The Lich Queen

Name The Lich Queen

Also known as The Lich Matriarch (Sung in "Her Hero") Skull Woman (Honey P) The Final Scholar of GOLB ("Whispers" and "Jerry")

Gender Female

Age Over One Billion Pre Big-Bang (as a Primordial Monster)

Species Catalyst Comet (formerly) Primordial Monster

Occupation Sorceress Final Scholar of GOLB

Relatives Green Catalyst Comet (past incarnation) Honey P ("rebooted" form)

"Fall. You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These Ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child. But I am beyond strength. I am the End. And I have come for you, Fiona." — "Escape from the Citadel"

The Lich Queen is the main antagonist of the Adventure Time franchise.

She is an ancient cosmic being who is the manifestation of evil itself. Her soul was deposited on Earth millions of years before the start of the show via a catalyst comet, but came into physical being near the end of the Mushroom War following the detonation of a "mutagenic bomb," where she possessed a person who had been submerged in mutagenic waste. The Lich Queen's goal throughout the show is to achieve the extinction of all life.

In "The Comet," it is revealed by the Purple Comet, that the Lich Queen, like Fiona, started out as an embodiment within the Catalyst Comet. The Purple Comet explains that the Comets have embodied both all that is good, which includes the soul of Fiona, and all that is evil, which includes the soul of the Lich Queen, in their respective time periods.

Her first appearance is in "Her Hero" where the heroine Billy casts her down. She was imprisoned in the ancient tree in the Candy Kingdom, but escapes and plays a significant role in "Mortal Folly," "Mortal Recoil," "The Lich Queen," "Fiona the Human," and "Cake the Cat." The Lich Queen goes on to kill Prismo and releases the criminals in the Crystal Citadel in "Wake Up" and "Escape from the Citadel." However, by the end of the later episode, the Lich Queen is turned into a harmless baby by the Citadel Guardian's healing blood and is adopted by Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig, and renamed "Honey Pig-Trunks," or "Honey P" for short.

In "Gold Stars," it is revealed that the Lich Queen's power and evil is still contained within Honey P, and can take over when Honey P is threatened and emotionally charged. Honey P does not realize the evil lurking inside her, attributing her blackouts and dreams of being the Lich Queen to being 'just a dream,' until her triumph over the Lich Queen and any evil inside her during the events of "Whispers." Through the actions of Fiona and Cake in Farmworld, the Lich Queen exists in every dimension after the hand of the Farmworld Lich Queen fell into the portal to all universes.

After the final episode, the spirit of the Lich Queen is still dormant in Honey P.

Background In the episode "Gold Stars", the Lich Queen implies she is older than existence itself, a survivor of a time "before there was nothing." After that, in some way, her essence was transferred to a catalyst comet, whose task was to kill all living beings in the universe. The comet seen in "Evergreen" bore a resemblance to the Lich Queen, as evidenced by its green coloration and horn-like flames, and was implied to have caused the K–T extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Millions of years later, the Lich Queen finally incarnated and was unleashed onto the world through the Mushroom Bomb during the Great Mushroom War.

In "Casper & Nova," it is revealed that the Lich Queen dedicated her ways to GOLB as her scholar, and hoped to honor the chaotic being with the extinction of all life. At some point, she attempted to destroy all life but was defeated and imprisoned within amber in the Candy Kingdom's tree by the heroine Billy many years ago.

Throughout the Series In "Mortal Folly", after being freed from her prison by using a spell to take control of a snail, the Lich Queen sets out to regain her power and destroy Ooo, but her body is destroyed by Fiona, who uses the sweater Princess Bubblegum gave her to rip off the top of her skull—collapsing her entire body.

It is then revealed in "Mortal Recoil", however, that the Lich Queen's disembodied spirit survived and took possession of Prince Gumball's body. The Lich Queen was defeated by a team-up of Fiona and the Ice Queen, causing her to take possession of the snail that initially released her from the amber.

In "In Your Footsteps", after going into hiding in her snail vessel, the Lich Queen arranged for a bear to trick Fiona into giving her the Enchiridion for her master plan: to attach the jewels from the various crowns of power, most of which are worn by the princes, to the book's cover and create a portal to the Multiverse, and ultimately the Time Room, the domain of the omnipotent and wish-giving entity Prismo.

In the three parter "The Lich Queen", "Fiona the Human" and "Cake the Cat", The Lich Queen uses the Enchiridion to transform her snail vessel into her true form, where she would then kill Billy, and wear her corpse as a disguise. The Lich Queen, presenting as Billy, would then manipulate Fiona and Cake into gathering the necessary jewels. Later, after a Gumball Guardian fires upon "Billy" after realizing her true identity, half of Billy's face is blown off, revealing the Lich Queen's skeleton form beneath. Successfully opening a portal to the multiverse, the Lich Queen enters to travel to Prismo's time room, with Fiona and Cake giving chase.

Arriving at the time room, the Lich Queen wishes for the extinction of all life, killing all life with the exception of Fiona and Cake. However this new timeline would fail to replace the original, as Fiona wishes that the Lich Queen had never existed, creating the Farmworld timeline, a world where the Mushroom Bomb was never set off, thus the Lich Queen's awakening was averted.

However, Farmworld Fiona later takes possession of the magic crown, with her action causing the dormant mushroom bomb to detonate. Farmworld Cake, exposed to the bomb's mutagenic waste, was possessed by the Lich Queen, allowing for the awakening of Farmworld Lich Queen. Cake, still in the time room, wishes that the Lich Queen's original wish was to send her and Fiona back to Ooo. A paradox formed when Fiona and Cake were returned to their original universe and Farmworld continued to exist, branching off as another alternate timeline. The timeline where the Lich Queen wished for the extinction of all life also continued to exist.

Before the events of "Wake Up" and "Escape from the Citadel", unable to fulfill her purpose, the Lich Queen remained trapped in a catatonic state within Prismo's chamber. When Fiona and Cake attempt to commit a cosmic crime with the aid of Prismo in order to gain access to a multiverse prison called the Citadel, the Lich Queen seized her opportunity and killed Prismo's physical body, committing a cosmic crime and being taken to the Citadel, with the intent to corrupt it and its prisoners. The Lich Queen, having corrupted her crystal prison, blows it up, destroying the body of Billy and revealing her true skeletal form beneath. The Lich Queen casts a spell that puts Cake into unconsciousness and leaves Fiona weakened. The Lich Queen monologues about how death awaits Fiona's people, and that she will use the citadel's prisoners and a "great, and terrible army" to destroy all life across billions of worlds. As the Lich Queen reaches for Fiona, Fiona instinctively slaps at the Lich Queen, her hand covered in the blood of a Citadel Guardian. The Lich Queen is subjected to the regenerative properties of the Citadel's Guardian and her body is turned into a harmless giant baby. The giant baby is then entrusted to Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig who named her Honey Pig-Trunks, or Honey P for short.

In "Gold Stars", though haunted by fleeting recollections of being the Lich Queen, Honey P has no memory of her former identity. However, it seems that the Lich Queen can briefly reemerge whenever the child is threatened and under severe emotional stress, as shown when Honey P is threatened and mocked by the King of Ooo and Toronto. Taking control, the Lich Queen implies she is older than existence itself, a survivor of a time "before there was nothing." In "Whispers," the hand of the Farmworld Lich Queen attempts to push this essence out of hiding, only for Honey P to reject her inner darkness and destroy the Farmworld hand, cementing herself as a heroine.

In "Come Along With Me", 1000 years in the future, an older, massive Honey P is seen roaming around Ooo near Mount Cragdor.

Fionna and Cake A version of the original Lich Queen remained trapped in the Extinct World. Despite having achieved victory, the Lich Queen came to realize that by destroying all life in the universe she had completely lost her purpose, and so became depressed. The only remaining form of life in this world was BMO, who dubbed her "Jerry." This Lich Queen encountered Simon Petrikov, Fionna, and Cake when they ended up in the Extinct World in "Jerry". Although she briefly trapped them and mused on how she would have destroyed the "Ice Wizard" previously, the Lich Queen eventually released them and went back into hibernation, too depressed to do anything. When Simon opened a passage into Fionna-world, the Lich Queen's curiosity was piqued, and she eventually followed Simon and Scarab into GOLB's Dimension. There, she tried to get GOLB's attention, demanding to know why she had lost purpose, but GOLB simply transformed the Lich Queen into a floating T-block.

Appearance As the Lich Queen Before her change, the Lich Queen wore a crown. Another feature of hers is her horns, one of which has broken off. However, before being struck down by Billy, both of her horns were intact, so it is possible that it got broken off as a result of that encounter. The Lich Queen also dresses in a large, loose robe with multiple layers and a large cape that is severely torn at its end.

Physically, the Lich Queen is also remarkably large. In the flashback in "Her Hero", the Lich Queen is shown to rival Billy in size. The arms of the Lich Queen are bare-bones with little to no tissue left, and her skeletal hands burn with an eerie fire when casting spells. Her face is defined by horrific green lights as pupils peering out of her empty eye sockets, and pale undead skin is pulled tight against her nose-less skull. Her skin is frayed away from her lips revealing a wicked and perpetual grin.

In "Escape from the Citadel", the Lich Queen breaks out of the crystal in an explosion, revealing a completely skeletal form, with a spiked vertebral column and shoulders, several bone fractures, and a small metal plate attached to her ribcage.

As Honey P After being splashed with the Citadel Guardian's healing blood, the Lich Queen grew fresh organs and skin, causing her to take the form of a giant baby with almost no recollection of her previous form. As Honey P, she is still very large, towering over most other characters. While she still has her horns, they're covered with her new skin. As shown during her transformation from her Lich Queen form, Honey P has green eyes.

After being adopted by Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig, she had received multiple new outfits of clothing. In "Jake the Brick", she wears onesie blue pajamas with red polka dots. In "Gold Stars", she has an apple-green shirt with a red apple on the front, with matching shoes, shorts, and a matching hat, all knitted by Tree Trunks, although the shirt seemed to be too small as it exposed her stomach. In "Be Sweet" Honey P wears different pajamas, this one being two-piece, and light blue and striped.

In "Skyhooks II", Lumpy Space Princess regrows Honey P's broken horn, giving Honey P two again.

In "Come Along With Me", Honey P protects her parents during the final battle and is later shown graduating from school. In the future version of Ooo, a massive figure resembling Honey P carrying a large version of the Night Sword is seen wandering the land, confirming she has survived, grown even larger, and continues to act as a heroine in this world.

Abilities Aside from her immortality, the Lich Queen has a medley of unholy powers. The most commonly used is her ability to summon green flame-like energy around her hands and fire it at her opponents. Also, while possessing Prince Gumball, she demonstrates pyrokinesis when she sets his room on fire with her mind.

The Lich Queen also seems to exude an aura of death and rot around her. Whether this is done consciously is unknown, but living creatures and objects have been seen to rot and die as they come in contact with her or her general presence. This is shown when trees died as the Lich Queen passed through a forest, and when she crossed Iceberg Lake, fish died in her path. In addition, the Lich Queen can breathe a black, life-sucking gas, which she used to kill Prismo.

Adding onto her array of deadly magic, it was revealed that the Lich Queen has the power to control people's minds, either through telepathy or spoken commands. Her most notable spoken ability is to say the word "stop", where she takes her victims to a night-like plane in which she has full control over everything. The Lich Queen's influence was so great that she posed a threat to anyone nearby, even while she was still trapped in the Candy Castle. Moreover, she has the ability to possess other people, as seen when she possessed Prince Gumball. It is apparent that the Lich Queen's consciousness is able to reach across multiple dimensions, based on her Farmworld self having knowledge of events involving the Lich Queen of the standard timeline. The Lich Queen is also able to utilize necromancy, as seen when she controls the corpses in her lair to attack Fiona and Cake. In a Fionna and Cake comic, the Lich Queen creates her own world and makes Fiona, Cake, and the Ice Queen believe that they are getting rid of her, but she is actually just playing another mind game. Alternatively, in "Escape from the Citadel", the Lich Queen engulfs the Citadel in black fire and causes a plague between beings, which she possesses to destroy the Citadel and its guardians.

The Lich Queen also possesses great physical abilities as she was able to quickly dodge Fiona's energy attack with Billy's gauntlet. Later, she easily caught Fiona's punch barehanded and shattered the gauntlet into pieces. In addition, the Lich Queen is also very mobile as she possesses the ability to fly.

The Lich Queen sustains her massive strength by drinking from her Well of Power, a noxious, magic pool of glowing green liquid located in the depths of her lair. After she had possessed Prince Gumball, she substituted the contents of her original well with a mixture of toxic chemicals such as gasoline, lighter fluid, bleach, and plutonium that she (appearing as the Prince) ordered Fiona to retrieve.

While her power is truly a force to be reckoned with, the Lich Queen has a few known vulnerabilities. Her main weakness is the Gauntlet of the Heroine, a magical weapon previously owned by Billy that fires intense energy blasts. This weakness is now moot as the Lich Queen destroyed the gauntlet with ease when she grabbed Fiona's arm and caused the gauntlet to disintegrate. Another item able to work against the Lich Queen is the sweater Prince Gumball gave to Fiona. Imbued with the power of "liking someone a lot", the sweater protected Fiona from the Lich Queen's flames and was later used as a weapon. With it, Fiona was able to attack the Lich Queen by assaulting her head and eye sockets with the sweater, causing her body to collapse into dust and forcing her essence to find a new host. However, the sweater does not seem to affect the Lich Queen when she is possessing Prince Gumball. The Lich Queen is also unable to control a person's mind if he/she is wearing a certain type of magical jewelry. While generally impervious to physical attack, traditional methods may have some limited effect on the Lich Queen, as seen in the flashback where Billy cast her down with a kick to the face.

As Honey P, the Lich Queen appears to be immune to elemental magic (fire, ice, candy, and slime).

Personality The Lich Queen is driven by a rather single-minded goal: to destroy all life. She appears to show little interest in anything that does not further her ambitions towards this dark end. She also has an apparent hatred for all living things, as Prince Gumball said that her only desire was to destroy life, and her wish to Prismo was "for the extinction of all life." It has been said that she brings sadness everywhere she goes. In the episode "Wake Up", Prismo implies that the Lich Queen's desire to eliminate all life is so strong that she literally disregards anything else. When the Lich Queen was trapped in the time room, she was motionless and did absolutely nothing until there was a way for her to be free. This illustrated that the Lich Queen has absolutely no other focus than to cause mass extinction, and when she cannot do that, she enters a dormant state.

Unlike most hostile monsters, the Lich Queen does not mindlessly murder anything she sees. She specifically wants to eradicate all life in existence and seems to understand that simply destroying everything in her immediate vicinity wherever she goes is not the best way to go about that. She instead is a deep planner; given her lack of aging, and lack of most emotions, she is more than happy waiting centuries for the exact right moment to do whatever is necessary in order to further her final goal of total extinction, no matter what she believes is the best course of action for that, even if it means making temporary allies to kill later.

Her motives to extinguish all life are later revealed across alternate versions of herself in "Casper & Nova" that were in devotion to the ancient cosmic embodiment of chaos: GOLB; whom she openly revered and had dedicated herself to the pursuit of understanding as its titular final scholar. As such, the Lich Queen strove to be its vessel on the physical plane and causing mass extinction in honor of her patron deity.

She is viciously cunning and quick to learn from her mistakes. She methodically targets people and things that have proven a problem for her in the past by either destroying them outright (such as in the case of the Gauntlet of the Heroine), or using them as pawns to further her own agenda (in the case of Billy to manipulate Fiona). As shown in "The Lich Queen", she is highly skilled at deception, as she was able to fool Fiona and Cake into helping her while disguised as Billy. At the end of the episode, she tauntingly thanks Fiona for opening the portal for her. She is a quick thinker, pretending to be horrified when Fiona tried to smash the Enchiridion, even though that would cause the portal to open.

The Lich Queen is rather taciturn and speaks only in brief statements. Because she seldom speaks, her words carry great gravity. An example would be when the Lich Queen calls the Ice Queen "a weak fool." In the episode "The Lich Queen", she was able to talk freely with Fiona and Cake. In spite of her intractability, she is visibly shocked when Fiona survives her fire attack, and she laughs heartily when Fiona attacks her with the sweater provided by Prince Gumball. She was also visibly confused when Cake altered her wish. She has raised her voice only once: When Fiona asked the possessed Prince Gumball if everything was all right. She is prone to going off on brief yet impactful monologues, as seen in "Escape From the Citadel", when she tells Fiona of the hopelessness of her situation, and in "Gold Stars", when she reveals the true nature of time to the King of Ooo and Toronto.

The Lich Queen's most notable flaw is her arrogance and her single-minded nature. In each case, her defeat has been at the hands of opponents towards whom she was derisively dismissive. She laughed at Fiona's attempts to stop her and shrugged off the Ice Queen as a fool, yet it was through the combined efforts of those two individuals that she was dealt a crushing defeat and forced to possess the body of a lowly snail to escape at the end of "Mortal Recoil". After regaining her strength, the Lich Queen manipulated Fiona into opening a portal into the heart of the multiverse. Once again, she fell prey to her arrogant and single-minded nature when she ignored Cake grabbing onto her with a grunt and continues towards her final goal rather than dealing with the two stowaway heroes she dragged into the portal with her. This oversight later proves to be the undoing of her masterful plan, leaving her stranded in Prismo's time room with her one wish already spent thanks to the two meddling heroes and some friendly help from Prismo.

After turning into a humanoid in "Escape From the Citadel", she loses her old personality and gains a new, infantile one. She seems harmless and does what most infants do, such as playing with toys. In addition, she is kinder and tries to be more considerate of others. As of "Gold Stars", the Lich Queen is still revealed to be trapped inside of Honey P while Honey P is almost her own person now.

The Lich Queen's forms and possessions

Prince Gumball When the Lich Queen possesses Prince Gumball, he has pale blue/gray skin, dirty pink hair, black eyes with green pupils and speaks with a frail voice. In "Mortal Recoil", he asks Fiona to bring toxic chemicals to him, which he consumes to turn into a giant monster. Fiona manages to destroy the monster with the Ice Queen's help, and the Candy Kingdom's doctors manage to save the uncorrupted parts of Prince Gumball, transforming him into his younger form.

One could note that the form Prince Gumball takes while possessed looks strikingly similar to the evil Lub Glubs from the episode "Beautopia".

Waving Snail The Snail is used by the Lich Queen in "Mortal Folly" to free herself from her amber prison. The Lich Queen does so by taking control of the Snail's mind and making her break open the prison. After her defeat at the end of "Mortal Recoil", the Lich Queen returns to the Snail's body. During Seasons 3 and 4, the Snail continues to appear in every episode in possessed form. In "In Your Footsteps", the Bear gives the possessed Snail the Enchiridion.

Billy After freeing herself from the snail, the Lich Queen appears to Fiona while disguised as Billy. Using her appearance as Fiona's heroine where half of Billy's face is torn off to unveil the Lich Queen's face, the Lich Queen manipulates Fiona and Cake into gathering the gems of power needed to activate the Enchiridion. It is also mentioned by Prismo that the Lich Queen was, in fact, wearing Billy's corpse as a macabre disguise. Upon meeting Fiona and Cake, Prismo offhandedly refers to the Lich Queen as "a ghost wearing a dead girl" not realizing the dead girl in question was a former friend of theirs. After being blasted by a Citadel Guardian in "Escape from the Citadel", Billy's body was completely destroyed.

In "Jerry", an alternate version of The Lich Queen is seen wearing Billy's body, but in a more decomposed form, with an eye out of the socket, boney Lich feet and hands showing and lack of clothes, as she no longer needs to disguise herself as Billy. It's highly possible she assumes this form since she wished for the destruction of all life in "Fiona The Human" while wearing it.

Later in "Casper & Nova", after attempting to pray to GOLB still under the skin of Billy, later tearing it off completely, and attempting to seek purpose for her endless coil to death itself, and demanding what more she could have done to relinquish her purpose as the final scholar, she is later quickly turned into a tetris-like block within GOLB's Dimension.

Honey P In "Escape From the Citadel", the Lich Queen is turned into an oversized, humanoid baby after Fiona splashes her with the Citadel Guardian's blood. She is left on Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig's doorstep, who choose to adopt her and name her Honey Pig-Trunks, or Honey P for short. She seemingly has no memory of previously being the Lich Queen, though frequently has nightmares with visions of her previous form. The Lich Queen is able to temporarily possess Honey P, which was first utilized to ward off the King of Ooo and Toronto in "Gold Stars" and later after she meets Farmworld Lich Queen. However, these instances seem uncommon, and Honey P quickly goes back to her innocent self in both cases. Honey P eventually graduates from school in "Come Along With Me", and is seen in the far future wandering Ooo as a mountain-sized giant.

Original pitch She was first alluded to in the early series pitch as seen in the document and was the only other character described in those documents in addition to the six main characters: Fiona, Cake, Prince Gumball, Lord Monochromicorn, Ice Queen, and Marshall Lee. The pitch document states in all caps, "THE LICH QUEEN IS NOT FUNNY", and states that the Lich Queen had been imprisoned within her castle (although this was later contradicted and retconned in "Mortal Folly"). According to the pitch document, she uses a legion of undead skeletal knights to aid in her battles. Initially, the Lich Queen was designed to have a more flattened, simplified look with larger eyes, upward-pointing horns and a different crown and robe.

Comics The Lich Queen somehow escapes the Snail's body by going into the Bag of Holding. The Lich Queen begins to suck up all of Ooo into the bag with the intention of throwing it into the sun. However, Fiona and Cake caused a tear in the bag from the inside and, with help from Desert Prince, Ice Queen, Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee, they were able to rip the bag open and free the planet. The Lich Queen, however, ended up getting pulled towards the sun herself.

It is revealed in Issue 18 that when the Ice Queen and Hunson Abadeer were making their dungeon, the Lich Queen showed up and knocked them both out and built her own part of the dungeon called "Lich Land" where she left a part of herself to continue on. It trapped whoever entered in a fantasy while the Echo and its minions escape to destroy the world. When Fiona, Cake and the Ice Queen went to Lich Land, the Echo invaded their memories and put them in a fantasy world where it tried to kill them and break their minds and morale, especially the Ice Queen's. However, they were able to defeat the Echo and put an end to the Lich Queen once and for all.

In the 2025 comic series, the Lich Queen possesses a young Fiona at some point before The Lich Queen (episode), going on to team up with a GOLB-possessed Cake to destroy Ooo. This destruction is later undone.

Trivia The Lich Queen is still referred to by her old name, Lich Matriarch, in various official episode summaries and clip descriptions on Cartoon Network's site, indicating that the name change may have been done very late in production. She is also referred to as the Lich Matriarch in "Billy's Song."

In fantasy fiction, a lich is a powerful magic-user who has transformed themselves into an undead creature to achieve immortality.

The Lich Queen is the first world threat that Fiona and Cake have dealt with, the second being Flame Prince, the third being Gunter, and the fourth being GOLB.

The Lich Queen was redesigned at least once; the creators felt that her original design was not scary enough.

The Lich Queen's final design is similar to that of the Horned King from the 1985 Disney film The Black Cauldron, with the addition of tattered veils and more feminine skeletal features.

Pendleton Ward originally wanted to cast a voice similar to a haunting, gravelly female vocalist for the Lich Queen.

In France/Belgium, there was a translation problem with the Lich Matriarch's name. During her appearance in "Her Hero", she is called "La Reine Sangsue," which translates to "Leech Queen." (In French it should have been Reine-Liche, which is the correct translation.) This also occurred in the Portuguese translation. The Lich Queen's name was given as "Rainha Lagarto," which translates to "Queen Lizard."

In "The Lich Queen", when Cake asks the Lich Queen (disguised as Billy) how many gems were left, she told her without speaking. This could be because the Lich Queen could not talk to Cake since she was holding the power gems.

Despite being undead, she can apparently eat, as seen in "The Lich Queen" when she was disguised as Billy.

In all of her appearances after "King Worm" (not including the Snail), the Lich Queen's face is noticeably less detailed than it was in "Mortal Folly/Recoil."

When the Lich Queen originally appeared, she had 2 full horns; later one of her horns is broken.

Butterscotch Butler seems to be capable of sensing the Lich Queen's presence.

The Gumball Guardians appear to be programmed to detect the Lich Queen, as in "The Lich Queen", when Possessed Billy appears, one activates and says "Lich alert! Lich alert!" However, as this doesn't happen in "Mortal Recoil", one can only assume Prince Gumball put it in there afterward as a safety precaution.

In a scene of "Fiona the Human" the Lich Queen appears with one horn broken during the Mushroom War, but in "Her Hero" she appears with two horns, then one being broken by Billy.

The Echo of the Lich Queen is similar in nature to a lich's phylactery in fantasy fiction. The phylactery, like the Echo, is used to store away a part of the Lich Queen to ensure her survival.

In the official Adventure Time Encyclopaedia, Hunson Abadeer admits the Lich Queen is his only real rival, stating that, while he finds her "pathetic", the fact that the Lich Queen is capable of destroying all of Ooo causes Hunson to take their rivalry seriously.

For unknown reasons, in her monologues, the Lich Queen often calls herself a "wheel", possibly because she is an endless cycle that can never die and always returns.

In "Whispers", the Lich Queen refers to herself as "the final scholar of GOLB", though the exact meaning behind this, as well as the full nature of her connection to GOLB, is unknown.

A possibility is that GOLB corrupted the catalyst comet that she was created from. Or she could be speaking metaphorically since GOLB embodies chaos and the Lich Queen's goal is to end all life.

In the opening sequence of the series finale "Come Along With Me", Shermy and Beth are shown to be riding the implied head of a now fully mature and gigantic Honey P.

It is worth noting that the enemy is not strictly the Lich Queen herself, but characters obsessed with her essence and controlled by her will.

Appearances in other media The Lich Queen is a playable character in Adventure Time Battle Party. On CartoonNetwork.com, one can set their profile picture as the original Lich Queen. The Lich Queen is a villain in the game LEGO Dimensions.