History Recap / StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E2LudoInTheWild

* ShoutOut: Ludo trying to get a bag of potato chips greatly parallels [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Scrat trying to get his acorn]].

* AscendedFridgeHorror: Don't think about what happened to the baby eaglets after Ludo tamed their parent.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Ludo is trapped in an outer space-like void for hours, perhaps days.

** The episode starts with Star banishing Ludo to another dimension.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Ludo is naturally the sole focus of the episode, during the 90 days after the events of "Storming the Castle". Star only appears in the beginning during the events of "Storm the Castle" and later as a hallucination.

* TheDogBitesBack:
* FreezeFrameBonus: The skeletal hand holding the stone with half the star embbeded on it lacks the phalanx on its middle finger, just like Toffee's hand.

* HumiliationConga: It starts with hatching out of an egg only wearing the shell and the diaper, then tossed into another dimension in outer space.

* TookALevelInBadass:
** In the first season, Ludo was a shrimpy, wimpy bully who hid behind his hulking minions. In this episode, he becomes a cunning, determined survivor that manages to tame two monstrous beasts into his servitude.
** And then he finds the other part of Star's wand...

* VillainEpisode

** The other half of Star's wand seems to have grown a new, makeshift wand for itself (possibly partly made out of Toffee's hand), and Ludo has found it.
*** Or someone (possibly a [[DeathIsCheap Not-So-Dead Toffee]]) crafted it and planted it there for him to find.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The skeletal hand holding the stone with half the star embbeded on it lacks the phalanx on its middle finger, [[http://67.media.tumblr.com/9556f54b3e57795b3227747792af372d/tumblr_inline_oa5mg4ffWZ1te43d5_1280.jpg just like Toffee's hand]].

!Tropes:

* WhamShot: Ludo finding the other half of the crystal from Star's wand, embedded in a rock and clutched in the skeletal remains of what appears to be Toffee's hand. Then he looks up and sees the Butterfly family's royal castle in the distance, and realizes he's been on Mewni the whole time. The day counter that's been punctuating his progress from near death to tamer of beasts then resets to 1, implying a similar rise to power under these circumstances.

* {{Irony}}: Starbanished Ludo to another dimension and left him to die. Here, thanks to her actions, he finds the other half of her wand crystal.

** In the first season, Ludo was a shrimpy, wimpy bully who hid behind his hulking minions. In this episode, he manages to tame two monstrous beasts into his servitude.

* LaserGuidedKarma: For Star, after banishing Ludo to another dimension and leaving him to die, he finds the other half of her wand crystal.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Ludo is the sole focus of the episode. Star only appears in the beginning during the events of "Storm the Castle" and later as a hallucination.

** Ludo is now obsessed with Star, to the point of hallucinating her. All of these three revelations add up to one certainty: Ludo's next move is going to be to try and find Star in the hopes of kicking her goddamn teeth in.
* WhamShot: Ludo finding the other half of the crystal from Star's wand, embedded in a rock and clutched in the skeletal remains of what appears to be Toffee's hand. Then he looks up and sees the Butterfly family's royal castle in the distance, and realizes he's been on Mewni the whole time.

* CerebusRetcon: Ludo being thrown into the dimensional rift was comedy in the first season finale, but then we are shown that he almost starved to death because he had no way of getting back.

* WhamEpisode: a few minor whams build up to a pretty surprising episode:

** Ludo is now obsessed with Star, to the point of hallucinating her. All of these three revelations add up to one certainty: Ludo's next move is going to be to try and find Star in the hopes of kicking her goddamn teeth it.

* BlackComedyBurst: Ludo tosses a baby eagle out of its nest to impersonate it and get food. He later sees it on the ground when the eagle drops him twice.

* NotSoRemote: After ninety days in the wilderness, Ludo discovers that he was in Mewni the whole time.

* TookALevelInBadass: In the first season, Ludo was a shrimpy, wimpy bully who hid behind his hulking minions. In this episode, he manages to tame two monstrous beasts into his servitude.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The spider tastes Ludo and spits it out, cutting him free from the web to taste something more delectable.

* EarthAllAlong: Or rather, Mewni all along.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Ludo is the sole focus of the episode. Star only appears in the beginning during the events of "Storming the Castle" and later as a hallucination.

We catch up on what Ludo has been doing since the end of season 1

* BatmanCanBreathInSpace: Ludo is trapped in an outer space-like void for hours, perhaps days.

* TookALevelInBadass: In the first season, Ludo was a shrimpy bully who hid behind his hulking minions. In this episode, he manages to tame two monstrous beasts into his servitude.

* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe, Ludo being thrown into the dimensional rift was comedy in the season finale, but then we are shown that he almost starved to death because he had no way of getting back.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ludo by the end of the episode has not only learned how to be self-sufficient but has also gained [[spoiler: his own wand.]]