History Recap / StevenUniverseS3E23BackToTheMoon

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Cue a voice shouting "Hey!" offscreen. We then see "Jasper", but purple and with a side of PeekABangs, telling the Ruby Squad that she's right here. The other Crystal Gems and Lapis are stunned into bemused silence, and Pearl says that this will never work... only to be interrupted by the Ruby Squad completely buying it. Eyeball in particular seems amazed, approaching "Jasper" and informing her that she fought in the war for Earth as well as informing her of all the tales she heard about Jasper's amazing skills in battle, apparently having emerged wearing her helmet and taken out eighty Crystal Gems before the sun set that day. She informs "Jasper" that the moment she heard this mission was to look for her, Eyeball nearly dissipated her form and states that it is an honour to finally meet her. "Jasper" states that yup [[BlatantLies it's definitely her; always large and never small since the day she was made]]! Eyeball suddenly states that something's different about "Jasper" though, and Pearl readies for the charade to be blown. "Jasper" manages to fool the Rubies again though by stating that her colouration is just a 'tan' from the Earth sun. Eyeball states how she hates this planet, to which "Jasper" agrees and the entire Ruby Squad start kicking up clods of soil and stamping the ground.

* CryCute: Eyeball does this when she sees Amethyst-as-Jasper getting too close to Doc.

* RealityEnsues: Steven learns that despite her [[ThouShallNotKill personal code]], Rose Quartz was still the leader of a rebellion war and had to kill many opponents, including a Diamond.

* ShoutOut: Steven nicknames the Rubies Leggy, Army, Navy, Eyeball, [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White and Doc]]. (Doc is the one with glasses.)

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Eyeball asking where Jasper was when Pink Diamond was shattered is reminiscent of people talking about terrorist attacks, especially the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

They decide to ask one of the Rubies why they came back to Earth and Steven asks if he can choose, before revealing that he's nicknamed each Ruby based on their gem placement - Leggy, Army, Navy, Eyeball and... [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Doc]]. Leggy is released first, but she confesses that she's forgotten why they came back. Steven assures her that he used to forget things about their missions all the time when he started out on missions and Leggy goes to stand "over there". Army is released next and begins threatening to fight the Crystal Gems. Garnet goes "Aww." and there there is a quick cut to Army being restrained under Garnet's arm. Navy begins to tell them, but get embarrassed and runs over to Leggy, flustered; Eyeball insists that she's going to tell them nothing; and Doc ''finally'' tells them why they've returned - they checked Neptune and Jasper isn't there! The Squad reforms together and demand that the Crystal Gems tell them where Jasper is NOW or else!

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Steven points to the Rubies and names them one-by-one, with Doc being the only Ruby whose nickname isn't based on gem placement. This is probably due to Steven's ThemeNaming-related granting of their monikers: he likely would have called Doc "Chesty", and that is a somewhat outdated, but still used, English slang term for a woman with large breasts.

-->'''Eyeball:''' I was there, I saw it with my own eye; I saw the leader of the Crystal Gems, Rose Quartz, ''shatter Pink Diamond!''