40 Facts About Steven Universe

Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network.

Sugar based the lead character on her younger brother Steven Universe, who was an artist for the series.

Steven Universe developed Steven Universe while she was a writer and storyboard artist on Adventure Time, which she left when Cartoon Network commissioned her series for full production.

Steven Universe is set in the fictional town of Beach City, Delmarva, where the Crystal Gems live in an ancient beachside temple and protect humanity from monsters and other threats.

Steven Universe explores the abilities inherited from his mother, which include fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their bodies and abilities to form new, more powerful personalities.

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The Gems are cut off from the Gem homeworld, and Steven Universe learns that many of the monsters and artifacts they encounter are Gems who were corrupted by a Gem weapon of mass destruction and can no longer maintain rational, humanoid form.

Title character Steven Universe is loosely based on Steven Universe Sugar, Rebecca's younger brother.

Steven Universe's brother had no problem with it and trusted Sugar to use his name wisely.

Steven Universe Sugar was assigned as the background designer after his work on the original pilot, and was assisted by Dart, Michalka, Lai, background painter Amanda Winterston and others.

Steven Universe worked with Elle Michalka, who later took over his role as background painter for the presentation, to create concept art for an "action-comedy" series.

Steven Universe later said he over-used them, and they were criticized at the art presentation.

Steven Universe Sugar praised Dart's work and was inspired by him in college years, saying Dart had more ideas for the art than he did.

Steven Universe Sugar designed the rest of Beach City for the series; he was painstaking in his attention to detail.

Steven Universe Sugar drew Beach City with a boardwalk lined with a variety of shops.

Steven Universe wanted it to have a "specific style" so viewers could believe it was based on a real location; he drew the roads and shops consistently oriented with the Temple and a water tower.

Steven Universe proposed 24 human characters to the crew; Rebecca and Steven Sugar drew 22 designs—13 of which were made official.

Steven Universe wanted their gems to reflect their personalities; Pearl's perfect smoothness, Amethyst's coarseness and Garnet's air of mystery.

The balance indicates Steven Universe has the same interests on his human side as he does on his Gem side.

Levin said the Gem mythology and drama would have been less interesting if Steven Universe was not as well-developed in the first few episodes.

Steven Universe was the first animation voice role for actor Michaela Dietz who voices Amethyst and The Party singer Deedee Magno who voices Pearl.

Steven Universe approached Scharpling for the part of Greg Universe, who was originally named Tom.

Pilot episode of Steven Universe was released on Cartoon Network's video platform on May 21,2013, and an edited version was released on July 20.

From June 2,2018 to July 29,2018, Steven Universe aired re-runs on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang.

Steven Universe prevailed upon Cartoon Network to extend the fifth season to 32 episodes, in order to have room to complete the story, as well as a follow-up television film, Steven Universe: The Movie.

Limited series Steven Universe Future, intended to serve as an epilogue to the main series, was announced at the 2019 New York Comic Con.

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Steven Universe Future premiered on December 7,2019 and ran for a total of 20 11-minute episodes, including a four-part finale airing on March 27,2020.

Steven Universe characters appear in Cartoon Network's kart racing game Formula Cartoon All-Stars and in the side-scrolling, beat-'em-up game Battle Crashers.

On February 26,2019, Minecraft released a Mash-Up Pack based on Steven Universe, making it the second Cartoon Network series to receive one after Adventure Time.

Steven Universe has been widely praised for its art, music, voice performances, storytelling and characterization.

Sugar wanted Steven Universe to be thematically consistent with hers and her brother's shared interests.

Steven Universe developed the series' plot towards a distant goal, with everything in between kept flexible, partly because her intentions have "changed since I've started because I've grown up a lot" while working on the show.

Sugar said Steven Universe was influenced by the anime series Future Boy Conan, Revolutionary Girl Utena and The Simpsons.

Steven Universe, according to Eric Thurm, is a low-key, slice of life portrayal of childhood, an examination of unconventional family dynamics, a homage to anime, video games and other pop-culture mainstays, and a "straightforward kids' show about superheroes".

Steven Universe refers to Japanese cultural icons, including Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, Studio Ghibli movies and Junji Ito's horror manga The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

Steven Universe slowly grows from being an obnoxious, tag-along child to an accepted member of the Crystal Gems in his own right by the end of the first season, a change brought about by increased insight and experience rather than age.

Joe Cain noted in The Mary Sue that unlike heroes from antiquity and modern fiction, Steven Universe is defined by his mother's legacy rather than his father's; the preponderance of mother figures in the series underscores their rarity in other fiction.

In 2015, Autostraddle's Mey Rude wrote that Steven Universe was the most-recent animated series for a younger audience with significant queer themes, such as the androgynous fusion Stevonnie and the romantic relationship between the Gems Ruby and Sapphire, whose fusion is the main character Garnet.

In June 2021, Taneka Stotts, a genderfluid writer for Steven Universe: Future told Insider that Sugar "went out of the way to make sure that their show was [staffed] as inclusive as possible", hiring talented people notice on Tumblr and Twitter instead of industry regulars.

Steven Universe said that apart from threats and backlash from homophobic viewers, she feared that her identity and content in the show could lead to its cancellation if she spoke about it openly, noting that support for the show was "often very qualified and hurtful".

Steven Universe noted that non-binary creators such as herself have additional challenges, going through a world were non-binary people are dehumanized, and hoped that "visible queer content and multiple queer creators means no one has to feel isolated" in the ways that she did.