Line #108 StarVsTheForcesOfEvil/TropesAToM


1	* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Eclipsa has this among non monsters. She gets it during her first reign for falling in love with a monster and during her second reign for attempting to give monsters equal rights. It gets to a point that Star can't find the culprit behind an assassination attempt because there are [[EveryoneIsASuspect too many possible suspects.]]
2	* AbortedArc: In the Season 1 episode "Monster Arm", the titular entity swears to Marco that it will always be inside him, and will one day return. Despite callbacks to it throughout the series, it never does return.
3	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Severing Stone is described to have such properties that it can sever both physical and spiritual things.
4	* AdultsAreUseless: Zigzagged. Star and Marco regularly fight off monsters and deal with other problems without adults around, and adults who are present have a tendency to be incompetent. However, Star also asks her mom and Glossaryck for advice from time to time, and in Season 2 we see cops and park rangers doing their job.
5	* AerithAndBob: "Star Butterfly" comes from a dimension where names can range from "Tom" and "Kelly" to "River" and "Toffee" to "Glossaryck" and "Yvgeny[[note]]a less common transliteration of a common Russian name[[/note]] Bulgolyubov" (Buff Frog). Speaking of Tom, his parents consist of "Dave" and "Wrathmelior".
6	* AgainWithFeeling: When Star is having night terrors. Marco decides that the problem is psychological and has Star undergo a number of tests during which he tells Star that she has mother issues. She happily screams "I have mother issues" until Marco informs her that it isn't a good thing, at which point she repeats the line dejectedly.
7	* AnAesop: The series has several:
8	** "Mewnipendence Day": Don't have blind faith in your history and heroes, there are two sides to every story, and their actions may not have been as heroic when you take a better look at them.
9	** "Storm the Castle": Don't endanger the lives of others for your own thrills and adventures.
10	** "Blood Moon Ball": If you feel like you're being underestimated by your loved ones, you should at least try to understand the reasons behind their actions because they may have just wanted to protect you or keep you from harm.
11	** "Wand to Wand": When faced with a problem, trying to take the easy way out can often just make things more difficult.
12	** "Just Friends": While it's important to be a good friend, it's more important to be well-rounded in your priorities. It's healthier to put yourself first once in a while and prioritize your own happiness over someone else's.
13	** "Face the Music": It's OK to have feelings for someone. Nobody can control their feelings for another and sometimes it's best to confess them before any damage can be done. It's better to confess these feelings on your own terms, rather than have a third party do it for you.
14	** "Mr. Candle Cares": Life is full of difficulties, experiences, and situations you may not feel ready for. You might not ''ever'' feel "ready" for these experiences, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try them. If it doesn't work out, there's no shame in looking to others for help when you can't solve a problem. Nobody ever became good at something without trying it.
15	** "Demoncism": There is no such thing as a pure, good person. Everyone has their flaws but without them, we wouldn't be human and we wouldn't have any form of free will. If you are afraid of your bad traits or want to change, learn to control those traits or seek support from your family, friends or therapists rather than hurt yourself for someone else's view of purity.
16	** "Out of Business": The classic "Stuff doesn't equal happiness" lesson, but it's approached in a novel way. Janna, Marco and Star already know that. They don't need to be locked in cages and they're in no danger of their minds turning to goo. They just walk right out with no problem.
17	** "Princess Quasar Caterpillar and the Magic Bell": Anyone can say they can change, but you have to mean it. Redemption has to be earned through hard work and teamwork. You can't change by amputating the past and never acknowledging it again.
18	** "Cornball": To really make a better future, you have to influence the younger generation.
19	** Season 3 tackles the concept of family; a person doesn't have to be blood related to be your family. If you do love and care for them, as they do for you, that's all that matters.
20	** "Here to Help" has a rather harsh one: you can't be "moderate" between two sides of a conflict when one side is power-hungry, irrational and genocidal. [[spoiler:Moon thinks she can use Mina Loveberry and the Mewmans who want her back as queen to get back her throne from Eclipsa "for the good of Mewni" and in hopes of preventing Mina from instigating genocide. It doesn't work; Mina double-crosses her and the Solarians that Moon empowered rebel and go rogue. Star in the next episode reads her mother the riot act for empowering Mina, a ''very idiotic move'', and thinking there was any reasoning with her]].
21	** As shown through Moon and Eclipsa, the series hammers home that [[ParentsAsPeople parents aren't perfect]]. Just because they have made disastrous decisions doesn't make them bad people. [[spoiler:Star even recognizes the shades of grey in both their actions in the finale; Moon had the right idea wanting to prevent Mina from doing even worse things to others, and Eclipsa married a monster out of love, even if such a decision would be repulsed by others]].
22	* AlienSky: Mewni's sky is pink and has three moons, the largest one of which has a ring system like UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}}.
23	* 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.
24	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Tom has a crush on Star, who has a crush on Oskar [[spoiler:and then unknowingly Marco]], Marco has a crush on Jackie, who has a crush on a guy from skate camp. [[spoiler:Mostly averted later on in that the crushes Marco/Jackie and Tom/Star develop into short-lived relationships, Jackie finds herself a girlfriend and Marco and Star end up together.]]
25	* AllThereInTheManual:
26	** The last names of most of the characters, including Ludo,[[note]]The episode "Face the Music" did already strongly imply Ludo's last name to be "Avarius", which is confirmed in the book.[[/note]] Tom and most of Star and Marco's classmates, are not mentioned in the series, but are found in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension''. Other details are also revealed in that book, like the fact that the first two seasons take place during the 2014-15 school year and the fact that Tom is specifically from Mewni's underworld rather than a generic Hell-like dimension.
27	** ''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 ([[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot though barely]]), whose motivations were never fully explained in the series.
28	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Star strongly believes in the fundamental evil of the monsters she's fighting, [[spoiler:at least until "Mewnipendance Day" when she is forced to reevaluate the history between Mewmans and monsters]].
29	* AmusingInjuries:
30	** Marco's father gets a laser pulse to the eye thanks to Star's adorable laser puppies. He ends up winking it closed and continuing to coo over the cute puppy.
31	** Marco himself tends to get them at least OncePerEpisode, usually due to Star's magic.
32	* AnachronismStew: Although Mewni seems to be stuck in the DungAges, bits and pieces of the modern world are there; King Butterfly has a wristwatch, and Ludo's castle has a modern break room. Plus, Mewmans use cell phones that are powered by magic.
33	* 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 explained by the trope below.
34	* AnimationEvolution: 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.
35	* {{Animesque}}: Though the character designs are definitely more [[FourFingeredHands Western]], the series involves a [[MagicalGirl princess from another dimension]] with a [[ArtifactOfDoom magic wand]] that looks straight out of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', there are {{Anime}} references and GratuitousJapanese strewn throughout (a picture taken in the photobooth with Star, Marco, and Pony Head reads "SUPER KAWAII!"), and the [[CreativeClosingCredits ending theme's animation]] may as well be taken from an anime in its format.
36	* AnotherDimension: Mewni, where Star is from, is one of several. It's right there in the ThemeSong. Magic scissors are used by the characters to move between them.
37	* AntiRegeneration: Queen Moon learns black magic [[spoiler:from Eclipsa]] to neutralize Toffee's healing factor, making him unable to regenerate.
38	* ApatheticCitizens: Mewmans only ever get riled up when someone takes them out of their comfort zone or tries to force them to change. For example, when Solaria offered the people a means to protect the land by becoming Solarians, they all refused as they were too indifferent and lazy to change.
39	* ArcWords: "On the fritz" is used whenever magic stuff stops working properly, something that happens more and more often as the series continues. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:"the fritz" is an actual phenomenon that's causing magic to slowly vanish from the universe, and it's steadily getting worse and worse -- until Star brings it all back in the finale to the Battle of Mewni]].
40	* ArtEvolution: Somewhere in mid/late-Season 1, the character outlines became slightly less thick. Season 2 made a few more changes, the most noticeable being Ms. Skullnick's character design looking a lot less grotesque.
41	* TheArtifact: Star's magic wand, the whole reason she was sent to Earth in the first place and 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.
42	* ArtifactOfDoom: Star's wand could become this in the hands of evil. Star herself destroys an entire village not five minutes after receiving it, which leads to her being sent to Earth. Even without being used in evil hands, the wand is apparently so dangerous that simply someone unfamiliar with its powers trying to wield it make even [[NightmareFetishist Janna]] duck and cover. [[spoiler:At the time, all Marco was doing was touching the wand and Janna was still fairly sure it could kill him. Star later confirms, after a backlash from a non-combat spell from the wand destroys her room, that doing so was incredibly stupid.]]
43	* ArtifactTitle: Played with. While Star still fights villains as the series gets DarkerAndEdgier, [[spoiler:what "the Forces of Evil" actually entails becomes more complicated. In particular: whether monsters are aggressive antagonists or [[FantasticRacism innocent victims]].]]
44	* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: For all that he calls it karate, none of Marco's moves bear any resemblance to actual karate. This is justified in that his sensei is literally on the same level as him.
45	* AsinineAlternateActivity: In "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E15GameOfFlags Game of Flags]]", Star wants to sit at the adults' table and participate in the deadly game of Flags, but her mother puts her foot down against her playing Flags and assigns her to the kids' table with her baby cousins. The kids' table is also sized for much smaller kids -- it doesn't even reach Star's knees when she sits at it.
46	* BeastAndBeauty: Eclipsa and Globgor. HugeGuyTinyGirl, too.
47	%%* BeeAfraid: Star's "Honeybee Tornado Swarm" spell.
48	* BeginWithAFinisher: Eclipsa opens her fight against a Solarian Warrior with Black Velvet Inferno, the same spell that instantly took down Meteora, the BigBad of the previous season. Unfortunately, it harmlessly pings off the Solarian's armor.
49	* BerserkButton: For Star, implying that she's helpless or incapable of defending herself, as Marco finds out in "Blood Moon Ball." There's also the ending of "The Banagic Wand Incident" where she suddenly goes quiet and coldly brushes off Marco when he admits he underestimated her abilities.
50	* {{BFS}}: Star has one of these in her room.
51	* BigBadEnsemble:
52	** 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 the others, 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 Toffee in the moment of his apparent victory.]]
53	** 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 initially seemed to be influencing Star and was implied to have big plans for the kingdom... [[spoiler:Until its revealed that Miss Heinous is actually Eclipsa's long-lost half-monster daughter, Meteora Butterfly. While Eclipsa merely wanted to reclaim the family she lost because of the Magic High Commission, Meteora, upon finding out about her past, looks to take brutal revenge on those who wronged her]], pushing her into new and far greater reaching aims and powers.
54	* BiggerOnTheInside: Tom's skeleton-horse-drawn-carriage looks like it would have room for maybe two people. It's actually enormous on the inside.
55	* BigWhat: This is practically Marco's catchphrase.
56	* BilingualBonus: In ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', Ingrid writes on Star's yearbook: "Das sieht aus wie Tinte, ist es aber Nicht, Hab einen schoenen Sommer!"[[labelnote:translation]]That looks like ink, [[CouldntFindAPen but it's not]]. Have a great summer![[/labelnote]]
57	* BirthdayEpisode: Subverted; Star doesn't celebrate on her actual birthday, because it falls on the same day as "Stump Day". Anything that detracts from Stump Day will make The Stump angry, even though most adults know that The Stump is [[RealAfterAll just a myth.]] In "Lava Lake Beach", Marco says it's his birthday in the final scene.
58	* 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 [[CelestialBureaucracy 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.]]
59	* BlackComedy: Plays with this territory sometimes, with several instances of sentient beings being implied to be killed in the chaos. However, characters have also [[UnexplainedRecovery been shown to be alive and okay after said implications]].
60	* BlandNameProduct:
61	** 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.
62	** The Mewni chocolate bar brand "Snookers", the favorite snack of Solaria and her daughter Eclipsa, is clearly inspired by the RealLife chocolate bar brand "Snickers".
63	* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses is made out to be more like an ''actual jail''. It's also infamous within the princess community, as both Star and Pony Head greatly fear the place. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed to be ''even worse'' than what they feared. After Marco led a rebellion within the school, it lost this status. It turns out that even its head mistress Miss Heinous wasn't safe and was as much a victim of it as any one, and the original leader was a heartless robot]].
64	* BodyHorror:
65	** In "Monster Arm", Marco breaks his arm and Star attempts to fix it via magic, only to instead turn his arm into a giant tentacle. Said giant tentacle proves to have a mind of its own and be quite malevolent and destructive.
66	** Star goes through this is "Mewberty", where she turns into a six-armed purple butterfly creature that shoots sticky webs and ends up destroying the school in the process.
67	* BookEnds: The first season finale has Star using the Whispering Spell to destroy her wand. The series finale has her use the spell again in the Realm of Magic, along with Moon, Eclipsa and Meteora, to destroy all magic forever.
68	* BrickBreak: Marco is training in karate and is seen trying to break boards in the opening. In "Monster Arm", he accidentally hits the part of the board over the cinderblock he was using to prop up the boards and breaks his arm.
69	* BrickJoke: There are several instances throughout the series where Marco, by sheer chance, finds himself owing someone exactly six hundred and fifty dollars. He strangely always has that exact amount on him. Early in the series, he claims it's his emergency cash stash, but it's never really explained or remarked upon beyond that. After all, it's not exactly "twenty bucks for sweets" amount, more like "leave the state quickly" amount. In a later episode in which this does ''not'' happen, Star learns that a line of dolls bearing Marco's likeness are being sold in other dimensions. When asked about this, Marco just says, "Oh, yeah. I get a six hundred fifty dollar royalty check every month."
70	* BrokenAesop:
71	** A recurring Aesop is that of letting go and moving on. A lot of episodes were made around this theme, including "Scent of a Hoodie", "Lava Lake Beach", "Rest in Pudding" and "Kelly's World". Despite this, however, characters would either go back to not wanting that thing to go away or get the thing they let go of anyway. [[spoiler:"Rest in Pudding" has Star accepting grief and accepting Glossaryck's passing before he suddenly returns, while the other three episodes are about Star and Marco letting go of each other, but they end up together anyway.]]
72	** Part of Star's arc has been that as the future queen of Mewni, she supposed be a SlaveToPR, and her decision to fight against that and be her own kind of Queen, one who does things not because Mewni wants her to do it, but because she thinks it's right. Season 4, however, has her constantly micromanaging Eclipsa as queen and forcing her to act in a way that makes the Mewmans more likely to accept her rather than let her be her own kind of queen.
73	** Star's arc has always been about creating her own destiny instead of following that which has been chosen and thrown upon her shoulders. The entirety of "Beach Day" is dedicated to the idea. [[spoiler:"Cleaved", however, leaves a sour spot in the Aesop because it's heavily implied that Glossaryck's endgame has been destroying the magic all along and, with him being an omniscient being, he always knew that Star and Marco would end up together one way or another. As such, Star ended up doing things BecauseDestinySaysSo.]]
74	** 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, throughout the series, it's constantly shown that there is good magic and evil magic and that the latter corrupts the former.
75	* 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)
76	* ButtMonkey:
77	** Marco is usually on the receiving end of unfortunate events or humiliation, usually caused by Star's ineptitude with magic and destructive tendencies. Sometimes, it isn't even caused by Star at all and is just simply his bad luck.
78	** King River and Ludo are usually subjected to AmusingInjuries or misfortune in some way, with "Ludo in the Wild" and "Game of Flags" being the most blatant examples.
79	* CallingYourAttacks:
80	** Star whenever she uses her wand. This is {{justified\|Trope}} since the call-outs are technically incantations, even if they sound like mashups of random cutesy words.
81	** In "Conquer", [[spoiler:Eclipsa]] does this, albeit with a much calmer and subdued way, and [[spoiler:with more [[BlackMagic sinister names]] like "[[DeathRay Midnight Shriek]]"]].
82	* CastingGag:
83	** In the Japanese dub, Creator/KanaUeda (Star) already voiced a MagicalGirl who speaks in 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''.
84	** In the Russian dub, Natalia Tereshkova (Star) voiced another {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls girl with similar appearance and personality traits]].
85	** Principal Skeeves is not the only school principal that Jeff Bennett [[WesternAnimation/TheReplacements voiced]].
86	** Queen Moon is voiced by Grey [=DeLisle=], which isn't the [[WesternAnimation/MilesFromTomorrowland first time]] that she's voiced one.
87	** One of Tress [=MacNeille=]'s current roles is [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Rosie the Robot]]. Here, one of the characters she voices is a robot caretaker who's similarly sarcastic.
88	* CentralTheme:
89	** Evil comes in many forms, sometimes bluntly and sometimes subtly. Whether it be monsters who attack Star or a system that oppressed them.
90	** Emotions are complicated and can only be resolved by acknowledging them. Ignoring them will be unhealthy and can make a situation worse when those emotions are mishandled.
91	** The {{Arc Villain}}s all represent the theme of racism and how it's created. Toffee was a monster freedom fighter whose motives were eventually corrupted by his own need for [[MotiveDecay revenge]]. Meteora was a [[MalignedMixedAncestry Mewman-monster hybrid]] who was [[HidingYourHeritage denied the throne and abandoned for the crime of being a child of miscegenation]]. Finally, there's Mina, a Solarian soldier who's devoted to eradicating all monsters so the Mewmans can return to their old way of life. Racism comes in many forms, it can be born from [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys revenge]], [[SinsOfTheFather historical inequity]] and a desire to have [[GoodOldWays everything return to the status quo]]. [[spoiler:Mina's final scene in "Cleaved" represents the sad reality of how prejudice will never die, no matter how much society changes. However, everyone's reaction to this shows how Mina's beliefs will eventually be shelved in the darkest parts of history. Racism will always be a problem, but it's a problem that can and should be handled appropriately and effectively. The villains tried to stop racism or deliver justice by using [[MyWayOrTheHighway their own violent methods]] but, in the end, the Mewmans overcame their racist views by listening to democracy and reason.]]
92	** Season 4 has the theme of changes going on. All characters have their status quo changed and/or are facing the inevitability that it will change, and the main antagonist of the season, Mina, wants things to change back the way they used to be. [[spoiler:Even the other members of the BigBadDuumvirate also desire this. The Magic High Commission want to be back on power and Omnitraxus even mentions how they'll return to their old schedule, and Moon siding with them also hints that she wants everything to go back to before. The season's final conflict also moves a central change to everything as Star has decided she'll erase all the magic in the world.]]
93	* CerebusRollercoaster: Longer episodes such as "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" tend to have a more serious tone and darker elements than the largely comedic 11-minute episodes.
94	* TheChainsOfCommanding: The Queen of Mewni is shown to be less of an actual ruler, and more of a babysitter for spoiled children. The people of Mewni utterly and completely refuse to do 'anything' for themselves or take responsibility for their own lives. They expect the queen to take care of their every need. Provide work and housing and food for them. The Queen has to act as though she is utterly perfect and without as much as a single flaw, regardless of how stressed or tired they are. The people are also stubbornly resistant to change, and any attempts to implement changes, even if they are for the better will either be ignored or met with hostility. When Eclipsa 'forced' reforms to be put into practice, her people either openly defied her at the best [[spoiler: or tried to have her killed at the worst.]]
95	* ChariotPulledByCats:
96	** The Royal Stagecoach is [[https://starvstheforcesofevil.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_stagecoach?file=S1e1_royal_stagecoach.png pulled by Manticores]], which highlights Mewni's magical nature.
97	** Tom's carriage is pulled by a [[https://youtu.be/izoY6Gq8yzA?t=118 flaming skeletal horse]].
98	* TheChewToy: Sabrina, the brunette cheerleader with a ponytail who's always suffering AmusingInjuries. She ends up in ''a wheelchair'' in her first appearance.
99	* ChildhoodFriendRomance:
100	** Moon and River were childhood friends before they became King and Queen.
101	** Marco's parents were childhood friends.
102	** Jackie and Marco were friends since they were children.
103	* ClassPet: Star gets detention for freeing the class hamster.
104	* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Mewni itself has shades of this. For example, dentists and construction workers can team up to combat the local geography, the blacksmith makes iron shells for turtles for no adequately explained reason and there are two weirdos that have been locked into a StaringContest for years now.
105	* CluelessAesop:
106	** PlayedForLaughs in "Fortune Cookies" where Star decides the moral is "Love is ''never'' the answer!"
107	** 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 [[ToughLeaderFacade pretend to be someone you're not]], especially when [[TheChainsOfCommanding you're in a position of authority]] where people depend on you.
108	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: in “School Spirit", Ferguson is in the high school football mascot costume jumping around as his pants fall down.
109	* ComingOfAgeStory: The series slowly becomes a coming-of-age story for both Star and Marco as they steadily mature. Marco has matured the most, developing more confidence in himself and being less cautious, successfully going into a relationship with his crush Jackie Lynn Thomas and progressing to a red belt in karate. Star has moved on from her prejudices towards monsters, started to take responsibility for her actions and starts to be more honest with herself.
110	* CommonTongue: The language spoken across Mewni is referred to as Mewnian as revealed in "Death Peck", but it happens to sounds like English. Additionally, Mewmans have a written language too, but they also use English writing.
111	* ConcertEpisode:
112	** "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E39JustFriends Just Friends]]" features Star, Marco, and Jackie going to a concert for Marco's favorite band, Love Sentence. [[spoiler: Things start going downhill when couples start kissing, including Jackie and Marco. [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Star is heartbroken, but remains silent.]]]] The episode features a voice cameo by Nick Lachey.
113	** "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS2E40FaceTheMusic Face the Music]]" has the "songtrel" Ruberiot (voiced by [[Music/FallOutBoy Patrick Stump]]) composing Star's princess song for the citizens of Mewni. It turns out to be a full-fledged rock number, which goes well until [[spoiler:the song reveals that Star lost the book of spells, and also has a crush on Marco]].
114	* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:Releasing Globgor was supposedly all Rombulus' doing, which is why the Commission arrested him at the end of the episode. It wasn't. All the members of the High Commission, who have repeatedly shown themselves to be racists and bigots where monsters are concerned, were in on it. And when that didn't work, they set Mina loose on Mewni.]]
115	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
116	** The first BigBad, Toffee, was a lizard monster with a smooth and suave personality with a particular skill to manipulating people and playing a long term game. He was extremely powerful, but hid behind the BigBadWannabe Ludo so Star wouldn't focus on him. He has an extremely sadistic and petty personality, but hides beneath his cool and stoic looks and is fully aware of the entire history of the Butterflies, the monster and the entire magic system, having influenced the past story from the get go and very mysterious plans, methods and goals. [[spoiler:He's killed by a powerful blast by Star and having a pillar dropped on him by Ludo.]]
117	** Ludo was introduced as the entire opposite of Toffee in Season 1: short, weak, ugly, unintelligent, frail and laughably incompetent where Toffee was tall, strong, smart, suave and frightfully competent to the point of having the upper hand on Star until the very end. Ludo, however, comes back as the BigBad of most of Season 2, and unlike Toffee, he goes through CharacterDevelopment and becomes very competent if still pretty laughable, and is revealed to be a pile of traumas due to an abusive childhood. [[spoiler:He goes through a HazyFeelTurn at the beginning of Season 3, after offing Toffee with Star, more because he's pissed at him than because he's trying to make things right, he goes off to another dimensions to try to find himself. It isn't until Season 4 he fully retires, deciding to go live with his siblings.]]
118	** Meteora Butterfly is a LongLostRelative of the Butterfly family, and is both much more powerful than Toffee and Ludo and has a much more messed up backstory. Unlike the two before her, she's constantly changing her form as she becomes more powerful and is capable of using magic and is someone who can't formulate very complex plans. Like Ludo and unlike Toffee, she's a tragic character at heart and a PsychopathicManchild to the end, and like Toffee and unlike Ludo, she's intrinsically connected to the past of the Mewni kingdom and works alone in the end. [[spoiler:She's also not offed by Star, but by Eclipsa, who turns her back into a baby, and she's being raised again now.]]
119	** Mina Loveberry is the first fully Mewman BigBad, and the first one to have once been a heroic character, taking this spot in Season 4. She's a FallenHero who refuses to accept the more monster-friendly motions that Star thought so hard to make work. Unlike previous villains, she has no interest in overtaking Mewni, just to change it back to its previous state. She's also, while not having any magic, extremely physically strong thanks to being a Solarian soldier. While Meteora and Ludo had traits of being their insanity played for drama, Mina's insanity is played for horror, used to showcase her BlackAndWhiteInsanity as she is going to kill anything or anyone in her way to do what she feels is right.
120	** [[spoiler:The Magic High Commission in Season 4 become the first BigBadDuumvirate when they join Mina to depose Eclipsa. Like Mina, they used to be somewhat heroic, but have their heroism shed little by little through their time. While all the other enemies were clear enemies from the start, the MHC pretended to be heroes all along and it's not until "Cornonation" that Rhombulus reveals he released Globgor in hope that he'd kill Mewmans and he'd be able to crystallize him and Eclipsa again while Hekapoo and Omnitraxus are revealed in "Ready, Aim, Fire" to be working with Mina, and are motivated to take back their power over Mewni and maintain the status quo where monsters are a stepped on minority.]]
121	* TheCorruption: [[spoiler:When Moon uses or tries to use the spell she got from her DealWithTheDevil with Eclipsa, dark jagged VolcanicVeins start running up her arms.]]
122	* 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]].
123	* CreativeClosingCredits:
124	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6atapgXmMzU The outro]] for the first two seasons is very reminiscent of anime outros.
125	** The end credits for "Starcrushed" is [[spoiler:a still image of the Diaz home without Star's tower. It features no music playing whatsoever... and suddenly, Oskar's guitar falls down to the ground out of nowhere]].
126	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Spider With a Top Hat seems to just be Star's dorky little comic relief spell. [[spoiler:In actuality, he is her most powerful spell.]]
127	* CultureChopSuey: Mewni itself is a mashup of different cultures. Mewni resembles Medieval Europe, while its royals have American/English accents. Monsters also have different accents, with Buff Frog speaking with a Russian accent. During the fight against Meteora, Tom wears Asian armor, while Marco wields a katana.
128	* 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]] [[CyanidePill 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).
129	* DangerousInterrogative: Eclipsa is trying to talk to her long-lost daughter Meteora, who has assumed her monster form and is rampaging around Mewni, stealing people's souls.
130	-->'''Meteora:''' Are you really my...my mama?\
131	'''Eclipsa:''' You know, I think I prefer "mother."\
132	'''Meteora:''' ''(as her eyes glow dangerously) What?''\
133	'''Eclipsa:''' You know, "mama" is just fine.
134	* DarkerAndEdgier: Many episodes in Season 2 have a much darker tone in comparison with the Season 1. Season 3 actually takes this even further.
135	* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:In the past, Moon made a deal with Eclipsa to learn a spell capable of killing Toffee: Eclipsa would teach her the spell and in exchange Moon would free her as soon as Toffee was dead. She [[LoopholeAbuse took advantage]] of the ExactWords by using the spell to cripple Toffee instead of killing him, thereby avoiding freeing Eclipsa while still dealing with the monster army. [[OhCrap Except then Star and Ludo manage to kill him]], setting Eclipsa up as the BigBad from Season 3 onward.]]
136	* DeconstructiveParody: Of the MagicalGirl genre, as well as the associated MagicalGirlfriend and ActionGirlfriend tropes. With a wrecking ball...filled with dynamite and fiery rainbows.
137	* DescendedCreator: [=StarFan13=] and Sabrina are both voiced by series creator Daron Nefcy.
138	* DiscreetDiningDisposal: When offered Sean's donuts, Star opts to stuff them in her clothes rather than eat them.
139	* DistractedByTheSexy: When seeing [[spoiler:adult Marco]] in "Running with Scissors", Star barely listens to him, is entirely focused on his six pack and can't compose her sentences.
140	* 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]].
141	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The first ending theme is performed by Star's voice actress, Eden Sher. Bonus points because it feels like an anime ending (both visually and song-wise). Neither Disney XD or Disney Channel have applied CreditsPushback on their airings.
142	* 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''.
143	* {{Doorstopper}}: The manual for Star's magic wand. This is justified as it's a giant collection of personal notes from centuries of past users, and has not been organized nor cared for that much. When Star pulls it out from under her bed, the pages are worn, dusty, and some of the notes appear to have been added with Mewni scotch tape.
144	* DrosteImage: The effect is achieved in "Raid the Cave", when Star is attempting to use her spying spell and eventually spies on Marco through the portal, who in turn is spying on Star and the portal right back.
145	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
146	** Season 1 is much more lighthearted and energetic than any of the subsequent seasons, and the characters are also prone to making more exaggerated facial expressions. This is in no small part due to the animation done by Creator/MercuryFilmworks.
147	** The series initially plays out like a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' meets ''Manga/SailorMoon'' high school comedy before deciding to focus more on Mewni and lore-heavy plots.
148	** Season 1 has occasional cutaway gags and is much more humor focused in general. The cutaway gags would be dropped entirely starting in season 2, and the humor would become much more subdued and down-to-earth.
149	* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: [[spoiler:For most of Season 3, the fact that Star has feelings for Marco and declared it. Neither of them ever bring it up amongst themselves and just continue with their lives as usual. Said elephant ended up being addressed in "Booth Buddies", and Marco even admitted that he never brought it up so that things wouldn't be different between them.]]
150	* EliteMooks: The guards of St. Olga's are just scarily competent and intimidating that fighting them is usually not recommended. It's telling that Star and Marco, who are extremely competent fighters and have been kicking butt up to this point, don't even make an ''attempt'' to fight them.
151	* 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.
152	* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
153	** What could happen if Star's wand fell into evil hands, although she also tends to be rather chaotic with it outside of combat situations.
154	** When Star first goes through mewberty, she describes it as "destroy the school" bad.
155	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Star is introduced by attacking monsters without provication, busting into the throne room of the castle on a Warnicorn, and then setting Mewni on fire almost immediately after receiving the family wand. This should pretty much tell you all you need to know about her.
156	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
157	** In "Mewnipendence Day", Ludo, who absolutely ''despises'' Star and wishes for nothing else but to ''kill'' her and steal her wand, lists off all the places he can spy on Star, including the bathroom. Toffee (despite everything he's done and his history with the Butterfly family) and Buff Frog get visibly uncomfortable and are about to call him out on it before Ludo decides it wouldn't be right to spy on an underage girl in there.
158	** Despite everything about Toffee, he's still a man of his word, as indicated by him releasing Marco in exchange for Star destroying her wand as promised in "Storm the Castle."
159	** [[spoiler: Despite Queen Solaria's reputation and remorseless slaughtering of monsters while she was still alive, even she's visibly disgusted by Mina's actions in the final episode, and coldly abandons her to die before turning to assist the heroes in destroying magic]].
160	* EvilAllAlong:
161	** Hey, what do you know? The [[spoiler:Monster Arm]] isn't so bad after all- wait, no, it's actually worse.
162	** [[spoiler: Turns out the friendly and goofy-looking MHC that have been serving the royal family for generations are actually extremely petty racists and xenophobic towards monsters, and have been lying to the royal family for centuries. It's to the point where they kidnapped a literal ''baby'' and completely un-personed her from history just because she was part-monster]].
163	* EvilColonialist: [[spoiler: The Mewmans in are this. Originally humans from Earth,]] they crossed through a realm of pure magic and into a world full of monsters, demons, and other supernatural creatures. Upon arriving they were given a [[MagicWand magic wand]] that allowed them to access the realm of magic's power from anywhere. They used it to subjugate their new world and horde its resources.
164	* EvilerThanThou:
165	** Ludo and Toffee. [[spoiler:Toffee has bigger plans for Star and Queen Moon, while Ludo has ever barely managed to obtain Star's wand. His scheme is so good he possesses Ludo's body/half of Star's wand without Ludo knowing it.]]
166	** End of Season 1 [[spoiler:Toffee wins Ludo's castle and minions by simple persuasion.]] Marco later relates Toffee [[EvilLawyerJoke to a lawyer]].
167	* EvolvingCredits:
168	** Season 2's group shot near the end of the opening credits changes the characters present from Season 1.
169	** Season 3 changes the credits entirely since the series shifted to Mewni, showing the new roster of characters. After the Battle for Mewni story arc, [[spoiler:Star's wand regains its missing fragment]].
170	** The bouncy and cheerful ending theme for the first two seasons is replaced in the final two seasons with the also upbeat but more pop-like "Shining Star".
171	* ExpositoryThemeTune: The theme song explains Star's backstory and MO to a T.
172	* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: The magic used by the Butterfly family 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.
173	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The events of "Jannanigans" and the episodes between that and "Cleaved" all take place on the same day.
174	* EyeScream:
175	** One of said puppies fires a laser into Marco's dad's eye.
176	** In "Lobster Claws", Star fires a wave of crystal cupcakes at Ludo's minions, one of which gets lodged in Bearnicorn's eye.
177	** A running gag has Marco repeatedly get his sensei's clipped toenails, flies, and other objects launched into his eyes whilst training for his red belt.
178	* TheFairFolk: The pixies in "Pixtopia". They're beautiful, ethereal, and send Star and her friends to the mines for not being able to pay a bill. The pixie empress orders the gang killed when she can't marry Ferguson, and according to Star, she would have eaten him had the marriage gone through.
179	* FamilyThemeNaming: The Butterfly royal family seems to name their daughters after celestial bodies and phenomena: Star, her mother Moon, and Eclipsa are just a few examples.
180	* FantasticFightingStyle: "Wool-Hair-Do" is a fighting style practiced by Kelly's species, which involves two people fighting alongside each other through their hair.
181	* FantasticRacism: Mewman prejudice against Monsters and its consequences are a central theme of the series, to the point of it being the motive of [[spoiler:Mina Loveberry, the series' final BigBad]].
182	* FeudalFuture: If "Skooled" is of any indication, Mewni is a medieval-style setting with peasants, royalty and nobility, but they've had computers and robots, albeit outdated by today's standards, even 300 years prior to the present day.
183	* FighterMageThief:
184	** Marco is tough and a skilled martial artist (Fighter). Star casts powerful spells with a magic wand, though she is no slouch in hand to hand combat (Mage). Janna, who later joins the other two on their adventures, is stealthy, mischievous, and a skilled pickpocket and lock picker (Thief).
185	** [[spoiler:The three main villains of the series are this. Toffee relies on espionage, manipulation and infiltration (Thief). Meteora relies more on magic than she does on her physical strength by using a soul-absorption spell and draining the magic from its users (Mage). Mina Loveberry relies more on warfare and destruction (Fighter).]]
186	* ForbiddenLove: Queen Eclipsa abandons her kingdom to marry a monster. They are imprisoned for their treasonous romance, while their daughter, [[spoiler:who would grow up to become Miss Heinous]], is swapped with a peasant girl to be raised as heir to the throne.
187	* ForeignExchangeStudent: The Diazes have apparently played host to many of these in the past. One called Gustav visits in an early episode.
188	* ForegoneConclusion: As what we've learned in "Stump Day", it wasn't really Star's birthday in the first episode when she received the Royal Magic Wand from her mother, given she was born on Stump Day but she doesn't celebrate it that day because it would anger the Stump.
189	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
190	** Toffee [[spoiler:being the voice inside Ludo's wand]] got quite a bit of this: Ludo used two phrases that [[spoiler:Toffee had previously used "Swallow it" and "Surprise!", Toffee's skeletal hand made up his wand, and his finger showed up inside the other half of the wand.]]
191	** Glossaryck's nature as a true neutral was hinted at in "Page Turner" when he talks about [[LadyOfBlackMagic Queen Eclipsa]] in positive terms for never questioning him.
192	** [[spoiler:Lekmet was the only one of the magic high council to not have ADayInTheLimelight episode and he dies in a HeroicSacrifice in "Starcrushed".]]
193	** In "Sweet Dreams", River jokingly says in response to Star's questions about unintentionally transforming into her butterfly form that if such a thing ever happened, the Magic High Commission would come and take her away and then they would adopt a new princess. [[spoiler:This is exactly what happened to Eclipsa's Mewman/monster hybrid daughter Meteora who was sent away to St. Olga's and replaced by the peasant girl Festivia as the heir to the throne. Though Meteora had been taken away because of her heritage, not because of any power she exhibited.]]
194	** Early in Season 4, Star and Glossaryck are talking about the things that Star has done thus far that have caused trouble, and they all can be traced back to the time she destroyed Toffee in order to save the magic in the world, and Glossaryck mentions that might be a mistake. [[spoiler:In "The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse", Star realizes this is true. In order to save Mewni, she must end all magic.]]
195	* FourFingeredHands: Both humans and Mewmans sport four digits on each hand, as do some other characters. An early indication of Glossaryck's general weirdness is that he has ''six'' (five fingers and a thumb).
196	* TheFreelanceShameSquad:
197	** In "Cheer Up Star", Marco has a bad day that includes getting his trademark red hoodie ripped, revealing an embarrassing FunTShirt ("I Kissed a Ninja at Karate Kon 2012"). Not only does a [[PassingJudgment random guy on a bicycle point and laugh at him]], but Marco's SitcomArchNemesis Jeremy Birnbaum shows up to rub it in.
198	** In "Girls' Day Out", Star is sent to detention for setting the class hamster Marisol free, and Marco is shanghaied into rescuing the hamster. Marco promptly gets his arm stuck in a drain pipe, with Marisol just out of reach. Not only does his crush Jackie Lynn-Thomas see him like this, but he eventually attracts a horde of gawking students, who all take pictures.
199	* GarrulousGrowth: In "Naysaya", Marco ends up with a miniature talking head growing out of his neck. The eponymous Naysaya is a curse placed on him by Star's ex Tom, which blurts out all of Marco's most embarrassing thoughts and secrets to anyone in earshot when Marco tries to talk to his crush Jackie Lynn.
200	* 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.
201	* GlobalCurrency: Almost every dimension seems to use the same currency. At the very least, nobody has any trouble accepting [[RunningGag $650]] from Marco. The only exception thus far is Pixtopia, which only accepts gold and jewels.
202	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The fate of all those who try to decipher the labyrinthine Quest Buy mall's cryptic organization system. Marco [[BadassNormal cracks the system]].
203	* GoodPrincessEvilQueen:
204	** In flashbacks, Moon is depicted as a naïve but desperate princess who had just been crowned queen. She makes a contract with the Queen of Darkness, Eclipsa, in order to protect her homeland from Toffee.
205	** Eclipsa herself is surprisingly tolerant and caring towards monsters despite being the daughter of Solaria, who is best known as the genocidal and vicious Monster Carver.
206	** Later, Star's efforts to promote understanding between Mewman and Monsters are undercut by [[spoiler:her own mother, Moon, who creates an army of Solarian Warriors to depose Eclipsa.]]
207	* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Star's casual fights against Ludo and his monsters does not compare with [[spoiler:the evil the cast faces in Season 3 "The Battle for Mewni"]].
208	* 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]].
209	* GreatBigBookOfEverything: {{Subverted\|Trope}} with the manual for Star's wand. While Star claims it is a comprehensive list of the spells mastered by the wand's previous owners, that valuable information is extremely disorganized and often barely legible. This isn't helped by the fact that its living glossary likes being a giant pain about it.
210	* GrossUpCloseUp: Very rare, but it happens on occasion. The episode "The Bogbeast of Boggabah", for example, treats us to a close-up of both River and Star's bulging, very bloodshot eyeballs.
211	* HardTruthAesop
212	** "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 [[ToughLeaderFacade pretend to be someone you're not]], especially when [[TheChainsOfCommanding you're in a position of authority]] where people depend on you.
213	** "Monster Bash" teaches the lesson that you can't and shouldn't expect centuries of prejudice and bigotry to disappear overnight. It is possible for both sides to try to overcome their biases, but it is also too easy to fall back on them. Also, no matter how logical a change to the status quo may be, some will still viciously oppose it.
214	* HartmanHips: Averted, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/d/d7/Queen_Butterfly_S1E1_profile.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/324?cb=20170707192139 Queen Moon]], [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/8/8c/Miss_Heinous_profile.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/210?cb=20170226160235 Miss Heinous]], and probably [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/f/f2/Hekapoo.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20170210161919 Hekapoo]][[note]]she's only seen in one dress, so there is no way of knowing how wide her hips actually are[[/note]] aren't as bottom-heavy as they look because of their hoop skirts.
215	* HeroInsurance: Everyone on Earth is surprisingly cool with all the mayhem and destruction caused by Star.
216	* HiddenVillain: Season 3 hints that someone with a lot of power has been acting behind the scenes of the Butterfly family. [[spoiler:Eclipsa never had a daughter named Festivia. Her only daughter was Meteora, who was erased from all registers and even from the Magic High Commission's Archive, a secret archive that keeps the story of the royal family in check, someone positioned Mina in an abandoned monster temple to end Meteora were she to ever come back and erased Meteora's memory, turning her into Ms. Heinous, while simultaneously giving Festivia the throne. At the end of "Total Eclipsa of the Moon", Moon says she thinks she knows who did it. As it turns out, it ''was'' the Magic High Commission all along, just as Moon suspected.]]
217	* HighSchoolSweethearts: Mr. and Mrs. Diaz, according to the "#[=MarcoLIVE=] Animated Live Chat" by Marco in response to a fan.
218	* 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 of 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.
219	* HumanAllAlong: Of a sort. [[spoiler:Although Mewmans always looked identical to humans, it's strongly suggested in "Mama Star" that Mewmans were just humans who fell into the magic well and somehow ended up in Mewni. Since that realm messes with memories, none of the Mewmans remember that's how they got there.]]
220	* HumansAreWarriors: Marco is a shining example of this. Marco is 14 years old, and learned karate from a strip mall dojo. He's only a green belt, which is only about halfway through the ranking system. Yet he is capable of defeating fully grown, adult monsters time after time, just as well as an alien princess with extremely destructive magic. He's not even fully grown yet, but he's more than a match in a fight than most of what he and Star go up against.
221	* {{Hypocrite}}:
222	** 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 (notably, there's one episode where a shop keeper yells at Tom to get out of his store for looking like a monster, but then backpedals as soon as he realizes who he's talking to). There's also Ludo' family, whom Moon, who holds prejudiced views against peaceful monsters such as Buff Frog, treats with respect and pity due to them being close allies with the royal family, just like Tom's.
223	** Hekapoo in particular is notable for this, as despite holding the same prejudiced views against monsters as the rest of the MHC, she regularly hangs out with monsters in bars back in her home dimension. She also gets angry at Queen Moon for hiding things at the end of "Face the Music" despite Hekapoo herself [[spoiler: being part of the Meteora coverup and subsequently lying to the royal family about their true bloodline for centuries]].
224	* HypnoPendulum: In "Deep Dive", Janna uses Marco's wristwatch to hypnotize Star into a ForcedSleep so they can find out where her sleep-portaling leads her.
225	* TheILoveYouStigma: [[spoiler:In "Face the Music", Star's crush on Marco is publicly revealed to him in the final stanza of the song and in "Starcrushed". The two couldn't maintain a conversation long enough without becoming awkward with each other. Due to the fact that Marco was struggling to comprehend her feelings for him and Star was too embarrassed to admit the accuracy of the song.]]
226	* ImagineSpot: Both Star and Pony Head have identical nightmarish imaginings of going to [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses]].
227	* ImmortalsFearDeath: Back when Moon the Undaunted became Queen of Mewni, an army led by Toffee was trying to conquer the kingdom and they took victory for granted because [[HealingFactor they can regrow any body parts they lose]]. With a spell she learned from Eclipsa, Moon made Toffee lose a finger and he couldn't regrow it. Seeing it [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere scared his followers into fleeing]].
228	* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:Several characters were like this to Star since "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown". For example, Jackie wasn't aware of Star's crush on Marco and didn't realize how it affected her. Marco didn't realize how uncomfortable Star was during the concert in "Just Friends".]]
229	* InsistentTerminology: In the episode "Divide", Star refuses to be called [[spoiler:Queen and insists that she is only ''acting'' queen]].
230	* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Characters, both good and evil, use magic "Dimensional Scissors" [[DimensionalCutter to cut open portals to other dimensions]]. One even used a dimensional ''chainsaw''.
231	* KillerRabbit: It's almost a running gag that Star will turn normally harmless creatures into voracious, man-eating creatures.
232	* {{Knighting}}: [[spoiler:After saving Mewni from Ludo and Toffee, Marco is made an honorary Knight of Mewni and given an official knight's cape by King River. Of course, River tells him he can make it official if Marco is ready to commit. It's later subverted because River did it just to humor Marco, and he didn't think Marco was going to be serious about it. Later on, Star gives him the equivalent of a knighting ceremony, to make him ''her'' squire]]. Even later, [[spoiler:Eclipsa officially promotes Marco to knight, but he ultimately declines the position because it turns out that a knight's post is [[InItForLife for life]]. Marco decided that the only thing on Mewni he was willing put ''that'' much of a commitment to was [[ShipTease being with Star]]]].
233	* KneelBeforeZod: The incantation for the Spell with No Name, which Eclipsa uses, demands this before unleashing a butterfly-shaped projectile of pure destruction.
234	-->''I call the spell which has no name.''\
235	''My mother's gift with which she reigned.''\
236	''Eclipse my heart with rightful power.''\
237	''Stand before the queen and cower!''
238	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Not even less than a week after the airing of "Monster Bash", Disney XD did not hesitate to air a promo for the Disney NOW! app, showcasing [[spoiler:each of the identities of the holders of the card symbols, spoiling that Heinous is Eclipsa's daughter.]]
239	* LoserProtagonist: Well, secondary protagonist, but Marco is this at the beginning of the series and throughout most of season one. He's extremely unpopular, with his only friends being Alfonzo and Ferguson (who are both gross, unattractive geeks), has a crush on a girl whom he's never said a word to and barely even knows he exists, is bullied regularly by a nine year old (granted, an extremely spoiled and bad behaved nine year old, but still), and thinks fanny packs are the height of fashion. It's his friendship with Star (who's extremely popular in school) that leads to his character development of becoming more confident and moving outside his comfort zone.
240	* LoveTriangle: After "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", one has started between Jackie, Marco, and Star. [[spoiler:Star didn't want to admit it since Marco is already with Jackie. She eventually does confess to Marco at the end of "Starcrushed", just before she has to leave Earth and possibly never return. This was later put to rest in Season 3 by having Jackie break up with Marco but a love triangle instead formed between Marco, Tom and Star. This lead to a CockFight between Marco and Tom on "Stump Day".]]
241	* LuddWasRight: Season 4 veers towards this with regards to magic, showing that the Mewman peasantry are so dependent on the Queen's magic that they can hardly care for themselves. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Star decides that everyone who uses magic (including herself) is an idiot that only ever abuses it, and so wipes it from the multiverse entirely.]]
242	* 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.]]
243	* MagiTek: PlayedForLaughs as the wand requires a charger, not unlike a cell phone. The charger itself is also magic and can enchant any device.
244	* MagicIsEvil: PlayedWith. Star decides 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.
245	* MagicMirror:
246	** Star's mirror allows her to contact anyone from Mewni and across dimensions. The user usually chants "[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Mirror, mirror, on the wall, call...]]" and the name of whoever they are calling. It even features a randomization feature where it simply connects with "anyone".
247	** Many characters are also shown to have magic compact mirrors which are essentially interdimensional mobile phones.
248	* MagicSkirt: Star, as is to be expected from a MagicalGirl expy. To a lesser extent, Moon and Miss Heinous as well.
249	* MagicWand:
250	** Star's wand is incredibly powerful and could potentially destroy everything in the wrong hands. [[EmpathicWeapon It also seems to change its form depending on who uses it]]. It looks more like a royal scepter at first, but when the Moon gives it to Star, it changes to look like something Franchise/SailorMoon or [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Sakura Kinomoto]] would use. When Lobster Claws gets it for a moment, it turns into a dark scepter with an eye, not unlike the Eye of Truth from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
251	** [[spoiler:After the wand is cleaved in "Storm the Castle", Ludo discovers the other half, consisting of the left side of the severed wand crystal and a handle made out of [[RedRightHand a skeletal right hand and forearm with the middle finger missing]], taking it for his own.]]
252	* MagicalIncantation:
253	** 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.
254	** 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. Revealed when Eclipsa, Star, Moon, and Meteora incant it in the realm of magic to [[TheMagicGoesAway remove all magic from the universe]].]]
255	--->[[spoiler:"Break the bond, tear the fabric, cleave the stone, [[MeaningfulWords stop the magic]]."]]
256	* TheMall: Quest Buy is a transdimensional example.
257	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The series is essentially a deconstruction of this; it starts out with Star indeed making Marco's life more interesting but also more chaotic, as if it's saying "be careful what you wish for" to viewers who dream of meeting such a character, but over time, the it becomes more about Marco aiding the character development of Star by helping her tone down and control her uber-impulsive behavior.
258	* {{Matriarchy}}: Mewni's royal family is revealed to be this. In "Mewnipendence Day", it is revealed that the land was conquered through the power of the Queen's wand. In addition, it is revealed in "Game of Flags" that husbands take their wives' names when they marry and apparently the Queen has the right of repudiate her marriage if she desired it. Despite Star being an only child, there is never any hint of a succession crisis. In "Divide" [[spoiler:Star becomes acting queen and ruler of Mewni when her mother goes missing, despite her father, the king, being still alive.]]
259	* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Toffee spends all of Season 2 manipulating Ludo from inside his wand and causing the Fritz, all so that he can reclaim the finger Moon took from him. He gets it back at the end of "Battle for Mewni"... only for Star to manage to fix the wand from his corruption, enter a SuperMode, and all but vaporize him, and when ''that'' doesn't kill him, ''Ludo'' appears to do the job by dropping a pillar on him.]]
260	* MergedReality: [[spoiler:In the series finale, "Cleaved", Star and Marco bring the worlds of Earth and Mewni together]].
261	* MistakenForInsane: After his revival, Glossaryk, normally a TricksterMentor, seems to have lost his mind, unable to say anything but "Globgor" as he runs around on all fours. With Eclipsa back and Miss Heinous causing trouble, the cast don't really have time to find a way to fix him though. Then comes the season finale when it's revealed Glossaryk hasn't lost his marbles, with him explaining he'd been simply warning them that Eclipsa will try to reunite with her monster lover; Globgor.
262	* MisterBig: Ludo. All his mooks are several times bigger than he is, yet he intimidates them just the same.
263	* MixAndMatchCritters: The peasant village in Mewni boasts stables full of part-pig, part-goat creatures.
264	* ModestyTowel: One scene shows Marco wears one wrapped around the chest, in the traditionally feminine way, including a towel wrapped around his (short) hair.
265	* 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.
266	* MoodWhiplash: Anytime an episode ends on an ominous or grim note, immediately followed by the cheery ending credits. This is averted in "Starcrushed".
267	* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: Although it is never called “Planet”, the dimension of Mewni is a good example, on the one hand we have the [[HUmanAlien mewmans]], who have a culture and technological level similar to that of Medieval Europe, the Johansen, who seem to be a BarbarianTribe, then there are the monsters, who have their own culture with artistic expressions including painting, sculpture and elaborate dancing, the Waterfolk kingdom, the Lucitor kingdom, which is underground and inhabited by demons, the Pigeon Kingdom inhabited by pigeons smart, and the people of Pie Island, whose culture seems to be based solely on lies, theft and scam.
268	* MorphWeapon: The wand zigzags on this. First of all, the wand [[EmpathicWeapon changes to match the personality of the wielder]]. In "School Spirit", we see Star had turned it into a mace. She can extend the handle making it a BoomStick to use it like a bazooka or just pull a construct of the barrel out the back as a rocket appears out the front. She once grew a cone on it [[MundaneUtility to use it as a megaphone]].
269	* {{Muggles}}: To Mewmans, regular humans [[spoiler:whom they are actually descended from]], are this compared to them.
270	* MundaneUtility: Star can use her wand to give her ponytails or pigtails at the blink of an eye.
271	* MusclesAreMeaningless: Ludo's minions are mostly big, muscular brutes... who routinely get beaten up by a pair of average-sized fourteen-year-olds:
272	-->'''Ludo:''' How are you losing? You guys have like 200 pounds on her!
273	* MushroomSamba:
274	** Star's "Jellybean Hallucination Mist" spell.
275	** 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]].

Context StarVsTheForcesOfEvil / TropesAToM