, whose name isand who is occasionally called, is the current ruler of the Fire Kingdom as well as Finn 's ex-girlfriend. When Jake asks Flambo if he knows any princesses that are Finn's age so he can fix his broken heart, he introduces Jake to Flame Princess. Flame Princess was locked away in a lantern in the main chamber of the Fire Kingdom when Jake first encounters her. It is later revealed that her father, the Flame King , put her there on Princess Bubblegum 's advice when she was an infant, and she did not come out for 14 years. She has a short temper, trust issues, and a heat core that can destroy the world if overblown with emotions. She is also close friends with Cinnamon Bun . Due to the events in " Princess Day ," she is considered a registered princess.

As revealed in "Elemental," she is the current Fire Elemental.

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History

As an infant, Flame Princess was chaotic and free-spirited—she was even said and proven to be more powerful than her father, Flame King. After hearing this, the King ordered a messenger to send his daughter away from the Fire Kingdom to "wander into the outside world to perish." She was left in a nearby forest with a Crystal Lumberjack, but wandered away laughing and burning her surroundings. When Flame Princess wandered near the Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum noticed this and, while wearing a fire suit, returned her to the Fire Kingdom. Once there, Bubblegum told Flame King to keep his baby under control or that she would do so herself. Flame King initially denies having a daughter but admits his parentage when Bubblegum insists that he take her back. They come to an agreement and decide to trap the royal baby in a giant lantern for the rest of her life to ensure that she could never usurp her father's position in the Fire Kingdom. Despite this, she seems to have made friends and grown up talking to Flambo through her lantern.

It was not until fourteen years later in "Incendium" when she was allowed to be released by her father after Flambo finds her a boyfriend. It is believed that Flame Princess was a handful as a kid despite growing up in a lantern as Flame King described her as "totally evil and destructive." Even so, she was only released because he believed that "Prince Finn" was a cold-blooded killer who would suit his daughter perfectly. After leaving the Fire Kingdom to be with Finn, she resided in the grasslands inside a fire hut—no longer wanting to be influenced by the evil of her kingdom.

Finn and Flame Princess start going out before the events of "Burning Low" and want to become more physical in their relationship. They start with hugs by wrapping Finn in tinfoil to lessen the contact that could burn him, but Jake tells him that he will need to kiss her eventually to progress the relationship. When Princess Bubblegum discovers about this, she tries to stop Finn from seeing Flame Princess due to the possibility of Flame Princess' emotions causing a burst of intense romance that could destroy the world. Despite the danger they impose on the world, Finn is unaware of the risk and kisses Flame Princess—almost destroying Earth's core. This near total-fatal event strengthened the bond between the couple and also made Flame Princess more aware and cautious of her emotions and elemental powers, despite still not fully understanding how to control them.

Meanwhile, Flame King believed his daughter was pure evil and had intentions to drag her down again. Once he found Flame Princess' new home and began haunting her with evil whispers, she was frightened and feared that she was truly evil and could not fight her blood. She kept this to herself for a while until she finally came clean to Finn, so he took her on a quest of heroes to prove to her she is not evil and shift her alignment to good. This made her happy and no longer scared of her past or her family, as she was good at heart. She begins having dinners with "the less evil side" of her family and occasionally her father, as well as regular adventures with Finn and Jake.

As her relationship with Finn played out, they began going on dates and picnics. One of these picnics was interrupted when a fight between Flame Princess and a passing-by Ice King breaks out, causing Finn to have a strange dream. Realizing the fight is what caused the dream, Finn caused another fight by writing both Flame Princess and Ice King a rude letter from the other. Although he had the dream again, Cosmic Owl appeared and told him that "You [He] blew it." This confirms that Flame Princess is indeed important and has an unknown special link to Ice King and the Cosmic Owl. Waking up from the dream and discovering that Flame Princess has destroyed the Ice Kingdom and nearly killed Ice King, Finn stops the fight and confesses he was the one who wrote the letters because he needed to see the dream again and learn what it meant. Flame Princess breaks up with Finn, hurt that she was used so flippantly and by the fact that the letter contained very personal information that Finn wrongly used against her, breaching their trust.

After her break up with Finn, Flame Princess has trouble controlling her emotions and powers again, claiming she does not want to feel that way as Princess Bubblegum observes her. Not remembering that Bubblegum was the one who locked her away as a child, Flame Princess befriends the fellow princess and allows her to run tests on her so she can understand herself better. While talking to Cinnamon Bun when Princess Bubblegum leaves Flame Princess unattended, he tells her that Bubblegum is evil. Flame Princess is shocked and questions him, so he reminds her that when she locked her in the lantern as a child was pretty evil. Flame Princess then has a flashback and remembers what Bubblegum and Flame King did to her, recalling why she grew up in a lantern in the first place. She then has an outburst after discovering the betrayal of another friend, screaming "Is everyone hiding something?!" The princess then sets off, back to her kingdom for the first time since she left it behind her.

After returning home, Flame Princess realizes she is more powerful than her father and overthrows him—putting him into the lantern where he trapped her during her past life and becoming the new ruler of the Fire Kingdom. She brings her only true friend Cinnamon Bun with her as he leaves his Candy Kingdom days behind to become the princess' new servant. Flame Princess claims she will not be sucked back into the evil, and she makes "honesty" the new rule of the Fire Kingdom. When Bubblegum learns that Flame Princess and Cinnamon Bun left, she becomes outraged and goes with Finn to track them down to the kingdom. Flame Princess tells them that she overthrew her father to enact a new regime of honesty within the Fire Kingdom. Stating that her place is in ruling the weak and vicious fire people, Flame Princess tells Finn they are no longer "going out"; however, Flame Princess adds that she and Finn can still be friends. It is unknown where her standing on Princess Bubblegum is, or how she intends to proceed with her relationship with her father, but Flame Princess seems to be calm and at peace with herself while figuring out who she really is in her heart.

As the days in the Fire Kingdom pass, an admirer of Flame Princess, who planned to help the Flame King escape in order to get her hand in marriage, broke into the kingdom and brainwashed the citizens, eliciting them to free the imprisoned king and turn against the princess. As Flame Princess was about to overpower him, she discovered the betrayal of her handmaiden Ursula, who had secretly poisoned her to impede her ability to fight and weakened her powers in order to help Flame King and Don John with her coup. Cinnamon Bun, unaffected by the spell Don John had cast, charged in and managed to help her escape. Flame Princess then came to a conclusion to seek help from Finn and explained specifically to him that they are not getting back together. Unfortunately, her explanation was to no avail when Finn impulsively charged into the Fire Kingdom in an attempt to win over the princess' affections, resulting in their imprisonment. Outraged, the princess turned both of her admirers down and told them that she did not have any feelings for them. This caused Don John to feel cheated and fought Flame King as the two prisoners made their escape with Cinnamon Bun, who managed to defeat the guards and steal the key. During his skirmish with the brainwashed citizens, he receives an attack and became fully baked before Don John's spell went off after his defeat during his battle with the Flame King.

After becoming fully baked, Cinnamon Bun was able to persuade the citizens to seize the king and help Flame Princess reclaim her throne by locking up the two threats in her lantern, as well as making a speech about her great leadership. Realizing that Cinnamon Bun is a trusty and competent champion and knight, she accepts his offer and hold his hand, and walks to the throne as her citizens cheer in approval of their relationship.

Following the events in which she reclaims the throne, Flame Princess spends most of her time traveling with Cinnamon Bun by her side, such as attending Princess Day and even during her free time when listening to the radio to Jake's story about "Mr. Bunny."

In "The Cooler," the Fire Kingdom's core is cooling down, causing the citizens' flames to reduce. As Flame Princess discusses what should be done about this with her family, her brother insists on attacking the Candy Kingdom to use the sugar to strengthen the fires. As Flame Princess informs him that she had already contacted Princess Bubblegum, the room begins cooling down, and Cinnamon Bun helps the princess escape before she is hit with a blast of cool air. She goes to meet with Bubblegum, who tells Flame Princess to call her Bonnibel and asks what her first name, which Flame Princess refuses to answer. Bubblegum then picks up strong energy levels on her radar. She finds that they are behind a pair of large sealed doors and asks Flame Princess what is hidden in there. Flame Princess says that only members of the royal Fire Kingdom family are allowed in there, but Bubblegum convinces her to show her if she wants to save her kingdom. Reluctantly, Flame Princess opens the doors and presents the Sleeping Fire Giants, the Fire Kingdom's ancient guardians. As Flame Princess tells Bubblegum about being able to build a new Fire Kingdom with them and sings "A Kingdom from a Spark" while Bubblegum secretly steals the temperature control units from the Fire Giants. Flame Princess notices that she does this from one of them and becomes angry, but Bubblegum lies and says that it only fell out and she was placing it back in. However, her bag rips as she tries to move away and reveals the other temperature control units, causing Flame Princess to discover that her false ally's intentions were to disarm the giants, which led to an all-out fight that caused Flame Princess to accidentally destroy all but one of her Fire Giants. Feeling tired and guilty, Bubblegum promised to leave her the final one, hoping Flame Princess would change her opinion of Bubblegum. She is shown later on one of PB's camera screens, where her brother complains about not starting a war, which Phoebe responds with a pat on the shoulder.

In "The Dark Cloud," she and Cinnamon Bun come to the assistance of Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, and the Candy Kingdom in combating the Dark Cloud created by the Vampire King's extracted vampire essence, by using one of the Fire Kingdom's volcanos to fire a blast of lava at the vampire cloud however it fails to stop it and instead injures several Candy People who were fighting the vampire cloud.

In "Bun Bun," she greets Finn's delivery of Bun Bun to the Fire Kingdom and asks him to stay for a chat. Over lunch, Finn admits he finally understands why it was wrong to manipulate Flame Princess to fight Ice King, and she is impressed by his maturity. They have some fun bonding over charades and Flame Princess' freestyle rapping skills, reestablishing their friendship. When Cinnamon Bun reveals Flame King has escaped and is now hanging out in a cave with some chipmunks, Flame Princess decides to let him stay there, recalling that animals bring out his more gentle side, and this experience could help him change for the better.

In "Elemental," Patience St. Pim orders Ice King to capture her along with Slime Princess and Princess Bubblegum. While playing a game of croquet with Cinnamon Bun, Ice King appears and splashes her with a glass of water, in which she retaliates angrily, but she is then frozen first with ice powers. Due to being wet, she is weak and couldn't escape until Patience St. Pim tripped on her boat which broke, the sail (a wooden pole) bounces and breaks her ice bounds, she grabs the wooden pole, burns it, thus igniting her weakened flames. She frees the others including Finn and Jake then finally escapes with the others, leaving Patience St. Pim furious.

In the miniseries Elements, it is revealed she has turned into a dragon and her fire powers can become blue. In addition, she could turn others into fire elemental people. This causes them and herself to act extremely violent and is even more powerful than she was before. She, however, was unable to remember anything from her life while in her elemental form. In "Hero Heart," she lost her element abilities because Princess Bubblegum turned her into a candy elemental person. In "Skyhooks II," she and the entire population of Ooo were turned back to normal and were freed from the elementals.

Characteristics

Like all other inhabitants of the Fire Kingdom, Flame Princess is covered with fire, the very flames emitted from her body being extensions of herself that intensify when she becomes emotionally excited. According to Princess Bubblegum, Flame Princess' emotions are directly linked to her combustion levels, which explains her aggressiveness. When she is exposed to extreme romance, her elemental matrix will become unstable, and she would burn through the Earth's crust and set off a series of reactions, causing a meltdown that would burn up the planet from the inside. This reaction was started when Finn kissed her in "Burning Low," but the crisis was averted. Flame Princess eats coal and burns things to keep sustain herself. She also was the current incarnation of the Fire Elemental (the Elementals are the embodiments of the four main elements that make up the world: ice, fire, candy, and slime. They have existed since the beginning of life, living, dying and reincarnating for eons and millennia).[1]

Personality

Flame Princess has a short temper and volatile personality; she usually has a calm demeanor, though with rather frequent tendencies to sudden and violent mood swings. She is described as "passionate" by Finn, "evil" by the Flame King, and "intense" by Pendleton Ward.[2] Flame Princess also has a sense of humor as even though Jake, who was controlling Finn, embarrassed him in front of her less-evil family by making him dance his Baby Finn song, she didn't get upset when she figures out the bet; instead she thinks it's pretty hardcore of Jake to do that and then wishes Finn good luck.

Since she was locked up when she was only an infant, Flame Princess is not educated properly and does not know much about the world beyond the Fire Kingdom. This is shown in "Hot to the Touch," where she was viewed to be examining flowers and was a bit surprised when she accidentally sets them on fire. She also did not know the definitions of sneaking or eating, though as she had served her family dinner in "Jake Suit," she seems to have improved on her knowledge regarding the outside world.

After Flame King started harassing her by calling her evil, Flame Princess began to question herself and doubted whether or not she was in fact evil. However, after some time and a dungeon adventure to help her sort out her thoughts, Flame Princess concludes that, while she is a lover of destruction, she only enjoys destroying bad guys.[3] Since she does not want to be influenced by evil people, she started spending time with her less-evil family members and was also upset when Cinnamon Bun told her that Bubblegum was evil in "Earth & Water."

After the events of "Frost & Fire," Flame Princess becomes more aware of trusting people and getting into relationships. She seems to have become more serious and dislikes how people "hide" facts from her. She wonders if "everybody is hiding something" and wants people to be completely honest so that she can get to know them better and as well not getting herself tricked. Wanting everybody to be trustworthy, Flame Princess enacted a rule in the Fire Kingdom to be completely honest after she overthrows her father and became the new ruler, no longer wanting to be fooled again.

She seems to be a benevolent ruler, seeing as how she helps her citizens with their problems and tries to make them happy once she became the monarch of the Fire Kingdom.

Physical appearance

Flame Princess has long orange-red hair about waist-length that is like fire and as such flows above her head. She has black eyes that sparkle white and yellow in the light of her fire. Physically, she is thicker than the other characters, with a wider waist and bigger arms and legs. Her skin is yellow-orange and she usually wears an orange-red dress under a light orange surcoat with hot pink trimming. At first, she does not wear shoes, though her dress usually hides her feet from view. She has two diamond-shaped, red gems; one on her forehead and the other on the front of her dress. The red gem on her dress is shown to be a part of her dress and not her body, which exemplified when Flame Princess had a different outfit on in "Ignition Point."

When her flames are doused, her skin changes to a pinkish-gray hue and her hair falls down her back and becomes a dull shade of maroon. Once in dry conditions, she returns to her normal appearance quickly. She turns into a similar appearance when she was poisoned in "The Red Throne." She has many different enraged and battling forms, most of which have red eyes.

Flame Princess is normally seen wearing dresses, in all different shades of red and orange with a gem on some of her outfits and her hair is seen up most of the time.

In "Ignition Point," she wears a raspberry tank top with red matching pants under a clear layer, a pair of red shoes, and her hair in side-buns with a back ponytail.

In "Vault of Bones," she wears a light orange and raspberry strapless dress with fire at the end. Her hair was worn down and shorter with a curl on top.

In "Earth & Water," she wears a casual white dress with a peach-colored, short-sleeved surcoat, a hot pink sash and a pair of red boots that are about knee-length. Her hair was worn down and is slightly longer. As a baby, she is shorter in both physical and hair length and wears a raspberry t-shirt with a rock diaper. At the end of the episode, she wears a dark brown, full body suit armor with a skirt, copper sash, red trimming, knee caps, and Flame King's crown as her ruler outfit. Her hair is styled in a ponytail similar to the one she wear in "Ignition Point." She is also seen wearing this outfit in "The Red Throne" and "Princess Day."

In "The Red Throne," she wears her ruler outfit over a white-pink dress. Her skin turns dimmer and her hair falls down to her back, similar to when she gets wet. At the end of the episode, she is seen in her ruler outfit again, but with her hair worn down.

In "Jake The Brick," she is seen wearing an orange dress with hot pink collar and a red sash as her day dress.

In "The Cooler," she wears a light orange surcoat with hot pink trimmings, molten rocks on her shoulders, orange-red pants and red boots. She has the same hairstyle as she had when wearing her ruler outfit.

In "The Mountain," she wears a light orange crop top with a hood, orange-red pants and dark red shoes.

In "Bun Bun," she wears a white short-sleeve crop top, orange jogging pants, tied hair. She walks barefooted.

In "Skyhooks II," after she was freed of Patience's mega-spell, she wears an yellow-orange, ground-length dress with a v-neck collar, and the sleeves of which reaching past the elbows. The dress itself also has red-orange stripes going down the sides of the skirt, as well as the waistband, and collar. Her two gems are also missing in this form.

Relationships

Powers and abilities

Flame Princess is able to generate heat and flames. She is able to project powerful streams, disks,[5] and/or balls of fire. Flame Princess can make a "Flame Sword," which is an isolated flame, extending from her arm, that is intense enough to glow blue, akin to a welding flame.

Flame Princess can cause flames to appear at a distance from herself.[6] She can also control her fire's size, shape, and intensity with great precision, and could mentally manipulate its movements.

She seems to be able to consciously extinguish the fire she creates. [7]

Flame Princess can shoot fire from the gem on her forehead.[8][9]

Flame Princess has an ability she calls her "heat sense." With this, she can detect anything out of place, such as a fake tree.

Flame Princess has full manipulation of her body, morphing it into asymmetrical flames at will. She can also transform into a larger, more dangerous form composed purely of fire and even separate her body into distinctly separate groups of flames. Additionally, she is able to absorb fire into her body with no detrimental effects and even add it to her form to increase her size.

Flame Princess can transform other citizens of the Fire Kingdom into Flambits.

Flame Princess' flame-aura can simulate the effects of a torch and can even is hot enough to vaporize projectiles that approach her.

Flame Princess is able to fly.

She is also a talented rapper.

Weaknesses

Flame Princess is highly susceptible to water and being doused with water can render her very weak and negate her flame powers. This shown after unintentionally setting off some of Princess Bubblegum's liquid pyrotechnics and when she puts her hand into a pond. The liquid pyrotechnics that doused her, caused her flames to diminish and rendered her temporarily unconscious, and touching the water in the pool caused her pain. The same can be said of ice and snow, as seen when Ice King threw frozen livers and prunes at her and she reacted in pain, and when one of his Snow Monsters hugged Flame Princess, she was doused and effectively incapacitated. It is not known if remaining doused would eventually prove fatal to her.

The fires that Flame Princess starts are a part of her, and stomping on or dousing these flames can cause her pain. However, she has since been able to comfortably handle a part of her flames being extinguished. [10] [11] [12]

Flame Princess was significantly weakened after being poisoned by her handmaiden. The effects caused her flame-hair to fall down, and Finn notes she was relatively cool to the touch. [13]

When the magma in the Fire Kingdom's core has cooled down, it can weaken the life force of the Flame People by producing cool air pockets, to which the Flame People lose heat to and contract, causing them to reduce in size and in flame-intensity.[14] When afflicted, Flame Princess' skin was shown to have dimmed slightly. According to Princess Bubblegum, this had also caused her to lose most of her powers. Despite these effects, Flame Princess was shown to have maintained some semblance of her flame powers, as seen during her fight with Bubblegum; for example, she grew in size, hurled fireballs from her gem and created two fire-blades with her hands.

Quotes

Episode appearances

Major appearances

Minor appearances

Mentioned

Comic

Trivia

Pendleton Ward and the show's cast first introduced Flame Princess at Comic-Con 2011.

Natasha Allegri has drawn Flame Prince, a gender-swapped version of Flame Princess, in her artwork. He has appeared in the mini comic that started in early January 2013 and as a minor character in "The Prince Who Wanted Everything" and "Five Short Tables."

Flame Princess is the only known princess to have invaded another kingdom by herself.

In the original storyboard for "Hot to the Touch," Flame Princess was supposed to kiss Finn; however, the idea was dropped and reused for "Burning Low."

When Flame Princess transforms into her larger form, her face resembles that of her father, the Flame King.

She is different than the other flame people curiously, being that she can be completely wet and yet only be rendered unconscious at the most, instead of killed. This is possibly due to the fact that, as royalty, she likely has abilities beyond typical flame people. She is one of the few flame people with a humanoid shaped body. Although it appears as if Flame Princess' hair is made of fire, it does not disappear when she is extinguished or wet; instead, it falls down to her back and behaves like normal hair. It most likely transforms, or the hair is more of a fuel for the fire.

When in a doused state, her gems appear to turn a maroon color.

She refers to Finn as her boyfriend in "Vault of Bones" and Finn refers to Flame Princess as his girlfriend in "Puhoy." In "Puhoy," Finn is briefly concerned that their relationship is over after Flame Princess did not get a joke he made, and ventures into a Pillow World where he lives through a lifetime with a pillow wife and pillow children. When he dies of old age in this world and "returns" to Ooo, he immediately gets a phone call from Flame Princess telling him she now gets the joke and promptly forgets about his "dream" of the Pillow World.

She is one of the two princesses who have ran away from home and lived out in the grasslands because they hated their parents and how they treated them. The other one is Lumpy Space Princess. She is also one of the two princesses to have another emblem aside from a crown to represent her royalty as a princess. The other one is also Lumpy Space Princess. However, out of the two, only Lumpy Space Princess has reconciled with her parents. It may also be noted that she is the third member of royalty that hated their father, along with Marceline and Lumpy Space Princess; however, Lumpy Space Princess' hate stretches to both her parents. Although she overthrew her father and became the new ruler (making her obtain a crown) and started living in the Fire Kingdom again, she was still considered one of the two princesses as she does not have a crown when she was only a princess and she ran away from home and lived out in the grasslands at the same time.

In the episode "Hot to the Touch," it is proven that whenever Flame Princess' fires are put out, she gets hurt. However, in the episode "Burning Low," Finn jumped in the water, putting out a fire that was on his foot that was caused by Flame Princess and she did not seem hurt at all. Also, in the episode "Vault of Bones," Finn threw a torch in the water that was lit with Flame Princess' fire and she did not show any pain.

In "Earth & Water" she overthrows her father and becomes the new Flame King.

In the episode "The Pit," Finn mentions that he still loves her, even though she rejected him in "Earth & Water."

Unlike the others, in most video games, she is seen in her outfit in "Vault of Bones" instead of her main outfit.

Flame Princess' name, Phoebe, means 'bright and shining one', which is apt as her body generates light along with heat.

Appearances in other media

There was a Pet Society costume of Flame Princess.

Flame Princess stars in an Adventure Time original graphic novel, where she embarks on her first adventures with Finn and Jake. [15]

In the mobile game "Card Wars," Flame Princess is one of the opponents.

Flame Princess is a playable character in Adventure Time Battle Party.

Flame Princess is a boss in Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW! . Like the Ice King and Lemongrab, you can play as her once you defeat her. In the same game, she appears in her Vault of Bones outfit instead of her normal outfit.

. Like the Ice King and Lemongrab, you can play as her once you defeat her.

Gallery

The full image gallery for Flame Princess may be viewed at Flame Princess/Gallery.

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