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This article is about the Gem Rejuvenator. You may be looking for the Gem Destabilizer. |
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Homeworld used to use these things on Gems that started steppin' out of line. One hit with this... you're back to how they made you. |
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—Bismuth, Steven Universe: The Movie |
The Gem Rejuvenator is a Gem Weapon used by Spinel in Steven Universe: The Movie. It possesses the ability to strip Gems of their memories causing them to revert to their original selves.
Appearance
In its inactive state the Rejuvenator is a small magenta grip with a pink switch approximately two inches below its hilt. Upon activation a long dark-magenta pole extends from the grip with a gemstone-like object on the tip of the staff. From there two beams of pink energy extend from either side of the faux-gemstone with one of the beams coalescing into a short v-cut blade and the other becoming much longer and scythe-shaped. Sometimes bands of pink energy can be seen crackling around the blades.
Abilities
The Rejuvenator works similarly to a Gem Destabilizer as any Gems struck will be poofed. However, upon reforming the Gems will not remember anything other than their original purposes. The affected Gems will also revert to their outfits when they were created. It is possible to restore their memories by recreating events and/or feelings which have had the greatest influences over those particular Gems.
Much like the Destabilizer it is ineffective against non-Gems with no visible damage. However, it had a different effect on Steven who is a human-Gem hybrid: his gemstone took the brunt of the attack and his powers became severely weakened. For example he was incapable of summoning his mother's shield for more than a few seconds and could not store objects in Lion's mane or bubble Spinel's gemstone after she was poofed. Even before he was depowered the Rejuvenator had been able to cut right through the shield.
History
According to Bismuth it was once used by the Gem Homeworld to reset Gems that were seen to have defected. However, since the Gems were able to restore their memories from moments or events related to what influenced them most the Rejuvenator was discontinued in favor of other weapons and technology such as the Destabilizers and Shattering Robonoids. The only one known to exist in the present was Spinel's weapon of choice.
After Spinel made her introduction to the Crystal Gems she pulled the Rejuvenator from within her gemstone and used it to poof Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl in rapid succession before striking Steven with it though this only resulted in him seemingly experiencing the same effect he would receive from a Destabilizer. Spinel then hit Steven with it repeatedly before he managed to wrench it away and use it to poof her as well. Unfortunately the Rejuvenator's real effects started to show when the bubble Steven made to contain Spinel's gemstone popped leaving him unable to form another and his shield glitched out every time he summoned it; after showing it to his dad Greg Universe its effects were further seen when Ruby, Sapphire, Pearl, Amethyst and Spinel all reformed acting differently than before. Steven eventually learned he couldn't store the Rejuvenator in Lion's mane and had to carry it instead. When he went to Little Homeworld he showed it to Peridot who was puzzled by it before Bismuth explained what it was. Before Spinel went off the rails again she pushed Steven back making him drop the Rejuvenator which a reset Garnet picked up and activated; the sight of this sent her into a rage and she knocked him back further after he took the Rejuvenator from Garnet. When Spinel mockingly asked him to use it on her again Steven loudly denied the notion as he broke it over his knee; the Rejuvenator was then discarded and its remains were never seen again.
Trivia
- According to Rebecca Sugar at a book signing Spinel was able to get the bio-poison, custom Injector and Rejuvenator she used to attack Earth and the Crystal Gems due to her status from her connections to Pink Diamond.
- It is also unknown when Homeworld began to use and subsequently stopped using Rejuvenators.
- It could be speculated they were used primarily in Era 1 since Bismuth recognized it but Peridot did not.
- It is also unknown when Homeworld began to use and subsequently stopped using Rejuvenators.
- The film's Rejuvenator was based on a scythe which is associated with death in western cultures. However, a scythe is also used to reap mature crops enabling new ones to take their places.
- This was used symbolically in the movie as it caused the "deaths" of the affected Gems' personalities but reset them so they were "reborn" with their original appearances and mindsets.
- It shared many features with the futuristic weapons, especially lightsabers from Star Wars in that both weapons have blades made of pure energy which can slice through most materials and are extendable and collapsible via a button on the hilt; both weapons start off as small cylindrical grips that elongate into technologically-advanced versions of archaic weapons.
- Peridot referenced this when asking if the Rejuvenator had a laser.
- Gems who restore their memories keep the same forms they had before being poofed by a Rejuvenator.