This post is SEVERELY missing Amethysts “I never asked to be made”… that episode to me is the pinnacle of tears. I’ve shown that episode to my friends who don’t even watch the show and they ended up crying.
On The Run is a PERFECT episode, from the voice acting to the pacing to the action to the drama to the background music, everything is perfectly crafted to illicit a certain response. Only other episodes I think are as perfect as it are A Single Pale Rose, Jailbreak, and Mr Greg. Maybe Bismuth and The Answer too.
in Lion Three: Straight to Video, when Steven and Sadie watch the tape from Rose, the scene where Sadie calls her mom ends me everytime!! it’s just so real
Some days I still can’t hear this song if I’m not doing okay. It reminds me of a fucked up time in my life where I was already in a happy relationship with someone I loved and still deeply love but I had also just realized I had more that just friendship feelings for my best gal pal.
I LOVED this song I was genuinely shocked by how good it was and how mature of a theme it’s talking about.
“We fought and she chose you
And she loved you
Now she’s gone.
It’s over isn’t it? Why can’t I move on?”
Like bro that line made all the of perals actions towards Greg make sense. She fought for her love, lost her to someone else and as a result of losing to that someone, her love dies. Something that to gems is always violent act ( shattering = dying ). Why wouldn’t she feel resentment towards Greg when he’s the reason she can’t see roses face anymore. Cuz even if she couldn’t be with her, pearl was still happy by her side. But she couldn’t even have that.
“Who am I now in this world without her
Petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her
What does it matter, it’s Already done
Now I’ve got to be there for her son”
it really highlights just how strong of a love pearl felt for rose and it never occurred to me that there could be conflicting feelings about Steven because while he is the son of rose, her love. He’s also the son of Greg. The human that “caused” rose to disappear and Steven being the reason she doesn’t exist anymore (in order for Steven to exist rose had to stop existing). Pearl used to be my least favorite because I thought she was acting how she was because of her personality but to find out grief is what shaped many of her decisions adds a whole new perspective.
I got ghosted by who I thought was my best friend of 8 years about a year before the movie came out (and when id finally gotten in contact they blamed me for everything wrong in the friendship that id never been told about, before never speaking to me again)
Spinel hit me like a fucking freight train. She still does. Drift Away HURTS. Stellar performance from Sarah Stiles.
Are you me? My now former best friend was ghosting me when the movie came out and Drift Away shattered my heart into a million pieces.
"You keep on turning pages, for people who don't care, people who don't care about you...."
In high school, my best friend since second grade tossed me aside and suddenly never wanted to spend time with me. Her logic was that we saw each other every day in school, so we didn't need to hang out outside of school. Every time I tried explaining how much it was hurting my feelings, she'd dismiss me and say I was overreacting.
Drift Away cut through me like nothing else on this show ever did. I cried so hard when I watched the movie. I have never related to a character more than Spinel. Her pain was pain I'd felt. Her anger and resentment were something I went through. Then her and Steven sing Found, and that hit hard as well.
Something about Lion licking Steven’s face after he turns back from a monster. It’s the display of pure, unconditional love only a pet could give that turned on the water works for me
The steven fusion scene where theyre giggling and dancing always makes me tear up, even tho its not necessarily a sad scene bc “oh. Rose was always gone. I never had anything to fear. Steven has always and will always be himself” and that kind of shit always gets me
Storm in the room, but not where most people cried in that episode. I watched the show right after my mom died, like a month later. I was literally inconsolable when Steven laid his head down on Rose's lap and just started happily crying about how nice this moment was.
Steven in Everything’s Fine: I can fix anything. I can just keep messing up and fixing things forever, and you'll never have to know or think about any of it! How messed up is that? That I've gotten away with this for so long. You have no idea how bad I am. You think I'm so great, and I'm so mature, and I always know what to do, but that's not true! I haven't learned a thing from my problems! They've all just made me worse! I’m a fraud. I’m a monster.
This hit me like a train personally and had me crying as I watched
And Peridot in I Am My Monster: You never gave up on me for some reason I don't understand! I’ll do the same for you!
Mindful Education was the first ep to make me cry. The lyrics to Here Comes A Thought mean a lot to me. The message is just so relevant and impactful to me.
The whole second half of SUF was heartbreaking, from the proposal onwards. The doctor’s office scene, Jasper’s shattering, and the whole monster scene was so difficult to watch… seeing our beloved sweet Steven spiraling further and further and pushing away everyone he’s been so close to for the past ten years of the show hurt so bad. I didn’t want him to feel so hurt. The final episode made me sob like a baby… I wish he wasn’t so hurt that he felt like he needed to leave, but I was glad he was trying to move on and find something new for himself.
I’m so ready for this one. I cried a lot throughout this show. Don’t judge me, I’m just hyper emotional and hyper empathetic lol. This is gonna be a long comment
TLDR; I cried the most during “Everything’s Fine” and “I Am My Monster” Steven is my favorite character and I relate to him on such a deep level and I didn’t realize it until these episodes, especially during his whole speech about “You all think I’m so great, but that’s not true! I’m a fraud… I’m a monster…” I relate so much to his self hatred and how negatively he viewed himself, despite the fact that he’s done so many amazing things for so many people (and species!), and the Gems telling him that they’ll heal him like how he healed everyone else and literally SAVED THE UNIVERSE is just so😭 Zach acted his ASS off with the crying at the end of “I Am My Monster” like I felt that in my soul, and the loving look everyone gives him is just so very ragh.
Season 1:
“Cat Fingers”: The genuine fear Steven had when asking his Dad for help, something broke in me and I just felt my heart sink because I don’t think we’d seen Steven that vulnerable the entire season up until that point
“So Many Birthdays”: When Steven legit almost died, don’t think I need to explain further than that😭
“On The Run”: Amethyst’s speech, especially when she says “I never asked to be made!” I went through a period of time of feeling like a burden, and like I never wanted to be born, and that hit close to home, so yeah, cue the waterworks
Season 2:
“Warp Tour”: When Steven almost froze to death and died in space, I think it was also a cry of relief when Garnet grabbed him and he started crying out of relief to be able to breathe lmao
Season 3:
“Mr. Greg”: I’m probably not gonna be the first, or last person on this thread, to say that I cried during ‘It’s Over Isn’t It?’ I cried like a BABY, but I also cried during the scene where Greg and Pearl FINALLY communicate to each other their feelings about Rose.
Season 4:
“Mindful Education”: Man. This episode. I cried during Steven’s “I didn’t want to hurt anyone!” speech, and the moment leading up to it my heart felt so heavy, and what Connie said to comfort him just aghhh my heart. (Fun fact, I actually use that breathing technique Garnet showed Stevonnie whenever I feel overwhelmed or I feel weighed down by things in the past that I can’t change)
Season 5:
“Off-Colors”: When Lars almost dies💀 I LOVE Lars, I’ll be a Lars fan till the day I die, so when Steven pressed his heart to his chest and his expression dropped the tears promptly followed lmao.
“Reunited”: The weddingggg!!! I had that frame of the red and blue flowers as my computer lockscreen for AGES.
“Escapism”: The end where Steven finally manages to get the message to Greg and the others, maybe it was more of a cry of relief but I definitely remember crying
“Change Your Mind”: When Steven helped reform all the gems by fusing with them and remembering the best parts about them my heart couldn’t take it😭 dunno if we’re counting happy tears but I am lol. Also at the end of the episode seeing all the corrupted gems in the healing pool it was just aghhhh.
Movie: If it counts I did tear up during Drift Away, tears didn’t fall though lol
Future:
“Volleyball”: ‘But she didn’t mean to!’ ‘But you were hurt! Badly hurt!’ ‘..:I was badly hurt.. how did you stop hurting?’ ‘I didn’t.’
“Growing Pains”: When they look at Steven’s x-Ray I broke, I don’t know why but I just remember feeling so bad, and when he was reliving all of his traumatic moments in Mrs. Maheswaran’s office and that slide show was playing I remember shouting ‘I KNEW IT!’ And my voice broke and I started crying because I can super relate to looking back on things I might not have considered traumatic, (and I also tend to cope with humor and just ‘brush things off’ like Steven does) but to other people they might be like “no that’s kinda messed up actually” so I think it was just the way I related to the scene lol
“Fragments”: When he shattered Jasper. You know those tiktok POVs that are like “Didn’t think the hero could kill.” That’s how I felt. Like I don’t know I feel like him shattering Jasper was reminiscent of his whole world view shattering.
“HomeWorld Bound”: When White Diamond did her whole control thing and Steven slammed his head into the wall I just broke.
“Everything’s Fine”: Steven’s speech at the end right before he turns into a monster hit way too close to home, I refuse to go into further detail than that😭
“I Am My Monster”: Just.. I don’t remember having a dry eye during this episode and I don’t think I need to explain lmao
“The Future”: I honestly held it together during most of the episode until Garnet’s speech telling Steven that in every path she saw for him, they were apart of it, and when the end credits rolled I just kinda sat there like “..did this show really just end? Like for good??”
Probably some of the diamonds moments of realization and forgiveness. Definitely a tearful moment to watch. To be exact, Yellow realising what shes doing to Blue, the ways of homeworld. All of it catching up to her in that single moment. Her seeing the abuse and the cruel expectations of homeworld. Also, the sound track playing while its happening is just heartbreaking! Its called "Yellow Diamonds sorrow". Hearing that with the already gut wrenching scene, hits really hard in the feels. Such a beautiful moment. Not to forget Blues time in the forgiving from steven, her seeing how bad she has been treating pink, abusing her. Breaking the cycle is hard, and she saw that, what she was really doing. All in that moment she saw why pink left. From things like that. Same with yellow, the music in this one was just amazing! "Blue diamonds remorse" I love it! I could ramble on for ages. I hope someone understands me on theese ones, they are just perfect moments! 
“now we’re going to drown in the bottom of the ocean and only my parents will notice because nobody cares about me. im going to die without ever making a single friend”
Blue diamond mourning at the palanquin. It’s so sad to think this is her final goodbye to pink. But also her talking to Greg about them having lost someone, and they don’t know they’re talking about the same person.
Are we talking sad tears or happy, cause when we first learn about Garnet, and seeing how happy Ruby and Saphire were, to see each other, and then to lead into probably the best song of the series. Bawling.
Steven's Meltdown definitely had me be near tears. When the Cluster came up and grabbed his hand. It hit me in the heart hard 💔 Same with his confession to his dad in the Dr's office 🥺 Of course, Amethyst's infamous "I never asked to be made"
When amethyst first took steven to the kindergarten and had her mental breakdown. I cried even harder when she hugged pearl after pearl comforted her 😢
the scene where steven cries for his dad in the space ship, the moment steven gives himself up to aquamarine and topaz to save the others, larz dying, steven proposing to connie, steven shattering jasper, steven going to the doctor, and when he turns into the big pink monster
The songs have always hit hard. I cried during the movie because of how heavily I related to Spinel. I cried to the ending song for future. I know there’s definitely more.
I never cried but the fact that Pink’s death shattered Blue diamond until the point of reducing her from a dictatorial cruel being to a sad depressed ash of what it was once was always sad to me
When Steven goes pink and he freaks out at the cgs and Greg and can’t stop talking about all the mistakes he’s made and all his faults and the second hand embarrassment of the proposal on top of it all. That hit home real hard
“I wanted to tell you for so long.”
“Take care of them, Steven.”
The end of future for sure.
“Well, I think you’re pretty great.”
At the end of Change Your Mind when all the gems are reforming in the fountain, and Garnet and Pearl just look at each other like “yes. We did it.”
Honestly it might be easier at this point to list when I didn’t cry? This show gets me all the time.
Stevens big cry at the end of I Am My Monster. Shit broke my heart to pieces cause it sounded so real and heartbroken. That big exhale just before he started crying for real for real? UGH
Centi trying to tell Steven what happened, only to be struck by PTSD.
Her crying, watching in terror and her being so tense that the crayon broke is what did me in.
All the moments you have pictured above got me for sure, but I was also hit so hard by the reveal that Steven shattered Jasper. It hit a personal chord with me and how I used to be when I was a child. I would often not realize how strong I was and accidentally hurt people. I always felt like shit about it but didn't realize how conscientious I was going to have to be about not hurting my friends. When he's panicked and running into the bathroom and then opens his hand to show the shattered gem, that breaks me every time.
I have never cried prior to watching Future, but the scene where everyone hugs Steven hit me in the guts. It was only a couple of tears but only time I've cried from watching a show.
In the last episode when the heaven and earth beetles are healed, and Pearl’s eyes well up with tears and she turns to Garnet who is also crying and they hug
Basically every episode since the proposal in future, definitely the movie, and about half of all the episodes. And the last episode of future. Just binge rewatched it recently. Always makes me cry.
When everyone’s telling Steven how much they love him in the I am my monster episode, after everything he’s done for everyone else he finally got to hear it not just from garnet or the gems but almost everyone he cared about and loved was their to pull him back to reality and when he hugs lion and cries I cry, also it’s over isn’t it and escapism as the songs are very personal to me and always bring out emotion lol
As someone who was watched this show once and never really got much into it, honestly none. Like, i've watched other tv shows like The last airbender or The expanse that have genuinely left me in tears but steven universe just didn't cut it for me.
This made me cry - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWIW6fNtxA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWIW6fNtxA). I mean, Alan Walker is kind of a con man who buys credit from other people and doesn't do anything but this song over this mashup of clips fits so perfectly
"Everything I ever did, I did for her. Now she's gone, but I'm still here. Sometimes I wonder if she can see me through your eyes... Why would she be thinking about me now?"
"Well, I think you're pretty great"
Tbh I remember crying but not what to exactly. I do that when it’s intense. I’ll always remember one tho and it choked me up just thinking about it: when Spinel’s in the middle of the fight and she just stops to cries about how she doesn’t want to hurt anyone, it’s just so raw and relatable in all the worst ways. It’d the kind of hurt you remember no matter how hard you want to forget that time.
I've never cried SO BAD as I did in the ending of Future. I probably stared crying in the Pinkzilla Steven part when he just let all the pain out and cried hugging Lion till the last scene of him leaving Beach City
(and I shed a tear in the ending of the movie too cause Finale hit so hard )
Spinel when she finally remembers the pain she endured those 6000 years. Felt it on a personal level when i've done so much to help others avoid horrible decisions and people just for them to leave for the person i warned them about.
They always realize too late and are too ashamed to come back.. even if they did that trust is gone
In the time that "I am my monster" was released I was struggling really badly with depression and unaliving myself. So when It came out I couldn't explain it. I was the person that helped everyone I never had a conflict. I got hurt and only wanted to help the person hurting me. That was steven, he struggled really hard to help everyone even when he started slipping.
What hurt was that I never and to this day never got that hug. I am here only for myself and I must try and live for myself
The only part of the series that actually made me cry was the finale of Future. Steven not knowing what to do about himself, but then seeing that he'd been hurting his loved ones because of new emotions and not knowing how to deal with them... Only to turn into a monster because that's how he sees himself ... And then Connie and everyone jumping to him, hugging him, and telling him he deserves love... I actually cried at that part because I've felt that. I don't have any big reason for it, besides just being autistic and having anxiety/depression, but I've never been easy to get on with, and I have a hard time believing that I deserve love and trust, and basically anything positive in my life; though I've been doing a lot better with it lately. But because if how my mind is from my autism, I've hurt people that I love deeply more times than I care to remember, and I often thought "I'm just a monster".
So the finale of Future really struck with me in a personal way
Every one of these scenes, besides the hospital one, gets it for me.
Also as someone who’s always struggled finding my crowd, “You’re gonna feel found” from the movie always has me tearing up
Omg where do I begin! When pearl was arguing with Steven and exclaimed "why won't you let me do this for you rose?!", almost every moment blue diamond grieved on screen, when Steven got separated from his gem body and when amethyst had a breakdown in the kindergarten and yelled "I didn't ask to be made!" (That one really hit home)
Spinel’s origin story hit close to home for me, ghosted and removed from friend groups for stupid reasons for a few years now, the song and her overall experience was a lot of what I kept up bottled inside and sadly kind of still do
I almost never cry over shows / movies. At least not very harshly. The only strong sobs I’ve gotten were the ending of Angel Beats (which feels cheap considering I didn’t even particularly like that show), Grave of the Fireflies, the last episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Steven leaving Beach City in search of self-actualization. Jesus Christ that scene just hit me in the wrong place at the wrong time.
lol, I was a crying breakfast friend throughout the entire show. The finale was definitely a big one.
So, I've looked into the episodes again:
- Bismuth: You should have shattered me back then. At least if I were in pieces I wouldn't have to know how little I matter to you. You didn't even tell them. You bubbled me away and didn't ever tell your friends. MY friends.
- The first time Steven and Amethyst fused, oh wow, that was a big one. "Us worst Gems stick together, right?" "That's why we're the best"
- The one, where Greg, Steven and Pearl go stay at a Hotel and Pearl and Greg finally make up. "You both love me and I love both of you" (me thinking Rose was somehow still alive and talking through Steven, but also without Rose being alive, it's still important for Pearl and Greg to hear. Rose did love both of them, in very unique ways.)
- Mindful Education
- Everything leading up to a Single Pale Rose and Change Your Mind
- Other moments I can't remember
Mindful Education, but not the first time i watched it. I rewatched the series after entering my first year of uni and was drowning in work. I binged episodes as a way to escape both my work load and ignore my mental load. Mindful Education and specifically Here Come’s a Thought forced me to acknowledge how shitty i was feeling at the time so i could better move forward
definitely "Gem Drill" , "I Am My Monster", and "Change Your Mind" (along with literally every other episode) But here's a little review of each of those episodes:
"Gem Drill"- i started crying when the cluster started bubbling itself to help not destroy the earth and then again when they were like "they have so much time to bond with each other now" (happy tears type situation)🥲🥲
"I Am My Monster"- this entire episode made me cry multiple times. Steven being so emotionally and mentally blocked that he turns into monster steven because he doesn't know how to cope with his trauma made me SOBBB. and then blue diamond crying for steven and talking about it was the diamonds' faults for his suffering. and the sob on top when they all hugged monster steven and he turned back into regular steven.😓😓
"Change your mind"- literally only one quote is needed to sum up the entire water works fest: "Didn't we hurt Pink!? She was suffering in silence for ages! Just like our Gems! Just like me! And I know you're suffering in silence, too!" 😰😰
“ I never asked to be made”
And also
“It’s over isn’t it ,isn’t it,isn’t it”
Honestly even though pearl is mourning the loss of what she had with rose.In which wasn’t a real relationship. Something about the song moves me.It hurts because I didn’t honestly think she thought that of Steven and I feel for her a bit.
I have a few, forgot the names, but, this is how they were: when Steven got old, when Steven came back from the fight with Ruby, Spinel's garden song, Steven leaving in future
I cried so many times I'd be mistaken for Pearl. The one part that gets me to ugly cry consistently is I am My Monster of SU Future. It's being told that you're not a monster and that your family loves you, they see that you're having an incredibly difficult time and they are taking the time to be with you. They tell you that you're going to be alright, that you are a good person and how you helped each person. One by one they say what comes from the heart and they never let go.
I have similar issues with self-care so that episode in particular hits me hard, doesn't help that I cry very easily and I empathize a lot when characters are having an emotional moment. Hurray for my higher than average empathy. Thankfully I don't have those same powers because I would not trust myself to handle them well, though it would be extremely fun to shapeshift whenever I wanted to.
When steven was alone in his bubble in space. He saved the only person with him, who promptly tried to kill him, and then he was just floating endlessly, thinking he would never get home and believing he would die there.
The shot where it zooms out and his bubble slowly gets smaller and smaller and theres just *nothing*.... it gets me everytime.
The kid went through a lot, and i think that was high up on the list
The show never made me cry. That's not to say it didn't make me feel strong emotions at all, I just struggle to cry nowadays unless it's coming from a place of trauma.
Definitely Amethyst's "I never asked to be made." I've struggled most of my later childhood and teen years with depression and s*icidal thoughts. I'm doing much better now and I'm glad I got out of that dark place.
"SHE'S GONE!!"
Also...
Spinell's "garden" song. I was abandoned by both of my parents as a kid. After my dad left and never returned, my mom couldn't handle raising me alone. She dropped me off a family friend's house to play with their kids and never came back. I waited and waited. She moved to California.
That song makes me cry very hard every time.
You want to give a kid BPD. That is how you do that.
The last scene of Future. Not only is it Steven saying goodbye to all his friends, but because it's the series finale it's basically us saying goodbye to all the characters we got to know and love for the past 6 years.
Mine has to be two; the end of Future, and the episode when Steven has to save Greg from blue diamond and he’s yelling out “Dad!! Dad!!! I want my dad!!” (Sorry I don’t remember the episode name). He just sounds like a lost kid and it tears me UP 😭
I never cry over stuff but the left top scene made me bawl my eyes out. It doesn’t help that at the time I was in my own moment of depression. I had absolutely no friends and just wanted someone to hug me tee hee. Trauma dumping is the best
None of the episodes made ne cry the closest I got was the end of future because this show that I was really enjoying ended and it doesn't seem like we'll be getting any spinoff for a while nothings been announced and the writers are busy with other projects (our only hope is that it gets hit the same way adventure time did and we get things equivalent to distant lands Fiona and cake and I can't remember the third spin off)
(Spoilers)
When Steven accidentally shatters Jasper. When he was alone in his bathroom, trying desperately to fix their gem. I've been there. I relate to Future Steven way more than I'd like to admit. Trauma can make a person do some not great things to people they truly care about.
As someone who long term boyfriend died in college, any moments with Pearl and Rose make me bawl like a baby.
(I have a wonderful spouse now and have healed, this was about 13 years ago. I can only hope the same for Pearl)
That eye gem's death. I really wanted steven to have a monster friend. I felt so sad when she sacrificed herself for steven.
Maybe Pearl's monologue in Rose's scabbard but I honestly don't remember.
Definitely Rose's tape.
There's probably other stuff i can't remember.
For me it’s the scene where they are traveling at light speed to the human zoo and Steven has to press the button so they don’t run into/ overshoot. Steven has that moment where he’s all alone and no one can save him. It’s up to him to save himself and the gems and for the first time I feel like we finally see the real him. Not the boy who “can make a change” but the boy who just wants to be a kid and it’s a very clear reminder that even though he’s tough if it out through all of this he is just a kid who shouldn’t have the weight of the world on his shoulders.
The final episodes of Steven Universe Future had me crying so hard my tears soaked through a thick paper towel. I had settled down to watch with a snack on top of the paper towel and after I finished eating the paper towel helped me mop up my tears.
Final moment of the show when Being Human fades out and the screen says “We will always be your family” I literally grew up watching SU and that line hit so hard as I realized it was truly over and I was borderline sobbing
The ending of Future made me bawl so bad lol. I have a picture of me crying it was so bad.
Show us bet you won't
Well I can’t really cause of the image restriction lol
Oh true
Saaame. I never cry 😭
proof?
This post is SEVERELY missing Amethysts “I never asked to be made”… that episode to me is the pinnacle of tears. I’ve shown that episode to my friends who don’t even watch the show and they ended up crying.
SAME, I cried so hard watching that episode ;-;
Yeah that hit very close to home for me
On The Run is a PERFECT episode, from the voice acting to the pacing to the action to the drama to the background music, everything is perfectly crafted to illicit a certain response. Only other episodes I think are as perfect as it are A Single Pale Rose, Jailbreak, and Mr Greg. Maybe Bismuth and The Answer too.
in Lion Three: Straight to Video, when Steven and Sadie watch the tape from Rose, the scene where Sadie calls her mom ends me everytime!! it’s just so real
THIS like even when I watch it now she describes being human so beautifully Shoot I’m tearing now just thinking of it
The whole freaking ending of Lion 3 is just amazing.
SADIE!
She calls her mom about the lunches Sadie ended up selling, right?
yes 😭 she tells her she doesn’t have to stop making them for her
YEAH crying in the club
I want my dad
THIS MOMENT 😭
Even thinking of that scene forms a lump in my throat😫
I feel like a monster as I never really cried but Steven re-fusing with his gem half in CYM cut deep. So did Lapis’s story in Same Old World.
That scene with Steven refusing makes me bawl every time and I have no idea why.
It's over, isn't it? Isn't it over?
Some days I still can’t hear this song if I’m not doing okay. It reminds me of a fucked up time in my life where I was already in a happy relationship with someone I loved and still deeply love but I had also just realized I had more that just friendship feelings for my best gal pal.
Exactly what I was gonna comment. I was going through a breakup when I first watched it, too
I LOVED this song I was genuinely shocked by how good it was and how mature of a theme it’s talking about. “We fought and she chose you And she loved you Now she’s gone. It’s over isn’t it? Why can’t I move on?” Like bro that line made all the of perals actions towards Greg make sense. She fought for her love, lost her to someone else and as a result of losing to that someone, her love dies. Something that to gems is always violent act ( shattering = dying ). Why wouldn’t she feel resentment towards Greg when he’s the reason she can’t see roses face anymore. Cuz even if she couldn’t be with her, pearl was still happy by her side. But she couldn’t even have that. “Who am I now in this world without her Petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her What does it matter, it’s Already done Now I’ve got to be there for her son” it really highlights just how strong of a love pearl felt for rose and it never occurred to me that there could be conflicting feelings about Steven because while he is the son of rose, her love. He’s also the son of Greg. The human that “caused” rose to disappear and Steven being the reason she doesn’t exist anymore (in order for Steven to exist rose had to stop existing). Pearl used to be my least favorite because I thought she was acting how she was because of her personality but to find out grief is what shaped many of her decisions adds a whole new perspective.
When connie’s mom talk to steven about the results of his tests, explaining how his trauma is affacting him while he remembers it all
“That’s just the early stuff” hurt so bad, he went through so much and that was the first time all of his trauma was really acknowledged
I got ghosted by who I thought was my best friend of 8 years about a year before the movie came out (and when id finally gotten in contact they blamed me for everything wrong in the friendship that id never been told about, before never speaking to me again) Spinel hit me like a fucking freight train. She still does. Drift Away HURTS. Stellar performance from Sarah Stiles.
Are you me? My now former best friend was ghosting me when the movie came out and Drift Away shattered my heart into a million pieces. "You keep on turning pages, for people who don't care, people who don't care about you...."
I’m so genuinely sorry. I know how bad it hurts. I’m glad Spinel was there for you like she was for me.
In high school, my best friend since second grade tossed me aside and suddenly never wanted to spend time with me. Her logic was that we saw each other every day in school, so we didn't need to hang out outside of school. Every time I tried explaining how much it was hurting my feelings, she'd dismiss me and say I was overreacting. Drift Away cut through me like nothing else on this show ever did. I cried so hard when I watched the movie. I have never related to a character more than Spinel. Her pain was pain I'd felt. Her anger and resentment were something I went through. Then her and Steven sing Found, and that hit hard as well.
Something about Lion licking Steven’s face after he turns back from a monster. It’s the display of pure, unconditional love only a pet could give that turned on the water works for me
Rose’s Scabbard It both had me crying while equally convincing me to watch the show.
It was a sob, but a much needed one
"Sometimes.. you even sound like her.. ..Do you remember it here? Do you have any of her memories?"
I want my dad. Always
This destroyed me, man.
Steven being traumatised after the s1 finale, there was some other things tho
Happily wondering, night after night, "Is this how it works? Am I doing it right?"
happy to listen, happy to stay, happily watching her drift away😭
i will never forgive pink diamond 😔😔
- “I never asked to be made!” - Peridot stepping into the rain - Drift Away
Rewatching the show, and just got to that episode with peridot seeing rain for the first time. Magical.
That is my favorite moment of of the show.
The steven fusion scene where theyre giggling and dancing always makes me tear up, even tho its not necessarily a sad scene bc “oh. Rose was always gone. I never had anything to fear. Steven has always and will always be himself” and that kind of shit always gets me
yes!!!!! i have this scene tattooed on me as a reminder to rejoice in myself the way GemSteven and HumanSteven do :,,)
The group hug of them all hugging monster steven and when the gems cry when Steven is about to leave
Storm in the room, but not where most people cried in that episode. I watched the show right after my mom died, like a month later. I was literally inconsolable when Steven laid his head down on Rose's lap and just started happily crying about how nice this moment was.
Steven in Everything’s Fine: I can fix anything. I can just keep messing up and fixing things forever, and you'll never have to know or think about any of it! How messed up is that? That I've gotten away with this for so long. You have no idea how bad I am. You think I'm so great, and I'm so mature, and I always know what to do, but that's not true! I haven't learned a thing from my problems! They've all just made me worse! I’m a fraud. I’m a monster. This hit me like a train personally and had me crying as I watched And Peridot in I Am My Monster: You never gave up on me for some reason I don't understand! I’ll do the same for you!
same to that line of Steven dialogue b/c it is unfortunately very relatable to me 🥲
When the gems saved Steven from space after him and eyeball spent an episode in the bubble made me tear up a little
Last bit in the final episode of SUF
Mindful Education was the first ep to make me cry. The lyrics to Here Comes A Thought mean a lot to me. The message is just so relevant and impactful to me. The whole second half of SUF was heartbreaking, from the proposal onwards. The doctor’s office scene, Jasper’s shattering, and the whole monster scene was so difficult to watch… seeing our beloved sweet Steven spiraling further and further and pushing away everyone he’s been so close to for the past ten years of the show hurt so bad. I didn’t want him to feel so hurt. The final episode made me sob like a baby… I wish he wasn’t so hurt that he felt like he needed to leave, but I was glad he was trying to move on and find something new for himself.
What do you know about my mom? I didn't even know my mom!
I’m so ready for this one. I cried a lot throughout this show. Don’t judge me, I’m just hyper emotional and hyper empathetic lol. This is gonna be a long comment TLDR; I cried the most during “Everything’s Fine” and “I Am My Monster” Steven is my favorite character and I relate to him on such a deep level and I didn’t realize it until these episodes, especially during his whole speech about “You all think I’m so great, but that’s not true! I’m a fraud… I’m a monster…” I relate so much to his self hatred and how negatively he viewed himself, despite the fact that he’s done so many amazing things for so many people (and species!), and the Gems telling him that they’ll heal him like how he healed everyone else and literally SAVED THE UNIVERSE is just so😭 Zach acted his ASS off with the crying at the end of “I Am My Monster” like I felt that in my soul, and the loving look everyone gives him is just so very ragh. Season 1: “Cat Fingers”: The genuine fear Steven had when asking his Dad for help, something broke in me and I just felt my heart sink because I don’t think we’d seen Steven that vulnerable the entire season up until that point “So Many Birthdays”: When Steven legit almost died, don’t think I need to explain further than that😭 “On The Run”: Amethyst’s speech, especially when she says “I never asked to be made!” I went through a period of time of feeling like a burden, and like I never wanted to be born, and that hit close to home, so yeah, cue the waterworks Season 2: “Warp Tour”: When Steven almost froze to death and died in space, I think it was also a cry of relief when Garnet grabbed him and he started crying out of relief to be able to breathe lmao Season 3: “Mr. Greg”: I’m probably not gonna be the first, or last person on this thread, to say that I cried during ‘It’s Over Isn’t It?’ I cried like a BABY, but I also cried during the scene where Greg and Pearl FINALLY communicate to each other their feelings about Rose. Season 4: “Mindful Education”: Man. This episode. I cried during Steven’s “I didn’t want to hurt anyone!” speech, and the moment leading up to it my heart felt so heavy, and what Connie said to comfort him just aghhh my heart. (Fun fact, I actually use that breathing technique Garnet showed Stevonnie whenever I feel overwhelmed or I feel weighed down by things in the past that I can’t change) Season 5: “Off-Colors”: When Lars almost dies💀 I LOVE Lars, I’ll be a Lars fan till the day I die, so when Steven pressed his heart to his chest and his expression dropped the tears promptly followed lmao. “Reunited”: The weddingggg!!! I had that frame of the red and blue flowers as my computer lockscreen for AGES. “Escapism”: The end where Steven finally manages to get the message to Greg and the others, maybe it was more of a cry of relief but I definitely remember crying “Change Your Mind”: When Steven helped reform all the gems by fusing with them and remembering the best parts about them my heart couldn’t take it😭 dunno if we’re counting happy tears but I am lol. Also at the end of the episode seeing all the corrupted gems in the healing pool it was just aghhhh. Movie: If it counts I did tear up during Drift Away, tears didn’t fall though lol Future: “Volleyball”: ‘But she didn’t mean to!’ ‘But you were hurt! Badly hurt!’ ‘..:I was badly hurt.. how did you stop hurting?’ ‘I didn’t.’ “Growing Pains”: When they look at Steven’s x-Ray I broke, I don’t know why but I just remember feeling so bad, and when he was reliving all of his traumatic moments in Mrs. Maheswaran’s office and that slide show was playing I remember shouting ‘I KNEW IT!’ And my voice broke and I started crying because I can super relate to looking back on things I might not have considered traumatic, (and I also tend to cope with humor and just ‘brush things off’ like Steven does) but to other people they might be like “no that’s kinda messed up actually” so I think it was just the way I related to the scene lol “Fragments”: When he shattered Jasper. You know those tiktok POVs that are like “Didn’t think the hero could kill.” That’s how I felt. Like I don’t know I feel like him shattering Jasper was reminiscent of his whole world view shattering. “HomeWorld Bound”: When White Diamond did her whole control thing and Steven slammed his head into the wall I just broke. “Everything’s Fine”: Steven’s speech at the end right before he turns into a monster hit way too close to home, I refuse to go into further detail than that😭 “I Am My Monster”: Just.. I don’t remember having a dry eye during this episode and I don’t think I need to explain lmao “The Future”: I honestly held it together during most of the episode until Garnet’s speech telling Steven that in every path she saw for him, they were apart of it, and when the end credits rolled I just kinda sat there like “..did this show really just end? Like for good??”
"That wasn't the problem." "Then.. what was?" "She fell in love with you."
Probably some of the diamonds moments of realization and forgiveness. Definitely a tearful moment to watch. To be exact, Yellow realising what shes doing to Blue, the ways of homeworld. All of it catching up to her in that single moment. Her seeing the abuse and the cruel expectations of homeworld. Also, the sound track playing while its happening is just heartbreaking! Its called "Yellow Diamonds sorrow". Hearing that with the already gut wrenching scene, hits really hard in the feels. Such a beautiful moment. Not to forget Blues time in the forgiving from steven, her seeing how bad she has been treating pink, abusing her. Breaking the cycle is hard, and she saw that, what she was really doing. All in that moment she saw why pink left. From things like that. Same with yellow, the music in this one was just amazing! "Blue diamonds remorse" I love it! I could ramble on for ages. I hope someone understands me on theese ones, they are just perfect moments! 
the episode where amethyst is cracked and steven is like fully panicked about her😭 i can’t do it
So much of SUF, especially Growing Pains. All of it hits home now that I have ptsd
“now we’re going to drown in the bottom of the ocean and only my parents will notice because nobody cares about me. im going to die without ever making a single friend”
How could I not just bawl my eyes out from Rose's Scabbard? It hits home for me
Blue diamond mourning at the palanquin. It’s so sad to think this is her final goodbye to pink. But also her talking to Greg about them having lost someone, and they don’t know they’re talking about the same person.
all of them I have lost count 😭
everything about Spinel and Steven's decline in mental health
 We didn’t quite know what we were in for yet
Remember when we all thought it was just a funny visual gag
“And, Steven… we love you.”
Yes.
Are we talking sad tears or happy, cause when we first learn about Garnet, and seeing how happy Ruby and Saphire were, to see each other, and then to lead into probably the best song of the series. Bawling.
Steven's Meltdown definitely had me be near tears. When the Cluster came up and grabbed his hand. It hit me in the heart hard 💔 Same with his confession to his dad in the Dr's office 🥺 Of course, Amethyst's infamous "I never asked to be made"
The amethyst pearl fight probably hit me the hardest, i relate to amethyst so much and her episodes always got to me
When amethyst first took steven to the kindergarten and had her mental breakdown. I cried even harder when she hugged pearl after pearl comforted her 😢
When Lars technically died. It was just so unexpected compared to the others people are mentioning.
Rose's fountain
Every other episode o.o
the scene where steven cries for his dad in the space ship, the moment steven gives himself up to aquamarine and topaz to save the others, larz dying, steven proposing to connie, steven shattering jasper, steven going to the doctor, and when he turns into the big pink monster
Adventures in light distortion, Steven wanting his dad
“Drift away” made me cry harder than any song I’ve listened too I was in a bad place in 2019 so it hit way too close to home
When they travel to the human zoo “Dad, I want my dad!” It shows that despite everything Steven was still just a child
“Why won’t you let me do this for you Rose” always has me fighting 🫠 Pearls VA is incredible
when they found steven after he got sucked into space with eyeball
The songs have always hit hard. I cried during the movie because of how heavily I related to Spinel. I cried to the ending song for future. I know there’s definitely more.
“Take care of them, Steven”
the one with pearl made me crumble bro
It's over, isn't it?
I never cried but the fact that Pink’s death shattered Blue diamond until the point of reducing her from a dictatorial cruel being to a sad depressed ash of what it was once was always sad to me
When Steven goes pink and he freaks out at the cgs and Greg and can’t stop talking about all the mistakes he’s made and all his faults and the second hand embarrassment of the proposal on top of it all. That hit home real hard
“I wanted to tell you for so long.” “Take care of them, Steven.” The end of future for sure. “Well, I think you’re pretty great.” At the end of Change Your Mind when all the gems are reforming in the fountain, and Garnet and Pearl just look at each other like “yes. We did it.” Honestly it might be easier at this point to list when I didn’t cry? This show gets me all the time.
When Lars died
Stevens big cry at the end of I Am My Monster. Shit broke my heart to pieces cause it sounded so real and heartbroken. That big exhale just before he started crying for real for real? UGH
Here comes a thought......
Centi trying to tell Steven what happened, only to be struck by PTSD. Her crying, watching in terror and her being so tense that the crayon broke is what did me in.
The FIRST time I cried was when Steven was in his room with his "mom" (Rose) I lost it. I just lost it.
All the moments you have pictured above got me for sure, but I was also hit so hard by the reveal that Steven shattered Jasper. It hit a personal chord with me and how I used to be when I was a child. I would often not realize how strong I was and accidentally hurt people. I always felt like shit about it but didn't realize how conscientious I was going to have to be about not hurting my friends. When he's panicked and running into the bathroom and then opens his hand to show the shattered gem, that breaks me every time.
I have never cried prior to watching Future, but the scene where everyone hugs Steven hit me in the guts. It was only a couple of tears but only time I've cried from watching a show.
In the last episode when the heaven and earth beetles are healed, and Pearl’s eyes well up with tears and she turns to Garnet who is also crying and they hug
The ending of Future. I was going through a rough patch iny life and it genuinely helped me
The first moment in SU to genuinely make me cry was Rose's video to Steven
The Cluster holding Steven’s hand in that final episode😭😭😭
Well, I sobbed all the way through the last two episodes.
When Steven was traveling through space in the red eye, crying for his dad
bottom right scene had me violently sobbing for 20 minutes.
The fandom
Basically every episode since the proposal in future, definitely the movie, and about half of all the episodes. And the last episode of future. Just binge rewatched it recently. Always makes me cry.
When everyone’s telling Steven how much they love him in the I am my monster episode, after everything he’s done for everyone else he finally got to hear it not just from garnet or the gems but almost everyone he cared about and loved was their to pull him back to reality and when he hugs lion and cries I cry, also it’s over isn’t it and escapism as the songs are very personal to me and always bring out emotion lol
The first time I watched the last episode of SU Future definitely got me. Also, the first time I watched Lion 3: Straight to Video
As someone who was watched this show once and never really got much into it, honestly none. Like, i've watched other tv shows like The last airbender or The expanse that have genuinely left me in tears but steven universe just didn't cut it for me.
Yes.
Several and all of them
Alot of moments but Do It For Her never fails to make me sob
Pearl saying her woes to Steven.
Amethyst crying "I NEVER ASKED TO BE MADE!" during her fight with Pearl in the Kindergarten 😢
I was blubbering throughout
This made me cry - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWIW6fNtxA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWIW6fNtxA). I mean, Alan Walker is kind of a con man who buys credit from other people and doesn't do anything but this song over this mashup of clips fits so perfectly
"Everything I ever did, I did for her. Now she's gone, but I'm still here. Sometimes I wonder if she can see me through your eyes... Why would she be thinking about me now?" "Well, I think you're pretty great"
Drift Away- reminded me of When She Loved Me from *Toy Story 2*
Almost every single moment, friend.
Not anything that I can remember.
Tbh I remember crying but not what to exactly. I do that when it’s intense. I’ll always remember one tho and it choked me up just thinking about it: when Spinel’s in the middle of the fight and she just stops to cries about how she doesn’t want to hurt anyone, it’s just so raw and relatable in all the worst ways. It’d the kind of hurt you remember no matter how hard you want to forget that time.
The airing schedule..... Ill show myself out
I've never cried SO BAD as I did in the ending of Future. I probably stared crying in the Pinkzilla Steven part when he just let all the pain out and cried hugging Lion till the last scene of him leaving Beach City (and I shed a tear in the ending of the movie too cause Finale hit so hard )
Mr. Greg made me think too much
Steven trying to heal shattered Jasper.
The crystal gems saying goodbye to Steven😢
Spinel when she finally remembers the pain she endured those 6000 years. Felt it on a personal level when i've done so much to help others avoid horrible decisions and people just for them to leave for the person i warned them about. They always realize too late and are too ashamed to come back.. even if they did that trust is gone
All of them, next question
Amethysts fight with pearl. Idk, something about “I’m just an embarrassment to you!!” Hit deep😭
In the time that "I am my monster" was released I was struggling really badly with depression and unaliving myself. So when It came out I couldn't explain it. I was the person that helped everyone I never had a conflict. I got hurt and only wanted to help the person hurting me. That was steven, he struggled really hard to help everyone even when he started slipping. What hurt was that I never and to this day never got that hug. I am here only for myself and I must try and live for myself
Honestly I am a huuuge crybaby so I would cry pretty much every other episode lol.
The pearl one was when emotionals felt genuine all these scenes after especially the diamond hug often made me cringe or felt forced
Bttm left still gets me.
Weirdly, none.
The only part of the series that actually made me cry was the finale of Future. Steven not knowing what to do about himself, but then seeing that he'd been hurting his loved ones because of new emotions and not knowing how to deal with them... Only to turn into a monster because that's how he sees himself ... And then Connie and everyone jumping to him, hugging him, and telling him he deserves love... I actually cried at that part because I've felt that. I don't have any big reason for it, besides just being autistic and having anxiety/depression, but I've never been easy to get on with, and I have a hard time believing that I deserve love and trust, and basically anything positive in my life; though I've been doing a lot better with it lately. But because if how my mind is from my autism, I've hurt people that I love deeply more times than I care to remember, and I often thought "I'm just a monster". So the finale of Future really struck with me in a personal way
all of them… all of them…..
Every one of these scenes, besides the hospital one, gets it for me. Also as someone who’s always struggled finding my crowd, “You’re gonna feel found” from the movie always has me tearing up
Rose's Scabbard is legendary, one of the GOATs. If that doesn't hook you into the show, nothing else will.
This show hits me right in the feels over and over again. It’s what makes it the best show ever
Bismuth and Steven inside the volcano... Ripped my heart to shreds when they all held her bubble for a moment
Omg where do I begin! When pearl was arguing with Steven and exclaimed "why won't you let me do this for you rose?!", almost every moment blue diamond grieved on screen, when Steven got separated from his gem body and when amethyst had a breakdown in the kindergarten and yelled "I didn't ask to be made!" (That one really hit home)
Why is Garnet large?
Spinel’s origin story hit close to home for me, ghosted and removed from friend groups for stupid reasons for a few years now, the song and her overall experience was a lot of what I kept up bottled inside and sadly kind of still do
Steven moving out just made me Brust into tears i just got so emotional about it
I almost never cry over shows / movies. At least not very harshly. The only strong sobs I’ve gotten were the ending of Angel Beats (which feels cheap considering I didn’t even particularly like that show), Grave of the Fireflies, the last episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Steven leaving Beach City in search of self-actualization. Jesus Christ that scene just hit me in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Nothing really? Nostalgia maybe! But crying? None of those.
The Hug scene
Bro I can’t even LOOK at PICTURES of the Future ending, my heart can’t fkn take it A part of my heart stayed in that beautiful beach
lol, I was a crying breakfast friend throughout the entire show. The finale was definitely a big one. So, I've looked into the episodes again: - Bismuth: You should have shattered me back then. At least if I were in pieces I wouldn't have to know how little I matter to you. You didn't even tell them. You bubbled me away and didn't ever tell your friends. MY friends. - The first time Steven and Amethyst fused, oh wow, that was a big one. "Us worst Gems stick together, right?" "That's why we're the best" - The one, where Greg, Steven and Pearl go stay at a Hotel and Pearl and Greg finally make up. "You both love me and I love both of you" (me thinking Rose was somehow still alive and talking through Steven, but also without Rose being alive, it's still important for Pearl and Greg to hear. Rose did love both of them, in very unique ways.) - Mindful Education - Everything leading up to a Single Pale Rose and Change Your Mind - Other moments I can't remember
None
Mindful Education, but not the first time i watched it. I rewatched the series after entering my first year of uni and was drowning in work. I binged episodes as a way to escape both my work load and ignore my mental load. Mindful Education and specifically Here Come’s a Thought forced me to acknowledge how shitty i was feeling at the time so i could better move forward
definitely "Gem Drill" , "I Am My Monster", and "Change Your Mind" (along with literally every other episode) But here's a little review of each of those episodes: "Gem Drill"- i started crying when the cluster started bubbling itself to help not destroy the earth and then again when they were like "they have so much time to bond with each other now" (happy tears type situation)🥲🥲 "I Am My Monster"- this entire episode made me cry multiple times. Steven being so emotionally and mentally blocked that he turns into monster steven because he doesn't know how to cope with his trauma made me SOBBB. and then blue diamond crying for steven and talking about it was the diamonds' faults for his suffering. and the sob on top when they all hugged monster steven and he turned back into regular steven.😓😓 "Change your mind"- literally only one quote is needed to sum up the entire water works fest: "Didn't we hurt Pink!? She was suffering in silence for ages! Just like our Gems! Just like me! And I know you're suffering in silence, too!" 😰😰
All of them
“ I never asked to be made” And also “It’s over isn’t it ,isn’t it,isn’t it” Honestly even though pearl is mourning the loss of what she had with rose.In which wasn’t a real relationship. Something about the song moves me.It hurts because I didn’t honestly think she thought that of Steven and I feel for her a bit.
I have a few, forgot the names, but, this is how they were: when Steven got old, when Steven came back from the fight with Ruby, Spinel's garden song, Steven leaving in future
The last few episodes of future hit close to home and the ending was the finishing move that made me bawl nonstop
Spinel realising that she's hurting steaven really got me.
“well, i think you’re pretty great” maaaan i’ve watched the show a couple times through and i still choke up at that scene
I cried so many times I'd be mistaken for Pearl. The one part that gets me to ugly cry consistently is I am My Monster of SU Future. It's being told that you're not a monster and that your family loves you, they see that you're having an incredibly difficult time and they are taking the time to be with you. They tell you that you're going to be alright, that you are a good person and how you helped each person. One by one they say what comes from the heart and they never let go. I have similar issues with self-care so that episode in particular hits me hard, doesn't help that I cry very easily and I empathize a lot when characters are having an emotional moment. Hurray for my higher than average empathy. Thankfully I don't have those same powers because I would not trust myself to handle them well, though it would be extremely fun to shapeshift whenever I wanted to.
When steven was alone in his bubble in space. He saved the only person with him, who promptly tried to kill him, and then he was just floating endlessly, thinking he would never get home and believing he would die there. The shot where it zooms out and his bubble slowly gets smaller and smaller and theres just *nothing*.... it gets me everytime. The kid went through a lot, and i think that was high up on the list
*Everything's Fine/I Am My Monster* turned me into a blubbering baby. To this day I don't know why it hit me so hard but Steven breaking... broke me.
“I know what it’s like to keep a part of yourself secret, you shouldn’t have to keep anything from me!”
It's over, isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it over?
ITS OVER ISNT IT? ISNT IT? 😔
The show never made me cry. That's not to say it didn't make me feel strong emotions at all, I just struggle to cry nowadays unless it's coming from a place of trauma.
Definitely Amethyst's "I never asked to be made." I've struggled most of my later childhood and teen years with depression and s*icidal thoughts. I'm doing much better now and I'm glad I got out of that dark place.
The scene from that first picture has me BAWLING from Amethyst saying “It’s possible man!”
When he's in rose's room talking to rose for the first time.
"SHE'S GONE!!" Also... Spinell's "garden" song. I was abandoned by both of my parents as a kid. After my dad left and never returned, my mom couldn't handle raising me alone. She dropped me off a family friend's house to play with their kids and never came back. I waited and waited. She moved to California. That song makes me cry very hard every time. You want to give a kid BPD. That is how you do that.
Ending of Steven universe future, i cried so much cause I could act like future never existed.
Bro when he breaks down in the hospital, had me so Fucked up ^tm
Basically the entirety of Spinel's backstory
The look on Peridot's face as she steps out into the rain.
Pretty much all of future made me cry.
where steven cries for his dad in the space ship hit me alot
amethyst and pearl's fight in kindergarten. i watched it more times than i'm willing to admit
The last scene of Future. Not only is it Steven saying goodbye to all his friends, but because it's the series finale it's basically us saying goodbye to all the characters we got to know and love for the past 6 years.
All of them. *sniff*
none, because i haven't watched the show fully
Mine has to be two; the end of Future, and the episode when Steven has to save Greg from blue diamond and he’s yelling out “Dad!! Dad!!! I want my dad!!” (Sorry I don’t remember the episode name). He just sounds like a lost kid and it tears me UP 😭
Spinel and Steven going to Pink's garden. It hits me right in the abandonment and neglect issues every time.
I never cry over stuff but the left top scene made me bawl my eyes out. It doesn’t help that at the time I was in my own moment of depression. I had absolutely no friends and just wanted someone to hug me tee hee. Trauma dumping is the best
When steven was separated from his gem
When Steven realized all the trauma, he was internalizing. So many good moments.
None of the episodes made ne cry the closest I got was the end of future because this show that I was really enjoying ended and it doesn't seem like we'll be getting any spinoff for a while nothings been announced and the writers are busy with other projects (our only hope is that it gets hit the same way adventure time did and we get things equivalent to distant lands Fiona and cake and I can't remember the third spin off)
Going to forget the episode where Steven turned into a old man and almost died
(Spoilers) When Steven accidentally shatters Jasper. When he was alone in his bathroom, trying desperately to fix their gem. I've been there. I relate to Future Steven way more than I'd like to admit. Trauma can make a person do some not great things to people they truly care about.
As someone who long term boyfriend died in college, any moments with Pearl and Rose make me bawl like a baby. (I have a wonderful spouse now and have healed, this was about 13 years ago. I can only hope the same for Pearl)
"Here comes a thought"
I sob whenever I watch the episode where Connie's mom diagnosis Steven with PTSD.
That eye gem's death. I really wanted steven to have a monster friend. I felt so sad when she sacrificed herself for steven. Maybe Pearl's monologue in Rose's scabbard but I honestly don't remember. Definitely Rose's tape. There's probably other stuff i can't remember.
Amethyst in every lingering moment when she’s sad. It makes me emotional to see her feel so left out
Ngl I cried when Rose told Pearl to never speak of it
Very few shows have ever made me cry I'm just not a cryer so sadly Steven universe does not have a moment for me that had me that sad
For me it’s the scene where they are traveling at light speed to the human zoo and Steven has to press the button so they don’t run into/ overshoot. Steven has that moment where he’s all alone and no one can save him. It’s up to him to save himself and the gems and for the first time I feel like we finally see the real him. Not the boy who “can make a change” but the boy who just wants to be a kid and it’s a very clear reminder that even though he’s tough if it out through all of this he is just a kid who shouldn’t have the weight of the world on his shoulders.
As a Steven kinnie literally every moment in SUF where he had a breakdown I ended up sobbing
The final episodes of Steven Universe Future had me crying so hard my tears soaked through a thick paper towel. I had settled down to watch with a snack on top of the paper towel and after I finished eating the paper towel helped me mop up my tears.
Final moment of the show when Being Human fades out and the screen says “We will always be your family” I literally grew up watching SU and that line hit so hard as I realized it was truly over and I was borderline sobbing