| “ | Born in Paradise, then taken from it. Had adventures at sea. Lost both parents. Found two more. Found yourself in a magical land... became a hero. | „ |
| ~ Shoko describing Finn's life |
| “ | I cast... Dragon Eyes! Tiger Claw! Vorpal Hand! Blazing Feet! Beauteous Wings! And finally... every other power I didn't mention by naaaame! With all my magics combined, I'm powerful enough to move the entire village out of the asteroid's path! | „ |
| ~ Finn using his Wizard powers |
| “ | Fridjitsu master Finn summons... dagger of chilled glass. | „ |
| ~ Finn using his Ninja powers |
| “ | Don't worry Jake, I'll share the secrets of ice and snow with thee. Heh heh, the power of frost! | „ |
| ~ Ice Finn |
| “ | I'M GOING TO RUIN YOUR UNIVERSE! | „ |
| ~ Fire Finn |
Summary
Finn the Human, real name Finn Mertens is the main character of Adventure Time. He, along with his adoptive brother Jake the Dog are the loyal champions of the Candy Kingdom. Finn vowed to keep the Kingdom and its residence safe at all cost. Finn is a very loyal and kind person, always giving a helping hand to those who need it.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-A, higher with Golden Sword of Battle | High 7-A, higher with Root Sword | High 7-A, higher with Demon Blood Sword | High 7-A, higher with Grass Sword Finn Sword, or Telekinetic Spirit Prosthetic Arm, 5-A with Grass Vine | 5-A, higher with Mechanical Arm or Small Sword | 5-A, higher with Mechanical Arm and Night Sword | 5-A
Key: Seasons 1-Dungeon Train | Dungeon Train - Dad's Dungeon | Dad's Dungeon - Apple Wedding | Blade of Grass - Reboot | Two Swords - Elementals Arc | Season 10 | Deceased
Name: Finn the Human, Finn Mertens, Pen (his name in the original short), Finn
Origin: Adventure Time
Gender: Male
Age: 12 years old (Pilot, Season 1), 13 years old (Season 2), 14 years old (Season 4), 15 years old (Season 5), 16 years old (Seasons 6 - 10), 17 years old (post-"Seventeen"), 20s-30s ("Obsidian"), Elderly ("Together Again")
Classification: Currently Human (He was once a butterfly, a blob creature and a Catalyst Comet in his past lives)
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant
- Weapon Mastery (Is an expert swordsman and is shown to be proficient in other weapons as well)
- Limited Sound Manipulation (Ate a little computer as a child, and can change his voice to several different frequencies because of it)
- Surface Scaling (Crawls on the walls of the treehouse and casually scales towers without any rocks or bricks to climb. Can hang off of icicles in the Ice Kingdom)
- Acrobatics (Hypermobility, Self-Momentum & Surface Running; Parkours throughout the City of Thieves. Capable of doing triple flips out of his house and over people. Can do flips from one handed hand-stands and does large backflips across fields alongside Fern. Does several flips off of the Jigglers' noodly arms. Can run up vertical surfaces with enough speed)
- Portal Creation & BFR (Can make a portal to the Nightosphere, and can create it under people to force them there)
- Self-Memory Manipulation (For memories that Finn cannot handle, he can lock them inside of his mental vault)
Resistance to:
- Heat Manipulation (Could withstand the heat from Eye Demons, which could melt steel weapons. He's fine after getting hit by magic wands that melt buildings)
- Ice Manipulation (Can be repeatedly frozen by the Ice King and is perfectly fine when the ice breaks)
- Soul Manipulation (Seemingly resists his soul being sucked by Hunson)
- Sound Manipulation (Can create thunderclaps by clapping his hands together)
All previous abilities, plus:
- Non-Physical Interaction (Able to make contact with, fight, and kill Gladiator Ghosts. Can make contact with Wendy, Booboo, and Georgy)
- Telepathy (Telepathically speaks to the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant)
- Sound Manipulation (Can incapacitate people with Power Screeches)
All previous resistances, plus Resistance to:
- Mind Manipulation (Unaffected by the Fight King's Magic, which made other gladiators kill their best friends)
- Acids & Electricity Manipulation (Walks through electric eel infested water which is so acidic that it can melt/vaporize boats)
Enhanced Resistance to:
- Heat Manipulation (Survives being burned by lava and comes out with very minor burns)
Minor Resistance to:
- Transmutation (Is turned into a cat by the Grand Master Wizard, then rips out of the cat)
- Energy Manipulation (The Gauntlet of the Hero shoots out a beam of energy)
Resistance to:
- Magic (Wards off the Lich's magic abilities)
All previous abilities.
All previous resistances, plus Enhanced Resistance to:
- Heat Manipulation (Can float in close proximity to Lava centimeters away from his head with no issues whatsoever, and completely tanks Jake dipping the top of his head in said lava. Can wear the Flame Cloak and touch it, but he doesn't get burned. Can be in a melted rock hole which Jake complains of cause of its heat, then hugs and kisses Flame Princess, a pure fire being. After spending time with Flame Princess, can withstand her heat which used to burn him prior. Takes the heat from his Flame Crown redirected back at him. Feels little to no pain from the Fire Wolves biting and licking his body, which should burn him but he's fine)
- Mind Manipulation & Perception Manipulation (Overpowered The Lich's mind manipulation and perception altering powers. Through sheer willpower, he managed to resist Goliad's mind control, which was powerful enough to theoretically affect the entire Candy Kingdom)
Resistance to:
- Fire Manipulation & Heat Manipulation (Stated verbatim to be a Fire Resistant Sword)
- Transmutation (Doesn't get transmuted or vaporized or affected from attacks by (Nightosphere Amulet) Marceline)
All previous abilities, plus:
- Enhanced Swordsmanship (Trained by Rattleballs)
All previous resistances, plus Resistance to:
- Sleep Inducement (When the Lich says fall, Jake immediately falls to the ground, but Finn struggles to fall, yet ultimately falters)
Enhanced Resistance to:
- Electricity Manipulation (After drinking from the Sacred Spring, he is immune to most, if not all, natural forms of electricity)
Enhanced Minor Resistance to:
- Transmutation (When he does get transformed into an egg by Magic Man, he can still move around, and even after being mixed into bread, he can move as said bread)
- Instinctive Reaction (Usually attacks on its own. Can float in the air and slice enemies. When Finn is trapped, can free Finn and cut up whatever is binding him or holding him. Can shoot out a vine that can attack people, even when Finn is bound in ice or chained)
- Regeneration (Low-Mid; Regrew Finn's arm. The sword also regrows itself when cut)
- Statistics Amplification (Can grow into a larger arm that can assist Finn in lifting, striking, and more)
All previous abilities, plus:
- Cyborgization (Partial; Finn uses a mechanical arm)
All previous resistances, plus Resistance to:
- Empathic Manipulation (Fought off the anger inducing nature of the Pure Elemental Flame Queen)
- Absorption (Resisted being absorbed by Elemental Slime Princess)
Enhanced Resistance to:
- Transmutation (Unaffected by the Ice Elemental transformation that got Jake. Doesn't transform to a candy person, even though his bag does)
All previous abilities.
All previous resistances.
- Magic (Infused with Nightosphere Magic)
- Non-Physical Interaction (Can cut Ghosts and ectoplasm)
- Statistics Reduction (Can create chains that weaken power)
All previous abilities, plus:
- Transformation (Can transform into his past-lives)
- Incorporeality (Exists as a ghost of sorts)
- Biological Manipulation (Can manipulate his body in a variety of ways)
All previous resistances.
Attack Potency: Small Building level (Could go blow for blow with the Ice King on several occasions, who could slightly hurt him), higher with Golden Sword of Battle (Deflected the Ice King's lightning bolts. Equal to the Party Monster, who matched Jake's enhanced punches) | Large Mountain level (Could casually dispatch Gladiator Ghosts, who could fight Jake), higher with Root Sword | Large Mountain level (Matched Jake in a fight, harming him and landing hits), higher with Demon Blood Sword (Cuts up Mirror Finns, who could hurt Jake) | Large Mountain level (Capable of dispatching zombies, who Jake said can hurt him), higher with Grass Sword, Finn Sword, or Telekinetic Spirit Prosthetic Arm, Large Planet level with Grass Vine (Harmed Orgalorg by cutting his body up several times. Cut off the Lich's hand) | Large Planet level (Kept up with Fern in battle), higher with Mechanical Arm (Killed Fern with its weed whacker mode) or Small Sword | Large Planet level (Stronger than before), higher with Mechanical Arm and Night Sword (It's stated that the Night Sword will serve Finn better than his old cursed Grass Sword. Is charged by the power of Hunson Abadeer. Clashed against the Grass Knight Fern and matched several of his attacks) | Large Planet level (As strong as he was during his lifetime)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ (Deflected several lightning bolts from the Ice King) | Massively Hypersonic+ (Faster than before) | FTL with FTL+ reactions (Moved this fast and reacted to his movement) | FTL+ (Can keep up with Rattleballs training, which consisted of throwing eggs faster than he could react in his previous key), higher with Grass Arm (Blitzed the Lich and cut his arm off) | FTL+ (Kept up with Fern[1], the embodiment of the Grass Arm from his previous key) | FTL+ (Faster than before) | FTL+ (Should be comparable to his alive self, as he can transform into any version of himself[2])
Lifting Strength: Class K (Has wrestled Jake several times throughout the story[3][4]) | Class K (Stronger than before) | Class M (Flipped the Evil Monster over his entire body[5], who weighs this much) | Class G (Pulled Martin's spaceship as it was accelerating for a long period of time[6]), higher, possibly Class Z with Grass Arm (Casually bound Gumball Guardian amped Susan Strong[7]) | Class T, possibly Class Z (Wrestled with Fern[8], the embodiment of the Grass Arm from his previous key), higher with Mechanical Arm (Stated that his Mechanical Arm was stronger than his regular hand) | Class T, possibly Class Z (Stronger than before), higher with Mechanical Arm (Matched Grass Knight in an arm wrestle[9], who is a superior version of Fern) | Class T, possibly Class Z (Should be comparable to his alive self, as he can transform into any version of himself[10])
Striking Strength: Small Building level, higher with Golden Sword of Battle | Large Mountain level, higher with Root Sword | Large Mountain level, higher with Demon Blood Sword | Large Mountain level, higher with Grass Sword, Finn Sword, or Telekinetic Spirit Prosthetic Arm, Large Planet level with Grass Vine | Large Planet level, higher with Mechanical Arm or Small Sword | Large Planet level, higher with Mechanical Arm and Night Sword | Large Planet level
Durability: Small Building level (Although inferior, he took a punch from a giant Jake. Was slammed into the ground hard enough to break the Ice King's ice and was fine) | Large Mountain level (Scaling to his Attack Potency) | Large Mountain level (Was directly in contact with Flame Princess when she had her emotional explosion) | Large Mountain level (Could take a slap from the Heirophant) | Large Planet level (Took several punches from Fern), higher with Mechanical Arm (Blocked hits from Fern using the Grass sword) | Large Planet level (More durable than before), higher with Mechanical Arm | Large Planet level (As durable as he was during his lifetime)
Stamina: Superhuman (Braved the trials of the Hall of Egress over the course of several days, only getting mentally fatigued by missing his friends. Can explore dungeons for hours and have energy to burn. Even early in his adventures, Finn was capable of dauntlessly doing quest after quest in rapid succession. Even once adventured for 7 days straight. Stood in line for 27 days and 18 hours straight)
Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with swords, Several Meters with crossbows and magic. Planetary with the Ice Crown. Multiversal+ with The Enchiridion (Can create portals to "all" dimensions, but requires time and is not combat applicable). Unknown with Cosmic Mind Manipulation
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Gifted. Finn the Human doesn't seem like the most intelligent person in the series, but his intelligence ranges far in combat and in regular situations. In combat, Finn is an incredibly talented and gifted fighter. Without formal training, he has mastered several different martial arts styles that he employs against his enemies. He is proficient in several forms of combat, including hand-to-hand, magic, and swordsmanship. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, Finn uses a myriad of different techniques ranging from disarming techniques, full-body holds dubbed the "Chokey Brokey Style", and using his acrobatics as well. In his battle with Tiffany, he used a combination of holds, then he kicked his blade out of his hand and proceeded to hit him in the face with a barrage of punches. While fighting Why-wolves, he lures them to a well and does a flip when they enter his position, then he spikes them into a well while airborne.
With his swordsmanship, he dispatched several Gladiator Ghosts casually, using different methods ranging from weapon binding to chest bumps, and spin kicks another's head off. He also has unnatural accuracy, throwing a sword with such precision that it cut off 3 heads of a pair of Gladiator Ghosts, and throwing his sword and other objects at enemies with great precision. He quickly comprehends how to use different weapons, shown when he got the grass sword and adapted to its sentient nature, or when he understood his Pink Sweater's resistance to magic and used it to pull out the Lich's face. His swordsmanship got astronomically better in Season 5 after being trained by the master swordsman Rattleballs, who originally said that his swordsmanship was extremely poor.
Finn is a very quick thinker. His fear of the ocean forbade him from swimming underwater, so he knocked himself out in order to sink to the bottom of the ocean. As he couldn't use a zombie serum on a group of zombies, he covered himself in the antidote and jumped in the crowd. He is shown to use his enemies' possessions in battle, shown when he used the Ice King's jacket and a giant ogre's large dollar to glide in the air. While trying to free himself from the Business Men's robot, he comes up with a plan for Jake to rapidly expand and block their suction machine via overeating and stretching. After finding out there was multiple enemies in a hostage situation, he found a way to quickly, quietly, and efficiently dispatch all of them, with one of his methods being to lure one into a room and ambush it while they were off guard.
Finn's intellect reaches to outside of battle as well, except for mathematics. He is cunning, creating a fake Demon Blood Sword infused with grape juice and holy water in order to kill Kee-oth. He built a catapult used to send Jake across a river with spare trash. He figured out the curse of the Frog Monster and the mystery of Tree Trunks' stolen apples. Knows how to pick locks
Weaknesses: Up to Season 5, Finn has serious thalassophobia, or fear of the ocean. Particularly tense battles can put Finn in a very violent attitude, making his moment-to-moment thinking suffer. Has very little control, or even awareness over his powers or true nature.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Marcy Wu (Amphibia) Marcy's Profile (Everything above 9-A was restricted, speed was equalized, and starting distance was 10 meters)
Losses:
Raven (Teen Titans) Raven's Profile (Starting distance was 20 meters, Finn had access to any equipment, Speed was equalized.)
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 9 Episode 14
- ↑ Adventure Time Distant Lands Episode 4
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 2 Episode 8
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 2 Episode 10
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 3 Episode 25
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 6 Episode 2
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 8 Episode 13
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 9 Episode 14
- ↑ Adventure Time Season 10 Episode 5
- ↑ Adventure Time Distant Lands Episode 4
Discussions
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