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Learning the ropes of mushroom warfare is easy with simple and intuitive controls as well as gamepad support. But the journey to become a fearsome commander requires fast reflexes, an eye for strategy, and the ability to oversee up to thousands of units at once.
The war crippled and eventually resulted in the near total annihilation of the Human species, and left their civilization in ruins throughout the Land of Ooo. Fortunately, Humanity was not completely killed off, as some humans managed to survive. The aftermath of the conflict resulted in the birth of entirely new races of people, many of them offshoots of the original humans, including Vampires.
Not much is known about the Mushroom War or the events leading up to it, except that it ended with all-out nuclear exchange and a mutagenic bomb being dropped on what was once America, awakening the Lich and ending most of life on Earth. In the Distant Lands episode "BMO", it was revealed that the Mushroom War resulted in three major explosions, two on either side of the planet, and an even larger one that resulted in the giant crater left in the planet. This war resulted in mass human extinction, some dying instantly while others perished from other causes. In order to escape the chaos, some humans escaped to space, while others hid in fallout shelters, and certain humans managed to survive in the ruins after the bomb's detonation, among them Simon Petrikov and Marceline.
The war likely ended approximately one thousand years before the events of Adventure Time. Marceline's flashback in "Simon & Marcy" is explicitly stated in a time card in the episode to have taken place 996 years ago prior to the present setting. The exact year(s) that the war took place have never been stated, though it can be concluded that the Mushroom Bomb was dropped sometime after, at the earliest, 1985, as in "Everything Stays", Two Bread Tom, a surviving human, is depicted singing the theme song to the sitcom Mr. Belvedere, which premiered that year; in "Simon & Marcy" the Ice King is depicted singing the theme song and making reference to the sitcom Cheers, which premiered in 1982, further supporting the 1980s timeframe of the conflict (which was the height of the Cold War). However, due to the appearance of a Generation 3 iMac computer in the episode The Lich, (which started becoming available to mass public consumption in 1998), it can be assumed that the war occurred sometime after the year 1998. This would also help explain why Internet-derived expressions and phrases are frequently used by characters. Modern smartphones are seen in Patience St. Pim's flashback of the human era, in "Elemental"; this could indicate that the Great Mushroom War began sometime around 2010. Further evidence that proves that the War took place in the 2000's is in the episode "Sons of Mars", where Abraham Lincoln briefly shows a penny that has a date with the first two numbers being "2" and "0" (the rest of the numbers are obscured). Recently, a post from Reddit went viral because the image of The Enchiridion's back page shown with codes "8.13.21" indicated the Mushroom War may have happened on August 13, 2021, though there is no other evidence to support this.
The end of the war left much of the world devastated and devoid of most life. The infrastructure that had existed throughout the land had been mostly destroyed, the conflict having caused the complete and total collapse of human civilization. The little human infrastructure that survived, such as girder bridges and office buildings, now lay in ruin. Evidence of the war appears in the form of abandoned military vehicles, ruined army blockades, bombed buildings and crashed warplanes. A great deal of human technology also remained scattered throughout the land. Abandoned and destroyed vehicles were a common sight in the devastated landscape and their rusting skeletal remains can be seen in the backgrounds of several episodes.
Despite the great destruction, some humans managed to survive the war, such as Simon Petrikov who would become the Ice King, Moe, a tribe of humans led by a man known as Two Bread Tom, and a woman named Elise. Descendants of these humans eventually led to the ones in the current setting of the series such as Finn and Susan Strong. There was also Elise's daughter Marceline, a former half-human/half-demon turned half-vampire who remained one of the few original survivors of the war. Nonetheless, most presumably perished during the war. In the flashbacks from "Obsidian", Elise was shown to be dying from an unknown illness which is strongly implied to be radiation poisoning from the nuclear fallout. Throughout the episode, she and Marceline attempted to find a fallout shelter called the "Clubhouse", with Marceline ultimately arriving to find the vault door open and the skeletal remains of its inhabitants, implying the shelter failed to protect them from the Mushroom War. In "I Remember You", Simon says to Marceline that they may be alone after the apocalypse, and "Simon & Marcy" depicts a post-war society devoid of any other humans.
Some individuals survived the war through special or supernatural means. Simon Petrikov was kept alive by the magic of his crown, as he states in his note to Marceline in "I Remember You". Moe kept himself alive through the use of technology and artificial organs, most notably one meant to preserve his memory. Even then, old age continued to deteriorate him to the point where he could no longer walk before ultimately passing away.
In "Everything Stays", it is stated that some years following the initial aftermath of the war, a major climate change developed, implied to have been a result of the war and the dropping of the bomb. Having detected abnormal atmospheric readings, Two Bread Tom's tribe of humans sailed away from their makeshift forest settlement in a renovated freighter in search of a safer place to thrive. This would lead to the creation of the islands which most of humanity came to inhabit.
Despite the destruction from the war, the land slowly began to recover and soon life was once again allowed to freely inhabit the earth. Only a few signs of the nuclear devastation remained in Ooo. One example was in the episode "The Vault", where Shoko helps Princess Bubblegum establish her new kingdom by covering up an irradiated river at the site of the Candy Castle. In the process of covering it up, Shoko becomes disfigured and mutated by the effects of the waste and appears as she had in premonitions in earlier episodes of the series. The episode implies that the Candy Kingdom is built atop a pond of nuclear waste.
Along with the rise of new civilizations, such as the Candy Kingdom, a diverse variety of intelligent life settled down in Ooo. Many were able to recover or develop technology for their own use. Examples of this are universal translator devices and holographic newspapers. It is unknown whether these are based on prewar technology (the year of the war was never stated, but we know that it must have happened sometime in or after the 2010s because modern smartphones can be seen in Patience St. Pim's flashback of the human era, in "Elemental". Despite this, most human inventions, especially those related to transportation, remained lost to the inhabitants of Ooo. In "The New Frontier", Jake mentions this when he says that "rocket ships haven't been reinvented yet", implying that the technology to build conventional space-faring vessels was lost during the Mushroom War.
The first mention of the war in continuity was in "Video Makers", when Finn and Jake discover government copyright warnings before the movies they watch for their film club. Even though the civilizations that created these warnings would have been long gone by their time, they decide to abide by them to avoid breaking the law.
In "Memory of a Memory" Marceline appears as a young girl in a post-apocalyptic environment. A burning city in the background suggests the Mushroom War had affected that area fairly recently, although plant overgrowth suggests that some time has passed since humans inhabited the area. Marceline is one thousand and three years old, suggesting that the Mushroom War occurred roughly one thousand years into the show's past. This theory was proven when, in "Finn the Human", Farmworld Marceline says that Simon Petrikov saved the world from the Bomb of Death (mushroom bomb) 1,000 years ago to Farmworld Finn.
In "Holly Jolly Secrets Part I" and Part II BMO plays tapes which show Ice King as a young human. The Ice King, then known as Simon Petrikov, narrates a video diary about his life. The early part of his video diary shows him living in what appears to be human civilization, either before or during the war.
A scene in "I Remember You" ends up revealing a memory of Simon traveling through the destroyed world and meeting an alone and crying Marceline. Simon calms her by giving her a toy. During the episode, it had been revealed that they might be the only survivors to the Mushroom War. However, this is unlikely due to the fact that Finn appears to be a normal human boy, meaning some humans may have survived the Mushroom War, though it is not known whether any besides Finn and Finn's dad, Martin are still alive. It later revealed in "Everything Stays" that there were indeed human survivors of the war.
The alternate universe of "Farmworld", created by Finn in an attempt to stop the Lich from existing, further seems to reveal the possible birth of modern Ooo. Although the Mushroom War still occurred, a massive nuclear-like weapon was fired by one of the sides. Though the weapon did not hit initially due to the sacrifice of Simon Petrikov, it ultimately did finally hit the Earth a thousand years later. When it hit, a massive green energy similar to that of The Lich emerged and covered the entire world quickly. It can be assumed that when this "bomb" hit Earth in the actual universe, this began the emerging of the Lich, the Human Apocalypse, and the end of the Mushroom War; leading to the beginning of the transformation of the entire world into what would emerge, over the next thousand years, as Ooo; a world where technology would exist side by side with magic.
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