Hey everyone!
This is Hailey from Cartoon Universe, and I wanted to talk about a new character that
we finally saw in the latest episode of the show.
It’s just a small new character.
No big deal really.
Just a little gem known as White Diamond.
Yeah, like I said, nothing major.
Just kidding, White Diamond is a HUGE deal.
Ever since we saw the Diamond Authority logo, many people speculated about her existence
and how she would likely be at the top of the gem hierarchy.
After all the most iconic diamonds are white diamonds, so it has always made sense..
And here we are, finally, after so many years, not only getting a name drop of White Diamond,
but also actually seeing her and even hearing her speak.
And relatively soon after learning about Pink Diamond too.
I have really been liking how things have been speeding up in a sense.
But regardless, today I am here to talk about White Diamond and what may ultimately happen
with her.
I am asking the question, will White Diamond eventually be redeemed?
As you might remember, I asked this question about Blue and Yellow Diamond as well.
And much to my surprise, they seemed to have joined Steven’s side almost as soon as they
learned that Pink Diamond was alive.
I don’t know if this will be for good, but for the time being it seems they are just
happy to know that their sister is back and want to help her and fix the damage that they
caused.
But as soon as that problem was fixed, another one was presented as finding a way to ultimately
fix the corruption that plagues most of the gems on Earth.
The combination of yellow, blue, and pink diamond's powers were not enough to permanently
reverse the damage caused thousands of years ago when the diamonds attacked Earth once
they believed Pink Diamond had been shattered.
The conclusion was made that it would also take White Diamond's aid to completely reverse
the damage.
And that is definitely something that was speculated in many videos on Cartoon Universe,
so it was nice to see Yellow Diamond have the same thought.
So the logical answer to the question of White Diamond being redeemed is yes.
But since Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond were so quickly turned, something tells me
White Diamond will not follow the same path.
As we already saw, she was not even phased by seeing what Pink Diamond has become.
In fact, she acted like nothing had happened to her, and she was acting as if Pink Diamond
was just playing dress up.
Or perhaps she was talking directly to Steven's gem where Pink Diamond could in fact communicate
to White Diamond, but that's a whole other video topic.
White Diamond does not seem like the type to listen to reason or have her mindset quickly
changed.
If anything, we should be afraid of her controlling other gems and turning them against Steven!
But her need to control everything could end up causing her downfall.
As many have speculated, it looks as if she is controlling her Pearl, since they share
the same voice actor as well as this Pearl having a similar posture as well as looking
pretty emotionless.
The lines coming from her body and branching out to all of homeworld could be compared
to neurons in a brain, or maybe something more inorganic like telephone wires.
So what if the one thing she cannot control is Steven?
She clearly let Pink Diamond do whatever she wanted, but that could be compared to letting
a child destroy their room while the adult has to do their work.
Playtime is now over, and it seems that White Diamond is grounding Pink Diamond for what
she considered to be a game.
But history will likely repeat itself and Steven will not put up with White Diamond's
nonsense and try to escape.
White Diamond may then try to control Steven and realizes she cannot do so.
Steven can never be part of her collection of gems because he is half human and potentially
could be immune to White Diamond's powers.
White Diamond may realize she lacks what Steven has.
And it could be through this realization that Steven can get through to her and show her
that loving others is much better than simply controlling them for one's own desires.
Perhaps they could form a temporary truce and later go their separate ways once corruption
is cured.
Or Steven will learn that the power to uncorrupt gems was inside him all along and White Diamond
will not even be needed in the end.
So those were a few ways that things could go by taking just White Diamond into account.
But Steven Universe loves its foreshadowing, so perhaps we could apply that to White Diamond
as well.
As many have noted, there are definite parallels between White Diamond's relationship with
Pink Diamond to Marty's relationship with Greg.
At one point in time, Marty was Greg's manager who was so greedy to the point where he took
75% of Greg's profits.
It was clear that Marty was using Greg, but Greg felt dependent on him.
That was of course until he met Rose Quartz and decided to stay with her in Beach City.
He kicks Marty out of the van and they go their separate ways.
But they eventually do see each other again years later when Marty is legally obligated
to give Greg a 10-million-dollar check for a song Greg wrote for a Guacola advertisement.
In the end Greg was a real winner even if it meant he had to deal with Marty at some
point in time.
In addition, Greg was Marty's "starchild" just like Pink Diamond was White's "starlight".
They had high hopes for the one they controlled and knew they would do great things, but eventually
when the other became too smart for their tactics, they were pushed away.
With all this in mind, perhaps the future for White Diamond will go like this:
Just as Greg eventually profited from Marty's actions, Steven will find a way to get White
Diamond to uncorrupt all the gems.
This, in a way, is the ten-million-dollar check that makes many problems vanish instantly.
Then just as soon as she helped, she will disappear from Steven's life just like Marty
did when he appeared in Drop Beat Dad.
That would mean White Diamond would no longer be an issue.
And that would be totally great, although that does sound a bit too easy once again.
Yet history often repeats itself, so I do see this as a likely possibility.
Now we can look at other possible inspirations for White Diamond, and see if those stories
had their character be redeemed.
White Diamond and Homeworld itself have definite visual parallels to the movie Metropolis,
but story wise there was not too much I could gleam from it.
And finally, for something I talked about quite a bit when it came to Blue Diamond as
well as Lars, are potential anime inspirations.
That would be from characters created by Leiji Matsumoto.
This time around White Diamond parallels Queen Promethium, who is the mother of Emeraldas
and Maetel, both of which helped to form the character of Blue Diamond.
She has had a few different looks over the years, but one in particular when she was
with her two daughters gives her an outfit that may have inspired some part of White
Diamond's dress.
Queen Promethium was the ruler of La Metal, who became cold and ruthless after wanting
to achieve eternal life.
She becomes a machine man herself and begins to look down up those with organic bodies.
She then made all of the citizens of her planet become part of a hivemind which created the
Machine Empire.
They did all the work for her, but eventually her overconfidence with the power of her empire
led to her and her empire's downfall.
Doesn't a lot of that sound familiar?
White Diamond is the ruler of the Diamond Authority and Homeworld, a place where all
its citizens are inorganic and must fit within a strict hierarchy.
She might even be able to control gems to create a hivemind if she wished.
She also has daughters in the form of Blue, Yellow, and Pink Diamond.
Pink Diamond committed a terrible crime and became organic, the exact opposite of what
a gem should be.
White Diamond may never understand why Pink Diamond did what she did.
Why would she ever get rid of her extremely powerful, ever living form?
That's why I believe White Diamond may want to turn Steven into a full gem again, which
in this case would mean bringing Pink Diamond back.
This ties in really well with Deepcut's video where he explains that White Diamond may attack
Steven in an attempt to poof him.
So if Steven Universe makes White Diamond follow the path of Queen Promethium, we may
see the destruction of both homeworld and its ruler, with no real redemption.
Oh one other thing is that Queen Promethium was based on the Roman God Janus, who was
the god of time as well as a few other things.
Some people think she has time related powers, and that would be evidence for that theory.
But anyways, it is clear there are many inspirations for White Diamond, as well as parallels to
other characters in Steven Universe itself.
I do think White Diamond will need to help Steven out, but only time will tell if she
eventually becomes less of a threat, or will need to be destroyed all together.
Now I would like to ask, do you think White Diamond will be redeemed?
What will her future role in the show be?
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