instantly recognising it as a trap in a pretty good bit, go inside anyway because it sounds cool. I love how the Gladiator Ghosts all look absolutely miserable and afraid.Īnyway, this episode does indeed deal with gladiators. Apparently there’s really only one reference to it in Roman historical sources, in the context of a mock naval battle ( naumachia) staged for the emperor Claudius, in which around 19,000 condemned people were forced to fight to the death on a lake, surrounded by soldiers.
Or “Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you”. It originally went, according to the oracle of Wikipedia,
The title of this episode is the Latin phrase which is said, in pop culture at least, to be uttered by gladiators before they killed each other. When can we have like, a gritty war novel about YoRHa-like cutie soldiers born to be torn apart, only to be repaired and kill again… Episode 2: Morituri Te Salutamus Some big ol’ cultural narratives but it doesn’t do much to interrogate where all that comes from, of course. What to conclude from this? Well of course the episode runs on the tension between the soft, feminine aesthetic of the Cute People and their ineffectual (and unexplained!) desire to harm others. The episode is eventually resolved by Finn and Jake finding a way to give him this wish - using his cuteness to manipulate the Ice King - in a ‘righteous’ way, i.e. But his expressed desires are to ‘be evil’ and in particular ‘control others’. The other thing to note is that the Cute King himself, when caught in an unguarded moment, the Cute King is actually shown to be very gentle and caring of his injured subjects.
ADVENTURE TIME JAKES DEATH DREAM FULL
The presentation ensures that this doesn’t come across as horrifying, but imagine being one of these creatures! There’s a scene where an army changes and ends up torn limb from limb (entirely by a series of comic accidents, admittedly)… full on WWI shit.Įverything that lives is designed to end.
I think the most interesting thing about this episode is that the cuties themselves are some sort of species that can agglomerate into larger organisms, but are also constantly dismembered by the wind and so on. This is one of your standard non-sequitur episodes… to my memory, the ‘cute king’ does not return. Season 3 Episode 1: Conquest of CutenessĪ bunch of ‘cuties’ attempt to meance Finn and Jake, led by their ‘cute king’. I hope it won’t last too long before they reverse it, because late- Adventure Time PB the ruthless sovereign is a much more interesting character. Is the formula going to change? More plot and continuity? This season we are, unfortunately, going to have to deal with the ‘aged down Princess Bubblegum’ subplot.
This liveread stalled for much, much, longer, so it’s going to be a little effort to get into the same mindset as I was when writing the season 2 article. Adventure Time season 3 dates back to July 2011, about a month after the end of the previous one.
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