WMG / Steven Universe: The Movie

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Pre-Release

The movie will get a theatrical release of some kind

The success of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies may have been the inspiration for making a Steven Universe movie in the first place. If so, it's possible that this movie will also get a theatrical release. At the very least, it may get shown in select theaters in order to qualify for certain awards like Regular Show: The Movie.

• Jossed. The movie aired on television on September 2nd, 2019 in the U.S., though there was a preview screening in an actual theater a week prior.

This movie will be the series finale.

All the main characters came back for a wedding episode and a big battle, minor characters had their story arcs, and most of the big revelations have been revealed. The only big question remaining is White Diamond, which is the subject of this movie. It's time to leave the series on a high note.

• Considering we just met, fought, and redeemed her in the Season Finale and that there are still Season 6 episodes planned, along with the focus of the movie seeming to be a Gem shaped like a heart, this one is jossed.
• Ultimately jossed, as a Cartoon Network representative told Polygon in an email that the television movie is not the end of the franchise, and more episodes are still to come.

This will be a Big Movie.

It will be Darker and Edgier, have dramatically increased production values, and generally be in the same vein as other movies based off kids shows, such as Recess: School's Out, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. If the film is within the same canon as the TV show, it's possibly a Grand Finale.

• Jossed in the part of being a Grand Finale for the series, but the official trailer is already giving vibes of it being a big movie.

The plot has two storylines:

• First, we know the Crewniverse love both the masterful use of the Subverted Trope, and all sorts of video games. The Crystal Gems' return journey to Earth with Lars and the Off-Colors' help (as rumored by an anonymous Cartoon Network marketing employee many months ago) will be much more arduous and lead to more Character Development than expected (subverting the way writers usually treat the return journey) with the villain as a Post-Final Boss (video game influence) after the Diamonds. After all, The Homeward Journey would be sufficiently interesting for a full movie after "Battle of Heart and Mind".
• We will see how Bismuth is taking care of Lapis and Peridot and how Beach City and the feds (you'd think they'd be all over Delmarva's strange occurrences) are dealing with the aftermath of the Cluster's emergence (especially the giant hole in Earth's crust) in "Reunited", and get an "interim" storyline similar to "The New Crystal Gems". Heck, Bismuth, being a builder gem, and Peridot, being a technician, could be repairing Blue and Yellow's armships!
• The two subplots will hopefully collide to resolve each other in some way.
• Jossed. All we get at the end of "Change Your Mind" is a quick dash to Earth—Steven with the Diamonds, separate from Lars and the Off-Colors. Bismuth and Peridot did repair the armships offscreen, though. We don't see Lapis and Bismuth talking it out over the latter poofing Lapis during the Gem War, nor do we get any sense of how the giant hole in the ground is dealt with...

The Gem seen in the teaser...

• They are called Heartstone, if the heart shaped gem seen in the teaser is theirs.
  • There's no real gem called a Heartstone though.
• If they're the Big Bad, they could be even more of a frightening villain than the Diamonds, to the point where even Steven can't convince them to pull a Heel–Face Turn. If so, their gem shape would be rather ironic.
  • In conjunction with this, the character might be named Lonsdaleite, an extremely rare variant of diamond which is formed in meteorite impacts and is, at least in its theoretical pure form, harder than normal diamond.
• They are called Bloodstone.
• Is Morganite.
• Is a Harmony Core. There's a Steven Universe comic book coming out in August 2018 about a dangerous Gem artifact called a Harmony Core that just so happens to be a large heart-shaped gemstone.
• Actually Jenny/a Gem version of her from My Life as a Teenage Robot.
• Is a Taaffeite. So she can be called Taffy.
• Is a fusion of the bubbled Rose Quartzes that somehow escaped Blue and Pink's Zoo.
• All above guesses are incorrect. Her name is Spinel.

The heart-shaped gem in the Movie's promo is a Diamond replica.

• While I'm aware that it's most likely any former Pink Diamond court member, perhaps the vaguely alluded-to Morganite, I think I can come up with a wilder guess than that. ~The Noid
• Who knows, perhaps with White being under the impression that Pink was playing some 'silly game' (according to the San Diego Comicon leaks of White Diamond's intro) that she's created a NEW Pink Diamond to cope with an utterly insane version of the 'bargaining' aspect of grief.
• Adding to this, maybe the creation of an entirely new Gem matriarch is what caused the resource crisis in Homeworld?
• Jossed. Her name is Spinel and she used to be what amounts to a court jester for Pink.

The movie will be an Animated Musical.

• Due to the fact that the show's been full of musical numbers in its episodes, it's possible.
  • Confirmed.
    • Then hopefully, the Big Bad will give us a Villain Song.
    • Your hopes have been answered.

The movie will either have new songs, or follow in the footsteps of Regular Show and use licensed music. Perhaps both.

• If the film does indeed feature licensed music, it may be a mixture of classic songs and new songs. Most likely, Pink Floyd, Panic! at the Disco, Electric Light Orchestra, Imagine Dragons, Earth, Wind & Fire, etc.
  • Jossed, according to the soundtrack album.

The heart-shaped gem will be villainous (or filled with ill-intentions at best), but will have no recent alignment to Homeworld.

A major character will be Killed Off for Real.

• Jossed.

The Big Bad will be Killed Off for Real.

• Jossed. She goes to live on Homeworld with the Diamonds.

The Movie will be a Non-Serial Movie

Blue and White will finally get to sing.

• Confirmed.

The Big Bad will be a Complete Monster, or at least a villain much scarier than the Diamonds.

• Think about it, we have already had villains who were tragic, had someone they cared about, had lines they wouldn't cross, or had some other redeeming qualities. We've even had a few of them defect from Homeworld and join Steven and his friends. It would be very interesting to have an antagonist who has no redeeming features and thoroughly enjoys committing evil deeds. It would very much make for an interesting story. Besides, who here doesn't want to see a Homeworld Gem who is The Sociopath?
• They also could take the Voluntary Shapeshifting that all gems have into dark places , to add to it.
• It'd also be interesting if the movie deconstructs the redemption narrative. This gem, according to the trailer, is plotting to kill all life within 41 hours and is implicitly directly targeting Steven. And unlike the Diamonds, who had the whole "it was necessary for our empire" crap to fall back on, this Gem is apparently just doing it because she hates Steven. Maybe Steven will attempt to reason with her but find that she's too far gone and either be forced to kill her or have her permanently detained in a bubble.
  • Jossed. She is ultimately redeemed at the end of the film.

The Diamonds (including Steven) will fuse in a fight against the Big Bad

• Jossed.

The Big Bad isn't a Gem at all.

Instead, they're a member of another alien race who are the Arch-Nemesis of the Gem race, forcing the Crystal and Homeworld Gems to pull an Enemy Mine.

• Or alternatively, the Big Bad is a human this time around. Maybe an inhabitant of the Human Zoo goes insane upon realizing that their paradise is basically a prison or a Drill Sergeant Nasty possessing Fantastic Racism towards Gemkind, believing them to be a race of Karma Houdinis for what they've done to Earth (namely Lapis stealing the ocean, Jasper's invasion, the Cluster, Aquamarine and the Diamonds), and could serve as a counterpart to Jasper. If R. Lee Ermey were still alive, he would've been a perfect pick for the latter choice.
• Jossed. She is indeed a Gem from Pink Diamond's court.

The Big Bad is not a normal Gem

They are a robotic Gem.

• To elaborate on this, the villain, and others who may serve her, are beings similar to Gems with one exception; they aren't based on real stones, or even metals or rocks. Instead, they are formed from plastic, like toy jewelry given to children, and take their names from the stylized shapes of what they stem from, like a heart, an animal face, a squiggle, etc.
• Jossed.

The Big Bad is a defective Gem

And holds a grudge against Homeworld for an incredibly justifiable reason.

• Jossed. She was Pink Diamond's playmate/court jester.

This movie will be a Post-Script Season

The final episode of season 5 wrapped up the series pretty well, so this may be used to answer any lingering questions.

• Wasn't a sixth season planned?
  • There is a sixth season announced. The Grand Finale of Season 5 was a Series Fauxnale, so there is still another season.
• If by “lingering questions” you mean “needing additional backstory for Pink Diamond”, or whether the Diamonds will permanently promote Steven or someone else as a replacement for Pink, your questions have been answered.

The Original Crystal Gems will suffer The Worf Effect

While they'll undoubtedly have a presence and be important to the film, the original Crystal Gems, as in Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, will be taken out initially to highlight the threat of the Big Bad, allowing Steven to team up with Connie, Bismuth, Lapis, and Peridot until they get better.

• Confirmed. Spinel uses her rejuvenator weapon to reset the original three Crystal Gems to their "factory default mode" for much of the movie.

The Big Bad of the movie will foreshadow the Big Bad of Season 6

With a 6th season confirmed and the Series Fauxnale wrapping things up for most plot threads including the Diamonds, the Big Bad of this movie is largely an unknown. As such, its possible the Big Bad of the movie will be the precursor to the main enemies of the 6th Season. As for what they could be:

• A rogue group of Gems. Whether they had to be poofed and locked away due to being unstable/dangerous or being Homeworld Gems unhappy the Diamonds corrupted them and not wanting to join the Crystal Gems, they could be a rogue group out for destruction. The show hasn't shied away from using minor events to foreshadow bigger ones, and in "Escapism", Steven just so happened upon a Civil War between the Watermelon Steven's, including a faction dedicated to peace, and a warmongering faction. The Civil War could potentially be foreshadowing that even if the War between the Crystal Gems and Homeworld is officially over, a Civil War is on the rise.
• A Fifth Diamond. White Diamond is shown to be extremely controlling and a perfectionist, and it’s somewhat implied that the other three Diamonds were The Dividual made from White removing her undesirables, so Pink may not have been her first attempt at a fourth Diamond, rather, a Red Diamond may have been the first attempt, but proved too uncontrollable for even her. Pink Steven demonstrated that not even White can control all of the Diamonds, what with him easily rejecting her and shrugging off her attacks, so it’s possible a Fifth Diamond is the Big Bad, out for revenge on her sisters and setting her sights on the one that replaced her, Pink, aka, Steven.
  • The villain does become a fifth Diamond, of sorts, at the end. The Diamonds confer the status of Replacement Goldfish upon her after she performs a Heel–Face Turn.
• The Gem precursors. Whatever is the origins of Gemkind, White Diamond is all but stated to be the progenitor, having been responsible for starting the Gem Empire, and implied to have divided herself to make the other Diamonds. If that's so, where did White Diamond come from? Possibly the new Big Bad is her creator or another creation by said creator, with Season 6's Big Bad being said creator.
• The Gems' mortal enemies, the Metals. They're like the Gems, only they're formed from precious metal ores, have male forms, and are a Proud Warrior Race who often go to war with the Gems over resources. Their leader, Rhodium, is the Scorned Ex Lover of White Diamond. And voiced by James Woods in much the same way as Hades. Now, they've turned their sights on Earth, but White Diamond has reformed the Gem race from being her vision of perfection to a galactic peacekeeping force, thus leading to Cartoon Network's first war movie. The film's Big Bad is a Gem who defected to the Metals' side.
  • So... where does Bismuth fit into this? Bismuth is a metal, but the backstory of Crystal Gem Bismuth implied that Bismuths are simply considered low-ranking gems.
  • A group of Bismuths defected to the Gems and changed to female appearances. Eventually, Rhodium purged the rest of the Bismuths from his ranks to avoid further defections, but by then it was too late, as White Diamond now had the monopoly on all sources of bismuth in the galaxy.
  • Eh, you probably shouldn't expect James Woods to lend his voice to much of anything again, especially not Steven Universe. His strong conservatism and antagonism of various other liberal celebrities and politicians on Twitter has kind of killed his career. Seth MacFarlane already said that he won't have Woods reprise his recurring guest role as himself again on Family Guy, so I think it's safe to say that the Crewniverse won't ever have him as a guest star either. ~Tropers/concernedalien11780
• The Sneople. Because Ronaldo was right about the Great Diamond Authority.

The "Heart Gem" seen in the teaser is foreshadowing a playing card motif

The movie will also involve a "Spade Gem" and a "Club Gem," though obviously not with those names. As for the diamond suit... obviously, that one's already taken — that we've long known about Diamond Gems and the heart-gemstone in the teaser is what even led to this WMG in the first place. Assuming that the heart-shaped gemstone is the gemstone belonging to the figure seen at the end of the teaser and not just an Artifact of Doom, she will be the Big Bad and turn out to roughly as threatening as the Diamonds themselves, and the Club and Spade Gems will be Co-Dragons to her. They will also have pupils and logos shaped like their respective card suits, although their own gemstones do not have to (Yellow is the only Diamond whose gemstone is positioned like the suit, after all).

• In "Bismuth" (the episode), the deck the Gems play with includes a star as one of the suits. Perhaps an actual Star Gem is in our future as well?
• Jossed. There is no real playing card motif.

The teaser trailer is a bait-and-switch and the new Gem in the it is not the Big Bad but rather working for it.

At first it seems that the new Gem that appeared in the teaser trailer will be the movie's Big Bad until we later see that she is actually The Dragon to the movie's REAL villain.

• Jossed. Spinel is indeed the Big Bad.

The Big Bad will be a fifth Diamond, created by Pink/Rose.

Sometime between Pink Diamond deciding to defect from Homeworld and the present day, she had an idea that assuaged any residual guilt she might have felt about abandoning her fellow Diamonds: She'd make a replacement for herself, forging a Diamond of a more radiant and comprehensive color spectrum, far more in line with White Diamond's views of perfection. Not wishing to harm the the Earth's ecosystems more than absolutely necessary, she seeded the sparse tundra and deserts of present-day Central Asia with a secret injection site, meant for one purpose only: create another gem of her power level.

Except something went wrong.

The world of Steven Universe isn't quite like ours, geographically or historically, and one of the most conspicuous and least tectonically explicable examples is a massive hole in Asia's central landmass. Something catastrophic occurred at this site, consuming the surrounding terrain for thousands of miles in every direction, letting the Arctic Ocean flow in from the North. And according to the map of the Earth seen in "It Could've Been Great," what's dead in the middle this sea? A Gem location.

Devastated and ashamed by the loss of an innocent Gem and the destruction she had wrought upon the Earth, Pink hid the (supposedly) inert remains of the Diamond away, eventually transferring it over to a wooden chest she kept locked away in Lion's mane after becoming Rose Quartz. If you want to take this to Continuity Porn levels, the fact that it's an old-timey treasure chest could be a reference to the Crystal Gems's unexplained seafaring adventure we saw a painting of back in "So Many Birthdays," with Rose only retrieving the Gem from the injection site in that time period, not letting the others know its true origins.

So why does nobody seem to know or talk of this huge, literally world-changing event and its buildup? The timeline of other events in the show is a little unclear, and there are a few possible explanations: Pink constructed it in secret with her Earth Quartz soldiers, namely the Rose Quartzes, Amethysts and defective gems in the Zoo, who have been bubbled or unintentionally Reassigned to Antarctica since... or she came up with the plan with her original Pearl back on Homeworld, and catching wind of it was the catalyst for White Diamond bleaching Pink Pearl. The Authority decided it was better to keep Pink preoccupied and she was Kicked Upstairs to run her own colony shortly thereafter, only she still decided to go through with it, sans Pink Pearl. It could also be that Pink Pearl's eye was not in fact damaged by White Diamond, but that she was present for every step of the plan and was replaced for injuries received from Pink's failed experiment in the first place.

With Pink Pearl reverted to her original state, and the Crystal Gems now having the means to reach and evacuate the zoo, Rose's last great secret will begin to come out, and this Not Quite Dead Diamond will come back into play. I have no idea what this Diamond's personality and motivation would be as an antagonist— perhaps a broken Gem, seeking revenge for thousands of years of misery and pain, or a complete Psychopathic Womanchild not unlike Garnet's preconceptions of Pink herself. What I would be willing to bank on is that she is colored and named after the rarest type of the stone in the world, Red Diamond, or perhaps (if she is indeed modeled with a heart-shaped gem cut) Blood Diamond. ~yesatron

• Jossed. Spinel was instead a Gem created to act as a playmate for Pink before she got her colony.

The movie will kickstart season 6, and its plot will derive from a seemingly minor forgotten detail

With the season 5 finale having thoroughly wrapped up all major plot threads, the next major conflict will have to derive from some sort of What Happened to the Mouse? moment. Something that was brought up and then (seemingly) promptly forgotten about earlier on, which turned out to be enormously significant after all. This is really the only way the series can continue from here, considering how implausible it is that event that the series would throw its Continuity Porn tendencies out the window and resort to a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere.

The heart-shaped gem is a Corrupted Gem that got cured during Change Your Mind off-screen.

The reason we didn't see her with everyone else was because she ran away immediately after being cured, and the reason she's going to act evil is because she is clueless about the Diamonds' Heel-Face Turns and thinks the Crystal Gems sided/surrendered to them. Reality will most likely ensue when she's finally confronted, the whole group yelling at her that this whole thing could've been completely avoided had she just talked to them and not jumped to conclusions.

• Jossed.

The big bad of the movie will be a Homeworld elite (possibly leading a group of gems) who is still loyal to the old ways of the gem empire.

They will have ironically become just like the crystal gems they hated so much; destructive rebels that keep the empire from expanding and living in peace.

• Jossed.

The Big Bad's Evil Plan will be to usurp the Diamond Authority with an army of Gem-hybrids and become an even worse tyrant than the Diamonds.

She will assemble an array of elite Gem types to make hybrids of organics and have a weapon to Mind Control them into prostitution. In other words, she's basically breeding and pimping those Gems into half organics without their consent nor any concern for their existence. She also kills off their organic halves so the Gem halves will be more easy to control with no shred of remorse, having learned that Pink Steven is much more powerful than all the Diamonds. She will use this army to invade Homeworld and take over the Diamond Authority.

• Jossed.

The Big Bad's Establishing Character Moment will be to sing a Dark Reprise of "Change Your Mind" and kill a Gem onscreen.

And she will do it in front of Steven, too, to mean how seriously irredeemably evil she is.

I don't need you to respect/love me, I respect/love me.
But if you want to know me, I could show you.

• Jossed, although she does have a Villain Song.

The Big Bad will be a rebellious precursor to the Rose Quartzes Pink created.

Essentially she would be a Shadow Archetype of Bismuth, an extremist who, instead of remaining a part of the Crystal Gems, followed through on creating a splinter cell and waging a guerrilla war on Homeworld. But, like Bismuth, she was eventually poofed and bubbled by Pink and placed inside Lion's mane. The Big Bad will be another of Pink's darkest secrets, and it will be up to Steven to prevent her from destroying the peace made in "Change Your Mind". Alternatively, the heart-shaped Gem could have something to do with the Rose Quartzes bubbled inside the Human Zoo.

• Jossed.

Steven and Connie will get a Relationship Upgrade.

And they'll share a Big Damn Kiss, which causes them to fuse into Stevonnie.

• The trailer already shows Connie giving a very surprised Steven a kiss on the cheek.
• Jossed. The above-mentioned cheek kiss does happen, but there is no Big Damn Kiss, although they do hold hands at the end.

The movie will feature an ensemble of returning side-characters.

Aquamarine and Topaz, the Zircons, the Zoomans, the Off-Colors, the Famethyst, you name it- with a length of ninety minutes, they have plenty of time to bring everyone back. This would mean that any antagonists from the past (like Aquamarine or Holly Blue) could very well make a comeback, wanting revenge for their humiliation and not accepting the new system being put in place. They might all be united by a new villain, too.

• Jossed for everyone but the Off-Colors.

The movie will be nothing but pure Slice of Life fluff with the Beach City residents and Homeworld Gems having fun, and all the trailers will try to convince everyone otherwise.

Come on, it's Steven Universe.

• Try telling that to "Keeping It Together", "A Single Pale Rose", "Together Alone", and "Change Your Mind". Plus, this is a movie.
• Very much Jossed. It very much is a Big Damn Movie.

Chance the Rapper will be a character in the movie.

And if so, there's a possibility that he will be As Himself, because why not?

• Jossed. He only provides lyrics behind the scenes for Garnet’s Friendship Song at the end.

Chance the Rapper will voice a fusion of Steven and one of the male humans.

Probably Lars, though Greg and Ronaldo are also possible.

• Jossed. He only provides lyrics behind the scenes for Garnet’s Friendship Song at the end.

The Big Bad is a former subordinate of Pink Diamond.

She wanted to destroy Homeworld, so Pink Diamond abandoned or bubbled her as punishment. In the present day events, she will try to kill Steven as Revenge, fully aware that he isn't the Diamond that punished her so harshly.

• Yes and no. She was a subordinate of Pink and she was abandoned, but it wasn't for any reason that would warrant it. She served as Pink's playmate before the Earth colony. When Pink got her colony, she told Spinel to wait in their secret Garden spot until she came back...but she didn't for 6,000 years.

Navy, Aquamarine, and Emerald will form a Villain Team-Up with the Big Bad.

Refusing to conform to Homeworld's new ways, they will ally themselves with the Big Bad in hopes of overthrowing the Diamonds and killing Steven. After the Big Bad is shattered, they will be imprisoned in the Prison Tower for their crimes.

• Maybe Eyeball, Hessionite, and Squaridot, too? Holly Blue Agate?
  • Maybe she could even sucker in the Cluster Gems with the promise of new bodies for them. Or even those gems trapped in the gem-powered devices.
• Jossed.

Alternatively, Navy will pull a Heel–Face Turn.

Remember the end of "Room for Ruby", in which Garnet reveals a "Welcome to the Party!" balloon, implying she saw a future in which Navy genuinely pulled a Heel–Face Turn and live on Earth?

In the movie, she'll side with Aquamarine, Emerald, and the Big Bad at first, but she'll eventually defect from their side and aid the Crystal and Homeworld Gems in defeating them. Eyeball could also pull a Heel–Face Turn (she thanked Steven at the end of "Hit the Diamond" and likely knows that Rose/Steven is Pink Diamond by now), so perhaps she can help her former crewmate Navy atone for her actions.

• Jossed. The Rubies don't make an appearance.

Leggy will turn out to be the movie's surprise Big Bad.

We thought Navy was Affably Evil and a Minion with an F in Evil, but she turned out to be more clever and evil than we thought, so why can't Leggy?

• Jossed. The Rubies don't make an appearance.

If the Ruby Squad are working for the Big Bad, their Heel–Face Turn (or at least defection from her) will result from Leggy asking a question

Assuming said Big Bad tries to overthrow the Diamonds to keep Homeworld from changing, Leggy, having spent the least amount on Homeworld and thus has the least amount of Homeworld propaganda and prejudice drilled into her, will ask why they're fighting against the Diamonds if they're trying to make things better for everyone - including them. The other Rubies realize they're basically fighting to be treated as idiotic replaceable grunts and, spurred on by Navy (or Eyeball), will cut ties with the Big Bad.

Steven and Pearl's first spoken interaction in the movie will have Pearl remarking how she's still not used to seeing Steven taller.

She will follow this up by jokingly asking him to shrink down for her, to which Steven laughs in response.

• Jossed.

The movie is the series finale, but the show will continue on in spite of it.

Similar to The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, which is at the end of the timeline with any episodes coming after it set before it. Season 6 will serve as the "How We Got Here" in between "Change Your Mind" and the movie, with any other possible seasons actually set after it.

The status quo will be completely upended

There have been large changes, but this will be the point where the series is divided into pre-film and post-film, much like how the MCU is now pre- and post- Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War.

Fusions between Lapis, Peridot, and Jasper will appear

The return of Malachite (with a cool redesign), the appearance of a Lapis-Peridot fusion, the appearance of a Jasper-Peridot fusion, the appearance of a Lapis-Peridot-Jasper fusion.

• Jossed for all of the above.

Most of the events of the movie will be a dream

Somehow, the main villain will trap Steven and the Gems in a Lotus-Eater Machine, making it seem like he grew taller and that everyone is living in harmony. Upon waking up, they find that the main villain has managed to wreck havoc in the real world.

• Jossed, fortunately.

The movie is the start of a sequel series, with Season 6 actually being the first season of it.

The villainess pulls a Villain: Exit, Stage Left at the end of the movie (if she doesn't get redeemed), and will become the Arc Villain of Season 6.

• Jossed.

The villainess will actually be redeemed with success near the end of the movie...

...but whatever she's going to cause and/or use against the Earth now can only be stopped if someone dies in the process. And she decides to volunteer and spare Steven and co. to stop her own doom weapon.

• Jossed. The injector is thankfully stopped and she goes to live on Homeworld with the Diamonds.

We will find out what happened to Sadie's dad, Peedee and Ronaldo's mom, and Kiki and Jenny's mom

Possibly via throwaway lines. If those missing parents' absences are not discussed in the movie, they will be plots of one or more episodes in the 6th season.

• Jossed.

It will be discovered that Steven's neck is behind everything that happens in the movie.

No one will see it coming!

• And one of Steven's body parts getting Organ Autonomy wouldn't even be without precedent...
• Jossed.

The movie actually doesn't take place over the Time Skip we've been told of.

After all, Word of God alone is not sufficient evidence. And Steven does age based on emotional growth, which the final arcs of the fifth season certainly put him through quite a bit of. For all we know, the movie could take place a few months after "Change Your Mind" at most, and the creators have simply been using the "Steven's neck" meme and the assumptions surrounding Steven's overall new design to mess with us.

...Yeah, It's probably more likely that the creators are being honest with us regarding that Time Skip than not. But it doesn't hurt to keep all possibilities on the table for now.

• Jossed.

The movie will open with a song from Sadie Killer and the Suspects

• Jossed, although the band does play later in the film.

The movie's first act will turn out to be a long fake out opening.

Steven and the Gems will quickly deal with the heart Gem villain while foiling her Earth destroying plans. A new threat will then make itself known, with a much more massively scaled plot than just killing one planet, making the heart Gem a Disc-One Final Boss of sorts.

• Leggy?
• Yellow Diamond's neck trying to gain surpremecy by fighting Steven's neck?
• Jossed.

Lapis and Peridot will fuse to help Steven in combat.

Similar to Garnet's wedding they'll share a Big Damn Kiss before doing so.

• Chrysolite and Turquoise are really popular names for the fusion...
• Jossed.

Mystery Girl will show up as part of a Pearl-centric subplot.

The movie will reveal her real name and confirm her as the first openly gay human character of the series.

• Jossed. She is never even mentioned.

Crying Breakfast Friends will have gotten a Big Damn Movie itself during the time skip.

And of course somebody (most likely Pearl or Amethyst) are gonna Lampshade how it's just two and a half hours of the characters crying.

• Not even mentioned.

There will be a post-credit scene.

The Stinger will either lead into season 6 or tease a second movie.

After the time skip Bismuth saw Steven's cosmic popularity and realized where the real money is made.

She starts producing merchandise like...

• Steven Universe: The T-Shirt
• Steven Universe: The coloring book
• Steven Universe: The lunchbox
• Steven Universe: The cereal
• Steven Universe: The Flamethrower

Cue image of Bismuth firing said flamethrower and saying "The kids love this one."

The giant harvester is Steven's kryptonite.

In the trailer he claims the villain is doing this to kill him. The drill isn't just draining the earth's energy but also all the organics energy. In shots of the trailer he looks exactly like when he got his gem removed and was powerless while on the edge of death. He doesn't just have two days before the earth dies, he has two days before HE dies.

• Partially confirmed, as the injector's potent biopoison is dangerous for him. But that isn't why he's having problems.

Villain's motive.

The Heart Gem was a high ranking Diamond Authority general. Steven's dismantling of the Authority led to her getting laid off without any benefits. This is personal for her, since she liked the comfortable position. For added flavor, she could also be an Authority purist, believing Steven/Pink Diamond tainted the Authority's Legacy.

• Jossed.

The Villain is trying to create another Diamond.

The injector shown in the trailer is much bigger than the ones in the Kindergarten, and is said to drain the life from the entire planet. She is probably trying to make a new Diamond as an attempt to go back to the Empire's old ways. It would also be a good chance to show how Diamonds are made.

• Jossed.

The Heart Gem is a crazed Death Seeker.

Seeing as how Steven is probably viewed as a messiah to a lot of gems across the universe killing him would put her on everyone's hit list. She knows this and considers this a suicide mission.

• Jossed.

There will be a moment where for the first and probably only time Steven will actually consider shattering the villain as a last resort.

At a very tense point he'll question himself on how to deal with the antagonist. She might be too powerful to bubble or push Steven too far after managing to hurt, or worse, kill someone (or more). If the others are there with him, they'll be surprised and scared that he would even think of that.

• Jossed.

(Mixing along with the theories the antagonist really will be unredeemable,) Steven, in the ending, will use a line that the villainess gem used against him, but with the intent to convince her to perform a Heel–Face Turn and/or give up.

She'll intially go along...only to catch him offguard with an attack. Think of the "run away and never come back" reprise scene from the climax of The Lion King (2019).

• The last six theories above mesh together really well...

The running gag of non Earth gems calling Steven "Rose" or "Pink" has been phased out.

After a few years of constant cosmic gem interaction it's been made very clear to most of all gemkind that he's a different person and is to be treated as such.

• Seemingly Confirmed by the Toonami trailer, as the Heart Gem outright says, "Are you Steven Universe?", addressing him by his own name instead of either Rose or Pink.
  • Well, yes, but at first she thought he was PD, like any other Gem post-reveal.

The film will have a very light Bitter Sweet Ending.

The Earth is saved but Beach City is completely destroyed. Luckily everyone evacuated in time and nobody's hurt due their constant drills, pun intended. The residents will have to move to the newly established Gem City. This leads to a new environment with humans and gems functioning as one society.

Steven will somehow repair the damage done to Beach City with his powers.

Since it's been shown that he can bring people Back from the Dead, he might be able to do that to plants and Earth itself. It will be shown as a World-Healing Wave and no one will have to move away from Beach City in the end.

• It's unknown how possible this would be, since Pink/Rose likely would have tried to heal the Earth that was damaged by the Kindergarten. It might require the other Diamond's help like healing the corrupted Gems did.
• Confirmed, but he needs a lot of hydration to do so.

The Temple, or at least the inside of it, will be destroyed.

The drill is very close to the hill where the Temple is, and it's possible that while Steven's house won't suffer any damage, the rest of the Temple will. It may also provide a way to explain just how the Temple works, especially if it is to be rebuilt after.

• Jossed.

The villainess will get some lines of speech in a possible new trailer

If there's going to be more than a single trailer, the villainess' voice could be revealed, in the same vein as Marvel Cinematic Universe trailer's villains.

• Confirmed. There's still no official word on who the actress is, though...

The drill the villainess is using in the trailer is a discontinued prototype of a more potent injector for Kindergartens

And a moment in the movie will explain HOW the main antagonist got it.

Guesses for the Heart Gem's voice actor

• Tara Strong
• Andrea Libman
• Kristen Schaal
• Sarah Stiles
  • Ding!
• Cassandra Lee Morris

The Galaxy Warp has been fully repaired.

After all, peace has been made with Homeworld and the Diamonds, and Earth is clearly very different now that there's a substantial community of Gems who've chosen to live there. There's no reason not to repair it.

• It just looks like new warp pads don't even need it, being able to go straight to Homeworld or other off-planet destinations directly.

The Heart Gem will do a similar thing to what White Diamond did to Steven

As in, somehow, remove his gemstone, albeit with a malicious intent rather than out of denial like White did. And it'll be right before the part Steven will climb the drill, since when he does that in the trailer, he has the same eyes as when his gem was taken in S5 finale (baggy and pinkish below the pupils).

• He could just be tired on account of having less than 48 hours to save the planet and no time to sleep.
• Jossed. She instead manages to nullify his powers.

The Heart Gem will be a Silent Antagonist

Just to add the creepiness factor, not counting the corrupt gems, all the other antagonists prior are capable of speech. But the main villainess is probably too insane to talk coherently and thus, cannot be reasoned by Steven.

• Jossed by the Toonami trailer, which shows her speaking for the first time.

Steven will be subjected to Laser-Guided Amnesia by the end of the movie, having lost 4 years of his memories and physically de-aging himself.

Steven will revert to his Season 1A personality, maybe even a little before that. Easy Amnesia is averted, and the entire next season will be devoted to helping Steven regain his memories.

• Jossed, fortunately.

The Heart Gem is an "ultimate" Gem similar to Jasper

Her being the most perfect version of her Gem type possible would explain why she's so powerful, similar to how Jasper's "Ultimate Quartz" status makes her much more powerful than a normal Quartz.

• Possibly. Pearl refers to Spinel as having a "perfect cut", although there is no further mention of this.

Steven's neck will be a meme in-universe as well.

Just as she did in "Steven's Birthday", Amethyst will have made a thing about Steven having a neck, and then she started making jokes about it. Eventually, other people started getting in on it, whether voluntarily or not, and it just spiraled into a meme from there.

• Jossed.

The Heart Gem is a prototype of a kind of gem made for Pink's court.

But that was discontinued, not for being weak, ineffective and/or useless, but because of the opposite reason: she was too dangerous even for the Diamonds to contain under their system. So, she was bubbled (or maybe even sealed on something different to punctuate her strength), and she somehow got recently freed, and is out for revenge.

• Do you think she has something to do with the contents of Lion's chest?
• Jossed, she used to be Pink's jester.

Defeat of the Heart Gem's Injector will restore life to the Prime Kindergarten.

• Jossed... but maybe Steven could heal the place...

There's more Gems of the same type as the Heart Gem...

However, they might turn out different from the movie's main antagonist, since Gems sharing the same type of gem doesn't mean they have the same exact personalities.

Opal's personality will be finally fleshed out

The first trailer shows Amethyst and Pearl in a free fall, holding hands and presumably ready to fuse. If that's the case, there's a chance Opal's combat range will be more explored, along with the other facts of her personality (after all, the only thing we know is that she's a Forgetful Jones).

• Jossed, she only appears for one song.

The movie's morals

In the trailer, Steven says he wants everything to stay the same and never change, and that he wants his "happily ever after" back. The movie will have Steven learn that even though he's made positive changes to how Homeworld's run, it doesn't mean everything is going to be perfect forever, and that happily ever afters don't exist because life goes on even after a big life-changing event.

• Confirmed. And plus, that's what restores his powers.

The main villain is Nora, and the plot directly parallels Frankenstein

The villain is Pink Diamond's original attempt to have a child, but as she didn't fully understand how organic reproduction worked at the time, she used Homeworld's method to create something as powerful as a Diamond, the resulting Gem being either unstable and thus exiled from Gem society for her safety, or overcooked like Amethyst, resulting in Pink thinking she was a dud and never even realising she eventually came out of the ground. Either way, the heart Gem takes it as abandonment and has come to Earth thinking Steven is Pink and wanting revenge, or simply being jealous of Steven getting the love she never did.

The big injector she uses is the same one used to create her (hence why it drains the whole planet). Steven will attempt to give her the name Nora at the end, and she will either accept it and join their family, or reject it, leaving to make her own place out of her mother's shadow.

• This does fit well with the possibilities of the villain being a fifth Diamond, the villain having something to do with the chest in Lion's mane or the bubbled Rose Quartzes in the human zoo, the villain being a Shadow Archetype of Bismuth or Hessonite, and so on and so forth...
  • But then how would she know to identify Steven as Steven, per the trailer?
• Jossed.

Steven will cause the villain to have a Heel Realization, but won't be the cause of her redemption proper

Steven will get through to her, but the combination of the realization and her utter inability to comprehend Steven's continued attempts for peace despite her trying to kill him and everything he's ever loved will cause her to break down and run off, stranding her on Earth and forcing her to get to know the planet she tried to destroy.

• Jossed.

Post-Release

The Wistful Amnesia is why rejuvenators fell into disuse.

The amnesiac Crystal Gems very clearly retain aspects of their normal personalities while being rejuvenated, and it's also possible for the memories to be restored by reminding the Gems of their important life experiences. All of this would explain why rejuvenators seem to be rarely seen or used in the present, even before Steven managed to dismantle and reform the Gem Empire.

• It also does not help that Steven was able to bring all of their memories back in under a day (and in Garnet's case it was completely by accident), and since 6,000 years is considered a short amount of time by Gem-standards (or at least for the Diamonds), half a day must seem like micro-seconds to them. Not only that, but virtually anything could be the cause of a reversal, even if it was just them doing their assigned purpose. The sheer number of variables that can cause a relapse makes the rejuvenator not only useless for its intended purpose, but a massive security risk.
• Another possibility is that the lingering memories and rapid recovery were because the Crystal Gems and Spinel were all too "far gone" for the factory settings to stick for long. Normally, a rejuvenator would probably be used at the first sign of a small deviation, when there wasn't really enough built-up emotional development or trauma for a relapse to occur; if a gem had developed as far as the Crystal Gems or went awry as much as Spinel, they would just be shattered.

The Rejuvenators were invented during Era 2's resource crisis

During Era 2, Homeworld faced a massive resource crisis, to the point of intentionally making weaker gems just to keep numbers up. During such a time of crisis, shattering Gems would be an enormous waste of resources, yet something had to be done to stop gems from going against the empire. The Rejuvenators were invented to fill that gap. It's not a great solution, since the gems can still recover their memories if they're exposed to things that shaped their personality, but it's better than nothing.

• The main thing wrong with this theory is that both of the Gems who know what the weapon is to start off with were completely inactive during Era 2: Spinel and Bismuth, the former due to being abandoned in Pink Diamond's garden and the latter due to having been poofed and bubbled by Rose/Pink during the Gem War. Now, we don't know how or where Spinel found the rejuvenator, but it was likely in a place that she was familiar with, e.g. dating back to Era 1. Ergo, the rejuvenators clearly date back to before the "shattering" of Pink Diamond and the dawn of Era 2.
  • Maybe it wasn't Era 2's resource crisis; maybe they started having a resource crisis before they figured out how to travel to, colonize, and harvest other worlds, so they created the Rejuvenators as a stop-gap until more resources became available.
    • It’s likely thy were made as the initial way to keep gems in line; screw up back to factory default. They fell out of favor when a more effective way to dispose of defective gems became available or at least more common use; shattering.

There's only ever been one Spinel

• A lot of things seem to point to Spinel being the only Gem of her kind, meaning she'd be the rarest Gem ever created.
  • To start, all Gems are "born" with, and for, a singular purpose—Rubys are guards, Bismuths are builders, etc. Spinel's purpose is to be a companion and entertainer, specifically a Gem's best friend. The rigid, totalitarian society of Homeworld frowned upon mixing of upper- and lower-crust Gems, so it's very unlikely that friendship would be encouraged...except to distract one unruly Diamond, that is.
  • In Pearl's song, she mentions each of the other Gems as "a" something ("A Ruby guard...""A precious Sapphire...""This is an Amethyst..."). She only calls Spinel by name ("Your new best friend, Spinel!").
  • Related to the above, when Peridot announces herself to Yellow Diamond on the communicator, Yellow Diamond's response is, "Which Peridot?". When Steven asks the Diamonds if they remembered Spinel, White responds with, "I'm sorry, who?". If there were more than one Spinel, she would have asked which Spinel Steven meant—bear in mind, the Diamonds are in charge of creating all Gemkind, and would remember creating an entire caste of Gems.
  • When Spinel introduces herself, both to the Diamonds and to the Crystal Gems, there's instant recognition. Despite Spinel not looking like she did 6,000 years ago—the last time anybody saw her—both Pearl and Blue Diamond recognize her instantly as Pink Diamond's playmate. If there were other Spinels out there, they might assume she was a different Spinel that happened to look a little differently than the standard.
  • It would give weight to Spinel's claims that the Crystal Gems were "a bunch of nobodies"—there's tons of Pearls, Rubies, Sapphires, and Amethysts out there, so why would Pink Diamond choose to spend her days with them instead of her special, one-of-a-kind buddy Spinel?

The rejuvenators were the original way to deal with ‘malfunctioning’ gems

If a gem was misbehaving the diamonds would slash them and reset them back to factory settings allowing them to continue serving the society. However the major flaws of them regaining memories (which in a totalitarian system was probably likely if they had to repeat their same orders) made the ineffective. This forced homeworld to resort to a much more effective and guaranteed way to remove a pesky rebel: Shattering.

What Amethyst's reset reformation tells us about Kindergartens and Gem 'birth'.

All of the other Crystal Gems (and Spinel) hit with the rejuvenator all form knowing their roles in Homeworld Society and have a distinct form... but Amethyst reforms with no language skills, no idea about what her role is and has a strange mannequin-like appearance around her limbs. The reason for this is the circumstances of her birth, which seem unique to any other Gem encountered in the show.

Every other Gem emerged during the time of active service in their Kindergartens. Amethyst however emerged when the Prime one on Earth was long dead and deactivated. This tells us that some part of an active Kindergarten must be sending out signals or through some other method be able to 'program' Gems before they emerge to tell them what their role is to be, assign them a Diamond court to belong to, give them knowledge appropriate for their roles, etc. This also helps them to choose a form that is suited for their role.

Amethyst, as she first formed, is what a Gem would look like if they emerged with none of that information programmed into them - she retains characteristics of her Gem-type, but is otherwise what you could call a "factory settings Gem".

The Diamonds had used the rejuvenator on Pink herself early on, multiple times before they realized its long-term ineffectiveness.

In her earliest life, whenever Pink acted blatantly un-Diamond-like, the other Diamonds tried just "resetting" her so they could try molding her again from scratch. But her feelings remained, and her memories eventually resurfaced every time. Which could easily tie into above theories that the rejuvenators fell out of use altogether for this very reason.

• This would also explain how Spinel was able to get her hands on one and why she was able to use it so well. It's possible they even had her do the honors, since she was someone Pink trusted and, given her personality, may not have understood the significence of what she was doing.

Injectors like Spinel's were used to "sterilize" planets for colonization

While we saw that the early stages of earth being colonized seems to have just been plopping down injectors in certain areas and getting on with it, that might be because earth wasn't home to any creatures that really posed a threat to Gemkind. If they wished to colonize a planet that had more dangerous and formidable inhabitants, it might be necessary to eliminate them before Gem production could safely begin. Hence a giant injector loaded with a toxin that can wipe out all organic life in a matter of hours.

Between the end of the show and the movie, Bismuth got poofed by a construction accident.

Bismuth's default outfit has changed somewhere after the end of the show, and the only time a Gem's outfit permanently changes is when they regenerate after being poofed. It's not likely that Bismuth would've been poofed during a fight, as Earth was peaceful for those two years. On the other hand, if Spinel's stunt with the giant pizza cutter escalated to something dangerous that quickly, then who's to say that's the first time there's been a construction accident that hurt or almost hurt someone? Because Bismuth is constantly around the structures being built, it's not that far of a stretch to imagine that she got poofed at least once during the construction of Little Homeworld.

• It's worth pointing out that Spinel is indicated to have changed her appearance during her Madness Makeover without having been poofed, indicating that poofing is not necessary for Gems to change their outfits if they're capable of shapeshifting. But yes, poofing is usually how outfit changes occur, even if the Gem in question can shapeshift.
• If she has changed outfits because of a building accident poof, it was Peridot's fault. She was showing off her metal powers and accidentally sent something flying at Bismuth hard enough to poof her. Peridot panicked. Lapis shouted. The first thing Bismuth did upon reformation was to praise Peridot's accuracy. This was the first incident the three of them shared together that led to them becoming their own little threesome.

Rose's battle flag, missing from its pole in the Pink Dimension, is hanging on a wall somewhere in the remodeled house.

Just somewhere on a wall we haven't seen on screen yet.

Spinel got that injector from Pink Pearl, who is planning to, ahem, "remove" the Diamonds.

Why was Pink Pearl (henceforth "Pinky") bleached for 7000 or so years? Because she is still technically Pink Diamond's! There was no official transfer of ownership: Pinky got zapped, Pink Diamond was given "our" Pearl and Spinel, and that was that. When she came to, she, understandably, went a little off the deep end. But since Steven was right there to help her, she didn't go all the way off.

So why was she missing from The Movie? Because White Diamond was distracted by Steven, allowing Pinky to slip away to plot her revenge for 7000 years of puppetry. Steven's announcement that he was going to return to Earth was most inconvenient, because it meant White Diamond would eventually notice her absence, and her plot would come crashing down. So she scrounged up one of her Diamond's old primary injectors (you will note that the soil affected by the bio-toxin looks remarkably like that of the Prime Kindergarten) and set a course for Earth.

The problem was, she couldn't go herself, as that would spoil the whole thing, and if the injector went without an escort, Peridot or the Pearl that replaced her might figure out how to turn it off, or even get it to go in reverse, making the whole effort ultimately for nought. And of course, Steven was her friend and technically her Diamond, she couldn't risk harming him irrevocably, even if she wanted to. That's when Spinel showed up, rarin' for revenge.

Spinel gave Pinky another option: Let Steven's natural charm interact with this absolutely psychotic gem, creating a big, but ultimately fixable, mess to distract Steven, while also giving White and the other Diamonds a replacement for Pink Diamond when the whole thing was over, a replacement that would also make a handy little double agent.

This, of course, would require Pinky to be absolutely certain (or at least certain enough) that this turn of events would happen. But given the fact that Steven had managed to talk all THREE of the Diamonds over to his side, this wasn't that implausible. The wild card, as far as Pinky was concerned, was convincing Spinel to go with the Diamonds rather than stay with Steven, but since neither event would have been particularly harmful to him, she went along with the plan.

So, what, exactly, is Pinky's plan? At first, it was to shatter the Diamonds, releasing all gem-kind from their tyranny, once and for all! But she felt that was coming from a very angry place, so she's workshopping it. In any event, this plot will be the story arc for season six, if there ever is a season six.

Spinel wasn't working alone:

Not everyone was happy with Steven reforming the empire, as the old status quo offered some gems considerably more power then they'll have now, thus, they provided Spinel with the injector and rejuvinator and sent her to kill off Steven, hoping that his death would make the diamonds go back on their reformations, Spinel would either be amnesiac or shattered for what she did, and as it would likely be brushed off as an act of personal revenge, the assassination wouldn't be traced back to them, this will be explored in the sixth season

Pink Diamond would refer to "dissipating one's form" as "poofing", and Spinel picked that up.

Per Word of God, "dissipating one's form" is the term used by the greater Gemkind (used by Eyeball in "Back to the Moon"), meaning that Steven came up with the term "poofing" himself, and the Crystal Gems picked up on it. However, Spinel remarks on how Steven "doesn't poof" when she hits him with the Rejuvenator, which may mean it was a term his mother came up with as well.

The Rejuvenator has always been used no matter the time period, but sparsely

In most cases, a Gem that steps out of line for any reason will be shattered. But, of course, these Gems may sometimes be valuable in some way, such as outperforming others of their sort or being limited in numbers, or their gem is difficult or impossible to crack which would make shattering useless or detrimental. So what to do in such a case? Resetting them to how they were in the moment they began existing would wipe whatever they might have learned that's deemed "harmful", preserving them and removing a "bad actor" at the same time. But the tool to do this action is expensive to make — for all we know, there could be just a few of Spinel's Rejuvenator or even just the one she had in the entire universe — so it would naturally be more cost-effective to just shatter undesired Gems than to spend valuable time sending them off to places or authorities that offer Rejuvenators, not to mention said Gems could eventually return to doing whatever it was that got them rejuvenated in the first place and require repeating the whole process. As a result, the Rejuvenator is normally reserved only for a small handful of cases, with most Gems generally being replaceable enough to afford shattering them.

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