Line #6 Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E36Heinous


1	Ms. Heinous shows up at the Diaz house and Marco must make amends for all the terrible things he has done.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AdultsAreUseless: The Diazes fulfill this role to a tee in this episode. They fail to recognize that Heinous is ObviouslyEvil (or at least deranged) and think Star and Marco are the aggressors of this situation and in general outside of their home. Part of this is driven by their desire to get the situation over with so they can [[SkewedPriorities host a dinner with their cool neighbors]].
5	* BackhandedApology: Marco's "apology video" is dripping with sarcasm and {{Suspiciously Specific Denial}}s, making it clear that he doesn't mean a word of it. He gets away with it because Heinous is too unhinged at this point to catch on.
6	* TheBadGuyWins: Zig-zagged; Heinous forces Marco to make a video retracting and condemning his insurrection at St. Olga's. However, she is too unstable to realize Marco's overwhelmingly sarcastic tone. Additionally, her initial demands for Marco's punishment were killing him to display his skeleton as a trophy/[[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset wear his spine as a belt]], which were negotiated down to said apology video. Still, though, she gets away with Marco's parents remaining oblivious to her true colors.
7	* BlackAndGrayMorality: Ms. Heinous, in her own demented way, points out that Marco's actions have ruined St. Olga's and the delinquent princesses who were sent there to learn responsibility and restraint are now free to act as wild as they please. However, Marco rightfully points out that Heinous' idea of teaching them responsibility was to forcefully strip away their individuality by brainwashing them.
8	* BlatantLies:
9	** When Heinous asks how her hair looks, Gemini claims she looks like she just came from the salon. Heinous knows this is nonsense, but appreciates the lie.
10	** When Marco tells his parents that Heinous strapped him to a chair and tried to brainwash him, Heinous claims that to be a "gross exaggeration".
11	* BrickJoke: The last few times Marco used his "Emergency Cash Stash" (in "Goblin Dogs", "Pizza Thing", and "The Bounce Lounge"), he always seemed to have exactly $650 on him. This episode reveals that Marco gets a monthly $650 royalty check for the use of his "Princess Marco" image on merchandise.
12	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Heinous wants to put Marco's skeleton on display in front of the school as a message to the rebellious princesses.
13	* DraggedIntoDrag: Marco is forced to put on his "princess" outfit for an embarrassing retraction video. Afterward, when the family has a game night, he decides to keep the dress on.
14	* FlyingCar: Heinous' sedan can fly.
15	* FromASingleCell: Rasticore's surviving arm will eventually regenerate a new body for him.
16	* GilliganCut: Marco swears he'll do anything to get rid of Ms. Heinous. Cut to him in a dress holding a sign reading "It IS Criminal to be an Individual", lamenting his choice of words.
17	* GoneHorriblyRight: Marco's ideals did promote individuality to the students at St. Olga's, but it led to them becoming completely uncontrollable, resulting in Heinous's overthrow and causing the school to fall apart. Marco doesn't see anything wrong with this, justifying that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he did what he had to do]] because her idea of rehabilitation was ''brainwashing''.
18	* HealingFactor: After being vaporized by the Quest Buy gift card, Rasticore's surviving hand is slowly regrowing the rest of his body.
19	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Marco's parents go about assuming Miss Heinous is a legit authority figure whom Marco has defied, no matter how severe the punishment she wants to mete out to him.
20	* IdiotBall /JerkassBall: Marco's parents caught both in this episode, big time! This is the ''only'' episode in which they're dumb and {{Jerkass}} at all.
21	* JerkassHasAPoint: Heinous tells the Diazes to keep a better eye on what their son is doing, something they do take to heart after realizing Marco and Star have clearly gotten up to quite a lot while they weren't looking. While the Diazes don't mind Marco's and Star's antics ''inside'' their house, it's what happens ''outside'' without their knowledge that raised a red flag.
22	* LoopholeAbuse: Marco was told to apologize; there's nothing saying he can't be sarcastic about it.
23	* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Heinous wants to break the rebellious princesses by putting Marco's skeleton on display to make an example of those who defy authority. She settles for an apology video.
24	* TheMerch: In-Universe. There's merchandise of "Princess Marco" and Marco himself is not only completely aware of it but also receives royalties for the use of his image.
25	* MeaninglessVillainVictory: While Heinous managed to "punish" Marco by getting him to record a video denouncing his actions, it has done nothing to change her current situation; she still has no money and lives in her car. Marco also points out that his obviously forced speech will probably do little to curb the rebel princesses' actions.
26	* NeverMyFault: Heinous refuses to take responsibility for her crimes and wants to punish Marco for inspiring a revolution to put an end to them.
27	* NoodleIncident: When Star and Marco first appear, Marco expresses hope that Star finally learned parking meters aren't filled with candy.
28	* NotQuiteDead: Apparently Rasticore is still alive, and regenerating slowly.
29	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: This is the first time the Diazes are angry and strict towards Marco and Star, as they thought they were upsetting their houseguests Heinous and Gemini who had done nothing wrong. Plus, they take Miss Heinous' advice to heart to keep an assertive eye on Star's and Marco's inter-dimensional adventures.
30	* PlayingTheVictimCard: Heinous presents herself to Marco's parents as an innocent victim of Marco's actions, claiming to have done no wrong herself.
31	* PoliceAreUseless: A police officer shows up to investigate the disturbance... and reports of a double-parked car. But since Heinous' car isn't touching the ground (it's ''literally'' "double parked", as in parked ''on top of'' another car), there's technically nothing he can do.
32	* PunkInTheTrunk: Gemini is forced to sleep in the trunk.
33	* SacredHospitality: Marco's parents stop Marco and Star from attacking Heinous and her assistant, because they willingly invited them into their home. Despite the fact that Heinous ''chainsawed the front door'' first.
34	* SanitySlippage: Ms. Heinous was never all there to begin with, but her mind has really cracked after losing her school. She can't recognize that Marco is a boy, she treats Rasticore's arm like it's her baby and acts as if he's still effective at killing, and she is unable to recognize that Marco's "apology" is filled with sarcasm and obvious hints that he's being forced to give it.
35	* SarcasmMode: Marco's "apology", to the point that he more or less admits Heinous is forcing him to do it. Heinous is completely oblivious.
36	* SequelHook: Despite getting what she wanted, Heinous ends the episode by planning to annihilate Marco and Star so the multiverse will "quiver" before her, wiping off the makeup hiding her cheek symbols as she does.
37	* SkewedPriorities: Mr. and Mrs. Diaz spend most of the episode worried about having to cancel dinner with the neighbors, almost completely ignoring Heinous's threats to kill their son.
38	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Marco wants the princesses to know he's ''definitely'' not apologizing just because Ms. Heinous is threatening him and his family.
39	* TwitchyEye: Miss Heinous has a twitch in her eye while recording Marco's apology video, which helps to show she's too far over the edge to pick up on Marco's sarcasm.
40	* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Done in spirit at least. Heinous still intends to get revenge on Marco and Star despite getting what she wanted out of them. Marco ''did'' make use of liberal amounts of sarcasm to get away with LoopholeAbuse but Heinous herself didn't realize that, meaning she plays the trope straight.

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