History StarVsTheForcesOfEvil / TropesNToZ

*** This all comes to a head in "Face the Music", where Star, not wishing to be seen as a generic perfect princess, demands that her Princess Song shows who she really is as a person rather than a flawless fake persona that her mother and Mewni's citizens want to see. However, since Star never actually specified ''what'' she wanted in the song along with her less-than polite behavior towards the songwriter, her song ends up revealing several things that severely damage the reputation of the Butterfly family and royally piss off the MHC since they were never informed of such. Queen Moon spells it out to her daughter after the fact: since she's in such a high position of power with several people depending on and looking up to her, it's sometimes better to lie and present an idealized version of yourself that people want to see, as trying to be honest about who you are can reveal things that were specifically covered up to protect your image and reputation.

* TeensAreShort: Sort of. Star and Marco are both 14, and while most of the adults are taller, quite a few are around the same size or slightly shorter than them. It's also made pretty obvious that Star and Marco are both nowhere near done growing. One episode shows a FutureBadass 30-year-old Marco who's quite tall, and Star being a virtual PaletteSwap of her mother as a teenager will also almost certainly get a good deal taller over the next few years. This is subverted with a few of the background characters at their school, who are teenagers and very tall.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: Many voice actors for minor characters are often credited under "additional voices", meaning you need good ears to guess who's voicing who. This even applies to some major characters at times.

** "Conquer" ends with Star [[spoiler: handing over her wand and the throne to Eclipsa, after having learned the truth about her family ]]. Come the next episode, and her reputation in the kingdom ''tanks'' to the point where she's openly mocked and sarcastically addressed in public, and even the servants in the castle who wait on her regularly mumble under their breaths to badmouth her. Considering Eclipsa's reputation, it should be no surprise that Star siding with her would be disastrous to her political image.

** In "Lint Catcher", Marco decides to leave his old life behind and move to Mewni full-time. His best friend Star would obviously be thrilled to see him, right? Wrong: Star is severely annoyed and upset because he showed up completely unannounced and uninvited, not to mention Star was busy dealing with a bunch of personal issues at the time, and the fact that Marco had decided to make his entrance by sneaking into her room instead of letting her or her parents know what was up in advance. As a result, Star intentionally puts him as far out of her way as possible, and only realizes how she's been treating him when she has a chat with Eclipsa.
*** Star eventually makes up with Marco at the end of the episode and decides to make him her squire so he can stay with her full-time, a decision her parents are fully supportive of. However, this doesn't endear Marco in any way to the other squires, who immensely dislike him after the fact because he was basically handed the position for free on account of being friends with the princess. He's similarly disliked by others in the castle for the same reason, as well as his lack of background in nobility. Just because the Queen and King like him doesn't mean everyone else will.
*** In fact, the repercussions of this episode are made abundantly clear by the end of the season: Marco's parents are upset with Star because they feel like they no longer know their own son, who himself doesn't feel like he belongs at home anymore. They're also understandably upset that Marco decided to abandon his girlfriend, his friends, and his future just so he can continue living with his so called "best friend", who hasn't been giving him the respect he deserves or appreciates the sacrifice he made for her.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Ingrid Bloomgren from detention speaks German with only a small accent and the coupla sentences she spoke were stylistically and grammatically OK, as well (which is no surprise since her voice actress, Tajna Tanovic, lived and worked in Germany since quite a while. One could even argue that her slight accent is a deliberate attempt to sound like the WebVideo/AngryGermanKid).

*** "Star vs Echo Creek" ends with Star learning the police car she accidentally destroyed earlier was decommissioned and set to be destroyed anyway, but she's sentenced to community service for her actions. Decommissioned or not, Star still destroyed public property and fled the scene, and her running away used up police resources and upset Marco's family.
*** "The Banagic Wand Incident" has Star angrily assault and threaten a waiter in a pirate-themed restaurant, thinking the employees are actual pirates. This ends up angering the manager, who doesn't want to hear any sort of apology, and chases after her with the other employees for the assault and trashing the restaurant.
*** In "Interdimensional Field Trip", Star makes a bet with her teacher Mrs. Skullnick that she can be a better teacher to the class by allowing them to have fun and do whatever they want. This quickly ends up with nearly everyone in class getting severely injured and almost killed by a dangerous monster, while Star suffers a breakdown from things spiraling out of control. When the actual teacher Mrs. Skullnick steps in, she immediately gets things under control and moves the whole class to safety before telling off Star for her recklessness. Even though Star is a princess and is used to ordering people around, she's still a teenager who has no experience teaching, while Mrs. Skullnick is an actual teacher and knows the proper protocol for keeping order in the class.

** "Conquer" ends with Star [[spoiler: handing over her wand and the throne to Eclipsa, after having learned the truth about her family ]]. Come the next episode, and her reputation in the kingdom ''tanks'' to the point where she's openly mocked and sarcastically addressed in public, and even the servants in the castle who wait on her regularly mumble under their breaths to badmouth her. Considering Eclipsa's reputation, it should be no surprise that Star siding with her and wanting to help monsters would be disastrous to her political position.
** Star's energetic behavior and ignorance of Earth's culture is usually played for laughs in the early seasons, but there's several moments where her behavior has realistic consequences:

*** In "Interdimensional Field Trip", Star makes a bet with her teacher Mrs. Skullnick that she can be a better teacher to the class by allowing them to have fun and do whatever they want. This quickly ends up with nearly everyone in class getting severely injured and almost killed by a dangerous monster. When the actual teacher Mrs. Skullnick steps in, she immediately shows she knows what to do in such a situation and gets the whole class to safety before telling off Star for her recklessness. Even though Star is a princess and is used to ordering people around, she's still a teenager who has no experience teaching, while Mrs. Skullnick is an actual teacher and knows the proper protocol for keeping the class under control.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Sabrina the cheerleader ends up in the hospital a couple times.

* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: [[MrBig Ludo Avarius]] inherited his title as king of monsters from his family -- as well as a castle and riches he uses to respectively house and hire an army of physically-imposing monsters to fulfill his dimension-conquering dreams. Ludo himself was born the runt of his litter, not having the ability to fly (he is a bird-like monster) and being weak due to his small size. Because of this, he's a DirtyCoward who treats his minions like trash and flees when his army is defeated. This is DoubleSubverted when half a magical wand gets embedded in his hand, which makes him a substantial threat. However, it turns out the hand doesn't actually belong to him but to his DragonWithAnAgenda, who then regenerates himself, leaving Ludo as ineffective as he was before.

* NeverSayDie: Sometimes averted, but occasionally played straight:
** In "Match Maker", an incredibly destructive spell Star casts incapacitates Ludo's monster army, and while she's gloating over her victory to Ludo, she briefly worries that she just killed one of his monsters. Ludo insists that the guy she thinks she might've killed is "just bleeding internally and being a total baby about it!"
** In "The Other Exchange Student", Star assumes that fellow exchange student Gustav actually plans to eat the Diaz family. After strapping herself to the hood of the car, she tries in vain to warn them, "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIIEEE!"

** Toffee mentions that the "Mewnipendence Day" holiday celebrated by Mewmans is better known to the monsters as the "Great Monster Massacre", and the context of the holiday makes it clear that it was indeed a literal massacre.
** The first question of the Truth or Punishment game played at Star's sleepover is the surprisingly mundane and unimpressive "What is your favorite color?" Pony Head figures that subsequent questions will be much heavier, like "have you ever killed a man?" [[BlackComedyBurst Pony Head then dismisses that as actually being a really easy question for her too.]]

*** Marco saying that he almost got killed the last time he went to Quest Buy, which is why he didn't want to use the card.
** When a "songstrel" comes to write Star's Princess Song, she skips out of the house for hours. While he waits, he sings a song to pass the time:
--->'''Ruberiot:''' ''Where is Princess Star?\\
Has she traveled far?\\
I am very musically skilled\\
But if I don't write this, I'll surely be kil—'' HEY!
** Completely averted in the "Battle for Mewni" special, to the point that it seems Disney just doesn't care anymore about censoring any word related to "death". Examples go from [[spoiler:Moon confessing to Star that Toffee killed her mother, Star saying "let's go kill him" about Toffee, Katrina commenting that Star's lack of planning will get her killed, Star fearing that she has died after getting trapped in the wand's corrupted magic, to Ludo finishing off Toffee and mockingly telling him that he "turned out to be dead".]]

** While the rest of the events of the episode don't directly benefit Star as much, it is arguably a much worse case of this. Star's plan to save the monsters of Mewni from genocide is to [[spoiler:destroy magic, which will kill everyone made of or dependent on magic. Since this is not limited to Mewni, but takes place across the entire multiverse, that means Star will be killing millions if not billions of people and creatures across space, which is almost certainly a bigger genocide she than the one she is trying to prevent.]] And yet, since it will save her people and stop Mina, it is played as unambiguously right and the only option. In other words, if it will save my people from genocide, [[spoiler:it's okay to commit a far larger act of genocide.]]

** Played far more seriously with the [[SuperSoldier Solarian Warriors]]. Overexposure to the setting's magic has mind altering effects in general and Solarian Warriors are created by pumping channeling it directly into the warrior's body. The first generation of warriors killed each other in their madness. The second took people who were merely intolerant and turned them into genocidal maniacs.