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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is a Max animated spin-off of Adventure Time starring gender-swapped Finn and Jake counterparts Fionna and Cake, created by Natasha Allegri, showrunner Adam Muto; season 1 premiered August 31, 2023, season 2 aired October–December 2025.

Adventure Time: Side Quests

Adventure Time: Side Quests is a 2026 animated prequel spinoff of Adventure Time following young Finn and Jake in Ooo; 40 episodes, premiered June 29, 2026 on Hulu and Disney+, with Victor Courtright as supervising director and Sasha Knight voicing Finn.

Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom

Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom (Nameless Ōkoku no Sannin no Princess) is a 2014 WayForward top-down action-adventure published by Little Orbit for 3DS, PS3, Vita, Xbox 360, and PC, a Zelda: A Link to the Past-style game where Finn and Jake rescue the Nameless Kingdom's princesses; Metacritic 65 (3DS).

Adventureland (film)

Adventureland (2009) is an American comedy-drama-romance written and directed by Greg Mottola, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. Set in summer 1987, it follows a college grad working at an amusement park; quasi-autobiographical, Miramax, Metascore 76.

AdventureQuest

AdventureQuest (AQ, AdventureQuest Classic) is Artix Entertainment's 2002 single-player, turn-based browser Flash RPG set in Battleon; free Adventurer accounts, $20 Guardian upgrade, weekly updates, playable via Artix Games Launcher after Flash ended.

Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting: 1987 Touchstone comedy, Chris Columbus's directing debut, starring Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter stranded in Chicago with the Anderson kids; 102 min, PG-13, remade by Disney Channel in 2016.

Adventures in Babysitting (2016 film)

Adventures in Babysitting (2016) is a Disney Channel Original Movie, the 100th DCOM, directed by John Schultz, starring Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson as rival babysitters in a remake of the 1987 film, premiering June 24, 2016.

Adventures in Odyssey

Adventures in Odyssey (AIO): Focus on the Family's Evangelical Christian audio drama, created by Phil Lollar and Steve Harris, first aired November 21, 1987; set in the Midwest town of Odyssey at Whit's End; 1,000+ episodes, CDs ending spring 2026.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's picaresque novel (1884 London, 1885 US), follows Huck and the enslaved Jim down the Mississippi; famed Hemingway landmark, among the most frequently banned American books.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH) is a 1993 DiC/Sega animated series, 65 syndicated episodes starring Jaleel White's Sonic against Robotnik, Scratch, and Grounder, with Sonic Says PSAs.

Adventures of Superman (TV series)

Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) was the first live-action Superman TV series, syndicated, 104 episodes, starring George Reeves with Phyllis Coates then Noel Neill as Lois Lane, shot in color from 1954.

Adventures of Zatoichi (座頭市関所破り)

Adventures of Zatoichi (座頭市関所破り, Zatoichi Breaks the Barrier) is a 1964 Daiei jidaigeki, the ninth Zatoichi film, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, written by Shozaburo Asai from Kan Shimozawa's story, released December 30, 1964, 86 minutes, the series' first New Year's feature, set in Kasama.

Advenus

Advenus is a monotypic genus of diploglossid (galliwasp) lizards erected by Schools & Hedges in 2021 for Advenus montisilvestris, known from a single 1965 specimen from Cerro Pirre, Darién, Panama; it is the only celestine genus outside the Caribbean. Not the anchovy Stolephorus advenus.

Adverb

Adverb: a word class modifying verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or clauses; also called adverbium. Defined by syntactic distribution, highly heterogeneous, mostly -ly derived in English, with manner, degree, temporal, and speaker-oriented subtypes.

Adverbial clause

Adverbial clause: a dependent clause with its own subject and verb, introduced by subordinators like because, although, if, when, that functions as an adverb expressing time, reason, condition, concession, or purpose relative to a main clause.

Adverity

Adverity is a Vienna-based software company, founded in 2015, whose platform integrates marketing data from over 600 sources and delivers it to enterprise data warehouses.

Adversarial collaboration

Adversarial collaboration is a research method in which scientists holding competing hypotheses jointly design and run a decisive test, committing in advance to publish the result regardless of outcome.

Adversarial diffusion distillation

Adversarial diffusion distillation is a 2023 training method by Stability AI that reduces diffusion image generation from 50 steps to one to four, behind SDXL Turbo.

Adversarial example

An adversarial example is an input to a machine learning model deliberately modified with small, often imperceptible changes so the model misclassifies it with high confidence, first reported in 2013.

Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning (AIRL) is an inverse reinforcement learning algorithm proposed at UC Berkeley in 2017 that infers reward functions from expert demonstrations using an adversarial discriminator.

Adversarial machine learning

Adversarial machine learning studies attacks on machine-learning systems and defenses against them. Its central defense, adversarial training, injects attack examples into training to produce robust classifiers.

Adversarial Motion Priors

Adversarial Motion Priors (AMP) is a reinforcement learning technique introduced at SIGGRAPH 2021, in which a discriminator trained on motion clips supplies a style reward for natural movement.

Adversarial patch

An adversarial patch is a small printed image pattern that makes a neural network misclassify or miss an object, introduced by Google Brain researchers in 2017.

Adversarial Skill Embeddings

Adversarial Skill Embeddings (ASE) is a 2022 framework from UC Berkeley, NVIDIA, and the University of Toronto that trains reusable low-level motor skills for physically simulated characters.

Adversarial suffix

An adversarial suffix is a string of tokens appended to a prompt that makes an aligned large language model bypass its safety training, notably via the 2023 GCG attack.

Adversarial system

The adversarial system is party-controlled legal procedure of common law countries (US, UK, Canada), contrasted with the judge-driven inquisitorial system of civil law; covers fact-finding, litigation-cost economics, and hybrid convergence.

Adversarial training

Adversarial training is a machine learning technique that trains models on adversarial examples, perturbed inputs within a bounded budget, so they resist worst-case perturbations at test time.

Adverse childhood experiences

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events before age 18, including abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. Defined by the CDC-Kaiser ACE Study (1995–1997), scored 0–10, with graded dose-response links to adult disease; 63.9% of US adults report at least one.

Adverse drug reaction

Adverse drug reaction (ADR): harmful, unintended response to a drug at normal doses with suspected causality. Also called adverse drug reactions; divided into Type A (dose-dependent, 85-90%) and Type B idiosyncratic reactions; monitored through pharmacovigilance systems like WHO PIDM and FDA MedWatch.

Adverse effect

Adverse effect: a harmful patient outcome seemingly associated with treatment, distinct from adverse event and ADR. Covers type A/B classification, hospital burden (3-6% of US admissions), MedWatch, FAERS/AEMS, and pharmacovigilance reporting.