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In General

Adorable Evil Minions: Despite the cruelty of the Diamonds, the Rubies, Quartzes and Topazes are all just teddy bears.
Alien Invasion: A Tuesday for them.
Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted. The Homeworld Gems are just products of their environments and are acting how they've been raised to act. Most just view their duties as a job.
A Nazi by Any Other Name: Believing they're the Superior Species? Check. Near-blind devotion to their leaders? Check. Conquering swaths of foreign lands and exterminating inferior life forms? Check.
City with No Name: Their planet is simply called "Homeworld".
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: To denote the Diamond that they serve, Homeworld Gems either have a logo on their outfit to mark their Diamond or are just the colour of their Diamond.
Crippling Overspecialization: The Homeworld Gems are apparently so effective at combating other aliens that they only need to develop prisons to detain or devices to incapacitate rogue Gems. This comes back to haunt them when Steven's organic half makes him immune to Gem Destabilizers and the lack of a gem on Lars makes him invisible to their scanners.
The Empire: The Gem Empire.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Homeworld Gems are superbly unimaginative when it comes to naming anything.
The Evils of Free Will: More like they don't seem to know what free will is and are bemused by a life that doesn't involve bowing to the Diamonds. Era 3 looks to be changing this.
Fantastic Racism: At best, Homeworld Gems view organics as pets (Pink Diamond's view) and at worst they view them as an infestation to wipe out (Yellow Diamond's view).
- Word of God is that Yellow's desire to destroy Earth is equivalent to you or I wishing to demolish the house our sister died in. So what if some bacteria get caught up in it?
Happiness in Slavery: Unlike the Crystal Gems, they like being slaves to the Diamonds.
Higher-Tech Species: They can apparently travel between galaxies with ease.
Hive Caste System: How they live their lives. The hierarchy seems to be roughly:
- Diamonds - Rulers.
- Sapphires - Prophets.
- Aquamarines - Unclear but seem to have a role in the ballrooms and high society.
- Jades - Court sycophants.
- Emeralds - High-ranking naval officers.
- Agates- Drill Sergeant Nasty to lesser Quartzes and mid-ranking supervisors.
- Hessonites- Military leaders.
- Topazes - Living Traps/Brute Muscle/Bodyguards.
- Quartzes - Administrators/Soldiers/Guards.
  - Amethysts - Frontline soldiers.
  - Jaspers - Elite Mooks.
- Zircons - Lawyers.
- Bismuths - Builders.
- Nephrities - Pilots.
- Lapis Lazulis - Terraformers.
- Peridots - Technicians.
- Rubies - Foot Soldiers.
- Pearls - Beautiful Slave Girls.
- Spinels - Jesters.
- Fusions - Weapons.
Individuality Is Illegal: To the point that they can be killed for deviating from their intended purpose. Averted as of Era 3.
Locked Out of the Loop: It's hinted that all believe Earth was ravaged by the Gem War and the few that know it wasn't aren't told why Yellow Diamond wants the Cluster to destroy it (to avenge Pink Diamond).
Moe Anthropomorphism: Some are less moe than others, but they fit this, being attractive gem personifications.
Moral Myopia: Homeworld history books mention that Rose Quartz rebelled but leave out why. Namely that the colonization of Earth would have ended all life on the planet.
Planet Looters: Their MO. Go to a planet and hollow it out for all its resources. This gets a later deconstruction as it's revealed that eating through all their resources in one go as left them with a resource shortage.
Planet of Steves: Since Gems lack names, it's perfectly alright to call them all by their type. For example referring to five Rubies all as "Ruby" is fine. Gems of the same type use their batch number to distinguish themselves.
Stupid Evil: As detailed under Planet Looters, they burn through all of a planet's resources in one go leaving them with no reserves.
Technology Marches On: Gem technology was pretty advanced during the Rebellion (and humans are nowhere near up to that level) but it's on a whole other level in the present day.
Vast Bureaucracy: So large is their empire that no one noticed Peridot and Jasper hadn't reported back in until Peridot managed to contact Yellow Diamond, despite their mission being to check on Yellow Diamond's superweapon.
Vestigial Empire: They're low on resources and have to give Era-2 Gems technological prosthetics to compensate for their lack of magical powers. Though given that Peridot developed powers she was never supposed to, it's hinted that the Diamonds are invoking this trope so as to ensure no one else is strong enough to start a second rebellion. Or alternatively, it could be due Pink's absence as Yellow and Blue have something extracted from them that's implied to play a role in Gem production.
What Measure Is a Non-Gem?: Homeworld Gems view organic creatures as things that just come into being and fade out soon enough, much like how humans view insects.

The Great Diamond Authority

Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever: Blue and Yellow seem at least 50 feet tall with White being somewhere around 100-150 feet tall.
Bad Boss: Any screw up, no matter how minor, is grounds for execution in their eyes.
Beauty Is Bad: They're very attractive and very evil.
Brown Note: After Pink was (seemingly) shattered, White, Yellow and Blue combined their powers to unleash the corrupting wave. But it was never meant to corrupt.
The Chain of Harm: White was abusive to Blue and Yellow which led to them being abusive to their subjects and Pink herself.
Colorful Theme Naming: They call each other by their colours.
Cool Starship: All their ships link together to form a Combining Mecha in White Diamond's image.
Didn't See That Coming: The look on Blue and Yellow's faces when Steven and Lars steal Blue's palanquin is a priceless example of this.
Dream Walker: Yellow, Blue, and Pink are able to access a spirit dimension with the latter two even being able to swap their perspectives between it and the waking world.
Easily Forgiven: Despite all the truly horrible things White, Yellow, and Blue did, they're granted this in Change Your Mind. Doubly justified since, not only is Steven... Steven but no one's really in a position to punish them.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They love each other as sisters.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- Though they demand respect, excessive butt kissing annoys them.
- Yellow and Blue didn't expect the corrupting wave to be a Brown Note. When they discover what happened to the Gems left on Earth, they're horrified. Though less "What have we done?" and more "Ugh, how many tools did we break?"
Evil Overlord: Downplayed since they share leadership with no power disputes.
The Friends Who Never Hang: Though they claim to be a family, they were a cold, distant one, leading Pink to run away.
Galactic Conqueror: And since Homeworld is located in another galaxy, they're a much more literal version of this trope. It's hinted they'd conquered their native galaxy by the time they came to Earth and they've made who knows how much progress on the Milky Way offscreen or how many others they have under their control.
The Ghost: For most of the show. Yellow Diamond was first mentioned in the Season 1 finale and only put in an appearance very late into Season 2, just after Peridot explained what the Diamonds were. White Diamond didn't appear until the final arc of the show. Justified since the Diamonds are running an Empire and have more pressing matters to attend to than fly out to a backwater planet in the middle of nowhere.
God-Emperor: Their subjects seem to view them as this.
Good Costume Switch: When they become allies to the Crystal Gems, they're drawn in a softer art style.
Heel Face Turn: As of Change Your Mind.
Ironic Name: The Diamond look down on organic life yet real-life diamonds, in spite of their strength, are formed from carbon.
Literal Split Personality: Change Your Mind implies that the other three Diamonds are aspects of White's personality that she somehow separated from herself to remove her perceived flaws.
Monster Progenitor: In Reunited, Yellow and Blue have a glowing liquid extracted from their bodies that seems to play a role in Gem production.
Nice, Mean and In-Between:
- Pink is Nice, Yellow is Mean, and Blue is In-Between.
- Blue is Nice, White is Mean, and Yellow is In-Between.
No Social Skills: None. At all.
Not So Different: The "Out of This World" arc establishes that they're this to the Crystal Gems. They're also mourning the loss of the pink coloured Gem from their family but they didn't get a Steven to help fill the void. In fact, they're mourning the same Gem.
Powers Do the Fighting: In combat, Yellow, Blue, and White just stand still and let loose their powers.
Single Specimen Species: There's only one Diamond of each colour.
Sore Loser: After Pink Diamond's seeming demise, they unleashed an energy wave with the intent to destroy every Gem on Earth. For some reason, it corrupted them instead.
Time Abyss: Their empire was in full swing 6000 years ago.
Unwitting Pawn: White, Yellow and Blue were this to Pink's scheme to become Rose Quartz. Sad considering that they really did love Pink.
Villain World: Homeworld.
Wants a Prize For Basic Decency: How have they redeemed themselves in The Movie? Yellow has stopped Hostile Terraforming, Blue has stopped executing people for flimsy reasons, and White has been saying "Please and thank you" to lower life-forms.
Written by the Winners: They had no reason to believe that there were any Gems left on Earth and wrote what the logical conclusion of their final attack was.

Yellow Diamond

Performed by: Patti LuPone (original), Elena Díaz Toledo (Venezuelan Spanish)

Abusive Parents: Her relationship with Pink Diamond mixes this with Aloof Big Sister. It's telling that Stevonnie's subconscious associates Connie's borderline abusive and heavily controlling mother with Yellow.
Aloof Big Sister: To Pink Diamond. A Single Pale Rose deconstructs this: Yellow may not have liked Pink but she never stopped loving her.
Armor-Piercing Question: After Pink says she wants to be respected as a Diamond "Then why don't you act like it, Pink?"
Ax Crazy: Yellow has a very short temper.
Bad Boss: Somewhere around 6000 years ago, Yellow launched an invasion and told the pilots she'd shatter them personally if they didn't go through with the genocide.
Being Evil Sucks: Underneath it all, even Yellow Diamond finds existence on Homeworld a bleak and sterile one.
Berserk Button:
- Don't suggest sparing Earth in front of her.
- To a lesser extent, she's rather impatient and doesn't care for your excessive butt-kissing. That said, she's also annoyed by any disrespect. It's best to be concise yet respectful with her.
- Disrespect Pink Diamond in front of her, we dare you. Just watch what happens when "Rose Quartz" claims to be Pink Diamond. Never has the word "you" been filled with so much hatred.
Big Bad Duumvirate: With Blue Diamond.
Big Sister Instinct: The Diamond Days arc shows that, when push comes to shove, she has this towards Blue and Pink.
Big Sister Worship: Received this from Pink and Blue. Pink admired Yellow as the conqueror she'd always wanted to be and Blue is confident that Yellow can handle White.
Bigger Bad: Of Season 1 and 2. Also to the episodes "Are You My Dad?"/"I Am My Mom" as Aquamarine mentions she and Topaz were sent to Earth on Yellow's orders.
Broken Pedestal:
- To Peridot. Peridot viewed Yellow Diamond as perfectly logical leader who was guided by reason only for Yellow to want Earth destroyed for revenge.
- To Pink Diamond. Pink practically worshipped the ground that her big sister walked on but her immature attitude grated on Yellow so much that Pink eventually began to think Yellow didn't love her.
But for Me It Was Tuesday:
- Earth aside, Yellow views planetary genocide as nothing more than a desk job even treating Pink like a mom would treat a daughter playing in her office. Justified as Now We're Only Falling Apart shows that it is essentially a desk job.
- Doesn't recall Peridot when the two meet again in Reunited.
Card-Carrying Villain: "Yes I know there's organic life on the surface. It's an invasion."
The Chains of Commanding: It's hinted that between Blue's mourning, Pink's shattering, and White's isolationism that Yellow is essentially running Homeworld alone leading to her irritability.
Cool Big Sis: For all the things that Yellow Diamond can do, she cannot say no to Blue and Pink. Pink wants a colony? Fine, she'll have one. Blue wants to preserve Pink's Zoo, Yellow will let her, even if she's not approving of it. "Pink" wants to heal the Corrupted Gems, Yellow is the first to try and suggests speaking to White for her help, even offering to do all the talking.
Deadpan Snarker: Before she gets angry, everything Yellow says is dripping in sarcasm.
Dragon-in-Chief: Though White is the nominal head of the Empire, Yellow essentially ran everything in Era 2 owing to White and Blue neglecting their duties. It's also worth noting that everyone says Yellow gave Pink the Earth to colonize, not White.
The Dreaded: Every Gem, even those loyal to her, are scared of her.
- After the Crystal Gems managed to (just) knock down Blue Diamond, the sight of Yellow causes a Bring My Brown Pants moment.
Dual-Meaning Chorus: She's either asking "What's the use of feeling blue?" (As in what's the point of being sad?) or "What's the use of feeling, Blue?" (As in what's the point of having emotions?)
Evil Is Petty: Not only does she detonate Peridot's communication and try to kill her over a petty insult but she's willing to wipe out all life on Earth as due to it being the planet Pink Diamond died on despite Earth's resources being potentially useful to Homeworld.
Fatal Flaw: Wrath. She's willing to destroy Earth to avenge Pink Diamond (in spite of it potentially being a valuable resource) and burned through who knows how many resources to create the Cluster, desecrating countless graves all because she couldn't stand the thought of what the Crystal Gems represented.
Galactic Conqueror: All the Diamonds are this but she seems to be doing it the most, outright saying she's conquered hundreds of planets.
General Ripper: Peridot says that Yellow Diamond has command over all of Homeworld's military.
Green-Eyed Monster: She's slightly envious that White overlooks her in favour of Pink who hasn't even conquered one world.
Hanging Judge: During The Trial, she wants to shatter "Rose" and clearly views the trial as little more than a formality that she's doing just to humour Blue.
Humans Are Ugly: Just one look at Steven is enough for her to put forth shattering "Rose" for the hideous form.
It's All My Fault: Reunited shows she blames herself for caving to Pink's requests for a colony and subsequent shattering.
Ironic Name: Yellow diamonds are supposed to represent calm and logical beings. Certainly that's how Yellow thinks she behaves.
Jerkass Has a Point:
- Yellow is right in saying Blue should move on from Pink Diamond's shattering because it's not healthy to keep obsessing on it. What ruins her argument is that her own coping mechanism isn't exactly a healthy one.
- Her refusal to grant Pink a colony was well founded. Not only was Pink too immature for a leadership role, her rule incited a rebellion that led to a thousand years of war and further misery. Granted Yellow probably wasn't anticipating that but still.
- Calling out Blue in Change Your Mind. If you keep changing and bending the rules for one person, eventually you'll have to do it for everyone and the whole system will fall apart.
Lightning Bruiser: When she sees Steven, she runs across the entire beach in less than a minute and promptly knocks him out.
Moral Myopia: She has no problem leading a genocidal empire with the blood of billions on it and destroying countless worlds and lives but Pink Diamond's death caused her immeasurable grief.
Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Her treatment of Pink Diamond was... harsh to say the least. But upon believing her beloved little sister is dead, there's nothing she won't stoop to for revenge. Might also be why she didn't want to harvest the Earth's valuable resources, they were Pink's to harvest.
Not So Above It All: Her Badass Baritone is not how she normally talks. It's just something she does to exercise authority.
OOC Is Serious Business: Whenever Yellow is angry, she hams it up. The fact that she says nothing after being accused of killing Pink in The Trial shows Blue Zircon just how angry she made Yellow by accusing both of them.
Pragmatic Villainy: Aside from being willing to destroy Earth in spite of its potentially useful resources, Yellow isn't stupid. She kept Jasper around and left the Jungle Moon alone once she'd strip-mined the planet it orbited.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Well before Peridot suggests sparing Earth anyway. Yellow Diamond hears her out, thanks her for reporting on the Earth situation and even offers to send a ship to pick her up while forgiving her using the private Diamond channel. Before Peridot insults her but after she proposes sparing Earth, she still offers to send Peridot a ship. She later sends one for Jasper.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Blue's blue.
Red Herring: When Blue Zircon accuses her and Blue of shattering Pink, Yellow reacts by poofing both Zircons and had a rushed attitude throughout the whole trial which led more than a few to think that she was Pink's killer. Nope.
Shock and Awe: Yellow Diamond can produce lightning from her fingers that acts like a Gem Destabilizer.
The Stoic: She's using this trope as her coping mechanism. A Single Pale Rose even suggests this is part of the standard MO of the Diamonds projecting themselves as all-powerful leaders.
- Not So Stoic: Halfway through That Will Be All, her unresolved grief over Pink Diamond's death briefly comes to the surface.
Those Two Bad Guys: With Blue. It's why they didn't go down Pink's path. They had an equal to talk to.
The Unfettered: Yellow Diamond wants to avenge Pink Diamond's death by destroying Earth. Nothing else matters.
Villain Song: "What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)?"

Blue Diamond

Performed by: Lisa Hannigan (original), Rebeca Aponte and Leisha Medina (Venezuelan Spanish)

A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to Yellow. As sympathetic as Blue's plight is, she still supports the Gem Empire and all its horrors. Then came The Reveal that she was rather dismissive of Pink as well.
- Reunited shows it best. Blue may be nicer than Yellow but that doesn't mean she's nice to lower classes of Gems.
Aloof Big Sister: Much like Yellow, she didn't treat Pink Diamond with much kindness when she was around.
Annoying Younger Sibling: While she clearly loves her, Yellow Diamond seems to view her one.
Antagonist in Mourning: While all the Diamonds mourn Pink, no one misses her more than Blue.
The Atoner: Her desire to preserve Earth might stem from being dismissive of Pink's fondness for it.
Bad Boss: A random Ruby accidentally fused with her prized Sapphire while saving her life? Shatter the Ruby!
Berserk Button:
- If you try and interfere with her attempts of getting to the bottom of how Pink was shattered, you will find a temper that rivals Yellow's.
- She's livid that the Crystal Gems are using Pink's planet as their hiding place.
Big Bad: Of The Answer and StevenBomb 5.
Big Bad Duumvirate: With Yellow Diamond.
Blessed with Suck: She can only make others break down in anguish if she herself feels anguished.
Bond Villain Stupidity: In Reunited, her ship could have easily destroyed the Crystal Gems with no risk to herself but she chose to fight them instead. Justified given that the following fight showed that even all the Crystal Gems combined had no hope of defeating her.
But for Me It Was Tuesday: She tried to kill both Ruby and Sapphire when the Gem War was just starting and doesn't remember them when she's face to face with the two five thousand years later.
- Though according to Garnet, while Blue doesn't recognize Ruby and Sapphire she does remember her. Garnet outright stayed away because she knew Blue would find and destroy the Crystal Gems through her. Indeed in Reunited, Blue quickly, though not instantly, recognizes and remembers Garnet.
Curb Stomp Battle: It's not even funny how much stronger she is than all the Crystal Gems (Lapis, Peridot, and Bismuth included).
Cursed with Awesome: Sure she has a powerful Emotion Bomb but it only works if she's feeling those emotions. To make someone too sad to stand, she has to be that sad.
Death Glare: She's very fond of this.
Death Seeker: Or she's indifferent about death given that she frequents Earth and, as far as she knows, the Cluster could emerge at any second and kill her.
Doting Parent: Was seemingly one to Pink. Too bad Pink didn't see it that way.
The Dreaded: Garnet and Sapphire dread being on the same continent as her.
Droopy Eyes
Emotion Bomb: She can transmit her emotions to other Gems (or half-Gems) causing them to experience them regardless of their current feelings. As Reunited shows, it's pretty useful to have a weapon that makes your enemies too sad to even stand, let alone fight and powerful enough against to cause a Gem Fusion around her size and power to defuse.
The Eeyore: Oh so very much, after Pink's alleged shattering.
Foil: To Yellow Diamond. While both mourn Pink Diamond, Yellow is insistent on moving on and opts to destroy reminders of Pink while Blue wants to mourn forever and keeps any reminder she can of her beloved sister.
GASP: Gives a comically exaggerated one after she and Yellow are accused of shattering Pink Diamond.
Heel Realization: Downplayed. While Blue seems unable or unwilling to talk Yellow out of destroying the Earth via the Cluster, talking to Greg makes her understand that the human race shouldn't have to perish for the sake of the Diamonds' grief.
Love Makes You Dumb: Non-romantic love anyway. Though Yellow wants to destroy Earth and all its potentially valuable resources for the Cluster, she's still getting a superweapon out of the deal. Blue just wants Earth left alone forever as a memorial to Pink, not harvesting any of its resources.
Meaningful Name: Given that "blue" can also mean "sad", she's essentially "Sad Diamond". Fitting for her eternal mourning.
Mood Swinger: While she's usually sad, she can instantly switch to any other emotion the situation calls for in a moment before going back to being sad.
Moral Myopia: She once ordered Ruby's death for accidentally fusing with Sapphire and doesn't even recall the two thousands of years later. Yet she's never stopped mourning Pink Diamond in over six thousand years.
Ms. Fanservice: On the evil side of beauties, she's one.
Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Pink Diamond's alive? Who cares, let's go conquer another planet. Pink Diamond's dead? Oh how will we move on?
Not So Different: To White. Like her mother, she has a Crippling Overspecialization with using her powers in combat contrasting Yellow and Pink.
Oh Crap:
- When Lapis drops the barn on her.
- When she slaps Yellow. Even Yellow is shocked by it.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In StevenBomb 5/"Out of This World", she betrays hints of an Irish accent. From Reunited onward, Lisa Hannigan just went all out in her Irish accent.
Pet the Dog: Blue Pearl isn't the court sketch artist. That's just something Blue Diamond lets her do to pass the time.
Reasonable Authority Figure: In The Trial. Despite admitting she wants to bring about a Fate Worse Than Death on "Rose"/Steven, she assigns the defense lawyer and treats the trial with full seriousness while doing her best to be fair contrasting Yellow's Hanging Judge.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Yellow's red.
Spotting the Thread: While Yellow accepted that Pink died and wanted revenge, Blue seemed to pick up on the fact that the official story of their sister's death made no sense at all. Reinforced by Connie trying to attack Blue with the alleged murder weapon and Blue shattering it without even missing a beat.
Suddenly Shouting: "It was a SWORD!"
Then Let Me Be Evil: When her attempts at grieving only wind up with the Crystal Gems growing more emboldened, she decides that she's okay with the Cluster ripping Earth apart.
Those Two Bad Guys: With Yellow. It's why they didn't go down Pink's path. They had an equal to talk to.
You Will Be Spared: She abducts Greg from Earth because she believes he didn't deserve to be killed by the Cluster.

Pink Diamond

Performed by: Susan Egan (original), Maythe Guedes (Venezuelan Spanish)

Actually, I Am Her: One has to wonder how she coped being around Gems like Garnet or Bismuth who wanted to destroy all the Diamonds.
Adorkable: Sure she may have been a Diamond, but she acted adorably.
Alternative Character Interpretation: In-universe, no can quite seem to agree what Pink Diamond was like. Part of this can be explained away by Unreliable Narrator on the part of various characters but it leaves Steven (and the audience) rightfully confused on what to feel about her.
Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear what role she had in the corruption wave. Her shield reflecting the attack may have caused the attack to corrupt the Gems on Earth, or her absence may have been what caused the corrupting wave.
Ambiguously Evil: We first meet her as a wanna-be Galactic Conqueror and it's unclear whether she really wants that or if she's just trying to fit in. Seeing that The World Is Just Awesome made her undergo a genuine Heel Face Turn.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Though she loved her, Yellow essentially gave Pink a colony so she'd stop asking for one.
Be Careful What You Wish For: As it turns out, being in charge of a colonization effort wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
Beneath Suspicion: When Blue Zircon realizes how Pink could only have been shattered by a Diamond, it never occurs to her (or anyone else in the room) that Pink essentially committed suicide.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Taken to its logical conclusion with her endgame being essentially "I'm going to run away from home and then you'll see!"
Clueless Mystery: The official story of her death. The records say her palanquin had stopped in front of her entourage and she'd taken only a few steps outside before Rose attacked, and shattered, her from the front. Not only is the supposed murder weapon incapable of shattering Gems but as Blue Zircon points out, if that was the case, wouldn't someone have seen Rose approach? And even if Rose did manage to shatter Pink, wouldn't she then be surrounded by loyal soldiers who would try to arrest her?
Didn't Think This Through: Her rebellion and "death". She never paused to consider the lasting consequences. Justified since she was only ever a figurehead and not a true leader.
Dual-Wielding: In Garnet's Season 5 flashback, Pink is shown wielding a Gem Destabilizier in each hand.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite being a Diamond, no one gave her any respect. As Yellow points out, if she acts like a child, she'll be treated as one. The most Blue and Yellow would give her was being a Puppet King.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Blue and Yellow may not have been nice to her, but they really did love her. Too bad their treatment of her made it so she didn't love them back nor anticipated the lengths they would go to to avenge her.
- Ironically, the fact that she was even let in Yellow's control room is proof enough that she was loved.
Faking the Dead: With the aid of her trusty Pearl, Pink Diamond became Rose Quartz.
Fatal Flaw: Her Innocently Insensitive attitudes. She bases her view on people entirely by their surface emotions and never stops to think there's more underneath or the lasting effects her actions might have on people.
Foreshadowing:
- Her absence in the present day was hinted at by the lack of a pink diamond in later versions of the Great Diamond Authority logo. In a subtler way, her moonbase mural is of darker hue than the other three in something that borders on Five Second Foreshadowing.
- Her true fate is hinted at by Steven's Diamond dreams and unusual powers, her supposed murder weapon being incapable of killing, her Strong Family Resemblance to Rose Quartz and that no one can actually seem to agree on what happened to her.
- Her place on the bottom of the Diamond Authority logo. Not only is she the youngest and smallest of them, it indicates the location of her gemstone and how her removal destabilized the whole regime.
Freudian Excuse: Garnet's tale implies that her size and treatment led to her rushing the development of her colony in an attempt to prove herself as powerful as her sisters.
Hundred-Percent Adoration Rating: Most Homeworld Gems who speak of her seem to have held her in very high regard.
I Hate Past Me: Implied. Certainly someone had to cook up the story that it was Rose who begged Pink Diamond to spare the organic life on Earth.
I Just Want to Be Free: Convinced that she was a Living Emotional Crutch to the other three, she decided to leave them behind.
It's All About Me: Pink wanted to be free and didn't give so much as a passing thought to the lasting effects her "death" would have on her sisters or her court.
Living Emotional Crutch: To the Diamonds. This is in fact why she ran away. She was convinced that any love they felt for her was for their own selfish reasons.
Lonely At the Top: Something she realized when she finally got her own colony.
Never My Fault: As many characters, from Steven to White Diamond to even Pearl, have pointed out, Pink was never very keen to accept responsibility for the damage she caused.
Nice to the Waiter: Treated both her Pearls as close friends and confidants rather than servants. Which is what led White to taking away Pink Pearl.
Parental Favoritism: Seemed to receive this from White.
Puppet King: Blue and Yellow were setting her up as this.
Running Both Sides: A member of the Great Diamond Authority and the leader of the Crystal Gem rebellion.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Pink really tried with the other Diamonds, but eventually decided that enough was enough and struck out on her own.
She's Got Legs: Her moonbase mural is 75% her long, shapely legs.
Sins of Our Fathers: Everything Steven has gone through is her fault. By The Movie, he's beyond resigned to this.
Slasher Smile: Garnet's flashback in Season 5 has her sporting an absolutely deranged version of this.
Static Character: Averted. She was meant to be White's baby forever but she grew up and changed.
Super Strength: She was Stevonnie's height and managed to cause cracks along an entire windowpane of a moonbase.
That Gem Is Dead: She wanted to leave her life as Pink Diamond behind completely.
Token Good Teammate: There were hints before The Reveal as she was never stated to take part in any of the horrific experiments that Blue and Yellow so casually performed. Taken to the ultimate conclusion when it's shown that she's actually Rose Quartz.
Too Much Alike: Implied to be a reason for why she lost interest in Spinel.
Unperson: Yellow Diamond has removed Pink's image from the Diamond logo. Partly to maintain the image of the Diamonds and mostly to escape the grief related to Pink's demise.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: All Gems can do this, but Pink demonstrated the ability to rotate and resize her gemstone.
Willfully Weak: Going by Pink Steven, it's hinted Pink was a lot more powerful than she let on.
Your Size May Vary: She's indicated to be about Stevonnie's height going by the shattered glass in Yellow's old moonbase and the chair in her moonbase yet her mural has her scaled to normal Diamond height. When we see her for the first time, she's about twice Stevonnie's height.

White Diamond

Performed by: Christine Ebersole (original), Aura Caamaño (Venezuelan Spanish)

Abusive Parents: Of the emotional sort to Yellow, Blue, and Pink.
Adorkable: Surprisingly so while on Earth. Doubly so in The Movie where she acts like a Jewish Mother constantly trying to guilt trip Steven.
Affectionate Nickname: Called Pink "Starlight."
All Your Powers Combined: Going by the other three healing Centipeedle, White combines Pink's power over the soul, Blue's over the psyche, and Yellow's over the body in her Eye Beams to bring everyone under her control.
Ambiguous Situation:
- It's never made clear how White knew Pink was still alive. Either she just knew via some psychic link, she saw through the Clueless Mystery, she used an observation orb and learnt the truth, or maybe she just picked up Pink's ship on long range sensors.
- It's unclear if Blue and Yellow even knew the full extent of her powers before she brainwashed them.
- Her being off-color and her pink blush. Either she truly does have a flaw in her Gem that she's been hiding all this time or she was just blushing (she does say she's every colour of the light and other gems have been shown to blush).
Anime Hair: It's very spiky.
Badass Cape: One seemingly made of stars.
Believing Their Own Lies: While Yellow and Blue know they're not perfect but still present that image, White truly thinks of herself as flawless.
Berserk Button: She likes to maintain her empire's image. Yellow even says they'll be lucky if White speaks to them after they bring back irrefutable proof of Pink Diamond's survival.
Bigger Bad: The ruler of the Diamonds and the undisputed leader of Homeworld.
- Takes on the role of Big Bad in the "Diamond Days" arc.
Break Them by Talking: Comes this close to utterly shattering Steven's spirit. The only reason it didn't work was because Pink Diamond really is "GOOOOONNNNNE!"
Combat Pragmatist: All White needs to fight are her Eye Beams. Why fight fair when you can turn your enemies into Meat Puppets?
Crippling Overspecialization: What does she do when her Eye Beams don't work? Keep firing them.
Didn't See That Coming: The only reason she loses is because Pink Steven emerges from the gem instead of Pink Diamond.
Dissonant Serenity: White maintains an eerily calm tone during her discussion with "Pink".
The Dreaded: Yellow Diamond is visibly uncomfortable facing her. And keep in mind how many Gems become petrified with fear at the mention of Yellow's name.
The Empress: Of the Gem Empire.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She really does want Pink Diamond back.
Eviler Than Thou: To Yellow Diamond.
Eye Beams: How she brings Gems under her control.
Got the Whole World In My Hand: Her mural on the Moonbase has her holding an orb in her hands implied to be Homeworld.
Hive Mind: Can turn other Gems into puppets. It's implied there's a limit however.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Taking away Pink's beloved Pearl and issuing a replacement didn't go quite as she hoped it would.
Hufflepuff House: None of her followers (those that haven't been turned into Meat Puppets) have been seen yet.
Humanoid Abomination: There's something... off... about White Diamond. Pearl even says that White isn't even comparable to the other Diamonds.
Hypocrite:
- Chided Pink for defying social conventions yet had her Pearl sit on her throne.
- Accuses Pink of surrounding herself with inferior Gems so she can feel better in comparison to them. Who else does that?
Jerkass Has a Point: With regards to Pink's Never My Fault tendencies.
Knight of Cerebus
Light'Em Up: Implied to be her power. And damn is it bright.
- Light is Not Good: Her body's constantly emits a bright light for unknown reasons, but when shot at another Gem, it can hijack them into living dummies that she can control.
Meaningful Name: White diamonds in real life are seen by many as flawless diamonds, but they're not. A flawless diamond is a clear diamond. A hint that White only thinks she's flawless.
Monster Progenitor: Change Your Mind implies she budded the other Diamonds.
Moral Myopia: Even after she turned Blue and Yellow into Meat Puppets, she expected them to rush to her aid.
Ms. Fanservice: Long legs? Check. Hartman Hips? Check. Sheer dress with nothing underneath, as revealed by a t-shirt of her? Check.
Mysterious Past: Given Monster Progenitor, it's unclear where she herself comes from.
Narcissist: Truly believes that she's flawless to the point that Steven has to force a Villainous BSOD just to get her to listen to his ideas and take him seriously.
Obliviously Evil: While she does the most evil acts out of anyone on the show, she doesn't view them as that and instead genuinely thinks she's helping others. Even when she pulls out Steven's gem, she thought she was freeing Pink Diamond from the human child and letting the child go on his way as his own person.
Outliving One's Offspring: Much to her horror, Pink Diamond does not reform when she pulls out Steven's gem.
She's Got Legs
Static Character: White Diamond is such a Narcissist that she's hasn't changed even a tiny bit since she was born and refuses to let Gem society change because that implies her utopia could be improved and thus wasn't perfect to start out with.
Super Prototype: Hinted to be the oldest Gem in existence and is clearly the most powerful one that there is.
The Older Immortal: She had the most colonies (35) when the Moonbase was built and is implied to be the first ever Gem.
Tranquil Fury: For a brief moment, a hint of anger slips into her voice at "Pink".

Troll:
- Makes a big deal about showing her entrance to the Era 3 ball... only for her Pearl to say she's too busy.
- Calling herself "White Diamond" via her Pearl mixes this with sadism. We know it's White speaking through Pink Pearl but everyone else has no idea that the empress is essentially standing next to them.

Vapor Wear: As revealed in her Hot Topic T-shirt, she wears no panties. There's nothing to show, though.

Villainous Breakdown: When Pink doesn't emerge from the gem and when she realizes she's not perfect.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Believes herself to be a flawless being and that she's spreading her beautiful light to others, helping them escape their flaws.
Would Hurt a Child: Literally pulls out Steven's gem.

Yellow Court

Jasper

Performed by: Kimberly Brooks (original), Valentina Toro (Venezuelan Spanish)

A Hero to Her Hometown: On Homeworld, Jasper is a war hero.
Aloof Big Sister: Amethyst views her as one.
Animal Motifs: Where Amethyst has a puma theme, Jasper invokes a tiger.
Arch Enemy:
- To Lapis Lazuli and Amethyst. Jasper barely acknowledges both as existing.
- She views herself as Rose Quartz's though whether or not it was mutual is unknown.
Big Bad: Of the Season 1 finale and Season 3.
Big Sister Bully: To Amethyst.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to Amethyst's Abel.
Curb Stomp Battle: Her two fights against Amethyst.
The Dragon: Formerly to Yellow Diamond.
Evil Counterpart: To Amethyst. Both are Quartz soldiers made on Earth but Jasper is loyal to Homeworld and Earth's destruction.
- The contrast is clear when the two are poofed back to their gems. Jasper was seconds away from shattering Amethyst for being an embarrassment to the Quartzes. Amethyst cups Jasper's gem very delicately and acknowledges her as a sister.
Famous Last Words: "What?! My Diamond. Your Diamond. PINK DIAMOND!"
Foil: To Peridot. Jasper was born on Earth and loathes it while being loyal to Homeworld and served as Peridot's leader. Peridot was born on Homeworld and defected when she came to appreciate Earth and used to be Jasper's dragon.
Foreshadowing:
- Peridot says Quartzes are supposed to be loyal to their Diamonds. Jasper isn't anywhere near devoted to Yellow as Peridot is and never calls her "My Diamond" while blowing off the mission and thinking Rose Quartz is more important. A clue that Jasper's loyalty is for the deceased Pink Diamond.
- Her flowing hair and Rolling Attack also hint that Jasper is what Amethyst is supposed to look like.
- Her status as the Ultimate Quartz is hinted at by the fact that she's never once poofed until she becomes corrupted. Amethyst by contrast is poofed ever hour on the hour.
Forgotten Fallen Friend: Aquamarine and Topaz don't bother to look for her while on Earth and she's unmentioned in The Trial despite the Rubies being allowed back on Homeworld after Navy rescued them in spite of having failed in their mission to retrieve Jasper.
Freudian Excuse: Jasper was born into a war where she nothing more than Cannon Fodder. And with the Earth lost to Homeworld, Jasper now knows it can never be what Pink Diamond wanted it to be meaning that Jasper can't fulfill the imperative she was born for.
Hate Sink: Until "Earthlings" which shed light on her motivations.
Hypocrite: Toward fusion. She first derides but soon becomes addicted to it.
- Hypocrisy Nod: In near complete control of Malachite however, she admits to Alexandrite that Garnet had a point regarding fusion.
It's All My Fault: She blames herself for Pink Diamond's shattering.
Inexplicably Awesome: The Beta Kindergarten was in a bad location to start with and the gems were implanted anywhere. Despite this Jasper came out completely and utterly flawless in every way.
Jobber: What her role as Season 3's Big Bad was leading to her Villain Decay.
Karmic Transformation: After mistreating and mocking Corrupted Gems, and attempting to fuse with one, she gets turned into one.
The Leader: She is Peridot's superior under Yellow Diamond's orders.
Locked Out of the Loop: Like of all Pink's court, she doesn't seem to know that Pink and Rose were one in the same.
The Man Behind the Man: It's safe to say that she's the head of Peridot's mission.
Mook Carryover: She was originally assigned to Pink Diamond and was transferred to Yellow's forces when Pink was shattered.
One Riot, One Ranger: Yellow Diamond viewed Jasper as all the muscle that their subordinate Peridot would need on Earth. Considering Steven was the sole cause of Jasper's initial defeat, Yellow Diamond was very right.
Redemption Rejection: When she starts corrupting, Steven tries to heal her and she attacks him.
Rogue Agent: In Season 3.
Shadow Archetype: If Amethyst hadn't emerged late from the Kindergarten, there's a good chance she'd have become exactly like Jasper.
Sociopathic Soldier: A Type 2.
Strong and Skilled: Far stronger than Amethyst and uses her powers to their fullest.
Token Evil Teammate:
- To the Homworld Trio of her, Lapis and Peridot.
- To the Quartzes formed on Earth. She's the only one who's seemingly embraced the imperialistic attitude of Gems while the others are all laid back and relaxed about everything.
Tragic Villain: Jasper is the ultimate example of the flaws in Gem society. She's been essentially brainwashed from birth to do one thing for one person and after circumstances made that impossible, she has no idea how to live her life and lashes out at everything around her. Made even worse with The Reveal about Pink Diamond's true fate.
Ultimate Lifeform: She is the Ultimate Quartz. Peridot has never seen an exit hole as perfect as Jasper's.
- Word of God confirms that the Topaz twins are higher up than Quartzes yet Jasper appears far more powerful than the Topazes.
Undying Loyalty: To her Diamond. Pink Diamond.
Villainous Breakdown: When she starts to become corrupted. Only made worse by the fact that "Rose" doesn't seem to remember Pink Diamond.

Yellow Pearl

Performed by: Deedee Magno Hall (original), María José Estévez (Venezuelan Spanish)

Adorkable: When Yellow Diamond wasn't looking, Yellow Pearl took a selfie of the two.
Girl Friday: To Yellow Diamond.
Hidden Depths: Much like Steven, she goes full waterworks when caught in Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb hinting at quite a bit of empathy beneath her Smug Snake exterior. She also likes modelling.
Large Ham: "ALL RISE FOR THE LUMINOUS YELLOW DIAMOND!"
Not So Different: To Pearl. Both managed to acquire skills outside of what they were made for.
Oh Crap: When Peridot says "No" to Yellow Diamond.
Sexy Secretary: She wears a nice leotard.
Shadow Archetype: To Pearl. Yellow Pearl is the worst a Pearl could become if they get to watch their powerful mistress scold lower Gems.
Smug Snake: That salty smirk when Yellow Diamond is chewing out Peridot.
Uncatty Resemblance: To Yellow Diamond.
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!: When Steven gives a completely ridiculous and made up testimony regarding the final fight between Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz, Yellow Pearl, as the court reporter, can't believe what she has to type.