Finn reluctantly agrees but tells him he has no clue where they are.
Desecrating the Dead: In exchange for granting them access to Life's realm, Peppermint Butler asks Finn and Jake for permission to use their bones in a potion.
When he encounters a giant skeleton guardian as well as other skeletons, he realizes that he has already died and is in the afterlife.
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Dead to Begin With: After freeing himself from the eyeball monsters, Finn believes he is trapped in a dungeon with some other people and promises to free them all.
Deadly Distant Finale: The special takes place after Finn and Jake (as well as many other supporting characters) have died, following their last adventure before reincarnating.
Death Seeker: Finn reveals that he was waiting for the day he died after losing Jake so he could see him again.
Deader Than Dead: If a soul is killed by Death, their essence is scattered into quarks (which New Death implies still doesn't entirely kill them).
Also, the Lich makes his final appearance.
Darker and Edgier: Compared to the rest of the Distant Lands episodes, where nearly everyone in the cast of the show is dead, and the entirety of the special takes place in the afterlife.
When Finn and Jake make contact with Peppermint Butler, the latter spouts out " Kee Oth Rama Pancake" backwards.
Finn attempts to kick Death once again (though in this case he tries to kick the New Death) and predictably phases right through the latter's body again.
It isn't until he sees Finn getting beaten senseless by the Undertakers that he rushes to his brother's defence and rediscovers his old adventuring self.
Conscience Makes You Go Back: Jake finds himself at peace after death, having transcended all worldly desires, and is initially content with just a very brief reunion with Finn before trying to return to nirvana.
The talismans end up being powerful enough in stopping New Death in his tracks when Finn and Jake fight him at the end.
Chekhov's Gun: When they reunite, Margret hands Finn a bunch of weapons, including "some paper talismans for spiritual warfare".
The Lich's plot of pretending to be a friend of New Death so as to manipulate and control the son of Life and Death into becoming a pawn of his plans of accessing all Death Worlds is pretty similar to his previous plan in " Crossover" where he pretended to be Farmworld Finn's friend to manipulate him into opening a pathway to all dimensions so as to extend his influence to them.
note ( Baby Us Trouble Time) was previously used as a distress signal by the Hot Dog Knights in " The Limit".
Finn and Jake make contact with Peppermint Butler in the land of the living by spelling out B-U-T-T on his Ouija Board, which he interprets as a distress signal.
note "James Baxter the Horse" aired on May 6th, 2013, so this is a one-off Call-Back more than eight years in the making.
When Finn arrives in the realm of the dead, he uses the clapping signal Jake taught him in " James Baxter the Horse" in case they both ended up dead and needed to find each other in the afterlife.
Bloody Bowels of Hell: Two of the Dead Worlds Finn encounters have landscapes made of melded flesh and other anatomical features.
It's revealed that he is actually possessed by the Lich, who takes his place as the true Big Bad and appropriately Finn and Jake's final enemy.
Big Bad: New Death, the son of Life and Death, who usurped his father and seeks to destroy the Dead Worlds and prevent reincarnation for his own amusement.