While it may have started as a gender-bending, one-off episode of the original Adventure Time Cartoon Network series, Fionna and Cake kept coming back until the question “what time is it?” can now refer to the heroines in their own streaming show. And the fans at New York Comic Con couldn’t get enough of it as the first episode of the new season dropped at the panel.
The show picks back up after the events that led Fionna, played by Madeleine Martin, and her shape-shifting cat/best friend Cake, voiced by Roz Ryan, to save their non-magical city from being erased from existence, making them newly minted heroes. The story also follows the characters in the fantastical land of Oo as the now-cured Simon Petrikov, formerly Ice King, also makes a new life for himself.
But not all is copacetic in their lives as the original Adventure Time hero Finn the Human is suffering a mysterious illness, and fan favorite Huntress Wizard (Ashly Burch) will make a big splash, hoping to save the fallen Finn.
Ashly Burch, Roz Ryan, Madeleine Martin, and Adam Muto for Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake at New York Comic Con 2025.
“You get to see her relationship with Finn more, at least how she feels about it,” said Burch in an interview after the panel, also previewing the journey her character goes on with Fionna and Cake and hinting at a fleshed-out backstory for the solitary character.
Roz Ryan also revealed that the relationship between Cake and Fionna deepens amid the new challenges of Season 2.
“People will notice that Fionna can do anything she wants to do with Cake, but nobody else better try,” Ryan said. “The way that they protect each other is a good lesson in friendship and loyalty to the kids that are watching.”
Madeleine Martin also echoed the strengthening of friendship bonds between Fionna and her entire group as the young woman learns to navigate being a pillar of her community while still dealing with the somewhat mundane tasks of modern life of keeping a job and figuring out her love life.
“This season there’s a lot of growth, but there could be more,” she said about a potential future season. “I guess I’d like to see more of her friendship with Cake.”
But getting to that future will likely be tricky in the modern streaming era, as showrunner Adam Muto noted. “I can’t speak with any confidence about what I think will happen now, because even the people who greenlit the second season aren’t necessarily at Max any more — HBO Max! It’s not even Max!”
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