Steven Universe Season 1 Episode 23

Synopsis

Steven accidentally releases a monster from a gem bubble and tries to tame its wild, violent instincts.[2]


Conspiracy

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The gem stones and Steven are first shown combating the Ice Monster (corrupted Larimar) in a snowy mountain trying to retrieve a effective artifact known as the shooting celebrity. The grenade slams Larimar into the wall, inflicting the ice ceiling to begin to disintegrate. Rocks start falling on Amethyst and Garnet bubbles Steven (over Pearl's objection) warping back into the Temple. He breaks out of the bubble and by chance bursts the bubble containing Nephrite's gem as nicely.


Nephrite is small in length and scared, so Steven attempts to tell Nephrite to loosen up. however, the Crystal gemstones return and notice Nephrite out. Believing her to be a chance, Garnet is ready to hang around her, however Steven tells them that she did not hurt him in any respect and that he'll try to train Nephrite. Garnet allows it, even though Pearl still thinks she's risky. Garnet tells Steven that she thinks she will tame Nephrite.


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On the beach, the gemstones chained Nephrite to a rock and summoned their guns in case she did any damage. however, Steven needs the gems to position down their weapons and go inside the residence. Pearl objects, however Garnet insists that Steven can do it.


Once inside, Nephrite breaks free of the chains. Steven starts offevolved looking to calm Nephrite down by means of feeding her Chaaaaps brand potato chips. This works nicely till a seagull flies down and bites Steven's hand, trying to devour the fries from it. Nephrite spits acid on the seagull to defend Steven, causing the seagull to fly away in worry.


Steven rushes over to the residence eager to expose off the gemstones Nephrite's new "trick". every time Steven squawks like a seagull, Nephrite spits out a circulate of acid. One movement nearly hits Garnet, some other melts a photograph of Pearl from the refrigerator, and some other knocks a sandwich out of Amethyst's hand and melts it, a great deal to her horror. Steven indicates that Nephrite ought to help them on missions, however Pearl straight away dismisses the idea. but, Garnet thinks that the creature's acidic venom might be the best manner to preserve thru the ice cave without inflicting the caves.


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The gems and Steven in the end make it through the cave to the room containing the capturing famous person. Pearl explains that taking pictures star is too warm to the touch with naked pores and skin and that Garnet should use her gloves. Garnet summons her gauntlets and the sight of them reasons Nephrite to freak out and spew acid everywhere in the ceiling, inflicting big quantities of ice and rock to fall. Pearl says that she knew it become a awful idea to convey the creature and he hits her hard towards the wall with his spear, accidentally inflicting a huge stalactite to launch from the ceiling.


Garnet and Amethyst hold to assault Nephrite at the same time as Steven tries to convince them to stop. Amethyst accidentally pulls Nephrite right into herself, Garnet, and Pearl, knocking all 3 down. As Nephrite is set to assault them, Steven strategies her crying and asking her to prevent. He tells her that she doesn't want to combat or be a monster anymore, then hugs Nephrite and comforts her.


A stalactite breaks from the ceiling and falls immediately on Steven, however Nephrite pushes it out of the way and sacrifices herself to store Steven. Garnet comforts Steven, telling him that he did a terrific job elevating Nephrite and that his mother would be pleased with him. She explains that Rose Quartz as soon as used her powers to try to cure the monsters, however become unable to do so.


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Steven starts to feel discouraged, however Pearl tells him that perhaps sooner or later, while he profits greater manipulate over his powers, he might be able to do matters that even his mom couldn't. a lot to anyone's wonder, Steven bubbles up the gem for the primary time and vows to at some point absolutely heal Nephrite. He consists of the gem back to the temple along side a bag of "Chaaaaps" tokens, and the episode ends with  star-shaped irises final in on bubbles containing the gem and "Chaaaaps".


Info

This episode marks Larimar's first look.

For the primary time, all gems appear to have exclusive colored bubbles when popping a gem or object.

Like Pearl inside the episode "Steven the Sword Fighter", Nephrite goes thru many past forms at the same time as regenerating, inclusive of a humanoid, a huge centipede-like form seen within the episode "Gem Glow", and a much smaller centipede form used for most of this episode . this will be a reference while Pearl talks approximately how the monsters have been broken by the gems.

At one point in Nephrite's awakening, you can see a humanoid discern emerge before transforming right into a Centipede, proof that she become once a gem (before it became discovered in "Ocean Gem" that the gems were once regular gems).

At the stop of the episode, the Larimar gem can be visible within the Burning Room while Steven bubbles the Nephrite gem.

The interdimensional door main to the Burning Room is in short proven to be about a nook from the floor of the room and is located on a ledge around the brink of the room.

The road "No, mi cake!" Amethyst speaks Spanish for "No, my sandwich!" Tortas are a selected kind of sandwich popular in Mexico.

The road "close down the G-Squad!" the spoken Amethyst might be an early reference to Garnet being fusion.

Continuity

Nephrite (centipede mom) from "Gem Glow" returns and makes her 2nd appearance in this episode.

The Burning Room is featured for the second time for the reason that episode "collectively Breakfast".

Pearl explains in "Ocean Gem" that the gemstones they combat have been the same as them, and in this episode we can see that when Nephrite regenerates, a humanoid figure seems.

Nephrite's uncorrupted shape is shown in "Legs From right here to Homeworld".

Larimar later returns in "exchange Your mind", now being cured of his corruption.


Mistakes

Whilst Larimar is crumbling, her gem seems to be floating in mid-air. further, it movements to the proper whilst Larimar poofs, then falls to the ground.Monster pals 013

Larimar's gem floating in mid-air in preference to falling.

While Steven arrives on the Burning Room the bubble of Nephrite isn't there.

Garnet's gauntlets are shown wet even though she by no means put her fingers within the liquid containing the shooting famous person.

Whilst Amethyst uses her whip to assault Nephrite, she pulls it into herself, Pearl and Garnet ensuing in all of them touchdown on their bottoms. Amethyst lands at the proper of Garnet, and Pearl is on the other aspect, but whilst the scene adjustments, they have got switched sides and Amethyst is upside-down. Nephrite has also moved in addition away.

While Steven embraces Nephrite, he is hugging her head, but when the camera adjustments he's visible hugging her mane.

In a scene in which Nephrite enters the residence with Steven, the gems' room door with the big name may be seen with out gemstones.

The credit misspell Nephrite's corrupted call as "Centipeedle".

Upon being released from his bubble inside the burning room, Steven lays his arms on pinnacle of the flowing lava on the floor with out his hand burning. 

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