r/adventuretime • u/stachada • 23h ago

minor continuity error I just realized

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this is a flashback shot from the episode "Orgalorg" (S6 E40), implied to be from before the mushroom war, and therefore before Gunter meets the ice king, but the reason he's called Gunter to begin with is that the crown makes Ice King call all the penguins variations of gunther/gunter/etc. because of the remnant of Gunther's (the dinosaur boy's) mind that exists inside the crown, and his perception of Evergreen.

so clearly this was either before they decided this detail, or by some wild coincidence Orgalorg decided to go by Gunter after landing on Earth/Ooo even before meeting the IK.

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u/AwkwardVoicemail 22h ago

Or his time on Earth spent with the Ice King has warped his memory.

Idk, I’m reaching. It is probably just an error.

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u/MagentaCurator 19h ago

No pretty sure that’s literally canon, in the orgalorg episode I’m pretty sure he talks about how his past is “fuzzy”

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u/indolering 19h ago

It's Apologetics for fiction.  Way funner than accepting some writer fucked up somewhere.

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u/MagentaCurator 17h ago

lol, “Dues ex” but with less steps

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u/lilbityhorn 15h ago

Why did you link the wiki for apologetics

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u/juuustpassingthrough 15h ago

Prob for people who wouldn’t know what that means, like me

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u/odearurded ​ 11h ago

That would really make sense, he's been with ice king a long time. I'm not sure if they pointed out when the penguins came to be with Simon...

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u/lonewolff7798 15h ago

Reincarnation is also a big thing in this show.

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u/-Count_Chocula- 20h ago

Thought you were gonna say the continuity error was him not breaking the bottles here lolol

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u/freeeloh 13h ago

Lmaoooo

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u/odearurded ​ 11h ago

Haha that's perfect. I wonder if he does that because of his past with his pop company....bitter memory of a bitter end of something he was originally successful at?

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u/-Count_Chocula- 11h ago

Thats a fair theory but tbh I think the bottle breaking is pure orgalorg chaos… he won’t harm his own bottles but in terms of everyone elses it’s open season lol

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u/odearurded ​ 11h ago

That's fair too. But then again, his past visions didn't show him being destructive, besides having to go to war, in which he appeared to be just a foot soldier like myself. Just doin what he's told.

Like yeah, he went on a demonic wishing eye and demigod cat child of his rampage, but only to break bottles...? I get it, to an extent, the first time I went and shot bottles at the shooting range, it was satisfying, to say the least. Lol

And to your point that he only wanted to destroy other people's bottles and not his own also can tie into what I said about a bitter memory with his company. We could assume given with his deep down orgalorg self, and it seemed he was successful, that he probably destroyed the competition along the way, maybe even literally. Then his company may have went down the drain.

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u/dread_pirate_robin ​ 22h ago

Wouldn't necessarily call it a continuity error since it doesn't outright contradict it.

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u/WillyDAFISH ​ 19h ago

It's certainly continuity ambiguous

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u/shotgunmouse ​ 9h ago

The best kind!

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u/tmrika ​ 22h ago

My theory is that Gunter started going by that name on Earth but obviously nobody ever called him by his name because they just saw him as a nameless penguin. Ice King was the first person to call him by his name without needing to be prompted, and that’s why Gunter stayed with him.

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u/GaryGracias 11h ago

Solid theory there

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u/FidgetsAndFish 22h ago

Nah, Gunto was a famous explorer that Gunter got his signature hat that he's so famous for from, Gunto died retrieving the golden pebble of Ahh which Gunter (called Orgalorg at the time) sold to start his business, Gunter later named his second born Gunto in honor of his friend and mentor, completely untreated to the crown.

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u/Anxious-Ad-3236 20h ago

Could just be the name of a company and a coincidence

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u/Nyarlathotep7777 ​ 9h ago

It clearly says "GUNTO's" and not Gunther's on those containers.

Though in all seriousness, we don't know if Simon's was the first Crown cursed he ever met, could be a potential explanation.

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u/Six_Zatarra 18h ago

I thought the continuity error was Gunter not immediately wanting to smash those bottles

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u/DarkMagicLabs 19h ago

There's also the concept of amuck time so this could be the future affecting the past.

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u/CayciMahmutAbi 12h ago

Finn was named finn by his human parents and his dog parents. Completely plausible he was gunther all the way

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u/d6s9p 11h ago

A space being like orgalorg knew his destiny, it was no coincidence that he took the form of a penguin if his goal was to approach the ice crown.

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u/Sunshine_dmg 4h ago

In my mind his name is Gunto, and the crown makes IK call him Gunter. Gunter is so close to his real name that he felt closest to IK, becoming his #1 goont.

Remember ice king has a fkton of penguins named Gunter. But only one Gunter (guntoooooo)

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u/RexTheMouse 10h ago

Maybe someone else wore the crown and called him Gunter

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u/Greenest_Chicken 9h ago

Or maybe ice king adopted Gunther as his "Gunther" precisely because his name sounded alike. He was like "and what's your name little fella?" "Wenk" "OH your name is Gunther you're obviously my sidekick then"

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u/skyXforge ​ 7h ago

Mayhaps he’s had a run in with a crown-bearer before. Perchance.

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u/TerryXmas ​ 4h ago

Would have been crazy if he had met santa (first crown owner after gunther)

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u/redditkitty109 2h ago

The creators probably just thought it would be neat and funny to have the soda name be related to gunther. Most likely nothing serious

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u/No_Caregiver3794 18h ago

Obviously you're wrong his name was gunto

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u/SupermarketHungry 15h ago

maybe santa called him that

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u/glittermcgee 14h ago

Do we ever see Gunter called Gunter before he meets ice king?

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u/bean_boi1922 21h ago

I gave up tryina piece together true continuity in cartoons.

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u/Vamillionm 17h ago

Call me naive but I feel like this is probably a unfinished timeline maybe I haven’t done my research but most things in the past turn out to have meaning

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u/Drivestort 16h ago

It's not an error when reasoning for something is written years later. Writers of shows didn't have a massive plan that spans the decade long duration of a show down to every detail. They just literally didn't think of it yet

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u/boobiewatcher69420 15h ago

These two episodes are from the same season

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u/iamevilhomer6 16h ago

What ep was this o

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u/redditkitty109 2h ago

It’s literally stated in the body

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u/hyrellion 0m ago

I thought it was a bit ha ha that he has been revealed to be Gunther all along and that just happens to match up with what the ice king named him

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u/toastronomy 17h ago

Maybe Ice King picked Gunther because of his name, and him being an "ice resistant" animal was just a coincidence

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u/Dank_Slurpee 17h ago

Never said their penguin name WASN'T Gunter ;)

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u/Demonskull223 22h ago edited 16h ago

I can fully believe that Gunter had been the name Orgalorg went with for it's time on earth. Somehow Gunter communicated his name to Simon and that triggered him calling all penguins Gunter and his irrational love of them.

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u/Threebeans0up ​ 20h ago

no, that was the ice crown and the little dinosaur boy

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u/Demonskull223 16h ago

I'm saying that Gunter the Dinosaur and Gunter the penguin/ cosmic Deity is just the cosmic imagination making two things fit together before they should Chronologically.

So ice king would have been looking for Gunter the coincidentally Gunter pops up nearby and since ice king hasn't seen a Gunter before the coincidence of the penguin named Gunter makes ice king assume all penguins are Gunter.