History StarVsTheForcesOfEvil / TropesAToM

* FourFingeredHands: Both humans and Mewmans sport four digits on each hand, as do some other characters.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The look on Ludo’s face in Season 1 Episode 11 as he’s listing the various places they can spy on Star Butterfly, including the bathroom. Both Toffee and Yvgeny Bulgoyaboff aka Buff Frog are about to call him out on it, but even Ludo decides against spying on an underage girl in that particular place.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The look on Ludo’s face in Season 1 Episode 11 as he’s listing the various places they can spy on Star Butterfly, including the bathroom. Both Toffee and Yvgeny Bulgoyaboff are about to call him out on it, but even Ludo decides against spying on an underage girl in that particular place.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The look on Ludo’s face in Season 1 Episode 11 as he’s listing the various places they can spy on Star Butterfly, including the bathroom. Both Toffee and Yvgeny Bulgoyaboff are about to call him out on it, but even Ludo decides to drop spying on an underage girl in that particular place.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The look on Ludo’s face in Season 1 Episode 11 as he’s listing the various places they can spy on Star Butterfly, including the bathroom. Both Toffee and Ludo’s mook are about to call him out on it, but even Ludo decides to drop spying on an underage girl in that particular place.

** ''The Book of Spells'' details the lives of previous queens in the Butterfly royal line, as well as the history of Mewni as a whole. This includes the backstory of Toffee ([[TheyWastedAGoodPlot though barely]]), whose motivations were never fully explained in the series.

** ''The Book of Spells'' details the lives of previous queens in the Butterfly royal line, as well as the history of Mewni as a whole. This includes the backstory of Toffee, whose motivations were never fully explained in the series.

* BeeAfraid: Star's "Honeybee Tornado Swarm" spell.

** In the Japanese dub, Creator/KanaUeda (Star) already voiced a MagicalGirl who speaks in [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai-ben]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha before]]. [[Anime/SailorMoon The]] [[Manga/MahouShoujoOre same]] [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure goes]] with Creator/AyaHisakawa, who voices her mom Queen ''Moon''. In a more meta-example, there's Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu as Marco, since he voiced Jonathan Joe'''star''' in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''.

* ApatheticCitizens: Mewmans only ever get riled up when someone takes them out of their comfort zone or tries to force them to change. When Solaria after sending away a giant monster offered the people a means to protect the land by becoming Solarians, they all refused as they were too indifferent and lazy to change. AAfter all wasn't it the queen's job to fight monsters?

** Seasons 1 and 2 have [[BigBadWannabe Ludo]], [[DragonInChief Toffee]], and [[KnightTemplar Miss Heinous]] of St. Olga's Reform School of Wayward Princesses. Ludo is bent on stealing Star's wand to take over the universe, while Miss Heinous seeks to annihilate Marco for his uprising against her institute. Toffee overshadows them all, though, usurping and eventually possessing Ludo as part of [[spoiler:a grand revenge scheme against Moon Butterfly and Mewni, probably followed by Mewman genocide had Star not entered a SuperMode and vaporized him in the moment of his victory.]]
** Following [[spoiler:Toffee's death and Ludo taking himself out of the game]], Season 3 continues Miss Heinous' path, and introduces [[LadyOfBlackMagic Queen Eclipsa]]. Now free, Eclipsa is influencing Star and is implied to have big plans for the kingdom. Miss Heinous discovers [[spoiler:she is Meteora Butterfly, Eclipsa's long-lost half-monster daughter]], pushing her into new and far greater reaching aims and powers.

* BittersweetEnding: The series ends with [[spoiler:the Realm of Magic, where all magic comes from, being destroyed by Star with the help of her mother [[TheAtoner Moon]], her honorary aunt-figure [[DarkIsNotEvil Eclipsa]], and Eclipsa's baby daughter [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid Meteora]] to both [[DarkestHour prevent the destruction of her homeworld of Mewni]] by the magically-empowered, insane and genocidal Mewman supremacist [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Mina Loveberry]], and to break the cycle of power-hungry people using magic for evil. However, while Mina is stopped and depowered, the destruction of magic leads to the deaths of all magical beings in the multiverse (most notably [[TricksterMentor Glossaryck]], the [[CelestialBurocracy Magic High Commission]] and the Butterfly family Wand's living spells) and the merger of Earth and Mewni into a sole amalgam dimension with Star and Marco reuniting and living together in peace in the new world.]]

* AlienSky: Mewni's sky is pink and has three moons, the largest one of which has a ring system like UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}}.

* AntiRegeneration: Queen Moon learns black magic [[spoiler:from Eclipsa]] to neutralize Toffee's healing factor, making him unable to regenerate.

* TheAllegedCar: Oskar's car-slash-studio-slash-living space. It's old, it's busted, the brakes and steering are shot, and it's mostly full of garbage.

* TheArtifact: Star's magic wand, the whole reason she was sent to Earth in the first place and [[MacGuffin the MacGuffin]] Ludo's forces are after, becomes less and less important as the show goes on. By the last season, Star doesn't even ''use'' it anymore, having since learned to tap into her own innate magical powers.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Tom's skeleton-horse-drawn-carriage looks like it would have room for maybe two people. It's actually enormous on the inside.

** One of the final aesops of the series is that [[spoiler:magic is more trouble than what is worth, and you should get rid of it]]. Yet, throught the series, it's constantly shown that there is good magic and evil magic and that the latter corrupts the former.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Part of the series' DeconstructiveParody of the MagicalGirl genre is that Star's home world of Mewni is not the shining kingdom it appears to be. Star is a magical girl princess who's been given too much power and freedom at too young an age and more than once terrorized her own people by accident. Her family rules over a beautiful, pastel-color-schemed CrapsackWorld styled after Medieval Europe, in that all of the people outside of nobility and the royal family [[TheDungAges live in total squalor]] and the political structure is based heavily on MightMakesRight. To top it off, her family's history [[WrittenByTheWinners isn't exactly clean either]]--the hordes of monsters they keep out of the kingdom [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters have very legitimate reasons to resent them]].

* DistractedByTheSexy: When seeing [[spoiler:adult Marco]] in "Running With Scissors", Star barely listens to him, is entirely focused on his six pack and couldn't compose her sentences.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being manipulated by Toffee throughout Season 2, Ludo is the one who apparently finishes him off by pushing a pillar onto him after Star half-vaporized him]].
* DoomTroops: The guards of St. Olga's are designed with maximum intimidation; deathly cold voices, show no mercy, masked faces, and the like. Seriously, they look like they stepped out of ''VideoGame/{{BioShock}}''.

* ElvesVsDwarves: The Butterfly-Johansen families have this dynamic. The Johnsons are card carrying [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warriors]], who are rough, barbarous and [[BoisterousBruiser openly emotional]]. The Butterflies are elegant, regal, stuck up and highly reserved. The marriage of Moon Butterfly and River Johansen brought the two families together, creating Star who is a blend of both.

* FamilyThemeNaming: The Butterfly royal family seems to name their daughters after celestial bodies and phenomena: Star, her mother Moon, and Eclipsia are just a few examples.

** [[spoiler: The three main villains of the series are this. Toffee relied on espionage, manipulation and infiltration (thief). Meteora relied more on magic than she did on her physical strength by using a soul absorption spell and draining the magic from its users (mage). Mina Loveberry relied more on warfare and destruction (fighter).]]
* ForWantOfANail: Pony Head is sent to St. Olga's and later sends Star an SOS video. Star and Marco go to St. Olga's to rescue her. Marco convinces the princesses to rebel against the school, resulting in Miss Heinous nursing a deep grudge against him. In her quest for revenge, Miss Heinous follows Marco to Star's party at the monster temple, where she learns the truth about who she is.

* GenreShift: The first two seasons act as a SliceOfLife comedy about Star learning to adjust to Earth culture, and occasionally going on dimension hopping misadventures. Season 3, however, shifts this by returning Star to Mewni, with Marco following her soon after, with the plot being much more focused on Star learning to handle the responsibilities of royalty, uncovering her kingdom's {{Dark Secret}}s and mending some of Mewni's FantasticRacism. Essentially, it shifts from a magical sitcom to HighFantasy.

* GrayingMorality: The series started off as a rather black and white "Mewmans good, monsters bad" story. Then we learn that [[spoiler:most of Mewni is stuck in the DungAges, most of the monsters are actually just fighting to take back their forcibly-stolen land, and King and Queen Butterfly are well aware of Star's dimension-hopping misadventures, using Glossaryck as TheMole]].

* HowDoIShootWeb: Implied to be a problem for wielders of the magic wand in general. No one ever explains what words are necessary to cast the desired spell. A slight change the spell's incantation can have dangerous and possibly fatal consequences. Even Star's Book of Spells is just a catalog of notes from previous users who awkwardly scrawled down incantations without any regard to organization or legibility.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Season 3 addresses the audience's concerns about how Mewman prejudice against monsters has been accompanied by a slew of hypocritical behaviors. To begin with, there are certain creatures that look unnatural, by Mewman standards, and yet they're not subject to the same treatment by Mewmans. Demons, in this case, add more insult to the injury--they look ''and'' act like monsters, people fear them, but they're treated with respect due to them having been allies of the royal family since Mewni's founding. Second, the Magic High Commission [[spoiler:crystallized Eclipsa for falling in love with a monster as one of her offenses]], but it's later shown Hekapoo, one of its members, hangs in a tavern where she regularly interacts with monsters.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Miss Heinous from St. Olga's is strongly implied to be related to the Butterflies through the club marks that occasionally appear on her cheeks. This is confirmed in "Monster Bash", when she is revealed to be the daughter of Queen Eclipsa.]]

* MagicIsEvil: PlayedWith. Magic as a concept was deemed evil by Star, who feels that using magic to solve problems only causes more problems, and the ones using it are all idiots who don't deserve the power they have, her own family included, and the cause of all problems by the end of the series. It's seen as a good thing when Star decides to destroy magic because it cannot be used responsibly, and it causes more problems than it solves. However, despite what Star thought, magic was not the main cause of the series' problems, it was the racism between the Mewmans and Monsters and battle over the lands, and her family abusing magic, that was the problem. Even then, magic was not show to corrupt people or cause their bad actions like Moon siding with Mina, it was rather Moon's stupidity, and unfair grudge against Eclipsa that caused her actions. It's implied that Star is just ignoring the complexity of the situation because she wants a quick solution to stop Mina, so she decided to destroy magic.

* MagicalIncantation: Played with. Most of Star's spells aren't poetic lines of incantations, but not as simple as an "Abracadabra" either. Star tends to shout her intent with whatever words pop into her head. She doesn't always think ahead (or at ''all''), which causes problems. In "Storm the Castle", [[spoiler:a straighter example is the Whispering Spell, in which Star whispers an incantation. However, it isn't discernible exactly what is whispered, or in what language.]]
** [[spoiler:revealed when Eclipsa, Star, Moon, and Meteora incant it in the realm of magic to [[TheMagicGoesAway remove all magic from the universe]].]]

* MomentOfLucidity: The Realm of Magic causes anyone who enters to rapidly lose their mind and memories, with the affected becoming nonsensical and forgetting who they are. After finding her mother in the Realm of Magic, Star succumbs to the magic's effects and forgets everything until she finds a note she left for herself to remind her of who she is. Star is able to open a portal to save herself and her mother, though unfortunately forgets once more and the portal closes.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Ludo's minions are mostly big, muscular brutes... who routinely get beaten up by a pair of average-sized fourteen year olds:
-->'''Ludo''': How are you losing? You guys have like 200 pounds on her!

** The famed Goblin Dogs taste no different from any ordinary hot dogs, but they cause one of these to incur after being consumed, which apparently makes them completely {{worth|It}} the [[SecretTestOfCharacter absurdly convoluted and frustrating method of obtaining them]].

** Seasons 1 and 2 has [[BigBadWannabe Ludo]], [[DragonInChief Toffee]], and [[KnightTemplar Miss Heinous]] of St. Olga's Reform School of Wayward Princesses. Ludo is bent on stealing Star's wand to take over the universe, while Miss Heinous seeks to annihilate Marco for his uprising against her institute. Toffee overshadows them all, though, usurping and eventually possessing Ludo as part of [[spoiler:a grand revenge scheme against Moon Butterfly and Mewni, probably followed by Mewman genocide had Star not entered a SuperMode and vaporized him in the moment of his victory.]]

* BrokenRecord: In the "St. Olga's" episode, Star and Marco encounter brainwashed students repeating: "Keep your pinkies at 90 degrees. More tea please. (sip) "Keep your pinkies at 90 degrees. More tea please. (sip) "Keep your pinkies at 90 degrees. More tea please. (sip)

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