History Characters / StevenUniversePinkDiamond

* TokenGoodTeammate: Implied. She was a RoyalBrat, which is already somewhat of an improvement to the other Diamonds, but also a CheerfulChild, and her attempt to colonize the Earth is mostly just an attempt to prove herself worthy of being a Diamond. See also WhiteSheep below. [[spoiler:Confirmed with the reveal that she's Rose Quartz. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome 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 CharacterDevelopment and rebelled against the other Diamonds' ways, including saving the Earth.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: She screamed with destructive power [[spoiler:much like Pink Steven]]. It tended to go out of control during her tantrums, [[spoiler:which ended up permanently damaged Pink Pearl, and apparently convinced her to never use them again]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: 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 [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E13YourMotherAndMine "Your Mother and Mine"]]. [[spoiler: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 HundredPercentAdorationRating for her and think of her as TheHighQueen. And Yellow and Blue Diamond meanwhile treated Pink like an AnnoyingYoungerSibling who couldn't grow up. Understandably, Steven is confused. [[spoiler: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) [[EvilAllAlong still held on to her belief that Pink was an evil tyrant and genuinely believed Rose to be the same]] upon [[BrokenPedestal finding out since they were the same person]], [[RebuiltPedestal only for Steven and Pearl to help Sapphire realize that she was thinking backwards and changes her interpretation of Pink Diamond altogether]].]] [[spoiler: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.]]

** ''And'' she has a HundredPercentAdorationRating amongst [[{{Dystopia}} Homeworld]].

* MakeMeWannaShout: She yelled with destructive power [[spoiler:much like Pink Steven]]. It tended to go out of control during her tantrums, [[spoiler:which ended up permanently damaged Pink Pearl, and apparently convinced her to never use them again]].

* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:When she gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven, all she wanted him to do was to [[TheUnchosenOne live happily]] and a good life. However, [[MetaphoricallyTrue 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 HeelFaceTurn 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]].

* BareYourMidriff: Her dress has a pentagon-shaped cutout right where her belly would be, which shows off her gem and is aligned with its profile.

* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:When she gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven, all she wanted him to do was to [[TheUnchosenOne live happily]] and a good life. However, FromACertainPointOfView, 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 HeelFaceTurn 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]].

** Of the Gems who took on the "Pink Diamond" role on Homeworld, Steven (nice) is an AllLovingHero who is kind to everyone and accepts others no matter what, [[spoiler:Pink/Rose (in-between), despite being a BenevolentBoss who seeks to protect Earth and the Crystal Gems, can be [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]] towards the feelings of others and has a tendency to make careless decisions, and Spinel (mean) is the AxCrazy BigBad who wants to destroy Earth as a result of being abandoned by Pink and having GoneMadFromTheIsolation.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** While not the most powerful or feared Diamond, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild many Era I Gems, even those serving under other Diamonds, loved her]]. [[note]]Which is incredibly ironic (especially when it comes to Jasper, who has UndyingLoyalty for her) if it turns out her apparent size is the result of a defect (the way Amethyst is "overcooked"), given Homeworld's views on defective Gems.[[/note]]Given that she was a BenevolentBoss unlike her fellow Diamonds, this is {{justified|Trope}}.
** [[spoiler:She is 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 AllLovingHeroine 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]].
** 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.

* ShesGotLegs: 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.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: 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 ShesGotLegs), and a point-cut (diamond shaped) gem. Her first real appearance in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon "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 [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E6Gemcation "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 [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E13YourMotherAndMine "Your Mother and Mine"]] has her about five times larger than Rose Quartz, with forward-swept hair. Her final design as seen in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] (and before that [[SpoiledByTheMerchandise 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 InUniverse, and the mural was likely subject to ArtisticLicense (Blue Diamond's mural is noticeably spikier and more angular than her real look).

** [[spoiler: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 family 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''.]]

* SpikyHair: Subverted. Her stylized mural depicts her with a spiky hairstyle, but the flashback of her in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon "Jungle Moon"]] shows that she actually had soft, fluffy hair. The mural could be an attempt to make her look [[CompensatingForSomething bigger and more threatening]] to other Gems.

* PennyAmongDiamonds: Sheer irony of the trope name aside, Pink Diamond, being a Diamond, is essentially part of a ruling family for Gemkind, and are revered as goddesses and matriarchs by their people (and are each shown to be PhysicalGods themselves through their sheer power). Unfortunately, Pink being the smallest and lowest of the Diamonds means she didn't even have [[InformedPoverty one single world to her name]] in the beginning. Not being allowed to have one [[{{Hypocrite}} while the other Diamonds had so many to themselves]], combined with never winning [[AloofBigBrother Yellow]]'s approval, ''frustrated'' her.

* OnlySaneWoman: [[spoiler: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, [[spoiler:she appears to be the only one to understand that the [[StaticCharacter inherent stagnant nature]] of Gemkind's caste system back on Homeworld is detrimental to them in the long run.]]

* StaticCharacter: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler: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 argument 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. ]]

* PennyAmongDiamonds: Sheer irony of the trope name aside, Pink Diamond, being a Diamond, is essentially part of a ruling family for Gemkind, and are revered as goddesses and matriarchs by their people (and are each shown to be {{Physical God}}s themselves through their sheer power). Unfortunately, Pink being the smallest and lowest of the Diamonds means she didn't even have [[InformedPoverty one single world to her name]] in the beginning. Not being allowed to have one [[{{Hypocrite}} while the other Diamonds had so many to themselves]], combined with never winning [[AloofBigBrother Yellow]]'s approval, ''frustrated'' her.

* PennyAmongDiamonds: Sheer irony of the trope name aside, being the smallest and lowest of the Diamonds means she didn't even have [[InformedPoverty 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.