List of Steven Universe characters

The series focuses on the adventures of the Crystal Gems—magical alien warriors who protect the Earth from their own kind—and the humans they interact with in the fictional town of Beach City.

[1][2] The titular protagonist of the series, Steven Universe[3] (voiced by Zach Callison) is the youngest and only male member of the Crystal Gems.

[4] His portrayal as a male character whose heroism is based on traditionally feminine attributes such as empathy and nurturing, and who seeks to live up to the legacy of his heroic mother, has drawn favorable reaction from critics.

Steven is caring, protective, brave, gentle, forgiving, and eager to help the people he loves with their problems; his optimism is often a source of strength for the other Crystal Gems.

Other long-lasting character arcs involving Steven include his anxiety about filling his mother's place in the Crystal Gems and coping with her complex legacy and his developing friendship with his human best friend Connie.

The second-season episode "The Answer", a flashback showing how Ruby and Sapphire met and formed Garnet for the first time, was nominated for an Emmy Award and adapted into a children's book.

Resembling a ballerina in her slender build, costume, and graceful style of movement, Pearl (voiced by Deedee Magno Hall) is a short-tempered, precise strategist and technician.

[15][16] Steven's father Greg (voiced by Tom Scharpling) is a former rock musician who now lives in his van and runs a car wash in Beach City.

Introduced as an intelligent yet lonely person in the episode "Bubble Buddies" early in the first season, she rapidly develops a close relationship with Steven.

Long-term character arcs involving Connie include her learning to see herself as Steven's equal despite not having magical abilities of her own and to push back against her own overprotective parents.

When revived, Lars's body has turned pink, and he manifests magical properties, including the ability for Steven to teleport to a pocket dimension via his hair.

The story arc of Lars and Sadie's relationship concludes with their final appearance in Steven Universe Future, which depicts the characters acknowledging that they have grown apart and moved on from each other amicably.

Steven initially feels great pressure to live up to her example as a compassionate leader, but his relationship with her memory becomes complicated at the end of the third season when he learns of morally questionable actions that she undertook during the war.

"Lion 3: Straight to Video", the first episode in which she appeared (via a videotaped message to Steven), was nominated for an Emmy Award for short-form animation.

She created the alternate identity of Rose Quartz to alleviate her boredom while running the colonization of Earth and ended up falling in love with the diversity of the planet's life and the possibilities that came with it.

Her character arc in her intermittent appearances thereafter involves her slow recovery from the psychological trauma of having been imprisoned and being part of an abusive fusion, and coping with the fear of being victimized again.

Stranded on Earth after the events of the first-season finale, Peridot becomes a recurring antagonist in the first half of the second season before being eventually captured and convinced to ally with the Crystal Gems to defuse the Cluster.

She plays a prominent role in the last part of the second season, during which her character arc centers around her learning to outgrow Homeworld's hierarchical, utilitarian mindset and to appreciate the value of friendship, individuality, and life on Earth.

Introduced at the end of the first season, Jasper (voiced by Kimberly Brooks) is a powerful Quartz warrior serving Homeworld and a renowned veteran of their ancient war against the Crystal Gems.

[26] Jasper serves as the principal antagonist in the second half of the third season; as a perfectly formed Quartz warrior, she becomes the target of Amethyst's resentment and desire to prove herself.

In the show's special hundredth episode, Steven accidentally frees Bismuth and befriends her, but is later forced to bubble her again when the same conflict repeats itself.

Steven later frees Bismuth again in the fifth season so she can attend Ruby and Sapphire's wedding; upon her release, she comes to understand Rose's choices after learning of her true identity as Pink Diamond.

Yellow and Blue, despite their different approaches, are both motivated to destroy Earth by their mutual grief and guilt over Pink Diamond's death, before finally learning late in the fifth season that her demise was faked.

It is her vision of complete perfection attained through strictly-enforced standards that shaped the Gem empire into its current state, at the cost of making her subjects miserable, including Pink.

The Diamonds' relationships are portrayed as those of an abusive and controlling family, and it was this dynamic that would drive Pink away to become Rose Quartz and rebel against and eventually abandon them.

Her character design was influenced by the rubber-hose style of animation,[31] which Rebecca Sugar describes as symbolizing that she is "frozen in time" and "didn't get [a] chance to develop.

[33] Recurring human characters include: Rubies (all voiced by Charlyne Yi) are a variety of Gem who act as foot soldiers and bodyguards on Homeworld.

Steven nicknames the quintet according to the location of their gems: the rookie Leggy, the cheerful Navy, the violent Army, the veteran Eyeball, and the leader Doc.

Holly (voiced by Christine Pedi) is the supervisor of Pink Diamond's human zoo; she is abusive and dismissive to her Quartz subordinates.

In the episode "Gem Drill", Steven helps its numerous components to find connections among themselves and eventually bubble itself to keep it from destroying Earth.