History Awesome / StevenUniverse

* [[LawfulGood Garnet]] is the walking embodiment of awesome, period.

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* The voice acting for this series is nothing short of astounding. On top of many heartfelt and heartwrenching performances, many of these characters having to sing as well as act, ''and'' some of these actors also had to voice multiple characters with their own distinct personalities. The combination of all these details, and the fact that almost none of performances have been noted as being weak, tells you just how rigorous and pitch perfect the casting process and direction has been.
** The series MVP '''HAS''' to be Deedee Magno Hall, who not only was a regular cast (over 120 episodes, second only to Zach Callison), not only voiced a number of very different characters, ''not only'' sang the most songs (some of which are the most powerful in the series), but was also arguably the best actress, as Pearl is at once an overbearing mother, weird friend, caring sister, powerful soldier, tragic lover, goofball clown, and overall complex yet lovable character.
** Also of note is the diversity of the cast, most of whom are non-white women, proving that there is a wealth of talent out there who can come together to produce one fantastic cartoon series.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1w18Kkg16c The Comic-Con debut of the Season 2 intro]], with a short film showing that, in-universe, it was ''Steven himself'' who wrote the theme song when he was a toddler. It then shows him moving in with the Gems, a recap Season 1 with some brief clips, a solo spot for every Gem, [[ForeShadowing a tease for Yellow Diamond]], finally ending with [[TriumphantReprise the triumphant chorus of]] [[IAmSong WE ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS!]]
** Even better, this is a re-purpose of the song Steven sings in the unaired pilot. It's the beginnings of Steven in more ways than one!
* The official video with the clip of Garnet fighting Jasper has gotten over 10 million views. Wow.
* [[http://avatarparallels.tumblr.com/post/125469549661/shayraeingame A newspaper article]] referring ''Steven Universe'', along with other shows, as progressive.
* That an ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' crossover even ''exists''. Despite it being vehemently hated against by ''SU'' fans the moment it was announced, or that ''UG'' creators were trolled incessantly about its creation, the fact remains that it still got made. And because both ''UG'' and ''SU'' teams have such a respect for each other's work, the episode seamlessly blended the two universes together for a hilarious non-canon enjoyment.
** And despite the backlash, there ''are'' fans of both shows that enjoyed the crossover and had genuine fun in watching it and making fanart about it (or shipping certain characters like Lion and Tiger).
** And the fact that now there's a Kickstarter to revive ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820796125/swat-kats-revolution from the creators themselves]]- after having been referenced in "Say Uncle"- it's likely that reference opened the floodgates for the fans of that show to start the ball rolling.
** The fact that they managed to slip in a hint of the fact that Rose was actually Pink Diamond into the episode when UG tells Steven to polish his gem twice a year. You don't need to polish rose quartz gems, but you ''do'' need to polish diamonds twice a year.
* Steven Universe isn't drawn on computer; it's actually ''hand drawn and inked on paper, and there are about '''10,000''' drawings per episode.'' [[http://charlesoberonn.tumblr.com/post/144701924827/land-of-deserts-and-metronomes-oh-shit Check it]].
* Cartoon Network ran a poll asking "What's your favorite Cartoon Network Super Squad", between the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 Powerpuff Girls]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo Teen Titans,]] and Crystal Gems. [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/1add93e9bd6b15ad77ac3e1b4d83389c/tumblr_o8fcfyodfz1rb9eeqo1_1280.png The Crystal Gems won in a landslide of 86% to the Girls' 9% and the Titans' 5%]].
* [[BadassBookworm Connie]] [[ActionGirl Maheswaran]] got drafted into [[http://blacknerdproblems.com/top-5-dead-or-alive-connie-maheswaran-steven-universe/ Top 5 Dead or Alive]].
** Another review explains why she's a [[http://www.kissmywonderwoman.com/2016/05/strong-female-character-friday-connie.html Strong Female Character]].
* ''Steven Universe [[http://www.autostraddle.com/steven-universe-and-the-importance-of-all-ages-queer-representation-281482/ and the Importance of All-Ages Queer Representation.]]''
* Review: [[http://www.idigitaltimes.com/steven-universe-one-most-positive-progressive-and-affirming-shows-tv-review-431099 "Steven Universe: One of the Most Positive, Progressive, and Affirming Shows on TV".]]
* [[http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/06/strong-in-the-real-way-steven-universe-and-the-shape-of-masculinity-to-come.html#.V5rVuLgrK02 Strong in the Real Way: 'Steven Universe' and the Shape of Masculinity to Come]] and some specific [[http://arkycara.tumblr.com/post/122525026573/these-are-quotes-from-an-article-by-ashley quotes]] from the article.
* [[http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/how-steven-universe-is-educating-kids-about-consent-.php How 'Steven Universe' Is Educating Kids About Consent.]]
* [[http://www.themarysue.com/the-importance-of-human-beings-in-steven-universe/ Connie, Sadie, and the Importance of Human Beings]] in ''Steven Universe''.
* In its original broadcast, "Bismuth" was the [[http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-thursday-cable-originals-network-finals-8-4-2016.html highest rated premiere of the day in the 18–49 demographic]].
* The show managed to parody everything related to pop culture, from ''Manga/InitialD'' to ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner''. And it makes them ''work''. Very few other shows are able to do this without being completely self-aware, and no others could do this and hold on to a deep, coherent plot.
* The entire creation of Mystery Girl, which accomplished the seemingly impossible task of more or less killing all extant ships for Pearl, because everyone instantly fell in love with her new canon love interest. And keep in mind, this is for a character that has not had a single line of heard dialogue as of her introductory episode.
* Grey Griffin (formerly Delisle), voice actress of Daphne Blake (''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'') since 2001, [[https://twitter.com/greydelisle/status/757109877789437952 giving extreme props]] to Rebecca Sugar and the show as a whole for its progression and how important it is for showing positive queer representation, helping LGBT+ kids who are afraid to come out to accept themselves.
* One design for an unused character named [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEk4dTCWsAARjq8.jpg Concrete]] in the "Art & Origins" book cheesed off ''a lot'' of people, who felt that [[UnfortunateImplications she embodied a lot of racist stereotypes about black women]] ([[AllWomenLoveShoes obsessed with shoes]], vaguely [[BlackfaceStyleCaricature blackface-looking design]], ''[[NeverLearnedToRead couldn't read]]''[[note]]This was in reference to an old idea that some Gems would be so advanced that they wouldn't need written language, but [[ThatCameOutWrong the way it was written]] made her simply sound uneducated[[/note]]). What does Rebecca Sugar do? She [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEzC99LUIAAImLz.jpg takes to Twitter]], claims ''full, total responsibility'' for it, profusely apologizes for any hurt that her mistake caused and promises that the offending image will be removed from all future printings. Again, this was for an ''unused'' character, and Sugar still felt that it wasn't worth showing off as part of the creative process if it meant upsetting so many people like that.
* In regards to Lars, you really have to give the crew props; they took a character who was a [[BaseBreakingCharacter base breaker]] at best, [[TheScrappy scrappy]] at worst, and, in the span of four (five if you count "The Good Lars") episodes, turned him into someone who is almost completely beloved by the fandom.
* Season 4's fourth-to-last episode, "Doug Out", was the first episode in an arc that lasts for ''at least sixteen!'' Including follow-up, it's already taken up the entire first half of season five, and has been all about shaking up the show's status quo. How many other [[AnimationAgeGhetto "kid's shows"]] even ''do that?!''
* The writing team deserves a great deal of credit for "A Single Pale Rose", arguably the biggest WhamEpisode in WesternAnimation since [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls "Not What He Seems"]]. Doubly so given the ''gigantic'' amount of foreshadowing there from square one.
** As another example, the fact that this truly commits to the {{gray|AndGreyMorality}} morality the show wants to demonstrate.
** On a related note, several fans also deserve credit for managing to pick up the series' breadcrumb trail and figuring out the episode's show-changing twist ''seasons'' before the episode aired, to the point that it became a popular fan theory before it was confirmed. [[http://joethejohnston.tumblr.com/post/173728512653/howd-the-crewniverse-react-back-when-the-fandom Even Joe Johnston congratulates and thanks those fans for having such dedication to the show!]]
* '''''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is the first animated show to have a gay marriage proposal!''' Sure, we have seen [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil some background moments]], [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls two police officers openly declaring their love]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse even actual]] [[WesternAnimation/WeBareBears married]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}} gay couples]]. ''But this show is the first to have an actual same-gender marriage proposal and onscreen wedding!''
** Some have also [[FridgeBrilliance pointed out]] that by having Ruby be the one in the dress, more conservative countries can't rely on dubbing alone to [[ShesAManInJapan pass her off as a man,]] nor can the episode be easily skipped without leaving out major plot gaps. So the Crewniverse not only included a prominent gay wedding, they made it as hard as possible to censor in other countries.
** Plus, after several other shows in addition to SU's own history laid the groundwork, they took the opportunity to show a not ambiguous in the slightest kiss on the lips between two major characters of the same gender, another first for an animated kids' show.
* The ratings for the entire "Heart of the Crystal Gems" [=StevenBomb=], especially the finale, "Reunited" have been the best for Cartoon Network in over three months. [[note]]"Reunited" scored 974,000 viewers, the last time the channel received ratings that high was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' on March 30, which scored 1,184,000 [[/note]]
* San Diego Comic-Con 2018. Cartoon Network announced that a MadeForTVMovie titled ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' was in [[http://ew.com/tv/2018/07/21/steven-universe-movie-teaser-comic-con/ production]]!
* In an interview with Entertainment Weekly [[https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/13/steven-universe-rebecca-sugar-lgbtq-cartoons/ in mid-August of 2018]], Rebecca clarified that not only was Ruby & Sapphire's Wedding being planned as early as ''four years prior'', she was okay with ''laying her entire career on the line for it''.
--> The other thing is that people would tell me often, "How are you getting these adult themes into your show?" And that would really strike me because love stories are not adult scenes. The idea that it is adult because it's queer, the gravity of that started to set in for me and the fear I had growing up myself came into focus for me. The things that I felt I couldn't talk about — even into my late 20s — came into focus for me. By including LGBTQIA content and characters in G-rated entertainment for kids, you tell kids when they’re young that they belong in this world. You can't not tell them that. There can't be only a certain group of kids that gets told someone will love you by all the entertainment that they see. It's just so unfair. '''By the time I reached 2016, I felt the weight of it so powerfully I would’ve risked everything just to get to say this to you now in this moment.'''
* The staff of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' credit Rebecca Sugar and ''Steven Universe'' for pushing the boundaries that eventually allowed them to make Bubbline canon in the GrandFinale, something they wanted to do for years but were explicitly told they couldn't.
* Following the events of "Reunited", many feared that the episode would be censored in the UK, especially after they censored some scenes from "We Need to Talk". '''[[https://twitter.com/Kappa_amigo/status/1075537577573277696 It wasn't]]'''.
* The fact that the season 5 finale, "Change Your Mind", got, at the time, the best ratings for Cartoon Network in 2019, with just under a million viewers. That title, however, got stolen by ''The Movie'', which was even better in that regard, giving the best ratings for the network in over two years.[[note]]''The Movie'' scored 1,572,000 viewers, the last time the channel received ratings that high was the fourth and final part in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' ''The Night Begins to Shine'' special on August 4, 2017, which scored 1,872,000 [[/note]]
* A while after the show ended, Sugar went into further detail about the impressively sneaky way she forced gay representation into the show: after her difficulties with making Bubbline explicit canon, she initially didn't give the network execs any hint that this show would have something similar. The result was that by the time Garnet was revealed to be a fusion at the end of the first season, with clearly romantic interactions between Ruby and Sapphire as they fuse back into her, she'd become such an important part of the main cast that there was no possible way for the network to force the show to take it out.
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* One design for an unused character named [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEk4dTCWsAARjq8.jpg Concrete]] in the "Art & Origins" book cheesed off ''a lot'' of people, who felt that [[UnfortunateImplications she embodied a lot of racist stereotypes about black women]] ([[AllWomenLoveShoes obsessed with shoes]], vaguely {{blackface}}-looking design, ''[[NeverLearnedToRead couldn't read]]''[[note]]This was in reference to an old idea that some Gems would be so advanced that they wouldn't need written language, but [[ThatCameOutWrong the way it was written]] made her simply sound uneducated[[/note]]). What does Rebecca Sugar do? She [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEzC99LUIAAImLz.jpg takes to Twitter]], claims ''full, total responsibility'' for it, profusely apologizes for any hurt that her mistake caused and promises that the offending image will be removed from all future printings. Again, this was for an ''unused'' character, and Sugar still felt that it wasn't worth showing off as part of the creative process if it meant upsetting so many people like that.

* The staff of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' credit Rebecca Sugar and ''Steven Universe'' for pushing the boundaries that eventually allowed them to make [[spoiler:Bubbline]] canon in the GrandFinale, something they wanted to do for years but were explicitly told they couldn't.

** The series MVP '''HAS''' to be Deedee Magno Hall, who not only has been a regular cast (over 120 episodes, second only to Zach Callison), not only has voiced a number of very different characters, ''not only'' has sung the most songs (some of which are the most powerful in the series), but is also arguably the best actress, as Pearl is at once an overbearing mother, weird friend, caring sister, powerful soldier, tragic lover, goofball clown, and overall complex yet lovable character.

* A while after the show ended, Sugar went into further detail about the impressively sneaky way she forced gay representation into the show: after her difficulties with making Bubbline explicit canon, she initially didn't give the network execs any hint that this show would have something similar. The result was that by the time Garnet was revealed to be a fusion at the end of the first season, with clearly romantic interactions between Ruby and Sapphire as they fuse back into her, she's become such an important part of the main cast that there was no possible way for the network to force the show to take it out.

* The voice acting for this series is nothing short of astounding. On top of many heartfelt and heartwrenching performances, on top of many of these characters having to sing as well as act, many of these actors also had to voice multiple characters. The combination of all these details, and the fact that almost none of performances have been noted as being weak, tells you just how rigorous and pitch perfect the casting process and direction has been.

* The voice acting for this series is nothing short of astounding. On top of many heartfelt and heartwrenching performances, on top of many of these characters having to sing as well as act, many of these actors also had to voice multiple characters. The combination of all these details, and the fact that almost none of performances have been noted as being weak, tells you just how rigorous and pitch perfect the casting process and direction has been.
** The series MVP '''HAS''' to be Deedee Magno Hall, who not only has been a regular cast (over 120 episodes, second only to Zach Callison), not only has voiced a number of very different characters, ''not only'' has sung the most songs (some of which are the most powerful in the series), but is also arguably the best actress, as Pearl is at once an overbearing mother, weird friend, caring sister, powerful soldier, tragic lover, goofball clown, and overall complex yet lovable character.
** Also of note is the diversity of the cast, most of whom are non-white women, proving that there is a wealth of talent out there who can come together to produce one fantastic cartoon series.

** The series MVP '''HAS''' to be Deedee Magno Hall, who not only has been a regular cast (over 120 episodes, second only to Zach Callison), not only has voiced a number of very different characters, ''not only'' has sung the most songs (some of which are the most powerful in the series), but is also arguably the best actress, as Pearl is at once a overbearing mother, weird friend, caring sister, powerful soldier, tragic lover, goofball clown, and overall complex yet lovable character.

* The voice acting for this series is nothing short of astounding. On top of heartfelt and heartwrenching performances, many of these characters had to sing as well as speak, and many of these actors had to voice multiple characters as well. The combination of all these details, and the fact that almost none of performances have been noted as being weak, tells you just how rigorous and pitch perfect the casting process and direction has been.

** The MVP of this series '''HAS''' to be Deedee Magno Hall, who not only has been a regular cast (over 120 episodes, second only to Zach Callison), not only has voiced a number of very different characters, ''not only'' has sung the most songs (some of which are the most powerful in the series), but is also arguably the best actress, as Pearl is at once a overbearing mother, weird friend, caring sister, powerful soldier, tragic lover, goofball clown, and overall complex yet lovable character.

* The voice acting for this series is nothing short of astounding. On top of heartfelt and heartwrenching performances, on top of many of these characters having to sing as well as speak, many of these actors had to voice multiple characters as well. The combination of all these details, and the fact that almost none of performances have been noted as being weak, tells you just how rigorous and pitch perfect the casting process has been.

* ''[[Awesome/StevenUniverseFuture Steven Universe Future]]''

* The fact that the season 5 finale, "Change Your Mind", got, at the time, the best ratings for Cartoon Network in 2019, with just under a million viewers. That title, however, got stolen by ''The Movie'', which was even better in that regard, giving the best ratings for the network in over two years.[[note]]''The Movie'' scored 1,572,000 viewers, the last time the channel received ratings that high was the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' ''The Night Begins to Shine'' four-part special on August 4, 2017, which scored 1,872,000 [[/note]]

Examples from TheMovie [[Awesome/StevenUniverseTheMovie go here]].