Spinel View source “ I've got work to do. Friendship isn't going to be easy for me. I'm gonna have to work at it. You make me wanna try, but... I've already messed up bad with you. I wish I could just start from scratch with somebody. ” —Steven Universe: The Movie Click here to see more of Spinel's quotes. Spinel Current Previous Previous Nickname(s) Dingus (Amethyst) "New best friend" (Steven) Pink's little playmate (Pearl, Yellow Diamond) Loser (herself) One of Pink's lost treasures (Blue Diamond) Characteristics Species Gem Weapon(s) Gem Rejuvenator (formerly; non-summoned) Sex Sexless Gender Pronoun She/Her Age 6,002+ Traits Hair Cerise Eyes Magenta (currently) Black (previously) Gemstone Spinel Gem Type Spinel Professional Status Affiliation(s) Gem Homeworld The Great Diamond Authority (superiors) Pink Diamond (former superior) Crystal Gems (allied) Occupation(s) Jester Alignment Homeworld Gems Personal Status Status Active Friend(s) Steven Universe Garnet Amethyst Pearl Bismuth Lapis Lazuli Peridot Pink Diamond (formerly) White Diamond Yellow Diamond Blue Diamond Media First Appearance Steven Universe: The Movie Music Theme "Spinel Is So Much Better Now" Voice Actor Sarah Stiles Spinel is the main antagonist of Steven Universe: The Movie and a supporting character in Steven Universe Future. She was created at least 6,000 years prior to the events of the movie to comfort the lonely Pink Diamond, who had lost her first Pearl to White Diamond. The two would play in Pink's garden until she was finally given a colony. At this point, Pink outgrew Spinel and abandoned her under the guise of playing a game by having Spinel stand alone for thousands of years while Pink never returned. After discovering this through Steven's message to the universe, she went to Earth and attempted to destroy all organic life forms on the planet as an act of revenge. After making amends with Steven and the Crystal Gems, the Diamonds take her back to live with them on Homeworld. Now reformed and free, she is still living with the Diamonds, living a less destructive and aggressive life. Contents 1 Appearance 1.1 Current 1.2 Previous 2 Personality 3 History 3.1 Over 6,000 Years Ago 3.2 Steven Universe: The Movie 3.3 "Homeworld Bound" 3.4 "I Am My Monster" 4 Abilities 4.1 Skillset 4.2 Natural Abilities 4.3 Unique Abilities 4.4 Additional Tools 5 Relationships 5.1 Pink Diamond 5.2 Steven Universe 5.3 Pearl 5.4 Yellow, Blue, and White Diamond 6 Episode Appearances 7 Trivia 8 Gemstone 9 Galleries 10 References Appearance Current Spinel has a pink complexion, magenta eyes, a small pointy nose, and dark cerise hair that is styled into messy pigtails. She also has three black lines underneath both of her eyes, an inversion of the eyelashes from her original form and reminiscent of running mascara. Her clothing consists of a plum-colored top, puffy pointed hot pink sleeves, puffy rose shorts, hot pink wrist-length gloves, white stockings, and a pair of rose knee-high pointy boots. Her gemstone is located in the center of her chest, cut in the shape of an upside-down heart with lots of facets and detail. Previous When reset to her original self with her own rejuvenator, Spinel's overall design is shorter and rounded in contrast to her current taller and pointier design. She had black cartoonish eyes with three visible eyelashes on each, and her hair was styled into a pair of heart-shaped buns. Her top was white with more rounded pink sleeves and her boots become a pair of big magenta shoes. Spinel's previous color palette is also brighter than her current one which uses darker tones. Overall, her appearance was similar to that of a 1930s rubber hose cartoon character. Her gemstone used to be right side up, resembling a normal heart. Personality SU Movie 1949 Spinel regaining her sense of fun Spinel originally had a goofy, fun-loving personality. Acting somewhat naive and oblivious to others, she was to be Pink Diamond's best friend to the point of being clingy and ingenuine to her feelings. In stark contrast, upon being abandoned and later learning that Pink Diamond is gone with Steven taking her place and making new friends, Spinel is bitter and full of resentment towards everything connected with Pink Diamond. Due to her abandonment, Spinel is unhinged, prone to spontaneous laughter, and extreme outbursts when reminded even indirectly that Pink Diamond forgot her. This can be seen when her face contorts with fury after Steven asked Pearl who she was. Despite her anger and irrationality, Spinel is somewhat trusting, as she is willing to go along with Steven to stop her injector. That is until she sees the rejuvenator and believes he wanted to reset her. Fearful of being betrayed for a second time, Spinel immediately relapses into insanity and decides that she hates Steven, before launching a preemptive attack on him. Spinel was fueled by her vendetta and willing to eliminate anyone who gets in her way. This can be seen when she resets Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst immediately after they just met, as she feels that they got between her and Pink. She may have had every intention of erasing Pink's "brand new friends" in a misplaced rage. She displays deeper emotions, like when she shows remorse after Steven saves her, and tearfully asks herself why she wants to hurt him and others. Spinel is also mature enough to understand she will have difficulty creating friendships after what Pink Diamond put her through, but she is willing to start over with the other Diamonds. Though silly and goofy in her original form, she is shown to be extremely intelligent and cunning in her altered state, originally defeating the Crystal Gems easily, as well as understanding how her injector works by using it to slowly kill Steven's organic form after using her rejuvenator to reset his gem, showing a great tactical knowledge. After returning to Homeworld with the Diamonds, Spinel returns to her goofy, fun-loving personality. She is still visibly embarrassed by her past mistakes, however. She is also noticeably less clingy, as she allows White Diamond and Steven to speak privately. History Over 6,000 Years Ago Spinel was created for Pink Diamond thousands of years ago to act like her new best friend (after losing her first Pearl), often playing games with her and entertaining her. However, over time, Pink began to see Spinel as inconsiderately naive and slowly outgrew her, becoming visibly less and less enthusiastic about constantly playing with her. When Pink was finally given her colony, Earth, she abandoned Spinel at the garden built for them, saying that they were going to play a new game where Spinel had to stand perfectly still. Spinel was eager to play the game and stood motionless for 6,000 years while waiting for Pink's return. Steven Universe: The Movie After 6,000 years of waiting Spinel finally had gotten news on what became of her Diamond. She learns that Pink Diamond technically no longer exists and had given up her physical form to give birth to her half-human son Steven. After learning this and also realizing the fact that her Diamond abandoned her, she changed her appearance and swore vengeance on Steven and Pink's "other friends" (the Crystal Gems). Later, on the day of Steven's final homeworld broadcast before returning to Earth, Spinel arrives in Beach City on a massive customized injector which begins filling the planet with poison. Spinel begins to fight against Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, her stretching ability and chaotic method of movement allowing her to easily defeat them with her Gem Rejuvenator. Furious, Steven manages to grab hold of her weapon and poofs Spinel with it as well. After the battle, Steven brings the poofed gems (including Spinel) to the temple where he learns after the Crystal Gems reformed that they lost their memories and he lost access to the majority of his abilities. Not too long after this revelation Spinel reforms as well and acts oddly friendly and playful towards Steven, calling him her best friend. Throughout the movie, Spinel follows Steven everywhere he went and "helps" him get his friends' memories back. While doing so, she also tries to play with him but never gets the chance to, due to him being too focused on helping his friends. After helping Amethyst, Steven and the other remaining Crystal Gems learn that the only one who can stop Spinel's injector is Spinel herself, but in order to do that they need her to remember who she is and since Pearl is the only one who seems to know her, the group decides to help her next. That evening, Spinel joins Steven and the other Crystal Gems at the Abandoned Warehouse where they try to get Pearl to regain her memories by listening to a song written by Sadie Killer and the Suspects called "Disobedient". When that didn't work, Steven figures out that the only way Pearl would be able to think for herself, as well as regain her memories is if her owner "disappeared", just like Rose Quartz did. To do that Steven fuses with his father Greg Universe (who Pearl thought was her owner) and forms a new fusion named Steg. Steg then sings a song named "Independent Together" that helps Pearl remember who she is and later duets with him as Opal. Although the song had succeeded in helping Pearl, it causes Spinel to see that Steven cares more for the others than her. Upset, she flees to Pink Diamond's Garden, where she tells Steven the story of her past as well as her abandonment through "Drift Away", causing her to return to her former self. Steven, feeling bad for Spinel, befriends her and brings her back to the Gems and Connie, who, after initially being wary, agree to let Spinel help Steven in deactivating the injector. Upon deactivating it Spinel is again hurt by Steven's reaction. She then claims that he only needed her for the injector, and did not want to be her friend and that he would just get rid of her, the source of his problems. Thinking he will betray her as his mother did, she pushes Steven, making him drop the rejuvenator. Freaking out in anger and betrayal, paranoid that Steven would set her back to default mode, she resorts to her old behavior and attacks Steven, taking Garnet as a hostage to goad him into fighting back. This, however, causes Garnet to regain her memories as well. After being beaten by the Crystal Gems, Spinel then retreats to the top of the injector and is soon followed by Steven, who once more tries to reason with her. This further infuriates her, causing them to fight, until it becomes apparent she has lost her motivation to destroy him and regrets her actions up until that point. Steven, now fully reunited with his powers, comforts her and claims she can start fresh with new people to be her friends. The injector then explodes due to the battle, and Steven saves Spinel by entrapping her in his bubble alongside him. Steven then attempts to comfort her again, as Spinel decides she has created too much damage and must leave. The Diamonds then arrive, ready to confront Steven about where they will live and Steven introduces Spinel to them, thus giving her the new friends he promised. Spinel then says goodbye to Steven and leaves Earth alongside the Diamonds, happy to be loved again. "Homeworld Bound" In "Homeworld Bound", as soon as Spinel sees Steven, she greets him with a large smooch (which he isn't exactly happy about) and they talk about how they've each been. When Steven reveals his newfound problems to her, such as growing in size, she takes him to Yellow Diamond to fix his physical form. Yellow Diamond is now able to permanently change physical forms with her electricity powers, and demonstrates this on Spinel, making her arms big and her feet little. When Steven tells Yellow Diamond he doesn't want to be changed based on appearance, Yellow suggests Blue for some emotional help. Spinel enthusiastically takes him to go see Blue, who tells him her tears are now vaporized into "happy clouds" and Spinel suggests he tries this. Blue sings her song, and Spinel happily plays on the clouds and hugs Blue. When Steven tells Blue he would rather be better than feel better, she sends him along with Spinel to White Diamond as it's seen as a "matter of self-worth". Spinel tells Steven that White Diamond's newfound powers work in reverse, allowing common-folk Gems to project themselves and control White rather than her controlling them. White shows Steven this by asking Spinel if she wants to demonstrate (to which she very happily agrees) and controls White. While controlling White, White Diamond turns the same shades of pink as Spinel and follows Spinel's movements like a puppet as well as says what she says. Spinel does some dancing before White regains control. White then tells Spinel to leave them alone for a second, and she obliges and leaves with a tiny peek inside before the doors close. After Steven has an unintentional outburst, he runs away and Spinel follows him and asks him where he is going. He asks her how she dealt with her feelings (regarding Pink) and she replies that she doesn't have those feelings anymore since she met him. Then she begins to belt out the first verse of his song "Change" in an off-key tune. She is last seen with the Diamonds as they chase after Steven, visibly concerned about his well-being. "I Am My Monster" Spinel appears alongside the Diamonds when they travel to Earth via the Mega Diamond to return Steven's missing flip-flop. Like the Diamonds, Spinel is surprised to see Steven as a large monster when they arrive. Later, Spinel cries and feels guilty at the fact that she was one of the causes of Steven's transformation, as she had tried to leave Steven alone with amnesiac friends on a barren world and then attempted to kill him. Afterward, Connie tells everyone to stop feeling sorry for themselves and instead support Steven in his moment of need, so Spinel along with everyone else comforts him. Spinel is seen at the end of the episode looking at Steven as he turns back to normal, with tears in her eyes. Abilities Spinel possesses standard Gem abilities: bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, gravity shifting, photokinesis, gem storage, and superhuman strength/durability. Skillset Scythe Proficiency: The non-summoned weapon Spinel wields is a Gem Rejuvenator that has the appearance of a scythe. Spinel was adept enough at wielding it that she was easily able to defeat three of the Crystal Gems with one strike. In conjunction with the weapon, Spinel's ability to stretch works greatly in her favor as it allows her to greatly increase the range of the scythe, allowing her to swipe at many different angles and increase the power behind it when she stretches far enough allowing the recoil to strengthen the attack made by the weapon. Natural Abilities Enhanced Strength: SU Movie 1809 Spinel destroying the Injector. Spinel is quite physically strong for a non-combatant Gem, she was able to fight with Steven, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl at the same time even without her scythe, either by kicking, punching, pushing or restraining them. Later, she was strong enough to punch Steven from mid air to the Injector, almost destroying the Injector in the process. Enhanced Durability: Spinel is decently durable, she was able to endure being launched forcefully to the Injector by the Crystal Gems. Bubbling: SU Movie 1315 Spinel bubbles. Spinel is able to bubble objects. Her bubbles are pink and were only seen in a flashback with Pink Diamond. Gem Storage: Like most Gems, Spinel can store items on her Gem, as she summoned the Rejuvenator from her gemstone. Unique Abilities Elasticity: Gee! Spinel attacking the Crystal Gems. Similarly to old-fashioned cartoons, Spinel is extremely elastic and malleable, able to stretch her limbs and torso to great lengths and inflate her body parts to strengthen her attacks. She uses this to increase the range of her attacks, able to reach enemies from a distance. She can also coil her extended limbs to form a spring with an inflated fist at the end. She even displayed the ability to become as flat as the ground and slither across it, in an almost semi-liquid like state. She's even able to coil one of her fingers into making a type of horn that activates and deactivates her injector. There appears to be no limit as to how far she can stretch and there also appears to be no limit as to how big she can inflate. Rubber Physiology: 'You can't change the way I feel!' Spinel rubber physiology Spinel also possesses physiology similar to rubber or putty. This allows her to jump great distances and bounce off surfaces; this is exploited when Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl stretch and then shoot her body like a slingshot. Twister Dash: She has the ability to quickly dash in the style of a twister due to her elasticity properties. Flight: Spinning her legs like helicopter blades, she can slow her fall even when carrying a heavy object. This is seen in "Homeworld Bound" when she saves Steven from falling. Figure-Eight: In "Homeworld Bound", she is shown to be able to run incredibly quickly, making her legs look like a figure eight, similar to the "Super Peel Out" from Sonic The Hedgehog CD. Spin Dash: In "Homeworld Bound", she's able to dash similarly to Amethyst and Jasper. Additional Tools Gem Injector: She obtained this via access to Pink Diamond's armory and used it to poison the Earth until she accidentally destroyed it. Gem Rejuvenator: She obtained this via access to Pink Diamond's armory and used it against the Crystal Gems until it was destroyed by Steven