Gems can fuse together in order to take stronger forms.

Said fusions have a mix of

personality traits from the component Gems.

 Addictive Magic: Fusion can be addictive for the Gems involved as they receive
the enhanced attributes of their partners (strength, confidence, power, precision, and
others), and can make the Gem crave more opportunities if misused. This effect
seems to be greatly amplified if the motivation for fusing was selfish on the part of
their components. Both Lapis and Jasper developed some measure of addiction to
being Malachite despite how much they loathed one another (in fact, in Lapis's case, it
was because of it), with Jasper being much worse.
 All Your Powers Combined: Fusions possess the powers and knowledge of their
component parts and can mix them in unique ways.
 Anthropomorphic Personification: A fusion is a living embodiment of two Gems'
relationship, positive or negative. Garnet even describes herself as
being made of love.
 Beauty = Goodness: Fusions sometimes have extra features from being
composed of two people, but how neatly they come together seems indicative of the
health of the relationship. Stable, heroic fusions like Opal and Garnet have relatively
few extra features that mesh harmoniously with the rest of their appearance, while
Sugilite, a destructive and potentially dangerous fusion, is more beastly in form,
boasting five eyes, pronounced fangs, and two sets of arms that blend at the
shoulder. Alexandrite, while more "balanced" than Sugilite, is still a bizarre-looking
mess, which makes sense as she's all three Crystal Gems trying to act as one. All of
the Crystal Gems together, including Rose Quartz or Steven, form into Obsidian, who
manages to be beautiful and scary at the same time due to looking like an eight-
armed volcano goddess. The antagonistic fusion Malachite is barely even humanoid,
with a second torso where her hips should be, two independently-operating sets of
eyes, and four extra arms that serve as legs. Her components are using each other
for selfish gain — Jasper is just using Lapis for the power boost, and Lapis is using
the fusion to take control of and imprison Jasper. On the other end of the scale,
there's Fluorite, who's even less humanoid than Malachite, but only for being made of
six Gems; the relationship between the six is stable and healthy, and as a result,
she's far more cuddly in appearance.
 Bishōnen Line: Fusions are... odd, in this case, as combinations of certain Gems
can either end up looking relatively human, or completely monstrous. The only really
hard and fast rules seem to be that having more Gems involved (i.e. Sugilite, who is
actually a fusion of three Gems, not two) makes a fusion look more inhuman than one
which only involves two Gems (i.e. Garnet, who looks almost totally normal with the
exception of a third eye). And it seems like an unwilling fusion (i.e. Malachite) will look
much more horrific, due to the Gems involved not being in harmony with each other.
o Opal has four thin arms, separating at the shoulder.
o Rainbow Quartz has two pairs of eyes, but the normal number of arms
and legs.
o Sardonyx has two pairs of eyes (one of which sticks outside her head into
her hairline) and arms (one of which is on her torso), but is otherwise quite humanoid.
o The more feral Sugilite is a monstrous brute with four arms, five eyes, and
a mouth full of fangs.
o The psychotic Malachite looks like some mythological centaur-esque
beast, with four eyes, and four arm-like legs in addition to two regular arms.
o Alexandrite may look like a six-armed giant woman, but when the Fusion
starts breaking down, when she gets pissed, or breathes fire, she reveals a second, T.
rex-like mouth along her jawline.
o Aside from her third eye, Garnet is near indistinguishable from a normal
Gem.
o Steven and Connie are so stable they can Fuse accidentally, and Garnet
describes them as perfect. Stevonnie is by far the most humanoid of all, but that
probably has more to do with them actually being mostly human.
o Smoky Quartz has two forearms extending from their left elbow, and
otherwise looks normal.
o Sunstone has a bizarre, fiery appearance to her head, and has a top-
heavy set of comically oversized arms along with a significantly smaller, spindly set.
o Obsidian seems to wear a mask on their head, but this is a second face
that can open to reveal a second fiery maw, like Alexandrite's. They also have eight
arms, but unlike most cases these are relatively evenly proportioned.
 Born as an Adult: A Fusion created for the first time has confusion as to their own
identity (especially if the Fusion is accidental), but the maturity and intellect of their
components. Physically they're larger than their components, which makes them look
vaguely older — except for the mostly human Stevonnie, who definitely looks older.
 Contralto of Danger: The majority of Fusions speak with relatively low female
voices, indicating their strength and power. In the early episodes before Garnet was
revealed to be a Fusion, being played by the deep-voiced Estelle was a stealthy clue
about her true nature.
 Convenient Color Change: When two differently-colored Gems fuse, their
merged form will have both gemstones change to match their new color scheme. This
is closely related to Homeworld's taboo against cross-caste fusion: gems are meant
to be created a certain way for a certain task, so a gemstone changing is unwelcome,
hence they're one kind of gem negatively labelled "off color".
 Does This Remind You of Anything?: Fusion is frequently compared to romance,
both textually and subtextually — the things that make a stable fusion are also
features of a healthy relationship, fusion between different castes is illegal on
Homeworld, Garnet's Ruby and Sapphire explicitly describe themselves as in love. All
of this makes the concept of a "forced" fusion, as between Jasper and Lapis Lazuli,
extremely disturbing: it's akin to an abusive relationship at best.
 Fusion Dance: Gems combine together, often with a literal Magic Dance, to form
a fusion. Fusion can involve more than two Gems, either by having all of them
 dancing together or having Fusions themselves perform Fusion; the end result is the
same either way .
 Hybrid Power: If two Gems of the same type (say, two Pearls) were to Fuse, the
resulting combination would still be a Pearl, and would only be slightly stronger and
larger than the component Gems. However, if two different Gem types fuse, like
Amethyst and Pearl into Opal, the resulting fusion is much more powerful than any of
the component Gems could be alone. In "Back to the Moon", Sardonyx, a fusion of
three different Gems, easily defeats a quintuple-Ruby fusion. Despite this, when
Ruby and Sapphire first made Garnet, two different kinds of Gems Fusing was
considered taboo due to Homeworld's Hive Caste System.
 Level-Up at Intimacy 5: Stronger emotional bonds between Gems makes the
Fusion more capable of staying together, and thus functionally more powerful. A
strong purpose will do in a pinch, but won't take the place of harmony. This appears to
be especially true for Steven, who cannot fuse unless he and his partner are very
much in sync: he can do it with Connie with relative ease, but was unable to do it with
any of the Gems, even though they have strong love for each other. Eventually, he is
able to fuse with Amethyst when both open up more to one another, namely
Amethyst with her insecurities to Steven and Steven empathizing. The second time,
they just need to join hands to do so, showing the bond.
 Made of Evil: When the components of a Fusion are not on terms with one
another, i.e. Malachite, the results can be pretty nasty.
 Made of Good: When the components of a Fusion have a positive relationship
with one another, either romantically or otherwise, the Fusion is much more stable.
All of the Crystal Gems' Fusions count especially.
 Magic Dance: The fusion process may require the component Gems to dance
together harmoniously. The dance metaphor actually works very well, though, as two
people dancing as a pair are not acting as two separate individuals, but neither are
they a single composite mind. The music heralding the Fusion dance is also
symbolic, and it usually mixes the themes for the participating Gems (e.g. Opal's
theme is Pearl's piano made a bit wilder and Amethyst's drum beats played more
orderly). It's shown later that the dance is more of an aid than a requirement, as
particularly harmonious partners (Ruby and Sapphire, Steven and Connie, and Topaz
and Topaz) can fuse with barely more than a twirl.
 Mental Fusion: The Fusion of two Gems (re-)creates a new mind interrelated to,
but distinct from, the components. All three (or more) minds exist in the same body
simultaneously, but it's possible for the new mind to take sole control of the body and
exhibit its own identity, even a desire for self-preservation. It's unknown if the
components' minds can be permanently damaged this way, but they're functionally
non-existent until the Fusion ends. Sardonyx even refers to her components in the
third person ("If you ever have need of the lovely Sardonyx, let Pearl and Garnet
know, I'll be there in a flash."), and Smoky Quartz has referred to Amethyst in the
third person, and Steven in both the second and third person ("I feel like Amethyst
knows this.", "Steven, you beautiful genius. You pulled Amethyst out of her gem
through fusion? [...] Gotta throw Steven...").
 Mental World: Steven contacts Lapis in Malachite's, and Garnet meditates into
hers with Stevonnie, implying that every Fusion has one.
 Mind Hive: Garnet describes Fusion as being simultaneously neither one person
nor two people, but a unique experience resulting from the interaction of the
components. As long as the minds are in agreement, the body can act as an
individual, but the Fusion tends to fail if the component minds fall out of sync. Garnet
repeatedly describes Fusion as like "a conversation". At least three people can be
distinguished in a spectrum of specificity: the component minds and the person they
are together. This only increases the more gems are involved, as the minds of
fusions between any components involved may also present themselves. Just like a
"conversation", being Fused does not mean that one component is necessarily privy
to every thought the other has, exhibited when Garnet was not able to deduce that
Pearl was manipulating her into Fusing. This comes into play in Season 5 with the
revelation that Rose was Pink Diamond. Rose and Pearl were able to keep it a secret
despite repeatedly fusing with the other Crystal Gems.
 Morphic Resonance: Fusions have noticeable physical features in common with
their component parts. They also have all Gems located in the same places, although
they may change color and often change size (the latter is specifically non-

diegetic).  Word of God says that if a Fusion's component Gems have

gemstones in the same spot (like say, Pearl and Peridot), their gems move to be side
by side but otherwise remain in place.
 Motif Merger: In addition to combining their components' features, Fusions tend
to combine their components' leitmotifs.
 Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Fusion can create hybrids of different types of
gems, even when Steven is not involved, although their degree of humanoidness
tends to vary.
 Non-Indicative Name: Apparently, hybrid Fusions aren't literally what they call
themselves, but a unique blend of traits that can't be found in normal, singular Gems.
For simplicity's sake, most hybrid Fusions pick the name of a singular gem that they
roughly resemble. For instance, Garnet choose her name because her combined
form somewhat resembles normal, unfused Garnets (like Hessonite), but her
capabilities, powers, and personalities are nothing like them (nor do they share a
voice actor like gems of the same type). Blue Diamond mocks Garnet for the
comparison, and seemingly even for coming up with a name for herself in the first
place.
Blue Diamond: Does that call herself a Garnet? [laughs] What would you have her do? Enter with the
Demantoids? The Hessonites? The Pyropes?
 Our Giants Are Bigger: Fusions are bigger than the Gems that make them up,
and their size correlates to the size and number of their components. Many are
dozens of feet tall. Fusions of two small Gems are only slightly larger than average
humans. Judging by Sugilite and the Ruby fusions, a Fusion of at least three Gems
will be enormous even if all the components are very small. If the Cluster, a forced
Fusion of millions of Gem shards, ever formed a body, it would be larger than the
Earth.
 Power High: Apparently the reason both Pearl and Amethyst like Fusing with
Garnet so much is because she imparts strength and confidence they don't have
alone.
 The Power of Friendship: Fusion is a manifestation of all emotionally intimate
relationships, not strictly of the romantic variety. It can just as well be based on
friendship or familial love.
 The Power of Love: It doesn't seem to be a requirement, but if the two
components love each other, it makes the Fusion easier to maintain.
 Race Name Basis: Notably subverted; one would think hybrid fusions, like most
Gems, go by what type of Gem they are, Stevonnie being the obvious exception
because one of their components is human. In truth, they exist outside of the
Gems' Hive Caste System and pick their own names, usually ones of gem types they
resemble. This is why Garnet never refers to herself by name in the flashback in "The
Answer", and Fluorite has kept the same name even after adding more gems to
herself.
 Shapeshifter Mashup: The more unbalanced the Fusion and/or the worse the
component Gems' relationship is, the more bits and pieces from said Gems stick out
in the resulting chimeric Fusion, with Malachite being a prime example.
 Sharing a Body: A mental element of Fusion other than having a Mind Hive.
There are still two people in there, distinguishable by how in or out of sync they are.
They can talk to themselves out loud but can emphatically share feelings (such as
Stevonnie feeling social anxiety from Connie).
 Voice of the Legion: Stable Fusions tend to have a single, unique voice. Unstable
Fusions (like Malachite and occasionally Alexandrite, though in her case, her voice
still speaks with her components) will speak with the voices of their components.
 Weapon of Choice: Fusions can wield any of their component Gems' weapons
with the same level of skill. Fusions can also combine those weapons into a new and
unique weapon for themselves.
 Yin-Yang Bomb: Fusions that combine extremely disparate parts produce a more
powerful result, whereas Fusions of the same type of Gem just produce a bigger (and
only marginally more powerful) version of the sources. Ruby and Sapphire,
individually small and weak Gems, form the extremely powerful Garnet. A Fusion of
three Rubies was easily felled by Rose Quartz, who wasn't even using her sword.

Crystal Gem Fusions

Garnet
Voiced by: Estelle

"I will fight for the place where I'm free

to live together and exist as me!"
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 Click here for her actual first form 

Pearl: If we were supposed to fight a "giant foot", Garnet would let us know.
Amethyst: Yeah, Garnet's the boss.
Pearl: Well, we're all a team. Garnet just has heightened perception that guides us towards our mission
objective.
Amethyst: Yeah, she's the boss.

Garnet is the de facto leader of the Crystal Gems, having taken over after the departure
of Rose Quartz. She's a powerful, strong and disciplined warrior, and is the Gems'
unarmed combat expert. A Gem of few words, Garnet is the most aloof member of the
team; however, when she does speak, everyone listens. She is usually very
introspective, but living with Steven, she is beginning to come out of her shell a little.

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  The Ace: She's the fastest, strongest, biggest, toughest, and most unflappable of the
Crystal Gems, and she (almost) always knows exactly what to do.
 Adjusting Your Glasses: Tends to adjust her visor often, usually as an outward indication
of using her Future Vision. It's also a sign that she's stressed.
 Adorkable: While normally The Stoic, she has her moments. Notably her joyous squeal
when Steven and Amethyst fuse into Smoky Quartz in front of her, and her utter delight when
she first meets the Off Colors:
"You must be Rhodonite! A Ruby and a Pearl? That must have been a story! I want all the details!"

o In the movie, her rejuvernated form definitely counts, as her personality is much

more childlike and curious and she keeps making adorably confused faces, with some goofy
smiles there and there.
 Afro Asskicker: She's the unofficial leader of the Crystal Gems, has the Power Fist, and
her hair is a cube-shaped, curly afro.
 Aliens of London: Garnet is the only one of the Crystal Gems we've seen so far with a
British accent, albeit flavored by some African because of Estelle's roots. What's even odder
about this is neither of Garnet's two halves, Ruby and Sapphire, have a similar accent. The
accent carries over into Sardonyx.
 Always Someone Better: In addition to their admiration of Rose, Amethyst and Pearl do
have one trait they share in that they both look up to Garnet for being so much stronger than
they are, which is why the absolutely relish any chance they have to fuse with her. This
actually creates the secondary conflict in "Cry for Help", when it is revealed that Pearl kept
repairing the communications hub, distracting the Crystal Gems while Peridot was still loose,
because she loved the feeling of being strong that fusing into Sardonyx gave her.
 Anthropomorphic Personification: She's the embodiment of Ruby and Sapphire's love for
each other.
 Authority Equals Asskicking: She's in charge, and she can fight and defeat Pearl and
Amethyst, quite literally, single-handedly, at the same time.
 Backported Development: Flashbacks to before the beginning of the series give her a
characterization more similar to her current self than to The Stoic seen in earlier episodes,
though it's possible that the character development in the series' present day is partially just
Garnet returning to the way she was before Rose's death.
 Badass Boast: "Stronger Than You" is this in song form. Garnet puts who she is, the love
she represents, and how Jasper is never going to truly win against her, in the form of a
song. Her doing this while both giving and receiving punches just makes it better.
 Badass in Charge: The leader of the Crystal Gems, and considering her incredible
strength and speed, for good reason.
 Bad "Bad Acting": Due in part to her being The Comically Serious. During "Tiger
Millionaire", she fakes being hit by a punch by tipping over like a felled tree, and her
improvised heel speech is about as wooden. When she pretends to be "Mum Universe", the
first story she tries to come up with is about the children playing with swords and dying.
 Bad Liar: Sometimes. As leader of the team, she's not beyond occasional white lies or
manipulation to get the job done, though she ultimately she prefers her brand of blunt
honesty. But she's not great at lying on the spot, and when suddenly forced to be dishonest it
shows that she inherited Sapphire's habit of freezing when caught unprepared and Ruby's
habit of saying whatever comes to mind to make up for it. See also Bad "Bad Acting".
 Bare Your Midriff: Garnet's casual outfit in "Beach Party" and her training attire
in "Garnet's Universe".
 Battle Couple: An interesting variation: She IS a couple and kicks a lot of butt.
  Belly Buttonless: Whenever Garnet wears midriff baring clothes, she appears not to
have a present bellybutton, possibly due to the fact that Gems (let alone Fusions) aren't born
at all like humans.
 Berserk Button:
o Most cases of abuses of fusion. Once the initial shock and horror passes, Garnet
is furious in "Keeping It Together" at what the Homeworld Gems have done, both with using
fallen Crystal Gems as test subjects for the experiments, fusing their Gem shards together, and
at the experiments themselves, which she feels is a perversion of the Fusion Dance technique.
She was incensed at Pearl for distracting her with the communications hub problem just to give
an excuse for them to form Sardonyx, betraying the trust fusion is based on and wasting time
they could have spent hunting down Peridot (who was involved with the fusion experiments). It
would take her four episodes to finally calm down.
o Insubordination in a highly dangerous situation. The other Gems fear making
Garnet angry, and Steven finds out why in "Mirror Gem" when he defies her orders and refuses
to hand over the eponymous mirror, whacking her in the face and knocking off her glasses to
show a three-eyed Death Glare. A similar problem arises in "Cry for Help", with Pearl using the
very serious problem of Peridot sending out a distress call to Yellow Diamond as an excuse to
repeatedly fuse with Garnet and feel better about herself as a result. Combine that with the
above and you get one very angry Garnet...
o Saying fusion is inferior to a Homeworld Gem will reward you with a very
uncomfortable time-out.
o Do not speak ill of Rose Quartz or denigrate the Earth and its life forms. Peridot
learned this the hard way in "It Could've Been Great".
Garnet: You, listen to me, now. You are talking about things that you do not understand.

o Do not try to hurt Steven with Garnet around.

o Being deceived by people she trusts makes her emotionally distraught enough to
split back into Ruby and Sapphire, first during the aforementioned incident with Pearl and again
when she finds out Rose had secretly been Pink Diamond the whole time.
 Beware the Nice Ones: Garnet is the nicest of her friends (sans Steven). That being
said... do not make her angry.
 Beware the Quiet Ones: As stoic and reserved as she is, Garnet is the strongest and
fastest of the Crystal Gems and heaven help you if you make her angry.
 Black Boss Lady: The de-facto leader of the Crystal Gems and has a humanoid avatar
with African-styled features, a nod to her voice actress being of African and Afro-Caribbean
descent.
 Blessed with Suck: She can predict and sort through all the likely events in the near
future, which is incredibly useful. In "Future Vision", she implies it has a pretty horrible
downside: she is constantly seeing, in vivid detail, the terrible consequences of
every wrong choice she could possibly make.
Garnet: Steven, I see so many things that can hurt you.

 British Stuffiness: Garnet is noticeably less uptight than most examples, but her stiff
upper lip and smooth British accent certainly fit this trope.
 Broken Ace: Discussed. Garnet explicitly states in "Friend Ship" that she's not as perfect
as everyone thinks she is and she has her own weaknesses, but tries to stay strong because
she knows she has an impact on her friends.
 Broken Pedestal: In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", she (or at least Sapphire) does not
take the news about Rose's real identity as Pink Diamond very well, since Sapphire still
 believes every one of the Diamonds to be the evil tyrants that should've been shattered to
liberate all of Gemkind, until she realizes that Pink Diamond formed the Crystal Gems
because Ruby and Sapphire's (accidental) fusion inspired her to do so.
 Bruiser with a Soft Center: Despite her being a hardened Gem warrior, Garnet has a
caring and close relationship with her friends.
 Brutal Honesty: Garnet is more deadpan than blunt, but she expressed her dislike for
Greg's music quite brutally: by jumping out of the (still moving) van and deciding to spend the
rest of the trip on top of the car's roof. This is turned on its head in "The Message", when,
after the titular message is translated by Greg, Garnet very firmly thanks Greg for his
assistance. The "brutal" part comes from her just as firmly silencing the other Crystal Gems
so she could make that thanks, who were panicking over what the message actually told
them. The jury is out if this was Garnet's attempts to stay calm herself, though.
 Casting Gag: Garnet's voice actress, Estelle, was born on January 18, and the garnet is
the traditional birthstone of people who are born in January, which may make Garnet
a Meaningful Name.
 Celebrity Paradox: Her favorite music is by her voice actress, Estelle.
 Celibate Heroine: She has no interest in pursing a romance with anyone because she IS
a relationship (the embodiment of one, to be more specific).
 The Chains of Commanding: She's an effective and loving leader, but does not know
how to manage the emotional well-being of her teammates. This becomes a problem in "Cry
for Help" when a insecure Pearl develops an addiction to the power she feels when she and
Garnet fuse. Garnet eventually tells Pearl that contrary to what the other Gems think
she does have flaws, but she doesn't let them define her since she's the leader and
sometimes she looks up to Pearl for strength. She actually joins Steven and Greg on their
road trip so she can have her (quite literal) emotional breakdown out of their sight.
 Character Development:
o As she bonds with Steven, she becomes less stoic and starts showing more
open affection and emotion while still maintaining her cool demeanor. By Season 2, not only
does she smile more often than she did in Season 1, she's also more relaxed and playful like
she was in the flashbacks.
o She was also the first to thank Greg for deciphering the Wailing Stone's message
in "The Message" while Pearl and Amethyst were going bonkers over Lapis' message about the
Homeworld Gems coming to Earth, showing that she is starting to think less of him as a burden.
 Character Tics: Adjusts her glasses whenever she's stressed.
 Cold Ham: She's The Stoic, but can pull some very dramatic lines and body language
without changing her usual tone of voice.
 Combat Clairvoyance: Garnet uses her future vision to assist the Crystal Gems in their
future fights.
 The Comically Serious: Silly things sometimes happen to/around her, and she never
stops being serious.
Garnet: [hair covered in feathers; deadpan] Hello, Steven.

 Contralto of Danger: Her voice carries authority.

 Cool Big Sis:
o This is the nature of Garnet's relationship with Steven. While Amethyst
is Steven's partner in mischief and Pearl is more of a mother figure, Garnet is like a big, smart
sister to Steven, always giving him good advice (usually with more bluntness and less personal
opinion than Amethyst and Pearl) and serving as a role model. Garnet also lets Steven make
 his own mistakes and learn his own lessons when possible, like when she took Steven with him
when the team had to split up in "Serious Steven". Finally, she's usually the one most in tune
with Steven's emotional needs, like when she gave him the advice to just talk to Connie and
making sure Amethyst and Pearl didn't interfere.
o It is also common to interpret her relationship with Steven as motherly, just in a
different way than with Pearl. Many moments have the two interact in a mother-son way such
as Garnet going along with Steven's playing hide and seek with her, calling him "cutie pie",
always being the Gem targeted by his "puppy eyes" which she can't say no to, saying he's
grounded when she's mad at him, their hugs are very tender (usually when Garnet saves him),
Steven may be casually seen sitting on her lap when interacting with the Gems, etc. There's
also the adorable part in "When It Rains" where Garnet, not in any life-threatening situation but
simply because she wants to, shapes her hands into a heart and tells Steven she loves him
before going on a mission.
 Cool Shades: Garnet has a nice pair of reflective shades that take up half her face.
Turns out they conceal a third eye. She can also transform them into goggles for swimming.
 Cutting the Knot: When Pearl and Amethyst's plans inevitably fail, Garnet will resort to
hitting things. It usually works.
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 Dance Battler: Not her most common style, but her battle with Jasper has her dancing
and swaying to music.
 Deadpan Snarker: She'll occasionally make jokes, maintaining her usual tone of voice.
Pearl: Are we really going to let him keep that?
Garnet: We kept Amethyst.

 Death Glare: Steven learned in "Mirror Gem" just how angry she can be when she got
backhanded.
 Does This Remind You of Anything?: With the reveal in "The Answer" that cross-Gem
type fusions are considered forbidden abominations on her homeworld, it's hard not to read
Garnet's fusion as a metaphor for gay, inter-caste or interracial marriage. Driven home in her
part of the full opening song; when the Gems are singing their motivations for protecting
Earth, hers is "I will fight for the place where I'm free / To live together and exist as me."
 Duality Motif: Garnet has three eyes, one red, one blue and one violet, because she's a
fusion of Ruby, who has two eyes, and Sapphire, who is a Cyclops. The violet eye is them
finding balance.
 Dub Name Change: Averted. Garnet is among the few gems who the Latin American
dub doesn't change her name to the faithfully correct translation, granate. She shares this
with Peridot.
 Eternal Love: Ruby and Sapphire fell in love with each other over 5,700 years ago.
Garnet is their relationship given form, and is one of, if not the, most stable fusions of different
Gems (as opposed to the multi-Ruby or Topaz fusions).
 Extra Eyes: Garnet has three eyes, the right one is red, the left one is blue and the
middle one is violet.
 Fangirl: Garnet's favorite music is the works of Estelle according to Rebecca Sugar,
appropriate considering Estelle is her voice actress.
 Fashionable Asymmetry: Both her outfits show some of this in their designs and colors.
Most likely due to her nature as a fusion. The second has a distinct red and blue tint on
opposing sides.
o The first couple of times Ruby and Sapphire fused, Garnet invoked this to an
even greater extent; Her outfit was a literal fusion of pieces of clothing from her components.
On top of that, her hair was an uneven mix of pink and blue.
 Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Fighter of the group who depends on physical strength and
durability the most.
 Fingerless Gloves: Garnet wears long, elbow-length gloves that only cover her middle
fingers.
 Fire, Ice, Lightning: Sorta does all three on her own. Garnet has lightning powers, Ruby
has fire powers, and Sapphire has ice. It's noteworthy that a combination of hot air and cold
air form storm clouds.
 Foil: To Malachite. Malachite is a fusion born of hate and desperation, while Garnet is a
fusion born of love and compassion.
o Even more, knowing the circumstances behind Garnet's creation as of "The
Answer". Both she and Malachite were created by a snap decision. However, whereas
Malachite was born out of Jasper's scorn and desire for vengeance, Garnet was born from
Ruby's need to protect Sapphire.
 Funny Afro: Her afro is notable in that it's cube-shaped rather than spherical, and she's
had it since she first fused at the dawn of human civilization. In "Historical Friction", Jamie
plays her by putting his head in a cardboard box with an afro drawn on with marker.
 Genius Bruiser: Garnet is the strongest of her friends and the most savvy. This is
lampshaded by Steven in "Keeping It Together".
Steven: Oh. Oh! You're brains and brawn! The whole package!

 Gentle Giant: Sort of. She's not afraid to fight and can really hit hard, but she gives off
this vibe around Steven what with the way she'll gently ruffle his hair or go along with
whatever wacky thing he wants to do.
 Good Parents: While all of the Gems care about Steven, Garnet is the one who has the
most faith in him, believing he can and will control his Gem powers in good time. In return,
Garnet is often the first Gem he turns to when he needs advice and comfort.
 Glasses Do Something Unusual: As revealed in her otherwise non-canon appearance in
the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Crossover Nexus", Garnet's visor helps her Future
Vision. (They're also prescription.)
 Graceful Ladies Like Purple: After Ruby and Sapphire re-fuse, Garnet now has a
purplish color theme.
 Grin of Audacity: Sports one for most of her fight against Jasper. Considering her usual
demeanor, it's a pretty big deal when she breaks out that big, beautiful smile.
 Hands-Off Parenting: Compared to the other Crystal Gems. Pearl tends to worry and
obsess over Steven while Amethyst is usually even less responsible than Steven and prone to
getting him into trouble or following his misguided lead. Garnet is sensible enough to put her
foot down and aware enough to guide him out of danger or trouble, but usually trusts Steven
to make his own mistakes and draw his own conclusions. Perhaps best seen in Steven's
interactions with Connie, where she gives them space to hang out and encourages them to
enjoy fusion, while Amethyst teases and Pearl meddles and frets.
 Happily Married: Garnet is the permanent fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, making her
essentially a living incarnation of this trope. In "Reunited", Ruby and Sapphire actually get
married, making her literally a living incarnation of this trope.
 Hartman Hips: Just look at them! Steven calls attention to this in "Rose's Room", saying
she would fit into Greg's baggy golf pants. Which she does. It has also been noted that one
of her legs is larger than Pearl's whole body.
  Heroic BSoD: Seeing the forced fusion of the missing Crystal Gems mangled together
by the Homeworld is enough to utterly paralyze her, which leaves her vulnerable to breaking
apart.
 Hidden Depths:
o She of all people turns out to really like video games.
o Garnet gives really good love advice, which is to be expected when she's a
relationship.
o She and Greg are apparently really good friends and play tennis together
regularly.
 Improbable Hairstyle: No matter what happens, whether it's in a fight or swimming
through lava, Garnet's square afro stays in place.
 Innocently Insensitive: Whenever the need arises for a fusion she'll have to choose
between Pearl and Amethyst, unaware that the other party is left feeling hurt and inadequate
due to being left out.
 Large and in Charge: She towers over her teammates at a minimum of seven feet tall.
 The Leader: Unofficial but de facto leader of the Crystal Gems, since she is the only one
that can sense incoming threats. Her levelheadedness also makes her well-suited to
moderating the more polarized personalities in the team. She makes a point of respecting
and listening to the other Gems, though, and Pearl (as seen in the header quote) seems
uneasy about the idea of Garnet as a literal leader, suggesting that Garnet is reluctant to
officially step into the role Rose Quartz left vacant.
 Leitmotif:
o Her associative instrument is a high, distinctive synth sound. After her
regeneration in "Jail Break", a synth bass (different from Amethyst's) was added as well. Her
instruments are most clearly demonstrated in her song from the same episode, "Stronger Than
You".
o The melody that Sapphire sings in "Jail Break" is closely tied to the fusion
between her and Ruby. It's incorporated into "Stronger Than You", and in "The Answer" we are
shown its origin during the song "Something Entirely New". Greg also plays it on guitar
during their wedding in "Reunited".
 Lightning Bruiser: Both the strongest and the fastest of the Gems.
 Literal-Minded: Played for Laughs several times.
Steven: [providing video game instructions] Just punch and you'll be fine.

 Living Emotional Crutch:

o In a lesser extent than Steven, but both Amethyst and Pearl look out for Garnet
in order to have some self-assurance on their own issues. See Always Someone Better above.
o Ruby and Sapphire are both a crutch for each other, Ruby becoming next to
useless with fear and self-doubt without Sapphire around to reassure her. Sapphire depends on
Ruby just as much, but being rather stoic and having future sight, she is less obvious about it.
 Logical Weakness:
o Garnet's leadership style tends to be fairly reactive, which makes sense:
Sapphire's powers of foresight are based on the actions of others, not her own, and Ruby tends
towards hotheaded impulsiveness. However, as Peridot points out, this means the Crystal
Gems often lack a real sense of direction or purpose when an enemy isn't on their literal
doorstep.
o Her future vision can also overload her with possibilities if she tries to see too
many futures at once (like trying to predict the future for five cats), and just because she knows
many ways things might go doesn't mean she knows which possibility will actually occur — the
baseball game resolution of "Hit the Diamond" was an improbable future, sure, but it still ended
up happening. Her interpretation of which future might occur is also limited by her personal
biases — she is surprised by Steven giving himself up to Aquamarine because she was
expecting Steven to act as he would pre-Character Development. Since she has to actively
look to see the future, problems she wasn't aware of beforehand can also take her by surprise,
like Homeworld gems' arrivals and the events of "Cry for Help" (she looks for the Crystal Gems
finding Peridot, but the actual culprit was Pearl).
 Love at First Sight: Garnet tells Jamie in "Love Letters" that love at first sight doesn't
exist because true love requires time and work and at least knowing each other. In "The
Answer", we see that Ruby and Sapphire did somewhat fall in love within their first meeting,
but their constant fusion over several millennia still affirms her statement that staying in love
takes effort.
 Love Freak: She's a fusion, a manifestation of Ruby and Sapphire's love for one another,
though having no desire to extend that union, they naturally are going to have an affinity for
romance and seeing others in love. The first look the audience got at a truly exuberant
Garnet was her reaction to Stevonnie, and later her reaction to Smoky Quartz was even more
dramatic. She was also fascinated with the Off Colors, particularly Rhodonite. Garnet
described Fluorite, six gems in a relationship, as "beautiful".
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 Made of Good: Garnet considers herself this, seeing herself as the embodiment of
Sapphire and Ruby's love.
 Mama Bear: Will occasionally become this for Steven. Special mention goes to "The
Return", where she absolutely loses it towards Jasper for targeting him.
 Meaningful Name:
o In gemstone mythos, garnets are known as stones that provide protection to their
users from evil.
Steven: Garnet, you keep us safe by scaring off the bad guys. Just like a mom would!
o Estelle's birthdate is January 18, and people born in January have a garnet note  as
their birthstone.
 Mismatched Eyes: All three of her eyes are different colors, each corresponding in some
way to her fusion (one red eye representing Ruby, one blue eye representing Sapphire, and
her third eye is purple, the combination of red and blue).
 Monster Progenitor: Of a sort. "Now We're Only Falling Apart" reveals that she's the first
known fusion of different gem types.
 Morph Weapon: In "Warp Tour", Garnet is able to increase the size of her gauntlets,
easily quadrupling their size, and deal increased damage at the cost of reduced speed. This
was also hinted during "Garnet's Universe" and could also suggest that Steven knew about it
before its proper debut.
 Morphic Resonance: She has Sapphire's hourglass figure and puff sleeves, and Ruby's
coloration and square afro.
 Multicoloured Hair: When she first formed, her hair was an uneven mixture of blue and
pink. More subtly, her usual form during the Gem War proper is depicted with her square afro
being half-red, half-blue, instead of the black it is in the present.
 Multiple-Choice Future: Garnet is established is having "Future Vision", an ability that
allows her to see into many different probable futures. Many of these range from mundane to
 incredibly improbable (ranging from various comical deaths to chasing away the Ruby
Squadron with a game of baseball) and are selected by the choices people involved in such
outcomes make.
"No one can see the future. I can see options and trajectories. Time is like a river that splits into creeks or pools
into lakes or careens down waterfalls. I have the map, and I steer the ship."

 Muscles Are Meaningless: Her arms are as thin as sticks, yet she's the strongest of the
Crystal Gems.
 Nice Girl: While she does have her flaws, Garnet is the nicest of the Crystal Gems
(sans Steven and Rose). She displays the most trust and respect in Steven and isn't as
bigoted towards humans like Pearl and Amethyst; she even refers to Earth as her home.
 Non-P.O.V. Protagonist: Along with Steven, Amethyst and Pearl, she is one of the four
main protagonists of the show. But said show is exclusivly told from Steven's Perspective.
 No-Sell: She can swim in lava and is immune to electricity-based attacks (probably due
to her own electricity-generating powers).
 Not So Above It All: What with Garnet's personality as The Comically Serious, it's easy
to assume she is "above" the others' antics, and she does sometimes have a no-nonsense
attitude. But while she may keep a stoic demeanor, she often willingly goes along with weird
things Steven or Amethyst want to do without the slightest hint of complaint.
Steven: If they got to spend some time with you, they'd realize how fun, and smart, and mysterious you are!
Garnet: Hehe, "mysterious".

o She was not happy when the Diamonds attacked Earth during Ruby and
Sapphire’s wedding reception, shouting at Blue that it was supposed to be her special day.
 Not So Stoic: As the series progresses, she starts to show facial expressions a little
more often. Look at her in "Garnet's Universe"; she's smiling the whole time she's playing
along with Steven's antics. This is especially the case regarding Steven learning fusions; her
first noticeable facial expression is a huge grin at seeing Stevonnie, and she completely freaks
out upon being introduced to Smoky Quartz.
 Number Two: As Steven slowly steps up to control his powers and grow as a person,
Garnet relinquishes her position to him in good faith, though she'll still take charge when the
need arises.
 Odd Friendship: Garnet and Greg, of all people, are rather good friends. She was highly

supportive of his pursuit of Rose and according to  Word of God they play
tennis together regularly.
 One True Love: The product of two Gems who truly and completely love eachother.
 One-Way Visor: Her sunglasses, which cover three eyes in a different color each.
 Only Sane Woman: Being the most together Gem, she often has to rein in the others.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
o When Garnet admits to being scared of Blue Diamond, it shows just how
dangerous the Diamonds are.
o Garnet is the most stoic Crystal Gem, always seems to have her head on
straight, and her fusion is completely and perfectly stable. When she involuntarily defuses, it is
 either a sign of extreme anger ("Keystone Motel"), fear and horror ("Keeping It Together"), or
shock/sadness (when she discovers that Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond).
 Open-Minded Parent: As opposed to Pearl, she's more willing to listen to Steven and let
him figure things out by himself.
 Out of Focus: In terms of character focus, Garnet has gotten the least out of the four
main Crystal Gems. Arguably Garnet stopped getting development after Season 1, whereas
Pearl, Amethyst and Steven have received tons of focus and character development. A
stretch of seven consecutive episodes in Season 3 feature no dialogue from her whatsoever.
She starts getting more development again in Season 5.
 Overly Long Scream: In "Know Your Fusion", Garnet screams for 16 seconds straight
when Smoky Quartz reveals themself and their destructive power. Not out of fear mind you,
but sheer glee.
 Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Relatively speaking. She may be the second tallest Crystal
Gem, but she is the fourth-smallest fusion in the entire series.
 Playing with Fire: Though she never generates fire herself, she can swim through lava

without issue, which is why she goes to retrieve the Earth Beetle.  According
to  Word of God, this is an ice bath to her, while the core of the sun would be a hot tub. This
ability comes from Ruby, who can generate extreme heat.
 Power Fist: Her Weapon of Choice, summoned from the gems in her hands. Bismuth
upgrades them to include spiked knuckles.
 The Power of Love: As expounded upon in her "I Am" Song, Garnet is more than a mere
fusion of Ruby and Sapphire. Their love for each other and their friends is what drives her.
It's also what makes them such a perfect and long-lasting fusion. Just for comparison, it's a
minor miracle if Pearl and Amethyst can maintain their fusion for six minutes. Ruby and
Sapphire can maintain theirs indefinitely. The only things that can separate them are if they
choose to, their body being destroyed, or a severe emotional conflict.
 Power Palms: Both her gemstones are embedded in her palms.
 Pride: A rare case of this being a good thing; her pride in her status as a fusion affirms
her strength against Jasper. That said, she can occasionally take her pride in her abilities too
far, which is part of why Sugilite is so unstable.
Garnet: We don't need to be careful. We just need to be huge.

 Promoted to Parent: In the flashbacks when Rose was still alive, Amethyst dressed and
acted like a five-year-old child, while Pearl and Garnet acted more like they were teenagers.
Now that's Rose gone, Garnet became the mother figure of the group — a role she struggles
with since she's either unable or unwilling to help Pearl and Amethyst with their emotional
issues, until they become problematic enough that they effect team missions.
 Pronoun Trouble: Played with during her song "Stronger Than You". For most of the
song, Garnet switches between "we" and "I" pronouns, likely because Ruby and Sapphire
had just re-fused and she was still adjusting herself. But during the final verse, when she
finally turns the fight around on Jasper, she switches to "I" and "me" exclusively, and refers to
Ruby and Sapphire as separate to herself, cementing her complete re-fusion.
 Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Does this often, though not always, when she's focusing
on Future Vision.
  Purple Is Powerful: She has a couple of light purple elements the first color scheme we
see in the series. After Ruby and Sapphire refuse into Garnet, her new color scheme has
more of a purplish tint.
 The Quiet One: She rarely speaks at all. When she does, she almost never uses more
words than absolutely necessary to get her point across.
 Rank Up: After Rose's death, Garnet became the leader of the Crystal Gems.
 Really 700 Years Old: Garnet was formed about 5,750 years ago when Ruby and
Sapphire accidentally fused. Her component Gems are even older than that.
 Reasonable Authority Figure: Most willing to listen to, or at least humor, Steven and
others out of the Crystal Gems.
 Red Is Heroic: Her outfit is mostly red and she's The Leader of the main heroes.
 The Reliable One: Out of the four Gems, she's the most reliable and careful. When the
Gems get into trouble, a typical solution is to 'Go get Garnet'.
 Rocket Punch: She fires her gauntlets as projectiles in "Watermelon Steven".
 Romantic Fusion: She's a fusion of two Gems so madly in love with each other that they
stay fused all the time. Garnet is explicitly the embodiment of Ruby and Sapphire's love.
 Rubber Woman: Garnet can use her shapeshifting powers to elongate and enlarge her
arms.
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 Sassy Black Woman: Her dark purple skin, afro-like hairstyle and voice actress make
her black-coded, and she is quite a Deadpan Snarker.
 Seer: She seems to be aware of incoming danger and events, which is why Pearl and
Amethyst prefer to do missions with her than without. Expanded upon in "Future Vision",
where she describes her third eye as allowing her to see possible outcomes of future events
and make the best choices given what she can see at the time. She seems to be able to
command this vision at will as well.
 She's Got Legs: Garnet has especially long, shapely legs and even shows them off
in "Beach Party".
 Shipper on Deck: A proffessional one, no less: she's made of ship.
o In hindsight, her reaction to Stevonnie makes it clear she's one for Steven and
Connie, after the reveal that she's a fusion of two lovers herself.
o In "We Need to Talk", the flashback shows Garnet giving Greg love advice in
regards to Rose.
o She's also more than willing to provide useful pointers to right any existing ships
that are taking on water and listing in front of her, regardless of what she thinks of the
individuals involved (even if she knows they won't listen). But, when the relationship is listing, in
flames and going down with all hands, be it a fusion or not, she'll also willingly attempt to help
torpedo it out of its misery. If no saving it is possible or desirable on a moral or ethical
level, that kind of ship is way better scuttled than saved, in Garnet's level-headed opinion.
 Shock and Awe: She has electric powers as a result of Sapphire's ice and Ruby's fire.
She can generate at least enough electricity to power an unplugged arcade game and charge
a car battery, and is capable of redirecting lightning bolts. It took quite a while for this ability
to actually be used in combat, but she eventually redirects an enemy's electrical attack and
sends lightning across the ground as an attack.
 Shoulders of Doom: Combines this with Giant Poofy Sleeves. Transfers this quality over
when fusing into Alexandrite.
  Sitcom Archnemesis: Apparently with Kofi Pizza. She has a tendency to destroy his
property without caring about his reaction. In "Steven Floats", when the Gems need a way to
communicate with a floating Steven, Garnet breaks into Kofi's car and steals his phone.
o Hinted at in "Restaurant Wars" where she puts all her cooking skills to create the
greatest ketchup-infused french fries (a fusion of foods) ever cooked, siding with Mr Fryman in
the process.
 So Proud of You: Her smile at the sight of Stevonnie, the proof of Steven being able of
successfully fusing, after she stated that she believed he would be able to pull it off, has
heavy undertones of being this trope.
o After spending most of the episode arguing with Amethyst about not treating her
form properly, she's visibly relieved and smiles in approval when the other gem finally chooses
a form that she likes best.
 The Spock: She's always calm and thinks logically.
 Spirited Competitor: While mostly level-headed, she occasionally demonstrates a fierce
competitive spirit. This is best seen while playing volleyball, Steven Tag, and arcade games.
 Squee!:
o She had the biggest Squee! when Steven and Connie fused into Stevonnie.
o And when Steven and Amethyst fused into Smoky Quartz.
 Statuesque Stunner: Garnet is the tallest of the group and at least one person considers
her beautiful. Also the fact that she's a fusion created from a loving relationship between
Ruby and Sapphire probably counts towards that as well.
 The Stoic: Almost always keeps her cool.
 Strong and Skilled: In comparison to Pearl and Amethyst, Garnet has plenty of combat
skills and plenty of power to go with them solidifying her status as The Ace in the team.
 Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's sugary nice towards Steven. The Ice part comes from
her being The Stoic and The Quiet One most of the time, though she's never actually mean.
 Sunglasses at Night: She wears her visor day or night and even in dark caves. Its main
purpose seems to be covering her third eye so she doesn't freak out any humans she might
encounter.
 Super Empowering: She can temporarily pass along her visions with a kiss to the
forehead, demonstrated with Steven.
 Super Strength: Seems to be the physically strongest of the Gems; she's able to hold
back a mother centipeetle's tail, chuck Amethyst hundreds of feet away, and easily
overpowers Amethyst (even when she's taking her much larger Purple Puma form).
 Super Toughness: She reveals that she can swim in lava in "Giant Woman", and is the

only one of the three that can.  Word of God states she's actually much
tougher than this  and the core of the Sun would be the equal of a hot tub to her.
 Supporting Leader: With Rose Quartz gone, Garnet takes the position of de facto leader
of the Crystal Gems, but Steven is still the main protagonist of the series. Subverted as the
series progresses and Steven slowly steps up and takes the position of leader himself, with
Garnet becoming his Number Two. Though she will still step up if ever needed.
 Talking to Themself: A truly rare moment of weakness for a fusion like Garnet.
Witnessing the horrific fusion experiments Homeworld is conducting is so traumatizing that
Ruby and Sapphire end up letting out their individual fury and disbelief while still fused as
 Garnet. While this is going on, the camera flips to only show one side of her face at a time,
each with different expressions. It happens again in "Keystone Motel" as she tries to handle
Pearl's betrayal of her trust; unlike before, she ends up splitting into Ruby and Sapphire
before she's done.
 Taught by Experience: Garnet seems to be fond of this teaching method. Whenever
Pearl starts being too overprotective, she puts her foot down and lets Steven work things out
on his own.
 Team Dad: She scolds the other Gems for mocking Steven in the pilot and in later
episodes she will be the most likely to try and get Steven to solve problems on his own.
o In "Secret Team", the others desperately try to hide a dangerous mistake from
her and are more focused on arguing with each other (Amethyst and Pearl) or being part of a
"secret team" (Steven) than the damage the mistake could have caused. When she finds
out, she stages a fake monster attack to get their attention and scolds them for them letting
petty divisions distract them from being a team. The jacket Steven gives her to wear
in "Maximum Capacity" even says "Cool Dad!" ◊
o Subtly acts as one to Peridot during "Log Date 7 15 2", offering her approval
when she tries new things on Earth and admonishment when she pushes Greg off the barn roof
to see if humans could fly.
 Third Eye: Has one covered by her shades, allowing her to see possible future outcomes
at any given moment.
 Took a Level in Badass: Her existence is one for Ruby and Sapphire. Individually, they
are a Red Shirt and Non-Action Girl respectively, but when fused, Garnet can go toe-to-toe
with Quartzes like Jasper.
 Tough Love: How she leads the team, in contrast to Rose. She's caring and fair, but
stern and no-nonsense. Unfortunately it has the unintentional side effect of exacerbating
Pearl's and Amethyst's personal problems.
 Triangle Shades: She almost always wears her triangular futuristic orange tinted shades,
which cover all three of her eyes. After Ruby and Sapphire refused, her shades are now
colored in a soft pink and blue color, instead of pale orange, and different light sources cause
different colors to reflect off of them.
 Trickster Mentor: Her preferred method of dealing with Amethyst and Pearl's emotional
issues is to send them on a mission with Steven, so he can help them work through them.
This approach has its limits since Steven is still fairly young after all, and he has issues of his
own.
 Two Beings, One Body: She's the result of two beings fused on a spiritual level.
That doesn't happen even in this universe, at least not with same-Gem fusions.
 Unreliable Expositor: See Unreliable Narrator, below. Basically, there are things about
the rebellion that Garnet was lied to about, meaning that many things she says about the
rebellion, Pink Diamond and her Zoo are inaccurate.
 Unreliable Narrator: She's managed to make herself into one, by giving an inaccurate
account of Pink Diamond's personality, story and demise. Her supposed disdain and apathy
towards life on Earth is contradicted by the Human Zoo. Her death by Rose's sword
contradicted by the fact it cannot shatter the gem itself, only slice through physical forms.
With the latter, Steven is starting to suspect something is off. "A Single Pale Rose" reveals
that she told the story as Rose told her, and she believed her account to be true.
 Used to Be More Social: A mild example. Flashbacks show that Garnet still had no
social skills with humans, but she was more emotionally open before Rose's "death".
 War Is Hell: Unlike her fellow senior Crystal Gem Pearl, Garnet doesn't look back on any
part of the war with the Homeworld fondly, even calling a major battle they won as "a
maelstrom of destruction and death".
 The Watson: Garnet was conceived by the show's creators to be a "reverse Watson" —
instead of asking questions constantly, she never does at all.note  This turns out to be because
Garnet did nothing but ask questions about herself when first formed, until she encountered
Rose, who told her "No more questions. Don't ever question this." Notably, when stricken
with Identity Amnesia in the movie, she asks even more questions than she did when first
formed.
 Weak, but Skilled: Compared to most two-Gem fusions, Garnet is relatively weak and
limited in offensive capabilities, but makes up for it in emotional stability and a more powerful
future vision. "Relatively" being the key word here as she is a physical match for some of the
strongest of single Gems.
 When She Smiles: Garnet seems to be slowly, but surely allowing her emotions to show
through her usually stoic nature. So whenever you see her smiling (for example, in "Rose's
Room"), it's this trope. In the second opening, the first shot is Garnet sporting a huge grin. It's
absolutely heartwarming.
 Wolverine Claws: Bismuth upgrades her gauntlets to include these.
 Yin-Yang Bomb: She's essentially a walking one of these, with her fusion combining fire

and ice both in personality and power-set.  Word of God is that fusions that
combine opposites like these produce a more powerful result than ones that don't.
 You Are in Command Now: Became the leader of the Crystal Gems after Rose's death.
Although she's a great battle commander, she does struggle when it comes to the team's
emotional problems.

Opal
 "Independent together
Independent together, if we try~"
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Voiced by: Aimee Mann

Steven: Uh, do you... know who I am?
Opal: [chuckles] All you wanna do / Is see me turn into...
Steven: [whispers] A giant woman!
The fused form of Pearl and Amethyst. While the two have to be in complete sync with
each other to maintain the fusion, Opal herself is extremely stable and stoic due to how
complementary her components’ personalities are.

 Archer Archetype: She's very calm and composed, and she fuses Amethyst and
Pearl's weapons together to form an Energy Bow.
  Bare Your Midriff: Her form in "Together Alone" incorporates Amethyst's jagged
tank top as her top being torn off, exposing her waist.
 Contralto of Danger: Despite how relatively high the voices of her two reagents
are, Opal has a deep, soothing voice that could put even Garnet to shame.
 Energy Bow: Combines Amethyst and Pearl's weapons to form a solid bow that
shoots exploding energy arrows.
 Foil: To Garnet, though it only makes sense in retrospect with the revelation of
Garnet’s true nature. Both are fusions of two Gems with extremely different
personalities, and those personalities combine to make the fusion stoic and centered.
However, while Garnet’s components genuinely love each other, making the fusion
very easy to maintain, Pearl and Amethyst get on each other’s nerves constantly,
causing Opal to be incredibly unstable despite her calmness.
 Forgetful Jones: According to Garnet in the Guide companion book, Amethyst's
ability to live in the moment combined with Pearl's single-minded nature allows Opal
to achieve a balance and peace of mind that is so strong that Opal can sometimes
forget what she's supposed to be doing. That's why, after rescuing Steven, she
completely forgot about finding the Heaven Beetle, the mission they were on in the
first place.
o The Dove short featuring her just ran with this, she's so forgetful that she
frequently has to ask for her lines.
 Godzilla Threshold: Played with. The reason Opal was saved for dire situations is
not that she's dangerous, but because emergencies were the only times Amethyst
and Pearl could agree on anything. Later on, though, the two are on good enough
terms to fuse for something as mundane as lifting a heavy object.
 Ironic Name: Opals are said to prevent forgetfulness and confusion.
 Lady of War: Opal inherits Pearl's perfectionist nerve; she's collected and
composed and she battles with flowing, graceful, and precise archery.
 Leitmotif: "Opal"  combines features of Amethyst's and Pearl's leitmotifs, utilizing
Amethyst's synth drum and bass and Pearl's piano. Because of their "influences" on
one another, Amethyst's swinging rhythm is turned into straight beats while Pearl's
piano is more wild and dynamic.
 Long-Range Fighter: She's the only Crystal Gem with a ranged weapon, though
she can take down enormous Gem monsters barehanded.
 Mage Marksman: She uses an Energy Bow to fire magic arrows. What's
interesting is that these arrows are uniquely able to bubble Gems.
 Meaningful Name: Opals are associated with inspiration, creativity and
imagination. It reflects both Pearl's focus on the intellect and Amethyst's free spirit.
Opals also combine aspects of pearls and amethysts — amethysts are made of
silica, while pearls form in water. Opal is hydrated silica.
 Morphic Resonance: Opal has Amethyst's purple skin, full lips, and
white Rapunzel Hair plus Pearl's height, nose, and overall outfit design, even getting
a waist-wrap after Pearl regenerates to correspond to her Giant Waist Ribbon. She
also retains Pearl's ballerina-esque fighting style.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Opal has four arms and can make use of both
Pearl's spear and Amethyst's whip. She can even combine both weapons into a
powerful magic bow.
 Mystical White Hair: That reaches her feet.
 Only Sane Man: Due to her focus on the task at hand — and in no small part to
how complementary her component Gems as well — she comes off as one of the
more stable fusions. There's no chance of her going berserk like Sugilite, becoming
"addictive" like Sardonyx, being inherently unhealthy like Malachite, or susceptible to
self-doubt like Smoky Quartz or Stevonnie.
 Opposites Attract: Subverted. Their opposing personalities make it difficult for
Pearl and Amethyst to maintain their fusion in anything other than the direst of
circumstances, and the slightest distraction tends to make them split apart. Possibly
played straight in later episodes, after the two started working through their emotional
hangups and learn to rely on one another more: Amethyst makes an optimistic offer
to fuse for a simple task, which Pearl accepts and they accomplish without any
trouble. The fact that they don't have the deep emotional bond that Ruby and
Sapphire is the main difference between Opal and Garnet (or possibly Rainbow
Quartz as well).
 Out of Focus: She's the only fusion between Garnet, Amethyst, or Pearl who
hasn't had an episode entirely centered on her, like Sugilite or Sardonyx had;
even "Giant Woman" was more about fusion as a concept than her specifically.
 Rapunzel Hair: Her hair reaches to her ankles like Amethyst, but it's orderly and
straight like Pearl's.
 Recursive Ammo: She can fire one arrow that splits into many small arrows, each
precisely aimed at a different target.
 She's Got Legs: Just like Pearl, Opal is an acrobatic Dance Battler and 2/3 of her
body consists of her legs.
 Statuesque Stunner: Unlike Pearl, Opal clearly has some of Amethyst's beefiness
to her, and thus actually looks like she's capable of the maneuvers she does. Add
that she's at least 12 feet tall, and Steven's song "Giant Woman" fits her like a glove.
(On a side note, of the known two-Gem fusions, only Malachite is larger while Opal is
considerably taller than Smoky Quartz and Rainbow Quartz.)
 Straight to the Pointe: In what little screen time she has, she's always standing
on her toes, even when moving.
 The Stoic: Seems to possess Pearl's grace combined with Amethyst's laid-back
nature.
 Super Strength: She is capable of physically ripping monsters apart bare-
handed. "Know Your Fusion" implies that she is even stronger than Garnet, a fellow
two-Gem fusion who regularly demonstrates impressive feats of strength.
 Team Mom: Carried this trait over from Pearl, Opal interacts with Steven (and
Connie in the non-canon Dove Self-Esteem short) much like a mother would.
 Unlimited Wardrobe: Although cross-Gem fusions tend to change appearance a
bit when reforming depending on things like changes in the relationship between the
components, because they feel like it, or changes in the outfits of their components,
and Opal rarely appears, thanks to either Amethyst or Pearl having been poofed and
 reformed between every one of her few appearances she has a different outfit every
time.
Voiced by: Nicki Minaj
"WHAT, YOU WANNA FIGHT?!"
The fused form of Garnet and Amethyst. The resulting combination of personalities is a
building-sized fusion who likes to smash stuff. Her personality is much closer to Ruby
and Amethyst than Sapphire's.

 Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Sugilite is even taller than both Opal and
Sardonyx, and, if left unwatched, can become a threat.
"Why do you have to look up to her, aside from in a literal sense?"
 Awesome, yet Impractical: Sugilite is incredibly powerful, strong, and easier to
form than Opal... but also nearly impossible to control and risks running rampant if
formed. Furthermore, due to Character Development, Alexandrite (who is more
powerful than Sugilite) seems to have become far more stable and easier to form,
and as such is now typically used in situations that would call for Sugilite. She's also
this from a meta perspective, as her voice actress is incredibly pricey and hard to get,
something Sardonyx lampshades via Breaking the Fourth Wall.
 Ax-Crazy: Sugilite loves trashing stuff. And the longer the fusion, the worse her
temper gets.
 Bizarre Alien Limbs: She has two upper arms that branch into four about halfway
between her shoulders and elbows.
 The Bus Came Back: She appeared in a flashback in Issue 19 of the 2017-
2018 comic book series, helping build Steven's house. Excepting an appearance
via Stock Footage in "Know Your Fusion", she hadn't appeared in the show
since "Cry for Help" in 2015, and didn't have a speaking role since her debut
in "Coach Steven" in 2014. She finally reappears in the Future episode "Snow Day",
shapeshifted into "Classic" Steven and still without speaking.
 Cleavage Window: Unlike Amethyst's shirt, Sugilite's has a collar but also an
opening so Amethyst's gem is still visible. There isn't any cleavage for it to show,
though.
 Cool Big Sis: Interestingly enough, despite the fact that her reckless nature tends
to unintentionally get him caught in the crossfire, she's fairly chill with Steven. Which
makes sense, because while Amethyst may not always get along with Pearl, both she
and Garnet are incredibly caring and protective of Steven.
 Dark Is Evil: Zigzagged. Her color scheme is black and very dark purple, and
she's not evil, but she is extremely violent and unstable.
 Epic Flail: Her weapon of choice is a mega-sized version of Garnet's Power
Fists clasped together and tethered by Amethyst's whip.
 Everyone Has Standards: Her silence during her short appearance in "Cry for
Help" may imply that she shared Garnet's sentiment when it comes to Pearl tricking
Garnet just to fuse into Sardonyx.
o Or, as "Know Your Fusion" implies, they just couldn't get Nicki Minaj back
to record any new lines.
  Extra Eyes: She has two eyes on each side of her face, plus Garnet's Third
Eye on her forehead.
 Fangs Are Evil: She has rather prominent fangs, and she's a lot less benevolent
than the other Gems.
 Fatal Flaw: She has both Amethyst's recklessness and Garnet's pride, which is
not a very great combo. Foreshadowed shortly before the actual fusion takes place.
Garnet: We don't need to be careful. We just need to be huge!
Amethyst: ALRIGHT! LET'S WRECK THIS JOINT!
 Foil:
o Her fusion goes much smoother than Opal's, and her personality is the
complete opposite. She comes across as an exaggerated version of Amethyst. This
actually makes sense in light of "Jail Break"; Garnet is a stable fusion of two opposing
personalities, so throwing Amethyst into the mix naturally upsets that balance in favor
of the more hot-blooded Ruby and Amethyst.
o She's also one to Sardonyx, who is powerful, but more careful, controlled
and easygoing, while Sugilite is reckless and headstrong.
 Godzilla Threshold: In "Cry for Help", Garnet makes it clear that Sugilite is never
to be used again unless absolutely necessary. After how she went out of control last
time, they can't take any chances. Unfortunately for Pearl, her own selfish desires to
remain fused as Sardonyx forced Garnet's hand.
 Heel–Face Turn: She ended up as the antagonist in her first appearance and
refused to unfuse. By the second time she's formed Amethyst has worked out some
of her issues and was feeling guilty over seeing the results of them going out of
control last time, so Sugilite gets the job done and separates without any issues.
 Heroic RRoD: Once Garnet and Amethyst manage to get separated from the
fusion, their bodies are in a lot of pain because of all the physical work Sugilite forces
their bodies to endure.
 Incoming Ham: "Hahahahahaaa! I forgot how great it feels to be me!"
 Ironic Name: In gemstone mythos, sugilite stones are known to be gems that
balance the mind and soul and serve as protection from anger and negative feelings.
The character Sugilite is pretty much the Token Evil Teammate of the Crystal Gems.
It's implied that she's much more controlled in her second appearance;
Amethyst's Character Development since then may have resulted in a more balanced
fusion.
 Leitmotif: "Sugilite"  combines Amethyst's drum and clap and Garnet's synths.
The theme makes the synths higher and crazier and the clap louder and stronger,
placing a high emphasis on the danger that Sugilite represents.
 Megaton Punch: Can deliver one by winding her arms around each other in
a manner reminiscent of a fusion between Popeye and Donkey Kong.
 Mental Fusion: The longer she is fused, the stronger the composite Sugilite
personality becomes, and Garnet and Amethyst grow weaker and weaker to resist
her.
Pearl: You've been fused for too long. You're losing yourselves!
Sugilite: I am myself, and I'm sick of being split up!
 Merging Mistake: While there is nothing wrong with Sugilite on her own, she at
the beginning of the series refuses to defuse back to Garnet and Amethyst and
attacked Pearl.
 Morphic Resonance: Sugilite has Amethyst's purple color scheme (skin, clothes,
etc.), her Rapunzel Hair, body type (though somewhat bigger), and overall outfit
design. It's also possible that Sugilite carries Amethyst's boots, though that could also
come from Ruby. She has Garnet's third eye (and pupils like Garnet in her middle
three eyes) and shades. As seen in the pictures, her skin tone became slightly lighter
after both Garnet and Amethyst reformed themselves, getting Garnet's dual-color
motif.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Even more so than Opal because she's so
unstable.
 Mythical Motifs: Her appearance is heralded by the image of a dragon breathing
forth her form.
 No Pronunciation Guide: Her name is pronounced "SOO-ga-light", but the real
mineral is properly pronounced "SOO-gi-light" (after the Japanese petrologist Kenichi
Sugi).
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The second time Sugilite was formed, she says
nothing, but quietly smashes the communication hub into pieces too small for Pearl to
repair it. A truly quiet Sugilite is just as disconcerting as her usual personality,
showing just how angry Garnet was with Pearl after learning about Sardonyx was
being used on false pretenses. Amethyst was not in the best mood, either, at the time
of fusion.
 Pride: Something she gets from Garnet (and Sapphire). Unlike Garnet, whose
pride is typically seen as a good thing, Sugilite's pride is depicted as a negative
quality, as her overconfidence in her strength leads to her getting too destructive.
 Punny Name: Along with being the name of a mineral, it's possible that
(considering what she's best at) her name is also a play on "suggillate" (to beat black
and blue).
 Sinister Shades: She has a pair of Triangle Shades that cover four of her five
eyes; she's even scarier without them.
 Super Strength: Sugilite has extreme brute strength, more so than her fellow
Gem Fusion, Opal, because Sugilite possesses Garnet's power. "Know Your
Fusion" reveals this is her explicit unique ability, making her this trope by fusion
standards.
 Token Evil Teammate: She's the only Crystal Gem Fusion to be an antagonist.
 With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: She is the culmination of Garnet's
power and Amethyst's wild nature, making her extremely powerful but also extremely
vicious.
"Don't ya know that a power that big comes with a bigger expense?"
 Yokai: Her appearance draws similarities to oni.

Sardonyx
Voiced by: Alexia Khadime
"This is the lovely Sardonyx coming to you a-live from the soon-to-be former communication hub! How are y'all
doing tonight?"
The showy fusion of Garnet and Pearl.

 Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Her body seems to be made up of three

segments that she can rotate independently.
Steven: Wow, you're so articulated!
 Animal Motif: The light from her fusion takes the form of dragonflies. A burst of
dragonflies are created when she dissipates her hammer. Lion even eats one.
In "Know Your Fusion", Sardonyx is seen in a crouching position, coupled with the
tails of her coat and the shape of her head to give her a cricket-like appearance.
Even the creaking noises of her "doll-joints" sounds like the chirping of a cricket.
 Arc Symbol: She has a star on her undershirt and pink diamonds on her
shoes, which is the symbol of the late Pink Diamond. This was foreshadowing that
Pearl was Pink Diamond's Pearl and Rose was Pink Diamond.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Like all the Gems, Sardonyx's
appearance and color scheme reflects her gem name. Sardonyx is composed of
brown, black, and white colors, so she has brown skin and wears a black and white
performance tuxedo.
 Attention Whore: She hijacked Steven and Amethyst's reveal of Smoky Quartz,
and then trying to get them to reveal something "special" about them, when Smoky
Quartz is not as much as a showoff as Sardonyx is. Sardonyx feels very bad about it
once she realizes what she'd done.
 Badass Boast:
"Hmm... 'smash' would be the word to describe what someone else might do. Now, the proper words to
describe yours truly are: specific, intelligent, accurate, faultless, elegant, controlled, surgical, graceful,
and... POWERFULLLLL!!! But yes, occasionally I am known to 'smash'."
 Bishōnen Line: A very beautiful fusion and not out of control like Sugilite is.
 Boisterous Bruiser: She really knows how to put the "ham" in "hammer".
 Catchphrase: "Gooood evening, everybody!"
 Cool Big Sis: She is very happy to finally meet Steven and is generally very kind
to him, even putting on a show for his sake while making her pole hammer. She's
friendly and encouraging to Smoky Quartz as well, although she unintentionally talks
them down.
 Cool Shades: Similar to Alexandrite's below.
 Cultured Badass: Considering she's wearing a tuxedo as her garb, she certainly
has the look down.
 Dark-Skinned Blonde: Sardonyx has sandy yellow hair, against a skin close to
Garnet's original color scheme.
 Drop the Hammer: Her Gem weapon is made by turning Pearl's spear and
Garnet's gauntlets into the shaft and head of a giant pole hammer ◊. Its cartoonish
appearance, rubbery floppiness, and comical proportions give the impression of it as
a rubber mallet stage prop, fitting her stage magician theme.
 Extra Eyes: Like Rainbow Quartz, she has four eyes, with the top pair acting as
eyebrows and sticking outside her head into her hairline.
 The Fashionista: Her outfit includes the aforementioned shades, as well as a
tuxedo, which contribute to her showy demeanor.
 Flash Step: Sardonyx's moves in Save the Light shows her vanishing and
reappearing in flashes of light to attack enemies. Whether this is meant to portray a
new gem ability or simply her moving very fast remains to be seen.
 Foil: She's a direct contrast to Sugilite as much as Amethyst is to Pearl — careful
and precise in comparison to the other fusion's brute force. Sugilite is modeled as a
professional wrestler, while Sardonyx is a stage magician: both performers, but with
very different performances. Additionally, their Animal Motifs are opposites; Sugilite is
associated with dragons, vicious, brutish and destructive. Sardonyx, however, is
associated with dragonflies, swift, colorful and graceful. Further, Sugilite's debut had
her unwilling to unfuse until she was knocked unconscious, whereas Sardonyx
gracefully returns to being Pearl and Garnet once she has fulfilled her task; both
 enjoyed existing and showing off for Steven, but while Sugilite grasped her existence
and refused to let go, Sardonyx was simply happy for the opportunity.
o Also, ultimately using Sardonyx to destroy the Communications Hub was a
worse idea than using Sugilite, but for opposite reasons. Sugilite was so reckless in
destroying the tower that she was dangerous to everyone around her, and became the
villain of "Coach Steven" because of her refusal to unfuse. The problem with Sardonyx
was that her grace and power was addictive to Pearl and made her want to keep re-
fusing, and gracefully disassembling the tower gave Pearl the opportunity to repair it.
 Fourth-Wall Observer: She leans on or outright breaks the fourth wall several
times during "Know Your Fusion", up to and including showing clips of previous
episodes with the clear caption "footage courtesy of Cartoon Network" and asking off
screen if they still have to pay her if she doesn't appear in the episode in reference to
Sugilite.
 Funny Afro: Like Garnet, her afro is notable in that it's triangular-shaped rather
than spherical.
 Fun Personified: She's flashy, dramatic, and an overall entertainer. Even her
hammer has a little bounce in its handle.
 Hartman Hips: She has a thin waist and large hips, not unlike Garnet, one of her
component Gems.
 Innocently Insensitive: Much like Pearl, she tends to insult Amethyst without
meaning it or not considering it a big deal. Realizing that she's hurting Smoky Quartz
with this behavior is a big My God, What Have I Done? moment for her.
 It's All About Me: Due to a combination of Garnet's confidence and Pearl's
insecurity-fueled arrogance, her prideful nature gets her caught up in herself a few
times, but her heart of gold usually keeps her from letting it go overboard. Usually.
 Lady of War: She's absurdly powerful, but while she smashes up the
transmission tower, she explains that she's quite graceful and can hold back her
power when she sees fit. Occasionally, she sees the need to "smash".
 Large Ham: Introduces herself similar to a radio host or sports announcer.
Heck, even the light from her fusion is hammy, parting and turning into curtains and
dragonflies that flutter away from her.
o In "Know Your Fusion", her room in the Temple is shown to be a talk show
studio complete with Canned Laughter, and she acts as a boisterous talk show host
while trying to find out everything Smoky Quartz can do.
 Leitmotif: "Sardonyx ", a swinging, playful piece reminiscent of a showtune or
game show.
 Lightning Bruiser: She is very fast, agile and powerful.
 Magicians Are Wizards: Zig-zagged; Sardonyx is a genuine magical being with
a Stage Magician aesthetic, but "wizard" wouldn't be a very accurate description.
Normally, her "magic tricks" are just standard gem abilities with extra flair. When
she's in her room of the Crystal Temple, it's another story entirely.
 Meaningful Name:
o Sardonyx is associated with happiness, optimism and victory in gemology;
Sardonyx herself is very bubbly and cheerful, Garnet and Pearl in particular seem more
 confident after fusing into her and Pearl describes achieving goals together as
Sardonyx as "victories".
o Sardonyx is the secondary gemstone of August, after peridot. Peridot is
the main focus of the arc that introduces Sardonyx and her presence ends up usurping
a lot of focus that would have gone to tracking Peridot down. Her appearance even
draws some similarities with Peridot; she has the triangular hair, translucent glasses,
segmented articulated limbs and a gemstone on her forehead.
o Her name also seems to be a play on the term "sardonic", as in "to be
grimly mocking or cynical". While there's nothing grim about her, Sardonyx has poked
fun at the show by breaking the fourth wall...
 Mickey Mousing: Her joint rotations are often accompanied by a synthesized
ratcheting sound that doesn't quite seem to be actually coming from her body.
 Morphic Resonance: She combines Garnet's hips and Pearl's svelte figure to
make a slim but wide-hipped figure.
 Mr. Vice Guy: Her showmanship sometimes verges on self-absorption, but she's
otherwise a total sweetheart who's filled with exuberance. She's very delighted to
meet Steven for the first time, and she later states that she'll always be there when
he needs her.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Just like Sugilite, she has four arms and is called in
to take down a communication hub several times her size.
 Mundane Utility: Formed in "Know Your Fusion" to... host a talk show to
introduce Smoky Quartz.
 Noblewoman's Laugh: "OH-HO-HO-HO-HOOOOO!" Bonus points for doing the
pose.
 Performance Artist: She's big, she's boisterous, and she loves to show off her
talents.
 Pride: Seeing as both of her components are very proud individuals, it makes
sense that she'd have a considerable dose of the same. Unlike Sugilite, however,
Sardonyx is a fairly positive example of pride, boasting cheerfully of her power while
also knowing exactly when to stop.
 Punctuated Pounding: Her Badass Boast up there? Nearly every adjective is
accompanied by her hammer smacking a pillar out of the com-hub.
 Secondary Character Title: She is introduced in the third StevenBomb, officially
referred to as "Week of Sardonyx", which deals with a story arc instigated by her
appearance.
 She's Got Legs: Just like Opal before her, Sardonyx's body is over half legs.
Combining Garnet's statuesque figure and Pearl's Balanchine legs, they've
been compared to a cricket's.
 Sophisticated as Hell: In "Cry For Help", when she gets ready to dismantle the
tower:
Steven: Are you gonna smash stuff with your war hammer?
Sardonyx: Hm... "smash" is the word that one would use to describe what... someone else might
do. [speaking of Sugilite; Amethyst scowls] Now... The proper words used to describe yours truly are...
Specific! Intelligent! Accurate! Faultless! Elegant. Controlled! Surgical! Graceful! aaandd... Powerful! But
yes, occasionally, I am known... to smash.
 Stage Magician: She dresses like one, and perhaps for Steven's benefit, she
fuses Pearl's spear and Garnet's gauntlets in the style of a magic trick.
 Still Wearing the Old Colors: She has diamonds on her shoes, which is a symbol
of Homeworld and more specifically Pink Diamond, though the more obvious star on
her chest is up to date. The pink diamonds were foreshadowing that Pearl was Pink
Diamond's Pearl and Rose was Pink Diamond, ironically meaning Pearl was still
wearing the symbol of the one she was loyal to.
 This Is a Drill: She can turn her hammer into a giant drill.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Fusing into her brings some of Pearl's insecurities
to light, causing her to manipulate Garnet into Fusing again, which leads to a five-
episode story arc dealing with the fallout.

Rainbow Quartz
The fusion of Rose Quartz and Pearl.

 Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if Rainbow Quartz is her (original) real name or

simply the name of a Pearl/Rose Quartz fusion in general, as she's actually a
Diamond/Pearl Fusion instead, a fact kept secret from everyone except Pearl.
 Anime Hair: Rainbow Quartz's hair takes into account Rose's
voluminous Rapunzel Hair and Pearl's pointy hairstyle, creating a spreading wedge-
like hairstyle that cascades down her back.
 The Cameo: In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", she makes a brief appearance
as Rose and Pearl almost fuse into her for the first time.
 Dance Battler: We don't actually see her fighting, though it's reasonable to expect
that she was a good fighter, given her components, and her outfit has a club dancer
theme to complement Pearl's ballet dancer attire and Rose's ballroom dancer style.
 Does Not Like Shoes: Like Rose, she doesn't wear shoes, though her socks
cover part of her feet.
 Everything's Better with Rainbows: True to her name, there are quite a number of
hues present within her design.
 Extra Eyes: On the top and bottom of her face; the top ones come from Pearl and
the bottom ones come from Rose. They move independently, indicating the different
reaction the other has.
 Foreshadowing: In retrospect, it's incredibly obvious that her psychical traits, like
her slender body, square face and curved nose come from Pink Diamond, not Rose
Quartz.
 Living Prop: She doesn't have any characterization beyond what can be gleamed
from her components, as she only appears for part of one song and says nothing.
 Meaningful Name: Rainbow aura quartz is useful for those in dysfunctional
relationships by helping to see what's ahead and releasing resentment. By fusing into
Rainbow Quartz, Pearl got to release her resentment and jealousy on Greg and help
him get closer to Rose thanks to his attempts at fusing with her, which lead to them
taking the first step into a better relationship.
 Mind Hive: Pearl and Rose's minds apparently maintain some degree of
independence, especially since Rose didn't pick up on Pearl's Shipping Torpedo plan.
 Mismatched Eyes: Her top ones are blue like Pearl's, and the bottom ones are
black like Rose's.
 Morphic Resonance: Rainbow Quartz has Pearl's eyes (the top ones), pointy
nose, long legs and flexibility plus Rose's eyes (the bottom ones), voluptuous body
and mouth shape. Her hair takes Pearl's hairstyle and applies it all over like Rose's
curls.
 Multicolored Hair: Just like the rainbow quartz gemstone, her hair has more than
one color and changes hues according to the lighting.
 Navel Window: Like Rose, she has a small opening to show her gemstone.
Instead of being entirely star-shaped, the bottom half is diamond-shaped.
 Non-Indicative Name: Downplayed; as she's actually a fusion of a Diamond and
a Pearl, none of her components are actually Quartz Gems, though it is
still Meaningful Name according to gemstone mythology, and the "rainbow" part is
accurately displayed by her wildly varying color scheme.
 One-Shot Character: Her only appearance is in "We Need To Talk". Pearl and
Rose nearly fuse into during the flashback in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", but the
two come undone before she's able to form fully.
 Posthumous Character: She's formed out of Rose and Pearl; when Rose gave
birth to Steven, Rainbow Quartz died with her. A fusion of Steven and Pearl does
appear later on in the series, but is a different person from Rose and Pearl's
Rainbow, just like Steven is different person from Rose.
 Rapunzel Hair: Rainbow Quartz has long hair that reaches down to her hips.
 Semi-Divine: Is actually half-Diamond, which Gemkind worship as gods, making
her divine by their standards if not in actuality.
 Statuesque Stunner: She is easily a head taller than Rose herself, though
notably, she's actually on the small side as fusions go. Given that Rose's true form is
much larger and fusions are always bigger than their components, it's implied she's
intentionally undershooting her size.
 Still Wearing the Old Colors: The emblem cut in her clothes is a combination of
the Crystal Gems' star and Homeworld's diamond, Similar to how Sardonyx has pink
diamonds on her shoes. This is Foreshadowing the fact half of her is Pink Diamond.
 Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Towards Greg, simultaneously. As an extension of
Rose, she's using the Fusion to impress him and show off in his music video, but as
Pearl, she's doing it to show him up.
 The Voiceless: She never says anything onscreen

Rainbow Quartz 2.0

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Voiced by: Alastair James

"Well, what do you know? It's Rainbow 2.0!"
The fusion of Pearl and Steven.
 Aliens of London: He has a British accent, even though Pearl and Steven don't
have it.
 Ambiguous Gender: To be expected, seeing as he's a fusion between the male
Steven and the female-presenting Pearl, but interestingly, they look and sound a little
bit more boyish than Steven's other fusions, right down to having a male voice actor. It
was later confirmed Rainbow goes by both he/him and they/them pronouns, making
him the first fusion and second Gem to do so.
 Bare Your Midriff: Steven's shirt is small, resulting in his navel showing.
 Breaking Old Trends: The first fusion to have a male voice, as even Steven's
other fusions have female voice actors. Also the first fusion that doesn't enlarge their
components in size, being only slightly taller than Pearl.
 Cool Big Bro: He has a very good rapport with Onion and frequently offers to
babysit him.
 Expy: Of Mary Poppins, right down to their Large Ham tendencies and use of a
parasol. One production drawing  and the podcast described him as a fusion of Mary
Poppins and Bert, Dick Van Dyke's character in the same film. In another reference
to the character, he spends "A Very Special Episode" more or less babysitting Onion,
trying to teach him to clean up after himself.
 Extra Eyes: Like the previous Rainbow Quartz, he has two pairs of eyes, with the
top pair belonging to Pearl and the bottom pair belonging to Steven.
 Flight: Can fly on his folded umbrella fast enough to catch Ruby and Sapphire's
falling gemstones as if it were a witch's broom, no less. His second appearence has
him reclining on it in the air, as well.
 Foreshadowing: The fact that he's visually completely different from the
previously seen Rainbow Quartz foreshadows the revelation later in his debut
episode that Steven is definitely not the same person as Rose.
 Improbable Weapon User: Their "weapon" is a parasol.
 Large Ham: He has Pearl's dramatic flair and Steven's exuberance, resulting in
this trope.
 Legacy Character: He's the second Rainbow Quartz, due to Steven being
definitively different from Rose.
 Leitmotif: "Rainbow Quartz 2.0"  features a bouncy piano theme with elements
of "Steven's Shield".
 Light 'em Up: They carry over Pearl's existing light-based abilities with a rainbow
flourish. In "Unleash the Light" they can create Hard Light barriers and fire energy
blasts from their parasol.
 Mind over Matter: They can magically move and levitate objects, which they use
to animate Onion's toys. Oddly, this power seems to come from his umbrella, as
Onion was able to control things himself while holding it (even doing things Rainbow
didn't want him to do).
 Nice Guy: Like his components, especially Steven, he is caring, friendly, kind,
and accepting. So much so that Onion considers him to be his best friend.
 Parasol of Pain: His umbrella acts as a Magic Wand that levitate things, though
we never see him fight with it.
 Parasol of Prettiness: His Weapon of Choice is a parasol they can ride on like a
broomstick. Given how fusion weapons generally work, it's probably formed from
Steven's shield on top of Pearl's spear.
 Pretty Boy: He has this aesthetic to him, being elegant, youthful, androgynous,
and pretty.
 Pungeon Master: He exhibits Steven's love of wordplay.
 Rhymes on a Dime: Ever since his Establishing Character Moment, he even
rhymes when he isn't singing.

Alexandrite
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Voiced by: Rita Rani Ahuja

Alexandrite!Pearl: What are you doing?
Alexandrite!Amethyst: I'M HUNGRY!
Alexandrite!Pearl: [pushes food away] I don't think so!
Alexandrite!Garnet: Cut it out, you two!
The combined form of Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. With the death of Rose, she's likely
the most powerful fusion they can make. Without Steven, that is.

 Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: As articulated as Sardonyx.

  All Your Powers Combined: According to Guide to the Crystal Gems, she
uses all of the weapons of her components and their fusions with equal skill. She
showcases this while fighting Malachite.
 Anime Hair: Her hair resembles the recurring five-pointed star.
 Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: She's even larger than Sugilite, and able to lift a
city bus like a toy. Lampshaded by Attack the Light, where the achievement for
forming her is "Really Really Giant Woman".
 Body Horror: She has a second mouth on her throat and her face splits
apart when the fusion breaks down due to Pearl's unwillingness to eat food.
 Breath Weapon: She can breathe a massive stream of fire from her second
mouth, an ability presumably inherited from Ruby, who has fire powers.
 Conjoined Eyes: Her shades resemble this.
 Cool Shades: Courtesy of Garnet.
 Foil: A good guy fusion, opposing the (mostly) evil Malachite. Besides being
kaiju-sized fusions, Alexandrite has a fire breath attack, while Malachite has ice
powers.
 Godzilla Threshold: She's extremely hard to maintain due to Garnet, Amethyst
and Pearl's conflicting personalities; thus, she's rarely formed. But when the situation
is dire such as the escape of Malachite, the Crystal Gems can form her without a
second thought. That said, the Crystal Gems have since been shown to be able to
form Alexandrite easily, implying their Character Development has made it easier to
do so.
 Guttural Growler: Sardonyx even wonders if her fire breath is the cause of it. It
becomes especially apparent when she speaks through her second mouth.
 Heroic RRoD: To a somewhat lesser extent than Sugilite, taking Alexandrite into
battle takes a strain on the Gems' bodies. They defuse after Alexandrite collapses to
her knees on the beach and all the Gems look exhausted; Amethyst lies face down in
the sand.
 Jabba Table Manners: A donation from Amethyst with a little help from Pearl
spitting the chewed food out.
 Leitmotif: "Alexandrite"  Combines Garnet's bass, Amethyst's synch-drums, and
Pearl's piano.
 Lightning Bruiser: Alexandrite is fast enough to catch up to a speeding bus with a
good head start on her by running and is incredibly powerful. This also extends to
her weapons, as she's capable of rapidly cycling between them in a blink of an
eye which is how she finishes Malachite off.
 Limit Break: In Attack the Light, she's used in the strongest attack that can be
performed, and basically pounds the enemy into the dirt.
 Master of All: According to the Guide to the Crystal Gems ◊, her Weapon of
Choice is "all of them".
o She uses Opal's bow, Sugilite's flail, Sardonyx's mallet, Pearl's spear,
Garnet's fists, Amethyst's whip, and her own fire breath in her battle against Malachite.
 Meaningful Name: Her color palette shares the colors of an actual, non-sentient
alexandrite  in the presence of natural light, incandescent light, and even a mixture
of the two. Also, alexandrites symbolize discipline, self-control, concentration, self-
 confidence, good luck, and excellence; according to gemstone mythology. Which is
something they'd need to maintain a fusion of all three of them.
 Mind Hive: Her personality is a lot less defined than other fusions, since the
Crystal Gems maintain their individuality more within her body without splitting up.

According to  Word of God, it goes a step further and Opal, Sardonyx,
and Sugilite can also manifest through Alexandrite. This is less pronounced in later
appearances, where having a specific goal makes her a lot more focused.
 Monstrous Humanoid: Aside from Malachite, Alexandrite is the most monstrous
Gem fusion seen in the with eight limbs and two faces, the second hidden under her
chin. She's also ridiculously unstable, as she came unfused the first time due to
Pearl's reluctance to eat food conflicting with Amethyst's hunger.
 Morphic Resonance: Alexandrite has Amethyst's Rapunzel Hair, holes at the
knees, and purple colors plus Pearl's nose, and seems to derive part of her hair
shape from Pearl, as is her waist band. The purple coloring and Rapunzel Hair could
come from Ruby and Sapphire. She also has Garnet's shoulders, and one set of her
gloves is distinctly Garnet's single fingered gloves. The other two pairs match Pearl
and Amethyst's coloring, even though they don't wear gloves.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Six of them and powerful enough to serve as
the Limit Break in Attack the Light.
 Multi-Melee Master: Is capable of using all her components' weapons and any of
their fusions' weapons with equal proficiency. This means she's got five different
melee weapons to choose from and is capable of using any of them just as well as
the others.
 Mundane Utility: The Gems performed the fusion to attend a dinner with Connie's
parents.
 No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Her Limit Break in Attack the Light amounts to this:
she more or less pounds the enemy into the ground.
 Opera Gloves: She has a different pair of hand-and-forearm covering gloves on
each arm. Each is in a different Gem's color scheme, with Garnet's pair being the
same type that only cover one finger.
 Playing with Fire: She can breathe a stream of fire from her mouth, an ability that
presumably originates from Ruby.
 Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To Malachite: "You two should spend some time apart."
Overlaps with pun.
 Roar Before Beating: Her Limit Break in Attack the Light consists of her roaring
before pounding the enemy into the ground.
 Talking to Themself: When the Crystal Gems start to argue.
 Too Many Mouths: She has a second, larger mouth that opens from her chin as if
her face were a mask. The first time it's played for horror, the second time, it breathes
fire and grins at her own jokes.
 Voices Are Mental: She switches between Pearl's, Garnet's, and Amethyst's
voices when they argue inside her. Also, Alexandrite's voice speaks at the same
time for each of them.
 Voice of the Legion: When her components start arguing, she speaks with both
her own voice and that of the gem currently speaking. When she roars at Malachite,
there is a much deeper roar in the background.
 Walking Armory: According to the Guide to the Crystal Gems, her Weapon of
Choice? All of them. She's capable of using all her components' weapons and any
combination of them. She showcases this when she actually fights against Malachite
and finishes her off with all three fusions' weapons in quick succession.
 The Worf Effect: Despite being one of the strongest Fusions available to the
Crystal Gems, her track record is not great. She gives Malachite a pretty even fight
for a while but eventually needs to be saved by the Watermelon Stevens, she gets
paralyzed by Aquamarine without much effort, Blue Diamond's Emotion
Bomb instantly breaks her up, and Corrupted Steven quickly defuses her by
slamming her against a hillside.

Stevonnie
 "Take a moment to think of just
flexibility, love, and trust."
Voiced by: AJ Michalka
"It's Stevonnie. I am not your baby."
An unprecedented fusion between Steven and Connie, which happened through an
accidental use of Steven's powers, after many unsuccessful intentional attempts to fuse.

 Adorkable: But of course. As a fusion of Steven and Connie it comes as no

surprise that Stevonnie fits this trope to a tee.
 Allegorical Character: When Garnet tells Stevonnie they are an experience, a
significant part of that experience seems very similar to hitting puberty.
Rebecca Sugar: [Stevonnie] serves as a metaphor for all the terrifying firsts in a first relationship, and what it
feels like to hit puberty and suddenly find yourself with the body of an adult, how quickly that happens, how
 it feels to have a new power over people, or to suddenly find yourself objectified, all for seemingly no reason
since you’re still just you...
 All Your Powers Combined: Stevonnie would have been entirely useless on
Connie's side when the fusion first appeared, but then Connie was trained in
swordsmanship using Rose's sword, which now complements the fusion and
basically makes them a real replacement to Rose Quartz. They also have floaty
powers and Dream Walker abilities from Steven. Interestingly, they also have a few
unique variations on Steven's established abilities, such as kicking the air to move
around while floating or seeing past events through their dreams. Stevonnie also has
the ability to summon two shields simultaneously, something they were seen to do
long before Steven did.
 Ambiguous Gender: Since Steven and Connie are the ones who fused, there's
really no telling what sex Stevonnie actually is or if they're supposed to be Intersex.
Connie's feminine features seem to be more pronounced, although this may be the
result of Steven still being a relatively young boy that hasn't fully developed
masculine features. Even then, they end up growing noticeable facial hair (to the
point of shaving it off roughly with Rose's sword) in a few days time. In Stevonnie's
profile in one of the Dove Self-Esteem Project x Steven Universe shorts, they directly list
themselves as "intersex".
 Ambiguous Gender Identity: Though never directly stated, Stevonnie is implied to
be non-binary. Stevonnie is almost always referred to as "they/them" — which could
technically refer to being a fusion, but all the fusions without Steven are referred to
with female pronouns. They never have any problem wearing whatever Steven and
Connie had on when they fused, and in the comic wore both male and female
clothing — even both at once when dressed for a dance. When asked Stevonnie's
gender, Ian Jones-Quartey  said they're "an experience". More recent interviews
have directly referred to Stevonnie as non-binary, as does their profile in an online
short about social media.
 Badass Driver: Stevonnie manages to keep pace and nearly beat Kevin, a much
more experienced driver who next to no one wanted to challenge, in a race on
their first time driving.
 Bare Your Midriff: Stevonnie's body being much larger and older than the
children that make them up results in their loose fitting dress, shirt, and jeans turning
into a very tight-fitting tank top, undershirt, and shorts.
 Beware the Nice Ones: They're nice as one would expect Steven and Connie to
fuse into, but they're very capable of combat if ticked off enough. Their first fight
shows them managing to force Jasper into retreat.
 BFS: Thanks to Connie's sword skills, they are able to use Rose's Sword
efficiently in combat.
 Bishie Sparkle: Stevonnie sparkles on occasion, such as when wringing their hair
out or while dancing.
 Clueless Chick Magnet:
o Being made out of two children, Stevonnie is never aware why people
seem to be so interested in them.
o In the comic series, Kiki develops a crush on them after Stevonnie bumps
into her while she's jogging and tags along for shopping for a school dance/prom. It's
 not until after being asked, and after actually going to the dance with her, that they start
to realize that her feelings are more than platonic. Luckily she takes it well.
 Cool Sword: They use Rose's Sword.
 Cute Bruiser: They're considered beautiful in-universe, has a very cheerful
personality due to them being two kids fused, and their first appearance play up this
part about them. However, when they actually fight, their attacks use a lot of
power and their Weapon of Choice is a BFS and a shield. Their sheer physical
strength is enough to battle Jasper on even footing, something only Garnet has been
able to do previously.
 Does Not Wear Shoes: They usually appear barefoot, since Steven and Connie's
footwear no longer fits their combined form.
 Dreaming of Times Gone By: Stevonnie's variation on Steven's Dream
Walker abilities. Stevonnie's dreams allow them to see past events connected to their
current location, such as experiencing a memory of Pink Diamond visiting Yellow
Diamond while on the Jungle Moon Base.
 Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite:
o Regardless of primary sexual characteristics, Stevonnie is
a literal combination of male and female. Lars and Sadie are visibly flustered when they
walk into the Big Donut.
o In the 2017 comics issue #2, Kiki gets a crush on them, even asking them
to the prom. They don't realize that she likes them as more than a friend until they're at
the dance and she's hinting at wanting to go on more dates.
 Genius Bruiser: Stevonnie is composed of two Child Prodigies and more than
capable in a fight. This also shows during their first fight, as they show strategy in
how they fight, such as letting Jasper's charge finish before actually pushing back to
get maximum effect or using one attack as an intentional diversion for a full power
strike follow up.
 Head-Turning Beauty: Stevonnie elicits this reaction from both Lars and Sadie
during a night on the town and later gets invited to a rave by Sour Cream, who is
flustered around them. Then there's the fact that Kevin attempts to flirt with Stevonnie
at said rave.
 Heroic Ambidexterity: They're able to use their shield and Rose's sword in either
hand.
 Hermaphrodite: Stevonnie is a fusion between the half-human Steven and the full
human girl Connie. They are non-binary and use they/them pronouns, and their fused
body is canonically intersex, as their profile shows in a Dove Self-Esteem project
short.
 Instant Expert:
o They are able to pick up driving to an exceptional degree in their first time
ever driving. One crew member (semi-jokingly) states that this is due to "video games".
o They manage to fly Lars' Star Skipper because the controls are like a
car's.
 Let's Get Dangerous!: They become enraged by Jasper poofing Amethyst and as
opposed to their previous lighthearted appearances where they were more focused
 on having fun, they get serious and fight, ultimately driving her off and poofing her
Corrupted Gem monster.
 Lightning Bruiser: Stevonnie has enough Super Strength to slam Jasper straight
through a corrupted Gem with enough force to poof it in one slash, but is very fast
and acrobatically nimble.
 Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Because Steven is half of them, they're able
to summon and use his shield.
 Made of Good: Stevonnie is described in "Guide to the Crystal Gems" as made
of love. Garnet describes them as being perfect due to Steven and Connie being so
in sync with each other, they can fuse easily.
 Magic Pants: If and how their fusion affects their clothing is somewhat
inconsistent:
o Initially, Stevonnie wears the clothing Steven and Connie had on when
they fused, but as different article because of the different size compared to them (i.e.
Steven's full pants become shorts). They still seem to fit unusually well, either because
of slight artistic license or the small amount of clothes shapeshifting Steven was
capable of. Later on, Stevonnie wears all of the clothes of one component (Connie's
in "Mindful Education", Steven's every other time), while some or all of the other's will
disappear until unfusing (Connie's jacket is her only article that shows up on Stevonnie
in "Beach City Drift" and "Lars of the Stars").
o Stevonnie is almost always barefoot, as Steven and Connie's shoes can't
fit their combined form. While this made sense the first two times (both were barefoot
the first time and had their shoes slip off during fusion the second), afterward Steven or
Connie's footwear will disappear completely during fusion, then reappear on its original
wearer once they split apart. The one time Stevonnie has any footwear, they keep a(n
apparently very flexible) type of slipper Steven was wearing, but Connie's boots still
disappeared.
 Mind Hive: More than most fusions, Steven and Connie talk to each other even
when fused.
 Morphic Resonance: Stevonnie has Steven's head shape, skin tone, and curly
hairstyle plus Connie's darker hair color, hair length, and slim figure. The nose is a
combination of both, having Connie's tall bridge and flat bottom, but Steven's nostrils
and wide angle at the front. The eyes and eyebrows come from both Steven and
Connie.
 Muscles Are Meaningless: They've got a fairly average build, but have sufficient
strength to drive Jasper straight through the Corrupted Gem she was using as a
mount. An application of Steven's floating powers...?
 Not Quite Flight: They have Steven's floating powers. Unlike him, Stevonnie
"runs" on the air while using them, though it's unclear if they actually need to.
 Older Alter Ego: In a sense. Instead of just being larger than their components
like most fusions, Stevonnie is essentially a teenage mix of Steven and Connie, to the
point of even growing facial hair Steven doesn't. This is lampshaded in the 2017
comic by Stevonnie of all beings, when wondering how old they are after failing to
use the form to get into a PG-13 movie, and wondering how long it'll take for them to
 get a driver's license. Notable, Steven and Connie growing after the Time Skip hasn't
made Stevonnie notably different.
 Online Alias: In the Dove Self-Esteem Project x Steven Universe short "Social Media",
they have an Instagram account and their username is "StevonnieAccount". Although
they admit they only created the account for the filming of the short, the end implies
they might keep it.
 Portmanteau: Amethyst doesn't know what to call them, so she combines the
"Stev" from Steven and the "onnie" from Connie to make "Stevonnie", and they go
with that.
 Power Incontinence:
o At first, Steven and Connie would fuse accidentally simply by having too
much fun with each other. Once fused, their stability is probably second to Garnet's,
and they easily master the strength and agility of their new form. In "Beach City Drift",
the two manage to fuse intentionally for the first time.
o Stevonnie splitting up is unlike most other fusions, who simply desync with
each other's emotions. Stevonnie tends to split when they feel strong negative
emotions, like fear and anger. This is represented by Stevonnie having
strange hallucinations of the world warping around them before splitting.
o By "Jungle Moon", they demonstrate the ability to remain stable while
fused for multiple days (even while they sleep), and even after multiple trials and
challenges, show no sign of unfusing from the stress.
 The Power of Love: What seems to drive the fusion, just like Garnet is fueled by
Ruby and Sapphire's love for each other.
 Pronoun Trouble:
o The fans seem to have settled on referring to Stevonnie as "they"/"them".
Kevin did call Stevonnie "girl", but that was only his perception — and even he
eventually switches to "they" by "Kevin Party". On Ronaldo's Character Blog, he refers
to Stevonnie with they/them pronouns  in the context of before he found out they were
Steven and Connie. A writer also confirmed "they/them" pronouns,  and their profile in
a Dove Self-Esteem Project x Steven Universe short uses "they/them", as do Pearl and
Garnet in "Mindful Education".
"It's a shame because I was totally gonna go ask them to dance... you know, until I learned it was Steven and his
friend."
o While staying fused for an extended period in "Jungle Moon", they start
fluctuating between "We" and "I".
 Psychometry: Stevonnie can see past events tied to certain locations through
their dreams. Although Steven later discovers he can do the same on his own. Also,
it's probably also limited to Steven and Connie's own memories and Past-Life
Memories.
 Rapunzel Hair: Since Connie's hair is scaled up for their combined form, this is
the result. Even after Connie's Important Haircut, while their hair is shorter, they still
have a lot of it.
  Romantic Fusion: The fusion of Steven and Connie, is first formed, by accident,

when they shard a romantic dance and stated by  Word of God to
metaphorically represent "terrifying firsts" in a relationship. The two rather enjoy being
fused, except for the fact that it means they've literally become one and the same
person, without another person to depend on, and thus "Alone Together" (the title of
Stevonnie's debut episode).
 Running on the Spot: Thanks to being half a normal human, Stevonnie flails their
legs in the air to use Steven's floating power.
 Semi-Divine: Is 1/4 Diamond, a caste of Gem worshipped as gods in all but name
by the rest of gemkind.
 She's All Grown Up: Some subtext in their apparent attractiveness. Stevonnie is
meant to illustrate someone gaining a sudden amount of attention after going through
puberty, which is why their debut episode is riddled with them obliviously attracting
affection from everyone to their consternation.
 She's Got Legs: It's made particularly evident by their short shorts.
 Shout-Out: Their method of floating by "running" in the air to lift themselves up is
just like Yoshi's Flutter Jump ability in the Super Mario Bros. series.
 Sixth Ranger: They're the first new fusion to become available to the Crystal
Gems, as while Sardonyx was introduced after them, she'd already been formed
before that.
 Statuesque Stunner: Stevonnie is almost as tall as Garnet.
 Super Mode: In practice, they act as this for Steven and Connie in actual combat.
Most fusions have a combination of All Your Powers Combined and their components
powers combined into new ones. As Connie doesn't have any superhuman powers of
her own, Stevonnie's power set is simply an enhanced version of Steven's shield
skills and Gem powers with Connie's sword skills.
 Super Strength:
o Their first fight reveals they're strong enough to block a full charge
from Jasper and slam her hard enough to go through the Corrupted Gem she was
riding, poofing it in the process.
o "Know Your Fusion" shows them being between Pearl and Garnet on the
strength scale — somewhat weak by fusion standards, but tremendously strong for
human ones.
 Talking to Themself: Sometimes talks like Steven and Connie are conversing
inside them.
 Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Stevonnie, much like Steven, can throw
their shield as a ranged attack. The first time they use it to distract Jasper from a
powerful overhead slash.
 Uneven Hybrid: 3/4 human, 1/4 Gem. It's because Steven is half-human that he
was able to fuse with Connie, and apart from Garnet, Stevonnie is the most stable
and humanlike Gem fusion due to the same circumstances fueling them both.
 Unlimited Wardrobe: Unlike fusions with Gems, Stevonnie doesn't form a new
outfit of their own and simply wears Steven and Connie's clothes layered over each
other. So, they wear something different in almost all of their appearances since
Connie has quite a big wardrobe (and sometimes Steven, too).
 Weak, but Skilled: They're between Pearl and Garnet on the strength scale, but
like their teacher, they know how to use that strength to their advantage. As such,
their battle with Jasper is a more practical application of Unstoppable Force Meets
Immovable Object than usual: Stevonnie is simply better at tactically committing to
offense or defense than Jasper is.
 The Worf Effect: That Yellow was able to grab them quickly shows that Stevonnie
may be amazing and strong, but Yellow is more powerful. Granted, they were in
shock about what happened and caught off-guard before they reacted to Yellow's
attacks.
 Wrong Context Magic: A full human (Connie) and Half-Human Hybrid Gem
(Steven) fusing was a rather unprecedented and unexpected turn, which surprises
the Gems.
 Younger Than They Look: Stevonnie looks like they're in their late teens/early
twenties, but has the mind of two kids. This is probably part of the reason why they
misinterpreted people's reactions to them at the dance. Furthermore, a guy who was
flirting with them freaks out when he realizes the truth.

Smoky Quartz
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Voiced by: Natasha Lyonne

"I've got lots of tricks. Ever see 'Sink-the-Dink'?"
The fusion of Steven and Amethyst, first made by a hug. Acts like a slightly more
serene, cheerful version of Amethyst.

 Acrofatic: As heavyset as you would expect from a Steven/Amethyst fusion, but

Jasper can't even land a hit on them, and that's before taking into account the
mobility their floating powers and yo-yo provide.
 All Your Powers Combined: Has Steven's Not Quite Flight, shield, and
presumably bubble powers with Amethyst's whip, strength, and spin. They can fuse
the shield and whip into a giant yo-yo to do battle with.
 Ambiguous Gender: Given Steven is a boy and Amethyst is a member of a One-
Gender Race who seem feminine, like Stevonnie, it's impossible to tell what gender
Smoky Quartz is, or if the concept of gender is even applicable to them since they're
two individuals in the same body.
 Badass Adorable: Jovial and fun-loving, making puns as they kick Jasper's butt,
who can't even touch them in battle, even after fusing with a Gem monster for a
power boost.
  Bare Your Midriff: Steven's shirt is mostly unchanged save for the fact that
exposes a large swatch of stomach, including the Rose Quartz gem.
 Beware the Silly Ones: Big Fun is probably the best way to describe them and
even their theme is upbeat and cheerful. It doesn't mean they can't kick some serious
tail, though. Namely Jasper's.
 Big Fun: As a Fusion of Steven and Amethyst, this was inevitable.
 Bizarre Alien Limbs: Their left arm splits at the elbow into two forearms.
 Blow You Away: Smoky Quartz is capable of spinning their Killer Yo Yo with
enough force to create a powerful wind. Using three lets them create a tornado. The
trope name itself was invoked when their fan ability was used for the first time.
 Boisterous Bruiser: They have a tendency of constantly joking during battle.
 Confusion Fu: Their fighting style in a nutshell. They use their Killer Yo Yo and
agility to attack in strange ways and from odd angles, making them very
unpredictable.
 Curb-Stomp Battle: Against Jasper, whose butt they happily kick.
 Everything Makes a Mushroom: In a possible nod to the mild radioactivity of real-
life Smoky Quartz, their fusion makes a purple mushroom cloud.
 Foil:
o To Sugilite, which is made up of the worst parts of Amethyst's and
Garnet's personalities — their pride and recklessness. Smoky Quartz is brought out by
the natural friendship Steven has with Amethyst.
o Their laid-back attitude also contrasts with Sardonyx's over-the-
top personality.
 Fun Personified: Combines Steven and Amethyst's natures to make a jovial, fun
loving fusion.
 Fusion Dance: Smoky is somewhat unique in that Steven and Amethyst have not
needed to do a dance to create them: The first time they were created with a hug,
and the second time with just a handshake.
 Heart Is an Awesome Power: Their Killer Yo Yo gets underestimated by
Sardonyx, but turns out to be one of the most versatile weapons the Crystal Gems
have access to. In addition to being a great close range melee weapon, as shown
with the Jasper fight, it can have incredible range and accuracy. It's also a handy
grappling hook and can be used for a Blow You Away attack.
 Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite being just as awesome as any other fusion,
Smoky Quartz spends part of "Know Your Fusion" taking jabs at themself
because Sardonyx unknowingly agitated the insecurities Steven and Amethyst
brought to the fusion trying to find what makes them special besides their Killer
YoYos. Luckily, they proved to Garnet and Pearl just how awesome they can be.
 Hurricane of Puns: Their battle dialogue against Jasper is largely made up of
puns.
Smoky Quartz: [while spinning their yo-yos to make a strong wind] Hold on, I've got a move that'll
really blow you away! It's cool if you don't like it... [pulls out two more yo-yos] I've already got
three huge fans!
o The trope name "Hurricane of Puns" is also hilariously fitting for the above
quote.
 I Just Want to Be Special: They have a serious moment of this when trying to
show off their new skills, Sardonyx keeps trying to see if they measure up to the other
established fusions, namely Opal's Improbable Aiming Skills, Sugilite's Super
Strength, and Alexandrite's Breath Weapon. The fact Sardonyx keeps putting down
Smoky's Yo-Yo, what really makes them special, really makes them just feel like their
fusion wasn't as incredible as they originally thought (fortunately, they bounce back
by the end of the episode).
 Incoming Ham: Their fusion is marked by a huge purple explosion and their first
act upon creation is to throw their arms into the air and scream "WHAT A
BEAUTIFUL DAY!" at the top of their lungs.
 Improbable Weapon User: Most people wouldn't expect a Killer Yo Yo to be that
dangerous, but they easily beat Jasper with it.
 Killer Yo Yo: Their fusion weapon combines Amethyst's whip and Steven's shield
into a large yo-yo, which they use to easily beat Jasper.
 Leitmotif: "Smoky Quartz"  incorporates Amethyst's drums along with what
sounds like the "Steven's Shield" track to form a bouncy, energetic beat.
 Lightning Bruiser: You might not expect it given their body type, but they're
incredibly fast to the point Jasper can't land a hit on them, and they're strong enough
to overpower her.
 Magic Pants: They incorporate both of their components' clothing and, thanks to
Amethyst, they fit better on their heavyset body.
 Meaningful Name: In gemstone mythos, smoky quartz turns negativity into
positivity, fosters cooperation and helps wishes and personal goals to become true;
Smoky Quartz is made when Amethyst accepts Steven's help by turning all her
negative traits as a "runt" into actual positives, and thanks to them, Amethyst's goal of
defeating Jasper is made true.
 Morphic Resonance: Smoky Quartz has Amethyst's Peek-a-Bangs, plump lips,
boots and tank top and Steven's head shape, hair color, shirt, and pants. Their
heavyset nature comes from both, and Steven's shield becomes a Killer Yo Yo, with
Amethyst's whip being the string.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: An unusual version in that their left arm splits into
two (similar to Sugilite's, except the split is at the elbow instead of midway along the
upper arm). It doesn't seem to hinder them, and in fact just gives them another arm to
attack or do handstands.
 Not Quite Flight: They inherited Steven's ability to regulate the speed of their
descent.
 Peek-a-Bangs: Just like Amethyst.
 Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In comparison to most fusions. Only Stevonnie and
Garnet are smaller than them (made especially clear when they spend a whole
episode hanging out with Sardonyx), and yet they managed to kick the butt of a Gem
that has been hounding the good guys for months.
 The Power of Love: Different variety than normal, as it's not romantic love, but
rather familial. Smoky Quartz is formed as a result of Steven and Amethyst's sibling-
like relationship and support of one another, and thus as per the rules of fusion, is
the Anthropomorphic Personification of this.
 Pungeon Master: Like one of their components, Smoky Quartz peppers their
dialogue with puns.
 Really Was Born Yesterday: In "Know Your Fusion", they admit don't know that
much about themself yet as, between their debut episode and this one, they've
literally existed for about ten minutes total.
 Sad Clown: Underneath all the jokes, they also carry both the heavy insecurities
that Steven and Amethyst have to offer.
 Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: After Smoky Quartz blows Jasper into the air
with their Blow You Away attack, they mimic the sound of Jasper falling and hitting
the ground; "Wheeeoooooo-BHOOM!"
 Semi-Divine: They're not a Rose Quartz and an Amethyst fusion, they're
a Diamond and Amethyst fusion. As Diamonds are treated by the Gems as gods in all
but name, Smoky is this trope at least from the Gems point of view.

 Sibling Team:  According to the art book, Smoky is basically the

embodiment of this, as they represent a sibling relationship rather than a simply
platonic or romantic one. Taken further with the reveal that Rose was Pink Diamond,
meaning she was actually Amethyst's creator and thus Steven and her are actually
brother and sister in a sense.
 Sixth Ranger: The second new fusion to be introduced to the group, as even if
Amethyst and Rose fused before this, the current Smoky Quartz isn't her.
 Swiss Army Weapon: Their yo-yo has greater utility than the other Gems'
weapons, much like Amethyst's whip. It can be used to grapple, create tornadoes,
and can change directions to hit opponents in their blind spots.
 Time Stands Still: Discovers this power in "Guidance" when running to stop an
out-of-control roller coaster. It is implied to be the Super Speed variant rather than a
literal time stop.
 Uneven Hybrid: Stevonnie's opposite, being 1/4 human and 3/4 Gem.
 Walking Spoiler: The very fact that they can exist spoils that Steven can fuse with
full gems.
 When All You Have Is a Hammer...: Averted. Smoky Quartz's strength lies in the
sheer versatility of their weapon.
 Wingding Eyes: Has a star in their eye when they say their name.
 You Are Not Alone: Smoky Quartz was born (or perhaps reborn) thanks to
Amethyst accepting Steven's help against Jasper.
 Youthful Freckles: They have these to show that they're made from the two
younger members of the Crystal Gems.

Sunstone
 Click here for her first outfit 

Voiced by: Shoniqua Shandai

"Chillax, my dudes! Your rockin' pal Sunstone is holdin' it down!"
The fusion of Garnet and Steven.
 Affectionate Parody: Most of her lines parody over-the-top, often out-of-place
PSAs on 80s and 90s Saturday morning cartoons and after-school specials. This
reference is driven home by a hairstyle that bears considerable resemblance to that
of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 Ambiguous Gender: Par for the course of Steven's various fusions, due to being

a mix of the male Steven and female-presenting Garnet.  Word of

God has stated that both they/them and she/her pronouns are equally acceptable for
Sunstone.
 And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Spouts these constantly.
 Bare Your Midriff: Their outfit exposes their midriff.
 Cool Shades: They wear a pair of these, obviously inherited from Garnet.
 Don't Try This at Home: Makes a comment like this at one point.
 The Face of the Sun: Their head resembles the typical, cartoony, sunglass-
wearing sun.
 Fourth-Wall Observer: Sunstone often turns to face the screen and gives advice,
like telling an adult when dealing with a bully or not to try a dangerous stunt at home.
 Fusion Dissonance: In terms of body shape, Sunstone is like Garnet flipped
upside down. They're so disproportionately top heavy that they have rolled up sleeves
to make room for their arms. A notable contrast to the rest of Garnet's fusions having
wide hips and big poofy sleeves.
 Improbable Weapon User: Their Gem weapon? Essentially Garnet's gauntlets
with giant suction cups attached.
 Large Ham: Most definitely.
 Leitmotif: Sunstone  features Garnet's synths with Steven's chiptunes
occasionally making a tune that sounds an awful lot like the Cartoon Network jingle,
which is befitting for a character that incorporates Saturday morning cartoons.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has four arms, with the top set being huge and
muscular while the lower set are smaller and thinner.
 Muscles Are Meaningful: They have an incredibly developed upper body and
strength even greater than their size would indicate.
 The Power of the Sun: Called Sunstone, and their fusion itself resembles solar
flares.
 Semi-Divine: She's 1/6 Diamond, and with the expected strength.
 Sleeves Are for Wimps: Only instead of being ripped off, they're just rolled all the
way back.
 Stealth Pun: Sunstone having such large arms with rolled up sleeves evokes the
phrase "Sun's out, guns out".
 Super Strength: Even for a fusion they're immensely strong, as she can easily
stop and push off the skyscraper-sized Diamond Mecha.
 Team Mom: Being a mix of All-Loving Hero Steven and Garnet, who already was
something of a mom, it only makes sense that Sunstone would take it to the max,
 spouting off morals that wouldn't be out-of-place in an after-school special...
even breaking the fourth wall to do it at one point!
 Top-Heavy Guy: Their upper body and first set of arms are disproportionately
large.
 Totally Radical: Comes across as this as a living reference to token "cool"
characters from 90s cartoons.
 Uneven Hybrid: Five-sixths gem and one-sixth human.
 Vocal Dissonance: Sunstone looks like a Totally Radical 90's mascot and is the
third tallest of Steven's fusions, but has a gentle, sweet, and enthusiastic voice.
 Wall Crawl: Uses her suction cups to try and climb the Diamond Ship mech.
 Wreathed in Flames: When being formed, they're blazing. Fully formed they look
like they're burning from the head, with the parts that get further away from it being
darker colors.

Obsidian

Click here for a play's depiction of her 

"You may not want to stay; this land is dangerous."

A massive fusion that rescued William Dewey from a giant sea monster and brought his
boat to the land which would become Beach City. Is confirmed to be the original
Obsidian,  and thus the fusion of Rose, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl depicted by the
Crystal Temple.

 Alien Non-Interference Clause: Averted; during the play, she states honestly that
she might well end up interfering again.
 BFS: In "Bubble Buddies" and "Ocean Gem", a sword similar to that of Obsidian
2.0 can be seen in the ocean, suggesting the first Obsidian had a similar if not
identical weapon.
 The Ghost: The temple is based off her appearance and a dramatization of her
shows up in Jamie's play, but she's never seen in person.
 Gentle Giant: In addition to saving his life, she's quite considerate with Willaim
Dewey, carrying his boat to shore and warning him to turn back.
 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Crystal Gems' temple is made in the image of her,
meaning the original version of Obsidian has been staring fans in the face since the
first episode. Her sword is even visible when Connie and Steven are underwater
in "Bubble Buddies" and when the surrounding water is gone in "Ocean Gem".
According to the art book, it was at one point planned for the Crystal Temple to be
called the "Obsidian Temple".
 Impossible Hourglass Figure: Her midsection is dwarfed by her bust and hips in
the cutout of her. The temple depicts a much more balanced body.
 In-Series Nickname: Due to her multiple arms, she's referred as "The Queen of
Noogies" in the play.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Depicted in the play with four arms. As she's
Obsidian, she actually had eight arms.
 Only Known by Their Nickname: Steven, who stuck a lot of jokes into the play.
calls her "The Goddess of Noogies" due to not knowing her actual name. It's later
revealed she was the original Obsidian.
 Posthumous Character: Is the original Obsidian formed with Rose, and thus died
with her.
 Sinister Silhouettes: Thanks to the budget for Jamie's play, she's represented as
a cutout casting a shadow.

Obsidian 2.0
Voiced by: Zach Callison, Estelle, Michaela Dietz, Deedee Magno-Hall
The fusion of Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. The original Obsidian was the
inspiration for the Crystal Temple.

 11th-Hour Superpower: Formed in the season 5 finale to combat the Diamond

Mecha under White Diamond's control.
 Absurd Cutting Power: Their sword's Hot Blade is able to cleanly slice the
Diamonds' arm ships apart. Fitting, considering obsidian can make some of the
sharpest blades known if properly crafted.
 All Your Powers Combined: Is a fusion of all the main Crystal Gems — Amethyst,
Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire and a former Diamond.
 Always a Bigger Fish: Peridot's Gem Warship tanked everything the Crystal
Gems had, and even Alexandrite couldn't overcome Homeworld's tech edge.
Obsidian on the other hand is able to shred the Diamonds' arm ships like a hot knife
through butter with their sword, probably because a Diamond is part of them.
 Ambiguous Gender: As with all of Steven's fusions, though they're by far the
most feminine-looking of all of his fusions. Despite appearing entirely of stone without
 notable clothing, they lack any attributes identifying gender. Officially , both she/her
and they/them are appropriate for them. In the show proper, Peridot refers to
Obsidian with a "they" pronoun ("They're huge!"), but it's ambiguous whether she's
using the singular "they" or referring to the five Gems forming Obsidian.
 Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: They're by far the largest fusion seen in the
series thus far, if not the biggest Gem period, as they're roughly the size of one of
the Diamond Mecha's hands, which dwarfs all of the Diamonds themselves. To get a
sense of scale, that red and blue spot on her hand is Steven's clothes. Their thumb
alone is bigger than Connie.
 BFS: Their Gem Weapon is a sword as big as they are tall. Which, given how big
they are, makes it probably bigger than entire buildings. More specifically, their
weapon is all four of the core Crystal Gems' weapons fused into a sword hilt. They
then proceed to open their second mouth to dip it in lava and form the blade.
 Cool Sword: Their Gem weapon is a gigantic sword so sharp it can cleave
straight through the Diamonds' arm ships.
 Creepy Good: They're very much a terrifying Kaiju of a fusion with a secondary
mouth full of fangs and lava. They're also very much on the side of the heroes.
 Dark Is Not Evil: They're a dark-colored fusion with lava inside their mouth and a
bestial temperament, but they're on the side of good.
 Expy: Obsidian is strongly reminiscent of the Hindu goddess Kali. Both have dark
skin, long hair, multiple arms, and a ferocious temperament. Like Obsidian, Kali is
created to defeat a powerful enemy in multiple stories.
 Fireball Eyeballs: Fitting with their volcanic theme, all four of Obsidian's eyes are
full of blazing molten lava.
 Fusion Dissonance: This Obsidian is the fusion
between Steven, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl (technically making her a fusion
between five gems), and unlike every other fusion between them, she exhibits none of
the characteristics of her components, nor does she bear a resemblance to any other
fusion combination between them. In theory, the only defining feature she seems to
possess is her hair, its consistency bearing a mild resemblance to Steven's puffy hair,
in contrast to the Crystal Gem Temple (implied to have been based on the original
Obsidian) which possesses his mother's ringlets.
 Godzilla Threshold: Just forming them is a desperate situation, since it requires
the united efforts of five separate Gems working in tandem. Given how aggressive
and powerful they are in combat, it's quite clear why the Gems don't form them all the
time.
 Heroes Prefer Swords: They're the Infinity +1 Sword of the protagonists, and
their weapon, upon combining all of the others, is a giant, flaming greatsword.
 Hot Blade: Their sword glows orange, having been formed from molten lava.
 In a Single Bound: Just like their components, Obsidian can jump enormous
heights even relative to their own size. It comes in handy climbing the Diamond
Mecha.
 Lava Adds Awesome: Has lava powers and a definite volcanic motif, which is
fitting because obsidian is volcanic glass.
 Legacy Character: Is the second Obsidian, the first being the inspiration for the
Temple. If the Temple is an accurate depiction of the first, this Obsidian is notably
 more flat chested and muscular than the original, with hair closer to a mix of Steven's
and a younger Greg's than Rose's curls present in the original.
 Leitmotif: "Obsidian", a grandiose and heroic theme made using all the
instruments of their components' individual themes.
 Lightning Bruiser: They're powerful enough to shred Diamond war ships, can
jump several times their height In a Single Bound, and is as agile as they are strong.
 Made of Good: As fusions are an embodiment of the bond of their components,
Obsidian is the living embodiment of the familial bond between the Crystal Gems.
 Magic Pants: Although not visible in most shots in-show, Steven's
clothes, greatly stretched out, are over one of their hands.
 Magma Man: There are lines of lava across their body, and they form the blade
of their sword out of lava.
 Meaningful Name: Besides their association with lava, which is what forms
obsidian in the first place, the sharpness of their sword's blade reflects how real
obsidian, when cleaved right, is the sharpest naturally occurring substance in the
world. It's considered one of the best materials with which to create surgical blades
for this very reason, as when crafted right, it can maintain an edge equal to or finer
than any modern metal surgical tool, even those crafted and supplemented with
nanotechnology.
 Morphic Resonance: Instead of having curly hair like Rose depicted by the
Temple, they have fuller hair that resembles a mix of Steven's and Greg's when he
was younger. They're also noticeably more muscular and flat chested than the
original, rather than the more lady-like and shapely depiction of the temple.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has eight arms.
 Mythical Motifs: They greatly resemble a deity from Polynesian or Hindu
mythology.
 Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Appears to be completely of stone without clothing,
but lacks any attributes of gender.
 One-Shot Character: Only formed on-screen for "Change Your Mind".
 Rapunzel Hair: Their hair is quite voluminous and reaches past their knees.
 Semi-Divine: Deci-Divine in this case. Obsidian is 1/10 Diamond. And it shows, as
they are undoubtedly one of the most powerful Gems seen in the series.
 Screaming Warrior: Their first act after forming is to emit a skyward
scream. When they reach White Diamond's ship, they scream into one of its eye-
openings.
 Too Many Mouths: Much like Alexandrite, they have a second mouth that opens
up, except theirs is on the top of their head rather than under their chin and is full of
lava.
 Voice of the Legion: Their grunts and screams sound like multiple voices in
unison, most likely because it is, being a five-Gem Fusion.
 Volcanic Veins: Has veins of lava running through their body.
 Walking Armory: They contain the weapons of Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and
Pearl. Once combined together, they form the hilt of a massive sword, with the blade
being made of lava.
Malachite

Voiced by: Jennifer Paz and Kimberly Brooks

"I can't wait to tear you Gems apart!"
The fusion of Jasper and Lapis Lazuli. Has Lapis' hydrokinesis and Jasper's crash
helmet. The most unstable fusion yet seen; Lapis only agreed to the dance after heavy
coercion, and ultimately, used the power offered by the fusion to trap the two of them,
together, at the bottom of the ocean. Though Jasper struggled to free herself of the
fusion, Lapis kept them together through sheer force of will.

 Addictive Magic: While it's been shown in other fusions, this is by far more
pronounced in Malachite than anyone else, likely due to the selfish nature of the
fusion. Both of her components became addicted in some way to being her: Lapis to
the emotional release of having Jasper to take her pain out on and Jasper to
the Power High she experienced. While Lapis was able to bounce back from it and
recover — to the extent of realizing how unhealthy the experience was — Jasper
wasn't so lucky and became addicted to being Malachite, and later fusion in general
when Lapis made it clear she would not fuse with Jasper again. Jasper, despite
initially expressing dismissal of fusion, appears unable to let go of the enhanced
power it grants even when the preferred partner for it is no longer interested.
 All There in the Script: In her first appearance in the season one finale, her name
only shows up in the credits. It isn't until the much later episode "Chille Tid" that her
name is actually mentioned in the show.
  All Your Powers Combined: She has both Lapis' water powers and Jasper's
helmet and Battle Aura, though she mostly uses the former.
 Anime Hair: It's very big and poofy and star-shaped. She gets it mostly from
Jasper.
 Anthropomorphic Personification: In the same way that Garnet is the
embodiment of Ruby and Sapphire's love for each other, Malachite can be said to be
a living reflection of Lapis and Jasper's hate toward each other. She embodies the
instability, malice, and entrapment that characterizes their relationship.
 Axe-Crazy: Mostly from Jasper, whose sanity has not survived being trapped
under the ocean in her own body well.
 Battle in the Center of the Mind: "Chille Tid" reveals that Lapis is exerting all her
mental power to keep control of Malachite, and keep Jasper from emerging.
 Body Horror: She has six limbs, with all of them being shaped like arms,
though two sets of them act like legs. She has two sets of eyes with a distinctly
reptilian feel which work independent of one another. The really ugly part is when the
fusion begins to degrade, with the face beginning to break apart, only for it to get
sucked back together...
 Clipped-Wing Angel: She's very powerful, having Jasper's raw strength and Lapis
Lazuli's hydrokinesis, but she's very unstable, with both Lapis and Jasper having their
own agendas. She lost in her first appearance because Lapis used her power to take
control of the fusion and drag them both to the bottom of the ocean. Once the two
stop fighting each other and work towards a common goal, however...
 Cool Helmet: She can summon Jasper's helmet.
 Cuteness Proximity: She gets distracted from killing Alexandrite by the
Watermelon Stevens trying to attack her, and she reacts to them with glee until they
actually hurt her.
 Destructive Romance: She is a prime example of an abusive relationship. In "Jail
Break", Lapis Lazuli fuses with Jasper after the latter persuades her to, but then
drags them both under the ocean, forcing Jasper to stay fused with her for months.
This takes a heavy psychological toll on them both. In "Alone at Sea", Lapis admits
that she was abusive towards Jasper, even while in the fusion ("I liked taking
everything out on you [Jasper]. I needed you, I-I hated you! It was bad!"). However,
Jasper seems too attached to the relationship they had, begging Lapis to become
Malachite with her again. Lapis declines, saying that "what we had wasn't healthy"
and that she never wants to feel like she did with Jasper again.
 Does This Remind You of Anything?:
o Her entire existence comes off as a rather... uncomfortable metaphor for a
toxic/abusive relationship — Garnet even lampshades this after her debut, commenting
that Lapis and Jasper are "really bad for each other". It's taken even further in "Alone at
Sea", wherein Jasper's little speech begging Lapis to fuse with her again makes her
sound like an abusive individual desperately trying to convince their victim to come
back to them.
Jasper: I've changed! You've changed me!
o "Alone at Sea" reveals that the entire time, Lapis had been venting her
anger at constantly being imprisoned on Jasper. This did a number on Lapis' mind
since she is horrified at what she did.
 Dragged Off to Hell: Her fate in "Jail Break" is very reminiscent of this, with her
being chained and pulled into a deep place while she tries desperately to escape.
 Emerald Power: The only Gem besides Peridot in the green color range, and
they're a fusion with Jasper's terrible brute strength and Lapis' near-total control of
water.
 Evil Laugh: By Jasper.
 Evil Is Bigger: Is by far the largest two-Gem fusion seen in the series, being as
large as the four Gem fusion Alexandrite. This is likely due to one of her components
being one of the largest singular gems.
 Extra Eyes: Has two sets of eyes, with the upper set doubling as eyebrows. As is
common for Gem fusions, she has as many eyes as the component Gems have
added together. The top set seems to belong to Jasper, as that set moves along with
Jasper's Gem as she tries to break free.
 Fangs Are Evil: She has elongated canines.
 Flight: Has Lapis' water wings. Jasper is especially enamored of this after being
convinced of the usefulness of fusion.
 Foil: Is more or less the opposite of Garnet's truly loving, genuine fusion, instead
being born purely out of desperation and savagery, and ultimately used with apathy
towards the other party on one side and an intention to defeat the other on the other
side. Garnet even points out how bad the two sides are for each other. This even
carries over to their designs, as while Garnet is by far the most humanoid fusion of
them all, to the point that it's not immediately apparent she is a fusion, Malachite is
barely humanoid at all. She doesn't even have her own voice actor, with her two
components' voice actors talking over each other instead, to emphasize how unstable
she is. And while like Garnet, her components wanted to remain being her, it was for
completely selfish reasons rather than genuinely loving each other.
 Giant Animal Worship: While not exactly an animal, the Watermelon Stevens
seem to treat her this way, presenting sacrifices to her King Kong style.
 Giant Flyer: Her massive size combined with Lapis' water wings results in this
when she pulls herself together to fight Alexandrite.
 Green and Mean: Has a green palette, Jasper's Blood Knight tendencies, and
Lapis' vindictiveness.
 Hellish Pupils: Like Jasper, her pupils are slightly elongated. And she's got four of
them.
 Home Field Advantage: The main reason she was able to nearly kill Alexandrite:
they were fighting on an island in the middle of the ocean where her water powers
are at their strongest.
 Human Sacrifice: Well, not human, but Watermelon Stevens that are selected to
go appease Malachite are eaten by her due to her growing hatred of him.
 An Ice Person: As a combination of Lapis' hydrokinesis and Jasper's brute
strength, she can form ice and weaponize it.
 In-Universe Catharsis: The reason Lapis missed being her (and hated herself for
it) is while she was Malachite, she was able to take out her years of pain and anger
on Jasper.
 Ironic Name: Malachite is associated with successful practical relationships,
while Malachite's parts end up at each other's throats.
 Leitmotif: "Malachite" , a tense and discordant piece with a prominent Drone of
Dread, combining Lapis' piano with an emphasis on the harsh, intense part of "I am
Lapis Lazuli", and Jasper's bass.
 Lightning Bruiser: Strong enough to match Alexandrite physically and throw her
around like a ragdoll, capable of performing Jasper's high-speed Rolling Attack from
mid-air thanks to Lapis' water wings no less, and durable enough to shrug off
everything Alexandrite can throw at her save the finishing blow of a giant arrow
through the chest. And all of this is before adding in Lapis' hydrokinesis to the mix.
 Lord of the Ocean: With their animosity towards one another, Malachite
resembles an ocean god known to create storms and creates hostility among mortals,
lampshaded in "Super Watermelon Island" when the tribe of Watermelon Stevens
living on Mask Island selects members of their tribe as sacrifices to appease her.
 Loving a Shadow: As Fusions are metaphors for a relationship, Malachite might
be a representation of such a relationship. Jasper wanted Malachite because of the
power she has (We can fly!) and Lapis wanted a punching bag to let her frustrations
on her out, with neither party actually caring about the other person.
 Made of Evil: In the same sense that Garnet is "made of love", Malachite is
essentially made of hate.
 Making a Splash: She has Lapis' water powers.
 Meaningful Name: Malachite is used to protect children, and Lapis formed
Malachite to protect Steven. And putting raw malachite in water makes it produce
toxic fumes, just to drive home just how bad the fusion is. Her name also starts with
"mal", meaning "bad" in many Romance languages.
 Mental World: When Steven manages to contact Lapis in "Chille Tid", the
conversation takes place in a space with green water, with whichever Gem is on the
surface apparently having the mental upper hand.
 Mind Hive: Both Jasper and Lapis' personalities are clearly in there, and they do
not mix well.
 Monstrous Humanoid: With an insect-like build and components who oppose
each other immensely, it's a miracle that something as unstable as Malachite can
even exist.
 Morphic Resonance: From Lapis, Malachite has a similar hair shape, a slimmer
face, upper arms and torso, a bared midriff and similarly fluid movements. From
Jasper, she gets the pale wild hair, skin stripes, fuller lips, Slasher Smile, pupils, thick
remaining arms and lower torso, general outfit design and colossal size.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Malachite is a weird variation on this. She has six
arms and no legs, instead using the lower two sets as legs.
 Oh, Crap!: Once Lapis takes over and drags them both to the bottom of the
ocean.
 Omnicidal Maniac: Garnet's description of her implies that should she snap, she'll
be consumed by her own rage and destroy. Given the collective anger of her
components is directed at everyone (except maybe Steven), that's an apt description.
 One-Winged Angel: Jasper intended for Malachite to be a massive powerup, and
she's strong enough to give a four-Gem fusion like Alexandrite a run for her
money, but only when Lapis and Jasper can work together.
 Out of Focus: After her appearance at the end of "Jail Break", there is a subplot
of the Crystal Gems trying to find her during Season 2 before something bad
happens. However, after "Chille Tid", this subplot is dropped and they focus on
capturing Peridot and later working with her to stop the Cluster. She is back in focus
in the season 3 opener where she is finally separated back into Lapis and Jasper
after she is defeated by Alexandrite.
 Person of Mass Destruction: Has Lapis' immense control over the ocean, and
her other half is the "the Ultimate Quartz".
 "Pop!" Goes the Human: How she defuses once Alexandrite defeats her.
 Power High: Due to being powerful enough to rival Alexandrite, she causes
a massive one of these in Jasper, to the point the Gem becomes addicted to it.
 The Power of Hate: A fusion derived from almost nothing but negative emotions,
yet still one of the strongest seen in action thus far. Granted, her component gems
are very powerful in their own rights.
 Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: To Alexandrite when told she's outnumbered: "I may
be outnumbered, but you're out of your depth." Overlaps with pun since they're
fighting in the ocean.
 Prophetic Names: Malachite will give off a toxic gas if submerged in water.
 Put on a Bus: Malachite is forcible defused by Alexandrite in "Super Watermelon
Island", after which Lapis decidedly does not want to fuse with Jasper. Malachite is
unlikely to ever be formed again, which is about as close as a fusion with extant
components gets to being Killed Off for Real.
 Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Garnet states this will be the most likely outcome
if Lapis loses all control over Malachite, being consumed by her own hatred and
anger over the reason for her fusion and seeking to destroy all involved in it. Which is
exactly what happens.
 Sealed Evil in a Duel: Lapis fuses with Jasper so she can drag her underneath
the ocean and keep her there with her. In fact, Lapis has the mental strength
to prevent Jasper from destabilizing the fusion. Jasper ultimately wins, but Malachite
is broken apart by Alexandrite soon after.
 Slasher Smile: When she first forms. She also has one for most of her fight with
Alexandrite, possibly because Jasper has largely taken control of the fusion.
 Superpower Lottery: The strength, speed, and fighting skills of Jasper combined
with the flight and Imagination-Based Superpower of Lapis, stapled onto a colossal
body. She was soundly beating Alexandrite for a good chunk of their fight until
Alexandrite barely managed to turn it around, which would likely make her one of the
most powerful characters in the series, bar the Cluster and maybe the stronger
Diamonds.
 Unstoppable Rage: According to Garnet, should she snap completely, she'll be
consumed by her rage and go on a rampage fueled by this. And it shows, as her
collective rage at the Gems causes Lapis to lose complete control over the fusion
when she sees the Gems.
 Voice of the Legion: Malachite does not have a unique voice, just the voices of
her components talking together or one at a time. This shows just how out of synch
the two were, despite being fused together. Even when she refers to herself as
"Malachite" for the first time, proof that she's starting to develop her own sentience,
it's still with her components' voices, not a unique one. She even constantly uses
both singular and plural pronouns when referring to herself.
 Walking Spoiler: Not only is she the Fusion Dance form of two walking spoilers,
but her appearance in the show spoils a big chunk of the season one finale.
 When She Smiles: She has an odd, genuinely happy, amused giggle and smile
(not the Slasher Smile) when the Watermelon Stevens attack her, and it actually
makes her look kind of cute. She stops when they go for her eyes, however. Most
likely this is a part of Lapis' personality she's retained, since Lapis is shown to be
playful with a sense of humor when not in despair or angry, although the laughter
belongs to Jasper.
 Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It's been stated that fusions have some
sentience... that being said, Malachite is probably in severe pain because her two
components are constantly at each other's throats, trying to hurt the other.
 Worst. Whatever. Ever!: Played for Drama. "Guide to the Crystal Gems" calls her
"the worst relationship imaginable" due to being formed from deceit and held together
by revenge.

Lemon Jade
Voiced by: Aparna Nancherla
"I knew it! I knew I couldn't be the only one!"
A fusion of two Jades seen during the Era 3 ball.

 Bizarre Alien Limbs: Has four upper arms that merge on either side into two
forearms, making them stand out among same-Gem fusions.
 Blush Sticker: Her gems are located on her cheeks, imitating actual blush.
 The Cameo: Appears very briefly in the background in "Homeworld Bound".
 Childish Tooth Gap: Has a tooth gap that emphasizes her childish exuberance at
being a fusion.
 Extra Digits: Has six fingers on each hand.
 Extra Eyes: Has her parts' eyes are stacked vertically.
 Genki Girl: After the two Jades fuse at the Era Three ball in solidarity with the
Crystal Gems, she joyously exclaims that she's not the only one.
 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Stands up for the Crystal Gems despite
having never met them before, then is forcibly and painfully separated.
 No Name Given: According to the creators , she is a hybrid fusion of two
different types of Jade, and despite her and her parts being credited as just "Jade",
the fusion's name is actually Lemon Jade.
 One-Shot Character: Aside from a background cameo in "Homeworld Bound",
her only appearance is in "Together Alone".
 Significant Double Casting: She has the same voice actor as Nephrite, despite
clearly being a different type of Gem, in reference to how both jadeite and nephrite
are traditionally referred to as "jade" despite being chemically unrelated.

Steg

Voiced by: Ted Leo

"It's a big, old universe out there. And when you're getting crushed under the weight of them stars, well, sometimes,
you need that special someone to remind you that you're so much more!"
The fusion of Steven and Greg.

 All There in the Script: He's Never Given a Name onscreen because everyone

was in too much of a rush the one time we see him formed. The name "Steg", though
obvious following the pattern set by Stevonnie's, is only found in the closed captions
 and credits — and not even the in-movie credits, which don't specify actors by
character.
 Anime Hair: Steven's curls mixed Greg's already impressive lion's mane create a
pompadour-ponytail combo that would make Josuke Higashikata jealous.
 Bare Your Midriff: Steven's shirt is too small for him, exposing Steg's abs.
 Bifurcated Weapon: Instead of combining gem weapons, Steven and Greg's
single neck guitars fuse with them into a double neck for Steg to play with his two sets
of arms.
 Big Ol' Eyebrows: Steven and Greg already have pretty thick eyebrows; as a
result, Steg's eyebrows are absolutely massive and cover a good chunk of his
forehead.
 Carpet of Virility: A muscular man with visible hairs all over his arms and chest,
though the chest hairs look like they've been recently shaved.
 Cleavage Window: Male example; Steg's formation rips a hole in Steven's shirt to
show off Steg's Carpet of Virility.
 Flight: He enhances Steven's floating powers to be able to levitate and soar in
any direction, and can either impart those powers to others or just move them around
himself.
 Fusion Dissonance: Besides their ages, Greg and Steven look incredibly similar.
Steg is such a ripped Hunk that he only superficially resembles either of them. Steven
develops a form with a taller, more muscular build late into Future that somewhat
resembles Steg, implying the build comes from him.
 Gale-Force Sound: His guitar strums release a pink burst of air that he can
channel his levitation through; he can use it to knock people over if he's not just
making them float around.
 Heroic Build: Embodies all the great qualities between Steven and his father, and
is absolutely ripped.
 Hunk: A handsome and very muscular man.
 Magic Pants: Zigzagged; Greg's pants turn into shorts but are otherwise fine,
while Steven's shirt gets partially torn across the chest and shoulders. Oddly,
Steven's sandals grow exponentially larger to fit Steg's feet, making him the only
fusion to involve a notable change in Steven's sandals.
 Mr. Fanservice: He is a hunk who spends half of his screen time doing sexy
poses. The camera actually pans up his belly, making it a very unambiguous case
of Female Gaze.
 Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Unlike Stevonnie's completely human appearance,
Steg has four arms. He uses them to play both halves of a double-necked guitar at
once.
 Non-Action Guy: His only appearance is to use his guitar to help Pearl regain her
memories; fitting because Greg himself is never shown in combat and Steven's too
weak at this point to even fight.
 No Pronunciation Guide: His name is not said in the movie, leaving one to
wonder if it's pronounced "Steeg" or "Stehg".
  The One Guy: He's the only fully male presenting gem fusion of any variety, due
to being a fusion of Steven and Greg — Rainbow Quartz 2.0 can be addressed by
male pronouns, but isn't exactly male due to Pearl being part of the fusion.
 One-Shot Character: He only appears in the movie.
 Portmanteau: Like Stevonnie, his name is a combination of his parts' names, in
his case the "St" from Steven and the "eg" from Greg.
 The Power of Love: Steg represents the father-son relationship between Greg
and Steven.
 The Power of Rock: He sings and plays guitar to use his powers. Fittingly, he
was fused when Steven and Greg played their guitars back to back.
 Rapunzel Hair: Steg's hair is longer than Greg's, dropping to the floor despite
being taller.
 Stealth Pun:
o His Weapon of Choice is his guitar — otherwise known as an axe.
o His guitar also levitates things by hitting them with a gust of wind — an air
guitar.
 Uneven Hybrid: Like Stevonnie, he's 1/4 gem and 3/4 human.

Mega Pearl
Voiced by: Deedee Magno-Hall
"Your mother's Pearls never had the whole picture. One knew your mother was trying to change, but she couldn't
understand why. The other never expected her to change at all. Now I get to understand everything. Now they
finally get to have each other."
A fusion of the Crystal Gem's Pearl and Pink Pearl/Volleyball.

 All There in the Script: She's only named in the credits.

 Dance Battler: As to be expected from a fusion of two Pearls, Mega Pearl is
extremely agile and has a ballet-style method of combat.
 Ermine Cape Effect: Wears a fancy outfit with a cape and crown that doesn't
hinder her fighting skills one bit.
 Handicapped Badass: Despite missing an eye, she uses her ribbon whip with
precision and hurls Steven through the holes she made with extreme accuracy.
 Improbable Aiming Skills: She tosses her drill ahead to clear a path, and then
tosses Steven directly afterward through the holes that it drills. Steven makes it
through unscathed even though the drill hasn't even finished going through all the
obstacles'before he gets tossed, and Mega Pearl pulled this off despite having only
one eye.
 Lady of War: Unsurprisingly for a fusion between two Pearls, she is extremely
graceful in combat. One would need to be to use an improbable weapon like a Whip
Sword.
 Leitmotif: Prince Pearl  creates an actionized piano theme.
 One-Shot Character: Only appears in "Volleyball".
 Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Deedee Magno-Hall affects a slightly deeper
voice for the fused Pearl compared to her components.
 Strong and Skilled: Retains Pearl's fighting skill on top of a very noticeable boost
in power.
 This Is a Drill: In "Volleyball", the Pearls' weapons combine into a Whip
Sword initially, and Mega Pearl turns it into a drill to cut holes through several walls.
 Whip Sword: Her weapon is a bladed ribbon so sharp it can cut through wire.
 Whole Costume Reference: To Revolutionary Girl Utena; her outfit resembles the
Ohtori Academy's boy's uniform - Utena's iconic outfit - and her hairstyle is a
combination between Anthy's hairstyle and Utena's pink-colored hair, complete with a
tiara reminiscent of the one Anthy wears as the Rose Bride. The official name of
her Leitmotif is "Prince Pearl", referencing Utena's desire to become a prince.

Bluebird Azurite
Voiced by: Larissa Gallagher
"Well, well, well. If it ain't the old Gem savior himself, Steven Universe!"
The fusion of Aquamarine and "Eyeball" Ruby, formed to exact revenge on Steven and
the Crystal Gems.

 Achievements in Ignorance: She seriously gets under Steven's skin with

her Poke the Poodle pranks as he tries to figure out what she's up to, when actually
she was convinced no one knew who she's a Fusion of and was genuinely trying to
get the group to consider her a friend.
 Adorkable: Has a bowl cut, a Cat Smile, a gap between her front teeth, and a
prominent overbite, and is just as unintentionally adorable as her components. Still
evil, though.
 Aliens of London: She has a British accent; it's a very over-the-top Cockney one
instead of Aquamarine's received pronunciation.
 An Ice Person: Uses an ice sword and conjures ice falchions that she uses as
projectiles.
 Animal Motifs: Has a subtle bird motif—her name is "Bluebird Azurite", was
introduced in an episode entitled "Bluebird" and her wings are slightly more avian
looking than Aquamarine's. Her six limbs and the fact that she has four wings also
cause her to resemble an insect.
 Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Much like Aquamarine, she pretends to be nice only to
stab her enemies in the back when they aren't looking. Unlike the first time,
Steven immediately guesses that she's up to no good.
 Cool Sword: Upgrades Ruby's dagger into a falchion made of ice.
 Discard and Draw: By Era 3, Aquamarine no longer has her wand, but by fusing
with Eyeball, they can conjure ice falchions and shoot them at enemies.
 Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She is baffled by the Crystal Gems' willingness
to give her a chance despite recognizing her.
 Foil: Like Malachite, Bluebird is a foil to Garnet, Bluebird is a fusion between a
Ruby and a refined and small blue gem, but is built entirely on hate rather than love.
She's a mishmash of her components' colors, which don't blend on any part of her,
and she loses an eye instead of gaining another one.
 Fragile Speedster: Her wings make her very fast and nimble, but Alexandrite
easily finishes her off in one hit.
 Heel–Face Turn: Subverted. She is one of the few antagonists in the series who
does not reform to good in any way, and refuses to hear any of Steven's peaceful
pleading with them that changed the minds of so many other Gems.
 Hostage Situation: Lulls the Crystal Gems into a false sense of security then
kidnaps Greg so her components can blackmail Steven.
 Insectoid Alien: Resembles an insect due to her small size, multiple legs, and
wings. Eyeball's gem even looks like a compound eye.
 Karma Houdini Warranty: A collective one for both Aquamarine and Eyeball, who
managed to get away with their crimes relatively unscathed in the original series. The
two are given a beating by Steven, and are subjected to a Curb-Stomp Battle as
Bluebird by Alexandrite. They do, however, end up escaping again.
 Magic Knight: She has Aquamarine's hydrokinesis and Eyeball's weapon training
and tends to use both in tandem.
 Merging Mistake: Not nearly as much as Malachite, but due to being a fusion of
two Gems who can't stand each other, her legs are rather awkwardly configured, with
two on each side and seemingly no extra hips to support them. Her skin is also a
patchy mish-mash of her components' color schemes instead of blending them
together evenly.
 Morphic Resonance: Has Aquamarine's blazer and wings, and Eyeball's eye
shape and hair color.
 The Napoleon: The shortest Gem fusion seen in the show, not much bigger than
an unfused Ruby, and she's literally made of her components' hatred of Steven.
 Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite spending much of her introduction pulling
pranks badly and wrongly assuming the Crystal Gems fell for her Paper-Thin
Disguise, she still nearly kills Greg.
 One-Shot Character: Only appears in "Bluebird".
 Paper-Thin Disguise: Her components created her with the intention of infiltrating
the Crystal Gems, but they all see through the disguise instantly.
 Small Name, Big Ego: She and her components vastly overestimate their own
capabilities. Her pranks are misunderstood and she wrongly assumed that the Crystal
Gems couldn't see through their disguise. Once the other Gems get involved,
Alexandrite smooshes Bluebird in a single blow.
 Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She bears many similarities to Malachite; She's a
four-legged fusion of a fighting Gem and a Gem with powers relating to water, whose
components don't like each other and is the embodiment of a negative relationship,
 and wields ice powers on top of her component's powersets. She even gets defused
by Alexandrite. However, unlike Malachite, her components at least agree on their
main goal, while Malachite's components were locked in a Battle in the Center of the
Mind for much of her existence. She also is at least stable enough to create a fusion
weapon, while Malachite was stuck with Jasper's default helmet.
 The Power of Hate: She is the embodiment of her components' grudge against
Steven.
 The Prankster: Plays a bunch of pranks on Steven to annoy him. She doesn't
quite seem to understand the point of most of them, such as pulling a "Kick Me"
Prank on Steven with a sign that reads "Tell me I smell good", and TPing Steven's
car by placing whole rolls neatly on the roof.
 Storm of Blades: One of Bluebird's attacks creates duplicates of her sword and
sends them flying towards her target, spreading ice from the impact sites.
 Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The only thing that unites Aquamarine and Eyeball,
who don't love or even like each other in the slightest is a shared hatred of Steven.
Steven realizes just how tenuous their bond is when he sees them struggle to fuse
and start arguing, and his speech on healthy relationships irritates them both so
much that their disgust pulls Bluebird back together.
 Troll: Loves nothing more than making Steven suffer, although she mostly tends
to cause minor inconveniences at best.
 All of the Quartzes, with Crazy Lace being the only exception, likely because she
was fused when corrupted and thus had a different corrupted form.
 Living Prop: The majority of the uncorrupted gems fall under this, with many of
them only appearing in the background and never speaking a word. The only ones
with any sort of focus are Nephrite note , the Geode Beetlesnote , Larimar, Snowflake,
Bixbite note , Cherry Quartz, Ocean Jasper and Blue Lace Agate note .
 Was Once a Man: All of them, except for the Rubies and the sole Lapis, were
caught in the corruption blast which turned them into feral monsters. They were
healed with the combined effort of the Diamonds and Steven.

Inhabitants
    Nephrite (Centipeetle) 

Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12, aka "Centipeetle"

 Click here for her first outfit 

Click here for her reduced corrupted form 

 Click here for her semi-corrupted form 

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (corrupted), Aparna Nancherla*  (Nephrite)

Steven: Hi.
Centipeetle: [screech vaguely resembling the word "hi"]
The first corrupted gem to appear in the series, a corrupted Nephrite dubbed
"Centipeetle". While corrupted, she's a very large, centipede-like Gem monster that
attacks the temple in the first episode. She becomes much more prominent as the
series goes on.

 Acid Attack: She can spit acid.

 All Animals Are Dogs: When Steven befriends the smaller version in "Monster
Buddies", she acts very dog-like.
 Alternate Identity Amnesia: A complicated case; when partially restored from
corruption, Nephrite had a spotty memory of events before and after being corrupted,
and eventually remembers her corruption itself. She can also recognize Blue and
Yellow Diamond when fully corrupted. When temporarily uncorrupted entirely,
Nephrite shows no signs of recognizing Steven or awareness that she was corrupted.
Once she is permanently cured, she seems to recognize Steven immediately.
 Anime Hair: Her white hair is very voluminous (and her drawings portray it as
very spiky).
 Benevolent Boss: She showed her deep care for her crew by risking Corruption
while searching for her crew and then millennia later, frantically searches for her crew
when her memories came back.
 Big Creepy-Crawlies: The babies are roughly the size of an average dog while
the mother is as big as a house.
 Bizarre Alien Biology: Centipeetle can still eat (or at least taste), despite not
having a throat to swallow food with — she just melts food in her mouth with the
acid. Not that she needs to eat.
Steven: I don't know how you eat with an eyeball in your mouth, but I'm glad you like it.
 Body Horror: Steven's attempt to heal her only works partway, leaving her as a
mix of Gem and centipede out of The Fly (1986). She then slowly turns back to a full
centipede in a very painful process.
 Bold Explorer: Seems to have been her job before the war broke out.
 The Captain: Had her own ship and her own crew, and by all appearances was a
great leader.
 Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She's nowhere to be seen in Steven Universe:
Future (aside from a brief cameo in the opening), despite other Nephrites being
prominently featured as secondary characters.
 Cute Monster Girl: Steven manages to partially heal her, giving her a somewhat
humanoid shape for a while.
 Cute Mute: When not attacking Steven.
 Cyclops: Centipeetle has a single "eye" (actually her gem) in her mouth. In her
uncorrupted form, it just functions as an eye.
 Expressive Hair: Centipeetle's hair changes shape according to her mood.
 Eye Scream: Steven tries to heal her a second time, but since her Gem is her
eye, all it does is hurt her.
 Eyes Do Not Belong There: Her eye, which also happens to be her gem, is
located in her mouth. This becomes literal as her eye moves into a more conventional
position (i.e: out of her mouth) when she gets a more humanoid form, meaning it
literally didn't belong there.
 A Father to His Men: During the evacuation at the end of the Gem War,
Centipeetle had time to get away on her ship, but she had been separated from her
crew and fell behind to look for them. This is how she was corrupted by whatever
the Diamonds did.
 Friend or Foe: According to her Troubled Backstory Flashback by crayon, she
was on Homeworld's side, but was caught by the Diamonds' "Corruption Nuke". And
so was her crew.
 The Good Captain: One of the nicest high-ranking Homeworld Gem we've met,
and the first one not to be an antagonist.
 Hat of Authority: Her black headdress marks her as a captain. It's her main
identification in her drawings.
 Heroic Sacrifice: In "Monster Buddies", she pushes Steven out of the path of a
falling rock, getting crushed and returning to her gem.
 Hollywood Acid: She can spit acid that melts through almost anything, but it still
doesn't do anything unless it comes in direct contact.
 The Illegible: Subverted. While her "writing" first seems to be a bunch of
scribbles, she's actually writing in the Gem language, and according to Pearl, it is
"actually decently legible".
 Jaw Drop: Performs a humorous one in “Legs From Here to Homeworld”, when
Steven takes Yellow and Blue Diamond to see Centipeetle’s corruption. It takes her a
second, but once she notices the Diamonds, Centipeetle’s jaw goes slack coupled
with an awed screech.
 Killed Mid-Sentence: When Blue and Yellow Diamond heal her, she is brought
back to the exact moment she became corrupted and she keeps repeating: "No,
please, no! No, no, we're all gonna be...". It takes Steven's help to snap her into the
present, but it doesn't last, reverting entirely the moment they let go.
 Large and in Charge: Is drawn as bigger than her crew, and might be one of the
only Gems we've met to have a military rank.
 Latex Spacesuit: In a humanoid form, she wears one similar to the spacesuit
Pearl wears in "Space Race" and "Back to the Barn".
 Logical Weakness: Is an insect, and is killed by being zapped with electricity.
 Madness Mantra: Upon having her mind and body restored, she is only capable
of repeating "No, please, no! No, no, we're all gonna be- No, please, no! No, no,
we're all gonna be-" It takes Steven/Pink's powers on top of Yellow and Blue's to
make her coherent. Even then, it doesn't last because as soon as they let go, she
reverts entirely.
 Mix-and-Match Critters: Her name is a portmanteau of "centipede" and "beetle".
She also has a snow-white mane and spits acid strong enough to melt concrete,
so you figure out what else went into that mix.
 Monstrous Humanoid: Steven's attempt to heal her only partially succeeds,
resulting in her Gemstone migrating back to her face to act just as an eye, and
gaining human legs and arms while retaining an insectoid body, as well as healing
her mentally, somewhat.
 Mook Maker: As the giant Centipeetle, she can spawn smaller, dog-sized copies
of herself.
 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She was caught in the Corruption blast
because she refused to abandon her crew and stayed to look for them after the
evacuation order was given. In other words, she was punished for not being a Dirty
Coward.
 No One Gets Left Behind: Remained behind in an attempt to find her crew. Turns
out her crew stayed behind to wait for her, too.
 Non-Standard Character Design: She's the only one whose gemstone is changed
by and moves around in her construct, instead of being static. This is likely because
she'd be blind if it didn't grow a pupil and swivel around to function as her eye. The
other Nephrites on her crew are also Cyclopses, but have non-gem eyes and
different Gem placement.
 The Noseless: Like Sapphire, she has no nose beneath her large eye.
 One Bad Mother: At first referred to as the "Mother Centipeetle". Since she
reformed and was no longer a Mook Maker, she's just called "Centipeetle".
 One-Man Army: The giant Centipeetle Mother holds its own against all of the
Crystal Gems at once, and would've won if it weren't for Steven's intervention.
 Only Known by Their Nickname: "Centipeetle" is just a nickname the Crystal
Gems used for her and her duplicates when talking to Steven (which he sometimes
shortens to "Centi"). Steven's partial healing doesn't restore her speech enough that
she could say her name (beyond "Gurgle Click Click"), and despite the Gems reading
what she wrote, they don't say her name either. She was speculated to be a
Nephrite, and as of "Legs From Here to Homeworld", this was confirmed. Specifically,
Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12.
 Portmanteau: Her name is a cross between "centipede" and "beetle", two
animals she somewhat resembles.
 Scary Teeth: Her teeth are unnaturally sharp, it's implied that these originated
from her being corrupted, since other Jades don't have such teeth. Then again, they
also have two eyes, so it's hard to tell.
 Sealed Evil in a Can: Like all Gem monsters, after she's destroyed and reverts to
a gem, she's sealed in a bubble and teleported to the temple for safekeeping.
Becomes closer to Sealed Good in a Can after her Heroic Sacrifice, since Steven
may have the ability to heal her. Later, she joins the two crew members who
remained behind in a sealed chamber in their old ship.
 Shout-Out: Her gem resembles a Poké Ball, and in "Monster Buddies", Steven
befriends and tames her by showing kindness to her, much like a Trainer would raise
a Pokémon. Her facet number (413) is an Arc Number in Homestuck.
 Sleep-Mode Size: Upon regenerating in "Monster Buddies", she takes on a tiny
form even smaller than her mook copies. After being partially healed but reverting to
a corrupt form, she regains some size but is still nowhere near as big as her first
appearance.
 Spikes of Villainy: Subverted; she's a benevolent Gem and a a good friend to
Steven, but she has sharp-looking spikes all over her upper arms. It seems to be a
general trait of uncorrupted Nephrites, just like uncorrupted Quartzes have horns.
 Starter Villain: As a Gem monster, she shows up in the first episode as an enemy
that was dangerous to Steven but that he could help defeat even before he had any
powers.
 Super Spit: Acidic.
 Tastes Like Friendship: Steven manages to tame her somewhat by feeding her
chips.
 Trademark Favorite Food: Chaaaaps. She likes them so much that Steven left a
bag of Chaaaaps bubbled next to Centipeetle's gem in the Burning Room. At the end
of Change your Mind, Amethyst gets her to jump into the healing pool by tossing a bag
of Chaaaaps in it. When she emerges uncorrupted, she's still holding the corner of
the bag in her mouth
 True Companions: Her whole crew was willing to risk to a Fate Worse than
Death to try and find each other, then still waited for their captain for thousands of
years.
 Undying Loyalty: Even after being cursed to become a mindless monster for
millennia, upon being healed she apologizes for not escaping the corruption attack in
time and happily assumes Rose was shattered.
 The Unintelligible: To Steven anyway. She seems to be able to communicate
with her crew.
 Was Once a Man: While reforming, Centipeetle briefly takes on a humanoid form,
alluding to the fact that all Gem Monsters used to be normal Gems. Later confirmed
in "Ocean Gem".
 You Are Number 6: After she is (temporarily) uncorrupted, she immediately
identifies herself as Nephrite Facet-413 Cabochon-12.
    Orange Spodumene (Worm Monster) 

Orange Spodumene

Click here for her corrupted form 

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (corrupted)
A Gem monster with an affinity for glowing seaweed. Its screams can cause tremors.

 All There in the Script: Her real name was shown in the storyboard animatic for
"Happily Ever After" on the Steven Universe: The Movie DVD. Before that Art &
Origins reveals the Crewniverse called her "Crunchrock" during a game while
designing her uncorrupted form.
 Blinding Bangs: Her head tentacles look like this after she's healed.
 Cute Monster Girl: Her true form is a cute humanoid slug person.
 Cyclops: Was shown with a single eye in "Change Your Mind" before her
tentacles became like Blinding Bangs.
 Early Installment Weirdness: When she's healed in "Change Your Mind", she
looks like a cute little gelatinous bipedal cyclops with a seashell on her head. Her
appearance changes again in the Movie, where her Gem has moved down to her
pelvis instead of her chest and she now has Blinding Bangs.
 Horror Hunger: Implied while corrupted; She's a Gem, so she does not need to
eat, but she keeps obsessively hunting down and trying to eat glowing things.
 Knotty Tentacles: While corrupted, she's tricked into tying herself around the
dock, then collapsing it on herself.
 Make Me Wanna Shout: While corrupted, her screams could shake the Earth
from miles away.
 Monster of the Week: In "Bubble Buddies".
 Seldom-Seen Species: In minerological terms, Spodumene isn't that well known
in popular culture.
 Was Once a Man: She was a corrupted Gem, but has since become
uncorrupted.
    Geode Beetles of Heaven and Earth 

Geode Beetles of Heaven and Earth

Click here for the Heaven Beetle's corrupted form 

Click here for her Earth Beetle's corrupted form 

 Two Gem beetles, the Heaven Beetle and Earth Beetle, collected from their homes as
the driving plot of "Giant Woman".

 Ambiguously Gay: After being purified of the corruption in "Change Your Mind",
the one that became the Earth Beetle plants a kiss on the Heaven Beetle's cheek.
 Baleful Polymorph: Their corruption just seems to have stuck them in the form of
beetles with full sapience. The Heaven Beetle at least has a room with miniature
furnishings, bongos to play, and even a game system.
 Damsel in Distress:
o The Heaven Beetle was eaten by the Big Bird. They were both cloistered
in their respective temples for some as yet unknown reason.
o Both of them almost get crushed under a pot in the movie until Lapis dives
in to save them.
 The Dividual: They're always shown together after being cured, and even live in
the same house.
 Lilliputians: Being purified of the corruption in "Change Your Mind" shows that
their size is not part of their corruption — they're naturally that small.
 Meaningful Name: The Heaven Beetle is high up in the air, and the Earth Beetle
is underground.
 Non-Indicative Name: From the movie on, they're still referred to solely as the
Beetles of Heaven and Earth (or Heaven/Earth Beetle), even though curing their
corruption means they're not beetles anymore. They're possibly just nicknames that
stuck.
 Super Toughness: The Earth Beetle is at the bottom of a boiling lava lake, which
only Garnet can swim in. The Heaven Beetle at least was being gnawed on by a goat
without injury. After being uncorrupted, both were visibly unharmed when their house
was destoyed with them inside.
 The Voiceless: Despite a notable presence on several scenes, they never speak
onscreen.
 Was Once a Man: They were both corrupted Gems, but have since become
uncorrupted.
    Watermelon Tourmaline (Giant Pufferfish) 

Watermelon Tourmaline
 Click here for her corrupted form 

A giant pufferfish monster.

 Acrofatic: "Little Homeschool" showed her capable of bouncing around using her
belly.
 Ambiguous Situation: There's some evidence that the Watermelon Tourmaline
seen at the end of "Change Your Mind" and the Watermelon Tourmaline from the
Movie aren't actually the same gem. Given that it's established fusions can resemble
 Gems who actually exist (Garnet and the Garnet caste, for example), this
Watermelon Tourmaline could be a fusion, judging by her four arms and eyes with
different eye colors. Whether or not the show simply retconned the first Watermelon
Tourmaline to be a fusion or simply have a Non-Standard Character Design, or if
these two were seperate characters all along remains to be seen.
 Art Evolution: Her form seen at the end of "Change Your Mind" had broad
shoulders (seemingly indicating just two arms) and spikes on the cheeks. Her form in
the movie looks like a giant pink/green marshmallow with a completely smooth head
as well as Blush Stickers and four arms.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance :
o Watermelon Tourmaline has a green and pink color motif and a spherical
shape.
o When she appears uncorrupted at the end of "Change Your Mind", she
looks very much like a humanoid pufferfish.
 Bald Woman: One of the few Gems whose physical, uncorrupted form doesn't
have hair.
 Big Beautiful Woman: Not exactly gorgeous like Rose Quartz, but in her
uncorrupted appearance she's always pleasantly smiling and has adorably chubby
cheeks. Added with the snazzy looking sweater draped over her shoulders, she's
very cute.
 Blow You Away: Its main power is shooting out an unending stream of high-
pressure air.
 Exotic Eye Designs: Her corrupted form has green, diamond-shaped pupils. It's a
bit strange, as those were later established as a trait specific to the Diamond
Authority, and her uncorrupted form has regular eyes.
 Mismatched Eyes: In her uncorrupted form, one eye is green and the other is
pink. This might imply she's a fusion since few single gems exhibit this trait.
 Monster of the Week: Of "Beach Party".
 Nonstandard Character Design: She's thus far the only Gem in the series that
has more than two arms and isn't confirmed to be a fusion.
 Painful Pointy Pufferfish: A boogie board gets impaled on one of her spines while
corrupted. Ironically, she's defeated when punctured by an equally pointy glass
shard.
 Stealth Pun: Watermelon Tourmaline was smashed during the Beach Episode.
Her gemstone also resembles a watermelon slice.
 Trampoline Tummy: In "Guidance", she can be seen passing by by bouncing on
her belly like some giant, sentient beach ball.
 Was Once a Man: She was a corrupted Gem, but has since become

uncorrupted. Interestingly,  Word of God confirmed what Gem she is  

before she was uncorrupted.
    Larimar (Ice Monster) 
Larimar
 Click here for her corrupted form 

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (corrupted), Michelle Maryk

"One day, I'll make you scream, Steven."
A former Crystal Gem made of ice that resides in the same cavern as the Shooting Star.

 Aliens of London: She speaks with a strong Swedish accent. This implies that the
Shooting Star (whose specific location wasn't previously given) was somewhere in
Sweden, and thus she might have picked it up from the locals.
 All There in the Script: She was first identified by name in the storyboard animatic
for "Happily Ever After" on the Steven Universe: The Movie DVD.
 Art Evolution: The spikes on top of her head were darker in "Change Your Mind",
indicating that they're supposed to be her hair. She was also wearing a parka and
from the profile view, her gem was on her or near her chest instead of being on the
forehead.
 Black Eyes of Crazy: Inverted. She gains black sclera with white pupils when
she's uncorrupted, although only in her concept design.
 Cephalothorax: Her corrupted form is a giant chunk of ice with a face on it, with
arms and legs.
 Creepy Child: "Little" Larimar is even smaller than Amethyst and has a bizarre
fascination with screaming. However, she isn't evil since she's a Crystal Gem and
admits that she likes the sound of laughter more in the end.
 Friend to All Children: She grows especially fond of handing out prizes to kids
because she loves the sound of their happy laughter.
 Good Feels Good: Her reason for loving the sound of humans screaming is
because she loves hearing them scream from delight, meaning she's eager to help
 people have fun and be happy for no reason beyond it feels good to help them enjoy
themselves.
 An Ice Person: While corrupted, she's made of ice and lives in a cavern full of
snow and icicle-like formations. Oddly, she doesn't seem to have ice powers when
not corrupted, and instead uses her claws to carve ice.
 An Ice Suit: She's a Gem with ice powers and appears to be wearing a coat, thick
scarf, and boots. In her initial uncorrupted appearance, she was depicted wearing a
parka.
 In-Universe Nickname: Bismuth calls her "Little Larimar" when she sees her
bubbled gem in "Made of Honor".
 Jagged Mouth: Likely a remnant from her corruption. Her teeth beneath it look
pretty normal, however.
 Loves the Sound of Screaming: It's mercifully less creepy than most examples as
she considers human screams of excitement to be her favorite sound, with human
laughter coming close. Conversely, she doesn't love screams of terror.
 MacGuffin Guardian: She prevents the Crystal Gems from reaching the Shooting
Star, a powerful artifact found deeper inside the mountain.
 Monster of the Week: Of "Monster Buddies", though her bubbled gem makes a
few minor appearances.
 Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: She is a tad too enthusiastic about making
people scream (on the roller coaster).
 Shout-Out: While corrupted, her body bears resemblance to a Freezie from
the Super Mario Bros. franchise, down to the jagged mouth.
 Spiky Hair: If that's actually hair, much like the Simpsons children, she doesn't
have a hairline.
 Sleepyhead: Amethyst kicks her off the baseball team for taking a nap in the
middle of the infield.
 Was Once a Man: She was a corrupted Crystal Gem, but has since become
uncorrupted.
    Bixbite (Crab Monster) 

Bixbite
 Click here for her corrupted form. 

A large Gem creature resided on Beach City's beach. The Quidd trading card app
◊ labels her gem as Aventurine, but her name was later revealed as Bixbite. She works
at Fish Stew Pizza in Steven Universe: Future.

 Cyclops: She has one eye.

 Expy: Ian Jones-Quarterly admitted on a podcast that he'd subconsciously made
her uncorrupted form one of Darrell from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
 Giant Enemy Crab: In her corrupted form, she closely resembled a crab and was
something like five meters tall.
 Go for the Eye: Her huge eye was her obvious weak spot when she was
corrupted.
 Mini Mook: While corrupted, she could summon tiny versions of herself, one of
which pinched Ronaldo's hand.
 Power Pincers: Her right hand stayed a claw after the de-corruption. Normally
this wouldn't be a problem, but it turns out, she's quite clumsy with it when Steven
puts her into the position of selling balloons.
 Supreme Chef: According to Steven, the pizzas she was cutting are the best he's
ever seen, and she's shown skillfully chopping multiple ingredients at once to top
them.
 The Voiceless: Interestingly, in spite of having a decent-sized role in "Guidance",
she didn't speak a word.
    Snowflake Obsidian 

Snowflake Obsidian
Voiced by: Ian Jones-Quartey
One of the original Crystal Gems, who was corrupted by the Diamonds' attack, though
what she became is unclear.

 Ambiguous Situation: What she looked like when she was corrupted is never
shown.
 An Ice Person: She can create ice.
 Bare Your Midriff: Her outfit has a crop-top and a bikini bottom, creating this
effect.
 Cute Giant: She's absolutely gigantic, being one of the largest Gems in the series
that isn't either a fusion or a Diamond.
 Eyes Always Shut: Her one eye is shut in most of her appearances.
 Eyepatch of Power: One of her eyes is covered by a white shooting star-like
mark on her face, giving her this kind of look.
 Platonic Life-Partners: Seems to be this with Larimar, since they are mostly seen
together. This makes sense, since they were both Crystal Gems and share an
interest in ice.
 Tomboyish Voice: Has a very deep and raspy voice provided by a man.
 Verbal Tic: Sometimes uses the word "snow" in the place of other words.
    Biggs Jasper (Orange Great North Monster) 

Biggs Jasper
 Click here for her corrupted form 

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (corrupted)

One of the original Crystal Gems, who was corrupted by the Diamonds' attack and
became the Orange Great North Monster. Jasper tried to use her as part of her
Corrupted Gem army, but she was poofed and bubbled in "Crack the Whip".

 100% Adoration Rating: Bismuth describes her as "loved by everyone", which is

shown further in "Change Your Mind" during the uncorrupting scene: Biggs pops up
from the pool, confused - and despite the music playing over any potential dialogue,
Bismuth is clearly seen mouthing "BIGGS!" upon seeing her, then dives headfirst into
the pool for a tackle hug.
 Art Evolution: Her gem was way more detailed in her corrupted appearances,
which may be justified since the corruption might've warped it. It also went from
hexagonal to round.
 Baleful Polymorph: Along with all the other Corrupted Gems, her body and mind
were warped beyond recognition.
 Blinding Bangs: Much like Sapphire, her eyes are covered over by her hair.
 The Bus Came Back: When she was corrupted, she washed back ashore
in "Crack the Whip" with the Snow Monster after previously appearing in "Gem Hunt".
Amethyst poofs her and sent to the temple, but Jasper takes the Snow Monster. She
reappears in "Made of Honor" when Bismuth sets her free, unaware that she's no
longer the Biggs she knew.
 Eyeless Face: In her corrupted form, her head had no visible eyes or nose, being
basically just a mouth with horns. Consequently, she appeared to go mostly by
sound. She does have eyes underneath her hair, as shown in "Volleyball" when
cracking her gem results in an eyeball being on her finger.
 In-Series Nickname: Is referred to as just "Biggs" by Bismuth.
 It Can Think: While corrupted, she retained enough intelligence to communicate
with Ocean Jasper and split up while fleeing to throw off their pursuers.
 Nice Girl: Bismuth describes her as being a friendly and extremely well-liked
Crystal Gem.
 The Noseless: She doesn't have a nose.
 The Power of Friendship: She and Ocean Jasper seemed to be looking out for
each other while corrupted.
 Throw the Dog a Bone: She gets uncorrupted in "Change Your Mind" along with
all the other corrupted Gems, and Bismuth responds by glomping her.
 Was Once a Man: She was a corrupted Gem, but has since become
uncorrupted.
    Ocean Jasper (Snow Monster) 

Ocean Jasper
 Click here for her corrupted form 

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (corrupted), Michaela Dietz ("Guidance"), Kimberly Brooks ("A Very Special
Episode")
One of the corrupted Jaspers found in the Great North. Jasper tried to use her as part of
her Corrupted Gem army, but she ran off after their failed fusion attempt in "Earthlings".

 A Day in the Limelight: She's prominent alongside one of the Nephrites and the
Heaven and Earth Beetles in "A Very Special Episode" and is the only one of the four
to have any speaking parts, though in a slight subversion not much is revealed about
her personality.
 Art Evolution: In her corrupted form, the gemstone was on the chest. It's
unknown if it simply moved of if she's hiding it under her clothes for some reason.
 Blinding Bangs: Like all of the uncorrupted Quartz, she has these.
 Eyeless Face: Like Biggs, her head has no visible eyes or nose, even after being
uncorrupted.
 Fusion Dance: Jasper forced Ocean Jasper to fuse with her in an attempt to
go One-Winged Angel against Smoky Quartz while she was corrupted. It backfired,
BIG TIME.
 It Can Think: While corrupted, she retained enough intelligence to communicate
with Biggs and split up while fleeing to throw off their pursuers.
 Mighty Roar: While corrupted, she lets out a roar that shakes the screen while
spitting out a steam cloud.
 The Noseless: She doesn't have a nose.
 The Power of Friendship: She and Biggs seemed to be looking out for each other
while corrupted.
 Was Once a Man: She was a corrupted Gem, but has since become
uncorrupted.
 Zettai Ryouiki: Similar to Yellow Pearl, she wears a leotard and boots that go
past her knees.
    Cherry Quartz 

Cherry Quartz
Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks
A Gem that Steven un-corrupts in "Little Homeschool".

 All There in the Script: Her name wasn't uttered in the show, but the fanbase
knows it due to one of the Crewniverse's Twitter.
 Audience Surrogate: Since she was only uncorrupted fairly recently compared to
the other corrupted gems, Steven tells her about everything that has changed since
her absence. Unfortunately, nothing he says makes sense to her at first.
 Demoted to Extra: After her introduction in the first episode, she only appeared in
the background for the rest of the series.
 Foil: To Jasper, given how both are muscular Quartzes who are seen interacting
with Steven. However, while Jasper is abrasive, self-absorbed and somewhat violent,
Cherry is somewhat approachable and adaptable. While Jasper has a wild mane and
asymmetric horns, Cherry's hair is tied up in a neat ponytail and her horns are neatly
placed on her head. And finally, while Jasper's colorscheme consists of harsh reds
and oranges, Cherry's is a friendly pink.
 Peek-a-Bangs: The only uncorrupted Quartz (besides Jasper) who doesn't
sport Blinding Bangs.
    Blue Lace Agate 

Blue Lace Agate

Voiced by: Michaela Dietz

 Hidden Depths: Apparently she's a good enough baker that Lars actually has her
take over his shop when he decides to go back to space.
 Non-Standard Character Design: Auditory example, she's the only full Agate in
Little Homeworld, but speaks with the voice of Michaela Dietz, who usually only
voiced Amethysts up to this point.
    Angel Aura Quartz 

Angel Aura Quartz

Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks
 Artistic License – Geology: Angel aura quartz and rainbow quartz are different
names for the same gemstone. Rainbow Quartz is also the name of the fusion
between Pearl and Rose Quartz or Steven. Though fusions are named after singular
Gem types, them looking nothing alike suggests they're supposed to be different
types.
    Zebra Jasper 

Zebra Jasper
Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks

 Cleavage Window: Subverted. The diamond-shaped object on her chest is

actually her gem.
 One Steve Limit: Shares her name with the fusion of Jasper and the corrupted
Ocean Jasper. Then again, the latter's name was never spoken on-screen and only

confirmed through a  Shrug of God.

    Crazy Lace Agate 

Crazy Lace Agate

A permafusion between two unknown Gems, Crazy Lace was a Crystal Gem that fought
in the war and was Corrupted by the Diamonds' attack on Earth. Her components were
later healed in "Change Your Mind", and she now resides in Little Homeworld.

 Fusion Dance: She is a fusion  of two Gems, presumably both quartz.

 Rollerblade Good: She can often be seen rollerskating, even while working at
Beach City Funland.
 Top-Heavy Guy: Her shoulders are broad and her arms are thicker then her legs,
given the appearance of her top half being larger than her bottom half.
 Unseen No More: Mentioned as early as "Bismuth", finally appeared in person in
"Change Your Mind" and was named in "Guidance".
    Lace Amethyst 

Lace Amethyst
 Non-Standard Character Design: The only Amethyst (or even Quartz in general)
to have blackish hair.
    Ruby Bodyguards 

Ruby Bodyguards
Voiced by: Charlyne Yi
Ruby Bodyguard 1
 Ruby Bodyguard 2
A pair of Homeworld Rubies that emigrated to Earth by Future, and are now employed
as Mayor Nanefua Pizza's bodyguards.

 Badass in a Nice Suit: Both of them wear black suits, which covers up the paler
Ruby's gem, on her left forearm.
 Happiness in Slavery: They didn't seem to have any issue being disposable
grunts on Homeworld, as they mainly work as bodyguards to feel like they still have
their old jobs.
 Identical Twin ID Tag: Their suits cover up their gemstones most of the time, but
they can still be told apart by one being a paler shade of red than the other.
 Playing with Fire: The redder Ruby set fire to a wad of money, a purse, the
boardwalk, and herself while employed as a flower deliverer.
    Nice Lapis Lazuli 

Freckled Lapis Lazuli

Voiced by: Jennifer Paz

A rogue Lapis Lazuli who enjoys terraforming worlds alongside her pal, "Mean" Lapis.
Later defects to Steven's side and joins Little Homeworld.

 Adorkable: She has her hair tied in a little ponytail, has Youthful Freckles and
briefly joins Steven and Lapis dancing until the Mean Lapis shoots a look at her.
 Affably Evil: Even though she likes destroying worlds, she is the nicer one
between her and Mean Lapis.
 All There in the Script: She's called "Nice" Lapis in the credits and closed
captions.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance : Her freckles resemble the gold speckles
which appear in some real lapis lazuli stones.
 Bare Your Midriff: As per usual with Lapis Lazulis.
 Beta Bitch: Takes the role of the ditzy, nicer assistant to Mean Lapis' Alpha
Bitch role.
 Defrosting Ice Queen: She does show an interest in dancing, unlike her
companion. She eventually visits Little Homeschool on Earth.
 Heel–Face Turn: At the end of "Why So Blue?", she reforms and arrives at Little
Homeschool.
 Minion with an F in Evil: It's made clear that she isn't actually malicious and likely
kept terraforming despite Steven's words because of her friend's influence.
 Obliviously Evil: Was honestly confused about how the Hostile
Terraforming she'd been doing her entire existence could suddenly be wrong.
 One-Shot Character: She only appears in "Why So Blue?".
 Youthful Freckles: She noticeably has freckles, and her demeanor is similar to
that of a teenager.

Pink Diamond
WARNING! This character is a Walking Spoiler. Potential unmarked spoilers for
season 5 and beyond!
Voiced by: Susan Egan
 Click here to see her mural. 

"No one can ever find out we did this. I never want to look back."

The youngest Diamond and the third mentioned in the series, prior to her appearance
she initially was only inferred due to differences in symbols in the background of various
episodes — older Gem locations have a symbol with white, blue, yellow, and pink
Diamonds forming a larger diamond, newer ones have a triangular arrangement of
white, blue, and yellow triangles. The third season confirms that she did exist, was the
ruler of Earth when it was a Gem colony, and that Rose Quartz allegedly shattered her
to liberate the Earth. The fifth season reveals what her relationship with the other
Diamonds was like, and shows the true circumstances behind her supposed shattering.

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 100% Adoration Rating:

o While not the most powerful or feared Diamond, many Era I Gems, even those
serving under other Diamonds, loved her. note Given that she was a Benevolent Boss unlike her
"mother" and "sisters", this is justified.
o She is also this to Gemkind in general. Aside from the ones who don't know
her, every gem, Crystal Gem or Homeworld Gem, loves (or at least admires) at least one of her
two (three if you include Steven) identities. Being an All-Loving Hero likely helps. Even Spinel
still loves her, though she was angry at Pink when she abandoned Spinel for Earth and decided
to destroy Earth as revenge, but Spinel got over it eventually.
o The Diamonds rule using fear. Those that follow them do so because they will be
shattered (killed) if they fail to fulfill the role they were created for, or even for simply going
against the social order. Pink Diamond was the exception to this, as the Gems that knew and
were loyal to her followed her out of love and respect rather than fear.
 Accidental Hero: When she gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven, all she
wanted him to do was to live happily and a good life. However, From a Certain Point of View,
she also finally established peace between Homeworld and Earth, gave the Homeworld
Gems more rights to their own individuality, repaired the Diamonds' bond and caused them to
undergo a Heel–Face Turn as she did, freed Pink Pearl from White Diamond's control,
allowed Pearl to finally move on from her, and caused the Corrupted Gems to finally be
cured. There's no doubt that she would be proud of Steven for this.
 Adorable Evil Minions: More like Adorable Evil Leaders. Despite being a Diamond, she's
depicted as cuter than the others. After her Heel–Face Turn, the "Evil" part is taken out,
though even before her turn it would be a stretch to call her "evil".
 Adorkable:
o She shows shades of this, worshipping Yellow and messing with her control
panel or jumping straight off a tower rather bothering to use stairs because she's excited. Even
as Rose, she gets ridiculously excited over just about anything new, geeking out over living on
Earth, hanging out with her "fellow" Quartzes, and seeing a fusion of two different Gems for the
first time.
o In "Legs From Here to Homeworld", it's demonstrated that she was hilariously
awful at driving her own leg ship (a deliberate contrast from Blue and Yellow's arm ships) when
Steven awkwardly steers his way into the bay to take off for Homeworld. He apologizes to Pearl
and the other Diamonds, saying that his mother/Pink was probably more graceful than he is at
driving the ship, and all Pearl can say is a fond "Heh. No... not really." All the while Yellow has
her eyes shut in exasperation while Blue simply has a goofy grin on her face remembering
Pink's antics.
o According to Pearl and the flashback-dream from "Together Alone", she is also
fond of juggling.
 Adult Fear:
o For the Diamonds, their little sister died thanks to a rogue criminal whom they
assumed wasn't a threat, and they destroyed everyone who aided her in revenge. On Pink
Diamond's side, she felt so misunderstood and ignored by her sisters that she faked her death
to win freedom for herself and the Crystal Gems. She then spent the rest of her life living with
the knowledge that it got nearly all of her friends effectively killed.
o Pink spent much of her life isolated from Gems that she could call friends, with
one taken away and punished for something she did.
 All-Loving Heroine: Heartwarmingly enough, this is what she becomes after her Heel–
Face Turn. She loved Earth and its inhabitants even though they serve no purpose to her,
and even secretly rebelled against the other Diamonds to protect them. This is a trait she
passes onto her other identity, Rose and her son, Steven.
  Alternative Character Interpretation: In-universe, the Diamonds and Crystal Gems
have very different perspectives on Pink and her legacy. Garnet describes her as cruel,
cowardly, and cold, like the other Diamonds, in "Your Mother and Mine". Garnet also claims
that Rose only killed Pink as a last resort when reasoning with Pink didn't save the Earth, and
when the Crystal Gems were fighting in the war. Her subordinates like Jasper and Eyeball
have a 100% Adoration Rating for her and think of her as The High Queen. And Yellow and
Blue Diamond meanwhile treated Pink like an Annoying Younger Sibling who couldn't grow
up. Understandably, Steven is confused. We later find out that she passed herself off as a
Rose Quartz, and for all her faults, she genuinely did want to save the Earth and its
inhabitants, though Garnet (or rather, Sapphire) still held on to her belief that Pink was an evil
tyrant and genuinely believed Rose to be the same upon finding out since they were the
same person, only for Steven and Pearl to help Sapphire realize that she was thinking
backwards and changes her interpretation of Pink Diamond altogether. White Diamond tries
to break Steven's spirit by saying that he only exists as a human vessel for Pink, and she
surrounded herself with "flawed" Gems to make herself the best of the bunch and that she
didn't really care about anyone. Fortunately, Steven proves her wrong by showing he is his
own person.
 Always Someone Better: Despite being a Diamond and therefore, in theory, an equal to
Yellow and Blue, she was, in fact, the lowest one on the Diamond status and she would
perpetually find herself overshadowed and overruled by her sisters, who forced her to run
Earth how they wanted.
 Ambiguous Situation:
o The events of "The Trial" turn her supposed demise into one. The observations
done by Blue Zircon, mainly that she died close to her palanquin, and the info revealed by Blue
Diamond, who says she was shattered by Rose's sword, which can only poof gems and not shatter
them, makes it clear that Rose was scapegoated, and that a fellow Diamond is a more likely
culprit, but everything else is thrown into question. Steven is also confused when Stevonnie
while asleep receives a vision from Pink's point-of-view. He only can do that with living beings
(although gem shards are still semi-alive). In "A Single Pale Rose", we get to see what
happened. Pink Diamond was Rose Quartz, an identity she took on because the other
Diamonds wouldn't let her spare Earth. She conspired with her Pearl to have herself "shattered"
as Pink Diamond and live on as Rose Quartz in order to break the Diamond resistance to her
rebellion. She made and swallowed some fake gem shards to be a "body" left behind, and had
Pearl shapeshift into Rose Quartz, poof her with Rose's Sword, and secretly swipe her gem.
o Considering that Pink faked her death once to shed the Pink Diamond persona
forever, and then gave up her Rose Quartz form to have Steven, it's unclear if Pink Diamond
was suicidal or if she really believed she was making a sacrifice for the greater good. There is
the fact that Pink wanted to become Rose Quartz permanently, effectively "killing" her old
identity. It's also been noted that Pink was really excited and eager about faking her death,
though she claimed it was so that she and the Crystal Gems could win their freedom and save
the Earth from Blue and Yellow's colonization. Steven questioned Cloud!Rose about how she
just "disappeared" and left him with her problems, and Pearl doesn't understand why Rose
would give up her form when all the Crystal Gems loved her.
 Ambiguously Evil:
o She was clearly a brat, but there's no real malice behind her actions, just
childishness. A lot of her behavior also seems to stem from being treated as inferior by her
maternal figure, Yellow Diamond. It is worth noting that the Rose Quartz line (which she
created) is the only Gem type which has healing and defense as their Gem power while other
Quartzes (like Amethyst and Jasper) are more geared towards offensive assaults. Garnet
describes her as an Evil Overlord in "Your Mother and Mine", but we have yet to see first-hand
proof of it.
o It's later revealed that she is Rose, and faked her death in the hopes that the
other Diamonds would leave Earth alone. Though this just opens another can of worms about
what her motivations actually were, or how she viewed other people. It's later revealed that
she didn't realize the damage creating Gems did to the planet until she saw it herself.
 Annoying Younger Sibling: Downplayed and deconstructed. While she often annoyed
Yellow and Blue by constantly begging them to give her her own colony, she was also the
only thing that truly made them happy, with her games and silly actions lightening up their
mood and making them laugh. Unfortunately, this ensured that they (especially Yellow) don't
take her seriously, even dismissing her pleas to spare the Earth, causing her to leave them
by faking her death and deciding to live on Earth.
 Anti-Gravity Clothing: The white pom-poms on her feet look like they're floating and don't
seem to be attached to anything.
 Anti-Villain: Even at her worst moments, Pink was not a completely bad person; the
worst you could say about her was that she was an insensitive, needy Spoiled Brat. She
drops the "Villain" part completely after her Heel–Face Turn.
 Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: She was already practically a deity. Yet in the
most cosmic inversion of this trope possible, she became what she was enamored with — to
be human and experience change over time, she's half of Steven Universe.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
o Pink Diamond was the youngest Diamond at the time of her demise; her
appearance as shown in the "Jungle Moon" flashback and a keychain of her show that her
outfit, including poofy sleeves and pants, a tutu, and Tinkerbell-like shoes, makes her look
younger than the others.
o Her small size among the Diamonds and her ballerina motif also has elements of
the Pearls, who are basically tiny ballerina-like Gems and the lowest caste in the Gem
hierarchy. This adds some element to her assumption that her "sisters" didn't love her at all.
o Her Gem, unlike the other Diamonds, has a flat bottom, indicating that she was a
base of support for the Diamonds as well as the Crystal Gems and the family she made with
Greg and Steven, which may explain why she was depicted at the bottom of the old Diamond
logo. Remove that, and you shatter everything else. Her ship is also a pair of legs, compared to
Blue and Yellow's arms and White's head and torso. Without her, the other Diamonds can't
move on.
o Her old Diamond mural depicts her leaping up, reaching for Earth and its moon. It
represents her goal to have her first colony and falsely to control it by all means possible.
 The Baby of the Bunch: She is evidently the youngest of the Diamonds and the smallest,
and is around four-tenths Yellow and Blue's height. The first time we see her, she acts like a
whiny kid demanding stuff from her "sibling" Yellow, and her first colony wound up being her
last, but by her own choice.
 Badass Adorable: An Adorkable Cheerful Child, but still a Diamond. She masterminded
and personally led an army of rebel gems against her sisters, becoming feared as the most
powerful member of the rebellion, and subsequently faked her death, which fooled everyone.
 Bad Powers, Good People: "Change Your Mind" and "Volleyball" reveals that her Heel–
Face Turn was her destructive powers ended up hurting her first Pearl, whom she was close
friends with.
 Bare Your Midriff: Her dress has a pentagon-shaped cutout right where her belly would
be, which shows off her gem and is aligned with its profile.
 Becoming the Mask: She could never stand up to her older siblings Blue and Yellow in
protecting Earth's biosphere, but as her alias Rose Quartz, on the other hand... In the end,
she embraced this disguise as her new identity.
  Be Careful What You Wish For: Pink demanded an army and a colony from Yellow, as a
means of getting her attention. She got a colony of soldier-caste Quartz gems, but then one
of them killed her to protect the colony. Or so it seems. The real "be careful what you wish
for" part is that she wished she could stop the colonization of Earth once she saw it for
herself, allowing humans and outcast Gems to live there freely. She got what she wanted, but
not without a price...
 Beneath Suspicion: A variant; due to Pink being a Diamond, that is a supreme ruler with
a planet to colonize, Blue and Yellow never considered the possibility that Pink was
sabotaging herself so that her Rose Quartz identity could save the Earth. Defense Zircon
mentions that Pink's Agates, Sapphires, and Pearl should have seen Rose Quartz
approaching the Palanquin to shatter Pink, especially since it was an army, and only a
Diamond would have the authority to dismiss the Gem soldiers. Of course, even Defense
Zircon, when pointing out the holes in Pink's death, didn't consider that Pink might have
committed suicide — framing Rose Quartz for the deed — or faked her death — which is
what happened — and instead assumed that one of the other Diamonds staged an
assassination.
 Benevolent Boss: Compared to her sisters, she was this, especially in regards to her
Pearl, who's supposed to be her slave that she can boss around as much as she wants. She
effectively treats her Pearl as her friend than as her servant. It's shown most prominently
when Pink gives Pearl a bone-crushing hug as thanks for the idea to visit the Earth in
disguise, and later tells Pearl that it was good she saw what the colony would do to the
organic life. Yellow makes it clear that Pearls have to make their Gems happy, but Pink found
the truth more important. The way her Pebbles react to "her" return implies she was kind
even to the Gems she was expected to treat like objects. As Rose she genuinely intended to
give Earth to the Crystal Gems and humanity as a world to be free.
 Berserk Button:
o Don't ever underestimate her and her role as a Diamond. She gets better.
o After her Heel–Face Turn, don't ever interfere with her plans to save the Earth
and its organic life.
 Beware the Nice Ones: Implied. Her takeover of Earth wasn't too hostile, but "Jungle
Moon" has her angrily shatter a window in a fit of rage. Then we learn she was The
Chessmaster and created the Rose Quartz identity, managing to save the Earth while faking
her death.
 Big Bad Duumvirate: While she's the Token Good Teammate of the Great Diamond
Authority, it is shown that Pink is part of this along with Yellow, Blue, and White as
a Dysfunctional Family archetype.
 Big Fun: She takes on this appearance when in disguise as Rose Quartz, but not as
Pink Diamond herself.
 Big Sister Worship: The flashback in "Jungle Moon" has her excitedly watching Yellow
Diamond work. It's likely that she had this attitude towards Blue Diamond as well. That said,
she eventually becomes disillusioned with them and ended up secretly rebelling against
them. From what we see in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", it's easy to see why.
 Biomanipulation: Pink is able to alter both organic and Gem lifeforms in various ways.
She's used it to heal injuries, resurrect and empower recently deceased organic lifeforms,
give plants and animals (a greater amount of) intelligence and mobility, and even create new
life from non-living minerals (without the machines or ecologically devastating effects of a
Kindergarten).
 Bratty Half-Pint: Well, back when we first see her anyway, she was the Diamond
equivalent of a child, and if her tantrum at Yellow in the flashback of "Jungle Moon" is any
indication, she had some serious attitude problems when it came to things not going her way.
Granted, this was before she got Earth and it is not known how long ago that was. When we
 see her again in "A Single Pale Rose", it's clear she's grown out of it. "Now We're Only
Falling Apart" shows her growing out of it.
 Bratty Teenage Daughter: The flashback in "Jungle Moon" shows her acting like this in
front of Yellow by whining about wanting her own colony and chafing at having to listen to
Yellow, and she certainly looks like a young teenager in appearance. It's clear, however, that
she was only trying to get Yellow's attention. She eventually grows out of it.
 Break the Cutie:
o She has a moment of this when Blue and Yellow refused to let her spare the
Earth.
o In a dream sequence in "Change Your Mind", she tears up as she says "I know,
I'm sorry" to Blue after the latter scolds her for bringing caterpillar-like organic life to a ball.
 Broken Pedestal: She was initially loved by her subject Spinel, who constantly wanted to
be around her and waited 6,000 years for her to come back. However, after Spinel found out
that Pink abandoned her and replaced her with "other friends", she wanted revenge on Pink's
son, Steven.
 Cannot Keep a Secret: Back when Pink Pearl/"Volleyball" was her Pearl, she apparently
couldn't keep a secret to save her Gem. But after becoming Rose, she was too good at
keeping secrets, even from her second Pearl who was her confidant.
 The Chains of Commanding: Implied; while she is a Diamond, she never felt at ease in
the formal position of being higher ups to everyone else and preferred a more casual
relationship. This becomes more notable in her persona as Rose Quartz. Having led a
rebellion and the Pyrrhic Victory that followed, we see that leadership wore down on her
dramatically, as well as having to be the main support for the Crystal Gems. She had friends,
but she did not have an equal to really understand her until she met Greg. None of the Gems
appeared to have understood this.
 Character Development: While Yellow and Blue initially remain rather static in their roles,
Pink changes noticeably as we learn more about her. She goes from a needy spoiled child
who only cares about herself to developing a surprising amount of empathy for her
subjects and the life on Earth.
 Cheerful Child: For all the Spoiled Brat she presented herself as, Pink was happy to see
Yellow in the latter's control room and even seemed to worship her. It's clear where Steven
gets it from.
 Cheery Pink: Her name is Pink Diamond, and the flashbacks of "Jungle Moon" and "Now
We're Only Falling Apart" shows just how cheerful and excitable she could be (when she
wasn't angry).
 The Chessmaster: Rare benevolent example: she took the guise of Rose Quartz, which
fooled everyone and had Pearl help her fake her death so the Diamonds would leave Earth
alone. It didn't work, but she did have them fooled, along with all the Crystal Gems and
Homeworld Gems, and nobody, not even Defense Zircon, suspected a thing.
 Child Prodigy: Once allowed to have her chance to shine, she created the Rose Quartz
line, magical soldier Gems unlike any other in the universe. While this may be a case
of Skilled, but Naïve for her sisters (if they sincerely believe one of the latter killed her) they
were deemed more than worthy enough to be preserved by Blue, against Yellow's calls for
their shattering. She also flawlessly staged a fake rebellion against herself under Blue and
Yellow's noses, culminating in faking her own shattering and managing to keep the exact
truth hidden from everyone (except possibly White Diamond) for 6,000 years.
 Combat Medic: The power to heal other Gems, and even organics, is hers. This power
alone enabled her to simultaneously fight the courts of Blue and Yellow Diamond as well as
her own court as Rose Quartz.
 Compensating for Something: She only has one small planet in her mural, so of course
they made the circle that's behind her head three times the size of the circles that are behind
 the heads of the other Diamond murals. And unlike her gigantic sisters, she was only tall by
human standards.
 Create Your Own Hero: Literally. Pink Diamond is the creator of the entire Rose Quartz
Gem type and as a result, the Crystal Gem Rose who ultimately opposed and killed her. Or
so the official story goes. "The Trial" points out there's a lot of holes in that line of logic. And
then it turns out she was actually her own "hero".
 Create Your Own Villain: Spinel's antagonism was the result of Pink's own mistakes and
issues. She grew to be annoyed by Spinel's playfulness and exuberant behavior, so she
ordered Spinel to remain behind in the garden and promised she'll be back. However,
thousands of years later, Spinel learning what happened caused her to snap.
 Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Pink was evidently the most lighthearted and silly of
the Diamonds, regularly doing nonsensical things for the others' entertainment. She was also
seen as the family screw-up, unable to conform to even the simplest of her caste's behavioral
standards. The Diamonds wrote her off as a silly, immature fool who never learned her place,
eventually distrusting her leadership skills to the point of stripping her of her authority in all
but name, completely dismissing her as powerless in comparison to them and feeling free to
manhandle and push her around as they wished in the hopes that she would conform. Pink
spent the entire thousand-year war against the Rebellion a seemingly powerless Puppet
Queen under the control and supervision of Yellow and Blue Diamond. But in actuality, she
was the mastermind of the entire Crystal Gem Rebellion, fooling the other Diamonds,
subjects and allies alike for the purpose of sparing the Earth from Gem terraformation and
freeing those suffering under the Gem caste system from their subjugation. And despite
her and her son's cheerful and free-spirited disposition, lack of offensive powers, and the
ease with which her sisters felt they could push her around, Pink Steven proves that Pink's
defensive powers, if ever actually turned against her sisters, would have made Pink a No-
Sell Stone Wall even against all three other Diamonds combined. This was hinted at earlier,
though, as Rose was able to shield Pearl, Garnet, and herself from the Diamonds' corruption
blast.
 Cynicism Catalyst: She was this for the Diamonds literally and figuratively; her death
"shattered" the old Diamond logo formation and left Yellow and Blue psychological
wrecks. Her alter-ego as Rose Quartz was also this for the surviving Crystal Gems, who still
struggle to move on after she had Steven.
 Dark Is Not Evil: Her Pink Diamond clothing possesses darker shades of pink, but she is
ultimately responsible for protecting humanity by faking both her death and the Gem War.
 David vs. Goliath: Pink would never be able to beat any of her sisters or their mother-
figure in a straight fight. First, she and the other Diamonds would never want to hurt each
other, and besides which Yellow and Blue easily manhandle her and don't consider her
brattiness worth their time. She became a Guile Heroine as Rose Quartz to use war
strategies to save the Earth, but eventually decided to fake her death as a last resort.
 Death by Irony: Pink wanted a planet and an army of her own above all else. Lo and
behold, once she gets said planet (Earth) and an army (in the form of Rose Quartz's line), a
member of the army supposedly killed her in order to protect the planet she used to
own. Except that it all was a ruse planned by Pink and Pearl to fake the former's death so
she could take the identity of Rose Quartz and set themselves and the whole colony free
from the authority of the other Diamonds.
 Death Seeker: Implied. She seems overly happy about the idea of faking her death,
even though her reasons are so that she, Pearl and the Crystal Gems can win their freedom
and save the Earth. Pearl in the meantime is trying to logically reason out how much this
would change the status quo, because if everyone thinks Pink is dead, then Pink would lose
her status and Pearl her purpose. Pink can only see the positive side of that, while Pearl is
uncomfortable and sobbing after she poofs Pink.
  Deceased Parents Are the Best: Other than her other identity Rose being this for
Steven, it's implied that her former court members saw her like this. Except that she
was never really shattered.
 Delinquent Hair: Subverted. While her mural depiction shows her with what looks to be a
spiky mohawk, which looks more like a smaller version of White Diamond's hair in Garnet's
flashback, it's actually an in-universe example of Artistic License. Pink's actual hair is very
poofy.
 Defector from Decadence: She essentially went from being one of four unquestioned
leaders of an intergalactic empire to a quartz among renegades on a planet left ruined but
capable of being rebuilt — partially because she was tired of being treated like she was
nothing by her own family (they actually loved her but saw her as a bratty, naïve kid), and
partially because she loved Earth too much to let it be used by Homeworld. Odds are the
Crystal Temple was a downgrade and she could not be happier.
 Determinator: She would never leave the Earth in peace, as it was her colony. This
allegedly left her rebelling subject Rose, unable to drive her off the planet, with no choice. Or
actually the other way around: she was willing to slander her own name, fight against her
own sisters, and even fake her own death to make the other Gems leave Earth in peace.
Needless to say, once she got an idea in her head, no one else could make her back down.
 Despair Event Horizon: In "Can't Go Back", Steven has a past vision of Blue Diamond
scolding Pink for her supposed ungratefulness and attempts to sway the others into giving up
on colonizing Earth, while Yellow stands coldly with her back towards Pink. After Blue and
Yellow leave, Pink continues standing in her spot with her head bowed, looking the most
depressed than she had ever been, not noticing her Pearl approaching her with Rose's
sword, presumably to give it to her.
 Died Happily Ever After: From what we know, Pink Diamond didn't regret giving up her
physical form and life to have Steven. She said she was looking forward to him being born
and to experience life. Cloud!Rose emphasizes to Steven that it wasn't a lie.
 Dirty Coward: Her asking for help from the other Diamonds to handle the situation on
Earth is seen as a cowardly move by Garnet. Seemingly subverted with the fact
that she created the situation herself and that Yellow and Blue offered Unwanted
Assistance to her. However, Homeworld Gems like Eyeball ironically also refer to her other
identity as a coward, and Steven does wonder if all she did was run away from her mistakes.
 Double Weapon: Held a pair of double-ended Gem destabilizers during the one known
time she decided to face off against the Crystal Gems. One of them appears among her
possessions in "Familiar".
 Dual Wielding: The flashback in "Gemcation" depicts her holding a pair of double-
ended destabilizers while facing off against a small group of Crystal Gems, including Pearl,
Garnet, and Bismuth.
 Dude, Where's My Respect?:
o Despite being a Diamond, she was at best treated as an annoying child rather
than as an equal — at least by Yellow. It gave her anger issues.
o In "Can't Go Back", Blue and Yellow had effectively taken control of the colony
efforts during the Rebellion. This led her to believe that they didn't care for her at all, and she
ended up faking her death in the hopes that they would leave Earth alone like she had tried to
get them to. In "Now We're All Falling Apart", she literally got on her knees and begged her
sisters to let her spare the Earth when she realized what the Gem terraforming would do to the
Earth. Yellow flat out told her to continue her work, while Blue created the Human Zoo as a way
to compensate her. Pink got fed up, so she created the persona of Rose Quartz — somebody
they couldn't ignore.
o "Together Alone" only continues this trend. In Blue and Yellow's eyes, their
beloved sister has been presumed dead for thousands of years and they still just think of her as
an annoying child. Despite Pink supposedly being one of the almighty Diamonds, they can still
openly chastise her, threaten and hurt her friends, and toss her in a dark room for what they
perceive as poor behavior. Note that it isn't actually Pink, but Steven/Stevonnie, who they
assume to be her.
o "Change Your Mind" has Blue outright attack Steven, whom she still believes to
be Pink, when he pushes her too far, proving just how much she looks down on Pink. Steven
later makes Blue realize that her treatment of Pink was caused her to abandon Blue and the
other Diamonds. While Blue has her Heel Realization, she can never truly apologize to Pink for
what she had done, since Pink is truly gone.
 Dramatic Irony: She assumed that the other Diamonds wouldn't care what happens to
her if she would get shattered and they would be more focused on the Earth. Long after her
supposed "shattering", it's shown that despite their harsh treatment, the Diamonds did
genuinely care about her, as they're both continuing to grieve over her.
    E-J 

 Earn Your Happy Ending: For what it's worth, Pink ended up living and dying on her
terms, with the Gems and humans she loved on Earth. She had freedom, choices, and the
ability to set her own identity. Then, as Rose, she found true love with Greg, and gained
maturity by learning from him. The hitch is that no one else' got to enjoy that happy ending until
Steven fixed everything as a teenager: the Diamonds were still mourning her faked
assassination, and the Crystal Gems would follow suit when Rose Quartz died, there were
still many corrupted Gems would remain unhealed, and the Homeworld Gems still had to
suffer under Homeworld's ways.
 Easily Forgiven: Upon finding out that Pink grew fond of organic life and faked her
shattering to save the Earth, which caused them to grieve for millennia over nothing, Yellow,
Blue, and all of Homeworld are just happy to have her back (as Steven), and Yellow only
expresses slight frustration by her betrayal at first. This seems to be the case with White on
the surface, but her tone, unwillingness (or lack of care) to listen to Steven/"Pink", and how
quickly she shuffles him off to Pink's room suggest otherwise. In "Change Your Mind", it turns
out that Yellow is actually very aware that Pink "abandoned" her and Blue, but
eventually realizes why Pink chose to leave her.
 Entertainingly Wrong: Subverted. When she ordered her Pearl to never reveal that Rose
Quartz was once Pink Diamond, she assumed that if she were ever outed that she'd be
forced to resume her old form and they would have to return to their old life. Which seems
like a logical conclusion given how Blue and Yellow are a Control Freak duo, but Pink
underestimated how hated Rose Quartz would become, let alone at how much the Diamonds
would be affected by her death. If she had lifted the Geas before Steven was born, Steven
and Pearl could have avoided so much anguish. Then we find out that she was Properly
Paranoid; the minute Steven is outed as Pink Diamond and decides to return to Homeworld,
he has to take on Pink's duties in an attempt to change White's mind and save the corrupted
Gems; and the minute he does something unDiamond-like — dancing and then fusing with
Connie — Yellow and Blue become a pair of Abusive Parents and he's locked away in a
tower.
 Et Tu, Brute?: This is what Blue Zircon believes to be behind Pink Diamond's death
in "The Trial" — because Pink Diamond died so near her palanquin on Earth, Blue Zircon
deduces that she could've only been shattered by someone close and important enough that
her, her army, court, and her Pearl to have all lowered their guards to let the assassin get
close enough to strike. Considering Diamonds only act so casually around each other, Zircon
 concludes that the only way that Pink could've been shattered was if one of the
Diamonds betrayed her. However, none of them thought of the possibility that Pink herself
planned her "shattering" to occur, meaning it was actually the other way around; Pink was the
one who betrayed the Authority, not any of them.
 Even Evil Can Be Loved: Both Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond are still grieving her
death despite it happening millennia ago. Blue Zircon theorizes in "The Trial" that Pink
Diamond was not betrayed and killed by one of her own court, but by another Diamond like
herself, but it turns out that the "killer" was Pink herself. However, while Blue, Yellow, and
White did love Pink, they did not respect her, much to her dismay.
 Everyone Has Standards: She, a Diamond who was beloved by all and had demands of
her own colony out of a need to be treated equally, became horrified at how their colonization
efforts just ravaged the lands and left destruction in their wake.
 Evil Counterpart:
o The only other pink-colored Gem known aside from Rose Quartz, and both had
their Gems located in their navels. However, while Pink Diamond wanted to turn the Earth into
another Gem colony, Rose fought to protect the planet. Later, it's revealed that they're actually
the same person, making this a subversion.
o If you think about it, the Pink Diamond depicted in "Your Mother and Mine" by
Garnet is the Evil Counterpart of the actual Pink Diamond.
o On the other hand, her first appearance in "Jungle Moon" paints Pink as one
to Steven, both being the youngest, most inexperienced member of their respective
"families" and desperate to prove themselves and be taken seriously. However, while Steven is
an Adorably Precocious Child who wants to help people, Pink is a Bratty Teenage
Daughter who wanted to be an Evil Overlord. And while Pink Diamond is all too willing to
abandon Spinel, Steven was instead willing to help her.
o She also has one of her own making in Spinel. Both were young looking pink
gems who loved having fun and making people happy. They were also seen as entertainers
and viewed jesters of a sort. However, with Spinel, that was her purpose. Designed to be the
entertaining best friend and content with her purpose. Pink Diamond meanwhile grew to see it
as demeaning as she felt she was not being treated by a real Diamond with her feelings being
disregarded by the other Diamonds. As such, when she left to her colony, she left Spinel
behind and the time and revelations afterward cause Spinel to snap. In an odd way, Spinel
could be seen as what could've happened to Pink Diamond if her frustrations overwhelmed her.
 Evil Matriarch: All the Diamonds are this is some capacity, but Pink Diamond even more
so, seeing as she created Rose Quartz's entire Gem Type and all Earth-born Gems, and
thus the closest thing Rose, Amethyst and others had to a mother figure until "A Single Pale
Rose", where it is learned that she and Rose were the same person, and she was really
more of a well-meaning screw-up of a parent than an actually evil one.
 Evil Overlord: She was the ruler of the Earth during its time as a Gem colony. This is the
reason Rose had to kill her to save the planet according to Garnet. Subverted when we learn
that Pink was the High Queen for her colony, and assumed Rose Quartz's façade until
ultimately faking her death with Pearl's help.
Eyeball: The Earth was Pink Diamond's colony. Everything was going smoothly at first. Kindergartens were
incubating their first soldiers. Big warm pieces of quartz, like this mound over here, were being created from its
rich minerals with great success. Then, BAM! One of Pink Diamond's very own Quartz soldiers started a
rebellion and took it too far.

 Exotic Eye Designs: Like all other Diamonds, she has diamond-shaped pupils.
 Extreme Doormat: Played With. She certainly wouldn't let the other Diamonds push her
around and even talks back at them, but she still has to do what they say because they're
 more powerful than her. So she created Rose Quartz as an identity to actively push back
against them when they wouldn't allow her to abandon her colony. On the other hand, she
doesn't mind being a doormat to her subjects. Eventually, it's revealed that the last time she
tried Growing A Spine, she went overboard and threw a tantrum that awakened her
destructive powers and scarred Pink Pearl, resulting in her self-esteem plummeting and
becoming more submissive.
 Faking the Dead: She and Rose are one and the same, and she had Pearl poof her and
grab her Gem, leaving behind fake Gem shards she'd swallowed to make it seem like she'd
been shattered. She'd hoped that the Diamonds would leave the Earth alone after that, but
things didn't work out like she'd planned.
 Famous Last Words: In a sense, before Pearl poofs her and she takes on the identity of
Rose Quartz for good.
Pink: No one can ever find out we did this. I never want to look back. So, for my last order to you as a Diamond:
please, let's never speak of this again. No one can know.

 Fatal Flaw: Pink's flaws was her determination to prove herself, her well-meaning but
ignorant attitude, and to prove she is worthy of love and respect while believing Yellow and
Blue don't care about her. She gets a colony, and decides she loves it so much that she's
going to save it. Going from one extreme to the other, no longer selfish she became selfless,
tragically underestimating how much Yellow and Blue loved her, so much that they almost
destroyed the Earth in revenge. She underestimates how much the Crystal Gems and Greg
love her as they are, and causes them to grieve when she sacrifices herself to give birth to
Steven.
 Fist of Rage: After being scolded by Yellow Diamond for demanding an army and a
planet, Pink forms one of these after walking towards a glass wall, before punching it with
said arm, cracking it in pieces and showing a shattered reflection of Pink Diamond as
well, foreshadowing her eventual Faking the Dead.
 Five Stages of Grief: It's made clear that she's in the Acceptance stage of not having her
own colony and having to live in the shadow of her fellow Diamonds and has been for
thousands of years. The flashback in "Jungle Moon" depicts her as being in the Anger and
Bargaining stages.
 Flower Motifs: Associated with pink flowers, particularly Hibiscus syriacus, the national
flower of South Korea where she was supposedly shattered. A bush with pink flowers has
grown around her abandoned palanquin, the palanquin itself is shaped like a flower, her zoo
has flower symbols on its walls, hibiscus vines climb around the pillars in her garden,
the signing poster  for San Diego Comic-Con 2017 represents her with a pink flower, and
the SDCC 2016 signing poster ◊ shows Jasper wearing a hibiscus to show her connection
to Pink Diamond while Steven and Greg wear roses to show their connection to Rose
Quartz. Tying into how she is an alternate identity of Rose Quartz, Hibiscus syriacus is
commonly called Rose of Sharon or Rose Mallow. In "A Single Pale Rose", Pink gives Pearl a
pink hibiscus, a single pale rose.
 Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Yellow and Blue (responsible) and Pink
(foolish). After Pink's Heel–Face Turn, the roles are reversed. Later revealed to be
deconstructed as Blue and Yellow's condescending treatment of Pink for supposedly being
ungrateful led to the Crystal Gem rebellion and her "death".
 Frame-Up: Her last-ditch attempt to save the Earth was to ask her Pearl to shapeshift
into Rose Quartz and poof her, leaving behind fake Diamond shards. In other words, Pink
framed her Secret Identity for the murder of herself.
 Freudian Excuse:
o From what was seen in "Jungle Moon", it appears Pink's attachment to Earth as
a colony was to help prove herself worthy to her "big sis" (or maternal figure) Yellow, and
her seeming lack of respect for humanity and other organic life likely came from watching
Yellow previously order the extermination of organic life without caring. It's worth noting that
Pink was responsible for the Rose Quartz line of Gems, whose sole representative seen has
been shown to have a very supportive and motherly personality.
o As of the revelations in "A Single Pale Rose", it seems that Yellow Diamond's
aloof nature and Blue ignoring/misunderstanding her wish to spare Earth helped convince her
that the other Diamonds didn't care about her personally and would retreat after she faked her
death, instead of taking revenge.
o While her early life has yet to be seen, the only person who knew her personally
besides the other Diamonds was her Pearl, and she appeared to have constantly been ignored
or told Not Now, Kiddo by the other Diamonds. Her issues with understanding the emotions of
others and being Innocently Insensitive make more sense when you realize that her family
constantly ignored her and what she thought/wanted, and the only person she could really talk
to was her personal servant/slave.
o In "Greg the Babysitter", it's implied that she admires humans for being able to
change themselves physically and mentally because she, as a Diamond, was born into her
role, and no amount of shapeshifting was going to change that. This is what largely led to her
decision of having Steven, so she could see what it's like to live as a human.
o It's implied that her desire to give all Gems the freedom to do what they wanted
stemmed from having her friendship with her first Pink Pearl fall apart because the other
Diamonds forbade such relations. When they caught Pink and her Pearl goofing off like close
friends, they told White Diamond, who permanently turned Pink Pearl into White Pearl and
gave Pink a sycophantic replacement Pearl.
o The reason for her Thou Shalt Not Kill policy, even when it was illogical, was
because in a fit of anger she hurt her first Pearl by accident and was horrified by what she did.
Pink as herself and as Rose never forgave herself for that.
 Fun Personified: In "Familiar", Yellow notes that Pink always managed to make her
laugh. Pearl also explained to Steven that she threw huge parties to celebrate the Diamonds'
achievements, and knew how to juggle balls. Deconstructed since it meant she was expected
to be like this and her sisters did not think she had it in her to be more, which caused a large
chasm between Pink and the rest of the Diamonds.
 Gambit Roulette: Faking her death turns out to be this in hindsight. After begging Yellow
and Blue to let her stop the Earth colony, starting the Crystal Gem rebellion, and fighting an
increasingly bloody war, she basically took Bismuth's rage filled suggestion that "all our
problems could be solved if we just shattered a Diamond!" and staged her own death by
swallowing some fake diamond shards, and then having Pearl shapeshifted to look like Rose
poof her... in a place Rose could never reach without alerting Pink's entire court, with a sword
that can't shatter any Gem, let alone a Diamond. As Defense Zircon points out during
Steven's trial, the whole thing seems like a sloppy attempt to frame Rose Quartz.
 Gemstone Assault: Subverted, as Pink showed some ability to create/modify non-living
crystal pieces, but the only instance we see wasn't for a combat situation. She managed to
turn some dirt into fake Gem shards and swallowed them to make it look like she was
shattered when Pearl poofed her.
 Genki Girl: In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", she's so thrilled that she can't wait to see
how the colony of Quartzes will turn out, and later on, when she decides to shapeshift
and disguise herself as one of them, she is so bubbling with enthusiasm at seeing the colony
and Earth that her Pearl has to help keep her emotions in check.
  Gentle Giant: She's noticeably taller than the average Gem, and turns out to be Good All
Along in "A Single Pale Rose".
 The Ghost: She had only been described and portrayed in art until she appeared
in "Jungle Moon" in a flashback dream with Yellow Diamond. Okay, she's actually had
multiple flashbacks to herself as Rose Quartz, but her Pink Diamond identity was this for a
while.
 God Is Good: She's the only Diamond who was a Benevolent Boss to her people, and
ultimately was willing to give up all her prestige and greatness to save Earth.
 Good All Along: Pink Diamond wasn't trying to crush the Crystal Gems' rebellion,
she started it.
 The Good King: She was adored by her subjects on Earth and her concern for the
planet's living beings was so strong that it ultimately pushed her to fake her death, assume
the identity of Rose Quartz, and rebel against Homeworld.
 Good Costume Switch: When she goes from her pink ballet entourage to the Rose
Quartz persona in a white dress, with a steaming Death Glare, you know she means to
fight to save the Earth.
 Gone Horribly Right:
o The only part of faking her death to end the war early that ended up working was
that the Diamonds and their armies came to believe that Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond,
and the only person who can tell the truth was put under a Geas. Unfortunately, the "death" of
one of their own drives the Diamonds into attacking Earth directly, ending the war by
annihilating nearly all the combatants. It also means that her former soldiers — Jasper and
Eyeball — try to murder Steven when they mistake him for Rose. Then when Steven turns
himself in and says he is his mother, the Diamonds put him on trial for murdering Pink with a
helpless Pearl unable to say otherwise.
o Her plan to leave Spinel behind was this as well. She told Spinel to play a stand
still game, and left her behind in a remote garden... and never returned. She ended up standing
in place for 6,000 years, only to find out Pink was gone, causing her to snap.
 Got the Whole World in My Hand: A variant; all of the murals in the moonbase have the
other three Diamonds surrounded by solar systems' worth of planets they've colonized, but
Pink Diamond has only a single planet and its satellite: the Earth and Moon. And unlike the
other Diamonds, who are shown to be holding planets, Pink's mural depicts her
actively reaching out for her planet.
 Hair-Trigger Temper: Despite being the Token Good Teammate, Pink was also implied
to have this prior to her Character Development. In "Volleyball", according to the titular
character, AKA Pink Pearl, Pink Diamond was originally a Royal Brat with incredibly
destructive powers that could shatter walls and break parts of a Gem's physical form, as
revealed by Volleyball herself. This side of her was deconstructed when Volleyball was taken
away and placed under White's control, leading Pink to realize how horrible her temper was
and decided to use her powers to heal and help other Gems.
 Heel–Face Turn: Presumably, after an implied Heel Realization. Later seen fully in "Now
We're Only Falling Apart".
 Heel Realization:
o She'd spent the early stages of the colony on the moon base, seeing things from
a distant view where she couldn't see the damage she was doing. Once she first assumed her
Rose Quartz form, she came down and looked around, seeing the life she was destroying and
only then realized what she was actually doing.
o In "Volleyball", it is implied that Pink Diamond was originally an incredibly
destructive Royal Brat whose defining moment of changing into the All-Loving Hero she would
 eventually become was when she permanently scarred her original pearl in one of her
tantrums.
 Heroic Sacrifice: Non-fatal example: she was willing to give up the colony and army she
had begged Blue and Yellow so long for so the Earth could be free.
 Hero of Another Story: Two stories actually; when she took the guise of Rose Quartz,
she was the Big Good of the Crystal Gem Rebellion, and the Deuteragonist of the love story
between herself and Greg.
 Her Own Worst Enemy: The series builds up and breaks down the image of Rose
Quartz and by extension the person who first created that image. Pink was a deeply flawed
Gem shaped by a family that loved her but controlled her and never respected her. They
would come to keep forcing her into a role she grew to disdain, to where they took her first
friend away and replacing her with a more proper servant (the Crystal Gems Pearl) and more
proper best friend (Spinel). While they saw it as well-meaning, it likely just reinforced the
hollowness and artificiality of it all. Desperate for acknowledgement and respect, she would
pursue finding her own colonies, only to realize the true horror of what happened. She
founded a rebellion to help the humans, and later took in all the Gems that did not fit in with
the rigid caste system of the Diamonds to try and grant them the freedom she was denied.
However, Pink was hampered by a severe lack of understanding of others as equals (though
she was very aware of this and resented that she had no one as an equal). Pink's
childishness made her both more open to understanding other life forms but also more selfish
in how she treated others. At the same time, much of her problems were also caused by
forces outside of her control and many of choices were made out of pragmatism and
desperation. She was reduced to a Puppet Queen by her older sisters who
ran her colony their way, reinforcing her lack of real power or choice and any attempts of
communication was met with indifference or disdain, since they think she is being
disrespectful. This was painfully seen as she is crushed by what looks like her failing to
convince her sisters to give Earth to the Crystal Gems. Her pain and desperation drove her to
fake her death, both to try and end the war desicively and out of not wanting to be herself
anymore. While the war did end, she also caused virtually all of her comrades, other fellow
Gems and bystanders to be corrupted and damaged with a terrifying technique that Pink
knew about (as seen when she imidiately shielded an oblivious Pearl and Garnet from the
blast.) but thought the Diamonds would never use. Having achieved a Pyrrhic Victory, she
tried to live her new life, but was unable to find the meaningful relationships she craved
because she had to hide behind her facade while trying to watch over the humans and
bubble the corrupted Gems. It's not until she met Greg that she could finally be happy and
also began growing up. However, she left a long line of mistakes and problems, even years
later as seen with Spinel, the Gem made to be her best friend, but also a reminder of her lost
Pink Pearl and possibly of the disrespect her sisters viewed her with. She would come to
leave her behind when she received a colony with a promise to return, which she never did,
which broke Spinel (though it's actually unknown if Pink would've returned for her if she had
the reasonable chance to do so safely). Much of the series is founded on Steven
acknowledging his mother's failings but still being burdened by them. While the show has
strong themes of redemption and atonement; Pink's death means she does not have the
opportunity to redeem herself, though ultimately she did achieve her goal of finding
happiness.
 He Who Must Not Be Heard: The show goes out of the way to keep us from hearing her
voice for a long time. Even in "Jungle Moon", where we finally see what she looks like, we
only hear her words through Stevonnie, who is portraying her in a dream. It'd be a dead
giveaway if we heard Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz speaking in the exact same voice.
  Hidden Eyes: During the flashback of her in "Jungle Moon", she displays them briefly
after being scolded by Yellow Diamond.
 Hidden Heart of Gold: As Rose Quartz, she spread stories about how Pink Diamond was
a cruel and cowardly tyrant out of Self-Deprecation. She also lies that Pink Diamond created
a Zoo to preserve humans as trophies of her conquests, when really it was Blue who created
it when Pink expressed her desire to preserve the life on Earth.
 The High Queen: For Earth's colony. She was well respected by her subjects and tried
her best to protect Earth's living beings' survival from Homeworld's destructive
methods. Ultimately that led to her cutting ties with Homeworld, becoming Rose Quartz, the
leader of the rebellion against it, and faking her death.
 Historical Villain Upgrade: In-Universe. In Garnet's retelling of Rose Quartz's origin story,
Pink Diamond was presented as a despicable monster who didn't care about the life on Earth
and openly mocked Rose Quartz for questioning her. She was also a Dirty Coward who
called her fellow Diamonds for help when her back was against the wall. In order to stop the
war, Rose was forced to shatter her. In reality, Pink Diamond was Rose Quartz. Everything
Rose learned about humanity were actually things Pink learned. She created the Rebellion
and faked her death in an elaborate scheme to save the Earth and free herself from her
duties as a Diamond. Presumably, the story Garnet told was the version Rose gave the
Crystal Gems, making it an Invoked Trope.
 Hypocrite: She had this tendency, though the circumstances do complicate matters. She
wanted Pearl to be free and make her own decisions, but gave her a final order to never tell
anyone that Pink faked her death and was living as Rose Quartz, as well as pressure Pearl to
poof her if it came to be. While the silence was painful to Pearl, eventually it became clear
that Pink's final orders was a result of her being Properly Paranoid. Furthermore, Pink valued
human life, but she didn't realize how fragile it was and confessed to Greg that she took
some time to understand how babies work, though this was more out of ignorance and she
made the effort to learn. While she did order Spinel to remain behind, it's unknown if she
would've ever come back to her (since circumstances changed drastically). Subverted with
Steven's own worst fears: that Rose was a murderer who was against Bismuth showing off
the Breaking Point.
 I Just Want to Be Free: Above most others, Pink Diamond desired autonomy for her own
life and for her to be who she wanted to be. It's later shown that while the Diamonds loved
her, they also wanted her to remain the same, as how they preferred her. She organized
balls and threw parties, but she was never allowed to do things her way and her decisions
and choices were disregarded, such as how her first Pearl was taken from her, warped into
White's mindless herald and replaced with a more sycophantic Pearl, the one we all know
and love. This attitude led Pink to try and get her own colony, both to be seen as responsible
and possibly for her own freedom. Upon discovering the beauty of life on Earth, the changing
nature of humanity and how Gems could be their own thing, she created the Rose Quartz
persona, all in the hopes of creating a new world for the unaccepted Gems to be who they
want to be and living amongst the humans. Despite the massive costs, her plan did work.
However, it's implied that she did not truly feel like this until she met Greg, likely since the
leadership position and façade she had to put up wore on her.
 I Just Want to Be Loved: Her other main driving motivation, but more specifically: she
wanted someone to love her for who she was and out of choice rather than because of her
standing or because they were made to. Someone who would express that love freely, accept
her Just the Way You Are, and as true equals with both parties equally respecting one
another. Looking at her past relationships, it becomes clear as to why:
o Yellow and Blue went between ignoring her, lecturing her to act more like a
Diamond or denying her viewpoint and decisions. While they ultimately loved her, they did not
 fully respect her and it was clear they looked down on her. Even "Familiar" showed they treated
her as someone who wouldn't change. Not a healthy dynamic, and it would explain Pink's
behavior toward them when it came to demands of respect and feeling inadequate.
o "Together Alone" revealed that she had a friend in Pink Pearl, her first Pearl. The
two shared a casual yet close friendship that was frowned upon by the other Diamonds; when
the two were caught, White Diamond permanently turned Pink Pearl into an Empty Shell that
served only as her current Diamond's mouthpiece, White Pearl. She then gave Pink Diamond a
new Pearl, one who was made to be a Sycophantic Servant… the Pearl who would become a
member of the Crystal Gems.
o Meanwhile, her other subordinate gems, like her second Pearl, Spinel, Jasper
and Eyeball, were made to love Pink. A very large case could be seen with her second Pearl,
which would become the one we would all know and love. She seemed to have been as more
of a servant so she wouldn't befriend Pink like what happened with her predecessor. However,
they still became close because Pearl had enough autonomy to council Pink Diamond and give
her advice. While Pink Diamond grew to love Pearl, they lacked the casualness of her first
Pearl and Pearl's inherent nature of servant kept them from going further, something which
Pearl never seem to get. A similar case could be argued with Spinel, who while very loving and
fun, did not provide the depth or understanding Pink would've needed.
o As Rose Quartz, Pink took on many human lovers, but it's implied that they were
not equal relationships (presumably because the humans looked up to her like most of
Gemkind did as well as her not understanding humanity back then).
o Ultimately, she ended up in a loving, respectful, affectionate and long-lasting
relationship with Greg because not only did he see her as equal to him (or at least that they
deserved to be treated equally, given his admission of not knowing what a "magical lady" like
her saw in a "dope like him), but he also demanded that she see him as equal to her. Pink
didn't only meet up with someone she can love and be loved by on the same level, but also
helped her grow as a person to truly love, respect and appreciate people, seeing all of them as
equal and worthy of respect.
 I Just Want to Be Special: In a particularly sad way. She constantly had to live in the
shadow of her fellow Diamonds and desired to be acknowledged by them; when she finally
got a colony of her own, a member of her army rebelled, something that
likely never happened with the other Diamonds, and even supposedly shattered her. To sum it
up, the other Diamonds got to have numerous colonies without interference, but Pink
was allegedly killed before she could even complete one. She eventually let go of her wish to
be like the other Diamonds, and wanted to become human so that she could grow and
change, and become better than what she was.
 I Just Want to Have Friends: Pink lacked any real peers or equals. Yellow and Blue had
each other while White ruled over them all and was detached from them. As such, she was
understandably desperate for companionship based on equality and genuine feelings, rather
than social standing or because they were made to. She wanted to socialize with her new
Gems from the Prime Kindergarten, but knew Blue and Yellow would never approve,
considering such actions unbecoming for a Diamond. This forced her to assume the Rose
Quartz identity just to get out and have fun. In "Together Alone", her friendship with her first
Pearl fell apart because Homeworld forbade such relations; White Diamond turned that Pearl
into an Empty Shell and gave Pink a replacement one that would become the Crystal Gems'
Pearl.
o The lack of real peerage was likely what doomed her friendship with Spinel.
Spinel was designed to bring endless entertainment and act as Pink Diamond's best friend.
However, the fact she was made to be such and especially with the implications that she was
made to replace Pink Pearl, gives the indications that the sentiment felt hollow.
  Immortal Immaturity: Acted like a Royal Brat despite her implied age of centuries at the
youngest. Justified, as centuries is only a short time for the Diamonds. Eventually, Pink
became aware of this and hated that she couldn't mature as fast as she wanted. Cue the
sophisticated, motherly Rose Quartz identity, goodbye Pink Diamond.
 Inconsistent Dub: The Latin American dub can't decide if her name is "Diamante Rosa"
or "Diamante Rosado". Both are correct translations, but the inconsistency is still there.
 Informed Poverty: As a Diamond, she's the Homeworld equivalent of royalty, making her
a princess while her older "sisters" and "mother" are the queens. However, in the Diamonds'
eyes, the fact that she doesn't have a single colony under her name makes her "worthless",
something that frustrated her in the beginning.
 Innocence Lost: She lost some of her Innocently Insensitive nature when she realized
her colony would mean the destruction of all life living on it. Pink saw Gems weren't creating
life from nothing — they were taking life, and leaving nothing behind.
 Innocently Insensitive: Justified, deconstructed, and played for drama. This trope is big
flaw of Pink's; while she was compassionate and genuinely cared about others, she had
difficulty understanding how others felt, and especially how they felt about her. On the other
hand, there were various instances that rationalized and explained her behavior and
reasoning:
o Her faking her own shattering went wrong because she thought that the other
Diamonds' aloof, Tough Love treatment of her meant they didn't actually care about her. Her
death caused them to release the Corruption in revenge, and drove Yellow and Blue Diamond
to become the petty Jerkass and perpetually grieving wreck they are in the present day. On the
other hand, Pink had been reduced to a Puppet Queen by her own sisters and thus could not
just give the Earth to the Crystal Gems, meaning diplomacy was out of the window, especially
since they showed not to listen to her and she could not keep the war up forever. The fact was
that the entirety of the situation was started because they refused to listen to her and take her
opinions seriously.
o She also didn't consider how the Gems of her own court would feel about her
supposed "death" — both Jasper and Eyeball devoted all their efforts to avenge their Diamond,
never realizing that Pink and Rose were actually the same person, and that Steven is also
technically Pink by virtue of being her "son", making their quests All for Nothing. On the other
hand, it's not known if she ever actually interacted with them since she was reduced to a Puppet
Queen and thus may not have even interacted with them.
o As Rose Quartz, while she deeply loved humans, she initially saw humans as
cute animals to be coddled with no sapience or feelings of their own, until Greg pointed this out

to her. On the other hand, this could be  Fair for Its Day, given how she still saw
humans as important enough to live in peace and not be killed by the Gems. Thus, she still
gave more consideration toward organic life than the rest of Gemkind.
o It appears she underestimated how important she was to the Crystal Gems. The
Crystal Gems could not fathom why she would make a decision to have a baby that would in
turn, mean Rose would be gone forever. Pearl especially had trouble understanding it.
o She ended up being this to her close friend Spinel. She would end up growing
annoyed with Spinel and abandoning her under the guise of a game with the promise she
would come back, which she never did. However, Spinel's friendship with Pink Diamond was
built on the premise that Spinel was designed to be such (as in a possible replacement for Pink
 Pearl), which framed the entire thing unpleasantly. Additionally, Pink Diamond changed rapidly
during her time colonization and the situation escalated to where there was no practical or
reasonable chance or plan to get Spinel back and how she would react to how PD changed.
o She was also the recipient of this trope while she grew up — Blue and Yellow
raised her with good intentions, but never seemed to realize how badly they were affecting her
by isolating her from Gems of lower castes, brushing her off as if she was second priority to
their empire, and treating her as ungrateful when she asked to let Earth go shortly after begging
them for a colony of her own. White presumably treated her the same way, despite being her
favored "child". While it made her sympathetic, she also never realized how she emulated her
Diamond "sisters" until she met Greg, where she finally began growing and changing. Steven
lampshades this in his confrontation to Blue Diamond, when he realized that while Pink
Diamond knew no other way, Steven did.
o While she did love Pearl and Steven dearly, Pink essentially forced the former
into silence with a vocal Geas instead of merely asking her to keep her old identity and actions
secret, dooming her once-servant and biggest supporter to a lifetime of anguish; the latter was
left growing up in his deceased mother's shadow and wondering if he was born as a way for her
to run away from her own mistakes — all because Pink thought Earth was completely safe from
Homeworld's shadow only for Steven to find out it actually wasn't. At the same time, Pink
Diamond had various reasons to be concerned and her secrecy all reveal her to be Properly
Paranoid. Furthermore, Pink Diamond has made it clear in her video that Steven was not
created with any grander goal in life besides being him and living his life.
 Intrigued by Humanity: Her feelings on the matter were unknown, but given her Human
Zoo, and the Rose Quartz line being capable of healing living things (even resurrecting
them), she seemed benign at the very least. Mankind couldn't expect similar or better
treatment from Yellow and probably White or Blue.
o Not merely intrigued, but a firm believer in Humans Are Special. This eventually
changed into something much more benevolent to the point of throwing away her status,
then "killing herself" to save Earth.
 Irony:
o Blue Diamond notes to Greg the irony of someone as powerful as Pink Diamond
dying on Earth whereas the "fragile" humans were able to survive living on the same planet.
o In the same episode they bond a bit over their shared feelings of loss, unaware
that the people they're grieving for are really the same person.
o Despite being noted for her empathy, many issues for other characters stem from
her lack of taking into account how those who cared about her felt about her. The diamonds,
Greg and Pearl.
o Yellow told off Pink for being immature and to start acting like a Diamond. Pink,
upon seeing the Earth, was the first Diamond to value organic life and fight for it, as well as to
give her Pearl autonomy on realizing Pearl was a slave. So technically, Pink matured faster
than Yellow and Blue, though "Change Your Mind" reveals that Yellow and Blue did realize the
error of Homeworld's ways at some point.
o In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", Pink complains to Pearl about how dull it was
to actually run a colony, yet she left purposefully left behind Spinel, a Gem whose whole
purpose was to entertain.
o Also, Spinel's clingy and playful attitude towards Pink and the way Pink grew
annoyed with her mirrored the way Pink herself was towards the other Diamonds, and the
way they would be irritated by her behavior.
  It's All About Me: Prior to her Character Development, Pink Diamond tends to think of
herself rather than others. Most tellingly, tricking and leaving Spinel behind, which according

to  Word of God was due to feeling the other gem was holding her back.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of frequently throwing temper tantrums, acting bratty
and entitled, and not viewing lower-class Gems as complete equals, Pink Diamond was still
the Token Good Teammate of the Diamonds and displayed Benevolent Boss and Nice to the
Waiter tendencies, as particularly seen with Spinel (at first), the Pebbles, and Pink
Pearl/Volleyball. Taken to a further extent after her Character Development and Heel–Face
Turn, in which she grows into the mature, selfless, and all-loving leader of the Crystal Gems
who seeks to liberate Earth from Homeworld's tyranny. Even though Pink/Rose can
be Innocently Insensitive, she cares deeply about her loved ones.
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 Karmic Jackpot: Realizing the error of Homeworld's ways, as well as rebelling against
the other Diamonds to save Earth, have allowed her to finally be free of their abuse and live a
happy life on Earth with her loyal friends. What makes it better is that she got to be
the leader of the Crystal Gems, as opposed to constantly having to answer to the other
Diamonds, and ended up dying happy.
 Killed Off for Real: Double Subverted. Back during the Rebellion, Rose was reported to
have shattered Pink Diamond as it was the only thing she could do to free Earth from Pink
Diamond's control. This is something Jasper and Eyeball are still very bitter about. Steven
brings up the possibility that she could still be alive later in the series, but it's ultimately
revealed that she was actually Rose Quartz, meaning she survived her alleged death only to
"die" thousands of years later by sacrificing herself to give birth to Steven.
Eyeball: I was there. I saw with my own eye. I watched the leader of the Crystal Gems, Rose
Quartz, shatter Pink Diamond!

o "Change Your Mind" further seals the deal. Her gem reforms into Pink Steven
instead of herself when pried out of Steven's stomach, signifying that she is never coming back.
 Lack of Empathy: One of her major flaws: she was obsessed with helping others, but
rarely, if ever, understood how they felt. While she had multiple instances of this as Rose
Quartz, her most prominent example of all out of either identites was when she abandoned
Spinel in space for millennia and presumably felt no remorse for it. Thankfully,
she eventually sheds this in favor of becoming an All-Loving Hero.
 Large and in Charge: Downplayed; her murals give the impression she's similarly sized
to the other Diamonds, but in reality, she only comes to around Blue or Yellow's thigh-height.
 Large Runt: Though much smaller than Yellow or Blue, Pink Diamond still seems to be
considerably larger than a human.
 Leitmotif: A down-keyed and funereal variation of the Diamonds' theme... except not
really. It's actually in a major key to better dovetail into Rose's established theme.
 Like Parent, Like Child: Steven inherited her compassion, heavy sense of responsibility,
self-loathing, and martyrdom. Steven like Pink tries to be everything that the Crystal Gems
want him to be, the way she tried to prove herself to her sisters. It gets to the point where,
like his mother, Steven sacrifices himself in the hopes of saving the people he loves, only for
it to backfire terribly. Steven's lucky that only one person died and managed to come
back and he just had to deal with a few of his friends being pissed off at him when he did his
 sacrifice; Rose lost all of the Gems on Earth except for Pearl, Garnet, Bismuth, Amethyst and
Lapis in her sacrifice. Mind that Lapis survived due to being trapped in a mirror, Bismuth was
poofed and bubbled in Lion's mane, and Amethyst was deep in the Earth when the
Corrupting Light hit; at the time, Rose thought that Garnet and Pearl were the only ones she
had left.
 Little Sister Heroine: She's the youngest Diamond who decided to take her way to save
the Earth by becoming Rose Quartz.
 Lonely at the Top: This was one of the main reasons why she was desperate for
companionship. She is a Diamond, the highest of Gemkind and thus everyone but other
Diamonds are beneath her. She is the Baby Of The Bunch, meaning all the other Diamonds
are her authority figures, with Blue and Yellow serving as bossy older sisters and White as
their detached matriarch. "Together Alone" implies that when Pink managed to befriend her
first Pink Pearl, White Diamond turned Pink Pearl into a completely subservient Empty
Shell as punishment, and gave Pink Diamond a replacement Pearl to act as a proper servant
and Spinel as a replacement best friend. While she did care for Pearl, the circumstances
behind their appearances likely soured the bonds from the start. In fact, given how they
were intended to serve as servant/counselor and best friend, it would render the relationships
as artificial from Pink Diamond's perspective, lacking the casualness she wanted and the
substance she needed.
o More specificially, it's that while she was surrounded by many adoring Gems,
Pink Diamond did not have any equal peers. Virtually every other Gem could relate to their own
kind on an even level so they were not alone. Heck, even Yellow and Blue Diamond had each
other and the only other exception was White Diamond, who was feared even by the other
Diamonds and quite detatched from everyone. She grows to resent how Gems stay static with
their positions and do not change. She gets quickly annoyed by the subservience and Yes-
Man behavior in her court. Pearl's robotic behaviour made her unhappy, though
Pearl changing allowed them to have a closer relationship, due to Pink's encouragement and
her own programming to serve as a counselor. Contrasted with Spinel, who while an endless
source of entertainment as PD's best friend, did not have reason to change or grow like Pearl
did so Pink Diamond left her to try and grow and she would change dramatically.
 The Lost Lenore:
o Her death still deeply influences most of Blue Diamond's actions, who spent
centuries in a perpetual state of grief and depression and who still looks after the Human Zoo in
her memory.
o Seemingly subverted with Yellow Diamond, who never openly grieves and tries
to convince Blue Diamond to stop, but it becomes patently clear that she's just repressing her
emotions to an extremely unhealthy degree and is just as broken over losing Pink as Blue is.
o She's also one to Greg as "Rose Quartz"; despite having moved on and
continuing to raise Steven, Greg still feels grief for his lost wife, something that allows him to
emotionally connect with Blue Diamond while she's on Earth.
o She's also one to the Crystal Gems' Pearl as well. Pearl's first love was Pink
Diamond, and the fact that she "replaced" her with a human created quite a bit of resentment
for Greg. Pink's death made things worse, and despite Pearl loving Steven like her own son in
the present day, it's implied that she also blames Steven on some level.
 Luke, I Am Your Father: She is Steven's mother since Pink and Rose Quartz are actually
the same person.
 Make Me Wanna Shout: She yelled with destructive power much like Pink Steven. It
tended to go out of control during her tantrums, which ended up permanently damaged Pink
Pearl, and apparently convinced her to never use them again.
 Mama Bear:
o Seemingly subverted with her Pink Diamond army. Pink faking her death
traumatized the soldiers that she had created or were made for her, including Jasper, though
it's likely that she just didn't consider how they would feel if she died. On the other hand, given
how she was reduced to a Puppet Queen in the Gem War, it's very possible she was not able
to communicate with them in the first place since they were taking their orders from Blue and
Yellow. There is the fact that the Famethyst Gems were shunted off to her zoo, with only each
other for support, not to mention that the real Rose Quartzes were all bubbled because
of her actions and because she took Pearl's idea to impersonate one of them without thinking of
the consequences, something Shy Rose seems especially troubled over. As of now, her
opinion of her Homeworld army is quite obscure.
o Do not underestimate her love for the Crystal Gems, the Earth, its life and human
beings, even if you're Blue or Yellow Diamond. There is the fact that she posed as a dangerous
rebel and threatened her sisters and their armies as Rose Quartz, knowing that if she were
ever outed that the consequences would be dire.
 Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Even before her Heel Realization she shows signs of this,
especially the first time she ever took on her Rose Quartz persona, having done so to play
with her newly formed Quartz soldiers without the other Diamonds finding out.
 Meaningful Name:
o Pink Diamonds symbolize love, creativity, and romance, things she would need
(well, the first two at least) in order to both own the Zoo and maintain the humans trapped
inside it. And she is the only Diamond known to have romanced someone.
o Pink Diamonds are also one of the more mysterious types of colored Diamonds,
which is quite fitting for a character that was (and, to an extent, still is) quite a big mystery in the
show's lore.
o White Diamond's Affectionate Nickname for her, Starlight, may be a reference to
the Pink Star diamond, the largest vivid pink diamond in the world. This is doubly meaningful,
as the diamond has also been called the Pink Love diamond.
 Messianic Archetype: One can see parallels between Pink Diamond and other divine
figures who incarnate as humans. She was a member of the Diamond Authority, whose
members were worshiped as near-gods by the gem race. After fighting to free Earth and its
inhabitants from oppression, she incarnated in human form as Steven.
 Mistaken for Own Murderer: She faked her death as Pink Diamond and made Rose
Quartz the hero who shattered the Diamond oppressor. This means that when Steven is tried
as Rose Quartz, the Diamonds have no idea that Pink Diamond is the tiny human child.
 Mister Big: She's a Diamond... less than half the size of the other Diamonds, quite
possibly dwarfed by White. Albeit, she is almost twice as tall as her Pearl.
 Modest Royalty: Despite having been a Royal Brat, she is disdainful of the Gem caste
system and quite informal with her subjects, especially Pearl, who is supposed to be her
servant but she treats her like her closest friend. She was also implied to be best friends with
her first Pearl in the past until White Diamond permanently turned her Pearl into an Empty
Shell and gave Pink a replacement one. She even admits that she finds the Diamond salute
to be "dumb" and doesn't mind being pushed around by her Amethysts. She eventually
throws away her royalty status to start a new life on Earth as Rose Quartz.
 Mood-Swinger: One minute, she's having a blast looking around Yellow as she prepares
to invade a planet. Barely a couple of seconds later, she's throwing a temper tantrum
demanding to have a planet and army of her own. Downplayed in that Yellow manhandled
her for playing with the communication console, and injured her. Later episodes show she
grew out of this.
 Morality Pet: Like her son, she functions as this to a lot of characters.
o Yellow and Blue Diamond are still mourning her death despite it happening
thousands of years ago and obviously loved her very much. Yellow Diamond was physically
gentler when handling her in life than she would be with other Gems, while Pink had her bratty
moments. "A Single Pale Rose" shows that she attempted to be this to the other Diamonds
after her Heel–Face Turn, but they refused to let her give up her colony simply because she
begged them for it, to the point of accusing her of being ungrateful. And while they do care
about her, they didn't show it very well, instead pushing her to take responsibility of her colony
even if she won't. "Change Your Mind" has Blue finally realize that her abusive treatment of
Pink was what caused her to abandon Blue and live on Earth, and she makes up for it by
helping Steven and Connie return to Earth.
o Jasper has Undying Loyalty towards her and is willing to avenge her thousands
of years after her supposed demise.
o Eyeball has a large amount of respect towards her and refers to her faked death
as a tragedy.
o Despite her Noble Bigot tendencies, Pearl is extremely loyal to her Diamond and
will do anything for her.
o And she has a 100% Adoration Rating amongst Homeworld.
 Morton's Fork: Either she would have to colonize the Earth, destroying the life and
humans she loved, or Blue and Yellow would take over and do the destroying. It's hard to
blame Pink for taking desperate measures to save the Earth.
 My God, What Have I Done?:
o She truly regrets her actions as ruler of the Earth, to the point that she spread
rumors about herself being cold and cruel, and faked her death because Pink Diamond as an
identity was worth sacrificing.
o Turns out she's the one who damaged Pink Pearl's eye, and it's implied this was
the moment she stopped her Spoiled Brat tendencies due to the resulting Heel Realization.
Tellingly, no one knew about her destructive powers, implying she never used them again
because of it.
 Necromancer: Her tears have the ability to bring dead organisms back to life. Subjects of
such resurrection appear in shades of pink with white hair that links to Pink's personal pocket
dimension, don't have to eat or drink and may be granted other powers, such as Lion's
dimensional warping.
 The Needs of the Many: She values the organic life on Earth over her status as a
Diamond. She was the leader of both her court and the rebellion against her, with her
ultimate goal being to save the Earth from Homeworld and hand it to the Crystal Gems and
humanity, and the only other person who knew the truth was her faux assassin, the Crystal
Gems' Pearl. It's worth noticing that, in the course of 6000 years, despite the holes in the
official story, nobody on Earth or Homeworld ever figured this out until Pearl showed Steven
what happened.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between:
o Yellow (mean) is a short-tempered Bad Boss, Blue (in-between), while initially as
bad as Yellow, seems to have Took a Level in Kindness in recent years thanks to Pink
Diamond's "death", and Pink (nice) is an All-Loving Hero and a Benevolent Boss who cherishes
and wishes to protect organic life.
o Of the Gems who took on the "Pink Diamond" role on Homeworld, Steven (nice)
is an All-Loving Hero who is kind to everyone and accepts others no matter what, Pink/Rose
(in-between), despite being a Benevolent Boss who seeks to protect Earth and the Crystal
Gems, can be insensitive towards the feelings of others and has a tendency to make careless
decisions, and Spinel (mean) is the Ax-Crazy Big Bad who wants to destroy Earth as a result of
being abandoned by Pink and having Gone Mad From The Isolation.
  Nice to the Waiter: Rose Quartz claimed that Pink Diamond was wicked and dismissive
towards her for suggesting to end the colony, a lowly Quartz who dared express an opinion. It
turns out Rose lied since she was Pink Diamond; she was very courteous and polite to her
Pearl, even when Pearl's blind obedience annoyed her, and saw the Kindergarten Quartzes
as potential friends. In fact, once she realized that the fusion Garnet was in danger after the
rush of seeing that sort of fusion wore off, she decided to go rescue her. In "Familiar", the
Pebbles take Steven taking the time to thank them as proof that he's Pink Diamond. Mind
that she grew into this: Pink Pearl recounts that Pink Diamond accidentally hurt her during a
temper tantrum, and Pink was so horrified that she vowed to never hurt another Gem that
way again and kept her trauma repressed.
 The Nicknamer: According to Blue Diamond, she had the tendency to nickname things.
She was apparently the one to originally give Pyrite the nickname "Fool's Gold".
 Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!:
o By taking the form of a Rose Quartz and faking her assassination with Pearl
using that form, Pink Diamond caused the entire caste of Rose Quartz to be bubbled for
thousands of years regardless of if they were loyal to Homeworld or the rebellion.
o It's confirmed that she accidentally hurt Pink Pearl by throwing a tantrum while
the former was in the crossfire. While Pink Pearl didn't hold a grudge, Pink Diamond was
horrified by what she did, and more so when White took away her "defective" Pearl the minute
she found out. This led to Pink Pearl being left behind on Homeworld when Rose started her
rebellion.
o She’s also the reason Spinel snapped and tried to destroy Earth after she was
abandoned on a floating rock in space for 6000 years by the one person she loved.
 Noblewoman's Laugh: In "Your Mother and Mine", Garnet's retelling of Rose Quartz's
origin story says Pink Diamond "laughed a wicked, empty sound" at Rose Quartz's request to
spare Earth's life, and the visual shows her sticking her fingers out in front of her face. Given
that Rose and Pink Diamond were one and the same, this was probably made up by Rose.
 No Cure for Evil: Downplayed: She seems to have been the least evil of the Diamonds,
and the Rose Quartz line (which she invented), seem to have been the only Gems with the
power to fix other Gems. Averted when we discover Rose Quartz is actually her fake
identity. However, it turns out all the Diamonds have some sort of healing powers.
 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Her faked assassination was done with the best
intentions, as she hoped that with her "death" the other Diamonds would cut their losses with
Earth, leaving her, the Crystal Gems, and humanity alone to live their lives as they wished in
freedom. Instead the Diamonds cut their losses, pulled out their forces and
essentially dropped a nuke from orbit that caused the Crystal Gems to be corrupted en
masse save for Rose, Garnet, Pearl and the still incubating Amethyst because they did care
about her. On top of that, the revelation of what she did and the subsequent exposure of her
identity caused strife among her surviving companions who didn't have the context of her
actions.
 No Respect Guy: The Diamond Days arc reveal that even if her sisters loved her, they did
not respect her or treat her as an equal; the events of "Together Alone" show that even after
several millennia that when push comes to shove the other Diamonds still don't value what
Pink wants or her wishes. Blue is saddened, to say the least, when Steven points out that her
treatment of Pink was what caused her to rather live on Earth in the first place.
 Not Now, Kiddo: On the receiving end; Yellow Diamond didn't pay much attention to her
even when Pink was calling for her. She literally had to beg Yellow for her own colony and
army. That proved to be a costly and ultimately fatal mistake. Later on after sneaking down to
the colony to see it firsthand, and realizing Earth already has life that will die if they continue,
she tries to reason with Yellow and Blue into stopping, who dismiss her wishes entirely and
 demand she continue, with Blue making the Human Zoo instead, likely believing it to be
sufficient to her wishes to "save the life on Earth".
 No One Gets Left Behind: Subverted. One price of saving the Earth was leaving all the
humans in the zoo to her sisters' collective mercy. It's unclear if Pink consciously made the
choice to abandon them or if she was just unable to rescue them (given how Homeworld
would immediately pull out for the Diamonds use their combined attack, it's likely the latter,
especially given how Rose could only save the Gems next to her).
 Not Quite Dead: Subverted. It turns out that she had faked her shattering with the help of
her Pearl, which caused everyone to only think that she was shattered. However, thousands
of years later, she, as Rose Quartz, gave up her physical form so Steven could be born.
 Not So Different:
o Between Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz, before learning that they were in fact
the same person, her two public personas had very similar ideals:
 Both Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz were attached to Earth, but while
Rose saw Earth as her home and protectorate, Pink Diamond saw it as her colony.
 Both Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz found humans fascinating, but while
Rose cherished and protected humans, Pink Diamond just collected them for her Zoo. It's later
revealed that Blue made the Zoo, misunderstanding Pink's wishes. Again, Rose and Pink are the
same person.
 The apparent deaths of both Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz devastated
their loved ones for many years after the fact.
o She is this to Steven as well. Both Pink Diamond and Steven wanted to be like
the other Diamonds and Crystal Gems, respectively, and were shown to be quite excitable as
long as nobody went against their goals. But while Steven has slowly matured over the course
of the series, it's unknown if Pink got the same luxury before kicking the bucket. She did, and
considering she is Steven's mother, it is Generation Xerox.
o Both Pink Diamond and Amethyst were the immature runts in their respective
groups, and had inferiority complexes as a result. They also both showed surprising maturity
when compared with the others while being the most drawn to Earth.
o Both Pink and Blue Diamond share a similar appearance, being feminine in looks
and having lighter hair than their colored eyes, not to mention that they were both scolded or
otherwise reprimanded by Yellow Diamond. But while Blue Diamond is a normal Diamond, and
Yellow reprimands her because her constant grief over Pink is affecting her leadership, Pink
Diamond was vastly different than the other Diamonds, and Yellow snapped at her for acting
like a spoiled little brat. Both of them also tend to be nicer than White and Yellow.
o Her relationship with her fellow Diamonds can be compared to Connie's
relationship with her parents before their Character Development, best exemplified in
Stevonnie's dream in "Jungle Moon", where Dr. Maheswaran portrays Yellow Diamond. Not
only that, but "Can't Go Back" further shows that Pink being a Puppet Queen to her sisters
resembles Connie's parents' Control Freak nature on her life choices despite caring about them
respectively, forcing them to hide secrets of their personal lives out of fear of disappointing
them, from Connie's magical adventures with Steven to Pink disregarding her identity entirely
and becoming Rose Quartz. In a more amusing note, Connie often gets Wingding Eyes when
excited that look like Pink's own eyes (which is used as a subtle joke in "Jungle Moon" when
Stevonnie is taking Pink's place in a memory). Connie also ends up using one of her weapons.
 Not So Invincible After All: Rose or another Gem (possibly another Diamond) managed
to shatter her. Subverted in that she's actually Rose, and her shattering was faked. Although
doing so did show it was possible to poof her.
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  Obliviously Evil: She genuinely had no idea of the damage she was causing the Earth,
as she was stuck on the Moon Base by order of the other Diamonds and never actually saw
life on Earth at all until she came down and saw it first hand. Not only that, there was also the
mental trauma she caused Spinel by telling her to wait for her.
 Only Friend: Because of the other Gem's unique role as a playmate, Pink Diamond was
this for Spinel.
 Only Sane Woman: She is the only one of the Diamonds who sees the error in
Homeworld's ways, and creates the Rose Quartz alter ego in hopes of saving the Earth and
its organic life. Furthermore, she appears to be the only one who may understand that
the inherent stagnant characters of Gemkind is derimental to them in the long run.
 Parental Favoritism: White Diamond seems to prefer her over Blue and Yellow, much to
Yellow's frustration. Granted, this may be due more to Pink's innocence and entertainment
value.
 Parents as People: As "Rose Quartz", she loved Steven dearly, to the point where she
posthumously recorded videos of herself just to tell her son how much he's cherished. But
many of Steven's issues stemmed from the incredible pressure the Crystal Gems put on him
to fill her shoes, and his gradual discovery that his mother was a war criminal, a betrayer, and
a liar — all because Pink assumed Earth was completely safe from Homeworld's reach,
when it actually wasn't. Understandably, Steven starts to resent her on some level, and even
wonders if Pink had a child just to run away from her own mistakes. On the other hand, she
did succeed in providing Steven with a better life than she ever had. Thanks to her, Steven
was able to grow up with a loving father and supporting family that could provide him wth the
encouragement, proper guidance and lessons that Pink Diamond lacked growing up. She
gave everything, including her life, for him and all she wanted for him was to live his own life
and be a good person. Despite her extensive mistakes and flaws, she ultimately succeeded
in one of the most important aspects of parenting, which is ensuring a better future for one's
child.
Steven: STOP IT! I can't deal with one more horrible thing she did, okay!?

 Parent Never Came Back from the Store: A case where it's between a leader and a
subject instead of a parent and a child. Pink Diamond told Spinel to wait at her garden until
she returned, but she never did return, leading to Spinel staying in that exact same spot for
6,000 years. Made even worse by the fact that Spinel originally assumed that the reason why
Pink never returned was that she was playing their game wrong.
 Penny Among Diamonds: Sheer irony of the trope name aside, being the smallest and
lowest of the Diamonds means she didn't even have one single world to her name in the
beginning. Not being allowed to have one, while the other Diamonds had so many to
themselves, and never winning Yellow's approval, frustrated her.
 Personality Powers: Pink can manifest a shield, float, heal with her tears, resurrect
organic beings while giving them unique abilities, and manipulate plant matter. Besides being
the most compassionate Diamond, she's also the only Diamond who cares about the well-
being of Earth, to the point where she rebelled against Homeworld when the other Diamonds
ignored her pleas to spare the planet. She also empowers her allies with her mere presence
as her alter-ego Rose Quartz.
o In "Volleyball", Pink's original Pearl reveals that she originally had a set of
abilities that were purely destructive in nature, including a scream so powerful it "could crack
the walls". Such an ability makes perfect sense for a Spoiled Brat with immense power. It is not
until she saw the damage her tantrums caused to the people around her (her first Pearl being
the prime example) did she start using her powers as a healer and defender.
 Pet the Dog:
o Even before her Heel–Face Turn, Pink Diamond was shown to be kind to
her first Pearl, as she gave her free autonomy and played games with her. She was also nice to
the Pebbles, who were created through her tears, to the point where they take Steven thanking
them as proof that he's Pink Diamond.
o Despite taking humans for her own personal Zoo, she at least did give them a
pretty nice place to live, like a good pet owner. That's because she ended up loving them.
 Pink Is Feminine: From what's seen in the "Jungle Moon" and "A Single Pale
Rose" flashbacks, Pink Diamond is the second most feminine Diamond after Blue Diamond.
 Please Spare Him, My Liege!: A variant; from what we know, Pink tried her hardest to
convince Blue and Yellow Diamond that the organic life on Earth was valuable, willing to fight
for itself, and worth saving. It didn't work, and both the onscreen and offscreen circumstances
forced Pink to take more drastic measures. "Now We're Only Falling Apart" even shows her
getting on her knees and desperately begging Blue to spare the Earth, to no avail.
Interestingly enough, she spread the story that Pink was the one who had to be convinced to
spare the Earth and cruelly refused Rose Quartz.
 Poor Communication Kills: Pink, infatuated with Earth and its natives, had no idea just
how much the older Diamonds loved her. When Pink decided to spare Earth, she tried
to convince her fellow Diamonds that Earth life was worth protecting... but they refused to
listen. She wrongly assumed once news of her demise reached the other Diamonds they'd
give up and leave. She was half-right, Homeworld began leaving, but the Crystal Gems didn't
understand what they were evacuating for. Judging by her reaction Pink didn't either... until it
was too late to do anything but shield Pearl, Garnet and herself.
 Posthumous Character: She was reported to have been killed by Rose during the Gem
War thousands of years ago, but still has a great effect to those who know her: she's the true
reason why Jasper is so obsessed with fighting Rose and the reason Yellow Diamond hates
Earth so much she'd rather see it destroyed outright than try to harvest it for resources
again. She didn't actually die then, but gave up her physical form thousands of years later as
Rose Quartz for Steven to be born. And as revealed in the Season 5 Finale, Pink ceased to
exist when she did that, with Steven becoming the new Pink Diamond in her place — a
completely separate entity.
 Power Misidentification: As Rose, she pretended she could only turn plants into sentient
helpers. In fact, she can do the same even to non-living rocks.
 Predecessor Villain: She was the original ruler of the Earth colony and thus the first of
the Diamonds the Crystal Gems had to contend with. Except she wasn't, she assumed the
identity of Rose Quartz to lead the rebellion against Homeworld herself and faked her death.
 Present Absence: She's been gone for millennia, but her effect on the story continues to
be felt through the actions of those left behind after she died. The mysterious circumstances
surrounding her death are touched on at the beginning of Season Five, as "The Trial" all but
confirms that the Gem who shattered her if she was really shattered at all, was (most
likely) not Rose Quartz. Eventually, the final piece of the puzzle is revealed to Steven: Rose
Quartz couldn't have killed Pink Diamond because Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond. She faked
her death by consuming fake gem shards and having Pearl (disguised as Rose) poof her,
making Homeworld think she's been shattered. Her true "death" came from having Steven,
as she couldn't exist without one or the other.
 Princesses Prefer Pink: She's the youngest of the Diamond "royalty" and entirely pink in
color.
 Properly Paranoid:
o From Blue and Yellow Diamond's point of view, she is this for worrying about
Rose Quartz and the Crystal Gems, as she kept pleading and begging them for help to the
 point where they both had to assume authority over the Earth colony. Much to their grief,
however, she eventually got shattered by Rose Quartz. In reality, she is Rose Quartz and started
the Rebellion herself.
o She told her Pearl that if the Diamonds ever found out that Rose and Pink were
the same, then she and Pearl would be forced to resume their old lives as puppet Gems with
no freedom. When Steven reveals he has Pink Diamond's Gem and returns to Homeworld to
reason with White Diamond, the Diamonds expect him to adopt Pink's abandoned duties and
fulfill "her" role, while Pearl is once more relegated to being Steven's "object" rather than his
parental figure. While Steven is willing to try and be the Internal Reformist, it's still unnerving
that Pink's fears proved valid. Becomes even more intense in the Diamond Days arc, where it
just showed that Yellow, Blue and White still look down on Pink and don't take Steven seriously
as a result. Steven's attempts at "fixing" what he perceived were his mother's mistakes just
backfire as Steven realizes a bit more on why his mother had to do what she had to.
 Puppet Queen: Steven's flashback in "Can't Go Back", and later in "Now We're Only
Falling Apart", shows that Yellow and Blue were pretty much running the colony during the
Rebellion. Blue even tells her that all she needs to do is smile and wave to her subjects.
It justifies a lot of Pink Diamond's decisions and choices since it meant she likely never
interacted with "her" army besides "appearing presentable" and could not do anything
on her end without her sisters finding out.
 Queen Incognito: When she was ruling Earth, she wanted to go see the Kindergarten
and meet her Amethyst soldiers, but her older sisters would not let her. So her Pearl
suggested that she shapeshift to look like a Quartz soldier herself, and thus her "Rose
Quartz" persona was born. She would eventually renounce her identity as Pink Diamond and
become Rose permanently during the war to save the Earth from Homeworld.
 Reasonable Authority Figure: It's revealed that, contrary to what "Rose Quartz" told
Garnet, Pink was this. While initially she merely wanted to mingle with the Quartzes to play
with them and escape her lonely existence, she becomes serious about realizing that the
colony will destroy the organic life on Earth. Pearl, who had suggested the idea, apologized
for upsetting her Diamond, but Pink thanked her because she needed to see the damage.
And as soon as she could, she tried to abort the colony and keep her sisters from taking over
Earth's destruction. The fact that they usurped her power shows they were less reasonable
than Pink.
 Rebellious Princess: As she matured, she did lots of things unbecoming a Diamond, like
creating an all-new Quartz gem line, making requests that caused Blue to start a human zoo
for her, and so on. She also masterminded the entire Crystal Gem rebellion against
Homeworld, fooling the other Diamonds, subjects and allies alike. Rescuing defective and off-
color Gems, uniting them to their cause; the freedom of Earth and all who live upon it. With
her healing powers, she matched Homeworld's vast armies even when hopelessly
outnumbered.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni:
o The red to Blue and Yellow's blue, as a much more emotional and carefree
Diamond than her sisters.
o Also the red to her Pearl's blue, as she was constantly trying to get
her second Pearl to get out of her Sycophantic Servant tendencies and lighten up a little.
 Reformed, but Not Tamed: A Downplayed Trope. Even after her Heel–Face Turn, she
retained her Innocently Insensitive tendencies, lied to the Crystal Gems about everything, and
resorted to questionable methods to save Earth and all of the organic life on the planet.
 Refuge in Audacity: Neither the Diamonds or Defense Zircon never considered this
possibility when pointing out the holes in the story of Pink being shattered. And despite the
 holes, and each knowing they aren't a murderer, Yellow and Blue never considered that Pink
would destroy her old identity and hurt them so much.
 The Reveal:
o In "A Single Pale Rose", it turns out she never was shattered in the first place,
she deliberately decided to fake her own death so that the Earth would be left alone by the
Diamonds. And on top of that, she and Rose Quartz are actually the same person.
o In "Together Alone", it's implied that one of her friends on Homeworld was
her first Pink Pearl, who shed much of her sycophantic behavior enough that she was able to
act casually around her Diamond. But the other Diamonds found out, and as punishment for
acting out of line, White Diamond permanently turned Pink Pearl into an Empty Shell and gave
Pink Diamond a replacement Pearl. This incident explained why Pink Diamond felt
uncomfortable with Pearl's sycophantism and tried to get her out of it.
 Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has light pink hair, and she shows the excitable and
optimistic part of the trope (at first, at least). And then she fully grows into the trope as Rose
Quartz.
 Royal Brat: It's implied that Pink was very much this trope prior to her Character
Development. In "Jungle Moon", we see her acting as such, namely in demanding her own
colony and army like Yellow Diamond has with several planets that she's
conquered. However, it's heavily implied this is based on the desire to be seen as an equal
by the rest of her Diamonds. All of them have their own armies and colonies while she,
the Baby Of The Bunch is more a performer and party-planner, an entertaining distraction
from the humdrum of it all. Unsurprisingly, being treated as inferior by her supposed equals
likely led to her behavior as lashing out for respect. Unfortunately, her powers would run
rampant during her tantrums and innocent Gems would get hurt, causing Pink Pearl to
develop a Wound That Would Not Heal out of sheer trauma. As a noble though, she was the
most affable to her subjects (so much so that it was partially why her sisters looked down on
her, seeing it as unprofessional.) All traces of this are eliminated when she gets her own
colony; at first she is bored with remaining on the Moon Base with no interaction besides with
her second Pearl before going to interact in disguise with her new Gems and then witnessing
the horrible truth of their operations.
 Royals Who Actually Do Something:
o Subverted at first, when she's basically Blue and Yellow's puppet ruler on Earth's
colony. She is seen fighting the Crystal Gems directly in "Gemcation", but various
inconsistencies make its reliability questionable, and it may have just been how Steven
imagined it.
o Played straight later, when she fakes her death and assumes the identity of Rose
Quartz to lead the rebellion that would set Earth free from Homeworld.
 Running Both Sides: She was actually Rose, the leader of the Crystal Gems, meaning
she essentially committed mass treason against herself. Unfortunately, she was the Puppet
Queen of her own colony, meaning that what should've been a simple plan got more
complicated with Blue and Yellow taking over.
 Sad Clown: Even if her actions gave the Diamonds a lightened mood, they refused to
adhere to what she wanted and continually lock her in a tower when she committed an act
meant for fun. It seems like a lighter duty than colonizing a planet or producing more Gems,
in actuality, it seems that Pink never wanted to return to the role once she realized she could
have her freedom as Rose Quartz. Steven shares her frustration when he tries to talk to the
Diamonds and they keep dismissing him.
 Sadistic Choice: When she got her colony, she could either colonize the Earth herself,
destroying all its organic life, or let her sisters quash the rebellion that she started, destroying
 all organic life. She decided to Take a Third Option and fake her death so that the Diamonds
would leave the Earth alone.
 Sanity Strengthening: At first, she frequently threw destructive temper tantrums, but
stopped doing so after accidentally breaking Pink Pearl/Volleyball's left eye, and resorted to
solely using her healing powers. Additionally, she used to act bratty and entitled, but
ultimately matured following her experiences and became happier and kinder. Even though
she used to bottle up her emotions about her responsibilities as a Diamond and being
abused by her fellow Diamonds, she eventually chooses to share these with Pearl, and gets
a ton of stress and trauma left off her shoulders when she settles on a quiet life with the
Crystal Gems on Earth, though most of the Crystal Gems were still corrupted. By the end of
her life, just before giving birth to Steven, she had effectively changed a lot from the greedy
Diamond she was at the start of her life, becoming the All-Loving Heroine who is the kind
leader of the Crystal Gems and lover of Greg Universe.
 Satan is Good: She's a being of light that rebelled against an unjust "Heaven" to
champion freedom, self-expression, fusion and nature, making her similar to the Luciferian
interpretation of Satan as a positive figure associated with liberty, individualism,
homosexuality and paganism. She also formed her own rebellion as Rose Quartz, making
her a sympathetic liar.
 Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Averted, much to her bitterness and resentment.
Despite being a Diamond, she always had to do what the other Diamonds wanted rather than
what she wanted — including how Earth, ostensibly her colony, was to be run. Beyond being
a bitter reminder of the lack of respect her sisters had for her, it also meant that her choices
were very limited and had to take more drastic decisions to reach her objective. Blue admits
in "Change Your Mind" that Pink was right to leave Homeworld and live on Earth.
 Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Steven eventually concludes that while she was able to
fight as Rose Quartz, she ran away from Homeworld as Pink Diamond.
 Self-Deprecation: As Rose Quartz, she spread stories of how Pink Diamond was cold
and cruel. When she plans to fake her death, she looks happy to be shedding this identity for
good. Deconstructed since later revelations frames this as part of her extensive self-loathing.
 Shadow Archetype:
o Interestingly, she is this to Connie, being what would happen if she continued to
secretly rebel against her parents if they refused to relent their Control Freak mentality. Connie
would've basically been like Pink if she believed her parents didn't love her at all and ran away
from home for good when they never approve of her choices.
o To her son, Steven. Steven and Pink had pretty much the same experiences
growing up; they both were born with a role to play. Pink really wanted to be a Diamond but the
Diamonds didn't think she was ready. Steven really wanted to be a Crystal Gem but the Crystal
Gems didn't think he was ready. They both insisted until they were given an opportunity to
prove themselves capable — they both failed. Pink's failure wasn't truly a failure; she simply
wanted a different outcome for her colony, but that's a big failure in the Diamonds' eyes. The
Diamonds didn't care about what she wanted, she fought as hard as she could but in the end
they just took over her duties. Steven's failures were because he wasn't ready; however, the
Crystal Gems encouraged him, even faking some challenges for him to help him gain
confidence on his abilities (they didn't work as they planned; he instead realized how much he
meant for the Crystal Gems). Finally, they both decide to make a stand and fight for what they
loved. But for Pink, that meant fighting against her family. For Steven, that meant fighting with
his family. Pink had to live under a fake Rose Quartz persona because her family didn't love her
as she was. The only one who encouraged her was Pearl, who also loved her more as Rose
Quartz. She surrounded herself with Gems who hated Pink Diamond, her true identity. In the
end, she faked her own death, became Rose Quartz permanently, and lived the rest of her life
 being someone she really wasn't because she hated herself. She even said to Greg it was a
good thing he didn't know who she really was; she thought Greg would hate Pink too. Steven
was always loved by his dad, the Crystal Gems, his girlfriend, his friends, everyone in Beach
City. He even got some enemies to love him too as soon as they get to know him. They always
remind him how much they love him. Even when he was insecure about himself, who he really
was, his purpose.... they keep telling him he's Steven and they love him as he is. All in all,
Steven will be able to do things his mom couldn't, because he's surrounded by people who love
him and encourage him to do anything.
 Another example of her being this to Steven occurs in the Steven Universe:
Future episode "Snow Day". Both Steven and Pink wish to mature and leave childish things
behind, with Steven becoming annoyed with the Crystal Gems and Pink Diamond becoming
annoyed with Spinel. However, while Pink ended up outright abandoning Spinel, Steven at least
explained to the Crystal Gems that they need to see him as the mature teenager he is now, still
loving them regardless of them treating him like a child. Steven would've been like Pink had he
stopped caring about the Crystal Gems and chose to abandon them.
 She's Got Legs: Her mural depicts her with long and shapely legs, and before Season 3,
they were the only part of it the audience got to see. It's even the form of her personal ship.
 She Was Right There All Along: She was revealed to actually be Rose Quartz, who
became half of Steven — meaning that while fans scrambled over theories of where the
Diamonds could be, and, in later seasons, what happened to Pink Diamond, Pink Diamond's
gem was actually the first and arguably most frequently seen gem seen in the entire series.
 Sheltered Aristocrat: As a Diamond she was excepted to stay on the Moon Base instead
of mingling with her subjects. She first became Rose Quartz to defy this.
 Shorter Means Smarter: Tiny by Diamond standards, but she managed to make a very
convincing cover story for her faked death and pull off a popular rebellion against her own
people. Her short size also meant that she was "closer" to the humans on Earth, making her
learn the empathy for living beings that the other Diamonds lacked.
 A Simple Plan: She described her plan to fake her shattering with Pearl's help as
this. Technically, the plan went off without a hitch, but Pink failed to account for the potential
consequences, such as her sisters sending the Corruption Beam to wipe out all the Gems on
Earth, though her surprise reveals she didn't even know they could do that. Additionally, one
could count the Rebellion as this, since she likely did not expect her sisters making her
a Puppet Queen (or at least hoped they would've listened).
 Slave to PR: Outright defied, despite what the other Diamonds wanted. Blue and Yellow
wanted her to just smile and wave at the Gems who adore her. Pink resented all of this, down
to the "dumb" Diamond salute, because it wasn't who she was. She then changed the
narrative and told the Crystal Gems that Pink Diamond was cold and cruel, while in her Rose
Quartz guise. When Steven tries to fill in for Pink Diamond's duties, he understands better
why she rebelled since he's not even allowed to dance at his own ball, or set up balloons or
party cannons.
 Smarter Than You Look: At first, in "Jungle Moon", she seems to just be a brat who is
demanding her army and planet. However, she did manage to create her own gem type, the
Rose Quartzes. Then we learn she started a rebellion and was preparing to lose it so as to
save the Earth, and not even the intellectual Blue Diamond saw through the deception.
 Spanner in the Works: She is the only Diamond we know of that actively questioned the
system that put her on top, and partly rebelled to save the Earth and partly to win her
freedom. This obviously caused problems for her long before she gained a colony, and got
her locked up on a regular basis, but she kept at it. Pearl paved the way by suggesting that
Pink visit Earth in disguise, but Pink did the rest of the work by starting the rebellion. The
 reason why the Earth rebellion took the Diamonds off-guard was because no one had the will
to defy them and live to tell the tale before.
 Spiky Hair: Subverted. Her stylized mural depicts her with a spiky hairstyle, but the
flashback of her in "Jungle Moon" shows that she actually had soft, fluffy hair. The mural
could be an attempt to make her look bigger and more threatening to other Gems.
 Static Character: Played for Drama. Pink Diamond grew to hate herself and tried to
change herself, as shown with her excitemen at becoming Rose Quartz over Pink Diamond,
but even then, she maintained many of the core aspects and attributes that defined her as
Pink Diamond. One could make the environment that she did begin to grow and change
when she met Greg however. At the end of the day though, she hid herself fully even from
him, afraid he would hate her.
 Stepford Smiler: She has a semi-amused, semi-frustrated smile when telling her Pearl
that Yellow and Blue wouldn't be happy if they found Pink Diamond playing with the Quartzes
on Earth. The last time she had a close friendship with a Gem — her first Pearl — the other
Diamonds took the first Pearl away and made her into an Empty Shell. It's unclear if our Pearl
already knew that, or if Pink didn't want to scare her.
 Stone Wall: While a Lightning Bruiser by the standards of other Gems, she's this among
the Diamonds. She's the smallest and implied to be the weakest, but has defensive abilities
none of the other Diamonds have. Whereas the other Diamonds have no defense against
each others' attacks, Pink's shield was able to block the Corruption attack by all three other
Diamonds at once.
 Strong Family Resemblance: When she is first officially seen in "Jungle Moon", her
character design looks not unlike that of Rose Quartz. Her hair has the same messy
consistency, they have similar facial features and lips, and her gem-placement is on her
navel as well. Considering that she is a Royal Brat and the Rose Quartz line of gems was
created by her, this was probably done on purpose as a form of vanity. Then we discover she
and the Crystal Gems' leader Rose Quartz are one and the same.
o The top facets of the Rose Quartz line were apparently designed to look like the
hidden top facet of her own Gem, which aided her well in her disguise as one.
o She was where Steven got his fluffy hair from, since her hair was very
voluminous.
 Super Strength: She could compress a clump of dirt into diamond shards with only her
hands.
 That Woman Is Dead: Her actual fate. She completely disregards her identity and status
as a Diamond by faking her death, and permanently embraced becoming Rose Quartz of the
Crystal Gems for her, her army, and her planet's freedom as individuals.
"Soon, it will be just Rose."

 Thou Shalt Not Kill: Pink Diamond valued all life, Gem and organic alike, greatly. She
tried everything she could do in practical terms to limit people getting hurt. Unfortunately,
circumstances and her choices following that led to everyone getting hurt.
 Token Good Teammate: Implied. She was a Royal Brat, which is already somewhat of
an improvement to the other Diamonds, but also a Cheerful Child, and her attempt to
colonize the Earth is mostly just an attempt to prove herself worthy of being a Diamond. See
also White Sheep below. Confirmed with the reveal that she's Rose Quartz. Of course, she
had to become this with time. Being raised by the other Diamonds caused her to do less than
stellar things at first, like throwing destructive temper tantrums and abandoning Spinel, but
she later experienced Character Development and rebelled against the other Diamonds'
ways, including saving the Earth.
  Took a Level in Badass: She went from an Annoying Younger Sibling to Blue and Yellow
Diamond that couldn't be taken seriously, to a Chessmaster who masterminded the Crystal
Gem rebellion against herself so the Earth could be free, and ultimately ended up
cleverly faking her own death to accomplish this, which fooled everyone.
 Took a Level in Kindness: She went from a Royal Brat trying to get attention from Yellow
to a compassionate leader trying to save all the life on her planet, organic and inorganic. To
the point that she refused to kill anyone.
 Trapped in Villainy: Her talk with Blue Diamond shows she was trying rather desperately
to just "surrender" Earth to the Crystal Gems and humanity for some time, but her sisters
wouldn't permit her to do so. This is part of what made her decide to make her Rose
Quartz Secret Identity rebel against herself, as well as ultimately fake her own death.
 Trauma Conga Line: Boy, does she go through trauma. She was constantly
underestimated by her fellow Diamonds, and her first Pearl was taken from her by White.
When she came to love the Earth, she begged Blue and Yellow to let her spare it, but they
refused to let her do it. After she faked her shattering, the other Diamonds blasted the Earth,
which corrupted all her friends except Pearl, Ruby, and Sapphire.
 Troubled Abuser: The "Volleyball" episode of Future reveals she was the one who
caused Pink Pearl, aka Volleyball's eye and facial crack. Volleyball is very diplomatic in her
description of the incident, but Pink Diamond was definitely the one who hurt her. Whether
accidentally or intentionally is matter for debate. The incident was one of a series of outbursts
Pink had after suffering millennia of both emotional and physical abuse from White, Yellow
and Blue herself, as seen and described in "Escapism" and "Change Your Mind". This abuse
pushed Pink to her breaking point, and unfortunately also led to her perpetuating the cycle of
abuse onto others, which all-too-often occurs in real life cases of abuse as well.
 Tutu Fancy: Pink's outfit has a partial skirt sticking outward, making it resemble a tutu.
 Two Aliases, One Character: It turns out she and Rose Quartz are the same person.
 The Unfavorite: Genuinely believed herself to be this, as Blue and Yellow Diamond went
between ignoring her and admonishing her for not being enough like a Diamond. She was
actually viewed as the favorite by Yellow, or at least White's favorite. However, she wasn't
actually respected by the rest of the Diamonds, meaning that while she may have been liked,
she wasn't really treated as an equal, which would explain her behavior.
 Ungrateful Bitch:
o She was accused of this by her fellow Diamonds as shown in "Can't Go Back",
when they demand that she finish the colony she begged them for despite her various
misgivings about hollowing life out of Earth that she grew fond of. This similarly leads Pink to
believe they don't care about her at all, driving her to even more extreme behavior to the point
where she decided to fully break ties, fake her death, and permanently become Rose
Quartz. Ironically, they're the ones to talk considering that despite everything Pink did for them,
this was how they repaid her.
o Played With regarding Spinel. While she did offer her comfort, love, loyalty, and
respect, as well as making sure she was happy in spite of the sadness and loneliness she often
had on Homeworld, the fact of the matter was the other Diamonds designed Spinel as such for
Pink Diamond, making the entire thing feel hollow. In addition, with the implications that it was
after Pink Pearl was taken, it was likely more as adding salt to the wound. While Spinel was a
good friend to Pink Diamond and it was messed up what the latter did, one could also note that
Spinel was just following her purpose compared to the genuine and willful companionship PD
had with her Pearl.
 Unperson: After her shattering, Yellow Diamond took steps to hide all references to her
existence out of grief and desire not to be reminded of her lest it trigger more grief. Blue
 Diamond hoarded everything she could, maintaining Pink Diamond's Zoo, employing her
Earth-born Quartzes, and even protecting the remaining bubbled Rose Quartzes from Yellow
Diamond's wrath. White Diamond seems to have known all along about what happened, but
kept it to herself because she believed Pink Diamond was just throwing the equivalent of an
extended temper tantrum and needed to get it out of her system. Newer Gems like Leggy
aren't even aware of her existence, a fact that distresses Blue.
 Unreliable Narrator: Based on the flashback in "Jungle Moon" and Pearl recounting how
Pink Diamond begged her sisters to let her spare the Earth, it would seem that Pink was
justified in thinking that the other Diamonds didn't actually care about her. However, it would
then seen by their mourning that they did care about her, which clouds matters. Ultimately,
it's revealed that while the Diamonds loved her, they did not respect her, and they took away
her first Pearl when they transgressed normal Diamond-Pearl bonds. While she may have
been a Diamond, the lack of respect makes the affection and sentiment seem hollow. Her
Pebbles also adored her because she was kind to them, and fun. It still hammers in that Pink
wanted someone to love and respect her of their free will and to not ignore her when she had
something important to say.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
o In "The Movie", she abandoned her playmate Spinel when she got her colony on
Earth, making Spinel Go Mad from the Isolation, ultimately trying to kill all life on Earth.
o Heck, in general the entire series' storyline only ever occurred because Pink
Diamond made huge decisions that affected all of Gemkind and both Homeworld and Earth,
but hadn't thought the consequences through or caused completely unpredictable
results because of them. Spinel's circumstances, tragic as they were, were just the tip of the
iceberg from the sheer amount of doom Pink Diamond unintentionally caused.
 Villainous Legacy: Long after her supposed shattering and giving up her physical form to
give birth to Steven, Pink's loved ones remember her fondly and her legacy is the focus of
most episodes.
 Vocal Dissonance: She's a woman-child with the sultry voice of Susan Egan.
 Voluntary Shapeshifting: Used this to become Rose, rotating her gemstone vertically to
hide her identity.
 Walking Spoiler: Anything concrete about her that was revealed
in "Earthlings" and "Back to the Moon", including the very fact that she existed, is a total
spoiler. Especially the revelation that she was actually Rose Quartz and always has been,
and that Steven's her son.
 Weak, but Skilled: In comparison to the other Diamonds, who appear to completely rely
on being Unskilled, but Strong physically and letting their Powers Do the Fighting, she knows
how to summon her gem weapon like her son Steven, and has at least some skill with
weapons she can't summon like her sword, but her size, durability, and strength appear to be
greatly lacking compared to theirs. Granted, this still makes her Strong and Skilled compared
to nearly every other non-fused Gem in the series.
 "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: "Jungle Moon" shows her as rather desperate to have
Yellow Diamond pay attention to her and treat her as an equal, which is presumably why she
wanted a colony so badly. When she actually got a colony and became attached to it, she
ended up growing past this and opposing them, having come to the (mistaken) conclusion
that they didn't care about her. However, the Diamond Days arc shows that she was not really
respected by her fellow Diamonds, which explains her desperation to be seen as more equal
to them and indeed growing beyond them.
 We Used to Be Friends: She was initially very close to Blue and Yellow, with her Fun
Personified personality constantly lightening up their mood and making them laugh.
 Unfortunately, over time it became clear that did not respect her as an equal, something that
became more prevalent over time and likely motivated her to do things like have her own
colonized world. Her attempts at pleading with them to give Earth to the Crystal Gems and
being reduced to a Puppet Queen when diplomacy failed seems to show when she became
heartbroken with them. In "Change Your Mind", both Blue and Yellow finally realize how
much their behavior has hurt Pink, which drives them to tears.
 What the Hell, Hero?:
o Rose supposedly called her out for not seeing the value of the Earth when
begging for Pink to stop the colony. Rose lied; Pink gave herself the speech when she realized
what the colony would do to the planet she loved.
o Yellow Diamond, of all people, gives "her" one in "Legs From Here to
Homeworld" for faking her death and causing her and Blue to grieve for millennia. Likewise, she
states in "Change Your Mind" that Pink abandoned her and Blue, not acknowledging that it was
her treatment of Pink that caused her to do so.
 What You Are in the Dark:
o Her public persona was that of a caring, but strong ruler, something Yellow and
Blue tried to enforce on her. But she actually didn't want to have anything to do with
Homeworld's methods, she wanted to set Earth free for earthlings and her subjects. The other
Diamonds' rejection led to her leading a rebellion under the identity of Rose Quartz and faking
her death.
o We see this most prominently when she and Pearl, while they are in disguise on
Earth, witness both the damage that the Kindergarten is causing as well as the organic life.
Pink Diamond as Rose realizes that she's going to destroy life on the planet if this continues.
Pearl apologizes, but Rose thanks her for showing her, and she decides to make the change to
save the Earth because she wants to, not because anyone is pressuring her. The least
cautious route would have been to sit back and watch the damage, but Pink didn't want to be
cautious.
 White Sheep: Interestingly, Pink Diamond has been explicitly shown to have not
participated in the nastiest crimes against Gem and non-Gem-kind that the Diamonds have
committed. She was out of the picture before the fusion experiments started and before the
Diamonds corrupted nearly every Gem on Earth. She was also never able to complete even
one colony, while her fellow Diamonds are shown from their murals on the moon base to
have several under each of their belts. Not to mention the Human Zoo; while the way it treats
its human occupants is unnerving and it shows that she might've thought of them as little
more than animals, it's still more than any Diamond has been shown to do to preserve the
species living on the planets they conquer. Confirmed with The Reveal; she was Rose, and
for all her faults, she genuinely did want to free Earth for the Crystal Gems and humans. It
also turns out that Blue had the Zoo made when she expressed concern about humanity not
surviving the invasion.
 Willfully Weak: In "Volleyball", it is revealed that Pink Diamond had an arsenal of
destructive powers that even Pearl didn't know about. It's implied she never used them again
because she scarred Pink Pearl with them.
 Wise Beyond Her Years: Since she was only a child by Gem standards, her coming to
realize the error of the other Diamonds' ways and love life on Earth means she matured
faster than Yellow and Blue, who are both much older than her. This is a trait she would later
pass on to her son, Steven.
 With Friends Like These...: She wasn't exactly the most considerate to either Spinel or
Volleyball to put it lightly, abandoning the former because she wanted to be taken seriously
and grew tired of her childish antics and most likely forgetting about her, and injuring and
traumatizing the latter during her temper tantrums. At the very least, in the case with
 Volleyball, it seemed to trigger a kind of Heel Realization as she doesn't exhibit the same
abusive behavior after Spinel and never used her destructive powers again.
Spinel: Oh, you're so protective with your real friends, and you're so careless with your fake ones!

 Womanchild: She was much more immature than a thousand-year old Gem should
probably be, and Yellow Diamond tried to tell her to act her age. She only really grew up after
she decided to fight for the Earth, but even then she retains her childish flaws.
 Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The only reason why she tried to colonize the Earth was to
prove herself worthy of being a Diamond and be acknowledged by the other Diamonds. After
her Heel–Face Turn, she becomes a Woobie, Protector of Worlds.
 The Worf Effect:
o She was powerful by Gem and human standards, and skilled with a sword, as we
saw in her Rose Quartz guise. But Blue and Yellow can easily pick her up, manhandle or even
hurt her. Her power and status means nothing to her sisters, and they all but acknowledge their
bad treatment of her in "Change Your Mind".
o Rose's sword was able to poof even her, a Diamond. Though the blow only
landed because Pink allowed Pearl, shapeshifted into Rose, to do it.
 Wrong Context Magic: Notably the only Diamond whose primary abilities can fully affect
non-Gems.
 The Xenophile: A flashback in "Change Your Mind" hints that she always had a
fascination with organic lifeforms, having apparently once released a group of alien creatures
during a ball.
 Yank the Dog's Chain: She fakes her shattering not only so she could be free from the
Diamonds' abuse, but also so the Earth and its inhabitants could be free. This does
happen... at the cost of most of her friends getting corrupted.
 You Are Not Ready: She was constantly denied a colony because her sisters knew she
wouldn't be able to handle the responsibility of running one. While Pink did receive the Earth,
it was only because Yellow had enough of Pink's childishness and gave it to her so she
would stop complaining. Turns out that they were right in a sense. Pink Diamond could not
handle running a colony... but because she realized what they were doing was wrong.
 You Don't Look Like You: Pink has had several presented designs throughout the show.
Her mural presents her with massive hair that spiked forward, an adult-like figure (a
noticeable chest and She's Got Legs), and a point-cut (diamond shaped) gem. Her first real
appearance in "Jungle Moon" showed her as child-like, roughly Stevonnie's size, with
uneven, fluffy hair and a brilliant-cut (the most common jewelry cut) gem.
The "Gemcation" flashback shows her as over twice Garnet's height, with a point-cut gem
and tall, spiky hair reminiscent of White Diamond's mural. Garnet's story in "Your Mother and
Mine" has her about five times larger than Rose Quartz, with forward-swept hair. Her final
design as seen in "A Single Pale Rose" (and before that a foam keychain) gives her a more
even hairdo with five distinct bumps, poofy shorts and shoes with pom-poms, and shows her
to be around twice Pearl's size. Of course, the flashbacks in "Gemcation" and "Your Mother
and Mine" were from the point of view of someone who didn't know the details of her
appearance In-Universe, and the mural was likely subject to Artistic License (Blue Diamond's
mural is noticeably spikier and more angular than her real look).
 Your Size May Vary: The flashback in "Gemcation" depicts her as being only slightly
shorter than Yellow and Blue Diamond, but in "Jungle Moon" she appears only around
Stevonnie's height. Her actual size is more likely to be the latter given physical evidence
found on the abandoned moon base of "Jungle Moon", as well as the smaller size of the chair
in the Moon Earth base compared to the Jungle Moon one, although it's possible she
somehow managed to permanently grow herself to the former height. Another possibility is
 that she wore limb enhancers like Peridot did, and "Jungle Moon" reveals her true form. It's
also possible that the flashback in "Gemcation" could just be Steven's imagination. The
flashback in "Your Mother and Mine" puts even more confusion over her height, as it shows
that she's at least five times taller than Rose Quartz, yet if she's Stevonnie's height, she
would have to be shorter than Rose; it could be that her height in her flashback was either
Garnet or Steven's imagination. Her true height is about twice that of Pearl's, still huge but
rather small compared to the other Diamonds. And like large fusions, her gemstone looks
whatever size is necessary to be visible: When poofed or in Steven's body, it's small enough
to fit in a human-sized hand. When she's in her usual form it seems to double in width.

Blue Diamond
Voiced by: Lisa Hannigan
 Click here to see her mural. 

"What good all this would do? The more I make these Gems suffer, the more I long to see you again, Pink..."

The second Diamond mentioned, and the first to appear in the series proper in "The
Answer". She was at the Sky Arena during Rose's rebellion, and Sapphire used to
report directly to her. She commands Homeworld's court system, leads Homeworld's
diplomatic Gems, and is the blue Gem depicted on the mural from "Serious Steven".

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 Adorkable: When she's happy she tends to become this.

o In "Steven's Dream" she cheers up after she has a meaningful conversation with
Greg during one of her secret visits to Pink's shattering site. The way she talks about how she
 shouldn't even be on Earth is similar to a teenager who snuck out of the house at night,
something she doesn't want her "mother" and "older sister" to know about, and when she finally
decides to take Greg back with her she has a downright goofy smile on her face, and doesn't
notice she's holding Greg too tightly.
o In "Legs From Here to Homeworld", she looks just adorable when crying Tears of
Joy over Pink still being alive (in a sense) and nuzzling Steven against her cheek, but she again
doesn't notice that she is squishing him just a bit. She also seems to become amused by
Steven's curiosity around things he should know about as "Pink" and cracks a few smiles at
Yellow's growing frustration over the entire thing.
o In "Familiar", she's absolutely delighted to see Steven again because Pink
always made her happy, and there is no change from the way Pink acted thousands of years
ago to how Steven acts presently. The only difference she notes is calling "Pink" Steven now,
which she precedes to say multiple times with emphasis on different syllables because she
thinks it sounds funny.
o In "Change Your Mind", when Connie mentions being grounded before, Blue is
absolutely baffled by what the human is talking about. Later after being told by White to go to
their rooms, Blue, still not understanding the concept of being grounded, asks what rooms she
and the others should go to, and later swears to White that it wasn't her when her and Yellow's
ships punch White's.
 Adult Fear:
o Her grief for her "sister" Pink echoes what most parents fear — losing one's child,
and the struggle to move on from it. Moreover, in "The Trial", while confronting "Rose" (actually
Steven claiming to be her), she acts like an angry, grieving mother who wants justice for Pink's
murderer.
o In "Reunited", when she finally gets the chance to avenge Pink's death, she's
faced with the harsh truth: Getting revenge won't make everything better. The Pink she knew is
already gone, and pursuing further action would only make more people suffer.
o In "Legs From Here to Homeworld", she discovers that she and the other
Diamonds launched their attack on Earth while Pink Diamond was on it.
o Following from the above point, with "Pink Diamond"'s reveal and return, Blue
has gotten her closure and is eager to return to life as it was before the Crystal Gem rebellion,
believing the Diamonds would become a loving family again... but "Pink" and "her" unorthodox
ways continues to frustrate her. By "Change Your Mind", when "Pink" makes it clear that "she"'s
refusing to follow "her" family's expectations, Blue laments that spending time on Earth has
been a bad influence on "Pink", and being called out by Steven for her condescending
treatment makes her snap to the point of physically attacking him. From Blue's perspective, it's a
heartbreaking parallel to a parent/older sibling unwittingly letting their child/younger sibling fall
prey to supposedly bad influences, to the point where said child no longer agrees with their
authority figure's way of thinking and strains their relationship. She's eventually forced to realize
that this condescending treatment of Pink in the past what drove her to rebel against her and
Yellow.
 Affably Evil: Is surprisingly friendly and cordial to Greg before kidnapping him for her
Human Zoo, which she sees as an act of kindness to Greg due to her believing that the
Cluster is still going to destroy the Earth. She also ceases her hostility towards the Crystal
Gems after finding out that Rose/Steven is Pink Diamond.
 Alien Invasion: In "Reunited", she and Yellow show up to check up on the Cluster and
attempt to decimate the Crystal Gems. The fact Ruby and Sapphire were having their
wedding was just a coincidence.
  Aliens of London: In her later appearances she speaks with an Irish accent (her voice
actress' natural accent), when all other previously seen Gems speak with American or
English accents.
 Aloof Big Sister: Not as much as Yellow, but she is shown to be condescending and
hard towards Pink in "Can't Go Back", though she tries to encourage her to be a good
Diamond. "Now We're Only Falling Apart" even has her callously reject Pink's offer to spare
the Earth. Eventually, this is what made Pink believe that Blue never cared about
her. "Together Alone" has her angrily telling "Pink" to "quit fooling around".
 Ambadassador: Word of God describes blue Gems as typically created with diplomatic
skills and Blue has been established to be in charge of Homeworld’s court
system. "Reunited" shows that despite not being in charge of the military, she is a dangerous
warrior by herself that requires absolute teamwork from the Crystal Gems just to bring her to
a knee. In fact, the episode showed that if motivated enough she's willing to get her hands
dirty, which she does to get vengeance against the Crystal Gems despite Yellow already
trying to force the Cluster to emerge.
 Arch-Enemy: To Ruby and Sapphire, and their fused form Garnet. While any one of the
Diamonds is enough to put her on edge, Garnet shows the most hostility towards Blue
Diamond for being the first real obstacle to their love, trying to have Ruby and Sapphire
shattered for daring to fuse in her presence (even though it was an accident). Her component
Ruby despises Blue Diamond for apparently being a merciless shatterer who yelled at
Sapphire, and while Sapphire is more indifferent towards Blue Diamond, it's made clear that
she views her as much of an enemy as Ruby does. Blue herself barely remembers them, but
still makes her disapproval of fusion insultingly clear. As of "Change Your Mind", however,
the animosity seems to have ended, as Blue is willing to help Ruby and Sapphire safely
return to Earth and Garnet and the other Crystal Gems say goodbye to Blue Diamond as she
returns to Homeworld alongside the other Diamonds.
 Arc Villain:
o She's the main antagonist of Ruby and Sapphire's love story.
o She sets the events of "Out of This World" into motion when she "rescues" Greg,
although she is never confronted and Holly Blue Agate is the one who directly opposes the
Crystal Gems.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: She has droopy, sorrowful eyes, is colored blue,
and wears a long veil. She's in perpetual mourning.
 The Atoner:
o She wishes to make it up to Pink for ignoring her pleas to spare the Earth by
preserving Pink's legacy.
o Upon realizing her bad treatment of Pink in the past, she seeks to make up for it
by helping Steven and Connie return to Earth. Her willingness to return Ruby and Sapphire to
Earth implies that she wants to make up for what she did to them in the past as well.
o In "Homeworld Bound", it's shown she regrets using her powers to make others
feel the pain she feels, and is now bringing joy to others via clouds that her new power create.
 Axe-Crazy: Downplayed; while she's quite calm normally, her depression makes her
very emotionally unstable when provoked-she is quite quick to anger and Disproportionate
Retribution. It's not yet clear if her violent anger was a result of losing Pink Diamond or not.
 Bad Boss: Blue Diamond's response to Ruby accidentally averting Sapphire's prophecy
(by saving her, aka the job she was assigned to) and for fusing together with her? Why,
smash Ruby's gem of course!
  Barehanded Blade Block: She stops a jumping sword attack from Connie with one hand,
then effortlessly shatters Rose Quartz's sword.
 Because You Were Nice to Me: It's implied that in-between dealing with Sycophantic
Servants, and Yellow Diamond's attempts to destroy everything related to Pink Diamond
and seeing Blue Diamond's feelings as useless, Blue Diamond didn't have the time or place
to properly vent and grieve. Then comes Greg, a mere human who not only takes the time to
listen to Blue Diamond's thoughts, but tries to comfort her instead of dismissing her feelings
or forcing her to move on. Blue Diamond takes such a liking to him that she decides to take
him with her to the Zoo so he'd be spared the destruction of the Earth by the
Cluster, unaware it'd been neutralized by the Crystal Gems.
 Beam Spam: Has the ability to manipulate energy, which includes making it rain energy
beams.
 Benevolent Boss: She comes off as one in "The Trial", as she summons her palanquin
for Defense Zircon to use for her argument when the latter requests her to, and later steps in
on her behalf when Yellow poofs her. In "Together Alone", it's revealed that she allows Blue
Pearl to draw pictures, to the surprise of Yellow Pearl. "Change Your Mind" has her outright
realize just how unfair her and the other Diamonds' treatment of their subjects is.
 Berserk Button:
o Don't interfere with her attempts to get to the bottom of how Pink Diamond was
shattered, even if you're Yellow Diamond. Fortunately, her reaction to the truth is far more
pleasant than one would expect.
o Rose's sword, given her reaction at the trial, and once she actually sees it
in "Reunited" she stops crying and goes into an earth-shaking rage before proceeding to break it
like it was a toothpick.
 Beware the Nice Ones: While outwardly more sympathetic than most Homeworld Gems,
we're occasionally reminded that she's still very much not someone to be trifled with. In
particular, she's so bent on revenge against Rose that she specifically wants to hear what
Rose herself thinks her plan is, so she can do something worse.
o When it comes to her official role as head of the Gem Empire's court system she
is known as merciful. However, the way she dealt with Garnet first fusing, and in the movie the
fact the major change she admitted to making for Steven by not shattering Gems, in the same
way Yellow gave up leading her armies, implies she's more prone to executing others then her
reputation would let on.
o Also, despite being meek and/or demure around Yellow Diamond,
when evidence starts cropping up that her fellow Diamonds might have been responsible for Pink
Diamond's shattering, she actually starts shouting.
o Seen again in "Reunited". She's a terrifyingly capable warrior, using her emotion-
based powers to effortlessly incapacitate the entire Crystal Gem team. It was only Lapis Lazuli,
whose extremely tragic past made her immune to Blue's grief wave, that allowed them to
temporarily stun her. And even then, she was back up in seconds.
o In "Change Your Mind", she even fights Yellow to protect Steven.
o Her power of reverse empathy is also arguably the worst of all of the Diamonds.
Yellow's electric abilities can "poof" gems instantly, but they seem to be unconscious while in
that state, and just need time to reform their bodies. White's mind-control is also terrifying, but
as Pink Pearl/Volleyball can attest, a Gem's actual persona is also unconscious in this time—
once the control is over, they awaken as if they were sleeping, with no memory of what's been
happening. But Blue? Blue forces other Gems to feel such horrible grief that they can't
move...and are aware of it. They're conscious during every second of the attack, which can last
 as long as Blue wants, and can't even find solace in the fact that they'll eventually pass out from
the pain.
 Big Bad Duumvirate: Often serves in this role with Yellow Diamond. They even invade
the Earth together. It's also shown that Blue, Yellow, Pink, and White are part of this as
a Dysfunctional Family archetype.
 Big Sister Bully: Not physically or intentionally, but her constant dismissal of Pink,
combined with her refusal to let Pink spare the Earth, led Pink to dislike Blue and believe she
never cared about her. In present day she seems to have realized this, as she blames
herself for Pink's "death" and seems to have come to the conclusion that Pink was right about
humanity not deserving to die. "Together Alone" has her angrily telling "Pink" to "quit fooling
around". This reaches its ultimate conclusion when Steven angers her to the point where she
physically assaults him, leaving Steven to ask Blue how many times she locked Pink away,
hurt her, and made her cry. This forces Blue to confront the fact that it was her abuse that
drove Pink away in the first place, and that her claims of loving her sister rang hollow in the
face of her actions.
 Big Sister Instinct: In a flashback, Blue at least tries to thoroughly praise and encourage
Pink Diamond in light of the rebellion, a stark contrast to Yellow simply turning her back on
the latter. It doesn't actually work because she misunderstood Pink's motivation and comes
off as Condescending Compassion, but she gets points for trying, unlike Yellow, who was
straight-out ignoring Pink. In "Familiar", Blue notes that she always loved Pink's cheerful
personality.
 Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While not an unsympathetic character, Blue's role as the
softer foil to Yellow can push her into this. Yellow's hostility is very visible and stated easily
while Blue's isn't always evident but it's still there. Blue always comes across as the more
empathetic of the two, but her Condescending Compassion and infantilization of Pink strike
at a deeper level than Yellow's bluntness. It's especially apparent in scenes like when Steven
meets her in the pool; Blue seems receptive at first but by the end of the conversation it's
clear she doesn't "see" him as anything other than a facade Pink put on and when faced with
Garnet she only acknowledges the Gems that make her rather than as her own person.
 Blue Is Heroic: A downplayed inversion. Her only color is blue and her name is literally
"Blue Diamond", but she's an Anti-Villain.
 Broken Bird: This may overlap with Break the Haughty; while it's unknown how "evil" she
was before Pink Diamond's shattering, it's clear that it left her in a state of depression that
lasted for over 6,000 years, and even after learning the truth, has left her with emotional
scars that aren't going to heal anytime soon.
'''Blue Diamond: You cannot fathom how much I've mourned! What thousands of years of grief has done to me!

 But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Blue Diamond sees Sapphire and Ruby face to face,
she doesn't even remember them as the Gems she was furious at centuries before, though
this is understandable as the event in question was over five thousand years ago. She
remembers who they are in "Reunited" once she sees Garnet.
 The Chains of Commanding: If Yellow Diamond is telling the truth, Blue Diamond's deep
and perpetual grief over the death of Pink Diamond may be causing her to neglect her duties
as a leader of Homeworld.
Yellow Diamond: Where's their Diamond when they need her, Blue? You've got to be a leader, Blue!

 Character Development:
o While it's left up in the air how much of it is due to grief, her modern appearance
suggests she has changed a lot since the Rebellion and Pink Diamond's death. She's also far
kinder and more considerate towards Steven than she was in flashbacks to Pink. However,
 once everyone returns to Homeworld after finding "Pink Diamond", Blue reverts to her old aloof,
controlling behavior by expecting Steven to host a royal ball exactly to the Diamonds'
standards, and when Steven breaks protocol by dancing and fusing with Connie into Stevonnie,
Blue threatens to unfuse them herself. In "Change Your Mind", Blue briefly reaches her Rage
Breaking Point and blasts Steven with an energy beam, before Steven's Armor-Piercing
Question makes her realize what she's doing and transition into a full Heel–Face Turn.
o As of The Movie and Future she's improved her attitude immensely, and is now
actively seeking to bring happiness to other Gems. She's also become far more loving
towards Spinel than she was towards Pink.
 Co-Dragons: With Yellow towards White. They don't really enjoy it.
 Cool Aunt: After realizing Steven is technically Pink, she becomes far kinder, more
supportive, and considerate towards him than she was to Pink. Where Yellow still has some
harshness towards him, Blue is quick to come to his defense and instantly jumps in to try and
help heal Centipeetle — when Yellow near instantly writes it off as a lost cause — because
it's important to "Pink". "Familiar" briefly has her calling him "Steven" instead of "Pink". And
then there's her Heel–Face Turn in "Change Your Mind", which has her fully acknowledge
him as his own being and she even fights Yellow to protect him.
 Cool Big Sis: What she'd like to believe regarding Pink Diamond, but ultimately a
subversion. While she was closer and more affectionate to Pink than the other Diamonds,
and she did try to encourage her, it's revealed later that she had inadvertently emotionally
abused her one time too many as well, by locking her up in a tower and later berating her
when she made a mistake, ignoring her wish to preserve Earth's living inhabitants, and
making her a Puppet Queen. It's also implied she may have used her emphatic abilities to
make Pink cry too. This, along with Yellow's strictness all culminated Pink's belief that Blue
and Yellow didn't truly love her and partially resulted in Pink rebelling against them as Rose
Quartz. Blue redeems herself when she realizes how terrible she was to Pink, and resolves
to help Steven and Connie escape Homeworld as atonement.
 Costume Evolution: The Moon base mural depicts Blue Diamond with a bare head and
darker colored hair. When Blue Diamond appears in "The Answer" and "Steven's Dream",
she wears a dark blue cowl and has bluish-white hair.
 Create Your Own Hero:
o If she hadn’t been so quick to turn against Ruby and Sapphire for fusing into
Garnet, it probably would have never resulted in the Crystal Gems and made Pink try to make
Earth a home for dissatisfied and outcast Gems.
o Her misguided harshness and controlling behavior towards Pink is part of what
led to Pink becoming Rose Quartz in the first place.
 Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: She has heavy shadows under her eyes that are a
darker shade of blue than the rest of her face, ostensibly from grief over losing Pink
Diamond. Note that, in the flashback in "Now We're Only Falling Apart" where we see her
face, she didn't have these, only because Pink was still alive then.
 Crippling Overspecialization: Her Emotion Bomb is so powerful that she seems to use it
as a crutch in combat, to the point that she doesn't appear to know how to fight properly
without it. It's telling that when Lapis shrugs it off her only backup plan is to bombard her
opponent with magic until they poof.
 Curse of Babel: She was able to temporarily restore Nephrite's speech, implying that this
part of the corruption was her doing.
 Curtains Match the Windows: Downplayed. Her hair is blue, but quite light when in
comparison to her eyes.
 Cute Giant: Particularly after discovering Pink Diamond was never shattered.
  Dark Is Evil: Well, more of an Anti-Villain, really, but her overall dark color scheme and
shadowed face match her occasional cruelty and indifference well enough.
 Dark Is Not Evil: She becomes this after Steven reveals to her the truth of Pink
Diamond’s whereabouts. By the time of "Change Your Mind", this becomes far more blatant,
to the point she even admits regretting what she's put her own Gems through.
 David vs. Goliath: What the fight between her and the Crystal Gems amounts to
in "Reunited". Unfortunately for them, this Goliath is too damn hard to take down even with
Lapis' help.
 Death Glare: Gives two to Steven in the "Wanted" arc. Before that she gave one to
Sapphire in "That Will Be All".
Blue Diamond: I want to know what SHE thinks we're going to do with her. Because I want to do
something worse.

o Shows up again in "Reunited". As the Crystal Gems stand on the beach to fight
her, she stares at them with murder in her eyes, and gives a big absolutely terrifying one to
Connie when she attacks her with Rose's sword.
 Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In "Change Your Mind", she slaps Yellow on the
wrist, leading to an all-out fight between them.
 Disproportionate Retribution: She threatened to smash Ruby's gem, for fusing with a
courtly Gem like Sapphire and "letting the rebels escape". This can be overlooked to some
degree in that Rubies are literally Red Shirts, and Ruby herself was confused over
Sapphire's actions because Ruby knew she was expendable.
 Dissonant Serenity: She's hardly fazed by Sapphire's announcement about an upcoming
Rebellion attack, even when Sapphire details losses on Blue Diamond's side.
Understandable in the fact that the Gems would've just been poofed, and Sapphire herself
even says that she looks forward to seeing her again after she reforms.
 Doting Parent: In a flashback on the Moon base in "Can't Go Back", she speaks to Pink
Diamond about the latter's first colony in a stern, yet kind way. That said, Pink Diamond didn't
see her that way and believed she and the others never cared at all about her. After she
learns that Steven is Pink Diamond reincarnated, the first thing she's shown doing in "Legs
From Here to Homeworld" is crying tears of joy while nuzzling Steven. Later on, Blue is quick
to support his decision to try to uncorrupt Centipeetle and is willing to go to Homeworld to talk
to White Diamond despite her fear of White. In "Change Your Mind", Yellow calls her out for
constantly bending the rules for Pink.
 Dramatically Missing the Point: The Human Zoo that was kept in Pink's name? That was
created by Blue, because she misunderstood Pink's desire to preserve Earth. And she
genuinely thought that her and Yellow's decision to make Pink a puppet ruler of Earth would
help shield her sister from the more difficult aspects of ruling, since she interpreted Pink's
excuses as her having a hard time with colonizing Earth. It all backfired spectacularly.
 The Dreaded: In "That Will Be All", Blue Diamond struck such fear in her former subject
Sapphire that the latter literally started freezing up, and had to be placated by Ruby holding
her hand in secret. "Steven's Dream" shows that even Garnet is terrified of her.
 Due to the Dead: She secretly visits Earth to pay respects to Pink Diamond's "shattering"
site behind Yellow Diamond's back, and knowing she'll disapprove. She also keeps a Shrine
to the Fallen by bubbling Pink's Rose Quartzes and preserving her old Human Zoo and bed
chambers. Yellow Diamond's efforts to Unperson Pink and destroy everything related to her,
on the other hand, is at their core, someone desecrating a loved one's grave and memory for
the sake of repressing her own pain and grief.
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  The Eeyore: Since her powers are based off of her sadness and crying in tears, it's safe
to assume that she's this compared to the other Diamonds. Ever since Pink Diamond's
shattering, she's been depressed and sad all the time — so much that she began neglecting
her leadership duties. She smiles more often after discovering that Pink Diamond was never
shattered.
 Emotion Bomb: She has the ability to project her own sadness onto other Gems, and it's
potent enough to make every Gem within the area start crying at once and even fall to their
knees.
o We see the full, horrifying extent of this in "Reunited". In earlier episodes, her
projection power seemed like something she couldn't control — it only popped up when she felt
strong emotion. Then we see that she not only has complete control over it, she knows how to
weaponize it. With a single raise of her hand, she immobilzes the whole Crystal Gem team.
(Barring Connie and Lion, who, as a human and lion, aren't affected at all.)
o As of Future she has discovered that this power works with other emotions as
well, allowing her to conjure blue clouds that induce pure happiness in Gems who touch them.
 Even Evil Has Loved Ones: It's unclear how high she ranks on the "evil" scale in the
present day, but she really seems to care about Yellow and Pink, comforting the former
in "That Will Be All" and "The Trial" and having mourned the latter's supposed death for five
thousand years.
 Even Evil Has Standards:
o In contrast to Yellow Diamond, who views organic life as something to be snuffed
out, Blue Diamond takes a more paternalistic approach by keeping humans in a nature
preserve in Pink Diamond's memory.
o Despite demanding deference and respect from her subjects, even she doesn't
seem to care for displays of excessive brown-nosing, albeit not to the same obvious extent as
Yellow.
o During "The Trial", she's very insistent on taking the proceedings seriously (as
opposed to Yellow Diamond, who openly treats it as a show trial).
 Excessive Mourning: Pink Diamond died over five thousand years ago. Blue Diamond
still mourns her death as though it had happened yesterday. Justified, as she's lived for
possibly eons, and five thousand years really is like yesterday for her.
 Exotic Eye Designs: Like Yellow Diamond, she has diamond-shaped pupils.
 Failed a Spot Check: Played for Drama. While helping to fight the rebellion on Earth,
she never realized that Rose Quartz and Pink Diamond have distinctly the same voice. Even
if you could excuse it as Pink changing her intonation dramatically, the real Rose Quartzes
sound distinctly different from the Crystal Gems leader.
 Fatal Flaw: Sloth. If Yellow Diamond's song is anything to go by, Blue Diamond is so
overwhelmed with grief that she is living in the past and neglecting her duties as a leader.
o This seems to be a subversion after "The Trial", where Blue isn't just grieving,
she's unable to accept the official story of her beloved sibling's demise — because it makes no
sense. The questions "How could Rose do it?" and "How did Rose do it?" are tearing her up
inside. This, coupled with the fact that Yellow is uninterested in finding the truth, is causing her
even more distress. A real-world equivalent would be a grieving person whose sister was
murdered but they never located their family member's dead body. Little wonder Blue is unable
to move on.
 Five Stages of Grief:
o When she's first introduced, she's very clearly in the Depression stage and has
been for quite some time, having not stopped crying in over several thousand years. She also
regularly travels to Earth to visit Pink's shattering sight, despite knowing full well that the planet,
and everything on it (including herself) could be destroyed at any second by the Cluster
 forming, and is in no hurry to leave when told this by her Pearl. This implies she may even have
self-destructive desires or just doesn't care about her well being anymore.
o To a lesser extent, she's also stuck at Bargaining, as she hoards anything and
everything that belonged to Pink Diamond. It's a major reason she brought Greg (a native to
Pink's "home planet" Earth) to the Zoo, as well as why she keeps all of Pink's Rose Quartzes
bubbled instead of shattering them. It's also why she decides to go with court formalities in "The
Trial", because she wants to know the truth behind Pink's "death".
 "Change Your Mind" shows this may have also been fueled by Denial as
well, as collecting life forms for Pink was apparently something Blue did frequently before Pink
was "shattered".
o Steven escaping the trial and Homeworld thrust her fully into Anger
during "Reunited", with Blue actively going into combat before Yellow, and weaponizing her
emotional powers. Seeing Rose's sword even triggers her to earthshaking shouting and
attempting to hurt the Crystal Gems to make herself feel better, which she admits only makes
things worse.
o In the Diamond Days arc, she seems to have replaced her earlier seen deep
Depression with heavy Denial. With Steven having revealed himself as Pink's son, Blue
becomes eager to return Homeworld to an idealized version of its Era 1 stages when the
Diamond Authority was whole and happy, and keeps calling Steven by his mother's name
despite assertions that he's not Pink in an organic form. However, when "Pink" continuously
breaks the rules and tells Blue to her face just how terrible things are on Homeworld, she can't
keep her delusion from falling apart and eventually relapses into Anger, which worsens to the
point she emotionally snaps and physically assaults Steven.
o In "Change Your Mind", after Steven calls Blue out on how her and the other
Diamonds treated Pink with emotional and physical abuse, she has a Heel Realization that
allows her to finally move into the Acceptance stage, not only accepting Steven as his own
individual apart from Pink (who is very much gone for good), but also accepting a slew of other
issues she had been to afraid to admit, including; how Pink was right to leave and didn't belong
on Homeworld any more than Steven does now, how dysfunctional the relationship between all
four of the Diamonds is, how White Diamond's screwed up rules and standards on Homeworld
are what is truly making her (and everyone else on the planet) miserable, and just how
miserable she, herself, truly feels. After admitting all of this Blue becomes much more pro-
active in helping Steven and trying to fix things and attempt to finally move forward.
 Foil: To her "sister", Yellow Diamond. Aside from their colors and masculine/feminine
personalities, Blue Diamond constantly and obsessively mourns Pink Diamond, collecting
everything related to her to preserve Pink's memory, and is so utterly consumed by her own
depression that she neglects her duties as ruler of Homeworld.
 Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling:
o Yellow and Blue (responsible) and Pink (foolish). After Pink's Heel–Face Turn,
the roles are reversed.
o This trope is Zig-Zagged between her and Yellow in the present day during
Steven's trial. While Blue does act like a depressed NEET, at the very least she's insistent on
continuing the trial properly. Yellow, on the other hand, while determined to keep her forces in
line, treats the trial like a Kangaroo Court.
 Forehead of Doom: She has a very tall forehead which adds to her perpetually droopy
face.
 For Your Own Good: When Pink was reluctant to continue with the Earth colony, she
and Yellow directly intervened. She was quite vocal about it, wanting her younger sibling to
be as successful as them.
  Frickin' Laser Beams: Her primary attack in "Reunited" is to slow down the Crystal
Gems with Emotion Bombs and summoning self-directing Hand Blasts to barrage the
battlefield.
 Gasp!: Blue Diamond reacts this way after Blue Zircon implies one of the Diamonds
shattered Pink, either for the shock of such sacrilegious declaration, or because it
actually makes sense (Blue Diamond trying to calm Yellow Diamond makes the latter a likely
situation). She also gives one of these in "Reunited", when she realizes that Steven
really is the supposedly-shattered Pink Diamond.
 Gentle Giant: She already shows shades of this in "Steven's Dream" with
the kindness she displays towards Greg, but she doesn't truly fulfill this trope until her Heel–
Face Turn.
 God Save Us from the Queen!: Very queenly (Greg even calls her "Your Highness"), and
also very tyrannical. Does not hesitate to order Ruby executed for breaking a taboo, even
accidentally while trying to do her job. She may have lightened up in the present day, though
how much remains to be seen.
 Hair-Trigger Temper: Ironically, Blue Diamond's temper can be even worse than Yellow
Diamond's. It took one of her followers calling her what is probably the equivalent of a Gem
slur, and in another case, being accused of murdering her own sister, for Yellow to finally
snap and get violent. Blue, on the other hand, was immediately ready to shatter one of her
own Gems for accidentally fusing with one of her elites, and totally lost her composure
because "Rose Quartz" apparently didn't want to remember the most traumatic event in her
life. As mentioned above in Axe-Crazy, it's unclear if her violent anger is as a result of Pink
Diamond's supposed shattering. "Now We're Only Falling Apart" implies that she was like this
beforehand considering how Pink Diamond express fear and guilt for leaving Garnet at her
mercy, which makes her change her goal from scaring Homeworld off of Earth to making it a
home for outcast Gems.
 Hartman Hips: The cinch at her waist gives her a set of these, most noticeable
during "Together Alone" when she sashays side-to-side as she enters the ballroom.
 Heart Is an Awesome Power: A dark example. Yellow has electricity-based
powers which can effortlessly "poof" a Gem, taking them out of commission. Compared to
this, Blue's Emotion Bomb gift of spreading her feelings to other Gems seems
weak... Then "Reunited" aired, and we see that she can easily weaponize that reverse
empathy to completely incapacitate every Gem in range. Her power is so strong that it unfuses
Alexandrite within seconds.
 Heavenly Blue: She is, as her name implies, blue, resembles the Virgin Mary, has blue
light attacks and is worshipped as a god. She is, however, an antagonist. For most of the
series, anyway.
 Heel–Face Turn: Her love for Pink, and by extension Steven, eventually win out over her
fear of White and her own lingering bitterness. She betrays White and fights Yellow to save
the Crystal Gems and Steven, and openly admits what she's done to her own subjects was
wrong.
 Heel Realization:
o Has had a partial one. Unlike Yellow, she's realized humanity doesn't deserve to
die and has come to respect them. However, she's unable, or unwilling, to go against Yellow
and do more than spare a few of them.
o Unlike Yellow, she seems to have realized she and Yellow were too callous and
cruel to Pink, to the point of blaming herself for her apparent demise. When she realized
Steven is Pink (in a sense), she stops her rampage and shows she really has changed, being
far kinder and more considerate to him and what he wants. Though this also turns out to be
downplayed in that it's clear she hasn't fully learned from her mistakes, and is still prejudiced
towards humans and the Crystal Gems.
 o Finally has a full one that leads to a Heel–Face Turn when she hurts "Pink" yet
again and Steven calls her out on it, with his words making her realize that doing this so many
times drove Pink away in the first place. Blue outright admits that Pink was right to leave, and
that Homeworld was failing Pink if she was happier on Earth than she was there.
o She lets out during her confrontation with Yellow that she's realized the Gems
under them have been suffering and seems to finally understand how immoral it is, but was
burying it to live up to White's standards. This makes her sparing the Earth Quartz Gems,
treating her Pearl well, and being furious at the trial when Yellow needlessly poofed the Zircons
take on a completely different meaning.
 Hidden Eyes: Seems to be a theme with her, as her Pearl, Sapphire, and Blue Diamond
herself all cover their eyes.
 Hidden Depths:
o "Now We're Only Falling Apart" reveals Blue created the human zoo as an
attempt to compromise with Pink Diamond’s begging to cease the colonizing of the Earth. Very
surprising considering she was as dismissive of organics like Yellow Diamond yet she was able
to make sure future generations of Zoomans wouldn’t understand feelings like sadness and
pain.
o A darker example in "Reunited". Previously, she had raised her voice on the
show twice, both in "That Will Be All" and "The Trial", and she seemed almost weak compared
to the war-like Yellow. Then we see her battling in action, and... let's just say it's not pretty.
 The same episode demonstrates that she understands just how useless
continuing the war with the Crystal Gems is, since no matter how much they suffer it can't bring
Pink Diamond back.
o She treats her Pearl well, spared the Earth Quartz Gems, and is enraged when
Yellow needlessly poofs the Zircons. As it turns out and she admits to Yellow, she's realized
their Gems are suffering needlessly and does feel bad about it, but is too afraid of disappointing
and enraging White to act on it.
o Out of all the Diamonds, she may actually be The Smart Guy when she allows
herself to think independently, outside of White's ideals and standards, as she uses her status
as the head of Homeworld's judicial system to create a socially acceptable way for Blue Pearl
to indulge in her drawing hobby despite it being outside Homeworld norms, recognizes the
logical inconsistencies in the testimony regarding Pink's "shattering" and, at the end of "Change
Your Mind", she suggests using Rose's tears as a medium to channel the Diamond Authority's
powers into the corrupted Gems.
 Hypocrite:
o In a flashback in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", Pink Diamond is shown to be
worried that Blue will reprimand her for visiting the Prime Kindergarten, but in "Steven's
Dream", Blue herself is shown going against Yellow's orders and visiting the Earth against her
wishes.
o Also, in "Can't Go Back", Blue had the nerve to call Pink out on not finishing her
duties as a Diamond and accuse her of being ungrateful, when, after Pink's demise, she spent
millennia grieving instead of being a Diamond. And back when Pink was still alive, she did
everything she could to fix the Diamonds' dysfunctional relationship, only for Blue to pay her
back with locking her up whenever she stepped out of line and making her cry, even taking
away Pink's first colony when she wouldn't complete it. Yellow calls her out on the former and
Steven calls her out on the latter.
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 Icy Blue Eyes: She has droopy, light blue eyes, which can appear innocent when she
grieves.
  Implacable Man: In "Reunited", even with the combined efforts of the Crystal Gems
(including Connie, Bismuth, Peridot and Lapis, who has the entire ocean as her weapon) all
attacking Blue Diamond at once, all they manage to do is slow her down and knock her off
her feet, Blue Diamond easily breaking any hold they have on her and shrugging off every
attack, including Lapis dropping the barn on her and the Cluster slamming Yellow's ship onto
her ship ONTO HER! And that was before Yellow Diamond joins in...
 I Never Said It Was Poison: Subverted, as she's definitely not the murderer of her
beloved Pink Diamond. She does, however, correct Steven, who had become convinced his
mother eventually used Bismuth's Breaking Point weapon to kill her own Diamond. Blue
screamed it was a sword. Bismuth designed Rose's sword to slice through physical forms,
but never shatter the gem itself.
 Innocently Insensitive: Where to begin; she responded to Pink's desire to spare Earth by
giving her a People Zoo, she apologized to Steven for making him spend "6,000 years on this
horrible planet", and she's generally incapable of reading a room.
 Improbable Hairstyle: A large part of her hair comes out of her head and goes back in,
forming a seamless loop. It's the clearest demonstration that Gems' hair is formed whole, not
grown.
 In the Hood: She wears a long blue cloak that does a good job of obscuring her eyes. It
gives her a likeness to the Virgin Mary when she stands.
 Ironic Name: Blue diamonds represent peace, spirituality, and good health, which is
ironic, given that her lasting grief and mourning over Pink is far from an improvement to her
well-being.
 Irony: Blue, the one who seemed most interested in reconnecting with the other
Diamonds, is the one who can't bear to even look at an off-colored (read: blushing) White;
she even looks like she's going to vomit.
 It's All About Me:
o Grieving has made Blue increasingly self-centered, causing her to push away her
responsibilities to the Gems who follow her and reject Yellow's attempts to help her. Yet this
selfishness comes with minimal self-reflection, as it's clear she's putting the burden of Pink's
demise on everyone but herself.
o In general, her role as The Empath is this since she uses it to force others to feel
her pain while showing a complete Lack of Empathy for the pain of every other non-
Diamond living being in existence. When she attacks the Crystal Gems, she tells them she
wants to make them feel the pain she'd been feeling since Pink died, as if they hadn't
collectively felt that pain and more.
 It's All My Fault: She blames herself for not preventing Pink Diamond's shattering at the
hands of Rose, a sentiment that she privately expresses to Pink Diamond's ruined palanquin
while visiting Earth in "Steven's Dream". "Can't Go Back" reveals she pressured Pink
Diamond into continuing the war for Earth even though Pink wanted to just leave Earth and
the Crystal Gems alone, explaining why she feels that way.
 Karmic Jackpot: Her pulling a Heel–Face Turn, realizing the error of the Diamonds'
tyrannical ways, and attempting to help Steven and Connie return to Earth result in
her finally being free from her status as one of Homeworld's rulers and reconciling with the
other Diamonds.
 Kick the Dog:
o In Ruby and Sapphire's love story, she threatens to have Ruby shattered for
something that was an obvious accident.
o She just laughs at Garnet for the latter being a cross-Gem Fusion.
 Kick the Morality Pet:
o She and Yellow Diamond perform a dual one in a flashback in "Now We're Only
Falling Apart", in which they reject Pink's offer to spare the Earth.
o She also shoots Steven with an energy ball when "Pink" defies her one time too
many. It's heavily implied she's done this before, and Steven lampshading this prompts
her Heel Realization.
 Know When to Fold 'Em: In "The Answer", she knows her limits and tries to escape the
rebels on her palanquin.
 Lack of Empathy: A variant; of the Diamonds, she does have empathy, and her emotional
side was brought out after Pink Diamond was shattered. However, she's still a Bad Boss to
her Gem subjects, and while she's a sympathetic character, she represents the negative
side-effects of grieving in that she refuses to move on and accept help from those who
genuinely care for her, preferring to shift responsibility and blame onto others while leaving
herself stuck in a constant, self-defeating cycle. This is represented by her Emotion
Bomb powers, which makes everyone in the vicinity suffer, while never acknowledging or
accepting that she's part of the problem herself. Subverted when it turns out that she not only
has enough empathy of her own to realize why Pink left Homeworld, but understand that the
Homeworld Gems are suffering under Homeworld's ways as well.
 Lady of Black Magic: Her regal robes and hood invoke a resemblance to a classical
witch, and she primarily uses magic in combat either in the form of her depressive
aura or energy blasts.
 Large and in Charge: She's only slightly shorter than Yellow, as seen when the two
stand side by side in the fourth and fifth seasons. The height difference is probably because
Yellow wears heeled boots.
 Laser-Guided Karma: Because Blue was a Big Sister Bully towards Pink, the latter
stages a rebellion against Homeworld and faking her death, causing Blue to grieve for
millennia. Following the return of Pink's son Steven to Homeworld, Blue, seeing him as Pink,
becomes eager to renew her sister-like bond with him only to revert back to her aloof
behavior towards him, but it doesn't take long for him to (in Blue's view, anyway) turn out to
be even worse than Pink, much to Blue's distress. It only takes Steven convincing her that her
behavior was wrong for her to finally realize the flaws of Homeworld and the Diamonds — the
kicker is since Pink Diamond is truly dead, she can never personally apologize to her little
"sister" for what she had done.
 Lean and Mean: In her initial appearance, she is veiled, ambiguously threatening with
long, lean arms, and is perfectly willing to crush Ruby's gem more for accidentally fusing with
Sapphire than allowing the rebels to escape. In the present, this is subverted as she is more
traditionally feminine-looking than her "sister" Yellow Diamond with a fuller, more hourglass
shape. Whether this is due to Garnet being an Unreliable Narrator in "The Answer" or due to
a regeneration in the intervening millennia is yet to be known. After experiencing a Heel
Realization, she decides to avert it and help Steven and Connie get to White Diamond.
 Leitmotif: Her specific variation of the Diamonds' theme, heard during her meeting with
Greg, incorporates a twinkling chiptune not dissimilar to Lapis' celesta.
 Light 'em Up: In her battle with the Crystal Gems she throws beams of blue devil light.
 A Lighter Shade of Black: As opposed to wanting to destroy Earth for the sake
of Revenge (like Yellow Diamond), Blue Diamond wishes Earth wouldn't die (as it's one of the
last remnants of Pink Diamond). In fact, she and the human Greg have a moment based
around both losing loved ones. She still basically kidnapped him, but it was for more
sympathetic reasons than spite. This is on top of her developing a respect for humanity for
persevering through life despite, in her eyes, being weak. Her actions in "The Trial" only
lighten her further, as she's a Reasonable Authority Figure compared to Yellow, adamantly
refusing to cut straight to an execution without going through due process, and giving Steven
and his defense lawyer adequate time to speak and defend themselves, even allowing Blue
 Zircon to present her personal Diamond palanquin as evidence. While she doesn't stop
Yellow from poofing both Zircons, she IS furious that Yellow did so in the first place and lets
her know it.
 Light Is Not Good: Her palanquin, hooded veil and flowing robes offset give her an eerily
saintlike appearance. As the rest of these tropes will tell you, she's anything but — or, at
least, she was back during the Rebellion. As the A Lighter Shade of Black entry explains,
she's certainly a little better than Yellow Diamond these days. That said, she's the first of the
Diamonds to side with Steven over White, and openly admits that what she's done to her
Gems in White's name was wrong. She also fights Yellow as a result.
 Locked Out of the Loop: As "The Trial" reveals, she's (almost) completely in the dark
about what really happened with Pink Diamond's death.
 Long Hair Is Feminine: The Moon base mural depicts her with long black hair, and in the
present day her hair is long, flowing, and pale with a "loop" that wraps around her gem.
 Love Redeems: In "Change Your Mind", after Blue realizes how unhappy Pink was on
Homeworld, due to how emotionally abusive the other Diamonds were to her, Blue herself
included, she decides to help Steven and Connie escape Homeworld, fights off Yellow to
protect Steven, and along with Yellow, tries to convince White that everything they're doing is
wrong and it's tearing their family apart.
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 Mama Bear:
o It's heavily implied that she and Pink Diamond were very close, and her
shattering affected her greatly. Her behavior in "The Trial" is akin to an angry, grieving parent
searching for answers and confronting the (supposed) killer of their child on why they did
it. In "Reunited", she takes a personal fight to the Crystal Gems, and very nearly defeats them
in a matter of seconds, all because she despises the fact they're sullying Pink's former planet
with their presence.
o Her fight with Yellow is dripping with this, as she's fighting to protect Steven from
Yellow.
 Maternally Challenged: Tries very hard to be a Cool Big Sis to Pink, and a Cool Aunt to
Steven, but her consistent Lack of Empathy means that every time she interacts with them,
she ends up hurting them in some way.
 Meaningful Name:
o The Hope Diamond, the world's most famous diamond, is a blue diamond. Blue
Diamond seems to be the direct leader of the nobility. The Hope Diamond is also believed to be
cursed and bring misfortune to anyone who tries to wear it, which is fitting given Blue Diamond
being very quick to shatter Ruby, and the fact Lapis (who wears Blue Diamond's symbol) has
been hit with the most misfortune of any other being, Gem or human. Blue Diamond herself also
suffered the loss of a loved one and has spent much time in constant mourning and heartache.
She also has the ability to inflict sadness and sorrow on others.
o When we finally see her again, she's in mourning, and is implied to have been so
for the past few thousand years. Yellow Diamond's Villain Song "What's the Use of Feeling
(Blue)?" mixes it with Punny Name; it's like being called "Sad Diamond".
 Messy Hair: In "Change Your Mind", after Steven gets through with her about her
behavior towards Pink, Blue's perfectly groomed hair starts becoming more unkempt as she
finally realizes the scope of her actions. It shows how her "Diamond" persona is breaking,
allowing her to truly gain human empathy.
 Mood-Swinger:
o She suddenly snaps out of mourning when she's suspicious of Sapphire's (false)
claim to have been on a special mission for her. Then Sapphire explains she was taking an
 opportunity before Earth was destroyed, and Blue Diamond instantly snaps back to looking
miserable.
o In "The Trial", she starts out calm but when she questions "Rose" who lies to her
about how Pink was shattered, Blue is enraged for a second before grief and frustration
overwhelm her, and she breaks down for a moment.
 Moral Myopia: Blue Diamond had no moral qualms about ordering Ruby's execution,
suggesting that she has a harsh standard for Gems that disobey her rules. However, when
her sister Pink Diamond was killed, she mourned for centuries.
 My Greatest Failure: She and Yellow were tired of Pink's excuses in not completing the
Earth colony, reassuring her Rose could do nothing against her, and instructing her to quash
the rebellion. Shortly afterwards, news reached her that Pink was shattered by Rose. Her
current behavior implies she is also aware her own callousness towards Pink may have
contributed to what happened and regrets it. Confirmed in "Change Your Mind", as Steven
throws her horrible behavior back in her face.
 My God, What Have I Done?: Steven questions how many times she'd hurt Pink and
made her cry, Blue replies she never did... then it slowly dawns on her how many times she
actually did, and she's essentially trapped herself in a cycle of hurting Pink. And is doing so
again that very moment. This realization finally cements her Heel Realization, making her
realize exactly why Pink decided to abandon Homeworld to live on Earth as Rose.
 Mystical White Hair: Has long white hair. Her mural, however, depicted her with black
hair.
 Never My Fault: In "The Answer", she blames Ruby for not stopping Rose and Pearl
when Sapphire predicted it, even though she never did a thing to stop them herself.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Yellow (mean) is a short-tempered Bad Boss, Blue (in-
between), while initially as bad as Yellow, seems to have Took a Level in Kindness in recent
years thanks to Pink Diamond's "death", and Pink (nice) is an All-Loving Hero and
a Benevolent Boss who cherishes and wishes to protect organic life.
 Nice to the Waiter: Considerably less so than Pink Diamond, but she does thank her
subjects whenever they do as she says or perform something that pleases her. She even
outright defends the defending Zircon, even after she accused her and Yellow Diamond
of shattering Pink Diamond.
Holly Blue Agate: And surely, Blue Diamond would want to thank you personally for this special delivery, your
Grand Clarity.
Sapphire: Yes, I suppose she will.

 Nigh-Invulnerability: On par with Yellow Diamond. She endured having a barn dropped

on her, being attacked by all of the Crystal Gems, and being crushed by her own ship! When
she gets back up, the only visible damage is her hair being slightly displaced. In "Change
Your Mind", she resisted several seconds of sustained assault from Yellow Diamond's
electrical attack and stood up not long after. The same electrical attack which instantly poofs
other Gems after a quick blast.
 Noble Demon: She wants to save at least some humans to honor Pink's memory, and
she's an impartial and fair judge (of Steven, who we must remind you she thinks murdered
Pink).
 Non-Standard Character Design: Her appearance (particularly her long face and droopy
eyes) borrows heavily from the style of Leiji Matsumoto to give her "a strange presence ".
 Not Afraid to Die: She sometimes visits Pink Diamond's grave on Earth even though, as
far as she knows, the Cluster could become active at any moment and wipe out the planet
and everything on it, herself included.
  Not So Different:
o Greg saw Blue Diamond's loss of Pink Diamond as no different than his loss of
Rose. Their experiences with the death of a loved one allowed both of them to bond; what's
more, Blue kneels down to look at Greg at eye-level more or less as this happens, which is in
its own way acknowledging this trope.
o She's also this to Pearl (at the beginning of the series): both are trying to cope
with the death of their loved one in the same way, by constantly grieving and refusing to move
on.
 Ironically, Greg's, Pearl's and Blue Diamond's loved ones are all the same
individual.
o To Amethyst (post-Gem War). Both are considered the lazy, undisciplined
members of their team, lacking proper motivation to work with others due to unresolved
emotional growth (Amethyst's inferiority complex being an Earth-born gem and defective, Blue
Diamond believing Pink Diamond had died in what may have been a preventable tragedy) and
have developed counter-dependent attitudes towards anyone that pushes them over it
(Pearl/Yellow).
 Oh, Crap!: Twice in "Legs From Here to Homeworld". Once she learns of what the
Diamonds' combined attack had actually done to all the Gems on Earth, she reacts in
disbelief and horror. She's also terrified of incurring White's wrath over the senseless
destruction she and the other Diamonds had caused because they all couldn't agree on
Earth's colonization, behaving like a child who just realized they had utterly screwed up in a
huge way.
 Only Sane Woman:
o Despite her grief, Blue seems to be the only Gem to have noticed that the initial
stories about Pink's death didn't make any sense. Whereas Yellow is adamant Rose was
responsible, going increasingly off the rails trying to shut down any line of inquiry, Blue is
determined to find out the truth behind Pink Diamond's demise through using her official status
as head of Homeworld's judicial system. As soon as the opportunity comes along she holds a
trial and uses court procedures to gather additional testimony and evidence that explains the
illogical aspects of Pink's shattering. This method leads to the Defense Zircon putting it together
that the stories don't make sense because Rose couldn't have possibly shattered Pink, and
puts Steven on the path to finding out the entire truth.
o She's the first of the Diamonds who realizes the error of Homeworld's ways
(aside from Pink), as well as the fact that she and the other Diamonds' treatment of Pink was
wrong and outright abusive. She is also the one who personally tells White Diamond that they
repaid Pink with neglect despite her desire for them to be happy, and how none of the
Diamonds are actually happy with being tyrants.
 Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Occasionally betrays hints of her voice actor Lisa Hannigan's
Irish accent during her first appearances. From "Can't Go Back" onward, she speaks entirely
with one.
    P-S 

 Parental Substitute: One possible interpretation of her relationship with Pink Diamond.
Considering there's a chance White Diamond created Yellow, Blue, and Pink by splitting
parts of herself off in an attempt to rid herself of self-perceived imperfections, the two are,
more-or-less, "sisters" with Pink implied to have been the youngest. Since someone had to
teach Pink how to behave like a Diamond with White withdrawn into solitude in her own
 headship and Yellow burying herself in her work most of the time in a vain attempt to impress
White, the role was left largely to Blue. This makes Blue's grieving even more tragic.
 Parting Words Regret: Implied. The flashback in "Can't Go Back" is implied to be the last
conversation she had with Pink before the latter's faked assassination. What she says to her
pretty much reads as "stop whining and be a good little Puppet Queen", and she encourages
Pink to dismiss Rose Quartz as a threat. No wonder she's so broken up about Pink's passing.
In particular, her final sentence was "As long as you are there to rule, this colony will be
completed." Ironically, Pink Diamond didn't want the colony to be completed, and took Blue
Diamond's words to mean that the only way that Earth could survive was if she removed
herself from the equation.
 Perpetual Frowner: Her eyes are constantly drooped, and she's barely ever seen not
crying.
 Personality Powers: Blue's Signature Move is a blue aura that forces the Gems around
her to feel her despair and depression against their will, a reflection on how she only thinks
about herself and her own feelings and forces others to bear her burdens for her. Between
her Heel–Face Turn in "Change Your Mind" and "Homeworld Bound", she eventually learned
how to create clouds that induce happiness and contentment in any Gem who touches them,
an ability that helps the troubled minds of others instead of hurting them.
 Pet the Dog: Like Yellow Diamond, she has quite a few.
o In a flashback in which she is otherwise depicted as extremely cruel, she thanks
Sapphire for predicting that Rose and Pearl will be defeated.
o She is perhaps the first Homeworld Gem to quickly realize that humans are
capable of empathy and feeling loss, and she lifts her veil and lowers herself to Greg's eye level to
speak with him as an equal. Her abduction of Greg is because she thinks he doesn't deserve to
die; at the time she did not know the Cluster was no longer going to destroy the Earth.
o Her desire to preserve Pink Diamond's legacy includes keeping the humans in
the Zoo well cared for and keeping the Earth Quartzes and other Rose Quartzes alive (even if
the latter are bubbled), both of which Yellow Diamond finds absurd. She also intended to save
Greg by kidnapping him and taking him to the Zoo.
o She keeps the trial going, wanting to hear Steven and his defense Zircon out,
and won't execute Steven outright when he demands to be punished for Rose's crimes.
o When Yellow Diamond starts going ballistic on the Zircons when the Defense
one implies that the Diamonds shattered Pink, Blue steps in on their behalf.
o In spite of harshly scolding Pink Diamond for her supposed ungratefulness in a
flashback in "Can't Go Back", she comforts her after seeing that her tone has upset
Pink. Unfortunately, Pink didn't see this as a Pet the Dog moment, instead as a Kick the
Morality Pet moment.
o Despite taking a no-nonsense approach while facing the Crystal Gems, she
ceases her hostility after she finds out that Rose/Steven is Pink Diamond.
o She does genuinely care when she attempts to restore Nephrite.
o Upon discovering her Pearl had an interest in art, rather than crushing this hobby
outside her duties like most Gems would, Blue found a socially acceptable way for her to
indulge it by making her the artist for Homeworld's trials.
o Even before her Heel–Face Turn in "Change Your Mind", she seems genuinely
concerned when telling Steven that Pink's time on Earth has warped her sense of right and
wrong.
 The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Pink's death has sapped all of her willpower to
engage in Diamond duties anymore.
  Power Incontinence: Blue's Emotion Bomb powers cause any Gems around her to cry
her tears, but she can't seem to turn it off. If she has even so much as tears of joy, any Gems
around her will be left in various stages between weeping and uncontrollably bawling. This
even extends to Pink and Yellow Diamond, to the latter's annoyance. The movie reveals that
she's finally gained control over her powers, however.
 Prone to Tears: Blue Diamond is quite emotionally unstable, unintentionally harmful to
those she loves (mainly Yellow Diamond), and extremely self-observed. Grieving certainly
only highlighted these features in her, and at this point, the only Gem who could've opened
her eyes to it (Yellow) doesn't do so because she's afraid of breaking Blue even further.
 Pronoun Trouble: In "Change Your Mind", she agrees to call Steven by his name, but
still refers to him as "she". Though, this may be to the fact that Gems all have female forms
and thus might not even be aware of masculine pronouns.
 Pushover Parents: Downplayed. Her younger sister Pink was able to invent excuses for
Blue to let her out of the prison tower, and Blue would cave and let her out. In "Change Your
Mind", Yellow calls her out for constantly bending the rules for Pink.
 Rage Breaking Point: "Pink"/Steven defying her one time too many leads to her
attacking him. However, it works against her.
 Reasonable Authority Figure: Well, when compared to Yellow Diamond today, though
she was just as bad around Ruby and Sapphire's time. In "The Trial", she opts to go through
"Rose Quartz's" (actually Steven) trial and hear out the defendant rather than going through
with Yellow Diamond's wish of a quick execution. When Yellow Diamond goes ballistic from
being accused of regicide, Blue Diamond tries to get her to calm down.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni:
o Like their respective Pearls, Blue is the... blue to Yellow's red.
o Both she and Yellow serve as the blue to Pink's red, as they are more serious
and less excitable than she is.
 Revenge Before Reason: Subverted. We're led to believe that she wants to avenge Pink
in "The Trial", given she wants to do something terrible to Rose. It turns out, however, that
Blue wants answers more than revenge: how did her sister die, and why is the official story full
of holes?
 Rule of Symbolism: White Diamond summarizes her personality towards her relationship
to the light spectrum.
White Diamond: Ah, and Blue, her impurities soak up all the warmth in her spectrum. She thinks she needs you,
Pink.

 Sadist: During "The Trial", Yellow wants to kill Steven in a quick and probably painless
way, while Blue implies she wants to torture him. Also, in "Reunited", it's actually subverted.
When Steven enters the Diamonds's minds, Yellow is only thinking about Pink. Blue
mentions how tormenting the Crystal Gems isn't bringing her any satisfaction, and only
makes her miss Pink even more.
 Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: In "The Answer", she flees in her palanquin when Rose and
Pearl show up, rather than confront them directly.
 Self-Serving Memory: She tells Greg that she and Pink Diamond were "very close", yet
Blue's constant dismissal of Pink, combined with her refusal to let Pink spare the Earth,
suggests that their relationship was strained at best. In fact, the only on-screen interactions
between Blue and Pink when the latter was still alive have been fairly negative. "Now We're
Only Falling Apart" even has Pink, as Rose, regretting leaving Garnet with Blue, implying that
she sees Blue as more of a tyrant than a sister. It apparently got so bad that even thousands
of years after faking her death, Pink didn't miss Blue at all.
  Shadow Archetype: To Lapis and Sapphire, who were both once part of her court.
o Blue, like Sapphire, was close to a red gem (Pink, Ruby), though Blue and Pink
are implied to not have been as close as Blue thought. Unlike Sapphire, who had friends make
her see her mistakes, Blue let her position's expectations and her own arrogance influence her
relationship with Pink, which both alienated her and drove her away to the point of rebelling in
the form of the commander of an intergalactic war. By the time Blue realized her mistake, Pink
has faked her death, and Blue wasn't the same since.
o Blue, like Lapis, endured an equal amount of psychological trauma, which
continued to affect them for thousands of years. Unlike Lapis, Blue hasn't made an effort to try
move on from Pink's death, something that Yellow Diamond called her out on in "That Will Be
All".
 Shout-Out: Her character design is a nod to many of the willowy female characters
from Leiji Matsumoto's works.
 Silk Hiding Steel: Most of the time, Blue Diamond is a graceful and demure presence,
and seems to defer to Yellow Diamond's more authoritative presence. However, it's hinted
that she's got a firmer side to her, as seen by her quiet suspicion of Sapphire's presence in
the Zoo at first. Then, in "The Trial", we see her suddenly standing up to Yellow and
engaging her in a shouting match. And in "Reunited", the steel comes fully out as even when
her "reverse empathy" power is stopped, she's still an incredibly powerful warrior who can
summon weaponized beams of light and shrug off her own ship slamming into her like it's
nothing. Further, in the movie, the improvement to herself that she proudly tells Steven about
is that she is no longer shattering other Gems. This, along with her experience with Garnet,
implies that despite being known as the most diplomatic and merciful, execution was a main
go-to when judging them.
 Soft-Spoken Sadist: She talks in an almost soothing manner, but is also indifferent to her
followers at best. Yellow's electric energy attacks "poof" Gems instantly, but Blue's ability—
forcing any Gem to become overwhelmed with grief and suffering — keeps them fully
conscious and aware of every second of the pain. When she uses that very power to
incapacitate the Crystal Gems in "Reunited", she softly but intensely says one line: "You
deserve this." Ultimately subverted, however, as when Steven sees into her mind, she admits it
doesn't make her feel any better at all. If anything it makes her feel worse.
 Someone to Remember Him By: A non-child example. Not knowing that the Cluster isn't
going to destroy Earth, she kidnaps Greg as a memento of Pink Diamond.
 South Paw: Blue nearly always uses her left hand, and her ship is even a left arm.
 Status Ailment: Her Emotion Bombs act as this in a battle situation, overwhelming every
gem on the beach with overwhelming sadness and defusing Alexandrite in "Reunited".
 Suddenly SHOUTING!: "IT WAS A SWORD!" It also applies to when Yellow Diamond
starts poofing the Zircons — cue the soft-spoken Blue suddenly jumping forward to grab
Yellow and shouting at her to get a hold of herself, and when she comes face-to-face with
Rose's sword in "Reunited".
    T-Y 

 Tareme Eyes: Blue Diamond has large, sad, downward-slanting eyes which fits with her
perpetual mourning.
 Tears of Joy: She cries these in "Legs From Here to Homeworld" over sheer joy at
seeing Pink (as Steven) again. She does it again later when they board Pink's ship together.
 This Cannot Be!:
o A rare not-entirely-evil example. At the end of "Reunited", Steven finally manages
to send a psychic message that he has Pink Diamond's Gem. Blue's response? A soft
"Impossible..."
o Also in the same episode was surprise that Lapis Lazuli appears out of nowhere
and declared herself a Crystal gem but also that she had resisted her emotion powers
suggesting this has never happened before or that it's a rare event.
 This Is Unforgivable!:
o Her reaction to Ruby accidentally fusing with Sapphire is threatening to shatter
Ruby's gem in "The Answer".
o In "Reunited", she tries to murder all of the Crystal Gems for daring to thrive on
the planet that belongs to Pink.
o In "Together Alone", she is enraged at Steven when he accidentally fuses with
Connie at the Era 3 ball.
 Token Good Teammate: While Pink is definitely less ruthless than her, Blue appears to
be this out of the remaining three Diamonds, at least, being considerably more mellow and
down-to-Earth than Yellow and White. In addition, she's the first of the three remaining
diamonds to see the error of her ways and side with Steven.
 Too Important to Walk: She's a member of the Great Diamond Authority and travels by
palanquin.
 Tomboy and Girly Girl: Yellow Diamond has been compared to a businesswoman,
wears huge shoulder pads, pants and Power Hair, and isn't talented at remaining stoic. Blue
Diamond herself is introduced (in a flashback) wearing a cloak and gown and sitting on a
throne like a traditional queen and always speaks calmly even when she's losing her (very
short) temper and ordering an execution.
 Took a Level in Cheerfulness: After she cries Tears of Joy in "Legs From Here to
Homeworld" over sheer happiness at having "Pink" back, she acts far less sad from that
episode on.
 Took a Level in Jerkass: To an extent in "Reunited", though it's understandable given
her circumstances at the time. She goes to Earth to make the Crystal Gems suffer and takes
a no-nonsense approach when facing them.
 Took a Level in Kindness:
o She is noticeably nicer and more mature in the present day compared to her
extremely callous behavior towards Ruby and Sapphire for accidentally fusing in "The Answer"
and her attitude in "Can't Go Back", as she bubbled and protected all the Rose Quartzes from
being shattered by Yellow Diamond, and allowed the other Quartzes such as the Amethysts to
still be in service regardless of what Homeworld thought of them. Realizing her callousness
towards Pink may have contributed to her apparent death may have contributed to this.
o While she initially displays major Lack of Empathy towards organic life and the
Homeworld Gems, she eventually comes to have more consideration towards both. She comes
to show more Benevolent Boss tendencies towards her subjects in the present day
and expresses sympathy towards Gemkind for having to suffer under Homeworld's tyrannical
ways, and she is also cordial towards Greg Universe after he empathizes with her over losing a
loved one, just before attempting to spare him from the Cluster.
 Tragic Keepsake: Blue Diamond sees anything related to her dead "sister" Pink
Diamond as something to preserve and keep around her. She keeps everything from Pink
Diamond's empty throne room and the bubbled gems of her former Rose Quartz servants, to
the Human Zoo and the Quartzes from the Earth Kindergardens. When Greg, a human from
Earth, shows her compassion, Blue Diamond decides to take him, too, in order to save what
she believes to be "one last piece of [Pink Diamond's] legacy" from the Cluster. Yellow
 Diamond derides Blue Diamond's habit of collecting anything related to Pink Diamond as
useless clinging to the past. In "Reunited", when she sees the surviving Crystal Gems and
"Rose Quartz" still living on Earth, she is furious, seeing it as a grave affront to Pink's
memory.
 Tranquil Fury: Like her former subject, Sapphire, she usually keeps her composure even
when angry, only displaying cold irritation. It is during the events of "The Trial" that
she explodes, even yelling at Yellow Diamond when she goes on a rampage after being
accused of killing Pink Diamond. In "Reunited", she remains remarkably soft-spoken even
during a pitched battle against the Crystal Gems, despite her words making it clear she feels
nothing but anger at their presence.
 True Blue Femininity: She's a blue Diamond, after all. This seems to be a theme of her
and her court since every Gem shown connected to her so far has been blue. In "Steven's
Dream", she wears a simple shoulderless, figure-hugging gown underneath a cloak,
reminiscent of old English mourning dress. This in direct contrast to Yellow Diamond's more
masculine military jumpsuit.
 Tsundere: Type A, though not to the extent of Yellow Diamond. While she acts
condescending and strict most of the time, especially towards her subjects and Pink
Diamond, she makes it clear that she cares a lot about Pink and her son Steven. After
her Heel–Face Turn, she outright admits that what she's done to her own subjects was
wrong.
 The Un-Favourite: Unlike Yellow who holds some resentment, Blue speaks no ill of
White, yet did mention to Steven in "Familiar" that her encouragement of Pink's games
and sense of humor by simply calling a group of Pyrites "Fool's Gold", backfired and enraged
White Diamond.
 Unskilled, but Strong: She's as horrendously powerful as her rank suggests, and shrugs
off a ridiculous amount of punishment. It must be noted however that she takes a ridiculous
amount of punishment in the episode "Reunited", as she barely moves, her melee defense is
rudimentary at best, she fails to land decisive hits and lacks any sort of plan to counter
Steven's shield. She even has to pause to weep into her hands before her depressive aura
can be sent out for the first time. Yellow by comparison turns the fight around in moments,
demonstrating that she knows how to properly leverage her advantages. Justified since she
is primarily a diplomat, unlike Yellow who is responsible for the military and Pink who fought
in the rebellion. Also, it's entirely possible that she has never fought an enemy who could
shrug off her Emotion Bomb and shield against her magic projectiles.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Tells Pink Diamond that "As long as you are there to rule,
this colony will be completed." Unfortunately, Pink didn't want the colony to be completed,
and this is almost certainly what led to her faking her death, and all the disastrous events that
brought with it.
 Unwitting Pawn: She's unaware Pink has been playing her and Yellow like a fiddle ever
since she grew to love the Earth. It gets a bit sad when you remember she genuinely loves
Pink.
 Vengeance Feels Empty: When Steven sees into her mind, she admits harming the
Crystal Gems doesn't bring her any joy or closure on Pink's death. If anything, it makes her
feel worse by reminding her of Pink.
Blue: What good will any of this do? The more I make these Gems suffer, the more I long to see you again, Pink.

 Villain Has a Point: While she's obviously trying to murder Steven during "The Trial", she
is right that the court has to observe the formalities, like the defense lawyer and defendant
being allowed to make a statement, and said lawyer providing evidence of Rose Quartz's
possible innocence. The formalities in fact reveal a lot of holes in Pink's death. Blue has been
 sensing all is not right with the official story and prods him, demanding answers. And
considering she thinks that Steven murdered her little sister, it's actually really merciful of her
to correct him on the details of the murder, angry and sad as she is.
 Villainous Breakdown: In "Change Your Mind", Blue starts losing her patience with "Pink"
(actually Steven), even lamenting that "her" time on Earth had served as a bad influence on
"her" moral judgement. When Steven calls her out on her condescending treatment, that's
when she reaches her Rage Breaking Point and blasts him with an energy beam.
 Visual Pun:
o When we finally see her without the veil, she's grieving, and not only is she blue,
but she has a long face. And unlike the cut of Yellow Diamond's gem, Blue's is uneven by being
longer at the top and shorter at the bottom, giving it a similar appearance to a teardrop — ever
since Pink Diamond died, her heart has been full of grief.
o Her emotional powers force every Gem in her vicinity to feel as sad as
her. Misery loves company.
o Unlike Yellow, whose spiky hair resembles a helmet, Blue's hair resembles
cascading waterfalls. Of the Diamonds, she's more prone to uncontrollable bursts of emotion,
and ever since Pink Diamond died, her head has been full of grief, too.
 Was Too Hard on Her: Her Heel Realization in "Change Your Mind" stems from this.
Thanks to Steven, she realizes that her disciplinary method for Pink had been too cruel and
was the reason for their estrangement.
 We Have Reserves: More forgivable than most cases considering Gems can reform and
would be good as new given a few weeks at the absolute most, but she doesn't bat an eye
over 'casualties' on her side as long as the Crystal Gems get captured.
 Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her words to Pink Diamond in "Can't Go Back" at least try to
have some encouragement inside:
Blue: ...But this is what you wanted. You BEGGED us for a colony of your own! And now all you want to do is
be rid of it. First, too many organics, then their cities were too difficult to dismantle, and now these Crystal
Gems? We’re tired of your excuses, Pink! This "Rose Quartz" can’t hurt you. You can’t be swayed by a few
unruly Gems. (Pink tries to say something) Enough! You must understand... you are a Diamond. Everyone on
this planet is looking to you. You don’t even have to do anything. Just smile and wave. Show everyone you are
unfazed by this little... uprising. Your Gems will fall into line and these Crystal Gems will be... no more. As long
as you are there to rule, this colony will be completed.

 What You Are in the Dark: She secretly kept visiting Pink Diamond's ruined palanquin on
Earth at the site of her shattering thousands of years after the Rebellion, knowing Yellow
Diamond wouldn't approve of her being in a place where their 'sister' was killed by a
Homeworld traitor.
 When She Smiles: When she breaks out of her depression and smiles, her more elegant
and regal features allow her to come off as endearing albeit a tad Adorkable. She also
becomes more self-assertive and active whenever she isn't sad as when she found out about
Pink's shattering being fake, she cried less and became motivated in helping Steven take
Pink's place on Homeworld instead of neglecting her duties like she had before.
 White Hair, Black Heart: Without the veil, she's shown to have bluish-white hair, though
it's played with; she was shown to be extremely callous towards Ruby and Sapphire for
accidentally fusing in "The Answer", but her cruelty doesn't extend to her fellow Diamonds,
who she deeply cares for, and she seems to have developed a sense of empathy for humans
as opposed to Yellow's outright contempt for organic life.
 White Sheep: She's the first of the remaining Diamonds to realize the abuse Pink had to
suffer through, rebel against Homeworld's tyrannical ways (which she had to enforce), and
seek to restore the bond between herself and the other Diamonds.
  The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask:
o She's highly revered by her Homeworld subjects, but behind closed doors she's a
sad and depressed woman who's in perpetual mourning over her dead "sister" Pink Diamond
and wallowing in her own guilt over her failure to prevent her death.
o In "Can't Go Back", she tried educating Pink on this, instructing her to "smile and
wave" to show her subjects that the Crystal Gem rebellion was really nothing to worry
about. This is what partially led to Pink rebelling in the first place.
o She admits in "Change Your Mind" that she's been "suffering in silence for ages"
from the way Homeworld does things, just like Pink was and like the Diamonds' Gems still are.
In her attempt to talk to White Diamond, she admits that, while she knows that her purpose as a
leader of Homeworld isn't to be happy, she nonetheless is finding it increasingly more difficult to
enforce White's will when it just brings misery to herself, Yellow, and those that they rule.
 Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: When we see her in the present day, she is obsessed with
her grief over Pink Diamond, trying to gain closure from looking for answers on how exactly
her 'sister' died and who did it.
 You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Her speech to Pink Diamond was probably
intended to be this, as she encourages Pink to stand strong in the face of the rebellion and
tells her that she can complete the colony she begged for. Shame that what she mistook for
being an Ungrateful Bastard was actually Pink having had a Heel Realization...
 You Have Failed Me: Responds to Ruby screwing up Sapphire's visions and fusing with
her by ordering Ruby's gem broken.
 You Will Be Spared: She takes Greg with her back to Homeworld to be preserved in the
Human Zoo after he shows her compassion, believing she's saving him from being killed by
the Cluster (or so she thinks).
Yellow Diamond
Voiced by: Patti LuPone
 Click here to see her mural. 

"This is what White Diamond expects of all of us. From the thinnest flake of mica to the deepest, hardest stone, we
all must make sacrifices for the sake of our perfect empire!"

The first Diamond to be mentioned and the second to make an appearance. She
commands Homeworld's military, is in charge of the Cluster geo-weapon project, and
the yellow Gem depicted on the mural from "Serious Steven". She briefly appears in the
extended theme song, and premieres properly in "Message Received".

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 Adorkable: In "Change Your Mind", she, like Blue, swears that it wasn't her when her
and Blue's ships punch White's, expresses nervousness when Steven encourages her to talk
 to White, attempts to smile when Steven introduces her to the Off-Colors, and directs
a peace sign towards Steven as she leaves for Homeworld.
 Affably Evil: After discovering that Rose Quartz/Steven is Pink Diamond in "Reunited",
she stops her rampage and in the following episode, agrees to help Steven cure Corruption
and ceases her hostility towards him and even the Crystal Gems.
 Alien Invasion: In "Reunited", she and Blue Diamond attack the Earth in an attempt to
get revenge on "Rose" for allegedly shattering Pink Diamond.
 Aloof Big Sister: To Pink, as revealed in "Jungle Moon". The flashback from Pink's point-
of-view showed Yellow being cold and distant towards her, treating her like a nuisance while
she was planning an invasion, and implying she doesn't view Pink as an equal, throwing
an Acting Your Intellectual Age question at her younger Cheerful Child sibling. This is part of
why Rose/Pink underestimated how she and the other Diamonds actually cared about her
when she ultimately decided to fake her own death. However, "Familiar" reveals that Pink
always managed to make her laugh, implying that Yellow wasn't all cold towards her.
 Anger Born of Worry: While she legitimately cares for Blue and Pink, the only ways she
seems to know how to show her concern is to put on a professional face and reprimand
them, upgrading to anger when it persists. She meets with Blue at the Human Zoo in "That
Will Be All" to remind her that she is shirking her responsibilities, revealing her vulnerable
side only at the end of her Villain Song. In the beginning of "Legs From Here to Homeworld",
the first thing she does is demand an explanation for everything that has happened (why
Steven looks and sounds nothing like Pink, why Pink faked her death, etc.), but she is
noticeably less hostile, helping heal Nephrite at Steven's request and limiting herself
to sarcastic quips.
 Anguished Declaration of Love: Non-romantic example. As she sings to Blue, they will
always miss Pink Diamond: "Yes, of course we still love her, and we're always thinking of
her..." Yellow has a miserable expression when she sings the second refrain of this.
 Anti-Regeneration: Her lighting doesn't just poof Gems, it can keep them from
regenerating for days.
 Ascended Meme: With every single occurrence of the fandom depicting her as a giraffe
with a stretchable neck, it eventually happens during a dream sequence in "Together Alone".
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Both her shoulders and upper torso resemble
armor, and she has a warlike and overtly aggressive personality compared to Blue Diamond.
 The Atoner: In "Homeworld Bound", it's revealed that she now seeks to make up for her
"awful" Gem experiments by fixing the Gems she once shattered. She even tells Steven her
intention to fix the shattered Gems made to create the Cluster!
 Ax-Crazy: It is clear from her first appearance that she has an extremely short fuse.
 Bad Boss:
o Although very displeased with Peridot's apparent failure on Earth, she does offer
a ship to retrieve her before the Cluster destroys it. Then Peridot insults her, and Yellow
Diamond tries to kill her for it.
o In "The Trial", while poofing Blue Zircon for suggesting a fellow Diamond was
responsible for Pink's shattering may have been understandable, she then poofs her own
Zircon. It's unclear whether this was because Prosecuting Zircon heard too much, or because
Yellow was just lashing out at her for speaking at the wrong time, most likely the latter given
that she didn't shatter Pink Diamond.
o A flashback/vision from Pink Diamond's point-of-view shows Yellow Diamond
casually threatening to personally shatter a subordinate and her entire crew if they fail her.
  Baleful Polymorph: She can alter the physical forms of other Gems, as shown in "Legs
From Here to Homeworld" when she forcibly changes Nephrite's form. It's implied that this
was her contribution to the corruption attack. In Era 3 she turns this power towards restoring
the physical forms of the Gems she shattered and also making cosmetic changes for Gems
who want them.
 Be Careful What You Say: She told Pink angrily to act like a Diamond and stop being
bratty if she wants a colony. Well, when Pink got her colony and prepared to destroy the
Earth... she grew to genuinely love it and ended up rebelling against Yellow.
 Benevolent Boss: Surprisingly, she has her moments too. She seems fond of Yellow
Pearl and treats her with respect, giving her real work to do as her secretary instead of
having her around to look pretty. Also, even when Peridot informed her about her failed
mission on Earth, she did offer her a ship to come back to the Homeworld.
 Berserk Button:
o Anything to do with the Earth or Pink Diamond's demise — poor Peridot's
attempts to reason with her never had a chance. Ironically enough she also displays little
patience for being flattered and fawned over. She clearly prefers others to be respectful,
but concise.
o Don't interfere with her attempts to get revenge on Rose Quartz for shattering
Pink Diamond, even if you're Blue Diamond. Fortunately, her reaction to the truth is far more
pleasant than one would expect.
 Big Bad Duumvirate: Often serves in this role with Blue Diamond. They even invade the
Earth together. It's also shown that Blue, Yellow, Pink, and White are part of this as
a Dysfunctional Family archetype.]]
 Big Sister Bully: Not intentionally, but her constant dismissal of Pink, manhandling her
for slights such as batting at her communication device, combined with her refusal to let
Pink spare the Earth, led Pink to dislike Yellow and believe she never cared about her. In the
present day she seems to have realized this, as she blames herself for Pink's "death". Then
she snaps back when "Pink", actually Steven, fuses with a human and she poofs the Crystal
Gems and a Jade for coming to Stevonnie's defense before locking up the latter. She finally
realizes she's this after enforcing Homeworld's strict rules forces her to attack Blue Diamond.
 Big Sister Instinct: She holds Blue Diamond protectively when they are confronted with
"Rose Quartz" in "The Trial", which is understandable considering Rose allegedly shattered
her other "sister", Pink Diamond.
 Broken Pedestal: Peridot's faith in her is shattered when she finally reestablishes contact
with her in an attempt to argue that the Earth is more useful intact, only for Yellow Diamond
to make it very clear that she wants the Earth destroyed out of spite and revenge, rather than
for any logical reason. Peridot ultimately turns on her when it's clear that Yellow Diamond
won't see reason.
 Bruiser with a Soft Center: She's one of the most brutal and short-tempered characters
shown throughout the series, but deeply loves Blue and Pink and bursts into tears upon
realizing how her behavior towards her little sister drove her away.
 The Brute: Easily the most physically violent of her sisters, and the one who is the best
fighter. However, she's far from stupid, and despite her giant size is wickedly fast.
 Brutal Honesty:
o She definitely has her moments.
Peridot: I wouldn't have called just to waste your time with a report.
Yellow Diamond: You already have.
o When Steven complains that it's hard to talk with White Diamond, Yellow
Diamond tells him that getting two and a half words in a conversation with White is a record.
She bluntly says that White has been trapped in her mind and the only reason Steven got to
talk to her at all was because Pink was White's favorite.
 But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
o When it comes to any planet except Earth, she treats planetary genocide like
anyone would a desk job and seems more bored with it than anything else. Then again, we
haven't seen any intelligent life aside from Gems and humans, so this may be
understandable. It turns out that it's less she's bored and more she's long since devolved into
doing it solely in an attempt to get White Diamond to give her any acknowledgement at all,
something she knows is a distant or if not impossible goal. As of the Movie, she's liberated her
colonies.
o In "Reunited", an excited Peridot asks if Yellow remembers calling her a Clod.
She denies it with a bored expression before immediately zapping her with an Agony Beam.
 The Chains of Commanding: Despite being one of Homeworld's rulers, one gets the
impression that she's "performing her assigned role" as much as the lower-ranking Gems,
telling Blue Diamond that they have to appear as strong, stoic leaders and do their jobs. She
also seems to have taken over the bulk of her fellow Diamonds' duties since Pink was
"shattered", Blue's resulting depression caused her to neglect her duties, and White Diamond
withdrew into solitude long ago — no wonder she's irritable. She seems to dislike over-the-
top flattery and implies that she leaves the long-term strategizing to her Sapphires.
o In 'Change Your Mind', she's forced to admit that she's been repressing her
discontent with the way White Diamond does things for a long time, partly out of (well-founded)
fear of White's reaction.
 Character Development: For a long time in the original series, she's presented as a cold,
rutless, and ill-tempered tyrant who couldn't care less about organic lifeforms. As of Future,
however, she dismantles the Gem Empire, becomes far more pleasant, and is now
even willingly fixing the Gems she once shattered. She's also shown to now have plants in
her private rooms, in contrast to her former disdain for organic life.
 Classic Villain: She represents Ambition, Pride, and Wrath.
 Color-Coded Elements: She can control yellow lightning.
 The Comically Serious: After giving a genuinely unsettling Shut Up, Kirk! to Peridot
in "Message Received", being called a "clod" prompts a rather hilarious expression of
shocked indignation. Unfortunately for those on the receiving end in "The Trial", said wrath
suddenly becomes much less funny.
 Contralto of Danger: One of the three most powerful Gems in the universe, with a voice
to match.
 Control Freak: She wouldn't allow the enthusiastic Pink to assist her in any way while
colonizing a planet, not even allowing her sibling to contact the fleet commander on her
behalf, getting irate when Pink merely touches her control panel and bats at the keys, though
this is understandable considering Pink's attitude at the time.
 Cool Aunt: After her Heel–Face Turn in 'Change Your Mind' she, like Blue, becomes this
toward Steven. She finally starts calling Steven by his name instead of Pink, and becomes
protective of him, telling him to run back to Earth in her ship while she and Blue distract
White, and later eyeing Jasper when the Corrupted Gems are cured to make sure she
doesn't attack Steven. When the Diamonds leave Earth, her ship flashes a quick peace
sign as a goodbye.
 Cool Big Sis: Yes, even as a villain she had shades of this. Yellow has been shown to
always do what Pink and Blue want (especially the latter), sometimes without them even
 asking first, and even going against what she wants/would do. Pink wants a colony? Fine,
she can get a colony. Pink's weird new half-organic form wants help healing a corrupted
Gem? It's Yellow who first agrees to help. Pink's weird new half-organic form is really upset
that the healing didn't stick? Yellow suggests that they might need White Diamond, even
though she is terrified of White. White Diamond might not be happy about the rebellion and
the past 6000 years? Yellow offers to take on the brunt of White Diamond's wrath. And when
Blue was having her usual bad episode at Pink's room in the zoo, Yellow sung for her and
then proceeded to immediately make plans for what Blue might wanted ("The window for
preserving their specimens is closing." "Is that what you want? [...] Then there's still time.")
After her Heel–Face Turn in the season 5 finale she mellows out a lot more, even disbanding
the majority of her army at Steven's request.
 Curtains Match the Windows: Matching yellow hair and eyes.
 Deadpan Snarker: When not confused or enraged, Yellow usually keeps her responses
to sarcastic quips.
Steven: Let's go to Homeworld!
Connie and Amethyst: Yeah!
Yellow: Fantastic.

 Depending on the Artist:

o Her neck was oddly thin-looking when she first appeared, something the show
later made fun of with a Dream Sequence where her neck is absurdly long.
o She wears a much shorter coat in "That Will Be All", but switches back to the
longer one in "The Trial".
 Disappointing Older Sibling: Eventually, Pink Diamond went from worshiping her big
sister to secretly rebelling against her by posing as Rose Quartz. Pink was hurt and
disappointed that she wasn't given the choice to spare the Earth, and believed that far from
being a Cool Big Sis, Yellow was nothing but distant and cold.
 Disproportionate Retribution: She detonates the Diamond Communicator in an attempt
to kill Peridot after Peridot calls her a clod.
 The Dragon: As the leader of Homeworld's military, Yellow functions as an enforcer to
White Diamond.
 Dragon-in-Chief: She's generally acted as the public face of the Diamond Authority in
Era 2, since Blue has been in mourning since the war and White was confined to her ship.
She's also the most antagonistic Diamond towards Earth in the first three seasons, as she
specifically oversees Jasper and Peridot, as well as the Cluster project.
 Dramatically Missing the Point: At first she accepts the explanation that Pink rebelled,
Steven is a "new form" of Pink without the latter's memories, and only expresses hope that
the memories will return. When they all return to Homeworld, however, she and Blue
immediately fall back into treating "Pink" as their silly little sister who exists to make them
laugh. Steven understandably gets frustrated when he tries to have a serious conversation,
and by the end of a rather disastrous ball she tells off Steven for fusing and locks Stevonnie
up.
 Dramatic Irony:
o She believes the Cluster will destroy the Earth any moment, unaware that it's
been completely neutralized by Rose Quartz's son, Steven, with the help of one of her former
subjects, Peridot.
o After Steven escapes with Lars into Homeworld's depths in "The Trial", she
thinks "Rose" is trapped with nowhere to hide. However, sometime after that, Steven manages
to return to Earth, completely unaware of it.
o She wants Rose Quartz destroyed after she shattered Pink Diamond, except the
irony here is ten-fold after the revelation that Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz were the same
person. She eventually finds out.
 The Dreaded: When Jasper drops her name, Lapis and Peridot give shocked
expressions. In "Message Received", Garnet and Pearl are terrified by the prospect that
Peridot will contact her. Being Pink Diamond's Pearl, Pearl is likely familiar with Yellow
Diamond's personality.
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 Early-Bird Cameo: First appeared in the extended theme song, and made her
appearance in the second season.
 Establishing Character Moment: Within minutes of her first appearance: "I've heard
enough! I don't care about potential or resources. I want my Cluster, and I want that planet
to die. Just make that happen."
 Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
o She really seems to care about Blue Diamond, and bluntly telling her to stop
grieving seems to be the only way she knows to snap Blue out of her depression. In "Change
Your Mind", White all but states that taking care of Blue is Yellow's main emotional priority.
o Her Villain Song, "What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)?" admits that she still thinks
about Pink Diamond. She can't even finish said song — in the last line, she lets go of Blue's
hand and turns away, as though she doesn't trust herself to finish. As businesslike as she acts,
it's clear that Pink Diamond's death affected her deeply. In "The Trial", she not only seems
eager to shatter Steven (who she thinks is Rose) and be done with it, but when confronted with
Blue Zircon's theory and accusations that either she or Blue had Pink Diamond killed, Yellow's
response is to poof Blue Zircon by smashing her with a finger. She ceases her onslaught
against the Crystal Gems the moment Steven manages to prove his true nature as
Pink's Reincarnation.
 Even Evil Has Standards:
o Despite demanding deference and respect from her subjects, she is also
annoyed by excessive butt-kissing, rolling her eyes at the likes of Holly Blue Agate or her own
Zircon's brown-nosing. She also rewards those loyal to her, as shown with Yellow Pearl.
o When Steven reveals that he has Pink Diamond's Gem, she's notably horrified
and stops the onslaught against the Crystal Gems. She also agrees that the Corrupted Gems
need to be healed. When venting to "Pink" about being The Unfavorite, she doesn't blame
Steven for the disparate treatment and actually laughs when Steven tries to cheer her up.
 Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She's unable to understand why Pink Diamond would
have a Zoo to store humans, even while under the assumption that she did so because she
saw them as trophies of her conquests.
 Evil Is Petty: Her interest in the Cluster has less to do with science, and more to do with
having it destroy the Earth out of spite. She also tries to kill Peridot by remotely detonating
her Diamond communicator after the latter talks back to her and calls her a clod. This turns
out to be doubly petty with The Reveal Homeworld is running low on resources. "That Will Be
All" reveals that she wants Earth destroyed so she doesn't have to think about Pink
Diamond's death and the sadness that comes with it; while understandable, she's basically
willing to kill billions of innocents in a selfish attempt to escape her own sorrow.
 Evil Laugh: Well, maybe not an evil laugh, but she otherwise lets out one of these
in "Familiar".
 Exotic Eye Designs: Like Jasper's, hers are more detailed than the rest of the cast. She
has thick eyelashes, yellow irises, and, as said above in the general folder, diamond-shaped
pupils.
  Face-Revealing Turn: What she does in the extended opening.
 Fantastic Racist: When Peridot mentions all the life that's flourished on Earth, Yellow
Diamond says "Organic life" with noticeable disgust on the first word. Even after her Heel–
Face Turn, she still shows shades of this, as evident by the look on her face when watching
the humans attending Sadie's concert. She is also initially disgusted and horrified at the
revelation that White is off-colour.
 Fatal Flaw: Wrath. She is so intent on destroying Earth that she commissions the
creation of a Cluster (violating countless shattered Gems in the process) and seeks to
destroy Earth in spite of the many resources it could offer to Homeworld. While she loves her
fellow Diamonds and does try to hold back her temper, she has snapped at them as well. It
gets even worse with The Reveal that Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond, which means that
Yellow has unknowingly tried to kill her sister and nephew multiple times while mourning her.
 Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Downplayed; Yellow Diamond hated organic life
even before Pink Diamond had ever set foot on Earth, but only escalated into self-destructive
hatred of such to avenge Pink.
 Final Solution: She wanted to shatter Rose Quartz's entire Gem type for the Rose we
know of rebelling against and shattering Pink Diamond. Blue Diamond instead chose to spare
them, albeit as bubbled prisoners.
 Five Stages of Grief: Has a foot firmly in the "Denial" and "Anger" stages of grief,
wanting to remove every trace of Pink Diamond so she doesn't have to think about her and
feel the sadness that comes from her loss. But if you push her buttons, even Blue Diamond
isn't safe from her ranting.
 Foil:
o To her "sister", Pink Diamond. Pink was a spoiled little brat demanding for her
own colony, whereas Yellow was a serious matriarch who colonized multiple planets. Pink was
unaware of the damage she was doing to her colony, whereas Yellow wanted organic life to be
destroyed. It's reflected best in the ideals Pink expressed as Rose Quartz. Rose sincerely
valued all life and sought to protect it, while Yellow Diamond utterly hates all organic life, not just
humans, and wishes it to be permanently annihilated. Rose loved and cared for each Gem
under her command, while Yellow Diamond sees them as mere drones who are rather
replaceable. Even their names are similar and both are voiced by Broadway
actresses. However, Pink constantly fails to take her fellow Diamonds' feelings into
consideration, whereas Yellow is always looking out for them.
o Also, to her other "sister", Blue Diamond. Aside from their masculine/feminine
personalities, Yellow Diamond copes with the death of Pink Diamond by completely repressing
her own emotions, destroying everything that reminds her of her grief, and sees grief itself as
useless feelings.
o Also, to Dr. Maheswaran, according to "Jungle Moon", where the former is being
portrayed by the latter as a symbolically similar treatment toward their sister/daughter, Pink
Diamond/Connie. However, unlike Priyanka, who managed to see the error of her ways and
reconcile with Connie before she damaged their relationship even further, Yellow refused to
allow Pink to give up her colony and took away her control of Earth just because she won't
complete it, and lives to regret how she treated Pink by seemingly allowing her to be destroyed
along with their relationship.
 Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling:
o Yellow and Blue (responsible) and Pink (foolish). After Pink's Heel–Face Turn,
the roles are reversed.
o This trope is Zig-Zagged between her and Blue in the present day during
Steven's trial. While Blue does act like a depressed NEET, at the very least she's insistent on
 continuing the trial properly. Yellow, on the other hand, while determined to keep her forces in
line, treats the trial like a Kangaroo Court.
 Four-Star Badass: In charge of the Gem Empire's military force, and the more martially
inclined of the Diamonds. Unlike Blue, she doesn't mess around and would immediately
press her advantages to quickly turn the table during fights.
 General Ripper: Yellow Diamond is incredibly trigger happy and thoughtless to other
lifeforms, to the point she was willing to have Earth destroyed by the Cluster out of pure spite.
 Giant Foot of Stomping: Upon seeing Steven again in "Reunited", she immediately
dashes over and proceeds to stomp on him.
 The Ghost: Mentioned by Jasper in "The Return", and can briefly be seen looking
menacing in silhouette in the extended intro, but does not appear in the show until "Message
Received", the second to last episode of the second season.
 Go to Your Room!: Inflicts this on Stevonnie at the end of 'Alone Together'.
 Grumpy Bear: She became this after she Took a Level in Kindness.
 Hair-Trigger Temper: It's quite apparent that Yellow Diamond has a volcanic temper,
particularly if it involves anything related to Earth.
 Hanging Judge: During "The Trial", Yellow is determined to get "Rose" shattered no
matter what and is clearly only going along with the formality of the trial because Blue wants
to, and she keeps questioning Defense Zircon's line of thought that Rose was most likely
framed.
 Hazy Feel Turn: Though she relents her attack at the end of "Reunited", it's clear that
Yellow Diamond is still a firm believer in Homeworld's strict rules and caste system.
o Later, as of "Change Your Mind", it's clear that Yellow's adopted a proper Heel–
Face Turn alongside Blue.
 Heel Realization:
o She has one at the end of "Reunited", in which she finally discovers that
Steven/Rose is Pink Diamond and stops her rampage.
o She has a bigger one in "Change Your Mind", when Steven questions how
perfect a society that's forcing her to harm her own family is and it hits her she attacked Blue.
This in turn causes her to realize why Pink would rather live on Earth in the first place.
 Hellish Pupils: Her pupils are diamond-shaped.
 Hidden Depths: Yellow Diamond is first presented as a wrathful, unreasonable tyrant.
Later episodes show her trying to be a voice of reason to Blue Diamond. If the end of the
song "What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)" is any indication, she's still heartbroken over Pink
Diamond's death. While she's not the perfect objective decider Peridot saw her as, it seems
like she genuinely values reason and objectivity and strives toward it to an extent, but
anything to do with the Earth and the subject of Pink Diamond's demise is a hot button issue.
o In "Reunited", we learn that the reason for all her anger comes from self-loathing,
as she blames herself for Pink Diamond's death.
o In "Change Your Mind", it's implied by Blue Diamond that Yellow is actually quite
miserable having to carry out the ruthless doctrine laid out by White Diamond, and having to
hold everyone — including herself — to such draconian expectations.
 Humans Are Ugly: It took just one glance at the human Steven, who is masquerading as
"Rose Quartz", to make her decide to want to shatter "her" immediately. She seems to have
stopped having this belief at the end of "Reunited", and it's likely that she was just looking for
reasons to shatter "Rose Quartz" immediately.
 Hypocrite:
o She rebukes Blue for still grieving over Pink's death all those millennia later, but
she herself is very emotional on the topic, being willing to destroy hundreds of perfectly
 serviceable Quartzes and other Gems and a perfectly good colony planet simply because they
remind her of Pink.
o Yellow also took away Pink's colony partly because she thought she was being
ungrateful, yet Yellow only gave it to her so she'd stop bothering her. Not to mention despite
everything Pink did to fix her fellow Diamonds' relationship with each other, she repaid her with
frequent punishments and neglect.
o In "Change Your Mind", she accuses Blue of hurting a fellow Diamond, even
though she (and Blue) hurt Pink in the past, with Yellow even physically manhandling her at
one point. Blue magnificently calls her out on it.
 Hypocritical Heartwarming: Yellow frequently abuses Pink, whether she does so by
physically manhandling her or just being cold and distant towards her. Yet, when
Yellow believes Pink to have been shattered by Rose Quartz, Yellow becomes hell-driven to
get revenge on Rose, whether it be by blowing up the planet she's on with the Cluster or
attempting to shatter the person she believes to be Rose at the trial. Additionally, despite
imprisoning Pink's son Steven in a prison tower as punishment for fusing with Connie, she
eventually resorts to telling Steven to return to Earth safely with his friends, even if it means
she and Blue will have to face White's wrath alone.
    I-M 
 Inelegant Blubbering: "Change Your Mind" shows that she's one of the "Ugly Crying"
variant. She's stoic, hardhearted, and struggles not to feel, but she does have a breaking
point, and when it's reached she collapses into tears, her face a wretched mask of anguish.
 Inopportune Voice Cracking:
o In "Message Received", as it becomes increasingly apparent that she's Not So
Stoic, she begins shouting to the point where her voice breaks in the middle of interrupting
Peridot.
o In "Change Your Mind", her voice breaks again when she's going on her Motive
Rant.
 Insane Admiral: According to Peridot, she's more or less the commander-in-chief (or at
least one of them) of the Gem military, and it seems to take very little to incite her to use it.
 Ironic Name: Yellow Diamonds are the birthstone for Virgo, and Virgos are associated
with order, intelligence, and cold calculation. When she finally appears in the show proper,
she does fit the bill at first, but as her talk with Peridot goes on, it becomes readily apparent
that for however much a being of logic she might be, she's clearly also
a vengeful and spiteful being who would gladly destroy the Earth for payback against the
rebellion.
 It's All About Me: She is shown to be an extremely arrogant ruler who shows no concern
about non-Gem worlds and does not care about any valuable resources that the Earth may
contain, as long as she gets her Cluster. Keep in mind, Homeworld is currently low on
resources and producing weaker Gems as a result. That said, at least part of it seems to be
motivated out of hate for the rebellion and Rose shattering Pink Diamond.
 It's All My Fault: While she doesn't show it externally, she genuinely does blame herself
for Pink's shattering.
 It's Personal: It's pretty clear from what's seen of Jasper that the Homeworld Gems who
remember the war hold a certain degree of hate for Earth and the Crystal Gems. Yellow
Diamond, however, takes this hate to extremes: In her eyes, the destruction of Earth, its
billions of inhabitants, and whatever resources that could be useful to Homeworld are
secondary to the personal satisfaction of finally wiping the symbol of Rose's rebellion and
Pink Diamond's death off the star charts. As of "Change Your Mind", she does appear to be
warming up to the Earth a little, as she refers to it as Pink/Steven's home and is later shown
 having fun with White and Blue in Rose's fountain, which is located on Earth, while curing the
Corrupted Gems.
 Jerkass: Just from her introduction it's clear she's probably the most vicious, spiteful
character in the show.
 Jerkass Has a Point:
o Though she's not exactly the nicest and is not handling Pink Diamond's death
any better, Yellow Diamond is right that Blue Diamond can't continue to grieve and obsess over
Pink Diamond. She also observes that Blue Diamond is neglecting her leadership duties and
wants her to be responsible again.
o When Pink Diamond was trying to get her attention, Yellow Diamond
manhandling her was out of line but she stops Pink cold by asking her why she doesn't act like
a Diamond if she wants to be treated like one. When Pink receives a colony it turns out she has
no real interest in ruling and finds the actual work of running a colony to be very boring, proving
Yellow's point correct.
o Steven understands her point when she angrily demands an explanation for
why "Pink" is in a new form, and why didn't Steven say who he was at the trial. Fortunately, she
accepts Steven's explanation when he says he doesn't have Pink or Rose's memories, or he
would have told her.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Yellow's normally a Jerkass, she displays a nicer side to
herself as time goes on. She is always watching over Blue, trying to gauge her reactions and
shield her from anything that might upset her unnecessarily. In contrast, Blue doesn't even
seem to consider that Yellow is still mourning Pink too, until the latter breaks down at the end
of her song "What's the Use of Feeling Blue?" She even stops her attack on the Crystal
Gems for Steven when she finds out that he is Pink Diamond, and in "Legs From Here to
Homeworld" isn't angry that he doesn't have Pink's memories. In "Change Your Mind", she
finally learns the error of Homeworld's ways, even admitting the only reason she couldn't act
on her Being Evil Sucks mentality is fear of White's wrath. Fittingly enough, her gemstone
resembles real-life gold, with an armor-like exterior.
 Kick the Dog: Has a bad habit of this.
o In her first appearance, she tries to kill Peridot with a bomb after Peridot insults
her.
o "The Trial":
 She calls Rose Quartz really Steven hideous and claims they should
shatter her on the spot for her appearance.
 Poofing both Zircons for daring to speak out of turn also definitely counts.
o She casually threatens to shatter a subordinate if she doesn't do her job in a
flashback in "Jungle Moon".
o In addition to poofing the Crystal Gems and imprisoning Stevonnie in a prison
tower in "Together Alone", she also poofs Lemon Jade after she stood up for the Crystal Gems
and expressed her joy at not being the only cross-gem fusion.
 Kick the Morality Pet:
o She and Blue Diamond perform a dual one in a flashback in "Now We're Only
Falling Apart", in which they reject Pink's offer to spare the Earth.
o In "Together Alone", she once more overrides "Pink's" authority over the ball
(which is explicitly the thing Pink holds dominion over in the Authority) and completely refuses
to accept any of the things Steven desires to do outside of what's "accepted", to the point of
once more threatening to override Steven's authority and do the ball herself. She also gets
furious at Steven and Connie for fusing to the point of poofing their friends and imprisoning
them as punishment.
o A brief time afterwards in "Change Your Mind", she actually ends up attacking
Blue Diamond for trying to take Steven's side, even if it's visible in her face that she's regretting
it the entire time. When she tries to justify it as upholding the Gem empire's "perfection", Steven
points out any order which forces her to assault her own sister cannot be perfect, which puts an
end to both her rampage and her support for White's form of order.
 Knight of Cerebus: Her introduction just shows how vicious she is.
 Lack of Empathy: She's shown no regard for anyone else but the other
Diamonds, including Steven.
 Large and in Charge: Easily the biggest non-fused Gem seen thus far, standing over 50
feet tall. The Pearl she uses as a secretary easily fits in Yellow's palm. But she's still one
head shorter than White.
 Laser-Guided Karma: She was a Big Sister Bully towards Pink, physically manhandling
and just being straight up cold towards her, leading to Pink Faking the Dead and causing
Yellow to grieve for millennia. Yellow being physically violent towards Pink also comes back
to bite her when Blue attacks her with an energy ball, and she's later forced to face that, since
Pink is now truly gone, she can never truly apologize to her for what she had done.
 Leitmotif: "Message Received" gives her a personal variation of the Diamonds' distinct
rising/falling synth rhythm. At first, hers is less harmonious and more subdued than Blue
Diamond's, seemingly fitting her clinical nature. However, as she becomes progressively
angrier and more unhinged, so does the theme, incorporating drums and a much more
menacing synth crescendo. She's also the only one of the Diamonds thus far to have a
secondary theme, a trilling echo that plays whenever she's about to do something violent.
 Lightning Bruiser: As seen in the fight with the Crystal Gems, she's strong enough to
easily smash her way out of her ship and lift wreckage off of Blue, and when she goes on the
attack, she dashes forward with incredible speed and knocks Steven unconscious despite
him having put his shield up.
 Light Is Not Good: All Diamonds, yellow ones in particular, stand for the energy of the
sun according to gemstone mythos. It doesn't stop Yellow Diamond from attempting to kill an
entire planet out of spite and revenge.
o Light Is Good: Like Blue and eventually even White, she makes a Heel–Face
Turn in "Change Your Mind" and stops her tyrannical ways.
 Mama Bear: In "Change Your Mind", she directs an angry look at Jasper as she
prepares to attack Steven under the belief that he's Rose Quartz, before brushing it off with a
smile.
 Mean Boss: When Peridot calls her, she makes it clear she doesn't care about the
opinions of the people working for her at all.
 Meaningful Name:
o Yellow Diamonds are the birthstone for Virgo, and Virgos are associated
with order, intelligence, and cold calculation. These are the standards she holds herself and her
subjects to, although as mentioned above, she's ultimately willing to sacrifice all of this for
revenge.
o Yellow Diamonds are one of the more common colors and as such more likely to
be used for industrial lasers and technological applications than for jewelry, fitting YD's
pragmatic, no-nonsense personality.
 Misplaced Retribution: Blames all Rose Quartz Gems for the actions of the Crystal
Gem's Rose shattering Pink Diamond, wanting them shattered in turn.
 Mood-Swinger: The bereavement of Pink has made Yellow very erratic. Sometimes she
acts like the strong, calm, logical leader that Peridot and Holly Blue see her as, but in the
next moment she's yelling and poofing Gems left and right. Because she has repressed her
grief and internalized the blame for Pink's shattering, Yellow is constantly causing herself
 emotional harm. And when anyone reminds her too much of the tragedy, she lashes out like
a wounded animal.
 Moral Myopia: Yellow Diamond had no moral qualms about creating a Cluster out of
shattered Gems or leading an interplanetary empire with blood on its hands. However, the
death of Pink Diamond emotionally devastated her, to the point that she seeks to destroy
Earth in retaliation. It likely helps that she sees herself as responsible for Pink's alleged death
in the first place, however.
 My God, What Have I Done?:
o You wouldn't think it would be possible for a tyrant like her but, it seems that, like
Blue, she regrets the way she treated Pink and wishes she could take it back so Pink could still
be alive.
o She looks worried as Steven regains consciousness, after she and Blue have
realized he was telling the truth about being Pink Diamond. She nearly lost her sister a second
time, and would have turned out to be Pink's shatterer like Defense Zircon theorized.
o The biggest one comes during "Change Your Mind", when Steven's Armor-
Piercing Question leads her to realize that not only was her strict enforcement of White
Diamond's ruthless policies the very catalyst for Pink Diamond's rebellion, but that same
doctrine has led her to attack Blue Diamond. This time, she finally breaks down and progresses
to a full Heel–Face Turn.
 My Greatest Failure: In "Reunited", it's revealed that she didn't believe that Pink was
ready for a colony, but she gave it to her anyway so she'd stop whining. Pink seemingly
gets shattered because of this, and Yellow's been carrying the guilt of being responsible for
the circumstances of her sister's apparent death for 5,000 years since.
Yellow Diamond: How miserable. I knew Pink couldn't handle her own colony. But I gave in, and now, I'm to
blame for her fate.

    N-Q 

 Never Be Hurt Again: She wants to destroy everything related to Pink Diamond with the
full intention that she and Blue Diamond will stop grieving over her.
 Never My Fault: One of Yellow's many flaws, and to further drive the point home that not
even the Diamonds are anywhere near flawless. While she does have legitimate reason to be
angry at "Pink" for faking her death and causing her and Blue to grieve for millennia, she
never once takes into conideration that it was her and Blue's treatment of Pink that drove her
away, as evident by "Legs From Here to Homeworld" and "Change Your Mind", even telling
Steven "Ugh, Pink. How many perfectly adequate Gems did you have us ruin?" in the former
episode and outright stating that Pink abandoned them in the latter episode. Subverted as she
eventually does realize that it's her fault in a My God, What Have I Done? moment.
 Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!:
o She's so anxious to secure the Cluster that her reconnaissance missions
inadvertently draws attention of its existence to the Crystal Gems.
o Her Revenge Before Reason attitude towards the destruction of Earth (she'd
rather see Earth destroyed as revenge for Pink Diamond's shattering than keep it intact and
utilize its resources despite the fact that the Gem Homeworld is in critical need of resources) turns
Peridot against her, causing her to defy Yellow Diamond and join the Crystal Gems. Peridot
would be instrumental in stopping the Cluster.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Yellow (mean) is a short-tempered Bad Boss, Blue (in-
between), while initially as bad as Yellow, seems to have Took a Level in Kindness in recent
years thanks to Pink Diamond's "death", and Pink (nice) is an All-Loving Hero and
a Benevolent Boss who cherishes and wishes to protect organic life.
  Nigh Invulnerable: Even moreso than most other Gems. She endures being thrown by
the Cluster while in her ship, punches her way out of the wreckage, and stands tall
completely unscathed.
 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When she finally gave Pink Diamond her own colony,
the Earth, Pink ends up loving it and faking her death causing Yellow to grieve for millennia.
 No-Nonsense Nemesis: Upon seeing Steven again, she immediately goes in for the kill.
 Non-Standard Character Design: Similar to Jasper, her design is a lot more detailed than
other characters, with extra lines in her face and neck (this is especially obvious juxtaposed
against Yellow Pearl). This is quite effective in making her stand out as someone important,
as well as making her overall slightly unsettling to the viewer who had gotten used to the
style other characters are drawn in.
 Not Me This Time: Of the two Defense Zircon directly accused of Pink Diamond's
shattering, Yellow's actions pegged her as the logical suspect. However, she
really didn't have anything to do with Pink's "shattering", and was simply lashing out when
accused of killing someone she loved as family.
 Not So Above It All:
o She admits to Blue in "That Will Be All" that she also misses Pink, having loved
her dearly. But she uses it as a point that she and Blue can't let grief cripple them.
o When Steven says maybe Yellow should try failing to get White's attention,
Yellow actually laughs and says she misses "Pink"'s jokes.
o When Spinel does a handstand and makes a joke about 6000 years not being a
very long time in the Movie, Yellow Diamond suddenly bursts out laughing. Of-course, she
actually does think 6000 years isn't very long, but she laughs at it like it's the first joke she's ever
gotten.
 Not So Different:
o She and Amethyst both try to cope with the death of their loved ones through
denial. But unlike Amethyst, who relies on humor, Yellow destroys everything related to Pink
Diamond so she won't have to go through the pain of grief.
o Her toxic but well-meaning parenting style with Pink Diamond can be compared
to Dr. Maheswaran's own parenting style to Connie. This is best portrayed in "Jungle Moon",
where she is being portrayed by Priyanka and Pink is Stevonnie. As a result, she (along with
Blue) is Locked Out of the Loop from Pink's secret life as Rose Quartz for thousands of years
because she was afraid to tell her the truth, just like how Priyanka (and her husband) were
locked out from her daughter's secret adventures with Steven. By "Homeworld Bound", she has
taken up the cause of repairing the Gems shattered for her cluster experiments using her new
ability to alter a Gem's default form, having basically become the gem-equivalent of a doctor.
o To Pearl. Both are the upright, Workaholic members of their respective teams.
They both try to bury their feelings over the loss of Rose/Pink for the good of the team and
wind-up developing emotional and psychological problems in the process, Pearl projecting her
dynamics and insecurities onto other people, while Yellow becomes trapped in the Anger and
Denial stages of the Five Stages of Grief.
o Surprisingly, to Steven. Both characters have a massive guilt complex over
events that happened in the past and just can't seem to forgive themselves. Yellow and Steven
also tend to hide their emotions in favor of trying to be there for everyone else; they can't really
talk to other Gems about it because of their rather unique hierarchy. Both characters are rather
protective to an extent; Steven is more obvious with this as his weapon is a literal shield, but
with Yellow, she has command over Homeworld's military, meaning her job is to protect the
Gem race. And when dealing with White Diamond, she decides to be the one to speak with
White and take whatever wrath she was going to dish out. Both Steven and Yellow have this
 interesting struggle with duty and destiny. It makes more sense for Yellow, since she is a
Homeworld Gem and thus is expected to conform to a certain role because that is what she
was made for. She's not all that happy with her job; in fact, she's utterly miserable. And despite
Steven being a Crystal Gem being raised with the mentality that he could be whatever he
wanted to be, he could never shake the feeling that he has some kind of magical destiny.
 Not So Stoic:
o Peridot describes her as the epitome of logic and calculated reasoning. While at
first glance she appears to fit the part, as her argument with Peridot wears on, Yellow Diamond
begins to lose her cool, to the point where her voice starts breaking. As mentioned above, she
also reveals that her interest in the Cluster isn't so much scientific, as it is petty vengeance
against Earth itself.
o At the end of her Villain Song, she comes very close to outright breaking down
from her grief over Pink Diamond's death.
o In "The Trial", she displays anger when Defense Zircon starts to point out the
various flaws with Pink Diamond's death, and getting accused of it along with Blue Diamond
leads to her promptly poofing both Defense and Prosecuting Zircon. Given the reveal she
truly was innocent of the crime, it was likely the latter more than the former that enraged her.
o She's visibly distressed upon finding out that Steven/Rose is Pink Diamond and
has a visible look of concern on her face.
o She actually cries after having a Heel Realization in "Change Your Mind", without
Blue doing anything to cause it.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
o When Peridot called her a clod, Yellow Diamond looked absolutely furious before
trying to blow her up. When the Defense Zircon accused her of shattering Pink Diamond, her
expression remained neutral as she got to her feet... and promptly started poofing both
her and the Prosecution Zircon.
o A positive example happens in "Reunited", in which she has a visible look of
concern on her face for Steven when she discovers that he is Pink Diamond. Yellow hasn't
even shown that much concern for Blue (or in this case, Pink herself) before. The revelation that
Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond leaves her so stunned that she is left speechless.
o She finally breaks down in tears in "Change Your Mind" upon her Heel
Realization, and assumes that it's Blue making her do it. Blue tells her she isn't.
 One-Hit Kill: She can emit a yellow Agony Beam from her hands that poofs a gem with
one shot if it connects.
 Perpetual Frowner: Is almost never seen without an angry scowl on her face.
 Personality Powers: Yellow's Signature Move is a bolt of electricity that destabilizes a
regular Gem's form instantly and inflicts pain onto her fellow Diamonds. This reflects her cool
and efficient way of managing her Gems and her tendency to lash out whenever her authority
is questioned or whenever someone tries getting her to open up. Between her Heel–Face
Turn in "Change Your Mind" and "Homeworld Bound", she eventually learned how to alter a
Gem to their preferred state, showing that not only has she learned to look past physical
appearance, but has developed a cause in undoing her inhumane experiments.
 Pet the Dog: For all the tyrant she is, even she's not without moments of kindness.
o A small note — she seems to treat Yellow Pearl well, compared to her treatment
of Peridot. She politely asks her who's calling on the Diamond line and then calmly takes over
the call from there. She even allows Yellow Pearl to speak to her in an annoyed tone (albeit her
attitude wasn't towards Yellow Diamond). Going back to Peridot, YD was perfectly willing to
send a ship to get her before she called her a clod.
 o Her Villain Song in "That Will Be All" is basically her trying to snap Blue Diamond
out of her depression and to convince her to move forwards. She even asks the Pearls to sing
to Blue Diamond to help her feel better. It's also implied she genuinely misses Pink Diamond
too. And when Sapphire makes up a false story on getting more humans for Pink Diamond's
human zoos, she's inspired to come up with a solution to remedy Blue Diamond's grief (though
possibly at the cost of Earth).
o During "The Trial", Yellow clearly didn't take it as seriously as Blue did and simply
wanted to punish 'Rose' as quickly as possible. Given how hard she tries to lock down her
feelings, and how she blames herself for Pink's death, that trial was probably extremely painful
for her. It's possible that just like her interest in getting more humans off Earth in "That Will Be
All", Yellow's only there because it interests Blue and gets her to act.
 When Blue Diamond's composure breaks during the trial, Yellow puts her
hands on her shoulders and calls a recess, long enough for Blue to pull herself together.
o In hindsight, her keeping Jasper and giving her a high rank and status in her
court are this, given Yellow views the rest of the Earth-born Gems with disgust and it's implied
Blue Diamond's desire to preserve Pink's things is the only reason any of them are still around.
Of course, there's also the fact a completely perfect and incredibly powerful "Ultimate
Quartz" stronger than a Topaz isn't exactly easy to come by.
o "Legs From Here to Homeworld" has her take a level in kindness.
 She's willing to work with the Crystal Gems to heal the corrupted Gems
and is even willing to face White Diamond's wrath to ask for her help, all because Steven asked
her to.
 When the topic of White Diamond comes up, Blue is upset at even the
mention of her name. Pearl explains to Steven that White isn't like any other Gems, nor even like
"them", the Diamonds, and the camera pans back up to Blue looking distressed and Yellow, a
supportive hand on her shoulder, looking at her with understanding.
 Given that she comforts Blue when discussing White Diamond, braces
herself as they reach Homeworld, and takes the lead and intends to do the talking (and therefore
draw the ire) of White, it appears that when the Diamonds interact Yellow puts herself between
the sensitive Blue, weird silly "Pink", and the one Diamond unquestionably scarier and more
powerful than they are.
o In "Familiar", she wishes Steven good luck in reaching out to White Diamond,
and notes that Pink always managed to make her laugh.
o In "Change Your Mind", when Steven tries breaking the ice between the
Diamonds and the Off Colors, Yellow actually tries to smile.
 Pragmatic Villainy: Implied to be the reason she took Jasper and treats her far better
than any of the other Earth-born Gems (who all went to Blue Diamond and are implied to
have been on the chopping block otherwise): Jasper is completely perfect and far more
powerful than any regular Quartz (even more so than a Topaz). As much as Yellow hates the
Earth, those aren't easy to come by. Also, she didn't wipe out life on the Jungle Moon Base
because it wasn't necessary for the colony.
o Yellow is an interesting version of this; most people wouldn't kill because they
think it's wrong. Yellow doesn't shatter a Gem as long as they're still useful. When Steven
shows her and Blue how the Gems have been corrupted on Earth, Yellow considers it a waste
rather than being remorseful for causing so much death and suffering. Basically she has a hard
time understanding something existing for the sake of it rather than serving a specific purpose.
An army has a use, it can go and fight a war. A Sapphire has a use, she can tell you what it's for. An Agate terrifies,
a Lapis terraforms...
  Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: She has a tendency to speak this way when she's losing
her temper.
"You. Are out. Of line."
"You are to leave the Cluster to grow. It will tear apart the Earth, and I will take immense satisfaction in erasing
that hideous rock off of our star maps! Is! That! CLEAR?!?"

 Put Them All Out of My Misery: Her desire for Earth's destruction is based more on grief
than pure disgust or spite; she wants to wipe out anything that reminds her of Pink Diamond.
 Quit Your Whining: Her Villain Song, "What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)?", at its core, is
Yellow Diamond's hard-worded yet well-meaning attempt to get Blue Diamond to stop
grieving for Pink Diamond and go back to leading Homeworld.
    R-S 

 "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a scathing one to Peridot when she tries to argue
to spare Earth and questions her. Which then gets turned on her.
 Reasonable Authority Figure:
o Before turning into a Bad Boss. She accepts Peridot's reason for using the
Diamond line, thanks her for her report and tells her that she'll send her a ship shortly. Even
when Peridot says that she crashed the ship herself, the worst Yellow Diamond says is that
she'll inform Peridot's manager of her incompetence (which is entirely reasonable, since by
omitting any mention of the Crystal Gems, Peridot made it sound like she lost a valuable ship
through sheer negligence).
o "Jungle Moon" reveals she was also this towards Pink Diamond. She was
perfectly willing to let Pink watch her invade a planet to build a new Gem colony, and she only
snaps at her after Pink messes with her communicator and throws a tantrum over not having
her own colony. Considering how Yellow treats other Gems under her command, that is a
major improvement.
 Red Herring: When Blue Zircon concludes that only a Diamond could have enabled Pink
Diamond's assassination, Yellow begins destroying all witnesses and demands "Rose's" swift
execution. Coupled with her get-on-with-it demeanor during the trial, she's suddenly looking
very suspicious. However, Pink Diamond was really "assassinated" by herself. Yellow was
completely innocent, was rushing the trial because (as was stated before) she wanted to
move on with their lives, and simply enraged at being accused of murdering her own sister.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni:
o Yellow is aggressive and quick-tempered, compared to Blue who is mostly
melancholic these days.
o Both she and Blue serve as the blue to Pink's red, as they are more serious and
less exitable than she is.
 Reformed, but Not Tamed: Even after accepting Steven as Pink Diamond, she continues
to have an attitude towards him, though it's still an improvement on how she treated Pink.
 The Resenter: Yellow Diamond has some mild, one-sided sibling rivalry with Steven/Pink
Diamond. In "Familiar", she's resentful that White Diamond met with Steven/"Pink" but hasn't
given her an audience in ages, despite the many planets she's conquered.
 Retired Badass: In-between "Change Your Mind" and The Movie, Yellow admits to
having disbanded her armies and liberated her colonies.
 Revenge Before Reason: Homeworld is starting to lose access to vital resources, and
Earth could potentially help the empire in unique ways. But Earth is also the place where
Rose Quartz's rebellion was focused, and a symbol of what Pink Diamond was killed over, so
 Yellow Diamond wants the planet destroyed, regardless of whatever resources Homeworld
could harvest out of it.
 Rule of Symbolism: White Diamond summarizes her personality towards her relationship
to the light spectrum.
White Diamond: Poor Yellow. Her impurities absorb all the blue in her light. She's so strong, but so weak when
it comes to blue.

 Shadow Archetype: She is this to Dr. Maheswaran, being what would happen if she
refused to relent on controlling her daughter, basically allowing Pink to be indirectly destroyed
just because she still thought she was doing what's best for her.
 Shock and Awe: She has the power of lightning. She's capable of firing electricity from
her hands potent enough to poof a Gem in one hit in similar fashion to the Gem Disruptor
weapons. It's likely the Gem Disruptors are based on her power in the first place, especially
since similar patterns of energy appear on Gems affected by each.
 Shoulders of Doom: Wide and pointy, like pauldrons.
 Sigil Spam: A yellow Gem can be seen on the mural in "Serious Steven", surrounded by
a sun symbol. The Gem disruption devices that Jasper and Peridot use are yellow, and the
prison cells in their ships are guarded by a yellow energy force field.
o She also favors the Era-2 Great Diamond Authority symbol — the tripartite
version consisting of White, Yellow, and Blue triangles — over the Era-1/Era-3 GDA symbol
featuring four diamonds.
 Silence, You Fool!: She electrocutes her own prosecuting Zircon for smugly thinking the
trial was "over". Having Blue Zircon's defense implicate Yellow herself as a potential suspect
in Pink Diamond's murder, rather than sealing a guilty verdict for Rose, and also tipping off
Blue Diamond to the fact that someone is trying to cover something up in regard to Pink
Diamond's death, Yellow knows this case is anything but closed. She's actually innocent of
the deed in question, but her haste and rage simply make her look guilty to all outside
observers.
 Sour Outside, Sad Inside: As it turns out, despite never showing it, she blames
herself for Pink's apparent death. And, as of "Change Your Mind", it's clear that
she hates having to be so ruthless in punishing those who go against Homeworld's rules,
particularly when Blue goes against them.
 Sparing the Aces: Notably, the one Earth-born Gem she actually took for her court and
treats with anything other than disdain is the completely perfect "Ultimate Quartz" Jasper.
 Static Electricity: Her method of healing.
 The Stoic: She adheres to literal stoicism as a rather unhealthy coping method for
dealing with her own grief over Pink Diamond, by bottling up all of her emotions and
repressing them, and destroying everything that will make her bottled feelings rise up and boil
over.
 Strong and Skilled: She's this in contrast to the Unskilled, but Strong Blue, being far
more mobile and frighteningly decisive in her attacks in what is thus far shown. Justified, as
Blue is the leader of the nobility while Yellow is the leader of the military.
 Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Her ability to poof Gems with her Shock and Awe powers is
the apparent basis of the Gem Destabilizers.
 Super Strength: Her physical strength is sufficient to poof a Gem with a poke of her
finger or hurl a thick slab of wall as big as she is flying with one hand.
    T-Y 
  This Is Unforgivable!: She decides that Peridot defying her orders and insulting her
warrants Peridot's execution. In "The Trial", she also decides that Blue Zircon accusing both
her and Blue Diamond for orchestrating Pink Diamond's death warranted her being poofed.
 Three-Point Landing: After she emerges from her ship just moments after it was
destroyed by the Cluster, she jumps down and executes such a drop.
 Time Dissonance: In The Movie, she refers to 6,000 years as "nothing".
 Tomboy and Girly Girl: Yellow Diamond has been compared to a businesswoman,
wears huge shoulder pads, pants and Power Hair, and isn't talented at remaining stoic. Blue
Diamond herself is introduced (in a flashback) wearing a cloak and gown and sitting on a
throne like a traditional queen and always speaks calmly even when she's losing her (very
short) temper and ordering an execution.
 Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Downplayed, but she does lighten up a little after reuniting
with Pink Diamond (as Steven). She's also shown to be much more cheerful and social while
curing Corruption alongside Blue and White near the end of "Change Your Mind".
 Tranquil Fury: When accused of potentially killing Pink Diamond, rather than shouting or
growing visibly furious as she typically does, she remains entirely silent before slowly rising to
her feet and poofing the Zircon who suggested it.
 Trying Not to Cry: Whenever she's affected by Blue's Emotion Bomb, she does her best
to resist it.
o Later, in "Change Your Mind", she struggles visibly to avoid breaking down
after her Heel Realization, begging Blue Diamond to stop using her powers... except that
Blue isn't using them. That's when Yellow finally starts crying in earnest.
 Tsundere: Type A. While she acts like an abusive Jerkass most of the time, it's clear that
she cares deeply about Blue and Pink Diamond, and hates having to punish those who do
not conform to Homeworld's ways — she just doesn't admit it.
 Tsurime Eyes: Yellow Diamond's eyes are slanted upwards and is vindictive, ruthless,
arrogant, and quick to anger.
 The Un-Favourite: Yellow resents the fact that she works tirelessly on hundreds of Gem
bases, yet is unappreciated by White Diamond, who hasn't said so much as two words to
her in over a millennium whereas Pink can be invited over for pleasant conversation all while
failing to manage even a single colony.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As far as her own side is concerned. She off-handedly told
Pink Diamond to act like she deserved her own army and planet to rule, not realizing Pink
was just desperate for her attention and acting out, eventually leading Pink to believe that
Yellow and Blue didn't care about her, culminating in Pink leading a rebellion against
Homeworld and eventually faking her own death.
 Unwitting Pawn: She's unaware Pink has been playing her and Blue like a violin ever
since she grew to love the Earth. It gets a bit sad when you remember she genuinely loves
Pink.
 Vengeance Feels Empty: While she doesn't acknowledge it directly like Blue, her
thoughts while fighting the Crystal Gems are not of satisfaction at finally crushing the last
remnants of the group that caused Pink's alleged death, but of calm reproach to herself for
causing the situation in the first place by giving Pink her colony.
 Villainous Breakdown: It all starts with her revenge plan to destroy Earth ruined when the
Cluster turns against her, prompting her to personally try to kill Steven. Then, when "Pink
Diamond" turns out to be "alive" and returns to Homeworld, with Yellow seemingly forgiving
her for her betrayal, she's not the same person Yellow remembers and breaks one of
Homeworld's sacred rules, enraging Yellow further. Finally, when Blue Diamond straight-up
defies and attacks her to defend Steven, it was the last straw.
 Visual Pun: She represses her emotions and grief for Pink Diamond's death by bottling
them up and hardening her own heart, symbolized by her gemstone lying in the center of her
armor-like chest.
 "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Seems to have this dynamic with White Diamond,
as "Familiar" implies that at least part of the reason for her obsessively conquering new
worlds is a bid to get White's attention. She is mildly jealous that "Pink"/Steven was able to
get an audience with White despite being a complete failure as a Diamond. In "Change Your
Mind", she all but states that her villainy is just an attempt to please White.
 Well-Intentioned Extremist: She justifies her colonizing many planets as it being for "the
sake of the empire".
 The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: She deals with her grief for Pink Diamond's
death by putting on a stoic, logical front, bottling up her grief, and destroying anything related
to Pink Diamond.
 Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Her purpose is to colonize worlds to propagate her
Empire, leaving them empty shells unable to support life by the time she's done with them.
She does this mainly in a vein attempt to win White's approval. When her "baby sister" Pink
was supposedly killed on Earth, she responds by creating the Cluster to destroy it from the
inside out.
 The Worf Effect: Her electrokinesis, which has managed to poof every other Gem she's
used it against, was resisted by Blue Diamond and disabled by Steven.
 Workaholic: Implied, by the look she has in the flashback scene with Pink Diamond,
while she displays her usual apathy and resolute attitude, for one moment during her
work, she smiles. This naturally befits her "businesswoman" aesthetic. According to Pearl,
"Yellow Diamond oversees all aspects of Gem production on every single one of her
colonies, and when she's not doing that, she's off with her army conquering the next one".
 Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Has committed multiple genocides, but doesn't view
organic life as having worth and sees absolutely nothing wrong with it. Her subjects see the
benefits to Gemkind, implying she justifies it by how it profits her people. Her desire to
destroy Earth and kill off all life on it, however, is far more personal and the cover story is that
it was destroyed as collateral damage to defeat the Rebellion.
 Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Her eyes glow yellow.
 Your Size May Vary: Her first appearance depicted her Pearl as only just coming up to
her knee, while her second depicted her as being able to comfortably carry two Pearls in the
palm of her hand. The latter scale was kept going onward.
hite Diamond
Voiced by: Christine Ebersole
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"Now all the impurities you've encouraged in them are gone! Now they are brilliant! Now they are perfect! Now
they are ME!"

The last of the Diamonds to appear, and the last to be mentioned by name. She is the
supreme ruler of the Gem Homeworld, and is the oldest and most powerful Diamond.
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 Abusive Parent: She's the oldest of the Diamonds and the one in charge of the group.
Blue and Yellow seem terrified of her and it's implied they try to limit their interaction with her
to avoid getting on her bad side. Yellow Diamond specifically mentions her poofing and
bubbling the other Diamonds as a punishment, and her constant warnings to Steven about
White have unsettling similarities to an older child trying to cover for a younger sibling from
an abusive parent. As shown in "Change Your Mind", she readily employs physical violence
and even brainwashing to keep the Diamonds in order. She finally grows out of this at the
end of the episode, however. Given the primary theme of the show is interpersonal
relationships, it's little surprise its apparent ultimate villain embodies one of the most toxic of
relationships.
 Adorkable:
o When she's finally convinced to accept Steven as his own person rather than
trying to force her flawlessness on everyone, she has such hilarious expressions when she
visits Earth and sees the Off-Colors, the Corrupted Gems, and actually having to enter a pool
while wearing high heels.
o White becomes even more adorkable in the movie, absolutely hellbent on doting
on Steven. Her softened design has helped massively.
o Future has White allowing other Gems to control her to help them to rediscover
their self-worth, and if her reaction after letting Spinel have a turn says anything, it's that she
clearly has fun doing this.
 Affably Evil: While greeting Steven, White speaks to him in a friendly motherly tone, but
the fact that she does so with an undertone of talking down to him and doesn't even let
Steven speak may suggest otherwise. She delves into Faux Affably Evil territory in "Change
Your Mind", but is proven to be a genuine example of this trope after her Heel–Face Turn.
 Affectionate Nickname: Has called Pink "Starlight" in the past, and uses it again when
she meets Steven.
 All There in the Manual: Her body makes it too bright for her gemstone to be seen
until "Change Your Mind", but art drawn by Rebecca Sugar ◊ as well as a Hot Topic t-shirt  
revealed that her forehead-placed diamond is shaped exactly like Pink's brilliant cut, but
rotated to be right-side-up.
 All Your Colors Combined: Part of White's justification for her supposed perfection is
how, unlike with the other Diamonds, whose impurities prevent them from reflecting all colors
back, she's composed of every color of the light. This is also a hint that she's not as perfect
as she thinks she is, since truly flawless diamonds (or as close as they get in real life)
are clear.
 All Your Powers Combined: White's main ability is a blend of Yellow (dominion over the
physical form of a Gem), Blue (emotional control), and Pink (astral projection) into a single,
effective ability. She uses it to turn Gems into People Puppets, making others into literal
extensions of herself. When her Pearl speaks, it isn't the Pearl talking... it's her.
  Ambiguously Evil: She casually welcomes "Pink" back to Homeworld and speaks to him
with motherly affection, but as Yellow and Blue explained she tends to have terrible mood
swings and as the leader of Homeworld, she is likely responsible for the oppression of "off
color" Gems and the rigid caste system. It turns out that out of all the Diamonds, she is
indeed the most genuinely malevolent, and has to be forced to realize her justification for
being so, her believed perfection, is a farce to finally be forced to change.
 Ambiguous Situation: When the Crystal Gems land Pink Diamond's ship on Homeworld,
crowds from all four courts greet them, and White Diamond already knows Pink is alive and
identifies Steven as her without being told. It's unclear if she knew Pink Diamond faked her
shattering and was Rose Quartz all along from the start, figured it out along the way, or found
out when Blue and Yellow did because she was somehow monitoring them. Then there's the
fact that when Steven tries to protest he's his own person and that White Diamond is insulting
his mother, White reacts as if she knows what a "mom" is and brings up that Steven has
been dreaming about Pink's memories. She uses this knowledge to make Steven think that
he's just a vessel for Pink.
 Anatomy Anomaly: She is the only character in the entire series with visible fingernails or
toenails.
 Anime Hair: She has the spikiest hair of all the Diamonds, and it sticks way up.
 Anti-Villain: Despite how the other Gems perceive her and how she presents herself, she
is just trying to be the perfect example of a model Gem that her Homeworld subjects can take
after, since all of her ridiculously perfect standards are a result of her genuine, yet deluded
belief that she is perfect above all others.
 Arc Villain: Of the Diamond Days arc at the end of season five, culminating in the finale,
"Change Your Mind".
 Armor-Piercing Question: When she throws a tantrum once Steven recovers his gem:
White Diamond: NOOO!!! You're PINK DIAMOND! THAT IS PINK DIAMOND'S GEM! You do NOT look
like this. You do NOT sound like this. You're NOT half-human. You're just... acting like a CHILD!
Steven: I am a child... What's your excuse?
[White Diamond blushes in shock as Connie bursts out laughing]

 Assimilation Plot: Zig-zagged; White Diamond is capable of outright overwriting others

Gems' personalities with her own, but does so conservatively, least she "spread [her]
uninhibited self so thin". She instead favors a culture of absolute conformity, saving the
"bleaching" as a last resort for aberrant gems she doesn't want outright shattered for
whatever reason. And since White Diamond created the Gem Empire, her "plot" isn't making it
that way, it's keeping it that way.
 The Assimilator: As indicated by her page quote, White Diamond is able to forcefully
remove what she considers to be "imperfections" from other gems and make them into
her puppets. This is reflected by the Gems losing their coloring and turning a contrasting
black, white and grey color scheme. She did this to Pink Pearl in the past, and in the finale
does it to Blue and Yellow Diamond, as well as Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl.
 Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
o Up to Eleven. Blue and Yellow are about eighty feet tall, and she's a head taller
than them, making her around a hundred and ten feet tall.
o Whenever White moves, the ground rumbles beneath her feet. This is used to
humorous effect in The Movie.
 Badass Cape: It's lined with diamond and star designs.
  Believing Their Own Lies: Unlike the other Diamonds who seem to know they're
imperfect and have to live up to their image as such, White genuinely believes that she's
perfect and it's the motivation for the callous way she treats everyone else.
 Berserk Button:
o According to Yellow and Blue, being embarrassed, or at least political
embarrassment for her empire. Yellow notes they would be lucky if she ever talked to the other
Diamonds again after "recovering" Pink. Considering how she blushes when Steven points out
she's acting like a child after her temper tantrum leading to her Heel–Face Turn and her violent
reaction earlier to Blue and Yellow defying her out in the open, it's safe to say it's any form of it.
o Suggesting the idea anything is wrong with her design or she's made a wrong
decision. This is the reason the other Diamonds largely ignored their realizations Homeworld's
system is immoral and broken: to fix it they'd have to admit to White it was broken, something
she'd never tolerate until Steven finally shatters her pride.
 Beware the Nice Ones: An odd example in that this is inverted for White Diamond, being
that she goes from tyrannical, ruthless and vicious to becoming a motherly self-help
guru in Future, who openly interacts with and helps Gems. You still don't want to piss her off
though.
 Big Bad: She is, undoubtedly, the ultimate source of all gem-involved external conflict in
the original Steven Universe series. Her supreme authority over Homeworld is why their empire
is so rigidly conformist, expands at the expense of any other form of life, and fought a war on
Earth that resulted in many gems being corrupted into monsters.
 Blue-and-Orange Morality: Subverted. Of all the Diamonds, White is the most alien in
her mannerisms and goals; Yellow is loud and violent, Blue is depressed, but White is at
once domineering and cold, never really seeming like she's all there. The Empire operates
through conquest and resource gathering, but to her, it's less about domination and more
about spreading a rigid ideal of perfection as far as she can. She seems to see other Gems
as extensions of herself and her will rather than as their own entities. However, as her conflict
with Steven shows, White's goals really aren't as alien as they first appeared. She's basically
a domineering parent wanting to control her "children" rather than see them make their own
decisions and mistakes. She acts out of what she thinks is best for them even as her
methods become abusive and at the end of the day she isn't unfeeling so much as trying to
present the image that she's unfeeling.
 Boomerang Bigot:
o White Diamond sees herself as the most perfect being above all others, and thus
she does not seem to possess much respect for her fellow diamonds, bleaching Yellow and
Blue when they begin to question her and seeing Pink as her polar opposite as both a Gem and
a person. This gets better when she realizes that she is not as perfect as she thinks she is.
White: Poor Yellow. Her impurities absorb all the blue in her light. She's so strong... but so weak when it comes to
Blue. Ah, and Blue — her impurities soak up all of the warmth in her spectrum. She thinks she needs you, Pink. As
for me, I'm certain I don't need you.

o White Diamond possesses a dislike towards off-colors Gems much like Yellow
and Blue, and is clearly uncomfortable when she is forced to play nice with the Off-Colors on
Earth. Considering all of Homeworld's hierarchy and the laws that governs it all come from her,
it is safe to say that discrimination of off-color Gems are all her doing. What makes this ironic is
at the end of "Change Your Mind", it is revealed that she secretly has a flaw (in her case, a pink
blush) that makes her off-colored.
 Break the Haughty: The only way she can be reasoned with at all is by making her finally
realize that she's not nearly as perfect as she thinks she is, causing her to have a complete
 meltdown. In the end, her pride is so fully shattered that she's left questioning her entire
worldview, as her own perfection was the linchpin.
 Break Them by Talking: She uses her ability to read the minds of other Gems to figure
out their insecurities and pick at their flaws. When she confronts Steven she plays on his
fears, first by claiming that he only keeps the Crystal Gems around because their
imperfections make him feel superior by comparison. Second, she claims that Steven never
existed in the first place and that Pink Diamond simply deluded herself into believing that she
was was a different person. The appearance of Pink Steven instantly disproves this.
 Broken Pedestal:
o Ironically, it's doing this to her to herself that makes her finally possible to be
reasoned with at all, as realizing she's not as perfect as she thinks she is forces her to talk to
Steven like a normal person instead of being so secure in her perfection she'll never consider
anyone else as worth listening too.
o To a lesser extent, this also applies to Blue and Yellow Diamond, who lose both
their fear and respect for her when they discover that she's off-color. Yellow reacts with disgust,
and Blue seems like she's about to throw up. Nonetheless, they seem willing to make amends
with her when they cure Corruption together.
 Bright Is Not Good: If she were any bigger, she could legally pass as a star in outer
space with the level of light she emits. Also, she's not the most mentally stable being.
 The Caligula: White is the supreme ruler of Homeworld, and more than a little off her
rocker.
 Clairvoyance: She is aware of many things that neither she nor her subjects could have
witnessed in person, such as the truth about Pink Diamond's "shattering", the exact time and
place that Blue and Yellow would return to Homeworld, the Crystal Gems' deep-seated
insecurities, and the fact that Steven has been experiencing his mother's memories.
However, she is also clearly not The Omniscient, as her assumption that Pink was using
Steven as a Meat Puppet proved to be incorrect.
 Cloudcuckoolander: Some of her behavior when she appears seems a little... off, to say
the least.
 Condescending Compassion: Her "conversation" with Steven is just oozing with this,
being motherly yet very patronizing. It's implied that this is also how she treated Pink, which
is probably why Pink never mentioned her.
 Control Freak: Everything in her Empire has to be run how she wants — just look at how
her representative White Pearl (her Meat Puppet) is pleased with a dance floor where the
gems literally spin like cogs, then scowls when Steven and Connie dance together —
even before this leads to them fusing. She's willing to even force Yellow and Blue to behave if
she has to. She has a complete meltdown when Steven turns out to not be Pink, and no
matter what she does, she can't get the outcome she wants.
 Costume Evolution: At some point during the two-year time skip between the end of
Season 5 and The Movie the grey in her dress changed to a subtle shade of pink. Whether
this is a result of White intentionally changing her form or a side effect of her no longer
repressing the aspect of her being she created Pink Diamond from is unknown.
 Defrosting Ice Queen: At first, she attempts to berate Steven, his friends and the other
Diamonds by saying Pink brings out the worst in others by encouraging their deficiencies.
She turns the other Gems into zombified puppets, and extracts Steven's gem from his navel.
After Steven re-unites his body and gem, she throws a childish tantrum, accusing Pink of
acting like a child, which prompts Steven to say that he is a child (with a contrastingly pure
and innocent maturity), which permeates her with a blushing pink light, which restores the
 Gems to their natural colors. After she is shown to not be as flawless as she thought she
was, Steven tells her that she can make a change for the better by letting everyone on
Homeworld, including White Diamond, be themselves.
 Depopulation Bomb: She gave the final push to Yellow and Blue's attack on Earth to,
ostensibly, wipe the planet clean of all Gems. But instead this resulted in their corruption.
 Diabolus ex Nihilo: Played with; White Diamond has a defined personality and goal, and
isn't purely antagonistic. She still created a dystopic empire that threatens all other life in the
universe, and we're given little reason why and no idea whatsoever how.
 Dissonant Serenity: She appears quite calm and understanding in the face of seemingly
learning one of her "daughters" staged a rebellion against her empire, faked her own
assassination, hid away under an assumed identity for 6,000 years, and then up and walked
back into her throne room as a half-organic, no less. Almost too calm and understanding.
When she finally loses her temper, it's explosive.
 Does This Remind You of Anything?:
o White Diamond takes pride in the fact that she is white and free of "impurities",
lording it over "colored gems" (including her fellow Diamonds) as something that makes her
superior to them, and is devastated when she discovers that she has a bit of color in her too. It
also does not help that she is the oldest and arguably most stubborn, making her something of
a Racist Grandma for Steven.
o Her idea of making other Gems "perfect" is to take away the color and
personalities that makes a Gem unique, literally taking away their voice and their capacity to
disagree and replacing them with her own voice mindlessly giving her praise for doing a good
job.
 Doting Grandparent: By the time of The Movie, she acts as this role to Steven, along
with Blue and Yellow as his Cool Aunts. All of them beg for him to stay with them on
Homeworld so that they could shower him with affection to the point where Steven (who is
famous for being a Cuddle Bug) finds it too much. White in particular turns up the ham in
order to guilt-trip when he tries getting out of it.
 Drama Queen: She is shown to possess Large Ham tendencies, if her Star-Spangled
Spandex, Anime Hair and perpetual glow did not tip you off. In The Movie, this is Played for
Laughs when she tries guilt-tripping Steven into letting them stay on Earth with him,
punctuating it with literal ground-shaking steps, something she's learned to do since she
won't just mind-control people when she doesn't get her way anymore.
White: But Steven! It's been soooo boring since you've left! [sobs] I guess we'll just waiiiit for you to visit
us wheneeeeever you'reeeee reeeeady~.

 Dramatically Missing the Point: In "Change Your Mind", when Yellow and Blue voice
their grievances towards the system that she had established, White reacts by using her Eye
Beams and assimilating both of them. Later in the episode, she explains how this is her way
of purging people's "flaws" and how she "makes things better", so it is very likely she
actually did hear them and this was her way of "helping".
 The Dreaded: When Yellow finally says her name, all the Crystal Gems (sans Amethyst,
who presumably didn't know who she was) have expressions of shock and fear. Even Yellow
and Blue are scared of her, at least until they find out that she's off-color.
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 Easily Forgiven: Steven, Blue and Yellow don't hold it against her despite everything
she's done to them. However, "Homeworld Bound" show that Steven still has a lot of
 suppressed hatred towards her for all the trauma she put him through, which surfaces when
White allows Steven to control her body.
 Emotion Suppression: She reveals to Steven she's not just white but all of the colors of
the Gem race (or at least that's what she thinks), and has to work especially hard to suppress
the aspects of Pink in her. Hence her Hair-Trigger Temper whenever someone threatens to
cause her embarrassment. When she embarrasses herself, she can't help but blush pink,
revealing she's an off-color.
 The Empress: The highest authority of the Gem Empire, and although formally they're a
council of four, she seems to be far beyond the others in scope, power, and
authority. "Together Alone" demonstrates that all Gemkind must present their best selves to
the Diamonds, but in turn the Diamonds too must present their best selves to White Diamond,
making her the Diamond of all Diamonds.
 Entertainingly Wrong: A very dark example; she believes that "Steven" is just a human
vessel that Pink created to play a new game and improve herself against her "flawed" friends.
Considering that Pink Diamond was once a Spoiled Brat who would engage in numerous
mischievous behaviors to get her "sisters" to pay attention or give her respect, a static
Homeworld Gem could reach that conclusion. Rose Quartz did once believe that dating
humans was a game, as Pearl and Greg recounted... but the difference was that Pink knew
she was flawed and wanted to become a better person than what a Gem form could allow,
and she wanted people to call her out when she made mistakes while respecting her. Thus,
Pearl was able to motivate her to fight for the Earth and form the Crystal Gems, while Greg
told her that she was worth loving despite her flaws. And as Steven realized in "Storm in the
Room", Rose wasn't lying when she said that she was so excited to make Steven and give
birth to him. It wasn't all about using an innocent child for her fun, but inspiring her son to rise
above her flaws and become a better person.
 Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
o Her assumption that Pink/Steven surround themselves with "imperfect" beings to
feel good about themselves is incredibly skewed to say the least.
o She believes she's a perfect, completely flawless entity, and thus her design is
also perfect and flawless. The concept her design needs fixing (which would imply it is flawed) is
a major Berserk Button. As Gemkind is part of her design, the very idea of Character
Development is beyond her ability to understand, and much of her assessment of others fails to
account for it. This is also the reason Gems on Homeworld are expected to be Static
Characters.
 Evil Counterpart:
o To Pink Diamond. Both have problems with empathy, but while Pink is Innocently
Insensitive, White seems to have an extreme Lack of Empathy. Both have a problematic
relationship with Blue and Yellow, but while Pink would constantly feel overruled by them and
the rebellion was basically one huge Calling the Old Woman Out to them, White is feared by
them and they're overruled by her. Both also have a tendency to lie and project the image of
being "perfect" to their followers. Pink assumes the identity of the wise and kindhearted Rose
Quartz in an effort to outgrow her Immortal Immaturity and escape the crushing pressure of her
life on Homeworld, while in White's case she uses the persona of being the perfect Diamond to
justify her actions and demand all of Homeworld to live up to her impossible "perfect"
standards. The key difference is that White Diamond seems to genuinely believe her own lies,
while most evidence in the show seems to suggest that Rose at least felt some genuine
remorse for deceiving her friends. Last but not least, both have Small Role, Big Impact-like
roles in the series, but while Pink is the Big Good, White seems to be the Greater-Scope Villain.
o To Garnet. Both are the leaders of their respective four-member teams, the
tallest with hairstyles that dwarf their heads with personalities that alternate between cold and
aloof and a thunderclap of rage.
o To Steven. She genuinely believes that she is helping other Gems overcome
their flaws, except her idea of "helping" amounts to forcing gems to comply to her impossibly
high standards and brainwashing those who can't live up to them. Her People Puppets ability is
essentially a stronger version of Steven's Demonic Possession power that allows her to control
multiple beings at the same time. Finally, she shares Steven's distaste for physical violence and
greatly prefers Talking the Monster to Death, however instead of trying to help the other person
see her point of view she picks at her enemy's fears and insecurities until their spirits are utterly
broken.
 The Evils of Free Will: When White takes control of Yellow, Blue, Garnet, Amethyst and
Pearl, she remarks that it is only then that they are flawless, the various "flaws" that she used
to describe each of them merely being summaries of their personalities.
 Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are white rather than black, and diamond-shaped like the
other Diamonds'.
 Eye Beams: How she takes control of other Gems.
 The Faceless: Our first glimpse at her personally occurs in a flashback in "Your Mother
and Mine", but all we see are her hand (which is much larger than Yellow or Blue's) and
silhouette. The light that radiates from her gem is so bright it actually obscures most of her
face, save for her eyes and mouth.
 Fantastically Indifferent: Doesn't show much emotion about the fact that Pink started a
rebellion and faked her death, which led to the corruption of thousands of Gems. That said,
she is apparently known for her temper problems.
 Fatal Flaw:
o Her infamous temper turns out to be hers: while she starts off in Sugary Malice,
when she finally encounters something she can't control (that Pink Diamond is truly dead
and never coming back no matter what she does), it devolves into rage before becoming a
temper tantrum. Notably, this flaw being forced into the light is what finally forces her to realize
she's not as perfect as she thinks she is.
o Perfectionism. She holds everyone to an impossible standard that no one is
capable of meeting, at least without serious psychological effects. In the end, even she can't
meet her own standards and has a Villainous BSoD upon realizing she's not as perfect as she
thought she was.
o Pride. White Diamond thinks of herself as a completely flawless, perfect being,
devoid of all impurities. As such, she thinks she can never be wrong. Everything must be as
she commands it, and all dissenters must be turned into her puppets. She lives in a giant
monument to herself, all of Homeworld must worship her and the other Diamonds, and woe
betide someone who thinks she isn't perfect. Notably, it's only after her pride is completely
shattered that she's possible to be reasoned with at all.
o Her belief that other Gems are incapable of change. This is especially true of
Pink Diamond, who she continues to treat like a misbehaving child even after she leads a
planetary rebellion, successfully fakes her own assassination, and created a new form of life in
Steven. When Pink is proven to be truly gone White has an Villainous Breakdown.
 Femme Fatalons: She has long, black fingernails  that are clawed at the tips, as
opposed to the smooth tips of the others.
 Final Boss: After serving as The Ghost for most of the series she finally appears in
season 5 and becomes the main, and final, antagonist of the Diamond Days arc and the last
 obstacle Steven has to overcome to end Homeworld's tyranny and cure the corrupted Gems
on Earth.
 Five Stages of Grief: While Blue and Yellow represent Depression and Anger
respectively, White Diamond displays Denial about Pink Diamond's death. She's correct that
Pink faked her shattering during the war, but wrong that Pink just used a human child as a
vessel for her new form. When she finds out that Pink and Rose are really gone, and no
amount of force will bring "Starlight" back, she doesn't react well.
 Foil:
o Her personality contrasts perfectly with Pink/Rose/Steven; the latter is an
extroverted people-lover, and the former is a shut-in who doesn't even realize that empathy
exists.
o Unlike Yellow, who constantly looks irritated and ready to snap at a moment's
notice, White has enough self-control to act calm and loving even when angry, which makes
the experience of bearing her wrath even more terrifying.
 For Your Own Good: Is so madly delusional about her own perfection, that she
genuinely believes "bleaching" Gems, making them a part of her and removing their "flaws" is
making them "better", because now they're an extension of herself, and thus "perfect". Made
even more clear when she says this line to Pink Steven before attempting to use her
"bleaching" beams on them after they continue to resist her.
White Diamond: I only want you to be yourself!! If you can't do that, I'll do it FOR YOU!!!

 Freudian Slip: The movie has her blurt "lower lifeforms" before Steven reminds her that
it's "equal lifeforms".
 Galactic Conqueror: Is the leader of the Gem Empire. It's implied that her need to spread
her own perceived perfection across the universe is the driving force behind their conquests
in the first place.
 The Ghost: She is conspicuously scarce in both sight and speech, even compared to the
other Diamonds, to the point it's not even clear just what her relationship to them is like. For
multiple seasons, her existence was only implied by her mural and the presence of the white
shape on the Diamond Authority sigils. Even in the Wanted arc, which took place on
Homeworld, she's not even referenced by the other Diamonds, though a structure that
strongly resembles her mural is seen at the end of "The Trial". She then briefly appears in a
flashback in "Your Mother and Mine" (or, more precisely, her silhouette and her arm), but was
still not directly mentioned. Even when Yellow and Blue personally invade Earth with the
intent of awakening the Cluster and getting their revenge, White seemingly still can't be
bothered to even send a representative. She finally makes her physical debut in "Legs From
Here to Homeworld".
 A God Am I: Even when compared to Yellow and Blue, White seems to think highly of
herself. She goes on about how she is a perfect being, and uses basic science about the light
spectrum as a fundamental law of the universe to justify it. Even her method of "perfecting"
Gems is simply draining the color from another gem, imbuing them with her voice and
controlling their minds.
 Got the Whole World in My Hand: Her mural in the moon base depicts her with a large
orb (presumably Homeworld) in her hands.
 Greater-Scope Villain: She is the head of the Diamond Authority, and ruler of Homeworld
and the Gem race as a whole. The placement of her color at the top of both the Era 1 and
Era 2 Homeworld sigils, and the fact that her mural depicts the largest number of claimed
colonies and is the only one displaying Homeworld itself, attests to this. It gets even more
blatant when on Homeworld itself: the largest structure on the planet is her palace/flagship
 which is crafted in her image. Blue and Yellow appear to handle the day-to-day operations of
the Empire while White simply lords over them, not even bothering to inform them when she
senses Pink is alive. "Change Your Mind" conclusively establishes all of Homeworld's misery
goes back to her literal perfect standards, but White herself only appears in full toward the tail
end of the fifth season. In "I Am My Monster" she lampshades this as an admission of guilt.
White Diamond: Everyone knows that all of this is because of me!

Spinel: No, it's me! I tried to wipe his friend's memories so he would die alone on a barren world!

White Diamond: That was because you were angry with Pink! And if Pink hurt you it was because I hurt her,
like I hurt Yellow and Blue and Steven and everyone in the entire universe! This is all my fault!

 Greyscale of Evil: She is entirely monochrome and serves as the Greater-Scope

Villain of the first five seasons. In addition, the chamber she appears in in season 5
is also monochrome, as are the Gems she assimilates and controls. Noticeably, when she's
made to realize she's not perfect, the greyscale breaks as she blushes bright pink. In the
movie, two years later, looking at her closely reveals she now has a slight pink tinge in parts
of her clothing, indicating that she is slowly getting better as a person.
    H-M 

 Hair-Trigger Temper: Her temper is enough to frighten Yellow Diamond. And if Yellow's

comments are to go by, it's not the first time she acted in a rage.
 Hartman Hips: "Change Your Mind" reveals that she has these.
 Heel–Face Turn: After eons of ignorance and deluding herself that she is perfect above
all other life-forms, even her fellow Diamonds, Steven finally manages to get through to her to
realize that she isn't perfect, causing her to have a Villainous Breakdown at first, before
finally realizing how awful she had been to Pink Diamond and the rest of her empire, and
eventually agrees to help cure all the corrupted Gems back on Earth.
o Whether it's a complete turn or just a Hazy Feel Turn is up for debate at the
moment, as she still exhibits a lot of her more troubling traits even post-"reformation". And the
intro to Steven Universe: Future features her both as an ally and a potential enemy. Fully
reformed or not, she's at least willing to try and meet Steven half-way (or whatever she
interprets as being half-way) because she loves him and wants to honor Pink's memory.
o The episode "Homeworld Bound" in the events of Future show that she has pretty
much changed completely for the better. All the Diamonds are actively using their once-
destructive powers for good: Yellow restoring previously shattered Gems, Blue using her
emotion-based powers to spread happiness, and White is helping other Gems regain their self-
worth by allowing them to channel themselves through her by reversing her mind-control
powers, literally lending her voice to gems who used to go unheard. Her dialogue also implies
that her job doesn't include just the Gems on Homeworld, but every Gem, including the ones on
other planets. Unlike the seeming Hazy Feel Turn in the movie where she Wants a Prize for
Basic Decency, she takes genuine pleasure in doing her new job and is exceedingly gracious
when speaking to others. When Steven goes to see her, she has no problem responding to
Steven's needs in what amounts to a therapy session. Even after it takes a terrible turn where
her powers reveal Steven's disturbing vengeful thoughts towards his trauma done by her, she
shows nothing but concern for Steven and a sincere wish to help him.
 High-Heel Power: She wears extremely stylish high heels upon her Feet-First
Introduction, and she asserts her dominance over Steven, or in her mind, Pink Diamond, by
sending him to Pink's room before he can even barely speak. It's a thing that all Gemkind,
especially the bosslike Yellow, fear White Diamond.
  Hikikomori: She spends all her time locked up in her room, to the point where her Pearl
comes to the ball for her under the claim that "White Diamond... has more important things to
attend to".
 Hive Queen: She can control her subjects, even the other Diamonds, like puppets.
 Hoist by Her Own Petard:
o Her ripping out Steven's gemstone causes Pink Steven to appear and knock the
crap out of her.
o She imposes her hatred for off-color Gems on Blue and Yellow Diamond. When
she's revealed to be off-colored herself, Blue and Yellow are disgusted.
 Hufflepuff House: We don't see any of White Diamond's followers except for her Pearl
(who originally belonged to Pink Diamond) and some Faceless Masses from all four courts
in "Legs From Here to Homeworld". In "Your Mother and Mine", she's not among Pink
Diamond's "Diamond allies" called in to fight the Crystal Gems, but is shown to have her own
colonies. These suggest she was only dragged in out of desperation to corrupt all the Gems
on Earth, and otherwise doesn't care about the conflict there (or its aftermath).
 Humanoid Abomination: Everything about her appearance is unsettling and eerie, like
some kind of ethereal statue made of light that has facial features floating around, attached to
nothing. Though she speaks more or less normally, White Diamond shows a bizarre
disconnect with her surroundings and even the people she's supposed to be talking to. Pearl
emphasizes that she's fundamentally different than any other Gem, or even the
other Diamonds. Her confrontation with Steven in "Change Your Mind" takes this further, with
her Assimilator powers on full display — with an added dose of Voice of the Legion — and

her facial features  distorting nightmarishly.

 Hypocritical Humor: When Steven's gem and body are reunited, White Diamond throws
a temper tantrum, accusing Steven/Pink of acting like a child:
Connie: Steven, ohh! Are you back together, are you you?
Steven: Yeah, I'm me. I've always been me.
White Diamond: [pounding the floor in a temper tantrum] No! You are Pink Diamond! That is Pink
Diamond's gem! You do not look like this! You do not sound like this! You are not half-human, you're just...
acting like a child!
Steven: I am a child. What's your excuse?

 Hypocrite:
o Holds everyone up to an impossibly high standard to be completely flawless, but
isn't flawless herself. White is completely oblivious to this fact... until Steven forces her to
realize that she's as flawed as anyone else, and she has a complete Villainous Breakdown as a
result.
o In her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Steven, she says "Pink" chooses to
surround herself with flawed, inferior beings so she can feel like "The best of the worst." All this
after she brainwashed and surrounded herself with Gems whom she continues to deride as
inferior as well, only in her case she justifies it by claiming she's now made them "Perfect".
o When describing the Crystal Gems flaws, White Diamond calls Pearl "obsessed".
Obsessed, however, can be used to describe White, who is indeed obsessed with living up to
 her self-imposed expectations of being the perfect Diamond and has a breakdown when she
realizes she's not.
o She rants about "Pink" trying to deceive herself, yet spent eons deluding herself
into thinking she's flawless and that Pink Diamond is still alive.
 Inferiority Superiority Complex: It is revealed that under all of that A God Am I gravitas
lies a lonely Gem that is only able to keep herself together through her perceived superiority,
unable to handle the fact that she isn't the model of perfection that everyone (including
herself) thinks she is. What makes this especially ironic is that before her mask slips, this is
exactly what she accuses Pink of doing, surrounding herself with imperfect Gems below their
station and encouraging their flaws as a means of making her seem superior to them.
 Inexplicably Awesome: All other Gems, even the Diamonds, are most likely the direct
and indirect creations of White Diamond. How she could do such things or what kind of being
that makes her is not addressed at all.
 Ironic Name: White diamonds symbolize purity and clarity, but White Diamond embodies
madness and corruption. White Diamond is known for her terrifying anger, comes across to
viewers as decidedly off, and participated in a corruption blast that mutated countless Gems.
White diamonds also symbolize love, given that they are traditional components of women's
wedding rings. White Diamond implies herself to be devoid of love or empathy. Of course,
she sees herself as the embodiment of purity and clarity, and perhaps even love (as she sees
"freeing" others from being flawed as being for their own good).
 Irony:
o The head of the Diamond Authority and Homeworld, who strives for perfection in
everything, is actually off-colored herself, and blushes pink (instead of gray or bright white)
whenever feeling self-conscious or embarrassed.
o For all her big show about not needing anyone, she almost immediately reaches
out to Blue and Yellow in her moment of weakness.
 It's All About Me: She views the entirety of the Gem Empire as a direct reflection of
herself and has mandated every Gem live up to her set of standards, which prove impossible
for anyone to actually hold themselves to, including White herself, it turns out. Although only
in extreme cases does she step in and forcibly make a Gem live up to her standards. As it
turns out, White is deluding even herself, as that perfect version of herself she is forcing
everyone to live up to exists only in her own head and is nothing but a toxic fallacy. It's only
when she realizes this that she begin to understand the harm she's done to everyone she
was supposed to nurture and protect.
 It's All My Fault: In "I Am My Monster", everyone starts having a breakdown about how
Steven turned into a monster because of all of them. In White's case, she cites the fact
that everything bad that has ever happened in the series - from creating the Empire's
oppressive system, all the way to Pink defecting and the harm that drove Steven unto this
state - was all because of her.
 Kick the Dog:
o Yellow and Blue's attempt to talk to White results in her mind-controlling them.
o Despite apparently knowing what Steven and Connie have been through
together, White Diamond still views Connie as just Steven's pet.
  Knight of Cerebus: According to  Word of God, she is the ultimate
challenge to the show's "problems can be solved by communicating your feelings" mentality.
That's because she doesn't have any problems other than the belief that she's flawless, and
it's not her feelings that she needs to search, it's her flaws.
 Lack of Empathy: While this is basically Homeworld's hat, White takes this further then
any other Gem, including the other Diamonds. She refers the entire Crystal Gem rebellion
and everything both sides fought for as just a "little game" of Pink's. It's also implied that she
figured out that Pink faked her shattering and was Rose Quartz all along, but never bothered
to tell the obviously still grieving Blue and Yellow. It's implied that this was the result of
perceiving herself as the Ultimate Lifeform and thus all other beings being lesser than herself.
It isn't until Steven forces her to see she's not that she finally starts seeing anyone else
as worth listening to let alone caring about.
 Large and in Charge: She's the Diamond Authority's highest (or at least most senior)
figure, and Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond's hands are only as big as her palm.
 Laser-Guided Karma: After spending millennia ruling everyone in fear and tyranny,
White finally gets what's coming to her when Pink Steven proves to be more powerful than
her and completely demolishes everything she throws at him.
 Lean and Mean: Even more so than the others; she is far thinner than Yellow or Blue.
 Leitmotif: Befitting the leader of the Diamond Authority, her leitmotif is primarily based
around the first, highest synth tone from the Diamonds' collective theme, but it's continuously
overlaid by an atonal, reverberant electronic ambiance that renders it a far more sterile and
unsettling theme than any of the others. It carries over to her Pearl, too, though in her case
the overlay is of a noticeably warmer timbre.
 Light 'em Up: During what very little we see of her in "Your Mother and Mine" during the
Diamonds' attack, the Diamonds show off their abilities as they charge it with
Yellow's electricity, and Blue's emotion-based power, and when White's hand shows up?
Burning bright, white light, and it massively overshadows the abilities of the other two. Her
power is later found to be Mind Control, sucking the color from Gems and putting them under
her direct control and thus free of "flaws".
 Light Is Not Good: She is strongly associated with light and even glows, as well as being
the supreme leader of the Gem Empire. However, like Blue and Yellow, she eventually
makes a Heel–Face Turn and cures Corruption alongside the Crystal Gems.
 Like Parent, Like Child:
o Appearance-wise:
 Yellow Diamond inherited her "helmet"-like sidehair.
 Blue Diamond inherited some of her more feminine features, such as her
eyelashes and Hartman Hips.
 Pink Diamond inherited her five-"point" hair and gemstone shape.
o Personality-wise:
 Yellow Diamond inherited her Hair-Trigger Temper and good leadership
skills.
 Blue Diamond inherited her soft-spoken tendencies and Dissonant
Serenity attitude.
 Pink Diamond inherited her charisma, intelligence, welcoming attitude,
and Adorkable tendencies. These traits would later be passed onto her "grandson", Steven. She
also shares Steven's ability to affect people with their words, but in a much more malicious
manner.
 Living Statue: Much like her Pearl, the only features on White Diamond's body that
appear to move are her eyes and mouth. The rest of her body appears to be frozen in place
in its current crucifixion-like posture. She is also drawn in the same style as the show's static
background to emphasize that immobility. She finally moves in "Change Your Mind".
 Luminescent Blush:
o "Change Your Mind" reveals that she blushes bright pink, making her technically
off-color and underscoring that even she doesn't live up to her own impossibly high standards.
The blush is implied to be literally luminescent, too: the entire previously white room turned pink
as well.
o In the book The Tale of Steven, she visibly blushes upon realizing that she had
been wrong for the whole story, figuratively (the book being a tie-in with "Change Your Mind")
and literally (by having the text upside-down).
 Mad God: She's a Physical God like her fellows and implied to be on another level than
even them... but seems just off and not quite right. She believes her unnatural behavior is a
sign of her perfection, and would like nothing more than to see the rest of the universe like
herself.
 Manipulative Bitch: She tries to convince Steven that the Crystal Gems are simple
crutches to Pink, as they are less perfect than her, making Pink feel better by comparison,
which is untrue in every sense of the word.
 Marionette Master: When the Diamonds and Gems enter White Diamond's chamber, she
turns Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Blue & Yellow Diamond into zombified puppets, removing
their free will and "impurities".
 Marionette Motion: Victims of her power exhibit this at first, including Abnormal Limb

Rotation Range.  It's creepy as hell.

 Mark of Shame: When White blushes pink, Blue and Yellow are visibly disturbed by it,
Yellow commenting that she is "off-color". Whether or not White is just blushing and is
embarrassed by it or if the pink in her cheeks is an actual flaw in her gem, literally making her
an off-color Gem (something she implies earlier) and that she simply has been hiding it all
this time is up for debate.
 Mistaken Identity: Most Homeworld Gems think Steven is Rose Quartz or Pink Diamond,
but White Diamond's view is a bit different. Rather than just thinking Pink has taken a very
different-looking form (again), White knows Steven has a human body and believes himself a
different person. However, White still thinks Pink just stuck herself in that body, took it over,
and deluded herself into thinking she was Steven. This conclusion actually has enough
physical evidence to worry Steven himself, but is disproven when pulling his gemstone out
just makes a full-Gem version of Steven.
 Monster Progenitor: She claims that Pink Diamond is "a part of me, a part I always have
to repress." If the Diamonds truly are aspects of her, that means she indirectly created the
entire Gem race.
  Mundane Utility: After the Movie, she eventually learned how to allow others to possess
her instead of the other way around. By the time Steven meets with her in "Homeworld
Bound", she has since used it as a tool to help the self-worth of other gems in the same vein
as a therapist or self-help guru.
 My God, What Have I Done?: Notably, she does ultimately get to the point she feels
genuine guilt over what she's done and understands every awful thing to happen was
ultimately her fault.
 Mysterious Past: It's implied the other Diamonds are aspects of her, but where exactly
she came from is a complete and utter mystery so far.
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 Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: The Crystal Gem Pearl doing what she was made to do led to her
suggesting to Pink Diamond that she explore the Earth under the guise of a Rose Quartz,
which led to Pink realizing the damage Earth's colonization is doing to the planet, which in
turn led to her leading a rebellion against Homeworld to save Earth, and subsequently faking
her death, as well as the circumstances that followed, including Steven's conception, the
person who would convince White, Blue, and Yellow to turn over a new leaf and end their
tyrannical ways. Absolutely none of this would've happened if White hadn't taken Pink Pearl
from Pink Diamond and given her a replacement Pearl.
 Nice Shoes: To emphasize her ridiculous size, she wears sandals with high heels that
look like marble columns. Rebecca Sugar says that she had spent five hours drawing them.
 Non-Standard Character Design: In "Legs From Here to Homeworld", Pearl explicitly
describes White Diamond as being different from other Gems, even from the other
Diamonds. And when we meet her in person, we see that Pearl wasn't exaggerating as her
appearance alone waves a red flag that there is clearly something off about her. Her body is
mostly obscured by the light emanating from her gem, making it look like her entire body is
made of light (to the point that her head looks almost like it's two-dimensional from some
angles). She also stands completely motionless with her arms outstretched in a crucifixion
pose which, when combined with her dissonant, monotone voice, makes her seem almost
robotic. The only part of her body that makes any movement is her face, making it seem
disconnected from the rest of her body. Moreover, she is drawn in the style of the
show's background art, as if to further emphasize her rigidity and immobility. Her design is
specifically based on the works of American artist Nell Brinkley, while the other three
Diamonds curb influence from three Japanese manga and anime artists (Hirohiko Araki, Leiji
Matsumoto, and Chiho Saito for Yellow, Blue and Pink, respectively). And when
she does start moving in "Change Your Mind", the animation only adds to her unsettling
nature as her face and fingers constantly distort , resulting in some unnerving facial
expressions. She's also the only Gem to have eyebrows at all times (the others only have
them in close-up shots), and the only one at all to have fingernails, giving her a disturbingly
more human-like quality than the other Gems.
 No Social Skills: After her Heel–Face Turn, she has zero social skills and is clearly
completely out of her element interacting with other beings in a social capacity.
 Not Me This Time: Future reveals that while she did turn Pink Pearl into a Meat Puppet,
she had nothing to do with said Pearl's cracked eye and face as was previously implied. Pink
Pearl came damaged that way courtesy of one of Pink Diamond's tantrums.
 Not So Different:
o Her appearing in public as White Pearl brings into mind how Pink Diamond led a
double life as Rose Quartz.
o Like Steven, she has a tendency for Condescending Compassion, and both of
their Character Developments involve them becoming more mature. Steven possessing Lars
in "The New Lars" to make him a better person also mirrors White Diamond's ability to forcefully
remove what she considers to be "imperfections" from other gems and make them into
her puppets.
o Like Pearl, she has an unhealthy obsession with Pink Diamond. Both of them are
also perfectionists who seek to maintain order, both of them have made attempts to rip out
Steven's gemstone (with White Diamond actually pulling it out at one point), and ultimately both
of them accept that Steven is not Pink and come to love him for himself.
o Like Garnet. Design-wise, they are the tallest of their respective teams as well as
their leader, their hair dwarves the rest of their head and their moods swing between calm and
calculated and Unstoppable Rage. They both inspire a level of fear in the rest of their team
(though Garnet is only as hard as she is to inspire strength in the others while in White's case,
it's unambiguously abusive) and have a soft-spot for their youngest (but while Steven and
Garnet are close, Pink, like Yellow and Blue, did everything to avoid White).
o To Spinel; both of them had been waiting in silence for thousands of years for
Pink Diamond's return, only to find out they gave up their physical form to create human life,
even breaking down dramatically upon discovering the truth.
 Not So Omniscient After All: White Diamond somehow has an intimate knowledge of
Steven's life, and that of many others, even if her perspective is very warped. However, she
proves herself flat out wrong about Steven's true nature. Even without his organic body,
Steven's gem takes his form, not Pink Diamond's — because "she's gone".
 Obliviously Evil:
o Sort of. She is the most genuinely malevolent of the Diamonds, but she seems
so obsessed with her own perfection that she genuinely can't comprehend that other beings
matter as much as she does and believes that everything else would be more perfect if her
empire and her subjects did exactly what she said. When she's forced to realize she's as flawed
as anyone else, she more or less completely shuts down and has no idea what to do with
herself.
o White rips the gemstone out of Steven's body because she sincerely thought
each was a separate person. Although in actuality, she was tearing him in half, from her
perspective, she was simply making Pink Diamond stop using Steven as a puppet.
 Oh, Crap!: The moment that Pink Steven appears instead of Pink Diamond after
Steven's gem is removed is the first time White Diamond's expectations are broken down,
leaving her confused. Pink Steven's powerful shout then disrupts her footing, causing a true
moment of this and kick-starting her Villainous Breakdown as her emotions start running
rampant.
 The Older Immortal: Implied. Going by the pre-Rebellion-era murals depicting the
Diamonds surrounded by their colonies, she's conquered the most planets and moons of all
(35 planetoids in total, more than the other Diamonds put together), and if the large planet in
her mural's hands is in fact Homeworld, it might be meant to symbolize she was the first
Gem.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business: How other characters react to her speaks volumes of her
status and power. Yellow Diamond is scared of her temper, and her Pearl denied Yellow's
request to see her without as much a complaint from Yellow.
 Orcus on His Throne: It has been stated that she never leaves her head these days and
couldn't be bothered to attend the first royal ball in a millennium.
 Outliving One's Offspring: Is horrified to discover that her "daughter" Pink truly
is gone and that there's no way to bring her back.
 Parental Favoritism: She is implied to have treated Pink Diamond well in the past, yet
two of her other "daughters", Blue and Yellow Diamond, are afraid of her temper. In a twist of
events, it's Yellow who's scared for Steven when White finds out what Pink did, showing that
she is unaware of White's apparent favoritism of Pink over her. "Familiar" confirms that White
favored Pink over Yellow.
 Parental Neglect: For as much as she qualifies as Pink Diamond's "mother", White
Diamond is notably absent from nearly all scenes with the Authority, including the trial of
Pink's alleged murderer; the other Diamonds themselves never acknowledge her to the point
that when Pink was pleading with her sisters to spare the Earth through long-distance
communication, White doesn't even show up and no mention is made of what she thinks of
Pink's desire. The only time she intervened at all was to help Yellow and Blue unleash the
Corrupting Light on Earth after Pink's alleged shattering. The reason for this deadbeat
behavior has yet to be seen. She reacts to "Pink"'s homecoming in "Legs From Here to
Homeworld" with a mixture of patronization and nonchalance, showing concern for Steven
without actually caring or listening when he tries to speak. Presumably this was how she
treated Pink as well. It is not until she gets a firm reality check and realize that she isn't as
perfect as she thinks she is does she decide to be an active participant with Yellow, Blue and
Steven, and by the time of The Movie, the three of them lay it on thick to Steven just how
much he means to them.
 Parental Obliviousness: Played with. White somehow has a pervasive knowledge of Pink
and Steven's lives, even when they were on Earth, but doesn't understand either's character,
or that they're even two different people.
 Parents Know Their Children: She is Pink's "mother", and instantly recognizes Steven as
her the second he steps into the throne room, despite his gem being covered by his shirt.
Even Blue and Yellow Diamond didn't recognize Steven as Pink until he was able to project
her aura during their fight in "Reunited". "Change Your Mind" implies that she also knew that
Rose Quartz and Pink were the same person. Subverted in that she was wrong and Steven
was never Rose, much to her shock.
 People Puppets: "Change Your Mind" reveals that she can control other Gems and even
speak through them, turning them monochrome in the process. Not even Blue and Yellow are
immune.
 The Perfectionist: Taken to an insane and unhealthy degree. Everything on Homeworld,
or the galactic empire, has to conform to her "perfect" caste system. Everyone has to look
their best for her, constantly. Fusions and Off-Colors enrage her and are punishable by
death. Seeing herself as the Ultimate Life Form, White has now isolated herself away from
other gems, even the other Diamonds, to limit contact with them. In "Change Your Mind" she
elaborates upon this and explains that all Gems, even the other Diamonds, are essentially
inferior copies of her. She has a Villainous Breakdown when she realizes that she isn't
flawless.
 Perpetual Smiler: Surprisingly, she's seen smiling the entirety of her meeting with
Steven, though her smiles aren't sincere until her Heel–Face Turn.
 Personality Powers: White's Signature Move is the ability to assimilate other gems with
her Eye Beams to act as extensions of herself, reflecting her Control Freak tendencies,
her god complex and her inability to comprehend the thoughts and feelings of other
people. Between her Heel–Face Turn in "Change Your Mind" and "Homeworld Bound", she
eventually learned how to use this power in reverse and allows others to possess her
instead, a power that compliments her newly-acquired humility.
  Pet the Dog:
o White Diamond does seem to genuinely want to be a good parent to her
"daughters", despite her perfectionism and reclusive nature straining their relationship, and
gives them a lot of leeway and autonomy, insofar as their actions don't significantly clash with
her agenda:
 The fact that she figured out Pink's scheme at some point, at least to
some extent, and didn't immediately haul her back to Homeworld shows she was willing to let
Pink "get [her rebelliousness] out of her system" and take all the time she wanted to do so. Not
informing Yellow and Blue of the same, while cruel, can probably be attributed to her massive
disconnect with their feelings rather than genuine malice.
 When Steven and the Crystal Gems confront her in her ship, she asks
whether Pink "wants her legs and planet back" in a gentle and seemingly complaisant tone,
although it carries a level of condescension. While White emphasized she wouldn't let Pink leave
Homeworld, she seemed to be willing to give Pink her colony and ship back, much like a parent
offering a fussy toddler a toy to stop their tantrum.
 While her attempt to rip out Steven's gemstone comes off as creepy, she
seems to genuinely want her "daughter" Pink back.
o With regard to lesser, "imperfect" Gems, she at least tries to be nice to the Off-
Colors when Steven introduces her to them. In The Movie, Steven has been trying to get her
out of this mindset much more — insisting on calling others "equal lifeforms" instead of "lower
lifeforms", though how sincere she is in this is up for debate.
o Steven Universe: Future shows how much she and the other Diamonds have
changed, as they've developed new powers that contrast their Signature Moves, with White, in
particular, allowing other Gems to control her instead of her controlling other Gems, allowing
them to help rediscover their self-worth.
 Power Glows: She's the most ancient and powerful of a race of aliens made primarily of
light, and it shows. Her body is so luminous when she appears in person that all of her
features except her lips, eyeliner, eyebrows, and nail polish (which are all black) are
concealed. You can't even see her gem until "Change Your Mind", because it's glowing just
as bright as her skin and hair. Not until she is given a reality check does it stop.
 Psychological Projection:
o White Diamond assumes Pink Diamond is still alive, and Steven's organic body is
just a human child she's used as a Meat Puppet for his whole life. That's something Pink
would never do to any living thing, but White does constantly.
o She also assumes that "Pink" surrounds herself with flawed Gems to make
herself look better, something that describes her rather well.
 Psychopathic Manchild: She may act like she's above everyone else, but when her
attempts at getting Pink Diamond to turn back to her old self fail, she hammers at the floor
like a fussy toddler in contrast to the creepy matriarch she has been portrayed as before.
White Diamond: You are not half-human, you're just... a-acting like a child!
Steven: I am a child; what's your excuse?

 Psychic Powers: Despite remaining in her palace, White has a great knowledge of the
facts (if not the meaning) of Pink/Rose and Steven's lives — up to knowing what the latter
was dreaming. It strongly suggests White Diamond has either clairvoyance or telepathy.
 Pure Is Not Good:
o White diamonds are considered the purest form (technically, colorless diamonds
are, but this is as close as we'll get here) of diamond. White Diamond the character knows this,
 giving her a massive superiority complex toward the other Gems, even with her fellow
Diamonds. This purity possibly came from casting off her emotions into the other Diamonds,
and Steven points out this leaves her devoid of happiness. White pointing out that she consists
of all the various colors of light instead of just a partial spectrum like Blue and Yellow is also a
hint that she's not as devoid of flaws as she believes that she is...
o Power-wise, she can purify other gems and make it possible to restore them from
Corruption. But taken the other way, this also allows her to purify them of their
personality, turning them into another extension of herself.
 Racist Grandma: A dark example; because she is Pink's "mother", Steven is technically
her grandson. She tends to think the Diamonds are above... pretty much any and every being
in the universe, and even then only started treating Yellow, Blue, and Steven as beings equal
to herself recently, and that's not even to mention her zero tolerance for off-colors. This is
apparently something Steven has been working on with her by the time of the movie.
White Diamond: I've been saying "Please" and "Thank You", even to lower lifeforms!
Steven: What did we talk about?
White Diamond: Ugh, equal lifeforms.

 "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lays out a vicious one to Steven in "Change Your
Mind".
White: It's a pity the way you bring out the worst in others. See how you've encouraged their deficiencies? It's
written all over their gems. [about Amethyst] Insecure... [about Garnet] dependent... [about Pearl] obsessed...
Steven: No! No no! Guys! Come on! Snap out of it!
White: Please stop "helping" them! You'll only make things worse. That's what you do. I make things better.
Here... [snaps fingers and starts speaking through Amethyst] "Oh thank you, White Diamond! I feel excellent
now! Oh thank you, how generous of you!" [speaking through Garnet] "Thank you, White Diamond! We feel so
much better now!" [speaking through Pearl] "I feel excellent!" There we are! I've removed their flaws! Now
there is nothing to hinder my white light from sparkling through them! I'd rather not spread my uninhibited self
so thin, you know, but you've made it absolutely necessary. Now all the impurities you've encouraged in them
are gone! Now they are brilliant! Now they are perfect! Now, they are ME!
Steven: You're wrong! [White gives him a Death Glare] Please, just listen to me! My friends don't need to be
fixed! They're fine the way they are! Flaws and all!
White: There you go again. Do you understand why you defend their flaws? I know why, Pink. [speaks through
ALL of Steven's friends] You LIKE surrounding yourself with inferior Gems!
Steven: What!?
White: You enable their terrible behavior, so you can be the best of the worst!
Steven: That's not true! [losing steam] And even if it is... even if it was...you're talking about my mom! You're
not talking about me!
[White, the Crystal Gems, White Pearl, and the Diamonds all start cackling like madmen]
White: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOUR "MOM"? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 Red Herring:
o Despite the abusive air around her suggesting that she cracked Pink Pearl's eye,
"Volleyball" reveals that it was Pink Diamond herself who damaged her Pearl in a fit of rage.
o The opening of Future shows an enraged, pink-shaded version of White among
the villains. It turns out that's her being controlled by Steven.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to the other three Diamonds' red, being much more
reserved and antisocial than them.
    S-Y 

 Shadow Archetype: To Pink Diamond. Both are very feminine Chessmasters who play

millennia-long games with each other, to the point that White assumes that Pink Faking the
 Dead and staging a rebellion was just her latest "game" with her. Both also tend to be
insensitive and dismissive of other gems, but while Pink is Innocently Insensitive, White's
condescension is both intentional and from a genuine belief she is perfect. Even their gems
are perfect mirrors to one another — White's gem is the exact same shape and cut as Pink's
gem, only facing in the opposite direction. White Diamond even acknowledges this
in "Change Your Mind", White describing Pink as a "flaw" that she has to suppress, how Pink
"corrupts" as she herself "perfects", and then realizing that she herself has a flaw when she
blushes pink.
 Shadow Dictator: She's the highest authority in an intergalactic empire, but seemingly
secludes herself in a single room and only lets people in when completely necessary. Even
the other Diamonds barely ever see her, and her Pearl leaves her ship as soon as she brings
Steven to White Diamond.
 She's Got Legs: On top of the Nice Shoes she's wearing, White has long, and slender
legs and her dress has slits up to her thighs. They are even pointed out in her debut
episode's title, "Legs From Here to Homeworld".
 Shoulders of Doom: Her mural depicts her with these. "Your Mother and Mine" implies it
may be part of a cape she wears similar to Jasper's cape. Her shoulders aren't as large when
she actually appears.
 The Shut-In: "Legs From Here to Homeworld" reveals that she hasn't left Homeworld
in eons. How she apparently still manages to have more colonies than the other Diamonds is
a mystery, although she most likely just stopped colonizing planets at some point. Either way,
she finally leaves Homeworld at the end of "Change Your Mind".
 Significant Double Casting: She shares a voice actor with her Pearl, making Christine
Ebersole the only actor on the show to voice two different types of gems, and White Pearl
thus far the only Pearl not voiced by Deedee Magno-Hall. This is because she's using her as
a puppet, and the same ends up applying when she controls others.
 Skull for a Head: The way her hair shapes her head mixed with the prominent
cheekbones some perspectives give her makes her head look like it is shaped like a skull.
 Soft-Spoken Sadist: She took Pink Pearl from Pink Diamond because they got too
familiar — and then used her mind control powers on said Pearl, turning her into White Pearl
and leaving her nothing but an Empty Shell for White to use as her Meat Puppet; the other
Diamonds either poof or shatter lower Gems that displease them, so this makes White
especially cruel. And given who White is, she probably didn't see it as any different as
confiscating a toy from Pink.
 Spiky Hair: Her murals are identifiable in part by her unmistakable flower-like hairstyle.
Her actual hair is somehow even more pointy than the murals depict.
 Star-Spangled Spandex: She wears a cape patterned with white diamonds on a black-
and-grey background which resembles a night sky.
 Sugary Malice: In "Change Your Mind", one of her lines is: "Now Starlight, this has gone
on long enough" and making it clear that she is absolutely furious at Steven, though you
wouldn't know that by her voice. This line she says right before she "bleaches" Amethyst as
punishment for calling what she's saying nonsense is also absolutely dripping with venom.
White Diamond: Oh! Hello there! Your new friends are so funny. Is that what they're supposed to be? Funny?

 Tautological Templar: White Diamond's entire worldview turns out to be based around
the idea that she is a perfect and flawless being, which means that she knows best and
justifies her enforcement of a caste system that ultimately just makes everyone miserable,
and even her taking control of other Gems to remove what she sees as their flaws. It's only
when she realizes that she isn't perfect that Steven is able to reason with her.
 Third-Person Person: When she speaks through White Pearl, she refers to herself as if
they were distinct entities.
 Time Abyss: She is truly an ancient being, this attribute together with her insane powers
makes her Fantastically Indifferent to other Gems, even other Diamonds.
 Time Dissonance: Up to Eleven. She refers to Pink's Faking the Dead and the
consequences that followed as her game, and it's likely that to her, bubbling the other
Diamonds for the next few millennia is equivalent to grounding them (especially since there
are pink bubbles in Pink Diamond's room, and Yellow implies that it has been done to her
before).
 Top God: Blue and Yellow fear her authority, or at least her temper. Pearl explicitly
states that she's different from all other Gems, even her fellow Diamonds.
 Transformation of the Possessed: White Diamond using her powers to control other
gems make them turn monochrome like her and speak in her voice.
 Troll: While masquerading as White Pearl, she puts on a big show about White Diamond
being about to show up, including a spotlight and drum-roll, only to immediately say she isn't
coming and dash everyone's hopes, seemingly just to be a jerk.
 Ultimate Lifeform: While all the Diamonds are seen as this, Yellow and Blue seem to be
aware it's only a façade, while White genuinely believes she's a perfect, completely flawless
entity and thus all other beings are only worth anything if she is controlling them. This also
means that she's impossible to reason with due to her believing no one else is worth listening
to at all. It's only when Steven shows her she's not as perfect as she believes she is that it's
possible to reason with her at all.
 The Unfettered: While Blue and Yellow can appreciate the heavy casualties from the
Gem civil war (at least as a loss of resources), White describes Pink Faking the Dead and
starting a civil war with heavy casualties on both sides as her playing a "game". She even
uses the same tone of voice that a parent might if their teenager took the family car for a
joyride.
 The Unfought: The most direct harm done to her is when Pink Steven knocks her off her
balance with his primal scream of "She's GOOOOOOOOONE!" and bringing her to her knees
by reflecting her control beams back at her. Otherwise she fights through proxies like the
Diamond mecha and mind controlled Pearl and is only actually defeated though talking and
non-violent action.
 Unseen No More: White Diamond is alluded to in various Homeworld iconography, from
murals depicting her likeness to the appearance of the color white on the Diamond
Authority's Era 1 and Era 2 symbols. It is not until her debut episode "Legs From Here to
Homeworld" is she ever even mentioned by name five seasons in.
 Used to Be More Social: She used to attend Pink's balls to celebrate the Diamonds'
conquests, even playing games, but all of that stopped when Pink went to manage her own
colony. Not speaking to Blue or Yellow, she has effectively isolated herself away from
everyone else in her ship, though this is usually a good thing due to her Hair-Trigger Temper.
By the end of the fifth season, she's on her way to "coming out of her head" and interacting
with others again.
 Villain Forgot to Level Grind: White Diamond believes she's a completely perfect being,
and thus remains a Static Character, and encourages the entire Gem Empire to do the same.
According to Rebecca Sugar in the Steven Universe Podcast, this was ultimately the reason
Pink Steven outclassed her: while White remained the same and has never meaningfully
changed at all, Steven has had to grow and earn his power, "nurturing" it and resulting in its
full untapped power having gone from the weakest of the Diamonds to being able to
outmatch White herself.
  Villainous Breakdown: When she's forced to face the fact that Steven really isn't Pink,
she has a complete breakdown, which only worsens when she realizes she did so and thus is
flawed.
 Villainous BSoD: After discovering she's flawed, she just kind of... shuts down,
questioning literally everything, and finally being able to be talked down.
 Voice of the Legion: She's able to speak directly through the Gems she controls, no
matter how many there are. This is demonstrated by her Pearl, and the climax of "Change
Your Mind" has her doing this through five other characters. Normally she speaks through
them one at a time, except at a key point when she laughs.
 Walking Spoiler: Although her existence had been implied for a while, she isn't even
mentioned by name until "Legs From Here to Homeworld". Once she appears in person, she
implies she may have known about Pink Diamond's Secret Identity all along, and sends
Steven off to Pink's chambers in a cliffhanger ending.
 Well-Intentioned Extremist: Due to her genuine belief that she's flawless and better
amongst all other life forms, even her fellow Diamonds, White Diamond honestly thinks that
everything would be better if her empire and her subjects did exactly what she said.
 We Used to Be Friends: As stated by Blue, White was once close to her fellow
Diamonds, frequently playing games with them and attending Pink's balls. However, after
Pink's alleged shattering, White secluded herself in her own ship and never personally
interacted with Yellow and Blue for six millennia. It's not until the climax of "Change Your
Mind" that White finally makes amends with Blue and Yellow, but she can never truly
apologize to Pink for what she had done.
 When She Smiles: One of Pink's drawings in "Familiar" depicts her with a genuinely
happy smile. She gives a small but sincere smile at the very end of "Change Your Mind", and
it's adorable.
o The Movie has gone even further with the beauty of White's genuine smile,
especially when she and the other Diamonds invite Spinel to live with them on Homeworld.
Compare her expression when she and the other Diamonds sing the first line of their "Let Us
Adore You" reprise to her expression in her debut appearance, it's hard to believe these two
are the same character.
o Future continues this, showing that White is clearly enjoying the help she's giving
to other Gems.
 White Hair, Black Heart: Naturally has white hair, and is the most twisted of the
Diamonds.
 Willing Channeler: In Era 3 she discovers that by reversing her powers she can allow
other gems to control her, literally lending her voice to gems who used to go unheard.
 The Worf Effect: Not even the supreme leader of the Gem race could lay a finger on Pink
Steven.
 You Are What You Hate: Everything she throws at Steven during her "The Reason You
Suck" Speech, how "Pink" deludes herself, hides her face, makes things worse, surrounds
herself with Gems with flaws that make her look better, is perfectly applicable to White
herself.

Jasper
Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks

"Fighting is my life! It's what I was made for!"

A warrior from the Gem Homeworld who fought against Rose Quartz's army more than
5,750 years ago. She returns to Earth as Peridot's escort.
See her page for tropes regarding Jasper.
    Yellow Diamond's Pearl 

Yellow Diamond's Pearl / Yellow Pearl

 Voiced by: Deedee Magno-Hall

"All rise for the luminous Yellow Diamond!"

A Pearl owned by Yellow Diamond who serves as her secretary.

 All There in the Script: Called "Yellow Pearl" in the credits.

 Arc Symbol: As with Jasper and Peridot, she has a Diamond on her uniform.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
o Unlike the Crystal Gem Pearl, her nose is consistently inclined upward, so
she's always sticking her nose up at everyone.
o Her head is shaped like an onion, an edible bulb that's infamous for making
people cry. When Blue Diamond breaks down over "Rose Quartz" not remembering the
weapon that killed Pink Diamond and Emotion Bombs everyone, Yellow Pearl's crying more
intensely than anyone else in the room.
 Because You Were Nice to Me: Though he trolls her at first, Steven treats Yellow Pearl
kindly, and she notices. Despite her stern nature, she seems genuinely concerned for Pink
Diamond's well-being when explaining the party rules and the importance of not angering the
Diamonds. When he asks her what she likes to do, it takes a few minutes for her to mellow
after seeing a flattering image that Blue Pearl did of her, and she actually laughs while
posing.
  The Bore: Apparently, she has no concept of fun whatsoever, even pronouncing the
word with difficulty like it's a completely foreign term.
Yellow Pearl: What is... "fu-un"?

 Character Development: Like Blue Pearl, she goes from an obedient servant of her
Diamond to an independant Gem who pursues her own hobbies, such as being a broadcaster
and a model, the latter of which she does on Earth, the same planet her (now former)
Diamond has vowed to destroy for millennia.
 Color-Coded for Your Convenience: She is yellow, befitting her owner.
 The Comically Serious: Her stern, no-nonsense attitude combined with her lack of
knowledge of Earth customs become a source of hilarity in the "Diamond Days" arc.
o In "Familiar", she calls Steven "Pink Steven", "Just Steven", and "Pink Lasagna".
o In "Together Alone", she replies to Amethyst's remark about the Era 3
Homeworld Ball being "dry" that liquids are forbidden.
 Deadpan Snarker: By the time of The Movie, she seems to have developed some
shade, making a snarky comment under her breath at White Diamond's expense.
White Diamond: Cut the feed.
Yellow Pearl: Your time is up, anyway. [Blue Pearl snorts]

 Defrosting Ice Queen: She actually loosens up when Steven asks what she likes doing
for fun, and she sees the drawing that Blue Pearl did of her.
 Everyone Has Standards:
o She looks horrified and stops typing when Defense Zircon asks why Pink Pearl
wasn't around to warn her Diamond of Rose Quartz's ambush.
o When instructing "Pink Diamond" on the party rules, she seems very concerned
for Pink's well-being in not angering the Diamonds. It isn't just that the Diamonds tend to lash
out at anyone in the vicinity and Yellow Pearl fears her Diamond's temper; she tells "Pink" that
angering the Diamonds will hurt Pink as well.
 Exact Words: In "Familiar", she calls Steven "Pink Steven" and "Just Steven" because
he told her to. Then he catches on, and jokingly tells her to call him "Lasagna", which she
does.
 Foil:
o To the Crystal Gem's Pearl: A shrill, egotistical, primped up secretary - in contrast
to the self-conscious, multi-talented warrior that we're familiar with.
o To Blue Pearl as well, who appears to have neither the voice nor the autonomy
of Yellow Pearl.
 Girl Friday: Pearls are just meant to stand around, looking pretty, but Yellow Diamond's
Pearl also serves her as a secretary, screening Yellow Diamond's calls.
 Hammy Herald: Part of her job seems to be acting as Yellow's herald during public
appearances. She does so by proudly and theatrically announcing her Diamond, normally
with an over the top The Magnificent title attached.
 Happiness in Slavery: She seems very self-satisfied with being Yellow Diamond's
lapdog, and even tries to show up Blue Diamond's Pearl. Her condescending attitude toward
Peridot and joy at Yellow Diamond talking her down suggests she takes pride in working
closely with her Diamond, even if she's just a glorified secretary. Ultimately, however, she
isn't too upset about no longer serving Yellow Diamond as a result of the new Era 3 rules.
 Hidden Depths:
o Unlike the other characters affected by Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb during
"The Trial", who at most only shed a Single Tear, Yellow Pearl went full waterworks not unlike
how Steven would when he was affected, implying there may be quite a bit of empathy
underneath her smug exterior.
o She turns out to be a surprisingly good singer in "That Will Be All", when Yellow
Diamond asks her to sing a song to cheer up Blue Diamond. Having the same voice as the
Crystal Gem Pearl likely helps.
o "Jungle Moon" shows she enjoys photography, or at least posing for photos, as
there is a surreptitious selfie of her and Yellow Diamond together stored in the databanks of the
jungle moon base among the relevant files.
o In "Together Alone" she's shown to enjoy modelling after seeing Blue Pearl's
sketch of her from "The Trial" and asks her to do another couple of sides while posing.
o By the time of The Movie she appears to be operating the gem equivalent of a
TV station with Blue Pearl, implying some significant technical aptitude.
 Jerkass: According to Peridot, a Pearl's job is to simply stand around and serve her
owner dutifully. However, this Pearl is obnoxiously arrogant and pompous (in stark contrast to
Blue Diamond's Pearl, who is quiet and demure). She even smirks and glares at Peridot
while Yellow Diamond is speaking. Working directly under Yellow Diamond, one of
Homeworld's rulers, seems to be the cause of this attitude.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She does show a nicer side to people she's more familiar with.
 Leotard of Power: A yellow one, as befitting her color scheme and name.
 Light Is Not Good: She is colored bright yellow, and a stuck-up jerk.
 Morality Pet: She's the only gem other than Blue Diamond that Yellow Diamond is at
least "kind" to, in her own way. She was allowed to speak to Yellow Diamond in an annoyed
tone when Peridot calls the private line (though her tone wasn't directed at her), and spoken
to without any irritability. In "That Will Be All", Yellow Diamond asks her to sing a song for
Blue Diamond in a tone that wasn't commanding as expected, but indicated that cheering up
Blue was urgent.
 Ms. Fanservice: Her skimpy outfit consists of a low-cut leotard, shoulder frills and knee-
high tights. Justified in that Pearls are supposed to stand around looking pretty, and on top of
it, Yellow Pearl takes calls for Yellow Diamond.
 Narcissist: Her slavish loyalty seems only second to her own ego. Yellow Pearl
complains about Blue Pearl making supposedly-classified drawings as a hobby until she finds
one of herself, at which points she decides to become Blue Pearl's model.
 Not So Above It All: In "Together Alone", while she comes across as the more serious-
minded, fun-hating one, when Steven is planning for Pink Diamond's Era Three ball, Blue
Pearl reveals that she draws sketches, and while Yellow Pearl objects at first, she shows
admiration for Blue's sketching talent, and urges Blue to draw Yellow while posing in a
different angle.
 Not So Similar: Being the same type of Gem, Yellow Diamond's Pearl and the Crystal
Gem Pearl have some obvious similarities, but this one is clearly all snob, no class.
 Obstructive Bureaucrat: She refuses to let Peridot speak with Yellow Diamond (due to
her not having clearance to use the communication beacon), and nearly cuts her off before
Yellow Diamond steps in.
 Pet the Dog: She remarks that Blue Pearl's drawing of her is "Not Bad" and appears
concerned when Yellow Diamond prepares to reprimand Stevonnie.
 Pimped-Out Dress: Her outfit is fairly fancy, even having some fringe.
 Punch-Clock Villain: Implied; while she is a stick in the mud and stern about following
rules, she's only doing what she was meant to do.
 Really 700 Years Old: She's shown to have been made quite a while before Earth was
set to become a colony, if the picture of her with Yellow Diamond in "Jungle Moon" is
anything to go by.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Blue Pearl's... Blue. She's loud, sassy, and smug in
stark contrast to Blue Pearl's quiet, composed passiveness.
 Sadist: It soon becomes clear that she enjoys watching other Gems squirm.
 Sassy Secretary: Her voice (differentiated from that of the Pearl we know by being much
more nasal) and attitude, combined with the fact that she answers the communicator for
Yellow Diamond, brings this image to mind.
 Slapstick Knows No Gender: In a flashback from "Change Your Mind", Blue Diamond
mentions that she and other Homeworld Pearls got chased down the halls by caterpillar-like
alien creatures Pink Diamond brought to a ball.
 Smug Smiler: Her first appearance in "Message Received" included her looking down on
Peridot during the latter's chat with Yellow Diamond, with a very condescending grin on her
face.
 Smug Snake: She's extremely smug and self-important, somehow making Peridot look
humble by comparison.
 Took a Level in Kindness: She is much more polite to Steven when he's revealed to be
Pink Diamond, who manages to coax a laugh out of her when she reveals she likes modeling
for Blue Pearl.
 Uncatty Resemblance: Like Yellow Diamond, she has a yellow coloration, pointy hair,
and prominent shoulderpads (although hers are ruffles).
 Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Yellow Diamond has a stern gravity about her (most of
the time). Yellow Pearl is just comically smug by comparison.
 Zettai Ryouiki: She has Grade B with her leotard and knee-high tights.

Yellow Diamond's Ruby Squad

    In General 

The Ruby Squad

Voiced by: Charlyne Yi

Amethyst: Man. Rubies are dumb.

A squad of five Rubies who come to Earth pursuing the leader of the failed Earth
mission. Unlike the last group of Rubies, they have a variety of appearances and
personalities. Their Gems are, respectively, on the chest (Doc), stomach (Navy), left
shoulder (Army), left thigh (Leggy), and in place of the left eye (Eyeball).
 TROPES APPLYING TO ALL
 Adorable Evil Minions: All of them fit this trope to a T, even though it's really a bit of a
stretch to actually call any of them 'evil' except for Eyeball and possibly Navy.
 Affably Evil:
o Evilness being a stretch aside, they're still invading aliens from Homeworld. That
said, they willingly go with the Baseball challenge, might've just left if Ruby and Sapphire didn't
fuse into Garnet, and are rather cordial when the Crystal Gems lie to them about Jasper being
on Neptune (with Eyeball even thanking Steven for the tip).
o Sadly Eyeball at least proves that it's unwise to push them, Steven's attempts to
befriend her in "Bubbled" resulting in her pulling a knife on him and forcing Steven to eject her
into space.
o Navy keeps a friendly smile while trying to throw Steven, Lapis and Peridot out of
the Roaming Eye.
 All There in the Script: The crew gave them all nicknames, which can only be seen in the
credits. In a concept drawing that didn't make the episode , Steven would've given the group
their nicknames. They do end up being given these nicknames when they return in "Back to
the Moon".
 Anime Hair: They all have square afros, which seems to be a trait of Rubies in general.
 Arc Symbol: Unlike the Ruby Guards, they wear yellow diamonds (or yellow triangles in
the cases of Doc and Navy). However, they don't notice that Crystal Gem Ruby doesn't have
one.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Like everyone else, the placement of their gems
reflects their personality.
 Beware the Silly Ones: Incompetent they may be, but when angered they are a force to
be reckoned with. This is especially true of Eyeball, who turns out to be completely unhinged.
o Navy is also a nasty piece of work, she tricked Steven into thinking she wanted to
defect but she only wanted to get her old spaceship back - and see the look on Steven's face
when he realizes he's been tricked. Disturbingly she maintains her sweet personality even
after The Reveal.
 Body Motifs: All of them have gem locations related to personality.
o Doc's gem is on her chest. She is wholeheartedly dedicated to her job as leader.
o Eyeball, who has her gem in place of an eye, is the Ruby most focused on the
mission. She keeps her eyes on the prize and is blind to how those actions might have
consequences. She's also a key eyewitness to Rose shattering Pink Diamond.
o Army has her gem on her arm, and she's very combative. She strong-arms
people.
o Navy has her gem on her navel, and she has a similar calm and friendly
personality as Steven and Rose, whose gems are in the same location. Except for her Soft-
Spoken Sadist tendencies.
o Leggy has her gem on her thigh, and is quite unsure. Having wobbly knees is
often a metaphor for being unsure or scared.
 Conservation of Ninjutsu: When acting as a team the Rubies are a bunch of incompetent
screwups, and so painfully stupid none of them notice another Ruby appearing out of
nowhere and awkwardly pretending to be part of their squad. But as both "Bubbled" and
"Room for Ruby" demonstrate for Eyeball and Navy respectively, they're far more formidable
and dangerous when operating alone.
  Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: For all their flaws, they are incredibly powerful for
such little gems, and both episodes we've seen featuring one of the squad on their own have
had them display a much greater level of competence than they have with the rest of the
group.
 The Ditz: All of them. Our Ruby infiltrates the squad, and they don't notice a sixth
member because Doc forgets to count herself. And when they leave, they seem to forget that
what they believed to be one of their own had just fused with another Gem because this time
when Doc does a headcount, she remembers to count herself. Then, in "Back to the Moon",
they readily believe that Earth's sun is capable of "tanning" a Jasper until she appears
curiously similar to an Amethyst.
o Averted for Navy, who turns to be clever enough to trick Steven and recover the
Roaming Eye.
 Dumb Muscle: For all their incompetence, they're still very strong. During the baseball
game, they hit the ball so hard as to send it miles away or break the bat.
 Equal-Opportunity Evil: While every other Homeworld Gem has shown contempt and
disgust toward other forms of life, the Ruby Squad are perfectly amiable to (what they think
are) humans and culturally sensitive to the point of absurdity. They were told to check a barn
only after beating its residents at a game of baseball, and leave the planet forever if they
lose. This supposedly being a "human thing" is sufficient reason for them to agree to such
terms.
 Failed a Spot Check: They managed to miss the barn and Crystal Gem Ruby sneaking
up across an open space. They also don't notice that Crystal Gem Ruby is not wearing a
Homeworld uniform as well as how incredibly nervous she looks, or that there is an extra Ruby
in their midst. Later, they don't notice Ruby and Sapphire flirting shamelessly with each other
during the entirety of the baseball game, though Eyeball appears suspicious when Ruby
helps Sapphire practice batting. In "Back to the Moon", they also fail to notice Amethyst's
very obvious gem poking out of her chest.
 Fate Worse than Death: Being thrown into the empty void of space as an immortal being
who doesn't need oxygen with no hope of rescue is anything but pleasant. The Crystal Gems
eventually decide just leaving them floating in space would be too cruel, and so decide
to eventually do something about it, but as of "Room for Ruby", it looks like Navy's likely to
retrieve them. As of "The Trial" Eyeball at least has been returned to Homeworld unharmed,
so it's likely the others were too.
 Fish out of Water: Their understanding of humans is more or less limited to "they exist".
 Five-Man Band: An interesting example as they didn't fit this format from what we see of
them initially.
o The Leader: Doc, the one who gives out orders.
o The Dragon: Eyeball, who's probably the smartest and most dangerous of the
Rubies.
o The Evil Genius: Navy, who proves to be an excellent manipulator.
o The Brute: Army, the most agressive Ruby.
o The Dark Chick: Leggy, the youngest member and very likely the least malicious.
 Harmless Villain: In a stark contrast to the rest of the Homeworld Gems, none of the
Rubies are particularly effective in their job. They don't have a malicious bone in their body,
they act markedly stupider (and a good bit more gullible) than other Gems, and seem to be
absolutely clueless about Earth and humans themselves. Even after realizing they've been
tricked, they still end up defeated not through physical force, but instead a very obvious
lie. This eventually ends up subverted with Eyeball, who's perfectly willing to murder Steven
with a knife if it means taking back Rose Quartz's gem. It later ends up subverted again with
 Navy, who successfully tricks Steven into thinking she wants to join the Crystal Gems only to
gleefully stab him in the back, steal back the Roaming Eye and throw him in the sea.
 Identical Twin ID Tag: They have different costumes, slightly different shades of red skin,
and different Gem placements. Eyeball, Leggy and Army are wearing the Yellow Diamond
uniform, Doc is wearing what are basically suspenders and a visor, and Navy's outfit carefully
bares her gem.
 Ironic Name: Rubies (the real-life gemstone) are said to sharpen the mind and aid in
concentration. These Rubies' minds... are not very sharp at all, and several of them have
trouble concentrating.
 Manchild: They act more like a bunch of overexcited preschoolers than soldiers, and the
Crystal Gems treat them as such.
 Meaningful Name: Except for Doc, all their nicknames are based on where their gems
are located. On top of that, Navy and Army are also names for military branches (appropriate
for members of a warrior caste). Doc is most likely a nod to the Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs character, a.k.a. the de facto but idiotic leader to a group of diminutive people. It's
also an unintentional pun: when the squad fuses, Doc is the middle gem - all the other
Rubies 'dock' with her as the arms, legs and head.
 Minion with an F in Evil: The Ruby Squad are really, really not suited to "fascist thug"
duties. They not only accept a baseball game with stakes incredibly lopsided against them,
most of them (with the obvious exception of Eyeball) come across as relatively friendly dorks,
as opposed to brutish stormtroopers - especially Leggy, who's awkward, cowardly and
forgetful.
 Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Navy and especially Doc's uniforms would be quite risque if
their chests weren't flat and featureless.
 Not-So-Harmless Villain: When properly angered, they fuse into a giant intimidating
Ruby, though they're not any smarter.
o Eyeball and Navy are also proof that they can be dangerous individually when
put in the right circumstances.
 Not So Similar: While they're nearly identical looks-wise, they, unlike the Ruby Guards,
have distinct personalities and uniforms.
 Planet of Steves: Again, each one of them is named Ruby, made even more apparent
during their roll call. They have no problems referring to each other as "Ruby", even if this is
more confusing to them than they realize. For convenience, the staff came up with the names
that are used in the credits, but were cut from the episode and therefore didn't exist in-
universe until "Back to the Moon", when Steven gives them their nicknames. Eyeball takes
offense at Steven referring to her by this nickname, though.
 Punny Name: Army and Navy's names are both military units and referring to their gem
locations (Arm and Navel).
 Quirky Miniboss Squad: And they barely even qualify as minibosses. Interestingly, if
"Bubbled" and "Room for Ruby" have shown anything, at least two of them display a far
higher and extremely unexpected level of competence on their lonesome than they had with
the others, possibly meaning the quirkiness isn't so prevalent once they're separated from the
rest of the squad.
 Super Gullible: Oh, you have no idea how they are:
o About six thousand years ago, Eyeball was tricked by Pink Diamond and her
Pearl into thinking Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond. In her defense, though, it
was very convincing and the other witnesses were fooled as well.
o "Hit the Diamond" is driven by their willingness to accept any statement at face
value, even statements made by someone who couldn't have been acting more unnatural about
it if she tried. The event was eventually solved by telling them that Jasper is on Neptune (an icy
gas giant and somewhere she could not possibly get to, given that she lacked a ship).
o This continues in "Back to the Moon": Amethyst is almost entirely unconvincing
as Jasper, right down to having an exposed gem on her chest and claiming that she's purple
rather than orange because of a tan, and yet somehow they buy it right up until they actually
see that it's Amethyst.
o Ironically, in "Bubbled", Eyeball is so determined not to be fooled again that she
doesn't believe Steven when he's telling her the truth.
 The Southpaw: While hand-dominance never comes up, the three whose gems aren't
centered on their bodies have them on the left side.
 Thrown Out the Airlock: All of them ultimately end up flushed out into deep space when
they're sucked out of the Moon Base's airlock.
o Eyeball gets thrown out a second airlock when Steven jettisons her from his air
bubble.
 Tomboy and Girly Girl: Navy and Leggy are girly girls to the tomboys that make up the
rest of the squad. They even have slightly pinker color schemes.
 Verbal Tic: "Hup, hup, hup!"
 What Happened to the Mouse?: They haven't appeared in Future although Eyeball is no
longer with them. Presumably the others were more accepting of Era 3's changes.
    Doc 

"Doc"

"Focus, Rubies! This is an important mission from Yellow Diamond, so we can't mess it up."

The leader and face of the group. Her gem is on her chest.

 The Leader: Gives all of the orders and tries to look after her squad.
 Odd Name Out: Her nickname is the only one not referring in some way to the
placement of her gem. Since it's on her chest, one assumes Steven wanted to avoid anything
vulgar.
 Only Sane Man: In "Back to the Moon", she's the only Ruby who is both willing and able
to answer the Crystal Gems' questions. Leggy forgets what they're supposed to be doing,
Navy gets performance anxiety, Army tries to attack Garnet on sight and fails miserably, and
Eyeball just glares at them.
 Stripperiffic: Doc wears nothing but suspenders. It's more silly than sexy-looking,
as there's nothing on her chest for this to expose.
 Walking Shirtless Scene: She only has suspenders covering her chest.
    Eyeball 

Ruby-1F4 Cut-4ND ("Eyeball")

"I'm Ruby-1F4 Cut-4ND. I fought in the war for Earth."

A veteran of the Crystal Gem rebellion, and probably the most mission-focused Ruby.
Has all the social skills of a turnip. Her gem is in place of her left eye.

 All of the Other Reindeer: Following the initiation of Era 3, she and Aquamarine were
cast out and forgotten for hating the new "Gem savior". At least, that's what she and
Aquamarine claim.
 And Then What?: Steven points out that even if she did manage to take his gem, she
would still be stranded in space with no way back to Homeworld so she could gain the fame
she desired. Unfortunately, she's too Ax-Crazy to care.
 Avenging the Villain: Tries to kill Steven thinking he is his mother, who killed Pink
Diamond. However, unlike Jasper, she has another, more selfish motive as well.
 Ax-Crazy: Eyeball is revealed to be completely off her rocker in "Bubbled", attempting to
essentaily disembowel Steven by removing his gem and fantasizing about being a legend and
being awarded her own Pearl. Steven even tells her how insane her plan is, stating that even
if she kills him, she has no way to get to Earth or Homeworld. Eyeball doesn't care.
 Bruiser with a Soft Center: Eyeball cries when she see Amethyst-as-Jasper getting too
close to Doc.
 Butt-Monkey: Poor Eyeball is always being tricked by Pink Diamond.
 Cassandra Truth: As it turns out, she was completely correct when she said that
Steven's gem isn't a Rose Quartz. What she didn't realize is that he's actually a Pink Diamond.
 Covert Pervert: Eyeball gets creepily gleeful at the idea of getting her own Pearl.
 Cry Cute: Eyeball in "Back to the Moon" when she sees Jasper (who's really Amethyst in
disguise).
  Depraved Dwarf: Tiny, easily-angered, violent, and at least a little perverse.
 Didn't Think This Through: Gee, Ruby, you really didn't expect your fusion with
Aquamarine to be recognized by Steven and his friends even though your gemstones are
literally on Bluebird Azurite's face?
 Evil Laugh: Eyeball giggles insanely when fantasizing about being awarded her own
Pearl.
 Eyepatch of Power: Eyeball's gem is in her left eye in a manner resembling this trope.
 The Farmer and the Viper: Steven helps heal her cracked Gem and tries reaching out to
her. She pays him back by trying to kill him.
 Final Boss: In a sense, she's the final antagonist in Season 3.
 Glory Seeker: Delights at the prospect of killing Rose('s reincarnation as Steven), since
the Diamonds would handsomely reward her. She could only giggle madly at the notion of
having her own Pearl.
 Hero-Worshipper: Eyeball has a deep admiration for Jasper, another Rebellion veteran,
despite apparently never personally meeting her.
 Hidden Depths: While floating in space alongside Steven, Eyeball shows herself to be
introspective, longing for closure after Pink Diamond's shattering and disappointed with the
dead-ends and trickery she encountered on Earth.
 Irony:
o She prides herself on being a living example of what a homeworld solider should
be... but if she got what she really wanted and pursued a relationship with Jasper, the two of
them would soon become off-color outcasts to their society.
o She wants to poof "Rose" and bring her gem back to Homeworld. First, if
she did tear out Steven's gem, she'd have to face Pink Steven. And even if Eyeball did get his
gemstone to the Diamonds, she'd have been in a boatload of trouble for handing Pink
Diamond's gem to her grieving kin.
o She opposes Homeworld's reforms, yet she willingly engages in fusion with
Aquamarine, despite cross-gem fusion being highly looked down upon prior to Era 3.
o She is a loyal follower of the Diamonds and refers to Pink Diamond's shattering
as a tragedy, yet she has no problem threatening the life of Pink Diamond's love interest Greg
Universe, as well as blackmailing her son, Steven.
 Karma Houdini: Eyeball tries to murder "Rose" after he saves her, but suffers no
consequence but being disliked by other gems in Era 3 for hating Steven.
 Knife Nut: Eyeball's gem weapon is a chisel-like dagger.
 The Lancer: She is much more gruff and serious than the lead Ruby.
 Mask of Sanity: She seems stable when around her fellow Rubies, but when alone with
Steven, she reveals that she's prone to very self-destructive violence.
 Missing Steps Plan: Eyeball decides to attack Steven to take Rose's gem to Homeworld,
even when they were in deep space with no way to get there.
 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Played With. In Homeworld's eyes, taking down Rose
Quartz was seen as an act of heroism, so when Eyeball managed to take down Steven (who
was believed to be Rose by Homeworld), she was celebrated and praised for a time, until Era
3, in which Eyeball is cast out and forgotten for what she did to Steven, whom Homeworld
now loves due to changing the Empire for the better. Needless to say, she doesn't take it
well at all.
 Not-So-Harmless Villain: When not under Doc's command, Eyeball is very violent and
too brash to be reasoned with. Steven nearly learns this the hard way.
 Only Sane Man: Eyeball is a lot smarter and more focused than her teammates. She
turns out to be anything but sane, though.
 Pet the Dog:
o She actually thanks the Crystal Gems after they seemingly give her and the other
Rubies Jasper's location, proving she does have a degree of politeness.
o She doesn't get mad when Leggy continuously grabs her for defense,
despite growling at Steven when he touches her arm.
 Psycho Lesbian: The idea of getting her own Pearl leaves her a little... excited.
 Psychopathic Womanchild: All the Rubies act childish, but Eyeball does so in a very
negative way. She's impulsive, violent, stubborn, and gets so overcome with glee over the
idea of getting famous for killing Rose/Steven that she immediately tries to do it even if that
would cause her to lose her one chance of survival.
 Redemption Rejection: Along with Aquamarine, she refuses to redeem herself when she
and Steven meet again in "Bluebird", and for the first time in the series, Steven is forced to
accept her as someone he can't change.
 Right for the Wrong Reasons: She refused to believe Steven's gemstone is a Rose
Quartz gem out of pure distrust. Several major revelations later, it turns out she was
technically right.
 Shell-Shocked Veteran: Eyeball fought in the original war for Earth, and is the quietest
and angriest of the group.
 The Smart Guy: It's heavily implied that Eyeball is the smart girl among them. She's
aware of Ruby and Sapphire's continuous displays of flirting. "Back to the Moon" reveals that,
while still somewhat ditzy, Eyeball is a veteran of the Gem War, hero worships Jasper, and
was present when Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond, so she's been alive longer than the
rest of her squad, at least.
 Sociopathic Soldier: It becomes apparent that Eyeball is not sane in "Bubbled", to the
point of fully intending to stab Steven to death, even if it would leave her alone in the void of
space for eternity with no way to actually benefit from it.
 Sore Loser: After losing the baseball game, Eyeball lets her growl and death glare do the
talking, though this is likely just her anger at being tricked.
 Taking You with Me: Eyeball pulls Steven along with her in "Back to the Moon" after he
throws them out of the airlock.
 Thousand-Yard Stare: Eyeball is bug-eyed with a bag and diluted pupil, an early
indicator that she has been through more than any of her fellow Rubies.
 Too Dumb to Live: As Steven points out, even if Eyeball does take his Gem, what then?
She'd still be stuck in space. She doesn't care.
 Ungrateful Bastard: What does Eyeball do to repay Steven for fixing her gem? She tries
to murder him, even though she thought he was his mother. Even when she returns in "The
Trial", she has nothing but contempt for him.
 Unwitting Pawn: Eyeball was the most prominent eyewitness... to Pink Diamond Faking
the Dead.
 Villain with Good Publicity: Prior to Era 3, she was praised and celebrated for a time for
helping find "Rose Quartz" and bring her to justice.
 Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Aquamarine bicker a fair bit after they un-fuse in "Bluebird",
only to immediately perk up and fuse back together when they remember how much they
both hate Steven.
 What Happened to the Mouse?: She and Aquamarine run off in "Bluebird", swearing
they'll hate Steven forever, and are never heard from again.
 When She Smiles: She gives off a genuine smile in "Hit the Diamond" while reminiscing
over what happened "last time", and also in "Back to the Moon" when "Jasper" tells her to file
a report for her on Homeworld and "Bluebird" while bonding with Aquamarine over their
shared hatred of Steven.
 Would Hurt a Child: She actually attempts to disembowel Steven in order to rip his Gem
out, though she doesn't know what a child is.
 You Are Number 6: In "Back to the Moon", Eyeball introduces herself as Ruby Facet 1F4
Cut 4ND.
    Army 

"Army"

"RAAAH! I'll tear you limb f- huh?"

An aggressive and hot-blooded Ruby whose gem is on her left bicep.

 The Big Guy: Hot-Blooded and aggressive, constantly trying to pick a fight.

 Big Ol' Unibrow: Army is the only one with a single, thick eyebrow.
 Curb-Stomp Battle: Garnet isn't even fazed by Army's attempt to attack her, and in fact
coos at the little Ruby before she just stuffs the small Gem under her arm.
 Leeroy Jenkins: Tries to charge Garnet (who's over twice her size and surrounded by
allies) alone in "Back to the Moon". It doesn't work out well.
 Perpetual Frowner: Army hardly smiles.
 Sore Loser: Army is the most vocal about losing games.
    Navy 

"Navy"
"What a turn of events!"

A quiet and cheerful Ruby with her gem on her navel.

 Adorkable: Her saying Earth is a lovely planet and displaying Performance Anxiety in

front of the Crystal Gems come across as endearing.
 All of the Other Reindeer: Says that the other Rubies are mean to her, though this was
probably a lie.
 Bare Your Midriff: Navy's gem is on her navel, and her uniform is designed to show it.
 Becoming the Mask: While this doesn't actually happen, Garnet's "Welcome to the
Party!" balloon reveals that she saw a future in which Navy genuinely pulled a Heel–Face
Turn and joined the Crystal Gems.
 Beware the Nice Ones: She is the nicest of the Ruby Squad, but is not above
emotionally manipulating Steven and the others, and brings him along for the betrayal just to
see the look on his face for doing the same thing he did to her and her squad.
 Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: "Room for Ruby" has her pretending to love Earth and
everything on it so she could convince Steven, Peridot, and Lapis to let her drive the
Roaming Eye so she could throw them out and take it. She even admits that she could have
just stolen it as soon as she saw it, but she wanted to see the look on Steven's face when he
was betrayed by his "favorite Ruby".
Navy: I could have done that, but then I would never have gotten to see the look on your face when you were
tricked by your favorite little Ruby!

 Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Navy is usually serenely happy, and she's just as much The
Ditz as all the other Rubies.
 Cute and Psycho: She's happy and upbeat, even when shoving people out of a ship and
describing her delight at them feeling betrayed.
 The Cutie: Navy is serene and friendly. When she wants to take advantage of (and get
back at) the Crystal Gems, she insincerely dials up the cuteness just for the sake of stabbing
them in the back.
  Defeat Equals Friendship: Subverted. She actually takes advantage of Steven's belief
that she'd become his ally after being defeated to backstab him.
 Dissonant Serenity: Claims that getting mad is the only thing she can't do, and even
when stealing the Roaming Eye back and mocking Steven, she maintains her normal tone
and demeanor. She did very briefly look angry after crashing to Earth, so this might have just
been a lie.
 The Dog Bites Back: From her perspective, not only have Steven and the Crystal Gems
lied to her and her crew twice over, but also left them stranded in space for who knows how
long after shoving them out an airlock, stealing their ship, and never doing anything to rescue
them, with the only reason for her meeting them again is because she literally crash-
landed back to Earth. With that in mind, it's not hard to see that yes, she wouldn't have a
problem with betraying them and taking her ship back.
 The Evil Genius: She's revealed to be a great manipulator and is possibly the smartest
Ruby aside from Eyeball.
 The Fake Cutie: Navy intentionally puts on a sweet facade and acts like a Love Freak in
order to manipulate Steven and get others like Lapis and Peridot to underestimate her.
 The Farmer and the Viper: In "Room for Ruby", Steven spends the entire episode
helping Navy get used to life on Earth and welcomes her with open arms, with Peridot and
eventually Lapis joining in... at which point Navy stabs them in the back.
 Faux Affably Evil: She keeps up her affable attitude even when she's saying that the only
reason she didn't steal back their spaceship immediately was because she wanted to see the
looks on their faces when they got betrayed.
 Foil:
o To Peridot. When Peridot first came to Earth she was afraid of it and distrustful of
the Crystal Gems, but she eventually warms up to both over time. In contrast, Navy embraces
the Earth and her new "friends" immediately, but reveals that this was just an act to get back at
the Crystal Gems for tricking her team. Also, in "Message Received", Peridot appears to betray
the Crystal Gems before it's revealed that she was trying to get Yellow Diamond to spare the
Earth because of its resources. Navy instead pretends to defect from Homeworld to steal back
Roaming Eye, at which point she happily betrays Steven and escapes.
o To Pink Diamond. Both are cheery Gems with their gemstones on their navels
and have a penchant for manipulation. But while Pink Diamond is good-hearted and has no
malice in her even when manipulating others, Navy is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is
outright sadistic towards the people she manipulates.
 Genki Girl: Subverted when her cheery, bright disposition is revealed to be a façade for
her manipulative side.
 Graceful Loser: Navy finds joy in everything, so the outcome of the baseball game was
irrelevant to her.
 The Heart: The most serene, peaceful and polite Ruby in the squad. "Room for Ruby"
shows that she definitely has a clever and cunning side to her.
 Heel–Face Mole: Pretended to forsake Homeworld in order to steal the Roaming Eye
back.
 Karma Houdini: Downplayed. While she faces no comeuppance for her betrayal, it's
implied she'll be even more mistreated than she previously was, for not only being a Ruby,
but failing to retrieve Jasper. Also, considering her main motivation was to rescue her friends
from drifting in outer space forever, she arguably didn't have much bad karma in the first
place.
 Like a Duck Takes to Water: Navy appears to adapt to Earth far more quickly than Lapis
did, leading the latter to resent her. Lapis is happy to find out that Navy adapting to Earth so
quickly was a ruse so she could get the Roaming Eye back.
 Manipulative Bitch: Exploits Steven's good nature to get her ship back and
get Revenge on him for tricking her.
 Noblewoman's Laugh: Lets out one at the end of "Room For Ruby."
 Obfuscating Stupidity: Navy keeps up her ditzy behavior to trick Steven into letting her
access to the Roaming Eye, before ejecting him and the others out into the ocean.
 Performance Anxiety: Navy gets stage fright if forced to talk to an audience.
 Perpetual Smiler: She's always happy and smiling.
 Smarter Than You Look: After all her previous appearances as a ditzy Minion with an F
in Evil, Navy reveals she can be quite clever, playing on Steven's good nature to get her ship
back.
 Soft-Spoken Sadist: Even after revealing her true intentions, Navy speaks in the same
airy half-whisper.
 Stripperiffic: Navy has a backless uniform that opens up at the collar. It's more silly than
sexy-looking, as there's nothing on her chest for this to expose.
 Sugary Malice: In "Room for Ruby", she still maintains her sweet personality, even after
it's revealed that she's still on Homeworld's side.
 What Happened to the Mouse?: While we do find out what becomes of Eyeball, we
never really find out where Navy stands in Era Three. Did she come to accept Steven and the
changes he made to Homeworld, or does she still hold a grudge against Steven and remain
an enemy?
    Leggy 

"Leggy"

"Yeah, what ARE we all doing here?"

The newest Ruby on the squad, and still uncertain and nervous. Her gem is on her left
thigh.

 Adorkable: Her Forgetful Jones tendencies and habit of doing a Security Cling on

Eyeball are adorable.
 The Baby of the Bunch: Concept art indicates Leggy was created the day before the
mission. Given her personality, this shows.
 Character Development: Downplayed in "Back to the Moon" compared to "Hit the
Diamond". She's still a guillable Forgetful Jones, but talks a bit more often, shows more
emotion, and is more comfortable with holding the Rubies so they can all fuse.
 The Cutie: With Navy. Leggy is naive and timid.
 Forgetful Jones: Poor Leggy always manages to forget what their mission is.
 Friendly Enemy: Is seen as this by Lapis and Steven. The former briefly smiles at her
and the latter is willing to peacefully talk to her.
 Naïve Newcomer: Awkward, oblivious, and is referred to as a newbie by their leader.
 Out of Focus: Is the only member of the Ruby squad not to make a physical appearance
after "Bubbled".
 Really Was Born Yesterday: Concept art states that Leggy is performing her first
mission, and, if Rebecca wasn't just using the phrase "made yesterday" to highlight her being
a newbie, she really was made the day before and put on a mission a day later.
 Security Cling: Does this twice on Eyeball in "Hit the Diamond".
 Shrinking Violet: Leggy is the shy and insecure member of the Ruby Squad who is timid,
forgetful and fearful, often hiding behind other objects.
 Token Good Teammate: Downplayed but she's the only one of the Squad that isn't
overly antagonistic towards the Crystal Gems, has betrayed them or tried to murder them.
 The Watson: Is the one who asks about Pink Diamond (whose name was revealed by
Jasper in the previous episode), allowing Eyeball to explain who she is for both her and the
fans.

Other Gems
    The Topazes 

The Topazes

"Do you ever miss being fused?"

A silent pair of huge, imposing Homeworld Gems, usually fused together into an even
larger Topaz, that came with Aquamarine to Earth to kidnap humans for the Zoo.

 '50s Hair: Sport a forward facing flat top.

 Anti-Villain: They outright say they find their missions "miserable" and sincerely want to
help Steven and Lars escape, but the thought of being separated and shattered makes them
turn back.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Their gemstones are in the place of their ears
and their club weapons resemble halves of a cotton swab.
 Being Evil Sucks: They outright hate the missions they're forced to do and are clearly
upset about it, but have to pretend everything is fine out of fear of punishment.
 Beware the Quiet Ones: They were ready to fight Aquamarine so that Steven and Lars
could go home.
 Big Guy, Little Guy: Huge Gems (especially when fused) that follow the child-sized
Aquamarine.
 Brawn Hilda: They look incredibly masculine but are referred to with feminine pronouns
and have a woman voice actor, although Gems are technically genderless.
 Bruiser with a Soft Center: Turns out under the stoic facade, their fused form is an
emotional, helpful Gem.
 The Brute: Like Jasper, only there's two of them.
 Caged Inside a Monster: They fuse and refuse to capture whatever is in between them -
in their introduction, the humans that were made priority by Peridot's earlier report.
 Carry a Big Stick: Both of them have a huge club as their Gem Weapon, which when
fused combines into a double-ended one. This makes them somewhat unique as they're the
first Gems in the show to have the exact same weapon.
 Combat Pragmatist: Decided the best course of action when the Crystal Gems began to
attack was to try and block them with the humans they've kidnapped stuck in their body and
was about to crush Jamie's skull in if they didn't comply otherwise.
 Cool Helmet: Both of them sport translucent visors similar to Peridot's, only amber-
colored. When fused, their gems on either side of their heads just happen to complete the
look.
 The Dividual: They're physically identical save gems placed on opposite sides, spend
most of their time fused together, and act in complete unison even when they're not fused.
 The Dreaded: Pearl and Garnet are both shocked when they hear that an Aquamarine
and Topaz have arrived on Earth.
 Dumb Muscle: They're very strong, especially when fused, and Aquamarine sees them
as unintelligent, insulting them to their fused form's face, saying that the mission was so
simple that even she could do it. Their silence makes it hard to gauge if she's right, but they
at least seem unwilling to try much besides what they're directly ordered to do. Ultimately
subverted, as they're no less intelligent than a normal Gem when their fusion actually talks.
 Elite Mook: According to Rebecca on CN Side, Topazes are very high ranking Yellow
Gems.
 Even Evil Has Loved Ones: It's unclear to what degree, but the two of them decidedly
care about one another a great deal, to the point their fusion outright says she doesn't think
either could handle their situation without the support of the other.
 Expy: According to this  podcast, the Topazes are based on Takeo Gōda from My Love
Story!!.
 Final Boss: Of Season 4 alongside Aquamarine.
 Fusion Dance: They spend most of their appearance fused into a single huge Topaz.
They even weaponize the fusion dance to trap people inside their torso. Similar to Garnet, they
genuinely care about each other and fear being separated.
 Giant Mook: Individually the two Topazes, while stronger than the Rubies, don't seem
nearly as strong as Jasper (though she's not a normal Quartz), as Steven and Connie are
able to hold their own with them individually while Jasper took one of Steven's fusions to fight
 effectively. Their fusion form, however, is both huge and powerful enough to overwhelm
them.
 In a Single Bound: Able to jump up high enough to reach the ship that they and
Aquamarine used to get to Earth while it was in the air, which is surprising given her Mighty
Glacier battle style and likely how large their fusion is in terms of mass.
 The Juggernaut: Not even the Crystal Gems could lay a finger on them, and Steven and
Connie could barely fend them off while unfused. Aquamarine on their side only made them
more of a brutal combination.
 Leitmotif: One more disturbing and harsh than Jasper's, as it's nothing but noise.
 Living Emotional Crutch: Comments by their fusion imply that they could not handle the
stress of their job if they did not have each other for support.
 Meaningful Name: Topazes are associated with emotional strength and stability in
relationships. The two Topazes are happiest and strongest when they're together.
 Mighty Glacier: Clearly not as fast as Jasper but they make up for that in their steadfast
offense.
 No Name Given: Their individual designation names are unknown.
 Not So Different: Topaz and Topaz initially seem to just be a living weapon, exactly what
Peridot accused Garnet of being. Turns out that, also like Garnet, being fused together
constantly gave them a strong emotional bond which led to them having sympathy for others.
And like Ruby and Sapphire, they find the idea of being forcibly separated terrifying.
 Not So Stoic: They are moved to tears by Steven and Lars being happy they have each
other's company even in such a perilous situation.
 Punch-Clock Villain: Played with. They don't bear any actual ill-will towards the Crystal
Gems or the Earth, and their fusion is so moved by Lars and Steven's bonding moment that
she tries to help them escape, but they still ruthlessly follow Aquamarine's orders
because they know what could happen to them if they refuse.
 The Quiet One: They remain quiet during mission. This is apparently a coping
mechanism.
 Recurring Extra: Future shows them in the background in various places of Little
Homeworld and Homeworld, enjoying their lives in Era 3.
 Silent Antagonist: When acting as an antagonist, they remain entirely silent.
 Silent Partner: To Aquamarine, who does all the talking when they're on missions.
Aquamarine likes to ask the Topazes rhetorical questions, not expecting a response in return.
 The Stoic: During missions, they are unfailingly stonefaced, be they fighting the Crystal
Gems, getting ready to start executing their captive humans, or listening to Aquamarine's
condescension to others or themselves. However, they are moved to tears when they
overhear Steven and Lars' conversation.
 Suddenly Voiced: To highlight her reveal as Not So Stoic; the first time they speak is
when breaking down in tears upon witnessing Steven and Lars' Friendship Moment.
 Top-Heavy Guy: They have very tiny legs compared to their heavy built.
 Trapped in Villainy: They consider the missions they've been part of to be "horrible", but
keep doing them because they don't see any way out.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: They inadvertently damage an old Gem artifact called a
Harmony Core, setting off the others across the universe and triggering the plot of the
"Harmony" comic mini-series.
 The Voiceless: They've yet to talk on-screen while not fused together, though they do in
a brief appearance in the comics.
 Vocal Dissonance: Giant, imposing gems with a sweet, gentle voice.
 Wake-Up Call Boss: Dual Boss version with Aquamarine. They mark the first time the
Gems have gone up against an Elite Mook and almost effortlessly beats ALL of them,
including Alexandrite.
    Prosecuting Zircon 

Prosecuting Zircon
Voiced by: Amy Sedaris

"As we can see from this specimen, humans are loud, absolutely hideous creatures that serve no purpose
whatsoever. What sort of Gem would turn on her own kind for this? I'll tell you what kind- [points to
Steven] that kind."

A yellownote  Homeworld Gem assigned to prosecute Steven in the case of Rose Quartz

shattering Pink Diamond.

 All There in the Script: "Prosecuting Zircon" is the name the credits use to distinguish her
from the other Zircon.
 The Cameo: She briefly appears in The Movie during Steven's transmission, thankfully
alive and well.
 Classy Cravat: As befitting a lawyer, the Zircon's design includes a cravat pinned in
place with their gems. Hers in particular is styled like the diamond insignia.
 Earn Your Happy Ending: In "Homeworld Bound", she's seen on what amounts as a
campaign poster, not only confirming that she's safe, but she's running for office against the
other Zircon as well!
 Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She genuinely seems completely lost when trying to
explain Rose's motive for defending humans, only able to see them as weird looking, loud,
and without purpose. To the point of seeing the mere fact she would defend such things as a
crime in and of itself.
 Fantastic Racism: Display a large amount of it towards humans, calling them weird
looking, loud and without purpose.
 Foil: Whereas Defense Zircon is nervous, hard at work, and ultimately willing to realize
that one of her leaders have likely used Rose as a scapegoat, Prosecuting Zircon is smug,
doesn't even bother to put any real work into condemning "Rose", and attempts to flatter the
Diamonds to make her case.
 Hate Sink: Like Holly Blue Agate, Prosecuting Zircon is made extra hateable to make the
Diamonds look a smidge better by comparison. In her case, she's haughty, arrogant and
apathetic to the suffering of others—made especially evident by the fact that she doesn't care
at all about the fact that her opponent will be executed if she loses the case.
 Hidden Depths: She, like Lapis, only sheds a Single Tear in the face of Blue
Diamond's Emotion Bomb and seems to be generally unaffected by it, only looking a bit
confused. If the fan theory that "the less you cry, the more you've suffered in the past" in
regards to Blue Diamond's powers is correct, what kinds of things has she been through?
 High-Class Glass: Like her blue counterpart, she wears a monocle. She demonstrates
however that the monocles can produce holographic screens.
 Innocently Insensitive: Despite the Diamonds clearly being distressed and arguing with
each other after Defense Zircon makes a treasonous statement about how a Diamond
must've been behind Pink Diamond's death, then seeing Defense Zircon get poofed during
the quarrel, Prosecuting Zircon thinks it's perfectly fine to ask if she won the case by default.
Of course, Yellow Diamond poofs her too.
 Jerkass Has a Point: Defense Zircon concedes that Prosecuting Zircon has a seemingly
watertight case against "Rose Quartz" by using Lars as material evidence and Eyeball as a
witness.
 Lack of Empathy: She barely sheds any tears at all when Blue Diamond releases her
sadness wavenote  and her response to Defense Zircon getting poofed not even two seconds
ago is to ask if she won the trial without showing any concern for her opponent.
 Light Is Not Good: While not as apparent with the courtroom's lighting making her come
off as having a Sickly Green Glow, Zircon is a bright yellow colored villain similar to the other
yellow court antagonists. Interestingly enough, sketches show that she was designed with a
star motif which up until that point was used for heroes rather than villains.
 Mysterious Past: Given that she, like Lapis, only sheds a Single Tear in the face of Blue
Diamond's Emotion Bomb and seems to be generally unaffected by it, it implies that she
suffered the same amount of emotional pain as a Gem who spent five thousand years
trapped in an inescapable And I Must Scream situation and later months trapped in a fusion
under the ocean.
 Professional Butt-Kisser: Is even more obnoxious than Holly Blue Agate when it comes
to sucking up to the Diamonds. Yellow Diamond tells her to get on with it.
Prosecuting Zircon: My Diamond. My brilliant, opulent, radiant, glimmering—
Yellow Diamond: "My Diamond" will suffice or we'll never get through this.
Prosecuting Zircon: Of course, my Diamond.

 Shout-Out: In episode 10 of the Official Steven Universe Podcast, 

Rebecca Sugar noted that the Zircons' monocles were references to Le Monocle , a pre-
WWII Paris nightclub that catered to lesbians (for women at the time, wearing a monocle was
the equivalent of a modern-day gay pride symbol). Their prominent noses were based
on Jughead Jones.
 Smug Snake: Rubs it in Defense Zircon's face about how hopeless it is to defend "Rose
Quartz" and rests her case after simply stating the known facts, spending the rest of the trial
standing with an apathetic Reverse Armfold or giggling at her opponent's failures. Yellow
Diamond eventually gives her a metaphorical "Shut Up!" when she poofs her after basically
saying "So I won, right?" after Defense Zircon drops a Drama Bomb on their Berserk Button.
 Too Dumb to Live: So the Diamonds are having a private argument and Defense Zircon
was just poofed moments ago for starting it, what does Prosecuting Zircon do? Interrupt and
ask if she won. It earns her a poofing by Yellow Diamond.
    Emerald 

Emerald
Voiced by: Jinkx Monsoon

"It's over! I've got you now, you miserable Off Colors!"

An angry Gem captain hunting the Off Colors after they earned her enmity. Former
owner of the Sun Incinerator.
 Anime Hair: Has a ridiculously big, spiky hairdo that's similar to White Diamond's, but
with three tips rather than five.
 Arch-Enemy: Seems to have become this to the Off Colors, but the exact circumstances
happened offscreen. Though it's highly likely that the Off Colors stealing one of her ships
(and crashing it) then stealing a second ship, the Sun Incinerator, from 67 sentries had a lot

to do with it. According to  Word of God, nearly everyone Lars has messed
with in his adventure answered to Emerald.
 All There in the Manual: Since she's only shown in-series above the waist over video
conference, we only know her full design from production art .
 Big Ol' Unibrow: She either has a unibrow with lightning shaped sides or a sort of head
crest that resembles a unibrow.
 Boring, but Practical: So, Lars and the off colors have escaped with her ship. What does
she do? She just tracks them down using the signal set off by the Sun Incinerator, which her
ship can read from all across the galaxy.
 Butt-Monkey: Has her best spaceship stolen from the heart of Homeworld despite it being
guarded by 67 Citrine guards by a bunch of Off Colors, her attempts to retrieve it are fooled
time and time again, her attempts to intimidate the guy who stole the spaceship are seen
through since she would never hurt it, and to top it all off, said Off Colors not only get to
escape with her spaceship, but force her to retreat. Practically the only good thing that
happens to her is shoot down Stevonnie's spaceship, and even then, this doesn't help her
main goal (get her spaceship back) at all!
 Companion Cube: Her ship, the Sun Incinerator. Lars realizes that she keeps letting the
Off Colors get away with it because she deeply cares about it, describing it as her "best
friend".
 Emerald Power: Emeralds are apparently very high ranking gems in Homeworld's army,
though as she's mostly seen captaining a ship, we haven't seen any personal powers from
her.
 Eyepatch of Power: Like Squaridot and Eyeball, the gemstone in her right eye invokes
an eyepatch. Unlike them, she's much higher in rank, as she has elite Gems under her
command and is extremely high ranking.
 Fatal Flaw: Both wrath and, strangely enough from a Homeworld Gem, sentimentality.
The anger part is obvious, since her anger usually clouds her judgement and makes her lose
a lot of her intimidating attitude, but the sentimentality part comes when talking about the Sun
Incinerator. Because she loves the spaceship that much, she's unwilling to hurt it for the sake
of retrieving it, which the Off Colors have taken advantage of to make her a complete joke.
 General Failure: Emerald is high in the ranks of Homeworld's hierarchy, and generally
does seem to be competent, but her reluctance at directly harming her ship gives the Off
Colors many opportunities to outwit her.
 Hair-Trigger Temper: Judging from what we see in "Lars of the Stars", it doesn't take a
lot to get her riled up and shouting. Specially if it involves Lars or the Off Colors.
 Hidden Depths: For all her anger and bluster, she's scared of damaging the Sun
Incinerator because it's her ship and she loves it.
 Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The Off Colors continually make a fool out of her. Partly

because she's holding back on them because she's scared of damaging  the

Sun Incinerator.
 Ironic Name: Emeralds, in gemology, are known to promise good luck. This Emerald had
her ship stolen from her, and all attempts to reclaim it result in her simply floundering.
 It's Personal: Her rivalry with the Off Colors became personal to her when they stole the
Sun Incinerator from her.
 Know When to Fold 'Em: Once the Star Skipper takes off her warship's weapons,
Emerald retreats right away rather than continue following after the Off Colors.
 No Indoor Voice: She shouts most of her lines out of anger.
 Noodle Incident: Mentions a few that occurred between her and the Off Colors offscreen
between "Lars' Head" and her debut. Most of which ended poorly for her.
 One-Shot Character: Only appears in "Lars of the Stars", though she's later mentioned in
"Jungle Moon" and "Your Mother and Mine".
 Pointy-Haired Boss: Emeralds are supposed to be among the most highest ranked
Gems in the Gem Homeworld Hierarchy. This Emerald is regularly treated as a joke, and her
constant tantrums and lack of control doesn't help her case.
 Shout-Out: Given that Lars, in her introductory episode, is dressed as a reference
to Captain Harlock, Emerald herself is probably a reference to Emeraldas .
 Smug Snake: Makes herself look like a big deal whenever she's on-screen, but it doesn't
take long to see this as all talk.
 Villain of Another Story: Is apparently Lars and the Off Colors' Big Bad, but as the story
is told from Steven's perspective most of that is offscreen.
 Villainous Breakdown: By the time we meet her, the Off Colors seem to have driven her
well into a meltdown. Them escaping with said ship, and forcing her to retreat as well, only
worsens said breakdown.
 What Happened to the Mouse?: We never find out how her feud with the Off Colors
resolved. Lars' comments in Future imply the Off Colors still have a Gem spaceship in Era 3,
but if they kept the Sun Incinerator specifically or gave it back to Emerald as a peace offering
is unspecified.
    Nephrite (XJ Cut-763) 

Nephrite
An unseen Nephrite who commands the fleet, for an invasion lead by Yellow Diamond.
She's briefly mentioned in the episode "Jungle Moon".

 Forced into Evil: From what we hear on the other end of Yellow Diamond's conversation
with her, she begins having second thoughts about invading a possibly sentient alien race,
but is forced to do so anyway, once Yellow Diamond threatens to shatter her.
 The Ghost: She's never seen on-screen, only shown talking to Yellow Diamond in
Stevonnie's dream vision.
 Small Role, Big Impact: It's highly implied that Pink Diamond got the basic idea of
rebelling from her.
 Spiky Hair: From her silhouette on Yellow Diamond's "phone", we can deduce that her
hair is stylized like spikes.

Video Game Gems

    Squaridot 

"Squaridot"

Voiced by: Shelby Rabara

"Prepare for humiliating defeat!"

A Peridot that appears in Save the Light as an antagonist. She originated from a Zeta
Kindergarten.

 Advertised Extra: Has about five minutes total of screen time, in a 10+ hour game.
 Artificial Limbs: Like our Peridot, Squaridot has limb enhancers. Unlike our Peridot, the
arm portion of Squaridot's limb enhancers look more like a bullet, and have a hole in the
center.
 The Cameo: Makes one in The Stinger of Unleash the Light.
 Catchphrase Insult: Just like our Peridot loves calling people "clods," Squaridot's favorite
insult is "pebble". Though she'll readily say "clod" as well, when trading insults with Peridot:
Peridot: You don't have to do everything your superiors say! You don't have to do any of it!
Squaridot: But that's... treason! Y-you misguided... PEBBLE!
Peridot: Pebble?! Hah! Well, do you know what you are?!
Steven: Oh-hho-kay, you two, maybe we should breake it up and —
 Peridot: You're a shallow strata, Zeta Kindergarten... CLOD!!
Squaridot: Clod?! Me, a clod?! You're the clod, CLOD!
Peridot: You're the cloddiest clod I've ever seen clodding around, clod! CLODDD!!

 Eyepatch of Power: Like Eyeball, Squaridot's gem is located in her left eye, seemingly
invoking this trope.
 In-Universe Nickname: "Squaridot" is Steven's nickname, her actual "name" just being
Peridot.
 Portmanteau: "Squaridot" is a combination of Peridot and square, which is the shape of
her hair.
 Redemption Rejection: Steven tries to convert her to the Crystal Gem's side like he did
with Peridot, but it fails and she's poofed and bubbled.
 Replacement Flat Character: She is remarkably similar to Peridot pre-redemption, and
serves as a foil to show how Peridot has grown. Justified, as individuality is highly
discouraged on Homeworld and Gems of the same type have also showed similar personality
traits before, so it's likely this behavior is indicative of baseline Peridots in general.
 Saying Too Much: Accidentally gives away that Hessonite took the Light Prism to the
Strawberry Battlefield. When she realizes her mistake, she tries to attack, and gets poofed for
her effort.
 Sealed Evil in a Can: Garnet poofs her, and presumably put her bubbled gem in the
temple just like Peridot was. The Stinger of Unleash the Light shows her laughing while piloting
her damaged pod, hinting she was freed with the corrupted gems.
 Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To both pre-Heel–Face Turn Peridot (her nature as a
Peridot with the same general personality), and Eyeball (the same Gem placement, hairstyle,
and getting into combat with the Crystal Gems). Justified in regards to Peridot, as Homeworld
highly discourages individuality and Gems of the same type generally share some personality
traits.
 We Will Meet Again: Heavily implied at the end of Unleash the Light, when a pod that
resembles hers is seen moving through space, with a Peridot's cackle.
    Hessonite 

Hessonite
 Click here for her form in 
Unleash the Light 

Voiced by: Christine Baranski

"Ah, the Earth. Did you miss me?"

A pompous Homeworld commander that appears in Save the Light as an antagonist. She
is a Homeworld Garnet.

 The Ace: She is a frighteningly capable fighter even without her prism, to the point that
she has never lost once.
 Afro Asskicker: She has a bright yellow afro and can hold her own against the Crystal
Gems.
 Arrogant Kung Fu Girl: She's well aware of what a formidable warrior she is, and she
doesn't hesitate in letting others know about it.
 Authority Equals Asskicking: She's a high-ranking commander in the Homeworld
hierarchy. She's also not afraid to step into the fray herself if that's what it takes to complete
her mission.
 Badass Cape: She wears an orange cape with a high collar and a diamond-patterned
interior.
 Big Bad: She's the main antagonist of Save the Light, with Yellow Diamond serving as
the Greater-Scope Villain.
 Big Ol' Unibrow: Has one.
  Bishie Sparkle: These appear on occasion to emphasize her connection to light. Her
ship's exit hatch even has a build-in floodlight for dramatic entrances.
 Broken Ace: Should you prevail in the final battle, Hessonite will reveal that she suffers
from severe self-doubt, believing she needed the Prism (rather than it needing her) in order to
be perfect despite her own formidable skills.
 ...But He Sounds Handsome: While in her Paper-Thin Disguise in Unleash the Light, she
says she could only wish to be the wonderful, powerful Hessonite.
 Canon Character All Along: It's greatly implied (and confirmed by Ian Jones-Quartey )
that Hessonite is not a true Canon Foreigner, but a very minor character from the show given
a major role: In "Monster Reunion", one of Centipeetle's drawings displays a yellow figure
with a puffy afro, giving orders. This is implied again when an uncorrupted
Centipeetle/Nephrite mentions taking orders from a Hessonite in "Legs From Here to
Homeworld".
 Contrasting Replacement Character: To Jasper.
o Both are powerful gems of Yellow Diamond's court who fought in the war, are
highly confident in their abilities, and are initially dismissive of the Crystal Gems. However,
while Jasper shows the need to constantly prove her strength, Hessonite is so confident in her
abilities that she sees no need to prove herself.
o Furthermore, it's shown that while Jasper refuses to see Steven as anything but
Rose, Hessonite acknowledges that Steven's a separate entity from Rose.
o Finally, while Jasper remains obsessed with fusion to the point where it becomes
her downfall, Hessonite eventually gives up on getting the Prism back after acknowledging
Steven's wisdom in letting it be free.
 Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She cannot fathom why her prism would prefer freedom
over being used as a weapon.
 Evil Counterpart: To Garnet. Both are the leaders of their respective teams (what with
Hessonite commanding Squaridot), both are noted to be more or less perfect, and both of
them have learned to hide their doubts to fit that role. And, more obviously, they're both
garnetsnote .
 Facial Markings: The small white triangle over her eye isn't a partial visor according to
the creators  but rather a prism shaped marking on her face.
 Final Boss: Of Save the Light.
 Flash Step: Oddly, doesn't use this ability in battle, though she does repeatedly to make

her escape after a verbal confrontation.  Word of God confirms  that this is

the absurdly-quick-movement kind, not full teleportation.
 Foreshadowing: Her Villainous BSoD upon realizing that she isn't perfect mirrors White
Diamond's Freak Out at discovering that she's flawed.
 Graceful Loser: Should the Crystal Gems defeat her, Hessonite will not only yield the
Prism, but leave to determine for herself whether or not she's perfect as Homeworld claims.
In addtion, it's implied that she keeps the continued existence of the Crystal Gems a secret.
 Hartman Hips: One of the features she has in common with her Crystal Gem
counterpart.
 Heel–Face Turn: As of Unleash the Light.
 Hidden Depths: At the end, Hessonite reveals her crippling self-doubt about her own
abilities, and admits that Steven deserves to "own" the Prism. Should Steven encourage the
 Prism to make its own decisions, Hessonite seems legitimately impressed by his wisdom,
willingly accepts the Prism's choice, and resolves to find answers for herself as to whether
she's truly perfect, rather than follow Homeworld's doctrine.
 Ironic Name: "Hessonite" comes from "hesson", ancient Greek for "inferior".
 It's All About Me: Unlike the other Homeworld Gems, she almost completely ignores the
Crystal Gems in favor of getting back her favorite weapon. And depending on the ending, she
decides to go on a journey of self-discovery rather than report the presence of the Crystal
Gems to Homeworld.
 Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her fancy cape stands out compared to the practical
jumpsuits worn by most Homeworld soldiers.
 Knight of Cerebus: She quickly changes the tone to a much more serious one whenever
she shows up in Save the Light.
 Light 'em Up: One of her primary attacks is to stab the ground, sending a glowing white
triangular blast across the floor to explode beneath an enemy.
 Light Is Not Good: She has a bright orange color scheme and light-based powers, but
she is definitely not a hero.
 Lightning Bruiser: She's very light on her feet, and her high defense means that you'll be
fighting her for a while. And, of course, she hits pretty hard, too.
 Magic Knight: While she mainly uses her sword in combat, she can also summon light
warriors using her prism. Even without the prism she has a couple of magic attacks.
 Mighty Glacier: During her boss battle she stays in one place and tanks hits before
retaliating with devastating sword strikes. Odd, considering she's a Lightning Bruiser.
 Muscles Are Meaningless: Hessonite has the same figure as Garnet, including very thin
arms, and is even stronger than her.
 The Noseless: Hessonite is only officially illustrated in the art style for Save the
Light (even in a drawing by the show's creator ◊), which draws very few characters with
noses. Since some gem types lack noses, and we've not seen another gem of the same
typenote , it's impossible to be sure if Hessonite has a nose or not.
 Not So Stoic: She throws quit a fit when she gets angry by the Prism's defiance.
 Paper-Thin Disguise: In Unleash the Light, she seems to think a scarf and a pair of
goggles will entirely disguise her, even though half her gem's sticking out. It works...
on Pyrope.
 The Perfectionist: The Prism was a gift from Yellow Diamond for supposedly being
perfect, and her defeat at the Crystal Gems' hands causes her to go Walking the Earth to
determine if she really is perfect or if she and her superiors were wrong.
 Redemption Rejection: Refuses to join the Crystal Gems after her defeat, instead going
and Walking the Earth. Zig-zagged, however, as she doesn't report the Crystal Gems to
Homeworld, either.
o Later subverted in Unleash the Light, as she's pulled more or less a full Heel–
Face Turn.
 Red Right Hand: Her left eye is red.
 Royal Rapier: Uses a rapier in battle, as befitting her high rank in the gem hierarchy. Its
design actually seems similar to Rose's sword, except for a more slender blade.
 She's Got Legs: Her design accentuates her legs, especially compared to the more top-
heavy Quartzes and Topazes.
 Statuesque Stunner: She stands about a head taller than the Crystal Gem Garnet, easily
putting her in this category.
 The Stoic: She's usually an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy take on this, rarely losing her poise
when addressing her foes.
 Villainous Breakdown: When she is defeated at the end of Save the Light, her haughty
demeanor collapses as she bitterly admits that she needed the Prism to live up to
 Homeworld's expectations of her. Depending on Steven's choices, she begins to wonder if
her superiors were wrong about her being perfect, because how can she lose otherwise?
 Walking the Earth: After she is defeated at the end of the game, she has a Villainous
Breakdown and goes on a journey of self-discovery to learn for herself if her superiors were
right or wrong about her being perfect.
 Womanchild: She tends to throw tantrums when she doesn't get her way.
    Hessonite's Citrine Guards 

Citrine Guards
Hessonite's Citrine Guards, stationed on her warship.

 The Guards Must Be Crazy: If they'd been positioned throughout the ship, then they
wouldn't have to wonder what that mysterious noise (that totally wasn't intruders) was.
 The Voice: Since you're supposed to be sneaking around on Hessonite's ship, you are
kept from entering the room they're in. You can only hear their comments through the door.
    Eye Jasper 

Eye Jasper
 Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks

A Jasper who appears in the mobile game The Phantom Fable and is fought in the
Amethyst section of the game. She was sent to remove all defective Gems from the
Delta Kindergarten.

 One-Shot Character: Her only appearance is in The Phantom Fable.

 Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Jasper, as a brash, angry Jasper against the heroes.
She has the exact same character design, except with a round gemstone in her left eye,
rather than a kite gemstone in her nose.

Blue Diamond
Voiced by: Lisa Hannigan

"You cannot fathom how much I've mourned, what thousands of years of grief has done to me!"
The second Diamond mentioned and the first to appear in the series proper in "The
Answer". The leader of Homeworld's diplomatic Gems, she was at the Sky Arena during
Rose's rebellion, and Sapphire used to report directly to her.
For her tropes, see her page.
    Blue Diamond's Pearl 

Blue Diamond's Pearl / Blue Pearl

Voiced by: Deedee Magno-Hall

"I thought I heard someone. I think we're not alone."

A Pearl owned by Blue Diamond.

 Adorkable: She thought being a courtroom artist required illustrating Steven's

vague explanation with a blocky sketch of him doing a jump kick. With speed lines.
As it turns out, drawing is a guilty pleasure of hers.
 All There in the Script: Called "Blue Pearl" in the credits.
 Beware the Nice Ones: In Unleash the Light, she's the one who suggests sending
a battalion to retrieve Pyrope and Demantoid's Prisms by force if they don't respond
to the heroes' ultimatum, though this is still lighter than what Yellow Pearl suggests
(that those two be destroyed).
 Blinding Bangs: Much like Sapphire, her hair covers her eyes; entirely fitting with
the Hidden Eyes motif that Blue Diamond seems to have.
 Character Development: She started out as nothing more than a quiet, obedient
servant of Blue Diamond, and had been like that for thousands of years. Later on,
however, Steven gets her to admit she likes drawing and does it as a hobby, and she
smiles when confessing it. Following her liberation from Blue Diamond's ownership
in Unleash the Light, she gains a broadcaster role with Yellow Pearl in The Movie and
is far happier than all the other times we've seen her, in addition to snickering when
Yellow Pearl snarks at White Diamond's expense, even though they seemed to be on
frosty terms before. In Steven Universe: Future, she participates in art with Yellow
Pearl, Vidalia, and some Uncorrupted Gems on Earth, and her drawing skills are
shown to have gotten even better.
 Cold Ham: Blue Pearl is quiet, outwardly stoic and her voice is very soft. And yet,
at times, she can be just as overdramatic as Yellow Pearl.
 Everyone Has Standards: She looks horrified when Defense Zircon asks what
happened to Pink Diamond's Pearl.
 Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: When announcing the appearance of Blue
Diamond in "The Trial".
 Expressive Hair: Very subtle, but her hair moves a whole lot more than from any
breeze Greg might have created when he startles her in "Steven's Dream".
 Foil: To both the Crystal Gems' Pearl, Yellow Diamond's Pearl, and White
Diamond's Pearl. Unlike her three cousins who seem, despite their position in Gem
hierarchy, to have gained skills in areas outside their station (Crystal Gem Pearl
being a warrior vs Yellow Diamond's Pearl being a secretary vs White Diamond's
Pearl having more authority than Blue and Yellow Diamond) — Blue Diamond's Pearl
seems to be doing what a Pearl was made to do by simply standing around and
looking pretty.
 Hammy Herald: While never stopping her soft, quiet way of speaking, she serves
as Blue's herald during public appearances and manages to be just as over the top
as Yellow Pearl in a more Cold Ham way.
 Hidden Depths:
o To a degree: despite her very reserved nature, it seems Blue Pearl
is very well trusted by Blue Diamond to the point that she takes her along for things she
doesn't even want Yellow Diamond to know about, such as her visit to Earth to mourn at
the site of Pink Diamond's death. However, "Reunited" and "Change Your Mind" imply
that she doesn't accompany Blue Diamond to Earth if the latter is accompanied there
by another Diamond.
o She enjoys drawing, even having a job as a courtroom artist.
o By the time of The Movie she appears to be operating the gem equivalent
of a TV station with Yellow Pearl, implying she left her Diamond's service at some point
during the Time Skip.
 Leotard of Power: A blue one under a sheer tutu, accentuating her ballerina-like
appearance.
 Ms. Fanservice: She wears nothing but a low-cut leotard and sheer tutu. Justified
in that Pearls are just made to hold your things and "look pretty".
 My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Inverted. Despite being the third Pearl we've
seen onscreen, she's the first one who matches the "stereotypical" Pearl as
described by other Gems.
 Nice Girl: Blue Pearl is fairly polite compared to Yellow Pearl. She even
welcomes CG Pearl back when the latter returns to Homeworld.
 Not So Similar: Compared to Crystal Gem Pearl's autonomous emotion and
Yellow Pearl's disdainful rudeness, Blue Pearl's deferential compliance
is really strange.
 Not So Stoic: Not as much as Sapphire, but she does have her moments. She is
visibly startled by Greg in "Steven's Dream", and appears annoyed when Yellow
Pearl stands next to her in "That Will Be All". In "Together Alone", she expresses a
little bit of enthusiasm when revealing her enjoyment of drawing, and sheds a Single
Tear when introducing Blue Diamond, but it's hard to tell if this is genuine or just for
dramatic effect.
 Pet the Dog: She is very kind to Pearl when she returns to Homeworld.
Welcome back.
 The Quiet One: Unlike the Crystal Gems' Pearl or Yellow Diamond's Pearl, Blue
Pearl doesn't speak at all during "The Answer". And after her debut, whenever
she does speak, if at all, her voice is very soft.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: The... Blue Oni to Yellow Pearl's Red Oni. She's quiet,
composed, and passive in stark contrast to Yellow Pearl's loud, sassy smugness.
 Rei Ayanami Expy: Pearls are designed for their owner's preference, exist only to
be passive servants to high-ranking Gems, and seem to be universally pale with
waifish figures. This Pearl also happens to be stoic, mysterious, quiet bordering on
silent and has a short blue bob, so she fits this like a glove so far.
 Shrinking Violet: Shy, performs her duties without a word, and easily frightened.
 Slapstick Knows No Gender: In a flashback from "Change Your Mind", Blue
Diamond mentions that she and other Homeworld Pearls got chased down the halls
by caterpillar-like alien creatures Pink Diamond brought to a ball.
 The Stoic: She barely even changes her expression during the entire time we
see her in "The Answer". The only time she reacts to something is when Sapphire
 says that the Rebellion will be defeated (by looking up). Otherwise, she keeps her
head bowed down at all times. When she reappears in "Steven's Dream", she is
visibly startled when Greg pops up from behind a bush, but then returns to her
stoicism and speaks without effect to her Diamond.
 Time Abyss: She was alive during the Crystal Gem rebellion, making her at least
5,750 years old.
 True Blue Femininity: As with all other Gems serving under Blue Diamond, she
has a blue color scheme, and is more traditionally feminine than Yellow Pearl.
 Uncatty Resemblance: Like her owner, Blue Pearl has blue coloring and Hidden
Eyes.
 When She Smiles: She smiles when crossing out a drawing of Steven in "The
Trial", as well as when she reveals her enjoyment of drawing in "Together Alone".
    Blue Diamond's Ruby Guards 

Ruby Guards

Voiced by: Charlyne Yi

Ruby Guard 1: Hey! Can't wait for those rebels to get here!
Ruby Guard 2: Haha, yeah! When I see those rebels, I'm gonna punch them right in their faces!
Two of the three Rubies (along with Crystal Gem Ruby) assigned to protect Sapphire
5,750 years ago. One's gem is on her right forearm, and the other's is on the back of
her right hand. Aside from gem placement, they're entirely identical, in both looks and
personality.
 Arc Symbol: A notable aversion. Unlike every other Homeworld gem, they do not
have a diamond on their uniform.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: They're red, Hot-Blooded, and Red
Shirts.
 Birds of a Feather: Played with. On an individual level they don't exactly get
along, but being so alike makes it easy for them to fuse and their resulting fusion has
no notable differences to a regular Ruby besides its size and possession of three
gems, indicating that it's very stable.
 Blood Knight: Both very eager to fight the rebels.
 Clipped-Wing Angel: The giant Ruby they fuse into is intimidating, but no match
for Rose Quartz.
 The Dividual: They're Twindividuals, as they're identical, very similar in
personality, and only seen with one another.
 Expendable Clone: They're so easily replaced that, at least by Blue Diamond's
standards, it's acceptable to break their gems as well as their bodies for offenses
rarer Gems would face no such punishment for. If "our" Ruby is any indication, they
consider themselves expendable because they're essentially clones, lacking significant
differences from each other.
 Hot-Blooded: Even more than the Ruby we know and love; she was actually their
voice of reason, trying to calm them down from fighting one another by reminding
them that they'd fight the rebels together as a fusion. In response, one of them
punched her into Sapphire.
 Not So Similar: Despite being physically near-identical, they managed to show a
clear difference in personality from the future Crystal Gem Ruby in a short amount of
time; they're mostly interested in fighting while she was more interested in Sapphire.
 One-Shot Character: Their only appearance is in "The Answer".
 Planet of Steves: They're Rubies, hence they're both named Ruby.
 Red Shirt: Their placement in the Gem caste system is as common soldiers and
the two of them are poofed shortly after their debut.
 What Happened to the Mouse?: What became of them after they retreated to
their gems is unknown.
 The Worf Effect: Their fused form is quickly broken by Rose Quartz and the two
of them are thereafter reduced to their gems by Pearl.
    Holly Blue Agate 

Holly Blue Agate

Voiced by: Christine Pedi

"What are you all doing in here?! Get to your stations! Even you hideous off-color betas! Get out of your cubbies
and into your places! It's the least you can do for the Diamond that kept your worthless, sorry gems in service!"
A quartz Gem in charge of operations at the Zoo. She's very beholden to Homeworld
values, sucking up to her superiors while denigrating her subordinates for any assumed
flaws.

 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: The ring-like patterns in her hair

resemble the cross-section of a cut agate geode.
 Authority Equals Asskicking: Averted when she tries to apprehend Steven and
Greg. While her electrified whip probably would have hurt them, she's no match for
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl triple-teaming her at once.
 Bad Boss: Most of her screen-time is her being verbally and physically abusive to
her subordinates. If the "an Agate terrifies" line in Yellow Diamond's Villain Song is
anything to go by, her entire caste are meant to be oppressive overseers. It comes
 back to bite her on the gem when the Crystal Gems escape the Zoo with Greg and
Steven, the Amethysts merely laugh at her humiliating defeat and wave them off.
 The Baroness: "An agate terrifies", and Holly Blue Agate is a combination of
Rosa Klebb, Drill Sergeant Nasty, and overly strict boarding school principal,
although her obsequiousness toward her superiors in the Gems' Hive Caste
System kills some of the menace.
 Boots of Toughness: She's the authoritarian supervisor of Pink Diamond's Quartz
soldiers and zoo, and wears white thigh-high boots.
 Boyish Short Hair: It serves to make her appear more professional.
 Control Freak: Especially to her own squad.
 Curb-Stomp Battle: The Crystal Gems wasted absolutely no time stomping on
her.
 Dean Bitterman: She orders two of her subordinates to not run in the hallways,
and is livid when she thinks they vandalized the door to the Zoo. The official Tumblr
blog even notes that she runs the Zoo like a boarding school for miscreant
Amethysts.
 The Dreaded: She's essentially made her subordinates fear her, and until
her Curb-Stomp Battle at the hands of the Crystal Gems, she is. As in a Bad Boss,
she was apparently made to be one.
 Drill Sergeant Nasty: Also comes off as this as she's constantly berating her
subordinates for fooling around and not behaving like proper soldiers.
 Dude, Where's My Respect?: She hopes the Diamonds appreciate the hard work
she's put in towards preserving Pink Diamond's legacy. Said Diamonds don't think
much of her for being too much of an ass-kisser.
 Fantastic Racist: Times four! She's rude and dismissive of Pearl, is disdainful
toward Ruby, treats her Earth-born Quartz soldiers badly, and pretends not to
understand the (half-)human Steven, which he readily uses to his advantage by
communicating plans to the Crystal Gems right under her nose. The only Gems she
treats with respect are Sapphire and the Diamonds, who both rank higher than her.
 Feet-First Introduction: And the way she keeps her feet together shows her
uptight attitude.
 Hate Sink: She premieres just as the Diamonds' sympathetic side is shown, and
between her prejudices, bossiness, and suck-up behavior, Holly Blue does a great
job directing both the audience's and the cast's hatred of the Diamonds to herself.
 Hazy Feel Turn: While she's no longer antagonistic to Steven and the Crystal
Gems in Era 3, she appears to dislike the changes that have occured, wishes she
could continue being a Bad Boss towards her subordinates, and overall refuses to
join in all the fun and remains bossy and uptight. Though, Wy-Six implies that she's
been teaching him how to be strict, indicating she's starting to stop seeing humans as
stupid animals.
 Horned Hairdo: Her hair is styled in two cone-like shapes on either side of her
head. Considering her nasty nature, they also qualify as Horns of Villainy.
 Hypocrite: She calls her Amethyst guards a "defective lot" and incompetent at
their work. This coming from the same Gem who not only fails to recognize Pearl is
obviously not owned by Sapphire, blames some of her Amethyst guards for causing
 some damage to a door that they couldn't actually have done, oh, and
thoroughly failed to notice there were TWO DIAMONDS when she went to check up on
Blue Diamond.
 Hypocritical Humor: Tells a pair of Amethysts not to shout in the hallways... by
shouting at them.
 Ironic Name: She seems to be the only Gem in the Zoo not made on Earth and
insults her subordinates for their birthplace. She's also named after Holley blue agate,
quartz found only in a very specific location  on Earth.
 Laser-Guided Karma:
o The Quartzes she mistreated and belittled just stood by and laughed as
she was defeated and humiliated by the Crystal Gems. Pearl, who had to put up with
her condescendingly dismissive treatment, gives her a "The Reason You Suck"
Speech, tells her to be quiet about what she just witnessed, and further rubs it in by
saying "That will be all", accompanied by Steven clapping his hands.
o In Era 3, Holly Blue has lost any authority whatsoever over the Earth
quartzes, who are free to party nonstop in front of her face, and is at a loss for the
Diamonds constantly obsessing over Steven. Her only options are to stay in the Zoo,
where the humans now running the ship are the only one listening to what she says, or
simply abandon her post entirely.
 Meaningful Name: In gemstone mythos, agates are used to strengthen the body
and balance the mind to promote productivity. This is somewhat fitting considering
her Drill Sergeant Nasty attitude towards the Amethysts she looks over by
reprimanding them and telling them how to behave.
 The Neidermeyer: Because of her bossy attitude and constant mistreatment of
her subordinates, the Amethyst guards aren't very fond of her.
 Odango Hair: Her hair is styled into two cone-like buns that resemble this trope.
 Praetorian Guard: "The Trial" reveals that the Diamonds have Agate guards in
their retinues.
 Pointy-Haired Boss: Literally AND figuratively! Her obsession with kowtowing to
rank drastically compromises her objectivity and competency, to the point where
she'll miss flagrant attempts at infiltration and assume them to be her underlings'
fault.
 Professional Butt-Kisser: She is always sweet-talking any higher ranking gem in
the area, to the point that even Yellow and Blue Diamond are shown to be annoyed
by it. She addresses the aristocratic Sapphire as "Your (Grand) Clarity".
 Reassigned to Antarctica: Watches over the remote Human Zoo, visited only by
Blue Diamond, while most Gems know little to nothing about Pink Diamond.
 Surrounded by Idiots: She complaints that the Ametgyst guards she's
commanding are incompetent.
 True Blue Femininity: As with all other Gems serving under Blue Diamond, she
wears a blue uniform. Her skin, hair, and weapon are also blue.
 Whip It Good: Her weapon is an electrified whip, which perfectly fits her status as
a disciplinarian and overseer.
 Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Her whip emits blue lightning.
    Holly Blue Agate's Quartz Crew/The Famethyst 
The Famethyst

Voiced by: Michaela Dietz (Amethysts), Kimberly Brooks (Jaspers, Carnelian)

Formerly of Pink Diamond's Court. A group of Amethysts, Jaspers, and a single
Carnelian from the Prime and Beta Kindergartens on Earth, commanded by Holly Blue
Agate and serving under Blue Diamond.

 Affectionate Nickname: Most of them are called by their number and the sole
Carnelian by her type, but Amethyst refers to the thin Jasper as simply "Skinny". It's
clear that Amethyst means it kindly, and Skinny is amused.
 Amazon Brigade: Albeit with the usual "sexless and referred to with female
pronouns space rocks" caveat.
 Bare Your Midriff: Skinny's gem is on her navel, and is exposed by her uniform
top.
 Big Fun: Are full-bodied and muscular like most standard-issue Quartz Gems, but
have the same boisterous and playful personality that the Crystal Gem Amethyst has.
 Boyish Short Hair: Unlike the other Quartzes, Skinny's hair is short, although it's
still wild and spiky like her sisters'.
 Call-Back: In "Beta", Peridot observed that a carnelian came out sideways at the
Beta Kindergarten. The Quartz Crew include a single short, goofy-looking Carnelian.
Also, Amethyst expresses solidarity with the imperfect Gems that emerged from the
Beta Kindergarten, including "this skinny looking one right here". Later, viewers meet
a member of the Quartz crew named Skinny.
 Call-Forward: In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", it's shown that the Amethysts of
the Famethyst were among the first Gems to emerge on Earth, and we see them
waiting for the last of their unit to emerge before being ordered to get moving without
her.
 Contralto of Danger: The Amethyst that gets Greg and Steven out of the zoo has
a deep, commanding voice that sounds nearly identical to Jasper's. But as it turns
out, they're not all that dangerous.
 Cool Big Sis: All of them are this to our Amethyst. They all came from Earth, just
like her, and many of them emerged from the same Kindergarten as she (Crystal
Gem Amethyst being the last to emerge, long after the rebellion and evacuation had
 already happened). And unlike Jasper, they gladly accept her as a sister after
meeting her and help her escape.
 Deadpan Snarker: Skinny is not only a contrast to the Jasper we know but to the
other Amethysts. The rest are laughing, boisterous pranksters, while she's just off to
the side, playfully snarking, "You Amethysts are so cliquey."
 The Dog Bites Back: After enduring Holly Blue's demeaning and abusive
treatment of them, they decide to watch and laugh as the Crystal Gems hand their
superior's ass back to her. When Holly Blue orders them to take out the Crystal
Gems, they just wave goodbye to the departing opposition.
 Fantastic Racism: Are targets of this by Holly Blue Agate for being born on Earth,
and defective in the case of Skinny and Carnelian, the latter two she calls
"hideous off-color Betas". Holly Blue's words also imply that if it weren't for Blue
Diamond's desire to keep them as reminders of Pink Diamond, they'd not "be in
service" anymore. It's likely that she's not the only Homeworld Gem with this belief.
 Foil:
o To the Jasper from Yellow Diamond's Court in multiple ways. She's a
perfectly formed "ultimate Quartz", while several of them have visible physical flaws
including Carnelian's short height and Skinny's ...well, skinniness. She takes her duties
as a Homeworld warrior seriously, while they love to play around and have fun. She
looks down on "defective" Gems and despises the Crystal Gems, as opposed to these
Quartzes who happily embrace Amethyst as family, defect and all, while assisting the
Crystal Gems against Holly Blue Agate.
o The contrast is especially striking between different Jaspers. Whereas
"ultimate Quartz" Jasper is hulking, loud and belligerent, Skinny is slim, laid-back and
friendly.
o They're also a huge contrast to Amethyst's other family, the Crystal Gems,
who are often high-strung, distant, and bad at interpersonal relationships, compared to
this easygoing, tight-knit, and loving bunch.
 Friendly Enemy: They may be Homeworld Gems, but they're very friendly with
the Crystal Gems, to the point of downright helping them with their rescue mission.
 Genki Girl: Carnelian, full stop. "I'M NOT THE SHORTEST ANYMORE!"
 Heroic Build: They have stocky and muscular builds appropriate for Quartz
soldiers, the only exception being Skinny.
 The Hyena: They're jovial and fun-loving, and they enjoy a good laugh much like
our Amethyst, their "little sis".
 Immortal Immaturity: They're all thousands of years old, with the attitude of a
bunch of rowdy teenagers.
 Last of Her Kind: Many Amethysts and a few Jaspers are shown, but only one
Carnelian is seen. Since this group contains all the remaining uncorrupted Quartz
soldiers made on Earth (aside from the main Jasper), it's quite possible that she's the
last of the Earth-born Carnelians.
 Leitmotif: Skinny Jasper is introduced with, hilariously, Jasper's own leitmotif.
 Lima Syndrome: They're the guards of a People Zoo, and when a bunch of
humans became sad from Greg rejecting them, some of the Quartzes give them very
sincere-sounding consolations and ask them to talk about their problems.
 Luke, I Am Your Father: Amethyst is delighted to find out that they came from the
Prime Kindergarten on Earth, making them her "sisters".
 Minion with an F in Evil: Even more so than the Ruby Squad, since they outright
refuse to obey Holly Blue's orders to stop the Crystal Gems and even help the Crystal
Gems in rescuing Greg.
 Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The Crystal Gems (and Greg) would've probably
had a harder time escaping the Human Zoo had Holly Blue not demeaned and
abused the Quartzes stationed there. As a result, when they do escape, the Quartzes
don't even bother trying to stop them. They even bring Steven and Greg into their
room after they meet with Amethyst, who turns out to be Amethyst Facet 5, Cut 8XM,
showing that they're even willing to help the Crystal Gems in rescuing Greg.
 Mook Carryover: Like Jasper, they used to work for Pink Diamond.
Unlike Jasper, they were reassigned to Blue's court instead of Yellow's and aren't
nearly as active.
 Nice Girl: They immediately accept Amethyst as one of them, as opposed to the
first Jasper we met, who disdained her for being small, with the only Gem mentioning
it being the Carnelian cheering about no longer being the shortest amongst them.
 Oh, Crap!: One of the Amethyst guards has this reaction when Holly Blue Agate
catches Greg and Steven outside of the zoo.
 Orange/Blue Contrast: The Jaspers are orange-skinned and wear standard Blue
Diamond uniforms.
 Palette Swap: Most of them resemble a purple version of that Jasper.
Fortunately, that's where the similarities end.
 Planet of Steves: All of them are named Amethyst or Jasper, except for the one
Carnelian. However, to offset this, they also avert the Race Name Basis that the
Crystal Gems follow by casually using their facet cuts.
 The Prankster: Just like the Crystal Gems' Amethyst, it seems. Their first
appearance has them making a fool out of Steven and Greg by pretending to be an
evil bunch who're holding poor Amethyst hostage, but then they burst into laughter
and reveal it was all a joke.
 Punch-Clock Villain: Despite working for Homeworld, they're hardly malicious to
the Crystal Gems and even help them in rescuing Greg from the Human Zoo. They
laugh and joke with Amethyst, and they make no attempt to stop the Crystal Gems
from returning to Earth, even giving them a friendly wave goodbye.
 Race Name Basis: Averted, as they seem to use their Cut numbers (8XL, 8XJ,
8XG, etc.) as their identifying names.
 Really 700 Years Old: They were formed in the Earth Kindergartens around the
time of the war, making them at least 5,000 years old.
 Reassigned to Antarctica: Holly Blue's prejudice against them for being made on
Earth hints they were all posted at the very remote Zoo to keep them out of sight of
the other Homeworld Gems (and possibly to be another reminder of Pink Diamond for
Blue Diamond to visit).
 Regal Ringlets: Amethyst 8XJ has tube-like curls in her hair similar to Rose
Quartz's. Not surprising, as they were both made by Pink Diamond for her court.
 The Runt at the End: When our Amethyst shows up, Carnelian is seen running
around while carrying Amethyst over her head and joyfully celebrating because
"[she's] not the shortest anymore!"
 Sad Clown: They seem to get through Holly Blue's abuse by being jovial
jokesters.
 The Slacker: Skinny seems incredibly laid back, not caring about anything, as
she teases the Amethysts for being "cliquey". Quite the opposite of her perfectly-
formed sister.
 Super Soldier: Quartzes are produced by Homeworld to be soldiers, so naturally
this is what they are.
 Technicolor Eyes: The Amethysts have purple eyes, the Jaspers have yellow
eyes, and the lone Carnelian has orange eyes.
 There Is Another: Their appearance confirms the existence of other
Kindergarten-born Amethysts and Jaspers.
 Token Good Teammate: They're some of the nicest Homeworld Gems out there.
As Humanity Is Infectious, possibly justified by them taking care of the Zoomans (like
how a certain other alien pulls a Heel–Face Turn by taking care of a human-blooded
individual).
 Tragic Keepsake: They are living ones for Blue Diamond, who is keeping them
alive in the memory of Pink Diamond since they were born on her planet.
 True Companions: With each other, all acting like sisters and sticking together.
Even Amethyst being a Crystal Gem doesn't sway them from accepting her into their
family. Lampshaded by Skinny, who playfully snarks that they're "cliquey".
 Wild Hair: Like Amethyst, they have long, unkempt manes of Rapunzel
Hair (except Skinny, whose hair is short but still wild and messy). The Amethysts
have white or light purple hair, Skinny's is an aged off-white (IE; slightly tinted yellow),
and Carnelian's is ruby-red.
 You Are Number 6: Individuals are referred to by their cut, as is standard for
Homeworld Gems. Three of the Amethysts are identified as Cut 8XL, 8XG, and 8XJ.
Notably, they reveal that our Amethyst's designation is Facet 5, Cut 8XM.
    Aquamarine 

Aquamarine
Voiced by: Della Saba

"What an ordeal. But the Diamonds needed me. That's the burden of being the best."
A small Homeworld Gem sent by Blue and Yellow Diamond to retrieve new humans for
the zoo.

 Aliens of London: Aquamarine speaks in British Received Pronunciation, which

oddly means she pronounces her own name differently than most characters ("ack-
wuh" instead of "ahk-wuh").
 All of the Other Reindeer: Following the initiation of Era 3, she and Eyeball were
cast out and forgotten. At least, that's what she claims.
 Antagonist Abilities: Her Tractor Beam can freeze anyone in their tracks, up to
and including Alexandrite.
 Arc Villain: For StevenBomb 6, which revolves around her leading Topaz on their
kidnapping mission.
 Beware the Silly Ones: Is about the size of a toddler and looks like a silly
little fairy, yet is capable of freezing Alexandrite with little effort using her wand, and
before that manages to knock Steven out by flinging him into a tree and launch Pearl
skyward by utilizing it.
 Big Guy, Little Guy: The size of a small child and in charge of a Gem fusion over
ten feet tall.
 Bigger Stick: Her wand alone (which does not seem to be a Gem weapon, as she
stores it on her head rather than her gemstone) is nearly unstoppable — because
there's almost nothing it can't stop. She doesn't even consider the Crystal
Gems besides Rose as worth her time of day. However, without it, she's basically
helpless against a larger Gem. When she returns in Future, she's since lost the wand,
and even when she fuses with Eyeball to form Bluebird Azurite, she is drastically less
powerful.
 Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She at first seems like a lost and innocent Gem,
perhaps even a child-Gem, but she's really using her small and childlike appearance
to her advantage in order to get the information she wants for her mission. Once she
captures Connie, she shows her true colors.
 Brilliant, but Lazy: Aquamarine barely cares about the original mission, so she
captures Steven/"Rose" as an excuse not to even expend the effort to finish it.
 The Comically Serious: Although menacing, the fact that she thinks "My dad" is
an actual name of a human is comedy gold.
 Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Jasper. While Jasper relied on brute force,
Aquamarine is physically weak but cunning and she relies on her tractor beams to
immobilize enemies.
 Crocodile Tears: Her gem's cut is tear-shaped and on her left cheek near her
eye, which, combined with her childlike appearance and immature attitude, definitely
evokes this. She lampshades it in "Stuck Together".
Aquamarine: Oh no! Is Rosie upset because her widdle deal didn't work? [points to her gem] Look, I'm so
moved, I'm crying. Just kidding, that's my gem!
 Deliberately Cute Child: She's not a child, but she has the look and ability to
mimic it. This is how she moved around Beach City with no one thinking twice of her
asking random people, "Are you my dad?" The mask drops when Connie and Steven
track her down and try to help her, since Connie was on her list of humans to grab.
 Didn't Think This Through: Gee, Aquamarine, you really didn't expect your fusion
with Ruby to be recognized by Steven and his friends even though your gemstones
are literally on Bluebird Azurite's face? To a lesser extent, threatening Steven when
he's under the Diamonds' protection was a bad idea because all Steven has to do is
tell Yellow and Blue about an Aquamarine threatening him, and it's over
 The Dreaded: Pearl and Garnet are both shocked when they hear that an
Aquamarine and a Topaz fusion have arrived on Earth.
 Elite Mook: Pearl's reaction to her and Aquamarine's statement that the mission
was a "waste of an Aquamarine" both imply she's a much more unique and powerful
Gem than the previous Gems sent to Earth. Rebecca Sugar confirmed during a CN
Side that she is indeed a very high ranking Blue Gem.
 Evil Brit: She speaks with a posh British accent, emphasizing her condescending
tone.
 Expy: While creating Aquamarine's character, Rebecca Sugar used Cartman
from South Park as a comparison for her maliciously bratty and narcissistic
personality.
 Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She's cruel, cold, arrogant, and looks even
more like a child than Ruby or Peridot — so much that Steven and Connie took her
asking "are you my dad" to refer to an actual parental figure.
 The Fair Folk: Has a very obviously fairy-like design, with her tiny stature, wings,
dress and wand... and is a malicious, spiteful little brat who's willing to have Topaz
murder Jamie if it means getting the Gems to cooperate with her.
 Fantastic Racism: Like Yellow Diamond, she calls humans "organics" with clear
distaste and disgust.
 Faux Affably Evil: She speaks in a mock polite tone and taunts the Gems to their
faces, as well as casually discussing killing humans like she might have to replace a
broken item she was tasked with bringing to her boss.
 Final Boss: Of Season 4 with Topaz and Topaz. It's a Curb-Stomp Battle that
ends in their favor.
 Flight: Her wings let her fly just like Lapis.
 Foil: To Lapis Lazuli; both are blue Gems with water wings and a teardrop-
shaped gem. Lapis is a kind Gem underneath all her physical and psychological
trauma and has a relaxed hipster look to her. Aquamarine, on the other hand, acts as
an adorable kid but is really a sadist without the mask, and wears uptight,
professional clothes. And while both are very powerful, Lapis' power is innate while
Aquamarine's comes from outside technology.
 Horrifying the Horror: At the end of "Doug Out", Onion is frightened when she
and Topaz are about to capture him, and he has a concerned look on his face when
she names the humans she was assigned to retrieve, which includes him.
 Humans Are Insects: Aquamarine hates being on Earth, and reacts to a bunch of
captured "organics" struggling with a mix of disgust and amusement at their distress.
Despite being tasked with taking specific humans alive for a Zoo, she considers them
interchangeable and expendable enough to fudge her goal when it conveniences her.
Peridot and Jasper didn't act this bad.
 Immortal Immaturity: Looks and acts like a spoiled child despite being immortal.
 Implied Death Threat: She's not above making them if she has to:
Aquamarine: Hey, Topaz, can you remind me? I mean, my memory is perfect, but our orders were to bring
back these six humans. I'm just not sure. Did they specify... alive?
 Irony: She opposes Homeworld's reforms and refers to fusion Gems starting to
care about each other (getting "sentimental") as a problem, yet she willingly engages
in fusion with Eyeball Ruby, despite cross-gem fusion being highly looked down upon
prior to Era 3.
 Jerkass: Egotistical, cruel, and incredibly mocking. Even her first non-silhouetted
appearance, which only had her talking for the last few minutes of the episode, mind,
made it very clear Aquamarine is an utter brat through and through, and she
continues to be equally — if not more-so — unpleasant following it.
 Jerkass Has a Point: Her mean-spiritedness aside, her warnings to Topaz about
what would happen to them if they went through with poofing her and escaping with
Steven and Lars do have a point. The Diamonds would view them as traitors no
better than the Crystal Gems, and the knowledge of Steven's existence would paint
both of them as fugitives who willingly collaborated with their planet's greatest war
 criminal. Shattering would just be one of many punishments awaiting them if
Homeworld chose to bring their full might to bear in hunting them down.
 Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Upon being defused and defeated by Alexandrite, she
states she’s learned her lesson and even attempts to apologize to Steven, only for it
to turn out she was completely and utterly lying.
 Karma Houdini: Even besides what's necessary for her mission, Aquamarine is
cruel and mean, threatening to kill her captives (who she was clearly supposed to
bring in alive) and constantly disparaging her subordinate. The most she gets for
punishment is being disliked in Era 3—which she ironically considers a major offense
she wants revenge over.
 Knight of Cerebus: The plot takes a much darker turn when she and Topaz begin
kidnapping Beach City's residents as the arc culminates in Steven sacrificing himself
to save the others by outing himself as Rose Quartz. In other words, her appearance
brought the show to its lowest point.
 Lack of Empathy: Refers to fusion Gems starting to care about each other
(getting "sentimental") as a problem.
 Leitmotif: A twinkling, music box-esque melody with a tinge of ominousness to it,
befitting her character.
 Literal-Minded: This is what makes Steven realize Aquamarine was following
Peridot's list of names of the humans he listed off when he first met Peridot. When
Aquamarine said she was looking for "My Dad", she wasn't talking about her father
(not that she even has any) or even Greg. She was literally looking for someone
named "My Dad".
 Magic Wand: Her Tractor Beam, though likely not really magic, does look like a
wand. When not in use, it transforms into the ribbon on her head.
 Making a Splash: Downplayed. She can form wings out of water and use them to
fly, but it is unknown if she can control water as a weapon as Lapis does. Considering
Aquamarine's heavy reliance on her wand and that she could be an Era 2 Gem, who
have limited powers, it is likely that she cannot.
 Mean Boss: She'll insult Topaz openly and to her face.
Aquamarine: I can't believe they wasted an Aquamarine on a job like this. It's so easy, you could have done
it yourself, Topaz!
 Meaningful Name: Aquamarines are gemstones associated with eternal youth
and good luck; Aquamarine looks like a child and her mission to Earth is the only one
out of the others to be successful (and even more so considering she managed to
bring "Rose Quartz" with her). Aquamarines also promote service, communication,
and mental reasoning. Aquamarine brags of being "the best" in her services to the
Diamonds and having a perfect memory, and not only talks the most compared to the
Topaz duo but manages to get herself out of a pinch by reasoning with them.
 Moth Menace: Like all butterfly themed things on Steven Universe she is very evil.
 Narcissist: She'll never hesitate to compliment herself. She even says going to
Earth is "the price of being the best".
 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Played With. In Homeworld's eyes, taking
down Rose Quartz was seen as an act of heroism, so when Aquamarine managed to
take down Steven (who was believed to be Rose by Homeworld), she was celebrated
and praised for a time, until Era 3, in which Aquamarine is cast out and forgotten for
 what she did to Steven, whom Homeworld now loves due to changing the Empire for
the better. Needless to say, she doesn't take it well at all.
 Non-Standard Character Design: Going the opposite extreme as Jasper and the
Diamonds, Aquamarine's design is far less detailed and more stylized than any other
Gem or human — even Onion! Her head is just a sphere with hair shaped like a
football, and her only facial features are eyes, her gem, and thin lips. She kind of
looks like some kind of advertising mascot, strongly contrasting with her cruel
behavior.
 The Noseless: Like Sapphire, she has no nose.
 Not So Above It All:
o Aquamarine considers humans completely below her attention, but
Jamie's too much of a Drama Queen for even her to ignore.
Jamie: What justice is there in such a gross tangling of symbols?!
Aquamarine: Will you stop?! You're ruining my moment!
o She often bickers childishly with Eyeball when the two team up.
 Not So Different: To Peridot when she lost her limb enhancers (but before
learning she had ferrokinetic powers), where she proves to be an absolute weakling
without her wand.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
o The moment Steven tells her he's Rose Quartz, she drops her mocking
attitude and says "no way" in a hushed tone while looking legitimately shocked and
angry.
o When Topaz manages to overpower her and pin her while threatening to
use a destabilizer on her, the look on her face as she's talking her down subtly
indicates that she is terrified.
o Her tone and expression when telling Topaz to unfuse and that they'll
never speak of the incident again seem almost somber. It's undeniably a stark contrast
to how she usually says everything with an at least mildly jerkish or insulting manner to
it.
 Pet the Dog:
o While she's incredibly condescending towards the Topaz twins, treating
them like Dumb Muscle at the best of times, she does seem to hold a modicum of
respect for them underneath the bratty banter. Tellingly, after discovering Topaz
helping Steven and Lars escape, Aquamarine has a perfect opportunity to attack Topaz
with her wand, but simply destroys the escape pod instead and doesn't resist when the
fusion pins her to the ship's engine block. When she successfully talks Topaz down,
Aquamarine — instead of punishing her or threatening to report her insubordination to
the Diamonds — simply tells her that so long as Topaz calms down, unfuses and gets
back to her duties, they'll never need to speak of what happened to anyone, with a far
less nasty tone and expression than usual. Although this may be to prevent another
attack from Topaz, it should be noted that Aquamarine makes that last proposition
while she has the advantage, as she is the only one holding a weapon and Topaz is on
her knees.
o In spite of Eyeball Ruby being much lower ranked than her, as well as
Aquamarine's strong belief in Homeworld's caste system, not once does Aquamarine
 treat Eyeball poorly because of this, instead merely bickering with her and mostly
treating her with actual respect.
 Photographic Memory: Claims to have one (which is backed up by the fact that
she remembered the six varieties of humans she was tasked with bringing back), but
only brings it up to ask a rhetorical question. It would certainly add to her similarities
to Lapis Lazuli.
Aquamarine: Hey, Topaz. Can you remind me? I mean, my memory is perfect but...
 Pintsized Powerhouse: While her physical strength is nothing to write home
about by Gem standards, she is still capable of holding Greg one-handed while flying.
 Put on a Bus: She's not seen again after she sends the Topazes off in "Stuck
Together". It is unknown if she was among the Aquamarines cheering when Blue and
Yellow Diamond return to Homeworld with Steven or flying around the Era 3 ball. She
finally returns in Steven Universe Future, looking for revenge.
 Redemption Rejection: Along with Eyeball Ruby, she refuses to accept
Homeworld's reforms in Era 3, and hates Steven so much she'll hurt his friends to get
revenge on him. For the first time in the series, Steven is forced to accept her as
someone he can't change.
 School Uniforms Are the New Black: Her outfit resembles a prep school uniform.
 Shorter Means Smarter: She's a tiny Gem even smaller than Peridot and is the
brain to Topaz's brawn, with a perfect memory.
 Smug Snake: She plays the childlike innocence angle for as long as it'll work, but
her actual personality paints her as an incredibly smug and condescending brat who
is used to always getting her way and doesn't take dissension or disobedience lightly.
 Squishy Wizard: Her Tractor Beam wand is very powerful, but Aquamarine is
easily overpowered if the opponent can get past it.
 Stealth Pun: Her gem is on her cheek. Her general behavior is cute but also
irreverent and disrespectful. She's "cheeky".
 Tattoo as Character Type: In American prisons, a teardrop-shaped tattoo below
the eye, much like Aquamarine's gem, means the prisoner with it has killed someone
while in prison. Read that as you may but it should obviously contribute to the idea
that Aquamarine isn't someone to be messed with.
 Tractor Beam: Has a small wand that fires a blue beam that immobilizes anything
it hits, even a massive Gem fusion like Alexandrite.
 Unreliable Expositor: She claims that the other Gems cast her out for hurting
Steven. But we didn't see that happen and have her word on it while she's seeking
revenge on him for reforming Homeworld.
 Villain Decay: When she first appeared she was hinted to be extremely powerful
and dangerous, and easily defeated the Crystal Gems. When she returns
in Future she's not much more than an annoyance. This is due to her losing
everything that actually made her a threat - her wand, her ship, the aid of Topaz, and
most crucially, the full institutional backing of Homeworld and the Diamonds. She
doesn't seem to have any powers of her own beyond her wings, and all she's gained
is a single Ruby partner and a fairly weak fusion, and is defeated without much
difficulty.
 Villain with Good Publicity: Prior to Era 3, she was praised and celebrated for a
time for managing to take down Steven.
 Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Eyeball bicker a fair bit after they un-fuse in
"Bluebird", only to immediately perk up and fuse back together when they remember
how much they both hate Steven.
Eyeball: (sarcastically) Wowie-wow-wow! He is so annoying!
Aquamarine: (overlapping) I hate him so much!
(beat, as the two look at each other)
Both: (happily) I know! Me too!
Steven: (as they fuse again) Are you kidding me??
 Wake-Up Call Boss: Dual Boss version with the Topazes. They mark the first
time the Gems have gone up against an Elite Mook and almost effortlessly beats ALL
of them, including Alexandrite.
 What You Are in the Dark: Despite Aquamarine's pride in herself, she's only
dedicated to appearing to do her mission. When Steven blatantly lies about what kind
of human he is, she chooses to ignore him to get the job done faster. On a more
positive side, though, she was willing to cover up Topaz's disloyalty.
 What Happened to the Mouse?: She and Eyeball run off in "Bluebird", swearing
they'll hate Steven forever, and are never heard from again.
 Winged Humanoid: She can make watery butterfly-like wings sprout from her
back.
 You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!: Pulls a hilariously unimpressed face  when
Steven brings up the possibility of her acting mean out of hidden insecurities.
    Defense Zircon 

Defense Zircon
Voiced by: Amy Sedaris

"This is ridiculous. 4,000 years of loyal service to the court and this is what I get?!"
A blue Homeworld Gem assigned to be Steven's defense attorney in the case of Rose
Quartz shattering Pink Diamond.

 Adorkable: Due to her Nervous Wreck tendencies.

 All There in the Script: "Defense Zircon" is the name the credits use to distinguish
her from the other Zircon.
 Amoral Attorney: Averted; she does her best to get Steven acquitted, even
though they both think he's guilty, but that's just part of her job (for which she'll be
killed if she fails).
 Armor-Piercing Question: Asks several after her Eureka Moment.
 Awesomeness by Analysis: Noticing the discrepancies in Pink Diamond's death
allowed some doubts into thinking Rose Quartz killed her.
 The Cameo: She briefly appears in The Movie during Steven's transmission,
thankfully alive and well.
 Character Tics: Holding her arms behind her back.
 Cheated Angle: Her defining facial feature is her crescent moon-shaped cowl. It
switches positions where it's pointing at. From the side, it looks like it's pointing
straight forward, but when viewed from the front the cowl points either left or right
depending on how she is standing.
 Classy Cravat: She wears one, fitting of a lawyer and with her gem in place of its
tie.
 Cowardly Lion: Despite her understandable nervousness, she still manages to
pull through and turn the case around when things are looking bleak for Steven.
 Determined Defeatist: She knows that the case is hopeless with the Diamonds
serving as the prosecution and Rose Quartz as the defense witness. Defense Zircon
still tries her best.
 Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She accuses the Diamonds of having murdered
Pink Diamond, to their faces.
 Disregard That Statement: After she realizes that she just accused the Diamonds
of shattering Pink Diamond, she attempts to withdraw her own accusation. Yellow
Diamond just crushes her with a single finger.
 Don't Answer That: Tells Steven NOT to confess to the guilty charge. He doesn't
listen.
 Dude, Where's My Respect?: After 4,000 years of service to the Homeworld
court, she cannot believe she's been ordered to be, what they believe, Rose Quartz's
defense attorney — even though she wasn't around to witness Pink Diamond's death,
she knows it's an insurmountable task.
 Earn Your Happy Ending: In "Homeworld Bound", she's seen on what amounts
as a campaign poster, not only confirming that she's safe, but she's running for office
against the other Zircon as well!
 Entertainingly Wrong: A pivotal moment in the show's backstory is the shattering
of Pink Diamond by Rose Quartz. In "The Trial", Steven, who possesses Rose's
Gem, is put on trial by Blue and Yellow Diamond, who want to see "Rose Quartz"
answer for her crimes. During the trial, Defense Zircon realizes that the known details
about the crime don't add up. For starters, how did Rose, by then a known war
criminal, get anywhere near Pink Diamond in the first place? Defense Zircon
concludes that Pink was lured from safety by someone she knew and trusted, and the
only ones she knew, trusted and could have shattered her were the other
Diamonds. "A Single Pale Rose" reveals that Blue Zircon was very close, but would
never have considered the truth: The one responsible for Pink Diamond's
shattering was Pink Diamond herself. She faked the whole thing because she was
Rose Quartz all along and wanted to shed her Diamond persona entirely in favor of
living on Earth.
 Eureka Moment: During a recess in the trial, she talks with Steven and realizes
that the Diamonds are so interested in Steven/Rose telling what happened because
they don't really know, just hearsay from others. She then puts together a solid
defense about why the one who shattered Pink Diamond couldn't have been Rose,
but another Diamond. Unfortunately for Zircon, she is poofed for her troubles.
 Everyone Has Standards: She starts defending Steven in earnest when she
realizes that he is innocent. Defense Zircon believed the case was hopeless and that
 "Rose Quartz" was guilty. She is horrified when Steven explains he isn't Rose but has
her Gem, so he must bear her responsibilities. Then Defense Zircon steps into her
element when she figures out Steven wasn't there at the shattering. Thus the story
makes no sense because no one knows what really happened.
 Expy: Of Phoenix Wright. She is presented with an impossible case, with almost
no information to go on or time to prepare. She spends the first half of her
presentation grasping at straws and the whole court against her, until she discovers a
tiny contradiction, at which point she begins turning the case on its head and in her
favor in a matter of minutes, countering any points made against her client, and
arriving at a ludicrous, yet entirely logical conclusion that hits very close to the truth.
 Fantastic Racism: While presenting her case to the court, she makes some
condescending comments about humans, though she might've just been saying that
to make her speech more flowery and persuasive. Her actual views on humans are
unknown, though they're probably not very positive, considering Homeworld's general
contempt for organic life.
 Gone Horribly Right: She is assigned to defend Steven, who poses as "Rose
Quartz", in a trial before the Diamonds with the penalty of shattering if she loses her
case defending a rebel. She realizes that the reason such a trial is occurring is that
the Diamonds don't know what happened when Rose allegedly killed Pink Diamond,
and makes the case that such a lack of information would be impossible, as Pink
Diamond should have been surrounded by dozens of her members of court and
guards who would have detected Rose, a wanted fugitive. The logical conclusion she
arrives at is that only someone who was already close to Pink Diamond could have
approached her without being suspicion... like another Diamond. Yellow Diamond is
so upset by the accusation that she poofs the Zircon. Possibly subverted in that Blue
Diamond clearly wanted to know more about how Pink died (thus getting what she
wanted) and was upset with Yellow's actions, which may save Zircon from a
shattering.
 Head Desk: She bangs her head repeatedly against a column while Steven is
confessing his "crimes" to Blue Diamond.
 High-Class Glass: Wears a holographic monocle which can spawn other
holographic screens.
 Innocently Insensitive: Since neither Yellow nor Blue shattered Pink Diamond
and they both loved her deeply, Zircon accusing them of shattering her can come
across as this.
 Karmic Jackpot: Blue Diamond charged her with being Rose Quartz's defense
attorney, much to Zircon's consternation. Even though Defense Zircon gets poofed
for accusing the Diamonds of murdering Pink, Blue Diamond saves her and
Prosector Zircon from getting shattered by Yellow Diamond. She's doing much better
by the time Steven enacts his Era 3 reforms.
 Meaningful Name: Zircon is known as a gem associated with giving guidance
where guidance was needed as well as compassion and wisdom. Naturally, Zircon
isn't an Amoral Attorney and noticed that there were a few suspicious details in the
story of how Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond.
 Nervous Wreck: Justified, as she knows if she loses the case, she will be
shattered along with her defendant and her recent client is Rose Quartz (actually
 Steven). However, despite the pressure of the case, she composes herself long
enough to list the reasons how unrealistic Pink Diamond's demise is after figuring out
why it doesn't make sense.
 Nice to the Waiter: Zigzagged. While she is brusque with Steven and even grabs
him at one point to ask him about his testimony, she is much more polite than
previous Homeworld Gems have been to who they think is Rose Quartz. Though she
seems relieved when Steven also says that technically he's innocent because he
carries Rose's gem but is not his mother.
 No Time to Explain: Has little to no time to explain their doomed case.
 Oh, Crap!: Just after she finishes a convincing argument for "Rose's"
innocence and insinuating that a Diamond was responsible for Pink Diamond's
shattering, Yellow Diamond rises from her chair to tower over her. Zircon is
understandably terrified.
 Punch-Clock Hero: The only reason why she's "Rose's"/Steven's lawyer is that
she was assigned to the job. However, she is genuinely helpful and depending on
how you view it, friendly, to Steven as they try to put together their defending case,
and she does seem to put aside the issue of being on opposite sides of a war when
she figures out there's more to the story of how Pink Diamond was shattered, to the
point that she accuses the Diamonds of an inside job.
 Really 700 Years Old: Like all Gems, she is The Ageless and she specifically is
at least 4,000 years old.
 Right for the Wrong Reasons: She's technically right that a Diamond must've
been responsible for Pink Diamond's death, and it is weird that Pink's Pearl didn't do
anything to prevent it. Pink Diamond herself planned her "death" with the help of her
Pearl. Defense Zircon was just wrong that one of the other Diamonds was the one
who shattered her.
 "Shaggy Dog" Story: Her accusation to the Diamonds that they had something to
do with Pink Diamond's death ultimately ended up wrong, as Pink Diamond chose to
"die". Now both Zircons were stuck somewhere on Homeworld in their gem form until
they reformed.
 Shout-Out: Along with the monocle and Gag Nose noted in Prosecuting Zircon's
description, Defense Zircon's nervous mannerisms were based on the screenwriter
character from FILM FILM FILM , a 1968 Soviet animated film that parodied the
filmmaking process.
 Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears in "The Trial", but she reveals that the
circumstances surrounding the shattering of Pink Diamond don't make sense, and
voices that the most likely culprit is not Rose Quartz, but one of the other Diamonds.
She is then immediately poofed by Yellow Diamond. Sure enough, it turns out one of
the Diamonds did "kill" her — Pink Diamond faked her own death to fully take on her
Rose Quartz identity.
 Speech Impediment: Unlike the Prosecuting Zircon, Defense Zircon speaks with
a noticeable lisp.
 Spot the Thread: Notices some suspicious holes in the story of Rose shattering
Pink. Even Steven starts questioning the story as Defense Zircon makes her case,
and recalls it as he goes to ask Pearl for the truth.
  Too Dumb to Live: Maybe accusing your fellow Diamonds wasn't the smartest
idea...
o Although to be fair, it turned out to be partially true... it was neither Blue or
Yellow Diamond (whom she accused) as "A Single Pale Rose" reveals that Pink
Diamond faked her own death to fully take on her Rose Quartz identity.
    Comby 

"Comby"

Voiced by: Lisa Hannigan

"You'll never be alone-y as long as you are combing."

A Pebble shaped like a comb. She sings to Blue Diamond whenever she is combing her
hair, and is put back whenever Blue Diamond doesn't use her.

 All There in the Script: She's only named in the credits.

 And I Must Scream: Averted. She doesn't seem to care much about having to
spend the entirety of her existence singing or sitting in one place. Though looking at
 the other Pebbles, it's possible she can morph to a form that can move but isn't
supposed to.
 Animate Inanimate Object: She's a living, singing comb
 Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: She's sized to Blue Diamond's Brobdingnagian
proportions, making her noticeably larger than the average pebble.
 Bizarre Alien Biology: Pebbles look human in shape, but are much less detailed.
This Pebble is attached to a comb if the comb isn't actually a part of her body.
 Black Bead Eyes: Her eyes are black dots, showing the difference between her
and the other, regular-eyed Pebbles even more.
 Blush Sticker: Comby has permanent blush on her cheeks.
 Broken Record: She always sings the line "You'll never be alone-y as long as you
are combing" over and over.
 Living Emotional Crutch: Her chant suggests Blue Diamond made her to ease
the loneliness from Pink's absence. Though from Blue Diamond's perspective,
Comby's probably more of a Security Blanket that's incidentally living.
 One-Shot Character: She only appears in "Familiar".
 Punny Name: Comby is an adjective used in geology to describe mineral crystal
structures in veins, as in a "comby vein of quartz".
 Significant Double Casting: The only non-Pink Diamond-created Pebble seen in
the show, and the only one voiced by Lisa Hannigan, confirming that life created by a
Diamond shares that Diamond's voice actor, as was the case with the Watermelon
Stevens and Pink's Pebbles.
    The Lazulis 

Nice Lapis and Mean Lapis

Mean Lapis (left), Nice Lapis (right)

Voiced by: Jennifer Paz
A pair of Lapis Lazulis who continue to destroy planets since that was what they were
meant to do.
 Adorkable: Nice Lapis has her hair tied in a little ponytail, has Youthful
Freckles and briefly joins Steven and Lapis dancing until the Mean Lapis shoots a
look at her.
 All There in the Script: They're not referred to as anything but "Lapis Lazuli", but
the credits list the one with freckles and her gem on her abdomen as "Nice Lapis"
and the one with longer hair and her gem on her left arm as "Mean Lapis".
 Creative Sterility: Their water-based attacks are powerful but very simple, until
CG Lapis displays her more elaborate techniques and they begin copying her.
 Defeat Means Respect: After Lapis shows them how much more powerful she is
compared to them, they stop making fun of her and agree to follow her orders.
Deconstructed, as they don't respect Lapis' values, just her "strength",
which annoys Lapis since she considers her show of power to be a weakness.
 Evil Counterpart: Both qualify as this for "our" Lapis, since they destroy planets
just because, unlike Lapis who only stole the Earth's oceans to get home and
eventually felt remorse for the planets she terraformed off-screen. Mean Lapis
especially, since she doesn't pull a Heel–Face Turn like her cohort.
 Immortal Immaturity: They're immortal beings, and they look and act like petty
teenagers who relentlessly mock and insult our Lapis.
 Jerkass: Mean Lapis discourages Nice Lapis from dancing and mocks Crystal
Gem Lapis for singing and dancing "like Pearls". She overall has an unpleasant
attitude, refuses to go to Little Homeschool, and acts condescendingly towards Steven
Universe. It's no wonder she's called Mean Lapis.
 Making a Splash: Like all Lapis Lazulis, they can control water, which they often
use as powerful water jet cutters to tear apart terrain.
 Minion with an F in Evil: It's made clear that "Nice Lapis" isn't actually malicious
and is simply submissive to her friend's influence.
 Obliviously Evil: They aren't really malevolent and don't seem to understand the
damage they're causing, simply continuing to terraform planets because it's what
they're made for and see no reason to stop.
 One-Shot Character: "Why So Blue?" is their only appearance.
 Regal Ringlets: Mean Lapis has curls at the end of her hair and a haughty
attitude.
 Rogue Agent: Even after the end of the Diamonds' conquest, they're still
devastating worlds because it's what they're used to. Despite being respected as on
par with the Diamonds, Steven can't convince them to stop peacefully.
 What Happened to the Mouse?: Mean Lapis doesn't show up to Little Homeworld
at the end of her debut episode like Nice Lapis does, and is not seen or mentioned
again.
Pearl
Voiced by: Deedee Magno-Hall

"I will fight in the name of Rose Quartz,

and everything that she believed in!"
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"Humans just live short, boring, insignificant lives, so they make up stories to feel like they're part of something
bigger. They want to blame all the world's problems on a single enemy they can fight, instead of a complex network
of interrelated forces beyond anyone's control."

A perfectionist and intellectual strategist, Pearl is the mental powerhouse of the Gems.
She strives for structure and logic and gets easily flustered when things don't go as
planned. She is driven to keep things orderly, and is most protective of Steven. The
slightest hint of endangering Rose's son will immediately result in Pearl seeking to get
him to safety. She also is a little nervous, has some trouble speaking emotionally when
others are upset, and is a little quietly resentful that her strengths are not ones Steven
considers admirable.

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 Absurdly Sharp Blade: Pearl's spear is able to cleanly slice through solid stone.
 Ace Custom: She did the customizing. Her kind are a made-to-order Servant Race that's
just supposed to stand around and look pretty, with Peridot even referring to her as a
"model", but her training and equipment have made her much more powerful than her fellow
 Pearls. Just ask the two Quartz Gems she curbstomped in Blue Diamond's court. It also
seems other Pearls are specifically designed to match their owner, while Pearl spends a long
time regenerating to change her look to her preferences.
o This is best contrasted to when she is reset to her default state in the movie. It's
revealed that the owners of Pearls can customize them before they "appear" and identify their
owner by name. Given the confusion, Pearl instead appears in her default form, that of a happy
servant/advisor though with Greg as her master. Her memory is restored when Greg and
Steven fuse and use The Power of Rock to remind her of her growth.
 Adorkable: Starts to blush and stutter when she's proven wrong or called out.
o It's revealed in Steven Universe Future that her favorite song is a radio jingle for a
local auto-repair shop.
 Ambiguous Disorder: Pearl displays many personality traits typically associated
with autism: being Literal-Minded (beyond the extent of the other Gems) and Innocently
Insensitive (even with her own people, not just humans, there’s a sense of personal isolation
because of the way she happens to perceive things and how she acts), having a need for
logic, order and consistency; letting anxiety take over in stressful situations, and abundant
enthusiasm for explaining things she's interested in (such as Gem history to Steven). Her
emotive quirks (spinning, handflapping, extravagant gestures and visual communicative aids
[via her holograms]) also stand out. With Jasper's comment in "The Return" that Pearl is
"defective", the neurodiversity connection seems more and more deliberate. Her actions
in "Sworn to the Sword" indicate she may also have a form of PTSD.
 Animal Motif: Pearl has several bird-like traits, though not blatantly obvious. Her very
pointed, beakish nose is the most noticeable, along with her hair which somewhat resembles
the crest of a blue jay or cardinal. Her pearl gem on her forehead looks like an egg, and
Steven even tried incubating it like one when Pearl was recovering. Pearl's whole body is
long and reedy like a crane's, and her ballet dancing could evoke a connection to Swan Lake.
Amethyst refers to her nagging as "squawking". Last but not least, her protectiveness of
Steven makes it easy to call Pearl a "mother hen".
 Anime Hair: Her hair, when viewed from the side, looks like a triangle.
 Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
o Pearl's weapon is a stick with a point at the end. Pearl herself is a stick with a
point at the end. Her face is also the same oval shape as her gemstone.
o Her pointed hair is shaped somewhat like a rose bud, evoking the name of Rose
Quartz, the Gem she dedicated herself to serving.
 Bad Liar: She gets very visibly nervous when lying.
 Badass Bookworm: Pearl is shown to be quite knowledgeable in engineering, as she
was able to repair and upgrade Greg's destroyed van and was able to construct a spaceship
out of scrap. It is possible that Pearl is the most educated of the Crystal Gems, since she
seems to excel in aeronautics and aerospace engineering as well.
 Badass Driver: Pulls off impressive tricks in Greg's Dondai when evading the cops on
the way to a rock show in "Last One Out of Beach City".
 Badass Gay: By virtue of her physical and mental prowess and her romantic feelings  
for another Gem, Pearl definitely qualifies. Granted, she's of the discount variety (due to
being a sexless alien who only appears to be female), but still. She later has an instant and
gigantic crush on a human girl who looks startlingly like Rose Quartz.
 Badass Teacher: As of "Sworn to the Sword", Pearl begins teaching Connie about
swordsmanship.
 Badly Battered Babysitter: She is comically inept with Onion on her own, although she
does much better as part of Rainbow 2.0.
  Battle Butler: She's incredibly skilled at fighting, and not just for someone who was made
to serve others.
 Beautiful Slave Girl: Like all Pearls, our Pearl was made to stand around and look pretty
as a status symbol for higher-class Gems. However, thanks to Rose Quartz she's managed
to grow beyond this, becoming a skilled engineer and warrior. Though she is shown to still be
struggling with the after-effects of her past as one of these. But in "A Single Pale Rose", it's
revealed that she served Pink Diamond, who turned into Rose Quartz. That's why she's so
loyal to Rose.
 Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied. According to Pearl, Rose made her feel like she
was "everything". Given that she was supposed to be Rose's slave when she was Pink
Diamond but that Rose treated her like a confidant and an equal instead, this is justified.
 Berserk Button:
o Untidiness, which is Played for Laughs.
o On a more serious note, casting doubt on her relationship with Rose, as
evidenced by her reaction in "Rose's Scabbard" when she discovers that Rose hadn't truly
confided all of her secrets in her.
o Being discriminated because she's a pearl. It earned Peridot a punch in the face.
 Betty and Veronica: The "Betty" (Rose's bodyguard and very first ally in the war against
Homeworld) to Greg's "Veronica" (aspiring human musician) for Rose's "Archie".
 Beware the Nice Ones: She is very sweet to the people she likes, and it takes quite a lot
to make her mad. But in "Back to the Barn", Peridot begins picking on her for being created
as a made-to-order servant. Pearl gets very ticked off at that, starting the episode off with a
very angry speech towards her.
Pearl: Now you listen here you tiny twerp! In case you've forgotten, you're on OUR turf now, and I did NOT
fight a thousand-year war to take orders from the likes of YOU!

o Near the end of that same episode, Pearl finally gets enough of Peridot's teasing,
and gives her one HELL of a right hook.
 Bifauxnen: Not in her normal attire, of course, but she certainly looks this way whenever
she wears male-oriented outfits (i.e. a tuxedo).
 Birds of a Feather: With Connie. Both are intelligent, have an attention to detail, and
have a tendency to be overly hard on themselves in the face of perceived failure.
 Blade on a Stick: Her Weapon of Choice, summoned from the gem in her forehead.
Bismuth upgrades it to a trident.
 Blood Knight: Pearl is occasionally shown to have a gleeful love of battle.
 Blow You Away: In "Sworn to the Sword", Pearl is able to channel clouds in the direction
of her choice — having the channel towards her when fighting Connie and away from her
when Steven interfered.
 Blush Sticker: Prone to a blue-colored blush of this variety, as well as a Luminescent
Blush. Sometimes used to indicate a Crush Blush when talking about Rose, or just to express
embarrassment or frustration.
 Bodyguarding a Badass:
o Deconstructed; Pearl tried to act as a bodyguard to Rose, but she got herself
involved in fights she could not win, even though Rose could have handled
them. Reconstructed as well; when your feared bodyguard is a lowly Pearl, it speaks volumes
about just how serious a threat you are.
o Taken up to eleven when she reveals she's actually Pink Diamond's personal
Pearl, and Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond! She was bodyguarding one of the four
most powerful Gems in the universe. Also justified, since Rose being poofed would have
exposed her original identity.
  Boom Stick: Pearl's spear can fire energy blasts in quick succession. She can charge it
for a sizable explosion. A sufficiently agile or skilled opponent can dodge them, though.
 Boyish Short Hair: Inverted. Pearl's hair doesn't even reach her shoulders, but she's the
most feminine of the Crystal Gems.
 Bratty Teenage Daughter: Flashbacks shows Pearl acting like this when she was
younger, mostly towards Greg. She even looked the part.
 Broken Bird: Pearl suffers from a lot of confidence issues, always desperate to prove
that she's smart and right. Her unhealthy and obsessive relationship with Rose was her
validation and emotional pillar for many millennia. Losing Rose has not been easy for her,
especially now that she has to be that pillar for the likes of Steven and Amethyst. "Cry for
Help" seems to indicate that she has a bit of an inferiority complex as well. She knows that
she's physically weaker than Rose, Garnet, and even Amethyst. That normally doesn't bother
her, but being fused with Garnet gave her a Power High and reminded her of how weak she
is. When Rose was around, her undying loyalty and eagerness to do anything she wanted
made up for it. Rose's death hit her the hardest, and she's still trying to cope with it.
 The Champion: Deconstructed. Pearl was Rose's most loyal and devoted follower.
However, that devotion had its darker (and obsessive) side: Pearl would often put herself in
needless danger in order to assure Rose's safety, despite Rose being very vocal about not
wanting Pearl to do so. And now that Rose is gone, Pearl is struggling with coming to terms
with it and deciding what to do with her life after spending the last thousands of years
dedicating it to serve Rose.
 Character Development:
o Pearl gradually learns to accept who she is. For example, note her different
reactions to being "a Pearl" in "Friend Ship" and "Back to the Barn".
o While she's still fairly serious, Pearl has become more open to having fun or
telling jokes.
o Out of her friends, Pearl had the most indifference towards humans, making her
the biggest Noble Bigot of them all. However, "Last One Out of Beach City" has
her intentionally befriending humans in order to move on from the past.
o She verbally acknowledges Rose’s flaws in "Now We’re Only Falling Apart", a
major contrast to earlier in the series when Pearl put her on such a high pedestal.
o At the end of "Reunited", with Steven's help she finally snaps out of her "Do it for
her/him" complete devotion, and starts fighting harder while shouting "I do it for ME!"
 Characterization Marches On:
o Later episodes have firmly established that Pearl doesn't like to eat, considering
the whole process to be gross and uncomfortable; however, several early episodes seemed to
suggest otherwise, as she was willing to join in on a meal Steven made in "Together
Breakfast" and was happy to take what she thought was an offer for pie in "So Many Birthdays".
A comment on a crew member's Twitter gave the latter a Hand Wave by explaining that she
likes the process of pie (as in baking).
o In some earlier episodes, Pearl acted more childish and less maternal, closer to
her characterization in the pilot.
 Cheated Angle: Because Pearl's most distinguished facial feature is her conical nose,
her face is rarely shown from the front; her model sheet ◊ doesn't even have a front view.
Even when the rest of her face seems to be pointing directly at the camera, her nose is
slightly turned to one direction ◊ or another ◊. One time we're shown a horizontally centered
low shot, it's (very deliberately) strange-looking ◊. In her song "It's Over, Isn't It?", Pearl has
an entire 360-degree spinning shot focused on her, and they still manage to never have her
look directly at the camera.
  Chick Magnet: Between the episodes "Last One Out of Beach City" and "A Single Pale
Rose", she has apparently managed to get at least nine different women to give her their
phone numbers. She's also had at least one male admirer in Bill Dewey. In Future, Pink
Pearl/Volleyball seems to have a certain chemistry with Pearl, and it turns out Bismuth has
been nursing a crush on her for quite a while.
 Clingy Jealous Girl: Oh boy, Pearl's obsessive clinginess towards Rose is... truly
something else.
o She was quite proud knowing that Rose confided in her alone the location of
some of her deepest secrets, but when Steven reveals that Lion had already showed it to him,
she became very upset by the fact that Rose hadn't truly confided everything in her and takes it
out on Steven in "Rose's Scabbard".
o In "Story for Steven", she reacts to Rose showing interest in Greg by jealously
pointing out that she can sing too.
o In "We Need to Talk", she fuses with Rose into Rainbow Quartz just to spite Greg
and rub it in that he will never be able to fuse with Rose like she can. She tells him he's just a
"phase", and is visibly distraught when her claim gets disproven.
o While she's on better terms with Greg in the present, she appears to still harbor
some resentment towards him subconsciously, as seen in her dream in "Chille Tid" where she
tells Rose to "forget about Greg" so they could travel the galaxy together.
o The depths of her obsessive jealousy are explored in "Mr. Greg", where we learn
Greg was the latest in a long string of male lovers Rose had. Pearl didn't mind the other men as
they were phases and she assumed Rose would eventually choose her because First Girl
Wins. Pearl was never able to accept that Rose made a definitive, final choice, and it was to be
with Greg and not her. By the end of the episode, Pearl and Greg are working on building a true
friendship.
o Deconstructed following "A Single Pale Rose" where it's revealed she
was made to love Pink Diamond/Rose Quartz with all her heart and spend her life with Rose, so
losing Rose is a literal ongoing existential crisis for her.
 Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Subverted. As a defective Pearl, she has the
colors of all the Diamonds, White, Yellow, Blue and Pink, thus cannot belong to any one
master.
o It ends up being Double Subverted as she's still Pink Diamond's Pearl, just... with
a new form, good enough to deceive other Gems from a glance (it was enough to fool Jasper,
after all). She was not, however, Pink Diamond's original Pearl. She was a replacement given
to Pink Diamond after Pink Pearl got too familiar with her.
 Condescending Compassion:
o A lot of her attempts to comfort Steven over his Power Incontinence come off as
this. In "An Indirect Kiss", Steven even says it feels like she's saying they don't want anything to
do with him.
o It even extends to interactions outside of Steven, such as her initial attempt to
comfort Amethyst after their fight in "On the Run".
 The Confidant:
o In "Rose's Scabbard", it's revealed she was privy to secrets Rose kept from the
other Crystal Gems. It hits her rather hard when she learns that Rose still had secrets known to
no one, not even Pearl (specifically, Lion's existence, and the secrets physically contained
inside him).
o It turns a little justified as one of those secrets that not even Pearl could
handle turns out to be Bismuth's betrayal.
o Raised Up to Eleven in "A Single Pale Rose", where we discover that Pearl was
the only person who knew the Rose's true identity as Pink Diamond.
  Control Freak: Pearl will immediately become comically distressed if something is
asymmetrical.
 Cool Sword: She has a sword collection, and "Steven the Sword Fighter" shows that she
can fight quite well with them. However, her Weapon of Choice is still her spear, though she
can change its length and use it as a sword. Flashbacks to the war show that she used to
fight with the saber she wields when training Steven and Connie.
 Cry Cute: When she gets emotional. Unless Steven's life is in danger, in which case it
quickly becomes Inelegant Blubbering.
 Cultured Badass: Pearl is the most enthusiastic when discussing Gem culture to Steven.
She can also play the violin and collects swords as a hobby.
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 Dance Battler: She incorporates ballet into her fighting style.

 Dark and Troubled Past: Poor Pearl has had a lot of pain in her life. Seen as nothing
more than a bauble in the eyes of her Homeworld's society, having to fight a war that affected
the emotional levels of all the Gems involved, and the loss of the person she loved most.
o Considering Rose and Pink Diamond were one and the same and she was her
Pearl, she saw when Pink came up with her “Rose Quartz” disguise and decided to start a
rebellion on her own colony. Then saw how after Pink’s wishes were ignored by her fellow
Diamonds, she came up with the drastic plan to fake her own shattering. This caused her
enough trauma to keep her from using her shapeshifting powers ever again. Then seeing most
of her friends be forcibly mutated.
 Deconstructed Character Archetype:
o Of someone with an Inferiority Superiority Complex. Pearl's ego is frail due to
how she lived in Homeworld where those of her Gem class were considered mere "pretty
decoration" and status symbols, and her confidence was maintained and grew thanks to Rose's
presence. But, once Rose was gone, most of Pearl's confidence took a nose dive. She doesn't
know how to act naturally confident without using someone else to project herself her own
issues on. This come ahead in "Cry for Help".
o Of someone with Undying Loyalty. Pearl was Rose's closest confidant and
bodyguard and kept all her secrets, including the nature of her Secret Identity. Everything she
did of her own choice was to serve Rose, because she loved her so much. She would have
happily stayed by Rose's side for the rest of eternity—but without Rose, Pearl is completely lost
and has no idea what her purpose is in life, because she has built so much of her identity, if not
her entire identity, around being so devoted to her Diamond.
Pearl: Everything I ever did...I did for her. Now she's gone, but I'm still here.

 Defrosting Ice Queen:

o Pearl was apparently much more dismissive of humans in the past, and used to
be particularly nasty to Greg because she saw him as a rival for Rose's affection. Losing Rose
and raising Steven has softened her up quite a bit.
o This can also be seen in her relationship with Amethyst. They start off
antagonistic towards each other but throughout the series there's a visible, gradual change in
their demeanors when interacting, particularly after the events of "On the Run", that shows
them growing closer and coming to accept their differences.
o Pearl has been the most aloof and dismissive towards Greg, mostly because of
his romance with Rose. Even after having Steven, she is still somewhat frosty towards him. It
isn't until "Mr. Greg", when Steven has them talk about their issues with each other, does she
begin to warm up to him.
  Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "Mr. Greg" explores just how lost Pearl feels
without Rose by her side, wondering what to do with herself. Becomes more important in the
episode "A Single Pale Rose" where we learn truly Pearl's devotion is a very part of her core
being, her design, and she truly lost what was defined as her purpose when Rose gave birth
to Steven.
 Determinator: Her song in "Sworn to the Sword", Jasper's remarks, and Peridot's
explanation of what a Pearl is meant to do signifies that Pearl was not made to be a warrior
(and may in fact be a "defective" Gem), but through her sheer obsessive desire to protect
Rose at any cost, she became a powerful and skilled swordsmaster.
 Devoted to You: Pearl was vastly devoted to Rose, and by extension, her cause, to the
point of being unhealthy and obsessive. Given how Rose was actually Pink Diamond and
what we know of Pearls, this devotion is actually a feature of Pearl, inherent to her.
 Dishing Out Dirt: In the episode, Giant Woman telekinetically controls sand to illustrate to
Steven how she and Garnet's Fusion Dance works.
 Ditzy Genius: Pearl is a knowledgeable Gem who can build things like rockets when she
has the right tools. Too bad her concept of sensitivity is subpar.
 Dramatically Missing the Point:
o Though Pearl was the closest to Rose and knew her better than anyone else,
she doesn't seem to personally understand the majority of her beliefs. While she does work to
defend all life on Earth in honor of everything that Rose stood for, her character quote
nonetheless shows a striking contrast between her and Rose's attitudes towards organic life.
o On a more personal level, why her and Rose did not work out like she wanted it
to: Because Pearl is a servant first and foremost, it's how she frames her relationship toward
Rose/Pink Diamond. She clearly indulged in the position of Rose's confidant and being treated
equally, but Pearl never grasped what Pink Diamond was looking for in an equal partner Pink
wanted someone to love her for who she was and out of choice while Pearl put her on a
pedestal and later it's heavily implied that she was made to love Pink, replacing her original Pink
Pearl. While she was not blind to her faults, she was pretty content with what they have while
Pink was looking for more, to change, and to grow. It's ulimately why Rose chose to be with
Greg as the latter demanded to be treated with respect in equal and helped Rose grow and
become better, empathizing with her better than Pearl ever could. Even now, it appears she
has not grasped what was it Pink really wanted, or at least, does not fully understand.
 The Dreaded: "The Answer" reveals she was this to the Homeworld Gems during the
rebellion, with Garnet referring to her as Rose's "terrifying renegade Pearl". The fact she
curbstomped two Quartz Gems shows why.
 Dual Tonfas: In the "Too Cool For School" graphic novel, she summons these to block
debris sent flying towards her.
 Dual Wielding: While most of the time she uses a single spear, a flashback to the early
days of the Crystal Gems shows that she used to fight very effectively with a pair of swords.
 Eternal Love:
o Between her and Rose Quartz. Confirmed by "Rose's Scabbard", and given
Rose's responses in the flashback/hologram, according to Rebecca Sugar her feelings weren't
unrequited.
o Alluded to between Pearl and Garnet, as well. Pearl quickly turns to Garnet as a
source of safety and comfort, and their dance in "Alone Together" has definite romantic/sexual
overtones (a close and intimate tango that ends with Garnet pinning Pearl against a wall while
Pearl blushes).
  Expressive Hair: Her hair droops and becomes noticeable disheveled when she gets
stabbed in the gut. It also sticks straight up when she panics in "Say Uncle", and "So Many
Birthdays".
 Fatal Flaw:
o Pearl's selfishness in wanting to feel special has indirectly hurt others (Steven
in "Rose's Scabbard", and Connie in "Sworn to the Sword"). It finally bites her back in "Cry for
Help", when she keeps rebuilding the communication hub in order to fuse with Garnet, so she
can feel Garnet's confidence and created a giant rift between all three Gems for four episodes.
o Her Innocently Insensitive nature has led to major problems with other characters
— it made Steven once think that she doesn't care about him ("An Indirect Kiss"), had Amethyst
believe that Pearl considered her a mistake ("On the Run"), and nearly had Connie throw away
her self-esteem ("Sworn to the Sword").
o A subtle one, but Pearl has a habit of having an frame-set of obsessing over the
past. It makes her unable to move forward in a productive manner. "Last One Out of Beach
City" has her actively trying to resolve this flaw so she can move on. It seems to be working,
considering in the episode she willingly went to a concert with Amethyst and Steven as well as
crushed on and got the number of a woman (admittedly one who looks like a human Rose gone
wild, but it's a step in the right direction).
 Fat and Skinny: The skinny one with Amethyst.
 Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Mage of the group, who uses the most conventional magical
abilities.
 First Love: She was Pink Diamond's.
 Foil:
o Pearl and Amethyst play off each other by being opposites in every respect.
Pearl is well-mannered, dainty, hard-working, and protective; Amethyst is a slob, ill-mannered,
lazy, fun-loving, and irresponsible. Physically, Pearl is skinny while Amethyst is fat. Amethyst's
weapon is flexible and crushes while Pearl's is rigid and pierces. Their differences can even be
seen in the way they sit ◊.
Steven: Where did you get these? I thought they stopped making them!
Pearl: Well, we heard that too, and since they're your favorite...
Amethyst: We went out and stole a bunch!
Pearl: [annoyed grunt] I went back and paid for them.

o To Steven, as two gems that are arguably the closest to Rose. Steven barely
knows his own mother since by definition his birth means that she cannot exist at the same
time, but comes to be genuinely inspired by Rose's ideals and love for everyone. Pearl loved
Rose and believed herself to be the gem that knew her the most, but mainly fought out of a
blindly obsessive loyalty towards Rose rather than necessarily believing in the same ideals (at
first, at least).
o To Blue Diamond. Both are mourning someone, the same person in fact. While
Pearl seemed to be obsessed with Rose at first, she eventually grew out of it and moved on.
Blue, on the other hand, still heavily mourns Pink Diamond to this day, and is basically what
would have happened if Pearl didn't let go of her obsession.
 Force and Finesse: The finesse to Amethyst's force.
 Forgetful Jones: If you take note throughout the series, you'll notice that Pearl can
actually be quite forgetful sometimes. Must be where Opal gets it from...
 Freudian Trio: Of the Gems who were close to Pink Diamond, Spinel (Id) follows her
desires for Revenge and attempts to destroy Earth after having Gone Mad From The
 Isolation, Crystal Gem Pearl (Superego) is The Smart Guy of the Crystal Gems, and Pink
Pearl/Volleyball (Ego) has a balanced and playful personality.
 From Nobody to Nightmare: In "The Answer", Garnet tells Steven that Pearl was
genuinely terrifying to other Gems, apparently not just despite, but rather because she was a
"mere" Pearl who had made herself into a deadly threat to the Rebellion's enemies.
o And this was when it was just her and Rose trying to scare every gem off the
planet.
 Gadgeteer Genius: On multiple occasions, Pearl has demonstrated a high level of skill in
mechanical engineering, ranging from reverse-engineering Flask Robonoids to constructing a
combat-ready robot in a moment's notice, as well as constructing a rocket in an attempt to
leave Earth, proving herself able to compete with an "expert" mechanic such as Peridot.
 Gag Nose: Pearl has a very long, triangular nose that protrudes almost straight outward.
Played with in that while it is deliberately silly looking, no one comments on it, nor does it
keep other characters from finding her attractive.
 Gagging on Your Words: Whenever Pink Diamond is brought up in conversation, she is
prone to cover her mouth. While at first it comes across as a nervous tic brought on by war
memories, "Gemcation" implies that it is something ingrained into her to an almost pavlovian
degree, actively getting in the way of her talking about it to Steven. In "A Single Pale Rose", it
is revealed that her owner Rose Quartz (who was actually Pink Diamond this whole time)
gave her her last decree as a Diamond — to tell no one the truth about her identity —
complete with having her cover her mouth with her hands as she did so.
 Giant Waist Ribbon: Her second outfit sports one.
 Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's a Lipstick Lesbian... as well as a swordfighter,
engineer, and veteran of a thousand year war. And her most-worn piece of formalwear is a
tuxedo.
 Good Is Not Nice: Pearl may be dedicated to defending the Earth and humankind, but
her condescending nature towards both is not a positive trait and actually gets on people's
nerves.
 Green-Eyed Monster: She used to be very jealous of Greg and Rose's relationship,
having wanted Rose to love her exclusively and constantly obsessing over her. Her dream
vignette in "Chille Tid" shows that, subconsciously, Pearl still views Greg as the thing that
came between her and Rose. Her relations with him are often somewhat strained as a
result. "Mr. Greg" has the two talk about their issues, and she seems to be getting better
about this.
 Grew Beyond Their Programming:
o Pearls as a whole are meant to be servants or ornaments for other Gems. The
Crystal Gem Pearl is a Master Swordsman, engineering genius, and is her own master, treated
as an equal by her fellow Gems (though, as "Friend Ship" showed, she's struggling with that
last part). Jasper outright calls her defective for being more than what a pearl is supposed to
be. When she first started becoming "defective" she confronted her master, Pink Diamond,
about it, telling her that she needed to be replaced immediately. When Pink said no to the
request, Pearl told her about how she fantasizes about living a different life, one where she was
just a runaway Pearl living free on Earth with Rose Quartz, and then all but demanded that Pink
order her to stop acting defective. Pink instead ordered her to never stop. The freedom aspect
of the trope is ultimately subverted in that Pearl never stopped serving the person she was
made for.
o While not able to directly defy Rose when she gave an order as Pink Diamond,
eventually Pearl managed to work around the order in "A Single Pale Rose" to completely
subvert it.
  Happiness in Slavery: Downplayed. Since Rose Quartz was actually her owner Pink
Diamond the whole time, there's a lot more ambiguity whether Pearl joining the rebellion was
ever her fighting for her own freedom or just doing what would make her owner happy.
Episodes like "Mr. Greg" imply it's a bit of both, as she talks about both freedom and Rose's
attention in turn as positives. Similarly, flashbacks imply Rose herself never really wanted
Pearl to be her slave, encouraging Pearl when she had thoughts of her own and calling her

"My Pearl", which according to  Word of God is how Gems refer to
a superior (such as "My Diamond").
 Has a Type: Prior to "Last One Out of Beach City", Pearl has shown no attraction to
anyone, Gem or Human, other than Rose Quartz. In that episode, Pearl quickly develops an
obvious crush on a tall woman with a curvy build and pink hair. Steven calls this out as soon
as they get back to the car. "Now We're Only Falling Apart" also reveals Pearl's the one who
came up with her beloved Rose Quartz's appearance originally.
Steven: Okay, nobody's going to say it? She kinda looked like Mom. You noticed. I noticed. We all noticed.

 Heart Is an Awesome Power: Since she was originally designed to be a simple

courtesan servant, at first she only had the ability to create holograms. To work around this,
Pearl created a holographic double to practice her swordfighting and became skilled enough
to Curbstomp quartz Super Soldiers. She has also somehow retooled her light
manipulation to fire laser beams, which is either a rare ability or something she developed
over time based on Bismuth's reaction.
 Heartbroken Badass: Pearl is still grieving over Rose's "death", though she is trying to
get beyond it for her own sake.
 Hidden Depths:
o She often acts overconfident, but "Coach Steven" reveals a lot of insecurity on
her part when it comes to being physically strong.
o In "Space Race", she is shown to miss space travel very much; her desire to
return to space severely impairs her judgement skills, which is demonstrated when her attempt
to fly Steven and herself to space almost gets the both of them killed.
o She was also revealed to have been deeply in love with Rose Quartz, and still
misses her dearly because of this. She had a Heroic BSoD in one episode when she realizes
that Rose kept secrets from her as well.
 Hologram: Her gem can project holograms, made of Hard Light as necessary, and this
appears to be an ability unique to Pearls if not Pearl herself. Notably, she has made
hologram clones of herself to fight (usually used for training), a very detailed hologram of
Rose, and has been shown to unconsciously project her dreams while sleeping. And once, to
cheat at volleyball.
 Hot-Blooded: She loses her normally calm demeanor whenever she gets enthusiastic
about something, which is fairly frequently.
 Hypocrite:
o Pearl criticizes Amethyst for bringing Steven into wrestling (or what she deems a
"circle of violence"). However, she has been revealed to be a Blood Knight who still revels in
the war.
o She reasoned Rose keeping secrets away from the other Gems with her as
having been for "their own good", and keeps a lot of secrets from Steven, but she got extremely
upset when she discovered that she was on the receiving end of some of Rose's secrecy as
well.
o Pearl stresses at one point that fusion should be used for deadly situations.
However, a flashback shows Pearl fusing with Rose just to make Greg jealous, and, to a more
dramatic extent, Pearl kept repairing the Communication Hub in order to trick Garnet into fusing
into Sardonyx so that Pearl could feel Garnet's confidence and perfect relationship.
o Pearl tells Greg about how Fusion is the ultimate connection between Gems.
Ignoring how Fusion was originally seen as little more than a battle/utility tactic, Pearl uses it to
exploit her partners to validate herself. She just used it with Rose to make Greg jealous,
and would later do the same to Garnet to feel her confidence.
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 I Just Want to Be Badass: Along with wanting to be unique, Pearl also wishes to be
physically strong like Garnet and Amethyst.
 I Just Want to Be Special: Pearl's incredibly low self-esteem stems from her intense
desire to be unique.
 Inferiority Superiority Complex: She acts haughty and self-assured, especially in regards
to humans. In reality, she's deeply insecure about her strength and her desire to be special.
This likely comes from the fact that she's a member of a Servant Race on Homeworld.
 Informed Ability: Mentioned being able to shapeshift as early in "Cat Fingers", but has
never been shown to use it.
o In "A Single Pale Rose", the reason why she doesn't shapeshift is revealed. The
last time Pearl shapeshifted, it was to assist Pink Diamond staging her shattering, and this led
to the Diamonds retaliating with corruption, with nearly everyone Pearl knew being afflicted.
o In "Snow Day" she surprises Steven by willingly shapeshifting to play Steven
Tag, implying that she is starting to work through this trauma.
 Innocently Insensitive: Doesn't pick up much on what Steven or other humans say or
think until she steps over the line.
o She was unable to realize how upset Amethyst was about her origins.
o She said her quote above about how humans' lives aren't meaningful to Steven,
who is half-human, and would have been most likely hurt and insulted by her statement had he
not been concerned with Ronaldo at the time.
o When Steven is feeling guilty over trusting Peridot, Pearl tries to console the
upset Steven, but the reaction he has on his face clearly shows that she only made things
worse.
Garnet: This is no time for feeling horrible!
Pearl: That's right. You can feel horrible all you want back at the temple.
 Insecure Love Interest: "Sworn to the Sword" has Pearl using a song and Connie as
frames, to indirectly refer to herself as a "nothing" when in comparison to Rose, whom she
deeply loved.
 Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Seems to hold this opinion of Earth. She is the most
reluctant to indulge in Earth-based culture, and jumps at the chance to leave in "Space
Race". This seems to come less from actually looking down on Earth and more from having
been there for so long that she feels trapped there, as she planned to come back (relatively)
soon, and has expressed in "Serious Steven" that she finds the Earth beautiful. "Rose's
 Scabbard" revealed that her main reason behind her decision to stay on Earth was to be with
Rose.
 Insufferable Genius: Pearl is not insufferable most of the time, social skills
notwithstanding, but she's not used to being wrong and gets agitated when told that she is.
 Interspecies Romance: She (a Gem) gains a crush on Mystery Girl (a human).
 Ironic Name: Pearl is the Crystal Gem who keeps herself most separate from humans
and even hates eating because she finds the process so disgusting. And yet, her namesake
gem is an animal byproduct. Pearls are partially organic, being mostly made of nacre (a
composite of a mineral and oyster proteins) and natural pearls usually have a core made of
organic tissue — it's basically how oysters isolate parasites and prevent wounds from
becoming infected.
 Irony:
o Despite knowing what it was like to be treated as weak by other Gems because
she's a pearl, one would think Pearl would have the greatest empathy for humans. Turns out,
she has the most apathy for them. It's sort of justified in that Pearl was never treated badly as a
servant.
o "The Answer" reveals that the extremely insecure Pearl was The Dreaded for the
Homeworld Gems.
o Pearl is shown to have the most bigoted views on humans throughout most of
the series. Come season four, she now has a mutual attraction with a female human.
 Jerkass Has a Point: As snobbish and condescending as she can be, when she states
something with her Brutal Honesty, she usually has a valid point.
o While Pearl's above character quote was condescending and bigoted towards
humans, she wasn't wrong in suggesting that Ronaldo's actions are mostly done because he
wants to feel important. And despite the harshness of her words, she's not incorrect in pointing
out that humans often have elevated perceptions of their own importance and ability, as well as
their tendencies to scapegoat in situations beyond anyone's capability to control.
o It was a hurtful statement, but in "Rose's Scabbard", Pearl was technically right
about Steven knowing nothing about his mother, something he himself acknowledges in "Lars
and the Cool Kids" and "An Indirect Kiss".
o Her angry outburst at Connie for working with Steven to defeat the Holo-Pearls
in "Sworn to the Sword" was out of line (not to mention her spending the entire episode
worsening Connie's already low self-esteem), but she made a good point: Steven won't always
be there to protect Connie from danger.
o Her conversation with Greg in "We Need to Talk" was obviously a jealously-
motivated attempt to discourage him from pursuing Rose. Even so, she was never lying about
how little Greg knew about Rose, nor the fact that his relationship with her at the time was just
another "phase", which prompted Greg to have an important "defining the relationship"
conversation with Rose.
o In "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies", Pearl argues that the Crystal Gems should
stay in Beach City, despite attracting dangerous corrupted Gems, because they were there
first. As callous as she puts it, the people of Beach City were the ones who chose to move
and/or stay there despite the clear and obvious danger.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. Pearl displays the most traits of a Noble
Bigot and has a hard time taking people's feelings into consideration, but she loves her
friends and has made an oath to protect the planet Earth from Homeworld.
 Kick the Dog:
o During Pearl's Heroic BSoD in "Rose's Scabbard", she snaps at Steven for
suggesting why Rose would keep secrets from Pearl specifically, gives him a nasty Death
Glare when he calls to her, and she doesn't bother helping him when he's dangling on a
mountain.
o For the almost entirety of "Sworn to the Sword", Pearl basically teaches an
already insecure Connie to think of herself as less important than Steven.
o In the Whole Episode Flashback "We Need to Talk", a young
Pearl deliberately fuses with Rose in an attempt to make a young Greg insecure in his
relationship with her. Then, she smugly tells Greg to his face that he'll never have a true bond
with Rose.
 Killer Rabbit: Pearl-type Gems are supposed to be harmless, weak, decorative servants.
This Pearl isn't, to the point she was known as "Rose's terrifying renegade Pearl".
 The Kirk: She tries to balance out logic and emotion. Most of the time she's the one to
come up with a plan, but she also doesn't mind engaging in cheering Steven on or scolding
him in a motherly fashion.
 Klingons Love Shakespeare: Despite her general lack of understanding when it comes
to human culture she is shown to enjoy music to some degree. However, she has extremely
strange taste in music, for example one of her favorite "songs" is a commercial jingle for a car
mechanic called "Cam's Cam Shafts".
 Lady of War: Pearl is very graceful in battle, given how she combines ballet and
swordplay in her fighting style. This is taken further with her calm and composed nerve in
combat.
 The Lancer: She acts as the second-in-command to the less talkative Garnet.
 Large Ham: Shows shades of this when she and Garnet pretend to be a Heel tag team
that wants to "destroy all wrestling". She even throws in a maniacal laugh for good measure.
 Leeroy Jenkins: According to Garnet, Pearl had a habit of jumping into battle to protect
Rose without any concern for her own safety. See Heroic Sacrifice above. With the reveal
in "A Single Pale Rose", this is implied to actually be because she couldn't let Rose get
poofed under any circumstances, as it would reveal her gem was actually Pink Diamond's.
 Leitmotif: It's a prim and proper piano piece.
 Light 'em Up: Although less overt than some gems, Pearl can manipulate light to form
holograms (some of which are solid) or channel it offensively through her spear to create
laser beams.
 The Lightfooted: She provides the trope image while dancing on her tiptoes on a glass
balcony railing in "Mr. Greg".
 Like a Son to Me: Pearl seems to see Steven as the son she and Rose could never
have, and even blurts out, "That's not my baby!" when confronted with a jealous Pizza Steve
posing as Steven in the Uncle Grandpa crossover episode.
 Literal-Minded:
o In "So Many Birthdays", Pearl is horrified when Steven tells a joke about her, not
understanding how a joke works.
Steven: Why did Pearl throw butter out the window?
Amethyst: You did what?
Steven: To see a butterfly!
Pearl: [mortified] I never did that! Steven... are you telling lies?

o Back when she was a much younger gem, before she started learning how to
think outside of the box, she tended to interpret even offhanded comments literally. Though
 she's better about it now, she occasionally slips back into the default Pearl mode of trying to
follow orders precisely as given.
Rose: Could you imagine that running a colony would be this dull?
Pearl: I could imagine it, if you would like me to, my Diamond.
 Loophole Abuse: Has only one case of this. When Pink Diamond leaves her old life
behind and stages her own shattering, she gives Pearl one last order to "never speak of this
again". However, she never said anything about showing other people her memories, which
is how Pearl shows Steven what actually happened to Pink Diamond.
 Loving a Shadow: Downplayed. Despite her deep and lingering obsessive love for Rose
Quartz, there are multiple hints that her adoration prevented her from seeing certain facets of
their relationship and of Rose herself. Aside from the secrets Rose kept, the Dramatic
Irony section of her profile here notes how there was much about Rose's philosophy that
Pearl didn't understand. With the reveal that she knew that she used to be Pink Diamond and
Pearl used to be her servant, it is unknown if Pearl truly loved her as who she really was or
her current identity more, though she begins to acknowledge Rose/Pink's flaws and grow out
of this unhealthy obsession.
 Luminescent Blush: Pearl gives off a bright blue blush from time to time.
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 Mama Bear:
o Expect her to flip out if Steven is ever in danger. She's almost always the first
one to worry about his safety and try to get him out of a dangerous situation. In "Tiger
Millionaire", she scolds Amethyst for using her powers on humans, only to draw her weapon
and threaten Ronaldo when he kidnaps Steven, thinking he was a "snake person" in "Keep
Beach City Weird". Her protectiveness is even Played for Laughs when it's mentioned that once
when he was a baby, she mistook the babysitter for a kidnapper and threw an entire jungle gym
at her.
o She becomes protective towards Connie, as seen in "Gem Hunt".
 Master Swordswoman: Her sword collection isn't just for show. Still, her modern weapon
of choice remains a spear.
 Meaningful Name:
o In gemstone mythos, pearls are often associated with virginity, beauty, modesty,
purity, and happiness. They're also the astral gemstone for the Cancer sign in the Western
zodiac, which carries an association with motherhood.
o In modern society, pearls are on par with diamonds for being a symbol of wealth
and status. On the Gem Homeworld, Pearls are a slave-race of servants that their owners
purchase as a status symbol.
 Mental Picture Projector: She doesn't need a machine; she can do this on her own, as
seen in "Cheeseburger Backpack" and "Serious Steven".
 The Mourning After: She loved Rose with all of her heart and still loves her, even if all
she has now is memories.
 Ms. Exposition: Very quick to explain Gem culture when prompted, or not, especially to
Steven. However, she's very reluctant to tell Steven about the darker aspects of Gem culture,
such as the Kindergarten.
 Muscles Are Meaningless: Skinny as a rail, but just as strong as a near-unbeatable alien
warrior is expected to be. On the other hand, she seems to only be physically
strong compared to humans as opposed to other Gems. Pearl has described herself as
having to use skill and determination to compensate for not being "built for fighting".
  My Beloved Smother:
o She's not Steven's actual mother, but she can act this way towards him. If there's
even the slightest whiff of danger, she'll want to take Steven back home while the rest of the
Gems do the dangerous stuff. While it doesn't help Steven grow as a Gem, she has a
point considering how many times he's almost gotten himself killed. She apologizes profusely
when she realizes that she almost got Steven killed herself in "Space Race". Steven bluntly
admits that with how many times his life has been put in danger, he's gotten used to it. And out
of all the Gems, she's the one who tries to skirt around the darker aspects of Gem history
around Steven, believing that he's too young to know about it.
o Pearl acts as this to a lesser extent to her fellow Gems, which can account for
half of her and Amethyst's arguments.
o In the non-canon Uncle Grandpa crossover, she outright refers to him as her
"baby" during one of her many, many mental breakdowns during this episode.
Amethyst: Hey, where's Steven?
Pizza Steve: [dressed as Steven] Looking for me, Pizza Steven Universe?
Pearl: [gasps and hides behind Garnet] That's not my baby!!

 My Master, Right or Wrong: She loved Pink Diamond, and their relationship was
arguably far closer than even Pink's older siblings. She was willing to follow her mistress
headlong into rebellion, permanent exile, and even risk shattering.
 Mysterious Past: How Pearl became so devoted to Rose that she'd join her rebellion is
quite a mystery. Raising further questions is the evidence that Rose was not Pearl's original
owner — the two other Pearls we've seen look like their owners while Rose and Pearl look
nothing alike, and the one time Pearl describes working for Homeworld, she conspicuously
avoids specifying who she served under.
o During "Gemcation", when Greg and the Crystal Gems believe Steven's
depression upon coming back from Homeworld stems from what he experienced there rather
than his fight with Connie, they pressure Pearl into talking to him about what she knows about
Homeworld. When she cannot seem to get anything out of him, she begins to talk about the
Diamonds and nearly confesses to something she has trouble admitting to until Steven reveals
why he is upset.
 Not only that, it seemed like she was unable to speak about it. Her hand
covering her mouth seemly involuntarily. Her piano theme even became wild and dissonant
during that moment. And it isn't the first time that's happened when the topic of the Diamonds
came up either. ◊
o Turns out that Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond in disguise, and Pearl
was HER Pearl (meaning she was specifically created to serve Pink Diamond). Pink Diamond's
last order to Pearl before becoming Rose Quartz permanently was to forbid Pearl from "ever
speaking of it again," as Pink Diamond/Rose Quartz never wanted to look back.
 Naginatas Are Feminine: Her Weapon of Choice is/looks a lot like a miniature naginata,
though she uses it as both a polearm and a fencing saber, and she's the most feminine of the
Crystal Gems.
 Neat Freak: Pearl is so obsessed with order and cleanliness that when the Crystal Gems
drew up a chore wheel with Dusting, Laundry, Mopping and Dishes on it, she crossed off
everyone else's name and substituted her own.
 Nervous Wreck: Not always, but Pearl does not handle pressure well.
 Noble Bigot: Harbors some prejudice against humans, at least subconsciously, probably
at least partly due to the fact that her decision to remain on Earth was made out of devotion
to Rose. She is very protective of the half-human Steven and helps to protect full humans.
 Her overall attitude toward humans seems to be similar to most humans' attitudes toward
animals: a mix of indifference, bemusement, and thinking they're "cute" on occasion.
"I saw humans get on fine without power for millennia. You used to hunt and gather. [chuckles] What happened
to that?"

 Noblewoman's Laugh: Does this pose while laughing in "It Could've Been Great", though
the laugh is not of the "OH-HO-HO!" kind like Sardonyx's.
 Non-P.O.V. Protagonist: Along with Steven, Garnet and Amethyst, she is one of the four
main protagonists of the show. But said show is exclusively told from Steven's Perspective.
 Non-Standard Character Design: She is the only Pearl we've seen with multiple
colors. Notably, she seems to have used the varied color scheme even when she was Pink
Diamond's Pearl, instead of adopting her Diamond's colors as Blue and Yellow Pearls do.
 Noodle People: She's the slimmest of all the Gems and could probably hide behind a
post if so inclined.
 No Sense of Personal Space: Tends to get clingy when stress starts getting to her.
Mostly with Garnet.
 Not So Above It All: In "Snow Day", she shapeshifts for the first time in millennia to join
Garnet and Amethyst in playing Steven Tag.
 Not So Different:
o Despite seeming to be a total contrast with Amethyst, they have similar problems
of insecurity and lack of self-worth. Pearl is a member of Homeworld's Servant Race that
normally act as symbols of status for high-ranking Gems, yet has grown out of that mindset
(with setbacks now and then) and considers herself equal to her fellow Crystal Gems. Amethyst
is a Quartz Gem and member of Homeworld's warrior/soldier caste that often acts as a leader,
yet emerged a few hundred years late with a small stature and ended up being a follower to
Rose and Garnet.
o "Mr. Greg" has Steven helping her and Greg realize that they're more similar than
they admit. It is hinted beforehand, when Steven compares them to Crying Breakfast
Friends characters; while all the Gems want to be good parents for Steven, Pearl is the most
open about it, which also works with Greg's own insecurities on being a good parent to Steven.
 Odd Couple: With Amethyst. Pearl is the neat freak, of course.
 Odd Name Out: She's the only Gem, barring Steven of course, whose name is an
organic gemstone (produced by or from a living thing), instead of a mineral gemstone
(formed by geological processes). This fits with her Gem type: Pearls are made-to-order
servants rather than being grown in Kindergartens.
 Old Soldier: It's pretty easy to forget that she's one of Rose's earliest supporters and a
battle-hardened warrior who was known as the "terrifying renegade Pearl", particularly when
she's standing next to Garnet.
 Only Friend: To Pink Diamond, before she became Rose.
 Only Sane Woman: Garnet normally takes this role when they're all together as a team,
as Pearl is usually Not So Above It All, but when only with Amethyst and Steven, she tends to
come off as one.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Rose's Scabbard", she's in such a bad state that even
with Steven hanging precariously at the bottom of a cliff, she doesn't make a move to help
him.
 Open Mouth, Insert Foot: She's prone to saying insulting or upsetting things without
intending to, which leads to many an awkward moment.
 Orange/Blue Contrast: Her first and second outfits utilize a pastel variation on this trope,
with peachy pink and golden yellow playing off different shades of teal.
  Parental Substitute: Out of all the Gems, she fits this trope the most for Steven. In the
absence of Rose Quartz, Pearl often behaves like a standard mother would towards Steven,
such as occasionally scolding him, being the first to panic when he's in potential danger, and
helping him clean his room on a regular basis. She even refers to Steven as "my baby"
in "Say Uncle". (The fact that she was in a romantic relationship with his mother is likely the
reason for this.)
 The Perfectionist: Neat, orderly, and disdainful of any form of mess.
"Symmetrical means both sides HAVE TO BE THE SAME!"

 Person of Holding: After doing a (ridiculous) chant, she's able to summon various objects
from storage out of the gem in her head. "Sworn to the Sword" reveals she doesn't need to
do the pose and drawn-out yell at all, but does so anyway.
 Picky Eater: Pearl is disgusted by the entire concept of eating.
 Pining After Protagonist's Parent: Pearl was deeply in love with Steven's mother, Rose
Quartz. Rose ended up with Greg Universe and had a child with him. Pearl loves Steven like
a son, but remembering her can be awkward for Pearl, as shown in "Rose's Scabbard". It's
why she doesn't think highly of Greg as well.
 Pink Means Feminine: Half of her past outfit in "A Single Pale Rose" is this.
 Power Incontinence: When dreaming in "Chille Tid", her hologram power activates by
itself, showing her dream to Amethyst and Steven.
 Prongs of Poseidon: Bismuth upgrades her spear into a trident.
 Proper Lady: Despite her Noble Bigot tendencies, she's immensely graceful, tidy, and
(usually) mature.
 Psychological Projection: Pearl has done this, particularly in "Sworn to the Sword",
where she ended up (temporarily) indoctrinating Connie into the mindset that she was
"nothing" compared to her liege, Steven, and that to protect him she needed to be willing to
put herself into hopelessly dangerous situations and even die for him without hesitation. It is
revealed that during the war, Pearl "took great pride" in giving her life for Rose Quartz, using
herself as a shield and getting needlessly "killed" numerous times despite Rose being much
stronger than her and fervently objecting to Pearl senselessly putting herself in danger.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni:
o The uptight, neurotic Blue Oni to Amethyst's Red.
o To a lesser extent, she is also the Blue Oni to Pink Diamond's Red.
 Renaissance Man: At least in comparison to the other Gems. Pearl has demonstrated
knowledge in a variety of specialized disciplines, including mechanics, astrophysics,
aeronautics, chemistry, history, swordplay, and (obviously) dance.
 The Resenter:
o It's subtly implied she wishes she was the leader of the Crystal Gems and not
Garnet, since in "Arcade Mania" she's extremely reluctant to admit that Garnet's the one in
charge, because she was in the Crystal Gems long before Garnet joined up. However, this was
likely because she will always consider Rose Quartz as the leader of the Crystal Gems.
o As noted above, she harbors resentment towards Greg for winning Rose's love.
As of "Mr. Greg", she finally seems to be moving past this.
 Retractable Weapon: Her spear has a shorter "wand" form. ◊
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 Sand Blaster: She is briefly shown manipulating sand as a visual aid in "Giant Woman",
though this may have a display of general telekinesis. She never uses it again after.
 Secret Keeper: She was the only one who knew that Rose and Pink Diamond were the
same person, but Pink ordered her never to tell anyone.
 Servant Race: Pearls are a servant race on Homeworld, treated as property for other
Gems.
 Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: In "Warp Tour", when Steven's allergies are acting up,
she tells him to sneeze into his "antecubital fossa", i.e., his inner elbow.
 She Cleans Up Nicely: Pearl's already attractive (Mayor Dewey in particular singles her
out as "The Hot One"), but she looks especially good in men's formalwear. Steven and Greg
both note she looks great in the tailor-made tuxedo they buy for her in "Mr. Greg", and she
looks just as good in the waiter's shirt and pants she wears in "Restaurant Wars".
 She's Got Legs: Comes with the territory of being a Dance Battler. Granted, they're rail-
thin...
 Shipper on Deck: She seems very eager to try to get Steven and Connie together.
 Shipping Torpedo: Jealous of his relationship with Rose, Pearl makes a point to flaunt
her and Rose's passionate fusion dance in front of Greg, rub in his face that fusing is
something that she can do with Rose that he can't, and tell him that he's nothing but a
"phase" for Rose, all in the the flashback in "We Need to Talk". Ironically, it backfired on her
as this was what prompted Greg to get closer to Rose and furthermore, help Rose gain a
better understanding of loving an individual and thus falling for Greg.
 Significant Wardrobe Shift: Her outfit gradually grows less traditionally feminine over the
series, and is eventually shown as more feminine in flashbacks, moving from a pastel
sundress while she lived on Homeworld to a miniskirt at the start of season 1, which she
trades in for a ribbon in "Steven the Sword Fighter", then finally a jacket in "Change Your
Mind". This reflects Pearl slowly letting go of her Homeworld-assigned role and her
dependence on Rose for validation.
 Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She was deeply in love with Rose Quartz. The very
Gem who treated Pearl like an individual, instead of "just another pearl". This is
deconstructed in the series though. Besides feeling like she was nothing when in comparison
to Rose, Pearl put Rose on a pedestal and couldn't accept that Rose would keep stuff even
from her. This is something that was explored in "Rose's Scabbard".
 The Smart Gal: She's the Gems' main strategist.
 Smug Smiler: Whenever she's right about something — a trait Amethyst hates.
 Snobs Vs Slobs: The source of friction between her and Amethyst, where she's the
snob.
 The Southpaw: She often wields her spear in her left hand, though this may vary on
occasion. Being as she can also duel-wield, she may also be ambidextrous. It is also
possible the concept of left-handedness/right-handedness may not doesn't even apply to
Gems.
 Stepford Smiler: Her relationship with Steven is implied to be built off of this on her end
in "Rose's Scabbard". Having been obsessively in love with Rose Quartz, Pearl is still deeply
saddened by her death, and because he's Rose's son, Pearl sees very much of her in
Steven. "A Single Pale Rose" makes this worse; she knew that Rose having a baby would kill
the Gem, and was sobbing in private about it even though Rose was so excited. She also
feels extremely guilty for going along with Rose aka Pink Diamond's plan to fake Pink's
shattering and save the Earth. It doesn't help that she had to shapeshift into Rose to make the
ruse plausible, since as Pink jokingly points out, she can't shatter herself. Then Pink ordered
her to never tell anyone; if not for that Geas, Pearl could have told Steven the truth about his
mother way back in Season Three, and she said she wanted to reveal the truth.
 Stepford Snarker: One of the way she hides her own insecurities is by snarking at
Amethyst's (perceived) shortcomings. This largely disappears after season one though.
 Stern Teacher: "Sworn to the Sword" proves Pearl to be a strict and firm teacher when
instructing Connie on swordfighting. She's much less strict when she's training Steven
in "Steven vs. Amethyst". (Besides likely having learned in the aftermath of "Sworn to the
Sword", those methods simply wouldn't be very effective with Steven or Amethyst.)
 Still Wearing the Old Colors: Bears a Diamond insignia not only on the jumpsuit she
wears in "Space Race" and "Back to the Barn", but also when she fuses with Garnet to turn
into Sardonyx the same symbol appears on her feet, presumably coming from Pearl's part of
the fusion. Considering she is still loyal to her Diamond, Pink Diamond, this is justified.
 Straight Man: Especially around Amethyst.
 Straight Man and Wise Guy: The straight man with Amethyst more or less any time
they're onscreen together.
 Stupid Sacrifice: In "Sworn to the Sword", Garnet explains to Steven that Pearl did this a
lot for Rose, jumping in to protect her even when it wasn't necessary. Subverted when it turns
out that Rose is Pink Diamond, and her getting poofed would expose what her gem really is.
 Subordinate Excuse: For thousands of years, Pearl devoted her life to serve and follow
Rose, whom she was deeply in love with. There's also a deeper reason: Rose is Pink
Diamond, her original Diamond.
 Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Pearl dotes over Steven, is friendly with her fellow Crystal
Gems and Connie, and is apathetic towards other humans.
 Super Powered Robot Meter Maid: Downplayed. Although she's weaker than specifically
combat-oriented Gems like Rubies or Quartzes, and she relies largely on agility and finesse
to be effective in combat, Pearl (and presumably the rest of her kind) was still able to get very
strong by human standards. This is despite the fact that she was created specifically to be a
largely decorative maidservant that wouldn't often have much need for superhuman strength.
Comments about Homeworld's production methods suggest Gems made in her time were
over-engineered in terms of strength and power, and only later started cutting back once they
ran low on resources.
 Surrounded by Idiots: Though she mellows out later on, in the first season, Pearl has
little patience with Amethyst or Steven's mischief and immature behavior, and she barely
acknowledges Greg's existence.
 Sword Beam: Pearl can fire arrow-like energy blasts from the tip of her spear. She can
also charge it to perform a more powerful version. In all cases, it's merely a long-range attack
that isn't effective on fast or skilled foes; she's never shown firing it while moving on her own,
the blasts travel too slowly to be useful on a moving target (vs. Amethyst), and it seems to
telegraph enough that the shots can be dodged (vs. Bismuth). When they do hit, it's a one-hit
poofing for something along the lines of weaker gem mutants, and sort of a severely weaker
version of Opal's arrows.
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 Take a Third Option: Back when she served Homeworld, her past outfit is a dress with
blue sleeves, a yellow bust, and a pink hem.
 Team Mom: In "Fusion Cuisine", Steven pegs her as the most mom-like of the three
when trying to decide which of them to bring to dinner as his mother. The only reason he
doesn't just take her is because she finds eating disgusting. In "Say Uncle", she even refers
to Steven as her "baby".
 Token Good Teammate: Though she isn't exactly this to the Crystal Gems, she was
definitely this to the Homeworld Gems before she and her Diamond, Pink Diamond, secretly
defected.
 Tongue-Tied: She always knew Pink Diamond was never shattered and she and Rose
were one and the same. However, Pink Diamond ordered her to never speak the truth to
anyone. For this reason, Pearl could never reveal their secret, even if she really wanted to. If
 she tried, her hands would cover her mouth to silence her. She finally got around this by just
showing her memories to Steven.
 Took a Level in Badass: "Back to the Barn" makes it clear that Pearl and other pearls
are a Servant Race on Homeworld, and weren't "made" for fighting or inventing, meaning that
Pearl had to learn to do both. Now, she is not only an experienced sword fighter, she is also
an mechanical engineer and the "brains" of the Crystal Gems. (Has a mean right cross, too.)
 Took a Level in Kindness: She acted outright malicious to Greg in "We Need to Talk",
telling him that he's just a phase to Rose, and rubbing it in that he will never be able to fuse
with her like she can. In the present, while she seems to lack faith in Greg at times, the two
are on relatively good terms and are capable of working together amicably, particularly when
it comes to fixing or building things. "Mr. Greg" has them both at becoming better friends to
one another.
 True Blue Femininity: All of her outfits throughout the series incorporate blue in some
way, and she is the most feminine of the Crystal Gems.
 Tutu Fancy: She has a ballerina-inspired design and her first outfit is a complete
aversion, as both her hair and clothes are short enough that they'd never get in the way. Her
second outfit plays this straight to a small extent, as it has a large ribbon draped over the
back of her legs.
 Uncatty Resemblance: Played with. She's one of only two Pearls to be a different color
scheme and have a different Gem location compared to the mistress she was supposed to
be for, her gem is white, and on her forehead, like White Diamond, even though she was
made for and served Pink Diamond. Meanwhile, White Pearl's gem is on her belly, like Pink.
Pearl's gem does have a slight pink tint, just as Blue Pearl and Yellow Pearl do with their
respective colors, but the rest of her color scheme incorporates very little pink.
 Undying Loyalty: "Rose's Scabbard" reveals that she was fiercely devoted to Rose, and
chose to stay on Earth mainly because Rose had chosen to stay. "Sworn to the
Sword" shows how devoted — during the War, she frequently threw herself into extreme
danger to protect Rose, and judging by the tone of her argument with Steven, did so even
though Rose herself was begging her to stop. Turns out there is a very good reason for
that: She's the Pearl to Pink Diamond.
 Unreliable Expositor: Before "A Single Pale Rose" and "Now We're Only Falling
Apart" Pearl literally could not tell the truth about Pink Diamond or how she was Pink's Pearl.
Because of this, when Pearl wasn't stopping herself from speaking on the topic she would
rely on Exact Words and omitting the full truth. For example, in "Message Received", when
Steven asks if she knows Yellow Pearl, Pearl says that not all Pearls know each other. While
this statement is technically true, she didn't actually answer the question. It's later shown that
Pearl did know Yellow Pearl.
 Unrequited Tragic Maiden: It's very, very easy to see Pearl as being one for Rose, who
she was deeply in love with because she made Pearl feel like she was "everything".
This and several other factors left Pearl seriously messed up, and she's still reeling
from Rose's death after at least 14 years.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: From Homeworld's point of view, anyway. Her innocent
attempts to fulfill her original purpose of making Pink Diamond happy led, by Pink's own
admission, to the creation of Rose Quartz and Pink seeing the beauty of Earth, which then
caused the rebellion by the Crystal Gems, the corruption by the Diamonds, and centuries of
depression suffered by Blue and Yellow that followed. Of course, if she hadn't, Earth
would've been dead from the colonization and Pink wouldn't have seen the error of her ways.
 Violently Protective Girlfriend: Pearl will go ballistic for Rose. They weren't a couple, but
Pearl was obsessively in love with Rose and thus still fiercely protective of her love interest.
 Vitriolic Best Buds: Pearl and Amethyst spend almost all of their shared onscreen time
arguing, but every once in a while there's a subtle indication that they do care about each
 other. i.e., after Amethyst's Dark and Troubled Past is revealed to Steven and Amethyst
shuts down, Steven asks Pearl to help her, which she does.
 Walk on Water: Pearl can walk on water as seen in "Together Breakfast"; an
ability Opal and Lapis Lazuli share with her.
 Weak, but Skilled: She's not the strongest Gem in hand-to-hand combat, as Pearls as a
norm are essentially a Servant Race with little combat capability, and she lacks the sheer
strength Amethyst and Garnet have. Pearl is conscious of it and compensates with tactical
thinking and precision — and basically, any time that gives her an edge, it's enough. In fact, if
you watch for it, Pearl's the Crystal Gem most likely to go for a one-hit kill/poofing.
o In "Coach Steven", she feels both jealous and insecure because Steven looks up
to Sugilite's raw strength and suffers a Break the Cutie moment when she's unable to stop the
Gem fusion alone. She does it anyway, turning Sugilite's character flaws to her advantage.
o This comes to a head in "Ocean Gem", where she does the best out of all the
Crystal Gems in their Mirror Boss fights, just by there being such a gap in skill between her and
her water clone. The clone eventually splits into two, but it turns out that two Pearl clones with a
spear each is not greater than a single Pearl Dual Wielding spears. (And if you look closely, it
doesn't look like her clones were in solid form when Steven dissipated them...)
o She also has a pretty good right cross, according to "Back to the Barn" and a bit
of swelling in Peridot's cheek (and Peridot can come out pretty much unscathed from falls off
tall cliffs and being crushed under lots of large rocks/a massive boulder).
 We Used to Be Friends: A milder example. She and Amethyst used to be very close, as
seen in the flashback for "Story for Steven", but they aren't as close in the present storyline.
A few episodes, such as "On the Run", show them awkwardly becoming closer again,
sometimes bringing up issues they hadn't properly dealt with before, such as Amethyst's
feelings about her origins.
 What the Hell, Hero?: She sometimes gives this to the other Gems and Steven, but
found herself on the receiving end of one of these in "Cry for Help".
 Wrench Wench: Just like other Pearls seen in the show, her nature as a maidservant in
a highly advanced alien civilization gives her quite the tech expertise.
o She manages to fix Greg's van off-screen, despite having no experience doing
so. Judging by the oil stains she's covered with, she didn't use magic to do it; judging by how
badly wrecked it had been, she probably used her Super Strength.
o In "Space Race", she builds a nearly-functional (nearly being a key term here)
spaceship with outdated plane parts in a barn, showing off knowledge about aeronautics and
engineering while trying to teach Greg and Steven.
o She built an EMP weapon in anticipation of Peridot's attack on Earth,
incidentally rebuilding one of the damaged Robonoids as a test subject.
o In "Back to the Barn", she even builds a fully functional Mini-Mecha out of the
same outdated plane parts as the spaceship in the same (very short) amount of time
as Peridot.
 The Xenophile: By the time of "Future" she has completely flipped her initial
attitude toward humans and has developed a genuine interest in human culture. Granted,
she still has some strange mannerisms such as randomly offering toilet paper as a greeting
and singing along to commercial jingles on the radio, but thankfully her new human friends
appear to find these traits endearing.
 You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Garnet tells her this in "Friend Ship".
Amethyst
Voiced by: Michaela Dietz

"I will fight for the world I was made in!

The Earth is everything I've ever known!"
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 Pearl: Ugh, you are just so childish!
Amethyst: Yeah, yeah, don't forget reckless, vulgar, loudmouthed; and that's just what makes me
so awesome!

Amethyst is the youngest of the Crystal Gems (not counting Steven) and the
resident Wild Child of the team. She loves to instigate pranks and act ridiculous even in
the face of danger, which can sometimes result in innocents like Steven getting caught
in the middle of her antics. Her behavior is the most human-like of the group (having
been "born" on Earth) and she has happily adopted human customs like eating and
sleeping (neither of which Gems actually need to do). She often chafes under the
discipline of the two older Gems. As the series progresses, her rebellious, moody
attitude is revealed to stem from an inferiority complex she feels when compared to her
teammates, including Steven.

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 Acrofatic: Yes, she is curvy, but she can run and jump in sync with her teammates and
can move at impressive speeds, especially when doing a Rolling Attack. She was made to be
a Quartz soldier.
 Aliens Love Human Food: Amethyst loves to eat, although she doesn't need to, and will
scarf down practically anything, from moldy burritos to engine oil.
 All Drummers Are Animals: The least mature of the Crystal Gems has a drum set as her
instrument of choice.
 Always Someone Better: Is revealed to feel this way about Steven in "Steven vs.
Amethyst". Perhaps this is the most defining aspect of her personality as a defective lab
experiment who despises her origins.
 Animal Motif: Not blatantly obvious, but Amethyst seems to (like Steven) have a general
cat motif going on. She has a Cat Smile, has transformed into a cat a few times, has a
wrestler persona called the Purple Puma, and has an extremely independent attitude and
curious nature one would expect from a cat. To drive the point further, the intro of the pilot
showed her resting on top of a couple of big cats, and her whips tend to have multiple ends,
like a cat-o-nine-tails.
 The Baby of the Bunch: Before Steven came around, Amethyst was the youngest
Crystal Gem. Her Shapeshifter Default Form even looked much younger right before Steven
was born, despite the time since then being a very small part of her current lifespan. She is
also the youngest Earth Quartz because she emerged late.
 Bad Impressionists: Amethyst's attempts to disguise herself as other people are
hampered both by Morphic Resonance and her consistently terrible impersonations. She
barely makes her voice sound any different, lazily parrots some words she remembers them
saying, doesn't bother to remember basic personal details (up to the names of the people
she's trying to fool), and vocally tries to affirm her supposed identity ("It's cool, I totally work
here!").
 Berserk Button:
o Rubbing her origins in her face.
o Being betrayed.
o Hurting Steven.
o Mocking Rose.
 Berserker Tears: Cries during her fight with Pearl in "On the Run".
 Beware the Silly Ones: She's usually quite laid-back and goofy, but when she gets
upset, she gets upset.
 Big Eater: To the point where she tries to chase Steven down in an attempt to get her
hands on the Together Breakfast he made. It's noted that since she's a Crystal Gem (and the
one born on Earth instead of Homeworld), she doesn't actually need to eat, but she likes to
do it anyway. She'll also pretty much eat anything, with no table manners: as a late-night
snack she is seen eating macaroni and cheese powder — not the macaroni but just the
powder, straight from the packet, and just shoving it into her mouth with her hand. She thinks
it's delicious and asks Steven if he'd like some. One Season 1 episode sees her happily
chowing down on a five-year old tuna burrito.
 Big Fun: Quite stocky and pudgy, and she's easily the most laid back and fun loving
member of the Crystal Gems sans Steven.
 The Big Guy: She's smaller than Garnet by default, but Amethyst is the one most likely
to rely on brute force. This is because she's a Quartz Gem, the soldier/warrior caste, and
even though she's half the size she was supposed to be, she still has a Quartz's strength.
 Big Sister Instinct: Amethyst is the closest to having a sisterly relationship with Steven
and is quite protective of him. Also doubles as Mama Bear. In a twist of irony, as Rose was
actually Pink Diamond, Amethyst's "mother" in as close of a way Gems can have, Steven in a
way is her little brother.
 Birds of a Feather: With Vidalia. One reason why she and Amethyst are such great
friends because they're both free spirits.
 Black Bra and Panties: Her first outfit clearly shows a black shoulder strap on whichever
side her tunic slips down (usually on her right). Though, when she's sketched by Pearl and
Peridot in her underwear in "Back to the Barn", it's shown to be pretty modest, consisting of a
sports bra and boxer-briefs.
 Blank Slate: In the Movie, she's hit with the rejuvenator, a weapon that causes Gems
to revert back to their original personalities. Amethyst uniquely loses any knowledge or ability
to do things besides imitating others. It's implied that this is what she was like when she first
emerged and that the other Crystal Gems had to teach her everything, including how to talk. It
is also implied that this state was caused by her having been in the ground for longer than
normal, as Gems usually emerge knowing how to talk, what kind of Gem they are, and their
role in Homeworld's caste system.
 Born as an Adult: Downplayed; Amethyst was born physically grown like most gems, but
her emerging 500 years late meant she was born a Blank Slate not knowing how to do
anything, or even how to talk. As seen in The Movie, newborn Amethyst was about as close
to a human infant as a Gem can get.
 Boyish Short Hair: Amethyst had much shorter hair around the time Greg and Rose first
met, reflecting her tomboyish personality and her status as The Baby of the Bunch before
Steven was born.
o The Movie reveals she emerged from the Kindergarten with this hair.
 Bratty Teenage Daughter: Amethyst is the "rebellious teen" of the Crystal Gems and
frequently at odds with Pearl, the "mother" of the team.
 Brilliant, but Lazy: Extremely strong, but she doesn't think much of training, preferring to
improvise. A one-on-one battle with Jasper quickly leads her to reconsider.
  Brutal Honesty: She'll often make harsh statements, even dire revelation, bluntly and
sometimes enthusiastically.
 Butt-Monkey: Being encased in a block of ice, repeatedly thrown at the Red Eye, blasted
by Lion's sonic roar... Amethyst is a prime target for most of the show's physical humor.
 Cain and Abel:
o The Abel to Jasper's Cain, as both were born from Earth Kindergardens (different
ones, but still). Amethyst even refers to Jasper as "sis" after Jasper's physical form was
destroyed.
o Thankfully averted with the "Famethyst", the other Quartzes from Earth, who
inmediately accept her as part of them.
 Carpet of Virility: Not her default form, but her Purple Puma wrestler persona has
a very thick carpet of chest hair.
 Cat Smile: It's more because of the way her lips are drawn when it's closed, but when
she smiles, it looks like this. Given the fact that her lips are always like that regardless of
whether she's smiling, and the revelation that she came out "defective" due to a malfunction
at the Kindergarten where she was made, it could be a reference to an actual cleft lip.
 Character Development:
o Amethyst's maturity increases in very small increments, as does her self-
awareness; both likely benefit from her very gradually working through her underlying self-
loathing. Because of this, she has also gained better control of her emotions when someone
pushes her Berserk Button — compare how she handles it in "On the Run" and later in "Too
Far". Probably the biggest change to her character happens late in Season Three; her
insecurities of being an inferior Quartz Gem come to a head when Jasper mops the floor with
her and Steven's skill and fighting ability matches hers. She's since then become more serious,
more open to accept help from others and has shed her Brilliant, but Lazy traits.
o Then there was her meeting the "Famethyst". She saw that she was loved by the
Gems of Homeworld for who she is, regardless of her size or skills. And this is what gives her
the courage to give up wrestling because she doesn't need it anymore.
o Sometime before "What's Your Problem?", Amethyst has taken notice of how
much responsibility Steven has taken on over the last few seasons, so she decides she won't
dump her emotional baggage onto Steven anymore and spends the episode trying to get
Steven to open up about his own issues and feelings. This is partially so he can still be a kid,
and partially because Amethyst has realized that she needs to step up maturity-wise
with Garnet literally falling apart over the "Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond" reveal and Pearl
being too close to the issue to actually deal with it. Steven takes note of her development and
points out she's somehow become the most mature of the Crystal Gems, much to her comical
horror.
o Likewise, for the first three reasons she idolized Rose and put her on a pedestal.
Jasper mocks her for how Rose said that Amethyst was perfect the way she was, and Amethyst
starts to realize how much the Quartz's legacy is burdening Steven after they have a friendly
sparring match. When the Pink Diamond reveal happens, Amethyst is shocked but starting to
reason it, and realizes that Rose meant well but was flawed with her actions. She admits that
she and Steven are left holding the burden of that legacy and it's not fair to either of them.
 The Chew Toy: In almost every mission, she takes the most physical abuse. Sometimes
it's simply because she runs directly into it.
Amethyst: [A Gem having to regenerate] just happens sometimes! Usually to me.
Garnet: Always to you.
Amethyst: Hey, I'm scrappy, whaddaya want?
  Color Motif: Purple.
 Companion Cube: She adopted rocks as friends during her early years in a canyon with
no one else around to be a friend.
 Cool Big Sis: Rather than a Parental Substitute like Garnet and Pearl, Amethyst is more
like Steven's cool and rebellious older sister figure who likes to have fun with him. Given her
age compared to the other Gems, she's also chronologically much closer to being a
"teenager" by their species' metric. Ironically, as Rose was actually Pink Diamond, essentially
Amethyst's "mother" in a sense, she actually is Steven's older sister.
 Crazy-Prepared: After being left in the dust multiple times by Peridot's helicopter-fingers,
she taught herself off-screen to shapeshift into a fully-functional helicopter in preparation to
chase her down again if necessary.
Amethyst: [after Peridot flees the barn in her giant robot] Oh-ho-hokay! I've gotten ready for this! [transforms
into a helicopter] GET IN!

 Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Amethyst is hedonistic and childish, but can hold her
own against the more disciplined and mature Pearl in combat.
 Cuddle Bug: Amethyst is very outwardly affectionate.
    D-H 

 Destructive Savior: The Gems in general don't care about accidental property damage,
but Amethyst seems to cause some deliberately — she whips a dumpster in half in "Gem
Glow" just to demonstrate, and Lars complains that it isn't the first time.
 Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her dialogue in "On the Run" is reminiscent of an
unplanned child.
Amethyst: You want to pretend none of this ever happened! You think I'm just a big mistake!

o Her disconnection from Garnet and Pearl on various pieces of their race's history,
and how much friendlier she is to the natives of Earth, is also similar to how second generation
immigrants who feel a stronger connection to their new home, compared to the older
generations who see their original 'country' (e.g. Homeworld) still as their true 'home'. She
doesn't get the cultural, racial, or even language barriers that normally comes with these types
of families, though.
 Dude, Where's My Respect?: Amethyst feels that both Garnet and Pearl don't respect
her, which feeds into her self-hatred over being a Kindergarten-made Gem.
 Elite Mook: Amethyst and Quartzes like her are the rank-and-file soldiers on Homeworld.
However, due to being raised by the Crystal Gems, Amethyst is much better at improvising
and using abilities that other Gems take for granted like shapeshifting.
 Epic Flail: Her whip after being upgraded by Bismuth with spiked spheres like the head
of a morningstar.
 Establishing Character Moment: In one scene of "Gem Glow", as her leitmotif begins
playing, she explains to Steven that rigorous training to summon weapons is "no fun" when
he inquires about summoning weapons, and that she can use her gem whenever she needs
to do so. She then provides a convincing demonstration by casually summoning her whip
with her eyes closed and breaking a dumpster in half while munching on a doughnut with
crass chewing sounds. This pretty much establishes her personality as the Brilliant, but
Lazy Wild Child of the group.
 Expository Hairstyle Change: Before Steven was born, Amethyst's hair was shorter,
reaching near her chin. Her current hairstyle a longer version of her old one, though
 considering that Gems have complete control over their physical appearance, she may have
just decided at some point that she looked "cooler" with longer hair.
o It could have been due to her hanging out with Greg and Vidalia, both of whom
had Rapunzel Hair.
 Extreme Omnivore: Since she eats only for the enjoyment of it, she's tried some strange
things. She swallowed a whole cloud, which caused her to swell up and inflate like a balloon,
and scarfed down a decades-old moldy burrito (although said burrito did make her violently
sick). She also enjoys engine oil on sandwiches as she scarfs it down while licking the oil.
 Fashionable Asymmetry: Downplayed, as her tank top itself is symmetrical, but she
always has the right shoulder strap slightly off to the side. When she regenerates, her new
top fits on both shoulders, to Pearl's delight. Her first form also has a small tear in the pants
above the left knee, which is still visible on the "patched up" pants on her second form.
 Fatal Flaw:
o She has serious anger issues and can forget what skill she does have when she
becomes mad enough.
o Beneath her anger issues are her insecurities and shame from knowing that she
was originally meant to be an evil Gem, and that she is a runt.
 Fat and Skinny: The fat one with Pearl.
 Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Thief of the group, who depends on unpredictable tactics like
shapeshifting.
 Flight: She is the only Gem who has been shown shapeshifting into a form capable of
flight. When she needs to fly, her preferred form is an owl, but she can also turn into a
helicopter.
 Foil:
o Pearl and Amethyst play off each other by being opposites in every respect.
Pearl is well-mannered, dainty, hard-working, and protective; Amethyst is a slob, ill-mannered,
lazy, fun-loving, and irresponsible. Physically, Pearl is skinny while Amethyst is fat. Pearl's
weapon is rigid and pierces while Amethyst's is flexible and crushes. Their differences can even
be seen in the way they sit ◊.
Steven: Where did you get these? I thought they stopped making them!
Pearl: Well, we heard that too, and since they're your favorite...
Amethyst: We went out and stole a bunch!
Pearl: [annoyed grunt] I went back and paid for them.

o She's revealed toward the end of Season 3 to also be this to Jasper. Amethyst
was the last and smallest Gem to come from Earth's primary Kindergarten, which was
otherwise planned and executed as an ideal facility, but still came out as "an overcooked runt"
according to Jasper. Jasper was from the Beta Kindergarten (which was brought online during
the War with the sole purpose of producing Cannon Fodder), but is, in Peridot's own words,
"the ultimate Quartz".
o She's also one to Steven. Both are fun-loving and jokey and generally considered
the most childish of the Crystal Gems, but whereas Steven is positive and optimistic Amethyst
does it out of her insecurities and self-loathing.
 Force and Finesse: The force to Pearl's finesse.
 A Form You Are Comfortable With: Deconstructed throughout "Reformed": Amethyst is a
bit self-conscious due to the personality quiz Steven was trying to get her to participate in,
and each time she gets "poofed" by the monster, she regenerates with a poorly thought-out
form based on what she thinks other people want of her. She ultimately takes a form like her
 old one, but switched the color of her top and pants, because it "feels right" — basically a
form she is comfortable with.
 Freakiness Shame: Amethyst is ashamed of her "Kindergarten" origins, which
differentiate her from the other Gems. Pearl comforts her by telling her that she always
thought Amethyst was the one good thing to come out of Kindergarten. As of "Too Far", it
seems she's no longer ashamed of being made on Earth, but rather that she came out small
from being in the ground too long, instead of the behemoth she was supposed to be.
 The Gadfly: She sometimes likes to poke fun at her fellow Gems just to get a rise out of
them. She'll also delight in some of the chaotic situations occurring in Beach City, even when
she should be doing something to help:
Steven: Amethyst!
Amethyst: Hey! Why is doughnut guy breathing fire?
Steven: I tried to prank Lars but I used too much fire salt!
Amethyst: Steven... that's hilarious.

 Gender Bender: While Gems are sexless, they tend to default to female. Amethyst,
however, is perfectly fine assuming explicitly male forms, as pointed out by the guidebook.
 Genki Girl: Loud and full of laughter, she finds everything amusing, but can be very
emotional and isn't afraid to act on impulse.
 Given Name Reveal: Though Gems lack conventional names, her "Gem Identification
Code" is revealed by the Amethyst Guards from the Human Zoo: Amethyst Facet-5 Cut-8XM.
 Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Inverted. Amethyst wears purple clothing and even has
purple skin, but is pretty much the opposite of graceful.
 Handicapped Badass: When her gem was cracked in "An Indirect Kiss", she was still
able to protect Steven from the sentient thorns.
 Heavy Sleeper: Lion knocked her across the room with a roar, and she just told Steven
to keep it down. And she doesn't even have to sleep or get tired, indicating she just didn't like
to be interrupted while enjoying herself.
 The Hedonist: Amethyst spends most of her time off-mission indulging herself in one
way or another. Crystal Gems don't need to eat or sleep, but Amethyst likes to because she
thinks they're fun.
 Heel: She plays one in her "Purple Puma" wrestling persona, and gets pretty well into
the role.
 Height Angst: Extremely short due to her delayed emergence, which she's insecure
about to the point of being a Berserk Button.
 Heroic BSoD:
o When Pearl shows up in Kindergarten while Amethyst is showing Steven her
origins, Pearl confronts the situation with an attempt to be level-headed. However, the way
Pearl words her argument sparks a BSOD in Amethyst as she recklessly fights Pearl to a
stand-still before escaping to return to the hole she literally came out of.
o Goes into one after being defeated by Jasper, who Stevonnie then manages to
defeat without her.
 Heroic Self-Deprecation: Due to her dark past, she bears a tremendous amount of self-
hatred and sometimes feels out of place among the other Gems despite maintaining a
cheerful, happy-go-lucky personality. She thinks that the other Gems look down on her as
well. She thought when Steven learned of her past that he might look down on her, too. She
gets this particularly bad in "Steven vs. Amethyst" after her defeat at Jasper's hands.
  Heroic Second Wind: Thanks to Steven, after she failed to seriously damage Jasper with
her upgraded whips, which allows them to fuse into Smoky Quartz.
 Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Vidalia as of "Onion Friend". They're very close and
Vidalia's house is full of paintings of Amethyst.
 Hidden Depths:
o She is good at reading people's emotions and keeping the group stable during a
crisis, as seen in episodes "So Many Birthdays" and "Steven the Sword Fighter". Taken even
further in "An Indirect Kiss", where if you reverse her backward dialogue when her gem is
damaged and she's becoming undone at the seams, it's revealed that she's trying to calm down
Steven and assure him that she's going to be fine.
o All the way back in "Tiger Millionaire" there are hints that Amethyst is very
insecure about how others, especially Pearl and Garnet, perceive her. This is explored further
as the series goes on.
 "On the Run" provides her backstory; she was made on Earth in "the
Kindergarten", where "bad" Gems were once made. She harbors unresolved stress from being
reminded that she's supposed to be "bad" and she's kept this hidden until this episode.
 "Reformed" shows that she worries about living up to Garnet's standards.
It also shows she's deeply insecure about her past and how people see her.
 "Cry for Help" has her regret Sugilite getting out of control in "Coach
Steven", feeling that she was the one responsible for Sugilite's destructive nature and that Pearl
is a better fusion partner for Garnet than her, and defend Pearl repairing the hub as an excuse to
fuse with Garnet again, since she also understands the Power High that results.
o She is the first of the Crystal Gems (outside of Steven) to act friendly to Peridot.
And she obviously valued their friendship, considering she was as upset as Steven when they
believed Peridot was planning to betray them in "Message Received".
o While Amethyst is like this on an individual level, heightened empathy may also
be a latent characteristic of her entire cut of Gem. When Greg breaks the collective hearts of
the entire Human Zoo population by refusing to choosen any of them, the Amethysts immediately
offer them shoulders to cry on and genuine words of comfort.
o "Restaurant Wars" reveals that Amethyst is a surprisingly skilled cook, making
food so good that it causes Kofi and Mr. Fryman to end their feud so Steven would shut down
his make-shift restaurant.
o In "What's Your Problem?", Amethyst tries to apply her usual fun-loving antics in
order to distract Steven. When probed, she acknowledges that Steven is always taking
responsibility for everyone's problems (especially in regards to her, Garnet and Pearl) and that
she doesn't want to keep doing that to him. Steven calls her the most mature of the Crystal
Gems for this.
 Hypocrite: Amethyst has no problem with Peridot making insensitive comments about
her friends. However, the moment Peridot does the same thing to her, she becomes greatly
offended.
    I-O 

 I Am a Monster: Being a result of the Kindergarten, a project which tore the Gem
civilization apart and nearly killed the Earth, Amethyst believes she was made to be evil. It's
made clear that her past deeply burdens her and makes her feel as though she's an
embarrassment to the Crystal Gems.
 I Just Want to Be Normal: She believes she's an embarrassment — a "monster" — due
to Kindergarten, the place she was "born".
Amethyst: I never asked for it to be this way. I NEVER ASKED TO BE MADE!
  I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A platonic version in "Cry for Help", where she
feels that Pearl is a better fit to fuse with Garnet after her role in Sugilite going out of control
in "Coach Steven".
 I Just Want to Have Friends: She was very close to Rose, so when Rose began her
relationship with Greg she was deeply hurt. It says something that she's usually seen
hanging out with Steven (who in a way is Rose) and not Pearl or Garnet. It's possible she
feels this way because she lived in an empty canyon, adopting rocks as friends, for the
majority of her lifetime thus far. She likely latched on to the person (Rose) who saved her
from that.
 Immortal Immaturity: Amethyst is about 5,000 years old, yet still mostly acts like a
teenage human. This is probably because she's younger and less traveled than Garnet,
Pearl, or Rose, having been born on Earth and spent much of her early years (possibly an
entire millennium) with nothing but an empty canyon for company. In "Story for Steven", she
acts and dresses like she's seven. The events of the series do inspire Amethyst to mature, to
the point Steven tells her in "What's Your Problem?" that that she's the most mature Crystal
Gem.
 Ironic Name: In gemstone mythology, amethyst stones are used to increase spirituality,
sobriety and balance. The character Amethyst is all about enjoying the earthly pleasures for
the kicks, likes physical fighting, and is the most prone to mischief.
 Irony: Amethyst is the most prone to damage of the three Gems and is even stated to
have her body destroyed most often, yet she is the last one to "poof" and change her design
on-screen.
 Jabba Table Manners: She tends to eat loudly and obnoxiously  with little regard for
table manners.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Amethyst steals, is quick with insults, and is the first one to
laugh at misfortune, yet pals around with Steven the most and was the first to willingly
befriend Peridot. In general, while she can be generally brash, she is a sympathetic friend
who knows how to be sweet and comforting when her friends need it, especially if it's Steven
and even Pearl.
 Knight of Cerebus: A heroic example, it was only in "On the Run" that it was revealed
she was made in the Earth-destroying Kindergarten, and does not take it very well, to the
point of actually fighting Pearl over it. Let's just say it was NOT one of her more comedic
moments.
 The Lad-ette: The laziest, crudest, and most hedonistic of her fellow Gems. She picks
her nose in public, shapeshifts into the guise of a mean, boisterous male wrestler for the heck
of it, pees in the ocean, and eats without any table manners.
 Leeroy Jenkins: The downside of her impulsiveness is that Amethyst tends to jump into
battle against stronger enemies without any strategy, most notably against the Slinker and
Jasper. The former poofed her four times in close succession and the latter nearly shattered
her gem after beating her into a pulp.
 Leitmotif: Her music usually consists of a distinct rhythm made by a synth-drum and
some accompanying bass.
o In contrast to the other Gems’ leitmotifs, there is no single, fixed melody that has
been definitively labeled “Amethyst’s Theme” because no two instances of her music are
exactly the same, which reflects her loose cannon nature.
 Like Brother and Sister: While Pearl and Garnet act more as Parental Substitutes to
Steven, Amethyst's relationship to him is more sisterly, as they both viewed Rose Quartz as
a parental figure.
o Amethyst is not only the youngest of the full Crystal Gems, she was also born on
Earth, long past the Gem War. Because of this, she doesn't have the Fantastic Racism or
hangups of Gems from the previous 'generation', and is far more (pardon the pun) down-to-
earth, like Steven. Because of this, she and Steven relate to each other much better, as each
are still trying to find their place in the world, and she also sees Steven's problems from his
perspective much easier than Garnet or Pearl. This is part of the reason why she ends up being
the first gem Steven fuses with.
o Although if one considers gems made on the same planet for a single Diamond
siblings, as Amethyst did for Jasper and the "Famethyst" in the Zoo, her and Steven
actually are related — the Rose Quartzes were apparently also made on Earth, making
Amethyst the gem equivalent of Steven's aunt. Then it turns out Rose Quartz was actually Pink
Diamond, who all the Earth-born Gems were made for, so they're "like" (half)-siblings in more
than one sense.
 Literal-Minded: She thinks grounding Steven means burying him until he learns his
lesson.
 Locked Out of the Loop: Until Peridot told her in "Too Far", she had no idea about how
she would place in the Homeworld Hive Caste System. Also, the other Crystal Gems never
told her about Bismuth or Rose supposedly shattering Pink Diamond, and when White
Diamond is mentioned and the other Crystal Gems react in horror, she lets out a confused
"What?"
 Long Hair Is Feminine: Inverted. Amethyst has hair that reaches her ankles, but tends to
be a lazy and careless slob. By contrast, Pearl's hair doesn't even reach her shoulders, but is
the most conventionally feminine of the group.
 Mad Eye: Amethyst's left eye has a subtle but consistent squint after she reforms from
Jasper poofing her in "Crack the Whip", most likely as a result of her rushed regeneration.
 Massive Numbered Siblings: She considers the many other Quartz gems made on Earth
as sisters (her "Famethyst").
 Meaningful Name:
o The amethyst stone is often associated with the Greek god Dionysus, the god of
wine and partying.
o The "What in the Universe" book says that amethyst attracting positive energy
and giving people peace of mind fits her, since she needs to learn to be more positive about
herself.
 The McCoy: She's impulsive, emotional, and often puts having a bit of fun at the
expense of others before her own duties.
 Mini Mook: Quartzes like Amethyst are the standard soldiers on Homeworld, but due to a
staying in the ground too long Amethyst came out much smaller than intended. However, she
is also much faster and more agile than other Quartzes, and she is much better at
shapeshifting than most Gems shown in the series.
 Morphic Resonance: When shapeshifted into any of her many forms, in addition to the
usual skin color and gem, she usually also retains her characteristic Cat Smile and full lips.
 The Muse: Vidalia and Amethyst are long-time friends. Vidalia has taken up painting,
and admits to Amethyst being her biggest inspiration.
 My Greatest Failure: In "Cry for Help", she feels responsible for and extremely ashamed
at Sugilite's destructive rampage in "Coach Steven". This makes her even more depressed
when she has to form Sugilite again to break the communications hub beyond repair.
 The Nicknamer: Tends to call people she's fond of by affectionate nicknames. When
mad at Peridot for the perceived betrayal by the green Gem, she angrily states she's "taking
 back all the cool nicknames she thought up for her" and plans to call her mean ones. And
after Peridot reveals she was trying to SAVE Earth and insults Yellow Diamond to her face
for the latter's refusal to listen, she happily calls Peridot "Peridactyl" while exclaiming how
cool what she did was.
 Non-P.O.V. Protagonist: Along with Steven, Garnet and Pearl, she is one of the four
main protagonists of the show. But said show is exclusivly told from Steven's perspective.
 Nose Nuggets: She revels in picking her nose, and in "Fusion Cuisine" pulls out a strand
of mucus while doing so.
 Not So Different: In "Reformed", she takes jabs at Pearl, claiming Pearl wants the world
to validate and conform to her, seemingly unaware that her own acting up in that episode
stems from personal insecurity and looking for Garnet's validation.
 Objectshifting: Unlike other Gems, Amethyst has used shapeshifting to fully turn into
objects, though she'll always have a face visible somewhere. She's duplicated functioning
machines and even electronics, including a helicopter that carried multiple people.
Sometimes this is practical, often it's for pranks, and sometimes it's just a bizarre hobby in of
itself.
Amethyst: (Believing Rose shapeshifted into Steven) But it's been so long, like months! That's longer than I was
a toilet!

 Odd Couple: With Pearl. Amethyst is the disorganized, messy, and instinctive
counterpoint to Pearl's precise, careful neat-freak personality. When they stop antagonizing
each other they make a great team, and even better friends.
 Old Friend: With Vidalia. They used to hang out together a lot, but they drifted away for a
while before meeting up again in "Onion Friend".
 One of the Kids: She's the one who most often pals around with Steven, and has a very
amiable relationship with Connie as well.
    P-S 

 Pass the Popcorn: Amethyst is the kind to sit by minor crises while having a snack, such
as during Greg and Pearl's conversation, the mech fight with Pearl and Peridot, or Lars
running around breathing fire — which she was partially responsible for. She even offers
popcorn to Connie during one of these moments.
 Peek-a-Bangs: Her hair usually covers one of her eyes (most often the left), though wind
and various movements regularly uncover it. Twice in "On the Run" they turn into Blinding
Bangs.
 Phlebotinum Rebel: She was originally created on Earth alongside other Gems, but
instead of joining the Gems from Homeworld she ended up joining Rose and the other
Crystal Gems in defending Earth.
 Pintsized Powerhouse: She's barely taller than Steven, but she is strong enough to split
solid rock. This is because she's a Quartz Gem, designed to be a soldier/warrior, and while
she's technically "an overcooked runt", she still has some of that power at her disposal.
 Platonic Life-Partners: She looks like she might have this dynamic with Greg,
if "Maximum Capacity" is of any indication (plus, she's the Gem he's known the longest
outside Rose). Their personalities are quite compatible, up to a point, but Greg will abandon
his hedonism when he needs to be responsible for something, whereas the even-more-
hedonistic Amethyst would manipulate him just so they could keep watching an old sitcom
together, even becoming violent or emotionally cruel whenever he wanted to leave.
 Playing with Fire: She can coat her whips with purple flames that can create large
explosions.
  Power Stereotype Flip: Although Amethyst's frequent use of shapeshifting generally fits
her spontaneous personality, it's also ironic in that she's terrible at lying and acting (she can't
even understand the concept of improv).
 The Prankster: One of the main things she uses her shapeshifting for is pranking. This
can be seen when she joins in Greg and Steven's water-hose fight while in the shape of a cat
to confuse them and with her "Dumb Police" prank which involved shape-shifting into a
policeman and spraying Steven with a water gun for allegedly being dumb.
 Pungeon Master: Makes puns at every opportunity, including when giving people
nicknames.
 Purple Is Powerful: Can fight Pearl to a stand-still while being still relatively new to the
group, and her skin and clothing are purple.
 Raised by Orcs: Amethyst was created by the Homeworld Gems' attempt to make new
Gems at the cost of the Earth. The first people she ever meets and ends up joining are the
Crystal Gems, who wanted to protect the Earth from the Homeworld Gems. The irony of this
situation is not lost on her, and has resulted in some self-esteem and self-loathing issues, to
the point she believes she's a monster or parasite because she was made by the very
situation those closest to her fought to stop.
 Rapunzel Hair: Her hair goes to her ankles.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: The impulsive, care-free Red Oni to Pearl's Blue Oni.
 Rolling Attack: Uses one against Pearl in their fight at the Kindergarten in "On the Run",
the first time it's shown clearly (there's a hint of it in "Watermelon Steven"). This serves
as foreshadowing when it's revealed that another Quartz, Jasper, also has this ability. In later
seasons, Amethyst uses her spin dash a lot more frequently, even when masquerading as a
human, to Steven's annoyance.
 The Runt at the End: Jasper calls her an "overcooked runt". In "Too Far", Peridot states
that, as a Quartz Gem, she should be at least twice as tall as she is now, and she came out
several hundred years later than she should have.
o A subversion. Jasper is considered "perfect" by Homeworld's standards. But
Rose (who is really Pink Diamond, and both their Diamond and maker) regarded Amethyst as
her ultimate creation: a Gem free from the restrictions and prejudices of Gem society they
rejected.
 Sad Clown: Despite her happy-go-lucky gig as the team's comic relief, as the series
trudges on, it's revealed that Amethyst actually has quite the fair share of burdens. In fact,
her sarcastic, rebellious attitude is rooted in her feeling inadequate and defective compared
to her fellow Gems.
o "On the Run" reveals that Amethyst has some unresolved issues over her
Kindergarten origins that she hid so successfully Pearl had no idea they were as bad as they
were.
o "Maximum Capacity" reveals that she resents Greg for "stealing" Rose away,
since after she met Greg, she wasn't there for Amethyst anymore.
o "Reformed" shows that, as laid back as she acts, she's very easily upset by
introspection and worries that she doesn't live up to Garnet's standards.
Steven: ...She doesn't want to think about herself.

 Sense Freak: She likes eating, even though she doesn't have to, because it "feels
weird".
 Sentient Vehicle: She can shapeshift into a kiddie car ("So Many Birthdays"), a
helicopter ("Message Received"), and presumably other types of vehicles as well.
  Shapeshifting Trickster: Amethyst uses shapeshifting more than almost any other gem,
often to pull pranks and make jokes (though she's not very good at actually deceiving
people).
 Shipper on Deck:
o Like Pearl and Garnet, she ships Steven and Connie.
o She (with Steven) encourages Pearl to talk to Mystery Girl.
 Sizeshifter: Can shrink so small that her Gem takes up at least as much of her body as
the rest of her.
 Snobs Vs Slobs: The source of friction between her and Pearl, where she's the slob.
 Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Yes, applied to a cartoon character. "Story for
Steven" tells of when Greg first met Rose Quartz. He also met the other Gems, with
Amethyst still looking, acting, and being treated like a 7-year-old. She's several thousand years
old. Presumably her interaction with Greg and/or Vidalia helped her mature a bit.
 Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Wise Guy to Pearl's Straight Man more or less any
time they're onscreen together.
 Stepford Smiler: In almost every episode that isn't focused on her, she behaves
hedonistic and rebellious, though the show progresses to reveal that she's had a very
troubled past, from being alone in the Kindergarten for a millennium, to the loss of Rose
Quartz, and the fact she's a product of Homeworld's kindergarten.
 Stout Strength: Were you expecting anything less from a Quartz warrior, even if she is
defective?
 Supreme Chef: "Restaurant Wars" reveals that Amethyst is a surprisingly skilled cook,
making food so good that it causes Kofi and Mr. Fryman to end their feud so Steven would
shut down his make-shift restaurant. She is the only one of the Crystal Gems (besides
Steven) who eats regularly, so of course she would have a sense of what tastes good and
what doesn't.
 Swapped Roles: In the early seasons, Amethyst is the Cool Big Sis to Steven's
naive Cheerful Child. By the time of the movie, Steven has matured into a young adult and
Amethyst unexpectedly gets hit by the Rejuvenator, reverting her to an infant-like Blank
Slate. During the song "No Matter What," to help Amethyst get her memories back, Steven
leads her around Beach City showing her all the things they usually do together, acting like a
supportive and loving older brother the entire time.
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 Tomboyish Voice: Her voice is a bit deep and raspy, which is more apparent when she
yells.
 Tranquil Fury: She's very clearly pissed in "Too Far" after Peridot (unintentionally) insults
her by calling her defective, but (aside from using her whip to remove an injector's drill head)
she keeps a cool head and chooses to give the other Gem the cold shoulder instead.
 Trash of the Titans: Exaggerated. Amethyst's "room" (actually a large cavern) is filled
with enormous heaping mounds of garbage that she's collected over the centuries.
 The Unapologetic: Amethyst is very quick to admit to her faults and accept blame for
mistakes, but she never apologizes for them. Instead, she either treats these issues like
they're unimportant or takes it as a compliment.
Pearl: Amethyst, I blame YOU for this.* 
Amethyst: Eh, that's fair.
  Unskilled, but Strong: She is less experienced than the other Gems because she was
born relatively recently, and she lacks Pearl's discipline, yet she is still able to fight Pearl to a
standstill by relying on brute strength. This makes even more sense when you realize that
she's a Quartz Gem, Homeworld's warrior/soldier caste, and while she's technically
"defective" by their standards, she still has an edge against Pearl, whose own caste is
essentially a Servant Race. Deconstructed in "Crack the Whip", where the skilled AND strong
Jasper completely outclasses her and would have killed her had Stevonnie not stepped up.
As a result, she begins making an effort to try and break out of this.
 Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A mild example. A flashback in "On the Run" reveals that while
Amethyst was still rambunctious, she wasn't as rebellious as she is in the present day. "Story
for Steven" and "We Need to Talk" back this up, and "Onion Friend" implies that Vidalia had
something to do with it.
 Victoria's Secret Compartment: Pulling her whip out of the gem on her chest evokes this.
 Vitriolic Best Buds: Pearl and Amethyst spend almost all of their shared onscreen time
arguing, but every once in a while there's a subtle indication that they do care about each
other.
 Voluntary Shapeshifting: Most Gems can shapeshift, but she's one of the few who gets
any mileage out of it, though Morphic Resonance still applies. Peridot's comments indicate
that Amethyst is unusually skilled at this for a Gem.
 "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Amethyst turns out to really value Garnet's approval, as
seen in "Reformed".
 We Used to Be Friends:
o As Pearl stated, she and Greg used to hang out all the time and usually
watch Lil' Butler. Then, one day, they stopped doing so for unknown reasons. It's implied by
their argument at the end of their recent viewing that Greg likely wanted to stop watching at
some point to go see Rose and Amethyst interpreted it as him caring more about Rose than
herself, since the argument was prompted by him trying to do the same to go see Steven.
o To a milder extent, she and Pearl used to be very close, as seen in the flashback
for "Story for Steven", but they're more antagonistic to each other now. This was also hinted at
in "Giant Woman" where Amethyst says Pearl is no fun "anymore", which she regards as being
the reason they never form Opal.
 Whip It Good: Her Weapon of Choice, summoned from the gem in her chest. Either as a
single whip or two if need be. Bismuth implies that whips, at least of the quality Amethyst
produces, are rare among Quartz Soldiers, and upgrades the ends of it to act as an Epic
Flail.
 Wild Child: "On the Run" implies that, after she was "made", she just hung out around
the place she popped out of the Earth until Rose Quartz found her after an unspecified period
of time (implied to be at least 1000 years in "Rose's Scabbard"), explaining a lot of
her Womanchild behavior. In flashbacks to when Rose and Greg dated, Amethyst acted like
a combination of a hyperactive child and a dog, literally running after a thrown stick.
o In The Movie, after being hit by the rejuvenator she's basically a Blank Slate that
just mindlessly repeats the words, actions, and/or form of whoever's around her, which implies
that the other Gems had to teach her everything.
 Womanchild: Some of her antics are reminiscent of a teenager acting out. Her yelling "I
don't wanna!" when Garnet tells her to go back to the temple in "Tiger Millionaire" is a good
demonstration. She's actually young in comparison to the other Gems, having been created
on Earth instead of hailing from Homeworld. This is further enforced by the fact that during
Greg's flashback in "Story for Steven" she's much younger in appearance than she is now.
 Wrestler in All of Us: In "Tiger Millionaire", she's shown to be an underground wrestler.
She takes the same form and begins using wrestling moves again in "Ocean Gem". Her
verse in the extended theme takes place in the wrestling ring from "Tiger Millionaire".
 You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In the Kindergarten, Amethyst admits her self-
loathing in a fit of both rage and sadness. When Pearl learns of Amethyst's hidden self-
deprecation, she replies with:
"You're the one good thing that came out of this mess. I always thought you were proud of that."

 You Are Not Alone: Her self-hatred finally comes to an end when she meets the
Famethyst in "That Will Be All"; all of them have been treated like dirt by Holly Blue Agate for
being from Earth, a failed colony and the site of Pink Diamond’s death, and many are
"defective" in similar ways to Amethyst — and because of this, they wholeheartedly accept
her as one of them.
 You Are Number 6: She learns that her original designation was Amethyst Facet-5 Cut-
8XM when she meets her Kindergarten sisters. She's shown to be ecstatic about this
revelation, since it means they all remember her.
 You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: Amethyst is more prone to emotional outbursts
than the other Gems, which can cause her to morph from a goofy prankster into a
reckless berserker. This is how she managed to fight Pearl to a standstill, despite the fact
that they both know that Pearl is more skilled.
Rose Quartz
Voiced by: Susan Egan
 Click here for her outfit as a Quartz soldier 

"Isn't it remarkable, Steven? This world is full of so many possibilities. Each living thing has an entirely unique
experience: the sights they see, the sounds they hear, the lives they live are so complicated... and so simple! I can't
wait for you to join them."

Rose Quartz was the founder and previous leader of the Crystal Gems. She found
Amethyst and brought her into the group. About sixteen years before the series began,
she met and fell in love with Greg Universe. She became pregnant with Steven, but
since the holder of the magic gem can only be one person, Rose, as Greg puts it, "gave
up her physical form to bring Steven into the world". Although she could fight as well as
any Gem, she was full of love and compassion for every living thing she ever
encountered.

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 The Ace: Rose is always described as being exceptional at whatever she did. It's not an
image she lives up to, because no one could.
 Acrofatic: Rose is easily one of the larger Gems we've seen onscreen; she canonically
wears a size XXL shirt. That doesn't prevent her from being able to jump quite high and land
so gracefully that she's practically floating. "Steven Floats" explains that she had the power to
regulate her descent speed, hence her grace when landing. Played with on The Reveal her
"Rose Quartz" form was at first a shapeshifted disguise and her true form was Pink Diamond,
while certainly a large Gem as befitting her kind, is built rather proportionally. Her powers
likely still played a role in how she can move so gracefully, however.
 Adipose Rex: Played with, since Rose is actually Pink Diamond in disguise. Her
Diamond form is much thinner and taller, though.
 Adorkable: The goofy, confused grin she gives Greg when he first gives her his t-shirt
lets you know exactly why he fell in love with her almost instantly.
 All-Loving Heroine:
o Rose is always described and remembered as a Gem full of love towards every
living being and the world they lived in. She held her fellow Gems, Greg, and Steven especially
dear and the video she left for Steven highlights it, thanks to her monologue. She even
comments how she looks forward to Steven's birth despite knowing full well that she'd die as a
result.
o A good example of this happens in "The Answer"; she meets the recently
rebelled (and fused) Garnet, whom all previous Gems mentioned was unnatural and should be
destroyed:
Garnet: I don't... upset you?
Rose Quartz: [happily] Who cares how I feel? How you feel is bound to be much more interesting.

o This behavior is ultimately why she poofed and bubbled Bismuth, whose weapon,
"the Breaking Point", would've led to much higher and much more permanent casualties,
especially on Homeworld's side, Bismuth's Pay Evil unto Evil contrasting heavily with Rose's
desire to see Homeworld's forces merely pushed back rather than destroyed outright (Bismuth
also implies she attacked Rose as a result of this).
o "A Single Pale Rose" and "Now We're Only Falling Apart" revealed that
she developed this mentality as Pink Diamond when she grew to love the Earth.
 Always Someone Better: Steven reveals in "Steven vs. Amethyst" that he sometimes
feels like he'll never be as great as her.
 Anime Hair: Big, poofy, and styled in tubelike ringlets.
 Anti-Hero: For all her compassion, she isn't perfect. As Pink Diamond, she created the
Rose Quartz alter-ego, instigated a rebellion, and faked her own assassination with the goal
of ending the Gem colonization of Earth, having come to cherish Earth's organic life.
However, she deceived her followers for millennia and placed a Geas on Pearl that
prevented Pearl from ever revealing the truth, which caused Pearl no end of anxiety. While
her intentions were noble, she caused her friends to live a lie and unwittingly brought down
doom on countless Gems after her "assassination". It goes to show that not even the
Diamonds' Token Good Teammate is flawless.
o In general, Rose's idealism is tempered by a profound aversion to solving difficult
moral problems, which can lead to a unintentional thoughtlessness. That Bismuth was thrown in
a bubble to be ignored indefinitely is probably the biggest illustration, as is the fact she never
tried to resolve Pearl's feelings for her. Plays into and goes hand in hand with being The
Atoner, down below.
  Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: A possible explanation of Greg's comment
that she "gave up her physical form". The home movie she left behind for Steven states that
she became half of him.
 The Atoner: It's implied by Greg that she's not exactly proud of a lot of things she's
done. Given she was the Diamond who began the colonization of Earth and the corruption
attack was due to a mistake on her part, it's easy to see why.
 Authority Equals Asskicking: Was the leader of the Crystal Gems, and extremely strong.
For reference, she effortlessly takes out a triple Ruby fusion in one pace bare-handed. Makes
sense once you learn that she's Pink Diamond.
 Badass in Charge: She curbstomped three fused Rubies in the past with her bare hands,
and she was The Ace of the Gems back when in the war for Earth.
 Bare Your Midriff: Her original Quartz Soldier outfit includes a crop top which shows off
her gem. Her default long dress outfit goes for a Navel Window instead.
 Barrier Warrior: Pearl notes that Steven's shield and bubble were inherited from her,
which would logically make her this. "The Return" implies that her defensive abilities were
more valued than her strength in battle.
 Batman Grabs a Gun: It's believed she had to violate her Thou Shalt Not Kill policy and
shattered Pink Diamond to save the Crystal Gems and humanity. Except she didn't. Rose
Quartz was Pink Diamond, and enlisted Pearl to fake her own death at the hands of her alter
ego, thinking it was the only way to make the Gem war stop.
 The Beastmaster: Was noted in Buddy Buddwick's personal journal to have lived (or at
least spend time) among a pride of seven lions (three lions and four lionesses) as if they
were housecats at least 200 years prior to the series. She also was the previous
partner/owner of Lion, who has partnered with her son/reincarnation Steven after Rose
"died".
 Be Careful What You Wish For: Rose wanted to free Earth from Homeworld and create
a place where the Crystal Gems could live their lives as they wanted and humans would be
safe from Homeworld, going so far as to fake shattering herself as Pink Diamond to do it.
Homeworld did leave...after Corrupting every single Gem still on Earth into monsters, thus
ensuring almost none of the Crystal Gems would be able to enjoy their freedom and would
instead become a new threat to humans.
 Becoming the Mask:
o Rose sees Steven as a way to become human in a way and experience
humanity for herself.
o Pink Diamond also chose to permanently become Rose after faking her own
shattering.

o Word of God is that she dearly, consciously wanted to be an All-

Loving Hero capable of great empathy, but coming from a place of such power it was very hard
for her to truly relate. Steven has no such issue.
 Being Good Sucks: Even though she was against killing, she had to endure warfare
against Pink Diamond because in Garnet's words "The Earth belonged to Pink Diamond.
Destroying her was all Rose could do... for Amethyst to be herself... for Pearl to be free... for
me to be together... for [Steven] to exist." The truth turns out to be more complicated.
 However, trying to be good has brought Rose a fair share of pain.  Word of
God is that she painted the most negative image possible of Pink Diamond to her followers,
and so created an environment in which all of her chosen friends kept essentially telling her
to destroy herself. And she did.
 Benevolent Boss: Was this to the Crystal Gems, especially compared to the Homeworld
Gems. This is most clear concerning Pearl, who on Homeworld would've been treated as a
pretty thing to own rather than a person, and Garnet whom Blue Diamond tried to kill half of
simply for fusing into her doing her job. Even Amethyst, who would have been seen as a
'overcooked runt' and defective on Homeworld, was never treated any different.
o It becomes even more heartwarming when it turns out that she's actually Pink
Diamond, who previously wanted to be a Bad Boss like her sisters.
o Also partially Deconstructed. While Rose did genuinely care about the Earth and
the Crystal Gems, her Heel–Face Turn could not overwrite thousands of years of conditioning
to believe she was superior to other gems. While Rose payed lip service to freedom and free
will, she still tended to assume she knew best and made many decisions without consulting the
others. In fact, seconds after she promised to "free" Pearl, Rose still chose to put Pearl under
an involuntary Geas to keep her identity hidden. In addition to her identity as Pink Diamond she
kept many secrets from the other Crystal Gems, particularly the existence of Lion and the fact
that she bubbled Bismuth for advocating use of lethal force.
 Betty and Veronica: The "Archie" for Pearl's "Betty" (Rose's bodyguard and very first ally
in the war against Homeworld) and Greg's "Veronica" (aspiring human musician).
 Beware the Nice Ones: She's a loving, kindhearted person and All-Loving Hero, but she
also did lead a armed rebellion against a cosmic empire. She's also physically strong enough
to smash the metal controls for a Ferris Wheel with one punch, then stop said Ferris Wheel in
its tracks just by jumping in front of it and grabbing it.
 Big Beautiful Woman: She's stated to be at least eight feet tall, is considerably heavier
and rounder than the rest of the Gems (her shirt size is XXL, and it's pretty snug on her), has
a 100% Adoration Rating, and is gorgeous. Her animation and voice acting also alludes to
this; she speaks very gently and eloquently, and her animation is very subtle and fluid, with
her hair shifting and bouncing with the smallest movement. Played with on The Reveal she's
actually Pink Diamond, whose flashback show that, while certainly large and beautiful, is also
quite a bit thinner and taller than her Rose Quartz disguise.
 Big Good: Her actions before and after Steven was born indicate this. Several episodes
indicate that she dedicated her life towards benevolence, such as healing broken Gems,
defending her newly adopted Homeworld and even bonding with a human which resulted in
her giving up her own existence just so that Steven may live. But since this story is about
Steven, her legacy and subtle guidance is what drives him forward.
o Subverted somewhat as the series continues. She was a major force in saving
Earth from Homeworld, but she was far from a perfect person. She did many morally
questionable things and was also varying stages of immature throughout her backstory.
Though she paved the way to the peaceful co-existence between Earth and Homeworld, her
actions also left EVERYONE close to her with major baggage that continue to plague them
in Future.
 Blood Knight: "The Answer" shows that she took a certain amount of satisfaction in
combat. However, she didn't actually kill anyone and is her usual kind and loving self outside
of battle.
  Boobs of Steel: She was the largest and most physically powerful of the Crystal Gems,
and is the only Gem drawn with distinct breasts; this also emphasizes her maturity relative to
the other Crystal Gems and, from a meta standpoint, might be to make her look more
motherly. Considering how much she loves humans, it could also be a trait she added to look
more human-like.
 Both Sides Have a Point: Bismuth and Rose's argument over the Breaking Point.
Bismuth argued that, since Homeworld doesn't fight fair or hold back, they shouldn't either.
Rose argued that this would make them no different from the Gems they were fighting, and
was against everything they stood for. Granted, it has become more complicated than
that since the Diamonds are hiding plenty of secrets about the war, including from each
other. It's eventually revealed that Rose didn't want to shatter the Homeworld Gems because
she was one of them — Pink Diamond — and didn't want to hurt her sisters, or any of the
Homeworld armies.
 Broken Ace: As time goes on and we get more of an insight into what Rose was like
when she was alive, it becomes very clear that she was... less than perfect. While Rose did
love humanity, her behavior towards them was more like seeing them as pets instead as
individual beings, she seems to have handled the Greg/Pearl Love Triangle poorly
(and, before Greg came along, is strongly implied to have had a long series of human lovers
that she only ever toyed with), and her tendency to keep secrets (most prominently the fact
that she came to blows with, poofed and bubbled fellow Crystal Gem Bismuth over a political
dispute) left the remaining Gems in the dark on at least a few important issues. We soon
learn why; her original identity, Pink Diamond, was a Womanchild who was doomed to
remain perpetually immature. Rose pretended to be a mature, wise figure but had the
mentality of a desperate, overburdened and self-loathing teenager.
 Broken Pedestal:
o A downplayed one in "Rose's Scabbard", Pearl had always thought of herself to
be Rose's closest confidant, so when she finds out there are some secrets Rose never told
Pearl such as Lion's existence, she goes into a heartbroken denial over it and takes it out at her
friends, especially Steven. This is elaborated on much later: Pearl was the only person to know
she was actually Pink Diamond, and naturally imagined this meant she was Rose's one true
confidant for everything.
o Her failure to reveal Bismuth's imprisonment caused what left of Bismuth's faith
in her to shatter to the point she accused Rose of being manipulative.
o The reveal that she shattered Pink Diamond crushed Steven. His opinion of her
reaches an all-time low in "Storm in the Room", where he confronts an image of Rose and
outright calls her a liar, hypocrite, and coward, thinking she only turned into him so she
could escape facing the consequences of her actions. Steven is relieved that Rose didn't
actually shatter Pink, but still deeply uncomfortable after learning that Rose Quartz was Pink
Diamond, which means he is a Diamond.
o Became this to Sapphire in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", once it is revealed
that she used to be Pink Diamond, with Garnet breaking apart from the revelation; Ruby was
used to not knowing everything about someone, but Sapphire, having the powers of
precognition, trusted Rose enough to not look into her, and took the secrecy especially hard.
Sapphire: SHE LIED TO US! SHE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!

o When Spinel confronts Steven for how Rose (as Pink Diamond) abandoned her,
he starts saying that he can't believe Rose would do that... before realizing what he's saying
and admitting that yes, he absolutely can believe it.
 Caring Gardener: She gardens magically through the use of her Green Thumb powers,
and she's the one that led the Crystal Gems and cared for them as a Team Mom.
  Cat Smile: Is drawn with one in "A Single Pale Rose". While this is a common trait of
Quartzes, she had one as a Diamond as well.
 Cessation of Existence: Implied with Steven's "She's gone." comment. No one knows for
sure whether she still exists in any afterlife, but it seems unlikely.
 Character Development:
o Despite her sympathy and compassion, Rose's "love" of humans is compared to
thinking of them as cute pet animals, and not worthy of equal respect, though she does show a
desire to respect their wishes. Her interaction with Greg taught her to see and value humans in
a more respectful way. It's implied she also had this when she came to Earth and learned the
value of humans and her fellow Gems, as she formerly seemed to have the same views of
organics as her fellow Diamonds.
o In a heavily ironic way, Rose Quartz eventually does become the more mature
leader that White, Yellow, and Blue always wanted Pink Diamond to be. By the end of her life,
she still had Pink's cheerfulness and desire to support and connect with others, but she also
exuded wisdom and composure, all tied into a deep fondness for almost everything and
everyone — and the maturity to face her flaws with grace and sincere attempts to improve.
Though her character did start out immature and silly, and does continue to have flaws
throughout her life that are never resolved, eventually Rose does mature into a style of
leadership which can best be described as "motherly". (Further ironically, her actual biological
child is the only one she was never able to lead and guide this way.)
 Color Motif: Pink.
 Combat Medic: Rose had healing and defensive abilities along with martial prowess
apparent by her collection of weaponry.
 Consummate Liar: Steven sadly acknowledges this over the series, the more that he
learns about his mother. Rose hid lots of secrets from the people she loved, including Pearl
and Greg, whom she cared about deeply. She lied about poofing and bubbling Bismuth,
telling the Crystal Gems she was worried Bismuth had been captured or shattered to spare
their feelings about the latter's betrayal. She also lied about Pink Diamond being cruel and
unwilling to spare the Earth. After he gets over the initial shock of her biggest lie — that she
shattered Pink Diamond but instead was Pink Diamond and faked her shattering — he admits
to Amethyst that he shouldn't have been surprised because he knew Rose was a liar. She
actually gets this trait from her fellow Diamonds' strict and neglectful treatment towards her,
making it hard to reveal anything about herself out of fear of disappointment from her friends
and family.
 Cool Sword: Her sword, which would later be used by Steven and Connie. Not only does
it look cool, Bismuth considered it her finest creation. It's designed to be able to slice through
any Gem's physical form in one slash, including gems with Super Toughness like Garnet or
Bismuth. However, it's specially designed to always leave their Gem unharmed.
 Create Your Own Villain: In a sense. Most of the rebellion's animosity towards Pink
Diamond comes from Rose's stories of her as a cruel and uncaring monarch, creating a
"villain" for them to rise together against. It's a complete fabrication. Rose Quartz was Pink
Diamond, and slandered her own name, fought her own army, and rallied the Crystal Gems
against herself to try and change things for the better. Much of Homeworld's animosity for the
Crystal Gems also stems from Rose's shattering of Pink Diamond. Though the shattering
was faked.
 Cryptic Background Reference: Rose's backstory before starting the rebellion is
unknown, with Bismuth stating matter-of-factly that Rose was made on Earth's soil. However,
Rose's talk with Greg while they were dating seems to imply that she lived on Homeworld, as
she tells him that she never misses it. This seemingly minor reference calls into question
whether the origin story she gave to the majority of the Crystal Gems is true, and what her
 true origins even are, seeing as her relationship with Bismuth was part of a reveal that it was
in Rose's character to lie. The discrepancy turns out to be foreshadowing.
 Culture Clash: Had trouble understanding the human version of relationships at first.
 Cultured Badass: Rose was more familiar with human culture than the other Gems, and
had an appreciation for music. The reason she met Greg was solely because she couldn't
resist hearing him play, and she excitedly whispered to the other Gems about his gimmick
when he came to give her a shirt he'd promised. That said, as "We Need to Talk" has proven,
she wasn't an expert on humans nor on their relationships, which became a large block in her
relationship with Greg.
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 Dark and Troubled Past: She led the Crystal Gems in a long and violent war, and by the
end of it all, most of her followers were either dead or insane. Discussed in this conversation:
Greg: I barely know you.
Rose: That's a good thing.

o It's expanded a bit in "Earthlings"; according to Jasper she did something to Pink

Diamond. At first we don't know what, but Jasper hates her for it, even after thousands of years.
We find out what in "Back to the Moon": Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond. And then "A
Single Pale Rose" shows she actually was Pink Diamond, which really makes her life look like a
mess in hindsight.
 Dark Secret: She killed Pink Diamond. Many Homeworld gems knew, and Crystal Gems
that fought in the war with her, but she kept this from Amethyst, and Garnet and Pearl kept it
from Steven. Actually, her real dark secret is that she was Pink Diamond herself. Pearl
shapeshifted into Rose to help the real Rose fake her own death.
 Deceased Parents Are the Best: If she can be considered truly "dead" is a somewhat
philosophical question, but she's not able to directly be there for Steven regardless. It turns
out to be deconstructed harshly while still played straight as the show goes on; Rose
was The Ace and an All-Loving Hero with a 100% Adoration Rating... but she wasn't as
perfect the Crystal Gems made her out to be. She had flaws, her own Character Arc and her
loss is far more than the window-dressing for Steven's story. Bereavement doesn't magically
disappear immediately, and no inherited legacy (however awesome) can replace a dead
parent.
o Especially deconstructed in regards to Steven. She genuinely possessed all of
the positive traits that those who knew her remember but that only puts more pressure on
Steven to live up to her legacy and causes him to have several doubts about himself and his
relation to the Gems.
o Finally the trope is subverted as of "Steven Floats": the pressure Steven feels,
and the emotional scars he sees that Rose left in both the Crystal Gems and his dad, make him
unable to summon happy thoughts when thinking about her, instead having complicated
thoughts.
o Another aspect of this is when an Awful Truth about her comes to light, she's no
longer there to be able to explain to Steven why she did what she did or her side of the story.
o This gets deconstructed even more after it's revealed she was actually Pink
Diamond, as there is increased focus on how Rose's actions affected those around her, and
how little she actually thought about the consequences Such as her forcing Pearl under an
unbreakable order to keep it a secret, the effects faking her death had on the other Diamonds,
her casual abandonment of Spinel, and the fact that she never really had a long term plan for
any of this in regards to Steven. By the events of the Movie, Steven reveals that he actually
believes she was capable of such actions.
  Deader Than Dead: The Diamond's powers can resurrected organic lifeforms killed by
injuries and even long-shattered gems. Rose's Death of Personality on giving birth to Steven
is the only thing we know they cannot reverse at all.
 Death by Childbirth: Rose Quartz "gave up her physical form to bring Steven into the
world", as Greg puts it. It turns out that she became half of Steven, since she and Steven
can't both exist at the same time.
 Death of Personality: A Gem's gemstone is the physical basis of their existence, and
Rose's remains unaltered in Steven's body, but she has not existed as the same person
since it became part of Steven. This is completely irreversible, regardless of what happens to
Steven's organic half. Even the gemstone by itself is no longer Rose, it's just a fragment of
Steven.
 Defector from Decadence: Led the other Crystal Gems in splitting away from the
Homeworld Gems after the Homeworld Gems planned to do something that would have hurt
the Earth. Turns out she is Pink Diamond, and thus an even bigger example.
 Didn't Think This Through:
o One of Rose's biggest flaws, and one that causes problems for others long after
her death: While an effective leader and strategist, most of her plans were temporary solutions
at best such as bubbling Bismuth after coming to blows or making Pearl swear to never reveal
her true identity even after the War had ended. As such, her actions come off as selfish, and
deeply hurt those who cared about her.
o Despite much foreshadowing and red herrings regarding Rose's apparent
machinations, she repeatedly displays an inability to plan beyond the short term that
consistently comes back to bite her. She faked her own shattering as Pink Diamond, thinking it
would make Homeworld leave Earth alone, and instead got almost every Gem on the planet
corrupted as reprisal. She abandoned Spinel in Pink's garden just to get Spinel out of her hair,
not thinking of the toll the centuries of isolation would take on her. She bubbled Bismuth to bury
the knowledge of the Breaking Point, hiding her away so the issue wouldn't be breached again.
And immediately prior to the series, she gives up her physical form to make Steven, seeing it
only as creating a child, not considering the grief she would leave her family with.
 Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: "Back to the Moon" confirms that Rose
Quartz shattered Pink Diamond. "A Single Pale Rose" confirms that she didn't. She IS Pink
Diamond in disguise. She faked her own death.
 Does Not Like Shoes: She wears a floor-length gown, so it's not immediately apparent,
but "Story for Steven" shows that she goes barefoot.
 The Dreaded: It's obvious that her rebellion truly terrified Homeworld, even before she
shattered Pink Diamond.
 Dude Magnet: "We Need to Talk", "Mr. Greg" and "Your Mother and Mine" imply that she
had relationships with several other men before Greg.
 Earthy Barefoot Character: She walked around barefoot and was a Friend to All Living
Things.
 Easily Forgiven: "Now We're Only Falling Apart" shows that not only does Ruby,
unlike Sapphire, take the news of her being Pink Diamond well, but feels okay after talking it
over for a couple of hours with Greg. In "The Question", Greg relates to her because, as he
says, "I never told her I used to be Gregory DeMayo." Amethyst hasn't really gotten over
Rose lying to everyone, but refuses to dump "another thousand-year-old complex" on
Steven, a fourteen-year-old child. Even Bismuth, though she was shocked that the rebellion
was a "sham", at least understood now why Rose bubbled her over the Breaking Point.
  Eternal Love: Rose has had multiple human lovers she outlived (and Greg, who
outlived her), but through it all she and Pearl have held a mutual love since the rebellion first
started six millennia ago.
 Evil All Along: Subverted. She is actually Pink Diamond, but Pink Diamond became her
because she'd already had a Heel Realization and decided to save Earth and give it to the
Crystal Gems and humanity.
 Fake Ultimate Hero: Played With. She was actually Pink Diamond, but at that point she
genuinely did want to save Earth's organic life and give it to the Crystal Gems and humanity.
So she wasn't who she said she was, but she was still heroic. Sapphire in particular does
NOT take this revelation well.
 Fatal Flaw:
o Due to Rose being dead, this only shows up in medias res. While Rose was
genuinely good-natured, she had troubles dealing with consequences of her actions and could
only come up with short-term solutions at best. In the present, her son has to try and clean up
the mess she left behind when she just disappeared to give birth to him; something even he
eventually wants to call her out on.
o Rose also wasn't good at understanding others' feelings and trusting them fully.
Her Innocently Insensitive nature and tendency to hide the truth away ended up seriously
hurting those close to her such as Greg, Pearl, Bismuth, and Sapphire.
o She also had a tendency to leave difficult problems unsolved or run away from
them rather than solve them, many of which had disastrous consequences.
 As Pink Diamond, instead of rebelling openly, she faked her own death to
become Rose permanently, believing that her fellow Diamonds didn't care about her, but hoping
that "Rose" being powerful enough to "shatter a Diamond" would scare them away from Earth.
Turns out, they did care about her, and were so enraged by her "death" that they unleashed a
massive corruption wave across Earth that corrupted nearly all the remaining Crystal Gems.
 While she loved Pearl, she didn't openly address Pearl's over-
dependence on her or the nature of their relationship, apparently not noticing that Pearl was
jealous of her relationship with Greg and figuring she could have them both. After Rose's death,
Pearl has no idea what to do without her and still bitterly resents Greg for "taking her away".
 When she and Bismuth fought over the issue of shattering enemy Gems,
she ended up poofing Bismuth and sealing her bubbled gem away for thousands of years in a
secret location, so secret that not even the remaining Crystal Gems knew what had happened to
her. She would have stayed in there forever if Steven hadn't accidentally freed her, and when she
is freed, she's heartbroken when she realizes that Rose sealed her away and didn't even tell her
friends where she was, believing she meant nothing to Rose, who she would have given her life
for.
 Flower Motifs: As befitting someone named Rose. Most evident with her Laser Light
Cannon, which blooms into a flower to fire, then fires a flower-shaped beam which then
blooms into the shape of Rose herself. This was passed onto Steven, as the design on his
shield is the same as the rose design on the bottom of the cannon.
 Fluffy Tamer: Apparently, Rose saw beauty in everything and cared for things that most
others would find gross or unattractive. In "Lars and the Cool Kids", it's revealed that she
tended a garden of some nasty-looking sentient moss. In "Monster Buddies", after Steven
has some success taming a centipeetle, the Gems reveal that she also attempted to tame the
monsters they came across. In "Buddy's Book", we see that Rose had a pack of lions as
companions in the desert some time during the founding of Beach City. By Gem Standards
she also felt this way about Humans...
  Foil: To her son, Steven. Both are friendly, charismatic Quartz Gems who try to see the
best in everyone, serve as an emotional support to the other Crystal Gems, have
an Interspecies Romance with an insecure human, and have the same powers. However, as
more secrets are revealed about Rose, it turns that unlike Steven who is a Badass Pacifist,
Rose was a deconstruction of Martial Pacifist with her actions eventually bringing trouble for
her son. Also, while Rose had trouble handling people's feelings and had an (initial)
paternalistic attitude towards humans, Steven is surprisingly emotionally mature for his age
and even when he's Innocently Insensitive, he will (mostly) know when he stepped out of line
and apologize; plus, he doesn't see humans as inferior species since he did grow up with
them. Additionally, Steven Cannot Tell a Lie, yet Rose has kept a lie for millennia (and even
then she never intended for the truth to be known). Also, Steven has never doubted the
Gems' love for him, whereas Rose, who was Pink Diamond, believed the Diamonds never
cared for her at all; and on that note, Steven even forgave the other Diamonds themselves,
something Rose would clearly never do.
 Foreshadowing: There's a huge number of hints towards her and Pink being the same
being, like how she has so many different Gem powers, her sword seemingly shattering Pink
despite being unable to shatter any Gems, Pearl being so loyal to her, implying to Greg in
flashbacks she's been to Homeworld despite others saying she was born on Earth, being the
only character other than Pink with a pink-colored gem, and so on.
 Former Teen Rebel: As Pink Diamond, at least in her "earlier" years.
 Freudian Excuse:
o Her opinions on humanity before meeting Greg, while seeming somewhat
condescending by human standards, are a product of her environment, who as a whole view
organic life as pests to be exterminated at best. She's actually remarkably kind towards organics
by Gem standards, trying to turn away an impulsive Greg who she thinks is abandoning his
dreams.
o Her fellow Diamonds gave her very little emotional attention at all and apparently
ignored what she wanted when she did see them, to the point she genuinely believed they
didn't give a darn about her, but also were rather forceful that she needed to act like a proper
Diamond and put on a proper appearance for her subjects. Her problems with empathy and
difficulty letting others see the unsavory parts of herself make a lot more sense with that in
mind...
 Friend to All Living Things: Rose loved every living being and saw the beauty in all
things, no matter how "gross" or undesirable others might view them.
 From Nobody to Nightmare: As Bismuth stated, Rose was "just another Quartz soldier,
made right here in the dirt". And Rose eventually became a Rebel Leader who killed Pink
Diamond. Later subverted — Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond all along, and her origin story
as told to everyone else was a lie, though you could say that Rose was originally just a fake
identity created by Pink Diamond so she can have fun and explore the Earth, but later
became... something more.
 Genki Girl: In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", she is overjoyed to see the newly formed
Amethysts while disguised as one, the beauty of the newly-formed planet Earth, and is elated
when she sees gem fusions, which inspires her and Pearl to unsuccessfully attempt fusion.
 Girls Like Musicians: In addition to falling in love with the musically-talented Greg
Universe, one telling of her origin story shows an image of her falling in love with a dancing
tribal from a very ancient civilization.
 Girly Bruiser: She wore a long, frilly white dress at all times, sported pink Rapunzel
Hair in Regal Ringlets, lived in a room made entirely of pink clouds, and loved flowers,
animals, and humans so completely as to put a Disney princess to shame. She was also the
 leader of a bloody rebellion against her home planet and goes into battle with a pink shield
and matching pink sword, having been made to be a warrior.
 Godzilla Threshold: According to Garnet, she shattered Pink Diamond because it was
the only way to free the Earth from her. When she was Pink Diamond, she tried and failed to
get the other Diamonds to abandon Earth every other way she could think of, including
outright telling them she didn't want to kill off life on Earth. She chose to fake her own
shattering because she took Blue Diamond's words to mean that the only way that Earth
could survive was if she removed herself from the equation.
 Going Native: She grew enamoured with Earth and all of its little wonders and eventually
led a civil war against Homeworld for its independence.
 Gone Horribly Wrong:
o Quartz Gems are made to be warriors for Homeworld. Rose turned against
Homeworld, and appears to be the least combative Quartz ever produced: her main weapon is
a defensive shield (though she had Bismuth make her a sword), she had healing tears, and
hated killing in general: she would poof but never break Gems, which serves as an early clue
that she didn't actually shatter Pink Diamond.
o She's actually Pink Diamond and faked her death under the belief that the other
Diamonds don't give a darn about her and if she "died", Earth would be left alone and forgotten
by the Diamonds for the humans and Crystal Gems to live in peace. Unfortunately for
everyone, she completely underestimated how much the others cared for her and this utterly
backfired.
 Good Bad Girl: Rose Quartz is an All-Loving Hero and Friend to All Living Things, but
allegedly had various human lovers over the course of her years on Earth, and
acts very flirtatious towards the people she loves.
o For example, this quote to Greg:
Rose: You're really cute, and I'd love to play with you.
o Another example is her fusion dance with Pearl .
o However, the implications of the trope are explored. While she does care a lot
about her loved ones, her relationship with Greg stood out from the rest because Greg realized
they both rushed into the relationship. Both had the spark but didn't know each other that well
and Rose didn't really see Greg as his own individual person until he brought it up and revealed
her own insecurities and lack of knowledge in it. However, this talk helped move forward their
relationship (symbolized how she called him by the first name for the first time) and both made
the steps to have a relationship as equals. It's this Character Development prompted by Greg
that explains why he became the one for her, which contrasts him to Pearl. Pearl did not mind
much of Rose's escapades because she would outlive them. However, her putting Rose on a
pedestal because of her own problems and her own lack of understanding of intimacy is why
she couldn't become Rose's one as opposed to Greg.
 Good Costume Switch: She used to wear a standard quartz warrior uniform when she
served Pink Diamond, but when she started the rebellion, she changed into the white dress
she's been wearing since. Even bigger one, as she used to be Pink Diamond and Rose
Quartz as a whole actually is a Good Costume Switch for Pink Diamond.
 Good Parents: While Rose never actually got a chance to interact with Steven, she
made it a point to leave a video that emphasized how much she loved him, and how she'll
continue to love him after she is a part of him and no longer her own entity. By all accounts,
she wanted him to live his life and enjoy it with no greater plan beyond that.
o As "Storm in the Room" shows, despite his doubts about her, he imagines that
she would have been a good, loving parent who supported him and didn't want him to deal with
her problems like he has.
 Good Powers, Bad People: Played With. Rose Quartz was well-known for her healing
powers. And from the perspective of Homeworld, she was the worst criminal in Gemkind's
history, a revolutionary and eco-terrorist who committed high treason and regicide. If only
they knew...
 Greater-Scope Paragon: The Crystal Gems still follow her mission and became the
people they are because of her influence, on top of being Steven's mother, but she's been
dead for over a decade.
 Green Thumb: Rose has an affinity for plants, as demonstrated by the moss in "Lars and
the Cool Kids" and the brambles that defend her fountain in "An Indirect Kiss". "Watermelon
Steven" confirms that she had the power to grow and command plant life. Though in truth,
this seems to just be a specific application of a broader Biomanipulation ability.
 Healing Hands: Rose's tears have immense healing potential, strong enough to even
mend a cracked gem.
 The Heart: She was the emotional core of the Crystal Gems. Without her, they struggle
for guidance and are usually fighting amongst each other (more like Amethyst and Pearl fight,
while Garnet and Steven try to keep things together).
 Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her deep sympathy and real love for every living creature
is what empowered the healing properties of her tears.
 Heroic Sacrifice: Although Rose knew that she'd have to pass her gem to Steven upon
his birth and sacrifice all of her physical presence, she still chose to shapeshift herself a
womb so she and Greg could have him. Deconstructed; Greg and the Gems grieve Rose,
while Steven regrets that he can never meet her. There's also the fact that, without her
around, the Crystal Gems have no leader, and Steven nearly gets killed due to being
mistaken for her, multiple times.
 Heroic Self-Deprecation: While she didn't regret starting the rebellion to save Earth and
leaving Homeworld behind, it is clear she feels heavily burdened by her mistakes and
believes she is not deserving of love. She tries to push away potential lovers out of fear that
they'll sacrifice their dreams and goals, but she's reluctantly willing to support their decisions
to be with her. Whenever she realizes she's hurt someone, she's genuinely distraught by her
ignorance and desperately tries to make amends and compromises but still unable to open
up about herself out of fear of disappointing them further. The way she feels not good enough
for Homeworld or anyone on Earth, she ultimately believes herself to have changed for the
worse and makes her decision to have Steven under the false belief that her loved ones
would be better off without her.
o If the ending credits song, "Love Like You", is from her perspective (as theorized
by fans), she may have held her loved ones in higher regard than herself, despite everything
that she'd accomplished.
I always thought I might be bad
Now I'm sure that it's true

Because I think you're so good

And I'm nothing like you

Look at you go, I just adore you

I wish that I knew

 What makes you think I'm so special...

 Heroines Prefer Swords: While her shield seems to have been her actual Gem weapon
that she could conjure at any time, she also wielded a rose-themed sword forged by Bismuth
and considered her finest creation. It's also designed to be devastating to Gems' BODIES but
not able to accidentally destroy their gem.
 Hippie Parents: The show's creator has specifically described Rose as a "hippie
parent" toward Amethyst, leaving Amethyst ignorant of what Homeworld made her for, and
how she differed from most Amethysts, so she wouldn't feel any kind of limitations about
what she could be. Despite not being there to raise Steven, Rose had the same attitude for
him, wanting him to be whatever he wanted to be. This backfired to a degree, as both are left
feeling like they don't have any purpose at all.
 Humanity Is Infectious: Rose loved humans very much and wanted to be just like them,
but could not quite fully grasp how emotionally complex they are. She wanted to share in
human culture and even be a human herself, partly leading her to have Steven.
 Humans Are Special:
o According to her tape in "Lion 3: Straight to Video", she held this view.
Though "We Need to Talk" revealed that she had a very condescending view about
humans, regarding them at maximum as pet animals in comparison to Gems, and it was her
interaction with Greg what taught her to see and value humans in a more respectful way. Of
course by Gem standards, viewing organic life as anything more than pests to be ignored at
best is a gigantic improvement.
o She's also amazed by, and seemingly a little envious of, how humans are able to
change, grow, and find their place in the world, while Gems are Born as an Adult, made to fit
predetermined roles as cogs in the Diamond Authority's machine.
 Humans Through Alien Eyes: Rose admits to Greg in "Greg the Babysitter" that it took
her a long time for her to realize human adults and human infants were the same species and
still doesn't have a good understanding of human infants. This is because from her
viewpoint, humans have Bizarre Alien Reproduction as Gems literally don't have an infant
stage. She's also completely amazed by humanity's ability to change and grow, as it's
something Gems simply don't do.
 Hypocrite: She loved humans, but according to Greg she didn't even know how to take
him seriously until he called her out for being insensitive about his desire to have a serious
relationship for her, and she didn't know that babies needed a lot of care and watching.
Bismuth took issue with how Rose wanted the Crystal Gems to be free and choose their own
path, but wasn't willing to fight dirty for them when Homeworld had no such qualms. Steven
calls out a hologram version of Rose in the Room for her Double Standard with how she
poofed Bismuth and hid her away for wanting to shatter Homeworld Gems, while he assumes
she probably used Bismuth's Breaking Point to shatter Pink Diamond. The last point at least
was a lie that Rose perpetuated; Pink Diamond faked her death to assume the Rose Quartz
identity permanently, ordering Pearl to never tell anyone.
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 I Choose to Stay: Chose to stay on Earth and defend it, despite knowing that if she did,
she could never return to Homeworld, and that she would be killed if she lost.
 I Did What I Had to Do: Subverted. Rose never regretted her actions in kick-starting the
rebellion, or ever confided in anyone else her failures. Everything she did, she did for the
sake of the Earth, and all living things upon it. It's Steven on the other hand who needs
answers and justifications when he discovers his mother killed Pink Diamond. As Garnet
explained to him, she didn't always do what she thought was right for her, but right for the
 Earth. If she had done nothing, Amethyst, Pearl, Ruby, and Sapphire could not be free...
whereas Steven and Greg along with all present-day humans, wouldn't even exist. Steven
finally gets his answer in "A Single Pale Rose", where it turns out his mom was Pink Diamond
all along, but her faking her death was indeed for the reasons Garnet stated.
 I Hate Past Me: She felt deeply guilty that her past naïve actions led to things like the
destruction of parts of Earth and the corruption of so many Gems that just wanted to be
free. She also performs a massive Historical Villain Upgrade on her old self, Pink Diamond,
after the war, to the point Garnet and Amethyst attribute most of the Jerkass actions the other
Diamonds hit Pink with to Pink herself.
 I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Her relationship with Greg has shades of this:
what really wins her heart is him putting his foot down and being willing to stand up to her on
his terms. Given her past as Pink Diamond this is even more this trope: the other Diamonds
would stand up to her, but weren't very good at actually showing her love despite feeling it for
her, none of her other human lovers ever did what Greg did, and her subjects loved her
because they were made to love her, a problem even Pearl had to some degree. In general,
she genuinely loved Greg as much as she did because he both genuinely loves
her and because he's willing to assert himself and put his foot down, a combination no one
else in her extremely long life had ever shown her.
 Innocently Insensitive: Rose laughs at Greg's attempts to fuse with her in order to get
intimate in the same way she can with Pearl, and she saying that she loves humans because
they're all so funny. When Greg asks in complete seriousness if she respects him,
Rose still thinks he's trying to be funny. She wasn't trying to be insulting, and in fact by her
species' standards was being remarkably loving (as most Homeworld Gems view humans as
pests to be exterminated at best), she just genuinely didn't realize she was being such.
However, she seems to have largely outgrown this by the time she was pregnant with
Steven, if her speech in "Lion 3: Straight to Video" is any indication. With that said, she
disregarded how people would feel when she gave up her form to have Steven; Pearl knew
and was sobbing about it in private because she didn't want to lose Rose.
 Insecure Love Interest: Back when she and Greg were dating, Rose was very unsure of
their relationship and felt that the relationship wasn't a real one; Greg also felt the same way.
It eventually definitely became real.
 Interspecies Romance:
o With Greg. It's deconstructed in a surprisingly realistic fashion; despite their
relatively similar appearance, they actually have to iron out some pretty big culture differences
to make their relationship really work. Not to mention their biological differences meant Rose
literally had to make a womb to have a child with him, and the process was ultimately fatal for
Rose as her kind simply aren't made to reproduce that way.
o Rose dated or at least had flings with numerous men on Earth before Greg,
though the relationships never lasted, as hinted in "We Need to Talk" and confirmed in "Mr.
Greg" by Pearl.
 Intrigued by Humanity: Rose finds humans and Earth life in general fascinating, and
doesn't miss her home planet at all. The darker side of this is that she tended to think of
humans collectively, so she initially failed to appreciate Greg as an individual rather than as
just a human.
 Just the Way You Are: She fell for Greg because he had the free will to stand up to her
when she made mistakes, communicated that she was worth loving despite her flaws, and
treated her like an adult rather than like a paragon or a spoiled child as Pink. Pearl was made
to love Pink, who wanted her courtesan to have free will, Garnet idolized her, and Amethyst
saw Rose as a mother figure.
 Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her default outfit is a white dress/gown that she wore even
in battle.
  Killed Off for Real: The process of forming Steven effectively erased Rose from
existence. "Change Your Mind" even shows that when Steven is separated from his
gemstone, it reforms into a holographic duplicate of Steven, not Rose Quartz.
 Lady of War: She was gentle and graceful in life, and her shield, sword, and Laser Light
Cannon clearly showed that she was no stranger to combat. Not accounting for the massive
armory she had hidden away.
 Large and in Charge: She was the founder of the Crystal Gem faction and was at least a
head taller than even Garnet. Even more so as Pink Diamond, who was taller than her Rose
Quartz persona and was going to be ruler of Earth before she secretly rebelled.
 Last of Her Kind: In a sense. "That Will Be All" reveals that all other Rose Quartzes are
being held in bubbles at Pink Diamond's human zoo after what she did, and if Yellow
Diamond had her way, they'd all be shattered.
o Later subverted. She isn't even a Rose Quartz at all, she's a Diamond.
 The Leader: Before her "death", Rose was the leader of the Crystal Gems.
 Leitmotif: A piano piece accompanied by strings that plays whenever anybody thinks or
talks about Rose. It was incorporated into "Lion's Mane"  and an acoustic version  was used
in "Story for Steven". An ominous Dark Reprise version is used in "Night Drive 2" .
 Light Is Good: Rose wore a strapless, white dress and is the closest thing to being
the Big Good. Everyone who remembers her idolizes her thoroughly, presenting as an
angelic, flawless being. But, eventually, her flaws come to light, and this perception of her is
held to be unhealthy.
 Living Emotional Crutch: Deconstructed. She was this to the Gems, who are just
beginning to accept her death. Amethyst saw her as a mother figure and resented Greg for
taking Rose away from her after they began a relationship. Pearl was deeply in love with her
and appears to have the hardest time dealing with her death because of this. Her "death" led
to all of them not knowing how to go on without her, especially Pearl. They constantly admit
to feeling lost and deal with their emotional turmoil in unhealthy manners.
 The Lost Lenore: To both Greg and Pearl. While Greg clearly misses Rose, he handles
his grief well. Pearl has a much harder time with it.
 Loves My Alter Ego: Even though many Crystal Gems, such as Garnet and presumably
Bismuth, hate and fear Pink Diamond and the Diamonds in general, they adore and idolize
Rose Quartz. The same is true in reverse for the Homeworld Gems, particularly Jasper.
 Love You and Everybody: She was a very sympathetic Gem, full of love for every living
creature she encountered. This is slightly deconstructed: though she had a deep, agape love
for everyone, she also had the tendency to love both Gems and humans collectively, making
it difficult for her to love Greg as an individual instead of as a human, despite considering him
"her favorite human". She also didn't appear to properly address the less healthy parts of
Pearl's love for her. "We Need to Talk" implies that she loved everyone, but didn't understand
the human concept of being in love until forming an actual relationship with Greg (note that
this is exclusive of Rose since Garnet, Ruby, Sapphire, and Pearl all understand the concept
of being in love and exclusivity).
 Loving a Shadow: Rose's singing in "We Need to Talk" implies she loved the concept of
human beings, giving some red flags to Greg about the nature of their relationship. Greg also
realizes he doesn't know anything about her. They both get better.
 Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Pearl notes in "The Test" that Steven's shield is the
same as hers. "The Return" reveals that the Crystal Gems pretty much survived the war
thanks to her shield being the only thing able to protect them all from powerful attacks.
 Magical Barefooter: She was a very powerful Gem with several magical powers such as
healing, and she went around barefoot.
 Magical Girlfriend: Was this to Greg. Vidalia even calls her this in "Greg the Babysitter".
  Magic Knight: "The Test" reveals that she wielded both her sword and her shield in
addition to using healing and plant-control powers.
 Magnetic Heroine: Anyone who knew Rose always had something good to say about
her, even her enemies. This is eventually subverted over time, however, with quite a few
Gems; Bismuth became angry and bitter towards Rose after she refused to become a Knight
Templar with her and bubbled her away without telling anyone, Jasper hated her for what
she allegedly did to their sovereign Pink Diamond and of course Yellow Diamond wanted to
blow up the Earth out of spite towards Rose.
 Martial Pacifist: She's an All-Loving Heroine, but that doesn't stop her from effortlessly
beating up a triple-Ruby fusion with her bare hands if she decides it's necessary. Her
personal sword was designed to be able to easily slice through the bodies of Gems, but
never destroy their actual gem.
 Mayfly–December Romance: When Greg and Rose met he was a 22-year-old traveling
musician while she was a more than 6000 years old Lady of War from a race of sapient
gems. Tragically subverted as Rose died a few years later, leaving Greg to care for their son.
That said, Rose had plenty of other humans lovers before that she did outlive.
 Meaningful Name: In gemstone mythology, rose quartz is associated with love and
health. It is also said  that giving a rose quartz to a baby will aid in its transformation from the
spiritual world to its physical body. Let that sink in with everything else written on this page
about her death.
 Messianic Archetype: Through the series, she's treated as a saviour-figure who brought
about social change and an almost divine reverence from her followers.
 The Minion Master: In the past Rose used her powers over plants to have them fight for
her. We see some of them in Rose's garden in "An Indirect Kiss". In "Watermelon Steven",
Garnet says Rose's plants "lived to fight".
 Missing Mom: By childbirth. She gave up her physical form so Steven could be born.
 Morphic Resonance: Her "Rose Quartz" form retains traits from her "Pink Diamond"
form. Most obviously the pink palette and her gem in her belly, but also the shape of her
bangs and the way they frame her face is identical in both forms, with her bangs dividing over
the right side of her face, one curl extending around to the left side, and both bangs slightly
covering her cheeks. The longer curl also branching into "smaller" curls right in the middle of
her forehead. This is most obvious when looking at them side by side .
 Muggle–Mage Romance: She (a magical Gem) and Greg (a human) were a couple
when she was alive.
 My God, What Have I Done?: It's not really her, but Cloud!Rose looks visibly ashamed
when Steven starts calling her out for the things the real Rose did, like hiding Bismuth away.
 Mysterious Past: Very little about her past has been revealed. Back when their
relationship was starting out, Greg expressed concern that he knew so little about her, and
her only reply was "that's a good thing"."A Single Pale Rose" reveals her true origins: she
wasn't made as a Rose Quartz; she used to be Pink Diamond.
 Navel Window: Her dress had a star-shaped hole cut over her stomach to leave her
navel-mounted gem exposed.
 Nice Girl: Rose Quartz is indicated to have had a caring and loving personality. In "An
Indirect Kiss", she was said to be very sympathetic when her loved ones were hurt. She had
been said to have seen beauty in everything "no matter how gross", showing that she saw
value in things others dismissed.
 Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!:
o During the war against Homeworld, Rose shattered Pink Diamond so as to
protect Earth and the Crystal Gems. In retaliation, Homeworld forces unleashed the Corruption,
permanently corrupting several rebel Gems and any Homeworld Gem who failed to evacuate
Earth in time. Even when it turns out that Rose and Pearl staged the murder, this trope still
 applies because she severely underestimated how much her siblings cared about her. She
placed a geas on Pearl that prevented Pearl from revealing the truth about Pink Diamond's fake
assassination, which caused Pearl a great deal of grief and nearly got Rose's son killed. It's
also implied that Rose/Pink intentionally made the Beta Kindergarten defective, which
condemned most of the kindergarten's flawed Gems to a life of marginalization.
o Her decision to have Steven, well-intentioned as it was to create a child to live
the life that she couldn't, had a bunch of devastating consequences, such as causing the Gems
and Greg to grieve, with Pearl coming very close to removing Rose's gem from a baby Steven
and probably killing him. Steven ends up growing with her legacy, the good and the bad, to the
point he thinks he'll never measure up to her while being disappointed in the secrets she kept.
Worst of all, it meant that with one of the two witnesses gone, the Diamonds nearly execute
Steven when he turns himself in as his mother, and the only proof that Rose was innocent of
the shattering was circumstantial or buried in Pearl's memories.
 No Biochemical Barriers: Averted relatively realistically. The very first time a Crystal
Gem and a human successfully reproduce, the process is lethal to the Gem. Conversely,
"ordinary" Gem reproduction which involves a terrestrial environment is lethal to that
environment.
 Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Notable aversion; she's the only Gem drawn with
cleavage. Possibly justified since her form of Rose Quartz is artificially shapeshifted and
she's infatuated with humans, so she chose to have breasts.
 Nonstandard Character Design: Her character design is far more clearly human than any
other Gem we've seen, rather than the slightly-abstracted character designs of other Gems.
This includes eyes that are wider and narrower than anyone else's and are the only ones with
a visible gleam (making them look more like an anime character's), eyebrows that are always
visible, and a ton of shading/highlighting.
 Not Quite Flight: As demonstrated in "Story for Steven" and "The Answer", and outright
stated in "Steven Floats", she was able to control how fast she could fall through the air, and
was able to use this in conjunction with a talent for jumping good.
 Not So Above It All: "We Need to Talk" revealed that she didn't fully appreciate Greg's
feelings for her, nor the real concept of human love. She loved him, but by that point
wasn't in love with him.
 Not So Different: From the Homeworld Gems we've seen so far, at least at first. While
they both have wildly different views on humanity and its existence, they share a common
lack of regard for humans as intelligent creatures that can reason and think on a level Gems
do. This manifests in the Homeworld Gems seeing humans as pests at best and an
infestation on a potentially mineable planet at worst, while it manifests in Rose as seeing
humans like we see domesticated animals; fun, cute, occasionally helpful and capable of
being loved, with wills and intentions of their own that they should pursue, but also as a
curiosity and a novelty. It takes Greg explaining the difference between loving something and
being in love with someone on an emotional and mental level that pulls her out of this. She
actually was a Homeworld Gem, Pink Diamond, once upon a time, and was consciously trying
to be different but had difficulty with truly relating to others.
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 Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Dialog from "The Return" and "Monster
Reunion" reveals that she saved Pearl and Garnet from the Diamonds' final attack on Earth
with her shield. One that apparently took all three Diamonds to perform and corrupted every
other Gem on the entire planet. We later see her doing this in "Your Mother and Mine". It
makes sense that she's able to do this, considering she's Pink Diamond.
 One-Handed Zweihänder: Her sword is about five feet long. A size comparison. ◊ It
works for her because she's eight feet tall.
 One-Hit Kill: Her sword was able to poof other Gems.
 Only Flesh Is Safe: Her sword is designed to slice through nearly anything and poof
other Gems in one hit... but never their Gem, making it only capable of a Non-Lethal K.O. on a
Gem. This is even more impressive as it's not that it's designed to not be sharp enough to cut
through a Gem, but that it simply can't cut through Gems. This is shown when it was capable
of even poofing her, a Diamond, whose durability is so immense that attacks that'd shatter a
normal Gem outright won't even poof them. This safety feature only applies to Gems —
Stevonnie (non-fatally) sliced up an insect-like alien, and presumably works like any sword
would on organic creatures, humans included (not that Rose would ever draw it on a human).
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Rose in most of the flashbacks is shown to be a Perpetual
Smiler that occasionally lapsed into surprise or wistful sadness; even when attacking Blue
Diamond's army, she looked happy. The Crystal Gems also tell Steven that Rose saw the
beauty in everything, even stuff that seemed "gross". Steven could only imagine her angry,
while hallucinating as Stevonnie. We've only seen Rose seriously angry or disgusted
twice: when Yellow and Blue Diamond shut down her attempts to cancel the Earth colony
peacefully, making her adopt the Rose persona as a figure of rebellion; and when she told
Pearl that they had to fake "Pink Diamond"'s shattering because Blue and Yellow didn't
actually care about what she wanted in either persona.
 Parents as People: She was this to Amethyst and is this to Steven after her death.
Amethyst appreciated how Rose said she was fine the way she was, but later was frustrated
at how she and Steven bore the brunt of the consequences for Rose's actions when neither
of them were involved in the great war. What's more, Amethyst says it's not fair that Steven
tries to support everyone in Rose's place when he has his own problems. Steven admits his
feelings about his mother are complicated and calls out a hologram of her about why she left
if she loved the Gems and him so much.
 Parental Substitute: Some of her interactions with Amethyst can be interpreted as one
between a mother and daughter. Considering how she's Pink Diamond, the Gem Amethyst
was made to serve, she's basically the closest equivalent in Gem terms to one Amethyst
could have.
 Peerless Love Interest: A Discount Lesbians example and deconstructed as well. Pearl
clearly saw Rose as her "liege" and made it her purpose in life to follow and protect her.
These feelings became unhealthy during the war, however, given how Pearl would
needlessly sacrifice herself for Rose during battle (something that Rose was very much
against), convinced that her own life was worthless in comparison to Rose's. Her love for
Rose also made Pearl blind to Rose's flaws, something that was explored in "Rose's
Scabbard", where she became very unhinged after learning that Rose had kept secrets from
her. Makes sense why Pearl would act like this since she's the only other Gem, other than
Rose herself, to know the truth that Rose is Pink Diamond and that Our!Pearl was her
assigned Pearl. It also makes sense why Pearl would grow unhealthy protection of
Rose/Pink, after all, if "Rose" ever poofed, everyone, Homeworld or Crystal Gem, would
instantly know the truth.
 Perpetual Smiler: The flashbacks featuring Rose show her as generally happy, or
smiling even when she's wistful. Which makes it ironic that when she seriously rebelled, she
looked furious.
 Pink Means Feminine: Rose Quartz was the textbook example of femininity among the
Crystal Gems: she was amicable, graceful and loving. Her powers, weapons, and temples
associated with her have a pink motif.
 Polyamory: Rose was in a very long-term romantic relationship with Pearl, but
simultaneously took a series of human lovers, ultimately including Greg. Far from being an
ideal poly relationship, it was more of on-and-off Love Triangle where Pearl resented sharing
Rose with anyone else, only tolerated most of them because their love didn't go deep or last
 long (nor did the humans themselves, from Pearl's perspective), and outright despaired when
Rose and Greg made a more meaningful connection. Greg, however, didn't seem to mind
that Rose also loved Pearl, just Pearl's ensuing acrimony, and even found them forming
Rainbow Quartz rather impressive.
 Poor Communication Kills: One of Rose's biggest flaws, while good at many great things,
she was not good at being open with others and kept a great many secrets, up to and
including her true identity as Pink Diamond. These secrets caused her a great deal of trouble,
and would ultimately come to haunt Steven long after her death. Bismuth explicitly lists
lacking this fault as proof he's superior to his mother.
 Posthumous Character: She functions as one regardless of whether or not one
considers her dead. What we know about her is mostly from flashbacks, videotapes, and the
descriptions from Greg and the Gems. As of "Change Your Mind", it's demonstrated that she
truly is gone forever. Even if all that was left of Steven was his gem, it would reform as
Steven, not Rose.
 Power Misidentification: Rose Quartz is known for her healing tears and control of plant
life. However, she is actually Pink Diamond, and the plant life control was just a false
specialization likely intended to explain and disguise her real power over life in general. The
ability that brings the plants to sentience, sapience, and mobility is actually the same one that
heals the injured, raises the dead, and gives the same sentience, sapience, and mobility to
inanimate objects: the liquid secreted from her Gem form bestows life and the restoration of
that life to all that comes in contact with it. As Rose Quartz, focusing on plants was a choice,
not a limitation of her power.
 Pragmatic Hero:
o In spite of being a Friend to All Living Things, Rose still started a war and led
forces in battle against the Homeworld Gems for the sake of saving the Earth. And, when it
came down to it, her anti-shattering stance had one exception: Pink Diamond, whom she
destroyed to secure the fate of Earth, its creatures, and her allies or so it seems.
Greg: She gave up everything just to stop what they started here and drive the invading Gems off of Earth.
Steven: So she saved the world, that's good!
Greg: No such thing as a good war, kiddo. Gems were destroyed. People, too.

o She kept a lot of secrets from the other Crystal Gems, the biggest probably being
that she was the one who poofed and bubbled Bismuth after learning about the Breaking Point
(and Bismuth's words implying that Rose was attacked by the Gem in response for disagreeing
with her). As some have noted, the other Gems learning about the weapon could've not only
caused a schism in the ranks of the Crystal Gems but could have also caused Homeworld to
retaliate even harder than they already did — which is saying something when they make their
exit with a Fantastic Nuke.
 Turns out that isn't the biggest secret, with that being she was Pink
Diamond herself, having defected from the Diamond Authority to save Earth's organic life.
 Queen Incognito: When she was co-leading as Pink Diamond, she disguised herself as
one of the Amethysts with Rose Quartz's pink ringlets when visiting the colony in "Now We're
Only Falling Apart". It's implied she pretended to be Rose Quartz for a while before
abandoning her Diamond identity.
 Quirky Curls: Her hair is all styled in curls except for her bangs, and while the hair
resembles the trope, her personality also lines up with Regal Ringlets — her calming dignity
being tempered by some of the free-spirited joie de vivre that she would later pass on to
Steven.
o Although her interactions with humans from Greg's accounts do bring light to her
more quirky aspects by way of her learning curve.
 Race Fetish: Sort of, when Greg expresses his worries that being human drives a wedge
between them, she tells him that she "loves humans because they're all so funny" and it
seems she believed that was enough for a romantic relationship to work. After Greg stands
up to her, however, she starts to realize that if a relationship is going to last there needs to be
more than just fascination with the species.
 Rapunzel Hair: Rose had very long, curly pink hair styled in thick, tube-like ringlets that
reached past her waist.
 Reality Ensues: Even if Rose had the best of intentions, she still lied to the Crystal
Gems, excluding Pearl, about who she was. Of course Sapphire is furious upon learning that
Rose lied thousands of years later.
 Really Gets Around: Downplayed. She apparently had several human lovers over the
years prior to meeting Greg, but given her line about "playing along" with humans and how
long it took her to grasp human reproduction in general it's up in the air whether there was a
sexual component or not. Seeing as she did shapeshift a womb for Steven, she could have
had conventional sex if she wanted. Regardless of all of that, she's lived on Earth so long,
she could have had dozens of lovers without any of them living within a century of each
other.
 Rebel Leader: Led a rebellion against the Gem Homeworld to save the Earth. She won.
 Regal Ringlets: Her hair is this Up to Eleven, consisting of long, thick pink ringlets that
reach all the way down to the backs of her legs.
 The Reveal: She is central to the very biggest surprise of the series. Rose is and always
was a shapeshifted Pink Diamond, who started a rebellion and later faked her own death
thinking it would make Yellow and Blue Diamond to leave Earth alone. By extension, this
means Pink Diamond was never shattered, but simply sacrificed her a physical form to bring
Steven into the world.
 Rose-Haired Sweetie: Rose Quartz was, by far, the sweetest Gem of the group, loving
everything (including ugly things) for their inner beauty. She was the emotional core of the
Crystal Gems and had shimmering bubblegum pink hair to emphasize the goodness of her
heart.
 Running Both Sides: Turns out she's Pink Diamond and started a rebellion against...
herself. She wasn't in charge of the whole Gem Empire though, so her Diamond "allies" were
still a threat.
    S 
 Satan is Good: Where do we even begin? She's a rebel challenging the in-universe
analog to God to favor freedom, self-expression and nature. With the reveal that she's Pink
Diamond, the parallels get tighter since she's a "fallen" representative of "heaven", as well as
a massive liar.
 The Scapegoat: Made her Rose Quartz identity one of these for the shattering of Pink
Diamond.
 Self-Made Orphan: Pink Diamond was the creator of the entire Rose Quartz Gem type.
Rose ultimately had to kill her. More heroic than most example, as Pink Diamond was
Earth's Evil Overlord and she could only free the planet by doing so. Subverted, as Pink
Diamond was Rose Quartz all along.
 Set Swords to "Stun": According to Bismuth, Rose's sword can destroy a Gem's physical
body but not their actual gem.
 Shared Family Quirks: As the show goes on we learn that Rose had a lot of Steven's
traits. In addition to the big ones, like their love for all things, they also share minor traits
like stars in their eyes when they get emotional. "Now We're Only Falling Apart" establishes
she used to laugh like Steven.
 Shapeshifter Default Form: After abandoning her Pink Diamond identity, Rose Quartz
was "the form she chose" for centuries. When Pink Steven emerges, it's confirmed that when
Pearl poofed Pink Diamond, she regenernated directly into the form of Rose, as it appears
during Pink Steven's regeneration.
 Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: In "Now We're Only Falling Apart", Sapphire is enraged
at Rose's lies, believing her to be Evil All Along with the reveal that she's Pink Diamond and
that she manipulated her fellow Crystal Gems into a fake war for her own selfish purposes.
Pearl and Steven, however, help Sapphire realize that the ideals Pink expressed as Rose
were still genuine and that Pink/Rose was inspired by her fellow Crystal Gems instead of
using them. At the end of the episode, Sapphire understands.
 Shrouded in Myth: On Homeworld, propaganda has turned her into a terrifying anti-
Christ figure, to the point that some think she's an urban legend.
 Smug Super: Not a mean or dismissive way, but "We Need to Talk" shows her love of
humans as being less respect and more thinking they're cute puppies, though in "Story for
Steven" it's clear she does believe that humans should prioritize their dreams and aspirations
over playing with her. Greg brings this up to her though, and it's safe to assume she got
better.
 The Southpaw: In "Sworn to the Sword", Pearl's hologram shows Rose using her shield
in her right hand and her sword in her left. Given that her shield is usually referred to as her
primary weapon, the right hand might actually be the dominant one.
 Statuesque Stunner: She's at least 7 to 8 feet tall, towering over her lover Greg by at
least 2 to 3 feet. And her true form as Pink Diamond is even taller.
 Stepford Smiler: It's revealed that Rose was genuinely cheerful and kind, but she was
hiding from everyone, including Greg, that she actually used to be Pink Diamond and gave up
her true form so as to free the Earth and end the war early. Then she found out that in
revenge the Diamonds sent the Corruption Beam, which ended up hurting most of the Gems
remaining on both sides, and she could only save Pearl and Garnet. She had to poof Bismuth
after the latter attacked her with the Breaking Point because Rose didn't want to murder her
sisters or their soldiers, even if she had spun the story to make others view her as a killer. We
also learn that as Pink Diamond she believed that her sisters didn't love her and that they
wouldn't miss her if she was gone, hence the faked shattering. Rose coped with her self-
loathing and guilt for five thousand years by finding and bubbling the corrupted gems, taking
on human lovers, and supporting plant life. During one of the few times, she's vulnerable with
Greg, she admits that she finds it amazing that humans can grow and change because Gems
are expected to be static.
 The Strategist: Aside from being the leader of the rebellion, she was also their first
tactician. Jasper remembers the war and respects her for her strategies. Possibly subverted,
since she was Pink Diamond, and basically sabotaging Homeworld's side from within. On the
other hand, Pink being a Puppet Queen for Yellow's and Blue's control over the actual
invasion could mean Rose actually was The Strategist against the war plans of the far more
experienced Diamonds.
 Superpower Lottery: Out of all the Gems, Rose seems to have the most abilities beyond
shapeshifting and summoning a weapon; she had healing tears that could completely heal
pretty much any injury or disability and even resurrect the dead, Not Quite Flight, and the
ability to grow sentient or sapient plants to act as her defenders. This was foreshadowing the
fact she was Pink Diamond, as she had a far more versatile power set than normal.
 Super Soldier: Quartz Gems are the warrior elite of Gem society, and Rose is no
exception. She's a strong warrior, leader, tactician, and likely Combat Medic thanks to her
healing tears. Except she's not a Quartz, she's a Diamond.
 Super Strength: Easily smashes a Ferris wheel's control panel into oblivion, and later
grabs the Ferris Wheel itself and brings it to a dead stop.
  Swiss Army Tears: Rose Quartz's tears are the only thing that can repair a cracked gem
(until Steven inherits this power... in his saliva). Given that the gems are basically their "soul",
this was possibly her greatest power.
    T-W 

 Team Mom: She's a charismatic rebel leader who every member of her squad,
considered a combination mother, leader and mentor. Sadly, she gave up her physical form
to give birth to Steven before the series began, and it becomes increasingly obvious that the
team is struggling to cope without her. Garnet and Pearl try to step up as replacements.
 Tempting Fate: During the tape she made for him, she outright tells Steven, "And I need
you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me, loving you and loving
being you. Because you're going to be something extraordinary. You're going to be a human
being". Too bad Steven winds up having PTSD and massive self-esteem issues pertaining to
his Gem experiences and being a Diamond, to the point where he comes to see himself as
a Fake Ultimate Hero and becomes a literal monster.
 That Man Is Dead: Rose's shattering of Pink Diamond was not all it appeared. It was
orchestrated precisely because Rose was Pink Diamond. Faking her own shattering gave
Rose the chance to shed that identity forever.
 Thou Shalt Not Kill: Double Subverted. We see in the season three episode "Bismuth"
that, while she led the rebellion against Homeworld, she never considered an option meant to
kill/shatter her enemies. In fact, her sword was specially made so that it could only harm the
body (VERY effectively) but never the Gem. She eventually did kill one person — Pink
Diamond — when she absolutely had to. Only she didn't even kill her; Rose was Pink
Diamond, and staged her death with Pearl's help. She actually didn't want anyone to be hurt,
which was why she didn't want Bismuth to use the Breaking Point.
 Time Abyss: She's over 6000 years old. It turns out she's Pink Diamond, and thus likely
far older than that even as the youngest Diamond.
 Time Dissonance: Sometimes, she felt that things on Earth moved too fast for her.
 Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Greg is a pretty big guy, but he only stands eye level with Rose
Quartz's chest because she's about eight feet tall. Even more so, given her true form, Pink
Diamond, is much larger.
 The Tragic Rose: Rose died shortly after achieving true emotional maturity, and the
decisions she made beforehand resulted in tragic consequences for those she left behind.
 True Beauty Is on the Inside: She was a big believer in this trope. She saw the inner
beauty in everything, from moss to monsters to Greg Universe.
 Two Aliases, One Character: She and Pink Diamond are the same person.
 Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Just look at her compared to Greg! Greg was better looking when
they first met, though.
 Unreliable Expositor: Rose told Garnet that she was born from the Earth, came to love
humans, and pleaded with Pink Diamond to spare the Earth, and Pink Diamond cruelly
refused her. Rose lied; she was from Homeworld due to being Pink Diamond, came to love
Earth's organic life in general, and pleaded with Yellow and Blue Diamond to spare the Earth.
When they refused, and ignored her because Pink Diamond was their little sister and not
worth listening to, she became Rose Quartz to make sure they couldn't ignore her.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
o Not only did her actions unintentionally cause Steven to go through events that
would lead to him being a Shell-Shocked Veteran, it's suggested that her allegedly shattering
Pink Diamond is part of why Yellow Diamond wishes to destroy Earth out of spite (instead of
 the methods Peridot suggested, which would preserve the planet while serving Homeworld's
needs).
o She had hoped that her death as "Pink" would convince the Diamonds to leave
Earth alone. She severely underestimated their feelings for her and they nuked the entire planet
with their Corruption attack, turning all the Crystal Gems save Garnet and Pearl and all
remaining Homeworld Gems into monsters, out of vengeance. As a result, Rose had to deal
with the guilt of realizing that she got the freedom she wanted and almost none of her followers
would ever be able to share in it.
o She ordered Pearl to never tell anyone that she was Pink Diamond and that her
death was faked, placing Pearl under a binding Geas. This causes a lot of problems
when Steven thinks that his mother is a murderer and turns himself in to save his friends.
 Uptown Girl: To Pearl, who was a member of the lowest caste of servant
Gems. Taken Up to Eleven when it's revealed Rose was actually Pink Diamond and Pearl
was originally her personal servant. It seems Pearl never grew out of her servant mentality
even after Pink Diamond gave up her status.
 Violently Protective Girlfriend: "Greg the Babysitter" shows Rose had this reaction
concerning Greg, specifically when the control box of a Ferris wheel was causing him
distress.
Leave Greg alone!

 Visual Pun: When Actual Rose Quartzes are introduced in Rose Buds, their chest is flat,
contrarily to Rose who has a visible bust. This is a hint at her true nature; Real-life rose
quartzes have indistinct cleavage, but Pink Diamonds have perfect cleavage in all four
directions.
 Voluntary Shapeshifting: As with all Gems, this is a natural ability. She shapeshifted
herself a womb so Steven could be conceived. Her form that she’s maintained for thousands
of years is in fact an example, since she’s really Pink Diamond, though to a lesser degree, as
she used the reformation when Pink was "Shattered" to set Rose as her default form.
 Walking Spoiler: A lot of information about her in later seasons starts inching towards
this for newer viewers, especially after we learn that she and Pink Diamond were one and the
same.
 Wave-Motion Gun: She possessed and could operate a Laser Light Cannon, which
basically works as the name suggests. Her armory had three more Laser Light Cannons
called the Quartizine Trio.
 Well-Intentioned Extremist: While her motivations for what she did was incredibly
pure, her general actions, and faking her death as Pink Diamond lead to a lot of pain and
confusion for the people that she cared about, and threatened the universe as a whole. A
gentler example then most because she's still overall a hero.
 What Does She See in Him?: Pearl certainly wonders this. She fell in love with Greg for
reasons unknown. When he was holding a concert, she was the only one who showed up...
and from there they hooked up. "Lars and the Cool Kids" notes that she saw the inner beauty
in all things, which is probably what drew her to Greg. "Story for Steven" shows her flirting
with him a bit at the concert, and his advances at the end of the episode sufficiently charmed
her.
 What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Her relationship with Greg was a little rocky at the
start because of the differences between human and Gem relationships, especially since she
couldn't fuse with him.
 What the Hell, Hero?:
o Greg called out Rose for being insensitive to what he wanted out of their
relationship in "We Need to Talk". He had just risked his dignity to attempt fusing with her. As
he puts it, she was an alien who doesn't understand that he's not just a toy, and that they both
need to think about how to fall in love when they don't even know each other. Much later on,
in "Greg the Babysitter", he asks with horror why she let baby Sour Cream climb a Ferris
Wheel, especially since Rose has been on Earth for thousands of years.
o Bismuth was furious with Rose for being a Hypocrite about not wishing to fight
dirty for other Crystal Gems, when Homeworld would fight dirty. She's also hurt that Rose
poofed her and hid her away, believing that Rose was ashamed of Bismuth. She tells this to
Steven, who she believes in a fit of rage is Rose in disguise.
 Wingding Eyes: Steven gets his habit of getting star-shaped eye gleams when emotional
from her, as shown in her response to Greg's flirting at the end of "Story for Steven", the kiss
he gave her in "We Need to Talk", and the sight of baby Sour Cream in "Greg the Babysitter".
 The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: Ironically for a Rebel Leader who chose to
reject her own throne, Rose actually becomes this in all but title. Initially Rose's purpose
was for Pink Diamond to be able to socialize with others and experience freedom from the
restraints of her class, but since her decision to spearhead the Rebellion, she had to become
whatever necessary for her fellow rebels to believe in her competency in leadership and
maintain unity in the cause. She had a lot of personal baggage that probably would have torn
the Rebellion apart if her secrets had been known and led to the doom of the Earth and the
rebels, so she hid her flaws under a graceful, perfect, wise, infallible veneer in order to keep
the Rebellion together. Which ironically though not uncoincidentally, reflects many traits in
the façade propagated by the Diamond Authority about their own leadership.

Steven Quartz Universe

Voiced by: Zach Callison
 "I can’t believe we’ve come so far!
Happily ever after, here we are!"

Click here for his pre-timeskip design 

"I will fight to be everything

that everybody wants me to be when I'm grown!"

"Everybody always tells me how great Mom was. I just don't feel like I can ever measure up to her."

Steven is the lovable, half-human and half-Gem boy who is still figuring out how to
harness his powers from the Gem he inherited from his mother. He's goofy, energetic
and optimistic, yet takes his role as a Crystal Gem seriously, learning all his lessons,
and taking his discipline with good humor when the situation calls for it. He is very much
in touch with his emotions and does not shy away from saying how he feels. He is as
impulsive as any other boy his age might be, but counts on his Gem family to keep him
safe.

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 Acquired Situational Narcissism: This happened in "Steven and the Stevens", where he
used a "time-thingie" to grab his past selves and form a band, when his dad has to cancel on
Beachapalooza. The original Steven calls himself the handsome one, tries to boss his other
selves to the point where they sing about him being a "meanie zucchini", and he bullied
 another past self into giving him the time orb. Steven then had a Jerkass Realization on
seeing how scared his past self was and destroyed the orb, essentially choosing to die.
 Acrofatic: Steven can really move for an overweight kid in sandals. His dexterity doesn't
suffer much either. He even lampshades this in "Together Breakfast".
Steven: [after catching his stack of breakfast on his plate] SKILLS!

o Given as he's half Quartz and we've seen how strong and bulky both he and
Quartz warriors are, it's likely that much of the "fat" is actually compressed muscle, much the
same as a sumo wrestler. Even more so with The Reveal he's actually half Diamond.
o As of The Movie, he no longer qualifies for this though. According to show stats,
he's 5' 6" tall and weighs 145 pounds, making him roughly the same size (if not quite as
shredded) as a featherweight mixed martial arts fighter.
 Action Survivor: Emphasis on the "action". Early on in the series, he has no control over
his potentially vast powers and has to rely on his wits and above-average physicality to avoid
dying.
 Adaptive Ability: As Steven's mental state continues to deteriorate in Future, his Gem
has started to provide him with whatever power it thinks he needs at the time in order to deal
with his problems. Causing him to grow uncontrollably, gain super speed, telekinetic
shockwaves, his floating evolves into pure flight and his physical strength enhances even
further.
 Adorkable: Steven is an enthusiastic, dorky kid who is awkward about introducing
himself to Connie, gets really excited about things like birthdays or breakfasts, and will adopt
as his new best friend virtually anything that sits still long enough, even acid-spewing bug
monsters or fully-grown lions. Even as he matures, he never truly loses this quality.
 Aesop Amnesia: While he doesn't do it constantly, there are a few times where Steven
does not properly learn his lesson.
o Both "The New Lars" and "Restaurant Wars" showed that sometime after "Love
Letters", Steven seemed to have forgotten that he shouldn't be trying to butt into other people's
relationships and be more careful about setting up romantic ploys (even fake ones).
o He constantly advises other people to talk about their problems and gets this
lesson himself in "Mindful Education". However, by Steven Universe: Future, his powers have
now started reacting to his negative emotions while becoming more powerful than anyone
expected. This coincided with his pre-existing fears lead him to his constant attempts to bottle
up his feelings end up causing problems, such as nearly crushing everyone with his force
field in "Little Graduation", and his venting at Cactus Steven in "Prickly Pair" causing it to
rampage and parrot his issues to the others. Unfortunately, this just convinces to repress his
feelings further out of fear that venting will just hurt the people he cares about.
o Played With regarding the major aesop for Steven in the Movie on the
importance of change and how it was his greatest asset. He did not recover his powers from
Spinel's Rejuvinator until he recalls that his greatest gift comes from being able to change and
grow. In "Little Graduation" though, upon learning that Lars and Sadie had an Offscreen
Breakup and that Sadie Killer and the Suspects were breaking up to pursue their own goals
while Lars was planning on going back to space with the Off Colors, Steven desperately tries to
stop everyone from leaving and fix Lars and Sadie up again, culminating in his powers creating
a Deadly Force Field that nearly crushes everyone. However, further observation notes that this
is less based on change, but more of a fear of being abandoned or left behind.
 Affectionate Nickname:
o Amethyst often calls Steven "Ste-Man".
o Greg calls Steven "Stewball".
o Averted with White Diamond calling him "Starlight" when they first meet. She
called him this because at the time, she though Steven was his mother and absolutely refused
to believe he was a different person.
 All-Loving Hero: Reconstructed. Steven hasn't met a person he didn't try to make friends
with. It's something he has in common with Rose, and seems to be the reason both of them
have healing powers. He even shows some concern for enemies, as seen when Peridot is
crushed by a falling injector in "Keeping It Together" and he asks if she's alright.
The only exception is Jasper, who he knew he couldn't become friends with the moment he
saw her, and even that's based more out of fear than hate — the first thing Jasper did when
she saw him was beat him unconscious. Even with Jasper, he shows concern when she falls
into the Earth and covers for her in "Hit the Diamond" by lying to the Rubies that she's on
Neptune. He also tries to heal Jasper when the latter becomes corrupted. In fact, this is
shown to be his greatest strength because his desire to see the best in everyone meant he
managed to turn Lapis and Peridot into his friends and eventual Crystal Gems. He manages
to get the Cluster to be his friend, and eventually manages to get the diamonds to accept
him. Even his two least favorite people ever, Marty (a manipulative and neglectful jerk even
to people he claims to care for) and Kevin (a condescending, egotistical jerk who gets really
pushy about propositioning Stevonnie) are people he's still willing to be civil to. He gradually
loses such traits in Future, in which he becomes Drunk with Power during his rematch with
Jasper and winds up shattering her (though he's able to revive her afterwards), and later
attempts to smash White Diamond's head into a pillar due to vengeful thoughts. He deeply
regrets doing these things, and tries to help everyone once more, only to end up getting
corrupted. Luckily, Connie is able to convince everyone to help Steven like how he's
helped them, and he promptly gets his all-lovingness thrown back at him in the form of
a Cooldown Hug, thankfully turning him back to normal.
 Always Someone Better: Reveals in "Steven vs. Amethyst" that he feels this way about
Rose a lot of the time. Eventually he gains the self confidence to stop comparing himself to
her.
 Ambiguous Disorder:
o After five seasons of being a Living Emotional Crutch, neglect of Steven's needs
(from both him and the Gems), and the Gems' issues at caretaking, his underlying trauma from
being a Kid Hero and other problems are finally catching up to him with disastrous results. Not
only has this given him severe emotional issues expressed through the rage-powered Pink
Steven form, but - as a result of the frankly insane amount of responsibility placed on Steven's
shoulders - he shows traits of both parentification  and the 'Atlas' personality type , taking on
a pattern of compulsive care giving and workaholism, with difficulty asserting his own needs.
Furthermore, this is underlined by his unique nature of being a Gem/human hybrid, which gives
him a set of problems and capabilities that neither Gem or human fully understand and
provides an immense source of fear and isolation for Steven. In fact, he even shares this with
his mother Pink Diamond, albeit in a different case. Pink may have been a Gem, but as a
Diamond, she really could not interact with any other Gem as equals as many of them acted as
subordinates to her and doctrine forbade them from further intimate or casual relations. And
while she may have been a Diamond, she was the Baby Of The Bunch and treated more as a
party planner than a real Diamond. Blue and Yellow Diamond had each other and White lorded
over everyone and detached from them, even if she did have some favoritism toward Pink. This
left Pink with no one as an equal.
o In "Growing Pains", all of this is revealed to have physical repercussions as well,
his body chemistry reacting disproportionately to stressful situations (since he has become
accustomed to high-stress situations) and giving him massive anxiety attacks in the form
 of Power Incontinence, implying that he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The show
actually explicitly uses the related term "adverse childhood experiences".
 Ambiguously Jewish: He's based off Steven Sugar, the brother of the series' half-Jewish
creator Rebecca Sugar. Not to mention his Jewfro and the fact that his father's original last
name, "DeMayo", is a Sephardic Jewish name. That being said, both Steven and his father
like eating pork meat (although Steven eventually became a vegetarian in Future) and neither
of them have ever been seen celebrating Jewish holidays throughout the series, so while
they may be ethnically Jewish, they are likely not religious.
 Ancestral Weapon: He inherited his mother's gem, and in "The Test", Pearl makes note
that both his shield and bubble abilities were Rose's as well. He also has his mother's sword,
but due to not liking fighting he mostly leaves it with Connie. Blue Diamond crushes it
towards the end of the series.
 And Then John Was a Zombie: By the end of "Everything's Fine", Steven's growing
stress, resentment and self-hatred boils over and he transforms into a massive Kaiju-
like monstrosity. In this form, he is so powerful he can shrug off the collective force of
Alexandrite, the Cluster and the Diamonds.
 Animal Motifs: Cats always seem to pop up in Steven's life somewhere. Examples
include Steven's Cookie Cat admiration, his adventures in spawning cats from his body, his
Tiger Millionaire persona, the tiger bell on his bike, his alarm clock, his lion, and the facial hair
he grew when aged into a teenager looks like cat whiskers . Even the scratches on his
cheeks he gained during his fight with Bismuth resemble whiskers. Which is slightly odd,
because personality-wise, Steven doesn't really fit most cat tropes and is a Friend to All
Living Things.
 Anti-Magic: Slightly. It's worth noting that whenever Steven uses his shield against a
Gem's clones, such as Pearl's holograms or Lapis' water copies, a soundwave dispels them
instantly.
 Apologetic Attacker: Even when forced to fight, he often shouts a warning to his
opponents before his attack connects, as he does in his fights against Bismuth and Jasper.
 Armor-Piercing Question: Asks at least one each to the Diamonds in "Change Your
Mind" due to helping people self reflect being a part of his nature.
[to Blue] How many times did you lock her in here? How many times did you make her cry?!

[to Yellow] Does this look perfect to you?

[to White] I am a child. What's your excuse?

 Astral Projection: Steven's abilities to enter dreams and take over bodies turn out to be

applications of an ability to project his mind onto a mental plane, which also allows him to
communicate telepathically. Unusually, Steven can't see any non-living objects while there—
other people seem to be floating in an endless void.
 Awesome McCoolname: Not so much "Steven", but his full name definitely qualifies.
Connie's mother even makes the off-hand remark that she doesn't think "Steven Universe" is
a real name (not even knowing his middle name is "Quartz"), even though his father's name
is indeed "Greg Universe". As of "Gem Harvest", it's revealed that Universe is his real last
name (Greg had his last name legally changed to Universe prior to Steven's birth) and that
Steven's ancestral last name is DeMayo. Ironically, Steven thinks DeMayo is a cooler name
than Universe. In "Growing Pains" when doing a medical checkup, he adds several surnames
and nicknames to his chart, making him Steven Quartz Cutiepie DeMayo Diamond Universe.
Since that chart implies he has no legal existence, this may be his vaild full name.
 The Baby of the Bunch: Zigzagged. It's played straight in that Steven is the youngest of
the Crystal Gems. By several thousand years. However, as he grows in maturity and learns
more about the dysfunction of the Crystal Gems, he becomes just as much of an adult, which
has been noted repeatedly to stress him out.
 Back-to-Back Badasses: With Connie when they're not fused as Stevonnie. They briefly
take on Pearl in “Sworn to the Sword”, and both take out two Gem Monsters together
in "Nightmare Hospital".
 Badass Adorable: Definitely. He's a cute child who manages to help save Earth on a
daily basis in the middle of the series.
 Badass Pacifist: Steven starts off as a kid who is the son of a member of an alien race of
crystalline warrior women. Unlike his mother (who was a Martial Pacifist), Steven deeply
dislikes fighting and tries to solve every conflict he faces non-violently. Even his "fighting"
reflects this, as it's more blocking blows than attacking. By the end of the series, he has
succeeded, up to talking down the Cluster from destroying Earth and convincing it to be his friend
instead and convincing three galactic dictators to see the error of their ways.
 Bad Liar: Because he's a kid who wears his heart on his sleeve, Steven is a very bad liar.
Whenever he tries to lie, it always comes across as awkward, and it doesn't take a lot of
pressing to get the truth out of him. And that's the rare occasion that he ever does lie (he does
not like doing so).
 Bad Powers, Good People: Most of Steven's powers fit his protective and nurturing
nature, but he's also able to possess others and take control of their bodies. For obvious
reasons, he doesn't use this very often on people — and the one time he did, he heavily
regretted it. Arguably, this does still fit (and make him realize) one of his major personality
flaws, namely how his desire to help people can be invasive.
 Bag of Holding: His Cheeseburger Backpack can carry a number of things (including a
full-sized raft, and the party's entire inventory in Attack the Light).
 Bare Your Midriff: Steven's gem is located in his navel. His shirt is often lifted, damaged,
or removed to draw attention to this fact.
 Barrier Warrior: Steven's Gem magic manifests as shields of various forms, mostly either
in the form of a regular hand-held one or a forcefield bubble. While he does have several
other abilities, the majority of his combat abilities are barriers or forcefields of some kind, and
he gets quite creative with these powers and finds numerous ways to utilize them
defensively or offensively, from "popping" his pink bubble to send people flying back or
generating bubbles around his fists to use as protective boxing gloves, and by Future he's
able to create various kinds of pink walls often several times his size, which he can send
flying at will. The offensive utility of these powers gets to the point where his finishing blow
that shatters Jasper involves holding her in place using several smaller barriers before
crushing her with an enormous spiked wall of sorts.
 Batman Can Breathe in Space: Heavily downplayed. He still needs to breathe, but he
seems to be able to function in non-oxygenated environments (such as in outer space
in "Warp Tour", and inside Lion's pocket dimension in "Lion 3") longer than you'd expect an
ordinary human to. "Ocean Gem" (where he stayed conscious longer than Connie did when
they were trapped in Doppel!Steven's water spheres) indicated this may apply to underwater
situations as well. This is explained that since he's half Gem, he needs significantly less
oxygen and heat than a normal human does, but still needs some.
 Battle Aura: Like the other three Diamonds, he has one which is rippling pink with flower
patterns in it. This belonged to Pink Diamond, and is so unique to her the other Diamonds
instantly recognize it as hers and believe Steven is telling the truth.
 Battle Couple: The Shield to Connie's Sword.
 Steven: We're a team! She's the strawberry...
Connie: ...and he's the biscuit!
Steven: And that makes us... jam!
Connie: Buds!

 Became Their Own Antithesis: For most of the series, Steven has always talked to
others about talking about their feelings when they need to and stopping others from
performing suicidal-like Heroic Sacrifices (i.e., Connie in "Sworn to the Sword"). However,
after going through one Break the Cutie moment after another (from seasons two, three, and
four) Steven has begun to internalize his own trauma as to not burden others and even
performed a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of season 4 by pretending to be Rose Quartz so they
would leave his friends alone. Steven Universe: Future has this problem becoming worse as his
powers evolve beyond the understanding of himself or the other Gems, further differentiating
him from humanity or Gems and reinforcing the feelts of doubt and isolation withouth having
a healthy outlet or confidant.
 Be Careful What You Wish For:
o In the beginning, all Steven wanted was to live up to the huge name of his
deceased mother, as well as to know more about her. But learning about her Dark Secrets one
after another gave him a bunch of Broken Pedestal moments. And in the season four finale, "I
Am My Mom", he pretends to be his mother in order to protect his friends he accidentally
endangered. As of Future, he takes down the painting of her and openly expresses resentment
towards the callous and hurtful things she's done.
o In season five, after realizing thanks to Defense Zircon that it's highly likely that
Rose was framed, and after getting a vision of Pink Diamond, he expresses hope that Pink is
alive and thus his mother is innocent. He's even willing to accept that Pearl shattered Pink
because Pearl was a liberated slave, and not a hypocrite like his mother was purported to be.
Then he finds out that Pink was alive; she was his mother, and faked her death with Pearl's
help. Which means he is a Diamond. Steven looks miserable after he finds out.
o Future has him more or less finally achieving peace throughout the galaxy and
facilitating a peaceful coexistence between human and Gemkind. Only now that all major
conflicts have been resolved, and his friends have overcome enough of their previous baggage
to achieve real autonomy, he finds himself now disconnected from his loved ones
and Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life.
 Because You Were Nice to Me: Downplayed. Steven has a positive relationship with the
Crystal Gems, his father, and most of Beach City. However, the Gems and Greg often have a
tendency of dumping their problems on him which makes it hard for Steven himself to come
to them with his problems. Connie is the noteworthy exception as she never does this is in
the series and apologizes to Steven when she accidentally causes him emotional pain, which
is rare. As such, Connie is Steven's Living Emotional Crutch, confidant, and best friend.
 Benevolent Boss: When Steven takes on the role of his mother Pink Diamond in
the Diamond Days arc, he treats the Pebbles quite kindly and finds them cute, acts informal
towards Blue and Yellow Pearl and helps them discover what they like to do for fun, and tries
to get the Homeworld Gems to refer to him by his actual name instead of his mother's.
 Berserk Button:
o His first onscreen display of true anger was when Lars called his mom "weird".
o Someone betraying his faith in them sees him at his angriest. Peridot's seeming
betrayal brings it out.
o Kevin's mere existence brings out feelings of pure hatred in Steven, and any of the
civility and kindness that makes Steven so Steven-y is thrown completely out the window
because of him.
o If you are even rude to Connie, he will get furious.
o He hates being called pitiful, as Jasper found out in Future.
o He also apparently starts going ballistic and being fed up when he keeps hearing
more of his mom's dark secrets and doesn't want to hear anymore in "Volleyball", causing
damage in his super mode and almost causes both Pearl and Pink Pearl/Volleyball to be
rejuvinated.
o He seems to be acquiring more and more of these throughout Future. It's
eventually revealed that suffering several near death experiences as a child has given him Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder.
 Beta Couple: He and Connie have this dynamic when in comparison with Lars and
Sadie's relationship. The Steven Universe: Art & Origins described Steven and Connie's
romance as a "pure and innocent love" while the romance between Lars and Sadie is more
"teenaged-ridden, angst". In the case of himself and Connie it's more along the lines of two
people who understand each other perfectly. They just "get" each other.
 Beware the Nice Ones:
o Steven is the sweetest, nicest kid you'll ever meet, and it takes a lot to even
make him annoyed, but when you manage to get him angry... it's not pretty.
o Steven's true Gem form is not nearly as talkative or happy as his human shell.
He can only exist for a few minutes at a time without killing Steven, but he's more powerful than
Pink Pearl, the Crystal Gems and all three of the other Diamonds put together.
o Future has taken this even further, with Steven's PTSD manifesting as violent
outbursts of power when his body senses he's in danger, no matter how big or small. Not only
this, but when Steven becomes angry now, he will no longer hesitate to get rid of you. If you
see Steven turn pink, run.
o What makes this worse is that Steven won't just kill you with brute force, he's
also shown that he's capable of using calculated methods of hurting his enemies.
 Beware the Silly Ones: Steven is a lovable goofball who can pull off surprising stunts
when push comes to shove...
 Beyond the Impossible: Normally, it's impossible for Gems to fuse with humans. Due to
being half human, however, he's able to break that rule in two. Also, if you think about it, he
technically is a gem fusion already. According to Rebecca Sugar, this goes one step further
and Steven can fuse with organics in general, theoretically including animals like Lion.
 Big Fun: Fun all around. Though he seems to be trying to lose weight. We see a fitness
book in his house in "Sworn to the Sword", and he is generally drawn as skinnier and less
round than he was at the start of the show. At age 16, he's fully grown into his weight.
 Big Good: As Character Development increases, Steven seems to fill Rose's role
(combined with being The Heart). "Lion 3: Straight to Video" implies that Rose believed that
Steven would assume her place once she was gone. The latter is disproved in "Lion 4:
Alternate Ending" when it's revealed that Rose had no such beliefs about Steven, and in fact
had no plans for him beyond him living his life (she didn't even plan out what his gender
would be, as she and Greg had a name picked out if he turned out to be a girl). He does
become a Big Good in the long run though, being able to empathize and reason with people,
including characters that others believe can't be reasoned with, and becoming a Hope
Bringer to those around him. Even in the most dire of circumstances, he's able to bring
everyone together.
  Big "NO!": The first line of "Gem Glow", courtesy of him. He repeats it several times as
the show goes on.
 Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has the biggest eyebrows out of all of the characters.
 Birds of a Feather: With Jamie. He shares several quirks and tendencies with him,
making the two good friends.
 A Birthday, Not a Break: Zigzagged. He celebrates his 14th birthday in "Steven's
Birthday". And when he comments on if the Crystal Gems should be celebrating despite
having to deal with the Cluster, they all respond that they need a break. And while there is no
outside, antagonistic force, Steven goes through internal anguish throughout his birthday
because he now realizes he hasn't physically aged since he was 8 and overhears his father
and Connie discussing this. As such, he magically forces himself to be look physically older,
but the constant strain causes him to regress to his baby form. And he continues to cry over
his current form, until Connie reassures him that no matter what their age, she'll always be
his friend.
 Bizarre Taste in Food: For the record, Steven is revealed to eat raw sugar and flour, has
put cheese balls on a plain cake, has attempted to put BBQ chips on a sandwich, and has
put popcorn on his perfect breakfast.
 Bleed 'em and Weep: He kills for the first time when a rematch with Jasper goes way too
far and he hurls a spike-covered shield right at her face, shattering her Gem to pieces.
Though he's able to restore her with his healing powers, he nearly has a mental breakdown
in the process, sobbing the whole time.
 Blessed with Suck: His powers are controlled by his emotions, something he's not happy
about as he often has to figure what emotion on his own and at the most inconvenient time.
Steven: [concerning his ability to control his fall speed] Oh, it's controlled by my emotions. Just like all my
stupid powers!

 Blue and Orange Contrast: In "Mindful Education", Connie's vision of her problem is
tinted blue, and later, Steven's shameful thoughts are tinted orange.
 Body Horror:
o He experiences this in "Cat Fingers". It's pretty cute to have kitty heads on his
fingers. It's Resident Evil/Junji Ito territory once said kitty heads grow in and out from all over his
body in unthinkable places, making him a twisted mass of constantly shifting kitty heads.
o In "A Single Pale Rose", it's revealed that his gem is actually a brilliant-cut
diamond with its flat side facing outward. This wasn't a big deal for the light-embodied Rose,
but for Steven it means he's had a large, sharp point sticking deep inside his belly his whole life
with no idea.
o In "Change Your Mind", White Diamond forcibly removes his Gem, rendering the
fully human Steven pale, weak, and completely unable to move under his own power.
o It's revealed in "Growing Pains" thanks to Dr. Maheswaran's X-ray charts, that
Steven's skeleton is full of fractures, particularly in his skull. Furthemore, starting from this
episode, his body keeps randomly swelling whenever he is in a great emotional
distress. Taken Up to Eleven at the end of "Everything's Fine" when during his mental
breakdown, he screams that he's a monster and a mass of pink spikes burst out of his back,
starting his corruption.
 Bodyguard Crush: He has a mutual crush with his knight, Connie.
 Bookworm: Becomes one after getting an extremely-long ban from watching TV as a
punishment. The No Home Boys (and, later, the Spirit Morph Saga) are particular favorites. The
first time he ever went to a library, he actually shouted with joy after seeing so many books in
one place.
  Boxing Battler: When he Came Back Strong at the end of The Movie, he fought off
Spinel by encasing his fists in bubbles, and using said bubbles as Boxing Gloves.
 Break the Cutie:
o The fallout from the season one finale does a doozy on his fun-loving, innocent
perspective on life. It's matured him quite a bit, but it'll take more than a near-death in a
spaceship to chip away at his idealism.
o The main theme of Season 3 is how Steven's optimism and childlike view of the
world doesn't serve him well against all his opponents. First he has to poof Bismuth in self-
defense since she's too consumed with hate. Then Jasper brushes off his attempts to help her
since he carries Rose's gem — because Rose killed Pink Diamond. Finally Eyeball attempts to
murder him to bring his gem back to Homeworld, and he's force to abandon her in space to
save himself.
 All of this inevitably culminates into a legitimately hard to watch
breakdown in "Mindful Education". Steven carries a massive amount of guilt that none of the
above Gems would let him help them, and how he never wanted to hurt anyone. Most tragically,
all of his negative thoughts merge into one image that he seems to fear over everything else -
Rose Quartz.
o These problems are becoming worse as he finally learns the truth with his mom
and the Gem War. Further still, even when it looks like he got a break in Steven Universe: Future,
it's just the calm before the storm. The problems that have been present since "Mindful
Education" have now been brought back in a different context and amplified along with issues
that have been present since the first season. This is taken Up To Eleven at the climax of
"Everything's Fine", when he has a mental meltdown, at first downplaying his issues
throughout Future, then revealing that he shattered Jasper and nearly killed White Diamond in
front of Greg, Connie, and the Crystal Gems. This then descends into self-loathing and he
collapses to the floor, decrying himself a fraud and a monster. This, combined with his
unchecked traumas and uncontrollable powers, leads to his corruption. He gets better.
 Broken Ace: Just like Rose Quartz, as the series goes on Steven starts developing into
one of these. He has incredible Gem powers, is very talentful, and is a Child of Two
Worlds who succeeded where his mother failed by saving the Corrupted Gems and making
the Diamonds see reason, all before he even hit his proper teens. He's also carrying a lot of
emotional baggage that he still hasn't adequately faced and come to terms with and he's still
a growing human both physically and emotionally. In Future, Jasper spells it out by noting that
of anyone, he's the one who needs help now. Furthermore, his human growth is influencing
his Gem powers and serving to make him feel more isolated than ever.
 Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl:
o Gender Inverted with Lapis — Steven is the energetic, optimistic Gentle Boy to
Lapis' troubled, grumpy Brooding Girl.
o Downplayed and played straight with Connie. While Steven still remains The
Pollyanna Nice Guy who is open about his emotions, he has a habit of not talking about the
fear he feels of what could happen if he doesn't becomes what the Crystal Gems expect him to
be or the intense guilt he feels over not successfully helping Bismuth, Jasper, or Eyeball. At
both times Connie has been the one he opens up to about said feelings and trauma, while she
provides him with needed emotional support.
 Butt-Monkey: Not even he's safe from this trope despite his kindhearted personality.
 Calling the Old Woman Out: In season 4, Steven starts to learn that his mother, Rose
Quartz, wasn't the saintly paragon he was always told she was, and that she had secrets she
kept even from the other Crystal Gems. When Steven dreams of a palanquin he knows is
connected to those secrets in "Steven's Dream", he gets angry at Garnet and Pearl when
 they're clearly trying not to tell Steven something. He tells them that he, as Rose's son,
deserves to know the truth if anyone does. A few episodes later in "Storm in the Room",
Steven goes into Rose's room in the temple and uses its ability to conjure illusions from his
mind to actually interact with his mother on some level, which eventually turns into calling her
out on leaving Steven to deal with her messes.
 Camp Straight: He is In Touch with His Feminine Side and the most sensitive of the
Crystal Gems, whose members except him are sexless beings with feminine appearances.
He likes cute and huggable things, constantly wears a pink t-shirt with a star on it, and has no
problems wearing a dress for a concert performance. He also wears his heart on his sleeve
and does not like fighting. However, he is in love with Connie.
 Can't Live Without You: When Steven's Gem and human halves are separated by White
Diamond pulling out his gemstone, the latter is severely weakened, and will most likely die
soon if they don't get back together. And while his Gem half seems fine physically, he's more
or less The Soulless, and most definitely doesn't want to stay that way.
 Cannot Tell a Lie: Downplayed. Steven can lie, with mixed results, but usually tells the
truth. However, this has led to some Too Dumb to Live moments. One example is telling
Jasper in "Crack the Whip" (who has two corrupted Gems) that Garnet and Pearl aren't
home.
 Cerebus Retcon: The events of the Future episode "Growing Pains" act as this for his
entire career as a Kid Hero: a diagnosis from Dr. Maheswaren for Steven losing control of his
shapeshifting abilities when stressed reveals that, whilst Steven's hybrid gem-human
physiology (as well as Rose's natural healing powers he has inherited) has resulted in him
having a sort of Healing Factor that near-instantaneously heals his wounds, he also
has numerous fractures from impact trauma from his adventures over the years that have
healed over, and that Steven is in fact dealing with genuine PTSD from all the things he's
witnessed and that have happened to him in that time.
Dr. Maheswaren: Steven, do you remember anything bad in your childhood that particularly stuck with you?
Steven: I guess... I kinda freaked out when they cancelled my favorite ice cream! And then I got attacked by a
giant bug monster... and I got trapped in a bubble and almost drowned... I lost control of my body and turned into
a blob of cats... I almost turned so old I died... Amethyst almost died... Pearl did die... Garnet got destabilized
right in front of me... I woke up with a black eye imprisoned on a spaceship-
Dr. Maheswaren: Steven, this is serious!
Steven: B-But that was just the early stuff!
Dr. Maheswaren: I think all of these experiences have been subjecting your body to a harmful amount of stress,
and that's affecting your ability to respond to new forms of stress in a healthy way. You've been dealing
with genuine threats from such a young age that your body is responding to minor threats as if your life were in
danger!

 Character Development:
o As the episodes progress, he becomes more emotionally mature as he displays
a Wise Beyond His Years attitude when dealing with the personal problems between the other
Gems, but he's still, you know, Steven. By the end of Season 1, he's gone beyond mainly
seeing his Gem life as something cool or fun, seeing it more as a legitimate danger to himself
and the people he cares about, as he, bit by bit, grasps the full gravity of the situation and his
destiny to step into his mom's shoes. As Season 2 progresses, he becomes more of a core
member of the team, often serving as the moral and emotional linchpin. However, Season 3,
(specifically "The New Lars" and "Beach City Drift") remind us that Steven is still a child and his
childlike viewpoint on the world can lead him to make mistakes.
Lars: When did you get so mature?
Steven: Somewhere in between learning to summon my shield and finding out my mom is a war criminal.
o After learning about his mother's less than noble actions (especially that she
shattered Pink Diamond though this has since been proven false), Steven has become more
independent and rebellious towards the other Crystal Gems and their authority over what he is
supposed to know. In "Steven's Dream", he openly argues with Garnet for not telling him why
he shouldn't find the broken Palanquin, figure out his dream, and why he is shedding a constant
flow of tears.
o This is actually discussed in "Pool Hopping", as Steven maturing so much caught
Garnet off guard and now she doesn't know what's coming up in their particular timeline.
o The "Change Your Mind" special has him decide to stop trying to be what others
want just to please them.
o Future has Steven go through a Darker and Edgier version, as he's forced to
confront the numerous amount of trauma he endured in the previous seasons and by the end,
he's more open about his problems and is even going to a therapist.
 Characterization Marches On: In the pilot, Steven was more of a Deadpan Snarker, and
he and Lars seem to have a mutual dislike of each other. In the actual show, he's more or
less oblivious to Lars not liking him that much.
 Character Tics:
o Steven puts his hands on his cheeks when he finds something cute and/or
awesome.
o Steven has a tendency to clutch his shirt (either near his chest or near his
stomach) whenever he's thinking and/or talking about his mother.
o When excited, Steven often has his arms akimbo and his hands flared up.
Sometimes it turns into full-on Airplane Arms.
 Cheerful Child: He's quite the energetic youngster, that's for sure.
 Childhood Friend Romance: He and Connie met as pre-teens and developed a
friendship and eventual romance. When Steven proposed to her in Future, she politely
rebuffed but stated it wasn't a "no" but a "not now", showing she wants to marry him when the
time is right.
 Childish Tooth Gap: A young Steven has one as seen in the short "We Are the Crystal
Gems", here . It, combined with his Blush Stickers, makes him look even cuter and more
innocent than usual.
 Child Prodigy: Steven has been outright said by Word of God to be this, at least as far as
music goes. Given the kid is excellent with a sizable number of instruments and and is shown
to have perfect pitch  (the ability to recognize notes instantly), it definitely shows. This may
be another benefit of his half-gem physiology, as gems are shown to be quite musical by
nature. Having a musician as a father is another contributing factor. One of the comic books
shows what would happen if Steven went to school — he'd be second only to Connie in
terms of aptitude, and by only the smallest margin.
 Children Are Innocent: He doesn't quite get how dangerous Peridot and the Homeworld
Gems are. He even tries to make friendly conversation with Peridot. By season two he's
smartened up quite a bit, but it's still a prominent character trait... until The Movie and Future,
that is.
 The Chosen One: Subverted. At first, it looks like Steven has some "big magical destiny"
planned for him, as it is repeatedly stated by the Crystal Gems and Connie. That, and him
being an All-Loving Hero, Magnetic Hero, and Messianic Archetype make it seem like
he does have a grand destiny ahead of him... except, he doesn't, as "Lion 4: Alternate
Ending" clears up. Rose never had any ulterior plans for him and only wanted him to be
whoever he wanted to be.
  Chronic Hero Syndrome: Deconstructed over time. Steven has an intense desire to help
other and their problems, but this causes him more than not to push his boundaries, do
and/or say something insensitive, or even outright manipulate people or the situation to his
advantage.
 Cloudcuckoolander:
o His thought processes are a little weird sometimes.
Steven: I guess I'm just too tough to cry.
Pearl: Just today, you were crying about snakes.
Steven: [teary-eyed] They don't have any arms...
o The "Pensive Moments with Steven Universe" series of online shorts showcases
his odd thought processes.
 The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Steven is very good at getting others to open up
and helping them through whatever emotional problems are plaguing them. However, he
frequently does this at the expense of dealing with his own personal issues until they
overwhelm him. "What's Your Problem?" focuses on this issue and Amethyst's
acknowledgement of it. She spends the episode trying to get Steven to have fun and open up
about how he feels about the still-fresh Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond reveal, even as Steven
himself is focused on finding and helping the runaway Ruby. When Steven tries to
get Amethyst to talk, Amethyst makes it very clear that she has no intention of dumping
"another thousand year-old complex" onto him and making him feel responsible for
something he's under no obligation to deal with. Future is finally having Steven beginning to
confront all his repressed issues, but he has not been having anyone else coming to help him
open up to it.
 Color Motif: Pink. He wore a pink shirt in the first five seasons. Many important scenes
with him involve the color pink. He has a pink gem. His mother's hair was pink. His shield and
other weapons he create are pink. If his gem is pulled out, a pink version of himself comes
out. By the movie, he now sports a pink jacket.
 Combat Medic: Steven's healing spit and shield give him potential as a Combat Medic,
but for now he is the Support Party Member (literally so in the Attack the Light game).
 Combo Platter Powers: Downplayed. He inherited all of his mom's powers, but he uses
almost none of them other than his shields due to his lack of control and the shenanigans
that resulted in the episodes they are revealed.
 Condescending Compassion: While Steven is a definite All-Loving Hero with great
empathy, he has an earnest belief that he knows what others need in order to be happy. This
mindset has gotten him into trouble, as he's not above doing morally wrong actions (i.e.,
lying, manipulating, or taking over someone's body), to follow it.
 Conditioned to Accept Horror: In "Space Race", Steven mentions that his life has been
put in danger so many times that he's gotten used to it and it doesn't really surprise him
anymore. In "Horror Club", his reaction to the lighthouse coming to life and trying to kill
everyone is "It happens." It's only in "Full Disclosure" that he finally realizes the effects of
what he goes through on a regular basis. Steven Universe: Future deconstructs this in the
episode "Growing Pains". Upon visiting Dr. Maheswaren, it's revealed that Steven being
subjected to so much trauma and constantly having his life in danger from such a young age
has left its mark on his mind and even his body. Now, he can't handle the minor stress from
mundane problems without reacting as if his entire life is in danger, because that is just what
he has been experiencing for so long.
  Cosmic Motifs: Stars are always around Steven. His shirt has a star, his eyes turn to
stars when he's happy or excited, his mother's side of the family come from space which are
filled with stars, and he dots the "i" in his last name with a star.
 Costume Evolution: He spends the first five seasons with a Limited Wardrobe of pink T-
shirts with yellow stars on them. After the Time Skip, the movie has him wearing a blue T-
shirt with the yellow star and a pink-and-white varsity jacket, meaning his outfit now
incorporates the colours of all of the Diamonds. In Future, he swaps out the blue shirt for
a black one much like the shirt his father wore as a rock star.
 Cover-Blowing Superpower: Rose Quartz's healing powers are so iconic and unique to
her that Steven using them to heal Eyeball instantly tips her off that he's Rose's
son/reincarnation. This comes to bite him back after he gets captured and sent to
Homeworld, and put on trial before Yellow and Blue Diamond. Regardless of his intentions,
the fact that he can heal is proof enough that he is Rose Quartz.
 Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Steven's a naive goofball, but if the situation calls for
it, he can be just as competent as the rest of the Gems. As of Season 3, he's shown to be at
least as good a fighter as Amethyst, and that's before he starts fusing. As he gets older and
more experienced with his powers, he becomes far stronger (he is part-Diamond, after all), to
the point that he's able to go toe-to-toe with the other Diamonds, supremely
powerful Physical Godesses who are themselves able to effortlessly defeat any other Gem.
 Cruel and Unusual Death: Not him specifically, but many of his alternate timeline selves
in "Steven and the Stevens" are clearly in pain and fear as they dissipate into sand by the
episode's end. And again with alternate selves in "Future Vision", where he sees himself
dying in multiple ways like getting caught in a blizzard and freezing to death and getting eaten
by a shark.
 Cuddle Bug: He'll hug anything he can fit his arms around.
 Cultured Badass: Steven is a great singer with perfect pitch, can play a variety of
instruments, is a talented cook, and a Child Prodigy (see above).
 Curtains Match the Windows: Black hair and eyes.
 Cuteness Proximity: Has a weakness for baby-sized things, even if they're baby-sized
monsters. He even doesn't hide his adoration when seeing how tiny Peridot is without
her Artificial Limbs, much to her annoyance.
 The Cutie: Friendly, innocent, playful, optimistic, compassionate, and lover of all things
cute and fluffy — Steven's about as lovable as it gets.
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 Dark Is Evil: Downplayed. Steven's outfit in Future has him supporting a black shirt,

which coincides with him suffering a bad case of Sanity Slippage, gaining temper problems,
and becoming a monster.
 Dead Guy Junior: Downplayed. Steven gets his middle name from his mom.
 Death by Depower: Steven's gemstone doesn't just give him powers. Despite being
material instead of a projection, his organic body is horribly weakened when Steven's
gemstone is removed, and he would clearly die if kept separate for very long. The reveal
in Growing Pains that his skeleton is full of healed over injuries implies that Steven may also
suffer from internal injuries kept in check by his powers.
 Deconstructed Character Archetype:
o Of the All-Loving Hero — Steven is a kind kid who tries to befriend everyone he
meets. The show never says that Steven's wrong to have these beliefs (and nobody In-
Universe attempts to discourage it), but they do run into very realistic flaws. Long story short,
 Steven's optimism and willingness to see the best in everyone is one of his best virtues, but just
like everybody else on the show, he's still a flawed character.
 First, Steven's peaceful tactics have worked sometimes, as characters
like Lapis, Peridot, and even the monstrous Cluster were all stopped by him showing them
kindness. However, as the series goes on, his caring philosophy often clashes against the morally
complex world around him. Characters like Bismuth and Jasper who show a sympathetic side
outright reject and even try to kill him when he extends an arm to them. Eyeball was simply a bad
person, and Steven's attempt to reason with her did nothing except give her the opportunity to
almost murder him. Navy in "Room for Ruby" exploited his Defeat Means Friendship beliefs in
order to steal back the Roaming Eye for the Ruby Squad (though in Navy's defense, he did shoot
her out into space with her crew and never bothered to rescue them afterwards). In other words,
while Steven's caring nature has helped a number of people, that doesn't mean he can
help everyone, the people who he's trying to help have every right to reject him, and there are
instances where Steven has no choice except to fight back against those trying to hurt him.
 Second, following from the above problem, Steven's desire to help people
leads him to repressing his own emotional trauma and not addressing it because he worries more
about their needs than his own. Episodes like "Mindful Education" and "Storm in the Room" show
that his inability to help them weighs heavily on Steven's psyche as his caring worldview has let
him down when confronted with these dilemmas.
 Third, while Steven is genuinely caring, he still has the mentality of a child
(even though he's a teenager), so many of his attempts to help others can do more harm than
good. There's several moments where he can be insensitive or even condescending, making
situations worse or more strained than they already are.
 Fourth, "Beach City Drift" proves that despite Steven caring for
everybody, including his enemies, he is still capable of hatred. When he and Kevin cross paths
again after the latter harassed him and Connie when they were fused as Stevonnie in "Alone
Together", Steven can barely contain his anger. After he leaves, Steven outright declares that he
hates him, something that absolutely shocks his father as he never heard Steven say anything
bad about anybody.
o Of the Half-Human Hybrid: Being the only Gem/Human hybrid in the world may
grant Steven a variety of unique powers, but it can also lead to several weaknesses as well.
For example, Steven is significantly tougher than an average human, but can be easily
overpowered by a much stronger Gem, he can breathe in space but for a limited time, and he
can empathize with both humans and Gems but that doesn't mean he can always solve their
problems. And being the only known human/Gem hybrid among his peers, can cause him
loneliness and insecurity over not being able to fully understand what others go through or be
able to consult with another hybrid who understands his feelings.
o Future deconstructs his Kid Hero nature in the earlier seasons, showing that not
only did those incidents harm him internally, in the form of various fractures, but constantly
being exposed to genuine threats from a young age means that Steven is having trouble
dealing with the stress by more minor, day-to-day stuff where his life isn't at risk, the implication
being that he has genuine PTSD.
o Future also deconstructs his tendency to put other Gems or humans before his
own wants and needs, and jump to help people, as now, with intergalactic peace assured,
Steven suddenly has no idea what to do with his life now, having defined himself by helping
people for so long that he doesn't know how to handle being in a situation where they don't
need him anymore.
o Future also also deconstructs his desire and ability to fix things. He is properly
unable to discuss his trauma with the others partially because by the time he resolves an issue,
everything's back to where it once was. "Growing Pains" reveals that his skeleton is lined with
 fractures and injuries he didn't even know he had because his wounds healed as soon as they
were inflicted. During his breaking point in "Everything's Fine", he laments how he can do
things as bad as shattering a Gem and he can "get away with it" because he can fix it and no
one will ever know that something was wrong. It takes his entire family (the Crystal Gems,
Greg, Connie, the Diamonds and Spinel) giving him a Cooldown Hug and offering him the
support he needs for Steven to begin healing. "The Future" has him mentioning talking to a
therapist now, and he is in a better place emotionally and mentally now that he has a support
system and his feelings are out in the open.
 Defence Mechanism Superpower: His deflector shield first manifested in "Bubble
Buddies" to protect Connie from a falling boulder. Unfortunately, Steven didn't know how to
turn it off, and when it finally turns off by itself, they happen to be underwater (thankfully, it
wasn't too far down).
 Deflector Shield: He's capable of creating a spherical energy shield with his gem. It
resisted getting hit with a roller coaster and a harpoon gun, but a Gem training robot was able
to blast through it.
 Despair Event Horizon: In "Everything's Fine", Steven finally snaps, at first downplaying
his issues throughout Future, then revealing that he shattered Jasper and thought about
smashing White Diamond's head into a pillar in front of Greg, Connie, and the Crystal Gems.
This then descends into self-loathing and he collapses to the floor, decrying himself a fraud
and a monster before pink spikes burst out of his back.
 Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life: The crux of his internal conflict in Future. He has
no idea what to do with himself now that everyone else around him has managed to find
contentment in their lives, as his life previously had been spent helping them through their
problems.
 Didn't Think This Through: A recurring character flaw that gets Steven, and occasionally
the people around him, in trouble.
o "Bubble Buddies": He tries to pop the bubble he and Connie were trapped in by
getting onto the tracks of a roller coaster and let the ride hit them. Connie of course realizes
they'll probably be flattened by the ride, but Steven is oblivious.
o "Fusion Cuisine": For a dinner out with Connie and her family, he needs to bring
one of the Gems posing as his mother. In fairness, he thought it through to see they each had
motherly traits but flaws that would turn off Connie's parents. So he urged the Gems to fuse into
Alexandrite. Connie calls out how terrible an idea this was, but Steven doesn't seem to grasp
why her parents would be terrified by a giant multi-armed monster.
o Steven spends most of "Bubbled" convincing Eyeball that he is Rose Quartz, and
he manages to do that. He fails to take into consideration that Eyeball has a grudge against his
mother (and seems to have not taken into account the negative reactions being mistaken for
his mother would be) and how they are stuck inside his bubble in the void of space.
o While he did have a point that Garnet and Pearl hiding secrets from him is wrong,
his impatience over wanting to learn more about Pink Diamond leads to his father being
kidnapped by Blue Diamond in "Steven's Dream".
o Again, his impatience in wanting to rescue Greg had Steven mess with the ship's
controls and nearly cause it to crash in "Adventures in Light Distortion".
o In "Dewey Wins", Connie calls him out on giving up so easily against Aquamarine
and the Topaz duo and turning himself into them so he could be put on trial on Homeworld,
instead of trying to come up with a better plan. It's also made clear that he didn't think of how
his loved ones would be hurt and terrified by his Heroic Sacrifice, especially since they had no
way to save him and he only got back to Earth on a massive stroke of luck. There's also the
fact that it led to Lars' Disney Death and Lapis abandoning Earth and Peridot out of fear of
 being caught up in the chaos of war again. Steven later acknowledged in "Gemcation" that he
really messed up with that decision.
 Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He asks White Diamond what's her excuse for being
childish, which actually embarrasses White enough to make her blush.
 The Dividual: "Change Your Mind" shows that Steven's human half and his gemstone
are two separate entities in a symbiotic relationship. Neither is completely functional without
the other, as the human half can barely stand and nearly dies in the two minutes that they are
separated, and the gemstone does not appear to have a real personality nor restraint of its
powers, acting on a single-minded drive to reunite with Steven.
 Does Not Like Spam: Steven doesn't like "Lion Lickers", partially because they replaced
his favorite snack "Cookie Cats".
 Dream Walker: "Chille Tid" reveals that he can connect to other Gems through his
dreams, and this seems to be an ability totally unique to him (and apparently not inherited
from his mother, though it can't be proven since Gems usually don't even try to
sleep). Comes in handy when he is able to mentally link with the Cluster.
o Steven has also revealed the ability to transport his mind into a Watermelon
Steven in his sleep. And can do so intentionally.
o He later learns he can enter the dreams of other humans (or even transport his
mind into their sleeping bodies) as he sleeps. In each case, it's discovered accidentally and
caused by a conscious concern for the "target" as he falls asleep.
 Drunk with Power: Briefly falls into this while training with Jasper during "Fragments" due
to her encouraging him to tap into his anger. He snaps out of it after their rematch ends with
him shattering the gem.
 Earn Your Happy Ending: In "The Future", having moved on from the mental trauma with
the help of his loved ones, he decides to move from Beach City to explore elsewhere, sharing
a heartfelt farewell with the Gems before setting off. He even got a therapist!
 Emotional Powers: His powers are controlled primarily by his mood — his shield and
bubble are powered by love and compassion, he can sense and be affected by the moods of
those around him, and when he jumps he can slow his descent through feelings of joy.
 Emotions vs. Stoicism: The openly emotional and expressive attitude (Emotions)
contrasts Connie's logical and more serious demeanor (Stoicism).
 The Empath:
o In "Horror Club", he is able to sense the feelings of the Gem animating the
lighthouse. This also ties in with some of his Dream Walker powers, as he was able to project
his mind to talk to the Cluster after feeling their discomfort.
o He also unknowingly psychically connects with Blue Diamond after she arrives
on Earth, seeing what she sees and experiencing her grief, which makes him cry
uncontrollably.
 Everyone Has Standards:
o As kind and empathetic as Steven is, even he has his limits when it comes to
Lars' jerkass behavior, Onion's disturbing or illegal activities, and Kevin's creepiness.
o As much as he is a Cuddle Bug, even he find the Diamonds' behavior towards
him to be far too overbearing.
 Extremely Protective Child:
o In "Back to the Moon", for attempting to attack the Crystal Gems, Steven
actually throws the Ruby squad into space and doesn't make it a big priority to rescue them
 later (he was planning to in "Adventures in Light Distortion", but had completely forgotten about
it by "Room for Ruby").
o During the "Out of this World" event, Greg is kidnapped by Blue Diamond and
Steven is determined to save him at whatever cost. Whether it's traveling at the speed of light,
entering into a (presumably dangerous) human zoo, or ready to fight those he perceives as
trying to keep his father against his will.
 Face: As Tiger Philanthropist.
 Face–Monster Turn: He undergoes through this during his mental breakdown in the
episode "Everything's Fine". His self- hatred, combined with his unchecked traumas, feelings
of purposelessness, and his uncontrollable powers, corrupted him and turned him into a pink
Kaiju-like monster. He gets better at the end of "I Am My Monster".
 Fake Ultimate Hero: Steven actually accuses himself of being this at the end of
"Everything's Fine", saying that he is not nearly as innocent as he was as a kid anymore or
as mature as everyone thinks he is. He has done bad stuff, including causing destruction
across town and Little Homeworld, has had thoughts of hurting White Diamond out of
revenge, and even shattered Jasper. He acknowledges the fact that he has been able to "get
away with all this" for so long because he can just "fix" everything and it slowly eats away at
him until he calls himself a fraud and a monster.
 Fan of the Past: Steven seems to be interested in older media. He has a VCR and huge
tape collection even though Sadie assumed he wouldn't know what a VHS was. By Future,
Steven is driving a car made years before he was born and still using the cassette player,
even though he could easily replace either.
 Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: His spit can heal injuries or illness (even damage to
inanimate objects) and turn plants into Plant Mooks. This is inherited from his mother, who
could do the same with her tears.
 Fatal Flaw: Steven has four primary flaws — his loving nature, a tendency to neglect his
own well-being while acting on said nature, his confidence (and lack thereof), and his
impatience.
o Steven's All-Loving Hero nature can prove fatal on occasion:
 He often puts the emotional well being of others (especially the Crystal
Gems) ahead of his own, even if this will hurt himself more than it helps them. He also tends to
avoid thinking about his emotional problems until they overwhelm him all at once.
 His idealistic perspective on life has had consequences, the biggest
example being when he amicably reveals himself to Peridot in "Marble Madness", believing that
she won't try to harm him. This is quickly proven false and the Crystal Gems have to save him,
which gives away that they are still alive on Earth and starts the plot of the Homeworld Gems
returning to Earth, knowing that they're active. Occurs once again, more painfully, in "Bismuth",
when the title character tries to murder him while he is trying everything he can, and fails, to talk
her down.
 Steven's All-Loving Hero personality means he's
absolutely traumatized when he has to hurt someone. And being a nice kid with no one to really
talk to about this, he keeps it to himself, which leads to even more trauma.
o Steven's powers are directly tied to his confidence in himself, which is shown to
be realistically fragile for a child his age. This leads to him losing his healing spit after Greg
causes him the slightest bit of doubt in his abilities, and not getting it back for two seasons even
after realizing he had no reason to doubt himself.
o Even after Character Development, Steven's impatient nature when it comes to
learning more hidden truths causes more problems.
o As Future shows, Steven's still has his near-pathological need to help everybody,
even when they don't really need it, or need help specifically from him. However, it leads him to
suffer Existential Horror and confronting his long repressed problems and issues. Issues and
problems that have been worse by having his powers now react to his negative emotions. Out of
a mix of not wanting to be a burden and fear of no one understanding (which is itself caused by
his hybrid status and growing power), he has been trying to bottle his issues and venting them
out just led to such a disaster that it reinforced his prior conviction of keeping it bottled.
 Fat and Skinny: The round and chubby Fat to Connie's slim and lean Skinny.
 Final Boss: His monster form is the final threat faced in the series.
 First Friend: Steven tends to be this to a lot of people with Friendless Backgrounds,
becoming an important figure in their lives as his friendship helps them to grow as people.:
o Connie Maheswaran, becoming inseparable best friends with Steven after their
first adventure together and growing more confident and assertive throughout the series.
o Lapis Lazuli, who opens up to Steven because he talked to as a person instead
of treating her as a tool. After being freed and healed by Steven, she would become protective
and see him as her Morality Pet.
o Peridot, during the time when she had to work alongside the Crystal Gems to
stop the Cluster from forming, was treated with kindness by Steven, something that would
cause her to go through a Heel–Face Turn as she sees beauty and learns to care for someone
other than herself.
 First Love: Steven is Connie's first and only true love.
 Flight: In Future, his floating ability has apparently evolved into this.
 Flower Motifs: Steven has a rose motif inherited from his mother. His shield has a rose
pattern on the front and his Deflector Shield emerges from a rose that grows over him. It's not
drawn in the animation, but the Funko Pop! figurine of Steven shows that the back of his hair
forms into the shape of a rose ◊.
 Forgotten First Meeting: Averted with Connie. He mentions in "Bubble Buddies" that he
remembered from last year's Beach City parade float after she dropped her glowing bracelet.
He found and wanted to return it to her but she long gone. And after he mentioned their
indirect meeting, Connie also remembers him being on one of the parade floats... with soap
bubbles in his hair.
 For Want of a Nail: There is at least one timeline where he died, according to "Steven
and the Stevens". It's only because the original timeline Steven had a Jerkass
Realization that it never came to fruition.
 Free-Range Children:
o Steven went missing for days at one point, and the Gems and Greg didn't seem
worried because it's something that Steven usually does.
o Additionally, Steven, along with Sadie and Lars, got trapped for weeks on a
monster-inhabited desert island, and the Gems neither sent help nor seemed to realize he was
gone.
 Friendly Enemy: Steven eventually recognizes Peridot as an enemy, but still shows her
a lot of amiability, which she reciprocates with confusion and disgust.
Peridot: I almost feel sorry for you. Nyaah!
[Peridot warps away]
Steven: ...Have a great weekend!
[Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet stare at Steven]
Steven: I mean... I hope her weekend is not so great?
  Friend to All Living Things: Shows signs of this in "Monster Buddies". Though initially
afraid of the Centipeetle, he tries to befriend it after it doesn't attack him, and ultimately is
able to tame it to some extent. He even defied Garnet in order to protect a magic mirror that
he befriended, and when said mirror turned to be another Gem, he's willing to help her too
despite the Crystal Gems' protests. In "Gem Drill" he proves to be this to the Cluster, by
telepathically connecting to it and convincing the various shards to befriend each other and
help him to bubble it.
 Friend to Bugs: As a part of his love for animals, Steven is also very sweet towards
insects.
 Fun Personified: Cheerful, friendly, Steven is just about as fun he can be.
 Fusion Dance: "Change Your Mind" reveals a few things about Steven and fusion:
o When he's plummeting to his doom with the four gemstones of the poofed
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, he discovers the ability to cause them to reform by fusing with
them, which also saves all of them.
o When he is briefly separated from his Gemstone, it forms a solid light body
separate from his organic one. The organic half is so weak that he is physically incapable of
moving, while the gem half retains his powers but appears to be missing large parts of his
personality. The two quickly re-fuse and assume their half-gem form again.
 Gem Tissue: Has his mother's gem where his belly button would be.
 Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Steven is an emotional healing Gentle Touch to Connie's
brutally honest, no-nonsense Firm Hand.
 Girls Love Stuffed Animals: A boy variant. Steven (a young boy) has a variety of different
stuffed animals he sleeps with.
 The Glomp: Gives one to his dad upon returning from Homeworld in "Change Your
Mind", which knocks him off his feet and sends him sliding back several feet.
 God in Human Form: Half human and half Diamond.
 Good Cannot Comprehend Evil:
o Steven doesn't get the idea of someone in real life being pure evil. The worse he
can say about the Homeworld Gems is that they're "mean", and that's after they've locked him
and the rest of the Crystal Gems up in prison cells on their spaceship. He even thinks Peridot
will change her mind about attacking Earth after she sees how beautiful it is, even though she
tried to personally kill him. He is eventually proven kind of right about Peridot when she joins
and helps them, though being proven right in one instance seems to have made it harder for
him to accept instances where he's wrong.
o Seems to be something of a running theme where Steven's willingness to believe
in people and things thought to be evil has paid off. This has been noticed with how he tamed
the dangerous Centipeetle, how he saved Lapis from the mirror and healed her when she
posed a threat (which ended up with her not only helping warn him of the Homeworld Gems'
arrival, but her later joining of the Crystal Gems), his noted helping of Peridot, and his helping
and bubbling the Cluster.
o This eventually becomes a problem when he discovers that his own mother had
to do some pretty "evil" things to save her friends, and then he has to hurt some people in order
to save himself. Committing these "evil" acts himself causes him a tremendous amount of
confusion, guilt, and shame.
 Good Is Not Dumb: Steven is a goofball (dangerously so in the first few episodes) and is
quite empathetic, but he's quite smart for his age. Even the tech-savvy Peridot lampshades it.
 Grand Theft Me: Is able to take over the bodies of the Watermelon Stevens. As it turns
out later, he can do it to other humans, and does it to Lars. He of course returns to his own
 body at the end. Being Steven, he doesn't use this for anything bad. "Escapism" explores this
ability in more detail and reveals that Steven can possess beings from lightyears away.
However, it also appears that once he possesses a body, he is stuck in it until either his main
body wakes up or the possessed body expires.
 Green Thumb:
o In "Watermelon Steven", he creates an army of sentient watermelons by putting
seeds into his mouth and spitting them out. Unfortunately, he can't control them, and they start
attacking anyone who they perceive to be a threat.
o In "Gem Harvest", he recalls this ability and uses it to make a single pumpkin
creature, after Lapis and Peridot grow a field full of plants (via mundane means, besides
perhaps Lapis using her powers to water them) and wind up disappointed that the plants don't
move on their own. He was almost able to convince the two that they made the pumpkin, until
the pumpkin ran straight for Steven himself.
o By the movie, he's taken to using his healing spit to re-grow flowers he's just
picked.
 Growing Up Sucks: Steven's Character Development tends to skew this way. He starts
off as a naive child who just wants to join in on the missions and be considered a full Crystal
Gem. Slowly he gets his wish, but with great physical and emotional pain. He goes from
seeing his mother as a great unbelievably perfect person to someone flawed and whose past
he himself has to keep dealing with. When his powers first manifest it was a great and
exciting time, but the slowly changed into annoyance and self-deprecation as his control of
them never seemed to get better.
 Guilt Complex: He takes more responsibility for things than he should. He blames
himself for Lapis Lazuli stealing the ocean in "Ocean Gem" ("I was the one who let Lapis out
of the mirror. It's my fault the ocean's gone.") and Greg's leg being broken during the battle of
that episode in "House Guest" ("I'm sorry that you hurt your leg and that your van got
smashed up because of me." Greg himself tells Steven in this instance he apologizes too
much.), he blames himself for the fight between Ruby and Sapphire in "Keystone Motel" ("I
don't understand, is it... Is it me?"), and "Mindful Education" reveals he most likely blames
himself for the corruption, poofing and being launched into space of Jasper, Bismuth and the
Eyeball-Ruby respectively. This is shown as Stevonnie (the fusion of Steven and Connie)
begins to vividly hallucinate the three surrounding them, looking helpless. This complex likely
stems from the fact that Rose Quartz (the former leader of the Crystal Gems, and Steven's
mother) had to give up her physical form to make Steven. "Joy Ride" reveals that Steven
feels that the rest of the Gems sometimes blame him for her not being around anymore, and
he seems to be pretty hung up about it as well. Amethyst finally calls him out on it in "What's
Your Problem?", bluntly telling Steven that he is not responsible for other people's actions,
and blaming himself for the bad things that happen to everybody is not only unfair to himself,
but is extremely emotionally unhealthy.
 Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted with Connie — while he mainly
fights defensively and supportively, with his attacks being either magical disabling effects
or throwing his shield, Connie uses a BFS.
 Half-Breed Angst: Steven generally enjoys being a Child of Two Worlds, but even at the
start is afraid being half-human will hinder his abilities as a Crystal Gem. As time goes on,
Steven starts to feel more insecure about his status as the only Gem hybrid in existence and
struggles to find balance between his human half and Gem half.
 Half-Breed Discrimination: Played with in that Homeworld Gems discriminate against
Steven by failing to acknowledge Steven as a hybrid, merely seeing him as his mother Rose
in a new form. Though if they did understand his true nature, there would doubtless be an
extremely negative reaction — Peridot called him a "hybrid abomination" after forming a
 tenuous friendship, while Jasper was disgusted by "Rose" even fusing with a human. Luckily,
the Crystal Gems managed to catch on relatively fast and humans are Fantastically
Indifferent to Gems in general, so he's been able to live most of his life free of such
persecution.
 Half-Human Hybrid: He's part-Gem on his mother's side.
 Handshake Substitute:
o He and Jamie share one as of "Historical Friction". Both high-five and proclaim
out "Acting!" to each other.
o Briefly had one with Lars where they would high-five each other in the chest.
 Has Two Mommies: While Greg helps out, Steven is primarily raised by the three Gems.
During "Steven's Birthday", it is shown though that Steven grew up initially with only his dad
as a single parent. The extended intro for Season 2 shows that Greg gave the full
responsibility of raising Steven to the Gems when he was somewhere between 10 and 13.
The complicated family situation is really highlighted in "Fusion Cuisine", where Connie is
terrified that her parents won't accept Steven because his family isn't a nuclear one, so all the
Gems decide to fuse into one giant mom.
o Also, metaphorically true after he discovers that his mother, Rose Quartz, is none
other than Pink Diamond
 Heal the Cutie: After spending much of the epilogue series suffering from his unchecked
PTSD, created from his traumas he experienced in the original series and movie, out of
control powers and having a colossal mental breakdown, the episode "The Future" reveals
that Steven's mental state is now in a much better place thanks to his loved ones (and
therapy).
 Healing Factor: "Growing Pains" shows that while they apparently healed quickly enough
not to bother him much, he received several bone fractures over the course of the show.
 Healing Hands: He finds out he has healing spit in "An Indirect Kiss", which renders
Connie's glasses obsolete. His tears bring Lars back to life.
 The Heart:
o He is the emotional core of the Crystal Gems, and often helps them with their
personal issues. The thought of him dying terrifies the other Gems. His status as this to them is
a central theme of Season 5's penultimate Story Arc, fittingly titled "Heart of the Crystal Gems".
o Steven tends to fulfill this role to the townspeople of Beach City as well. He
manages to calm down a riot against Mayor Dewey with a Rousing Speech on
how talented they all are in "Political Power".
 Heart Is an Awesome Power: Rose personally considered the ability to grow and change
humanity's greatest ability that made them superior to Gems in that way, and thus viewed it
as one of the most amazing things Steven would get from his hybrid nature. Not only can
Steven change and grow, he can make others change and grow, including Gems who are
normally very unchanging. It shows in that he has managed to make the Crystal Gems grow
more in his (comparably) very short life than they had in millennia. According to Rebecca
Sugar, this is the exact reason that made his pure unleashed power was able to overpower
White: he had to actually train and grow to gain ability over his power while White and the
other Diamonds naturally have theirs. As such, his power became far, far greater.
o Him realizing that he was neglecting his ability to change by focusing on the idea
of a "happily ever after" is the final "piece" that he needs to restore his full powers in The Movie.
 Heel: As Tiger Millionaire. Then he has an in-universe Heel–Face Turn and
becomes Tiger Philanthropist.
  Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Creates himself a big, burly character named 'Stefan'
with Peridot in order to fix Camp Pining Hearts' reboot in "In Dreams".
 The Hero: Steven is the main protagonist and often saves the world on a daily basis.
 Heroic Bastard: "Gem Harvest" reveals that Greg and Rose were never legally married.
 Heroic BSoD:
o After Steven becomes dejected that his intentions of celebrating a birthday party
for the Gems seem childish, he starts moping around town. He's completely unaware that he's
magically aging his body up the more he sulks and dwells on the issue of maturity.
o Happens again in "An Indirect Kiss" when he learns that he did not inherit his
mother's healing tears, making him wonder if he will ever develop magical powers. It takes a
pep talk from Connie and the revelation that he has healing spit to pull him out of it.
o He goes through a doozy of a one in "Full Disclosure" having to come face to
face with just how dangerous being a Gem really is.
o He almost enters another one when he is confronted with Peridot's betrayal,
though he doesn't have much time to really brood about it and gets proven right in the end.
o After seemingly unaffected by a series of traumatic events concerning the truth
behind Bismuth, his first-hand witnessing of Jasper's corruption, and a murder attempt by Ruby
(Eyeball), "Mindful Education" shows Steven absolutely broken over mentally-manifested
versions of them.
 Coupled with the fact that all of those events revolve around an
unbelievable act apparently committed by Rose Quartz, Steven's emotions must be amazingly
conflicted.
o In "A Single Pale Rose", he comes out of Pearl's memories sitting in a Troubled
Fetal Position, looking absolutely miserable, after learning that his mother is not actually a
Quartz, but Pink Diamond masquerading as one.
o After he and Connie get locked up as punishment for fusing during the ball and
the other Crystal Gems get poofed, Steven starts believing that their plan to save the corrupted
Gems by enlisting the Diamonds' help was an impossible act and blames himself for
everything. But then assurance from Connie keeps him from entering the Despair Event
Horizon.
 Hero with a Unique Name: Steven's full name is unlike any full Gem or human: he has a
regular human first name, a gemstone for a middle name, and a (very unusual) surname
when Gems have a three part production code with the Crystal Gems going by a Race Name
Basis. This was even lampshaded by Dr. Maheswaran.
Dr. Maheswaran: [holding out phone] Connie? The Steven Universe boy would like to speak with you. [to self
as she walks out of the room] I swear that's not his real name.

 Hidden Depths:
o Several episodes show him to be a competent ukulele player, and he's pretty
good at making up lyrics on the fly. He clearly follows his dad in that respect.
 Steven's actually a much more accomplished musician than even that; as
demonstrated across several episodes, he's proficient in the ukulele, guitar, drums, and piano. He
also has perfect pitch and is able to identify specific notes just by hearing them. Not bad for a 14-
year-old kid with no formal education to speak of.
o Behind the Cheerful Child there's a scared little boy who holds a lot of doubts: he
thinks he'll never be able to control his powers and step into Rose's shoes and the other Gems
will want nothing to do with him. He even suspects that the Gems blame him for Rose's death.
o "Restaurant Wars" shows that he's quite the culinary genius. It's to the point
where a single dish each caused both Kofi and Fryman to end their war for the sake of mutual,
economic safety. One has to wonder how good he'd be if he got a formal education in the
culinary arts.
o "Made of Honor" demonstrates that he's also a romantic who's really into
weddings and has spent the entirety of his life making a wedding planning book.
 Holding Hands: Will usually do with his friends, father, and Connie. And speaking of
Connie, he does this with her especially since they do it to fuse into Stevonnie.
 Homeschooled Kids: Steven is homeschooled, though it doesn't seem to be a formalized
education; in "Mirror Gem", Steven only even finds out what a school is like from Connie,
then he gets Pearl to set up a classroom. The lesson gets put on hold because of equipment
malfunction, then Steven celebrates because he could say he was taking summer break. His
actual level of education isn't known, but he's literate enough to read the whole Spirit Morph
Saga without any trouble. This question is directly addressed in the comic Too Cool for School,
where he briefly enrolls in Connie's school. The answer, apparently, is extremely well, as
Steven passes his first major test with a score second only to Connie herself.
 Honor Before Reason: In "Change Your Mind", Steven refuses to apologize for fusing
with Connie, because he's not sorry for it, even though he risks getting the two of them
locked up until they starve to death. Luckily, this helps make Blue Diamond realize how
terrible Pink has suffered under White's rules.
 How Do I Shot Web?: Steven had no idea how to activate his Crystal Gem or control the
powers that would manifest every once and a while. After "Ocean Gem" and "The Return",
this changes, mostly, and he is now able to easily use his force field and shield weapon.
Other powers are still a little hit or miss. By "Too Short to Ride" he's mostly gained control of
his shapeshifting capacity. By "Steven vs. Amethyst" he has gained control of his ability to
control his descent.
 Human Dad, Non-Human Mom: His mother is a Gem; his father is human.
 Hybrid Power: Initially, being half-human seems entirely detrimental compared to being a
full Gem: his powers and body develop slowly instead of being like that from the beginning,
he needs to eat and sleep, he might be as short-lived as a human (and can even accidentally
cause his own death by old age prematurely, though he can also seemingly reverse it) and
may not be able to regenerate his body like full Gems do. Later, it's revealed his body has
some advantages no Gem has had before, including being able to fuse with humans (and
according to Rebecca Sugar, organic beings in general, theoretically including animals like
Lion) and immunity to technology that destroys Gems' bodies. He also has the power to talk
to other Gems in his dreams, which is something totally unique to him since Gems don't even
need to sleep. But perhaps the biggest advantage has nothing to do with his powers at
all: being raised with Gems and humans leaves him as basically the only one in the
world who can easily understand and empathize with both. This ties into another major ability
he has: Gems are expected to never change and have that drilled into them by Homeworld's
society, but being human, Steven's natural state is change. And as shown with the Crystal
Gems, this makes him very capable to instigate change and growth in Gems on a level even
his mother couldn't do. Notably, Rose considered this the most amazing thing Steven's hybrid
nature would give him. The power displayed by Pink Steven suggests that his true potential
might exceed White Diamond. This is because he inherited the sheer power of his mother, but
the ability to change and grow from his father, something White lacked.
 Hypocrite: In Future, he makes a deal about maturing and moving on in "Snow Day", but
"Little Graduation" shows that out of all the characters, he's the one struggling the most with
 adjusting to the changes occurring around him. And despite often stating how people should
be honest with their feelings, Future has Steven bottling up his emotions.
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 I Am Not My Mother: Steven's situation is less about him wanting to move away from his
mother's legacy, and more about his realization that he can't live up to that legacy when
everyone expects him to. The heartbreaking part is that Steven admits this not by saying "I'm
not my mother", but by saying "I'm not Rose Quartz", because he has never known her as a
mother. Once he learns about Rose's more questionable decisions, such as shattering Pink
Diamond and imprisoning Bismuth without a trial, he starts to question with whether or not
he wants to be like her.
 Iconic Outfit: His pink t-shirt with the yellow star, blue jeans, and pink sandals. In the
movie, he now wears a pink jacket over a blue shirt with a yellow star, and the shirt becomes
black in Future.
 Ideal Hero: Subverted, surprisingly. Steven's charisma, kindness, and devotion to his
loved ones make him perfect for this trope. Except, one of the aesops of the show is that
there is no such thing as a perfect person, which also applies to Steven. While he's a
genuinely good person, he's also prone to making mistakes or reckless decisions that come
from his own set of flaws, flaws that don't make an "ideal hero".
 Idiot Hero: For the first half of the series, Steven is this: A small, naïve child who is easily
manipulated by the adults around him, he doesn't even realize his entire race is from another
planet until the end of the first season. His childish antics frequently get him and the rest of
the cast in trouble. However, as the series goes on and Steven learns more about combat
and the minds of other people, he eventually (very gradually) grows out of this trait, and
emerges as a Warrior Therapist with only occasional moments of weakness.
 I Just Want to Be Normal: Explored. In the main series Steven doesn't think much about
how unusual his life is, but several episodes in Future drive home how strange he is because
of the experiences that shaped him, such as in Bismuth Casual, where Steven discovers that
he has trouble relating to Connie's other friends. This comes to a head in Mr. Universe, where
he is able to contrast his own history with the extremely structured and repressed upbringing
his father had.
 I Just Want to Be Special: Steven wants to have magical powers like his mom because
he wants to continue being with the Crystal Gems.
 Imagination-Based Superpower: Steven can change the size and shape of his bubble
shield into more complicated constructs with focus.
 In a Single Bound: "Steven Floats" reveals he can control the speed of his ascent and
descent to jump incredible heights/distances and then land safely, much like his mother.
 Indy Ploy: Discussed in "Bubble Buddies" when Steven and Connie are trapped in
Steven's protective bubble shield:
Steven: We just gotta find the right ride. Yeah, the kiddie coaster! Alright, we just roll down this ramp as the
carts are coming at us, and the crash will break us free!
Connie: What happens after the bubble pops?
Steven: We'll be free!

o Later on, when they're still protected by the bubble at the bottom of the ocean:
Steven: Oh, sorry! Are you alright? It's not so bad, uhhh. It-it's okay, I uh...
Connie: [panics] It's not okay! You keep saying that, but you don't know what you're doing! Now we're going to
suffocate or starve at the bottom of the ocean, and only my parents will notice because no one else cares about me!
 Inferiority Superiority Complex: The episode "Prickly Pair" in Future reveals that he has
this. Steven's issues seem to be a tangled mess of a desire to be needed along with a
 resentment of feeling like he needs help. He has somewhat condescending perceptions of
the Gems' flaws but also still wants to them to be impressed by his new hobby. When they're
rightfully disturbed by the fact that he named his plants after people he knows to pretend
they'll never leave him, he takes it as a sign that his gardening is unimpressive instead of
concern for his wellbeing.
 Innocence Lost: After the events of season one, he stops thinking as his duties as a
Gem as something fun and begins seeing them as a dangerous burden. Though it seems it
was actually more just the stress of everything that happened in the season 1 finale and he
still seems to enjoy going on missions though he is much more competent now.
o Steven Universe: Future though is kinda ramming it in that Steven confronting all
the repressed problems is causing a lot of agony and problems.
 Innocently Insensitive: Justified. Steven is an All-Loving Hero and is the most
emotionally thoughtful and sensitive among the Crystal Gems, but he is still a 14-year-old boy
who occasionally lets his own feelings get in the way of the feelings of others. Plus, like
everyone else, Steven is a flawed person capable of hurting others, intentionally or not. This
is a trait that he inherited from his mother, Rose Quartz a.k.a Pink Diamond.
o When Connie is visibly upset over having her eyesight healed by his healing spit
in "An Indirect Kiss", he doesn't notice and is just happy to have healing powers like his mom.
o "Reformed" has him asking questions that visibly upset Amethyst, but he doesn't
notice it until much later.
o At the climax of "Sadie's Song", Steven realizes that Sadie never really wanted to
sing, and that he and Barb were unwittingly pressuring her into it.
o Even though Peridot is extremely and visibly distraught over speaking against
Yellow Diamond in "Message Received", Steven is just happy she's a Crystal Gem.
o While he just wanted Lapis and Peridot to get along, Steven also (accidentally)
gave Lapis a minor guilt trip for not giving Peridot a chance, even though she has some very
good reasons as to why she won't.
o "The New Lars" has Steven deciding to be a "new Lars", but he ends up making
Sadie feel hurt again, and just the fact that Steven kept pretending to be Lars while possessing
his body was a major violation on Lars' consent and he was righteously furious once he woke
up.
o His attempt to cheer up Amethyst in "Steven vs. Amethyst" by losing a video
game on purpose is from a good place, but she quickly catches on to him, stating that his
action, however good-intentioned, only makes her feel worse.
o After returning from Homeworld in "Dewey Wins", Connie is upset with him for
willingly turning himself into Homeworld. She explains that him doing that felt like he didn't trust
her or their training. Steven continues to argue that she's fine and that he had to. Connie
becomes frustrated over him not understanding and leaves, with a slightly annoyed Steven
mumbling that she should've been telling him how brave he was. He does eventually have
a Jerkass Realization of his behavior after Mayor Dewey's campaign failed, but by that time,
Connie is so upset with him for brushing off her feelings that she refuses to talk to him
until "Kevin Party".
 Intergenerational Friendship: Onion, Connie, and Peedee are about the only kids around
Steven's age who live in or near Beach City, so Steven hangs out with older kids a lot, and
he is very popular amongst Beach City's teenage crowd, simply because he's such a fun and
nice guy to be around. It's later revealed that he's actually fourteen years old, he doesn't act
or look it. The lone exception is Lars, although Steven's completely oblivious to
this. Eventually, he manages to become friends with Lars as well.
  Internal Reformist: When he realizes that the Diamonds don't understand that he is
Pink's son, not Pink Diamond in another form, he decides to make the best of his position to
convince White Diamond to heal the Corrupted Gems, and to end the practice of invading
other planets. Unfortunately, Steven ends up unsuccessful with this; we learn that while the
Diamonds loved Pink, they did not really respect her, being condescending to her and not
taking her opinions seriously. They would end up treating Steven the same way. As such,
when Steven tries to do things his way when hosting a party so that White will finally attend,
Blue and Yellow Diamond micromanage the whole thing and White doesn't bother to show
up. Then when he accidentally fuses with Connie and causes Blue and Yellow to turn against
Stevonnie, prompting the Crystal Gems to fuse into Garnet and Opal respectively to protect
them and inspires a random Jade pair to join them and fuse into a bigger Jade, Yellow poofs
the lot and locks up Stevonnie as punishment. Steven dwells on the failure and notes he
understands his mom better.
 Interspecies Adoption: Ties in with Half-Human Hybrid above, even if his biological dad
was present. Steven's nature as a half-Gem makes him a genuinely unique being, and while
loving, none of his caretakers truly understood how to care for him. Future focuses heavily on
the consequences of Steven's upbringing, including unnoticed injuries from his missions with
the gems and how his 'Gem duties' affected his mind.
 Interspecies Romance: Steven (half-human, half-Gem) has a mutual crush on Connie
(human).
 Intertwined Fingers: With Connie, especially when they fuse into Stevonnie.
 In Touch with His Feminine Side: Due to being raised by the laid-back and
understanding Greg and by three (four if you are counting Ruby and Sapphire) One-Gender
Race alien women, Steven is very much this and is very open about it.
o He has a love of schmaltzy things, disagreeing with Connie on the Weddings for
Everyone ending of her favorite book series, primarily the details of the cake.
o While he finds fighting monsters and doing missions awesome at first, he at heart
believes that Gems should not fight Gems and only ever really gets involved in a battle if he
absolutely has to, especially against fully-sentient Gems.
o He has no problem putting on a dress and going up on stage for a concert
performance. The rest of the town have no problem either. Though they do note it was better
than the time he did it nude two years ago.
o He is not afraid to cry. Boy does he cry. This is even lampshaded in "The New
Crystal Gems" when Connie's lack of crying was a detriment to her Steven impression.
o Steven appointed himself as the official wedding planner of Ruby and Sapphire's
wedding, revealing that he has compiled a "Dream Wedding Journal" for Ruby and Sapphire to
look through for themes and details to make their perfect wedding. When Sapphire questions
him on how long he has been working on it, he answers "My entire life."
 It's Not You, It's My Enemies: In "Full Disclosure", Steven tries to do this with Connie
and take up the whole brooding, anti-hero shtick when he's finally realized just how much
danger he can get in, because he doesn't want her to get hurt. He ultimately decides not to
break up with Connie; otherwise, she would have ended up friendless and heartbroken, and
he values their relationship too much to go through with it.
 Jumped at the Call: Nothing will stop him from trying to protect his family and his home.
 Just a Kid: Deconstructed. Steven is so determined to be viewed as a Crystal Gem that
he often hides his own fears and trauma in order to reassure the others that's he's capable of
any task. This is made even more depressing because the Crystal Gems are unaware of the
 psyche of human children (besides the concept), and expect Steven to just bounce back from
any emotional trauma that happens to him.
o Garnet is the exception. She apologized profusely both times she realized that
Steven was in emotional distress because of the Gems.
 The first time was in "Future Vision" when she believed revealing her
precognition to Steven would bring them closer, but it only turned him into a nervous wreck
freaked out about the future. Garnet took off her shades to apologize to Steven.
 The second time was in "Warp Tour" when the Gems blew off Steven's
concerns about seeing creatures in the warp stream. He became insomniac; and the more the
Gems scoffed at him, the surlier he became. When his concerns were proven true, Garnet
apologized profusely.
o Played with in "Joy Ride", when the Cool Kids give the Gems a What the Hell,
Hero? speech about how they expect so much from Steven when he is just a young child. The
Gems apologize for straining him so much, yet at no point make it seem like they lost
confidence in his abilities.
o Brought to the forefront in "Steven vs. Amethyst", when he admits that he trains
hard because he's "not Rose Quartz".
o This is what he inherited from Pink Diamond, who wanted a colony of her own to
prove herself to the other Diamonds much like how Steven tries to prove himself to the Crystal
Gems. Tragically, it led to Pink's "death", and the Crystal Gems had no idea how much of the
Diamonds they were emulating in regards to Steven.
 Keet: Steven is a very sweet, cheerful and optimistic boy.
 Kiddie Kid: Justified. "Steven's Birthday" reveals that he's been 13 up until this episode,
in which he turned 14. However, due to his Gem heritage he seemingly stopped aging after
8. Zig-Zagged in that while he often acts like an energetic 8-year-old, he's just as often Wise
Beyond His Years. He does feel insecure about his appearance when the issue comes to
attention. This becomes completely subverted in Future, in which he has little-to-no childish
traits.
 Kid Has a Point: Despite being the youngest and most naive, Steven can make a very
good point once in a while.
o This bit of dialogue in "Warp Tour".
Pearl: Nothing on Earth can access the Warp points but us!
Steven: Yeah? Well... what if it came from space!?
Pearl: I... don't like your tone.

o In "Marble Madness", he points the futility of the Crystal Gems continuously

destroying the robonoids since they didn't know why they're coming.
o Steven gives Garnet and Pearl a lashing out in "Steven's Dream" when they keep
on hiding information about Pink Diamond from him because that's what Rose wanted, and he
accurately points out that since Rose was his mom he deserves to know all of the truth, good or
bad, about her.
 Kid Hero: He's protected the Earth along with the Gems since a very young age. It's
deconstructed as the story goes on, with episodes like "Mindful Education" and much
of Future showing the unresolved issues and trauma that such a character would have.
    L-M 

 Lady and Knight: The Lord to Connie's Knight.

 Lamarck Was Right: Because Steven's gem was the source of his mother's power
(and was his mother), he'll probably develop all of the powers Rose/Pink Diamond had.
  Last of His Kind: He is the last free Rose Quartz Gem. The others were all bubbled by
Pink Diamond due to his mother's rebellion. Steven would be the last Rose Quartz
Gem period if it weren't for Blue Diamond keeping the bubbled gems around as mementos of
Pink Diamond. Yellow Diamond, on the other hand, wants to shatter them and forget about
Pink Diamond. Subverted in that he's not actually a Rose Quartz at all: he's a Diamond.
 Laugh of Love: Has romantic laughs with Connie during their moments together,
including the first few times they fused.
 The Leader: Bismuth considers Steven to be the true leader of the Crystal Gems
since he was able to keep the rest of the Gems together even after they found out the truth
about Pink Diamond being Rose Quartz.
 Leitmotif: Chiptune melodies represent him throughout the series.
o In "I Am My Monster," the penultimate episode of Future, the chiptune music gets
steadily more distorted as Steven begins to lose his mind.
 Like Brother and Sister: His relationship with Amethyst. Steven is the cute little brother
who looks up to Amethyst and likes to have fun with her and Amethyst is the cool, rebellious
older sister who can be both a good and bad influence on him, but still cares about him.
Although if one considers Gems made on the same planet for a single Diamond siblings, as
Amethyst did for Jasper and the "Famethyst" in the Zoo, her and Steven actually are related
— the Rose Quartzes were apparently also made on Earth, making Amethyst the gem
equivalent of Steven's aunt. It turns out that his mother was Pink Diamond, who is the Gem
Matriarch Amethyst was made for. This means for all intents and purposes, he and Amethyst
are half-siblings.
 Like Parent, Like Child: Steven takes after both his parents in different ways.
o Like Greg, he shares an inclination for music. In the extended opening, Steven is
the one who wrote the Gems' song, and he appeared to be quite young when he did it. Also like
Greg, he is as pure a pacifist as can be, but can step up when needed.
o Like Rose, he is an All-Loving Hero and Friend to All Living Things. Rose and
Steven even have the same laugh  and their pupils both turn into stars when either gets really
happy or excited. On a darker note, both have a tendency to assume that they know what's
best for others and make choices without consulting them, causing them to be
both insensitive and condescending. Gets even more tragic in Future, when during his Sanity
Slippage, he emotionally excludes everyone around him, causes problems (shattering Jasper,
attempting to shatter White Diamond) and acts as if it never happened or it's no big deal. When
Steven finally confesses to all this, he's apalled that he got away with it for so long, just like his
mother did.
 Liminal Being: Steven is half human and half Gem, combining the abilities and needs of
both.
 Limited Wardrobe: With a few exceptions, he's always depicted wearing a pink t-shirt
with a yellow star in the middle. "Story for Steven" reveals that they are most likely from the
boxes upon boxes of unsold Mr. Universe merchandise Greg owns, as a box of identical t-
shirts can be seen in his van during the episode.
 Literal Split Personality: In "Change Your Mind", White Diamond removes his gemstone.
Instead of reverting to Rose Quartz, it forms "Pink Steven", who seems to represent his
determination and full magical potential. Pink Steven also does not seem to care about the
collateral damage of his actions, as the Crystal Gems are caught up in his shockwave as
well.
 Living Emotional Crutch: Steven functions as this to a number of characters.
o To Greg. In fact, hearing what almost happened to Steven in "Full
Disclosure" sent Greg into a near heart attack.
o To the Crystal Gems to the point of Deconstruction: it's a lot of pressure to put on
a small child. Steven is increasingly the Gems' crutch, doing all he can to help them overcome
their issues as much as possible, but he simply doesn't have the knowledge, resources or
emotional maturity to cope with that. He's looking at the people he loves struggle with
abandonment issues, self-esteem problems and grief, he knows they have these issues ("Joy
Ride" makes this perfectly clear), but the harsh truth is that he's not equipped to deal with it.
He's not a therapist; he's a child who regularly has to watch his guardians fight with themselves
and each other. Poor kid has to feel at least a little bit trapped on occasion.
o To Connie. Due to being her first friend, Connie's willing to do anything to be with
him and to help him, and it's a feeling he shares with her. Deconstructed once again in
episodes like "Sworn to the Sword", where she's willing to do too much for Steven to be
comfortable with.
o To Lapis. She sees Steven as this due to him basically being the only good thing
that's ever happened to her in the past five millennia.
o It's deconstructed in Future. After being the crutch for so many others both Gem
and human for so long, he's caught flatfooted when the issues of those who relied on him all
start getting resolved. Leaving him without anybody's issues to resolve except his own, which
he ignores and refuses to let anybody else even try to act as a crutch for him.
 Locked Out of the Loop: It's apparent the other Gems are withholding a fair amount of
relevant backstory from him, and seem reluctant to even reveal anything unless Steven
stumbles upon it by himself. The entire conflict of "Mirror Gem"/"Ocean Gem" stems from the
fact that they weren't willing to tell him the true nature of the Gem monsters they fight until
after Steven made the situation worse by releasing one in a misguided attempt to help.
Steven eventually confronts them on this, causing Garnet to admit that they're scared of what
may come. In a much less serious example, Garnet says they kept the fact that she's a
fusion secret because they wanted it to be a nice surprise for his birthday. His habit of
forgetting to ask questions (probably as a result of the Gems withholding information) leads
to him accidentally being locked out of the loop at several points.
Steven: Why do I never ask follow-up questions?!

 Love at First Sight: Downplayed. It was more like "attracted at first sight" when he first
saw Connie a year prior to the series, but he had to spend time with Connie before coming to
the conclusion he loved her.
 Love Bubbles: A literal variant with Connie (his Implied Love Interest) in "Bubble
Buddies". They spent almost the entire episode stuck in his magical bubble (thanks to Power
Incontinence) and a lot of their interactions come off as Ship Tease, especially since, in the
beginning, Steven endearingly behaves like a boy trying to talk to his crush.
 Love Makes You Dumb: Deconstructed and subtle example. Steven cares about his
friends and family and wants their happiness and safety. However, he tends to go overboard
in trying to do both, usually involving the expense of either his physical or mental health.
 Love You and Everybody: After Steven first meets Connie, Amethyst teases him
because he likes her. Steven protests that he likes everybody. Played for Laughs whenever
he casually inserts himself within Lars and Sadie's relationship, even when there arguably
isn't a relationship there in the first place.
 Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His Weapon of Choice, summoned from the gem on
his stomach. Steven starts out not knowing how to summon it, to being able to shrug off ship-
based cannons and using it offensively.
  Made of Good: If Garnet is a living embodiment of romantic love, Steven could be seen
as a living embodiment of self-love. This is emphasized in the climax of "Change Your
Mind" when Steven does a Twirl of Love with his gem self.
o In a cruel sense of irony, he loses this at the end of "Everything's Fine", when his
Sanity Slippage and self-loathing reach a breaking point, corrupt him and turn him into a pink
Kaiju-like monster. It doesn't last that long, though.
 Magical Boyfriend: Performs this role for Connie by bringing her into his magical life
away from her bored, lonely world.
 Magnetic Hero:
o Like his mother, he appears to be very charismatic, easing a raging crowd
in "Political Power" and motivating his friends and father in working out and Pearl to find
strength to fight Sugilite in "Coach Steven".
Garnet: [to Steven] But the truth is, we rely on you. Your voice inspires us, binds us, reminds us why we promised
to protect the planet. You need to be that voice. For them.

o Taken Up to Eleven when he defeats the Cluster by befriending it and convincing

its component shards to be friends with each other and staying in the planet's mantle with each
other.
 Make Me Wanna Shout: A power first seen in "Change Your Mind" with Pink Steven. He
can let out a destructive shout which can crack hard surfaces and nearly knocks the tower-
sized White Diamond off her feet. It's seen a lot more in Future, and is revealed to be a power
he inherited directly from his mother. More specifically, one Pink Diamond accidentally
traumatised Volleyball with and seemed to make an active effort to stop using out of guilt and
fear.
 Male Might, Female Finesse: While Steven's skills have become more refined, his
powers consists of super-human strength, super-human durability, and heavy hits with his
shield; Connie's strengths lies in her practiced sword technique, fast attacks, and quick
thinking.
 Manic Pixie Dream Guy: Steven is the literal magical half-Gem boy bringing excitement
to the life of bored, lonely Connie.
 Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Zig-zagged. Connie and Steven do present some type of
femininity and masculinity, respectively. However, Connie prefers to fight with a sword and
likes action/adventure; Steven prefers using his shield and has a liking towards romances.
 Mask of Sanity: Steven's habit of repressing his emotions has turned into this by Future.
He looks fine at first, but as the series goes on, his unchecked traumas bleed through and it
becomes very clear that Steven is not fine.
 Massive Numbered Siblings: In a sense; with the revelation from "A Single Pale
Rose", Steven technically has too many half-sisters to count in the form of Amethyst, Jasper,
the rest of the Famethyst, and all other Gems that were presumably made by Pink Diamond,
and he's the youngest.
 Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Steven worries that the Crystal Gems may secretly
blame him regarding the death of their leader, Steven's mother Rose Quartz. Chances are he
developed the notion after witnessing Pearl's outburst in "Rose's Scabbard" or Amethyst's
argument with Greg during "Maximum Capacity".
 Mean Character, Nice Actor: In-Universe. The lovable and happy-go-lucky Steven gets
into professional wrestling as a heel character, the rude and ruthless Rich Bastard Tiger
Millionaire.
 Meaningful Name:
o "Steven" is Greek for "that which surrounds or encompasses" —
a magnetic personality, acts as an emotional support for many, and he brings out the softer
side of characters with hard defensive shells.
o A more figurative meaning of Greek translation is "crowned". As the reincarnation
of Pink Diamond, Steven is Homeworld's equivalent to royalty.
o "Steven" is also a variation of "Stephen", the name of a Christian martyr who was
stoned to death for denouncing the Jewish authorities. Like his namesake, Steven tries to go
above and beyond to help others, often to his physical and mental detriment.
 The Medic: His spit can heal stuff. On top of that, he's the only one in the Mobile
RPG that can provide healing, either with items or encouraging words. His tears can bring
humans back to life, with powers of their own.
 Messianic Archetype: Steven bears many of the criteria for this trope. He is the son of a
human (Greg) and a transcendent otherworldly being (Rose Quartz, who is even referred to
as a "goddess" by Vidalia in one episode) who comes into his own and learn how to control
his otherworldly power, including the power to create food (grow plant life), heal the injured
(healing spit) and ultimately revive the virtuous (brings Lars back to life). He befriends and
converts followers of his celestial parent's doctrines (Peridot and Lapis Lazuli) and is willing
to sacrifice himself to his people's enemy (the Diamonds) and save his world in the process.
This is especially telling in "Three Gems and a Baby", where three ancient beings (Garnet,
Amethyst and Pearl) come bearing gifts for Steven and his weathered human parent (Greg)
in a place that is not their own (Vidalia's house) set in December. In an interesting inversion
of the trope, at the end of the fourth season, he sacrifices himself not to atone for the sins of
humanity, but for those of his "divine" parent. Taken Up to Eleven in season 5 with the reveal
that his mother was secretly Pink Diamond.
 Metaphorgotten: He has a tendency to get carried away.
"Steven's a big fat meanie!
A big fat meanie zucchini!
Let's chop it up! Chop-chop it up!
And serve it with linguini!
Al denteee! Al denteee! Al denteee! Al denteeeee!"

 The Millstone: Zigzagged. A fair portion of the episodes usually have Steven being the
cause of whatever threat the Gems are facing, usually in a well-intentioned, but misguided
attempt to help people. What keeps him from being a straight example is that Steven just as
often fixes the problems he creates. As of season 2, he appears to be slowly growing out of
this after having a better grasp on his Gem abilities.
 The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: His shapeshifting powers give him an inverted case
of this. His physical age is apparently dependent on the way he feels and behaves. He is
literally as old as he feels.
 The Mirror Shows Your True Self: It's a blink and you'll miss moment but in "An Indirect
Kiss" Steven is reflected in Amethyst's gem and instead of the five pointed star he had in his
eyes, the reflection shows the four pointed star of a diamond. This was foreshadowing his
mother's true identity as Pink Diamond.
 Morality Pet: Steven tends to bring out the best in a number of people, humans and
Gems.
o The Crystal Gems will often indulge in whatever human activity he thinks up
simply because he asks.
o He is the only one Sugilite shows a kinder side to.
o The Centipeetle will begin to calm herself if Steven is near.
o Steven is the only Crystal Gem that Lapis will listen to.
o Despite his Jerkass behavior, Onion truly values his friendship with Steven.
o Steven's kindness toward Peridot is eventually returned, making him the first
person she's expressed concern for besides herself.
o He later becomes one to his Uncle Andy, bringing the guy around to accepting
the Gems as part of the family.
o He even manages to become this to Blue and Yellow Diamond, something his
mother tried and failed to do!
o He also manages to become this to White Diamond, albeit after he makes her
realize she's not perfect.
o Becomes this to Jasper as well, and certain circumstances lead to her deeply
respecting him.
 Muggle–Mage Romance: He (a magical Half-Human Hybrid) is romantically interested in
Connie (a human).
 My God, What Have I Done?:
o After Greg is kidnapped by Blue Diamond, and Garnet arrives after the fact, he
realizes she had a very good reason for telling him not to go, and that he probably should have
listened.
o Has the reaction when he accidentally shatters Jasper during their rematch. He is
also visibly traumatized after his apparent attempt to shatter White Diamond.
    N-O 

 The Needs of the Many: Steven has spent virtually his entire life since his powers
awakened putting other people or Gems first and pushing his own wants or needs to the side
in favor of helping them. While he has been doing it for noble, selfless reasons, Steven
Universe Future shows that this has led to Steven developing pretty significant psychological
issues relating to not having developed good coping mechanisms or learning that sometimes
it's okay to focus on himself.
 Never My Fault: Zigzagged. Usually Steven takes responsibility for his actions, but later
he tends to believe that whatever bad things his mother did are also his fault. However, there
are times when he tends to view the actions of others as a complete mystery even though he
was partly responsible for it (i.e., being genuinely shocked at Navy's betrayal even though he
and the others continuously tricked her and her team).
 New Superpower: Many episodes deal with Steven trying to deal with the emergence of
powers he inherited from his mom, and gradually mastering them as the show progresses.
 Nice Guy: Steven is an amicable, outgoing, and carefree boy with a happy-go-lucky
attitude that is appreciated by many of the citizens of Beach City in one way or another.
Steven is also very kindhearted and compassionate, something which Pearl notes he has
inherited from his mother, and he deeply loves his friends and family. He is friendly toward
almost everyone he meets, rarely holds grudges, and is very non-discriminatory, never
treating anyone with prejudice. No matter the situation, Steven will always go out of his way
to support his loved ones, even if it means putting his life on the line, and he will avoid
resorting to violence. He's one of the nicest guys in cartoon history.
 Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: In earlier seasons, it was usually his fault whenever
something went wrong. However, he's matured more since then and now it's usually his
mother's fault when something goes wrong.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Of the Gems who took on the "Pink Diamond" role on
Homeworld, Steven (nice) is an All-Loving Hero who is kind to everyone and accepts others
 no matter what, Pink/Rose (in-between), despite being a Benevolent Boss who seeks to
protect Earth and the Crystal Gems, can be insensitive towards the feelings of others and
has a tendency to make careless decisions, and Spinel (mean) is the Ax-Crazy Big Bad who
wants to destroy Earth as a result of being abandoned by Pink and having Gone Mad From
The Isolation.
 No Indoor Voice: He tends to be pretty shouty from time to time.
 No-Neck Chump: He is short and pudgy enough to be drawn with no neck most of the
time. In "So Many Birthdays", Steven is subject to Rapid Aging that makes him gain a visible
neck as a teen, then lose it again as he reaches middle age. The former ends up carrying on
when he's actually turned sixteen by Steven Universe: The Movie. This was even lampshaded
by Amethyst in "Steven's Birthday" after he used shapeshifting to pretend he got taller:
Amethyst: Dude, your neck!
Steven: Oh, uh, what about it?
Amethyst: You have one!

 Non-Indicative Name: Steven's middle name is Quartz, owing to his mom's Race Name

Basis culture, but he's actually a Diamond.
 No-Sell: As seen in "The Return"/"Jail Break", Homeworld Gems have access to
weapons and force fields that can instantly disrupt other Gems, leaving them without a body
for hours... but since Steven has an organic body rather than a construct, they don't do much
more than make him feel strange.
 No Sense of Personal Space: Steven tends to get be rather "touchy-feely" with others.
 No Social Skills: Zigzagged. Steven is the only member of the Gems that knows how to
function in human society and often guides the others in how to do so, but he is clueless
about personal relationships beyond friendship, such as his being a Moment Killer in "Island
Adventure". He outright says that it's a result of his upbringing.
 Not Allowed to Grow Up: Steven used to age normally until he turned eight and he's
been stuck there for six years. However, on his fourteenth birthday he finally finds one sign
he's still aging (a single facial hair), and finally looks older by the time he's sixteen in the
movie.
 Not Growing Up Sucks: Discussed and dealt with in "Steven's Birthday". After it's pointed
out that Steven hasn't changed at all since entering adolescence, Steven tries to use his
magic to "stretch" his body and make him look like he's grown. When confronted by the
others about it, Steven worries that he'll look like this forever, staying a kid while watching
Connie grow up. After a little mishap with his powers forced him to revert back to a baby
against his will, he eventually returns to normal, but discovers there is hope for him yet — his
first facial hair came in. Though "So Many Birthdays" shows that Steven's physical age is at
least partly connected to his emotional age, and that he is not growing up physically because
he still has the mind of a child. In this episode, he grows old rapidly when he feels old. It's
possible that this may have a bearing on his life expectancy, potentially even rendering
him immortal.
 Not Quite Flight: "Steven Floats" explains that Rose Quartz had the ability to jump
extremely high, and then control how fast she came down, and as could be guessed, Steven
discovers this power as well. It apparently evolves into pure Flight in Future.
 Not So Above It All: One that is more serious than most. Steven is genuinely sweet and
friendly person, but he does have moments of being insensitive, immature, impatient, and
having a dangerous mindset that he knows what's best for others to keep them happy and
safe.
  Not So Different: After he pretty much succumbs to his vengeful thoughts pertaining to
White Diamond, he asks Spinel how she got over her vengeful thoughts.
 Odd Name Out: For the record he's replacing his mother, Rose Quartz; incidentally
"Quartz" is his middle name. He's also the only Diamond without the word Diamond
anywhere in the title, but he later adds "Diamond" to his middle name.
 Official Couple: By the end of Steven Universe Future, he's become this with Connie; to the
point where they plan to marry each other later in life.
 Older Than He Looks: Steven looks and largely behaves like a curious, excited child, so
Connie does a Spit Take upon learning Steven is actually fourteen, and therefore a little over
a year older than her. It turns out that Steven's half-Gem nature has been impeding his
growth since entering adolescence. Greg's photo album shows Steven's appearance has
barely aged since he was eight.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Steven is a cheerful, optimistic, boy who rarely gets angry
at anyone and tries to see the best in those he meets. So, if he drops any of the above, it's a
sign that something has gone very wrong.
o In "Lars and the Cool Kids", Steven gets angry for the first time on-screen. He
proceeds to call Lars, who Steven is usually nice to, a jerk after the latter called his mom
"weird". Even Lars was shocked by this.
o He spends most of "Warp Tour" extremely irritated because of a possible threat
about to happen. Part of it is from sleep deprivation and the other part is from the Crystal Gems
being condescending to him. He even gets into a fight with Pearl, the one who acts like a
mother to him the most.
o Steven goes through a major emotional uproar in "Full Disclosure" — having to
face how the Homeworld Gems are a real threat almost made him cut ties with every human he
knows, including his father and Connie. Thankfully, that didn't happen.
o When Ruby and Sapphire's bad mood ruin the road trip in "Keystone Motel",
Steven gets angry — really angry. It snaps them out of it immediately, more concerned for
Steven's state of mind than arguing.
o "It Could've Been Great" has Steven almost as furious over Peridot insulting
Rose as the Gems are. When Steven is pissed off by what you've done, you know you've
screwed up royally.
o Steven looks legitimately pissed when he locks Peridot in the truck and
interrogates her about the diamond communicator she took from the moon base in "Message
Received".
o Steven, unusually for him, shows no desire to befriend Marty in "Drop Beat Dad",
largely since he remembers his dad's story about him. He's still willing to be civil though.
o Upon seeing Kevin again for the first time since "Alone Together", his first
reaction is a vicious snarl, and Greg gets taken aback when Steven declares
actual hatred towards Kevin.
o In "Steven's Dream", Steven gets so upset at Garnet and Pearl for keeping more
secrets from him regarding Pink Diamond that he starts yelling at them.
o In "Kevin Party", he and Connie both realize they're really desperate to see each
other if they're willing to come to Kevin's party to do so.
o The biggest example of this happens in "Fragments", where Steven's training
causes him to lose his All-Loving Hero traits and become unhinged and violent. It eventually
results in him shattering Jasper.
 Opposites Attract: Steven (outgoing, rash, and confident) has a mutual crush on Connie
(shy, rational, and doubts herself).
  Orc Raised by Elves: It is revealed that his mother was actually Pink Diamond, the White
Sheep of the Galactic Conquering Diamond Authority, Steven himself being raised by Gems
who have rebelled against Homeworld's oppressive empire.
 Outside-Context Problem: Steven's the first known Half-Human Hybrid in the series,
making the extent of his abilities a mystery even to himself.
 Overly Long Name: "Together Forever" has him announce that his full name is Steven
Quartz Cutie Pie DeMayo Diamond Universe.
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 Personality Powers: Steven's powers thus far have mostly been protective or healing in
nature, which is very fitting for a sweet and caring Nice Guy like him.
 Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Inverted. Steven's associated colors are pink, while Connie's
associated colors are blue (specifically, teal).
 Pink Means Feminine: Steven inherited his mother's pink gem, so he has a collection of
pink powers despite being The One Guy of the whole Gem species. He doesn't seem to
mind. Steven does have a number of stereotypically feminine qualities but isn't overtly
effeminate.
 Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In the beginning of the show, he's much weaker than Garnet,
Amethyst or Pearl, but the little guy's strong enough to activate a car's airbag just
by punching it. He's also been shown lifting a road case twice his height when stood on one
end that took two grown men (and roadies at that, a job in which being strong is a
requirement due to moving heavy equipment for the band) to carry.
o "Steven vs. Amethyst" shows just how much he has has grown since the start of
the show. In this episode, he not only does better than Amethyst in every training routine, but
also has an all-out duel with her, which ends in a draw. During the duel, Amethyst uses her
whip to drop Steven to the ground with so much force that it creates a crater in the stone floor
of the ruins, burying him under the rocks. He still manages to get up, throwing away a rock
bigger than himself and nearly hitting Amethyst in the process.
Amethyst: See?! I dropped you from the sky, but you almost just won, using a rock!

o If that's not enough indication, in "Bismuth", he manages to defeat the titular

character, a powerful Gem herself that is able to fight the other Crystal Gems on an even
footing, by himself despite the fact that she was genuinely trying to kill him and he was holding
back because he didn't want to fight her.
o In "Lars' Head", Steven manages to fairly effortlessly move a huge boulder
several feet that several Gems — one a fusion of two and the others Conjoined Twins — could
hardly even budge altogether.
o Justified, as he's actually the son/reincarnation of Pink Diamond.
o Even during Future where he is now a proper teenager who can drive, he's still
shorter than most of the other adults in the story.
 Plot-Relevant Age-Up: He uses his Gem powers in "Steven's Birthday" to look the part
for being 14 years old, but this backfires horribly, as Amethyst warned him that stretching his
body (or rather aging as he also changed his voice) for a long period of time has
consequences. Said consequence is regressing him to his baby appearance, and after a
while he turns back to normal.
 The Pollyanna: Despite some of emotional problems of the other Crystal Gems that he
has to deal with (including the belief he has about them blaming him for Rose's "death") and
some issues he himself needs to work out, Steven is continually optimistic and hopeful. He
 becomes moodier in the movie and especially Future, ironically as he no longer has to solve
other people's problems.
 Positive Friend Influence: There's almost nobody in Beach City whose life hasn't gotten
better by befriending Steven. He gets Connie out of her shell and she grows more confident
in herself, helps Amethyst through her self-esteem issues which leads to their fusion into
Smoky Quartz, is a great emotional support to Pearl's PTSD, helps Kiki to be open to her
sister about the things she is and isn't willing to do for her, helps Sour Cream and Buck to
deal with their Daddy Issues and so on.
 Power Glows: When using his super mode in Future his entire body glows bright pink.
 Power Incontinence: The first time he activates one of his powers, he often has trouble
turning it off, like when he grows multiple cat heads on his body in an attempt to shapeshift
into a cat. When fretting about his age, Steven's shapeshifting kicks in and causes Rapid
Aging. In "Alone Together", he fuses for the first time by accident. In "Bubble Buddies", he
summons his bubble force field for the first time and is unable to dismiss it, while in "Steven
Floats" his slow-falling ability leaves him trapped in midair.
o While he's learned greater control over the Time Skip prior to The Movie, Spinel's
rejuvenator basically sends him back to where he was at the start of the series, and he has to
find his "pieces" to regain control.
 Primary-Color Champion: Played with; he's got blue jeans and a yellow star on his shirt,
but his shirt, sandals, and weapon are pink, a color he inherited from his mother.
 Prone to Tears: Apparently can't cry on command, but tears up easily:
Steven: I guess I'm just too tough to cry.
Pearl: Just this morning you were crying about snakes.
Steven: [in tears, whimpering] They don't have any arms!

 Protagonist Title: His first and last name are the title of the show.
 Psychic Powers: While Steven is unconscious, he is able to project his mind onto a
mental plane where he can connect to the minds of others, letting him communicate with
them, enter their dreams, or take over their bodies (though the last is only shown working on
Watermelon Steven and humans, the latter of which requires the subject to be asleep). To a
lesser extent, he's The Empath even when he's awake. "Reunited" implies that these abilities
come from his Diamond heritage, as Yellow and Blue are able to recognize him as Pink from
his psychic aura.
 Psychoactive Powers: Steven's power tends to hinge on The Power of Love. Every time
he's used it successfully, it's been in the defense or service of someone he cares for or loves.
But since "House Guest", he is also concerned that his self confidence affects his abilities as
well. His newly gained floating powers are controlled by yet another aspect of his emotional
balance; he's able to speed up his descent with sad thoughts, and slow himself down by
thinking about things that make him happy, like the Crystal Gems.
 Punch Catch: Catches Jasper's punch during their fight in the first episode of Future, she
compliments him on it.
 Pungeon Master: Steven loves to make his awful puns.
 Puppy-Dog Eyes: Steven is the master of these, often making these when trying to
convince the gems to let him do something.
Garnet: I can't say no to that face.

 Puppy Love: With Connie; they're close friends (given that they're both early-pubescent),
and they trust and care about each other a lot. In "Steven's Birthday" he reveals that he
 expects to marry Connie when they both grow up (and that he expects her to become the
President).
 Quirky Curls: He has curly, dark brown hair and is quite the energetic one.
 Quirky Ukulele: Steven is a quirky, slightly feminine boy who lives with his magical
guardians, the Crystal Gems. A ukulele is his signature instrument, and most of the songs he
composes In-Universe are played with one. However, by Future he's switched to acoustic
guitar, and he ends up giving his ukulele away to Pearl.
 Raised as a Host: Rose Quartz died passing on her Heart Drive to her son, Steven,
which makes most Gems think they're the same person. White Diamond, in particular,
proclaims that Rose created Steven not to be her son and his own person, but as an organic
vessel for her to hide from her old life. In fact, this has been a concern for Steven himself.
However, Rose's video states otherwise, noting that while she will always live on in Steven,
he's his own person. Said subversion is proven true when White pulls out Pink's gem. While it
initially makes Pink's form, it then goes to Rose's and then Steven's form. It solidifies to
become Pink Steven, who shouts that Pink Diamond is gone.
 Raised by Dudes: Inverted. While his father is in his life, Steven lives with and is
primarily raised by the Crystal Gems, members of an alien race who are femme presenting.
Played straight when Steven was a baby.
 Rapid Aging: Steven can cause this on himself with his Gem powers. This is because his
physical age is controlled by his state of mind. Thus, he is literally only as young as he feels.
Steven's lack of aging is noticed and discussed between Greg and Connie in "Steven's
Birthday", where Greg notices he hasn't changed at all ever since entering adolescence while
looking through a photo album. Steven's physical age isn't completely controlled by his state
of mind though, as there are other factors, such as "magically stretching" his body, that can
force him to change against his will.
 Rare Male Example: He is a boy on a team of Magical Girl Warriors, and follows
more traditional Magical Girl tropes than any of them (All-Loving Hero, Friend to All Living
Things, healing powers, pink magic, etc.).
 Really Royalty Reveal: Turns out to be the son of Pink Diamond, the fourth member of
the Diamond Authority and Gem royalty. Because he has her gem, that makes him the new
Pink Diamond.
 Real Men Wear Pink: He truly fits this trope in "Fragments", where he trains seriously
with Jasper and gains a new form that incorporates a lot of muscle, all while
his incredible power and skin tone retains its pink coloring.
 Rebel Prince: As a reincarnation of Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond, he is essentially Gem
royalty, and yet is opposed to Homeworld.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni:
o Steven is goofy, outgoing, and wears a pinkish-red shirt, while his best friend
Connie is more quiet, intellectual, and wears blue in the first intro and several episodes (for
example, "Alone Together").
o The Blue to Spinel's Red. Spinel is very open about her feelings and trauma, in
addition to being Ax-Crazy, while Steven is calmer than her and tries to talk her down. Fittingly,
Steven wears a blue shirt, and Spinel has a reddish coloring.
 Reincarnation: "Lion 3: Direct to Video" reveals that his birth involved his
mother's gem becoming part of his body. He could be considered both Rose Quartz's son
and reincarnation.
 Relationship Upgrade: He and Connie start off as friends in the first season and slowly
transition into best friend territory. It's unclear on when they became an Official Couple but
there were moments that showed that both of them had romantic interest in each other as far
 back as season 1. Steven proposed to her in Future but Connie states that while she wants to
marry him, it's not the right time to. By the series finale, they share their first on-screen kiss
and are planning to visit each other regularly.
 Replacement Goldfish: It's implied that Pearl sees him as some sort of replacement for
Rose, which possibly fueled Steven's beliefs that the Crystal Gems resent him for Rose not
existing anymore. It's unclear if the others see him this way. In "Diamond Days", the
Diamonds essentially do the same thing by forcing Steven to fill his mother's role and
constantly referring to him as "Pink" despite his obvious discomfort. In this case, though,
they literally believe him to be the same person until he proves otherwise. By Steven Universe:
The Movie, they accept he's his own person, but still want him around because of how much
he reminds them of Pink — even if Steven finds them kind of annoying.
 Rescue Romance: With Connie. They have mutual crushes on each other, protect one
another from danger, and their relationship started after Steven saved her from falling
boulders.
 The Resenter: In "Prickly Pair", as Steven tells Cactus Steven, he doesn't want to vent
his problems to the Gems because he feels like they'll either react poorly and/or in a way
that'll irritate him; he feels like Pearl will fall apart leaving him to pick up the pieces, Garnet
will once again demonstrate patronizing wisdom by having all the answers and Amethyst will
smugly demonstrate her maturity by actually helping.
 The Roadie: His father having been a rock star, one of Steven's secret dream jobs is to
be a roadie, and he gets to live out that dream for Sour Cream's rave in "Drop Beat Dad".
While he is capable of lifting a box that would require two adults to carry, he forgets to do a
proper mic-check.
 Royal Blood: As the son of Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond, he is the second generation of
the Diamonds, (yet ironically he is the only one with blood.)
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 Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: In Steven Universe: Future, there are various
episodes showcasing that Steven suffers from anxiety brought on by his fantastical life
and Samaritan Syndrome, struggling to function in peace-time when he is so used to fixing
everybody else's problems.
o In "Snow Day", his responsibilities with Little Homeworld have turned him into
a Workaholic and refuses to spend leisure time with the Gems like they used to because he
doesn't want to be seen as a little kid anymore.
o In "In Dreams", he admits to having forgotten how to be a friend without the
excuse of a crisis to fix.
o In "Bismuth Casual", Steven fears he can no longer relate with regular humans,
completely flopping in his first impression with Connie's human friends due to his unorthodox
family and having never attended human school.
 Samaritan Syndrome: Deconstructed. Steven is so used to helping other and solving
their problems that it has become a part of his identity. So, when he fails to get through to
someone, he will be devastated. Future takes this trope to its logical conclusion. Steven has
spent the entire series helping people with their problems with little care or concern for his
own well-being. By the time of Future, everyone's lives have improved to the point that they
no longer need his help and have moved on. This leaves Steven with a crippling sense of
loneliness and purposelessness. Furthermore, his powers are growing to respond to
his negative emotions as well, meaning that there's a chance he could accidentally hurt
people. This makes him feel even worse and leads to him further bottling up his emotions and
problems. He has no healthy way of expressing himself out of fear of his power and he does
not have anyone he feels he can relate to for this for a variety of reasons.
  Sanity Slippage: Steven slowly suffers from this trope throughout Future.
o Beginning with "Little Homeschool", we are shown that Steven has an unhealthy
amount of repressed anger, resulting in him getting a new power where he turns pink and gains
violent tendencies whenever he's angry. This trend continues throughout the series. Steven
also seems to have an unhealthy obsession with helping people, which comes back to bite him
later.
o In "Rose Buds" and "Volleyball", Steven is shown to be experiencing repressed
trauma related to the whole Pink Diamond/Rose thing and all the horrible things she did, which
seems to be the other major trigger for Pink Steven mode. As usual, Steven bottles up his
feelings.
o In "A Very Special Episode", Steven runs himself ragged trying to help multiple
people at the same time, eventually collapsing from exhaustion. Unlike the other examples on
this page, it's Played for Laughs, and it's ambiguous how much of this episode is even canon
anyway.
o In "Snow Day", it's revealed Steven has a constantly-busy schedule and refuses
to ever take a day off.
Amethyst: Man, you had a better work-life balance when the Diamonds were trying to destroy the planet.
o Steven's sanity takes a nosedive in "Little Graduation". He discovers that Sadie
has broken up with Lars and is now dating a person named Shep, the Suspects split up and
Sadie is performing alongside Shep, and that Lars and the Off Colors are going into space after
the graduation. Steven has a nasty mental breakdown over all of this, and accidentally uses his
powers to trap everyone in a dome. The cherry on the cake is that Steven projects his issues
onto Lars instead of admitting that he's the one who needs help. No wonder he leaves Little
Homeschool, which makes it worse as he now feels that he has no purpose anymore.
o In the next episode, which is an even bigger Wham Episode, Steven has taken
up gardening, except he named all his plants after people he knows and talks to them, even
stating that the flower named Lars is stuck in the ground and can't run off into space. This
is Played for Laughs, but the rest of the episode is not. Steven's pet cactus gets used as an
emotional punching bag for Steven to vent his bottled-up feelings on. This comes back to bite
him when the cactus learns to talk and starts repeating the things that Steven's said about the
gems... right in front of them. This causes Steven to get mad at and abuse the cactus, who
does not take it well and attacks him, mutating into a botanical monstrosity. At the end of the
episode, Steven learns that he shouldn't talk about his problems at all. The most heartbreaking
part is that the gems know something is wrong and keep reaching out to Steven, but he rejects
their help because he feels like he can't talk to them.
Pearl: Is there anything you need to talk about?

Steven: I think I've said enough.

o In "Growing Pains", Priyanka makes a diagnosis that Steven has been through
so many high-stress situations (both physically and psychologically) at such a young age, that
his body chemistry reacts in a manner disproportionate to the stimulant. Simply put, the
relatively minor Era 3 problems that he has been facing (his friends leaving to bigger and better
things, Connie turning down his proposal, etc.) feel like the life-or-death scenarios of Era 2 to
him, giving him anxiety attacks that manifest as Power Incontinence.
o It eventually hits a point where he begins to put others in danger starting with
"Mr. Universe", crashing Greg's van after giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for
never giving him a proper childhood.
o In "Fragments", Steven seeks out Jasper and trains with her to control his
powers in order to prevent them from causing any harm, but Jasper proves to be a bad
 influence on him, with him getting progressively more and more unrestrained to the point where
his All-Loving Hero traits completely disappear. His rematch with Jasper then ends with
him shattering her, though he's able to revive her later on.
o In "Homeworld Bound", it only gets worse. After realizing that White Diamond
was the source for all his problems and trauma, Steven attempts to shatter her by using White's
puppet powers to force her head against a pillar. Afterwards, he begins to go under a
transfomation similar to the one he went through in "Fragments", but with his hair starting to
resemble Pink's.
o In "Everything's Fine", Steven desperately denies that there's a problem and tries
to act like his old helpful self, only to end up breaking Little Homeschool. It comes to a head
when the Gems, Greg, and Connie finally get him to talk and he spills everything
about shattering Jasper and trying to shatter White Diamond until he finally breaks down and
calls himself a fraud and a monster before transforming into one.
 Sanity Strengthening: After the events of "I Am My Monster", Steven gradually becomes
mentally well once more, and in "The Future", he even mentions seeing and talking to an
actual therapist.
 Save the Villain: While Steven is able to successfully help other Gems (i.e., Peridot), that
also means that there are others who simply don't want his help for a variety of reasons, but
due to his All-Loving Hero nature, he becomes distraught over the idea of not successfully
helping out someone.
 Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Gender Inverted, as Steven tends to play the "energetic guy"
with Garnet, Pearl, Sadie, Connie, or Lapis as the "savvy girl".
 Say My Name: A consistent receiving to this trope , to the point of being a Phrase
Catcher.
 Secret Handshake: Sorta, with Lars. Instead of high-fiving, they high-five each other's

chest. It's not as  Ho Yay as you might think.

 Seeing Through Another's Eyes: His empathy is so powerful that he was able to see and
experience what Blue Diamond is going through, despite her being on the other side of the
Earth.
 Semantic Superpower: His "healing" spit is extremely versatile, being able to improve
another's vision, restore broken bones, fix cracked gems (thus healing Gems), and fix broken
objects.
 Semi-Divine: The Diamonds are treated as gods by the other Gems, and it's revealed
Rose was Pink Diamond, which essentially makes Steven the Gem equivalent of a demigod.
 Sensitive Guy and Manly Man:
o The Sensitive Guy (openly emotional, friendly All-Loving Hero) to Lars' Manly
Man (rude, abrasive Grumpy Bear).
 Becomes a Downplayed Trope in Steven Universe: Future, as while Steven
is still an Adorkable All-Loving Hero and Lars retains his Deadpan Snarker tendencies, Lars has
now Took a Level in Kindness and is more open to talking about his feelings, whereas Steven
became more stressed and emotionally unstable. This results in their usual roles
getting reversed in "Little Graduation", with Lars helping Steven with his emotional issues.
o In Future, he becomes the Manly Man to Greg's (as in, his own father) Sensitive
Guy. Steven becomes more aggressive with his newfound powers and temper issues, while
Greg always remains his emotional, encouraging Good Parent.
 Shared Family Quirks: Compassion runs in Steven's family, and as mentioned above, he
got it from both his father Greg, and his deceased mother Rose. In regards to Rose, he has
the tendency to get starry-eyed when excited and/or happy, and go out of his way to help
people in need. And like Rose, who is actually Pink Diamond, Steven struggled to fulfill his
family's expectations of him, which went to tragic extremes in Pink's case when she was
alive.
 Shell-Shocked Veteran: Jasper and Peridot really did a number on Steven's emotional
health. That's not counting his encounters with Bismuth, Eyeball, Aquamarine, Spinel, and
the other Diamonds (especially White). This becomes majorly apparent in Future as his
character arc involves being unable to properly live a normal life now that the battle is finally
over.
 Shipper on Deck:
o He doesn't only wish Lars and Sadie was romantically involved, he once
assumed they were married already. This gets deconstructed as it inspires very invasive efforts
to get them together, and Steven gets far more upset than either of them when they ultimately
don't, but he does eventually accept it.
o After learning that Garnet is a fusion between Ruby and Sapphire, Steven wants
to know more and more about them and tried to help some relationship problems they were
having.
o He also encourages Pearl to go talk to Mystery Girl a.k.a. "S".
o Implied with Pearl and Pink Pearl/Volleyball, as he smiles and gets teary-eyed
when Mega Pearl, their fusion, mentions that now they have each other.
 Ship Tease: With Connie. They have many romantic-like moments together and a lot of
people ship them.
 Significant Birth Date: Steven's birthday is on August 15th, which is the same day when
Rebecca Sugar's brother was born.
 Significant Wardrobe Shift: He normally wears a pink shirt with a star, which was left
over from his dad's music days and also signifies he is a Crystal Gem. In the "Diamond Days"
arc, he has to switch to Pink Diamond's outfit while fulfilling her duties. While he doesn't
seem to mind, it's unnerving that the Diamonds expect him to be the same family member
who can fit into the social cog, when Pink rebelled to escape that role. His shift back to his
usual outfit in the four-part arc finale is also significant in itself, as it shows Steven is done
trying to play by Homeworld's rules.
 Single-Target Sexuality: Steven has never shown any romantic interest in anyone but
Connie. Evidence includes no past mentions from or others of having a past crushes on
anyone, a downplayed Love at First Sight towards Connie, and Garnet mentioning she hasn't
seen a future where Steven did not propose to Connie.
 Sins of Our Fathers: One of Steven's biggest conflicts is him having to deal with the
unexpected fallout of his mother's decisions. She was the leader of a rebel faction who had to
make difficult decisions, many under circumstances beyond her control, to get what she
wanted and she made plenty of mistakes. Becomes more emphasized when Steven learns
his mother, Rose Quartz, was Pink Diamond and more about what led up to her
decisions. As such, Steven grows more disillusioned with his mother as time passes and he
has to deal with her enemies who, because of their lack of understanding on what Steven is,
pass the buck onto him. While he loves his mother, Steven seems to be frustrated about his
 mother's mistakes, even if he does grow more understanding of her. This is especially true in
the Diamond Days arc, as he's treated the same as Pink Diamond was by the other
Diamonds, which means he is unable to make meaningful impact as an Internal
Reformist and has to resort to violence to get out. He even notes that he gets what his mom
went through.
 Skilled, but Naïve: While Steven becomes more competent and is Wise Beyond His
Years, he still has an overly idealistic mindset that sometimes causes more trouble than
good.
 Smarter Than You Look: As out there as his behavior may be, the plans he comes up
with often involve inventive, outside the box thinking that the other Gems can't necessarily
replicate. It's implied, especially in "The Test", that Gems underestimate Steven's abilities
and intelligence. Whenever he learns some new tidbit of the Awful Truth, there seem to be
subtle hints that he has better understanding of what is hidden from him than the other
Crystal Gems give him credit for, and he's also good at understanding why some secrets are
kept.
 So What Do We Do Now?: The entirety of Future offers a deconstruction of Steven's life
so far by slotting Steven in a world where intergalactic peace is ensured, he no longer has to
face danger at every corner and can finally think about himself... something he's never
even considered doing in the first place in the span of 5 seasons and a movie. This causes his
brain, once trained on Chronic Hero Syndrome steroids, to suddenly be hit hard by every
single traumatic experience that has happened in his life in the span of 4 years tops and
make him experience severe PTSD manifested as Power Incontinence, where every instance
of stress, no matter how minor, will send him into a frenzy, while simultaneously being
incapable of dealing with a reality where he doesn't have to be everyone's savior
anymore. Ultimately by the end of the series, Steven does get the help that he needs, and
also figures out what to do with himself- leave Beach City on a cross-country tour. Of course
his friends and family will still always be there for him when he needs it.
 Spanner in the Works:
o The Homeworld Gems did not count on Steven's existence, and one of them put
their plans on hold to figure out exactly what he is. They also didn't see his ability to No-
Sell their disruptors coming.
o Peridot wasn't expecting him to grab onto her leg while she tried to get away
in "Friend Ship".
o Had he not shown kindness to Peridot, the Crystal Gems would have never
learned about Yellow Diamond's plan to use the Cluster to destroy the Earth. Her
eventual Heel–Face Turn as a result is an even bigger blow to it, as she chooses to help save
Earth when she could have gotten a ride back home and ultimately is crucial to defeating the
Cluster.
o His Telepathy proved to be the killing blow to Yellow Diamond's five-thousand-
year-long Long Game with the Cluster, as he manages to convince it to bubble itself as a result.
 The Spook: Steven's medical form in "Growing Pains" lists his social security number as
"N/A", implying his birth was undocumented. He presumably still has a driver's license,
though.
 Starring Smurfette: Steven is the youngest of the team and the main protagonist, the
only male member of the team (unless one counts Lion), and the only male Gem (and only
Gem with an actual sex) ever to exist.
 Stepford Smiler: "Mindful Education" reveals that Steven has started slipping into this
trope when his Fusion with Connie reveals he's begun hiding large amounts of guilt and
uncertainty over recent events behind his smile and jokey demeanor. This gets worse as the
 series goes on, and especially during Future, where he basically can no longer hide his
problems behind a smile, and ultimately breaks down.
 Stock Shōnen Hero: Steven is something of a Shoujo-esque take on the archetype. He's
an excitable Large Ham All-Loving Hero who wears his heart on his sleeve, tends to act
without thinking, extends a kind hand to anyone, and cherishes his family and friends above
all else. That said, his energy is more Keet than Hot-Blooded, he's In Touch with His
Feminine Side, and is also The Heart who prefers to make friends with his enemies rather
than fight them, which works since the series places a lot of emphasis on love and
understanding.
 Stock Shoujo Heroine: Steven is a Rare Male Example between this and a Stock
Shōnen Hero. He's an excitable boy who is In Touch with His Feminine Side and is an All-
Loving Hero. He also has a pink color motif that he inherited from his deceased mother.
 Stone Wall: Steven's shields have shown incredible durability, enough to withstand even
the strongest of Gem weaponry, but he initially had no offensive powers. Eventually though,
he finds various offensive uses for his bubble, starts using his shields as projectiles, and gets
strong and skilled enough to effectively fight unarmed. In Future, he discovers some outright
destructive powers. Although the movie shows Steven may still choose to fight completely
defensively, in which case he's damn near impregnable.
 Stout Strength: A Big Fun kid who possesses superhuman strength.
 Strong and Skilled: After Steven's powers really start to develop, Connie's
apprenticeship inspires him to learn to use them effectively. By the third season, he's found
highly dexterous means to defend and attack with his shields (both by himself and in concert
with Connie), and can beat a seasoned warrior like Bismuth with relatively little use of his
powers. By the movie, he's easily more powerful than any of the other Crystal Gems, but can
effectively defend himself against Spinel's onslaught essentially just going hand-to-hand.
 Strong Family Resemblance: Steven strongly resemblance his father, to the point Vidalia
even says he looks just like he did. In "So Many Birthdays", he's temporarily turned into an
adult, making his physical resemblance to his father painfully obvious. Heck, the
resemblance is much more noticable when seeing Greg as a younger man in flashbacks.
 Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Zigzagged with Connie. Steven is very mature for his age, but
has a tendency to make rash decisions unlike the level-headed Connie; plus, both
are prodigies. And while he may be physically stronger than her, she's the more aggressive
of the two.
 Super Mode: Gains one in Future that causes him to glow bright pink (reminiscent of
Pink Steven), giving him enough power to curbstomp Jasper. This mode also works on his
Fusion forms, and with different powers to boot, as evidenced by Smoky Quartz gaining
super speed. Deconstructed in the second half of Future when we discover that this pink
mode is the result of Steven suffering from PTSD due to all of the traumatic things that have
happened to him throughout the series, which has negatively affected his body's ability to
properly handle stress. Because of this, his body now reacts to any kind of stressful situation
as if his life were in danger, activating pink mode. To make things worse, since this mode
responds to Steven's negative emotions, it becomes more unstable as his mental state
deteriorates; and because Steven hasn't mentally healed from all the trauma, he has no
ability to stop it.
 Superior Successor: While not there yet, there's some indication his abilities may
ultimately surpass Rose's once fully mastered. He has shown on occasions to develop
powers she never had on top of hers. He's already surpassed her at healing Corrupted Gems,
as he's succeeded in getting much further than she ever did with Centipeetle. Bismuth already
considers him morally better than Rose for being willing to reveal the Awful Truth about her
 when Rose couldn't. That's on top of, due to his half-gem heritage, him being able to fuse
with Connie while Greg (being a full human) failed to fuse with Rose.
o In "Change Your Mind", the full extent of Steven's potential is seen when White
Diamond forcibly removes his Gem. Gem!Steven is capable of not only shrugging off
White's People Puppet blasts with little effort, he can take a full powered blast from White, the
other Diamonds, and the mind-controlled Crystal Gems at the same time. His battle aura alone is
able to crack White's chamber and bring the Empress of Homeworld to her knees.
o Come The Movie and he's managed to do what his mother never could: reform
the Gem Empire and liberate everyone. He's also able to fuse with his dad to become Steg.
 Super Spit: Rose Quartz could heal people with her tears. Steven has the same ability,
but with his spit.
 Super-Strong Child: Being half-Quartz Gem, Steven is significantly stronger than a boy
his age should be. He effortlessly catches Amethyst and manages to keep Lars from being
crushed; he is able to offset the imbalance of the laws of physics inside the Gem palace with
little difficulty, including hugging onto a pillar that drops into a Bottomless Pit while one of his
hands is still holding a plate of waffles; and he's able to effortlessly rappel up a wall once he
gains his footing, even with an exceptionally powerful gravitational force trying to suck him
down. Being half-Diamond explains this even better.
o In "The Return", he hits the dash on Greg's van hard enough to set off the airbag.
o In "Joy Ride", he picks up Jenny Pizza and moves her away from Peridot's pod.
o In "Nightmare Hospital", he is able to hold back a 7-foot-tall Gem Mutant with
nothing more than his shield and effortlessly fling Connie through the air as they fight.
o When acting as Sour Cream's roadie in "Drop Beat Dad", he is able to lift a heavy
box with one hand and little-to-no apparent effort, while Sour Cream himself can barely lift it
with both hands. He later single-handedly moves a road case twice his height that required two
adults to carry with little effort, causing a shocked Marty to ask "What's [Greg] feeding that
kid!?"
o In "Bismuth", he is slammed into a wall by a large, heavy metal statue thrown by
Bismuth, and is able not only to withstand the blow with no serious injury, but is also able to lift
the statue and hurl it back at the Gem.
o In "Tiger Philanthropist", after Amethyst quits their tag-team wrestling duo,
Steven keeps fighting adult tag-team wrestlers solo. And wins constantly. (Though by the end of
the episode, he deliberately throws his final match.)
o By the time of the movie, a 16-year-old Steven is strong enough that even with
his powers crippled, he manages to lift Spinel's massive injector off the ground.
 Super Toughness: A large rock to his face doesn't do more than scratch him. Steven has
apparently never needed to go to a hospital and can withstand the weight of a fishing boat on
his chest with no apparent distress. Being slammed from a great height into the ground hard
enough to make a sizable crater in solid rock by Amethyst harms him, but he's able to walk it
off. The only time he gets visibly injured is when another Gem attacks him without holding
back. "Growing Pains" shows Steven has gotten plenty of non-visible injuries he rapidly
recovered from, but he certainly must have been less damaged than a regular human would
be.
 Superpowered Evil Side: In "I Am My Monster", Steven's rage and self-hatred come to a
boil and he transforms into a giant, corrupted monster. While mindless, in this form he is
larger than the temple, is strong enough to overpower Alexandrite and the Cluster and shrugs
off the Diamond's powers.
  Support Party Member: Like his mother, he has a shield as his weapon and the ability to
heal others using spit. While not entirely useless in a fight (though this could be attributed to
the fact that he's a child) his Gem doesn't give him any outstanding offensive capabilities.
o He's not a defensive party member. He's the only defensive party member, and
his powers have saved the Gems and Connie numerous times from attacks that would have
destroyed them.
o The later seasons show that, while he is still in a supporting role, he can annoy,
distract, blindside, and sometimes combo with other fighters, like having them use his shield for
a Fastball Special.
 Sword and Sorcerer: The Sorcerer (is half-Gem with an array of magical abilities) to
Connie's Sword (a human who uses a BFS for combat).
 Sword/Shield Contrast: The shield to Connie's sword. He's a defensive person who
wants to protect others, not hurt them, even if they're his enemies.
 Tag Along Kid: He does have a much bigger role than most other tag-along kids due to
the fact that he has powers that could help, but he's unable to use them. Also, he's the main
character so most of the stories center around him and he's actually pretty helpful in a fight
when he needs to be.
 Talking the Monster to Death: Steven's true weapon of choice is his words. He hates
fighting, and has bested enemies several times his own size and power with words alone. In
true heartwarming irony, this is how he was saved from his corrupted state in the episode "I
Am My Monster". Everyone talked to Steven to calm him down and assured him they were
there for him during their Cooldown Group Hug and a healing kiss from Connie.
 Tautological Templar: A tragic variant. In "Everything's Fine", Steven has gotten so self-
deluded and obsessed with helping others, he will not accept that he's having a destructive
effect on his surroundings, brushing off the damage as normal or something he can fix. He's
desperately trying to deny what's happening to him in the hopes that this behavior will
somehow fix everything.
Steven: I know who I am: I'm Steven Universe! I help people, I don't... hurt them.

 The Team Normal: He was originally one at first, however as the series progressed, he
grows out of this as he gets more and more control.
 Teens Are Monsters: Downplayed in Future, in which the 16-year-old Steven suffers a
nasty case of Sanity Slippage, gaining temper issues in the process with his powers spiraling
out of control. Heck, he becomes a literal monster at the end of "Everything's Fine".
 Telepathy: A unique ability of his that even Rose didn't have: he seems to be able to
communicate with others mentally when he is unconscious, including entering their dreams if
they're also asleep. Though given the other Diamonds are familiar with Pink's "aura" when
Steven talks to them telepathically, Rose may have just been hiding this power to keep her
cover.
 Tell Me About My Mother: Steven often talks to his father and Maternal
Substitutes about his Missing Mom, Rose Quartz, who gave up her physical form when he
was born. A later episode has Greg tell Steven the story of how he and his mother met, or
more specifically the version where he didn't leave out his crappy former manager.
 Tender Tears: Steven is generally very soft-hearted and cries when his emotions run
high. See specific episodes for examples.
 Terrible Artist:
o In "Shirt Club", Buck turns his "Guitar Dad" drawing, showing Greg impossibly
buff with Cross-Popping Veins all over and meant to advertise his guitar classes, into t-shirts,
 not for Steven's intended purpose but as an art phenomenon showing how funny and naïve
Steven's love for his dad is, much to his dismay.
o In "Escapism", while in a Watermelon Steven's body, he draws this  in the sand
to show that the Crystal Gems need backup, leading to nothing but confusion from Greg
and Bismuth.
 Third Eye: While Steven doesn't actually have a third eye, Garnet kisses him where his
third eye would be whenever she wants to grant him future vision.
 Third-Person Person: Occasionally speaks in the third person. For instance, he provides
the Title Drop in "Story for Steven" when asking his dad to tell him a story.
 Throwing Your Shield Always Works: He can throw his buckler-sized shield, then easily
summon another one. He gets a lot more skilled with them by the third season, being able to
accurately throw several in short sequence.
 Tomato in the Mirror: While he knew his whole life he's half Gem, it wasn't until he saw
Rose's Video Will that Steven understood himself to be as much her reincarnation as her
son. Much later, Steven discovers he's actually half Diamond.
 Took a Level in Badass:
o In "Ocean Gem", he's able to summon his shield at will and destroy a bunch
of Ditto Fighter water constructs that were easily overpowering the other Crystal Gems.
o In "The Return", he once again summons his shield, now much larger than
before, to protect the Gems from a powerful blast by Peridot's ship. Doing so causes him to
collapse, though.
o In "Sworn to the Sword", Steven takes on several Pearl-Fighting-Holograms,
demonstrating full control over both his shield and bubble techniques.
o In "Friend Ship", he is able to summon his larger shield twice and his smaller
shield once, even throwing the latter with enough accuracy to hit Peridot in the face (it did
nothing but annoy her, but it was good aim). He does collapse after the summoning the large
shield the second time, but that's still an impressive leap from his last major showing. He also
grabs Peridot's leg while she's trying to escape by flying away. She has to detach her own foot
in order to escape.
o In "Crack the Whip", he and Connie spar, and they both do very well, Steven
summoning multiple shields at once with no sign of fatigue.
o In "Steven vs. Amethyst", he and Amethyst go toe-to-toe in a brutal, no-holds-
barred match that pushes them both to their limits.
o In "Bismuth", he manages to survive against the far more experienced and
powerful Bismuth, who was actively trying to kill him. He ultimately ends up defeating her by
impaling her on Rose's sword in self-defense.
o In "Earthlings", he fuses with Amethyst to form Smoky Quartz, proving that he
can actually fuse with other Gems.
o In "Reunited", he puts up a good fight against Blue Diamond herself, serving as
the Crystal Gems' defense/support while also attacking her. And while he was stomped
unconscious by Yellow Diamond, he was able to defeat both Diamonds by telepathically
reaching out to them and revealing his true identity as Pink Diamond, ending the fight.
o In The Movie, he's become more adept with his powers after the Time Skip.
His Not Quite Flight is vastly improved, and he even projects spherical force fields onto his
hands to guard against Spinel's punches.
o He takes more levels in Future, even training with Jasper.
 Took a Level in Jerkass: A rarely more tragic case. As Future progresses, Steven's
buried resentment starts to come up more and more due to his Shell-Shocked
 Veteran stresses, which are themselves exacerbated by Steven not having any more major
problems to distract himself with as he tries to handle the changes in his life.
 Took a Level in Kindness: After his issues are resolved (or at least are being dealt with)
in the series finale, Steven regains his kind disposition, and thoughtfully gives his loved ones
gifts before leaving Beach City.
 Trademark Favorite Food: Steven's involve lots of unhealthy junk food.
o Steven loves "fry bits", the little bits of french fries that sink to the bottom of the
fryer.
o He loves Cookie Cat ice cream sandwiches, but unfortunately for him, they
become discontinued in the first episode.
o He seems to like strawberries a lot. Given that strawberries are in the same
family as roses, this isn't completely surprising.
o Other miscellaneous favorites are pizza, hot dogs and donuts (particularly pink-
frosted with sprinkles).
 Tragic Monster: Becomes one at the end of "Everything's Fine" as a result of his
suppressed trauma and self-loathing finally boiling over and corrupting him, turning him into a
giant monster. Thankfully, he reverts back at the end of "I Am My Monster".
 Tuckerization: Named after and inspired by Rebecca Sugar's brother Steven, who is also
one of the show's background designers.
 Turn the Other Cheek: There have been times when people that he loves have hurt him
(or even tried to kill him), but he is always quick to forgive them. And it's not because he's an
idiot. He genuinely doesn't want to be angry at the people he loves. Or the people he knows.
Or his enemies, for that matter.
    U-Y 

 The Unchosen One: As opposed to Connie, the Gems, Steven himself and part of the
audience thinking Steven has some great, planned destiny ahead of him, Rose had no such
expectations (not even in regards to his gender). She just wanted him to live his life happy as
himself. Steven is shown taking comfort in this knowledge, since it means a huge weight has
been lifted off his shoulders in regards to possibly not living up to some great destiny Rose
had planned for him and disappointing her, especially since after learning about her darker
secrets he had started to think that the only reason she gave birth to him was because she
wanted to dump all her problems on someone else's shoulders. That said, it still ultimately
falls to Steven to do what his mother couldn't and right the wrongs of the Diamonds including
Rose/Pink because they keep coming after him through either Mistaken Identity or Revenge
by Proxy, things made possible only because of his unique circumstances. Steven Universe:
Future still hangs a weight on this as he has been imposing himself expectations of this and
responsibilities at the cost of neglecting his mental health that it's hurting him.
 Underestimating Badassery: The Crystal Gems have often underestimated Steven's
abilities and intelligence. Steven gets fed up with it in "Warp Tour", to the point he gets into
an argument with Pearl, who is the most motherly to him. This has faded by season 2, where
he's treated like a full member of the Crystal Gems.
 Unreliable Narrator: Absolutely everything that happens in the show must be seen
through the eyes of Steven, who never actually narrates. As such, things that Steven is
uncomfortable about or doesn't want to talk about never make it into the story unless they're
forced in by another character. In "Steven's Birthday", it's revealed that Steven hasn't aged in
many years, most likely since he stopped living with Greg, and he doesn't talk about it
because he doesn't want Connie to know she'll continue aging without him. He's known this
 since the beginning of the series, when he already had a crush on Connie, but the audience
doesn't find out until Steven overhears Greg talking to Connie about it in the episode before
the 2A finale. The question of what else Steven may be hiding is still up in the air.
 Unskilled, but Strong: Not Steven has multiple abilities that are both unique to him and
potentially really useful, including a powerful shield, healing spit, and a Green Thumb that
can create hordes of monsters that can easily overwhelm the Crystal Gems, but initially
lacked the know-how to use most of it. Connie becoming Pearl's apprentice spurred him onto
training more seriously, after which he becoming increasingly Strong and Skilled.
 Upbringing Makes the Hero: The biggest difference between him and Rose's upbringing
is Rose received very little actual emotional attention and believed Pearl was the only one
who truly cared about her, while Steven was raised with genuine love and affection by
everyone around him. He also had Greg to raise him to be moral in places Rose lacked,
ultimately making him more morally good than his mother.
 Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. While Steven remains a Nice Guy, he's more
mature, moody, and prone to angry outbursts in Future, in addition to openly complaining
about the Crystal Gems' flaws (whereas before he looked up to them more than anything)
and being a Workaholic. He also starts to suffer a nasty case of Sanity Slippage.
 Vague Age: For the first couple of seasons Steven's exact age is kept very unclear, and
episodes can read with him being pretty young. In "So Many Birthdays", when the Gems tell
him they don't celebrate birthdays he decides to take a stroll on the boardwalk, where he gets
depressed and starts to change to a teenager, a young adult, middle-aged, and a bearded
senior citizen with his age fluctuating based on his mood and the Gems decide to cheer
Steven up to restore him back to normal. It's not until "Steven's Birthday" that we find out he's
fourteen but apparently stopped aging after he turned eight. The fact that he both looks and
acts a lot younger than he really is, and what that could mean for him socially, is actually
discussed seriously.
 Vegetarian for a Day: He decides to try vegetarianism shortly after turning 17, and has
stuck to it for a month as of "Snow Day". Garnet muses that she thought they were in a
"pepperoni timeline" after mistakenly predicting he would want pepperoni pizza, suggesting
multiple timelines where he abandons or never commits to the decision. Later in
"Fragments", when training out in the woods, he caught and cooked a fish.
 Violently Protective Girlfriend: Gender Inverted and downplayed. Steven is very
protective of Connie, but it's mostly Ship Tease since they're both so young and Steven is a
pacifistic person. Nonetheless, you do not harm Connie. He even gave Pearl an angry look
when she took Connie's sword training too far in "Sworn to the Sword".
Steven: Keep your hands off my Connie!

 Vocal Evolution: While he speaks with a high-pitched voice in the first 22 episodes of the
series, Steven's voice pitch fluctuates depending on his shape-shifted age in "So Many
Birthdays". As of "Monster Buddies", his high voice has changed permanently to a
moderately deeper register, deepening a little further from the movie onwards to reflect his
more mature appearance that matches his chronological age. All this is a deliberate choice
on the part of his voice actor, whose voice had already broken by the time he started the part.
 Voluntary Shapeshifting: Amethyst teaches him to use shapeshifting in "Cat Fingers",
but Steven lacks the discipline to properly control it. He seems to have better control as
of "Steven's Birthday": He manages to stretch his body for an entire day, but the strain
eventually rebounds, temporarily turning him back into an infant.
 Warrior Prince: The Diamond Authority are the God Emperors of Homeworld. That said,
he's the son of Pink Diamond.
  Warrior Therapist: Steven is starting to show shades of being one, especially in his
encounters with the Centipeedle Mother and the Cluster. His encounters with the Diamonds
and Spinel have him graduate to a full fledged one.
 Weak, but Skilled: Steven is the least physically powerful of the Crystal Gems, but he
has a wide range of supportive or defensive powers that when used in conjunction with each
other allows him to fight on par with at least Amethyst.
 Weaksauce Weakness: He easily gets sick in rotating objects (i.e. the teacups).
 "Well Done, Son!" Guy:
o One of those rare mother-son combos and is not remotely played for laughs
except in a few instances of Black Comedy, due to being posthumous. Steven's mother, the
saintly and flawless Gem revolutionary leader Rose Quartz, is not strictly speaking "dead" and
still exists in some ways in Steven himself; Steven understandably feels enormous pressure to
live up to her legacy, complicated immensely when he begins to discover that his legendary
mother had more than a few skeletons in her closet and did things that Steven can't wrap his
head around, justify or understand. Him failing to follow in her footsteps leads to him fearing
that whatever aspect of her that survived judges him for not being like her.
o And due to heavy legacy of his mother, Steven is also this to the Crystal Gems,
always trying to prove he's mature and can handle anything even if he's not. In a private
conversation with Connie, Steven alludes to his reason for wanting to have powers like his
mother is mainly due to fearing the others won't want to hang out with him if he doesn't.
o Additionally, much of this is imposed by everyone but his mother herself. As she
implied in one episode and then made explicit in a later episode, she had no grandoise plans
for Steven. She wanted him to live his life happily and being himself.
 What Could Have Been: In-Universe. Had Steven been born a girl, his name would've
been "Nora".
 What Does He See in Her?: Connie wonders why a boy with superpowers who seems to
be destined for bigger things would hang out with an ordinary girl like her.
 What the Hell, Hero?: He calls out the Crystal Gems for constantly withholding answers
about Rose and Pink Diamond thinking he's not ready yet, which leads to Steven going to
Korea with Greg to find out for himself.
 White Male Lead: Steven is a member of a team where most members are sexless,
agender and female-presenting aliens who all have different body types, colors and ethnicity
codings. Many of them are attracted to each other and to other female and feminine
people, coding them as lesbians/wlw. The half-Gem Steven, by contrast, is Caucasian (likely
Italian and even Jewish ancestry based on some subtle hints), uses he/him pronouns and
has only expressed attraction to a girl. It's notable that he enjoys wearing female-coded
clothing and make-up occasionally, and that when fused with others, they use a they/them
pronoun set.
 Wholesome Crossdresser:
o In "Sadie's Song", he performs at Beachapalooza while wearing make-up, high
heels and a very feminine dress that shows off his belly button. He not only pulls it off, nobody
in the audience makes fun of his style or even bats an eye, and the only comment about his
appearance is Nanefua telling Kiki that the "Special Mystery Guest" gimmick had Steven written
all over it. The only other comment they make is noting it's better than when he did it nude two
years prior.
o In "Diamond Days", he has the Pebbles make a version of Pink Diamond's outfit
in his size for him to wear at the ball because he feels he should "dress for the occasion". He
doesn't seem to mind wearing it.
  Wingding Eyes: When he's really happy, his eyes have stars in them. They've
occasionally turned into other things, like tear drops when he thought Steven Jr. (a goat he
considered his son) died.
 Wise Beyond Their Years: Despite his usual demeanor, he often displays a surprisingly
high level of maturity when it really counts. A perfect example is provided in "Mr. Greg". Even
Connie admits that Steven spends most of the time stuck "being the adult for a bunch of
super-powered children" who are thousands of years older than he is.
 Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He becomes this in the episode "I Am My Monster", when
his self-loathing, combined with unchecked traumas,feelings of purposelessness and
uncontrolled powers, corrupted him and turned him into a pink Kaiju-like monster. Luckily, he
gets better, thanks to a combination of a cooldown Group Hug and a healing kiss from
Connie.
 Workaholic: "Snow Day" reveals that he's now a full-fledged Little Homeschool teacher
who wakes up at 7:13 am every day to run errands around town several hours before classes
start. When he abruptly quits his position, he struggles to pass the time meaningfully.
 Would Hit a Girl: With how gems are a female-presenting race, this trope is in obvious
effect as that means just about every person Steven has ever fought is a girl, and while he
normally does remain defensive, he's often forced to get offensive in the situations he's
thrown into, albeit usually with his shield. Turned up to Would Shatter A Girl as-of
"Fragments", albeit accidentally.
 You Are Not Ready:
o Steven's kept in the dark about Gem history, mostly because you can't walk ten
feet through it with stubbing your toe on an Awful Truth. Pearl is the most adamant about it,
while Amethyst has no trouble talking about it (though she doesn't actually know much more
about it than Steven does, due to not experiencing the rebellion). Steven finally gets fed up with
this in "Steven's Dream".
o In "A Single Pale Rose", Pearl decides that Steven is finally ready for the truth.
She sends him into her memories so that he can witness the circumstances surrounding Pink
Diamond's shattering.
 You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!:
o One of Steven's catchphrases is an emphatic "Aw, come on!" Usually when
something that should have been perfect goes totally pear-shaped.
o In "Bluebird", he says "Are you kidding me?" when Aquamarine and Eyeball re-
fuse due to their hatred of him, and his facial expression shows that he is just completely done.
 You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: In Future, Pink Steven begins manifesting within
him whenever he gets too overwhelmed with emotion.
 Your Size May Vary: Sometimes he looks fairly large and bulky, sometimes he looks like
a dwarf who needs a stool to reach the kitchen counter .
Peridot
Voiced by: Shelby Rabara

"I think you're all insane! But I guess I am too...

Anyone would be if they were stuck on Earth with you."
Click here for her first outfit 
 Click here for her with her limb enhancers 

"I won't do it! I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting!"

A former Homeworld technician of Yellow Diamond's court and the Crystal Gems' main
recurring arch-nemesis for the first two seasons, Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG was sent
from Homeworld to check on the progress of the Cluster, but her mission was thwarted
by the Crystal Gems and she was left stranded on Earth. With nowhere else to go, she
decided to help the Crystal Gems destroy the Cluster and, after a series of humbling
experiences, she slowly became fond of the Gems and curious about Earth. After failing
 to convince her superior to spare Earth, Peridot completely defected from Homeworld to
become a full-fledged Crystal Gem in "Message Received".

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 Ac CENT Upon The Wrong Syl LA Ble: Has a tendency to do this, especially when she's
angry, flustered, or in the process of losing her mind.
 Adorkable: Oh so much!
o She makes a lot of ridiculous facial expressions and has a very Unevil Laugh.
Once she's stuck on Earth her unfamiliarity leads to things like trying to escape through a toilet
and quaking in fear of a rolled-up towel.
o "Log Date 7 15 2" could also be called "Peridot is Adorkable", as we see her try
on Goofy Print Underwear, imagines the other Gems being impressed by the paint can stilts
Steven gave her, and become obsessed with the single episode of a teen drama Steven
showed her to the point of creating charts and going on a rant about why her pairing is
objectively best.
o The beginning of "Too Short to Ride" has Steven give Peridot a tablet Greg
bought but decided he didn't want. Steven sells Peridot on the device, with Peridot lamenting
it's too bad it isn't connected to her before getting an idea. She proceeds to duct tape some
velcro to the back and wrap some around her wrist like a bracelet. Then she proceeds to
overdramatically put the tablet onto her wrist and perform a series of silly poses, all the while
making the appropriate sound effects vocally.
 The episode's main conflict is kick-started by Peridot trying to win an alien
plush doll. As described by Peridot: "Its large head, swollen with thoughts. Those compassionate
eyes... it understands." And when she wins the doll, it is made to look like a couple of lovers
coming together (complete with Love Bubbles).
o Peridot's Twitter account is a goldmine of Adorkable, from her plans for a day at
the barn alone (which includes solo frisbee, running around with clothes on, and playing Camp
Pining Hearts so loud the Diamonds can hear it before deciding against it) to her dealing with a
surprise pizza delivery (she had to figure out the concept of money, literally interpreted the
phrase "it's on the house", and then spent 2 days running around the countryside holding the
pizza (and presumably being bitten by a snake, stung by a bee, and hit by a car according to
 her tweets on the experience) simply because she didn't know what else to do except "Run with
it.").
o Peridot's part in Ruby and Sapphire's wedding as the flower girl. She walks down
the isle, throwing flowers at the guests while calling out "Flowers for you! Flowers for you!
Flowers for you!" Once she reaches the end of the aisle, she curtsies to Steven and says
"Wedding commander, all flowers have been deployed!"
 Aggressive Categorism: Initially displays a reductionist attitude towards the Crystal
Gems en masse. Garnet is a freak and a "filthy war machine" because she's a permafusion,
Pearl is a brainless ornament who can't compete on Peridot's level in terms of technical skill
(even though we've seen Pearl build a fully functioning battle robot in about thirty seconds,
and a working spaceship in a couple of days), and she "jokingly" calls Steven an "abomination"
to his face because he's a human-Gem hybrid. Amethyst gets the benefit of being "the
only real Gem" in the Crystal Gems, who gets tagged as "defective" by Peridot because of
her size but still, by Peridot's lights, should be the Crystal Gems' leader... because she's
a Quartz Gem.
 Alien Arts Are Appreciated: She becomes obsessed with the Show Within a Show Camp
Pining Hearts, to the point of writing a 1,001 page essay detailing why the character she
dislikes is the worst thing to happen to the show. In 24 hours.
 Ambiguous Disorder: Peridot, like Pearl, shows quirks often associated with autism: she
shows a complete disinterest in anything she isn't obsessed with, quickly becomes obsessed
with a television show to the point of pouring hours of time into it, has difficulty telling when
something is appropriate or hurtful to say, does not know how to apologize or express her
feelings, mimics behavior and phrases, and often makes repetitive gestures when she is
upset or frustrated. This also ties into her alien motif, as "being on another planet" is a
common metaphorical description of what autism feels like. The creator's stance  in a literal
sense is that Gems are not generally neurotypical by humans standards, and while not her
specific intention, she is happy for any autistic viewers who find Peridot specifically relatable.
 Ambiguous Robots: Her free-floating fingers, the capacity to use them as a touchpad
and an arm-cannon, as well as her ability to separate body parts with no apparent harm left
many of the fandom to suspect she is some form of cyborg. "Catch and Release" shows that
her arms and legs are actually just prosthetics called "limb enhancers", beneath which she is
as normal as any other Gem, and is actually physically weaker than every other Gem we've
seen.
 Angrish: Being constantly exasperated and having the tensile strength of a wet noodle,
Peridot can and often makes weird... noises.
 Animal Motifs: Seems to have a bit of a cat motif going on. Besides her Cute Little
Fangs and Cat Smile (on the rare occasions she smiles at all), in "Catch and Release" she
runs on all fours when trying to escape Steven's room (she runs like this again in "Hit the
Diamond"), and her Wimp Fight with Steven looks like something a kitten would do. Plus,
whether intentional or not, she'll sometimes make noises that sound like -nya (the Japanese
sound effect for a cat's meow) and even hissed at Steven when she was angry in "Log Date
7 15 2". Amusingly, in "Too Far", Peridot makes the mistake of telling Garnet she was
uncomfortable with her constant fusing and gets tied to a fence post on a leash, much like a
misbehaving cat.
 Anime Hair: That's not some awkward, strangely-shaped gem head Peridot's got there,
that's her hair. Although Peridot pretended it wasn't to try (and fail) to get past the height
requirement for a rollercoaster.
 Antagonist Abilities: Her abilities include operating machines like robots and death traps
from a remote location, piloting a nearly invulnerable warship, bringing a laser to a sword
fight, and various means to facilitate escaping. Naturally, the beginning of her Heel–Face
Turn Enemy Mine with the Crystal Gems coincides with her losing all of those.
 An Arm and a Leg: She sacrifices her foot after Steven and the Crystal Gems latch onto
it to keep her from getting away in "Friend Ship". Steven ends up giving the foot back
in "Catch and Release".
 Arm Cannon: She can shape the fingers of her limb enhancers into a fairly powerful
blaster.
 Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Catch and Release", after Steven freed her from her
bubble, she starts to repeatedly slap him on the face, Steven asks her why she's acting like
this, to which she furiously responds: "You've smashed me into a limbless clod ! You trapped
me in your bubbles dungeon ! AND you called me... CUTE!"
 Artificial Limbs: Hinted at in "Friend Ship", when she detaches one of her feet in order to
escape the Crystal Gems. "Catch and Release" reveals that they're called "limb enhancers",
and without them she's about as tall as Steven.

 Asexuality: She was confirmed as aroace via  Word of Saint

PaulNote  (which was earlier implied by her only being interested in Fusion to better understand
Garnet). She does, however, show an academic interest in shipping for her favourite TV
show.
 The Atoner: Because of her treatment towards Lapis during the latter's time as a
prisoner of her ship, Peridot goes to great lengths to try and apologize.
 Audience Surrogate: Has shades of this, such as wondering aloud "Where am I gonna to
put the star?" after joining the Crystal Gems, or her obsession with analyzing the character
dynamics of Camp Pining Hearts.
 Badass Bookworm: Beat Pearl in a robot fight in a mech suit built in a couple of hours
using tools she's unfamiliar with (she held the power drill upside down, for example) out of
junk in the barn owned by Greg.
 Bad Liar: As shown when she tried to distract the Crystal Gems by saying that there's
apparently another planet for them to betray beside them, and when prompted to lie said
that she does NOT steal Steven's clothes when he's not looking, it's safe to say that she isn't
the best liar.
 Bag of Spilling: When she was fighting the Crystal Gems, her limb enhancers were
shown to be quite handy and made her a formidable and resourceful foe, able to use them for
combat, escape, and for interacting and manipulating Gem tech. When Peridot was poofed,
Amethyst got rid of them, and Peridot was only left with her form (all the knowledge she had
accrued during her time on Earth was stored in her limb enhancers). Over time, however, she
ended up learning about Earth technology and how it can be used to supplant what she lost
with her limb enhancers, and even if she has trouble from time to time, she's a lot more
capable without them than she used to be.
 Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: By the events of the movie, she's the Brains to Lapis' Beauty
and Bismuth's Brawn.
 Became Their Own Antithesis: Her time on Earth transforms her from a cold, calculating
force who couldn't care less about Earth or its inhabitants into a hilariously absurd Large
Ham who chooses to protect Earth and fight against Yellow Diamond.
Rebecca Sugar: There’s a principle that the psychiatrist Carl Jung introduced that I find really interesting — this
idea of “enantiodromia”, that a superabundance of a force will inevitably produce its opposite. I think of that
with Peridot. It’s her obsession with rules and regulations, her belief that things can be one way and one way
only, and her unquestioning obedience toward Yellow Diamond that eventually rockets her into becoming a rebel
and anarchist when she realizes Yellow Diamond is capable of being wrong. How can you believe in what makes
sense when what makes sense doesn’t make sense anymore? She's excited by the infinite potential of everything,
and fascinated by her own capacity to care, because those things had been a total blind spot for her.

 Because You Were Nice to Me:

o Steven is the only one she will allow into the bathroom with her and the only one
she trusts (initially) with information about the Cluster. She eventually even takes his advice
and decides to cooperate with the Crystal Gems.
o Part of the reason she started to like Amethyst so much more than the others is
that, aside from Steven, she was the only one willing to hang out and joke with her.
o When she finally contacts Yellow Diamond and has a perfect chance to rat out
the Crystal Gems, she covers up and takes the heat instead. She even tries to Take a Third
Option and attempts to convince Yellow Diamond to destroy the Cluster.
 Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Seems to be one of these under Jasper, if her muttering that
Steven overhears is any indication.
 Berserk Button:
o She loses her cool when she realizes the Crystal Gems are responsible for
destroying the droids she's been sending, angrily asking why they've been destroying her stuff.
o She hates being called "cute". When Steven sees her for the first time without
her limb enhancers, he affectionately remarks that she's like an "angry slice of pie". Peridot is
annoyed.
o Pettiness. She values logic and reason over emotional drive, which is why she
believed Yellow Diamond would be open to the idea of sparing the Earth for the sake of its
resources. But Yellow Diamond makes it clear that she wants the Earth destroyed to get back
at Rose Quartz for starting the rebellion. It's what leads her to call Yellow Diamond a "clod" and
defect from Homeworld.
o She also hates being called short, as she throws a temper tantrum when Mr.
Smiley says she needs some growing, likely because it's a reminder of the fact that she was
made intentionally inferior in comparison to older-era Gems.
 Beware the Silly Ones:
o A rather chilling example. While being a rather goofy, not really intimidating
villain, she was completely unfazed by the fusion experiments, talking dispassionately about it
and taking notes before she was interrupted.
o After her redemption, she becomes extremely Adorkable... but turns out to have
enough punch behind her metal manipulation powers to impale Jasper through the chest with a
piece of scrap when properly motivated.
 Bigger Stick: Peridot seems very reliant on her robots and other technology for fighting.
Once Steven breaks her Gem-disruption device, Amethyst and Pearl beat her instantly.
Though she improves in subsequent episodes, she focuses more on escaping from them
 rather than directly engaging them. "Catch and Release" shows that her limbs are actually
prosthetics, beneath which she's just a weak Gem who is reduced to slapping Steven, not
realizing it's just an annoyance.
 Blessed with Suck: She is super durable, capable of taking cartoonish amounts of abuse
before poofing. This is, however, completely useless, since she doesn't have any natural
offensive abilities, and isn't immune to pain.
 Blood Knight: One of the very few examples of one not naturally good at fighting. Peridot
is shown, even without her limb enhancers, to be extremely quick to attack and insert herself
in a fight no matter the caliber of her opponent. When in the Beta Kindergarden, and Steven
and Amethyst were fighting Jasper, not only did Peridot show no fear of Jasper, who is a
natural Axe-Crazy blood knight herself, but it was Peridot who landed the poofing blow after
Jasper became corrupted.
 Body Motifs: Besides Peridot's gem location being significant as with other Gems — like
Pearl, hers is on her forehead to represent logic and intelligence — she also has a hand motif
about her representing her status as an engineer. Her various Robonoid have Floating
Limbs almost identical to her fingers, she operated the Kindergarten remotely with giant
floating hands, and her ship is a giant hand.
 Boisterous Weakling: Though initially very cowardly, Peridot's ego has caused her to
vastly overestimate how much her metal powers and training with the Crystal Gems have
improved her combat abilities. She seriously attempts to hurt Blue Diamond by pelting her
with soda cans (not even particularly fast moving one), and thinks Yellow Diamond would fear
her after being mocked over a video call.
 Brains and Brawn: The brains to Jasper's brawn as the robotic technician who operates
the ship and keeps tabs on the Kindergarten.
 Bratty Half-Pint: In a way. Prone to temper tantrums? Check. Haughty attitude? Check.
Small in size? Triple check.
 Breakout Character: Introduced initially as a semi-regular villain, she's since become a
regular character. Notably, in Future, Shelby Rabara went from being credited as "other
voices" to "featured voices" (the latter of which only included Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and
Pearl's voice actors for the original series).
 Break the Haughty: Peridot is introduced with a sense of disdain toward life on Earth,
and her experience since landing there has been full of humiliation and failure.
 Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: A same-gender example. Peridot provides emotional comfort
and friendship to the aloof, untrusting Lapis.
o However, it's later deconstructed in "Raising the Barn", where it's revealed that
Peridot puts in a lot of effort in making Lapis happy, including bending over backwards
 figuratively and literally for her, while Lapis does very little to return the favor for Peridot, who
later reveals in "Back to the Kindergarten" that despite her enthusiastic demeanor she
constantly deals with her own sadness on a daily basis.
 Brought Down to Normal: She's significantly weaker after she loses her Artificial
Limbs in "Catch and Release". Most Gems depicted so far have superhuman strength.
Peridot was overpowered by Steven with little effort, and she is nowhere near as strong as a
full Gem. "Too Short to Ride" explains that Homeworld, as a result of lacking resources,
deliberately engineers Era 2 Gems to be weaker and instead augments them with
technology. She also gains a power in the same episode: ferrokinesis.
 But I Read a Book About It: Gets all her information about Earth from old Gem records,
without which she had no knowledge of Earth phenomena, like rain.
 Butt-Monkey: Peridot's luck is hilariously poor, and everything she does she finds as
aggravating to her as possible even before the Crystal Gems are involved.
 Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Calls her and Lapis' art "meepmorps", or "morps" for short,
and finds the human word "art" ridiculous.
 Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Invokes this with the Crystal Gems in "Catch and
Release", since she has knowledge of the Cluster that she can't give them in the bubble.
 Cassandra Truth: At first, Steven is the only member of the Crystal Gems who thinks
there's anything to her warning about the Cluster. Garnet even dismisses her remarks as "the
desperate lies of a Gem who's been caught". Averted later, as Steven manages to convince
the Crystal Gems that it's better to let Peridot to live in their bathroom in hopes of getting
information from her than to bubble her, and the Crystal Gems actually listen to him and can
be heard in the background seriously discussing the potential implications of the Cluster at
the end of the episode.
 Cassette Craze: Peridot receives a tape recorder in "Log Date 7 15 2", which she uses
constantly in subsequent episodes until it's destroyed.
 Catchphrase: Thanks to Steven and her literal mind, she almost always shows gratitude
by saying "Wow, Thanks."
 Catchphrase Insult: She seems fond of "clod" as an insult. Occasionally switched for
"crystal clods". Phased out of her after her Character Development.
 Cat Smile: A few of the times she's smiled, or gotten nervous, her mouth was distinctly
W-shaped. Far more commonly, her lips are curve into what's basically a cat smile, but
upside down (M-shaped), which could be accurately described as a "turtle frown".
 Character Blog: Peridot has a Twitter account , and during "Too Short to Ride", she
sent a series of tweets while the episode aired on the west coast.
 Character Development:
o She's slowly, but steadily learning what she thought about Earth, the Crystal
Gems, and everything she thought she knew isn't quite right. Her development has gotten to
the point where, when she gets in touch with Yellow Diamond in "Message Received", she
doesn't rat out the Crystal Gems, instead taking the heat for her failures. She also argues that
they should spare the Earth and its inhabitants (though her arguments are more logical than
emotional), and when Yellow Diamond refuses to listen, Peridot loudly calls her a clod.
o Her stance on fusion and Garnet in particular has also notably slackened since
she first broached the topic; initially she saw it as a pragmatic show of force and couldn't
understand why Garnet chose to stay constantly fused, referring to her as a "filthy war
machine" because that's what she was in Peridot's eyes. As the series progressed after her
exile to Earth and truce with the Crystal Gems, Peridot seems to be more curious about
Garnet's nature than openly hostile. It comes to a head in "Log Date 7 15 2", when Garnet
offers to fuse with her to help Peridot understand it better and Peridot takes her up on the offer.
While she did wind up getting cold feet, Peridot did say that the experience helped her
understand Garnet better and they seem to be on much better terms.
o She starts out extremely selfish and with a distinct Lack of Empathy, apparently
caring about nothing but herself and her mission. This decreases as she spends more time with
the Crystal Gems. By "Barn Mates", she's willing to leave the barn that she had claimed as her
own dwelling place on Earth because it's the only gesture of apology Lapis is willing to accept,
without even a trace of complaint. And in the Immediate Sequel "Hit the Diamond", she willingly
tries to sacrifice herself to a group of Homeworld Rubies to protect the Crystal Gems and
Steven. Granted, it turns out they were only looking for her to get info on the whereabouts of
Jasper, but the point still stands. On the day "Alone at Sea" came out, her official Twitter
released posts implying she was worried about Lapis, and in "Beta" she shows clear concern
for Lapis' mental state when Jasper is brought up (more so then Lapis needs).
o She's initially driven largely by logic, reason, and her orders, but the more time
she spends on Earth the more she acts based on emotion (though she continues to prize logic
and reason above all else). She later gets into singing, fandoms, social media, humor, alien
plushies, and finally begins dabbling in trash art with Lapis.
o Early on she can't understand why Amethyst would "waste" energy on
shapeshifting for fun, but once she develops ferrokinesis, the ONLY thing she does with it is to
play around.
o Compare Peridot in "Raising the Barn" to her earlier Barn Episodes. While still
known for her character quirks, her mentality has made a complete 180, and fully embraces the
 Earth as her home, and that's more important than even her "Barnmate" Lapis. She even gives
Pumpkin a little kiss on the head.
 Character Tic: Peridot will often bring her knees up to her chest and curl into a ball when
feeling upset. She even does this while flying in midair.
 Clothes Make the Superman: All of her powers come from her "limb enhancers", which
are best described as robot gloves and boots. Without them, she has no Gem powers apart
from the ability to regenerate and is no stronger than her size and stature would
suggest. In "Too Short to Ride", Peridot states that, due to dwindling resources on
Homeworld, Era 2 Peridots like she lack powers such as shapeshifting and weapons.
However, by the end of the episode, Peridot discovers she has ferrokinetic abilities.
o Perhaps because of this Peridot enjoys wearing clothes for fun, something
unusual amongst Gems.
 Cloudcuckoolander: She slowly becomes one over the course of the series. Justified,
though, due to her lack of knowledge about life on Earth.
 Color Motif: Her green motif is associated with aliens, specifically the stereotypical gray
or green big-headed alien. She starts out with no empathy toward humans, seeing everything
in a logical way according to Homeworld, and gets more curious about the machinations of
Earth as she spends more time on her planet.
 Combat Pragmatist: She knows that she can't beat the Crystal Gems in a fair fight, so
she uses traps and the like to try and take them out without directly engaging them.
 Comically Missing the Point: After renouncing her allegiance to Homeworld and basically
telling Yellow Diamond to screw herself, she just falls to the ground in fetal position and
calmly hands the communicator to Pearl while explaining that it's likely about to explode. Cue
the Crystal Gems hot-potatoing it back and forth before Garnet punches it up into the
stratosphere while Peridot just lies there. Also, one of her biggest concerns after officially
joining up with the Crystal Gems and painting a gigantic target on all of their backs is whether
or not she's going to have put a star on her outfit, and where it will even go.
 The Comically Serious: At first. She first assumes that "Steven" is the name of a species
that replaced humans, and still thinks the sticker she saw at the Galaxy Warp is an official
symbol of some kind. As she starts to lose it from isolation, this trait diminishes, such that
by "Friend Ship" she spends the entire episode laughing like a maniac and gleefully
tormenting the Crystal Gems. This trait swings around to full prominence in "When It Rains",
where she delivers a serious, calculating monologue about trusting Steven after he...
explains the water cycle to her.
  Commuting on a Bus: Peridot was heavily in the spotlight for the latter half of season
two. When the other Crystal Gems go back to the temple early in season three, Peridot stays
at the barn. This leaves her out of most episodes, but close enough by to visit or be visited
periodically.
 Constantly Curious: A major personality trait of hers is a constant desire to learn new
things, including understanding the world and the motivation of the people around her. This
trait has caused her to act uncharacteristically nice and grateful toward people who take the
time to explain things to her.
 Cool Shades:
o Wears these in "The New Crystal Gems" to emulate Garnet.
o When she regenerates into her Crystal Gem outfit, her visor has turned
into Kamina-esque shades.
 Costume Evolution: Like most of the other Gems, Peridot only permanently changes her
outfit when regenerating her Hard Light physical form after being poofed; however, she (and
Lapis Lazuli) go the longest period of time on the show without doing so. When she finally
does in the season 5 finale, she ditches her v-neck shirt for one which reaches to the base of
her throat, along with going from simple coloring on her toes to colored full boots and
replacing her face-fitting visor to a wider, sharp-angled one reminiscent of Garnet's. She also
changes the yellow diamond insignias on her shirt and the knees of her pants to stars,
signifying that she finally considers herself a full Crystal Gem.
 Cowardly Lion: She gradually overcomes her Dirty Coward attitude as she gets closer to
the Crystal Gems, to the point where, despite being afraid of Yellow Diamond, she still stands
her ground, arguing with and even insulting Yellow Diamond when she refused to listen.
Ironically, after she gains her metal powers, he confidence ends up swinging to the opposite
extreme.
 Crazy-Prepared: As a (primarily) non-action girl, she is absolutely prepared to evade
capture and/or escape if she ever needs to. Her only purely offensive ability is an Arm
Cannon, while everything else she has is meant to deter pursuers. Considering she was once
overpowered by Steven, this makes sense.
 Crew of One: Her gigantic hand-spaceship appeared to be controlled entirely by her
alone.
 Culture Clash: When she forms a truce with the Crystal Gems to stop the Cluster, there's
a lot of tension since she expects things to work like they do on Homeworld. She's chagrined
that Pearl is an independent Gem instead of being someone's servant, she doesn't approve
of Garnet being a fusion, and can't understand why Amethyst, a Quartz Gem, isn't the leader.
She gradually learns to work around it.
  Curiosity Causes Conversion: According to  Word of God, a big part of
her Heel–Face Turn was because feeling compassion for the first time piqued her curiosity
for it, as it'd been a blind spot to her before. This also applies to her curiosity
about everything on Earth.
o To expand on that, the first redeeming feature of Peridot's that we see is her
endless curiosity, starting with the everyday objects in Steven's bathroom ("Is that a weapon?")
before expanding to the life and phenomena on Earth itself. The reason behind her attempts to
contact Yellow Diamond is to actually preserve the Earth, and Yellow's rejection of the plan in
the name of petty destruction is what ultimately makes Peridot renounce Homeworld. What's
more, she discovers what she's really capable of, including her metal-controlling powers. By the
present, her defining fascination and love of Earth and its inhabitants — even human culture,
which even sympathetic Gems tend to dismiss — has become reminiscent of Rose herself.
Peridot: There's so much life, living here. That's what I'm doing, living here! I've been learning new things about
myself all the time! Like how I can make metal do my bidding... the point being, Earth can set you free.

 Cute Little Fangs: She has dull but distinguishable canines, much like Amethyst.
 Cuteness Proximity: Induces this reaction in Steven when he sees her without her limb
enhancers. Being as small as a child and wearing what appear to be footie pajamas probably
doesn't help much.
Steven: Oh my gosh, you're so... CUTE! Aww, you're like an angry little slice of pie!

 Cyborg: As mentioned under Artificial Limbs, her arms and legs seem to be

mechanical. "Catch and Release" shows that they're actually just prosthetics that go over her
regular limbs, without which she's just a normal Gem.
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 Deadpan Snarker: When she starts out working with the Crystal Gems near the end of
Season 2, she is frequently prone to making snide comments about the other Gems while
working along with them.
 Defector from Decadence: Yellow Diamond being hellbent on destroying the Earth over
a grudge is what finally made Peridot switch sides for good.
 Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts to warm up to Steven over the course of "Catch and
Release" and "When It Rains". By the midpoint of the latter episode, she's willing to work with
Steven. Warming up to the Crystal Gems is much, much harder, though.
  Demoted to Dragon: When she was introduced, she was the main antagonist carrying
out Homeworld's goals... but then she shows up with Jasper, who's higher ranked than her, a
better fighter, and a far more personal threat. She reclaims her position after Jasper is taken
out by Lapis Lazuli, though.
 Despair Event Horizon: Seems to start crossing over into it in "Catch and Release", after
her last attempt to escape Earth fails, and again after losing her Artificial Limbs upon
regeneration, though Steven seems to pull her back from the brink a bit.
 Determinator: Peridot doesn't give up if she thinks something is possible... but this is
tempered by a tendency to starkly define what's actually "possible", and great difficulty in
thinking outside the box.
 Deuteragonist: She receives a lot of focus and development between Seasons 2 and 3,
going from an antagonist to a flawed but sincere ally to the Gems.
 Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In "Message Received", she calls her superior, Yellow
Diamond, a clod.
 Die for Our Ship. In-Universe, she really hates Paulette from the Show Within a
Show Camp Pining Hearts, to the point of writing a 1000+ page report on why Paulette is the
worst character, implicitly because Paulette is the actual Love Interest for half of Peridot's
preferred couple.
 Dirty Coward: She initially showed no mercy to the Crystal Gems, but ended asking their
help to save her own life even when it meant committing treason. Eventually,
through Character Development, Peridot becomes more of a Cowardly Lion.
 Discard and Draw: Shortly before helping the heroes, she loses her limb enhancers (and
all the technological enhancements they have). Then in "Too Short to Ride" Peridot reveals
that without her tech enhancements, she's powerless... until she finds she can move metal
with her mind.
 Dissonant Serenity: Occasionally, Peridot will have a huge smile on her face and
enthusiasm in her voice, both which will go against what she states to actually be feeling at
that time.
 Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Of a sort. Peridot likely hasn't made physical contact
with anything but her "limb enhancers" in her whole life, and so has no idea what she's
physically capable of (as it turns out, not very much). Amusingly, she seems taken aback that
smacking Steven in the face would hurt.
Steven: OWW! That hurt.
Peridot: [utterly nonplussed] ...It did?

o "Too Short to Ride" reveals she has an ability she didn't know about: ferrokinesis.
  Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Calling Yellow Diamond a "clod". The first time, Yellow simply
detonated the communication device they were using, not to mention the fact Peridot can
never return to Homeworld. The second time she tried to do so, Yellow simply destabilized
her with one electric blast.
 Dragon-in-Chief: She appears as a technician of some sort, but she's the one whom the
Crystal Gems have the most conflict with before "The Return".
 The Dreaded: In Season 1, her presence was greatly feared by the Crystal Gems,
especially once she discovered their existence and was coming to Earth. Of course, it quickly
becomes clear that the reason for this dread is what Peridot represents — Homeworld — as
opposed to Peridot herself, who ends up personally being anything but dread-inducing.
 Dub Name Change: Averted. Peridot is among the few gems who the Latin American
dub doesn't change her name to the faithfully correct translation, peridoto. She shares this
with Garnet.
 Easily Detachable Robot Parts: When the Crystal Gems form a human(oid) chain to stop
her from escaping, all they succeed in doing is causing her to hit a switch on her leg to
detach her foot. Later, all her robotics come off, revealing Peridot to be the size of Steven
when using her real legs.
 Emotions vs. Stoicism: A big part of her arc is learning that doing what feels right instead
of what is logical is not a bad thing.
 Enemy Mine: "When It Rains" reveals the nature of the Cluster and what it means for the
Earth. Since she can't get off-world, she resorts to helping the Crystal Gems stop it from
emerging, despite Homeworld being the reason for its existence. Ultimately becomes more of
a genuine friendship.
 Establishing Character Moment:
o Within a minute of appearing, she crushes a damaged Robonoid hugging on her
leg with a look of pure scorn on her face.
o Gets a second one in "Catch and Release" once her limb enhancers are done
away with: she's short, easily startled, egotistical, but endlessly curious about the world around
her. This remains her basic characterization from here on out.
 Everyone Has Standards: Peridot thinks very highly of Yellow Diamond, but after she
dismisses Peridot's replacement plan for the Earth, she renounces Yellow Diamond.
 Evil Counterpart: Initially one to Pearl, and a good chunk of their battle in "Back to the
Barn" drives this home. Both are genius, brilliant Gems considered inferior by Homeworld —
Pearl for being a Pearl, Peridot for being a tiny Era 2 Gem. However Pearl is a kindly,
motherly figure and hardly evil, while Peridot spent a long, long time being cruel. Their
powers are opposite as well — Pearl could take Peridot easily in a straight fight without
 Peridot's tech backing her up. However, Peridot's Character Development makes her grow
out of this.
 Evil Genius: She's entrusted to oversee the destruction of Earth with a new super
weapon that can wipe out other worlds. She loses the evil part after her Heel–Face Turn.
 Evil Is Hammy:
o When she laughs. "Friend Ship" takes this up with her basically going full-on "80s
Cartoon Villain crossed with Christopher Walken in The Country Bears".
o Even more during "Back to the Barn", when she and Pearl compete using giant
robots.
Peridot: [unveiling her mecha] Hah! Pathetic! Now, behold my vision of ultimate power! (Evil Laugh)

o Arguably her hammiest moment yet comes when she defeats Pearl's mecha in a
fight.
Peridot: Victory is mine! Now I'm the one in charge! Praise me! PRAISE ME!
 Evil Is Petty: Peridot harbors great animosity toward the Crystal Gems that eventually
turns into murderous rage. But it's not because they're Homeworld's enemies, but for
breaking some of her equipment and getting in her way.
o That being said, her supposed pettiness is really more due to the Crystal Gems
not doing things in a logical and ordered fashion, which drives her up the wall. "Message
Received" shows that pettiness that doesn't have a logical backing to it is a serious Berserk
Button for her, to the point that she called Yellow Diamond a clod because she'd rather let the
Earth be destroyed by the Cluster to satiate her own wounded pride at being beaten by Rose
Quartz rather than do the logical and pragmatic thing and simply use the planet's resources
while leaving it intact.
 Expy: Of Zim, of all things. Rebecca Sugar is a proclaimed fan of the show.
 Extra-ore-dinary: "Too Short to Ride" reveals that, despite lacking normal Gem abilities
such as shapeshifting and weapon creation, Peridot has ferrokinetic abilities that she didn't
know about.
 Fantastic Racist:
o Apparently views humans (and "Stevens") as an "infestation". The latter starts to
fade after Steven lets her out and calms her down a bit.
o She looks down on Pearl for being a pearl, which she thinks aren't useful for very
important much more than standing around and looking pretty (and on Homeworld, that's all
they're intended to do). After seeing what Pearl can do, and that no one else will back her
assumptions up, Peridot begrudgingly admits Pearl's competence.
o While less severe than her treatment of Pearl, she also has a condescending
attitude towards fusions, at least when used outside of battle or other functional applications.
She refers to Garnet as a "filthy war machine" and insists that she unfuse before working
because being around her as she is makes her uncomfortable.
o While trying to be "funny" and earn Amethyst's approval, Peridot says some truly
awful things about Garnet, Pearl... and Steven. Why is Amethyst spared Peridot's cruel
remarks? Well, despite being "defective" because of her height, she's still a Kindergarten
Quartz Gem, with all the associated power and capabilities. According to Peridot, this makes
her the "only real Gem" out of the Crystal Gems... and the one who should be leading them.
 Fantastic Slurs: Frequently uses earth/dirt/stone-based slurs to insult the Crystal Gems.
The most frequent one is "clod"note , but she also calls them "dirtbombs" and Steven a
"pebble". Also, she once called Garnet a "filthy war machine" for being a fusion.
 Fear of Thunder: Thunder scares her because she mistakes it for the Cluster hatching.
This stops once she finds out what it actually is.
 Fire-Forged Friends: With the Crystal Gems. Initially antagonistic towards each other
over time, thanks to the interactions she shares with the Crystal Gems creating the Drill
necessary to burrow into the Cluster, Peridot grows to bond and care about the Gems
despite herself. Their relationship takes a massive hit when Peridot insults Rose, and
indirectly, them by saying that her Rebellion was ultimately pointless because the Earth is in
danger anyway, regardless of and because of Rose's efforts. However, she proves
in "Message Received" that her interactions with them have changed her worldview, and
when Yellow Diamond refuses to spare the Earth over a petty grudge, she calls her a clod
and renounces her loyalty to Homeworld. Thus, she repairs her relationship with the Crystal
Gems and becomes their newest member.

 First Time Feeling: It's implied in the series and confirmed by  Word of
God that compassion and empathy were things she'd never felt until she came to Earth, and
her curiosity about them was a driving force of her Heel–Face Turn.
 Fish out of Water: Since she's an alien, Peridot has little to no information about the
Earth or life on it. She assumes nearly everything is a weapon, and that a bathroom is some
kind of think chamber. There are shades of Fish out of Temporal Water in there as well, as
Peridot's lack familiarity is because she hails from an ultra-advanced world, so earthly objects
appear antediluvian to her. She's also a Fish out of Water socially, considering that Pearl (a
 made-to-order servant/ornament for higher-class Gems on Homeworld) is seen as an equal
amongst the Crystal Gems and both she and Amethyst (who as a Quartz Gem would be a
leader/soldier on Homeworld) follow Garnet, a perma-Fusion (which is seen as weird as
fusion is seen as something only done during combat and to a lesser extent practical work).
 Floating Limbs: The fingers on her Artificial Limbs float around her hand and can come
off entirely for various purposes.
 Foil:
o To Jasper. Jasper was The Brute to Peridot's Evil Genius. Their methods as
villains were diametric opposites and their eventual fates were likewise opposite: Peridot ends
up going native and slowly grows to love living on Earth. Jasper's hatred meanwhile leads her
to choose corruption instead.
o To Amethyst. The exact same action — naming their identification code — has
the complete opposite meaning for these characters. For Peridot, it’s a sudden sharp reminder
that to Homeworld, she isn’t special; she’s one of thousands or millions of Peridots, and her
individuality is meaningless. Her time with the Crystal Gems has made her feel unique and
welcome, but that won’t last if she goes back to her home planet. She’s not just Peridot,
she’s a Peridot. For Amethyst, it’s an exciting revelation that she has a place, an identity, in this
world and family that she never had the chance to know. Even as a member of the Crystal
Gems she’s always felt like an outcast and a misfit, but know she knows EXACTLY where she
came from. She’s not just Amethyst, she’s this Amethyst.
 "Freaky Friday" Flip: Upon learning about Steven's power to take control of others,
Peridot tweets she'd use it to make Paulette leave Camp Pining Hearts forever. However,
Peridot quickly dismisses the idea due to not wanting Paulette to take control of her body in
return.
 Freudian Excuse: What we've seen of Homeworld puts Peridot's Fantastic Racism and
callous indifference to the Cluster experiments in a disturbing new light, since stepping out of
line is apparently harshly punished in Gem society, and fusion is seen as something only to
be done during battle and only among Gems of the same type. Individual worth and respect
for the dead are almost non-existent among the high-ranking Gems, and the lower Gems are
either brainwashed or cowed into accepting this.
 Freudian Trio: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the overly logical Superego to Connie's
rational and mature Ego and Lapis's emotional Id.
 Friendless Background: In "Too Far", Peridot is desperate for Amethyst's attention
but unknowingly hurt her feelings while joking around. It definitely gives the impression that
Peridot is not used to having actual friends.
o Further hinted at in "Gem Drill", where she mentions that having the Crystal
Gems makes her feel better about not being able to return to Homeworld and that she doesn't
have much in the way of good memories of it.
 Full-Contact Magic: She seems to rely heavily on movements for her metalbending
powers.
 Gadgeteer Genius: Is a highly skilled engineer, capable of building a high-tech robot
using outdated junk in a barn while having little, if any real knowledge of human tools
(including holding an electric drill upside down). Comments by Peridot imply this and being a
technician is her and all Peridots' lot in Gemworld's Hive Caste System. She also later
converts a thousands of years old Injector into a functioning cannon in at most a couple of
hours without any tools seen.
 Giant Hands of Doom: A recurring theme with her. She uses a set of these in "Marble
Madness", and uses one as a spaceship.
 Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Or in her case, stuffed aliens.
 Godzilla Threshold: In "Catch and Release", she's so desperate to get off Earth that she
kidnaps Steven from his room in the hopes that his spit can fix the Galaxy Warp, and she
even tries to use her information on the Cluster to bargain with the Crystal Gems.
 Goggles Do Nothing: See those yellowish safety goggles she wears in her first physical
form? Those don't do anything at all. In fact, Peridot actually wears real safety goggles over
them when performing real experiments.
 Gone Horribly Right: She was conditioned by her superiors to be dictated by logic and
reason. So she eventually comes to the conclusion that letting the Cluster destroy Earth
would be illogical.
 Good Costume Switch: It took a while after joining the Crystal Gems officially, but after
reforming from being poofed in "Reunited", her appearance in "Change Your Mind" has the
Crystal Gem star symbol and some new Cool Shades.
 Good Feels Good: She has difficulty apologizing after hurting Amethyst's feelings, but
feels much better emotionally after doing so.
Steven: How do you feel?
Peridot:...Big.

 Green and Mean: Is a green Gem, and doesn't care who she has to hurt to complete her
assignments. She loses this trait as she spends time with the Crystal Gems.
 Green-Eyed Monster: Becomes a bit jealous of Steven and Amethyst in "Too Short to
Ride" because they can shapeshift while she cannot.
  Harmless Villain: Without her "limb enhancers" or access to death traps, her most
dangerous attack is a slap, and as seen in "Too Far", she can be restrained with a "child
leash" tied to a fence post.
 Hartman Hips: Is drawn with these in "Message Received" and "Kindergarten Kid". They
help make her look female but still fairly androgynous.
 Hates Being Called Cute: In "Catch and Release", one of the things she takes offence
about after being released from her bubble is that Steven said she was cute when he saw her
without her limb enhancers.
 Hazy Feel Turn: Eventually she teams up with the Crystal Gems so they can stop the
Cluster together; however, it's not because Peridot has suddenly had a change of heart and
come to regret her previous actions, but simply because when the Cluster hatches, everyone
on Earth will be screwed, and since Peridot can't get off planet, she's simply decided to save
her own skin by helping the Crystal Gems stop it. Then she completely burns her bridges
back to Homeworld, basically leaving them as her only allies.
 The Heavy: She is set up as the Arc Villain of the first season, having sent numerous
robots to Earth (the Red Eye and her Robonoids), though she is ultimately revealed to be a
mere technician who brings backup when things get really hairy. The second season focuses
on her as well, since the Gems know she's on Earth and can track her down.
 Heel–Face Turn: Reveals she's done this during "Message Received" when she argues
with Yellow Diamond that Earth and its life deserve to be spared destruction.
 Heroic BSoD: Peridot falls into a deep depression when Lapis leaves the Earth and
takes the barn with her into space.
 Hey, You!: Peridot usually addresses her enemies by insults instead of names, and
speaks impersonally about those she's on neutral terms with. This makes it very noticeable
when she finally calls Steven by his name, rather than calling him the Steven.
 Hidden Depths: Though she doesn't initially understand the point of music or singing, it
turns out Peridot has perfect pitch, since she easily identifies the notes Steven plays while
noodling around on his ukelele. He encourages her to write a song and she does so that
same evening.
 Home Sweet Home: As revealed in "Kindergarten Kid", bubbled items when sent away
return to where the sender considers "home". The Beta Kindergarten Gem monster Peridot
poofed and bubbled was sent to the barn she lives in with Lapis, showing she considers the
barn home.
 How Do I Shot Web?:
o Seems to have a rocky relationship with some of her limb enhancers' abilities: the
first time she uses her helicopter fingers, she stares at her hand in surprise, and her first use of
 her Arm Cannon tosses her off her feet and glance between it and the damage it did,
apparently surprised that it worked.
o As an Era 2 Peridot, she's deliberately made to be less powerful than earlier
model Gems, meaning that she can't do a number of things that other Gems can, such as
shapeshift or seemingly produce a weapon. She has, however, begun to figure out her metal-
manipulating powers.
 Hypocrite:
o Refers to humans as an "infestation" in a place where her people once used the
Earth to grow Gems like a space virus.
o She's angry at the Crystal Gems for destroying her robots, yet the very first
thing she does in her debut is stomping on one just because it was damaged and promptly
shutting down and abandoning the rest before fleeing when she realizes that the portal site
"might have been compromised".
o Makes quips about the Crystal Gems betraying Homeworld, even though she
was willing to betray Homeworld to save her own life.
o Peridot initially insists that the Crystal Gems follow Homeworld's Hive Caste
System, which dictates that Individuality Is Illegal aside from a select elite, while praise for her
individual accomplishments is something she covets.
o Prizes logic and rationality very highly, yet most of her decisions on Earth prior to
her Heel–Face Turn are motivated by a mixture of terror, revenge and spite (not counting direct
orders).
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 I Just Want to Be Special: As an Era 2 Peridot, she was was made without any special
powers so she was given her limb enhancers to compensate. Coupled with her very low
status on the Homeworld totem pole, this gives her a need to be seen as special and the best
which is partly what made her initial relationship with the Crystal Gems so strained.
 Innocent Bigot: Peridot treats Pearl very condescendingly in "Back to the Barn" because
Pearls are a made-to-order Servant Race on Homeworld, but (unlike most of her
mannerisms) there is no malice behind it. Then her pride is wounded at the idea of treating
Pearl as an equal, and the bigotry turns antagonistic. These exchanges show that while
Peridot did rebel against the Diamonds' authority for the sake of saving Earth, she's still
unlearning many bigoted Homeworld values.
  Innocently Insensitive: A reoccurring problem for Peridot is that she often has trouble
grasping when she says or does something that can be considered offensive or rude due to a
combination of No Social Skills and Homeworld beliefs.
o She accidentally hurts Amethyst's feelings by taking her new-found sense of
humor too far and can't grasp why she's angry when Steven tells her she was being "mean".
o She asks Garnet to unfuse because her perma-fused state makes Peridot
"uncomfortable", and is then left confused when her actions gets her a time out.
o And, perhaps most infamously, she shows excitement for Homeworld's original
plans to harvest Earth, ignoring the fact that such a plan would have killed every organic life
form on the planet. When the Crystal Gems point this out to her, she then says that Rose's
rebellion was ultimately pointless, since it led to the creation of the Cluster which almost gets
her crushed for her troubles.
o While likely rushed due to time constraints, another example occurs at the end
of "Same Old World" when she nonchalantly greets Lapis, the very Gem she interrogated and
dragged back to Earth after having been trapped in a mirror for thousands of years, without
even so much as offering an apology. And when she does try to apologize in "Barn Mates",
things don't go much better.
 Inopportune Voice Cracking: She's quite prone to this, due to her size and the ways she
can yell.
 Instant Expert: After once hearing Steven sing "do re mi fa sol la ti do", she instantly
associates the words with their notes, recognizes the chords he's playing on his
ukelele note  and even sings harmony with him after he tells her the names of the pitches she
should sing. She comes up with her own lyrics within hours. This from a character with zero
musical background, and who seemed not to have even been familiar with the concept of
music.
 Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!: Can use the fingers on her limb enhancers like
helicopter rotors.
 Insufferable Genius: In spite of her obnoxious behavior, Peridot is a skilled and
intelligent engineer.
 Ironic Name: Peridot is often associated with good luck, peace and success. However,
Peridot seems to have bad luck, failure and violence with the Crystal Gems. Becomes less
ironic after she defects and finally sees some peace after dealing with the Cluster and
befriending Lapis.
 Irony:
o Despite her idolization of the Diamonds and terror when she insults Yellow
Diamond, she was unknowingly insulting a Diamond every time she insulted Steven.
o Her demeaning Pearl and treating her like a servant but being herself intimidated
and cowed by Yellow Pearl (due to being Yellow Diamond's Pearl) is rather ironic in hindsight, as
Pearl is Pink Diamond's Pearl and thus the same rank as Yellow Pearl.
 It's All About Me: Peridot is extremely self-absorbed, which leads her to continually
underestimate the Gems. Even after defecting to aid the Crystal Gems, she thinks mainly of
her own needs. Many of her childlike behaviors, particularly her temper, stem from her over-
inflated ego. This is not to say Peridot is incapable of putting others above herself; she is just
not used to having others who are willing to do the same for her. The same behavior extends
to her admitting something personal or that she had been wrong about something.
 Jerkass: She's childish, apathetic towards others, and has a habit of taunting her
enemies with wacky faces and degrading insults such as "clod" or "infestation". However, as
her time and interactions with the Crystal Gems and Steven have increased, she has slowly
(emphasis on slowly) been acting less jerkish.
 Jerkass Has a Point: Peridot is bratty, callous, and insensitive... but she makes a few
good points once in a while.
o In "Back to the Barn", Pearl insists she doesn't belong to anyone, but Peridot's
comments do call attention to how Pearl's selfless dedication toward Rose could arguably be
described as slavish.
o In "It Could've Been Great", while Peridot was in the wrong for disrespecting
Rose in front of the Crystal Gems, she was technically right that the rebellion only inspired the
creation of the Cluster and merely delayed Earth's destruction.
o In "Log Date 7 15 2", Peridot wondered if all biological creatures on Earth can fly
and tried to see if Greg could... by pushing him from a roof. When Garnet scolds her for her
actions, Peridot accurately replies that she really didn't know.
o In "Gem Drill", when she and Steven are using the titular drill to get to the center
of the Earth to try and save the world, they're attacked by some of the monstrous fusion
mutants. Steven starts to empathize with them and says that they don't deserve to be treated
like this... but Peridot accurately points out that there's nothing they can do.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Eventually proves she's this in "Message Received", where
her growing friendships with the Crystal Gems causes her to plead with Yellow Diamond to
spare the local populace of Earth from being destroyed, proposing an alternative plan that
would allow Gems and humans to coexist. When she is turned down, she promptly cements
her loyalty to the Crystal Gems over Yellow Diamond by calling her a Clod and joining the
Gems. She loses most of her Jerkass qualities in Future.
  Juggling Loaded Guns: Does this with the rejuvenator in the movie, though luckily,
Bismuth grabs it before she hits herself in the face with it.
 Kick the Dog:
o Remorselessly crushes a damaged Robonoid (one of the spherical repair-bots)
that just fixed the Homeworld warp pad underneath her foot after it somewhat pleadingly
gripped her leg, providing a stark contrast to the usual general characterization of the show,
even Lapis.
o She tries to kill Steven in her next appearance, for no other reason than he
happened to be there. He gave no indication that he intended to interfere, and she didn't even
know he was a Gem.
o She refers to Steven as a "hybrid abomination" right in front of him, even though
it was him who freed her and shows her the most kindness of the Crystal Gems.
o She and Lapis perform a dual one in "The New Crystal Gems" by telling Connie
(who has various self esteem issues) that she will probably let Steven down after he asked her
to defend Beach City.
 Killed Mid-Sentence: Garnet poofs her in the middle of a sentence in "Catch and
Release", and when she regenerates, she finishes the sentence as if no time had passed.
 Kindness Button: Steven is able to win her over by simply treating her with respect by
accepting her scientific knowledge without a doubt. This action increases her slowly growing
trust towards the hero.
 The Klutz: While she's usually pretty good at handling objects that she isn't actively
trying to destroy, she has trouble moving at speed and often runs on her hands and feet like
an animal/small child; in "Hit the Diamond" she manages to trip over twice in quite a short
distance, eventually deciding to run on all fours because running on two feet proved
impossible.
 Knight of Cerebus: While it's not as apparent as Jasper or Yellow Diamond, her
appearance shows the audience that Homeworld Gems are a much more serious and
persistent threat than Lapis was.
 Lack of Empathy:
o She crushes a Robonoid for being broken without any remorse.
o In "Marble Madness", she refers to "Stevens" (and by extension humans, who
she believes "Stevens" to have supplanted) as an infestation.
o This seems to even extend to other Gems, or at least one she considers her
enemy, given how nonchalantly she discussed the Fused Gem experiments. She also laughs at
corrupted Gems, stunned that such twisted creatures were once Gem warriors.
o Averted after she undergoes Character Development. While she still has trouble
expressing it, she does seem to genuinely care about others and mainly has trouble because
she has the social skills of a towel rack.
 Large Ham: Her Character Development may have removed the "evil" from the Evil Is
Hammy part of her personality, but she has more than kept the ham part.
 Last-Name Basis: Initially calls Lapis Lazuli "Lazuli" while everyone else calls her
"Lapis". She's switched to Lapis by "Beta", showing how much closer they'd grown.
 Laughably Evil: Peridot has her moments of comic relief, but was thoroughly merciless
when working on her mission for Homeworld. She slowly becomes more and more humorous
as the mission falls apart around her, to the point where she spends a few episodes
in Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain territory.
 Laughing Mad: When fleeing the Crystal Gems in "Keeping It Together". Apparently
being stuck on Earth is getting to her. Gets at its worst in "Log Date 7 15 2", after the weight
of her insulting her leader and becoming a traitor hits her and she briefly cracks, jumping
wildly between neurotic babbling and hysterical laughter.
 Leader Wannabe:
o Hilariously, an offhand joke reveals that Peridot thought of herself as the leader of
the Crystal Gems. As you'd expect, Pearl has a natural response to that comment.
o Her social media account, both In-Universe and official Twitter account, has her
described as the leader of the Crystal Gems.
 Leitmotif: "Peridot" , a clinical- and artificial-sounding piece befitting her methodical
nature. As of "Catch and Release", it's been remastered  into a lighter, almost chiptune-
esque piece befitting her new look and heightened Not So Stoic and Adorkable traits.
 Life-or-Limb Decision: In "Friend Ship", she cuts her foot off to escape the Crystal Gems
after Steven grabs her by it. It actually wasn't her real foot, though she's still upset at having
to sacrifice it.
 Literal-Minded: Peridot tends to take things told to her literally, thus making common
phrases a confusing affair for her. Such as when given her tablet and told she could post her
thoughts on a social media site in "up to 140 characters", she comments that's a lot of
people, and later tweets asking where these people are. And on her Twitter account, she
mentions getting an unexpected pizza delivered to the barn. After finding out what money is
and informing the delivery person of her lack of funds, they mention it's on the house. Peridot
then tweets that it's not on the house, it's in her hands.
 Little Green Men:
o Her coloration, short stature, scientific mind, and extraterrestrial origin can be
seen a reference to the classic idea of the Little Green Men. The iconic "alien head" symbol is a
minor motif for Peridot, appearing on her tape recorder and a pair of boxers she puts on.
o In "Too Short to Ride", Steven and Amethyst take her to Funland, where she
sees a large stuffed alien at one of the games and instantly falls in love with it. This desire for it
is what kickstarts the main plot of Peridot trying to unlock her Gem powers after Amethyst uses
her shapeshifting to score in the game, and the episode ends with her using her newly-
discovered ferrokinesis to win it.
 Living Emotional Crutch: Deconstructed. She is this to Lapis, as Peridot makes it her job
to keep the ocean Gem happy no matter what happens. But this arrangement means
Peridot's own feelings have gone ignored, Lapis' issues haven't actually been addressed,
and when they finally have a major disagreement they lack any ability to communicate about
it.
 Locked in the Bathroom: "Catch and Release" ends with her holding up in Steven's
bathroom, refusing to come out until a thunderstorm forces her to do so early in the next
episode.
 Locked Out of the Loop:
o When she first encounters the Crystal Gems in "Marble Madness", she seemed
to have no idea who they were, implying that she only learned the details of the Gem War
afterwards. She might still only know a small part of what happened on Earth, as she mentions
reading through several hundred years of the Gems' archives to find out all she could about her
assignment, but the closest she comes to acknowledging the existence of the rebellion is
"When it became clear that Earth was no longer a viable colony–".
o She has no idea about what Lapis and Jasper have been up to at any point
between the end of "Jail Break" and the beginning of "Super Watermelon Island".
 Magitek: Peridot relies on both utilizing her intellectual talent for technology and
engineering along with the semi-magical powers provided to all Gems.
 The Man Behind the Man: The Red Eye was a probe that she sent to Earth.
 Manchild: Her character development has at least removed the psychopathic part, if not
the manchild part, of Psychopathic Manchild. She constantly acts like a Bratty Half-
Pint despite her attempts to be taken seriously, though the Crystal Gems (Steven and
Amethyst in particular) take it in stride.
 Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Acts as one towards Lapis Lazuli, causing some Ship
Tease between the two.
 Master of the Mixed Message: Switching sides has not done a favor to Peridot's sanity.
Trying to get a consistent understanding of Peridot's mindset is a messy, confusing, affair as
 she expects everyone to know what she wants when even she doesn't know that. She is a
contrarian, lost on an alien world with a shattered mindset of right and wrong. She isn't even
satisfied when others do exactly what she tells them to do.
Peridot: Are you ready to drill down into the planet, to depths never before reached by your species, to stop the
Cluster and save your world?
Steven: I don't know!
Peridot: Don't say that! Say "We'll do this together and it's gonna be great!"
Steven: We're gonna do this together and it's gonna be great!
Peridot: LIAR!

 Meaningful Name:
o It was once believed that dreaming about peridot was a sign of coming danger...
exactly what Peridot signals when she's the first Homeworld Gem on Earth since the war. Even
later on, she's the one who reveals the Cluster is scheduled to destroy the Earth.
o She is rather alien in mannerisms and appearance compared to the Crystal
Gems, and even by her fellow Homeworld Gems Jasper and Lapis Lazuli. Real peridots can be
found in meteorites, and are surprisingly common on Mars, thus making them alien to Earth.
o Her Sanity Slippage while stranded on Earth for a long time may also allude to
peridot gems being chemically unstable on Earth's surface.
o Peridot is also a gem believed to be beneficial to interpersonal relationships,
being able to ease stress, rage, and jealousy. So, it is fitting that in "Friend Ship", her actions
unintentionally end up mending and strengthening the bonds between the feuding Pearl and
Garnet, as well as being able to mend her own mangled relationship with the Crystal Gems
from "It Could've Been Great" by pleading with Yellow Diamond to spare the Earth and
eventually renouncing her allegiance to Homeworld in "Message Received".
o The peridot gemstone being a symbol of success became a lot less ironic
after "Gem Drill", where it was a modification she'd insisted on including that kept the mission
from failing.
o Peridotite, which she points out being made of in "Gem Drill", has enhanced
magnetic properties compared to other rocks because of its iron and magnesium content.
o In "Kindergarten Kid", Peridot displays incredible physical durability, not
poofing once despite the abuse she goes through, and says that "Us Peridots are tougher than
we look" when Steven lampshades it. Peridot can have a hardness of up to 7 on the Mohs
hardness scale, as tough as quartz.
 Mental Picture Projector: Is able to create a holographic tablet by forming a border with
four of her fingers on her limb enhancers, using the remaining finger as a stylus.
 Moral Myopia: She doesn't care at all that all life on the planet would've been destroyed
had the Rebellion not defeated the Homeworld forces, or that the only reason it's in trouble
now is the Homeworld's doing. Her only concern is for all the Gems that could have been
born on the colony, as well as the expansion of their empire. She's slowly getting better in
that regard through interactions with the Crystal Gems, to the point she argues with Yellow
Diamond that there are things on Earth worth protecting.
Peridot: Steven, I'm sorry I couldn't save you or the billions of other lifeforms who matter far, far less to me.

 Ms. Exposition: Peridot has provided a treasure trove of new information, from
confirmation of fan theories (i.e. the Great Diamond Authority) to explaining the relevance of
Jasper's exposition from Season 1 and finally establishing Homeworld Politics. In
fact, rewatching Season 1 provides a lot of hints as to things that will become more relevant
later on in the series (such as the existence of the Kindergarten and the Cluster).
 Mundane Utility: The first thing Peridot does with her newfound ferrokinesis is to cheat at
the ring toss to win a giant alien plush, and Steven also rattles off other mundane uses.
 My God, What Have I Done?: A rare positive example: Peridot asks herself this question
when she can't believe she called Yellow Diamond a clod.
 The Napoleon: She's not very tall and is initially very hyperactive and aggressive.
 Nerdy Nasalness: Peridot speaks in a nasal voice, befitting her decidedly awkward
social nature and fascination with earthly things.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the "In-Between" to Connie's
"Nice" and Lapis's "Mean" — she's not as friendly or sensitive as Connie, but is more
sociable than the aloof Lapis.
 Nightmare Fetishist: In "It Could've Been Great", Peridot is awestruck by the Diamond
Authority's plan for Earth, which angers and horrifies the Crystal Gems. Full colonization
would have covered Earth's surface with Gem structures and riddled the planet with chasms,
transforming it into a disfigured, lifeless husk.
Peridot: 89 kindergardens, 67 spires, a galaxy warp in each facet, efficient use of all available materials. What
were you thinking, shutting this operation down? It could've been great!

 Non-Action Guy: When she learns that the Crystal Gems are alive, she brings Jasper
along to deal with them. When she's confronted by Steven, Pearl, and Amethyst, she is
subdued almost immediately after Steven blocks her gem disruptor. Though she does better
in "Keeping It Together", showing she does have some combat capability as well
as unique traveling skills, she still isn't a match for the Crystal Gems, and flees as soon as
she can rather than engage them actively. However, by "Friend Ship" she's perfectly willing to
fight them directly if necessary and even devises a deathtrap that very nearly
 succeeds. "Catch and Release" shows that all of these abilities stem from her Artificial Limbs.
Without them, she's not even a match for Steven when he's not using any of his Gem
powers. "Too Short to Ride" reveals that due to resource shortages on Homeworld she was
intentionally made to be a non-action guy, lacking traditional Gem powers like Super
Strength, shapeshifting, and weapon generation.
 No Pronunciation Guide: Generally, "peridot" is pronounced with a silent or audible 't'.
The show always uses the latter, probably because the harder sound fits her logical
personality. Ronaldo tries to specify which in the Keep Beach City Weird book, so presumably
both pronunciations exist in-universe when not talking about the character.
 No Social Skills:
o Peridot's completely unable to understand why Amethyst is mad at her in "Too
Far", among other things in that episode, with the implication being that she has little practice.
o She shouts that Garnet is "filthy" because of her permafused nature, then —
mere days later — is bemused by Garnet's anger when Peridot asks her to unfuse. Peridot
doesn't understand that politely worded requests can still be offensive, or why Garnet would
connect such a request to her earlier insult. (The viewer can see that Garnet is angry because
Peridot is still acting on her oppressive beliefs — just in a different way.)
o In "It Could've Been Great", she gushes over the Diamond Authority's plan to
ravage Earth, oblivious as to why this angers the Crystal Gems.
o She has absolutely no idea how to apologise and make it seem sincere to Lapis
in "Barn Mates", even though she is genuinely sorry.
 Not Helping Your Case: One of the major manifestations of Peridot's No Social Skills,
especially highlighted in "It Could've Been Great" with her saying that the rebellion only
delayed the Earth's destruction, and "Message Received" with her plan to argue with Yellow
Diamond for sparing the Earth, is that she has a tendency to make legitimate points in a way
that doesn't make the listener very receptive or leads to them misinterpreting it. In "Barn
Mates", this ends up being half the reason she has difficulty making friends with Lapis,
seeing as how she doesn't get that invoking logical reasons they're no longer enemies are
not apologies.
 Not Quite Flight:
o During the events of "Beach City Drift", Peridot gets to the roof of the barn by
riding a trash can lid.
o She's much more capable with the technique in "Change Your Mind", even being
capable of levitating herself and Connie with a trash can lid (with Connie hanging from the
bottom) with relative ease.
 Not So Different:
o Despite believing herself to be superior to Pearl, it's obvious they share the same
insecurities, are of a low social station in Homeworld life, are quite intelligent and put on a smug
haughty attitude to hide it all.
o Acknowledges she's not so different (in this case "no better") than the "defective
Crystal Gems" during her apology to Amethyst in "Too Far".
o Invokes this with her speech to Lapis in "Barn Mates", pointing out that the other
Gem's situation — virtually alone, confused, cut off from home — is exactly like where she had
been not too long ago. It didn't work, but points for trying.
o To Amethyst, with both being of poorer quality compared to other Gems of their
kind (Amethyst due to staying too long underground and Peridot being intentionally made that
way due to dwindling resources on Homeworld).
o To Pink Diamond. Both of them grow to love the Earth after spending time on it
and observing its life, and have an almost-identically worded Heel Realization concerning Gem
production there. They even both attempt to convince Yellow Diamond to spare the planet
(although due to her curious nature, Peridot makes more of an effort to interact with humanity
and its culture more than Pink Diamond ever did).
 Not Worth Killing: When the Rubies arrive in "Hit the Diamond", Peridot believes they
were sent to capture or kill her. It turns out they were sent to retrieve Jasper, and dismiss
Peridot as a failure. Either Homeworld (and Yellow Diamond in particular) no longer see her
as worth trying to kill after the initial attempt to blow her up, or the Rubies are too dumb to
realize that Yellow Diamond might want Peridot brought back for punishment in addition to
finding Jasper.
    O-T 

 Obliviously Evil: Her sense of morality is initially limited to "What would make the Gem
Empire greater?", and she's confused that anyone would have any priority higher than that.
She's a definite product of her environment and capable of changing... even if it's an
incredibly slow pace.
o Even after her Heel–Face Turn, she still shows signs of this, in particular her
relationship with Lapis. It's no longer needed or productive to remain enemies, and she feels
genuinely apologetic for her callous treatment of Lapis, so what gives?
 Odd Couple: With Lapis, after they got along more after becoming Roomates (well,
Barnmates technically).
 Odd Friendship: With both Steven and Amethyst. Peridot prizes logic and rationality;
Steven and Amethyst are both very much in touch with their emotions.
 Open Mouth, Insert Foot:
o In "It Could've Been Great", she manages to do this on the Homeworld Moon
Base by gushing over how awesome the planned Earth Gem colony would've been had the
rebellion failed. Note that this would've completely hollowed the interior of the planet and made it
completely inhospitable to life as we know it. When the Crystal Gems became understandably
upset, she then proceeded to badmouth Rose by mentioning that the Cluster wouldn't have
been seeded on Earth were it not for the success of the rebellion. Garnet nearly beats her then
and there for that last one.
o During her confrontation with Yellow Diamond in "Message Received", Peridot
impulsively calls her boss a clod when she continually insists on destroying Earth with The
Cluster. The result of this action ends up making her a traitor to Homeworld and forces her to
become an official Crystal Gem.
 Overarching Villain: In the first season, she was the one who sent the Red Eye to Earth,
and she keeps trying to reactivate the kindergarten. At the end of the season, she's trapped
on Earth with the Crystal Gems, becoming the main recurring villain at the beginning of
season 2. Eventually, she's forced to form an uneasy truce with the Crystal Gems.
 The Paranoiac: She knows so little about Earth that she wonders if pretty
much everything is a weapon. She also rightfully fears for her life by being trapped on Earth,
because the Cluster she was sent to check on is going to destroy the whole planet.
 Perpetual Frowner: She has a distinctive M-shaped frown almost constantly. She loses
this trait as she befriends the Crystal Gems and begins understanding her own emotions
better.
 Pet the Dog:
o In "When It Rains", she claims responsibility for Steven and her being in the
Kindergarten to the Crystal Gems, telling them "He was only following orders".
o In "Back to the Barn", she acknowledges and compliments Pearl on her technical
and engineering capabilities.
o In "Too Far", she leaps into danger to save Amethyst from the runaway drill head
and apologizes to Amethyst for unknowingly hurting her feelings while they were in the
Kindergarten.
o In "Message Received", despite having the opportunity to rat out the Crystal
Gems to Yellow Diamond for keeping her stranded on Earth, she takes the heat and tries to
convince her monarch to terminate the Cluster in order to save her friends' lives as well as the
people of Earth.
 Plucky Comic Relief: After her first impression as a sinister, chilling villainous character,
in subsequent appearances she gets progressively goofier, many of her antics being played
for laughs. By the time of her Heel–Face Turn she's easily the most cartoony and comical of
 the Gems, and most of the episodes featuring her tend to have her in a comic relief role.
(Unless she's the main focus of that particular episode, in which case she'll still be mainly
played for laughs but get some really emotional parts too.)
 Politically Incorrect Hero: Even after joining up with the Gems, she still has her Fantastic
Racism streak. Steven's trying to help her diminish this trait.
 Poor Communication Kills: Was pretty blatant and adamant that she still wanted to make
contact with Yellow Diamond even after bonding with the Crystal Gems. The Gems took this
to mean that Peridot wanted to ask for reinforcements to help destroy the Earth. Peridot
actually wanted to ask Yellow Diamond to spare the planet, as she trusts her superior to
listen to logic and reasoning. This trope is actually one of Peridot's biggest character flaws,
and one of the main reasons for her post-truce conflicts with the Crystal Gems; even when
she's trying to be nice, she is extremely bad at explaining herself in ways that others can
understand.
 Post-Peak Oil: She laments she doesn't resemble the first generations of Peridots.
Homeworld is running out of resources and cannot make gems like they used to. This is
somewhat subverted, while half true, without limb enhancers she outwardly lacks strength,
little Peri makes up for it with her untold psychic powers.
 Power Incontinence: "Beta" and "Earthlings" shows that she has trouble using her Extra
Oredinary powers reliably, but as the show goes further along, she gets more of a handle on
it.
 Power Trio: Among the Crystal Gems, she forms one with Lapis and Bismuth. The three
serve as the reinforcements for Steven during the Diamond Days event, and she lets Connie
join them in the sky by flying around on a trash can lid.
 Promotion to Opening Titles: She's prominently featured in the opening title as of Steven
Universe: Future.
 Psychopathic Womanchild: Peridot is one of the youngest full Gems known, but still
much older than any human. You wouldn't guess that from the way she interrupts battle with
childish insults and complaints about the Crystal Gems breaking her stuff. She even parrots
an Eyelid Pull Taunt from Steven once.
 Punch-Clock Villain:
o Peridot has no qualms about destroying the Earth or attacking the Crystal Gems,
but doesn't relish it either, seeing it more like a bothersome task. She just wants to do her job
and leave, not deal with the situation she ended up in.
"'Go to Earth,' they said. 'It'll be easy,' they said."
o She shows a more malicious side of this trope after getting stuck on Earth. It's
obvious that she is taking the Crystal Gems repeatedly keeping her from doing her job and
going home very personally. However, this is because she knows that the Cluster is due to
hatch soon, and she does not want to be anywhere near Earth when that happens.
 Race Name Basis: Her full designation is Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG; but due to being
the only Peridot currently residing on Earth, she's become accustomed to simply being called
"Peridot".
 Redemption Demotion: Her Heel–Face Turn began with her losing her powers with her
enhancements. In fact, it's part of the reason she was able to make friends with Steven in the
first place. Played with, since it's more of a Discard and Draw.
 Redemption Equals Affliction: Loses her powered limb enhancers, and almost half her
height, in the leadup to her Heel–Face Turn.
 Redemption in the Rain: Literally, she decides to actively work with Steven after he
brings her out into the rain; and she "feels" nature for the first time.
 Redemption Promotion: While she lost her enhancements with her Heel–Face Turn, she
only discovers her unique, useful power after joining the Gems, and given the catalyst and
the fact none of her kind figured that out before means she probably wouldn't have. This
ferrokinesis has been getting stronger as she's trained with it, to the point of likely being
even stronger than her old limb enhancers, given she's able to tug of war with one of Lapis'
water arms.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: Becomes the Red Oni for Lapis Lazuli's Blue Oni as the two live
together inside a barn. Hyperactive and very immaturely open-minded, she shines out the
drought of brooding behavior that Lapis culminates after sealing Jasper for several months.
 Reformed, but Not Tamed: Even as a Crystal Gems, Peridot maintains pretty heavy
assumptions about other Gems. When Amethyst is sore about losing to Jasper, Peridot's
idea to cheer her up is to insult Jasper based on the circumstances of her birth. Peridot can
also still be tremendously callous toward those she doesn't consider her friends,
finding Corrupt Gems worthy of mockery and derision until Steven convinces her otherwise.
 Reformed, but Rejected: Even after her Heel–Face Turn and her attempts to make
amends with Lapis Lazuli in "Barn Mates", Peridot still gets rejected by the latter. They
manage to strike up a friendship offscreen, and are on much better terms in "Beta".
 Resistance Is Futile: Paraphrased with more annoyance than the usual cold
malevolence.
"I'm doing this one way or another, you're just making it really difficult!"
  Rewind, Replay, Repeat: In "Log Date 7 15 2", she repeatedly rewinds to the section of
her log where she calls herself a "traitorous clod".
 Robot Girl: Peridot is distinctly robotic initially, in contrast to other Gems who are organic
(or at least elemental). She wears artificial "limb enhancers" over her forearms and calves
that give her access to a broad range of tech-based abilities, ranging from forming a
touchscreen and stylus out of her fingers to the Tractor Beam concealed in her "palm", and
wears a clear green visor over her face. Even her voice sounds robotic at first, but it gets less
so when she gets riled up. She starts showing a more emotive side after "Jail Break" (well,
frustration and arrogance initially), and becomes noticeably more feeling while working with
the Crystal Gems.
 Robot Hair: Peridot's hair is pyramid shaped, producing a diamond-shaped silhouette
from most angles. It's so rigidly geometric that it's often mistaken for a Cool Helmet, but locks
of hair are visible near her chin and she runs her fingers through it in frustration in "Catch and
Release". By "When It Rains", it's started to fray at the points, possibly symbolizing her Heel–
Face Turn.
 Running on All Fours: Once her limb enhancers are removed, she does this
occasionally, usually when too scared to remain stable on her legs alone.
 Sanity Slippage:
o If the way she was Laughing Mad as she escaped in "Keeping It Together" is any
indication, her constant failures as well as being stranded on Earth are starting to take a toll.
She actually fears for her life, because the Cluster is going to destroy the planet if it hatches.
o Ironically, while her mental state levels out a bit after she agrees to work with the
Crystal Gems to stop the Cluster, this is the point where she starts considering herself to be
going insane, because things like working with the Crystal Gems should be unthinkable for her.
o She goes through an even more spectacular breakdown in the first few seconds
of "Log Date 7 15 2", swinging from serious, to terror, to self-loathing, to Laughing Mad, to My
God, What Have I Done?, to a gamut of other emotions after calling Yellow Diamond a clod.
o Lapis leaving the Earth and bringing the barn with her into space takes a massive
hit to Peridot's mental well-being.
 Science Hero: After her Heel–Face Turn, Peridot joins up with the Crystal Gems.
However, since she's not great with her one superpower, she relies heavily on her brain
power.
 Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Her basic reaction to danger, even after she Took a Level
in Badass, is to evacuate as quickly as possible. Which makes sense, as in
 Homeworld's Hive Caste System, Peridots are engineers/technicians, not warriors, so she
wasn't trained in combat.
 Security Blanket: Not only is she practically defenseless without her limb enhancers,
she's a lot more timid in general, implying that they give her more confidence. When Steven
returns the foot she sacrificed to get away in "Friend Ship" near the end of "Catch and
Release", she clings to it for the rest of the episode and jerks it away when Steven asks if
she doesn't want it. She later shows similar attachment to a tape recorder and tablet Steven
gives her.
 Seriously Scruffy: Her hair begins to look less and less like a perfect triangle the longer
she stays on Earth. Most of the time, her hair is either a perfect triangle, or a triangle with
corners that fold in on itself.
 Servant Race: Like Pearls, Peridots seem to be created to serve a specific role (namely,
technicians and engineers), like how the former were created to be made-to-order servants
for other Gems, and that they're barely higher on the Homeworld hierarchy. Further hinted at
in "Hit the Diamond", where it's revealed that despite arguing with, openly disobeying, and
calling her leader a "clod", Homeworld has no interest in searching her out for
termination/capture, only for information in regards to the location of the much higher-ranking
Jasper.
 Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: She tends to do this when describing items. A
screwdriver is a "leverage optimizer", something out of her reach is "outside her radius", a
nose is a "scent sponge", an eye is a "vision sphere", fingers are "touch stumps", feet are
"gravity connectors", and a butt is a butt.
 Shock and Awe: She can manipulate electricity. When Amethyst bound her with her
whip, she sent feedback down the whip and nearly shocked Amethyst. She tries it again
in "Catch and Release", but Garnet grabs the whip with her gauntlets to block the charge
then sends her own right back. She loses this ability in the same episode after Amethyst
dumps her limb enhancers in the ocean. Ironically, she was originally terrified of
thunderstorms.
 Sickly Green Glow: Another recurring theme of hers. Whenever she appears, she's often
bathed in a sickly greenish light emanating from her technology. Her spaceship glowed
enough to turn all of Beach City a pale yellow-green. Her escape pod, meanwhile, was
discovered when Steven and the Cool Kids saw it glowing on the horizon.
 Sigil Spam: In the movie, her new robonoids all have replicas of her Cool Shades.
 Signature Laugh: "Nyeh heh heh heh heh!"
 Sixth Ranger: After insulting Yellow Diamond, she has no other choice but to become an
official Crystal Gem.
  Skewed Priorities:
o She is deeply terrified of the Cluster, and knows she will die if it emerges. This
does not stop her from repeatedly antagonizing the only people who are helping her to stop it,
and demanding that they waste (more) time on a pointless contest that has already delayed
their Cluster-destroying project by a day.
o When she lays out the attributes of a fully completed, operational Gem
colony, she has no idea why the Crystal Gems are so opposed to such a thing. After all, it
would mean the creation of thousands, if not millions of Gems and efficiently provide resources
for the expansion of the Gem Empire, and all it would cost is the complete and total destruction
of the Earth's natural ecosystem and all life in it!
 Small Name, Big Ego: Despite knowingly being a small cog in a very rigid caste based
system, Peridot managed to grow an extremely inflated opinion of herself. While initially it
was an obvious villainous trait, in an interesting turn one of the positive effects of being stuck
on Earth and then joining the Crystal Gems seems to be that it allows her ego to run free in
an open environment: it caused some bristling at first, but the Gems are tolerant and
understanding of her self-aggrandizing as long as she doesn't antagonize anyone, whereas
everyone we ever see her interact with from Homeworld is belittling and dismissive towards
her and her opinions, hinting that her Small Name, Big Ego attitude is a defense mechanism
to hide her insecurities, particularly being such a small cog and one made intentionally
weaker than "Era 1" Peridots at that. It also takes an unusually positive turn when she
spends a few episodes convinced she's considered a notorious criminal on Homeworld for
mouthing off to Yellow Diamond, only to discover a lowly Peridot isn't worth any trouble to
Homeworld no matter what, with their efforts instead focused retrieving Jasper.
 The Smart Guy: Initially filled this role as the most knowledgeable about the Cluster and
due to her role as a Gadgeteer Genius alongside Pearl. Later she fills this role via
her Gadgeteer Genius status alone.
 Smug Snake: She's clever enough to lure the Gems into a death trap, but she botches it
by indulging in Evil Gloating and relying on ancient tech that she doesn't really know how to
work.
 The Snark Knight: At the end of "Too Far", she rants over that everyone and everything
on Earth is annoying and makes no sense to her... right before she chastises herself over
failing her mission, and made the coward's choice of banding with the enemy, followed by an
apology to Amethyst stating that she (Peridot) is the real defective.
 Spanner in the Works: Had she not come to Earth and met Steven, she would have
never revealed the Cluster to the Crystal Gems and no one would have known that Earth was
going to be destroyed.
  Squishy Wizard: She's not much of a fighter, but she has a lot of tricks up her sleeve to
help her get out of combat. Subverted on the defensive end, as Peridots turn out to
be much harder to poof than other Gems.
 Starter Villain: She was the first directly antagonistic Gem (Lapis Lazuli being a passive
villain who just wanted to go home, and gem monsters being mindless), and was initially
made out to be cold-hearted and almost robotic, the exemplar of what Homeworld meant for
Earth, and the Crystal Gems smash the Galaxy Warp just so she won't come back. And then
she appears alongside Jasper, who effortlessly dethrones her from being the largest threat,
and becomes increasingly ineffectual as she is stranded on Earth, and her greatest talent
turns out to be getting out of dodge before the Crystal Gems can catch her. She avoids the
normal fate of starter villains by having a Heel–Face Turn and getting a Redemption
Promotion to important secondary character.
 Still Wearing the Old Colors: Peridot became a Crystal Gem at the end of Season 2, and
still has Yellow Diamond's insignia until "Change Your Mind". Possibly justified, as Peridot
has confessed an inability to shapeshift, and hasn't had to reform herself since her defection.
She mentions having to change her appearance in "Log Date 7 15 2" during her Freak Out,
though:
Peridot: So am I gonna have to wear a star? Where am I going to put the star?!

o In "Change Your Mind", after reforming, she now bears the Crystal Gem star
proudly.
 The Straight Man: To Steven's cheerful disposition.
Steven: Hi, I'm Steven.
Peridot: [narrows eyes and goes back to speak into recorder] There seems to be an infestation of "Stevens" in
the Kindergarten.
Steven: Aw, I'm not so bad once you get to know me.

 Sunglasses at Night: Peridot's first form has a green-shaded visor that she never took
off. They look practically melded to her face and Peridot can't shapeshift without reforming,
so it's possible she couldn't take them off. Her second form has Triangular Shades she also
wears constantly, though she can and does take them off once in "In Dreams".
 Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Unlike Pearl, Peridot is exactly as weak as you'd
expect for an artificial lifeform not meant for combat, and her durability makes sense for a
technician who's job involves working around potentially dangerous equipment and
machinery. Except then she finds out she can control metal, a power she was never
designed to have.
 Super Toughness: As "Kindergarten Kid" reveals, even if (Era-2) Peridots aren't strong
or fast like some Gems, they're still very hard to poof. Garnet must have squeezed
her really hard in "Catch and Release".
 Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Invoked in "The New Crystal Gems". In an attempt to
protect Beach City while the Crystal Gems are away, she, Lapis, Pumpkin, and Connie
decide to mimic them. In this team, Peridot becomes the "new" Garnet complete with Cool
Shades.
 Take a Third Option: Tries to do this by convincing Yellow Diamond the Earth's
ecosystem has the potential to be more valuable than the Cluster and they don't need to
harm the native population. It doesn't work, but she tried.
 Taking the Heat: Takes all blame for her ship's destruction to protect the Crystal Gems.
 Technically Naked Shapeshifter: Like other gems, her clothes are part of her projected
form. In a strange twist, since Peridot actually can't shapeshift except when replacing her
body entirely, and her clothing is "melded to [her] body", it's implied she cannot change out of
her clothes (at least without damaging them). If she wants to wear something else, she has
to wear it on top of her regular clothes. This actually makes normal clothing a novelty to
Peridot, as she's seen enjoying wearing boxer shorts and accidentally implies she stole some
of Steven's clothes for herself.
 Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Is engaging in this with the Crystal Gems minus Steven,
whom she is becoming fond of. Over time, however, her interactions with the rest of the
Gems become a lot more friendly, and she eventually renounces her loyalty to Yellow
Diamond after she refuses to listen to the benefits of using the resources of Earth without
destroying the local populace, and joins the Crystal Gems soon afterwards.
 The Thing That Would Not Leave: Lapis sees Peridot as one of these in "Barn
Mates" due to Steven having said that Lapis could live in the barn that Peridot had already
set up in. Peridot, determined not to become this in her efforts to make up with Lapis, opts to
leave the barn entirely before the Roaming Eye sends her screaming back to the barn.
 Thinking Out Loud: Frequently found speaking into some kind of recording device,
talking about what she's doing or her current objective. While it gives things away — the
Crystal Gems first learn her name from hearing her address one of said reports, and it's
acted twice as Foreshadowing, as she mentions both the Kindergarten and the Fused Gem
experiments before we know what either of them are — she also doesn't waste any time
with As You Know, making it fairly ambiguous what exactly she's up to. In Season 2, it's
beginning to look like her talking to herself is just a coping mechanism to deal with her
isolation on Earth.
  Tiny Tyrannical Girl: By far one of the most vicious Gems seen in the series, and also
one of the smallest without her limb enhancers. It helps that she's even more immature
than Amethyst could ever dream of being. She seems to be losing this trait as she spends
time with Steven and the Crystal Gems.
 Token Evil Teammate: Her nonchalantly cruel actions were what made her a clear villain
in the beginning, but as of "When It Rains", her team-up with the Crystal Gems to stop the
Cluster made her this for a time. Subverted later on when after insulting Yellow Diamond, she
joins them for real.
 Took a Level in Badass:
o After getting stuck on Earth, she starts to get more combat savvy when facing the
Crystal Gems. Compare her appearance in "Jail Break", when she was subdued easily once
Steven grabbed her destablizer, to "Friend Ship", where she's actively fighting them and even
lures them into a deathtrap. This lasts up until she loses her limb enhancers.
o She takes another two or three levels in "Message Received" when she calls
Yellow Diamond a clod to her face and joins the Crystal Gems as a direct result.
o Takes an extra impressive level in "Earthlings". She flat out tells Jasper that she's
joined the Crystal Gems, taunts her, and keeps trying to use her still-shaky ferrokinesis to
attack her. Jasper ignores her and her efforts are played for laughs... and then Jasper becomes
infected by The Corruption and attacks Steven. Guess who puts a three-foot metal spike
through Jasper's chest and poofs her?
o In "The New Crystal Gems", she has improved her metal powers to the point she
can pick up an entire car with them.
o She takes yet another one in "Reunited" when she manages to do her part in
helping the Crystal Gems beat Blue Diamond. Not only that, but when Yellow Diamond joins the
fight, she's the only Gem that isn't intimidated by her. Even running up and calling her a clod to
her face again. This time, without showing an ounce of fear afterwards.
o In "Change Your Mind", she shows up with Bismuth and Lapis Lazuli with her
powers more significantly improved, such that she saves Bismuth, and like before doesn't show
any fear at the idea of fighting a Diamond. This time being White Diamond — who was shown
to be The Dreaded to other Gems including the Diamonds, and who she had surely been aware
of.
 Took a Level in Kindness: Has come to respect Steven and treats him as an equal and
partner. And, though likely not totally shedding her Fantastic Racism, is willing to at least be
respectful toward Pearl and her skills as a technician and engineer, willing to work with her as
an equal instead of acting as her superior. Also, despite her initially logical reasoning behind
sparing Earth, her furious protest that there are things worth defending on Earth rings of a
 more emotional investment in, if not the planet, then in the Crystal Gems and their devotion
to it.
 To the Batpole!: Shouts something like this in "Beta"... despite it being completely
unnecessary.
 Tractor Beam: She can generate one from the left palm of her limb enhancers.
 Triangle Shades: She trades out her visor for a pair of pointed yellow sunglasses when
she reforms at some point between "Legs From Here to Homeworld" and "Change Your
Mind". Unlike her visor, they actually come off.
 Troubled Fetal Position: From time ◊ to ◊ time ◊.
 Tsundere: While Peridot is starting to warm to the Crystal Gems, she still has a long way
to go; she recognizes that she needs to at least understand them in order to efficiently work
to stop the Cluster, but whenever she gets exasperated she's prone of childish tantrums. It
seems to be result of having No Social Skills and expecting the other Gems to see things
with cold logic like she does, but she is learning to be more empathetic, and that not
everyone is going to see things the way she does, even if she has no idea why.
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 Unevil Laugh: It sounds like "nyeh heh heh heh heh!" and makes her sound dorky rather
than evil.
 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Downplayed but still present; Steven's list of the other
humans that he knew (Lars, Sadie, Connie, My Dad, The Mailman, and Onion) made its way
to the Diamonds through her report of the incident, thus prioritizing their capture by
Aquamarine and Topaz and indirectly resulting in Steven turning himself in in the guise of
Rose to get them to let his friends go.
 Useless Without Cell Phones:
o She seems completely lost without her limb enhancers and the software that
comes with it, completely confused as to what "rain" and "thunder" were.
o Until she discovers her ferrokinetic abilities, she lacked any real combat
capabilities due to being made without standard Gem abilities like shapeshifting or weapon
manifestation, and believed herself to be defined by her technology.
 Vague Age: Her comments in "When It Rains" indicate that she's one of the youngest
Gems seen in the show, having not been around for the war (Amethyst emerged soon
afterwards) and ignorant of the identities of the Crystal Gems until she met them. She wasn't
part of the Cluster experiments, having just read up on the past few hundred years of records
on it. Given Gems are The Ageless, this would place her anywhere from a few thousand
years old to just a few hundred, possibly less.
o Lapis does say to Connie "[Peridot and I] are thousands of years older than you,"
though it's not clear if this is an assumption on her part.
 Villain Decay: Her first appearance painted her as a cold, calculating, semi-robotic Gem
who'd stomp out defective units with no remorse. Compare that to the frenetic green
munchkin that can barely beat Steven in a slapfight.
 Villain: Exit, Stage Left:
o Gets into an escape pod and lands on Earth. Steven finds her escape pod in a
field near Beach City in "Joy Ride", though she's long gone by then.
o She tries this twice in "Keeping It Together". Though her attempt to get away via
a Wall Run up the Kindergarten's wall fails, her using her fingers as helicopter rotors is more
effective.
o "Friend Ship" starts off with her escaping the Gems because Pearl was a bit too
enthusiastic in trying to capture her. She still manages to get away at the end of the episode,
but has to sacrifice a foot since Steven grabbed onto her foot and tried to drag her down.
o "Catch and Release" has her do this twice: once when trying to leave via portal
and the other when she tries to use the toilet.
 Villainous Breakdown: Her entire presence in the series seems to be one of these since
she got to Earth, with her sanity gradually degrading and her anger growing more and more
with each appearance. By the time "Friend Ship" occurs, the once robotic Gem is prone to
setting death traps for the Crystal Gems and breaking out in peals of deranged
laughter. In "Catch and Release", she's seriously obsessed with getting off Earth at any cost,
because the Cluster that she was sent to check up on is something seriously bad. Doomsday
Device level of bad.
 Vocal Evolution: Her voice starts off fairly normal-sounding before gradually becoming
more nasal and high-strung after she loses her limb enhancers.
 Walking Spoiler: In a similar vein to Lapis Lazuli. Her appearance from the Gem
Homeworld is extremely distressing for the Crystal Gems, to the point that Garnet smashes
the warp pad she left from. Then her Enemy Mine brings with it another set of huge spoilers.
Her official Heel–Face Turn then gives her another set of spoilers.
 Wall Run: Runs straight up the Kindergarten wall in an attempt to get away from the
Crystal Gems.
 "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She seems really fixated on pleasing whoever she views as
above her (sans Jasper). She is obsessed with pleasing Yellow Diamond to the point of
worshiping her like a god, claiming that she is fully loyal to "her Diamond". She also behaves
similar towards Amethyst, who — from all Gems on Earth — would have the highest rank as
 a Quartz by Homeworld standards, including trying to please her whenever possible. Once
she insults Yellow Diamond and thus gets the Death Glare from her beloved master, she
starts having a disturbing Heroic BSoD.
 What Is This Feeling?: She is very confused when she begins to develop empathy, which
she simply describes as making her feel "smaller" when she's hurt someone, and feel "big"

when she apologizes and said apology is recognized. According to  Rebecca
Sugar, part of Peridot's character arc is becoming fascinated by her ability to care, as that
had been a blind spot to her before.
 When All You Have Is a Hammer...:
o On the one hand, she's practically defined by a strong pragmatic streak, but
she's terrible at thinking outside the box on her own, and this limits her to solutions that are
based solely on known facts.
o Ever since she unlocked metal control powers, she's been trying to apply them to
every task she faces.
 When She Smiles: The few smiles she's made that aren't based on spite are extremely
cute.
 Wimp Fight: Without her arm enhancers in "Catch and Release", her fighting style is
shown to be ineffectual slapping, nose flicks, and poorly thrown, easily avoided punches that
leave her flat on her face.
 Would Hurt a Child: Has no problem with trying to smash Steven to a pulp. In her
defense, it must be noted that she doesn't know what a child is.
 Yaoi Fangirl: After watching a single episode of Camp Pining Hearts on repeat for three
days, her OTP is Percy x Pierre and she's completed charts and graphs on the subject.
However, rather than picking the two for romantic compatibility (she barely even seems to
understand the concept of romance at this point), she chose them because they're the
strongest campers and thus would make the strongest pairing.
Steven: You got all this from one episode?
Peridot: It's subtext, Steven.

 You Are Number 6: When she contacts Yellow Diamond, she is required to identify
herself by more than just her Gem Type, answering with her "Facet" and "Cut" (Facet 2F5L,
Cut 5XG). While an efficient and practical way of differentiating what must be a very large
 number of otherwise perfectly identical Gems of the same type, it is lacking in the personality
that just a Gem type implies.
 You Can't Go Home Again: After openly disobeying, arguing with, and calling Yellow
Diamond a "clod", Peridot has lost any chance of making it back to Homeworld alive. She
instead joins the Crystal Gems.
 You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Her drones, which appear to have some
independent mental capacity comparable to an animal, are expendable. She crushes a
broken one beneath her foot with what seems to be a look of scorn on her face, and when
one of Steven's Crying Breakfast Friends stickers spooks her, she punctuates her exit with a
blast that seems to deactivate the rest of the drones and leaves them behind. When she
sends more and learns the Crystal Gems have been destroying them, she treats it as them
destroying her property rather than caring about them as individuals.
o Ends up on the receiving end of this as of "Message Received" after arguing
with, openly disobeying, and calling Yellow Diamond a clod. Though as seen in "Hit the
Diamond", even though she's outlived her usefulness, she is still not considered worth the effort
of killing/capturing.
Lapis Lazuli
Voiced by: Jennifer Paz

"Maybe I'd find myself smiling on that distant shore.

Maybe I'm not alone."
 Click here for her first outfit 

"I couldn't stay away. If they're gonna punish me like a Crystal Gem, I might as well be one, right? You got room
for one more?"

A Gem formerly of Blue Diamond's court with water-manipulating powers that was once

poofed by Bismuth, and trapped in a mirror after being mistaken with a Crystal Gem
during the war, and used as a tool for around 5,000 years, but fortunately she was set
free by Steven. Her release was the focus of "Mirror Gem" and "Ocean Gem". She used
to despise Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl for forgetting she was trapped in a mirror and
for being the reason why Homeworld mistook her for a Crystal Gem, but after her
liberation in "Super Watermelon Island", she has more or less put her resentment of
them aside for the time being. She loves and respects Steven and has become fiercely
protective of him after freeing her. While originally extremely fearful of the prospect of
being caught up in another war, after forming bonds with the others and coming to see
the Earth as her home, she officially joined the Crystal Gems.

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 11th-Hour Ranger: Abruptly comes back in "Reunited", in the middle of the season's

penultimate climactic battle.
 Action Girl: True, most of her fighting is done in a hands-off manner because of her
powers, but she's still quite strong.
 Adorkable: She looks so endearing when she plays the tambourine to help Peridot with
her welcome band song.
 Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Has become a fan of Camp Pining Hearts like Peridot.
 Alliterative Name: Lapis Lazuli.
 All Take and No Give: This is Lapis' main problem in regards to her relationships, even
to the few who genuinely consider her a friend — she expects them to do what she wants
without complaint, but refuses to offer equal effort. This backfired on her when the others
didn't want to do what she wanted, leading her to leave in self-exile and grow increasingly
lonely.
 Aloof Ally: To the Crystal Gems sans Steven and, to a lesser extent, Peridot, although
she's warming up. While she's now a firm ally of Steven at least and happy to make a life on
Earth, she has yet to call herself a Crystal Gem (let alone an ally of theirs) like Peridot has.
Although in "Adventures in Light Distortion", when Garnet tells her and Peridot to keep Beach
City safe in the Crystal Gems' absence, she doesn't complain, giving a thumbs up (albeit with
an uneasy look on her face), and in "The New Crystal Gems", she has little to no problems
with proudly declaring herself a "Crystal Temp" (temporary stand-ins for the Crystal Gems
while they are away), alongside Peridot, Connie, and Pumpkin. She officially joins the Crystal
Gems in "Reunited", stating that, if Homeworld is going to punish her as a Crystal Gem, she
might as well be one.
 Ambiguous Disorder: Lapis has gone through a 5000-year long Trauma Conga Line, and
hasn't come out the other end unscathed. If her reaction to Steven's trip to Homeworld and
escaping from the Diamonds in "Raising the Barn" is any indication, she probably has some
form of PTSD. Her behavior and dialogue in "Can't Go Back" suggests anxiety, and her
shrugging off Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb with a simple "I've felt worse", suggests she
might also be suffering from depression. Tragic backstory aside, in "Room for Ruby", Lapis
admits that she has trouble connecting with "Earth stuff" as a result of her traumatic
experiences. (Except for Steven and Peridot, only because they have reached out to her)
She can also act very untactful to people who have wronged her and has trouble getting over
grudges.
 And I Must Scream: Trapped in a mirror for thousands of years, she was apparently
conscious throughout that time, yet unable to communicate except through repeating others'
speech. Her behavior upon release suggests the experience was not pleasant.
 Arc Villain: Of "Mirror Gem" and "Ocean Gem", but a sympathetic example, since she
begged Steven to release her from the mirror and then used the Earth's oceans to attempt to
reach her home.
Lapis: I just want to go home.

 Badass Adorable: She's an ethereal-looking Gem, who's scarcely taller than Steven and
looks like a human teenager in a pretty sundress. She can also manipulate and control the
entire planet's ocean at once, with a huge crack in her gem. For comparison, Amethyst and
Eyeball couldn't even maintain their physical forms or speak coherently with small cracks in
their gems.
 Badass Boast: Gives a chilling one to Jasper before dragging her into the ocean.
Lapis: I'm done being everyone's prisoner! Now you're MY prisoner, and I'm never letting you GO!

 Bare Your Midriff: Which reveals her Belly Buttonless status. Her baseball uniform also
has this.
 Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: By the events of the movie, she's the Beauty to Peridot's
Brains and Bismuth's Brawn.
  Be Careful What You Wish For: She manages to pull one of these on Jasper when she
agrees to fuse with her. She then takes control of their combined form Malachite and drags
them both into the ocean.
 Because You Were Nice to Me: Steven was the one who freed her from the mirror and
repaired her cracked gem. For this reason, he's initially the only character she was openly
fond of.
 Big Damn Heroes: In "Reunited", she reappears out of nowhere and drops a barn on
Blue Diamond's head.
 Blue Is Heroic: Zigzagged. Lapis' main color scheme is blue and she cares a lot about
Steven, but she starts off as quite antagonistic towards the Crystal Gems. She slowly warms
up to them as she begins to live on Earth, and finally joins the team officially in "Reunited".
 Bookworm: Lapis seems to have taken up reading as seen at the end of "Kindergarten
Kid", the short "Video Chat", and the beginning of "Gem Harvest".
 Bratty Teenage Daughter: Most of the time she displays an apathy and untrusting
aloofness to nearly everyone but Steven, and she certainly looks like an older teen, similar to
Young Pearl.
 Brilliant, but Lazy: Is fully capable of tremendous power, but she's usually, as Rebecca
Sugar describes her, "acting retired".
 Broken Bird: She entered the show injured, imprisoned, desperate for freedom and
wanting nothing more than to go home. Even when Steven set her free and healed her
cracked gem so she could leave Earth, what she found when she got back to the Gem
Homeworld scared her. When we next see her, she's imprisoned again and so spiritually
broken that she begs Steven not to fight back against Jasper and Peridot so they can hope for
some measure of mercy when they return to the Gem Homeworld. She's even more broken
after she comes back from Malachite, unable to spend time with anybody else who's not
Steven. Though "Beta" showed she was slowly getting better, only to rebound with the
idea the Diamonds may be returning, causing her flee in terror, nearly go back, flee again
due to a mistimed dream from Steven, then go back for good come time for "Reunited".
 Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl:
o Gender-flipped with Steven — Lapis is the troubled, grumpy Brooding Girl to
Steven's energetic, optimistic Gentle Boy.
o Played semi-gender-straight with her and Peridot, to a lesser extent; Peridot
provides emotional comfort and friendship to the aloof, untrusting Lapis.
 Brutal Honesty: She's very blunt to people in general, especially when she disagrees
with them. She'll say "no" with a smile on her face because she has absolutely no idea how
socializing works.
 Buried Alive: Self-inflicted and beneath water instead of earth, but she describes how
awful it is.
Lapis: You do realize that I spent the last few months trapped under the ocean, right? It was an endless,
crushing darkness. Wet and bleak and suffocating. Water was the tomb I lived in for those months.

 The Bus Came Back: Makes an appearance through a video message to warn Steven
and the Gems about Peridot coming to Earth. She later returns to Earth as a prisoner of
Peridot and Jasper in "The Return". And then she returns in Steven's dreams in "Chille Tid",
and then returns to the screen for a while, and then... just see Commuting on a Bus.
 But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Says that she's almost drowned a lot of people in "The New
Crystal Gems", when Connie questions why Lapis doesn't remember her from "Ocean Gem".
 Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Calls her and Peridot's junk art "meepmorps".
 The Cameo: A Gem that appears to be her can be seen in Blue Diamond's court
during "The Answer"; the fact that Blue Diamond later seems to recognize her (calling her by
full name in "Reunited", without mentioning a cut or other clarification, and expressing anger
at her defection) seems to confirm that this was her.
 Changed My Mind, Kid: In "Can't Go Back" she appears to run off for good, telling
Steven she's too scared to fight the Diamonds. In "Reunited", while everyone else is fighting
Blue Diamond, Lapis suddenly appears out of nowhere and drops the barn on Blue's head.
 Character Development: She is introduced to the show as a traumatized and weak-
willed Gem who wants nothing to do with the Crystal Gems that had inadvertently kept her
imprisoned for millennia, and is terrified of getting on the Diamonds' bad side. Thanks to
Steven’s interactions with her, she gradually becomes more willing to stand up for herself and
heal from her past trauma while willing to work with the Crystal Gems on occasion. After
leaving Earth to avoid getting caught in the crossfire between the Crystal Gems and
Homeworld again, Lapis comes back to aid the Crystal Gems during the Diamonds assault
on Earth, officially joining the group in the process.
 Chekhov's Gunman: After disappearing in "Ocean Gem", Lapis leaves with a cryptic
sendoff. Later, she returns in a turning point of the finale arc of season 1, delivering a
message of Peridot and Jasper's return.
 Chekhov's Skill: Her love of sculpture actually makes her a more powerful and creative
fighter thanks to her Imagination-Based Superpower.
 Clip Its Wings: When her gem is cracked, she cannot fly.
 The Comically Serious: She's the only one who doesn't take the baseball match against
the Ruby team seriously.
 Commuting on a Bus: Early in the third season, Lapis becomes a recurring character
when she moves into the barn with Peridot. For that matter, Lapis leaves and comes back so
many times that she might as well be Commuting On A Bus all the time. This would end
in "Reunited", with her deciding to join the Crystal Gems officially and joining the fight against
the Diamonds.
 Conditioned to Accept Horror: All the misfortune she's had has done this to her. For
instance, despite being imprisoned by her fellow Homeworld Gems for being mistaken for a
Crystal Gem, her first wish is to return home when she gains her freedom, and she willingly
re-imprisons herself underwater with Jasper to protect Steven.
Steven: I feel like I only get to see you when something horrible is going on.
Lapis: [smiles] That's just how it is with me.

 Conscience Makes You Go Back: In Season 5 she leaves Earth when she learns the
Diamonds might be returning, taking the barn with her. As the season progresses the story
checks in on her revealing she couldn't bring herself to abandon them and was living at the
Moon base, using the observation technology to keep track of Peridot and the
others. Ultimately, Lapis decides to return in the finale to help them.
 Costume Evolution: Like most of the other Gems, Lapis only permanently changes her
outfit when regenerating her Hard Light physical form after being poofed; however, she (and
Peridot) go the longest period of time on the show without doing so. When she finally does in
the season 5 finale, she switches from what is more or less a dresskini to a high-necked
halter top, harem pants with a ribbon-like belt, and lace-up sandals. Both of these are gold, a
reference to lapis lazuli often being found with gold-colored pyrites running through it.
 Cowardly Lion: Thanks to her past traumas, the first option she now always takes in the
face of danger is to run away. But she only will come back to fight when someone she loves
(Steven) is in grave danger.
  Crippling Overspecialization: On Earth, a planet that's roughly 70% covered in water,
her hydrokinesis powers make her practically godlike in the scope of powers... but with that
taken away, she doesn't have much to rely on in terms of combat capability outside standard
Gem abilities.
 Culture Clash: Noted for its absence, Lapis is the fastest non-human learner of human
terminology, language, and idioms; even faster than the Crystal Gems who have lived
alongside human civilization in its entirety. It's just that unless you are Steven (and now
Peridot), she doesn't care.
o She didn't know what a "Dad" was in "Alone at Sea", but used the term naturally
later in the same episode. She calls art "meepmorps" in "Beta", but this might be sardonic
humor.
 Curtains Match the Windows: Lapis has blue hair and eyes.
 Dark and Troubled Past: Her mysterious, tragic backstory was finally revealed in "Same
Old World". She's a Gem civilian who was caught in the crossfire of the Crystal Gem war on
Earth. She was mistaken for a Crystal Gem, poofed by Bismuth and trapped in a mirror,
interrogated for eons by Homeworld Gems who were desperate to know the location of the
Crystal Gem headquarters. She was then found by the Crystal Gems, who did not treat her
any better.
 Deadpan Snarker: Even in her debut episodes she shows a hint of this, such as when
she replies "NO!" in Steven's voice when he tries to stop her from stealing the ocean. But it's
not until "Hit the Diamond" we see this in full detail.
Lapis: [on the baseball plan] Heh... this plan sucks.

 Death Glare: Can give a rather intimidating one when particularly angry.
 Defrosting Ice Queen: To nearly everyone except Steven. Thanks to Steven's influence
and her long-overdue freedom, she's slowly opening up to the other Gems and potentially,
other people.
 Deus Exit Machina: Lapis' powers utterly dwarf every other Gem's seen thus far. If she
had joined the Crystal Gems, it would have taken all of the challenges out of their subsequent
battles some of the Gems might see, so she has to fuse with Jasper and go down to the
bottom of the ocean just to be out of the picture. Of course, when she DOES come back,
she's mostly away from the action.
o She doesn't seem to realize how strong she is; only resorting to her full powers at
extreme stress. Besides that, even after she does come back she mostly hangs out with Steven
and Peridot, another new addition to the group, living with her in a barn away from the other
Gems. She probably still doesn't quite trust them and isn't eager to fight for their cause (or at
all, after finally getting away from Jasper) yet.
o When she finally joins the group in the antepenultimate episode of Season 5, it's
during the fight with the Diamonds. Her powers allow her to repeatedly restrain Blue Diamond
while resisting her Emotion Bomb, giving the others multiple chances to strike her unabated.
Though it becomes a Downplayed Trope in the process, as while her powers could handle
lesser threats, they only let the Crystal Gems have a slightly better fighting chance against the
Diamonds, she herself falling to Yellow Diamond's destabilizing shock soon after Peridot did.
 Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Her ultimate CMOA, dropping a barn on Blue
Diamonds head while officially joining the crystal gems, Didn't really stop her for long though.
 Disability Immunity: Lapis has been tortured so much and is so depressed because of it
that she can shrug off Blue Diamond's sadness Emotion Bomb.
  Ditto Fighter: Creates water copies of Steven and the Gems to fight them. Amethyst and
Steven are both overpowered by their copies, while Garnet and Pearl could at best fight them
evenly.
 Does Not Like Shoes: The only time that she isn't barefoot is during "Hit the Diamond".
At least until her second form, where she wears a pair of gold sandals.
 The Dog Bites Back: After being imprisoned (once again) by Jasper, she gets fed up
with it all and so she agreed to fuse with her in order to take control of Malachite, their
combined form, and intentionally drag them both into the ocean in some twisted attempt to
have control instead of being controlled herself.
"I am done being everyone's prisoner. Now you're my prisoner, and I'm never letting you go!"

 Dramatic Wind: To emphasize her powers over water, Lapis Lazuli's animation is more
flowy, making it look like she has air blowing around her.
 Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: They appear more often on her after she's defused from
Malachite.
 Dynamic Entry: Enters the fight in "Reunited" by throwing the Barn at Blue Diamond.
 Easily Forgiven: Steven quickly forgives Lapis despite the fact that she stole all the
Earth's water, attacked the Crystal Gems, and tried to drown him and Connie and injured his
father Greg in "Ocean Gem". He even defends her when Greg calls her "super mean", and
excuses her actions by saying she 'wasn't mean' and 'just wanted to go home'.
 Elemental Baggage: Besides her wings, she is unable to manifest water out of thin air,
making her a lot less combat effective when away from the ocean or other sources of water.
 Emo Teen: She's a teenager appearance-wise, and at her most negative is an aloof,
cynical Perpetual Frowner.
 Evil Feels Good: Subverted. Lapis isn't evil or antagonistic, however, she did admit to
enjoying torturing Jasper in their fusion as Malachite, but harbors some remorse over it.
    F-J 

 Fatal Flaw:
o Wrath. Lapis is very slow to forgive those who have hurt her, even through
inaction, or even open herself up to forgiving them. While it may be in many cases justified, the
scope of her hatred leaves her with very few friends, and she fails to appreciate how
antagonizing everyone plays against her goals.
o Fear. She is so desperate to not be hurt again that this leads her to try to take
control and she winds up hurting people in the process, including her friends (especially
Peridot), and as a result, it puts a strain on the little number of friends she has because she
always puts herself first. It eventually turns out to not simply be self-preservation, but ultimately
an overall cowardliness as by her own admission she's too afraid to return to Earth even though
she loves and misses her friends.
o Control. Much of Lapis' baggage ties back to feeling controlled and used by
others. She's done a lot of harm in order to feel like she was in control, and can go to
catastrophic lengths to seize it when something panics her. At the same time, she herself
is aware of this and frightened by her own capacity to do horrible things with the control she
craves, which holds her back from making real decisions in her life or committing to anything.
Basically, she's scared both of having it and of not having it, so she acts out the worst parts of
both.
 Fate Worse than Death: She's not only a prisoner again (though willingly this time), but
she's now stuck together with Jasper — and by attacking Jasper, she's most likely no longer
welcome in her home. Thankfully, she eventually escapes this too.
 "Let's stay on this miserable planet... together!"

 Finger Poke of Doom: She effortlessly destroys a Roaming Eye that came after Peridot
by flicking it with a hand, made of water, then squashing it into the ground.
 Fish out of Temporal Water: In "The Message", her transmission to the Earth reveals
that her arrival home has been distressing with how much Gem technology has advanced
since she was last there.
 Flight: Can create water wings from her gem to fly. To note: up until the introduction of
Aquamarine, she was the only character in the show capable of flying under her own power,
neither needing to transform into something else nor requiring any enhancements.
 Flight, Strength, Heart: Besides moving and creating structures out of water (including
functional wings), Lapis can also use it to display her memories and play back sounds she
heard (even outside of the mirror).
 Foil:
o To Steven. Lapis is cynical and becomes sullen around others, particularly
Peridot and the Crystal Gems, whom she carries grudges against. Steven is friendly, optimistic
and forgiving. Since he is the only one she's been shown to be willing to open up around, this
stark difference in personality is primarily what is driving Lapis to open up and accept others
around her.
o To Connie. Both were lonely beings with a desire towards freedom and have a
blue color motif (Connie's being specifically teal) and were able to get better thanks to
Steven's kindness and emotional support. However, while Connie is a generally cheerful and
friendly human who admires the Crystal Gems, Lapis is usually a grumpy and sour Gem who is
aloof towards the same group.
o To Peridot. The former was forced into the gem conflict through bad luck, the
latter was purposefully created just to be a part of it. The former started out innocent but
becomes more cynical and dangerous due to everything that happens to her throughout the
series, whereas the latter is extremely cynical and dangerous to begin with, but ends up losing
those qualities and becoming a better person through the Crystal Gems, her former enemies.
Also, Peridot comes to Yellow Diamond, her boss, and flat out rejects the idea of doing what
she wants her to do, whilst Jasper comes to Lapis in an attempt to make her do what they were
doing before, and Lapis isn't as strong in rejecting her.
 Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Lapis has severe trust issues stemming from her misfortune
and as a result, she still has a very hard time getting along with the Crystal Gems (bar
Steven). Peridot has slowly earned Lapis' trust and friendship, despite Lapis' anger, although
it took great effort on Peridot's part.
 Forgotten First Meeting: The show's creator has confirmed Lapis was poofed by the
same Bismuth the audience knows, but neither recognizes the other. Lapis simply didn't get a
good look at her because she was hit from the back.
 Freudian Trio: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the emotional Id to Connie's rational and
mature Ego and Peridot's overly logical Superego.
 The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. Lapis is Steven's friend and hates the Crystal Gems,
but she is more or less their ally not by her own choice, and she merely tolerates their
presence for Steven's sake, and vice-versa, the Crystal Gems tolerate Lapis in return but
don't express a dislike or grudge towards her like she does to them.
 Friend to All Living Things: Played With. When she steals the Earth's oceans she makes
sure none of the marine life are harmed in any way, but she doesn't care about the rest of the
inhabitants until Steven fixes her gem.
  From Nobody to Nightmare: Was originally simply a Homeworld civilian that ended up
caught in the middle of the rebellion, and it's implied she's actually considered very weak
back home due to having water powers on a planet lacking in it. 5000 years later, she
escapes the mirror and ends up being a major threat to the Crystal Gems during her first
appearance, thanks to Earth having water in abundance and a big grudge against the Gems.
Her second appearance has her drag Jasper underwater while fused into Malachite, both
proving this trope by doing so and becoming an even bigger nightmare as Malachite.
 Full-Contact Magic: While Lapis often remains stationary while using her water powers,
she makes dramatic movements when the situation calls for it, such as making the upward
punching motion that sends Jasper flying.
 Gave Up Too Soon: Lapis fled Earth for fear of Homeworld's retaliation, but stopped at
the Moon and began to think she overreacted. Then she discovered Steven was having
dreams about the Diamonds, took it as a sign they were going to invade, and flew away even
further. Within hours, Steven would conclusively know that was not the real reason for those
dreams. Then the Diamonds invade Earth anyway within a few weeks.
 Giant Hands of Doom: Her water-powers can manifest as giant arms out of the ocean,
and she does so repeatedly.
 Glass Cannon: Her offensive power is among the highest in the show: In her first
appearance, she's able to hold her own against all the Crystal Gems, with no apparent effort,
and even present a regional/planetary threat despite having a cracked gem; later, she's
powerful enough to be decisive in forcing Blue Diamond to her knees. At the same time,
she's nowhere near as durable as the others — in "Same Old World", all it took was one
good hit from Bismuth to poof Lapis into Gem form.
 Green-Skinned Space Babe: She's a beautiful, blue-skinned alien who's lost on Earth
before partnering up with the Crystal Gems. She's also Ms. Fanservice to many viewers.
 Grumpy Bear: Her role by the end of season 3 has become this. Lauren Zuke says she
likes writing Lapis as someone who was depressed but didn't have to get "better" to make
people comfortable.
 Hair-Trigger Temper: Considering her cynical personality, it's relatively easy to piss her
off.
 Handicapped Badass: Despite having her gem cracked, Lapis managed to take on the
Crystal Gems and almost win.
 Heel–Face Turn: Stopped being an antagonist at the end of her debut, but only comes
around to the idea of making Earth her home much later and is now at least willing to help the
Crystal Gems for Steven's sake if she needs to. As of "Reunited", she has completely pulled
one, solidifying herself as a Crystal Gem.
 Heroic Sacrifice: Inverted. After fusing with Jasper, she takes control and drags them
both into the ocean with the intention of keeping her down there forever. At first, it seems like
she had done it for Steven's sake, but then it's later revealed that she kept Jasper trapped in
the fusion for the sake of taking all of her pent-up anger and frustration out on her.
 Heroic Willpower: While she isn't exactly heroic, her feats of willpower and determination
are undeniably impressive.
o Her gem is introduced as being badly damaged, compare it to Amethyst's
cracked gem in "An Indirect Kiss", which causes her to speak backward while her body
distorted itself uncontrollably. Lapis was indistinguishable from a whole gem beside her
mirrored eyes and being unable to summon her weapon. She held herself together despite that
extensive damage. Given Pearl's comment about the mirror only following orders, it's implied it
took a similar feat of willpower for her to talk to Steven in the first place.
o She takes control of Malachite after fusing with Jasper, dragging the two of them
to the bottom of the ocean and even preventing Jasper from ending the fusion. In "Chille Tid",
set a fair bit later, she's still in control of the fusion, though it's taking all her concentration to do
it.
 Home Field Advantage: On Earth (and other planets with water) she is incredibly
powerful, bordering on nigh-unstoppable if she keeps her distance and uses the entire ocean
as ammunition. On Homeworld, where there is no water, her offensive capabilities are
reduced to almost nothing.
 Hostile Terraforming: Her immense power is meant to reshape whole planets to become
Homeworld colonies.
 Hypocrite: In "Raising the Barn", after Peridot admits that she holds her tongue and
doesn't say certain things because she knows they would upset Lapis, the latter condemns
the former for "lying" despite the fact that she herself has withheld information that she knew
she couldn't say, such as Steven's powers connecting him to Rose Quartz, and also lied to
Jasper by tricking her into being trapped into their fusion.
 I Choose to Stay: Played with. Lapis acknowledges that she can't return to
Homeworld during "Same Old World", so she doesn't exactly have many options, so she
decides to stay on Earth as it was no longer the place that kept her imprisoned. In "Raising
the Barn", however, after discovering the Diamonds may end up returning to Earth for
revenge, Lapis immediately decides to pack things up and get the heck off the planet, and not
even Steven or Peridot's pleads for her to change her mind do anything to give her second
thoughts about it. Then she comes back in "Reunited" actively fighting against the Diamonds,
finally playing the trope straight.
 I Just Want to Be Free: All she wants is to not be used or controlled by anyone.
 Imagination-Based Superpower: Body parts, clones, wings for spaceflight, chains, there
don't seem to be any limits to what she can do with her power. "Why So Blue" reveals that
she is unusually creative with her powers, since the other Lapis Lazulis typically stick to
creating water blades and consider the idea of forming other shapes novel.
 Immortal Immaturity: Lapis Lazuli is millennia older than Amethyst, yet has the looks and
much of the attitude of a Bratty Teenage Daughter.
 The Immune: Blue Diamond's aura of sorrow doesn't work on Lapis, as she states she
has endured far worse than Blue Diamond losing Pink Diamond.
 The Informant: Peridot specifically refers to Lapis as an informant in "Cry for Help".
 Informed Flaw: Lapis claims she's almost drowned a lot of people as her reasoning for
failing to recognize Connie when they reunite in "The New Crystal Gems", but at no point is
she seen to be doing this beyond the one incident.
 Innocently Insensitive: While Peridot has come to figuratively (and sometimes literally)
bend over backward to keep Lapis from spiraling into one of her moods, Lapis did not think to
consider how this affected her and left her feelings ignored. When they hit a disagreement,
they have no real means of communicating and Lapis wound up taking the barn (and
everything within it) behind, leaving Peridot and Pumpkin homeless and distraught.
 Insanity Immunity: It's not exactly insanity, but Lapis shows a variation of this trope
in "Reunited", where she is almost completely immune to Blue Diamond's despair aura. The
aura incapacitates the other Gems, but all Lapis does is shed a single tear. The
reason? Because she's felt worse. Blue Diamond's projected grief is nothing compared to what
Lapis went through.
 Insignificant Little Blue Planet: She doesn't know what the Crystal Gems see in Earth
because she was imprisoned in a mirror and trapped in one small area for millennia, and the
 fact that she's a civilian of the Gem Homeworld probably skewed her perceptions further. It
takes a flight with Steven to realize that there is more to the Earth than she thought.
 Intergenerational Friendship: With Steven and Peridot, the former being 14 years old
and the latter having not existed until after the war on Earth, which Lapis was alive for.
 Interrogated for Nothing: Lapis was trapped in the mirror because the Homeworld
mistook her for a Crystal Gem and wanted to interrogate her for enemy information. Lapis,
however, didn't know anything about the Crystal Gems and couldn't tell Homeworld she
wasn't one of them.
 Ironic Fear: Though she's not outright afraid of it, Lapis wasn't exactly fond of water for a
time thanks to having been trapped at the bottom of the ocean for several months. Steven
helps her get over it for the most part in "Alone at Sea".
 Ironic Name:
o Real lapis lazuli stones dissolve in water.
o In various cultures the stone is associated with inner peace, spiritual love, and
protection from evil. Lapis has a very turbulent and damaged emotional state, has trouble
letting go of her hatred for pretty much every Gem not named Steven, and her retreat to
Homeworld ends up drawing Peridot and Jasper to Earth; even her attempt to hold part of that
force away ends in Jasper taking control and going on the rampage as Malachite until
Alexandrite stops them.
 Irony:
o Being trapped in the mirror was a Fate Worse than Death for Lapis, but "Monster
Reunion" reveals that it saved her from getting Corrupted.
o Despite being deathly afraid of the Diamonds, it turns out that Lapis' best friend
Steven, the one who freed her from a five-thousand-year-long And I Must Scream situation, is a
Diamond.
 It's All About Me: Arguably her worst trait has shown to be her self-orientation. While one
can hardly blame her given all the crap she's had to go through ever since getting
accidentally caught up in the war and trapped in a mirror for 5,000 years, in the present a
now freed Lapis has shown to be fairly self-preservative to the point of being mainly
concerned with her own feelings on things rather than the feelings of others around her,
including what few friends she has.
 Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When something terrible isn't happening to her, she gives off a
cold and bitter demeanor to just about everyone, primarily only concerned about herself and
those closest to her. However, she's still willing to choke her anger down for Steven's sake
and began to learn some measure of forgiveness towards her former enemies. Even post-
Heel–Face Turn, she can be a bit tactless toward people, though she's slowly getting better,
forming a close friendship with Peridot, lessening her animosity with the Crystal Gem's,
and finally confronting her fear of the Diamonds by officially joining the Crystal Gem's.
    K-O 

 Kick the Dog:

o When Steven and Connie attack Lapis' water clone of Steven, their attacks do
nothing, but Lapis still tries to drown them. This is especially cruel on Lapis' part since the
former freed her and vocally stated he didn't want to fight her.
o After Peridot finally gives Lapis a sincere gift, her recorder, Lapis calls it garbage,
breaks it, and tells her to get lost.
o As sympathetic as her plight is, it doesn't justify her taking away the barn that she
made a home with Peridot and Pumpkin, showing how willing she is to abandon her few friends
 for her own needs. Lapis shortly after feels regret over doing so and can't help but remain on
the moon and watch the others, too ashamed and afraid to go back.
 Knight of Cerebus: The first confirmed sentient Gem enemy to appear on the show, and
she changes the entire tone of the monster fights from then on. Steven even lampshades this,
later on, pointing out that he only ever sees her when something terrible is happening.
 Lack of Empathy: Downplayed. Lapis is capable of showing some remorse, as seen
in "Alone at Sea" and "Can't Go Back". However, it's been shown that she does not
immediately consider anyone else's feelings other than her own until after the fact, as she
immediately (temporarily) turns on Steven in her debut episode upon finding out that he's
with the Crystal Gems and doesn't seem to understand why he would side with them and not
go with her. She also does not seem to get how much she has affected people with her
power and fury, as she mainly focused on how she felt about the ordeals. This comes to a
head in "Raising the Barn", where she's frantically trying to leave Earth with Peridot after
finding out the Diamonds may wage another war, and is irritated and baffled at Peridot's
insistence on staying and protecting the Earth, not taking the latter's feelings into
consideration about leaving the planet she considers her new home, even yelling at her when
she shows her hesitance. She proceeds to abandon Peridot, but shortly afterward can't
handle the loneliness and guilt, leaving her to sit in the Moon base too ashamed to go back.
Lapis: I want to! But I can't, not after the way I left. What would Peridot say?

 Leitmotif: "Mirror Gem" , a slow, somber piece that is incorporated  into  several

songs .
 Lethal Harmless Powers: From the perspective of Homeworld. Careful examination of
the Gem colony plans for Earth reveals exactly zero oceans remaining. Under "normal"
circumstances Lapis' hydrokinesis would render her nearly powerless in a Gem colony, or at
the very least able to control a substance for which Gems have very little practical use or
desire. But on a planet with 2/3rds of its surface covered by water, she becomes a virtual
demigoddess.
 Lethal Joke Character: Her powers are Hydrokinesis. On Homeworld, where there's no
water, she'd be a complete joke. On Earth, where most of the planet is water, she's
practically a god in comparison.
 Lifesaving Misfortune: Being trapped in a mirror for millennia was more than just
unfortunate, but this saved Lapis from being Corrupted, which there is no known cure for.
 Like a Duck Takes to Water: The picture of the intended Gem-terraformed Earth and
Peridot not even knowing what rain is implies that the Homeworld has very little if any water,
while Earth is mostly covered in it. As a result, while she's considered a weak Gem (at least by
Jasper) by the Homeworld, on Earth she's virtually god-like.
 Living Emotional Crutch: Deconstructed.
o "Alone at Sea" reveals, to her horror, that Jasper sees her as this due to
the Power High from their fusion and her rough treatment of Jasper. However, this form of
emotional stability turns out to be toxic for both Lapis and Jasper.
o It's revealed that between "Barn Mates" and "Raising the Barn", she indirectly
and frequently used Peridot as a crutch as well, to the point that neither Gems' emotional
issues were actually addressed at all, which comes to a head in the latter episode.
 Logical Weakness: Is apparently unable to create/summon any water save her wings,
and thus is much less powerful away from large sources of water.
 Lord of the Ocean: Lapis Lazuli is a gem with a seemingly unlimited psychokinetic power
over water. Even when weakened with a cracked gem, she had enough power to create a
massive tower from the planet's oceans and creates water-based clones of the gems that the
 Gems themselves had no hope of stopping, Lapis Lazulis being made specifically for
terraforming entire planets. Much like water-gods of most mythologies, Lapis Lazuli is hostile
and prone to mood-swings, a product of being confused for a rebel by Homeworld forces,
trapped in a mirror for thousands of years, being held prisoner and used as an informant by
Peridot and Jasper and being stuck in an incredibly toxic partnership with Jasper in the form
of an unstable fusion trapped in the bottom of the ocean. Even after being freed, she
remained heavily emotionally unstable, causing her to switch back and forth on whether or
not she'd stay on Earth before finally settling on staying and act erratically towards her
closest friends.
 Loss of Identity: If her That Woman Is Dead moment in "Chille Tid" is any indication,
Malachite was starting to overcome her, just like what happened with Sugilite. Lapis seems
to want this to happen because she has so little to live for besides holding Malachite down to
protect Steven. She eventually returns as her old self, barring the emotional issues she got
from it.
 Magical Barefooter: She's a Gem with very powerful water-manipulating powers and she
never wore any footwear until she got a new outfit with sandals.
 Magic Mirror: Her gem was used to power one. Or rather, she was one. She also can
have a similar effect with her water powers.
 Magic Skirt: In full effect. She's a character who can fly, and no matter what angle she's
shown at, her skirt protects her modesty. An ambiguous shot ◊ in "Gem Harvest" might
show her wearing bike shorts under it, or might just be a shadow. A couple of shots when
moving the barn seem to remove the magic.
 Making a Splash: She can form water arms to use in combat, generate water clones,
and use the entire ocean to form a space elevator, and that's just what she can do with a broken
gem, which also happens to be shaped like a teardrop. Word of God is that this power is her
gem weapon .
 Mama Bear: Towards Steven. Lapis punches Jasper over the horizon when the latter
threatens him.
 Martyr Without a Cause: To cope with the Trauma Conga Line and hopelessness of
never being free, Lapis trapped Jasper in Malachite, as the closest thing she could have to
freedom was to imprison herself and act as the jailer. She does get better, though.
 Meaningful Name: In gem mythology, lapis lazulis are associated with a great number of
things: Gods, power, spirit, vision, royalty, honor, wisdom, and truth; they also help to
overcome abuse issues, traumatic experiences, and depression and increase inner power
which is reflected in Lapis' Broken Bird status, her homesickness, her preference in fighting
with hydrokinetic magic over a weapon and how she honors her friendship with Steven
despite all. Also, the Inner Power symbolism fits nicely with the Heroic Willpower needed for
her to imprison Jasper by fusing with her. They are also associated with the heavens, which
fits for a character who pines for another world.
 Mental Picture Projector: Lapis can project her memories onto any reflective surface.
 Messy Hair: One of the few characters whose hair changes from episode to episode, it
morphs constantly from a perfectly controlled "space mullet" to "disheveled tangle" and many
states in between. "Beta" probably featured it at its messiest.
 Mirror Monster: What she was assumed to be by Garnet and Pearl.
 Miscarriage of Justice: A victim of it. Homeworld mistook her for a Crystal Gem and
imprisoned her in the mirror without even trying to confirm or deny it.
 Mistaken Identity: Her imprisonment was the result of being mistaken for a Crystal Gem
after being poofed in the crossfire of a battle by Bismuth, and Homeworld finding her and
trying to interrogate her on information she didn't have.
  Modesty Shorts: In "Gem Harvest", she might be wearing leggings under that skirt. ◊
 Ms. Fanservice: An extremely tame example, but Lapis' outfit is basically a backless two-
piece dresskini (which often billows to show off her shapely legs), and her baseball outfit is a
very form-fitting short-sleeved belly-jersey and cutoffs. She's the most human-looking Gem,
complete with subtle curves, making her the most attractive Gem to many, accentuating her
outfits' designs, and her exposed back is also given more detail than the other Gems'. She's
apparently developing a very "Tsun"-sided Tsundere personality, which doesn't help matters.
 Mundane Utility: Uses her hydrokinesis to water the crops in "Gem Harvest".
o On a more dramatic scale it's implied, and eventually confirmed by Yellow
Diamond's song in "That Will Be All", that the real purpose of her powers (and others of the
Lapis Lazuli caste) is to terraform new planets for use by the Gem Empire, by removing all the
water. Both Homeworld and projections of a post-colonization Earth are shown to have little to
no water on them.
 Mysterious Past: For the longest time, the circumstances of how she was trapped in the
mirror and her seeming hatred of the Crystal Gems were unknown. In "Same Old World", this
is rectified.
 Mysterious Waif: She's got the looks (small and thin, wide-eyed, occasionally
disheveled) and role in the story down; her introduction is when the show takes a serious turn
for the protagonist, she's super-powerful, and her background was still mostly unknown.
 NEET: When living in the barn, Peridot would at least go on missions with the other
Crystal Gems, but Lapis preferred to lounge around while either watching Camp Pining Hearts,
sleeping, or reading. Their species don't need to eat, so there's nothing pressuring her to
work (the Crystal Gems don't bother with any income source either). Eventually, she started
growing crops with Peridot, though it's not clear what they did with all the food they
made. Lapis returns to an idle lifestyle when she leaves the Earth and takes the entire barn
with her, but finally graduates to being an official Crystal Gem in "Reunited".
 Neutral No Longer: Wanted nothing to do with the conflict between the Homeworld and
the Crystal Gems, as she was a civilian five thousand years ago, and even though she
attacked the Crystal Gems after being freed, she ultimately only wanted to go home.
However, Homeworld's mistreatment of her and her friendship with Steven ultimately caused
her to turn on the Homeworld and side with Steven and eventually Earth (though at best
being an Aloof Ally to the Crystal Gems). She officially joins the Crystal Gems in "Reunited".
 Never Be Hurt Again: Flees Earth in "Raising the Barn" rather than risk being caught up
in another war, even leaving Peridot and Pumpkin behind.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the "Mean" to Connie's "Nice"
and Peridot's "In-Between". Unlike the other two, she is the coldest to others and slow to
open up (the sole exception being Steven), and upon meeting Connie again, Lapis
is slightly more mean to her than Peridot. She and Peridot fulfill the same roles with the
backup Crystal Gems, with Bismuth serving as the nice in that dynamic. She's more open
and visibly happier, but she's still jaded in comparison to Peridot and Bismuth.
 Nigh-Invulnerability: Not personally, but her water clones are pretty much impossible to
stop, being able to simply reform or even duplicate when damaged. Since Lapis has pretty
much all of Earth's seawater at her command, it's not like they're going to run out.
 Nightmare Face: While begging and screaming at Steven to release her from the mirror,
she starts producing a horrific combination of the faces of Beach City's residents and the
Crystal Gems she recorded over the course of the day. It symbolizes her maddened panic,
rage, and desperation to be free and, paired with the "Let Me Out" music sequence that plays
during that part, is creepy as can be imagined.
  No Endor Holocaust: There is no stated damage to reefs or weather patterns to Lapis'
pulling of the entire ocean into her tower.
 Not Quite Back to Normal: Even after being freed, Lapis still seems to have been
affected from her time in the mirror. Her eyes are blank and reflective when her gem is
cracked, and "Same Old World" shows that she retained the ability to show
memories/information on reflective surfaces -and her eyes even become mirror-like again
when she does this.
 Not So Above It All:
o Keep in mind that, before being released from the mirror, she "got a lot of
mileage" out of helping Steven make fart jokes at Mayor Dewey. That's also what gives her
away when he tries to introduce her to the Crystal Gems. Her circumstances afterward just
aren't exactly conducive to her sense of humor. Later, it's shown she is usually like this when
she's not feeling stressed and when she is with someone who makes her feel comfortable, like
when she makes fart jokes with Steven again in "Same Old World".
o In "Hit the Diamond", she participated in a baseball game with the Crystal Gems
as part of a plan to protect Peridot. Bear in mind that she's only participating because of her
friendship with Steven and still hates the other Crystal Gems (especially Peridot), not to
mention that she fully and freely comments on how dumb the plan is. At first, she only puts the
barest minimum effort into the game, but as the game goes on she actually starts having fun.
o In "Beta", she's seen watching and snarking at Camp Pining Hearts, making junk
art, and playing music with her barnmate, Peridot.
 Not So Different: Both Jasper and Lapis turn out to have enjoyed some aspect of
Malachite, the general Power High and Flight capability for Jasper and using Jasper as a
living stress ball for Lapis, but Lapis has come to realize how unhealthy it was while Jasper is
completely obsessed with regaining it.
 No-Sell: When hit with Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb attack.
Lapis: I've felt worse.

 Odd Friendship: With Peridot, after they got along more after becoming Roommates
(well, Barnmates technically).
 Odd Name Out: In "Hit the Diamond", when the Gems briefly take on human disguises,
everyone's names are regular human names that sound close to the Gem they're based on,
while Lapis is named "Bob".
 One-Hit KO: Consistently and hilariously dishes this out to pretty much every foe that
she deigns to confront. Her victims have included the Ruby Squad's Roving Eye (a house-
sized spaceship capable of intergalactic travel), and Jasper (a perfectly formed super
soldier).
 One-Woman Army: She can fight off all the Crystal Gems, on her own, with her water
constructs, and she has won every single one of her onscreen match-ups. She is also the
first character in the series to successfully land a hit on a Diamond, although it did not
definitively subdue her opponent. The only times she "lost" was when she was fused as
Malachite (and that required a 4-Gem fusion and a literal army to take her down), when she
got blindsided by Bismuth, and when Yellow Diamond poofed her with a One-Hit KO lightning
blast. It says a lot that she's required to even make Blue Diamond fall to a knee, unlike how
the combined might of every other Crystal Gem was useless. Similarly, she is the only
one other than the Cluster who is able to restrain Corrupted Steven, even for a short amount
of time. This is kind of explained in "That Will Be All", as Yellow Diamond notes that Lapises
are meant for terraforming. This would require a lot of elemental skill and power. "Why So
Blue?" shows that she is unusually powerful even by Lapis Lazuli standards—when the
 rogue Lapises push her too far, she easily overpowers their hydrokinesis and terrifies them
into submission.
 Overly Long Gag: She seems fond of these. In "Mirror Gem", she mimics Steven's fart
noises continuously for hours straight, in "Alone at Sea" she repeatedly sounds the ship's
horn and laughs until Steven can barely hear, and her "meepmorp" has a looping clip of
Percy saying "I just feel trapped."
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 Pay Evil unto Evil: To a degree, given that Jasper was only one of the few things that
sent Lapis over the edge, but because Jasper was the one who had been many a number in
a long line of people who imprisoned her and also the one person she cares about, she
retaliates by imprisoning her. However, after all of that, Lapis wasn't proud of what she had
done.
 Perpetual Frowner: When not around Steven, Lapis is stuck with a bitter deadpan face.
 Person of Mass Destruction: Possesses enough hydrokinetic power to shape an ocean
into a giant tower, and was a match for all three Crystal Gems plus Steven, Connie, Lion, and
Greg attacking her at the same time. This is when her gem was damaged.
 Pet the Dog:
o While she doesn't see anything special about the Earth, she still keeps its aquatic
animals safe inside her water tower.
Connie: It's like a giant aquarium!

o In "Barn Mates", she rescues Peridot from a Roaming Eye, then asks her if she's
okay.
 Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Only about a head taller than Steven, with a slim, delicate build
much like Pearl's, but in terms of pure power, she outperforms virtually the entire established
cast. Admittedly this power is mostly in her formidable hydrokinetic abilities, and we haven't
seen Lapis fight directly, but given Super Strength is part and parcel for Gems, she's
probably not nearly as vulnerable as she looks. She kept the weight of the entire ocean
pressing down on top of herself and Jasper, just to keep Jasper from taking control of or
breaking the fusion. While her condition deteriorated rapidly, the fact that she was even
capable of this — and was maintaining it for so long — is impressive, something that Jasper
herself (once she takes control of Malachite) notes with some respect and is the reason why
Jasper wants to refuse with her. Lapis is also capable of carrying Steven on her
back and Greg in her arms at the same time while flying in "Alone at Sea", as well as flying
with the much larger Bismuth in "Change Your Mind". This is the reason why Jasper wants to
fuse with her again so badly as stated.
 Power Gives You Wings: Once the crack in her gem is healed, she sprouts a pair of
liquid wings she can use to fly.
 Power Trio: Among the Crystal Gems, she forms one with Peridot and Bismuth. The
three serve as the reinforcements for Steven during the Diamond Days event, and she allows
Bismuth to join her and Peridot in the sky by carrying her during attacks.
 Powered by a Forsaken Child: Her gem was used to operate a mirror.
 Powerful and Helpless: A recurring theme in her character arc is that despite being one
of the most powerful characters in terms of her abilities, she repeatedly ends up in
circumstances where she is physically or psychologically trapped.
 Powers Do the Fighting: In contrast with the Crystal Gems' more hands-on and up-close
weapon based style, Lapis stays stationary or makes motions while attacking with her water,
often from a great distance. Justified due to her Glass Cannon status. This
 is downplayed later on, as she begins turning her wings into massive fists for close quarter
fights.
 Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: When facing Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb attack
in "Reunited": "I've felt worse."
 Promotion to Opening Titles: She's prominently featured in the opening title as of Steven
Universe: Future.
 Properly Paranoid: Her worry about Navy in "Room for Ruby" turns out to be correct.
And it also turns out she was right about the Diamonds attacking Earth.
 Prophet Eyes: She had these in her first appearance due to her gem being damaged.
Her pupils reappear once her gem is fixed. Her eyes revert to this when she is using
her Mental Picture Projector powers.
 Quote Mine: In the mirror, she acts as a recording device and communicates by taking
and arranging parts of whatever she records. Although she is capable of creating original,
silhouetted images.
 Really Fond of Sleeping: "Room for Ruby" reveals that she loves sleeping (even
though she doesn't need to). And apparently, she snores (much to her embarrassment).
 Redemption Equals Affliction: Her decision to fight Jasper to protect Steven ended up
as Sealed Evil in a Duel. She eventually escapes this, but the damage to her mental health
remains.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Peridot's Red Oni once they begin living together.
She's a lot calmer and subdued in personality compared to Peridot's highly energetic and
excitable personality. Peridot is also more open to new experiences and people (once
she Took a Level in Kindness) while Lapis is more closed to new experiences and people.
 Reflective Eyes: When her gem is broken, her eyes are mirror-like, reflecting back what's
in front of her.
 Sadist: In "Alone at Sea", Lapis admits to enjoying taking out all her frustrations and
anger on Jasper while holding her down, although she doesn't seem proud of it.
 Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: In "Raising the Barn", she abandons the Earth as soon as
she finds out that the Diamonds know about Steven and might come back to Earth.
 Sealed Evil in a Duel: She performs a Heroic Sacrifice to keep Jasper from hurting
Steven after fusing with her into Malachite and dragging them underwater.
 Sealed Good in a Can: She was sealed in a mirror, relegated to a recording device for
Gem history. By the time Steven gets his hands on it, though, she is able to assert herself
and convince him to free her.
 Secretly Selfish: Her Heroic Sacrifice of forcing a fusion with Jasper turns out to be
mainly for her own wants. Although she does care deeply for Steven, and claims in "Chille
Tid" that she's doing it all for him (even saying the same Arc Words as Pearl), she is also
very lost, desperate for something to live for and desires control, and clearly did it on impulse
for revenge as well. In "Alone at Sea", she more or less implies that she didn't imprison
Jasper for Steven's sake at all. She admits with horror that she actually wanted someone to
take her anger out on. Though this time, she does get to save Steven from Jasper for real,
who was threatening to shatter him.
 Sentient Phlebotinum: Deconstructed pretty harshly. Her emotional state is what you'd
expect from someone who's been trapped in a handheld object that only interacts with people
when they want something.
Steven: What's it like being a mirror?
Lapis (in Steven's voice): YOU WORK!
  Sexy Backless Outfit: Her dress has an open back so her gem (which is on her back) is
visible.
 Shapeshifter Weapon: "Change Your Mind" shows she can turn her water wings into a
massive set of fists, though she doesn't actually use them until "Why So Blue?".
 Shaping Your Attacks: The primary application of her water powers. She can make
anything from chains to decoys to Giant Hands of Doom.
 Shell-Shocked Veteran: As a civilian caught up in a Rebellion battle, poofed by Bismuth,
imprisoned under the assumption she was another Crystal Gem, and interrogated for ages
before being left behind and uncaringly stepped on (which cracked her gem), the war did a
number on her psyche. Regular interaction with Steven and Peridot is helping, by the looks of
it.
 Silk Hiding Steel: Lapis' slender body and dress make her look less combatant
compared to the Rubies' and Quartzes' stockier build. But her hydrokinesis is terrifyingly
destructive, on Earth at least, and even discounting that, she still possesses enough mental
fortitude to wrest control and imprison Jasper as Malachite.
 Single Tear: Because of her various traumas, Blue Diamond's aura only affects her
enough to do this to her.
 Sixth Ranger: Once Malachite is defused. While she doesn't outright join the Crystal
Gems, they're at least on good terms, and she doesn't have any qualms about being a part of
the Crystal Temps. Then, she officially joins during the fight with the Diamonds.
 Sour Outside, Sad Inside: She is extremely bitter, apathetic and is always stuck with a
very deadpan face. Being trapped in a mirror for thousands of years (among other things)
does that to you. Her trauma is great enough to let her shrug off Blue Diamond's Emotion
Bomb, which is fueled by Blue's own grief over losing Pink, and has existed just as long as
Lapis' own trauma.
 Squishy Wizard: Her water constructs allowed her to fight the Crystal Gems and co.
single-handedly, and she could build a tower made of solid water that reached low orbit, but
Jasper managed to easily grab and restrain her. She was poofed with a single punch from
behind during the Rebellion battle she got caught in, though, in fairness, that
was Bismuth punching her gem. She turns out to be the Crystal Gem's MVP in the fight
against the Diamonds, but is easily taken out with a single blast.
o In Future, she displays just how powerful she is when she is the only Gem other
than the Cluster who can restrain Monster Steven, something even the Diamonds couldn't do.
 Starter Villain: In "Mirror Gem"/"Ocean Gem", she's the first antagonist in the series with
defined motives, as opposed to the Monsters of the Week the Crystal Gems had fought
earlier.
 Still Wearing the Old Colors: Until she reformed in "Change Your Mind", she still wore
Blue Diamond's symbol on her dress.
 Story-Breaker Power: When she was first introduced, she was able to manipulate
the entire ocean, while her Gem was cracked, with the implication it took a lot of willpower to
stay formed. With this in mind, this trope is probably why she rarely shows up in adventures
or large-scale conflicts and why she was written out by "Raising the Barn" and "Can't Go
Back", especially since she doesn't have to focus as much on staying formed. When she
finally returns, its at a point when her powers aren't considered this anymore, as it's during
the fight with two members of the Diamond Authority.
 Strong and Skilled: Her hydrokinesis is not only more powerful than the other Lapis
Lazulis in "Why So Blue?", she also knows how to use it in ways that they hadn't seen before.
The rogue Lapises comment that they wouldn't have thought of forming sawblades and
chains out of water constructs if she hadn't shown them that she could.
  Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Lapis is generally an indifferent Deadpan Snarker at best,
and outwardly hostile at worst, to everyone but Steven, to whom she's very warm and
welcoming. This fades over time, but only after several doses of Character
Development, culminating in her permanent return to Earth and joining of the Crystal Gems.
 Surrounded by Idiots: If her facial expressions are anything to go by, she has this
attitude when it comes to wacky hijinks.
 Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Invoked in "The New Crystal Gems". In an attempt to
protect Beach City while the Crystal Gems are away, she, Peridot, Pumpkin, and Connie
decide to mimic them. In this team, Lapis becomes the "new" Amethyst and mimics
Amethyst's Messy Hair.
 Terraform: According to Yellow Diamond, this is what Lapis Lazulis are made to do.
 That Woman Is Dead:
o "I'm not Lapis anymore. We're Malachite now." And "Alone at Sea" reveals that
being split wasn't all she needed to recover from this.
o "The New Crystal Gems" has a much, much more humorous example, after Lapis
decides that she's going to be Garnet: "There is no Amethyst, only Garnet!"
 There Is Another: Her first appearance disproves what had previously been implied
about Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl being the last remaining Gems, and soon afterward her
desire to go "home" makes it clear that there's somewhere out in space where there's many
more.
 There's No Place Like Home: Her primary goal in her debut, one that she'll go to any
length to accomplish. This makes her transmission in "The Message" all the more
heartbreaking — she did manage to get home but found that the Homeworld she left
was very different compared to the Homeworld she returned to, and she doesn't feel like she
fits in there anymore.
 Thousand-Yard Stare: Her transmission ◊ in "The Message".
 Tired of Running: During "Reunited" she returns to help fight the Diamonds, stating that
if she's going to be punished as a Crystal Gem, it's about time she actually becomes one.
 Took a Level in Badass:
o "Barn Mates" shows Lapis taking absolutely zero crap from a Roaming Eye, a
Homeworld tracking vessel sent after Peridot. She doesn't say a single line during the entire
encounter and shows almost no real reaction except for a scowl when she finally takes action
and effortlessly punts it into the ground.
o After she reforms in "Change Your Mind", she is willing to go up against White
Diamond herself, having figured out a few new combat tricks. And this after her return to Earth
when she dropped the barn onto Blue Diamond's head.
 Took a Level in Cheerfulness: In The Movie, she's a lot happier then most of her screen
time on the show. She even spends most of it smiling.
 Took a Level in Jerkass: Her backstory and circumstances are tragic, and while she was
never a saint, to begin with, she at least had an understandable distrust towards the Crystal
Gems, but after she is finally freed from the mirror and Malachite, Lapis acts very aloof,
apathetic and bitter most of the time to just about everyone (the sole exception being
Steven). She's also very rude to Connie at the start of "The New Crystal Gems" as she
showed no remorse after the latter reminded her of her nearly drowning her in "Ocean
Gem". It's later implied in "Raising the Barn" that even her friend and roommate Peridot had
to be careful to not say or do anything to upset her, for fear of her wrath; even their pet
Pumpkin expressed fear of Lapis' anger. To make matters worse, at the end of the episode
Lapis takes the entire barn (which was Peridot's home too) with her up to space to avoid
getting caught up in another war with the Diamonds, even though this would mean
abandoning both Steven and Peridot, the two people who looked out for her the most, she
still left for her own sake. This may be a case of Truth in Television as people who suffer from
 Depression and PTSD (both of which Lapis is heavily implied to suffer from) often act distant
and are rude and/or inconsiderate of others. While this may not entirely justify Lapis' attitude
towards others, it would at least make it understandable.
 Took a Level in Kindness: By "Why So Blue?" Lapis at the very least is more willing to
settle problems without using violence.
 Tragic Hero: In the end, Lapis is her own worst enemy. As much as she's been hurt by
others; her cynicism, anger, and a combination of selfishness and self-hatred sabotage any
of her attempts at getting better. This is especially prevalent with Malachite, a situation that
could have been resolved in several easier ways but she threw herself into the fusion
believing she was saving Steven but in actuality as a way to work through her own issues.
This comes to a head in season 5 where her fear of the Diamonds causes her to abandon
Earth, the life she tried to rebuild, and all the people she loved, ultimately stranding her in a
lonely, depressing place of her own making. While she does return in "Reunited", it's made
clear it's because she couldn't abandon the others and was tired of running, not because she
got over any of her issues.
 Trauma Button: When Lapis first found out about video chatting, she believed Steven
was trapped in Peridot's tablet like she was in the mirror. She even attempted to smash the
tablet to free him before Steven rushed in to stop her.
 Trauma Conga Line: She goes through a lot, from being trapped in a magic mirror to
holding back Jasper in Malachite to save Steven, however the last part is later revealed that
she more or less fused with Jasper in Malachite just so she could use her as an emotional
punching bag, but the guilt of her actions is something that weighs heavily on her already
fragile psyche. She's actually been traumatized so much that not even Blue
Diamond's Emotion Bomb could incapacitate her.
 Troubled Abuser: According to Rebecca Sugar, Lapis is the one who had all the power
and control in her fusion with Jasper as Malachite, and Lapis herself even told Jasper that
she "liked taking everything" out on her. Though admittedly "everything" for Lapis means
5,000 years of isolation, emotional torment and anger at the people who caused her
unfortunate situation of being trapped in the mirror and later returning to a home she no
longer recognizes and being unable to return to that home while stuck on a planet she isn't
used to nor cares for. Unfortunately, Lapis, despite knowing what it's like to be hurt by others,
proves that she is just as capable of hurting people just as much as she had been hurt. This
even extends to people she has grown to care for, such as her relationship with Peridot to a
lesser degree, where she displays her controlling and uncaring tendencies towards the
latter's feelings, particularly during "Raising the Barn".
 True Blue Femininity: Quite literally; her entire body is varying shades of blue. She also
is one of the few Gems who wears a long, flowing skirt, alongside Rose Quartz. At a glance,
Ruby even mistook her for Sapphire. Justified, as historically, the gemstone lapis lazuli was
one of the main reasons for this trope. Lapis lazuli makes some of the purest and longest-
lasting blue paint, but is very expensive — more expensive than gold. Painters began using it
specifically on depictions of the Virgin Mary, leading to the association between blue and
femininity.
 Tsundere: Lapis Lazuli is bitter and rather harsh towards everybody but Steven. She
eventually warmed up to Peridot many episodes later, though, even giving off a stereotypical
Tsundere-ish Luminescent Blush when Peridot goofily smiled at her at the end of "Barn
Mates".
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 The Unapologetic: While Lapis' attitude is not unjustified thanks to her several traumas,
she never actually apologizes for being rude to other people, or for her actions that hurt them.
 Undying Loyalty: To Steven, who compassionately reached out to her while she was
trapped, freed her from the mirror, and fixed her cracked gem. Lapis went behind the
Homeworld Gems' backs to warn him about the invasion. When she was forced to help with
the invasion, she specifically left out all the information she had about Steven. And when
Steven's life was threatened by Jasper, Lapis dragged herself into the ocean after fusing with
her. She let herself be imprisoned again to keep Steven safe from the other Gem until she is
rescued.
 Walking Spoiler: Knowing about her is quite difficult without learning that the monsters
the Crystal Gems have been fighting are corrupted Gems and that the group isn't Last of
Their Kind.
 What the Hell, Hero?: When she's freed from the mirror, she's furious at the Crystal
Gems sans Steven for only using her as a tool and never attempting to do anything to help
her despite knowing she was trapped.
 When She Smiles: Particularly after de-fusing with Jasper, she gets some very cute
smiles and doe eyes considering all she's been through.
 Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: When she's scared, angry, or irritated.
 Wild Card: She's not on the Crystal Gems' side or Homeworld's side, as they both
denied her freedom. She is, however, on Steven's side, since he saved her and is the only one
who's been consistently nice to her. This is subverted later on, due to her forming bonds with
the other Crystal Gems, and deciding she's tired of running and becomes a full-fledged
member Crystal Gem herself.
 Willfully Weak: Following the timeskip in Steven Universe Future, she seems to be actively
restraining her powers for fear of the damage she is capable of causing. She holds back at
first while fighting the rogue Lapises in "Why So Blue?", but eventually cuts loose and nearly
impales them horrifically before she stops herself. This scares the rogue Lapises into
listening to her, but she expresses disappointment in herself, considering her show of
violence to have been a moment of weakness.
 Wing Pull: She only reveals that she has wings at the end of "Ocean Gem". Justified
because she couldn't summon them previously while her gem was cracked.
 Winged Humanoid: Has the ability to manifest wings for herself made out of water. She
lost this ability when her gem was cracked, and she immediately made a pair after Steven
fixes her gem.
 Witch Hunt: Was the victim of one; the Homeworld believed her to be a Crystal Gem and
imprisoned her without knowing or caring that they were mistaken.
 Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: She was trapped in a mirror for thousands of years (the
exact number is unknown). And while her taking away Earth's ocean and attacking Steven
and Connie was out of line, one can't help but feel sympathy for her desire to go home. Then,
when she's finally able to go home, she's shocked to see how different her home is from her
time... and is scared. She was fused at the bottom of the ocean in order to imprison Jasper;
not only to protect Steven, but because she now had no home to go to, and had nothing to
lose. When they eventually unfused, she still felt like she had nowhere to go. Even though
this was resolved, she is still dealing with the trauma that being trapped in the mirror and
being fused with Jasper as Malachite caused, which leads her to be reminded of her own evil
actions during "Alone at Sea" where she reminds Steven that she was once his enemy.
 The Worf Effect: Lapis, when she has access to a large supply of water, is one of the
most powerful Gems in the show. Thus, it's pretty telling how not even she can do much to
Blue Diamond. Even then, she still plays several pivotal roles in the Crystal Gems' fight
against Blue... only for Yellow to join the fray and poof her in a single blast. Likewise Bismuth
poofed her with one punch.
 You Can't Go Home Again: In a way. While Homeworld is still around, and she has the
power to reach it by herself, it's changed so much that she no longer recognizes it. She can't
 go home again because the home she remembers no longer exists. After defusing from
Malachite, Lapis acknowledges that she can't go home again because of how she betrayed
Jasper and kept her trapped.

Connie Maheswaran
Voiced by: Grace Rolek
 Click here for her appearance in Season 1 

Click here for her appearance in Seasons 2- 4 

 Click here for her appearance in Season 5 

"I want to be a part of your universe."

Steven's supportive, good-natured best friend. Due to her father's work as a security
guard, she traveled around frequently with her family, until they moved to a town near
Beach City. As a result, Connie didn't have any friends until she met Steven at a local
parade, a year prior to the series. Steven saved her glow bracelet before even meeting
her officially. Her real introduction comes in "Bubble Buddies", when he protects her
from falling rocks, accidentally leaving them in a shield bubble. After their adventure, the
two become inseparable good friends. While she's not always around to participate in
Steven's life with the Crystal Gems, she does so with enthusiasm when the opportunity
arises.

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 Action Girl: There were a couple instances in Season 1 (fighting the training robot and
rescuing Steven from Lapis' tower), but she takes a major spike in badass after beginning to
learn sword fighting from Pearl early in Season 2.
 Action Girlfriend: Downplayed. While Connie trains to be a knight under Pearl, she and
Steven aren't a couple, but do have a mutual affection for one another.
o By the time of the movie, their relationship is a touch more serious. Connie
impulsively kisses Steven on the cheek, which makes him blush.
  Adorably Precocious Child: Connie is very mature for her age, knowing some things that
most adults don't know of.
 Adorkable: Connie is often shy and doubting of herself, but after meeting Steven, she
shows a much more vibrant and energetic side around him. She discusses her favorite books
with glee and shows an absolutely adorable eagerness to join Steven in his adventures.
 Adrenaline Makeover: In the first and second intros, at least. In the first season, when
she was a bit more shy and awkward, she was shown with a skirt, a short-sleeved shirt,
boots, and a big floppy sunhat, carrying what appears to be A Wrinkle in Time. In the revised
second season intro, starting with "Sworn to the Sword" (in which Pearl starts training her in
swordfighting), she's wearing shorts, a sleeveless polo, sneakers, and no hat; and she's
carrying a book under her arm and Rose's sword over her shoulder (which unintentionally
spoils her receiving the sword in "Nightmare Hospital").
 Affectionate Nickname:
o "Miss Knight" from Steven.
o "Swashbuckling Swashbuckler" from her dad.
 Ambiguous Disorder:
o In "Alone Together", she shows signs of possibly having social anxiety — fear of
being judged in public, worrying about embarrassing herself, fear that others will notice she's
anxious, and the Performance Anxiety under her section that contributed to Stevonnie defusing.
o In her "Bubble Buddies" debut, when she's sharing Steven's bubble shield, she
worries about Dying Alone without making a friend with only her parents noticing that she's
missing and no one else appears to care about her, and then Steven offers to be her friend.
 Ambiguously Brown: Averted, unlike some of the other characters who play it straight
(like Lars and Jamie). Word of God has stated that she's Indian, even though there may have
been some speculation from her debut in "Bubble Buddies", until "Fusion Cuisine", where her
last name was revealed to be Maheswaran.
 The Apprentice: Connie becomes Pearl's swordfighting apprentice in the second season.
At first Pearl was also teaching her other, decidedly less healthy lessons (namely that her
own life is nothing compared to the one they want to protect), but Steven is able to talk them
out of that part.
 Ascended Fangirl: Started off as a fan of high fantasy who idolized the Gems, then
becomes one of their closest allies and fights alongside them.
 Awesome Mc Coolname: Her last name means "Lord of the Universe". It's also one of the
titles for the god Shiva.
 The Baby of the Bunch: Inverted. While Connie is the youngest member of the Crystal
Temps (besides Pumpkin), she's also arguably the most mature and rational, in addition to
her being the only human member.
 Back-to-Back Badasses: With Steven when they’re not Fused as Stevonnie. They briefly
take on Pearl in "Sworn to the Sword", both take out two Gem Mutants together
in "Nightmare Hospital", and fend off two corrupted Jaspers in "Gem Hunt".
 Badass Adorable: Connie is a dorky, book-loving child around Steven's age. She has
also proved to be quite badass when the situation calls for it.
 Badass Bookworm:
o Lends her tennis skills to help Steven wield a giant sword in "Lion 2: The Movie";
and not only charges into battle against Lapis Lazuli in "Ocean Gem", but afterwards saves
Steven from a miles-high fall by teleporting up to grab him on Lion's back.
o In "Open Book", her first reaction to seeing Steven harassed by the Connie
doppelgänger generated by Rose's room is to start fighting it with her sword.
 o Proves to be quite the capable swordswoman in a relatively short amount of time,
after learning how to fight from Pearl.
 From the same episode as above, Connie also shows herself to be an
impressive musician, with considerable skill at both the violin and singing. She can even do said
tasks at the same time, which takes quite a bit of practice to get right. Then she uses the bow to
fend off some seagulls before they eat her and Steven's lunches.
 Badass Normal: She's a normal person, but is still willing to jump into the fray to help
Steven.
 Battle Couple: The Sword to Steven's Shield.
Steven: We're a team! She's the strawberry...
Connie: ...and he's the biscuit!
Steven: And that makes us... Jam!
Connie: Buds!

 Be Careful What You Wish For: Ever since she met the Crystal Gems, Connie has
wanted to go on their magical adventures with them, getting involved in the action. She gets
her wish in "Gem Hunt" but is, understandably, frozen in shock when she sees a Corrupted
Gem for the first time.
 The Beastmaster: She is actually more prone to riding Lion in combat than Steven,
especially after Steven learns to control his floating powers and becomes more mobile
around the battlefield. After Blue Diamond shatters Rose's Sword in "Reunited", Connie
switches to directing Lion and attacking with his claws and magic roar.
 Because You Were Nice to Me: Connie's friendship with Steven began because he said
they could be friends after Connie's emotional breakdown in "Bubble Buddies" from being
stuck in the titular bubble and the thought of dying in it without anyone but her parents even
noticing.
 Berserk Button:
o Don't act like a overgrown kid during an important mission around Connie. She'll
give you the chewing out of your life. Just ask Lapis and Peridot.
o Don't underestimate her skills or leave her out of missions to stay behind on
Earth when she can offer emotional support; she doesn't take it very well, as noted in "Full
Disclosure" and "Dewey Wins".
o In "Full Disclosure", Steven learned that if you have something to say, it's best to
tell her directly instead of just hinting and avoiding personal contact by indirect means like
cellphone texting and/or voicemails.
 Best Friend: She is not only Steven's Implied Love Interest, but also his best friend, as
he clearly states in "Onion Gang".
 Beta Couple: She and Steven have this dynamic when in comparison with Lars and
Sadie's relationship. The Steven Universe: Art & Origins described Steven and Connie's
romance as a "pure and innocent love", while the romance between Lars and Sadie is more
"teenaged-ridden, angst". In the case of himself and Connie it's more along the lines of two
people who understand each other perfectly. They just "get" each other. ... Though it must be
said, Steven still does things now and again that defy logic to her.
 Beware the Nice Ones: Connie is usually a polite, reserved, and friendly person.
However, she is strong enough (and later skilled enough) to wield a BFS and can
become significantly angered when she loses her temper, just ask her mother in "Nightmare
Hospital", or Peridot and Lapis in "The New Crystal Gems".
 Beware the Quiet Ones: While she's reserved and quiet in contrast to Steven that
doesn't mean she's any less skilled than he is.
 Beyond the Impossible: It was considered impossible for a Gem and human to fuse.
Connie with Steven are able to do so because of the latter is also half-human.
 Be Yourself: Tells Peridot and Lapis this at the end of "The New Crystal Gems".
Connie: It's impossible trying to solve problems if we are just trying to copy other people. What's the point of
this? We'll never be the Crystal Gems. We are just the Crystal Temps. But we have our own way of doing things.
So let's go back to that to fix this mess we made.

 BFS: The second opening shows her with Rose's sword, which is a normal-sized
sword... for the 8-ft tall Statuesque Stunner Rose Quartz. She finally starts using it
in "Nightmare Hospital", with it becoming her standard weapon when she goes into
action. This sword is destroyed by Blue Diamond, and replaced by Bismuth with a sword
more properly proportioned for her height.
 Big Ol' Eyebrows: Very similar to Steven's.
 Big "NO!": Lets one out when Steven gets his gem forcibly removed by White Diamond.
 Big "SHUT UP!": Gives an exasperated "WILL YOU TWO CAN IT?!" to Lapis and
Peridot after getting fed up with their attempts at playing the roles of Amethyst and Garnet
instead of being themselves.
 Big "YES!": Connie shouts this after revealing her eyesight was fixed.
Dr. Maheswaran: What, your eyesight just "magically" got better?
Connie: YES!

 Birds of a Feather: With Pearl. Both are intelligent, have an attention to detail, and have
a tendency to be overly hard on themselves in the face of perceived failure.
 Blade Across The Shoulder: The second opening shows her carrying Rose's sword this
way.
 Blind Without 'Em: She couldn't see well without her glasses, and when Steven tries
them on, it's clear that they're quite strong... at least until "An Indirect Kiss", where getting
an Indirect Kiss from Steven through sharing his juice had his healing spit cure her eyesight.
 Blood Knight: While she's fairly reserved, Connie has a love for battle and adventures.
 Blue/Orange Contrast: In "Mindful Education", Connie's vision of her problem is tinted
blue, and later, Steven's shameful thoughts are tinted orange.
 Blue Is Heroic: Many of Connie's outfits consist of blue and she's a Kid Hero.
 Blunt "Yes": Combined with a Big "YES!" in "Nightmare Hospital", when Connie reveals
to her mother that her glasses no longer have lenses because her vision has been restored
(by Steven, in "An Indirect Kiss"). See the Big "YES!" section for the dialogue.
 Bodyguard Crush: She is training to be Steven's protector and has a crush on him.
 Bodyguarding a Badass: Connie is training to be Steven's knight. And while Connie is
definitely skilled in swordsmanship, Steven has an array of magical powers, superhuman
strength, and much more.
 Boisterous Bruiser: Contrasting with her normally studious and cool-headed behavior,
she tends to be loud and energetic in fights.
 Bollywood Nerd: Downplayed. She's not as stereotypical as most examples, but she is
still nerdy. Connie is Indian-American and "Buddy's Book" shows both Connie's studiousness
and independence in that she originally goes to the library with Steven to study and prepare
for the upcoming school year, only to instantly halt her studies when Steven shows her
Buddy's journal.
 Bookworm: In both the opening sequence and her debut episode, Connie is seen in the
company of a book. She even got Steven into being one as well.
  Boring, but Practical:
o When she and Steven are stuck inside his magical bubble, she reasons that they
should probably stay and wait for the Crystal Gems to come and help them. While it wasn't
done, it would've been a better plan.
o Still stuck inside Steven's bubble, the duo ask for some help from Onion to use a
harpoon gun to set them free. Steven draws a complicated picture, Connie just writes the word
"HARPOON". Onion was able to understand the latter.
o When she has to work with Lapis and Peridot in "The New Crystal Gems",
Connie makes the wise decision that the trio should stop trying to be like the original Crystal
Gems and handle things their own way as themselves.
 Boyish Short Hair: She's a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, and as "Kevin Party" had her
waist-length Rapunzel Hair cut into a chin-length bob with bangs. Starting with the movie, this
is subverted with another Expository Hairstyle Change due to her hair regrowing to about half
it's original length (just beyond her shoulders) during the prior two-year Time Skip that
occurred following the end of the fifth season.
 Braids of Action: Downplayed. While Connie wears her hair braided (her hairstyle is a
braid typically worn by female Kalaripayattu practitioners) and engages in action from time to
time, she only styles her hair in a braid during her sword training with Pearl.
 Brainy Brunette: She has dark, brown hair. She is also one of the most sensible
characters in the series and a Child Prodigy.
 Break the Cutie: In "Full Disclosure", after Steven, who had just managed to escape
Jasper's ship, left a panicky message on Connie's home phone, this made Connie worry
about Steven's safety. After a few more elusive voice messages and texts suggesting that
they should break up, a tearful and upset Connie dares Steven to break up with her in person
on a face-to-face basis; subverted when Steven reconciles with her and decides to continue
being friends with Connie:
Connie: Steven, I know you're here! Why are you hiding from me? [Steven sends her a text saying "I don't want
to be friends anymore."]
Connie: Steven?
Steven: [over the phone] I can't be with you anymore, I have a destiny.
Connie: [tearfully] Say it to my face! Say you don't want to be friends anymore! If you can do that — If you can
do that, I'll leave you alone. And I'll just go back to having no friends. But I won't believe it until you say it to my
face! [Steven climbs down and agrees to talk to Connie in person]
Connie: Well?
Steven: [tearfully] I still wanna be friends!

 Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Downplayed with Steven — while he still remains The

Pollyanna Nice Guy who is open about his emotions, he has a habit of not talking about the
fear he feels of what could happen if he doesn't become what the Crystal Gems expect him
to be or the intense guilt he feels over not successfully helping Bismuth, Jasper, or Eyeball.
At both times, Connie has been the one he opens up to about said feelings and trauma, while
she provides him with needed emotional support.
 Brutal Honesty: When it doesn't involve lying to her parents about her secret life (which
was resolved in "Nightmare Hospital"), Connie prefers to get to the point whenever possible.
 But I Read a Book About It: Averted, the knowledge she gained from reading a survival
help book proves entirely useful in "Gem Hunt".
 Calling the Old Woman Out: Gives her mom an epic calling out at the climax
of "Nightmare Hospital", right in the middle of being attacked by gem mutants.
  The Cameo: Connie had a cameo in the Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted
Parade OVA.
 Catchphrase:
o "Be prepared".
o "That's the rules" and variations thereof.
 Character Development:
o Starting out shy and nervous around others at the beginning of the series,
Connie slowly grows to become more independent and self-confident, standing up to others
and participating in Steven's Gem life when she can. "Mindful Education" further highlights her
growth and confidence when she tells Steven how she instinctively attacked a schoolmate who
bumped into her, and later how she apologized to him, made friends with him and took a selfie
with him, something the Connie in the beginning of the series would have never done.
o Subtle, but the way Connie manages her anxiety has improved. Before, her
anxiety would consume her until she finally couldn't handle it (i.e., "Alone Together", "Mindful
Education", etc). But after the latter episode, Connie learns it's better to express her fears
instead of holding them in.
o Connie's relationship with her parents has significantly improved. In the
beginning, Connie would lie to her parents out of fear that they would forbid her from being
friends with Steven. After the events of "Nightmare Hospital", Priyanka promises to become
more open-minded as long as Connie would stop the lying.
o As to be expected, when Connie went on her first Gem mission in "Gem
Hunt" she froze up when dealing with a Corrupted Gem, because up until then she always
Steven as a partner and only dealt with Pearl's clones or mindless force-fused Gems. She gets
better at reacting appropriately in "I Am My Mom" when she fights off Topaz and Topaz,
especially when Steven becomes distracted.
o Subtle, but Connie tended to emulate a "better" version of herself in hopes of
being more special (i.e., "Sworn to the Sword", "The New Crystal Gems") but after the latter
episode, Connie concludes that she should just be herself instead of trying to be a fake version
of herself or someone else.
o When Kevin invites her and Steven to his party in hopes they'll form Stevonnie,
she shows up with a new haircut and a stylish dress. She's later seen chatting amiably with the
party guests and fitting in with Kevin's cool friends perfectly, even though she and Steven are
the youngest ones there. You would never imagine her doing this at the beginning of the series,
but she's grown so much we don't even question it. It is briefly subverted later on, however,
when she retreats into a corner of the party out of agitation and confusion and sits in solitude
after witnessing Steven deliberately ignore all of her attempts to get his attention so they could
reconcile (on Kevin's advice to bait her into making the first move), and hang out with Kevin and
his inner circle for the entire party.
o During the battle against Blue Diamond, when Steven and the rest of the Crystal
Gems are incapacitated by Blue's pathokinesis attack (in which she forces others to feel her
most-powerfully felt emotion at the time), Connie, unaffected by it (due to being a fully organic
being), takes charge and with the help of Lion (who is also unaffected), attempts to attack Blue
Diamond to free them. While the attack ultimately fails and results in the destruction of her
sword, she continues to fight alongside the others to the end.
o During the mission to Homeworld, Connie operates as something of a human
missionary for the Crystal Gems, and especially a help for Steven. She comforts Steven after
White Diamond skips the ball he threw to impress her, and then again when their accidental
fusion into Stevonnie ruins the ball, gets the Gems poofed, and themselves imprisoned. She
 also provides Blue and Yellow Diamond advice to express their grievances about their
totalitarian lifestyles and rule to White in order to help make things better (similar to how she
and her mother mended fences), and after Steven's human and Diamond halves are separated
after White removes his gem, helps them to reunite.
o Throughout the second half of the epilogue Future season, Connie demonstrates
how far she truly has come since the beginning of the series:
 She has made other friends outside of Steven and the Crystal Gems and
become more outgoing and confident. She still, however, maintains her relationship with Steven,
and the two seem on the verge of finally entering romance, which is confirmed when she
becomes enamored when he serenades her with a picnic and song in the very place where they
first officially met. When he proposes marriage and living fused together as Stevonnie
permanently however, she defers the former and declines the latter due to their young ages and
wanting to retain her individuality, while maturely assuring him that, as much as they love each
other, they don't need to rush into such a huge step just yet.
 When Connie later notices Steven's out-of-control powers and declining
mental health (which stem from his years of suppressed emotional trauma, his feelings of
purposelessness in the world, his family and friends moving on in life without him, and a growing
self-loathing complex), out of concern, she convinces him to see her mother at the hospital for a
check-up, and later participates in an intervention for Steven with his father and the Gems.
 After Steven's issues reach their peak and trigger his
meltdown/transformation into a Corrupted Gem Kaiju, Connie bands together with the rest of
Steven's loved ones to restore him to normal. After returning from helping Beach City evacuate
with Lion and discovering everyone blaming themselves for Steven's current state, Connie takes
charge, similar to how she did with the Crystal Temps a long time prior, and tells everyone that
though they might be right about that, feeling sorry for themselves won't help, and that they need
to focus on what Steven currently needs most. After everyone bands together in a group hug to
show Steven that they love him unconditonally, Connie is the last one to join. She promises him
that his family and friends will care for him just as he always has them, and seals the deal (and
her love for him) with a kiss on the bridge of is nose, which finally calms him down, reverts him
back to normal, and allows him to let out his years of emotional baggage.
 A few months later, as Steven prepares to leave Beach City to travel the
country and find himself, Connie helps him organize his trip, and also make plans to meet with
him during her college touring and visit Lars in space with help from Lion. Finally, before Steven
leaves, the two share their first on-screen, lip-to-lip kiss, officially signifying that they are now
finally a couple.
 Character Tics: Tends to put her hands on her head when feeling stressed.
 Chekhov's Gun: Her glow bracelet, which first appears in "Gem Glow", is essential in
distracting the worm monster in "Bubble Buddies", her debut episode.
 Chekhov's Gunman: Had a prominent appearance in the first opening, but doesn't
appear until the seventh episode, "Bubble Buddies".
 Chekhov's Skill:
o Swordsmanship, mentioned in "Steven the Sword Fighter", becomes an essential
part of accompanying Steven and the Gems on missions, starting with Pearl training her
in "Sworn to the Sword".
o In "Lion 2: The Movie", she says that the most interesting thing in her life [to that
point] is tennis practice. Later on, after Lion takes them to Rose's armory, and they're
confronted by a robot from Rose's armory, she uses her tennis moves to take on the robot
shooty thing.
  Childhood Friend Romance: She and Steven met as pre-teens and developed a
friendship and eventual romance. When Steven proposed to her in Future, Connie politely
rebuffed but stated it wasn't a "no" but a "not now", showing she wants to marry him when the
time is right.
 Child Prodigy: Connie is very intelligent for her age, knowing a lot about boats, reading a
variety of books (she enjoys reading fantasy novels like The Spirit Morph Saga and A Wrinkle in
Time, but also non-fiction books for fact), having proficiency in tennis, violin playing, and
sword fighting (the latter of which even Pearl, a master swordsman, was impressed with how
quickly she picked it up), having an extensive vocabulary, and even managing to find
loopholes in her parents' many rules. In "Gem Hunt", she is shown to be prepared and
intelligent when it comes to surviving in the wilderness, thanks to reading a book about the
subject.
 Child Soldier: Was on her way to becoming something like the bodyguard version of this
for Steven while training with Pearl in "Sworn to the Sword". Thankfully Steven snaps her out
of it.
 The Chosen Wannabe: Connie envies Steven's supposed "magical destiny" and wants
to have one of her own, as seen with her interest in fantasy stories like The Spirit Morph Saga.
 Clark Kenting: Quips "Time to assume my secret identity" as she puts on the empty
frames for the glasses she hasn't used since her eyes were healed.
 Classical Anti-Hero: Connie's main hindrance is her lack of self-confidence.
 Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Steven, especially in the early seasons. She would
often object to some of his crazy and ill-thought-out ideas.
 Color Motifs: The majority of the clothing she wears is blue or green, and Word of
God mentions that if Connie were a Gem, she'd be a teal one.
 The Confidant: To Steven. While he is generally open about his feelings, Connie is the
one he's the most honest with about his doubts, insecurities, and fears. It's because of her
Steven doesn't enter the Despair Event Horizon when both of them get locked up by Yellow
Diamond for fusing.
 Consummate Liar: If "Nightmare Hospital" is any indication, Connie is pretty good at
lying under pressure, mostly because her parents are too strict to be honest with. This
gets deconstructed in the same episode, as lying is still lying and it only serves to hamper her
already strained relationship with her mother, who reconciles and asks her to be more honest
with her, and her mother agrees to be more open-minded about Steven and issues involving
the Gems.
 Conversational Troping: Goes into a rant about consumerist mass-market appeal, Cliché
Storm fantasy tropes, Executive Meddling, and invokes Fix Fic and Fanon Discontinuity in
regards to The Spirit Morph Saga.
 Cooldown Hug: Gave this to Steven in "Full Disclosure" and "Mindful Education" when
he was going through an emotionally stressful situation.
 Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Zigzagged. Connie only admires breaking rules
that are oppressive ones, she doesn't have a problem for fair and sensible laws.
 Cool Sword: Connie wields Rose's Sword in combat and uses one of Pearl's during
training.
o After Blue Diamond shattered Rose's Sword in "Reunited", Bismuth forges her a
new one that somewhat resembles He-Man's Power Sword and is better proportioned to her.
 Cosplay: Dresses up as Lisa from the Spirit Morph Saga in "Open Book".
  Crazy-Prepared: Whether it's sneaking snacks into a movie theater, getting a head start
on her schoolwork, or even being a Crazy Survivalist, Connie will most likely be prepared for
it.
 Crazy Survivalist: Connie is shown to have very impressive survival skills in "Gem Hunt",
thanks to reading a book 20 times all about it. Thanks to her book, she has adapted these
skills and because of this, she was perfectly able to locate a spot to hide from the Gem
Monsters, and she was able to make a very healthy, vitamin C-rich tea out of pine needles.
 Crush Blush: A subtle example occurs in "An Indirect Kiss", when she drinks the durian
juice and also ingests some of Steven's healing saliva, and her face glows for a moment as
her eyesight is magically healed, making her corrective lenses obsolete.
 Cultured Badass: Connie loves to read (see Genius Book Club), one of her other
hobbies is playing tennis, and she can play the violin.
 Culture Equals Costume: During her sword training with Pearl, Connie's outfit and
fighting style were inspired by Kalaripayattu, an Indian martial art which originated in the 6th
century BCE. The Maheshwarans, of course, are ethnically Indian.
 Cute and Psycho: Not Connie herself, but her cloud construct counterpart definitely is.
 Cute Bookworm: She's adorable, shy, self-doubting, and commonly seen in the company
of a book. Somewhat subverted, however, in regards to her friendship with Steven; she's
comfortable enough around him to let a much more excitable side show.
 Cute Bruiser: She's an adorkable, cute kid who can also easily wield a BFS.
 The Cutie: Connie is a shy, dorky, polite, and adorable young girl.
 Daddy's Girl: Zigzagged. In the beginning, Connie had a strained relationship with Doug
to the same extent as Priyanaka because both of them having a similar overprotective,
controlling nature, except Connie's strained relationship with her mother was given slightly
more emphasis. But even before Doug's Character Development with his wife, he was shown
to be very protective of his daughter, and they have a good relationship by the time of "Doug
Out".
 Dark and Troubled Past: She had virtually no friends because of her parents constantly
moving around and wasn't allowed to enjoy life because her parents deemed "safety" more
important, both of them unintentionally becoming Abusive Parents to her. She also gained
many insecurities that makes her think she has a "boring" life.
 A Day in the Limelight:
o "Sworn to the Sword" focuses on her learning swordsmanship from Pearl, along
with a few other less healthy ideas.
o "Nightmare Hospital" has her share the spotlight with her mother and their
relationship.
o And while "The New Crystal Gems" is this for Connie, Lapis, and Peridot, she's
the viewpoint character and protagonist of the episode.
 Deadpan Snarker: Rare, but she has her moments of being deadpan, such as when she
jokes about cutting off Steven's hand in "Lion 2: The Movie", and in that same instance
quickly understands that by poking/tickling Steven she can provoke a reaction from Rose's
secret armory.
 Declaration of Protection: Decon-Recon Switch. In "Sworn to the Sword", while she is
being taught swordsmanship by Pearl, the older Gem also decided to have Connie believe
that in order to protect Steven more efficiently, she would have to think she was nothing in
comparison to him and suicidally protect him without regards to her own equally precious life.
However, by the end, Steven manages to convince Connie (and Pearl) that they should
protect each other as partners and not like a "master/servant" type of relationship.
 Deuteragonist: For the most part, if an episode has Connie in it, she'll play secondary
protagonist to Steven.
 Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She laughs at White Diamond for being childish, which
actually embarrasses White.
 Disabled Love Interest: Zigzagged. Connie wore prescription glasses at the start of the
series but Steven's healing spit made it so she wouldn't even need to wear them again.
Nevertheless, she is Steven's main Implied Love Interest.
 Divine Date: She's Steven's Implied Love Interest, and, Steven himself, being the son of
a Diamond, is Semi-Divine. After all, as a certain saying goes, "Diamonds are a girl's best
friend".
 Don't Tell Mama: And Papa. When she's introduced into Steven's magical
world/adventures, Connie is adamant of not telling her parents in fear that their reaction
would be to separate her and Steven. This is deconstructed because lying to them only
worsens their already strained relationship.
 Don't Think, Feel: Receives this advice from Amethyst. She's so concerned about
technique and practice she freezes up when it came time to fight a corrupted Jasper. Instead
of worrying about something she can never be ready for, she should instead take the
initiative.
 Dork Knight: Downplayed. While Connie has a long way to go before officially becoming
an Ace, she does have a few of the requirements — She's exceptionally bright and mature
despite her age, is able to pick up swordsmanship relatively easy (something that Pearl
complimented her on), and shows a knack for leadership when she reins in both Peridot and
Lapis for their immature and destructive behavior. And, she doesn't hide her geeky, lovable
side.
 Dying Alone: When she entered into a Heroic BSoD in "Bubble Buddies", she wasn't
worried about her actual death, she was more scared about dying without making any other
friends or having anyone else besides her parents care about her dying.
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 Early-Bird Cameo: She has a prominent appearance in the first opening, and she would
not be introduced in the show proper until "Bubble Buddies".
 Elegant Classical Musician: She can play the violin extremely well, and mentioned that it
was one of the few things she enjoyed in her life before she was introduced into Steven's
magical world.
 Emotions vs. Stoicism: Her logical and more serious demeanor (Stoicism) contrasts
Steven's openly emotional and expressive attitude (Emotions).
 Enmity with an Object: Connie hates an abacus her parents use to calculate how long
she's grounded.
 Everyone Has Standards: While she may have hated the ending to The Spirit Morph Saga,
she wasn't going to let it come between her friendship with Steven, who did like it.
 Expository Hairstyle Change: For the first four seasons and the start of the fifth, Connie
had waist-length Rapunzel Hair. However, in the fifth season episode "Kevin Party", she is
revealed to have cut/had someone cut her hair down to chin-length with bangs. This change
happened at some point following Steven's return from Homeworld in "Lars' Head", and their
ensuing fight in "Dewey Wins" over the aftermath of his surrender, which led to an
estrangement between them that lasted a few weeks. Following the two-year Time
Skip between the end of the fifth season and Steven Universe: The Movie, her hair has regrown
to shoulder-length and she wears part of it back with hair clips while retaining her bangs. She
keeps this style throughout the epilogue Future season.
  Extreme Doormat: Due to her parents' strict nature, she is fearful of ever upsetting them
if she does something she thinks they won't approve of.
 Eye Motifs: She wore big-rimmed glasses over her eyes for the first half of the series
before Steven accidentally gave her perfect vision via his magical healing saliva.
Her cosplay of Lisa has an Eyepatch of Power over her right eye. And, see her Rule of
Symbolism section.
 Eyepatch of Power: Invoked. In her cosplay of Lisa from The Spirit Morph Saga, Connie's
outfits include of an eyepatch over her right eye.
 Facial Profiling: Averted. Before it was confirmed  that she was of Indian heritage,
Connie was speculated long before of being Indian due to her dark skin and prominent nose.
 Fangirl: She loves the Spirit Morph Saga, although she didn't like the ending. To a lesser
extent, Under the Knife.
 Fatal Flaw: Insecurity. Connie is insecure about her place in Steven's supposed magical
destiny and honestly doesn't see why he would want someone as mundane as she in his life.
This comes to a head in "Sworn to the Sword" when the insecure Pearl projects her own
feelings of insecurities onto Connie, teaching to not care about herself in order to protect the
"more important" Steven, thus worsening her already low self-esteem. Character
Development helps erase this bit by bit.
 Fat and Skinny: The slim and lean Skinny to Steven's round and chubby Fat.
 First Love: Connie is Steven's first and only true love.
 Foil:
o To Steven. As one of the people around Steven's age and his closest friend, she
functions as one to him (also doubling as The Lancer). In contrast to Steven's control-free,
magical-filled upbringing, Connie grew up in a very restrictive household and had a normal life.
In terms of personality, Steven is energetic, not good at lying, nonviolent in every way, and has
a healthy amount of confidence; Connie has proven to be an efficient Consummate Liar, is
usually mellow in comparison to Steven, likes action and adventure more than Steven, and
(initially) has low self-confidence.
o To Pearl. Both are the Insecure Love Interests to someone who is a Quartz
Gem or, rather, a Diamond. (Pearl with Rose, Connie with Steven), with said relationships
starting because the Quartz Gem showed some form of kindness to them. Other similarities
include a Dark and Troubled Past with control playing a factor in it (Pearl's "role" in Homeworld,
Connie having overly restrictive parents), having a desire to be special, being knights to the
Quartz Gem, skilled in swordsmanship, Badass Bookworms/Cultured Badasses, they learn to
develop more confidence over time. However, while Pearl hides her insecurities with arrogance,
Connie is more open about them. And while Pearl thought of Rose as a goddess-like figure and
is only coming to terms that Rose wasn't perfect, Connie is aware of Steven's positive and
negative qualities right from the start. And on a more subtle note, Pearl teaches Steven about
Gem culture but Connie introduces him to human culture.
o To Greg. Both are the human allies of the Crystal Gems, have an Interspecies
Romance with one of them (Greg with Rose, Connie with Steven), and are insecure about the
place they have in a magical world. However, while Greg prefers to not get involved in magic
Gem business (unless if the situation calls for it), Connie jumped at the chance to go on
magical adventures. Also, while the Crystal Gems took a long time to come to respect and
actually be nice to Greg (especially Pearl), it didn't take as long with Connie (Pearl was even
happy to be her teacher).
o To Peedee. They are both mature for their age and have proven to be slightly
more cynical in regards to Steven's endless optimism. Peedee is more cynical, while Connie is
realistic (not entirely overly optimistic, not completely cynical).
o To Ronaldo. Both are humans who have a desire to be special and an interest in
the abnormal (Connie with high fantasy/magic, Ronaldo with paranormal activity). While
Ronaldo actively seeks out a chance to be part of the magical world, he never really gets
directly involved in the source (i.e., the Crystal Gems) while Connie never did seek it out, but
the magical world opened up to her.
o To Pink Diamond of all people, concerning their relationship with their parental
figures. They both tend to be submissive to their respective parents' controlling nature and
secretly act out their personal lives out of fear of disappointing them. However, while Connie
manages to stand up to her parents and change them for the better, Pink failed to convince
Yellow and Blue to let her relinquish her own colony, and continued to rebel against them
without their knowledge.
 Forgotten First Meeting: Downplayed with Steven. He mentions in "Bubble Buddies" that
he remembers her from last year's Beach City parade float after she dropped her glowing
bracelet, which he found and wanted to return, but she was long gone. Though she initially
didn't recognize him, once Steven mentioned the parade she remembers him being on one of
the parade floats... with soap bubbles in his hair.
 Free-Range Children: Deconstructed. The only reason Connie is able to go on
dangerous missions with Steven and the Crystal Gems is because she lies about where she's
going because of her fear of her parents forbidding her from hanging out with Steven if they
found out. This comes to a head in "Nightmare Hospital", when both she and her mother
discuss their own faults in the relationship (Priyanka and Doug's overly strict attitude and
Connie's lying). After the events of the episode, this is reconstructed — Connie is allowed to
on missions as long she keeps her parents informed of her whereabouts and doesn't lie to
them anymore.
 Freudian Trio: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the rational and mature Ego to Peridot's
overly logical Superego and Lapis's emotional Id.
 Friendless Background: She never had a single friend before she met Steven. It's
implied that it's due to her family moving around a lot, but her shyness may have been a
factor as well.
 Fusion Dance: Connie is apparently the first human ever to fuse with a Gem; Steven is
half-human/half-Gem, so this may have something to do with it.
 Gamer Chick: Connie might be a gamer; as seen in the short "Video Chat", her laptop
has Colonization V, a spoof of the real-life video game Civilization V (the real Colonization has
no sequels). She also has Empires & Eras II and Conqueror Kings II (spoofs of Age of Empires
II and Crusader Kings II, respectively) and Grid, a spoof of the popular gaming
platform Steam.
 Genius Book Club: She has a copy of A Wrinkle in Time in the opening and The Catcher in
the Rye in her first appearance.
 Genki Girl: Downplayed. She's still quite reserved, but can be very enthusiastic about
going on adventures.
 Genre Savvy: Being a fantasy geek herself, Connie's clearly aware that Steven, not her,
is the main character of the story. Deconstructed, in that it causes her to develop an
inferiority complex, which in turn leads her to embrace Pearl's ideas about sacrificing her life
for Steven, but Steven defies this trope and insists that Connie fight as his equal. On a lighter
note, she demonstrates an expansive understanding of young adult novel tropes.
 Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: The brutally honest, no-nonsense Firm Hand to Steven's
emotional healing Gentle Touch.
 The Glasses Come Off: A unique example. Connie's eyes were improved by Steven's
healing spit and only puts them on to not make her parents suspicious, but takes them off
 during her adventures with Steven. From "Nightmare Hospital" onward she goes without
them altogether, having shown her mother that she was only wearing them to fool her.
 The Glomp: Gives one to Steven after he reunites with his gem.
 Glory Seeker: Wants something extraordinary in her perceived uninteresting life.
 Good Is Not Dumb: A sweet, dorky girl who's mature for her age and can be quite
logical.
 Good Is Not Soft: Especially after Character Development. While she is usually reserved
and polite, when the chips are down or when her patience has run out, she shows that is not
one to take lightly.
 Grade Skipper: In Future, Connie goes to college when she's still fifteen.
 Gratuitous Japanese: Cheerfully says "Itadakimasu!" before eating a breakfast Greg
cooked up in his van. Justified as it's a traditional greeting before a Japanese meal, and she's
been shown to be knowledgeable on a variety of topics.
 Grew a Spine: Part of her arc has her standing up to her controlling parents.
 Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted with Steven — while she uses a BFS, Steven mainly
fights defensively and supportively, with his attacks being either magical disabling effects
or throwing his shield.
 Handicapped Badass: Zigzagged. Connie was visually impaired at the beginning and
had to wear glasses. She would help Steven on his dangerous adventures but her eyes were
eventually healed by Steven's spit.
 Handshake Substitute: She and Greg both high-five each other and say "human beings".
 Hates Being Alone: Connie's greatest fear is being all alone in the world.
 The Heart: Of the Crystal Temps. Doubling as acting as the group's Only Sane Woman,
keeping them on track and encouraging them (through a "The Reason You Suck" Speech)
that they should just be themselves.
 Heroes Prefer Swords: "Sworn to the Sword" is about Pearl teaching her swordfighting,
the second opening has her carrying Rose's sword, and after her debut, whenever we see
Connie in battle against a supernatural opponent, it's with a sword.
 Heroic Ambidexterity: Connie is shown to be ambidextrous in "Sworn to the Sword".
When she is training, she is seen holding her sword with her right hand, which is bandaged
up her forearm to her elbow; when she fights Pearl with Steven, she is using her left hand
occasionally. (Whether this is due to training or is inherent isn't made clear, and her other
appearances show her favoring her right hand.)
 Heroic BSoD:
o Goes through an emotional breakdown in "Bubble Buddies" after Steven's
numerous attempts to set them free from his magical bubble leads to possibly being trapped at
the bottom of the ocean.
o In "Mindful Education", when she had accidentally tossed a classmate over her to
the floor as reflex out of a simple shoulder bump. Thankfully, Garnet helps her out from her
funk.
 Heroic Self-Deprecation: Connie appears to have self-esteem issues; she doesn't think
of herself as special, especially in regards to Steven's life.
 Hero-Worshipper: Subverted. While Connie does admire the Gems, it's not because of
their ideals, but more because of their fighting/adventure filled life.
 Hidden Depths:
o A line she gives in "Gem Hunt" reveals she's aware of the natural problems of
humans, being not using alternative fuel sources.
o In the same episode mentioned above, Connie is able to use a broken piece of
wood to easily slide down a small slope in the snow-covered area. This small action indicates
she may know how to snowboard.
o The short "Video Chat" shows that Connie is a Gamer Chick.
o "Are You My Dad?" has Connie shows her skill in art, as she comes the closest
to drawing Steven's description of Aquamarine. Her art style is specifically in the anime style.
 Hidden Eyes: In "Bubble Buddies", her glasses glare over seconds before she has
a breakdown.
 Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Most of her parents' overbearing attitude is played
straight, but they use a freakin' abacus to estimate how long to ground her.
 Holding Hands: Usually with Steven, especially when they fuse into Stevonnie.
 Honorary True Companion: To the Crystal Gems. Because of her school life and tennis
practice, she doesn't regularly go on missions with them, but is considered part of the team.
 Hot Librarian: Downplayed and only applies to the High School A.U. promos — in this
alternate universe, Connie appears to be the librarian, as she is almost always in the library
and at the head desk area. But since she's still a child in the promos, she's more like
a "cute" librarian.
 Humans Are Bastards: Downplayed. Connie doesn’t have any malice towards humanity,
but believes that they are already heading towards their demise, as lampshaded in "Gem
Hunt":
Connie: Well, I like to be prepared. When civilization collapses and this world ends, I need to be ready to build
the new one.
Steven: Yeah, I guess if Homeworld invades Earth, things could get pretty crazy for humanity.
Connie: Forget Gems, humans are already starting their own demise! Peak oil, Steven! How do we handle
terminal decline without alternate energy sources?!

 Humans Are Diplomats: Informed by Word of God. When asked what kind of Gem
Connie would be, Rebecca Sugar replied a teal Gem — green for her fighting and blue for
her diplomacy.
    I-L 

 I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Almost said word-for-word in "Lion 2:
The Movie". After Lion takes her and Steven to Rose's armory, Connie expresses doubts that
she deserves to be there. And before that, she questioned why Steven, who has such a
magic-filled life, would want to be with someone as normal as she.
 Iconic Outfit:
o The first outfit she wore in the series — short-sleeved t-shirt, blue-green dress
with a bow to match, yellow socks, and orange boots.
o Her Kalaripayattu outfit that she wears during her sword-training sessions.
 If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Her logic for making the pine needle soup for
her and Steven in "Gem Hunt" — it's not exactly the best tasting, but it's healthy and will keep
them warm.
 I Just Want to Be Free: Subtle, but another reason why she enjoys going on adventures
with Steven is because she is able to be free of her parent's strictness.
 I Just Want to Be Loved:
o A wholesome example in "Bubble Buddies"; she panics when trapped in Steven's
bubble shield underwater, and is worried that only her parents will care about her being missing
and Dying Alone. Steven offers to befriend her so she doesn't need to feel alone.
o In "Full Disclosure", she is so distressed at what happened to Steven that she
almost breaks into tears when he thinks of discontinuing their friendship, only for Steven to
admit he still wants to be friends with her, and she wants to be a part of his universe.
o When he reverts to a baby in "Steven's Birthday", she resolves to be by his side
no matter what the age difference, ready to help him at a moment's notice.
o In "I Am My Mom", she is upset at Steven boarding Aquamarine's ship, believing
he's the only one who can make things right between the Diamonds.
o When he returns in "Dewey Wins", she is disappointed that Steven gave himself
up without a fight when their combined skills as Stevonnie could have been more effective,
given their special friendship.
 I Just Want to Be Special: In "Lion 2: The Movie", she tells Steven she's envious of him
and his powers and doesn't understand why he would hang out with someone as
uninteresting as she.
 I Just Want to Have Friends: While trapped at the bottom of the ocean, she laments to
Steven how she doesn't have any friends and only her parents will miss her. Steven cheers
her up by vowing to be her friend.
 I Know Madden Kombat: In "Lion 2: The Movie", she uses tennis shots in order
to bounce fireballs back at the berserk robot that launched them.
 I Know Mortal Kombat: She believes having seen a few episodes of a soap opera are
sufficient for her to have "gotten the gist of" romance.
 The Immune: Blue Diamond's spell of sorrow can only inflict Gems, which Connie can
bypass with no problem. Unfortunately for her, she is still vastly outmatched by her opponent
anyway.
 Implied Love Interest: She has quite a bit of Ship Tease with Steven, and the Gems all
ship the two of them.
 Important Haircut: Cuts/has her long hair cut into a chin-length bob with bangs at some
point between "Dewey Wins" and "Kevin Party" which makes her look like she's changed a
lot since Steven last saw her.
o Connie's voice actor, Grace Rolek, says in an episode of the show's podcast that
Connie may have done this to help deal with "moving forward", and although her relationship
with Steven is very important to her, she needed time to invest in her personal growth
independently from a magical best friend. Connie herself even somewhat confirms this in the
same episode, citing that she felt she needed a change from her signature long locks, and that
taking a shorter hairstyle would allow her to unlock a new side of herself.
 In Harm's Way: Despite (or because) of her parents always being concerned with her
safety, Connie really enjoys going on adventures with and getting into dangerous situations
with Steven. When Steven narrowly manages to shield her from an exploding robot
in "Marble Madness", her reaction is positively ecstatic.
Steven: Are you OK?
Connie: I love hanging out at your place!

 Insecure Love Interest: She initially doesn't understand why Steven, who has such an
interesting life, would ever want to be with someone as uninteresting as she. A few
appearances later, this doesn't seem to bother her as much.
 Instant Expert: Under Pearl's tutelage, Connie picks up swordmanship extremely fast.
Pearl lampshades Connie's fast progress in "Gem Hunt".
 Intergenerational Friendship: She comes to form this relationship with Greg — whenever
she feels stressed about Gem life, he'll offer her emotional comfort and advice.
  Interspecies Friendship: Excluding Steven, Connie is one of the few humans (besides
Greg) to have an actual friendship with the Crystal Gems, especially Pearl.
 Interspecies Romance: Connie (human) is mutually very fond of Steven (half-human,
half-Gem).
 Intertwined Fingers: With Steven, especially when they fuse into Stevonnie.
 Jumped at the Call: She grew up as a huge fantasy geek, of course she'd be excited to
become a proper heroine herself!
 Kid Has a Point: Lying to her parents notwithstanding, Connie was right on how their
controlling nature was doing more harm than good to her and their relationship.
 Kid Hero: While Connie may not save the world or hunt Gem monsters on a daily basis,
she's not afraid to do one or the other when it come times to.
 The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Extra points for Connie deciding to be a knight for
Steven. Besides that, Connie looks up to the Crystal Gems and will jump at any chance to
prove herself to them.
 Lady and Knight: Pearl encourages her to see herself as the Knight to Steven's Lord, a
mindset Connie eagerly adopts. Unfortunately, Pearl went so over the top for it that she
unintentionally made Connie's self-worth issues worse than they already were, until Steven
realizes the problem.
 The Lancer: To Steven, as she also acts as a deuteragonist to his protagonist whenever
she appears — he is an overly honest young man raised in a non-nuclear family and is
accustomed to the magical happenings in his life; Connie is more secretive at times when
she has to be, raised in a usual nuclear family, and is quite amazed at Steven's magic-filled
life.
 Large Ham: Has moments of this, as seen when she uses her violin bow to scare off
seagulls trying to get Steven's biscuits at the beginning of "Sworn to the Sword".
 Laugh of Love: Has romantic laughs with Steven during their moments together,
including the first few times they Fused.
 Lead You Can Relate To: Some audience viewers may see their introverted shyness
and yearning for friends from Connie's perspective and readily identify with her situation.
 The Leader: Unofficially for the New Crystal Gems (later going by "The Crystal Temps"),
as she is the Only Sane Woman of the bunch.
 Leitmotif: "Connie ".
 Like Parent, Like Child:
o "Storm in the Room" shows that Connie can be just as much as a worrywart as
her mother.
o "Doug Out" shows that Connie gets her dorkiness, hamminess, and
even insecurity when it comes to comparing herself with others from her father.
 Like Parent, Like Spouse: Downplayed. Connie is Steven's Implied Love Interest and like
Greg (Steven's father), she's an Insecure Love Interest who was raised by strict and
controlling parents, and they eventually Grew a Spine as a part of their individual Character
Development. Unlike Greg, Connie managed to reconcile with her parents and establish a
better relationship while Greg never has.
 Limited Wardrobe: Downplayed in Future. The majority of her appearances seem to have
her wearing the exact same shirt in different colors paired with the exact same shorts. That
being said, she does have other outfits.
 Little Miss Badass: In "Sworn to the Sword". You have to give her credit for going toe-to-
toe with Pearl when she and Steven took her on. They both lose, but Pearl's exhausted state
afterwards indicates that Connie gave her a bit of hell.
 Living a Double Life: After getting more involved with Steven's world, Connie also began
hiding it from her parents, fearing that if they knew they would immediately forbid her from
being friends with Steven. "Nightmare Hospital" deconstructs this lifestyle, with Priyanka
explaining that Connie hiding things from her and Doug is as wrong as the two of them being
overly strict, and that all of them need to be honest with each other.
 Living Emotional Crutch: It is subtly hinted that Connie is becoming one for Steven. First,
after the events of "The Return"/"Jail Break", he tells her about how scared and upset he is
concerning the Homeworld Gems and Lapis' Fusion with Jasper; after his retelling of the
story, she promises to be this for him when he needs to talk to someone. Second,
in "Steven's Birthday", he overuses his stretching powers too much and reverses back to a
baby; throughout his time as one, nothing calms him down... except Connie's reassurance to
him that she'll be there for him when either his father or the Crystal Gems are busy. Third,
when Steven has a catastrophic emotional breakdown over having to repeatedly fight and
destroy his enemies in "Mindful Education", it was only Connie's comforting and wise words
of it being okay to talk about the bad things he did plus a Cooldown Hug that calmed him
down so they could fuse into Stevonnie.
 Locked Out of the Loop: The plot of "Full Disclosure" centers on Steven not letting her
into the loop about what went down in "The Return"/"Jail Break". It nearly ruins her friendship
with Steven, but she eventually gets let in by the episode's end.
 Long Hair Is Feminine: Downplayed. Connie had waist-length hair and likes some typical
girly things, but not as much as Steven does.
 Loophole Abuse: Despite her obedience to her parents, Connie is not above exploiting
loopholes, such as not buying snacks at a theater and instead bringing them from Steven's
home.
 Lovable Jock: One of her hobbies include playing tennis and she's a shy, friendly girl.
 Lovable Nerd: She's dorky, intelligent, a big fan of a fantasy-esque series, and is
completely endearing.
 Love Bubbles: With Steven (since she's his Implied Love Interest) in "Bubble Buddies".
They spent almost the entire episode stuck in Steven's magical bubble (thanks to Power
Incontinence) and a lot of their interactions come off as Ship Tease, especially since, in the
beginning, Steven endearingly behaves like a boy trying to talk to his crush.
 Love Makes You Stupid: In "Sworn to the Sword", Pearl's training and preying on
Connie's desire to protect Steven eventually convinced Connie to sacrifice herself for
whatever comes after Steven, similar to how Pearl would sacrifice herself for Rose. The thing
is, Pearl can regenerate, Connie cannot, and Steven quickly realizes how detrimental that
mindset is for Connie.
 Luminescent Blush: Connie experiences a few throughout the narrative scenes of "An
Indirect Kiss", and at the end, when sipping from Steven's juice box, her eyesight is magically
healed by Steven's magical saliva which got into the juice box.
    M-R 
 Male Might, Female Finesse: Connie's strengths lie in her practiced sword technique,
fast attacks, and quick thinking; and while Steven's skills have become more refined, his
powers consist of superhuman strength, super-human durability, and heavy hits with his
shield.
 Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Zigzagged. Connie and Steven do present some type of
femininity and masculinity, respectively. However, Connie prefers to fight with a sword and
likes action/adventure; Steven prefers using his shield and has a liking towards romances.
  Master Swordsman: Not yet, but she's on her way to becoming one thanks
to Pearl's teaching and her own natural fast learning.
 Mayfly–December Friendship: She is arguably the closest human to have a genuine
friendship with The Ageless Crystal Gems.
 Meaningful Name:
o Connie is friends with Steven Universe and her last name is Tamil for "Lord of the
Universe" . In addition, it's one of the names of the god Shiva, who's also known as Cosmic
Dancer — considering that she can do a fusion dance with someone born to a human father
and his mother was from another planet.
 This is played for laughs and lampshaded in "Sworn to the Sword" when
she starts sword training:
Pearl: We begin with a bow, first to me, your teacher. [Connie bows] And now again, to your liege.
Connie: [bows to Steven] Okay, my liege.
Steven: Miss knight.

o Her first name may be an English version of "Kahaani", which means "story" or
"fable", and Connie seems very interested in stories.
o "Connie" is Irish for "strong-willed", "wise", or "hero". With Character
Development she becomes more confident and willing to call out others for their mistakes
("strong-willed"); a Brainy Brunette Child Prodigy who shows a surprising amount of maturity for
someone her age ("wise"); gradually becomes a Kid Hero who helps protect Earth ("hero").
o "Connie" is also a feminine derivative of "Constance", an alternate form of
"Constans", an old Latin name meaning "constant", indicating her willingness to be by Steven's
side, as noted in "Full Disclosure", "Sworn to the Sword", and "Steven's Birthday".
 Meganekko: Her big, round glasses just make her more adorable. Even when her vision
is fixed, she just pops out the lenses to keep the look so her family and optometrist won't
know she had her vision cured through an Indirect Kiss with Steven, who has Healing Spit.
 The Millstone: Averted. In "The New Crystal Gems", both Lapis and Peridot think Connie
will be this with the former being the most skeptical of her help. But, it turns that Connie's
level-headedness and leadership skills are the key when dealing with the immature,
destructive natures of the other two.
 Morality Pet: To the Crystal Gems, especially Pearl. She is probably the first human they
treat with respect and as a friend.
 More Deadly Than the Male: Downplayed. Connie isn't ruthless, but is certainly more
aggressive than Steven is.
 Muggle Best Friend: Of all of the characters, human and Gem, Connie is Steven's best
friend.
 Muggle–Mage Romance: She (a human) is romantically interested in Steven (a
magical Half-Human Hybrid).
 Multi-Ethnic Name: Her surname is Tamil, while her given name is American.
 Mundane Made Awesome: In "Lion 2: The Movie", Connie mentions that tennis practice
is the most interesting thing in her life so far. Later on, her tennis skills prove useful in
defeating the robot that goes after her and Steven.
 Muscles Are Meaningless: She's a young, normal human with arms as thin as strings.
That said, she's able to wield Rose's sword with relative ease, and in "Mindful
Education" easily swung a classmate roughly her size through the air and slammed him to
the ground without a thought.
 My God, What Have I Done?: Went through a Heroic BSoD in "Mindful
Education" because of the shame she felt for accidentally hurting a fellow classmate (Jeff).
 Neat Freak: Keeps a tidy appearance and maintains a proper schedule whenever
possible.
  Nerd Action Hero: Started off (and still is) a Lovable Nerd who is very mature for her
age. She Took a Level in Badass and is slowly becoming a Master Swordsman.
 Nice Girl: Connie is respectful, brave, and a true friend to have.
 Nice Hat: In the first title sequence she wears a sunhat.
 Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the "Nice" to Lapis's "Mean"
and Peridot's "In-Between". Of the trio, Connie is the most sensitive, mature, and thoughtful.
 Not So Above It All: While Connie is often very level-headed, she has her moments of
acting rash and impatient.
 Obfuscating Disability: Up until "Nightmare Hospital", Connie pretended to still need her
prescribed glasses even though Steven's healing spit gave her perfect vision.
 Odd Name Out: Of the Crystal Temps, she is the only one with a completely human
name.
 Official Couple: By the end of Steven Universe Future, she's become this with Steven; to
the point where they plan to marry each other later in life.
 One-Handed Zweihänder: While Connie sometimes wields Rose's 8-foot sword with both
her hands, she is capable of easily holding it with only one. Despite the sword's size, it
doesn't appear to be particularly heavy.
 One-Hit Kill: Rose's Sword allows Connie to easily poof Gems.
 Only Sane Woman:
o Particularly in the early part of the series in comparison to Steven, who's quick to
act but doesn't think things through. It's Connie that gets through to Onion by simply writing
"harpoon gun" instead of making a diagram like Steven, and she tries to call attention to the
obvious problem of freeing themselves from Steven's shield bubble with a roller coaster.
o She's also this to Peridot and Lapis in "The New Crystal Gems", thinking
responsibly compared to their antics.
o One last time again in the finale of Steven Universe Future, big time: when
everyone gets overcome with grief and guilt for not having been able to help Steven (who
ended up turning into a monster) she's the one to snap them out of their Heroic BSoD, giving
them a Rousing Speech about how it's not the time to lament the times they hurt Steven but to
find the way to be there for him when he most needs it.
 O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
o In "Mindful Education", Connie is distracted and hardly interested in her training,
a vast attitude change from previous episodes. She later admits to having accidentally hurt Jeff,
a classmate from her school, and feels awful about it.
o In "Kevin Party", she and Steven both realize they're really desperate to see each
other if they're willing to come to Kevin's party to do so.
 Opposites Attract: Connie (shy, rational, and doubts herself) has a mutual crush on
Steven (outgoing, rash, and confident).
 Ordinary Middle School Student: Before meeting Steven and taking sword lessons, she
would just go to school most of the time.
 Part-Time Hero: Inverted. While she does go to school and tennis practice, she wants to
make more time for heroics.
 Passionate Sports Girl: Downplayed. While "passionate" may be too strong of a word,
Connie admits that playing tennis was one of the few things she enjoys in her life.
 Performance Anxiety: In "Alone Together", she admits to Steven that despite wanting to
go to a few of her school dances, the idea of so many eyes on her made her too anxious.
With some help from Steven, she opens up to the idea. At the end of the episode, after they
defuse out of Stevonnie, she's seen laughing and smiling with Steven as everyone stares.
 Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Inverted. Connie's associated colors are blue (teal specifically) and
some of her casual clothes are orange, while Steven's associated colors are pink. She later
 wields Rose's sword and scabbard, which are pink. In "The New Crystal Gems", she wears
one of Steven's spare pink T-shirts with a star on the front.
 Plucky Girl: She shows subtle hints of this in the first season, bringing her own snacks to
the movie theater in "Lion 2: The Movie" since her parents don't allow her to buy snacks at
the theater, and having the Gems (as Alexandrite) pose as Steven's mom in "Fusion
Cuisine", and more promninently so in the second season, ultimately convincing her mother
that swords are not toys in "Nightmare Hospital" and agreeing to keep her parents more
informed about her life activities (while not divulging Stevonnie's secret to them), and
developing a strong friendship with Steven throughout the series.
 Pointless Band-Aid: Inverted. Connie wears a band-aid during her sword training
in "Sworn to the Sword", but it's useful given the strict and disciplined sword training Pearl
was giving her.
 Primary-Color Champion: Downplayed. The only time she wears anything red and blue
is during her sword training with Pearl, with consists of a dark blue Kalaripayattu outfit with a
red cummerbund on her waist.
 Promotion to Opening Titles: While she appeared in the original opening credits for a
moment as the town flashes past, the second opening makes her appearance much more
prominent, having her carrying Rose's sword, chasing after the van and appearing on the
beach along with the other main characters at the end.
 Prophetic Names: Her last name is Tamil for "Lord of the Universe". Guess who she
befriends.
 Puppy Love: With Steven. They have almost kissed, but are officially still just friends.
In "Steven's Birthday", Steven is already assuming that they will get married when they're
older.
 Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Connie originally did need glasses, but as of "An Indirect
Kiss", her vision was restored by Steven's healing spit. Not wanting to explain to her parents
and optometrist how her sight was magically fixed, she pops out the lenses on her glasses
and keeps wearing the frame, except when around Steven and the Crystal Gems. About a
year later, she reveals this to her mom and stops wearing them completely.
 Rapunzel Hair: Connie has waist-length, dark brown puffy hair. Starting with "Kevin
Party", this is averted with her Expository Hairstyle Change.
 Really Moves Around: When Connie is introduced in "Bubble Buddies", she says her
family moves around a lot because of her dad's job as a private security guard. This is never
referenced again, doesn't really make sense once we find out her mother is a doctor, and she
keeps living in the same house until she goes to college.
 "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Peridot and Lapis in "The New Crystal
Gems" for acting like bratty children instead of their actual ages.
 Rebellious Spirit: Justified and downplayed. For the former, she grew up with overly
strict and controlling parents which gave her a desire to have some freedom in her life. For
the latter, Connie is a law-abiding person who has no problem with following orders or laws,
she just doesn't like oppressive ruling.
 Red Oni, Blue Oni: Connie is more quiet, intellectual, and often wears blue or blue-
green, while her best friend Steven is goofy, outgoing, and wears a pinkish-red shirt.
 Reflexive Response: After months of training to fight with the Crystal Gems, someone
(Jeff) barely bumps into Connie while she's walking down the hallway at school. She
reflexively grabs them and judo throws them through the air, slamming them into the ground
before she realized what she was even doing. When she realizes exactly what she's done,
she is horrified by the fact she reflexively attacked an innocent person for no reason.
 Relationship Upgrade: She and Steven start off as friends in the first season and slowly
transition into best friend territory. It's unclear on when they became an Official Couple but
there were moments that showed that both of them had romantic interest in each other as far
 back as season 1. Steven proposed to Connie in Future but she states that while she wants to
marry him, it's not the right time to. By the series finale, they share their first on-screen kiss
and are planning to each other regularly.
 Renaissance Man: Gender Inverted. She plays tennis, is a good singer and skilled
violinist, is an amazing swordswoman, and is even an expert as a survivalist.
 Rescue Romance: With Steven. They have mutual crushes on each other, protect one
another from danger, and their relationship started after Steven saved her from falling
boulders.
 Rule of Symbolism: Before having her eyes healed by Steven, Connie wore pink-tinted
glasses. And in the episode her eyes were healed, Steven is recalling a Gem mission that
made him worried about his future with the Crystal Gems. And the last scene, has her taking
out the pink lenses before placing them back on her face. In other words, prior to this point,
Connie had a rose-colored view on Steven's adventures with the Crystal Gems. But, by the
end, she is able to clearly see how stressful Steven's job is.
    S-Z 
 Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Gender Inverted. Steven is the outgoing and emotional one,
while Connie is more level-headed and reserved.
 Say My Name: "STEEVEN!"
 Scary Shiny Glasses: What happens in her debut episode when she reaches a breaking
point from Steven continuously saying everything will be okay.
 Ship Tease: With Steven. They have many romantic-like moments together and a lot of
people ship them.
 Shrinking Violet: Before her Character Development, Connie was usually a shy and
reserved girl.
 Significant Wardrobe Shift: For the first part of the series, Connie's attire usually
consisted of dresses, t-shirts and skirts, and t-shirts and shorts. As she goes on more
adventures with Steven and gains more confidence, she starts wearing less dresses, more
shorts, and starts putting tank tops into her ensemble.
 Silk Hiding Steel: Connie is quite polite and reserved, especially when in comparison
to Steven, but she has a determined attitude, sword skills, and is not one to take lightly.
 Single-Target Sexuality: Connie's main romantic interest has always been Steven. She's
never mentioned a past crush or even had a crush on anyone else in the series. And while
she turned down his proposal in Future she clarifies she wants to marry him, but at the right
time.
 Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Connie is extremely fond of Steven Universe —
an upbeat, forgiving, and optimistic young man who promised to be her friend when they
were first properly acquainted and later stated that he wants her to fight by his side as an
equal.
 Sixth Ranger: She's basically an unofficial Crystal Gem at this point, all things
considered. In "Rocknaldo", Steven outright states she is a member of the group.
 Sleep Cute: Shown cutely snoozing on Steven's shoulder in "Ocean Gem".
 Sleeves Are for Wimps: From season 2 and onward, Connie usually sports sleeveless
tops.
 Small Role, Big Impact: Connie has a small cameo in "Rocknaldo", but is the catalyst for
Steven calling out Ronaldo for his egotism as well as being indirectly responsible for the
latter's Character Development.
 Smart People Wear Glasses: Wears oval-shaped glasses and has proven to be
a Badass Bookworm and Only Sane Woman. Following the events of "An Indirect Kiss",
Connie can now see normally without her glasses thanks to the healing powers in Steven's
spit. However, in order not to agitate her parents and optometrist, she pops out the lenses of
 her glasses and puts the frames back on, only taking them off when her parents aren't
around. She ditches them entirely after her mom finds out.
 The Southpaw: She carries Rose's sword with her left hand in the second opening.
In "Sworn to the Sword", she's shown using her sword with either or both hands at various
points, suggesting she's ambidextrous or hadn't figured out which arm she's more
comfortable fighting with.
o "Love Letters" suggests that she's ambidextrous rather than left-handed, as she
is shown writing with her right hand.
o Stevonnie's ability to hold Rose's sword and their shield in either hand suggests
ambidexterity.
o One of the Crew's official podcasts confirmed she is left-handed. It is possible,
however, to train yourself to become ambidextrous, particularly since being left-handed is often
a disadvantage, since most things are designed for right-handed people in mind. Given how
seriously Connie takes life, it's perfectly plausible that she'd go through the effort.
 Specs of Awesome: Zigzagged. On the "specs" part, she does wear glasses upon her
introduction, but doesn't have to after "An Indirect Kiss", when Steven's healing spit gives her
perfect vision. She decides to forget the lens and keep the frames. The "awesome" part is
played as straight as possible, especially after she learns proper swordfighting skills.
 Strong Family Resemblance: This picture ◊ of Connie in "Storm in the Room" shows
how much she resembles her mother, especially around the eyes with wrinkles and hair style.
The only thing she got from her father are his Big Ol' Eyebrows.
 Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Zigzagged with Steven. Steven is very mature for his age, but
has a tendency to make rash decisions, unlike the level-headed Connie; plus, both are child
prodigies. And while he may be physically stronger than her, she's the more aggressive of
the two.
 Stronger Than They Look: Connie is a Weak, but Skilled, scrawny, young human. But
she's able to wield Rose's BFS with relative ease.
 Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Thanks to her upbringing, she tends to be more serious than
Steven and is usually more reserved, but is still very energetic and upbeat regardless.
 Super Reflexes: A non-superhero example. As shown in "Mindful Education", Connie's
reflexes have been honed to such an extent that she reacts to a perceived threat before she
knows what's she's doing, as she attacked a fellow student who bumped into her without
realizing it until after the fact.
 Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Invoked in "The New Crystal Gems". In an attempt to
protect Beach City while the Crystal Gems are away, she, Peridot, Pumpkin, and Lapis
decide to mimic them. In this team, Connie becomes the "new" Steven complete with her
dressing up in his Iconic Outfit.
 Sword and Sorcerer: The Sword (a human who uses a BFS for combat) to Steven's
Sorcerer (is half-Gem with an array of magical abilities).
 Sword/Shield Contrast: The sword to Steven's shield. She's aggressive and willing to
play rough when it's time to do so.
 Tagalong Kid: Inverted. Of the Crystal Temps; Connie may be the only child of the
group, but she acts as their unofficial leader.
 The Team Normal: She's the only human who fights alongside the Crystal Gems.
 Tell Me How You Fight: After taking swordsmanship training from Pearl, Connie style is
similar to the Kalaripayattu technique. She gives quick and hard hitting moves while being
light on her feet.
 Token Good Teammate: Of the Crystal Temps. While Lapis and Peridot aren't exactly
evil, they both can be astoundingly insensitive. Connie not only acts as the "token good", but
also as the group's moral center, Only Sane Woman, and unofficial leader.
  Token Human: Shares this spot with Greg. She and Greg acknowledge that they're the
only pure humans working alongside the Crystal Gems. Perhaps even more so than Greg,
since Connie is also the only purely human Crystal Gem (Steven being a human-Gem hybrid)
with not only Steven calling Connie a "Crystal Gem", but Pearl both training Connie to be
Steven's partner in combat and allowing Connie to keep and wield Rose's sword.
 Tomboyish Baseball Cap: She is occasionally seen wearing a red baseball cap
backwards.
 Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Connie likes adventure/action more than Steven, is the
sword to his shield, and loves to train. She also wears girly dresses and enjoys playing the
violin.
 Took a Level in Badass:
o She convinces Pearl to teach her to swordfight so that she can fight by Steven's
side on adventures, and proves to be a worthy pupil. She proves herself in "Nightmare
Hospital", where she and Steven successfully fight off two Gem Mutants over her mother's
objections. note 
o Since her first appearance, Connie has had a fearful respect to her parents. But
after reaching a Rage Breaking Point in "Nightmare Hospital", Connie gives her mom a telling
off on her controlling nature and how it affected their relationship.
o When dealing with a corrupted Gem in "Gem Hunt", she freezes up in fear. But,
when she faces off against a Gem Fusion from Homeworld, she keeps her cool and manages
to win the fight.
 Tranquil Fury:
o Discussed. When she and Steven are fuming over meeting Kevin again
in "Beach City Drift", she stated that she was "thinking mad" in contrast to Steven's openly
emotional display of anger at the teen.
o She shows an icy, stoic version in "Dewey Wins"; when Steven mentions that no
one else was hurt apart from Lars being resurrected from the dead, she coldly mentions the
emotional pain she felt when they could have teamed up together as Stevonnie instead of
Steven taking a lone wolf approach partly because he felt like he was the only one capable of
cleaning up after Rose Quartz's mistakes. She then rides off on an equally angry Lion, giving
Steven time to think long about the effect his hasty decision and broken promise had on her.
 True Blue Femininity: Downplayed. She's mostly seen in blue or blue-green outfits and
while she does enjoy stereotypical feminine interests, she has a slightly more masculine
demeanor, especially when compared against Steven.
 Unfazed Everyman: Unlike most of the other normal humans in Steven's life, Connie not
only participates in a few adventures, but is enthusiastic about doing so.
 Unlimited Wardrobe: She is one of the few characters to have a different set of clothes in
each appearance.
 Uptight Loves Wild: A puppy love version. Connie's parents are very strict,
overprotective and concerned over their daughter's education being the best, with little space
left for imagination, even disallowing a medical TV show for being too unrealistic. Steven is a
energetic, jovial boy that loves to daydream, lives with his ex-rock musician dad who came
into money from residual royalties, and sentient rocks with superpowers who defend the
planet from monsters and are very hands-off and open minded towards him.
 Violently Protective Girlfriend: Implied and downplayed. For the former, she shows a
more aggressive side in "Sworn to the Sword" so she can better protect Steven; for the latter,
her and Steven's relationship is mostly Ship Tease and they're just friends. Nevertheless,
when they fuse as Stevonnie, they show a different, unique level of emotional closeness
without getting physically intimate.
  Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Downplayed. Unlike Steven, Connie goes to
school like most children her age. And while she does help Steven and the Crystal Gems on
their missions, it's not on a regular basis.
 Weak, but Skilled: Connie is a human child, far weaker and more fragile than even the
least combat-worthy Gem. She's made up for this for being extremely fast and agile, and with
Rose's Sword (which is a One-Hit Kill weapon on Gems) her lack of strength doesn't matter.
 "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: A teacher-student example. After beginning to train with
Pearl, Connie is always eager to impress her teacher as seen in "Gem Hunt".
 What Does She See in Him?: In "Lion 2: The Movie", Steven considers himself a screw-
up and can't see what a nice girl like her would see in him. Likewise, Connie initially
considers her life less interesting than Steven's magical destiny, compared to Dogcopter. She
gets a chance to put her tennis skills to new uses, fighting off a killer robot with Steven.
 What the Hell, Hero?:
o Connie calls out Steven in "Dewey Wins" for handing himself over to Aquamarine
and the Topazes back in "I Am My Mom", stating that it made her think that he didn't believe in
them as a team. She also calls him out on him for brushing his loved ones' anguish for his
actions.
o She briefly scolds Steven when he bluntly refuses to apologize to Blue Diamond
for fusing during the ball, since that would risk them getting locked up even longer. Subverted in
that it becomes their ticket to escape instead.
 Who Wears Short Shorts?: From Season 2 and onward, Connie now occasionally sports
short pants.
 Wingding Eyes: Connie's turn into diamonds when she's happy and excited.
 Wise Beyond Her Years: Connie is barely a teenager, but knows things like how to
survive in the wilderness or the problems with humans overusing fuel sources.
o She is even able to gently postpone Steven's marriage proposal in a calm,
mature manner that few full grown adults can manage.
 Wrecked Weapon: In "Reunited", Rose Quartz's sword is casually shattered by Blue
Diamond using only her thumb, index, and middle fingers.
 You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In "Lion 2: The Movie" and "Sworn to the
Sword", Connie begins to display the view that as an ordinary human, she's nothing
compared to Steven's legacy and power (a byproduct of learning from Pearl, who unwittingly
projects her own self-esteem issues onto Connie). Steven shuts that down right away,
reminding her how they work best as a team, and how much he admires her.
 Your Size May Vary: Her size tends to vary in certain shots. For example, she is usually
taller than Steven, but at times she appears to be around the same height as him.
 Zettai Ryouiki: Due to Adrenaline Makeover, she now wears this as a part of her clothing
style and is a F-type.