Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20151002041329/@comment-3581997-20151223111452

TV Tropes and Idioms is subject to angry 12-year-olds same as any part of the internet. There used to be some particularly dumb fan-hate information on Pearl (check out some of the remaining information on the Your Millage May Vary Page of Steven Universe) but I also had encountered a couple of friends who considered her a bitch. Again, in the world of internet entitlement a character having one or two personality traits that represent flaws, snowballs into fan-demonizing on par with the likes of Naruto and Avatar level fan farting.

I feel Pearl works as a character in the show just as well as Amethyst and Garnet. She is the Super-Ego to Garnet's Ego and and Amethyst's Id. It works as part of a cast, but she is the Super-Ego, which means she represents law, which means every immature jack-off indulging their inner Id on the internet sees her as a great big target for every one of their hang-ups. Pearl has defended or enforced laws which have gone into grey-zones, she has slipped up and said insensitive things while trying to just offer explainations and is always embaressed by it, which is important for children to see- That even if you do the right thing it may not be the right thing. She is always challenged on this and needs to consider what she is doing. It's what makes shows like Steven Universe a step above the likes of He-Man and Transformers, the heroes can be wrong even if they are genuinely trying to be good, that things aren't right just because they should be and not every evil in the world is the work of some evil over-lord in a fortress somewhere. Without people like Pearl, Princess Bubblegum, Prince Zuko and Iroh, some of the smartest new children's shows would be no better than Small Wonder or Captain N.