jon heder played the ice king in adventure time.
jon heder played the ice king in adventure time.
who plays the ice king in adventure time?
jon heder
gunter (vocal effects provided by tom kenny) is a penguin that most commonly accompanies the ice king, despite occasionally attempting to do harm to him. although gunter has appeared in many episodes, it is heavily implied that there are many other gunters, and the name is simply something that the ice king calls all of his penguins. the ice king also referred to marceline as gunter while she traveled with him. the reason that the ice king is seemingly fixated on the name is due to the nature of the ice crown: it was originally constructed by a magician named evergreen (also voiced by tom kenny), whose apprentice was named gunter (voiced by pamela adlon). this original gunter later used the crown in an attempt to become like his master, at the cost of his sanity. thus, the name "gunter" seems to be intrinsically connected to the magic of the crown. during the sixth season, gunter the penguin is revealed be a primordial space demon named orgalorg, who desired to absorb the catalyst comet. but orgalorg ended up in his current state after being defeated by grob gob glob grod and exiled to early earth. the planet's gravity condensed orgalorg into his current powerless and amnesiac penguin-like form as he wandered the planet for ages before he was found by the ice king. regardless of the memory loss, gunter accidentally regains his memories and orchestrates a series of events to use the dethroned bubblegum's spaceship to assume his true form and absorb a catalyst comet. but he is defeated by finn, and he regresses back to his weakened state. gunther later acquires ice king's crown in the series finale, using it to become the ice thing and taking simon's place as the ruler of the ice kingdom. the character's name has been pronounced a variety of ways, including , , and ; this is due to the fact that in the original script, the name had an umlaut over the "u", causing kenny to use the proper german pronunciation. when the umlaut was dropped, kenny switched to a different name. in order to justify this discrepancy, the crew rationalized that there were many penguins with similar sounding names.
list of adventure time characters
the short focused on a boy named pen (later renamed finn in the television series) and a dog named jake as they learn from the rainicorn that the ice king has kidnapped princess bubblegum, in the hope of marrying her. declaring that it's "adventure time", pen and jake set off to the ice king's mountain lair. pen and the ice king fight while jake remains outside flirting with lady rainicorn, ignoring the battle. just when pen seems to be gaining the upper hand, the ice king uses his "frozen lightning bolts" to freeze pen in a block of ice. for unexplained reasons, this transports pen's mind back in time, and to mars, where he has a short motivational conversation with abraham lincoln. after being told to believe in himself, pen's mind is returned to the present, where he breaks out of the ice, just in time to see the ice king fly away with princess bubblegum. chasing after him using jake's extendable legs, pen rescues the princess from the ice king's grasp. jake pushes the magical crown off the ice king's head, thereby removing the king's source of power. the ice king then plummets off screen, yelling a long list of complex threats of things he will do when he returns. the story closes with princess bubblegum giving pen a kiss; he enjoys it, but is also greatly embarrassed by the act. he attempts to leave, but jake claims that they have nowhere else to go and that there are no adventures that need them. however, some nearby ninjas are stealing an old man's diamonds, and they both run off in pursuit.
adventure time (short film)