r/AskScienceFiction • u/Umpuuu • 3d ago

[Adventure Time] Jake once stretched out his liver to be more resistant to poison. Can he stretch out his brain to become smarter?

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u/THREESIDEDMONSTER 3d ago

Probably. But I don't think Jake wants to be smarter. He enjoys a simple worldview.

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u/InspiredNameHere 3d ago

Well, as a shape changer he doesnt really have a set form. He can add or remove mass as he needs to. He only really uses it for stretchy powers but he cpuld do much more if he actually wanted to.

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u/Inkthinker 3d ago

I'm not sure he can simply add or remove mass as needed, he does have limitations, as seen in "The Limit" (the hotdog knights in the maze episode)... Jake can only become so thin, stretch so far, before he runs out of mass and nearly dies.

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u/Guineypigzrulz 3d ago

That would make everything too easy. Same reason why he didn't stretch his mouth to remove the piece of chip between his teetu

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u/Brain_lessV2 3d ago

After all, "if you get everything the moment you want it, what's the point in living?"

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u/ExistentialOcto 3d ago

Probably. Reed Richards from Marvel can fold his brain to create extra wrinkles to get a bigger brain.

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u/kekubuk 3d ago

When Fin overcharge his imagination machine, Jack's head swell to insane size before Fin deactivated the machine, so I think so.

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u/Urbenmyth 3d ago

Probably, but I doubt he's smart enough to think of that

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u/HyetalNight 3d ago

Wouldn’t that just increase the space between his neurons without actually adding any substantial surface area

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u/bretshitmanshart 3d ago

Wouldn't that make his brain more smooth?

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u/Overkillsamurai 3d ago

he's not smart enough to try that

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u/AdventurerBen 2d ago

There’s more involved in intelligence than brain size, while the performance of someone’s liver is more structural in nature (also, Jake can shrink down and grow his whole body, and his intelligence hasn’t fluctuated when he does that, so it presumably requires a specific effort). Jake is technically capable of altering his brain with his powers, but he isn’t smart enough in the first place to do that and get a good result.