Hello everyone! I thought I'd get a break from theory videos to give you another Top 10 video, and this is a good one!
I'm going to give you my personal top 10 theories that were proven to be untrue.
A few of them, especially the ones at the beggining, never had much evidence for their side in the first place,
but they were still interesting and plausible theories, so with that let's begin.
10. Sardonyx was a different gem than we thought.
This one is highest up on the list because it was a total wild guess on who she was going to be.
If you remember a while back, there was a Week of Sardonyx, and after seeing an unfimiliar
name announced
everyone was totally excited to meet a new gem!
Many people have guessed, including myself, on a variety of different possibilities.
Despite not having really any evidence for her identity, people got pretty complex with their theories.
One I thought was intresting was Sardonyx was a fusion of two NEW characters, Sard and Onyx.
I also liked the thought that Sardonyx was a healed corrupted gem or that she was a Homeworld gem.
She could have also been a fusion of two characters, and she was!
As we now know, Sardonyx is the long-awaited fusion between Pearl and Garnet.
Maybe some were disappointed, but at the end of the day I'm happy with the awesome fusion Sardonyx turned out to be.
9. Gems start out as babies.
There was never really any evidence for this one at all, but I still like the thought that gems were once babies.
Almost every alien species in every show starts off as something much smaller than its adult form
and before we knew much about the gem species, it was logical to assume the same for gems.
But as we got to know them more we truely learned how alien they were.
In fact, once they come out of the whole in which they were made, they come out fully formed!
This has lead me to believe that gems were made by some other beings, and are not a naturally
occurring species.
That's a bit of topic, but even tho baby gems would be very cute, it'd be impossible for them to ever exist.
And Steven is a half gem, which is why he could be a baby, don't think I've forgot about him!
8. Fusion is a lost art among gems.
They way fusion was first presented, it simply did not seem like something Homeworld would ever do.
If the Crystal Gems stand for everything Homeworld hates, then it could have been possible that
the Crystal Gems where the only ones to be currently doing fusion.
Fusion was first shown as only being possible with two willing partners that could sync and dance.
This did not seem like something Homeworld was interested in.
And while it is true Homeworld views fusion differently than the CGs, they have no forgotten about it,
and do attempt to use it to their advantage.
However it is not widely accepted when two different types of gems fuse.
Yet fusing with eachother may have been one of the main reasons the CGs where able to defeat Homeworld
when they saught to destroy the rebels.
7. Ruby is blind.
In the episode Jail Break we meet Ruby and Sapphire for the first time,
and seeing them separated showed just how co-dependent they are on eachother.
It is very soon after when we see Ruby say she can't see.
Some interpreted this as Ruby being unable to see in the first place
and she could only ever see when she was fused.
However the truth was that this statement was actually referring to Ruby loosing her future vision
that she had as Garnet.
Without Sapphire she became totally confused and lost
which in some ways also blinded her.
6. Steven is only a few years old.
I think it would have been very shocking if Steven was only a few years old
in contrary to how he looks.
Most of the evidence supporting this theory is based on the fact Steven acts very young in contrast to his looks,
especially early on in the series, he didn't even know what school was.
Another piece of evidence was the fact that Steven was half gem, and gems are never babies,
so it is possible that his growth could have been accelerated.
Also in Too Many Birthdays, Steven was able to age himself to his whatever emotional state he was,
so perhaps he quickly made himself feel older than he actually was.
But what was in fact the truth was perhaps just as much as a shock,
it turns out that instead of being 8, 9, or 10 years old, Steven was turning 14 when Steven's Birthday aired.
So instead of his gem heritage making him look older than he is, it makes him look younger.
5. Peridot landed in Canda
There's not much to this theory, but it basically stated that Peridot's escape pod landed in Canda
because in Jail Break when Garnet was singing it looks to be the location where Peri's escape pod was headed.
However this is shown to be false when we later see her escape pod in Joy Ride.
Many people wanted this to be true mostly to see Peridot's mostly likely amusing adventures in Canada.
4. Lapis Lazuli is Blue Diamond.
This theory was most possible early on in the series
and, of course, after actually seeing what Blue Diamond looked like this theory was proved to be false.
People may have just jumped to the conclusion that because Lapis was blue and powerful,
that she could be a diamond that was secretly hiding from Homeworld and someone got stuck in a mirror.
Since she was the only blue gem when knew of for a long time people thought this was a great way to
connect a know character and another character of mysterious origin.
Also I could go back to that line I reference time and time again where Lapis says to the CGs:
"Do you even wonder who I used to be?"
3. Jasper is a fusion.
What if Jasper was secretly a fusion?
Well first off it'd make her statement that fusion is a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger a lot more hypocritical.
Probably the most favorited version of this theory was that she was a forced fusion or a fusion experiment by Homeworld.
But either way, there are few pieces of evidence for this theory, all of which were later disproved by the case
either by the creators of the show or the show itself.
First we have Jasper's appearance, she's not only very large and powerful, but also has a colored iris and
a pupil, which was rarely seen on none fusion gems.
Also, looking at Malachite, she is absolutely huge
making it seem strange that two normal gems could make something THAT big!
I never really believed in this theory too much, tho it would have been quite interesting if this was the truth.
2. Rose is blind.
This is a theory that goes way back and was one that I thought may have been true until proven false in Lion 3: Straight to Video,
and up until that episode we had never seen Rose with her eyes open.
If you do not believe me, just look at all of Rose's appearances before Lion 3.
Her eyes are always closed, even in the picture of her and Greg together.
The only small exception to this theory was in the mural in Serious Steven, but some thought she only opened her eyes to attack.
I think it would've been very interesting to make Rose blind, since it's common for blind people to be the ones to see the beauty in everything.
For Rose this would mean to see the beauty in the Earth and in Greg, who many people did not like until he was seen more in the series.
Of course everyone was proven wrong, but this theory was close to being the best in my opinion
because it had a good amount of evidence, and would have been interesting to become true.
HM: Onion is Yellow Diamond.
So nobody really believed this one in the first place and it was almost always a joke theory
but up until seeing YD in the extended intro, people were wondering about this character a lot.
And suspect number 1 for most was Onion.
After all he talks in a strange language only a few can understands, attacked the Crystal Gems, and looks pretty strange compared to the other human characters.
I don't think this was ever taken seriously but honestly I don't know how I would feel if this was true.
1. Garnet is not a fusion.
This was almost obviously number 1 because this theory had a good portion of the fandom split on which one was the case.
Although Garnet being a fusion had always had a lot more evidence than for her not being one,
there were some doubts that this could be a possibility.
Most of the evidence against Garnet being a fusion were due to not know much about fusions at the time.
For example we didn't know if a fusions could fuse and if their weapons had to be a combonation of the weapons of the gems that made up the fusion.
People were also wondering why Garnet had never split up before if she was a fusion,
she had gotten quite emotional before, and some believed that this should have been enough to split them apart.
I actually did make a theory video on this one back when my channel started so this is quite a throw back.
I was on the Garnet is a fusion side, since it had more evidence.
Of course some people now would say the answer is obvious, but that is of course after seeing Jail Break.
Before that epsiode Steven Universe was almost a totally different show.
So that is the list I have! Tell me if I have missed any of your favorite theories proven false.
I plan to do a top 10 list of theories proven right soon
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