Trivia / Steven Universe: Future

• Acting for Two: Since Gems of the same type (or class, in the case of the Quartzes) are all voiced by the same actor, this is an Enforced Trope when similar Gems show up in an episode:
  • Kimberly Brooks voices the actual Rose Quartzes, who frequently talk with one another.
  • Michaela Dietz voices Amethyst and the Amethysts of the Famethyst, who shoot the breeze with their reunion in "Rose Buds".
  • Deedee Magno Hall voices Pearl and Pink Pearl; "Volleyball" is basically an entire episode of them interacting with each other. She also voices Shell, the AI in charge of the Reef where Pearls were created, which also shares a scene with the two Pearls.
  • Jennifer Paz voices Crystal Gem Lapis and the two antagonistic Lapis Lazulis in "Why So Blue?".
  • In the episode "Bismuth Casual", Bismuth and Pearl talk to several human friends Pearl made. One of them (Brandish) has the same voice actor as Pearl, another (Khadijah) has the same voice actor as Bismuth.
• Actor-Inspired Element: Like with the movie, Steven's jacket was inspired by the many jackets that Zach Callison would wear on set.
• Content Leak: Here.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: An article of the website bleedingcool.com claimed that the fandom of the show is called "Stevebronies", without specifying by who. Ignoring that the show doesn't have a set name for its fans, and the fandom treated the name the article picked as an insult. This is actually invoked, as the correspondent responsible is a known troll, while the article itself was posted in the "satire" section of the website.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Snowflake Obsidian (a nonbinary alien of a female-presenting One-Gender Race) is voiced by Ian Jones-Quartey (a man).
• Early-Bird Release: "Homeworld Bound" was intended to be attached to a Fathom Events screening of Steven Universe: The Movie, but when that event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it was instead released on the Cartoon Network website and app on the day it was supposed to premiere.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: Kimberly Brooks voices Cherry Quartz, Jasper, several of the uncorrupted Quartzes, Skinny Jasper, Carnelian, and the Rose Quartzes, and they sound incredibly distinct from one another.
• Meme Acknowledgement: After plenty of fans compared Connie's brief cameo in "Little Homeschool" to the various live streams of characters studying with lo-fi music playing in the background on YouTube, Cartoon Network uploaded a video that looped Connie studying to chill music in the background.
• Post-Script Season: Rebecca Sugar planned season five of Steven Universe expecting it be the end of the series and was pitching the movie as a Finale Movie, but the network greenlit the movie and asked for more episodes of the show. They ended up making twenty-six more episodes, six of which became part of season five while the other twenty became Steven Universe: Future.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Shep is a transgender, non-binary character using "they/them" pronouns, similarly to their voice actor, Indya Moore.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • The two Quartz Gems Yellow Diamond restored in "Homeworld Bound", Flint and Chert, were initially meant to be introduced in Steven Universe as part of the Off Colors. Them plus the others were considered too many, and because they chose to defect rather than being made "defective", they were scrapped.
  • Sketches in 2013 were made of a Super Mode for Steven, called "Perfect Steven", that made him glow pink and become as big as his mother. The crew concluded the idea of Steven changing form to become more "perfect" was thematically inappropriate. Years later, Future ended up reworking the idea as a Superpowered Evil Side that's more of a hindrance than an aid.
• Unfinished Episode: There was a proposed story about Rhodonite, which was left out for being too separate from Steven's character arc and far too complicated a story to fit into a single episode.
• Write What You Know:
  • Steven's pink powers were based on Rebecca Sugar's experiences with having continued panic attacks after escaping an assault when she was twenty-two.
  • The emphasis on Steven's car in the opening, title cards, and closings are Sugar channeling how different her life was when she got her first car in high school and was driving people around all the time.

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