History StarVsTheForcesOfEvil / TropesAToM

* 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 (despite what he does) and Yvgeny Bulgoyaboff (Buff Frog) are about to call him out on it, but even Ludo decides against spying on an underage girl in that particular place.
* EvilAllAlong: Hey, what do you know? The [[spoiler:Monster Arm]] isn't so bad after all- wait, no, it's actually worse.

** In the Japanese dub, Creator/KanaUeda (Star) already voiced a MagicalGirl who speaks in [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai-ben]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha before]]. [[Anime/SailorMoon The]] [[Manga/MagicalGirlOre 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''.

* DescendedCreator: StarFan13 and Sabrina are both voiced by series creator Daron Nefcy.

* {{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.

** "Face the Music" has Star's attempt to use her [[IAmSong Princess Song]] to give an honest impression of herself to the people of Mewni rather than be portrayed as a [[PrincessClassic generic perfect Princess]] results in [[spoiler:the InternalReveal that the Royal Family lied to protect Star's reputation, inciting the peasantry to riot and damaging the Magic High Commission's trust in Queen Moon]]. The lesson, as plainly stated to Star by her mother after the fiasco, is that sometimes it's [[SlaveToPR better to lie]] and [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask pretend to be someone you're not]], especially when [[TheChainsOfCommanding you're in a position of authority]] where people depend on you.

** Played entirely straight in "Face the Music" where Star's attempt to use her [[IAmSong Princess Song]] to give an honest impression of herself to the people of Mewni rather than be portrayed as a [[PrincessClassic generic perfect Princess]] results in [[spoiler:the InternalReveal that the Royal Family lied to protect Star's reputation, inciting the peasantry to riot and damaging the Magic High Commission's trust in Queen Moon]]. The lesson, as plainly stated to Star by her mother after the fiasco, is that sometimes it's [[SlaveToPR better to lie]] and [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask pretend to be someone you're not]], especially when [[TheChainsOfCommanding you're in a position of authority]] where people depend on you.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Marco's "Space Unicorn" ringtone sounds like it was made up for the series. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17o1OlroNSE It wasn't.]]

* MagicIsEvil: PlayedWith. Magic as a concept is 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.

* AnimationEvolution: Inverted. The animation of the series was originally animated by the studio Creator/MercuryFilmworks (starting from the episode "Mewberty", it was animated by Creator/ToonCity). Which made the animation super fast-paced, exaggerated, and smooth. Starting from season 2, however (due to Creator/MercuryFilmworks having to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard''), the studios have been switched to Creator/RoughDraftStudios and Creator/{{Sugarcube}}. The animation started out almost no different from the first season with season 2, but then as the series progressed to seasons 3 and 4, the animation has gotten stiffer, but more detailed. That's when the animation started looking more akin to ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' (ironically, the former studio has worked on that series as well), but it took away any exaggerated and fast-paced animation that this series has had before. However, the animation of the fights has gotten better and a lot of the scenes are much smoother than the quick-paced fluid animation of the first season.

* AnimationBump: Inverted. Despite having its moments, the animation from Season 2 onward done by [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios Rough Draft Korea]] and Sugarcube is significantly less fluid and lively than Season 1's animation done by Creator/MercuryFilmworks and Creator/ToonCity. Further established by the trope below.

* AnimationBump: Inverted. Despite having its moments, the animation from Season 2 onward done by [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios Rough Draft Korea]] and Sugarcube is significantly less fluid and lively than Season 1's animation done by Creator/MercuryFilmworks and Creator/ToonCity.

* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: The magic used by the Butterfly family in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' comes from a place called the realm of magic. It enters the multiverse in two forms. The first is a golden liquid which flows in to each universe at one specific location like water from a well. This can be collected and used for rituals but prolonged exposure causes amnesia and insanity. The second is a [[BackgroundMagicField background magic field]] which is everywhere, but undetectable and extremely difficult to tap in to without a special wand that was made by the magic's living embodiment. As a result, anyone who has the wand becomes a target for those hoping to gain power for themselves.

* DeconstructiveParody: Of the MagicalGirl genre, as well as the associated MagicalGirlfriend and ActionGirlfriend tropes. With a wrecking ball... [[UpToEleven filled with dynamite and fiery rainbows]].

* AerithAndBob: "Star Butterfly" comes from a dimension where names can range from "Tom" and "Kelly" to "River" and "Toffee" to "Glossaryck" and "Yvgeny[[note]]which is a common Russian name, but an alternate spelling[[/note]] Bulgolyubov" (Buff Frog). Speaking of Tom, his parents consist of "Dave" and "Wrathmelior".

** The Mewni chocolate bar brand "Snookers", the favorite food of Solaria and her daughter Eclipsa, is clearly inspired by the RealLife chocolate bar brand "Snickers".

* BlandNameProduct: Quest Buy, where you can find almost anything, is a clear parody of Best Buy, right down to the style of the sloth employees' uniform.

* CurseCutShort: [[spoiler:Sherry]], who sold [[spoiler:yada yada berries, magical berries that petrify those who eat them or drink their juice, to assassins trying to kill Eclypsa]], after using a drink spiked with [[spoiler:yada yada berries]] to [[spoiler:petrify]] herself so she couldn't be questioned even by [[spoiler:Eclypsa's dark]] magic, taunted Star and Marco, who were investigating the incident, by asking them to tell [[spoiler:Eclypsa]] that she can "[[spoiler:yada yada]]" her ass, but the [[spoiler:petrification]] was able to take hold before she came to the last word (she was even turned her ass towards the two heroes and was pointing at it as the [[spoiler:petrification]] began).

* 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 chaotic and topsy-turvyed world.]]