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Bingo, Bongo!
~ Lars' Catchphrase
You brought me back to life! Just...let me be someone who desserves it
~ Lars to Steven

Laraime "Lars" Barriga is a major recurring character in the Steven Universe franchise. He is a human who worked at the Big Doughnut which Steven frequented and became friends with him before being involved in the Gem War and getting stuck on Homeworld.

He was voiced by Matthew Moy.

His Good Ranking[]

What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Good?[]

  • When he and Steven are hanging out with the cool kids and they become consumed by the moss that Rose planted, despite being initially very jerkish about the whole situation and insulting Steven, the two ultimately work together to save them, as Lars drives them to the top of the cliff per Steven's orders where the moss blooms and frees the captured humans. The two wordlessly make ameds after that.
  • After faking a back injury to get off work and getting fed fire salt, having his throat injured, he realizes how much of a jerk he was being and apologizes, offering to help clean up the damage.
  • Despite his very uncooperative and wrathful behavior when he was stuck on Mask Island with Steven and Sadie, over time he grew more passive and began to let go of his anger and cooperate with them to survive, cooking the fish that Sadie caught to keep the group fed.
  • Despite having a rocky relationship with Ronaldo, it's understandable on both sides, as while Lars was needlesly rude to Ronaldo, he was the one who was going to publish a photo of Lars without his consent.
  • When the lighthouse seemingly becomes alive due to a corrupted gem and kidnaps Sadie, he and Ronaldo work with Steven to find her.
  • When they were on route to Homeworld, he and Steven have a heart-to-heart and put aside their differences which also moved Topaz and caused her to try to help them escape until Aquamarine intervened.
  • When Yellow and Blue begin arguing during Steven's trial, he and Steven take the opportunity to steal Blue's palanquin and escape the courtroom.
  • After metting the Off Colors and getting tracked down by robonoids, he protected the Rutyle Twins from being detected by using himself as a shield which made him realize they can't see him since he has no gem, to which he begins taking them out by himself.
  • He manages to destroy most of the robonoid but the last one detects Steven and Padparadscha, to which he jumps on top of it and blows it up, unfortunately getting killed by the impact force.
  • After being ressurected, despite being quite shocked over his predicament, he takes it quite well and doesn't needlessly snap at Steven like he would have in the past.
  • Steven learns that Lars' hair has now become a portal to the Pink Dimension which they can use to go back to Earth and exit on Lion's mane, Lars cannot come with him, however, since he cannot enter the portal in his own head. Realizing this he offers Steven and the Off Colors to use him as a portal so all of them can be safe away from the Diamonds, being willing to remain alone on Homeworld.
  • When they all decide to stay with him, he still uses his portal to send Steven back to Earth in order to repay all the times Steven helped him, wishing to reform and become someone who "desserves to be saved"
  • At some point he managed to safely get himself and the Off Colors out of Homeworld by stealing a ship from an Emerald captain.
  • He becomes the leader of the Off Colors, effectively working as a space captain to sfaely lead them all back to Earth out of the Diamond's range.
  • He built a ship that functions like a car to drive by himself in order to help in battles.
  • He leads the Off Colors out of Emerald's territory.
  • When Emerald's warship catches up to them, after being comforted by Stevonnie over his emotional breakdown, he manages to retake command of the ship and has the shields lowered knowing that Emerald wouldn't shoot her own ship, allowing them to escape.
  • After Stevonnie is shot down and stranded on a foreign planet, he warns them that Emerald is on pursuit before the communication is cut and spent days trying to pinpoint their location and retrieve them.
  • After Stevonnie contacts him through an abandoned Diamond base, he inmediately tracks them down and picks them up, saving them from a giant bird creature in the process.
  • After being informed by Garnet of everything Rose did, he tells Steven his mother was awesome, showing how far he's come from his initial dislike of gems.
  • He raided Yellow Diamond's asteroid mines to get new thrusters in order to resume the course to Earth.
  • He managed to get the Off Colors to Earth where the newly reformed Diamonds were, and prepared to fight before Steven explained the situation.
  • He makes amends with Sadie over their past discourse and the two compliment each other on their new roles in life.
  • He helped in the reconstruction of Beach City after Spinel's attack.
  • He planned to head back to space with the Off Colors after their graduation in Little Homeworld to explore the galaxy. He later tells Steven he's leaving because he loves space and wants to share what he's learned with other planets.
  • When Steven's dome begins to shrink around them. he tries to stop it.
  • He comforts Steven by telling him they'll always be friends no matter what, which helps calm him down and causes the dome to dissapear.
  • He says a final goodbye to Steven and promises he'll always welcome his visits.
  • He and Steven organized a weekly space hangout to remain close.
  • Despite starting out as an insensitive jerk who only cared about himself and his popularity, by the time of Future he's grown considerably and has learned to put others' needs ahead of his own, even sacrificing his life to save a group of gems he'd only known for minutes.
  • Even tough the admirable standard is considerably high, Lars stands out not only for his absolute lack of resources compared to Steven and the Crystal Gems, but also due to being the only character to actually die in the effot against Homeworld, what's more is that he was unaware that Steven could bring him back, showing he was ready to sacrifice his life. While he does gain more resources later on and even has his own gem ship, before that he was only a human with no notable powers or skills and no weapons whatsoever and he's also the only human aside from Steven and Connie to go to Homeworld and risk his life to save the Off Colors and get them safely to Earth.

What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]

  • He still has some jerkish moments from time to time such as him getting angry at Steven over accidentally conjuring a dome and retorting it wouldn't be the first time they've almost died because of him.
  • Even though he has reformed from his jerkish manners, he still has a condescending and mean attitude to those around him, and becoming Captain of the Off Colors has seemingly made him more arrogant, as he gleefully mocks Emerald over her failures and flaunts his victories over her.
  • Despite passing the general standards, he still fails to Connie Maheswaran who plays a more significant role in the series, helped redeem the Diamonds and lead the charge against Monster Steven to help decorrupt him and return him to normal.

Trivia[]

  • Lars is the third character from Steven Universe to be NPG after Peridot and Pearl and the only one to be a human being.
  • The way in which Steven brought Lars back to life is similar to how another NPG Eugene Fitzherbert was brought back.

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