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Based on the Creator/DCComics [[ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld comic book series]] of the same name, ''Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld'' is a 2013 animated series of one-minute shorts created by [[Webcomic/HarpyGee Brianne Drouhard]] that ran on Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' action programming block as one of several other interstitials showcasing lesser-known DC Comics characters.

The shorts follow Amy Winston, an avid teenage game designer. Frustrated that the final level of her most recent creation keeps crashing after the boss completes his monologue, she throws her controller aside... only for one of the characters in her game to start calling out to her. Amy [[TrappedInAnotherWorld immediately finds herself whisked away]] to the magical Gemworld, which looks suspiciously like the setting of her game, where she is hailed as Princess Amethyst: ruler of the land and the hero destined to save it from the tyrannical Dark Opal and his forces. While not completely onboard with her new magical girl status, Amy begrudgingly accepts that accomplishing this quest is the only way back to Earth, and sets off on her journey.

Like its fellow ''DC Nation'' shorts, all the episodes are available on the official DC Comics [=YouTube=] channel, with the ''Amethyst'' shorts consisting of seven episodes: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZTMv_zBNzQ Level 1: Your Quest Begins]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVUBZ_ALc8 Level 2: Village of the Frogs]]", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYRTkKTHXU Level 3: Random Encounter]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5JEVHcCSxA Level 4: The Turquoise Cave]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsrTo6Xfbm0 Level 5: Battle in the Stormy Peaks]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFNRfPvnm4 Level 6: The Final Boss]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sl1DUl4YXI Level 7: Welcome Home]]."

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!! The cartoon has the following tropes

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original 1980s comics, Amethyst is a blonde. Here, while Amy herself is still blond, she now has a separate Princess Amethyst persona that has red hair.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Prince Topaz is upgraded from the reluctant hero from the original comics to openly defying Dark Opal's tyranny in the very first episode.
* {{Animesque}}: The series was animated by {{Creator/David Production}}, who are best known for their work on ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Dark Opal turned the baby Frog Prince into a huge, dragon-like monster.
* BigBad: Dark Opal, having defeated Prince Topaz and putting the land of Gemworld under his rule.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Dark Opal first manifests as a large spider, bigger than Amethyst's head, to fight her. It also has a long, sticky tongue like a frog.
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Amethyst [[FeedItABomb feeds a spicy pepper to a hostile spider creature]] to similar effect.
* ChekhovsGunman: In the first episode, [[spoiler:Prince Topaz]] appears briefly as a character in Amy's game. She later meets him in person in "Level 4: The Turquoise Cave", where he gives her advice on what she needs to defeat Dark Opal.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Amy/Amethyst struggles with low self-esteem. She doesn't believe she has what it takes to be a hero, [[HeroicSelfDeprecation shrugging off any praise with a joke or direct dismissal]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Level 5 ends with Amethyst having saved the Frog Prince, but [[spoiler:Dark Opal suddenly appears to challenge her and has the Pegacorn tied up so he can't help]].
* CuteGiant: Even after Amethyst breaks Dark Opal's spell on him, the baby Frog Prince is pretty big for a baby.
* DefeatByModesty: [[spoiler: Damaging Dark Opal's pin causes all his clothes to fall off, leaving him in GoofyPrintUnderwear. He opts to retreat after this.]]
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: After Amethyst defeats [[spoiler:Skeleton Topaz]] in "The Turquoise Cave", he lets her take three items to [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest help her on her quest]]. [[spoiler: It helps that he's not actually evil]].
* EccentricMentor: Citrina. She brings Amy to Gemworld, tells her she's really a princess, and sends her on a quest, but doesn't take the time to explain any of it to a confused Amy.
* TheEeyore: [[spoiler: Skeleton Topaz]], due to his failure to defeat Dark Opal.
* ExpressiveAccessory: Dark Opal's pin has a very expressive face on it.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Citrina. She's also a PerpetualSmiler.
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler: Prince Topaz becomes a skeleton thanks to Dark Opal's magic.]]
* {{Funny Animal}}s: The Village of the Frogs is full of anthropomorphic talking frog people.
* GamerChick: Amy creates and programs her own video games, and extends some of that knowledge to Gemworld under the hopes it runs on RPGMechanicsVerse rules (thankfully, it does).
* GenreSavvy: Due to the similarities that the actual Gemworld has to her game, Amy is able to accomplish tasks simply by asking herself "If this were in my game, what would I do?"
* {{Hikikomori}}: Amy. The first short highlights how dark her room is, with the curtains drawn so she can ignore the other kids playing outside. She even admits in the fourth short that she spends all her time alone in her room, anxious about interacting others due to fear of judgement. In the final short, it's implied that the adventure she just underwent gave her the confidence to finally go outside.
* HorsingAround: While the Pegacorn is ostensibly Amethyst's LoyalAnimalCompanion, he doesn't assist her much after catching her when she fell into Gemworld in the first episode. Amethyst realizes in the fifth short when the Pegacorn ''does'' decide to start helping again that it [[HelpingWouldBeKillstealing wanted her to gain confidence in fighting alone first]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: They're called "Levels", as in a video game.
* IdiotHair: Amy has a little one.
* InstantExpert: In a sense. In Amy's first real battle, she's shown to barely be able to lift her sword and has to find an unorthodox solution in tossing food at her foe. Come the next short, she's mastered fighting to the point that she's able to skillfully dispatch an enemy while ''underwater''.
* KnightlySwordAndShield: Amethyst, heroic warrior princess, is equipped with a sword and a shield. They're converted into energy and stored in the pads on her hips when not in use.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original 1987 miniseries, and especially the concurrent 2012 ''Sword and Sorcery'' run.
* MagicMusic: In Level 5, one of the things Amethyst has to do break Dark Opal's spell on the baby frog prince is sing him a lullaby, though this might be just to calm him down enough so she can feed him the potion that turns him back to normal.
* MagicSkirt: Even during downshots, we don't see anything below Amethyst's skirt. [[http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2014/07/amethyst_turn_notes.jpg One of the model sheets]] used for the show even instructs [[LampshadeHanging "Keep underskirt in shadow. Please do not show underwear."]]
* MagicalGirlWarrior: Amy, who receives a TransformationSequence to become Princess Amethyst as soon as she enters Gemworld.
* MineralMacGuffin: Citrina summons Amethyst back to Gemworld to find a missing gem. [[spoiler:She receives it in Level 5.]]
* MythologyGag:
** There's a [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/000e94b436bc9e23e9b16ab7a4d8ef8c/tumblr_mh9rewQTt11rj44oro2_1280.png map of Gemworld]] on Amy's bedroom wall, which is nearly identical to the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/298b80391ef32f8ea93b463f13b20a23/tumblr_mh9rewQTt11rj44oro3_500.jpg same map in the original comic]].
** A statue at the entrance of the Turquoise Cave looks like Lady Turquoise from the comics.
* NerdGlasses: How Amy starts off in the modern world. When she transforms into Amethyst, [[TheGlassesGottaGo they break in half]].
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Amy's hair grows longer when she transforms into Amethyst, also [[PowerDyesYourHair changing color]] from blonde to red. [[spoiler:When she taps into her full power, her hair gets even longer and turns purple.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: The cartoon doesn't have a lot in common with the comic book it's based off of.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Played with. While her clothing is all purple, Amethyst's eyes, weapons, and accessories are all pink.
** The trope is Lampshaded in Level 2:
-->'''Frog Woman''': She's too pink and dainty!
-->'''Amethyst''': I'm not pink! I'm purple!
* PurpleIsPowerful: Amethyst, who's decked out in the color. [[spoiler:She begins glowing purple and her hair changes to the color when unleashing her full power in the final short.]]
* RefusalOfTheCall: Amy doesn't really want to be in Gemworld, nor does she believe she is really a princess or a hero. She only accepts her quest after Citrina promises to help her return to Earth.
* {{Shortrunner}}: Given that it's seven episodes long, and each running only about two minutes.
* ShoutOut:
** The shelf in Amy's bedroom has plushies of Raven and Starfire from the 2003 ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' series, which Drouhard worked as a character designer on.
** After defeating [[spoiler:Prince Topaz]], he tells her that he has [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest items that will help her on her quest]], saying "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.]]"
* SummonEverymanHero: Amy, an ordinary girl, gets sucked into a heroic-fantasy themed video game.
* ToBeContinued: Each episode ends like this. Especially frustrating for the ending of Level 5, which is a major CliffHanger.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** One of the first promos for the shorts showed several clips from the later episodes, including [[spoiler: Prince Topaz changing back from a skeleton, Amethyst and Pegacorn flying back to the Village of the Frogs with a baby frog in tow, and Amethyst in the final sword fight with Dark Opal]].
** The preview clip for Level 4 reveals that [[spoiler:Dark Opal really ''did'' turn Prince Topaz into a living skeleton, just like in Amy's game from Level 1]].
* TransformationSequence: In typical magical girl fare. Though Amethyst doesn't seem to know what's going on the first time it happens.
* ValleyGirl: Amethyst talks like one sometimes.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Dark Opal in Level 6.
* WackyWaysideTribe: "Level Three: Random Encounter", Amethyst meets talking plants that have no purpose on the plot.
* WingedUnicorn: The Pegacorn, naturally.