8 TV Scenes Everyone Always Gets Wrong

Online discourse about Steven Universe is most aptly compared to a dumpster full of used diapers that is on fire. Everyone that has an opinion on this show has a tendency to state that opinion in as toxic a way as possible. Especially if you ask them about the ending to the show's original run.

To a lot of fans, the show's pacifistic nature was always at odds with its galactic war premise, and to those same fans, the ending is the worst example, with Steven literally talking down White Diamond (basically Emperor Palpatine if he were a ten-story-tall lady made of space diamonds) from ruling the universe with an iron fist.

But it's important to keep in mind a few things: one, Steven sparing them is NOT forgiving them, very big difference. Talking them down was simply his best option because - and the show is quite clear about this - fighting the diamonds would have been suicide. Steven would have lost. Badly. Sure, Steven Universe Future would later clarify that he either did or currently does have the ability to destroy the Diamonds, but that's just not in his nature.

Also, and this might be a bit of a meta-ing too far but there is no way that Cartoon Network was going to let this SHOW FOR LITTLE KIDS end with a triple homicide. That just flat out was never going to happen.