#Morituri te Salutamus

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Morituri Te Salutamus Review

“Morituri Te Salutamus” is one of two episode titles with non-English speaking words in it, and the only episode title with no English words in it. The Latin terminology translates to “We who are about to die, salute you”. Adventure Time season 3 episode 2: We Who Are About to Die, Salute You. That’d be quite the mouthful. The Latin translation fits the Roman theming in this one much better. There’s lots of bits of Latin throughout the episode, such as “eludere” (evasion) and “non pugnant, Flamma” (be not repugnant to him). I like when Adventure Time incorporates different cultures, such as Korean, to expand the world. I don’t think any episode commits to playing with a particular culture as much as this one.

Finn and Jake enter a Roman colosseum. It's up for debate if the arena is a few hundred years old and was merely inspired by ancient Rome, or if this is literally remnants of a colosseum from 3,000ish years ago. The gladiator ghosts are gay, and there is evidence suggesting homosexuality was more socially accepted in ancient Rome. Their names are even taken from Roman warriors from history and fiction. The magical element to the arena was definitely added post-Mushroom War, and the implication at the end is the ghosts had a similar story to Finn and Jake, meaning they weren’t humans from Rome (plus one of them has two heads).

I like how Finn and Jake are smart enough to immediately realize the place is a trap, but are confident enough to still take it on. They’ve clearly earned that confidence (with a strong helping of plot armor) as they succeed where all the gladiator ghosts failed. I like the Fight King, he has a cool design that adds to the episode’s atmosphere. He’s missing an arm, of course his right one. We can piece together the backstory of this place, but Fight King’s role and purpose remains pretty mysterious. It’s the second episode in a row with a king character, and it’s pretty consistent that rulers in Ooo are titled princess or king, rather than prince.

Finn and Jake fight the first pair of gladiator ghosts. The fights throughout this one are pretty fun and dynamic. Finn is strangely not using the Root Sword, but the Steel Sword for the first time. It’s a cool design, even with it weirdly resembling the Night Sword. I love the easy to miss detail that the injuries on each ghost matches the weapon used by the other. One of them refers to the other as their love. The crew were able to sneak in same-sex romance under Cartoon Network’s radar (confirmed canon by Andy Ristanio) and I don’t think it's a coincidence that Rebecca Sugar co-boarded this episode. Along with the Roman theming, my favorite part of the episode is all the hints given to the gladiators’ backstory (like them constantly apologizing to each other and begging for forgiveness). There’s enough pieces to figure out the history, the episode doesn’t need to make it explicit.

Finn and Jake have been quibbling over Jake’s non commitment to following through with Finn’s plans. Jake just wants to have fun, he doesn’t take the adventures as seriously as Finn. Jake lets Finn do all the work, so he can stay underground singing songs and execute his nonsensical plan of forming a molten hula hoop for morale. I like how passive their conflict is, they never actually get mad at each other, even with Finn’s deceit later on. Jake sings “On a Tropical Island”, another highlight of the episode. It’s hard to truly enjoy the song in the episode itself, as it's broken into four different scenes. But, it's great listening to the entire thing outside the context of the episode. It still stands as the best Jake song of the series. This is the song that people should be asking John DiMaggio to sing at every panel, not “Bacon Pancakes” every fucking time.

Finn is seemingly mind controlled by Fight King. Fight King has Finn fight Jake to the death, like he forced onto the gladiator couples. Add Finn stabbing the dummy Jake and trying to kill the real Jake onto the pile of Jake death foreshadowing. Jake’s confused reaction to his brother trying to kill him, in contrast to how easy going Finn was in his conflict with Jake, is heartbreaking. Finn tricks Fight King into giving him his sword, which seems to contain his soul. The sword’s rune reads “to fight is to live”, and apparently Fight King literally can’t live without it. Finn smashes it, killing Fight King and his power over the arena. Finn was faking being mind controlled. We saw Fight King’s sword magically alter Finn, so he must have just had the willpower to resist it. We’ll see another type of magic overcome Finn for real and cause him to act in a similar manner in Elements. The Gladiator Ghosts are a really tragic element of the story, so it’s nice to see them freed at the end, presumably going to a dead world. Missed opportunity to not have them cameo in “Together Again”. 

This one’s story isn’t anything special, but the Roman theming, backstory, and song elevates it up from just a solid entry to a really good one.

Grade: A-

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Day in Fandom History: July 18…

When Finn and Jake stumble into a battle arena, they partake in combat against the Fight King’s ghost warriors, but Finn succumbs to blood lust while Jake becomes obsessed with keeping a cool morale. “Morituri Te Salutamus” premiered on this day, 13 Years Ago.

[peachpaws0]

On a tropical island Underneath the molten lava moon Hanging with the hula dancers Asking questions 'cause they got all the answers 54 - S3 E2 Morituri Te Salutamus

[adventuretimetournament]

Frost & Fire: Finn has a dream which leads him to pit Ice King and Flame Princess against each other in a fight.

Morituri Te Salutamus: Finn becomes trapped in gladiatorial combat while Jake tries to mentally escape the arena.

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Morituri te Salutamus (s3e02) has been and always will be a favorite of mine. Easy S tier spisode personally. Finn and Jake running back into the area they KNOW is cursed, the references to classic lit/history, Finn's plan- just so so good

[tricksheart]

Send “⚔” and I will list some tropes from TVTropes.org that describe our muses relationship.

( accepting )

@gloryseized said: ⚔ ( for Link )

Adoption Angst: Link was raised by a family of talking persona users after Akira's parents found Link as a baby. Though he loves his adoptive parents, Maya and Katsuya, Link also angsts over not knowing where he came from or who his birth parents are, all the more punctuated by the fact that he's never met any blondes like him until he meets Zelda later on.

Angst? What Angst?: Invoked. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that Link is able to face the trauma of everything that a seasoned veteran hero has faced, especially at his age. Joker: You just went through some outrageous beeswax with losing your favorite arm and etcetera. You can't just expect to bounce back to normal. Link (genuinely surprised): I can't?

Big Brother Instinct: He is fiercely protective over Joker, despite being the younger brother. In "Evicted", Ganon kind of killed Joker for a minute. Link's reaction was… not pretty. In "To Cut a Woman's Hair", the witch merely uses Joker as a piece of furniture (albeit in the context of Links requiring someone to be in "danger" in order to help her), and Link charges.

Colorblind Confusion: In "Red Starved", Link's shown to be red-green colorblind after he mistakes a green emerald for a red ruby. Strangely, Joker (a persona user) CAN tell the difference, and is the one to correct him.

The Conscience: Good grief yes. Link's heroic nature counterbalances his closest's friends amoral tendencies. While it tends to be played for laughs with Joker, it's played more seriously (and more subtlety) with Ganon and Princess Zelda.

Death Seeker: Downplayed as he's not exactly trying to get himself killed, but after Joker passed away, Link admits that part of him is waiting for his own death just so he can reunite with Joker again.

Evil Laugh: Non-evil example; in "What is Life?", Link mischievously does this, while thinking to prank Joker after he pranked Link himself, as a type of revenge.

For Happiness: When he and Joker aren't busy fighting evil, they're just trying to have a good time.

Idiot Hero: Why is Link missing so many teeth? The nintendos' answer: He bites trees and rocks and stuff. He's stupid. Which makes it that much more interesting when his brain works perfectly, like in "Morituri te Salutamus". As shown in "The New Frontier", Link occasionally forgets how the sun works, and is seemingly floored when Joker re-explains it to him. In "The Real You", Link himself says that he's "full of stupid." This is more of an early season character trait as he becomes more intelligent as the series goes on, especially emotionally.

Morality Chain: Link may be the protagonist, but it becomes increasingly clear that he's also the Morality Chain to… damn near everyone else. He consciously takes on the role of turning Midna good, but it's also strongly implied that without him Joker would still be a thief and conman, Princess Zelda might be much more of a not great ruler, Ganon would be the psychopathic troll he likes to see himself as.

Samaritan Syndrome: In "Memories of Boom-Boom Mountain", Link reveals his underlying drive to help everyone and everything with their problems because when he was a baby, he once sat on a leaf and got stuck to it, and went unaided for hours until Joker's parents found him (and eventually adopted him). Link helps people because someone helped him once.

Singing Voice Dissonance: Throughout the series, Link sings with an auto-tuned voice that supposedly comes from a tiny computer he swallowed at some earlier point. Subverted in 'What Was Missing', where he sings a heartfelt song to (and about) his True Companions Joker, Zelda and Midna. The Auto-tune singing returns in the Season 6 finale, though it appears to be a mix of this and his normal singing.

True Companions: With Joker, emphasized by both family bonds and loyalty, and with Zelda to a slightly lesser extent. As characterization has developed, he may possibly also have this with Midna, given how highly she regards friendship. All of them take some steps towards becoming True Companions in "What Was Missing", though with Joker being the Wild Card, and Midna and Zelda not getting along very well, it takes some considerable effort on Link's part.

[thehandwixard]

top 5 ADVENTURE TIME EPISODES :)

cries i like too many of them. im gonna try and avoid all the episodes everyone likes that I also like like what was missing, finn the human, jake the dog etc. you know i like those

Top of the list: The Comet. season 7 finale, absolutely gorgeous episode. when i watched it as a kid it was basically the series finale to me in a way

Morituri te Salutamus: What to fucking say about this episode. I think it really hits a lot of the points of the best sugar episodes of the show by being kind of fucking terrifying and setting up very well that finn the human has Problems and Issues disorder outside of just being 13

No one can hear you: In the words of my best friend "Jake has a psychotic break after being alone for months and believes everybody has been hiding all this time to surprise him for his birthday. who gives a shit about the deer"

The Pit: This episode sucks.

Three buckets: the last episode of the show i watched originally before the finale. vine boom sfx vine boom sfx vine boom sfx

i was going to add honorable mentions but thatd defeat the point of this i tried

[emmanuellececchi]

I'm going to add this one.

Hummingbird : 10/10. I know, he's small, beautiful like a jewel, and if he (or she) does not eat enough? he, or she, will die... But did you see them fight? I did. Little agressive fencer, that will throw his (or her) rival to the ground and try to slay him (or her) with his/her beak. Small but potent. Morituri te Salutamus

Rating the birds in my backyard by tendency toward violence

Northern Cardinal, 4/10

I'm sometimes worried the male is sexually harassing the female but I'm pretty sure they're just doing some elaborate public pickup roleplay. The rest of us didn't agree to participate in your kink, guys.

American Robin, 1/10

Literally just some dude hanging out. Never bothered anyone but worms. Big fan of the way you just stand there in the middle of the grass like you forgot what you were supposed to be doing.

House Sparrow, 10/10

You're a gang. You're participating in gang violence. There's ten billion of you living in a single wood pile and it's been civil war for three years now. When will the bloodshed end?

Tufted Titmouse, 1/10

A shy baby. A pretty little guy. I saw you on the neighbor's garage roof and time stopped. There were anime sparkles around you. Come back.

European Starling, 9/10

Why is it always you? Listen, I know, I KNOW the sparrows are the problem, and YET. When the fighting starts, it's always you in the middle of it, provoking them and then screaming like you're an innocent bystander defending yourself. I'm onto you.

Carolina Wren, 3/10

This rating is not for physical violence, which you don't engage in, but for your role as an incurable narc. A tattle tale. I know they're fighting again, okay? I see it. Our yard has been a warzone for years, you don't have to make a big announcement every time someone misbehaves.

Eastern Wood-Peewee, 0/10

If this were "birds who think they're better than everyone else," you'd get 10/10.

Red-bellied Woodpecker, 6/10

It's a utility pole. It's not a tree. You're surrounded by trees that are full of bugs. But there you are, on the utility pole. Committing vandalism.

American Crow, unrated

For who am I to cast judgment on the actions of La Famiglia? I assume you are doing what is best for the neighborhood. If I could, though, without criticism, make a single observation. That when large numbers of you gather in the ominous dead cottonwood - no? No, you're right. None of my business.

Great Crested Flycatcher, 5/10

Frankly, I think you could be doing more. I think your name implies a great potential. I think you should massacre the insects. I think your beak should drip with viscera.

Stay tuned for more criminal activity!

[jakesuit0]

Still Review

“Still” is pretty overlooked, with it coming only a few episodes after the amazing feat that is “Hitman”. While “Still” isn’t nearly as funny (but still has a lot of great jokes), or even as good, it’s more committed to Ice King, Finn, and Jake interaction. Ice King freezes Finn and Jake, forcing unadulterated silly interactions between the three. Ice King wanting to be Finn and Jake’s friend is a pretty consistent goal of his from here on out, after being briefly surfaced in episodes like “What Have You Done?”. 

Ice King’s been spying on Finn and Jake (as seen in “The Eyes”) enough to make some pretty accurate observations, like Finn’s favorite food being meatloaf, which is a consistent character trait. Ice King notes that Jake is afraid of real emotion, something expanded on in “Cloudy”. Finn goes into the astral plane to try to summon an astral beast. I assume this ability ties to his past life as a catalyst comet making him more in touch with spirituality, with his heightened senses from being frozen helping Finn to access it. This leaves the rest of the episode to explore Jake and Ice King’s relationship on their own. This is unique to this episode, as there’s unfortunately no episodes dedicated to just the two of them. Ice King dresses up as Finn, making for a fairly creepy outfit. He definitely dresses up as Finn sometimes when he’s alone in the Ice Kingdom. I’m sure he has fantasies of being Finn. Jake is having none of it. He’s easily irritated by Ice King, more so than Finn. In addition to just seeing him as a creepy weirdo, Jake still isn’t totally past Ice King’s murderous streak in the season one era, as he reminds him of earlier in the episode. 

It’s always a treat seeing Ice King’s artistic side, and I love him going into detail of the meaning behind close up shots of penguins. The idea of Ice King as a professional photographer is just really funny. The exchange between Ice King and Jake about crushes is probably their funniest interaction in the series, with Ice King acting like a 13 year old at a sleepover. Ice King and Jake are both romantics, but both have wildly different perspectives on dating. Ice King views romance like a child, calling women “girls”, and thinking Jake’s feelings for Lady Rainicorn are a big secret. I also love Ice King acting like his “crush” on Bubblegum is a big revelation. 

By the morning, Jake wants to rip Ice King’s fucking throat out. Ice King saying he’s gonna “put his foot in it” (referring to the omelet), which is a very quotable Ice King line. Jake looks so uncomfortable when Ice King tells Jake that he’ll be inside of him (need I comment more on how that sounds?). Finn wakes up, but accidentally summons butterflies, due to his past life as one. Even Jake is able to manipulate the butterflies due to his enhanced brain sense. The butterflies smack Ice King with the steel sword Finn got in “Morituri Te Salutamus”. Ice King accidentally uses the freezing potion on the three of them, ending the episode very similarly to “Hitman”, with an unresolved ending. This episode could have even picked up on the end of “Hitman”, with Finn and Jake instead being frozen in ice. Maybe BMO will save them. Speaking of BMO, where the fuck is he in this episode? Missed opportunity to have some Gunter and BMO interaction, something I’ve always wanted to see. Gunter added a lot of funny moments throughout this episode, and he finally gets to smash the unfreezing potion at the end. Ending on Gunter dancing is a pretty inspired choice.

“Still” is a pretty funny bottle episode (that also features bottles) and is funnier than anything done with the Ice King roommate arc in season 5

Grade: A-

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Day in Fandom History: July 18…

When Finn and Jake stumble into a battle arena, they partake in combat against the Fight King’s ghost warriors, but Finn succumbs to blood lust while Jake becomes obsessed with keeping a cool morale. “Morituri Te Salutamus” premiered on this day, 12 Years Ago.

[bussterj]

I just watched Adventure Time 3x02 "Morituri te Salutamus"

[alatariel-gildaen]

I'm going to go for an old fic, as I've just started putting up the sequel.

Nos Morituri Te Salutamus is a Caryl AU fic set in the Hunger Games universe, because I do love an ambitious crossover/AU 🤣

omg it’s FAN FICTION FRIDAY

Reblog and promote a fic of yours <3

[adventuretimetournament]

On a Tropical Island

First sung by: Jake in "Morituri Te Salutamus"

On a tropical island Underneath the molten lava moon Hangin' with the hula dancers Askin' questions 'cause they got all the answers

Not Just Your Little Girl

First sung by: Marceline in "Daddy's Little Monster"

I hope you understand And like the way that I am 'Cause I want your respect, and I wanna be here But I don't want to rule the Nightosphere