How They Compare: Aquamarine (Steven Universe)

Aquamarine is a villain from the recently concluded Steven Universe series, and is the most powerful villain in the series to not be redeemed in the end. Aquamarine is a powerful member of the Aquamarine breed of the Alien Gem Empire. Within the Gem Empire she is a high ranking member of Blue Diamond’s court, someone that the Diamonds personally send on their most important missions to ensure that it gets done. Aquamarine has a very take charge attitude, taking great pride in her work and in her own professionalism, when given an assignment she can be ruthless in trying to get it done, and being a millennials old military specialist, she is very clever and not easily fooled. Aquamarine is strong enough to be comparable to most lower tier gems, like Amethyst who could defeat a monster able to make enormous snow storms with its presence, and she's tough enough to endure a blow from near EOS Steven, which should put her DC/Dura at City Level+. Aquamarine would also have MHS speeds scaling off Garnets lightning timing, with MFTL reactions in the billions at least from being able to beat Stevens reactions, and he could perceive his mental form traveling between Galaxies.

Aquamarine, as a Gem, has all the natural base abilities of the Gem species, to go over what those are, Gems are a race of sentient rocks and minerals, who project bodies made of light out from said gemstone. Because of this Gems do not need to Eat, Drink, Sleep or Breathe, they do not age and never feel exhaustion. A Gem can regenerate their body from any injury so long as their actual gemstone is still intact, they can also freely manipulate their physical form, shapeshifting their body and automatically adjusting their mass to be unhindered by changes in gravity. The actual Gemstone is able to generate light to see in the dark, and store items in a large pocket dimension contained in the stone itself. All Gems have the ability to create Bubbles around objects which they can then use to teleport said object back to their home. Additionally Gems can fuse with other Gems to take on a more powerful hybrid state, although this power would be outside help.

As a high ranking member of Blue Diamonds court, Aquamarine is also a gifted user of the prestigious Hydrokinesis ability. Aquamarine, in her Bluebird fusion, was able to control and attack with large amounts of water as well as forge it into powerful weapons such as water swords for melee use, given that the person she fused with has fire abilities, these water abilities clearly come from her, and are useable in her normal state. Aquamarine’s most common use of Hydrokinesis is to create water wings on her back, which not only can somehow create lift and allow her to fly, but also work in space, which makes no scientific sense, but who cares, she can Fly with Water.

Aquamarine’s primary weapon is her Wand, a non-stowable Gem weapon which she wears on her head as a ribbon when not in use. Aquamarine’s wand is an extremely powerful device that lets her casually fight beings far exceeding her normal stats due to its primary function, Stasis. Yes this wand can extend a blue beam from its tip that surrounds anyone or anything it hits and prevents them from moving. It’s like freezing those it hits in time, but they are still conscious of what's happening. This stasis beam is fast and powerful enough to both hit and stop Alexandrite, a 4 gem fusion who scales past the Multi-Continent level, MFTL feats of Lapis Lazuli. The beam can also move like Darksied’s Omega beams to target and stasis a whole squad of foes at once, as well as move the captured target around weightlessly, like casually flinging them into space.

This wand is the primary reason Aquamarine was such a threat to the hero’s, to the point when she was eventually stripped of it, she ceased being much of a danger. Should Aquamarine be disarmed in combat it could be devastating to her. Additionally Aquamarine is rather arrogant, and shares the same weakness as all the gems, that being if her Gemstone is shattered she dies.

Name: Aquamarine

Origin: Steven Universe

Classification: Gem (Alien)

Powers and Abilities: Flight, Hydrokinesis, Regeneration (Low-High), Inexhaustible, Can Breathe Without Oxygen, Resistance to Age Manipulation and Gravity Manipulation, Bubbling, Shapeshifting, Light Projection, Pocket Dimension, Fusion, Stasis. 

Weaknesses: Her Gem is a major weak point, Arrogant, reliant on weapon

Destructive Capacity: City Level+

Range: Hundreds of Meters

Speed: Massively Hypersonic Physically, Massively Faster than Light Reactions

Durability: City Level+

Stamina: Inexhaustible

Intelligence: Superhuman (Advanced Alien Lifeform and Clever Manipulator)

So how would she do in other verses?

In the Marvel Universe, Aquamarine would do interestingly, She is stronger than the vast majority of the street level characters like Spider-Man and Luke Cage, and although they have comparable speed her reaction time would give her a definitive edge against them in combat and even let her take on beings exceeding her in power like Iron Man. Her Stasis beam is not a common place power in the lower marvel tiers and would be effective on even Symbiotes like Venom and Carnage, who are normally some of the hardest characters to take on in this tier. That being said she would not be able to beat a large number of Street levelers at once, she would have to play her cards right to avoid a coordinated strike. One character I think she would have a rather interesting fight against is Iceman, as both have somewhat similar powers and numerous counters to each other.

To look at another series being visited by a hostile alien race, Aquamarine would be a difficult foe in the Tokyo Mew Mew series, easily having comparable if not slightly higher stats to the Mew Mews and general Aliens of the series, but again her reaction speed would be able to give her a distinct edge over most of the characters, and would likely need the whole squad of Mew Mews to successfully take on. Ironically despite being the weakest two in general scenarios, I believe Lettuce and Pudding would be the most effective against Aquamarine. Lettuce due to having Hydrokinesis comparable to Aquamarines own and could likely disrupt her flight, and Pudding who can not only replicate Stasis attacks, but also has Geokinesis which if she figures out Aquamarines nature could immediately oneshot her.

These series are compared all the time so why not here? In the Star VS FOE series Aquamarine would obviously solo cause Star destroyed all magic :P. Lol sorry, in all seriousness Aquamarine would Do interestingly in this verse as her Speed is somewhat slower than the high tier mages yet her reactions are WAY higher so she should be able to compete. Aquamarine’s Stasis in particular would be a pretty broken ability as its essentially a more combat effective version of Rhomlous’s power, which alone could stop beings like Eclipsa indefinitely, yes there's a LOT of things that could oneshot Aquamarine in this verse, but since most of them require incantations and movements to perform the Stasis would do a pretty good job protecting her. That said around mid season 3 characters started getting more passive and direct powers which would stop her. I would consider Aquamarine a Season 2 level Star Villain, likely between Mina Loveberry and Meteoria in terms of who beats whom.

O.K. K.O.: Let’s Be Hero’s is somewhat of a companion piece to Steven Universe, the shows came out around the same time, the art styles are somewhat similar and the creators of the series are a couple so let's see how Aquamarine would do. In the OK KO verse, Aquamarine would be considered a Level 2 Villain, comparable to BoS Rad. Against the Level 2 and lower heroes and Villains Aquamarine would be a massive threat having superior reaction speed enough to avoid all sorts of attacks and while her Stasis and Regen powers are nothing new to the series, she still has Power variety comparable to low tier wizards like Wally the White, essentially making her the 2nd most powerful level 2 character, as she would still be below Dynamite Watkins who could simply bring her wand to life or BFR her with Absolute spatial manipulation.

Lastly Steven Universe draws a LOT from Magical Girl series, like Magic Knight Rayearth and Cardcaptor Sakura but the one I think it draws from most is Madoka Magica. In the Magi verse, Aquamarine would fit REALLY well against most Magical girls and similarly powerful witches, having the same stats for the most part and the fact that the magical girls have the exact same regen that Steven Universe Gems do thanks to their Soul Gems. It is possible that Aquamarine would be a big threat against them, as her Stasis abilities are somewhat able to replicate the Time Stopping abilities of Homura, which are considered pretty OP in the verse already, also the clever Aquamarine would be UNIQUELY suited to figuring out that their soul gems are their weak point given how extremely common that is to characters in her own series. That being said The Magical Girls in particular would likely be Really good at leading an all out attack against her with their telepathy and ability to summon a large number of weapons to attack her from all sides.