The Ax Bass is an heirloom of Marceline Abadeer's family and an item in Adventure Time. It was originally a battle ax before Marceline converted it into a bass guitar, which Marceline's father Hunson calls "some kind of lute".
Marceline plays and sings the "Fisherman Song" for the Second Nut Son. Later, she orders Finn to kill the Dimple Plant Monster with it, but he refuses.
Marceline plays the "Fry Song" with the bass. When Finn summons her father, Marceline's dad seems surprised that Marceline has it and takes it from her. In her efforts to reclaim it, she is shown to care somewhat more for the bass than she does for Finn, as she chooses to save it from hitting the ground rather than Finn.
Marceline was about to play it, until Finn interrupted her by his singing outside her house.
Marceline plays it during the songs "I'm Just Your Problem" and "My Best Friends in the World".
In the 2nd episode "Obsidian" of the sequel miniseries Adventure Time: Distant Lands, when Glassboy and Marceline try to leave a cave after they found each there, they are suddenly set upon by a trio of Glassassins, who now have merged together into one giant black monster with three vampiric heads, and has already pulverized Marcy's motorcycle. And when Marceline quickly brings out her Ax Bass to fight back, but in a flash, one of the merged monster's tentacles just quickly picked up Marceline’s Ax Bass like a toothpick and smashed it in twine, which made her to go berserk for a brief time.
Design
The Ax-bass is an entirely red, double-sided battle axe with 2 chips on the right side. The head stock was most likely added by Marceline, along with the machine heads, two on each side. The pickups, also added by Marceline, appear to be single coils of unknown manufacture. The body has just two knobs (for volume and tone).
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Trivia
- While the bass is commonly shown to be a left-handed design, Marceline sometimes switches like in "I'm Just your Problem" when she plays picking with her right hand.
- The bass rarely ever sounds like a bass and more commonly sounds like a guitar, ukulele, and an acoustic guitar. It does, however, sounded like an actual bass in the episode "I'm Just your Problem".
- It's the most popular of three instruments she owns.
- Marceline alternates between picking, fingers, strumming, and tapping when playing this bass guitar.