Pink Diamond (Steven Universe)

'''NOTE: I KNOW THEY'LL BE A LOT OF CONTROVERSY WITH THIS DESICION FOR, OBVIOUS REASONS, SO FOR THE SAKE OF AVOIDONG THAT, AND RESPECT TOWARDS PINK DIAMOND FANS, I WON'T PUT HER ON THIS WIKI, BUT RATHER, I'LL MAKE A BLOG POST ABOUT MY THOUGHTS ON HER, BECAUSE FRANKLY, I HAVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT PINK DIAMOND.

Pink Diamond (also known as Rose Quartz) was a character form the Cartoon Network Show, Steven Universe. She was Homeworld Gem and a member of the Great Diamond Authority turned Crystal Gem Leader, the former two of which continued to rule over the Gem race in her absence.

Why She Sucks

 * 1) For all of the series, she was painted as this flawlessly perfect and wise leader who fought for the equality of all gems. Later, it was revealed she "shattered" Pink Diamond in order to liberate the Earth, and bubbled Bismuth for trying to do the same thing. But this all traced back to how sometimes in life, tough decisions had to be made for the greater good. Then season 5 came along, and undid all of that by completely replacing her with Pink Diamond. Meaning that the development behind Rose's entire character (and that was also important to Steven's character development), never actually happened.
 * 2) Instead of starting off as a leader who believed that all life was worth protecting and fought for the equality for others against a Fascist Empire, she was just one of the fascists who also happened to be a spoiled, self-entitled brat who threw tantrums over wanting a colony and later decided to just trash it because she didn't ''want it anymore.
 * 3) Remember the war between the Earth and the Empire? That means she was 'deliberately tricking her own subjects into killing each other and saw nothing wrong with that.
 * 4) Yes, the Diamonds were genocidal tyrants who abused Pink if she messed up, but that didn't excuse Pink faking her death and traumatizing them. She knew them better than anyone and just how they would react, but she still did it anyway.
 * 5) And to add salt to the wound, the last thing she did before faking her shattering was ordering Pearl to keep quiet about what happened. And you can clearly see just how badly she was affected by that.
 * 6) * Speaking of Pearl, the twist reveals that Pearl was '''a slave falling in love with her owner. And they're should seriously be no need to explain what's wrong with that.
 * 7) She didn't even bother to help Amethyst with her insecurities, despite the fact that she knew about it.
 * 8) Remember how she bubbled Bismuth away and lied to the other Gems about what happened to her? Well, now it wasn't because she was an extremist taking her rebellious nature too far. Now, she had her bubbled because it '''would've blown her cover!
 * 9) As the movie revealed, even before all this, she still abandoned her playmate Spinel in the floating garden for 6,000 years. Why? Because she simply outgrew her like a toy and, because she never considered anyone's feelings other than her own, just abandoned her. And before you say she was never taught kindness, just meaness, keep in mind that if she was able to see that colonization was wrong, she was able to see the problem with abandoning someone any lying to them about it being a game for what would've been forever if not for Steven's message PERFECTLY FINE.
 * 10) Changing her identity didn't change this either. When Greg asked to fuse with her in a flashback, she simply laughed in his face. Meaning while she did like humans, she didn't respect them, so she was basically '''the equivalent of the other Diamonds!
 * 11) And before anyone says "She's just flawed, and that makes her more human and interesting", or "It's the other Diamonds' Fault, cause they never taught her kindness, just meanness!" Because there's a BIG difference between being flawed, and being completely unlikable to the point of doing truly irredeemable things. Everyone makes mistakes, but the things Pink Diamond did are much more than mistakes. She was already flawed as Rose, but overall, still tried her best to make the right decisions for and protect the people around her. Then season 5 came along, and, you all already know.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It can be negotiated that she did have good intentions, but that doesn't change how unjustifiable her actions were.
 * 2) She has a cute character design.
 * 3) Her backstory is somewhat sympathetic.