Warning: This article contains spoilers fromSteven Universe The Movie.
Her name is Spinel and shes a combination of many things.
For series creator Rebecca Sugar, Spinel is far more complex.
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As an animator, I have a really complicated relationship with old cartoons, she tells EW.
In that context, Spinel is like a character from this lost era of animation.
She knows that and it hurts her, Sugar explains.
It turns her in on herself more.
I want to put it on display.
I dont want to shy away from the absurdity of that.
I have felt the awfulness of it and the frustration of it.
At first, the web link wasnt sure if Spinel should be in the movie at all.
Sugar can only describe this process as intense.
After all,Steven Universe, at the end of the day, is a kids program.
They went, Oh!
Its funny,' she recalls of the pitch meeting.
And I was like, Yeah, the show is funny.
The Gems are funny, this character [Spinel] is funny.
Thats really a huge part of what we were excited about.
We havent been waiting to make a not funny story.
I want to heighten everything.
If its going to be more funny, it should be more tragic.
Everything should be more cartoony.
Without an officially announced season 6, its unclear what the future holds forSteven Universe.
Only Sugar and Garnet know that.
But the key all comes back to the movie.
Pieces of the movies story were initially planned for the show.
When the writers finally got the green light forSteven Universe The Movie, plans tweaked.
And thats about all I can say about any of that.
