Divalicious New York Comic Con Review – Adventure Time For Cake And Fionna, Again
By Caroline Cao | November 13, 2025 | Celebrity & Culture
Are you an old-school or new Adventure Time fan? You’re in luck because Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is back with another season 2 on Max streaming!
Fionna and Cake, developed by Adam Muto, has not lost its magic touch. Although I had personally been skeptical about continuing Adventure Time beyond its daring finale, if there’s anything the Adventure Time IP (created by Pendleton Ward, who voices Lumpy Space Princess) has proved, it’s that it’s shooting out fresh ideas and boundary-pushing absurdist animation and not losing sight of the spirit that made Adventure Time so delightfully weird.
As we last left off last season, Fionna, the human (Madeleine Martin), and her now-talking cat, Cake (the ever-thunderously funny Roz Ryan of Hercules: The Animated Series fame), have saved their dimension and city. Season 2 seems to have opened up new dimensional worlds beyond Fionna’s knowledge.
But Fionna and Cake still have to deal with real life in their realm. Although Fionna is hailed as a hero to the city, Fionna’s old tour boss has a vendetta against her. And she enacts vengeance by buying the land that Fionna’s friends—the baker Gary Prince (Harvey Guillén replacing Andrew Rannells) and his boyfriend Marshall Lee (Kris Kollins relating Donald Glover)—purchased for their own dream bakery.
All this is in conjunction with something happening in the Ooo dimension (the one fans grew up with in 10 seasons of Adventure Time). The Huntress Wizard (Ashly Burch) finds that something is wrong with Finn (Jeremy Shada), and it seems she and Fionna are fated to meet to deal with vague crises.
When I was sitting among the New York Comic Con audience for a surprise screening, I noted that the audience reacted to a few reveals: The fact that Cake the cat now has her own apartment, just a stone’s throw away from Fionna’s, so they can talk to each other from their windows. Then Fionna uttering the B-word to her former boss. While many adult animated productions habitually drop swear words as if to assert their rating desperately, Fionna’s use of profanity strangely hits a relatable note of channeled irritation.
Cake and Fionna has been relatable for many young adults in the age of recessions and disintegrating opportunities. Stakes aren’t just interdimensional crises; the stakes feel high in Cake and Fionna because of its slice-of-life charm, which shows why Fionna and Cake worked so hard to protect their own dimension.
Image credit: Cartoon Network
