YMMV / Star vs. the Forces of Evil

YMMV tropes for the Star vs. the Forces of Evil series

Tropes with their own pages:

• Alternative Character Interpretation
• Broken Base
• Designated Hero
• Harsher In Hindsight
• Hilarious In Hindsight
• They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character
• They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot
• The Woobie

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A - C

• Abandon Shipping:
  • The Toffee/Queen Butterfly ship was very popular in early Season 2 due to the likability of both of those characters and the knowledge that they had some ambiguous history. It lost some fans due to growing theories that said history would turn out that they were related, then completely lost popularity when their history turned out to be that Toffee killed Moon's mother. This isn't helped by him coldly attempting to kill Star in front of Moon with no sign of remorse.
  • Hekapoo/Marco lost many fans in Season 3, where "Night Life" shows them separating from each other on bad terms, though later episodes such as "Divide", "Conquer", and "Gone Baby Gone" show they are still friends. Hekapoo's following treacherous acts as part of the Magic High Comission and her particularly racist actions towards Eclipsa made her lose even more fans.
  • When "Gone, Baby Gone" aired, showing that Meteora and Mariposa were close together, a lot of people abandoned the Rasticore/Meteora Butterfly ship as soon as the Meteora/Mariposa shipping spread like wildfire.
  • While Starco was still fairly popular once it became canon, many were unhappy with how characters like Jackie, Kelly, and Tom got cast aside for the sake of the pairing; the process of which included having Star outright cheat on Tom.
• Accidental Aesop:
  • The love triangles^note Marco/Star/Jackie in Seasons 1-2. Star/Marco/Tom in Seasons 3-4 give off the impression that if your partner cheats on you, you should be OK with it. Their lover is probably someone they are far more compatible with anyway, so you should be the bigger person and let them be happy.
  • "If violent and racist revolutionaries try to expose centuries of racial tension through war and genocide, you should let them do it because you are to blame for the actions of your ancestors". From the first season onwards, Toffee was shown to a psychopath who was willing to betray, usurp, and slaughter anyone who tries to interfere with his goal of avenging the monsters and get revenge for Moon cutting off his finger. Toffee's plan was to destroy the source of all the magic in the universe and then rally the other monsters to kill the weakened mewmans. In the final season, Star decides that the only way to save the monsters from the Solarians is to destroy the source of magic to depower them. After talking to Glossaryk, she comes to the conclusion that Toffee was right and that his revenge was justified.
• Adorkable:
  • In River's younger years, he apologizes to Moon by handing her a hunk of "apology meat", which is apparently customary for the Johansens. He blushes up a storm when she thanks him for supporting her at the strategy meeting and he awkwardly calls her "pal" while excusing himself. He quietly berates himself for calling a queen "pal" as he walks off screen.
  • The first thing Eclipsa does when Rhombulous temporarily frees her to speak to Moon is to ask for a candy bar from the vending machine. It's really weird, yet it's actually quite endearing to see an allegedly evil queen act in a silly manner. She's also shown to be a passionate guitarist and headbangs like a rock star while whaling on an air guitar.
  • Jackie's interactions with Marco when they're dating. Both "Starcrushed" and "Sophomore Slump" showed that she was able to drop her trademark stoic chillness and be a total goofball around him, with one of her favorite activities being her trying to get him to read her thoughts.
• Alas, Poor Scrappy: Even people who didn't like Glossaryck found his temporary demise in The Battle for Mewni, as well as his permanent demise in "Cleaved", to be sad.
• Aluminium Christmas Trees:
  • It's not a joke surname, but Candle is a real surname with several different origins: A corruption of the place-name Kentwell, from the town (now lost) near Long Melford, Babergh district, Suffolk, England, named from a place in Somerset, England called Bishop's Caundle, of which the place-name is of uncertain origin. Caundle was corrupted to Candle and has nothing to do with the ignitable wicks made from wax. Candle is also a Cebuano surname, although it's unlikely this Candle is of Filipino descent despite the series having one character, Janna Ordonia, who is canonically stated to be of Filipino descent.
  • Marco's "Space Unicorn" ringtone sounds like it was made up for the series. It wasn't.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Jackie-Lynn Thomas quickly got over Star having feelings for Marco. She even broke up with him when she realized she can't come between the two.
  • Janna isn't traumatized by the death of Quirky Guy and Star doesn't feel any guilt for destroying the source of magic, which inevitably kills all beings composed of magic.
• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • At the end of The Battle for Mewni, after Toffee had been threatening and draining the magic of the multiverse for an entire season, this happens to him. Instead of an epic battle of any sort, Star simply performs the Whispering Spell again, enters the wand, and grabs a remaining piece of untainted magic. This activates her Golden Super Mode, she attacks him with one powerful blast, and Ludo knocks a tower onto what remains of him.
  • Meteora in the Season 3 finale is not one to Star, but once Eclipsa enters the fray, she becomes one as she is easily curb-stomped by her mother.
  • Mina, during the Grand Finale, gets taken care of rather easily without a fight. She finds the Realm of Magic, jumps in, gets drowned by the big corrupted millhorse, and loses all her power once the deed is complete. In fact, the Final Boss of the show ends up being the (only vaguely explained) corrupted millhorses, and even they aren't super climatic for the series Grand Finale.
• Anvilicious: The Aesop about appearances can be deceiving and how history is Written by the Winners became this for many fans, with the Mewmans being the racist oppressive invaders being hammered in so much it can be irritating.
• Arc Fatigue: A large issue regarding the show is the lengths in which the plots take up, not helped by the show taking hiatus' around Mid-Season and even in between seasons.
  • The Will They or Won't They? between Star and Marco has been considered by quite a few fans to be the weakest part of the series, and one of the complaints is how much it drags on. Their relationship problems could have been solved as early as the beginning of Season 3, with Jackie being Put on a Bus, but instead, the Love Triangle Jackie/Marco/Star is substituted for another one, the Tom/Star/Marco triangle, essentially simply re-starting the plot. A lot of people became upset with the fact that, by the time Tom and Star broke up and Tom gave Marco his blessing for him to start a relationship with Star, there were only five episodes left to wrap up their relationship and the Myth Arc of the series, when Tom and Star had almost two seasons to develop and be together as a couple, upsetting fans of both ships.
  • The overlying Myth Arc surrounding Eclipsa Butterfly became fraught with this. Initially introduced in Season 2, many began wondering how and when the Myth Arc would progress as casual hints were dropped. However, after the hiatus between Season's 2 and 3, combined with the amount of episodes that didn't contribute to it, the Myth Arc began to lose interest. Interest was reignited once Eclipsa herself debuted and became a member of the recurring cast, but soon began to dwindle again once she was pushed to the background in favor of the Romantic Plot Tumor. Once Monster Bash furthered it however with the reveal of her daughter Meteora Butterfly, aka Miss Heinous, interest seemed to be reignited as Season 3 revealed more and more, only to wane again as the romance took center stage over and over again. By Season 3's end, the Myth Arc shifted from Eclipsa and Meteora towards Eclipsa's husband and the Prince of Darkness, Globgor. Unfortunately however, by this point Seasonal Rot began to set in after a near year long hiatus, and by the time Globgor started having more information revealed, fans had either grown tired of waiting, or given up thinking the romance would just eclipse the Myth Arc once again.
• Ass Pull:
  • In "Storm the Castle", a tiny Italian unicorn shows up out of nowhere to restore Star's wand. It was never foreshadowed or hinted at before it appears, and it's one of the last scenes of the episode.
  • "Spider with a Top Hat" ends with the title character, an entertainment spell of Star's that wishes to be used for combat like the others, being summoned as a last resort to fight off a powerful monster. Out of nowhere, his hat turns into a mini-gun that defeats the monster.
  • Star and Tom getting back together in "Club Snubbed" was widely seen as coming completely out of left field with zero setup, as Star goes from hating him, to wanting to be friends again, to rekindling their romance in literally less than 5 minutes.
  • Globgor turning out to be the name of Eclipsa's monster lover seems a little too convenient especially considering Eclipsa doesn't react to the name in "Stranger Danger".
  • Mina having an entire army of new Solarian Warriors clad in the same armor she had. Up until the reveal, there was no evidence pointing toward Mina having a whole army and Mina's own set of Solarian Armor took her a good amount of time to gather, making it hard to believe she managed to find enough for an entire army.
  • Moon being responsible for the Solarian Warrior Rebellion and Rhombulus freeing Globgor comes across as this given she knows Mina is crazy, and started a friendship with Eclipsa in Season 3. Her motive for doing so (she held a grudge against Eclipsa due to her interference during their fight with Meteora, leading to her going to the Realm of Magic thus separating her from her family) doesn't help either, as it makes her look very petty since it's for reasons that were entirely her own fault due to her rash actions. It also makes no sense given that "The Ghost of Butterfly Castle" had her refusing to join up with Mina when she asked for her help, referred to the Solarian Program as a "dark time" in history, and her only petty action was refusing to warn Eclipsa, declaring that Mina was not her problem since she wasn't queen anymore. This Face–Heel Turn only really happens because the story needed to justify Mina having an army of Solarian Warriors for the finale.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: While Season 3 is more divisive on whether or not it's a serious step down in terms of storytelling and characterization, Season 4 is widely agreed to be the lowest point of the series. Though there are fans who still enjoy aspects of it, such as the comedy, complaints were made towards everything else: from the main story arc regularly being sidelined in favor of excessive romantic drama, to characters being either underutilized, flanderized, or performing spontaneous Face-Heel Turns, to the introduction of subplots that are either rushed or straight-up forgotten, to an Arc Villain deemed less intimidating than previous antagonists. The series finale only made things worse by ending with Star committing an Inferred Holocaust which none of the characters seem to acknowledge or care much about, letting the villain (the reason why Star did what she did in the first place) go scot-free, and the forced merging of two vastly different worlds, and the show treating this all as a happy ending. These final episodes tarnished the series' reputation to the point most discussions surrounding the series in the years afterward concerned its Seasonal Rot and divisive finale, and little else.
• Awesomeness Withdrawal: Got this in similar regards to Steven Universe and Gravity Falls. One example was the announcement of the 4 month hiatus right after the airing of The Battle For Mewni special which itself had been preceded by a 5 month hiatus that followed the Season 2 finale, "Starcrushed". Between the hiatuses, fans started to become upset with the show's sporadic release schedule as the epic bombs and Cliffhangers that were dropped when new episodes aired just leave people all the more starved during the long hiatuses that follow. The hiatus from the Season 3 finale to the Season 4 premiere was one of the biggest cases of this, being 11 months long.
• Badass Decay:
  • Invoked with Buff Frog. While still capable and skilled, he can't bring himself to attack and torture after becoming a parent. Of course, he isn't an antagonist at all by this point. Zigzagged in that while he's reluctant to cause harm to others, other aspects of Buff Frog make him more badass than he was before. Unlike his time as a villain, he now uses his frog abilities to great effect (leaping great distances, using his stretchy tongue to retrieve distant objects) and even holds his own against the wand-empowered Ludo while fighting with only his fists.
  • Ludo was genuinely intimidating in the first half of Season 2, peaking when he stole the Book of Spells and very nearly killed Star. Afterward, his childish and pathetic traits resurfaced as he was revealed to be Toffee's pawn, and while he still has his moments (such as actually conquering Mewni and later being the one to finish off Toffee), it's not as consistent as before. The trade-off, however, is that he becomes a much more interesting character, revealing a sad backstory and a more sympathetic reason for why he does everything that he does.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • In Season 1's "Blood Moon Ball", there's a scene where Marco hears the Sea Captain painting in his room start talking to him, which convinces him to go after Star. No explanation is ever given as to how or why the painting was talking, and it never shows this ability for the rest of the series.
  • In Season 1's episode "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princess", as Star and Marco are fleeing with the still brainwashed Pony Head, they come across a room with a mysterious skylight, depicting various winged beings demonic in design descending from the sky. The attention brought to the skylight implies it holds some significance to the plot, however its never brought up again once they leave.
  • The end of the Season 2 episode "Star on Wheels" reveals Star was actually telling the truth when she said there were invisible goats on Earth pulling everything around. Said goats are never referred to again, and it's never explained why or how they are on Earth, how Star knew they were there, and nothing comes of it other than a small joke at Marco's expense to end the episode.
  • While looking for Dr. Jelly Goodwell's office in "Starfari", Star comes across a small, pink talking horse riding a knight. Star just excuses herself out as quickly as possible.
  • The creepy crustacean thing living under the photo booth seat in "Booth Buddies". In an episode dealing with teenage romance drama, it's definitely out-of-place Nightmare Fuel, and it's never brought up again despite most of the episode taking place literally on its home.
  • In "The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse", just as Star admits that Toffee was right in wanting to destroy magic, Moon's tapestry is shown, and the Toffee on it pulls his "Surprise!" face from Storm the Castle, serving as a Jump Scare to both Star and the viewers. Why it does this is never explained, has no build up, and isn't mentioned once Star heads back to the tavern.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: The revelation that Toffee lives on in the wand in "The Hard Way" was an obvious conclusion many fans reached months in advance. In addition to Toffee's dissonant smirk when the wand fragmented in "Storm the Castle" (heavily implying he meant it to happen), Ludo's wand forms itself from his skeletal arm clutching a rock with the wand crystal on it, which was not the state of the fragment at the end of Season 1. This — combined with his briefly-demonstrated Healing Factor, Ludo "hearing" his wand speak to him, and the (apparent) post-mortem build-up of Toffee as a major character — made his survival through the wand very likely.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Star giving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to The Magic High Council for their hypocritical stance towards everyone when they lied about Eclipsa.
  • A tiny one, but Angie and Rafael subtly calling out Star and hitting their Rage Breaking Point over Marco having left home for months, after Star had left abruptly and left Marco depressed. While it's partly their fault, they have a point that they were doing all they could to help Marco through his depression and it wasn't enough. The fact that it's Angie and Rafael, two of the nicest parents in this show, makes it a case of Beware the Nice Ones.
  • Mina getting dispatched by a corrupted Millhorse and then receiving no aid from none other than Solaria herself.
  • Seeing Rhombulus and Omnitraxus' dead remains at the pizza party over their assumed victory over Eclipsa and all the monsters that they'd previously been enjoying.

• Common Knowledge: Star destroyed magic for the sake of her crush on Marco. Which while mostly said as a meme to a degree, is also seen by several fans and non-fans as her main or sometimes only motivation, when it was actually not true; in fact, Star destroying magic was indicated at first to have the high possibility of leaving her unable to even see Marco ever again, which she ultimately was willing to do so for the greater good.
• Continuity Lockout: Season 1 is relatively standalone, but with some plot-centric episodes, but once Season 2 aired, the series starts throwing out major plot twists, continuing almost every episode after each other, characters gradually changing, and building up mythology for Mewni. By the Season 3 premiere, the series expects the viewers to have seen most of the previous two seasons to follow the events both previous and going forward.
• Crack Pairing:
  • Marco being a Launcher of a Thousand Ships leads to a lot of these involving him, often as subsets of the "Marco's Harem" ship, itself an example of a crack ship. Marco has also been shipped with Moon and Eclipsa, despite the former being Star's mother and the later being the centuries-old mother of Marco's archenemy. "Moonco" shippers tend to involve a Time-Travel Romance to pair Marco with the teenage version of Moon Butterfly, but "Marclipsa" shippers often just make a Mrs. Robinson out of Eclipsa. Marco's brief stint with the Monster Arm is also sometimes played up in regards to shipping him with Eclipsa.
  • There are some fans who ship Toffee and Queen Butterfly together. There's even an AU known as 'Mon!Star', where Star is their half-Mewman half-Monster daughter.
  • Likewise, shipping Tom and Jackie (who again, have never really met)^*Again, during "Blood Moon Ball", Jackie was with Janna, and her reaction to Tom was pretty much the same. has seen increased interest both on the basis of their complimentary personalities (giving Tom someone that can handle his anger issues) and desire from Starco shippers to make way for their ship without leaving too many broken hearts in its wake.
  • Some fans (and at least one of the storyboard artists) like to ship Justin Towers (lead singer of Love Sentence) with Ruberiot (the songstrel who composed Star's Princess Song). They've never met and what they have in common is being musicians voiced by a real life band's lead singer (Justin Towers is voiced by Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees and Ruberiot is voiced by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy), whose in-universe songs played in important Ship Tease scenes ("Just Friends" for Jarco and "The Ballad of Star Butterfly" for Starco).
  • People were shipping the reborn Meteora with Mariposa even before the latter's birth, when she was thought to be a boy named Marco Jr. It's become less so as of "Gone Baby Gone", when the two of them ended up spending several years in the Neverzone and becoming close, even asking Star and Marco to make sure they're raised together again before they revert back to being babies.
• Creator's Pet: The show has Princess Pony Head, Star's spoiled, Valley Girl best friend, who outright tries to kill Marco in her first appearance. What's odd is that she does start to slowly grow into a nicer character over the first few seasons, only for her Character Development to suddenly snap back, leaving a self-centered diva who never learns a lesson. To the show's credit, around this point even Star starts to voice annoyance with her flaws, and we learn that the rest of her family consider her the Black Sheep.
• Creepy Cute:
  • Mewberty Star. A purple, multi-armed insectoid monstrosity... who is also adorable.
  • Hungry Larry, before going full One-Winged Angel. His awkward mannerisms and soft voice can be quite endearing.
• Crossover Ship:
  • The crew of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero created the ship Pennar Butterfly, a joke ship involving the two leads of the shows.
  • Marco's "I kissed a ninja" shirt inspired some people to ship Marco × Randy Cunningham.
  • Star/Mabel is popular in some circles.
  • Marco (especially in his "Princess Turdina" persona) being paired up with Guy Hamdon (as SheZow) is surprisingly common.
• Cry for the Devil:
  • Even if he's still pretty terrible all things considered, it's hard not to pity Ludo for desperately seeking Glossaryck's approval after we learn about his miserable childhood, and even harder not to respect his sheer determination to survive and recover stronger than ever after losing everything in the leadup to and aftermath of the Season One finale.
    Ludo: Worried about me? Don't you get it? I lost my army, my Kingdom, my clothes! And look – still standing!
  • Miss Heinous A.K.A. Meteora Butterfly is a very tragic figure who had to endure years of abuse because one half of her entire being was considered flawed and repulsive, making her unfit to inherit what should have been rightfully hers. This reaches its peak when in "Skooled", we get to see how her youth and teenage years really went down through the eyes of St. Olga.

D - F

• Die for Our Ship:
  • Jackie and Oskar are very hated for the Star/Marco (or Starco) shippers. It got worse for the former after the events of "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" and "Just Friends", and the latter after "Starcrushed", where he was derailed so he wouldn't be an obstacle for Star getting together with Marco.
  • Tom received this twofold. He got hate from Star/Marco shippers because he was a threat to both sides of the party. He is both Star's ex-boyfriend, and later current boyfriend again, making him a very possible threat to the ship. On the other side, he still receives hate for his Ambiguously Bi Ho Yay moments with Marco that make him also available for Marco, which makes another section of the shippers hate him as well.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Toffee has found himself more than a few fans who can't help but find that being a polite, smooth-talking Genius Bruiser makes him a total badass, and/or interpret him as a pro-monster revolutionary against Mewni's Fantastic Racism^note A character trait notably endorsed by Word of God, who compares him to Magneto.. Some even go so far as to pair him with Queen Moon, both in and out of Alternate Universe Fic.
  • Ludo. While his character development in Season 2 gave him a sympathetic backstory and made him an impressive Determinator, it's easy to forget his promotion to Not-So-Harmless Villain status came on the back of some serious cruelty, even enslaving a small population of monsters. Still, while most fans weren't outright Rooting for the Empire, many hoped he could still be redeemed, or at least felt he didn't deserve to be brushed aside by Toffee.
  • Meteora quickly got a pair once her backstory was revealed in full, to the point some think she was in the right for actually trying to take over Mewni, excusing all the villainous acts she performed in her previous identity.
  • Tom. While his Character Development throughout Season 3 and 4 is done well, most fans tend to completely ignore what he did in the first two seasons due to what Star and Marco did to him while he was dating Star. While it was wrong of Star to cheat on him with Marco and to get angry at Tom for not telling her that he knew, all while not exactly being the best girlfriend to him, Tom's actions in his debut (which involves tricking Star into bonding her soul with him to the Blood Moon without her knowledge and consent), his animosity towards Marco (even cursing him with the Naysaya ), and his spying on them and trying to manipulate both at times aren't any better either. Sure, he eventually realizes that Star is her own person and befriends Marco, only to be done dirty by both, but that doesn't fully erase all the bad things he did to them at the beginning.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Rasticore is a Plot-Irrelevant Villain if there ever was one but he's Popular with Furries.
  • Hekapoo quickly became one of the most popular characters of the series after her sole A Day in the Limelight Running With Scissors, she got the most screentime of any member of the Magic High Commission starting from Season 3 as well as being the only member that got redeemed at the end of the series.
  • Higgs is pretty popular for being a Tomboy Foil to Marco's role as the Squire, she has a huge amount of fanart for a character that only appeared in 2 episodes.
  • Mariposa Diaz became popular even before she was born (back when she was known as Marco Jr.). Plenty of fans took an interest in her potential as a best friend and foil to the reborn Meteora Butterfly, which was only fueled further when the episode "Gone Baby Gone" showed the two as teenagers with a close bond.
  • Talon Raventalon. His Testosterone Poisoning and No Indoor Voice tendencies may make him disliked in universe but among audiences it makes him one of the funniest bit characters of the series.
  • Ben Fotino for being voiced by Alex Hirsch and for making Star and Marco kiss
  • Brunzetta, the Amazonian Beauty that was Marco's companion in the Neverzone is seen as one of the highlights of the polarizing Season 4.
• Epileptic Trees: In "Into the Wand", Star focused on three past queens: Solaria, Eclipsa and Celena the Shy, but only Eclipsa's and Solaria's presence or actions had a major effect on the show's plot. Considering that Celena was described as having secrets and The Magic Book of Spells revealed that she and her descendants are all part demon, it's likely she was originally intended to have a larger role in the show.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The series finale, "Cleaved", is intended to have a mostly happy ending, with all conflicts resolved and Star and Marco together at last. However, the logistics of what it took to get there (the destruction of magic and all magical entities, the shutdown of interdimensional transport, and the forced merging of Mewni and Earth) present unnerving implications when a viewer thinks about their realistic consequences.
• Fandom-Specific Plot:
  • Following Season 2, there was a lot of Foe Yay Shipping between Queen Moon and Toffee, with fanfics and fanart portraying Star as their half-mewman, half-monster daughter.
  • Following season 3, fanart and fanfics regarding how would the kids of the main characters look like, as well as their ships would look as married adults, Tom/Star, Marco/Star and Tom/Marco are the most popular ones for this subject. Even less popular ships often have their kids designed, like Hekapoo/Star, Tom/Jackie, etc.
    • The particular variation of this for Tom/Star is also often popular with Deconstruction Fic, in which the ramifications of having a monster married to their ruler, as well as their mewman/monster hybrid child and how would they suffer from the Fantastic Racism that was shown to exist.
    • After the events of "Gone Baby Gone", fanfics set after the series that focus on Meteora and Mariposa have become increasingly common. One example would be Echo Creek: A Tale of Two Butterflies.
  • Some fans have theorized that Star became corrupted/possessed by Toffee when she fell into the corrupted magic in season 3, explaining her sudden personality change such as her short temper with everyone, immediate attachment to Eclipsa, wanting to help monsters, and ultimately destroying all magic, thus fulfilling Toffee's ultimate goal. Star herself even admits that Toffee was right at one point. Adding onto this is Toffee's claim that "only [he] knows how everything will play out" right before his death, as if he knew ahead of time that his goal of destroying magic would be fulfilled post-mortem.
  • A common "what if" scenario among fans is if Star actually was sent to St. Olga's at the beginning of the series and was subsequently brainwashed into being a perfect obedient princess prior to her arrival on Earth. Marco is most commonly characterized as a stereotypical "bad boy" rule breaker in this scenario as well.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • The various alternate timeline Stars briefly seen in "Mathmagic" have some interesting AU potential, particularly the one where Mewberty seems to have been permanent and the one where Star seems to take Ludo's role.
  • Quite a few fans like to make OCs and Stand-in characters for past members of the Butterfly Family, especially the queens. It helps that the show never made quite clear the amount of Queens that there were in Mewni, despite revealing a large part of the first and all of the second dynasty members in side-material, so queens between the first queen of Mewni and Lyric (Skywynne's mother) are still fair game to be played with.
  • The series ends with Earth and Mewni being cleaved together into one amalgam dimension, which opens up the floodgates for fanfics of all types.
• Fan Nickname: The tent village of displaced Mewmans that springs up around Moon and River's yurt starting in "Down by the River" has been called the "Moon Colony".
• Fanon:
  • Many fans, especially on Tumblr, believe that Tom is pansexual, both to ship him with whoever they want and because when he shows up in "Friendenemies", he is licking a ice cream fashioned in a similar manner to the Pansexual pride flag. In the show proper, he is Ambiguously Bi and has made quite a few comments towards or about Marco that can be taken either way.
    • A lot of fanart drawn of Tom after "Is Another Mystery" features the tail that he was revealed to have in the episode, even though it only appeared again twice after that (and one of those times was in a baby picture), and he still kept it hidden even when he got an outfit change in the last season.
  • Likewise, many fans believe Star is canonically bisexual and take her Ambiguously Bi moments as fact of it being true, especially when Season 4's "Ransomgram" aired. Despite the fact that unlike with Jackie, the cast and crew never actually confirmed it at all.
  • Marco is often headcanoned as being a trans girl, or genderfluid/non-binary. This is due to a lot of scenes and moments being interpreted as such, especially with his Princess Turdina persona.
  • Star's Mewberty wings are almost always depicted as ticklish, or sexually sensitive, in steamy works.
  • Star being jealous of Jackie's proportions, to the point of feeling insecure about her own body. In the actual show, Star does hold some jealously towards Jackie, but only in regards to her being the target of Marco's affections rather than anything superficial.
  • "Gift of the Card" made it popular to believe that Marco once took ballet classes. Incidentally, Marco taking karate lessons in order to impress Jackie.
  • Janna is always interpreted as having all her actions towards Marco be the result of crushing on him since childhood, like how Marco himself had feelings towards Jackie. The show itself never makes the nature of her flirting and teasing explicitly clear.
  • Early on, Janna was widely believed by fans to have Romani ancestry. This died down a lot after the show all but confirmed she was Filipino-American.
  • Festivia the Fun, one of the past queens of Mewni and considered a legendary party girl, is popularly characterized as a depressed alcoholic and Stepford Smiler, because she was raised believing that her predecessor Eclipsa had abandoned her to run away with a monster. She also had to rule Mewni through a very dark period of its history, so it's not hard for fans to believe she dealt with high amounts of stress.
  • Star secretly being a Covert Pervert, mainly stemming from her obsession over Marco's abs, her strange reaction when thinking about Oskar in one episode (to the point where it almost sounds like she's moaning), sneaking into the bathroom while Marco's showering, and her original Mewberty form's obsession with boys, which the show never makes clear whether it's just a side effect of the form, or what she actually thinks about.
• Fanon Discontinuity:
  • Season 3 is more of a Broken Base case but still has enough fans who counted it as this, with many of the events of the Season being controversial and ship tease becoming more prominent that the main plot, fan favorites becoming less prominent (Janna and Buff Frog for example) or switching the focus from Earth to Mewni and a lot of other complaints. It has lead to many fans to discount everything after The Battle For Mewni.
  • Season 4 has been subjected to this by a good number of fans due to characters being Flanderized and/or coming off as Unintentionally Unsympathetic, character arcs being created then abruptly dropped, plot holes that contradict information from previous seasons/supplementary material that are never explained or brought up again, constantly shifting focus from the Myth Arc to shipping drama, an underwhelming Big Bad, and an unsatisfying series finale that raised more problems than solutions.
  • Those that find sympathy for Ludo only regard the Ludo episodes in Season 3 & 4 as canon that helps give Ludo his earned happy ending.
  • Some fans who didn't like the ending but still want some conclusion for Eclipsa and Globgor story like to discount everything after "Cornotation" and episodes who foreshadow the events of the final arc (like "Ghost of the Buttefly Castle" or "Junkin' Janna") or episodes which establish plot points that didn't go anywhere (like "A Spell with No Name" or "Surviving the Spiderbites"), it helps a lot that beyond one final shot of Mina's Crow, the special is quite conclusive of the main Arc of the season and ends in more happier and less problematic final note.
  • Many fans of the show like to pretend that the events of "Lake House Fever" didn't happen because it makes Star way too unsympathetic even for the biggest Star apologists.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Besides the heavily pushed Starco, some other pairings have popped up, mostly because some people didn't understand why Starco was so popular to begin with.
  • The most notable one is Jackie/Marco (Jarco), mostly because it had more build-up and the two of them shared more natural chemistry according to some people. Even some diehard Starco fans appreciated Jackie being a sympathetic Romantic False Lead, some of them even felt bad when Jackie decided to end their relationship so that Marco can be happy with Star.
  • Tom/Marco started out as a Crack Pairing between two pretty boys who happen to be romantic rivals. Many have voiced their approval of the ship after "Friendenemies" came out, which was loaded with subtext. The following of the ship grew even more in Season 3, where Tom shares a lot of chemistry with both Star and Marco, to the point where some hoped the show would end with all three of them in a threesome relationship. Even Daron Nefcy liked the ship, but also saidit would never be canon.
• Foe Yay Shipping: The Moon/Toffee pairing has gotten a significant amount of Fanart, largely due to being based in an AU where the circumstances of their matrimony would be much less squicky. Fans unaware of the setting are still likely to have this reaction to the pairing, even if Mon!Star is adorable.
• Franchise Original Sin: The Romance and Racism subplots were both well-received when they first started, but gradually became less so as he show wore on:
  • The romance was present from the very beginning, with one example being the show constantly teasing a Star/Marco pairing despite them having more of a sibling-like dynamic. It worked better then because the shipping scene wasn't nearly as intense as it would become later on and it never got in the way of the main plotline. However, after beginning to ramp up in Season 2 as the crew seemingly caught on to it, Season 3 started the trend of having entire episodes focusing on teasing potential ships, sometimes even putting the main plot on hold just to do so, and the ships themselves started getting criticized for how they were handled. Season 4 only grew worse in this regard, with a big criticism of the final episodes being that they focused more on making the Starco ship happen than the actual conflict and plot. In the end, what was once seen as one of the show's biggest strengths ended up becoming seen as one of its biggest weaknesses.
  • Back when "Mewnipendence Day" first hinted at the latter subplot, it was well-received for making the conflict between monsters and mewmans more interesting and showing that monsters may not be exactly unjustified in hating Mewmanity. However, as it gradually got more and more focus, fans started to get sick of it. The mewmans and monsters continually complaining and discriminating against each other, even into Season 4, had many tired of the endless fighting between the races (with the mewmans in particular coming off as unlikable jerks more often than not), the plotline started becoming too heavy-handed for some and it going on for as long as it did got Arc Fatigue sentiments.
  • A common criticism about Seasons 3 and 4 is how the first halves of those seasons lacked an actual plot, with the more interesting Eclipsa plot being pushed into the background of the romance plot and racism plot. This type of thing already happened with the first halves of Seasons 1 and 2. But the only difference is that Seasons 1 and 2 established a main villain, Ludo in this case, very early, thus giving the first two seasons' first halves a true major plot.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, since both shows involve the heroes traveling to other dimensions. Fans even wonder what would happen if Penn and Star cross paths... at least those who don't feel Star is overshadowing Penn, due to the two shows premiering very close together and the massive amounts of hype for the former, causing the latter to receive less attention. The creators even expressed interest in doing a crossover but Disney forbid it due to some new rule stating their shows are not allowed to do that anymore.
  • There seems to be an overlap between fans of Gravity Falls and fans of Star as well, and plenty of crossover art. This is likely due to the intro to Star having been first shown at a Gravity Falls ComicCon panel, which led to an explosion of fanart before the show had even premiered.^note The fact that Star and Mabel share a lot of personality traits also helps. The fandom overlap between Gravity Falls and Rick and Morty seems to have spilled over into this fandom by extension.
  • Some fans of Phineas and Ferb (which ended in 2015) also appreciate Star, due to both Disney shows having a quirky, energetic and upbeat tone. It also helps that Dimensional Travelling is canon in both:
    Aren't you a little old to still be watching Disney TV shows?
    Yes, yes we are.
  • They're in very good terms with the Miraculous Ladybug fandom, as well, mainly because of their similar premises (both shows have a Magical Girl protagonist), and the similarities between the two main protagonists (Marinette/Adrien and Star/Marco).
  • Despite the fandom rivalry with Steven Universe, there are a fair amount of people from both shows who get along well.
  • Wander over Yonder counts as well, as they're both about an optimistic protagonist traveling through various dimensions and planets and they premiered around the same time. Plus Daron Nefcy worked on that show prior to Star Vs.
  • A number of Star fans are also on good terms with the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom due to the protagonists of both series being Determinator teenagers with a Golden Super Mode and sharing heavy influences from Japanese anime tropes.

G - J

• Genius Bonus: St. Olga was an actual saint and a real life princess. If you know her story, it would make sense to name a reform school for wayward princesses after her.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • The show is surprisingly popular in Latin American countries, and a sizable amount of fan content for it online is in Spanish or Portuguese compared to other American cartoons. One of its leads is a Latino teenager, so this does make a degree of sense.
  • From the number of views the series gets on Nico Nico Douga, and the modest presence of fanart of the series on Pixiv, Japan seems to have taken a liking to it, likely due to the show's formulaic and content similarities to Magical Girl anime.
• Growing the Beard: Although Star was a pretty good - if somewhat lightweight - show from the start, it's argued that it wasn't until "Mewberty", which was Darker and Edgier and saw an improvement in both its animation and storytelling, that the show truly came into its own. This got cemented by the end of Season 1, which coincidentally had its penultimate episode titled "Marco Grows a Beard". Afterwards, Season 2 improved the quality of the stories by putting focus on the characterization of the cast, being much more continuity-driven and interconnected, as well as becoming more serious without discarding the series' humor. The Season 2 Finale/Season 3 premiere Multi-Part Episode is considered the show's peak, being rife with the humor, characterization, and story consistent of the shows highlights.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: After we learn that Jackie likes Marco because even in spite of constantly making a fool of himself he keeps going on, his interactions with Tom make more sense. Tom was ready to kill Marco in "Mr. Candle Cares" and yet Marco refused to give up even after losing 58 games of ping-pong. His determination made him respect Marco and change his mind, allowing him to hear what Star wants and accepting her choice.
• He's Just Hiding: Even when he was Killed Off for Real at the start of Season 3, several fans were convinced Toffee was somehow still alive and manipulating things behind the scenes, and awaited the big reveal all the way up to the show's final episode. This wasn't helped by his established regeneration/immortality, nor his cryptic last words, nor the fact that he genuinely was hiding throughout Season 2.
• Hype Backlash:
  • The Starco pairing can be seen as this by many people. Some people were turned off by those who were shipping Star and Marco before the show even premiered, accusing them of shipping Star and Marco simply because they were the boy and girl leads.
  • With some of the more controversial events, as well as the long hiatuses, the show itself began falling into this, with many people thinking it's overrated due to inconsistency.
• I Knew It!:
  • Many fans correctly guessed that the lizard guy from the Season 2 opening was an agent hired by Miss Heinous to track down Marco.
  • Many correctly guessed that Toffee was the voice inside the wand that kept speaking to Ludo throughout Season 2 rather than some delusion or third party.
  • Many guessed correctly that the voice in the teaser for The Battle for Mewni was that of a young Queen Moon.
  • "Monster Bash" confirmed the theory that Miss Heinous is Eclipsa's daughter with her monster lover, which was part of an older, more general theory concerning the character being a lost member of the royal family. The episode also reveals that her real name is Meteora Butterfly.
  • A very unpopular former queen comes again to power after what amounts to the deposing of the next-to-last member of an alternate line of rulers, that had been appreciated by their people partly on the basis of said queen's villification, and many malcontents decide to build a community around the figure of said deposed ruler without the latter doing anything to discourage them except at the very start. So yeah, the signs of Moon's Face–Heel Turn were there.
• Inferred Holocaust: The series finale has a double-whammy with two significant events:
  • Together with her family, Star uses the Whispering Spell to destroy the Realm of Magic, killing magic itself, and with it, all magically-created beings. While the deaths of the Millhorses, Omnitraxus, and Rhombulus are explicitly shown, and Glossaryck's and Hekapoo's are implied, other beings should logically also be affected: Every one of the Spells that lived in the wand (some of which had children of their own), anything created with/using magic (such as compacts, mirrors, and Star's first spell, Doop Doop), and Reynaldo the Bald Pate, all of which are likely dead. Portals are explicitly noted to no longer exist, shutting down interdimensional travel and leaving everyone stranded in their own worlds. Any other civilizations in the multiverse that relied on magic and/or portals for one reason or another will at best face significant societal upheaval and chaos, and at worst collapse entirely (if they don't outright die without magic as a resource). The actions of the four Butterflies were meant to avert the potential genocide of the monsters of Mewni, but they deliberately caused a different and arguably far larger genocide in the process, with far further-reaching destructive effects.
  • After that, Earth and Mewni are fused together, with everyone from both worlds inhabiting the same space. However, both humans and monsters/Mewmen are shown running in fear from the other world's inhabitants, with giant spiders chasing a human couple out of their home and Rich Pigeon being chased by a pack of dogs. The implications of how Earth (itself no stranger to war, oppression, and racism like Mewni) will cope with giant monsters and actual demons running around aren't great, particularly since Mina is still around, with a potentially receptive new audience to her "good ideas". Seemingly the only ones who are happy with any of this are Star and Marco, who ignore it all in favor of each other.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Even among those who fully enjoyed the finale, there are those who think it should've been at least an hour long, feeling that it was underwhelming, rushed, and even a little confusing. Many of its plot points are thought to have needed more time devoted to them, namely Moon and Eclipsa interacting with the ghosts of their respective mothers (especially the latter), and believing that Star and Marco should have spent longer apart before the portal reunited them. The fact that some other recent Disney series got finales that were at least an hour long adds to this mindset.
• It Was His Sled: Due to the infamy of the ending, the fact that Star destroyed all magic, essentially committing genocide on all magical creatures, is something that even people who never watched Season 4 know about.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Some fans watched the show early on solely because the series had Dexter actor Michael C. Hall voicing Toffee, with some fans only watching for him. After his death, many of these fans dropped off, save for some who kept watching expecting him to come back.
  • Numerous people watched the show in its final 2 seasons because Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco was voicing Eclipsa. Some went as far as to watch the show solely for her.
  • While it got infuriating and obnoxious to watch as the series went on, many fans and viewers that are hardcore shippers, especially for Starco, watch just to see which ship would become canon, and to watch all of the Ship Tease the characters get with each other.

L - P

• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Marco is essentially the show's bicycle when it comes to Shipping; just look at Star, Jackie, Janna, Hekapoo, Tom, Kelly, Starfan13, Higgs, Brittney, Chantal, Eclipsa, Moon, and even Toffee. A running gag in the Star vs. fandom called "Marco's Harem" (no seriously) has entered outright Memetic Mutation status. The entire joke's about how some shipper will pretty much ship Marco with pretty much any and every female protagonist in any Modern Disney cartoon. Just doing a quick Google search will give you him being pared up with Mabel Pines, Tilly Green, Anne Boonchuy and most recently Luz Noceda. Who want to bet the trends gonna continue with Molly?
• LGBT Fanbase:
  • Marco's status as a Wholesome Crossdresser along with the "trans Marco" Trans Audience Interpretation has caused the character to get a large transgender following.
  • The large amount of Ho Yay in the show itself certainly helps, such as the same-sex kisses in "Just Friends".
  • The show's staff have been very encouraging of the LGBT community and their representation in media. Examples of it include same-sex couples in the background and Jackie turning out to be bi in Season 4.
• Magnificent Bastard: Toffee of Septarsis is an enigmatic, devious monster with a flair for casual manipulation and a missing finger taken from him by Queen Moon in his days as a monster warlord. Coming into the service of inept Big Bad Wannabe Ludo, Toffee ingratiates himself into Ludo's service and manipulates him into firing Buff Frog, the one minion who suspects Toffee of any wrongdoing, before ousting Ludo from his own castle and using his new position to extort and destroy Star's wand. Seemingly dying after this, Toffee in truth lived on within one half of the wand's crystal, eventually taking over Ludo's body to enact his final plot to take his finger back and restore his power, wiping out almost every single person who can stand against him and even regaining his body back before Star manages to destroy him. Suave, perpetually calm, and a master of every situation he's in, Toffee remains one of the most cunning and effective foes to have ever fought against the Butterfly family.
• Memetic Loser: Mina is very unpopular among the show gallery of villains, the fact that she was defeated by Meteora twice, couldn't handle Toffee in the past and she only become a menace thanks to Moon did not help at all, This is of course forgetting she has shown to be a capable warrior before becoming unstable and being to face both normal Mewmans and Monsters on her own, still she's often portrayed in Fan Works as a Big Bad Wannabe at best and a complete joke at worst, Some go even further and show her taking Ludo's place in the first season in the new Earth-Ni, which is basically an annoyance they had to face once in a while and none characters take seriously.
• Memetic Molester: Star's Mewberty transformation from the episode with the same name is commonly characterized as this due to her Creepy Cute design, obsession with boys, and rather questionable intentions towards Oskar and Marco. Whether or not she's portrayed with a cute infatuation in an innocent context or becomes much more sexually driven depends on the author.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • It's gonna get a little weird, It's gonna get a little wild! ^note The chorus of the show's very catchy Title Theme Tune, "I'm From Another Dimension." One, the other, or both are often said in response to an appropriately weird/wild shot or discussion associated with the show.
  • Toffee's completely out of nowhere declaration of "SURPRISE!" while sporting a Slasher Smile in the Season 1 finale.
  • JANNA BANANA!!!^note What Star excitedly calls Janna when she appears in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown". Some fans took to drawing Janna in a banana suit, and Janstar shippers generally fell over themselves at Star giving Janna an affectionate nickname and no one else.
  • "The Shipping Moon does not approve!"^note The Blood Moon's appearance during Marco and Jackie's First Kiss in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" has led to statements like the above that the moon ships Starco.
  • "It's ya girl Marco!"^note This phrase, said by Marco in "Heinous," has effectively become the motto of the Trans Marco theory. Some people have also made comparisons to Guzma.
  • Thanks to Wham Episodes like "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", "The Hard Way" and "Just Friends", the Mood Whiplash caused by the happy end credit music is getting there.
    [Any terrible thing happens to Star, or some big Plot Twist happens.]
    "I THINK EARTH IS A PRETTY GREEEAT PLACE!..."
  • "Mango" Diaz.^note How Oskar keeps referring to Marco as Mango in "Starcrushed".
  • A meme somehow got started on /co/'s "Star vs" topics that Star smells like cinnamon. While nobody seems to actually know how this originated, it evolved into Cinnamon Toast Crunch being declared Star's official food (which Adam McArthur later claimed to be Marco's favorite breakfast during an in-character live chat on YouTube). Another evolution was giving Star the Fan Nickname of "Cinnamon Bun". Then the promos revealed that an episode would have Star wearing a cinnamon bun hairstyle.
  • "Between Friends". ^note A Rule 34 comic by fan artist AreaBlog which is infamous for its uncanny similar style to the show itself, but one that's more on the innocent and awkward side of things.
  • Star is a cuck/Starcucks.^note Her complex relationships with Marco and Jackie, combined with the sheer number of girls attracted to him and the fact that she wears horns, has led to a lot of material about Star being a cuckquean (the Distaff Counterpart of a cuckold). Starco shippers retaliated by arguing that given that Marco is dating Jackie but it's seen as inevitable that he'll get together with Star, it's actually Jackie who will end up cucked.
  • Marco's expanding harem.^note Marco's Chick Magnet and Launcher of a Thousand Ships status, plus the Ship Tease he gets with several characters (Star, Jackie, Janna, Hekapoo, Kelly and even Tom) have led fans to joke that the show is a harem anime and Marco is a harem anime protagonist. The "expanding" part comes from how quickly fans ship him with new characters shortly after they've been introduced, such as Hekapoo, Higgs, and Eclipsa.
  • "BWAAAH."^note One of the short promo clips for the Season 3 premiere depicted Moon inexplicably saying this several times to an alligator-like monster. The sheer absurdity of the scene led to its immediate use in memes.
  • "B4"^note The first thing Eclipsa does when she was freed from her crystal prison to make a deal with Moon in "Moon the Undaunted" is asking for... a candy bar. Due to sheer absurdness of the scene, it became a meme afterwards.
  • "They (Tom/Kelly/Jackie-Lynn) deserve better". ^note After the Starco ship started drifting into Unintentionally Unsympathetic territory, going from two awkward sweethearts realizing their feelings for each other to two hormonal teenagers alienating and hurting the people who like them, some fans started making posts and fanart about how the people they have or might hurt deserve better.
  • "KELLEH"^note Tad obnoxiously calling out Kelly's name in "Divide" and making a rather bizarre facial expression immediately got used for memes, with Tad's face photoshopped onto... every other character in the show.
  • Eclipsa is Mary Poppins'Y'ALL!!!
  • ENDGAME^note The rallying cry of Starco fans in response to any challenge the ship faces, whether it be Ship Tease for other ships, or signs of Ship Sinking.
  • A lot of fans applied Avengers: Endgame memes as the finale neared, especially fitting when the last four episodes leading to it aired three weeks since it's premiere, most notably:
    • "We're in the Endgame now." ^note Star about to embark in one final endeavor where her odds of winning are nigh, and will result in big changes, had fans watching the trailer describe the situation as such.
    • "Whatever it takes" ^note How fans describe Star's resolve that she will go as far as sacrificing the magic to to set things right.
  • Star committed genocide.^note A response to how Star destroying magic killed an untold number of magical beings, and cleaved Earth and Mewni together, created chaos. Comparisons between Star and Thanos are common, as well as with Undertale (with Star taking the Genocide route, while Steven Universe's ending is often considered the Pacifist route as a contrast).
• Memetic Psychopath: Star became this after the series finale, in which she eradicates all magic in the multiverse, implicitly killing all magical creatures. And, as a side effect of her actions, she merges Earth and Mewni together, creating an untold amount of chaos as humans are suddenly forced to coexist with alien creatures. While she destroyed magic under the belief she and Marco would never see each other again, and Word of God has Jossed her wiping out at least some magical beings, the damage from what was shown in the finale was done, and now Star is generally seen as a teenager who committed genocide and global chaos for the sake of pursuing her teenage crush.
• Moe:
  • Take one look at Star and try to say she isn't this.
  • Kelly in "Goblin Dogs" is this once she reveals her face.
  • Meteora Butterfly as a child is just precious.
  • Eclipsa is prone to this after she is freed, particularly with how Adorkable she gets.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Toffee crossed it long before the show begun when he killed Moon's mother while a Mewman-Monster peace treaty was being signed. The Expanded Universe stuff makes this even more of one: Comet was a genuinely good person who'd been nothing but genuinely kind to the monsters and genuinely was trying to give them racial equality, and Toffee murdered her in cold blood. and if that's not enough, in "Toffee" he leaves the wand space he and Star were inside without taking Star with him despite what he'd promised Moon should she give him back his finger, and then coldly crushes the other half of the wand with Star trapped inside in front of her mother and her best friend without any kind of remorse.
  • Miss Heinous crosses it by wanting to execute Marco and displaying his skeleton in front of the rebellious princesses to make an example of him. That's if you don't think she already crossed it years ago by brainwashing her students into Stepford Smilers. Admittedly, this is muddled when it's revealed that Miss Heinous is actually a false personality forced onto Meteora Butterfly. Then she truly crosses it with The Reveal that she stole the students' souls as Miss Heinous and when she regains her memories, she moves on to steal souls from innocent bystanders while planning to reclaim the Mewni throne, even ignoring her mother's pleas to calm down and come with her.
  • The Magical High Commission (sans Moon) as a whole crossed this long ago when they conspired with Eclipsa's ex-husband, King Shastacan, to get rid of Eclipsa's half-monster daughter Meteora and replaced her with a peasant baby (Festivia), followed by omitting every mention of Meteora's existence in the official records and hidden archives of Mewni's and the Butterfly family's histories. For centuries they've hidden the fact that every queen after Eclipsa has been an illegitimate heir and that they robbed Meteora of her rightful place in Mewni's hierarchy and her identity, which led her to be turned into the awful Miss Heinous. It also raises the question of how much they wanted to put Eclipsa back in her prison was because of her supposed evil deeds, or more they were trying to cover their asses to keep the truth from coming out. And with The Reveal that Meteora as Miss Heinous was stealing the souls of the princesses sent to St. Olga's, it means they caused a bigger moral hazard than they anticipated. Individually however:
    • Rhombulus crossed it once his extremism went too far, freeing Globgor and causing a panic just so he can justify crystallizing Eclipsa and Globgor again. Tellingly, even Hekapoo and Omnitraxus, who equally distrust Eclipsa and Globgor, say Rhombulus went too far and order he be imprisoned.
    • Omnitraxus crosses it when he decides to support Mina's attempt at regicide and let Rhombulus out of jail to help, further proving he cares only for maintaining control over Mewni. While it seems Hekapoo supports the idea too, she realizes Mina is completely insane, and backs out of the plan, instead opting to save Star, Eclipsa, Moon, Marco, and Meteora before Mina can hurt them.
  • Mina Loveberry crosses it in "Monster Bash", when she tried to execute teenage monsters, just because they were monsters and later tried to kill Miss Heinous, who had just discovered that she was Meteora Butterfly, and thus emotionally stunned and defenseless against her. Any harm Star and Tom did to her in the fight against her is definitely well deserved (even if they were losing). If not then, then she definitely crossed it when she and her army captured all of the monster village's innocent citizens and attempted to kill them all.
  • Ludo's mother had some sympathizers with the implication that she was abused and her husband was much nastier than her. But then "Ludo, Where Art Thou" revealed that she was just as self-centered and abusive towards Ludo and Dennis as Brudo was. So both of Ludo and Dennis' parents crossed the line long ago with their horrendous abuse of their children.
• My Real Daddy: Though the show was created by Daron Nefcy, there are those who think that director Giancarlo Volpe, who worked on the similarly serialized Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Green Lantern: The Animated Series, was the one who truly helped the series improve, and that his departure caused the series to suffer a dip in quality.^note He joined in Season 2, which is when the show was thought to have gotten significantly better in quality, and left the show after the "Battle For Mewni" movie at the start of Season 3 to work on The Dragon Prince, which is thought to be when episodes started becoming increasingly divisive.
• Narm:
  • Tad and Kelly's conversation in "Conquer" after the former is struck down by the season's Big Bad can come across as this. It tries to be deep and emotional, but the interruptions make it hard to take seriously.
  • The moment where Star and Marco finally become an Official Couple is meant to be sweet and cathartic, but many, including Starco shippers, found the dialogue to be too clunky and awkward to take seriously.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Marco's reputation as "The Safety Kid". In the series, this is only mentioned once and is heavily implied this goes away in-universe once he becomes involved in Star's shenanigans (given now he's always involved in dangerous stuff it wouldn't be logical for people to believe his presence will equal safety), yet in fanart and fanfics he's constantly refered as the safety kid. Is even the Fan Nickname for Marco!
  • Marco's princess disguise from "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses", which ended up being so popular that it gave birth to one of the show's most well-known theories (that Marco is a closet trans girl).
  • Despite his genuine attempts to improve in Season 3, Tom still has plenty of detractors who haven't forgot some of his more violent and manipulative actions in the first two seasons.
  • Star destroying magic, dooming countless beings and civilizations in the Series Finale, is practically the only thing fans talk about her or the series since. Star alone is the target of backlash, or genocide jokes, ignoring the objectionable OOC actions of other characters this season thwarting peaceful alternatives leaving Star no clear other option to save her people.
• Older Than They Think: A lot of fans thought "Space Unicorn" was part of the show, and don't seem to realize Parry Gripp wrote it and released it five years before the series premiered.
• One True Threesome:
  • Some fans who ship Starco but are fine with Jackie have just shrugged their shoulders and said, "How about a threesome then? Not like anyone involved dislikes anyone else involved?"
  • By season three, Tom/Star/Marco has become popular due to Star getting back together with Tom in addition to the amount of Ho Yay moments Tom and Marco had together. In "Conquer", Meteora calls Marco Star's "Other Boyfriend" and they share a group hug at the end, which is helped by their constant Threesome Subtext after that episode.
• Periphery Demographic: Being a Deconstructive Parody of the Magical Girl genre, the show's premise naturally attracted many older fans of shows like Sailor Moon, the creator herself being one. While Star is much more an Action Girl than your typical princess, the show also benefits from Marco taking a co-leading role with just as much screentime and development as Star, helping the show find a male audience even among younger viewers. Since its premiere, the show has been going down the checklist of Growing the Beard, with the emergence of a greater overarching storyline, a healthy dose of moral gray, major character progression for both heroes and villains, humor and themes fly under the radar like a stealth bomber, genuinely serious, frightening, and emotional moments without losing sight of the show's comedic heart, and a commitment to developing the setting with such a thick mix of Foreshadowing and Call Backs that some aspects verge on Continuity Porn despite the show having run for only four seasons.
• Popular with Furries: Scalies welcomed Toffee, Rasticore, and the rest of the Septarian race with open arms. Toffee's sex appeal and Rasticore's masculine build appealing to Bara fans in particular have made them fairly popular, and the ships between them are quite common.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Loads of them.
  • Starco = Star/Marco. The first "StarFan13 LIVE" chat has StarFan13 (voiced by series creator Daron Nefcy) giving a substitute ship name, Marar. Nefcy had previously mentioned Marar on Twitter.
  • Tomco = Tom/Marco.
  • Jarco = Jackie/Marco. Alternatively, Mackie. Apparently, the composer for the series prefers the former over the latter.
  • Jankie = Janna/Jackie.
  • JanTom = Janna/Tom.
  • JanStar = Janna/Star.
  • Janco = Janna/Marco. Alternatively, Manna, which becomes an even easier possibility when taking into account "Mango Diaz" and "Janna Banana".
  • Marcapoo = Marco/Hekapoo.
  • Kellco = Kelly/Marco.
  • Rafangie = Rafael/Angie. Also, Rangie = Rafael/Angie. And Angael = Angie/Rafael.
  • Tomkie = Tom/Jackie.
  • Tomstar = Tom/Star. Also, Tomar = Tom/Star. Anti-shippers sometimes call it Tar, just to be insulting.
  • Tomstarco = Tom/Star/Marco. "Stomco" (Star/Tom/Marco) is also fairly used.
  • Tofficore = Toffee/Rasticore for those that see these two together.
  • Moonco = Moon/Marco.
  • Marclipsa = Marco/Eclipsa.
  • Spark = Spatziline/MoringMark^note Coined by the series' music composer Brian H. Kim making a punny ship name about two Fandom VIP who are Like Brother and Sister to each other. They have since adopted the name as the Spark Twins.
  • Juberiot = Justin Towers/Ruberiot
  • Moontoffee = Moon/Toffee. Also, Moonfee = Moon/Toffee.

R - T

• Replacement Scrappy:
  • Some fans soured to Kelly after she became essentially a replacement to Jackie in the story, as a possible romantic partner to Marco after the latter was Put on a Bus in a rather unceremonious manner.
  • A number of fans found Mina Loveberry to be a rather lackluster final villain when compared to Toffee and Meteora, due to her Cloudcuckoolander tendencies making her come out as less threatening and the fact she was only able to become a real threat thanks to Moon's assistance.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • Jackie-Lynn Thomas wasn't a full-blown scrappy, but she was derided for being a stereotypical Satellite Love Interest for Marco and somewhat of a Flat Character in season 1. Season 2, however, had her win her over many fans thanks to having more expanded characterization and her Relationship Upgrade with Marco. Fans and even Starco shippers were won over more in season 4, as she returns (with a girlfriend in tow) to give Marco closure, and acts like a Shipper on Deck for him and Star.
  • While not entirely despised by the fandom as a whole, a good many viewers found Ludo to be annoying, uninteresting, and a weak antagonist in Season 1, even feeling he deserved getting kicked out of his castle by his own monsters toward the end of the season after he'd been such a Jerkass to them all the time. Season 2 rescued him two-fold first by giving him Character Development that made him Took a Level in Badass and become a truly serious and even menacing threat (while still retaining a comedic element that Toffee lacks), and then by revealing more of his backstory that shows us why he is the way he is and why he wants the wand's power so badly, scoring him major Jerkass Woobie points and earning him a more sizable fanbase.
  • Kelly was initially disliked for being a Romantic False Lead replacement for Jackie. As things went on, things fared better for her as we saw that she was actually helpful. Her first few appearances didn't show her violent side, so showing those definitely helped.
  • River was seen by many fans as an annoying Plucky Comic Relief that caused more problems to Star, Marco and Moon that they already had. He gained a lot of fans during the final bunch of episodes where he spends most of the final battle trying to rescue Globgor despite his Noble Bigot traits. This lead to a lot of fans to appreciate his Character Development and prefer him over Moon who at the same time was orchestrating Mina's revolution, essentially betraying Eclipsa and Star.
• Retroactive Recognition: Jeremy Birnbaum is Cyrus Goodman and Bunga!
• Romantic Plot Tumor:
  • Season 3 took the growing romance issues from the previous season and doubled down on them, almost as though the writers were actively trying to make shippers as upset and confused as possible. Starting off, Star likes Marco but has to go back to Mewni due to the events of the Myth Arc. Marco is dating Jackie, but she dumps him knowing that Marco has stronger feelings for Star (though he doesn't realize this yet), allowing Marco to move to Mewni to be near Star. Unfortunately, Star has gotten over Marco and is now back together with her ex-boyfriend Tom, despite just one episode prior still being obsessively in love with Marco and hating Tom, meaning that Marco is left pining for Star when he realizes he's in love with her. Meanwhile, the side characters of Kelly and Tad break up for the umpteenth time but say this time is the final time, leading to Kelly and Marco sharing strong Ship Tease in spite of them having very little interaction beforehand. But that's derailed when Star and Marco share a kiss towards the end of the season, albeit not for romantic intentions but still resulting in them rethinking what their relationship actually is. The heavy and confusing teasing of several pairings simultaneously takes the focus off more lore-related plot lines, mainly the Queen Eclipsa and Heinous plot.
  • While Season 4 doesn't neglect the Myth Arc as much as Season 3, it continues the trend Season 3 began by stretching the romantic plot further and further despite also blatantly telegraphing a "Starco" ending. In addition to showing the rocky nature of Star and Tom's relationship, primarily due to actions on Star's side of things, the show offers numerous moments for the two to break up only to perpetuate the relationship. Meanwhile, Marco and Kelly get together in a G-rated version of Friends with Benefits so they can move on from their former flames, but this is brought up for only one other episode before they abruptly break up, and off-screen no less. Fans believed that "Beach Day" would be the episode that would lead to them finally getting together, but it turned out to be a Red Herring and they remain friends. Tom would finally break up with Star shortly after that episode, however, and then directly tell Marco that he'd be fine with him dating Star. But by that point, the Myth Arc was back in full force and ready to head towards its resolution. Star and Marco would finally share a quick (non-cheating) kiss during "Here to Help" with only three episodes left in the series. Just in time for their love to cause a Merged Reality of Earth and Mewni, so they can continue their relationship after the destruction of magic. The love-based merging of world was seen as just another divisive move in an already polarizing series finale, where even fans that loved it feel both the lore elements and romance elements were incredibly rushed in order to fit everything into 22 minutes.
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • Tom gets hit with this frequently, especially in Starco-based fics, due to his possessiveness of Star and murderous rage towards Marco in seasons 1 and 2. While he does work on his anger and becomes a better person by the end of the show in canon, his fanon portrayal frequently involves him kidnapping Star then attempting to brutally kill Marco when he inevitably goes to rescue her. Tom's father Dave also ends up as this frequently, with several fics involving him trying to overthrow the Butterfly family and forcing his son to do his dirty work.
  • Star gets this as well, primarily with the love triangle in season 2. A large number of dark fics feature her as a Clingy Jealous Girl that wants Marco all to herself, or a full on yandere with a murderous hatred against Jackie. She's especially been subjected to this treatment after the events of "Cleaved", where she's viewed as a Villain Protagonist at best, or a full on Omnicidal Manic at worst who essentially committed genocide against all magical creatures just for the sake of being with her crush.
  • A small number of fanworks have portrayed Queen Moon as being much colder and more harsh than she is in canon, to the point of being a full on Abusive Parent to Star. This is ignoring the fact that, as stuck up as she was, she deeply cared about her daughter in canon. While her betrayal in the last few episodes of Season 4 didn't help her case, it's pretty clear that Moon genuinely regretted her actions and did what she can to atone in the end. Yet there are still a few fics that portray her as having no regrets for helping Mina and have her and Star's relationship as permanently strained and damaged despite Moon making up with her daughter in the end.
  • While Jackie is a cool skater girl that rarely loses her temper in canon, fanon portrayals commonly villainize her into being an abusive and/or unfaithful partner to Marco, and holding an extreme grudge against Star for having feelings towards him to the point of hating her outright, despite the fact that Jackie herself was fully supportive of the two getting together in the show proper, and quietly and politely broke up with Marco without holding anything against him or Star.
• Rooting for the Empire: Miss Heinous after she finds out she is Princess Meteora and that she was robbed of her birthright. Yes, she is scary, murderous, and violent... but she also had a horrible upbringing, with her memories in "Skooled" doing a well job of portraying her sympathetically (if not, a bit too well) and that she is technically just retrieving what should have been hers to begin with. There's also the fact that one of her victims is Pony Head.
• Salvaged Story: In "Running with Scissors" Marco enters another universe where time flows differently, living 30 years before being returned to 14. However, the episode strongly implies that he remained 30 years old mentally, which many fans saw as giving some...disconcerting implications to his many love triangles with the teenage cast. In the live streams, they clarify that while he's aware of his time in Hekapoo's dimension, the memories are blurry and dreamlike rather than personal, confirming he is indeed still mentally 14 rather then a 30 year old in a 14 year old's body.
• The Scrappy:
  • Pony Head, due to being an It's All About Me Attention Whore with No Indoor Voice who is petty jerk towards her friends, especially Marco. Not helping matters is her inability to remember any lesson she learned in a previous episode, a general lack of character growth, and taking a level in jerkass from Season 3 onwards. Many were even disappointed that despite being a magical flying horse head, she wasn't killed when Star destroyed magic, or even really inconvenienced by it at all.
  • Alfonzo and Ferguson are hated for being annoying out-of-focus characters with little characterization. Many fans pointed out they merely exist to prevent Marco from having a Friendless Background, which was actually the case as Daron Nefcy was told by Disney to give Marco male friends.
• Seasonal Rot:
  • While not unanimous, some fans believe the show started to decline in quality during Season 3A, not counting the opening TV Movie, "The Battle for Mewni", which served to wrap up all loose threads from Season 2. Reasons for this include the shipping plotlines increasing in prominence to the point of pushing out the show's Myth Arc, Queen Eclipsa's importance to the plot being rather poorly thought out (she doesn't get half as much screentime as the shipping plotlines did, even though she was advertised as if she'd be the new key player of the season), questionable writing choices regarding both Star and Marco (and Marco himself becoming Out of Focus, even when he went to live Mewni), the lack of a solid Big Bad to fill the void left behind by Toffee and Ludo, which wouldn't show up until the mid-season finale "Monster Bash", and Jackie Lynn Thomas being Put on a Bus. However, with that said, Season 3B was seen by many as improving from "Monster Bash" onward.
  • Season 4 is regarded as lackluster by a large fraction of the fanbase in comparison to the previous seasons for a variety of reasons. Reasons include the continued ignoring of the Myth Arc in favor of shipping drama, setups from past seasons having unsatisfactory conclusions or none at all, character arcs and plot points being introduced solely to create drama between characters, and Mina Loveberry coming across as a Big Bad Wannabe compared to Toffee and Meteora. Add in the flanderization of characters to make them Unintentionally Unsympathetic or needlessly antagonistic and the season feels like a step down in terms of quality, culminating in a finale that had a rushed, anticlimactic, depressing Esoteric Happy Ending that left many plot points and character arcs unresolved.
• Self-Fanservice: Hekapoo is the queen of this, with her already rather curvaceous figure being exaggerated to include huge breasts (despite Hekapoo herself being clearly flat-chested in canon), as well as large hips and a huge butt, not helped by her hoop skirt giving off the impression that that's what she actually looks like.
• Ship Mates: Starco is frequently paired with Jackie/Janna, Janna/Tom, Ferguson/Alfonso or Jackie/Tom. Conversely, Marco/Jackie goes well with Janstar, Tomstar or Star/anyone who isn't Marco.
• Shipping: Months before the show even premiered, many fans started shipping Star and Marco despite having little information about them other than the fact that they're the protagonists and friends. After the airing of the first episode, the ship firmly became the OTP. This was intensified by the events of "Blood Moon Ball", leading the fans to joke that "Even the moon ships Starco!" In addition, the two are based on the creator and her husband's personalities, and Marco's voice actor very openly ships Starco.
• The Ship's Motor: Any fics that feature the Janco (Janna/Marco) pairing, and even a fair few that don't, tend to have them as childhood friends in order to strengthen the connection between the characters and justify why the latter is occasionally annoyed, but never completely perturbed by her presence despite being the victim of her Gadfly tendencies.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: After "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", this has become the norm for this fandom, where basically every ship involving either Marco or Star is in constant fight against the biggest ship on the fandom Star/Marco. Quite a few shippers are very toxic and have the habit of bullying or picking on people who ship other couples, particularly Tom/Star(which is accused of Romanticized Abuse by them), Tom/Marco and Jackie/Marco.
• Ships That Pass in the Night:
  • Even though they didn't properly meet for a while, Tom and Janna became a popular ship. It helps that he is a demon, while she is a Nightmare Fetishist. Shippers were encouraged by the new season 3 intro, where these two are seen together as part of "Team Star".
  • While they never met in canon, there's an onset of shippers who pair Jackie with Tom owing to their contrasting natures: Jackie's calmness to Tom's (initial) Hair-Trigger Temper, Tom's demon heritage to Jackie's Fanon mermaid heritage, Jackie's water motif to Tom's fire, the list goes on.
  • Rasticore/Toffee largely due to being the only important members of their race in the plot. "Moon the Undaunted" shows that Rasticore worked for Toffee when he was a general. They became often shipped with each other on Tumblr due to an appeal to both the furry and bara fandom in their designs.
• Signature Scene:
  • If the amount of fanarts is to be believed, Star and Marco dancing under the Blood Moon is arguably the most memorable scene in the entire series.
  • Marco giving Star a school tour in the first episode.
    Star: I'm a maaaaagical princess from another dimension!
  • Star being forced to destroy her wand to save Marco's life at the end of the first season.
  • The fight between the Magic High Commission and a Toffee-possessed Ludo at the end of season 2.
  • Star defeating Toffee and restoring all the magic in Mewni in one fell swoop at the beginning of season 3.
• Signature Song: "I'm From Another Dimension", known for being incredibly catchy and its memetic chorus.
• Strawman Has a Point:
  • Marco in "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses". As he points out while he and Star infiltrate the school, the princesses that they have encountered— Pony Head and Princess Smooshy— could do with a little character building given that Pony Head threatened to kill him for being Star's Earth bestie and Princess Smooshy tried to steal Star's face. Although he realizes that the school doesn't actually reform princesses with homicidal streaks, but instead makes them conform to a standard ideal, he makes a strong case for ladies that are a danger to societies and could do with a reduced ego. It's also hard to ignore his point where after she suffers brainwashing and snapping out of it, Pony Head Took a Level in Kindness to save him and then stay to save other girls from a similar fate.
  • The guidance counselor Mr. Candle isn't wrong when he says that Star's career as Queen of Mewni will take over much of her free time, and she has to be careful when selecting a husband. Star's mother has told her the same thing during various phone calls, and even when Happily Married she and the king have their spats.
  • Queen Moon Butterfly isn't wrong in ordering Glossaryck to increase Star's training in "Page Turner". Glossaryck only starts training Star in Season Two, since he failed to help Marco in "Mewberty," and it takes ages for them to learn to adapt to each other. While Glossaryck takes offense at how the Queen is wasting his time and micromanaging him due to Star being left alone with a page on dark magic, he really should have been intense from the start.
  • While obviously it's the hormones from the pregnancy on Angie's part, and Marco's parents bear some responsibility for not keeping tabs on their oldest child, Rafael's comments about Star "stealing away" their first son aren't exactly unwarranted. The Diazes took in Star, cleaned up her messes, cared for her, treated her as a beloved guest and as one of their own children... and then she ran off when her mother forced her to return to Mewni, leaving Marco bereft, accidentally sabotaging his first serious relationship, motivating him to leave home semi-permanently and causing him to land in the middle of a dictated land and war zone. Rafael and Angie were doing all they could to help their son during his depression, and it wasn't enough. From a Certain Point of View, Star appears as a selfish and Ungrateful Bitch (even though it was out of her control). Star obviously didn't want to leave or for Marco to follow her to Mewni, and Marco chose to leave both times, but it's not like she kept in touch with the Diazes after her abrupt departure or told them why she had to leave. Marco isn't even getting the respect he deserves on Mewni, and if his parents know that, they may be questioning why he left in the first place.
  • Star in "Lake House Fever". Whilst her getting angry at Tom for telling his mom that he saw Star kiss Marco without telling Star herself is meant to come of as hypocritical, she actually does have a good reason to be angry with him. Toms mom spent the entire day giving Star the cold shoulder with Star none the wiser as to why. If Tom had told Star what he told his mom from the start, she would have understood why his mom was upset with her and would have had a better chance at patching things up quicker.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Shining Star" sounds identical to the first Sailor Moon Ending Theme, "Heart Moving".
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • While Brittney is having an emotional crisis about her fears of having already reached her peak in "Mr. Candle Cares", her guidance counselor session gets interrupted thanks to said counselor working for Tom and leaves her alone and confused.
  • Alfonzo and Ferguson weren't popular among neither fans or even the creator itself which make them being Demoted to Extra in the season 2 and onwards which was Lampshaded in "Collateral Damage":
    Star: Ferguson! Alfonzo! I haven't talked to you guys all year, but you're always there in the background doing your thing!"
    Alfonzo and Ferguson: [raise their hands from the background and high five]
  • Pony Head gets this a lot, from Meteora ripping off her horn in "Skooled", getting her soul sucked out in "Divide" and getting her new horn broken off by a Solarian Warrior in "The Right Way". "The Ponyhead Show" is all about this trope, showing her making an incredibly unpopular show turning her The Scrappy in-universe.
  • Janna directly calling Glossaryk out for being unhelpful in "The Right Way".
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: One of the biggest reasons why Season 4 is disliked. Season 4 was considered the point where it was difficult to find anybody worth rooting for, with the characters either becoming too unsympathetic, turning against each other, or just straight up act antagonistic to one another. The actual story itself also kept going From Bad to Worse; Star and her family become pariahs for turning over the throne to Eclipsa, whose reign doesn't really do much to improve Mewni thanks to the populace hating her for giving monsters more rights, and Mina Loveberry eventually stages a war against Eclipsa with the help of Moon so that Mewni will remain in its anti-monster state.
• Trans Audience Interpretation: It is extremely popular for Marco to be headcanoned as a transgender girl, or as genderfluid or non-binary. His persona as Princess Turdina, mixed hobbies of both feminine and masculine activities, and his occasional nonchalance to being referred to as a girl or by feminine pronouns helps a lot.

U - Z

• Ugly Cute:
  • Ludo's design starts off very much like this. He has noticeably smaller, bloodshot eyes, and many shots paint him as relatively unappealing. When derobed at the end of Season 1 he is shown to be horribly malnourished. To offset these, he's only 2 feet tall, he has a somewhat naive, childish personality, and some of his mannerisms make him outright adorable. It also helps that he wears overly long robes that make him look even smaller than he really is. Even Star's expression in "Freeze Day" when she switches Ludo's skull with her cactus hairband suggests she finds him cute. It's helped along more in Season 2, where he's subtly redesigned to have larger, more expressive eyes, coinciding with his Character Development and full onset of Jerkass Woobie status. At first, what were assumed to be warts in his design proved later to be feather plumage. The further the show progresses however, he starts to move towards Ridiculously Cute Critter territory.
  • Buff Frog is a big tubby frog monster with a tough guy attitude that is completely counteracted by the way he gushes over his tadpole babies and genuinely tries to be a good dad.
  • The Giraffe Monster deserves special mention here as well. It's particularly adorable-looking when it smiles.◊
  • Eclipsa's monster husband Globgor. He's a monster that looks like a Big Red Devil, but it's not hard for fans to see what Eclipsa saw on him as he looked like a strong, jolly fellow.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Mina is considered this in "Cleaved". As much as she's portrayed as being a hate-filled irredeemable fanatic, seeing her past as a shy lowly peasant girl who got infused and mind broken with magic and being the last of her kind makes her present persona quite tragic especially as it was never made clear whether she truly hated monsters or it was introduced and amplified by Solaria's magic. And after centuries of being dedicated to Solaria's cause, her hero and the one who made her a Solarian warrior, she finally meets her ghost and begs her for help only to receive a death glare from her and left to be drowned by the Unicorn without even an explanation as to why her idol changed her beliefs. In the end, it's pretty clear that Mina desperately needs psychological help, but the heroes barely make a token offer to help her, and instead of commiting her, they opt to let her leave.
  • Also in "Cleaved", Rhombulus and Omnitraxus Prime. Their deaths were meant to be seen as well-deserved and Played for Laughs for their brutal and racist actions. However, this completely ignores all the previous episodes that humanized them and made them likable (which Season 4 stripped those traits from in favor of making them racist Jerkasses). This is to say nothing of the fact that literally all of their wrongful actions from "Cornonation Day" up to now were done on the behest of Moon rather than on their own accord, and yet they die as a gag while Moon is Easily Forgiven.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Glossaryck. Initially introduced as Star's tutor, he provided "useless" information to Marco in season one, and speaks in riddles that often confuse Star while teaching her at the same time. Instead of coming off as a sympathetic ally, he comes off more as an unlikable Jerkass Wild Card. His role in "Page Turner" where he was supposed to be in the right and "Book Be Gone" where he is supposed to be pitied both fall on deaf ears with many feeling he brings the bad things upon himself.
  • Pony Head really follows this trope to a tee, mainly from how she acts like an entitled brat who never really grows from her experiences, and always thinks she's right. Almost any time she's meant to be seen as a victim, like in "Skooled" and "Bam Ui Pati!", she's more like an Asshole Victim who deserves what she got.
  • The Spiderbites, or at least the King and Queen. While their hatred towards Globgor is understandable for the fact he killed their ancestor, said ancestor was King Shastacan, possibly as much of an Asshole Victim as it could get and they act passive-aggressively the whole time they are visiting Star and Eclipsa about it.
  • Moon in "Here to Help". Just because they were so distrustful of Eclipsa and felt she was a poor ruler, Moon gave Mina's attempt at regicide the jump start it needed by restarting the Solarian program despite her own denouncing of it, and was secretly the one in charge of both Mina's and the Council's attempts at a Coup the entire time. Even the revelation they only intended to exile Eclipsa and her family rather than kill them, and wanted no civilian casualties, does nothing to lessen this, especially when Moon's grudge against Eclipsa was due to her interference during her fight with Meteora, leading her to end up in the Realm of Magic and be separated from her family... which wouldn't have happened had Moon not acted rashly and continued to attack Meteora when Eclipsa was succeeding in talking her down. They still willingly armed Mina thinking they could use them as a tool, only to unsurprisingly lose control, and put Star, her friends, and numerous innocent mewmans' and monsters' lives at stake in the process. All because they didn't like or trust Eclipsa who, at this point, has proven to be more trustworthy than them.
  • Star herself in the final two episodes. Her sudden hatred of magic was completely out of left field, even though she was perfectly fine with it in the previous seasons. Plus, her decision to stop Mina’s monster genocide by destroying magic caused a genocide on a much larger scale, especially with the sentient spells in her wand that have personalities and even families, and possibly crippling dimensions that need magic to survive. (See Inferred Holocaust above.) Not to mention the fact that she didn’t seem to care about Earth and Mewni fusing and causing chaos everywhere and only caring that she could be with Marco forever.
• Unpopular Popular Character:
  • Eclipsa falls into this, as she's feared and hated by many in Mewni due to her marrying a monster and practicing dark magic, but became well-received by the fans, to the point where many fans felt Eclipsa nonetheless acted like a better mother to Star than Moon ever did.
  • Ludo is The Unfavorite among his family, a Bad Boss which very few of his underlings like and once he briefly becomes a King he has a 0% Approval Rating, among viewers he's a Tragic Villain and a Jerkass Woobie.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: In "Ransomgram", said ransomgram was delivered by a small monster courier who was initially mistaken for male by many viewers. This was probably partially because she is lacking Tertiary Sexual Characteristics (and is too short to have a visibly feminine figure), and partially because her voice could be mistaken for a young boy's. In her second appearance, "Out of Business", the misunderstanding is cleared up when she is referred to as female.
• Viewer Species Confusion: A few fans who are used to Japanese media tend to mistake Ludo for a Kappa, which Ludo does vaguely resemble due to having a specific hairstyle that mimics them. The second season makes clear that Ludo himself is really supposed to be a small bird monster that never managed to grow wings, unlike the rest of his family who are much more birdlike in appearance. But then it was revealed in The Magic Book of Spells that despite being birds, their species name is "Kappa".
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This Disney series can get surprisingly dark. There is a good amount of subtle suggestive content, multiple cases of not-so-subtle innuendos, some relatively serious and mature themes, horrifying situations and dangers. It only gets worse with the arrival of Toffee.
• Win Back the Crowd: After Season 3A was thought to be a decline in quality due to focusing a lot on shipping and relationship drama at the cost of the Myth Arc, Season 3B hit the ground running with the first three episodes moving said arc along, with "Butterfly Trap" in particular being a major Wham Episode. The two-part season finale "Divide" and "Conquer" was considered so good that it was cited by several fans to be the chief reason they even stuck with the show for Season 4.
• Woolseyism:
  • In the Japanese dub, many of the people from Mewni, like Star, her family, and other few characters, speak in Kansai-ben as a way to make them sound more alien compared with the rest of the human cast.
  • In the Russian dub, Buff Frog's real name went from stereotypically Russian Yvgeny Bulgolyubov to stereotypically Polish Kshishtof Sabanentski.

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