User blog:Lheannajean/Who's the new Steven Universe movie villain

All we were given was a red heart gem, a darkened figure with pigtails, and a high pitched cackle. With not even 5 details, let's try to figure out whos going to be the next Steven Universe antagonist in the new movie!

First, let's take a quick look at the past few antagonists in the series. It started as corrupted gems, then higher level gems like Peridot, Jasper, and Aquamarine, then the actual diamonds themselves. Yellow diamond was first, and then blue, who have both ended up being redeemed and eventually trying to reason with White diamond (who was also redeemed). It was always the Diamonds. They sent Jasper, Peridot, and was also responsible for the corrupted gems, though not directly. From this, we could hypothesize maybe a new type of diamond as the antagonist.

Now, let's focus on the actual diamonds. Diamonds are very rare and durable, which makes the fact that the leaders of homeworld are diamonds. Some characteristics of gems in the show are based off what they are in real life. For example, pearls are somewhat rare and while many people can get some, richer people wear them as everyday accessories as if it was as rare as a plain grey rock. Just like how gems of higher status in homeworld are accompanied by pearls as a servant. Also, in the episode Familiar, only Steven's accessories were to be brought with him, including Pearl, an accessory. White and yellow diamonds are rare and pink and blue diamonds are rarer. Guess what diamond is rarer than all four? Nope, not black, red. All the other diamonds are based on primary colors (if you want to count white as a color) besides Pink. Based off of the color spectrum the diamonds are based on, the primary color red is missing. If you search up red diamonds, the first image you see will most likely be a red crystal heart, probably a diamond. It looks very similar to the crystal heart shown in the Steven Universe trailer, doesn't it? Maybe the gem of the next villain?

From all of this, we can hypothesize that the new antagonist is a diamond, Red Diamond. Then why wasn't she ruling in Pink's place? Maybe Pink was a replacement for Red, maybe with similarities in character. Pink is known for her very rebellious behavior, this could mean that Red was even more rebellious, which could have pushed the other diamonds to shun her away. A mini theory I have is that diamonds are hard to produce (if they can be produced) which makes them very rare, and maybe the diamonds tried to produce a better Red, but something happened while doing so and caused the outcome to be a child-like, less rebellious, smaller, and lighter colored diamond instead. Not to mention the fact that Pink Diamond is the only diamond with their gem on the stomach, not on the chest unlike the rest of the diamonds. How is she the antagonist? She could have escaped whatever prison she was in and sought revenge for the perfectionist diamonds who dethroned her, not believing they could change. Or maybe she's after Steven after she was replaced by Pink.

We still don't know for sure who this mystery villain is. There are also many other theories on who this is. All we know is that this new character will not only play a big part in the movie but will also change the remaining episodes of the series. We're just going to have to wait for the moment the movie aires.