Lion 2: The Movie

"Lion 2: The Movie" is the 17th Episode of Season 1 of Steven Universe. It aired along with a re-run of Bubble Buddies.

Synopsis
Steven and Connie try to ride Lion to the movie theatre but Lion has other ideas.

Plot
The episode starts out with Connie showing Steven the trailer for a new movie called Dogcopter 3, about a dog/cop/robot that saves the city by shooting missiles from its butt. Connie tells Steven why it's her favorite film franchise, and that she hopes it stays loyal to the book. The Gems then warp in, Pearl with her new outfit, and Steven asks Connie to show them the trailer. Amethyst sees the dogcopter and fuses into it, leaving Connie astounded. Steven assures that the movie will be better than any magic. Connie then asks how they will get there, as the theater is pretty far.

Outside the house, Steven introduces Connie to their mode of transportation, Lion. Connie gets very suprised that he has a lion, and thinks it's very cool. She seems disappointed with the banality of her life compared to Steven's, with knowing mystical warriors and going on fantastic adventures, and says the most exciting thing in her life are her tennis lessons. She then demonstrates two real serves, and a fake one called "Overhead Death-Strike", making tennis out to be more than it seems. They then board Lion, but Lion won't budge. Steven says it's okay, because Lion isn't trained well, and Lion takes them on their journey.

Lion starts running towards the ocean and both of the riders get panicky. Lion jumps sending Connie and Steven screaming, but lands on the water gracefully, for Lion can walk on water. Lion runs across the ocean, taking Steven and Connie on a magical journey. Lion creates a portal and runs through it, finally reaching an training temple that possibly belonged to Rose Quartz.

They walk onto one section of the floor, and it starts to glow. Then, a podium emerges from a hole in the floor that Steven puts his hand on, and gets stuck to. Connie says that they will have to chop his hand off, Steven screams, and a collection of swords comes out of the ground. Connie finds out that by poking, tickling, and squeezing parts of Steven's body, they can reveal more weapons and armor. Some of the things they reveal are armor, Laser Light Cannons, spiky chain-balls,and a giant penny.Steven then unwittingly activates a floating robot that shoots various projectiles at Steven, Connie and Lion. They escape the robot and Lion returns them to the Beach City theater, but the robot follows them through the portal.

After being slightly burned by the robot, Steven offers Connie a can of soda to ease her pain. Connie says to just forget about the movie, as Steven probably has more important things to do than watch a movie. Steven says that Dogcopter 3 is very important to him, and asks why Connie would hang out with him because he messes everything up. Connie asks why he would ever hang out with her, because she is so less interesting.

Suddenly, the robot comes back, even more aggressive than last time.Lion sprouts a sword from his head to help them defend against the robot, and Connie helps Steven to destroy the robot by using her tennis serves to reflect its shots. The robot gets destroyed.

After dealing with the largely unfazed ticket clerk, they finally get to see Dogcopter 3. Connie is fine with the creative liberties the movie takes from the book. The episode ends in a parody of the lion from M.G.M. films, with Lion in a star.

Characters

 * Steven
 * Connie
 * Lion
 * Pearl
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst

Cultural References

 * "Dogcopter 3" is a fusion of the fake TV show from the film Bolt and The War of the Worlds.
 * The "Giant Penny" Steven and Connie discover in the cave is similar to one typically seen in Batman's Batcave.
 * The iris-out with Lion is a direct reference to the logo for film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which began all its movies with a roaring lion.
 * The green screen at the start of the episode is shown in the beginning of most trailers, although often with variations depending on the movie or feature.

Songs

 * Lion's Ocean
 * The Cave

Trivia

 * It is revealed that Rose's light cannon possibly came from the cave Lion took them to, as three identical cannons are shown in the cave. The cave can be related to Rose because of the cannons with resemble the light cannon
 * The poses the Gems do when appearing on the portal resemble the ones they did in the pilot.
 * Pearl is still wearing her post-regeneration outfit from the previous episode, suggesting it will be permanent.
 * This is the third episode where Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl have minor appearances. The second was Lars and the Cool Kids, and the first was Bubble Buddies.
 * Lion has many new abilities, such as walking on water, summoning a sword from his forehead, and creating portals to teleport to places.
 * It is revealed that Steven is ticklish.
 * The soda that Connie and Steven drink towards the end of the episode looks exactly like Apple Sidra, which is a Taiwanese apple soda beverage.
 * It could be implied that Lion took Steven to the cave because Steven said he lacked training, as the look on lion's face changed, and the moment he said that is when he took off.
 * There is a huge possibility that lion is related to Rose Quartz.
 * The title is much more like a movie's title but the title has another name as of that Lion goes to the movie. (Lion To The Movie)
 * This is the first episode in which Steven's bubble shield was destroyed by an attack.
 * The robot in this episode shoots out blasts of fire, ice, and lightning. These three elements are commonly associated together in the Pokémon Franchise. He also holds many similarities to the main boss of the "Tower of the Gods" in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, named Gohdan.
 * Lion shows his abilities to open portals to another dimension/place this probably explains how he got to Steven's house in "Steven's Lion" when he was left back at the Desert.

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