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* '''[[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilStarButterfly Star Butterfly]]'''
* '''[[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilMarcoDiaz Marco Diaz]]'''



!Hero's Allies and Close Friends

[[folder:Thomas "Tom" Draconius Lucitor]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RiderStrong

The demon prince of Mewni's Underworld and Star's ex-boyfriend.

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!Hero's Allies and Close Friends

[[folder:Thomas "Tom" Draconius Lucitor]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That was so much more fun than obliterating people!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Mewni should be a place of peace and unity for everyone. But for that to happen, we need to stop following the old ways. We need to be the change we want to see."'']]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RiderStrong

The demon prince
Creator/EdenSher (English), Creator/KanaUeda (Japanese), Pip Pellens (Dutch)\\\
''"Star the Underestimated\\
was queen for just four days.\\
Her one decision on the throne:\\
To give it all away."''

A magical princess from the other-dimensional Kingdom
of Mewni who is sent to Earth by her parents for safety's sake in lieu of sending her to [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses]] after misusing the magic wand she received on her fourteenth birthday. Lives with her earthly hosts, the Diaz Family.

She also loves to fight against monsters, but eventually comes to realize that monsters aren't so much as mindless enemies, but rather an entire race of people who have been systematically mistreated by
Mewni's Underworld government. In turn, she resolves to fix the government's mistakes by trying to bridge the gap between monsters and Star's ex-boyfriend.Mewmans, being a very forward-thinking princess. She eventually abdicates the throne for Eclipsa, the rightful queen at the time, and becomes her primary advisor.

For the character's SelfDemonstratingArticle, [[SelfDemonstrating/StarButterfly go here]].



* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals his last name as Lucitor, before it is stated in the third season.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Tom is shown to have an almost [[SingleTargetSexuality single-minded interest in Star]] and in no other person in particular, but he has made a number of comments that can give off the impression he is interested in Marco, including casually asking what Star would do if he kissed Marco and complimenting really tight swimwear on him.
** In "Jannanigans", he clearly checks Oskar out when the group is at Britta's Tacos.
* TheAntiChrist: Subverted. He's listed as the son of "[[{{Satan}} the Big Guy]]" in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension''. The episode "Club Snubbed" reveals that "The Big Guy" is actually a Mewman called Dave, with the nickname being in reference to his explosive temper.
* AscendedDemon: Tom wants to put himself in this direction, but it's very difficult for him to be good when by nature, his people are evil. He can't help it that he doesn't know how to do the right thing, and he even lamented that he's stuck being an evil demon forever. Thankfully, Star tells him that with guidance and effort, he can rise above his demon nature.
* AscendedExtra: While a major character in the episodes he appeared in, Tom's appearances in the first two Seasons were actually quite rare, amounting to no more than 3 or 4 episodes. Season 3, however, makes him a near constant presence, most likely due to his RelationshipUpgrade with Star, and also serves as an AudienceSurrogate along the way.
* AudienceSurrogate: Most of his appearances post-"Demoncism" have him in this role, as his new RelationshipUpgrade with Star allows the latter to express what she's going through for both him and the audience, and in some episodes all he does is react to the situation in the expected way the audience would. This becomes most notable in the Season 3 finale, where he's the only one who doesn't lose his soul(s), so that he can experience firsthand what the audience is seeing.
* AxCrazy: ''Oh yes''. Pre-Season 2, [[HairTriggerTemper he loses his cool really fast]], and when he does you don't want to be anywhere near him.
* BerserkButton: In "Stump Day", Marco accusing Tom of being a bad boyfriend for forgetting Star's birthday makes Tom ''livid'', enough to try beat the shit out of Marco without his demonic powers.
* BlackSpeech: He does ominous chanting in "Monster Bash" to summon a rune-carved coffin so he could trap Mina.
* BreakoutCharacter: Tom made sporadic appearances in the first two Seasons, featuring in 3 or 4 episodes total, but his appealing character concept allowed him to gather a sizable fanbase, which led to much more prominent roles in Season 3 where he was essentially the third most important character behind Star and Marco.
* BurningWithAnger: He spawns hellfire all over the place when he finally loses his temper in "Blood Moon Ball" and it seems to be something that happens often, though he starts losing it once he is better able to control his anger.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Subverted in "Naysaya" where it's not that he forgot he put a curse on Marco but that he simply assumed the curse must have already come and gone by now and therefore saw no reason to warn Marco even though they were now on good terms. Plus, he couldn't get rid of it even if he wanted to. The nonchalant spirit of the trope is still fully intact, though.
* CharacterDevelopment: Tom is introduced as Star's obsessed and irritable ex-boyfriend who is likely to be failing his treatment of his anger issues during season one. By the time he comes back, he is shown to be better at controlling his temper and even capable of eventually befriending Marco. Season 3 and 4 have a much sweeter and loving Tom, who is a very loving and supportive boyfriend to Star and Marco's best male friend and is among the nicest characters in the show. To whit: he goes from being a CrazyJealousGuy over Star to [[spoiler: breaking up with her himself because of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.]]
* CheatersNeverProsper: He spends most of the show's first three seasons trying to take shortcuts to manifest his character growth, not quite understanding that doing so would defeat the purpose. It takes the events of "Demoncism" where what he thought would be a quick and blasé procedure to cure his anger would take over a decade of frequent (and ''painful'') rituals for him to finally decide to put the hard work into changing himself for the better.
* ChekhovsGag: He is revealed to have several angry spirits living inside of him early in season 3. At the finale, it turns out this makes him resistant to Meteora's soul sucking powers since each spirit counts as a separate soul, making Meteora unable to turn him unresponsive like she did with others. Unfortunately, this provides little protection since [[MundaneSolution Meteora just punches him out instead]] after getting tired of trying to drain all his souls.
* ChickMagnet: Tom gets the attention from a number of female students from Star and Marco's school.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: In "Is Another Mystery," he and Star are captured and have burlap sacks placed over their heads and most of their bodies. Tom seems calm at first, but then starts screaming and running around in a panic. When Star asks if he's okay, he responds in a shaky voice, "I think I just found out I'm claustrophobic, and I might be panicking a little."
* ControlFreak: Tom's pet peeve is having things not go according to his plans. In his debut, Tom tries to remake the Blood Moon ball so it will appeal more to Star, but he even tries to make her conform to his desires, becoming irked when she refuses. The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/f/fe/BMB_evonfreeman.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150716034331 promotional poster]] for that episode even has him stringing Star around like he would a puppet.
* ConvertedFanboy: He pretends to be a Mackie Hand fan in order to convince Marco to spend time with him, but he actually hates Mackie Hand movies and calls them garbage when the ruse is found out. He later expresses genuine impressment at Mackie Hand's martial arts while he and Marco are watching the guy's zombie fight security guards.
* CostumeEvolution: From "Blood Moon Curse" in Season 4 onwards he wears a maroon jacket, a torn red t shirt, black jeans, and brown boots.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He starts BurningWithAnger when he thinks Star and Marco could be a thing and "Naysaya" reveals he put a curse on Marco just in case he tried to ask Star out. He grows out of it by the time he and Star are dating again.
* DealWithTheDevil: He tries to trick Oskar into selling him his soul in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' in exchange for success as a musician.
* DemonicPossession: He has thousands of tiny, angry souls living inside his body. While it does make him immune to the effects of soul-stealing like what Meteora did in the Season 3 finale, they're also the source of his anger issues, which makes him try a demoncism on himself to try get rid of his "inner demons".
* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: As a Devil Prince, Tom possesses an incredible amount of pull and power in the underworld, to the point that he was able to dramatically alter the demons' most beloved holiday in ways that aggravated the rest of them, just to impress Star. He likewise possesses incredible magical powers, being able to alter reality, summon objects and teleport between realms.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: His attempt at HeroicSacrifice in the finale made Meteora more powerful, since, while he could resist her powers, she could still drain energy and get stronger from him. He even admits to it.
* DishingOutDirt: He can open up huge fissures in the earth which presumably lead to the underworld.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Tom had a brief cameo in "Match Maker" when Star accidentally called him on her mirror. He made his actual debut in "Blood Moon Ball".
* ElementalPersonalities: He has fire powers, and he's a hothead with a HairTriggerTemper. It's also subverted; Tom acknowledges his anger as a serious problem and has been trying to control himself so he could be a better person, with varying degrees of success.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Meteora's soul-stealing may not be a OneHitKill to Tom, but if his appearance is anything to go by it's having ''some'' effect on him.
* ExorcistHead: Inverted. Tom holds his head still so he can continue to give Marco a Death Glare while his body rotates as he and his anger-management counselor "walk it out".
* FantasticRacism: He admits in "Is Another Mystery" that despite his wealth and status as an Underworld prince, he still gets funny looks and treated badly outside his kingdom because he's half-monster, and has to hide his tail to avoid receiving more prejudice.
* FatalFlaw:
** Tom always takes things to their logical extremes, and will not settle for less. He stops being a StalkerWithACrush? He acts like Star doesn't exist. He wants to be kinder and less temperamental? He insists on a ''very'' painful ritual to remove what causes his bad behavior and is hinted will effectively lobotomize him in the process.[[note]]Though Tom doesn't seem to have realized this at the time.[[/note]] It doesn't behoove him to just give Star space in the former, or to just control his temper like a normal person in the latter, but that doesn't sound like fun for him.
** His HairTriggerTemper. Being a demon with incredible political and magical power, having a short fuse could jeopardize him in both areas. Moreover, it's something that he got from his father, and he doesn't ''want'' to become like him. He does have an anger management coach and his friends to help him, but whenever he gets angry, something's going to be set on fire.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts calm and polite throughout "Blood Moon Ball", but it turns out to be a ploy to get Star to dance with him under the light of the Blood Moon, which will bind them together as soulmates. He gets much better in his later appearances.
* FieryRedhead: A pink-head, but Tom is definitely fiery in more ways than one, both in his early seasons temper and his fire powers.
* {{Foil}}: To Meteora, as they both represent the [[ForWantOfANail opposite options]] of society and family accepting a half-monster hybrid, especially those born into royalty. Where as Meteora is the daughter of a Mewman with a monster, a group of poor creatures that is hated by society, she suffers from it and has the throne taken from her. Tom on the other hand is largely beloved, if still suffering from FantasticRacism in minor ways among Mewmans, he's still a royal who is the son of a Mewman with a demon that grants him a palace and the right to eventually govern the underworld.
* ForWantOfANail:
** The reason why he failed to dance with Star was because he wanted the dance with her to be absolutely perfect and he had left her alone for a brief moment so he can change one of the songs which allowed Marco an opportunity to have a moment alone with Star but Marco ends up becoming her soul mate instead of Tom.
** He could have also got his wish in stopping Star and Marco going into a relationship, if he had inflicted the Naysaya curse on Star rather than Marco since "true love" applied to crushes. In "Blood Moon Ball" Star was the one with her heart on her sleeve and displayed an obvious attraction to the masked stranger.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In "Is Another Mystery", he gets captured with a burlap sack put over his body and doesn't once use his demonic powers to free himself or Star, instead opting to run around aimlessly until he gets his horns stuck in a tree. Made more glaring because after he's freed and goes on to have a discussion with the monsters who captured him, he does actually display some of his demonic powers as part of the conversation. Partly justified in that the burlap sack caused him to discover that he's [[{{Claustrophobia}} claustrophobic]] and he was possibly having a full on panic attack, and therefore wasn't thinking clearly.
* FriendlessBackground: He confesses in "Frenemies" that he doesn't have many friends. It's implied his temper and possibly his status as a demon prince drives people away.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Tom's eyes glow when he gets ''really'' angry. They're usually accompanied with a VoiceOfTheLegion.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: When he finds out Marco kissed Star. He initially didn't believe him and tried to sacrifice himself for Marco. When Marco confirmed the kiss and was incapacitated by Meteora, he chooses not to mention it again and protects Star.
* HairTriggerTemper: Despite his attempts to swallow his rage in "Blood Moon Ball", it's made obvious that the slightest things can set Tom off. It's all but stated that this was the major factor in Star's decision to break up with him.
* HeelFaceTurn: In "Mr. Candle Cares", Marco manages to convince him to give up his obsession with Star, and the three of them part on civil terms. In "Friendenemies" while it turns out his wanting to spend time with Marco was part of his anger management training, it's shown that [[ItMeantSomethingToMe he did enjoy it]] and [[BecomingTheMask started to like Marco more than he used to]]. By the next time he shows up, Tom reveals to have been hanging out with Marco offscreen and is a much nicer person.
* HelpingHands: Tom can still control his limbs after they've been severed and even reattach them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' heavily implies that Tom desires a "bromance" with Marco and is a little hurt that he's not all that enthusiastic with the idea when the topic comes up. Later episodes do play them up as such.

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* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Due to Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals his last name as Lucitor, before it is stated in the third season.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Tom is shown to have an almost [[SingleTargetSexuality single-minded interest in Star]] and in no other person in particular, but he has made
a number mix of comments revealing that can give off she had lost the impression he is interested in Marco, including casually asking what Star would do if he kissed Marco Spell Book and complimenting really tight swimwear on him.
** In "Jannanigans", he clearly checks Oskar out when
Glossaryck to Ludo and [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicating the group is at Britta's Tacos.
* TheAntiChrist: Subverted. He's listed as the son of "[[{{Satan}} the Big Guy]]" in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension''. The episode "Club Snubbed" reveals that "The Big Guy" is actually a Mewman called Dave, with the nickname being in reference to his explosive temper.
* AscendedDemon: Tom wants to put himself in this direction, but it's very difficult for him to be good when by nature, his people are evil. He can't help it that he doesn't know how to do the right thing, and he even lamented that he's stuck being an evil demon forever. Thankfully, Star tells him that with guidance and effort, he can rise above his demon nature.
* AscendedExtra: While a major character in the episodes he appeared in, Tom's appearances in the first two Seasons were actually quite rare, amounting to no more than 3 or 4 episodes. Season 3, however, makes him a near constant presence, most likely due to his RelationshipUpgrade with Star, and also serves as an AudienceSurrogate along the way.
* AudienceSurrogate: Most of his appearances post-"Demoncism" have him in this role, as his new RelationshipUpgrade with Star allows the latter to express what she's going through for both him
throne and the audience, and in some episodes all he does is react wand to the situation pro-monster Eclipsa]], as well as having pro-monster opinions in the expected way the audience would. This a Mewman-Monster segregated society, Star becomes most notable in the Season 3 finale, where he's the only one who doesn't lose his soul(s), so that he can experience firsthand what the audience is seeing.
* AxCrazy: ''Oh yes''. Pre-Season 2, [[HairTriggerTemper he loses his cool really fast]],
something of an object of ridicule and when he does you don't want hatred to be anywhere near him.
* BerserkButton: In "Stump Day", Marco accusing Tom of being a bad boyfriend for forgetting Star's birthday makes Tom ''livid'',
Mewmans, enough for her to try beat the shit be chased out of Marco without his demonic powers.
* BlackSpeech: He does ominous chanting in "Monster Bash" to summon
a rune-carved coffin so he could trap Mina.
* BreakoutCharacter: Tom made sporadic appearances in
town with torches and pitchforks the first two Seasons, featuring in 3 or 4 episodes total, but his appealing character concept allowed him to gather a sizable fanbase, which led to much more prominent roles moment they realize who she is in Season 3 where he was essentially 4. On the third most important character behind Star and Marco.
* BurningWithAnger: He spawns hellfire all over the place when he finally loses his temper in "Blood Moon Ball" and it seems to be something that happens often, though he starts losing it once he is better able to control his anger.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Subverted in "Naysaya" where it's not that he forgot he put a curse on Marco but that he simply assumed the curse must
flip-side, monsters have already come and gone by now and therefore saw no reason to warn Marco even though they were now on good terms. Plus, he couldn't get rid of it even if he wanted to. The nonchalant spirit of developed an adoration towards her.
* AbdicateTheThrone: At
the trope is still fully intact, though.
* CharacterDevelopment: Tom is introduced as Star's obsessed and irritable ex-boyfriend who is likely to be failing his treatment
end of his anger issues during season one. By the time he comes back, he is shown to be better at controlling his temper and even capable of eventually befriending Marco. Season 3 and 4 have a much sweeter and loving Tom, who is a very loving and supportive boyfriend to three, Star and Marco's best male friend and is among gives the nicest characters in throne (and wand) back to Eclipsa, who had technically been the show. To whit: he goes from being a CrazyJealousGuy over Star to legitimate ruler for the last three hundred years. [[spoiler: breaking up with her himself A moot point after the GrandFinale, because there is no longer a Mewni to be the queen of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.when Earth and Mewni are fused together.]]
* CheatersNeverProsper: He spends most of the show's first three seasons trying to take shortcuts to manifest his character growth, not quite AchievementsInIgnorance: Ironically, since Star has a poor understanding of magic's rules and limitations, she occasionally ends up overcoming those limits without even realizing it. Special mention goes to reaching through the All-Seeing Eye spell without causing it to explode and reviving the Realm of Magic after Glossaryck said it was impossible. Even her "normal" spells qualify, as Glossaryck points out that doing so would defeat they aren't in the purpose. It takes spellbook yet somehow function anyway.
* ActionGirl: Magic is actually new to her, but she has been kicking monster butt for a long time.
* AesopAmnesia: The Aesop in "Storm The Castle" was that she shouldn't endanger
the events lives of "Demoncism" where what he thought would be a quick and blasé procedure to cure his anger would take over a decade others (mainly Marco's) when she's on one of frequent (and ''painful'') rituals for him to finally decide to put her thrill-seeking adventures, or when she's reckless on the hard work into changing himself for the better.
* ChekhovsGag: He is revealed to have several angry spirits living inside of him early
pair's dimensional travels. However, in season 3. At the finale, it turns out 2, she regularly forgets this makes him resistant to Meteora's soul sucking powers since each spirit counts as a separate soul, making Meteora unable to turn him unresponsive like she did with others. Unfortunately, this provides little protection since [[MundaneSolution Meteora just punches him out instead]] after getting tired of trying to drain all his souls.
* ChickMagnet: Tom gets the attention from a number of female students from Star
and Marco's school.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: In "Is Another Mystery," he and Star are captured and have burlap sacks placed over their heads and most of their bodies. Tom seems calm at first, but then starts screaming and running around in a panic. When Star asks if he's okay, he responds in a shaky voice, "I think I just found out I'm claustrophobic, and I might be panicking a little."
* ControlFreak: Tom's pet peeve is having things not go according to his plans. In his debut, Tom tries to remake the Blood Moon ball so it will appeal more to Star, but he even tries to make her conform to his desires, becoming irked when she refuses. The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/f/fe/BMB_evonfreeman.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150716034331 promotional poster]] for that episode even
has him stringing Star around like he would a puppet.
* ConvertedFanboy: He pretends to be a Mackie Hand fan in order to convince
gotten Marco to spend time with him, but he actually hates Mackie Hand movies and calls them garbage when the ruse is found out. He later expresses genuine impressment at Mackie Hand's martial arts while he and Marco are watching the guy's zombie fight security guards.
* CostumeEvolution: From "Blood Moon Curse"
herself in Season 4 onwards he wears a maroon jacket, a torn red t shirt, black jeans, and brown boots.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He starts BurningWithAnger when he thinks Star and Marco could be a thing and "Naysaya" reveals he put a curse on Marco just in case he tried to ask Star out. He grows out
lot of it by the time he and Star are dating again.
* DealWithTheDevil: He tries to trick Oskar into selling him his soul in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' in exchange for success as a musician.
* DemonicPossession: He has thousands of tiny, angry souls living inside his body. While it does make him immune to the effects of soul-stealing like what Meteora did in the Season 3 finale, they're also the source of his anger issues, which makes him try a demoncism on himself to try get rid of his "inner demons".
danger.
* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: As AlienCatnip: Star loves sugar and likes to put massive quantities of it onto everything -- inventing the "sugarrito" (a burrito smothered in sugar). Her favorite cereal on Earth seems to also be an example based on the name: "Captain Blanche's Sugar Seeds". Justified as Mewni's main food staple (to a Devil Prince, ridiculous degree) is corn. Cornbread, popcorn, corn on the cob - but nothing sugary, even candy corn. Having such a low sugar diet until coming to Earth likely helped accentuate Star's sugar sprees.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted. Star falls head over heels for Oskar after learning he has a record, and her ex
Tom possesses an incredible amount is a demon. However, she mentions breaking up with the latter because of pull his anger issues and power gets over her crush with the former when she starts to fall for [[NiceGuy Marco]] and then renews her relationship with Tom when he matures.
* AllLovingHeroine: As she [[CharacterDevelopment matures]], Star becomes more and more determined to have Mewmans and Monsters be friends with one another.
* AmbiguousSituation: At the end of "The Battle for Mewni" Star is trapped inside Ludo's wand fragment and Toffee shatters it with her still inside. Shortly after this happens, Star has a conversation with Glossaryck (who was also recently killed) in an [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds empty black void]] before rediscovering her magic and popping back into existence. It is hard to tell whether Star died and was talking to Glossaryck [[DeadPersonConversation from beyond the grave]] or if she was put in some sort of limbo after the fragment was destroyed. "Deep Dive" reveals that it was actually [[TakeAThirdOption neither]]. Star was in a place called "The Realm of Magic" which is apparently where all magic
in the underworld, universe comes from. Glossaryck's ambiguous status still holds true, though.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Star is mostly interested in guys, such as Tom, Oskar and Marco, but she is pretty comfortable with [=StarFan13=]'s crush on her and has seen some women through CrushFilter, such as Chloe and Brunzetta, the latter of which she is hinted to be interested in, since her cheek marks crush when she says she doesn't remember her.
* AncestralWeapon: Her wand has been passed down a very, very long line in her family.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Star confesses her crush on Marco in "Starcrushed" and admits that she initially suppressed her feelings for him because she hoped that they would go away.
* AttackAttackAttack: She's not exactly one for strategy and relies heavily on her wand and fighting skills. Showcased in "St. Olga's Reform School For Wayward Princesses" where her main plan to save Pony Head was to rush in and blast everything. Marco has to convince her to use infiltration and stealth for most of the trip since that would bring the entire school's guards on them. She only falls back on it when Marco is captured in order to free him and to pull a quick escape.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In Seasons One and Two, she was firmly against the idea of becoming queen and having to accept responsibility,
to the point that she nearly mauled an innocent mermaid she knew by name to get out of being queen. [[spoiler:Come season four, when given a vision that her destiny is to destroy the realm of magic to stop Mina and save the monsters, Star reluctantly decides to do it because it's the only solution as opposed to waiting out the apocalypse in a tavern, though it will mean she and Marco will be separated forever, and Glossaryck will die again.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In season two, she hated being told that she would become queen of Mewni, no matter what she did, because it would mean having to be responsible like her mother. Come season three, she longer has to worry about that...because she finds out she's not related to Eclipsa, the rightful heir to the throne and in fact gives the throne back to her. She [[spoiler:comes from the Pie Folk instead.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Downplayed. While she isn't ignorant of Glossaryck's negative traits, she also admits that he's still an important person to her because
he trusted her judgement and didn't try to tell her what to do like what many others try to.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A goofy teen who has experience kicking monsters' butt on a daily basis.
* BeyondTheImpossible: At the end of "The Battle for Mewni" she manages to come back to life after being trapped in the Realm of Magic and drowning in Toffee's corruption.
* BigSisterInstinct: Star thinks of Meteora as her little sister, and she grew to be protective of her since being deaged. Star wants to make sure she grows up surrounded with good people and great friends.
* BloodKnight: Even before receiving her magic wand, she enjoyed kicking monster butt. Apparently her parents used the Royal Guards, all of whom are trained warriors in their own rights, as her babysitters. It's no wonder she grew up thinking violence and battle are fun when those guys taught her how to snap the necks of her stuffed animals when she
was able a toddler.
* BodyguardCrush: She has unknowingly developed a crush on Marco and only started
to dramatically alter subconsciously act on it in "Bon Bon the demons' Birthday Clown". Marco was originally trusted to be Star's guide to Earth culture when Star's parents asked the principal to find a guide for her. Marco also protects her and the wand from Ludo and other villains or when she gets herself into trouble due to misunderstanding Earth culture.
* BreakTheCutie: Hoo boy. The multiverse seems intent on breaking her naivete at every possible opportunity. Over the course of the series she has seen her best friend brainwashed by a corrupt boarding school, been forced to destroy her wand under threat of having her other best friend brutally murdered in front of her, seen her friend and tutor abducted right in front of her and was helpless to stop it, set up her friend with another girl only to realize that she has feelings for him, had said crush revealed in front of her entire kingdom, and been left to die in an ocean of corrupted magic. Last but not least, she learns in "Butterfly Trap" that her family are illegitimate heirs to the throne and her entire identity as a princess [[LossOfIdentity is a lie]].
* BrilliantButLazy: "Baby" reveals that Star's magical aptitude is on par with Queen Eclipsa, but her lack of discipline makes her spells extremely chaotic and unfocused. The only time that she can reliably get her magic to do what she wants is when [[EmotionalPowers something important is on the line]]. Star also never bothered to learn basic magic, because it bored her, noted since the apple test in "Baby" is geared (as shown in "The Hard Way") to be easily passed using Levitato, literally the
most beloved basic spell in the book. Instead Star skipped to much more advanced stuff and even created dozens of her own spells (even ones that ''create life from nothing'') without giving the slightest thought to how they worked, as seen at the end of "Raid the Cave" when Star begins writing her own notebook of spells, she had to cast a Narwhal Blast before writing the entry because it comes so naturally to her that she'd never paid any attention to the mechanics of the spell before.
* BrokenPedestal:
** "Mewnipendence Day" has Star realizing that the
holiday in ways question is a case of WrittenByTheWinners and the conclusion that aggravated her people have been annually celebrating the rest slaughter of them, innocent monsters proves upsetting, to say the least.
** At the beginning of "Starstruck", Star deems Mina Loveberry, the greatest warrior to ever live. She turns out to be
just as crazy as Marco said she was. Star admits this as well by the end of the episode, calling her "a lady with no marbles". She regretfully admits during a late episode in season 4 that she used to impress Star. He likewise possesses incredible look up to her.
** [[spoiler:To Moon, when she is revealed to have been behind the things that the Magic High Commission and Mina caused. Although Moon tries to explain how she was trying to de-radicalize them by finding less violent solutions, Star refuses to hear her or to forgive her. Of course, their mother-daughter relationship has never been the best to begin with, and when it came down to that moment, Star felt like her mom just ruined her life in general. However, Star learned from this experience and from her own experience with Eclipsa that mothers are flawed, and that she should not be quick to condemn her mother as a bad person just because she made a bad decision. Star later concludes that her mother needs to be reminded that she should always have her family to help her through when she makes these kinds of mistakes]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: She's unable to use her wand for most of "Quest Buy", but still manages to run and fight circles around Ludo and his thugs. Happens again in "Marco Grows a Beard" when her wand is caught up in a mass of Marco's beard that she overgrew and that she had to both navigate through and contend with Ludo and his minions to retrieve it.
* ButtMonkey: To a much lesser degree than Marco, but Star meets her fair share of AmusingInjuries, too.
* CallingYourAttacks: She usually says what she wants her magic wand to do or summon out loud. Occasionally a spell [[MagicMisfire backfires]] (or just fizzles) if she says the wrong thing.
* CannotSpitItOut: When Star is interacting with or even thinking about a crush then she can't compose her sentences correctly, which has caused her problems when she tried to speak to Oskar and only acted out on her crush during "Mewberty". This also applies to Marco, though in this case it's to preserve the friendship and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy allow Marco to be with Jackie]]. In "Starcrushed", when interrogated, Star reluctantly half-confesses to her friends, and only gives Marco the truth when it's seemingly the last time they'll see each other.
* CatchPhrase: "So cute!" and "Hugs!"
* CharacterTic: Chewing on her wand seems to be her tic considering how often she does it. She doesn't do it as much in season 2, hasn't happened once in 3.
* CheerfulChild: Despite being 14 years old, Star has the charisma and energy of a little child. This becomes subdued by the end of Season 2, where she is forced to mature more.
* ChildhoodFriends: She and Pony Head have known each other since they were toddlers.
* ClassPrincess: While she was a student at Echo Creek Academy, Star was admired by her classmates for her magic powers and her friendly, energetic personality. She easily stole the spotlight everywhere she went, much to the fury of AlphaBitch Brittany.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" when Marco actually goes out on a date with Jackie, Star gets increasingly jealous, calling him 57 times, and it gets to the point that it causes her to lose control of her magic. She even used her magic to spy on their date, and inadvertently caused them to crash on Jackie's skateboard.
* ColorCodedWizardry: Her magic glows different colors depending on the situation. Normal spells cast using her wand are pink, dark magic spells glow green, and spells she casts by "dipping down" are light blue. At the end of "The Battle for Mewni" when she reclaims her magic from Toffee it turns bright yellow.
* ColorMotifs: Yellow. Star has blonde hair, it's one of her two favorite colors (besides blue), and when she "dips down", Star glows bright yellow, as well as her controlled mewberty version being yellow with some orange tones.
* CombatPragmatist: Has absolutely no problems using whatever advantage presents itself, during fights.
* ComicallyInvincibleHero: During season one, she was this. Ludo's forces were laughably compared to her, who could blast them with or without her wand, the result of the fights were usually having Ludo's army comically battered. Season 2 onwards subvert this, as more powerful and complex enemies appear to her, such as Ludo's powered version, Meteora and so on.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Star does this a lot, but it's justified because she's not entirely aware of how things work on Earth. For example, she once thought that a football game was going to be an actual battle since everybody around her made it sound like it ''was'' going to be a battle, when really they were just being metaphoric to pump up the hype.
* TheConscience: In season 4, Star becomes a sort of impromptu royal advisor to Eclipsa.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Star is very good at combat magic, but she apparently skipped over a lot of basic and practical spells to focus solely on fighting bad guys. This comes back to bite her in the ass hard during her
magical powers, evaluation with [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Baby]] when she spends all day trying and failing to ''move an apple a few feet.'' To make matters worse, that particular test is designed to be easily passed by casting literally the most basic spell in existence, Levitato.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Star may seem a bit like a ditz with hardly any control over her wand, but when it comes to fighting, she's surprisingly competent to the point that she can use the wand without mucking up anything. And she's quite good at fighting ''without'' the wand, having done so for most of her life before inheriting the wand on her 14th birthday.
* CuddleBug: Gives out "Hugs!" to her friends and loved ones on a regular basis.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Star Butterfly herself looks like a fourteen year old girl with heart tattoos on her cheeks. She transformed temporarily into a monsterous butterfly-like form during mewberty, yet still looked adorable despite
being able to alter reality, summon objects terrifying. Her controlled transformation is considerably less monstrous.
* TheCutie: Star has the mindset, energy,
and teleport between realms.
innocence of a child. This becomes subdued by the end of season 2.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E15BloodMoonBall Blood Moon Ball]]", Marco heads to the titular ball in what he thinks is a rescue, only for Star to one-shot a furious Tom to save Marco.
* DestructiveSavior: When she attacks, few things will be left unharmed, including Marco.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: His attempt at HeroicSacrifice Her recklessness tends to get her in trouble.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In the finale, [[spoiler:she defeats the all-powerful Mina Loveberry, a warrior of the Solarians, an army designed to wipe out monsters, by erasing the magic
in the finale made Meteora more powerful, since, while he could resist her powers, she could still drain energy Realm of Magic alongside Moon, Eclipsa, and get stronger Meteora.]]
* DimensionalTraveler: Originally
from him. He Mewni, a kingdom in another dimension. She casually travels between different dimensions using magic scissors she has. When she gets control over her mewberty form, it's revealed she can open portals at will.
* DistractedByTheSexy: When seeing adult Marco in "Running With Scissors", she barely listens to him, is entirely focused on his six pack and couldn't compose her sentences. In "Ransomgram", Star is outright fawning over Marco's adult form and [[AmbiguouslyBi Brunzetta]].
* TheDitz: Downplayed, as she isn't really stupid, just incredibly naive and childish. [[GeniusDitz At others times though...]]
* DorkKnight: Star is an excitable teenager who is learning to use her magical wand and is a notable warrior against several enemies of her kingdom.
* DubNameChange: In many dubs, either her first name or last name is translated to the word for "star" or "butterfly". In the Norwegian dub, her name is "Sara".
* DudeMagnet: Quite a few boys have crushes on her, with Tom, Marco and Oscar being the main ones, though it's clear that several background characters also find her notably attractive.
* DumbBlonde: She's not dumb ''per se'', but she is quite scatterbrained in that she has the behavior of a child and [[LiteralMinded tends to interpret figures of speech literally]].
* EasilyImpressed: Due to being a FunnyForeigner from another dimension, she's utterly dazzled by
even the must mundane of Earth customs, which includes electricity.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: In "Running with Scissors", Star is left dazed as she stares at the toned torso of an adult Marco.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Was capable of kicking serious butt even ''before'' getting her wand. Even without it, she's quite the possible fighter and by season 4, she uses magic without her wand pretty freely.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [=StarFan13=]
admits to it.
* DishingOutDirt: He can open up huge fissures in the earth which presumably lead to the underworld.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Tom had
having a brief cameo in "Match Maker" when crush on Star accidentally called him in "Sleepover".
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Star's emotions are visible through her cheeks and often move and glow depending
on her mirror. He made his actual debut in "Blood Moon Ball".
* ElementalPersonalities: He has fire powers,
emotions. Her crush on Oskar is seen by everyone due to this and he's she is incapable of being subtle around him even to a hothead with a HairTriggerTemper. It's point where she can't talk to him without displaying her emotions. She also subverted; Tom acknowledges his anger confirms this in "Sleepover" where she says that everybody knows that she has a crush on Oskar. This is downplayed in Marco's case as a serious problem she isn't aware of her complex crush on him suggesting her emotions are shown when she is aware of them but her wand was subconsciously effected by her envy in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown".
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Star frequently makes rainbows appear from her wand, sometimes helpful, sometimes ''catching on fire''.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Star enjoys things that sparkle
and has been trying at least one spell that includes the words "sparkle" and "glitter" at the same time.
* ExpressiveAccessory: Her FacialMarkings function like this, as they've changed according
to control himself so he could be a better person, with varying degrees of success.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Meteora's soul-stealing may not be a OneHitKill
her mood in various episodes. For example: skulls when she's sad or violent, light bulbs when she gets an idea, or spinning hourglasses similar to Tom, a loading icon for a computer mouse when she's bored. This gets subdued in later seasons, but if his appearance is anything to go by it's having ''some'' effect on him.
* ExorcistHead: Inverted. Tom holds his head
can still so he can continue to give Marco a Death Glare while his body rotates as he and his anger-management counselor "walk it out".
happen occasionally.
* FantasticRacism: He admits in "Is Another Mystery" that despite his wealth and status as an Underworld prince, he still gets funny looks and treated badly outside his kingdom because he's half-monster, and has to hide his tail to avoid receiving more prejudice.
* FatalFlaw:
** Tom always takes things to their logical extremes, and will not settle for less. He stops being a StalkerWithACrush? He acts like
ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Star doesn't exist. He wants has shown to be kinder and less temperamental? He insists on a ''very'' painful ritual protective of her parents, and later, [[ParentalSubstitute Eclipsa]].
** She was already adamant over going back
to remove Mewni to fight Toffee, but listened to her mother to not to... until she learned from Buff Frog that Ludo had imprisoned her father. She immediately snuck out and went to angrily confront Ludo over what causes his bad behavior he did to her father.
** She imprisons [[spoiler:Eclipsa]] because her interference in [[spoiler:Moon
and Meteora's fight led the former to go missing.]]
** Star
is hinted will effectively lobotomize him aggressive in her approach to find the culprit(s) who tried to yada-yada Eclipsa and who kidnapped her in "Yada-Yada Berries" and "Queen-Napped", respectively.
* FallenPrincess: After [[AbdicateTheThrone giving Eclipsa back her throne]], Star is not the acting queen or princess, having apparently removed herself entirely from the line of succession (or rather, honored that she and the last several queens were never technically part of it). [[DownplayedTrope However]], Star still has magic she can perform without the wand and Queen Eclipsa lets her stay
in the process.[[note]]Though Tom doesn't seem castle anyway, and hopes her decision is worth it. Indeed, despite being her senior, Eclipsa treats Star much like a very trusted adviser, which convinces Star to stay even when her parents move away.
* FantasticRacism: Initially believes monsters to be the most ruthless of creatures with no shred of goodness in them at all. However, in "Lobster Claws" she starts
to have realized this at some second thoughts after her interactions with the time.[[/note]] It doesn't behoove him to just give Star space titular monster. More notably, in "Mewnipendence Day" she realizes the former, or to just control his temper people of Mewni weren't completely innocent in their feud with the monsters, and she treats monsters like a normal person in the latter, but that doesn't sound like fun for him.
** His HairTriggerTemper. Being a demon with incredible political and magical power, having a short fuse could jeopardize him in both areas. Moreover, it's something that he got from his father, and he doesn't ''want'' to become like him. He does have an anger management coach and his friends to help him, but whenever he gets angry, something's going to be set on fire.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts calm and polite throughout "Blood Moon Ball", but it turns out to be a ploy to get Star to dance with him under the light of the Blood Moon, which will bind them together as soulmates. He gets much
Buff Frog better in "Storm the Castle". Come season 3, Star has dropped her previous racist beliefs of monsters and is now [[ZombieAdvocate attempting to improve relationships between monsters and Mewmans]].
* FightMagnet: The source of most of the combat in the show is villains simply trying to get her wand and rule the multiverse.
* FishOutOfWater: During her first day on Earth, Star treated a light switch as if it was magical, mistook a drinking fountain for a hostile creature, and failed to see a connection between Mr. and Mrs. Diaz and Marco, despite knowing
his later appearances.
surname, because she just assumed that [[PlanetOfHats all Earthlings had the same surname]].
* FieryRedhead: A pink-head, FiveStagesOfGrief: Goes through them during the last few episodes in the finale [[spoiler:especially after finding out of her mother's treachery]]:
** Denial: [[spoiler:A small bit,
but Tom she was unable to understand why her mother would help Mina]].
** Anger: "Pizza Party" through the first half of "The Tavern at The End of The Multiverse" has Star [[spoiler:condemning Moon for betraying not just Mewni, but her personally as her mother, and refuses to talk to her]].
** Bargaining: [[spoiler:Star unhesitatingly goes to Glossaryk to see if there's a way out of the mess she's in, and she declares the only solution to stopping Mina
is definitely fiery to destroy the magic. Then Glossaryk asks how she's supposed to do that, places her in more ways the Grandma Room, then her dead ancestors point her to her completed tapestry...which shows her doing exactly that, with everyone she knows safe and sound.]]
** Depression: [[spoiler:Star is hesitant to carry out the plan while everyone on Mewni will be safe as shown in the vision, she also realizes Marco is not there. Glossaryk tells her Marco will survive the endeavor, but end up back on Earth. For Star, this means she will be separated from Marco forever. She goes to the Realm of Magic to destroy it, albeit with a good level of reluctance. After the deed is done, Star couldn't bear to be separated from Marco and tells her mother she will take the well to Earth before it closes, and jumps in to be with Marco one last time]].
** Acceptance: [[spoiler:When the process completed, the well sends Star back to Mewni. Star reunites with her mother, having come to terms with everything that led to that moment. She accepts that her mother did make a mistake, it wasn't completely out of ill-intent, yet bad things will always happen even then. Star looks to Eclipsa as an example, mentioning that all she did was fall in love and she received far worse treatment
than one, both in his early seasons temper and his fire powers.
Star gave Moon]].
* {{Foil}}: To Meteora, as they both represent the [[ForWantOfANail opposite options]] of society The series highlights her and family accepting a half-monster hybrid, especially those born into royalty. Where as Meteora is the daughter of a Mewman with a monster, a group of poor creatures that is hated by society, she suffers from it and has the throne taken from her. Tom on the other hand is largely beloved, if still suffering from FantasticRacism in minor ways among Mewmans, he's still a royal who is the son of a Mewman with a demon that grants him a palace and the right to eventually govern the underworld.
* ForWantOfANail:
** The reason why he failed to dance with Star was because he wanted the dance with her to be absolutely perfect and he had left her alone for a brief moment so he can change one of the songs which allowed Marco an opportunity to have a moment alone with Star but Marco ends up becoming her soul mate instead of Tom.
** He could have also got his wish in stopping Star and Marco going into a relationship, if he had inflicted the Naysaya curse on Star rather than Marco since "true love" applied to crushes. In "Blood Moon Ball" Star was the one with her heart on her sleeve and displayed an obvious attraction
Marco's different reactions to the masked stranger.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In "Is Another Mystery", he gets captured with
thought of having feelings for the other: while Star's feelings have been building up the more she was drilled despite saying otherwise, Marco remained indifferent to the possibility, not thinking anything would come of it. When it came to Star admitting she has a burlap sack put over his body crush on Marco, Star attempts to avoid acting on it further, while Marco moves on and doesn't make a big deal about it... for a time.
* ForeignExchangeStudent: How Star's passed off at Echo Creek Academy. She's certainly "[[DimensionalTraveler foreign]]" all right.
* ForgotAboutHerPowers: {{Inverted|Trope}}, Star is or was very dependent on her magic, so much so that she forgot the fact that she was kicking arse and taking names well before receiving the wand. This is best shown in "Marco Grows a Beard" where she only learns this after having a dream about one of the laser puppies reminding her about her love of [[BloodKnight bare-knuckle fighting]].
* FormerBigot: Star started off the series having a very skewed view towards monsters, being that they're all evil. A part of her character arc is [[CharacterDevelopment dropping]] these biases. By the series finale, Star has made friends with monsters as well as becoming a supporter of the species.
* FriendToAllChildren: Star has shown a friendly, playful, soft side whenever she is near babies and/or small children.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Downplayed. Most of Star's magic includes cute and cuddly creatures, suggesting she has a soft for animals.
* FunPersonified: Star is the living embodiment of fun.
* GeniusDitz: Toes the line between this and BrilliantButLazy. Glossaryck mentions that none of Star's spells are in his spellbook, so all of her unique spells are things she came up with ''on instinct''. At the same time, she knows next to nothing about magic and routinely flops at getting her magic to do what she wants outside of combat. She also
once nearly erased the multiverse to avoid doing a math problem.
* GenkiGirl: Star is usually full of energy and excitedly examines her surroundings while waving hello to strangers. In season 2 she developed a love for sugar and becomes far more energetic.
* GirlishPigtails:
** "School Spirit" showed that she had these when she was a toddler.
** Her hair is styled in braided pigtails in her Mewberty form and when she's in her GoldenSuperMode.
* GirlyBruiser: Star wears lots of different dresses, likes adorable creatures, and is very good at beating up monsters.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She loves anything cute, wears a plethora of different dresses, and tends to blast very cutesy (but dangerous) rays from her wand... but [[BloodKnight she also really enjoys fighting monsters]] and going on adventures.
* GlassCannon: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She's very capable of fighting even without the wand, but the wand is her primary source of major offensive firepower, so against tougher enemies she can sometimes get into trouble if she's attacked directly (or worse, if she ''loses'' the wand).
* GoldenSuperMode: During the climax of ''The Battle for Mewni'', Star reclaims the remnants of the Realm of Magic not tainted by Toffee, purifying Toffee's corruption. When she emerges from the void, she takes on a {{gold and white|AreDivine}} mewberty form similar to her mother's. She then fires a golden beam of magic that disintegrates Toffee. Later, she gains the ability to
use his demonic powers this form at will after visiting the Realm of Magic a second time. It's so powerful it's one of the very few things capable of fighting on par with Meteora.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Star's tried
to be a matchmaker for Marco so he can go into a relationship with Jackie. She was successful in pairing Marco and Jackie but develops a complicated crush on him and only seems to slightly realise it after seeing him with Jackie.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: She can use her wand to conjure new outfits out of nothing, usually either to act as disguises or just [[RuleOfCool to look really cool]].
* GratuitousPrincess: Star is the princess of another world. Her best friend, Pony Head, is a princess as well. To some extent, this trope is defied due to the DestructiveSaviour nature of Star.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blonde hair, and so far all the messes she's caused were magical accidents from trying to help others.
* HeartbrokenBadass: She developed a crush on Marco but became heartbroken after she gave him enough confidence to become a couple with Jackie. He only caught onto her crush on him when it was spelt out to him and confirmed by Star.
* HeroicBSOD: Happened twice so far.
** "St Olga's Reform School For Wayward Princesses": When Marco is captured and she can't seem to break Pony Head
free himself or Star, instead opting from her brainwashed state, making her feel powerless to run do anything. Attacking a poster manages to snap Pony Head back to normal who convinces her to keep going.
** "Marco Grows A Beard": When she felt she couldn't continue on without her wand. During a nap, her subconscious takes the form of one of the Laser Puppies to convince her she was already tough without the wand and didn't need it for everything (which ironically is what Marco was trying to tell her earlier).
* {{The Hero}}ine: The series revolves
around aimlessly until he gets his horns stuck Star's adventures in a tree. Made more glaring because after he's freed and defeating the forces of evil while learning how to properly use her magical wand.
* TheHerosJourney: Star
goes on through one in the first and second seasons. Finishing in the first half of the third season:
** '''Miraculous or unusual circumstances around the Hero's conception or birth''': Star displays a strong ability with magic, somehow being able
to have a discussion compose her own spells. According to Baby, only Eclipsa has ever been able to do this.
** '''Begins in the ordinary world of the Hero's hometown''': The story starts with Star being her usual BloodKnight self in the magical kingdom of Mewni, looking for fights
with the monsters who captured him, he monsters.
** '''The Herald brings a Call to Adventure''': She inherits the wand from her mother and is shown to be dangerously inept with it.
** '''Crossing the First Threshold''': Out of fear for the kingdom's safety, her parents send her to another dimension so she can learn and improve with her magic.
** '''The Land of Adventure''': Despite some initial misunderstandings, Star
does actually display make Earth her home until she learns how to master her magic. She befriends Marco Diaz and makes some other friends along the way, as well as meet Glossaryck, who guides her on how to use magic.
** '''The Spiritual Death and Rebirth''': Star starts going through emotional complications. She starts learning about the true history
of his demonic powers as her kingdom. [[KnightOfCerebus Toffee]] also becomes the main villain of this part of the conversation. Partly justified in that story and is shown to be significantly different from Star's usual enemies. Through Toffee and this discovery, Star starts to mature.
** '''Road of Trials''': Star starts taking steps to improve
the burlap sack caused him to discover that he's [[{{Claustrophobia}} claustrophobic]] relations between Mewman and he was possibly having a full on panic attack, monsters while also starting to fear Toffee. She starts by befriending her former enemy Buff Frog and therefore wasn't thinking clearly.
* FriendlessBackground: He confesses in "Frenemies" that he
when Toffee starts to reemerge, Moon evacuates Star from Earth.
** '''Night Sea Voyage''': Star and Moon start finding a way to defeat Toffee, they first try to resurrect the Commission and when this
doesn't have many friends. It's implied his temper work, Star resorts to finding Buff Frog.
** '''Time out just before the big battle''': Star starts composing a plan to defeat Toffee
and possibly his status as a demon prince drives people away.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Tom's eyes glow when he gets ''really'' angry. They're usually accompanied with a VoiceOfTheLegion.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: When he finds
she does make her way back to the kingdom. Only to find out Marco kissed Star. He initially didn't believe him and tried to sacrifice himself for Marco. When Marco confirmed the kiss and was incapacitated by Meteora, he chooses not to mention it again and protects Star.
* HairTriggerTemper: Despite his attempts to swallow his rage in "Blood Moon Ball", it's made obvious
that the slightest things can set Tom off. It's all but stated that this was the major factor in Star's decision to break up with him.
* HeelFaceTurn: In "Mr. Candle Cares", Marco manages to convince him to give up his obsession with Star,
Ludo has taken over and the three of them part on civil terms. In "Friendenemies" while it turns out his wanting to spend time has seemingly executed her father. She also reunites with Marco was part of his anger management training, it's shown and the pair have a heartfelt reunion.
** '''Fight against the Big Bad / Apotheosis''': Star returns to battle and discovers
that [[ItMeantSomethingToMe he did enjoy it]] and [[BecomingTheMask started to like Marco more than he used to]]. By the next time he shows up, Tom reveals to have Toffee has been hanging out with Marco offscreen and is a much nicer person.
* HelpingHands: Tom can still
using the wand fragment to control Ludo. She convinces Ludo to let her help him and uses the Whispering Spell to de-power his limbs wand, simultaneously transporting herself to the Realm of Magic to confront Toffee. She discovers that Toffee has been corrupting the Realm of Magic and using the magic drain to weaken his enemies. Toffee tricks Moon into releasing him and he promptly traps Star in the Realm of Magic by shattering the wand crystal. She does eventually escape from the Realm of Magic by absorbing the last bits of untainted magic and transports herself back to Mewni. She promptly disintegrates Toffee and he's finished off by Ludo. Putting an end to Toffee, seemingly, once and for all.
** '''Crossing the Return Threshold''': With Toffee defeated and Star now having mastered her magic. Star can now stay in Mewni.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: In seasons 1 and 2 the citizens of Mewni mainly remember Star as the princess that ''set fire to the kingdom''. Her reputation starts to get better in season 3
after they've been severed she settles down and even reattach them.
starts to finally take her royal responsibilities seriously, only for all that good will to go down the drain when she decides to AbdicateTheThrone to Eclipsa.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' heavily implies With Pony Head; "Freeze Day" shows that Tom desires a "bromance" with Marco and is a little hurt that he's not all that enthusiastic with the idea when the topic comes up. Later episodes do play them up as such.two have been friends since they were toddlers.



** While his bedroom in "Mr. Candle Cares" does have a torture wheel, everything else is what a wealthy teenager would have, including arcade machines, a ping-pong table, and posters on the walls.
** According to Manfred and Star in "Club Snubbed", Tom is one of the best dancers on Mewni. They aren't lying - by the time Tom dances with Star, their dance ends up with a beautiful combination of fire and butterflies.
** "Is Another Mystery" reveals that Tom himself has been subjected to FantasticRacism, due to being half-monster. The fact he insists on being referred to as a demon and hides his tail indicates he has a fear of being treated as different, lesser than others or in the same camp as the mainstream monsters. It also explains that the treatment he received in "Starfari" was not a case of being mistaken for a monster; he ''is'' one, but he had to pull rank to save face.
** He's also a huge fan of Love Sentence, a BoyBand, and even has a shrine dedicated to them. This is what allows him to start bonding with Marco, a fellow fan.
* HollywoodGenetics: Tom has pale violet skin; however his mom has dark red skin and his dad has human-like pale beige skin, presumably making Tom's a combination of both.
* HornedHumanoid: They resemble those of a bull.
* HotAsHell: Many of the female students at Echo Creek Academy seem to find him attractive, one of them even whispered that "He's hot" when seeing him.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Despite initially hating Marco out of petty jealousy and paranoia, Tom has matured greatly because of his interactions with Marco.
* HybridPower: Is noted as being the strongest demon in the underworld and it'd take ''decades'' to properly remove all the demonic energy inside of him. He's also apparently half-Mewman, and given the only other known Mewman hybrid in the series is also immensely powerful, that is likely the cause of his abnormal power. Though he's not nearly as powerful as Meteora, however.
* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''demon'', not a monster, which is a huge difference. In "Is Another Mystery", he admits he's a monster--a ''rich'' monster to be exact, but the title of demon heavily reduces the amount of FantasticRacism he'd be subjected to.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tom was in a previous relationship with Star, a Mewman. Downplayed, since it appears he's actually half-demon and half-Mewman. He is also the product of one, since his parents are a male Mewman and a demon Queen.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After his HeelFaceTurn, he accepts that he can't just force Star to love him, so he tries to give her space, even if she won't be with him. Ironically, this makes her want to restart her relationship with him. [[spoiler:Ultimately this is part of why he breaks up with Star 2/3 of the way through the final season, though he also feels they're just moving in different directions and are no longer right for each other.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: He (with Pony Head) rightly point out to Marco in "Stump Day" that celebrating Star's birthday on Stump Day would be a bad idea, and they tell him he should've at least asked Star what the preexisting conditions are for celebrating her birthday.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tom is a violent ControlFreak with serious temper issues, but he's not so bad underneath all that. All his appearances post-"Blood Moon Ball" have him realize where he's gone wrong and try to make amends or, in the case of the Naysaya, where he can't do anything to fix it, at least tell Marco what will make it run its course.
* JustFriends: [[spoiler: After their second breakup, Tom tries to deliberately [[DefiedTrope defy]] this, saying that he doesn't want to make Star unhappy by being around her and reminding her of what she lost. Later episodes imply that they'll stay friends anyway, though.]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Tom has a shrine that is dedicated to the boyband Love Sentence, and this is what causes him and Marco to genuinely bond.
* LackOfEmpathy: It's in his nature as a demon, so he really can't help it. Even when he wants to do the opposite of wrong, he still ends up doing the wrong thing anyways. He's trying to overcome it, however.
* MadeOfEvil: Why a demoncism is very painful--he's made up of ''countless'' evil, angry souls that it would require a ''thirteen year regimen'' for a complete treatment, and the process would either rob him of any personality whatsoever, or kill him. But, he does realize he doesn't have to ''be'' evil because of that.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: As mentioned above, he tries to get an "Inner demon" removed, only to find he has ''thousands''. It becomes useful against [[YourSoulIsMine Meteroa]], as it prevents him from being rendered OnlyMostlyDead like the others who got soul-sucked since he has so many, giving him enough time to escape.
* MindOverMatter: In "Mr. Candle Cares", Tom is able to undo Marco's chains without touching them and levitate ping pong balls.
* ModestRoyalty: While he does wear formal suits for ceremonial events, his usual outfit (as shown in his folder image) makes him look like a punk rocker. His bedroom even reflects his tastes, resembling that of a teenager on Earth.
* {{Necromancer}}: In "Friendenemies", Tom displays the ability to resurrect the dead as zombies, reviving the martial arts movie star Mackie Hand.
* NeverMyFault: He claims that his lack of friends stems from others judging him by appearance instead of his many, many, many other glaring flaws that are completely his own doing. {{Subverted|Trope}} as he gradually starts to take responsibility though.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When he invites Star to the Blood Moon Ball in an attempt to restart his relationship with her, he leaves Star alone for a moment to go and change the song, but Marco unintentionally steals the dance from him which results in Marco and Star becoming soul mates.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Tom's father is a Mewman while his mother is a gigantic demon.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: After everyone else in the Marc-nificent Seven has been drained of their souls, only Tom and Marco are left. Marco tells Tom to run while he holds the line, because someone needs to [[BringNewsBack tell Star what has happened]]. Tom refuses to leave without Marco, sincerely telling him that he's his best friend, and even attempts a HeroicSacrifice to save Marco from Meteora. This backfires since Tom has many souls, and the more souls Meteora absorbs the stronger she gets, so he only succeeds in making Meteora stronger, plus being in a continuous loop of getting successive souls sucked out with no time to react forces Marco to be the one to pull the HeroicSacrifice, freeing Tom and telling him to run.
* OddFriendship: He and Marco. Initially Tom tried to outright kill him more than once due to his jealousy over Star, over time the two become close friends, with Tom outright admitting that Marco is his best friend, and Tom pretty much being Marco's best friend, after Star.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: As a demon, it turns out that Meteora's soul-draining attack is of limited effect against Tom because each of his [[ManySpiritsInsideOfOne thousands of anger spirits]] counts as a separate soul. Though Tom failed to account for the fact that Meteora would still gain strength from each soul she sucked out of him. Also, the gaps between each soul-sucking were too short for Tom to move or counterattack.
* PlayingWithFire: As is typical for a demon, he has fire powers. He can even use them to fly!
* PointyEars: Has a set of almost elf-like ears.
* PowerFloats: Can pretty much fly at will, and does so in displays of power.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: He hides a fierce temper beneath his affable demeanor. He tries to improve himself, though, and becomes nice enough for Star to get back together with him, [[ReformedButNotTamed even if he does occasionally slip back]].
* PyrrhicVictory: However Tom gets things, he just will never be satisfied, but thankfully he never reaches that point. In one instance, Tom wants to torture and then kill Marco for preventing him from getting Star back as his girlfriend, but Marco points out that even if he does the former, he will end up not succeeding in the latter. And in "Demoncism", Tom considers treatment to get rid of the worst part of himself, but it would be ''very painful'' and he would've become an EmptyShell as a result.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Courtesy of Meteora. It's also a One Hit K.O.
* RealMenWearPink: He's a massive fan of Love Sentence, a BoyBand. He also has a fluffy pet bunny.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A clear sign that he's lost it.
* RedOniBlueOni: With his girlfriend Star as he is more connected to voicing his anger whereas Star is more collected about her thoughts and actions. In "Monster Bash" Star was the one that was trying to take a logical approach to handling the Mewman and Monster prejudices whereas Tom was more emotional by trying to spend time with Star. Extra points go to their respective kingdoms, Mewni's crest color is a light shade of blue whereas the underworld's crest is red.
* ReluctantPsycho: Even before his HeelFaceTurn, he is making genuine efforts to deal with his AxCrazy tendencies. This seems to have been motivated by his desire to get Star back [[https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2015/07/20/creator-daron-nefcy-guides-us-through-tonights-star-studded-episode-of-star-vs-the-forces-of-evil/ and not wanting it to define his identity]], but in his defense, he is still trying to improve even after having given up on her.
* RoyalBrat: He's Underworld royalty and for very obvious reasons, has way more minions than actual friends. He also had a sense of entitlement, especially when it came to his ex-girlfriend, Star, whom he tried to control. However, he's [[CharacterDevelopment come along way since his introduction]].
* RousingSpeech: An interesting take on the trope: After Marco's plan to trap Meteora fails, everyone else seems to give up hope and ponder running away and hiding out. Tom then seems about to give a RousingSpeech, and starts out by saying that [[{{Subverted}} of course the plan was going to fail]], and that Marco's next plan would probably fail too. But that [[{{Determinator}} Marco keeps coming up with plans anyway and doesn't give up]], and that's why [[DoubleSubverted Marco is the leader]], because one of his plans will always be CrazyEnoughToWork. This works to rally everyone behind Marco again.
* ScaryTeeth: All of his teeth are sharp. It's subverted later on as he tries to become a good person.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Tom has unintentionally caused Star and Marco to develop poorly timed and unrequited crushes on each other. Despite his former attempts to stop the pair from getting together, for example The Blood Moon Ball was organized to make him and Star soul mates but Marco unintentionally took his place in the dance to privately talk to Star when Tom left to change the song. On a another note, by the time that he and Marco have moved past their animosity and Tom gets back together with Star, Marco realizes he has a crush on Star when he sees her and Tom together.
* ShadowArchetype: To Star. They are both teenage royalty who possess great amounts of magical power, they are both charming and a lot of fun to hang out with, and they have serious problems with impulse control. However, while with Star this usually manifests with her [[LeeroyJenkins acting before thinking]], Tom has problems controlling his temper and preventing himself from lashing out when mad. Tom's displays of aggression are not so different from Star's own extreme tactics and reactions. They likewise have the habit of using their magic when emotionally upset, with devastating consequences.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: HairTriggerTemper (father) and emotional PowerIncontinence (mother).
* SharpDressedMan: He is sometimes seen wearing a suit. In fact, he's wearing it when he visits Star in "Mr Candle Cares" despite wearing his usual outfit in previous scenes, implying that he dressed up just for her.
* ShipperOnDeck: After he and Star break up, Tom gives Marco his blessing should he want to pursue a relationship with Star.
-->'''Tom''': We're cool!\\
'''Marco''': Wait...! Were we not?\\
'''Tom''': Well with Star and I broken up now, I'm just saying it's cool if...\\
'''Marco''': If what?\\
'''Tom''': I mean, if you and your best friend, ''(motions to Star)'' ended up being something else, I wouldn't be mad.\\
'''Marco''': What?!? Tom the Blood Moon's Curse has been lifted. You were there.\\
'''Tom''': Come on Dude, I think we both know what you two have is something better than a curse.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Partway through the fourth season his regular outfit changes from shorts and a t-shirt to a new shirt, pants, and jacket. While this was likely the result of Eclipsa's "Low Self-Esteem Nightmare Dream" spell from "Swim Suit" it does look more mature than his original outfit.
* SinisterSurveillance: Parodied. Tom gloats to Marco in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' that he cast a curse on him that would alert the demon prince of every time he says Star's name. Since Marco says Star's name all of the time, it's functionally useless and Tom's had to outsource the job of monitoring Marco's uttering of the word to one of his minions (lamer than it sounds) so he's only informed if it comes up in a romantic context (which, by the time the Guide was written, has only happened once). Given that Tom mistakenly thought that Marco and Star were dating after the events of "Face the Music" and never found out otherwise until Star told him in "Club Snubbed", it's likely that Tom deactivated this particular curse sometime around the end of season 2.
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only member of the Marc-nificent Seven to not get taken out during their fight with Meteora. Luckily, they were all revived upon her defeat.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: He writes his full name as "Thomas" in "Death Peck", but it's spelled "[[MyNaymeIs Tomas]]" in ''Literature/TheMagicBookOfSpells''. Either the book's spelling is a continuity error, or Star really thought it was spelled that way.
* SplitPersonalityMakeover: Subverted. As much as he ''really'' wants to change himself for the better, it doesn't happen overnight, as he ends up falling into his old ways to some degree. In "Demoncism", after he tries to get rid of his anger problems by doing the titular ritual, he learns that there is no quick fix for his anger and the result (becoming an EmptyShell or worse) isn't really worth the trouble.
* StoryBreakerPower: Tom ''is'' a demon with a truckload of powers that could end battles right then and there, so to mitigate this, Tom is subject to TheWorfEffect many times in Season 3.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He's essentially his Mewman father Dave with demonic features, three eyes, and pink hair.
* SupernaturalSealing: Tom tries using a BlackSpeech incantation to seal Mina Loveberry in a runic stone box. It doesn't work and Mina takes out Tom herself.
* TameHisAnger: Tom acknowledges that his HairTriggerTemper is a serious problem and sincerely wants to overcome it, however, so far his attempts to get better have all ended in failure, and what he thinks will be a quick solution to his anger issues is actually more trouble than it's worth.
* ThirdEye: Has a third eye on his forehead, much like his demon mother.
* ThreesomeSubtext: With Star and Marco at the end of season 3, with him being extremely close with both of them, and even being relatively OK with Marco kissing Star in the season 3 finale.
* TomTheDarkLord: Tom is ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]) a RoyalBrat whose anger issues match the political (and literal) firepower he wields. Bonus points for actually being named "Tom". Possibly justified as Mewni men tend to have more normal names than the women, and when their son was named, Tom's parents didn't expect how he would turn out later on.
* TookALevelInKindness: His major form of displaying CharacterDevelopment is how Tom has become a very supportive and loving boyfriend for Star and a good friend for Marco.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Tom doesn't ''want'' to be like his temperamental Mewman father, who also happens to be the King of the Underworld, and has been trying to control his anger issues.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: {{Gender Inverted|Trope}}. Tom is an attractive humanoid with slight demon features while his mother is a gigantic BigRedDevil. His father appears to be a Mewman, so Tom clearly took after him for the most part.
* VisualPun: He has fire powers, which show up in his appearance and hair when he's angry. He's a ''hothead''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: While they lean slightly more towards the vitriolic part, this is his and Marco's dynamic as of the conclusion of "Friendenemies". Subverted later on, where they drop the vitriolic part altogether.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When he's particularly pissed, he starts speaking this way, until the inevitable "burn something to a crisp". Possibly justified as he's the vessel of many angry souls inside his body.
* WeakButSkilled: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; Tom's magic is seemingly weaker than Star's, but he is still incredibly powerful. Nevertheless, he is noticeably more skilled than Star is, with his casual ability to perform feats of power contrasting with Star's inexperience and manic attempts to control her wand.
* {{Yandere}}: Towards Star when he was introduced, having a twisted desire to make her love him again. Since them he has grown into a very loving boyfriend for her though.

to:

** While his bedroom In "Diaz Family Vacation", in "Mr. Candle Cares" does have a torture wheel, everything else is what few seconds she manages to make a wealthy teenager would have, including arcade machines, fairly detailed unicorn head paper cutting, possibly indicating that she has a ping-pong table, and posters on talent for making paper cuttings.
** "Wand to Wand" shows that she enjoys building model ships in bottles.
** In "Lint Catcher", she sings about how much she enjoys her burrito. She's good at singing (she sung
the walls.
** According to Manfred and
outro song but this is her officially singing in the series).
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Downplayed.
Star in "Club Snubbed", Tom is one the protagonist of the best dancers on Mewni. They aren't lying - by show and has development separate from her love life, but she is also boy-crazy (especially in season 1) and gets excited at the time Tom dances chance of seeing 30-year-old Marco's {{Hunk}} body.
* HorseArcher: She's able to fight on horseback by using her wand to cast spells.
* HorsebackHeroism: Star is a skilled equestrian. She tames wild unicorns, favours the warnicorn stampede spell and planned to be horsekeeper who raised warnicorns. She's also capable of combat on horseback.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Star doesn't fully understand how to operate her magic wand yet. She's mostly OK in combat
with Star, their dance ends up with a beautiful combination it, though.
* {{Human Alien|s}}: Star looks human, but she's an alien princess from another dimension. The ''alien'' aspect is emphasized in the episode "Mewberty". The Magic Book
of fire and butterflies.
** "Is Another Mystery"
Spells reveals that Tom himself she also has been subjected to FantasticRacism, due to being half-monster. The fact he insists on being referred to as a some demon and hides his tail indicates he has a fear of being treated as different, lesser than others or in the same camp as the mainstream monsters. It also explains that the treatment he received in "Starfari" was not a case of being mistaken for a monster; he ''is'' one, but he had to pull rank to save face.
** He's also a huge fan of Love Sentence, a BoyBand, and even has a shrine dedicated to them. This is what allows him to start bonding with Marco, a fellow fan.
* HollywoodGenetics: Tom has pale violet skin; however his mom has dark red skin and his dad has human-like pale beige skin, presumably making Tom's a combination of both.
* HornedHumanoid: They resemble those of a bull.
* HotAsHell: Many
blood from her great-great-great grandfather, Lord John Roachley. [[spoiler:Marco's interpretation of the female students at Echo Creek Academy seem to find him attractive, one of them even whispered ancient inscriptions in "Mama Star" strongly implies that "He's hot" when seeing him.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Despite initially hating Marco out of petty jealousy
Star and paranoia, Tom has matured greatly because of his interactions with Marco.
* HybridPower: Is noted as being
the strongest demon in rest of the underworld and it'd take ''decades'' to properly remove all the demonic energy inside of him. He's also apparently half-Mewman, and given the only other known Mewman hybrid in the series is also immensely powerful, that is likely the cause species are humans after all, just after centuries of his abnormal power. Though he's not nearly as powerful as Meteora, however.
* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''demon'', not a monster, which is a huge difference. In "Is Another Mystery", he admits he's a monster--a ''rich'' monster to be exact, but the title of demon heavily reduces the amount of FantasticRacism he'd be subjected to.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tom was in a previous relationship
magic-based mutations (and occasional interbreeding with Star, a Mewman. Downplayed, since it appears he's actually half-demon and half-Mewman. He is also the product of one, since his parents are a male Mewman and a demon Queen.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After his HeelFaceTurn, he accepts that he can't just force Star to love him, so he tries to give her space, even if she won't be with him. Ironically, this makes her want to restart her relationship with him. [[spoiler:Ultimately this is part of why he breaks up with Star 2/3 of the way through the final season, though he also feels they're just moving in different directions and are no longer right for each other.
non-humans).]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: He (with Pony Head) rightly point out HumanityIsInfectious: In the beginning she was reckless with her magic, a lover of violence and had strong, [[FantasticRacism prejudiced views on monsters]]. Through her time on Earth with Marco she started using her magic responsibly, using her words rather than violence and started being an advocate for monster equality. If she didn't come to Earth then [[HistoryRepeats she would have repeated the history of her ancestors]].
* IAmNotMyMother: She refuses to rule Mewni in the same manner as her mother and when she realizes that she has to be queen regardless of her choice, she tries to ruin her chances until Marco calms her down and tells her that she can make her own choices when ruling.
* IAmWho: [[spoiler:She does not take the news of being a Pie Folk well]].
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Star couldn't admit
to Marco in "Stump Day" that celebrating she had a crush on him because she knew he didn't feel the same way, and she didn't want to lose him as a friend.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Notable only in that Star tends to flip flop between this and IJustWantToBeSpecial for various reasons. In this case,
Star's birthday been shown on Stump Day would several occasions to be a terrified of one day becoming Queen, and all that it involves because she'll have to give up the endless freedom she's grown used to her whole life in exchange for ruling. What Star seems to want over all is to be more ''normal'' than someone from Mewni, but more ''special'' than someone from Earth, while either society seems bent on tugging her one way or the other.
* IdiotBall: Star tends to have this
bad idea, habits. However, her biggest idiot ball was that she focus on wanting a normal life and keeping an eye on Ecplisa that she failed to keep an eye on the Magic High Commission instead. By not checking on the Magic High Commission, they tell him he should've at least asked Star what the preexisting conditions are for celebrating her birthday.were able to come up with a plan to overthrow Ecplisa and put everyone in Mewni endanger.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: In "The Hard Way", Glossaryck reveals that most of Star's spells aren't really spells at all. Star is just using her imagination to make stuff up and her wand makes it real.
* IneptMage: So inept, in fact, she was shipped off to Earth before she caused any more natural disasters from her inability to gauge what she's capable of actually pulling off with that wand. ''Most'' of the time she actually does get the effect she wants from her spells, the problem being that they're ''way more powerful'' than intended and thus cause massive collateral damage. Outside of battle when she's ''not'' trying to blow anything up or set anything on fire... she frequently does so anyway.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Symbolizing her youthfulness, friendliness, and naivete.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Downplayed, Star was in a previous relationship with Tom, a half-demon and half-Mewman. Star herself is also part demon, as her great-great-great grandfather was one.
** She's crushing on Oskar Greason, a human. And eventually, she develops a crush on Marco.
* InsistentTerminology: After [[spoiler: Moon disappears while fighting Meteora, Star is forced to take her place. However, she continuously reminds others that she is ''acting'' queen when they refer to her as Queen Star]].
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Star comes from two families of gifted people. Her magical powers come from her mother's side, while her strength, toughness, and passion for combat comes from her father's.
* ItWasAGift:
** The wand was bestowed upon her on her fourteenth birthday.
** Her horned headband was given to her by her ex-boyfriend Tom.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Star is ''trying'' to invoke this by being a ShipperOnDeck but leaves herself no outlet to deal with her own feelings and is just stuffing them down.
* JerkassBall:
** In "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E6TheOtherExchangeStudent The Other Exchange Student]]", Star comes off rather selfish. Granted, she does have some reason to be suspicious of Gustav after the first meeting and she's sorta right, but her initial reaction to him seems rather hostile. Somewhat {{justified|trope}}, as she is a princess and the only child of her parents.
** "Booth Buddies" has Star dragging Marco into taking photos in the old photo booth due to Star reminiscing their old taken photos. She even takes Marco's money to pay for them without asking. Star even forces him into remaking their poses from their old photos.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tom is a violent ControlFreak with serious temper issues, but he's not so bad underneath all that. All his appearances post-"Blood Moon Ball" have him realize where he's gone wrong Even though she's reckless and try tends to make amends or, in the case of the Naysaya, where he can't do anything to fix it, at least tell Marco be a bit pigheaded, she means well and does what will make it run its course.
she can for her friends and family.
* JustFriends: [[spoiler: After their second breakup, Tom tries to deliberately [[DefiedTrope defy]] this, saying "Sleepover" and "Naysaya" show that Marco is not lying about his crush on Jackie and that he only sees Star as a "great friend". Star, on the other hand, has developed genuine feelings for him. Even Star herself is aware of this when she gives her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Marco in "Starcrushed".
* KamehameHadoken: One of Star's new abilities in Season 4 is this, which involves blasting a heart from her cupped hands.
* KarmaHoudini:
** Many episodes seem to work in her favor despite her recklessness causing accident after accident.
** Despite outright cheating on Tom with Marco, Star never received any comeuppance or call outs for it.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Wears a fancy dress in her intro while sliding down railings, beating up monsters, and then taming a wild unicorn.
* KiddieKid: Star is a 14-year-old with the mindset of a 7-year-old. Her spells are rather child-like too. She is certainly impulsive and often
doesn't think her ideas through.
* KidHasAPoint:
** Star calls out Moon in "Starcrushed" for making decisions about her life without talking to her, whether it was coming to Earth or going back to Mewni.
** When Eclipsa returns in "Stranger Danger", Star makes a number of accurate points in regards to Eclipsa and whether she deserves punishment. First, while it may have been selfish to abandon her kingdom, the fact that the Magic High Council and Moon
want to make imprison without evidence or a trial is unfair. Second, Star unhappy by being around sarcastically calls out her mother that it was ultimately ''her'' choice to ask Eclipsa about the spell to destroy Toffee, and reminding Eclipsa didn't force or trick her. Third, while she blatantly tells Eclipsa she doesn't trust her, the former Queen should still be treated fairly.
** In "Butterfly Trap", Star rightfully admonishes the Magic High Council and their hypocrisy for wanting others to follow the rules they set but refuse to do the same.
** When Eclipsa tries to force
her way to setting Globgor free by taking over Rhombulus' body in "Swim Suit", Star correctly states that if she does such a dubious and morally wrong action, then no one (Star included) would be able to trust her.
* KungFuWizard: Star is a lot better at physically fighting than magic, though she is decent with combat magic. Any other time, she is very much an IneptMage.
* LegFocus: [[StupidSexyFriend Marco]] seems to think she has decent legs.
* LightEmUp: Star can generate light from her wand, and has also used spells that produce sunshine and rainbows. This ability is even prominent in the opening theme.
** She has a tendency to weaponize rainbows, such as with the "Rainbow Fist Punch" and "Rainbow Flytrap" spells. Some
of her rainbows also have an unfortunate habit of catching on fire.
** She also created the laser puppies, which appear in the outro.
** In "Sleep Spells", she uses the "Mega Explosive Crystal Laser"... which is just a laser pointer.
** In ''Battle for Mewni'' it's revealed that magic takes the form of a golden liquid, which she tries to desperately recover. When she does, she goes through an angelic transformation sequence and blasts Toffee with a searing, unforgiving sunlight.
* LightIsGood: She tends to associate with light, such as in her name and abilities, and for the most part is a friendly, heroic individual. This goes one step further at the end of ''Battle for Mewni'', when she acquires a golden angelic form and blasts Toffee with a HolyHandGrenade, apparently a decent alternative to Eclipsa's [[DarkIsEvil dark spell]].
* LikeADaughterToMe: Has this bond with Eclipsa, since Star has a troubled relationship with Moon and Eclipsa's daughter is missing. [[spoiler:And even after the reveal that they aren't related, Eclipsa still thinks of Star as her (grand)daughter and the latter reciprocates]].
* LikeParentLikeChild: Star got her monster-fighting prowess from her father.
* LimitBreak: She gains one in "By the Book" in the form of her Warnicorn Stampede spell. On one hand, it requires an entire kata before the spell cast. On the other hand, [[https://youtu.be/TErKHROHl6U?t=2m33s this]] is the result.
* LimitedWardrobe: Averted. She wears a variety of casual outfits throughout the show.
* LiteralMinded: She often takes figures of speech literally, like responding to "Wouldn't you like to know?" with [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder "Yes, that's why I asked."]] And when asked
what she lost. Later episodes imply sees in an inkblot test, she says [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "An inkblot! I win!"]]
* LittleMissBadass: Star has been kicking monster butt for a long time, even before she received her magic wand.
* LongHairIsFeminine: She has really long [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold golden hair]] and is very much a GirlyGirl.
* LossOfIdentity: [[spoiler: The revelation
that they'll stay friends anyway, though.all of Star's ancestors up to Festivia are not blood to Queen Eclipsa, but an illegitimate line imposed by the High Commission to keep Eclipsa's monster-Mewman hybrid daughter from the throne shakes Star to the core.]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Tom MagicalGirl: Her backstory has elements of the original definition of "magical girl", being a princess of a magical kingdom in another dimension who's sent to live on Earth. Instead of having to pass a MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest, it's because she nearly destroys her kingdom shortly after getting her MagicWand. She also has more modern elements of the trope, like how her GoldenSuperMode has a shrine TransformationSequence that is dedicated to looks like it came straight from ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Her relationship with Marco pretty much epitomizes
the boyband Love Sentence, and [[Laconic/MagicalGirlfriend core]] of how this plot device works: Star is what causes the magical princess from another dimension who suddenly changes Marco's boring life when she moves in with him and starts dragging him into her adventures. However, Marco to genuinely bond.
* LackOfEmpathy: It's in his nature as a demon, so he really can't help it. Even
wasn't exactly enthusiastic when he wants to do Star first entered his life (just the opposite of wrong, he still ends actually), but gradually came to warm up doing to her.
* MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest: {{Parodied|Trope}}; Star is sent to Earth precisely because she's proven she can't handle
the wrong thing anyways. He's trying to overcome it, however.
* MadeOfEvil: Why a demoncism is
inherited wand very painful--he's made up well. This is more for her education than anything. Once she loses Glossaryck, her mom had to resort to calling in Baby as an alternative means of ''countless'' evaluating her. After defeating Toffee, Star has proved herself worthy to return to Mewni, and can finally move on to the next chapter as future Queen of Mewni.
* MagicalGirlWarrior: Star uses her magic wand to fight
evil, angry souls that it would require a ''thirteen year regimen'' for a complete treatment, and the process would either rob him of any personality whatsoever, or kill him. But, he does realize he even though she doesn't have completely understand it. She can even fight reasonably well without her wand.
* MagicIsEvil: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. Star decides that using magic
to ''be'' evil solve problems only causes more problems, and the ones using it are all idiots who don't deserve the power they have, her own family included, and the cause of all problems by the end of the series. It's seen as a good thing when Star decides to destroy magic because it cannot be used responsibly, and it causes more problems than it solves.
* MagneticHero: Despite only being on Earth for a short time, Star manages to win over Marco's parents and her entire school (sans Brittney).
* TheMaker: The unicorns living in the Realm
of that.Magic see her as this, since she triggered the rebirth of their dimension after it was destroyed by Toffee. In "Mama Star" she calls The First One her daughter.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. While Star does make Marco's life more interesting, the show is more about her growing as a character by toning down her chaotic overenthusiasm by being with the safety-minded, levelheaded Marco.
* MarkedChange: When Star taps into her true power, her FacialMarkings glow.
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: The only outward physical difference between the Mewman Star and all the humans is she has heart-shaped markings on her cheeks.
* MatchmakerCrush: Attempts to set up Marco with Jackie, but ends up developing a crush on Marco.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: Despite Marco and Star only being friends, Marco and Tom have this dynamic in "Mr. Candle Cares". They started getting along because Marco and Tom talked about how Star always changes the rules so that she can win.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Star is very nice, but the reason she was sent to Earth was ''because she set fire to her own kingdom''.
* MookMaker: Can turn ordinary animals into grotesque and powerful versions of themselves.
* MoralityPet:
** To her best friend of Mewni, [[RebelliousPrincess Princess Pony Head]], as Star is the only person that Pony Head is never mean or obnoxious to, at least intentionally.

* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: As mentioned above, he tries ** To Tom especially after they start dating again, and Star reminds Tom the best way to get an "Inner demon" removed, only better himself as a person.
* MythicalMotifs: Whether this is intentional or not is up
to find he debate, Star has ''thousands''. It a lot of similarities to Loki from Norse Mythology.
** In Norse Mythology, Loki was a god who overcame problems through cunning and in modern tellings, Loki is depicted as morally superior to the Aesir, who are depicted as corrupt and immoral. In the myths, he was Odin's blood brother and the mother of the eight-legged horse Sleipnir. The format of Loki's myths is that he's blamed for something and the gods force Loki to fix it for them. In the Ragnarok prophecy, Loki is against the gods by siding with his children as they bring about the end of the world.
** In the series, Star is a mewman of noble birth who overcame problems by using magic haphazardly. When Star learns of Mewni's history, she
becomes useful morally superior to the Butterfly family, who annexed the monsters and attempted a race war multiple times. Due to being part of this family, the monsters hold her and her family accountable for the actions of their ancestors and the mewmans force the Butterfly queens to do everything for them. In the end, Star turns against [[YourSoulIsMine Meteroa]], as it prevents him from being rendered OnlyMostlyDead like the others who got soul-sucked since he has so many, giving him enough time to escape.
* MindOverMatter: In "Mr. Candle Cares", Tom is able to undo Marco's chains without touching them
mewmans as she and levitate ping pong balls.
* ModestRoyalty: While he does wear formal suits for ceremonial events, his usual outfit (as shown in his folder image) makes him look like a punk rocker. His bedroom even reflects his tastes, resembling that of a teenager on Earth.
* {{Necromancer}}: In "Friendenemies", Tom displays the ability to resurrect the dead as zombies, reviving the martial arts movie star Mackie Hand.
* NeverMyFault: He claims that his lack of
her friends stems from others judging him by appearance instead and family trigger armageddon through the destruction of his many, many, many other glaring flaws that magic.
*** Like Loki, Star has connections to Scandinavia. Loki is a Norse god and Star is a Johansen on her father's side. The Johansens
are completely his a barbarian clan based on Nordic clans and royalty.
*** Like the Norse gods, the mewmans force the Butterflys to solve a problem they can't handle, the Butterflys gives them a scapegoat so they can maintain their
own doing. {{Subverted|Trope}} perceived flawlessness as he gradually starts a species, and the mewmans are never introspective enough to meaningfully improve their lives or take responsibility though.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When he invites
for themselves.
*** In the series,
Star to is characterised as the Blood Moon Ball rebel of the Butterfly family because she refuses to follow the traditional role of a princess. In Norse mythology, Loki is a magic user and he doesn't act like a traditional Asgardian.
*** [[spoiler: In the series, it's revealed that all descendants from Festivia are an offshoot from the original Butterfly bloodline. After learning this, Star still occupies the castle
in order to help Eclipsa with the public image. In Norse mythology, Loki and Odin were blood brothers but Loki is also theorised to be an attempt offshoot of Odin due to restart their associations with trickery. Loki hangs around Asgard and often helps the Asgardians with their adventures. In recent studies by Eldar Heide in his work "Loki, the Vätte, and the Ash Lad: A Study Combining Old Scandinavian and Late Material.", Loki may not have originated as an Asgardian. Like how Star isn't a member of the original Butterfly clan.]]
*** [[spoiler: In the series, Star is the mother of a horse-like monster called "The Firstborn". In the mythology, Loki is the mother of the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.]]
*** Like Loki, [[spoiler: Star ends an imperfect world to make way for a new one. In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is theorised to have been originally framed as a cleansing armageddon, an event that destroys the world but allows it to be rebuilt as something better because the gods were too corrupt, destructive, and immoral. In the series, Star destroying all the magic is framed as ultimately a good thing because magic is way too dangerous to be used responsibly by anyone. The mewmans used magic to oppress others and fuel a monster genocide.]]
*** Like modern tellings of Loki, Star is considered to be morally superior because she learned the dark history of her family and decided to improve the
relationship between humans and monsters.
* NeverMyFault: Star solely blames Ruberiot for her Song Day disaster, claiming he's good at "ruining people's lives
with her, he leaves Star alone for a moment to go and change songs", even though ''she'' was the song, but Marco unintentionally steals one who willfully gave him the dance from him which results in information to write the song that revealed her crush on Marco and Star becoming soul mates.
the fact that she had lost Glossaryck and the Book of Spells.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Tom's father NewTransferStudent: How she is a Mewman while his mother is a gigantic demon.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: After everyone else
introduced in the Marc-nificent Seven has been drained of their souls, only Tom first episode and is the main reason she and Marco are left. Marco tells Tom to run while he holds the line, met because someone needs she was new to [[BringNewsBack tell Star what has happened]]. Tom refuses to leave without Marco, sincerely telling him that he's his best friend, the school (and Earth in general) and even attempts needed a HeroicSacrifice to save Marco from Meteora. This backfires since Tom has many souls, and guide.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Bon Bon
the more souls Meteora absorbs Birthday Clown" Star's jealousy causes her wand to malfunction at the stronger she gets, so he only succeeds in making Meteora stronger, plus being in a continuous loop of getting successive souls sucked out with no time to react forces worst possible time, forcing Marco to be abandon his efforts to retrieve the magic book from Ludo and go rescue Star. On a more minor note, Star's jealousy at seeing Marco and Jackie riding a skateboard together is what causes them to crash... and that crash is what leads to their first kiss.
* NomDeMom: Star's last name comes from her mother, which implies that the Queen is the actual ruler while River is a King Consort.
* NotHerself: In Season 3, Star keeps dropping the statement that she wants to focus on being a better princess to explain her current situation. It would sound like much-needed CharacterDevelopment, but not only is it not like her to do so, it's almost ''too'' convenient that she's said it in rather awkward situations (i.e. having to dance with Tom, Marco suddenly returning). If her conversation with Eclipsa in "Lint Catcher" is of any indication, Star is undoubtedly hiding something and avoiding it.
* OfficialCouple: With Tom and, eventually, [[spoiler: with Marco.]]
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Ruberiot's song will never leave Star. Especially the stanza where it goes into a mortifying description of her crush on Marco. Because of this, everyone in the kingdom already believes they're dating, from Tom to even the squires.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** When Marco is captured in "Storm the Castle" she ''loses'' her usual BloodKnight attitude and settles into TranquilFury.
** A combination of losing her family's spell book and seeing Marco with Jackie leads the cheerful Star crying.
** Star, who was the number
one to pull supporter for [[spoiler:Eclipsa's innocence has the HeroicSacrifice, freeing Tom latter imprisoned because she indirectly led to her mother's disappearance]].
* OralFixation: Star has a tendency to nibble on her wand whenever she gets particularly excited.
* ParentalTitleCharacterization: Star usually refers to her parents as "mom
and telling him dad", but whenever she is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness truly scared]], she will often refer to run.her parents as "mommy" and "daddy".
* OddFriendship: He PerkyGoth: Star's wardrobe seems to be a mish-mash of cutesy, bright colors and Marco. Initially Tom tried to outright kill him more than once due to his jealousy over Star, over time the two become close friends, spiked accessories. She always sports a hairband with Tom outright admitting that Marco is his best friend, and Tom pretty much being Marco's best friend, after Star.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: As
devil horns, owns a demon, it turns out that Meteora's soul-draining attack is pair of limited effect against Tom because each of his [[ManySpiritsInsideOfOne thousands of anger spirits]] counts as military boots with a separate soul. Though Tom failed to account for the fact that Meteora would still gain strength horn sticking up from each soul she sucked out of him. Also, the gaps between each soul-sucking were too short for Tom to move or counterattack.
* PlayingWithFire: As is typical for a demon, he has fire powers. He can even use them to fly!
* PointyEars: Has a set
toe of almost elf-like ears.
* PowerFloats: Can pretty much fly at will,
each, and does so in displays of power.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: He hides
wears a fierce temper beneath his affable demeanor. He tries to improve himself, though, and becomes nice enough for Star to get back together with him, [[ReformedButNotTamed even if he does occasionally slip back]].
* PyrrhicVictory: However Tom gets things, he just will never be satisfied, but thankfully he never reaches that point. In one instance, Tom wants to torture and then kill Marco for preventing him from getting Star back as his girlfriend, but Marco points out that even if he does the former, he will end up not succeeding in the latter.
spiked bracelet. [[CarryABigStick And in "Demoncism", Tom considers treatment to get rid of the worst part of himself, but it would be ''very painful'' and he would've become an EmptyShell as a result.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Courtesy of Meteora. It's also a One Hit K.O.
* RealMenWearPink: He's a massive fan of Love Sentence, a BoyBand. He also
has a fluffy pet bunny.mace]].
* PlayingCardMotifs: Star has heart-shaped markings; her mother has diamond-shaped markings, her implied LongLostRelative Miss Heinous has club-shaped ones and her ancestor Eclipsa had spade-shaped ones.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: A clear sign that he's lost it.
* RedOniBlueOni: With his girlfriend Star as he is more connected to voicing his anger whereas
PluckyGirl: Being a goofy, zany, individualistic, free spirited and unrestrained wild child with a big heart and even wilder imagination than most princesses you'll ever meet, Star is the epiphany of [[FunPersonified joy and excitement]] given form.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She starts out as a FantasticRacist, believing monsters to be AlwaysChaoticEvil. However, throughout the course of the seasons, she eventually drops her previous racist beliefs of Monsters and is now taking steps to improve relationships between Monsters and Mewmans.
* ThePollyanna: Star is very optimistic.
* PowerFloats: When she learns how to "dip down" and cast spells without the Wand in "My New Wand!", Star floats into the air and her whole body glows a deep blue.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Star's Mewberty form has a pair of large golden butterfly-like wings.
* PowerIncontinence: Her main issue; she's quite spell-happy on her own merits, but she's extremely bad at avoiding unintentional aspects to her creations (rainbows that set themselves on fire are a big thing with her).
* PowerLimiter: At the end of the day, her wand was really meant to only help her channel and focus her magic and spells, as Moon stated. It's even stated by Baby that Star could be
more collected powerful than what she's observed.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: A princess in a nice dress with a big pink heart on it, and Star knows how to fight without the wand, either fighting physically or using a weapon, like a mace.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Downplayed, while she may like the color pink well enough, her wardrobe consists of the entire rainbow, and prefers a sea green dress for everyday use.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: In eight of her outfits (including non-recurring ones) she wears tights underneath her dress or skirt.
* ProtagonistTitle: '''''Star''' vs. the Forces of Evil''.
* ProudWarriorRaceGirl: Star ''loves'' beating the snot out of monsters, and it would appear that many Mewnian virtues and traditions revolve around antagonizing them. One of the greatest lesson Star must learn to mature as a person is that there's a fine line between "Warriors" and "Thugs".
* PsychoactivePowers: "Wand to Wand" reveals that her new wand is affected by her emotions. If she's feeling angry or frustrated, the spells she cast won't work right. But if she feels more positive emotions (like [[ThePowerOfFriendship concern]] for Marco), her spells will work the way she wants them to.
* PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler:The way Star ''specifically'' singles out her mother out of everyone after finding out she helped Mina raise the Solarian Army and escaping Mina carries an element of projection to it, even if those accusations are justified. Star accuses Moon of starting a revolution behind her back to making Mewni more dangerous, and then blames everyone who uses magic and calls them idiots. However, Star herself throughout the season made questionable decisions and kept both Moon and Eclipsa in the dark
about it, and a great number of her thoughts decisions to better Mewni turned out more disasterous than she anticipated and actions. In "Monster Bash" refused to admit it, and then there's the fact that Star was the one that was trying to take herself recklessly used magic]].
* RaisedByDudes: In
a logical approach to handling the Mewman and Monster prejudices whereas Tom was more emotional by trying to spend time with Star. Extra points go to their respective kingdoms, sense. The Mewni's crest color is a light shade of blue whereas Royal Guards were her babysitters.
* RandomlyGifted: Star rivals Eclipsa for
the underworld's crest greatest magic potential in the Mewni royal line, apparently just by random variance, which is red.made doubly coincidental by the revelation [[spoiler:that Star and Eclipsa aren't even ''[[IAmNotYourFather related]]''.]]
* ReadTheFreakingManual: A constant issue with Star, as many of the issues of the show could be solved much quicker if Star read her wand's manual before rather than after she had started blasting. The fact that it's a completely disorganized mess with a living glossary named Glossaryck (who isn't very helpful) doesn't make reading it easy though.
* RebelliousPrincess: Star is ''not'' thrilled at the idea of being a "well-behaved princess" and does everything in her power to rebel against it. She's even explicitly referred to as a "rebel princess" in the episode "Raid the Cave". In Season 3, she's not being rebellious for the sake of it. She's realized that, for centuries, her family cruelly treated monsters like they were abominations. She wants to change that and put an end to their prejudice.

* ReluctantPsycho: Even before his HeelFaceTurn, RedOniBlueOni:
** With her boyfriend Tom, as
he is making genuine efforts more connected to deal with voicing his AxCrazy tendencies. This seems to have been motivated by his desire to get anger. whereas Star back [[https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2015/07/20/creator-daron-nefcy-guides-us-through-tonights-star-studded-episode-of-star-vs-the-forces-of-evil/ is more collected about her thoughts and not wanting it to define his identity]], but in his defense, he is still actions. In "Monster Bash", Star was the one that was trying to improve even take a logical approach to handling the Mewman and Monster prejudices whereas Tom was more emotional by trying to spend time with Star. Extra points go to their respective kingdoms, Mewni is blue whereas the underworld is red.
** With Marco, she is the energetic and wild Red Oni and he is the safety-minded and level-headed Blue Oni.
* RelationshipUpgrade:
** Star broke up with Tom in the past because of his anger issues (among other things). As of Season 3's "Lava Lake Beach",
after having given up on her.
* RoyalBrat: He's Underworld royalty and for very obvious reasons, has way more minions than actual friends. He also had a sense of entitlement, especially when it came to his ex-girlfriend, Star, whom he tried to control. However, he's [[CharacterDevelopment come along way since his introduction]].
* RousingSpeech: An interesting take on the trope: After Marco's plan to trap Meteora fails, everyone else seems
Tom's CharacterDevelopment, they've decided to give up hope things another chance and ponder running away and hiding out. Tom then seems about to give a RousingSpeech, and starts out by saying that [[{{Subverted}} of course the plan was going to fail]], and that Marco's next plan would probably fail too. But that [[{{Determinator}} Marco keeps coming up with plans anyway and doesn't give up]], and that's why [[DoubleSubverted Marco is the leader]], because one of his plans will always be CrazyEnoughToWork. This works to rally everyone behind Marco gotten back together again.
* ScaryTeeth: All ** As of his teeth are sharp. It's subverted later on as he tries Season 4's "Here to become a good person.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Tom has unintentionally caused
Help", [[spoiler: Star and Marco to develop poorly timed are officially a couple, after several seasons' worth of ShipTease.]]
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Star Butterfly, princess of Mewni's royal family
and unrequited crushes on each other. Despite his former attempts heir to stop the pair throne, becomes a proponent for the rights of monsters by the second season after re-reading her Mewnipendence day book revealed how unfair the Mewman treatment of monsters really was.
* RoyalBrat: When she was younger, she would pull a lot of mean pranks on her servants, such as putting Noxy Frogs in their beds on her 10th birthday.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: For some (as of now) unexplained reason, Star can't do basic magic, all the spells she casts are advanced.
* ScyllaAndCharybdis: [[spoiler:Her pursuit of monster equality hasn't been as simple as she wanted it. She discovered that she's part of a line of ancestors who were imposed by the High Commission to keep Eclipsa's monster-Mewman hybrid daughter
from getting together, the throne. She's now stuck with a very difficult decision. If she maintains her role as Princess then she betrays her ideals, if she allows Meteora to take the throne then she loses her identity as a princess, and Meteora is clearly completely insane and unfit to lead. Fortunately for example The her, Eclipsa doesn't care about the throne as much as she just wants her daughter back, and after Meteora is magically regressed back into a baby, she wants to [[RaiseHimRightThisTime give her daughter another chance at growing up]]]].
* ShamuFu: One of her favorite spells is "Narwhal Blast", which drops living narwhals on her foes.
* SheCleansUpNicely: While Star is generally not unpleasant at look at, she really spruces herself up for the
Blood Moon Ball was organized to make him and Star soul mates but Ball. [[http://starvstheforcesofevil.wikia.com/wiki/File:S1E15_Star_in_her_ballgown.png When she's finished]], Marco unintentionally took his place in the dance tells her she looks "amazing".
* ShipperOnDeck:
** Takes it upon herself
to privately talk to Star when Tom left to change the song. On a another note, by the time that he and hook Marco have moved past their animosity up with Jackie when she learns of his crush on the girl. Though during "Sleepover", she attempted to push both Jackie's and Tom Janna's faces towards Marco's. [[MatchmakerCrush And then she develops feelings for him]]. Oops.
** She gives a romantic "aww" sound when she sees a hologram of Eclipsa with her monster husband, Globgor.
* SignatureHeadgear: She wears a headband with little horns on it; according to the Magic Book of Spells, they're a souvenir from her first date with Tom. In "Freeze Day" she swaps it out for a green one with little cactuses.
* SignatureMove: Star's favorite spells are the following: Spider with a Top Hat, Narwhal Blast, and Rainbow Fist.
* SignificantBirthDate: Star was born on Stump Day; however, she does not celebrate it that day as it would anger the Stump.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Star has subconsciously developed a crush on Marco. Considering how good a dude he is, it's unsurprising.
** In season 3, she
gets back together with Star, Marco realizes he has a crush on Star when he sees her and Tom together.
* ShadowArchetype: To Star. They are both teenage royalty who possess great amounts of magical power, they are both charming and a lot of fun to hang out with, and they have serious problems with impulse control. However, while with Star this usually manifests with her [[LeeroyJenkins acting before thinking]], Tom has problems controlling
Tom, after the latter shows better control over his temper and preventing himself from lashing out when mad. Tom's displays of aggression are not so different from is trying to become a better prince after being inspired by Star's own extreme tactics and reactions. They likewise have the habit of using their magic when emotionally upset, with devastating consequences.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: HairTriggerTemper (father) and emotional PowerIncontinence (mother).
* SharpDressedMan: He is sometimes seen wearing a suit. In fact, he's wearing it when he visits Star in "Mr Candle Cares" despite wearing his usual outfit in previous scenes, implying that he dressed up just for her.
* ShipperOnDeck: After he and Star break up, Tom gives Marco his blessing should he want
attempts to pursue a relationship with Star.
-->'''Tom''': We're cool!\\
'''Marco''': Wait...! Were we not?\\
'''Tom''': Well with Star and I broken up now, I'm just saying it's cool if...\\
'''Marco''': If what?\\
'''Tom''': I mean, if you and your best friend, ''(motions to Star)'' ended up being something else, I wouldn't
be mad.\\
'''Marco''': What?!? Tom the Blood Moon's Curse has been lifted. You were there.\\
'''Tom''': Come on Dude, I think we both know what you two have is something
a better than princess.
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler: Star is
a curse.
descendant of a peasant who was placed on the throne to hide Meteora for being a monster hybrid. Star is in deep trouble with Meteora who (understandably) wants to take her rightful place on the throne. Not only that but Star is dedicated to solving the monster-Mewman prejudice which was caused by both the original Butterfly family and Star's ancestors.]]
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Partway SitcomArchNemesis: Unwittingly this to Brittney.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Given her age and boy-craziness, Star can become quite smitten when she gains a crush on someone.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Is this to Toffee's plan along with Ludo. Toffee had hoped to ransom her in exchange for his finger, which would fully revive him complete with the magic power of Ludo's wand in his hand. But Star gets
through to Ludo and performs the fourth season Whispering Spell on his regular outfit changes from shorts wand, destroying it and a t-shirt to a new shirt, pants, being pulled into the Realm of Magic along with Toffee. So while Toffee still ransoms her for his finger and jacket. While is resurrected, it is without magic power, and thus Star is able to defeat him when she achieves her SuperMode.
** She also served as
this for the Magic High Commission. [[spoiler:Star and her ancestors' eligibility for the throne of Mewni was likely the result of Eclipsa's "Low Self-Esteem Nightmare Dream" spell the MHC's meddling and "[[{{Unperson}} erasing]]" Meteora, the rightful heir, from "Swim Suit" it does look more mature than his original outfit.
* SinisterSurveillance: Parodied. Tom gloats to Marco in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' that he cast a curse on him that would alert
the demon prince line of every time he says inheritance, [[FantasticRacism all because she was half-monster]]. But if it had not been for Star's name. Since Marco says Star's name all actions, Eclipsa would've remained imprisoned, which had a lot of influence in unearthing the time, it's functionally useless and Tom's had GovernmentConspiracy]].
* StepfordSmiler: Remarkably good at it. In "Just Friends", Star goes
to outsource the job of monitoring Marco's uttering of the word to one of his minions (lamer than it sounds) so he's only informed if it comes up in a romantic context (which, by the time the Guide was written, has only happened once). Given that Tom mistakenly thought that Love Sentence concert with Marco and Jackie, surrounded by couples, Marco and Jackie kiss, and Star were dating after the events of "Face the Music" and leaves, but she never found out otherwise until Star told him in "Club Snubbed", it's likely that Tom deactivated this particular curse sometime around stops smiling. Then she blows up the end of season 2.
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only member of the Marc-nificent Seven to not get taken out during their fight
concert sign with Meteora. Luckily, they were all revived upon her defeat.
green magic, which is powered by negative emotions.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: He writes his full StellarName: Her name as "Thomas" in "Death Peck", but it's spelled "[[MyNaymeIs Tomas]]" in ''Literature/TheMagicBookOfSpells''. Either the book's spelling is a continuity error, or Star really thought it was spelled that way.
* SplitPersonalityMakeover: Subverted. As much as he ''really'' wants to change himself for the better, it doesn't happen overnight, as he ends up falling into his old ways to some degree. In "Demoncism", after he tries to get rid of his anger problems by doing the titular ritual, he learns that there is no quick fix for his anger and the result (becoming an EmptyShell or worse) isn't really worth the trouble.
* StoryBreakerPower: Tom ''is'' a demon with a truckload of powers that could end battles right then and there, so to mitigate this, Tom is subject to TheWorfEffect many times in Season 3.
Star.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He's essentially his Mewman father Dave Star looks exactly like her mother in her youth, save for the different hair color and FacialMarkings.
* SummonMagic: Can summon narwhals, dragons, snakes, and other creatures as allies or to supplement her [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]. Amusingly, while they do vanish on their own after the spell is cast, sometimes they stick around and have to crawl back to wherever they came from.
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Her combat spells blast enemies
with demonic features, three eyes, rainbows, {{heart|BeatDown}}s, and pink hair.
* SupernaturalSealing: Tom tries using a BlackSpeech incantation
jellybeans to seal Mina Loveberry in devastating effect.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Queen Moon was
a runic stone box. It doesn't work and Mina takes out Tom herself.
* TameHisAnger: Tom acknowledges that his HairTriggerTemper is a serious problem and sincerely wants to overcome it, however, so far his attempts to get better have all ended in failure, and what he thinks will be a quick solution to his anger issues is actually more trouble
bit older than it's worth.
* ThirdEye: Has a third eye on his forehead, much like his demon mother.
* ThreesomeSubtext: With
Star and Marco when she first "[[SuperMode Dipped Down]]".
* SuperMode: She briefly turns into a bright yellow butterfly-human hybrid
at the end of season 3, "The Battle for Mewni" and blasts Toffee with enough power to severely weaken him. Later she starts transforming in her sleep and creating portals to other dimensions. After she successfully reaches the Realm of Magic a second time she gains the ability to transform at will.
* SuperpowerLottery: In a setting with all sorts of mythical monsters, magical creatures, and skilled fighters, Star outshines them all with her wand. With it, she can summon various beasts, create and alter massive constructs, unleash powerful energy blasts, and theoretically destroy the universe. The main thing holding her back from being a [[StoryBreakerPower story-breaker]] is her lack of experience and discipline. Naturally, the villains tend to make the wand their primary objective. It's eventually revealed that Star has incredible magic power even ''without'' the wand, in addition to superhuman strength and durability.
* SuperStrength: Despite Star being a skinny, 14-year-old teenage girl, she's able to easily kick, punch, or simply overpower monsters that are more muscular and bigger than her. She also on occasion wields a [[CarryABigStick mace]] or [[{{BFS}} sword]] that's bigger than she is, with no apparent effort. Quite possibly, this is a trait she shares with her people.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Non-villainous example. In "Divide", she becomes increasingly agitated at her castle staff's complete inability to think for themselves, up to the point that the chefs ''don't know how to write a menu''. Downplayed because it is implied that they are used to Moon micro-managing everything and they usually do just fine as long as they have clear directions.
* TaughtByExperience: She can easily kick the butts of Ludo's henchmen around, because, prior to getting the family wand, she would spend her time fighting monsters (and taming wild unicorns).
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Star tends to spam various magical attacks at her enemies, most notably "Narwhal Blast" which fires large numbers of live narwhals at opponents. Perhaps the best example is how she dealt with Toffee. While her mother used a special spell provided by Eclipsa intended to kill immortal beings, Star just hit him with an attack so powerful it burned off most of his flesh and left him on the brink of death.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** While still girly in her own right, compared to her mother Star is the unladylike, hot-blooded, messy tomboy to Moon the proper, calm, and neat girly girl.
** She is the girly girl to Janna's tomboy.
* TookALevelInCynic: The events of Seasons 3 and 4 shake her faith in Mewni's authority figures and even magic itself, to the point that [[spoiler:she decides that the best way to stop Mina and produce true equality between Mewmans and monsters is to destroy all magic in existence.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Only during Season 2.
** In "Starsitting", all Star wants to do is have fun with the Buff Frog's tadpoles she and Marco are babysitting, rather than following Buff Frog's instructions opposite Marco.
** In "Girls Day Out", in a fit of bordom, she sets her free, much to Miss Skullnick's shock and chagrin. One example of where Star doesn't twice.
** During "Face the Music", she's appalled of the fact she has to have her own written song that stretches the truth. When Ruberiot arrives, she leaves after asking him for tea. Returning, Ruberiot says he can't leave until he writes her song, and Star was threatening to leave again unless ''he'' leaves. When Marco pleads she do as he says, Star replies she doesn't want anything to do
with him being extremely close or the song he'll write. She even calls him out on his work.
-->'''Star:''' I know my mom sent you here, but honestly, I am sorry, I can't help you. Princess songs are objectively awful. They are these trite little puff pieces about perfect little princesses
with both of them, perfect little lives, and even being relatively OK with Marco kissing Star in that's not me! And songstrels like you are part of the season 3 finale.
* TomTheDarkLord: Tom is ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]) a RoyalBrat whose anger issues match the political (and literal) firepower he wields. Bonus points for actually being named "Tom". Possibly justified as Mewni men tend
problem! Your music just puts pressure on future princesses to have more normal names than the women, and when their son was named, Tom's parents didn't expect how he would turn out later on.
be perfect!
* TookALevelInKindness: His major form By the beginning of displaying CharacterDevelopment is how Tom has become a very supportive and loving boyfriend for Season 3, her experiences on Earth have made Star much more empathetic and a good friend for Marco.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Tom doesn't ''want''
willing to be like his temperamental talk things out instead of mindlessly rushing into battle. She also becomes the first royal in generations to recognize her family's horrific treatment of monsters and take steps to rectify relations between Mewmans and monsters, unlike her ancestors and parents. [[spoiler:She is even willing to risk her life to free Ludo (her arch-enemy) of Toffee's control, which is what ultimately gives her the strength to beat Toffee]].
* TouchedByVorlons: After returning from the Realm of Magic in "Toffee" Star starts to develop abilities that go beyond normal
Mewman father, who also happens to be magic, including creating portals without dimensional scissors and going into her SuperMode without the King years of the Underworld, and training normally required to do so.
* TragicKeepsake: Downplayed. When Star
has been trying to control his anger issues.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: {{Gender Inverted|Trope}}. Tom is an attractive humanoid with slight demon features while his mother is a gigantic BigRedDevil. His father appears to be a Mewman, so Tom clearly took after him for the most part.
* VisualPun: He has fire powers, which show up in his appearance and hair when he's angry. He's a ''hothead''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: While they lean slightly more towards the vitriolic part, this is his and
leave Earth, she keeps one of Marco's dynamic hoodies so she can remember him. Marco isn't dead but the two are close friends and being forced into hiding was a tragic moment for her.
* TrainingFromHell: Her father taught her how to survive in the wilderness for 11 days straight without food... or clothing.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her princess dress is light blue and her casual wear is bluish-green.
* TrulySingleParent: Star is this to the First One,
as she created her after triggering the rebirth of the conclusion Realm of "Friendenemies". Subverted later on, where they drop Magic. Star even calls herself the vitriolic part altogether.
First One's mother in "Mama Star".
* {{Tsundere}}: In "Battle for Mewni", Star watched Marco from her wand and spoke aggressively about him but still showed signs of her crush on him. The primary example being that she called him a "cute idiot".
* UnknowinglyInLove: "Sleepover" reveals that Star has a crush on Marco, but also implies that she might be unaware of it. As of "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", however, she seems to be more aware of her feelings.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Downplayed; she has a few different outfits which she cycles through, and distinctly wears a new one every time a day passes in an episode. It's still only about four outfits, less than a real person would have, but more than the average cartoon character. Every other character in the show plays the trope straight, making her stand out even more.
* UnskilledButStrong: Star won the SuperpowerLottery with her wand, but starts out dangerously inexperienced. For this reason, she's sent to Earth in the first place. Even more so given she has the same potential as Eclipsa, but her lack of experience makes it clear Eclipsa is still way stronger.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Her party at the monster temple in "Monster Bash" led Miss Heinous to Marco and to her true identity. From then on Meteora ended up losing the rest of her identity and leading an assault on St. Olga's. Which led to Pony Head getting her horn ripped off and then becoming the single, most powerful foe that Mewni has ever faced.]]
* VocalDissonance: Her voice sounds a bit more mature than how she looks and acts.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When he's particularly pissed, he starts speaking She gets a deep, reverberating voice in her GoldenSuperMode. Though only the first time, subsequent times, she keeps her normal voice. ''The Book of Spells'' reveals that there are different levels of the form, and she never got the diamond eyes or yellow skin tone during any of the times she willingly entered this way, mode, suggesting the voice is connected to that version only.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Inverted with Star and her mother, Moon. Star Butterfly is an adventurous and gung-ho girl who is a sharp contrast from her prim and proper mother. It's implied Star got it from her [[BloodKnight father]]. However, she's more serious than her father, who tends to embarrass her and do things even Star finds idiotic.
* WalkingDisasterArea: The moment Star got her wand, she caused so much destuction on her homeworld that her parents decided to exile her to Earth
until the inevitable "burn something she learns how to a crisp". Possibly justified as he's the vessel use her magic safely and responsibly. A world probably far ''less'' prepared for that, but at least now it's not ''their'' problem anymore.
* WasItAllALie: The sincerity
of many angry souls inside his body.
* WeakButSkilled: {{Downplayed|Trope}};
Star and Tom's relationship was in a grey area [[spoiler: for pretty much its entire run.]] It was implied that Star was initially using Tom to move on from her crush on Marco. Then it's eventually shown that Star still had some genuine feelings for Tom, after he showed her how much he's changed and how far he's willing to go to be a good person. Then "Booth Buddies" happens, and then "Lake House Fever" reveals that [[spoiler: Star never intended to tell Tom about what happened in "Booth Buddies".]]
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: "Sleep Spells" reveals that Star has issues regarding living up to the enormous pressure her mother puts on her to be the future Queen of Mewni. She often fluctuates between wanting to be nothing like her mother and desiring to be better than her.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Star wishes to put an end to the systemic racism against monsters and stop the Solarian Army from eradicating them. However, her plan to do so involves getting rid of ALL the
magic from across the ENTIRE multiverse. Due to some characters' and species' reliance on magic to stay alive, this also kills a number of ''people'' across the multiverse, including members of the reoccuring cast.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Rhombulus established a pretty strong friendship given their similar traits of rushing into things without thinking and not being taken seriously. However, their friendship diminishes when it's uncovered that he, along with the other Magical High Commission members, erased Meteora's existence from history. And after Eclipsa took over his body in an attempt to free Globgor, their relationship has become so bitter that they even have a physical fight. And needless to say when Rhombulus [[spoiler:tried to frame Eclipsa and Globgor, putting innocents in danger, whatever good feelings she had for him
is seemingly weaker gone]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Even Star herself admits can't find the reason why she dated Tom the first time around. When she began dating him again under the same circumstances that got them together the first time, it's different. Star at first wanted to get over her feelings for Marco, but began to fully appreciate Tom's attempts to be a better person for her, even though he was going to ''hurt'' himself for it. Tom even shows he cares by paying attention to important details like how to celebrate her birthday and is willing to admit when he's not a good boyfriend. That being said, Star really does enjoy Tom being around and she is happier with him
than Star's, but he is still incredibly powerful. Nevertheless, he is noticeably more skilled than Star is, with his casual ability to perform feats of power contrasting with she was when they first dated.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
**
Star's inexperience greatest fear is anything to do with St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses. The very name of the said school sends her into panic screaming.
** She also has coulrophobia (a fear of clowns), as shown in "Cheer Up, Star" (though that might have just been because of the unintentionally creepy way that Marco went about with his clown routine). But by "Royal Pain", she seems to have gotten over it, since there was a clown creature in her room,
and manic attempts she didn't seem to control her wand.
mind it. By "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" this fear has all but disappeared to the point where she's ready and willing to perform a ''dead clown'' seance.
* {{Yandere}}: Towards WindmillCrusader: Zig-Zagged in season 1. Star is from a dimension that's set in the medieval era and non-human beings exist. So when he was introduced, having a twisted desire she comes to make her love him again. Since Earth, she misunderstands several concepts and believes that Earth is home to similar mystical elements. Sometimes, it's a case of believing in a place called "a better store" or believing that a [[NoMereWindmill magician is a vampiric being.]]
* WingedHumanoid: Grows insectoid wings when going through "mewberty", and she retains
them he has grown into a very loving boyfriend for (albeit in greatly reduced size, and without flight capability) after it's over. They're not really visible afterwards because her though.knee-length hair falls over them. In "Star on Wheels", she manages to get a small burst of flight out of them when she needs to pass over a sinkhole. In season 3, she's able to attain a full mewberty form like her mother, Queen Moon after purifying the Realm of Magic of Toffee's influence.
* YinYangBomb: Her tree spell from "Baby" glows both pink and green, implying that it uses a combination of both Star's light and dark magic.



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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JennySlate

An aptly-named flying, talking, disembodied pony head who is also a Princess. Pony Head is an old friend of Star's that comes for a sudden visit not long after Star is sent to live with the Diaz's. While her wild and reckless behavior is pointedly shown to ''not'' be a good influence on Star, Pony Head does show a more honorable side, it's just hidden deep down. ''Really'' deep...

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[[folder:Flying Princess (Lilacia) Pony Head]]
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[[folder:Marco Ubaldo Diaz]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:''"Frankly, I like taking risks. And would welcome a little danger in my life!"'']]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JennySlate

An aptly-named flying, talking, disembodied pony head who is
Creator/AdamMcArthur (English), Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu (Japanese)

Older son of the Diaz family, and
also a Princess. Pony Head is an old friend of UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} student with a red belt. Shortly after meeting her, he becomes Star's that comes for a sudden visit not long after Star is sent to live with the Diaz's. While her wild earthly friend, guide, and reckless behavior is pointedly shown to ''not'' be a good influence on Star, Pony Head does show a more honorable side, it's just hidden deep down. ''Really'' deep...combat partner.



* ActionGirl: Pony Head has shown to be very effective in kicking butt.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In Daron Nefcy's original webcomic, Princess Pony Head was just as gaudy and sparkley as she is in the show, despite being an actual decapitated horse head, complete with glazed eyes, stuck-out tongue, and viscera leaking from her neck hole.
* AffectionateNickname: Called "cupcake" by her father.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals her first name as Lilacia, and that she has 12 younger siblings. "Ponymonium" eventually confirms all those things.
* AscendedExtra: Only appears in two episodes in the first season, but for the second and third seasons she's been upgraded to recurring character.
* BestFriend: Star calls Pony Head her best friend on Mewni. Pony Head at first wasn't happy with the idea of sharing the position of Star's best friend with Marco, but later opens up to it.
* BigSisterBully: Her sisters claim that she's this towards them in "Ponymonium", and there certainly seems to be some truth to that considering how she bosses them around while introducing them to Star.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Courtesy of St. Olga's. After the conditioning sets in, she speaks in [[CreepyMonotone a dainty, high-pitched "princess" voice completely drained of joy]] and can do naught but recite the mantras the school has drilled into her head and look as vapid as possible.
* BullyingADragon: Ponyhead often gets herself into trouble by overestimating herself. The best example being when she stole dimensional scissors from Hekapoo.
* TheBusCameBack: Forcibly sent to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses in her introduction episode "Party with a Pony". She comes back in "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" and has appeared in a few episodes of the second season.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Pony Head left St. Olgas because the other princesses started to see her as their leader.
* CharacterDevelopment: Subtle, but unlike how she went into a {{Yandere}}-like fashion when Star introduced Marco as her friend, "Sleepover" has her matured enough to not do the same thing when [=StarFan13=] expresses her extreme liking of Star.
* ChildhoodFriends: She and Star have known each other since they were toddlers.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Pony Head becomes jealous of Star hanging out with Marco. She even threatens to ''impale'' him and almost "[[BlatantLies accidentally]]" [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident knocks him off]] the cloud they were on. Judging from Star's reaction to Marco telling her this, this isn't the first time she's gotten "possessive".
* ConsummateLiar: Has a nasty habit of lying, sometimes for legitimately planned reasons, other times just on the fly. Why she's hanging with Star in her introduction, what happened to Marco, where she got those Interdimensional Scissors, claiming to have eaten a Goblin Dog, or reasons why she'd be a non-flaky girlfriend, and the list goes on from there. It usually doesn't take long for her web of lies to unravel, after which HilarityEnsues.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Goes from ditching Marco out of jealousy to willingly (without provocation) going to save him from being tortured. By the end of "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses", she actually considers him a friend, and "Goblin Dogs" is a (misguided) effort to do something nice for ''both'' of her "besties".
* DeliberatelyBadExample: Pony Head serves as this for Star. Pony Head is extremely overdramatic, insanely spoiled, and not to mention a loose cannon at times. Star may not like rules and wants to do whatever she wants, but even she's put off by Pony Head's (along with her her siblings') behavior.
* ADogNamedDog: Played with; her real name is Lilacia, but [[DoNotCallMePaul she doesn't like being called that]] so everyone refers to her as "Princess Pony Head". It gets weird when even her family addresses her as such, despite them all being Pony Heads and thus every one of her sisters is also "Princess Pony Head".
* DoNotGoGentle: Even wild horses couldn't drag her away from partying with her best bestie on the eve of her trip to St. Olga's Reform School.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Lilacia.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Enforced. She wants to be referred to as THE Princess Pony Head as she's none too fond of her first name. Luckily for her as the firstborn and heir to the throne, she ''is'' properly referred to as "Princess Pony Head".
* FireForgedFriends: Her dynamic with Marco in a nutshell.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** She acts antagonistic towards Marco for no valid reason except for petty jealousy, and Star states that this wasn't the first time Pony Head has gotten jealous.
** She has contempt for all of her younger sisters except Azniss, who she has particular disdain for. It's implied that this animosity is due to how Azniss gets along really well with Star when it comes to her more tomboyish proclivities and the fact that as a capable magic warrior, she doesn't let herself take any guff from Pony Head.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: She has shades of this. "Sleepover" implies that she's killed before, and it's played for laughs. The same episode shows her to have a great ego when she proudly admits that her crush is herself. In "Goblin Dogs", Star admits that "Pony Head doesn't mean bad, she's just a liar." In "Running With Scissors", Star scolds her for stealing dimensional scissors from Hekapoo (who left them in the bathroom), to which Pony Head responds, "More like... finding?" and also is quite nonchalant when suggesting that Marco is "probably dead" after being dragged into Hekapoo's dimension, despite actually considering Marco a friend by this point. In "The Bounce Lounge", her idea to get everyone to leave Club Null is to set the place on fire (expressing surprise that this wasn't also what Star had in mind). And in "Bam Ui Pati!" she exploits her ex-boyfriend by pretending to get back together with him in order to escape from her sisters and watch her KoreanDrama uninterrupted, then immediately dumps him once she's gotten over her depression over her broken horn despite him having just given her an even better prosthetic replacement horn.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Star; "Freeze Day" shows that the two have been friends since they were toddlers.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: While Pony Head is happy to insult her sisters, she won't let anyone else do it, even Star.
* IChooseToStay: She decides to stay at St. O's, so she can make sure what happened to her doesn't happen to other princesses. Which turns out to not be that much of a sacrifice, since Pony Head and the other princesses tossed Miss Heinous out entirely and took over, turning St. O's into (in Pony Head's own words) "a total party school". She later ditches the place when some of the responsibilities of being a leader started to catch up with her.
* InsistentTerminology: Even after she accepts Marco, she demands Star acknowledge him as her "best bestie ''on Earth''", as opposed to her "best bestie overall".
* InvisibleAnatomy: She's able to eat despite, by her own admission, having no stomach.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She does what she wants with very little concern for the wants and needs of others, with Star being the only (possible) exception.
* JerkassToOne: She's mainly a jerk towards Marco due the latter being dubbed as Star's other "BFF".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In general, she is the one making insensitive remarks. In her introduction, she comes off as selfish, petty and possessive of Star. She antagonizes Marco out of jealousy, going as far as to ditch him in another dimension and leave him to be tortured by the guards that are after her just so she could have Star all to herself. When Star calls her out on being a jerk to Marco, Pony Head understands how much Marco means to Star and willingly (without provocation) goes back to save him, even if it means letting herself be captured and taken to St. Olga's Reform School.
* KarmaHoudini: As revealed in "Running with Scissors", the dimensional scissors that Star got from Pony Head were actually stolen from Hekapoo, though Pony Head suffers no repercussions for this, but Marco had to.
* LastNameBasis: She's addressed by her family name. By her own insistence.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As revealed in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', Pony Head is one of King Pony Head's Thirteen Daughters. Also revealed is how she's his heir because her siblings are unfit due to being too weird, too young, or outright worse than her. Even her youngest sister (who's still a baby) is already sociopathic enough to make Pony Head seem well-adjusted by comparison.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has ''twelve'' younger sisters.
* ManipulativeBastard: "Ponymonium" shows that she is one. She invited Star for dinner and then pretended to have a fit so Star would be accepted by her sisters. She then waited outside their door as they tried to involve Star in their plan and was recording it on her phone to foil it.
* {{Narcissist}}: Pony Head really, really, ''really'' thinks highly of herself. In "Sleepover", when the Truth or Punishment box asks everyone who their crush is, Pony Head pretends to be reluctant to admit that she has a crush on ''herself'', which the box confirms is true.
* ProjectileSpell: Pony Head can shoot beams from her horn.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] She's got a very flirtatious nature is the most likely one among Star's friends to chat with Star about boys, but given the show's target audience they the writers keep the details intentionally vague. Especially since the actual mechanics of any relationship a disembodied unicorn head might get into are better to not think about. She also once left the Silver Bell Ball with four guys, one of which was a ''sentient pigeon''.
* RebelliousPrincess: Her father had a hard time controlling her, which is why she was sent to [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses"]], where Miss Heinous promptly sucked the spirit out of her.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sometime between St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses and the writing of ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', she abandoned her fellow princesses when they started to turn to her for actual leadership, in matters that didn't involve partying. Like how some of them still wanted a genuine education system, then there was the matter of paying the building's electricity bill and the fact that they were quickly running out of food.
* ShipperOnDeck: She "called it" that Star has a crush on Marco.
* StickyFingers: Pony Head tends to steal things quite a lot, like Hekapoo's dimensional scissors, gold and jewelry (and Prince Rich Pigeon) from the Pigeon Kingdom, and it's implied she stole a Truth or Punishment cube from the Magic High Commission.
* VitriolicBestBuds: While she hasn't gotten over calling Marco "Earth Turd" (and labeling his disguised alter ego as "Princess Marco Turdina"), she does eventually consider Marco one of her "besties" after their adventures in St. Olga's.
* {{Yandere}}: A platonic version in her debut, for Star--Pony Head's pretty possessive of her status as Star's best friend and is initially very jealous of Star's friendship with Marco (even making some not-so-subtle attempts to get rid of him). But she eventually grows out of it, ultimately accepting Star and Marco's friendship and eventually accepting Marco as one of her "besties."

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* ActionGirl: Pony Head has shown to be very effective in kicking butt.
ActionSurvivor: He becomes this after surviving multiple dimensions for sixteen years.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In Daron Nefcy's original webcomic, Princess Pony Head was just as gaudy and sparkley as she is in AlmightyJanitor: Stripe or not, he's only a green belt (about halfway through the show, despite being an actual decapitated horse head, complete with glazed eyes, stuck-out tongue, and viscera leaking from her neck hole.
* AffectionateNickname: Called "cupcake" by her father.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension''
learning stages in martial arts). He's still kicked more monster ass than most people. ''The most badass green belt ever.'' Season two reveals that he has been a green belt for ''five years'' though not because of his skill level, but because his sensei is also only a green belt. At the end of "Red Belt", Marco is now a red belt.
* AmicableExes: In "Sophomore Slump" Jackie gently breaks up with Marco because she believes that their relationship will sour overtime because Marco can't accept that he's left Mewni as well as Jackie believing that she's forcing Marco to stay on Earth to make
her first name as Lilacia, happy. When they meet up again in "Britta's Tacos", Marco is afraid that he was a horrible boyfriend to her, but she reassures him that he was a "standard boyfriend" and that she has 12 younger siblings. "Ponymonium" eventually confirms all they just didn't work. At the end of the episode, Jackie [[ShipperOnDeck advises]] him to go after Star while Marco smiles at her and Chloe skating off together while holding hands.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Marco reluctantly confesses his crush to Jackie during "Sleepover" in order to spare the group from the consequences of the Truth or Punishment game.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In "Divide", Marco was in charge of the "Marc-nificent Seven". He was the founder and was Star and Mewni's (present) best warrior.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: He sees his middle name as such.
* BadassBiker: While Marco spent sixteen years hunting Hekapoo, he gained a "dragon-cycle", a six pack and an epic beard.
* BadassBookworm: Physically unimposing, fastidious A-student... who can karate-kick monsters three times his size and send them limping home.
* BadassCape:
** In "Running With Scissors", future Marco wears his hoodie as a cape, since he's long grown out of it. He also does this during his spar with Star in season 3.
** Marco is gifted a cape from River after the Battle of Mewni, and constantly wears it when he returns to Earth. He stops wearing it after he learns that it's just a meat blanket, and that the honorary knighthood he was granted wasn't real either.
** In "The Knight Shift", when Eclipsa confers a real knighthood on Marco, Star gives him a new hand-made cape with symbols representing some of their adventures together on the back. At the end of the episode, Marco returns the favor by making a similar cape for Star. When they sit together, [[{{Foreshadowing}}
those things.
symbols combine to form a large heart]].
* AscendedExtra: Only appears BadassNormal: Has no special powers and is good enough at karate to hold his own against Ludo's henchmen and other assorted monsters.
* BareFistedMonk: Marco rarely uses weapons to fight his opponents, and uses his karate skills at every opportunity
in two episodes combat (despite Star being the other half of the reason why the pair can win fights in the first season, place - when Star is preoccupied with the main villain or distracted by the events of the episode, Marco falls into an unfavourable position where he is either grappled or chased around the battlefield). Marco did eventually become a CombatPragmatist and a MasterSwordsman in "Running With Scissors" while pursuing and hunting Hekapoo, and still remembers these skills (albeit not at the same level without his muscular body).
* BattleButler: Marco was initially tasked to be Star's guide to human culture, he also cooks nachos for her and himself and finally Marco and his parents also allow her to live with them. Marco is skilled at karate and is a BareFistedMonk at his best
but for they are friends regardless. In season 3 he becomes her squire.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Marco wanted a little more danger in his life and Star soon entered it, bringing a lot of that with her. He sarcastically quipped that if his family wanted some upbeat energy in their home, they could've just adopted a litter of puppies instead of letting Star live with them; she immediately summons some cute puppies... that fire lasers out of their eyes. When he admires
the second room she summoned and third seasons she's been upgraded wishes he had one of his own, Star tries to recurring character.
give him one and creates a portal that sucks all his furniture instead.
* BestFriend: Star calls Pony Head her best friend on Mewni. Pony Head at first wasn't happy with the idea of sharing the position of Marco is Star's best friend with Marco, but later opens up on Earth.
* BigBrotherInstinct: After the birth of his new sister Mariposa, Marco wastes no time in becoming the most attentive, protective brother he can be.
* BigOlEyebrows: In comparison
to it.
most of the people on the show. Just look at them!
* BigSisterBully: Her sisters claim that she's this towards them in "Ponymonium", BloodKnight: Although he is calm, savvy, and there certainly seems to be some truth to that considering how she bosses them around safety conscious in most situations, Marco is also an avid martial artist who really likes fighting evil monsters, and thus sees Star's FightMagnet life as a plus.
* BodyguardingABadass: Marco is responsible for Star's safety
while introducing them she is on Earth, as he's her guide to Star.Earth culture, and tries to get her out of trouble with the authorities when she makes a mistake. Marco also fights to protect her and the wand from Ludo and the other monsters when they become overwhelming or too powerful for her to handle. In season 2 he still has to fulfill some of his responsibilities from season 1 despite the hostile monsters having fewer appearances, because he still has to help Star keep control of her magic and fight off Ludo.
* BodyHorror: In "Monster Arm", after he breaks his arm while practicing karate, Star attempts to fix it via magic. She instead transforms his arm into a giant tentacle, which turns out to have a mind of its own and be quite malevolent and destructive.
* BrainyBrunette: Dark brown hair + OnlySaneMan + GoodWithNumbers + CloudcuckoolandersMinder = A really intelligent kid.
* ButtMonkey: His injuries and misfortunes are frequent and definitely PlayedForLaughs.
* CampStraight: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Marco may be InTouchWithHisFeminineSide (see trope below for more details), but he also has had a HUGE crush on the female Jackie-Lynn Thomas since they were children, and he is an avid martial artist with dreams of being a super-buff badass warrior and/or a knight, so while the show points these things out, he is clearly heterosexual.
* CannotSpitItOut: With regards to his feeling on his crush, Jackie-Lynn Thomas. Marco has been crushing on her for years and he's still struggling to say something past "Hello" to her. As of "Sleepover", this is no longer the case anymore.
* CantStayNormal: When he returns from Hekapoo's dimension, he struggles to adjust from his high adrenaline lifestyle and has forgotten his computer's password. This is also shown in "Sophomore Slump", as a result of his adventures with Star and life on Mewni. Marco has very little in common with his Earth friends and Jackie eventually and gently breaks up with him because she fears that their relationship will sour overtime because Marco can't fully disconnect himself from Mewni no matter how hard he tries.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Courtesy of St. Olga's. After CapeSwish: Does this at the conditioning sets in, she speaks in [[CreepyMonotone a dainty, high-pitched "princess" voice completely drained of joy]] and can do naught but recite the mantras the school has drilled into her head and look as vapid as possible.
* BullyingADragon: Ponyhead often gets herself into trouble by overestimating herself. The best example being when she stole dimensional scissors from Hekapoo.
* TheBusCameBack: Forcibly sent to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses in her introduction episode "Party with a Pony". She comes back in "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" and has appeared in a few episodes
end of the second season.
Season 3 intro.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Pony Head left St. Olgas because CharacterCatchphrase: A BigWhat.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower:
** He must be really good at karate, considering he can punch back one head from a massive Hydra!
** He manages to karate chop Tom's hand off.
** He LITERALLY punches a hole clean through Toffee's chest, which would've killed him if it weren't for his regenerative powers!
** After spending sixteen years getting ripped in Hekapoo's dimension, he's strong enough that
the other princesses started wind from unsheathing his katana is strong enough to see blow out a flame from about ten yards away.
* ChickMagnet:
** In addition to heavy ShipTease with [[TheHero Star Butterfly]] to the point that she has developed a crush on him, he's attracted the attention of [[MellowFellow Jackie]], [[StalkerWithACrush Janna]] has flirted with him quite a bit, [[CuteMonsterGirl Hekapoo]] shares some FoeRomanceSubtext with him, and after Kelly breaks up with Tad for good, he has a bit of ShipTease with
her as their leader.well.
** The "[=FanCo13=] LIVE" chat held after "Starcrushed" aired also had [[AmbiguouslyBi StarFan13]] calling Marco very handsome in his prince costume from "Face the Music".
* CharacterDevelopment: Subtle, ChildhoodFriendRomance: Marco has been crushing on Jackie since kindergarten, but unlike how she went into a {{Yandere}}-like fashion when Star he gets so nervous around her that he hasn't made any progress with her in all those years. He finally asks her out in "Naysaya" and they start dating in "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown".
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Was
introduced Marco to Star to act as her friend, "Sleepover" has her matured enough to not do the same thing guide on Earth. "School Spirit" and "The Banagic Incident" illustrate just what happens when [=StarFan13=] expresses her extreme liking of Star.
* ChildhoodFriends: She and Star have known each other since they were toddlers.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Pony Head becomes jealous of Star hanging out
a flighty, hyperactive FishOutOfWater armed with Marco. She magic is left to her own devices.
* CluelessChickMagnet:
** He gained attention from multiple women and doesn't notice. The best example of this being Star, as he only found out when Ruberiot spelt it out to him but
even threatens then, he was struggling to ''impale'' him and almost "[[BlatantLies accidentally]]" [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident knocks him off]] the cloud they were on. Judging from Star's reaction to Marco telling her this, this isn't the first time she's gotten "possessive".
* ConsummateLiar: Has a nasty habit of lying, sometimes for legitimately planned reasons, other times just on the fly. Why she's hanging with Star in her introduction,
comprehend what happened to Marco, where she got those Interdimensional Scissors, claiming to have eaten a Goblin Dog, or reasons why she'd be a non-flaky girlfriend, until Star confirmed her feelings for him.
** ''Star
and the list goes on from there. It Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' shows that it's subverted as far as [[ImpliedLoveInterest Janna]] is concerned, as he recognizes her teasing behavior as her flirting with him.
* CombatPragmatist: Occasionally mixes up karate with utilizing his environment to fight, be it with boxes, [[ThrowTheBookAtThem a book]], or [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giraffe head]].
* TheConscience: He's
usually doesn't take long for her web of lies to unravel, after which HilarityEnsues.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Goes
the one who keeps Star from ditching Marco out of jealousy to willingly (without provocation) going to save him from being tortured. By causing too much trouble. In later seasons, she started getting the end swing of "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses", she actually considers him a friend, things and "Goblin Dogs" is a (misguided) effort to do something nice for ''both'' of making her "besties".
* DeliberatelyBadExample: Pony Head serves as
own choices. He was this for Star. Pony Head is extremely overdramatic, insanely spoiled, and to The Seeing Eye spell, despite the spell not to mention a loose cannon at times. Star may not like rules and wants to do whatever she wants, but even she's put off by Pony Head's (along with her her siblings') behavior.fully understanding the consequences of telling the truth.
* ADogNamedDog: Played with; her real name is Lilacia, but [[DoNotCallMePaul she doesn't like being called that]] so everyone refers to her as "Princess Pony Head". It gets weird when even her family addresses her as such, despite them all being Pony Heads and thus every one of her sisters is also "Princess Pony Head".
* DoNotGoGentle: Even wild horses couldn't drag her away from partying with her best bestie on the eve of her trip to St. Olga's Reform School.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Lilacia.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Enforced. She wants to be referred to as THE Princess Pony Head as she's none too fond of her first name. Luckily for her
ControlFreak: His reputation as the firstborn and heir to the throne, she ''is'' properly referred to as "Princess Pony Head".
* FireForgedFriends: Her dynamic
"Safe Kid" didn't come from nowhere. When he meets Star he's pulling her out of every minor obstacle (some understandable, some not). However, this gets zig-zagged, especially with regards to fighting, because he's also a BloodKnight; when he learns that Star has a price on her head he's absolutely ''thrilled'' at the prospect of fighting monsters.
* [[CoolBigSis Cool Big Bro]]:
Marco in was ''ecstatic'' upon discovering he would become a nutshell.
big brother. And once his little sis is born, he is very loving, attentive, and [[BigBrotherInstinct protective]] of her.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** She acts antagonistic towards
CoolBike: Marco for no valid reason except for petty jealousy, and Star states that this wasn't the first time Pony Head has gotten jealous.
** She has contempt for all of
a ''dragon cycle'', as they've spent 16 years together it overlaps into CompanionCube territory as he affectionately calls her younger sisters except Azniss, who she has particular disdain for. Nachos.
* TheCorruption: Marco gets controlled by his new tentacle limb in "Monster Arm".
It's implied that this animosity even after being cured, it still dwells inside him.
* CowardlyLion: In season one Marco was safety oriented and would be the first of the co-protagonists to try to reason with the monsters, i.e. Lobster Claws and Princess Smooshy. Marco also refused to fight Lars out of fear until Monster Arm dealt with him. When he
is due to how Azniss gets along in the middle of fight Marco can hold his own really well with Star and enjoys every second of it when it comes to her more tomboyish proclivities he's in a favourable position.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark brown hair
and the fact that as a capable magic warrior, she doesn't let herself take any guff from Pony Head.
brown eyes.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: She has shades of this. "Sleepover" implies that she's killed before, and it's played for laughs. The same episode shows her to have a great ego when she proudly admits that her crush is herself. In "Goblin Dogs", Star admits that "Pony Head doesn't mean bad, she's just a liar." In "Running With Scissors", Star scolds her for stealing dimensional scissors from Hekapoo (who left them in the bathroom), to which Pony Head responds, "More like... finding?" and also is quite nonchalant when suggesting that Marco is "probably dead" after being dragged into Hekapoo's dimension, despite actually considering Marco a friend by this point. In "The Bounce Lounge", her idea to get everyone to leave Club Null is to set the place on fire (expressing surprise that this wasn't also what Star had in mind). And in "Bam Ui Pati!" she exploits her ex-boyfriend by pretending to get back together with him in order to escape from her sisters and watch her KoreanDrama uninterrupted, then immediately dumps him once she's gotten over her depression over her broken horn despite him having just given her an even better prosthetic replacement horn.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Star; "Freeze Day" shows that the two have been friends since they were toddlers.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: While Pony Head is happy to insult her sisters, she won't let anyone else do it, even Star.
* IChooseToStay: She decides to stay at St. O's, so she can make sure what happened to her doesn't happen to other princesses. Which turns out to not be that much of a sacrifice, since Pony Head and the other princesses tossed Miss Heinous out entirely and took over, turning St. O's into (in Pony Head's own words) "a total party school". She later ditches the place when some of the responsibilities of being a leader started to catch up with her.
* InsistentTerminology: Even after she accepts Marco, she demands Star acknowledge him as her "best bestie ''on Earth''", as opposed to her "best bestie overall".
* InvisibleAnatomy: She's able to eat despite, by her own admission, having no stomach.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She does what she wants with very little concern for the wants and needs of others, with Star being the only (possible) exception.
* JerkassToOne: She's mainly a jerk towards Marco due the latter being dubbed as Star's other "BFF".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In general, she is the one making insensitive remarks. In her introduction, she comes off as selfish, petty and possessive of Star. She antagonizes Marco out of jealousy, going as far as to ditch him in another dimension and leave him to be tortured by the guards that are after her just so she could have Star all to herself. When Star calls her out on being a jerk to Marco, Pony Head understands how much Marco means to Star and willingly (without provocation) goes back to save him, even if it means letting herself be captured and taken to St. Olga's Reform School.
* KarmaHoudini: As revealed in "Running with Scissors", the dimensional scissors that Star got from Pony Head were actually stolen from Hekapoo, though Pony Head suffers no repercussions for this, but Marco had to.
* LastNameBasis: She's addressed by her family name. By her own insistence.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As revealed in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', Pony Head
DarkIsNotEvil: He is one of King Pony Head's Thirteen Daughters. Also revealed is how she's the protagonists and has several dark items associated with him. The blood moon and the wand's appearance in his heir because her siblings are unfit due to being too weird, too young, or outright worse than her. Even her youngest sister (who's still a baby) ownership.
* DashingHispanic: Marco
is already sociopathic enough to make Pony Head seem well-adjusted by comparison.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has ''twelve'' younger sisters.
* ManipulativeBastard: "Ponymonium" shows that she is one. She invited Star for dinner
half-Hispanic and then pretended to have a fit so Star would be accepted by her sisters. She then waited outside their door as they tried to involve Star in their plan and was recording it on her phone to foil it.
* {{Narcissist}}: Pony Head really, really, ''really'' thinks highly of herself. In "Sleepover", when the Truth or Punishment box asks everyone who their crush is, Pony Head pretends to be reluctant to admit that she has a crush on ''herself'', which the box confirms is true.
* ProjectileSpell: Pony Head can shoot beams from her horn.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] She's got a very flirtatious nature
is the most likely one among Star's friends to chat with Star about boys, but given heroic deuteragonist of the show's target audience they the writers keep the details intentionally vague. Especially since the actual mechanics series.
* DeadpanSnarker: Exhibits a dry sense
of any relationship a disembodied unicorn head might get into are better to not think about. She also once left the Silver Bell Ball with four guys, one of which was a ''sentient pigeon''.
humor.
* RebelliousPrincess: Her father had a hard time controlling her, which is why she was sent to [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors {{Deuteragonist}}: The second main focus character after Star.
* DisguisedInDrag: In
"St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses"]], where Princesses", Star disguises him as a princess with a poofy pink ballgown and long hair and they join in with a group of new arrival princesses. Despite initially griping that he wanted to impersonate one of the guards, by the end he asks to keep the dress.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Enforced. Thanks to Janna's off-screen hypnotism, Marco now dislikes nachos, which was his favorite thing to eat. Now, every time he thinks of nachos, he feels the urge to vomit.
* DorkKnight: Marco practically gushes after he and Star defeat Ludo and his men.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: In the earlier seasons, Marco wasn't as popular as he wanted to be. He was frequently unlucky and the receiver of Star's magic despite his skills in karate and overall likability.
* EagleLand: Marco chants, "USA! USA!" in celebration when he thinks he successfully grew out a beard, which is a pretty uniquely American thing to do.
* EmbarrassingInitials: A test paper in "Match Maker" reveals his middle name is Ubaldo, which makes his initials spell out "MUD".
* EmbarrassingRingtone: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slO7dDwB9jA "Space Unicorn"]] ringtone which he claims is supposed to be ironic.
%%* EnemyWithin: Monster Arm.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Marco is very protective of his parents, as evident by him attacking
Miss Heinous promptly sucked when he believes that she harmed them in some way.
* FamedInStory: Marco has a reputation in Mewni. At St. Olgas he's a liberator under
the spirit out name of her.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sometime between St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses
"Princess Turdina", and the writing inventor of ''Star the "Sword Hand Dance".
* FireForgedFriends: He
and Marco's Guide Pony Head become cool with each other this way.
* {{Flanderization}}: People who mention Marco being overly safety conscious in the first episode only
to Mastering Every Dimension'', she abandoned her fellow princesses when they started to turn to her for actual leadership, in matters be dropped afterwards don't realize that didn't involve partying. Like how some it's a weird inversion of them this. This trait still wanted a genuine education system, then there was shows up in other episodes (see the matter of paying the building's electricity bill gift he made for his parents' anniversary in "Diaz Family Vacation", and the fact that they were quickly running out whole plan to keep Ferguson safe in "School Spirit"), but the first episode greatly exaggerated it at the cost of food.
other parts of his personality, like being a little of a NeatFreak (as seen in "Quest Buy" or "My New Wand!"), or having an interest in psychology (as seen in "Sleep Spells").
* ShipperOnDeck: She "called it" that {{Foil}}: The series highlights his and Star's different reactions to the thought of having feelings for the other: While Star's feelings have been building up the more she was drilled despite saying otherwise, Marco remained indifferent to the possibility, not thinking anything would come of it. When it came to Star admitting she has a crush on Marco.
Marco; Star attempts to avoid acting on it further, while Marco moves on and doesn't make a big deal about it... for a time.
* StickyFingers: FriendsWithBenefits: Downplayed. He and Kelly become "breakup buddies" as they kiss and hold hands while dealing with their respective heartache. By the time of "A Boy and His DC-700XE", Marco broke up with her.
* FriendVersusLover: He distrusted Tom when he introduced himself as Star's ex-boyfriend, although things improve between them, they are still a bit conflictive when Tom and Star are together again, however they get better then.
* FullNameUltimatum: Whenever Star is angry or annoyed with him then she'll call him by his first and last name.
* FutureBadass: He was in multiple dimension for sixteen years and gained a six pack as well as alot of muscle but when he returns to earth, he is reverted back to his original age and body because it had only been eight minutes.
%%* GenreSavvy: On occasion, such as when he successfully invoke tropes to break
Pony Head tends to steal things quite a lot, like Hekapoo's dimensional scissors, gold and jewelry (and Prince Rich Pigeon) from the Pigeon Kingdom, and it's implied she stole a Truth or Punishment cube from the Magic High Commission.
* VitriolicBestBuds: While she hasn't gotten over calling Marco "Earth Turd" (and labeling his disguised alter ego as "Princess Marco Turdina"), she does eventually consider Marco one
out of her "besties" after their adventures in St. Olga's.
* {{Yandere}}: A GoMadFromTheRevelation: Is temporarily driven insane after reading Eclipsa's section of the spell book in "Page Turner".
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Zigzagged. In his adult form, Marco has a scar over his left eye but is no less the heroic badass. But, in his regular form, he doesn't have a scar.
* GoodWithNumbers: Zigzagged. Marco has good math skills and used the metric system to find Star's charger, but admits to Jackie that one of his many insecurities is over his inability to do long division.
* GratuitousSpanish: Consider Marco is Hispanic, he does drop Spanish words or phrases occasionally.
* HasAType: When "The Other Exchange Student" showed a picture of him getting kissed by a previous blonde foreign exchange student ([[AllThereInTheManual Daniella from Belgium]]), fandom jokes that he's into blondes have cropped up since his crush Jackie is also blonde and he has had plenty of ShipTease with Star.
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]]: In "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown", both Star and Jackie are stunned when they see him dressed up for his dance date with Jackie.
* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: In "Running with Scissors", Star finds herself very attracted to his handsome adult version, calling him "Beautiful Stranger" before she even realizes who he is. It's humorously subverted a minute later when he and Star travel back to Earth and [[NarniaTime local time catches up with him]], but she just happily pokes at the flab where his six-pack used to be.
-->'''Marco''': [[BigNo No!]] My hot bod! Where did it go!?
* HeroesLoveDogs: After Star creates a litter of laser puppies, he decided to take ownership of them.
* HeroesPreferSwords: According to Janna's list of Marco's personal information in "Gift of the Card", one of his passwords is "O={==>[=SW0RD=]". In "Running with Scissors", [[FutureBadass 30-year-old Marco]] is a master swordsman.
* HeroicBuild: Zigzagged. After spending over a decade searching for Hekapoo, he became absolutely ripped, but only has this form when in Hekapoo's dimension. Otherwise, Marco has a lean build. But, in either form, he's still heroic.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation:
** In "Sleep Spells", it's revealed that he keeps a record of him and Star saving each other, and he resents the fact that she's saved him more times than he's saved her. After saving her from a hostile escaped princess, he tells her that he feels mundane by comparison, since she's a magical princess from another dimension. Star assures him that they don't need to compete, because he is certainly awesome.
** In "Naysaya", it's implied that Marco is such a mess of insecurities that he actually ''wants'' to get physically punished for petty reasons.
--->'''Marco (referring to the Naysaya)''': How do I get rid of it?\\
'''Tom''': Just let it run its course. Once it's shouted all your worst, most shameful secrets, it'll wear off.\\
'''Marco''': And how long will that take?\\
'''Tom''': It depends. How insecure are you?\\
'''Marco''': (''{{Beat}}'') [[OhCrap Oh no...]]
* HiddenDepths:
** He is shown to be knowledgeable about Victorian-era interior design.
** He's also shown to be quite the film buff (in a rare [=VHS=] store, he clarified that he didn't mean the award-winning film when he asked for a pair of scissors).
** Most dudes don't care about the differences between shades of the same color. He specifically dubs "Plum Purple" and "Prussian Blue" as his favorites.
** In an effort to impress Jackie during "Sleepover", he shows that he can play jazz piano on his electric keyboard.
** It's shown in "Friendenemies" that the kid can really sing.
** As shown in "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" and "Death Peck", he has quite a knowledge of art.
** The episode "Deep Dive" hints that Marco may have a hidden dark side to his careful, insecure nature. Something of note is that when he uses Star's wand, which changes its shape to reflect the person who uses it, the wand takes on an oddly sinister form, with a spear-tipped, [[SpikesOfDoom spiked]] faceplate, decorated with a pair of [[GoodWingsEvilWings bat wings]].
* {{Hipster}}: Marco occasionally shows signs of being one, such as his "Space Unicorn" ringtone which is "supposed to be ironic."
* HumanityIsInfectious: Marco has a strong effect on non-humans. His humanity has rubbed off on Star and Tom and helped them mature and recognise the problems in their own lives.
* {{Hunk}}: His 30-year-old self certainly wasn't lacking in terms of rugged good looks.
* HypercompetentSidekick: To Star; he's a lot more savvy, patient, intelligent, and a much better strategist.
* HypnoFool: In "Deep Dive", Marco claims he can't be hypnotized. But then Janna casually reveals that she hypnotized him ages ago and even put a trigger in him to make him fall asleep. He calls her out on her bluff but the moment Janna snaps her fingers and says "chickenbutt", he immoderately falls asleep.
* HypocriticalHumor: One episode has him point out that the martial arts are about honor and discipline. He then says that he wants to one-up some SpoiledBrat that takes classes with him.
* IconOfRebellion: Kickstarted a princess revolution in [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors St. Olga's School For Wayward Princesses]], as "Princess Marco" overthrowing the initial regime and apparently turning it into a party school. This came complete with UsefulNotes/BarackObama-styled posters and a huge amount of merchandise. Apparently, he gets a $650 royalty check for it, too. However, this is deconstructed later, because the students took his ideals too far and it caused their morals to dip to the point of having no sense of boundaries and cutting classes.
* IKnowKarate: Marco uses karate to help in battles. The fact that he takes karate lessons and that he has a green belt probably helps.
-->'''Star''': You can fight?\\
'''Marco''': It's called... karate! ''(chops a monster)''
* ImprovisedWeapon: Lacking a magic wand or a trademark weapon of his own, he makes do with what he can.
* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** Marco becomes friends with his karate sensei, Sensei Brantley. In fact, it seems that, after Star, Sensei is Marco's best friend.
** Seems to have developed this with King River. He's more casual with the king than he is with the queen, and he even calls River by his first name with no title.
* InterspeciesRomance: Downplayed. He (a human) and Kelly (a Woolett) become [[FriendsWithBenefits break up buddies]] before the latter breaks it off.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: In "St. Olga's School for Wayward Princesses", despite initially disliking to be DisguisedInDrag, by the end of the episode he refers to the captive girls as his fellow sisters and asks if he can keep the dress; he then only wears it when it's needed to hide his identity or help others. He wears it again in "Heinous". In "Princess Turdina" he reveals to the girls who idolize him that he is a boy by tossing off the dress. He wears it for the last time in "Divide" to bait Heinous, who now goes by her actual name Meteora. In "Gift of the Card" he wears ballet slippers, saying they're comfy to wear around the house. In "Friendenemies" it's revealed he's a big fan of the BoyBand "Love Sentence" (so does Tom Lucitor).
* IResembleThatRemark: Marco complains that he doesn't know why people think he's so safety-obsessed while making sure Star avoids various minor hazards while walking.
-->'''Marco''': You wear a helmet in the gym shower ''one time'' and you're branded for life.
* IronicName: "Marco" manages to be this and a MeaningfulName. In Italian, "Marco" means "Mars" (the Roman God of War); it's ironic given his consciousness for safety.
* IWillFindYou: He dedicates sixteen years of his life to find Hekapoo and defeat her clones. When Star leaves Earth after confessing her crush on him, Marco decides to go find her because "that's what friends do".
* KnightInShiningArmor: He isn't a knight yet. He is Star's right hand man and has such a high moral compass and strong determination that he can rally the "Marc-nificent Seven" together to assist him in distracting Meteora. In "The Knight Shift" he gets promoted, but ultimately turns it down because he realizes he doesn't want to spend his entire life devoted to Mewni. [[ShipTease He's only willing to make that much of a commitment to Star.]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Marco is huge fan of Love Sentence, and it shows when Tom shows his shrine that is dedicated to Love Sentence. He also turns into a
platonic version Fanboy when Mackie Hand is resurrected.
* KungShui: Marco is shown to use the environment to fight his enemies or destroy it
in the process.
* TheLancer: While he and Star are co-protagonists, Star is the titular, central character whereas Marco is recognised as the deuteragonist. Marco is commonly the voice of dissent, is a BadassNormal to Star's magical abilities and finally Marco is the StraightMan to Star's wise guy.
* LightningBruiser: Marco became this so he can hunt Hekapoo and is revealed to have maintained it.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded in "Match Maker".
-->'''Marco''': I like red. I like hoodies. So I bought a dozen of them.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: It's subtly implied that he is becoming this to Star, even more as she [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil is entering in the dark path of magic]]. Any time that Star thinks she is losing Marco or he is in a real danger
her debut, for Star--Pony Head's pretty possessive magic becomes chaotic and uncontrolled and she gets mad.
* LovableJock: Marco is a karate practitioner and an all around NiceGuy.
* LovableNerd: Marco is a dorky kid (which is often mentioned by others), but it makes him quite endearing and well-liked.
* LoveAtFirstSight: In "Here to Help", he claims that he always loved Star on some level (but wasn't yet aware of it) from the moment they first met.
* LoveEpiphany: In "Mama Star", as the amnesia effect of the Realm of Magic starts to kick in, Marco rambles and argues with himself about how everybody else present has a reason to risk the trip but he doesn't, ending with the realization that he does in fact have a reason to be there: [[spoiler:he loves Star]]. Then the magic fully buries his memories, sparing him from having to deal with the fact that [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud his whole monologue was spoken out loud]].
* LovingAShadow: In "Sleepover", Marco admits that he's unsure about whether he has a crush on Jackie because of who she is as a person, or because he has put her on a pedestal in his mind.
* {{Lunacy}}: While his connections with the moon are yet to be explained. The Blood Moon presents itself to Marco while he was on a date with Jackie, which led to him discovering that Star was in danger. When Marco wields Star's wand, Marco gains a pair of crescent moon marks on his cheeks.
%%* MadeOfIron: He can take quite a lot.
* MageKiller: Marco can take on mages and demons with his knowledge and skills.
* MasterSwordsman: Marco is one of the best swordsmen in Mewni, due to his experiences in the other realm.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Star aside, he also has this dynamic with both Jackie and Janna, who are both tomboys.
* MeetCute: Marco is tasked with keeping an eye on Star while she's trying to wrestle a water fountain.
* MomentKiller: In "Is Another Mystery", he accidentally interrupts an intimate moment between Star and Tom.
* MoralityPet: Downplayed. He and Hekapoo have an OddFriendship and she doesn't change into a better person just because
of her status relationship with Marco, but ''does'' grow to care for him.
* MrFanservice: In one episode, he spends 16 years in a dimension hunting clones of Hekapoo which results in him becoming an incredibly muscular, good-looking guy that made Star drool over. Even female fans of the show thought so as well.
* MuggleBestFriend: For Star. Though he is capable of serious butt-kicking himself.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Inverted during "Freeze Day" where he's more horrified by what he didn't do.
* NeatFreak: He always organizes all of his stuff, and even makes sure that his toiletries are not one inch out of place.
* NiceGuy: Unlike Star, who's more reckless and usually [[JerkassBall selfish]], Marco's more of the level-headed MoralityPet. Not to mention, he's the "safe kid".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Heinous" it's revealed that Marco became the face of a revolution after releasing the captured princesses in St. Olga's Reform School, destroying the school in the process. As a result of the revolution the princesses became law-breaking and rule-disobeying anarchists.
* NonActionGuy: {{Averted|Trope}}; despite being set up as the typical MuggleBestFriend, Marco is not totally useless in a fight relative to Star due to his karate training.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Tries to convince Star to stop playing Flags when he sees how violent, ruthless, and divisive it is. Ends up stealing the win while everyone is distracted.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Subverted. His dragon bike Nachos has the license plate number 667.
* ObliviousToLove: Marco seems to have no idea of Star's growing crush on him and how it's affecting her that he's now dating Jackie instead of her until "Face the Music" and "Starcrushed".
* OddFriendship: With Hekapoo, a carefree, overconfident, trollish ageless being whose personality contrasts with his careful and responsible personality. The fact that she is still in contact with Marco after the Magic Commission's corruption is exposed says a lot about their friendship.
* OfficialCouple: By the end of the series [[spoiler: with Star.]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He apparently spent 16 years in another dimension hunting Hekapoo which gradually turned him into a badass.
* OlderAlterEgo: Marco's 30-year-old self in Hekapoo's dimension is more muscular and macho in personality than his scrawny teenage self.
* OlderThanHeLooks: Subverted. Thanks to his time spent in [[YearInsideHourOutside Hekapoo's dimension]], Marco is chronologically in his early 30s, though he reverted back to his teenage body upon returning to Earth. When asked about this in one of his live streams, he described the events as a distant childhood memory, implying he is also mentally and emotionally a teenager again as well. Marco heads back to the Neverzone in Season 3 & 4, and we see teenage Marco become more confident and skilled because of his time there.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The one time he wore a helmet in the shower made the rest of the school brand him as the "Safe Kid".
* TheOneGuy: Since Alfonzo and Ferguson have had almost no screentime in season 2, Marco has become the only guy in a group of school friends consisting of himself, Star, Janna, Jackie, and [=StarFan13=].
* OnlySaneMan: {{Justified|Trope}}. His best friend is a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse and CloudCuckoolander from another dimension who doesn't know anything about Earth culture.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Until he met Star.
* OurFounder: He founded the rebellion of princesses.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 3, he loses a lot of airtime because of the show's increased focus on Mewni politics. It's somewhat appropriate, in that his subplot at the time is partly about having to deal with feeling sidelined and undervalued after he gave up everything to be with Star, but it means he's often absent or confined to comic relief cameos.
* ThePaladin: He isn't a knight of Mewni yet but his fights against the likes of Hekapoo and Meteora show him as this.
* PalsWithJesus: He has FoeRomanceSubtext-fueled ShipTease with Hekapoo, a member of the [[BigGood Magic High Commission]].
* PaperThinDisguise: His disguise as "Princess Marco Turdina" just feels rather forced and somewhat contrived; he doesn't look that much different with only a poofy dress and no changes to his hair aside from the addition of a ponytail, that it wouldn't look so convincing. Miss Heinous however, was easily fooled. So were the other princesses.
* PermaStubble: Marco's 30-year-old self has perma-stubble and is a FutureBadass.
* ProperlyParanoid: In "School Spirit", Marco believes that the school's rival football team are going to kidnap Ferguson like they used to do with the school's previous animal mascot despite everyone else thinking that it's crazy. Guess what happens the second Marco leaves him alone to talk to Star?
* RankUp: In season 4, Marco starts off
as Star's best friend squire before transitioning to a Knight.
* RazorSharpHand: He cuts off Tom's hand with a karate chop.
* RazorWind: He learned this when he was hunting Hekapoo in "Running With Scissors". He uses his sword to direct wind at a pair of Hekapoos, which defeats one of them.
* RebelliousSpirit: Despite Marco claiming to be a rule-follower, his first instinct is to form a rebellion against institutions and rules he deems are wrong, such as against St. Olga's due to its use of brainwashing, and against Ludo in "The Battle For Mewni".
* RedIsHeroic:
** Marco wears a red hoodie
and is initially very jealous the deuteragonist of Star's friendship with the series.
** In "Red Belt", he becomes a [[SpoilerTitle red belt]].
* RedOniBlueOni: With Star, he is the safety-minded and level-headed Blue Oni and she is the energetic and wild Red Oni.
* RelationshipUpgrade:
** In "Naysaya"
Marco (even making some not-so-subtle attempts to get rid of him). But finally asks out Jackie-Lynn Thomas and she eventually grows out of it, ultimately accepting invites him to go see a movie with her and the episode "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown" has Jackie asking him to go to the school dance with her which then turns into date and they share their FirstKiss.
** [[spoiler:In "Here to Help",
Star and Marco admit they love each other and officially become a couple.]]
* RuggedScar:
Marco's friendship 30-year-old self has a scar on his left eye.
* RunningGag: Marco always has exactly $650 dollars on him to spend all at once.
* SafetyFreak: Marco is known around his school as "the safe kid", chiefly due to the time he wore a helmet in the showers. During his
and Star's first meeting, he guides her around every little obstacle in her way. He comes out of his safety bubble thanks to his dangerous adventures with Star and [[TookALevelInBadass takes several levels in badass]] over the course of the series, but he always prefers the safe route to any danger and encourages his friends to avoid troubles when he can when he's not expressing enjoyment over fighting monsters.
* SaveTheVillain: Ends up saving the lives of Jeremy in "Monster Arm" and the Silver Hill Prep Warriors in "School Spirit" despite initially being antagonistic towards both parties.
* SexierAlterEgo: His 30-year-old self is a tall, gorgeous {{Hunk}} with abs and a RuggedScar.
* SheIsTheKing: InvertedTrope. Marco is the founder of a group of rebellious princesses who fell under his banner when he led an uprising in St. Olga's. He
eventually accepting stepped down after admitting that he's a boy and Princess Arms soon took the mantle as leader.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Downplayed. Higgs angrily tells Marco that the only reason he even is a squire is because he's the princess' boyfriend. Though she was wrong in Marco's relationship with Star as well as the many feats he has done, she ''did'' make a [[JerkassHasAPoint point]] on how easily he obtained his squire position.
* TheSoCalledCoward: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9FmMna1gGs Quick to Panic and Swift to Action.]]
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Despite his enjoyment of fighting and capability of taking on monsters twice his size, he is very awkward around others and safety-minded in mundane situations.
* TheSquire: Marco wanted to be a squire so he can eventually earn knighthood in Mewni, so he tries to be one for the only knight available. However Star doesn't want Marco to hurt himself, so she decides to make him ''her'' squire. But really, it's only a title.
* StraightMan: As the more savvy, levelheaded one, Marco is often this to Star, although he does have his own quirky traits.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Downplayed as a teenager, but Marco clearly inherited his brown hair and eyes as well as tan skin from his father. It becomes far more apparent with his thirty-year-old self, where he displays his father's height and HeroicBuild to boot.
* SupportingProtagonist: While he is one the main protagonists, Star is the central focus.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Manages to get through to Tom with some choice words and a few dozen matches of ping-pong. He attempts to do so with both the Truth or Punishment box and the Friends-Til-The-End Quest Buy gift card, but fails.
* TattooAsCharacterType: When he was hunting Hekapoo for sixteen years, he gained a tribal tattoo of a pair of scissors on his left bicep, but he loses his tattoo when he returns to Earth.
* TaughtByExperience: He was a green belt for a while, and, due to his master only being green at the time, never went past it for five years. From how much monster ass he's kicked despite that, it's shown that he's definitely made the most of those five years.
* TheTeamNormal: He was born and raised on Earth, and has had a relatively normal life.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Pony Head before she warmed up to him.
* ThrillSeeker: Marco would like a little danger in his life. Thanks to Star, he got his wish by getting to fight monsters and go on interdimensional adventures on a nearly daily basis. And he couldn't be happier about it. Apparently, this is why he feels Earth is too limiting and mundane by Season 3.
* TriggerPhrase: PlayedForLaughs with "Chickenbut", which puts him to sleep in flash. And apparently, anyone can use it.
* TroubledButCute: {{Invoked|Trope}}. In a desperate attempt to rid himself of the title "Safe Kid", Marco tries to mold himself into a "misunderstood bad boy". Nobody buys it.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Marco has shown to be quite forgiving of those who have either annoyed and/or tried to hurt him, even Tom.
* UnholyHolySword: When he wields Star's wand, it doesn't look as heroic as it does when Star wields it. Marco also has several connotations with the Blood Moon.
* UptightLovesWild: Marco, who is bit of a NeatFreak and is even nicknamed "Safety Kid", has a crush on skater girl Jackie-Lynn Thomas, and has some ShipTease with his very wild best friend Star.
* VictoryIsBoring: After saving Mewni in the Season 3 premiere, Marco gets honorary knighthood and everything, but once he returns home, Marco can't quite celebrate his achievements back there, and feels life on Earth is just too limiting.
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** While Pony Head hasn't gotten over calling him "Earth Turd", she still sees
Marco as one of her "besties."besties since their adventure in St. Olga's. Their relationship somewhat improved over time.
** While they lean slightly more towards the vitriolic part, this is his and Tom's dynamic as of the conclusion of "Friendenemies". "Naysaya" implies that they've been hanging out off-screen, so a lot of their friendship is unseen, and Tom shows a rather friendly side to him.
** Despite the trouble Janna likes causing for Marco, and his bitterness (and minor fear) towards her for doing so, they do value each other as friends.
* VocalEvolution: In Season 1 Marco's voice was fairly deep, but had a tendency to crack occasionally (as is fitting for a boy his age). From Season 2 onward, Marco's voice has taken on a slightly higher pitch and become more prone to squeaking.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Marco is more down-to-earth than his folks. He admits in "Goblin Dogs" that he's sometimes not sure whether he's the child and they're the adults or the opposite.
* WeakButSkilled: He may just be an ordinary 14-year-old, but his impressive karate skills and tactics enable him to take on monsters and creatures much bigger than himself.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He easily gets carsick.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Strange things usually happen to him because of Star because she considers it normal but there are times where weird things are encountered on his own such as the invisible goats or how he even met Star in a second and third time in the pilot. It's not just people or creatures from other dimensions he's attracted, Janna also applies to this as she frequently invades his personal space and teases him by stealing his house keys, having all of his personal details and finger prints and finally studies witchcraft and demonology through books which are stored in a secret panel behind his locker.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He's put in a dress when sneaking into St. Olga's and [[AttractiveBentGender pulls it off fairly well]]. By the end, he even asks to keep the dress, which comes back in "Heinous". Both times are treated as nothing out of the ordinary, and Marco seems to like wearing the dress. He does not identify as a female, despite enjoying women's clothing, and even laments the loss of his attractive and muscular adult body after he returns from another dimension where he was aged up. And of course, he decides he's finally tired of doing this because it's so uncomfortable.
* WouldHitAGirl: Marco will hurt a woman if it means protecting himself or his loved ones.
** After failing to get through to Princess Smooshy via psychology, Marco simply throws a book at her.
** He attacks Miss Heinous when he believes that she and her henchman are about to hurt his parents.
** Frustrated with Higgs harassing him during their competition, Marco trips her feet.
* WouldHurtAChild: He was absolutely elated to beat Jeremy half-to-death with the help of Monster Arm and only stopped because he didn't want the arm to kill Jeremy and eat his bowels.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
** Star says as much to him in "Sleep Spells", where Marco feels worthless and ordinary in comparison to Star, a magic princess from another dimension. She assures him that he really is an awesome guy.
** Done again this time by Jackie who after listing all of the dorky ways he's messed up already, tells him the fact he never gives up is what she finds most admirable and cool about him.



[[folder:Janna Ordonia]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I know how to drop my pulse to zero, but only for sixty seconds."'']]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AbbyElliott

A student at Echo Creek Academy and one of Jackie's friends. She like to dabble in "witchy" things and seems to have an interest in Star's Magic Instruction Book. In Season 2, Janna later become one Star's closest friends after "Girls' Day Out" and frequently takes part in her and Marco's adventures.

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[[folder:Janna Ordonia]]
!Allies and Close Friends

[[folder:Thomas "Tom" Draconius Lucitor]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I know how to drop my pulse to zero, but only for sixty seconds."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"That was so much more fun than obliterating people!"'']]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AbbyElliott

A student at Echo Creek Academy
Creator/RiderStrong

The demon prince of Mewni's Underworld
and one of Jackie's friends. She like to dabble in "witchy" things and seems to have an interest in Star's Magic Instruction Book. In Season 2, Janna later become one Star's closest friends after "Girls' Day Out" and frequently takes part in her and Marco's adventures.ex-boyfriend.



* AffectionateNickname: Star calls her "Janna Banana" on occasion.
* AffectionatePickpocket: Pickpockets Marco for his house key while offering to "make some magic" with him via Star's book.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals that her last name is Ordonia.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Much of Janna's dialogue with Marco is laced with plenty of innuendos such as "let's make some magic with it" when Marco finds Star's spell book and when she says that she wants Monster Arm to be her boyfriend. A more direct example is in "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown" where she slaps Marco's butt while he's wearing nothing but towels and tells him, "Ain't nothin' wrong with that!" after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he got cologne on his backside]], then sniffs the hand she spanked him with.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin tone is similar to Marco's, but her race is never mentioned. Her last name, Ordonia, is never mentioned in the show, but it suggests she's of Filipino descent. "Jannanigans" all but confirms this when Star, Marco, and Tom meet Janna's parents; the couple has Filipino accents and decor, and Janna's mom, Tala, shares a first name with the Tagalog goddess of stars.
* AscendedExtra: The character was originally created purely to serve as an obstacle for Marco to deal with in "Mewberty". [[https://youtu.be/7UbQPpioOV0?t=6916 The crew ended up liking the character enough]] to give her a more prominent role in the second season, having her befriend Star in "Girls' Day Out." In the last two seasons, she is the only Earth character besides Marco that continues to serve a role in the series, with characters questioning her regular appearances on Mewni serving as a ChekhovsGag in the final season.
* BreakoutCharacter: During the first season, Janna was a RecurringExtra who would be lucky to have more than two lines per episode. Her only relevant role in that season was in "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E11Mewberty Mewberty]]", but even in that episode she disappeared at the middle of it. Strong fan reactions towards the character turned her quickly into an EnsembleDarkHorse and she became one of Star and Marco's most recurring allies throughout the series. Although it wouldn't be until the final season that she would officially become a main character.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite being a NightmareFetishist and being somewhat unsettling when she teases Marco, she is a valuable ally and highly useful in some episodes.
* CelebCrush: She has one on Creator/JohnKeats.
* ChickenJoke: Most of the alternate timeline versions of Janna in "Mathmagic" have only a different punchline to this joke and a particular silly hat as the distinguishing features between them. The original Janna gives the classic AntiHumor punchline when telling this joke to Star.
* ComedicSpanking: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", Janna spanks Marco while he's wearing nothing but towels after he trips over her in the bathroom and spills cologne on his butt.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Girls' Day Out" featured her in a prominent role.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: She claims to have made herself a demon after splitting her soul in half in "Curse of the Blood Moon". When Tom says it doesn't work that way (it's still the same 100% human soul, just split in half), she amends her statement to half-demon, which he further refutes.
* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: Janna is often seen with partially lidded eyes, fitting her devil-may-care attitude.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Janna appeared as early as the first episode. Specifically, she appeared in Marco's first scene, sitting behind Jackie, with her head bending backwards and a pencil in her mouth. She then appeared as one of Jackie's friends in "Monster Arm", before getting a larger role in "Mewberty".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** "Hey, [you] guys wanna see a dead possum? ''[...]'' Hahaha! I'm just messing with ya."
** Prior to her proper introduction in "Mewberty", she made a brief appearance in "Monster Arm" in which her only line was expressing her [[NightmareFetishist desire for the titular arm to be her boyfriend]].
* FigureItOutYourself: She was already aware of Star's crush on Marco in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", but she never brings it up with either of them or Jackie.
* TheGadfly: Towards Marco. She steals Marco's house keys, wallet, and other bits of personal information just to annoy him. One episode reveals that she's even hypnotized him so he'd instantly fall asleep whenever someone says "chicken butt".
* HiddenDepths:
** "Sleepover" reveals that her favorite color is pink, but she won't admit it to others because she hates contributing to gender stereotypes.
** In "Jannanigans", she admits that her weirdness is at least partially an act that she puts on to help her feel in control, and she is actually very stressed out by unexpected strangeness.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", she fends off Ludo's rats with a hairdryer.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Janna's mischievous and trollish tendencies almost means that she has good insight into whatever situation she's involved with.
** Her annoyance at Tom for constantly calling Star in "Junkin' Janna" is mostly self-interested, but also is because he's focusing too much on Star when he specifically came to hang out with her to learn how to stop doing so.
** When Globgor is injured by Mina's Solarian sword in "Ready, Aim, Fire" and is ashamed of not being there for Eclipsa, Janna rightly points out that Globgor is too hurt to do anything.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She is a constant tormentor to Marco and can be careless and snarky, yet she has shown concern with Star and Jackie's well-being. She's even been willing to help Marco on some occasions (albeit usually because she gets some schadenfreude out of it) and even tries to comfort him during the series finale, finally saying out loud that they're friends.
* LoveableRogue: She's a known troublemaker and she often teases Marco but it doesn't lessen her friendship with him.
* MagicSkirt: Janna's skirt is never effected by the environment. This was best shown in "Junkin' Janna", where she was unaffected by the wind while riding Sebastian the crow.
* NightmareFetishist: She likes all things that are "witchy" and she even once outright said she wanted Marco's monster arm to be her boyfriend. In "Interdimensional Field Trip", her idea of a fun field trip is going to a morgue, and she briefly dates a skeleton vampire. In "Cornonation", she tells Eclipsa that she "gets it", upon meeting Globgor.
* NoodleIncident: In ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', when Star interviews her about her experience with dating Bernardo the vampiric skeleton from "Interdimensional Field Trip", she speaks fondly of the brief relationship, yet gives an immediate "NO" when Star asks if she'd ever date him again, with no explanation for what happened between them that caused her adamant refusal of the idea.
* OddFriendship: Janna and Marco do hang out now and again, though it takes until the final episode for her vocalize that this is what she views their dynamic as, with Marco almost shocked to hear her acknowledge him as anything but a plaything. They can occasionally be seen hanging out, such as her being with him and Jackie in "Rest in Pudding" or playing a card game with him and his friends in an earlier episode. The oddities are mainly shown in her constantly pick-pocketing his stuff and flirting with him, with her present to him in "Sophomore Slump" being his social security card.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Janna is a well known NightmareFetishist. So, when she decides that she and Tom should run away from a crow (Sebastian) that can turn into a monstrous form, then something is ''wrong''.
** [[spoiler:Janna ''screams'' after Quirky Guy dies in front of her.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: She split her soul in half in "Curse of the Blood Moon".
* OutOfFocus: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in comparison to the other human characters. Although Janna had a significant amount of screen time given to her in Season 2, she only appears a small handful of times in Season 3, despite having been [[PromotedToOpeningTitles promoted to a more prominent spot]] in the opening sequence. Reversed completely in Season 4, where Janna becomes a core member of the main cast.
* PerkyGoth: Is quite upbeat and cheerful, and also a lover of all things macabre.
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, she reveals she can shut down her pulse for 60 seconds]].
* SecurityCling: Does this with Jackie in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", hiding behind her as she fends off rats.
* ShipperOnDeck: Implied. When she finally meets Globgor face-to-face, she takes a picture of him and states, "I get it, Eclipsa". She then urges Globgor to join in Eclipsa's song.
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: She has stolen Marco's house keys and has a list of all of Marco's personal information, including his SSN and fingerprints, among other invasions of privacy. It's also revealed in "Naysaya" that she keeps some personal items such as a book on demonology, witchcraft, and curses behind a secret panel in ''Marco's'' locker. When asked how she has the combination to his locker, she says that obviously she got it from reading his diary. There's no explicitly stated reason as to why she does this, but she most likely does it to tease him and to entertain herself. Her somewhat flirtatious behavior toward Marco could indicate that she has feelings for him or has a playful attraction towards him. Whether she chose Marco specifically as her target is because of a crush or just because his reactions are more fun is up in the air.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Her behavior towards Marco is usually PlayedForLaughs. Star also sees Janna's behavior as innocent and non-vindictive.
* TheTease: Towards Marco.
-->'''Janna''': I think we all know who ''I'' have a crush on, don't we, Marco?\\
'''Marco''': Uh...\\
'''Janna''': [[BaitAndSwitch Eighteenth-century poet John Keats]].
* TheTeetotaler: She states in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' that she doesn't drink because that would desecrate the occult temple that is her body. Why a fourteen-year-old would be drinking alcohol in the first place is a mystery, but at least it's confirmed that she ''doesn't'' do that.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed. ''Evil'' is pushing it, though she is associated with the occult and is a frequent troublemaker whose common target for mischief and thievery is Marco. In school, she is a frequent attender of detention.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the Tomboy to Star's Girly Girl.
* TomboyishVoice: She's tomboyish and has a low-pitched, gravelly voice.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's nowhere near as girly as the likes of [[GirlyBruiser Star]] ([[RealWomenDontWearDresses and outright admits to hate "contributing to gender stereotypes"]]) and takes a liking to macabre things and pranking, yet she wears a skirt and confessed in one episode that her favorite color is {{pink|MeansFeminine}}.
* {{Troll}}: Janna is a good friend to Star and Marco but she enjoys teasing Marco more. Janna's interactions with Marco can range from annoying (constant pick-pocketing), to flirtatious, to down right unsettling (creating an army of evil Marcos). Janna doesn't always appear to be on Marco's side (like stealing his possessions, breaking into his wallet and even hypnotising him for laughs), but does care about him and roots for him during their adventures. In "Sophomore Slump", she's the only one who cuts Marco a break during their tabletop role-playing game. In "Curse of the Blood Moon", Janna renders Marco unconscious to help him remove his feelings for Star. Finally, she was aware of Marco's crush on Jackie-Lynn Thomas but she did nothing and said nothing to Jackie about it, only laughing after Marco embarrassed himself when attempting to ask Jackie out on a date.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite the trouble she likes causing for Marco, and his bitterness (and minor fear) towards her for doing so, they do value each other as friends.
* VocalEvolution: Her voice is noticeably raspy in "Mewberty", but by her next major appearance, her voice settles into what it will be for the rest of the series.

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* AffectionateNickname: Star calls her "Janna Banana" on occasion.
* AffectionatePickpocket: Pickpockets Marco for his house key while offering to "make some magic" with him via Star's book.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals that her his last name as Lucitor, before it is Ordonia.
stated in the third season.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Much AmbiguouslyBi: Tom is shown to have an almost [[SingleTargetSexuality single-minded interest in Star]] and in no other person in particular, but he has made a number of Janna's dialogue with comments that can give off the impression he is interested in Marco, including casually asking what Star would do if he kissed Marco is laced with plenty of innuendos such as "let's make some magic with it" and complimenting really tight swimwear on him.
** In "Jannanigans", he clearly checks Oskar out
when Marco finds Star's spell book the group is at Britta's Tacos.
* TheAntiChrist: Subverted. He's listed as the son of "[[{{Satan}} the Big Guy]]" in ''Star
and when she says that she wants Monster Arm to be her boyfriend. A more direct example is in "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown" where she slaps Marco's butt while Guide to Mastering Every Dimension''. The episode "Club Snubbed" reveals that "The Big Guy" is actually a Mewman called Dave, with the nickname being in reference to his explosive temper.
* AscendedDemon: Tom wants to put himself in this direction, but it's very difficult for him to be good when by nature, his people are evil. He can't help it that he doesn't know how to do the right thing, and he even lamented that
he's wearing nothing but towels and stuck being an evil demon forever. Thankfully, Star tells him, "Ain't nothin' wrong him that with that!" after [[ItMakesSenseInContext guidance and effort, he got cologne on can rise above his backside]], then sniffs the hand she spanked him with.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin tone is similar to Marco's, but her race is never mentioned. Her last name, Ordonia, is never mentioned in the show, but it suggests she's of Filipino descent. "Jannanigans" all but confirms this when Star, Marco, and Tom meet Janna's parents; the couple has Filipino accents and decor, and Janna's mom, Tala, shares a first name with the Tagalog goddess of stars.
demon nature.
* AscendedExtra: The While a major character was originally created purely to serve as an obstacle for Marco to deal with in "Mewberty". [[https://youtu.be/7UbQPpioOV0?t=6916 The crew ended up liking the character enough]] to give her a more prominent role in the second season, having her befriend Star in "Girls' Day Out." In the last two seasons, she is the only Earth character besides Marco that continues to serve a role in the series, with characters questioning her regular episodes he appeared in, Tom's appearances on Mewni serving as a ChekhovsGag in the final season.
first two Seasons were actually quite rare, amounting to no more than 3 or 4 episodes. Season 3, however, makes him a near constant presence, most likely due to his RelationshipUpgrade with Star, and also serves as an AudienceSurrogate along the way.
* AudienceSurrogate: Most of his appearances post-"Demoncism" have him in this role, as his new RelationshipUpgrade with Star allows the latter to express what she's going through for both him and the audience, and in some episodes all he does is react to the situation in the expected way the audience would. This becomes most notable in the Season 3 finale, where he's the only one who doesn't lose his soul(s), so that he can experience firsthand what the audience is seeing.
* AxCrazy: ''Oh yes''. Pre-Season 2, [[HairTriggerTemper he loses his cool really fast]], and when he does you don't want to be anywhere near him.
* BerserkButton: In "Stump Day", Marco accusing Tom of being a bad boyfriend for forgetting Star's birthday makes Tom ''livid'', enough to try beat the shit out of Marco without his demonic powers.
* BlackSpeech: He does ominous chanting in "Monster Bash" to summon a rune-carved coffin so he could trap Mina.
* BreakoutCharacter: During Tom made sporadic appearances in the first season, Janna was a RecurringExtra who would be lucky to have more than two lines per episode. Her only relevant role Seasons, featuring in that season was in "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E11Mewberty Mewberty]]", 3 or 4 episodes total, but even in that episode she disappeared at the middle of it. Strong fan reactions towards the his appealing character turned her quickly into an EnsembleDarkHorse concept allowed him to gather a sizable fanbase, which led to much more prominent roles in Season 3 where he was essentially the third most important character behind Star and she became one Marco.
* BurningWithAnger: He spawns hellfire all over the place when he finally loses his temper in "Blood Moon Ball" and it seems to be something that happens often, though he starts losing it once he is better able to control his anger.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Subverted in "Naysaya" where it's not that he forgot he put a curse on Marco but that he simply assumed the curse must have already come and gone by now and therefore saw no reason to warn Marco even though they were now on good terms. Plus, he couldn't get rid
of it even if he wanted to. The nonchalant spirit of the trope is still fully intact, though.
* CharacterDevelopment: Tom is introduced as Star's obsessed and irritable ex-boyfriend who is likely to be failing his treatment of his anger issues during season one. By the time he comes back, he is shown to be better at controlling his temper and even capable of eventually befriending Marco. Season 3 and 4 have a much sweeter and loving Tom, who is a very loving and supportive boyfriend to
Star and Marco's most recurring allies throughout best male friend and is among the series. Although it wouldn't be until nicest characters in the final season that she would officially become a main character.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite
show. To whit: he goes from being a NightmareFetishist and being somewhat unsettling when she teases Marco, she is a valuable ally and highly useful in some episodes.
CrazyJealousGuy over Star to [[spoiler: breaking up with her himself because of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.]]
* CelebCrush: She has one on Creator/JohnKeats.
* ChickenJoke: Most
CheatersNeverProsper: He spends most of the alternate timeline versions show's first three seasons trying to take shortcuts to manifest his character growth, not quite understanding that doing so would defeat the purpose. It takes the events of Janna in "Mathmagic" have only "Demoncism" where what he thought would be a different punchline to this joke quick and a particular silly hat as the distinguishing features between them. The original Janna gives the classic AntiHumor punchline when telling this joke blasé procedure to Star.
* ComedicSpanking: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", Janna spanks Marco while he's wearing nothing but towels after he trips
cure his anger would take over her in a decade of frequent (and ''painful'') rituals for him to finally decide to put the bathroom and spills cologne on his butt.
hard work into changing himself for the better.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Girls' Day Out" featured her in a prominent role.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: She claims
ChekhovsGag: He is revealed to have made herself several angry spirits living inside of him early in season 3. At the finale, it turns out this makes him resistant to Meteora's soul sucking powers since each spirit counts as a demon separate soul, making Meteora unable to turn him unresponsive like she did with others. Unfortunately, this provides little protection since [[MundaneSolution Meteora just punches him out instead]] after splitting her soul in half in "Curse getting tired of trying to drain all his souls.
* ChickMagnet: Tom gets
the Blood Moon". When Tom says it doesn't work that way (it's still the same 100% human soul, just split in half), she amends her statement to half-demon, which he further refutes.
* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: Janna is often seen with partially lidded eyes, fitting her devil-may-care attitude.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Janna appeared as early as the first episode. Specifically, she appeared in
attention from a number of female students from Star and Marco's first scene, sitting behind Jackie, with her head bending backwards school.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: In "Is Another Mystery," he
and a pencil in her mouth. She Star are captured and have burlap sacks placed over their heads and most of their bodies. Tom seems calm at first, but then appeared as one of Jackie's friends starts screaming and running around in "Monster Arm", before getting a larger role panic. When Star asks if he's okay, he responds in "Mewberty".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** "Hey, [you] guys wanna see
a dead possum? ''[...]'' Hahaha! shaky voice, "I think I just found out I'm just messing with ya.claustrophobic, and I might be panicking a little."
** Prior * ControlFreak: Tom's pet peeve is having things not go according to her proper introduction in "Mewberty", she made a brief appearance in "Monster Arm" in which her only line was expressing her [[NightmareFetishist desire for his plans. In his debut, Tom tries to remake the titular arm Blood Moon ball so it will appeal more to be her boyfriend]].
* FigureItOutYourself: She was already aware of Star's crush on Marco in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown",
Star, but she never brings it up with either of them or Jackie.
* TheGadfly: Towards Marco. She steals Marco's house keys, wallet, and other bits of personal information just to annoy him. One episode reveals that she's even hypnotized him so he'd instantly fall asleep whenever someone says "chicken butt".
* HiddenDepths:
** "Sleepover" reveals that her favorite color is pink, but she won't admit it to others because she hates contributing to gender stereotypes.
** In "Jannanigans", she admits that her weirdness is at least partially an act that she puts on to help her feel in control, and she is actually very stressed out by unexpected strangeness.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", she fends off Ludo's rats with a hairdryer.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Janna's mischievous and trollish tendencies almost means that she has good insight into whatever situation she's involved with.
** Her annoyance at Tom for constantly calling Star in "Junkin' Janna" is mostly self-interested, but also is because he's focusing too much on Star when
he specifically came to hang out with her to learn how to stop doing so.
** When Globgor is injured by Mina's Solarian sword in "Ready, Aim, Fire" and is ashamed of not being there for Eclipsa, Janna rightly points out that Globgor is too hurt to do anything.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She is a constant tormentor to Marco and can be careless and snarky, yet she has shown concern with Star and Jackie's well-being. She's even been willing to help Marco on some occasions (albeit usually because she gets some schadenfreude out of it) and
even tries to comfort him during the series finale, finally saying out loud make her conform to his desires, becoming irked when she refuses. The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/f/fe/BMB_evonfreeman.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150716034331 promotional poster]] for that they're friends.
episode even has him stringing Star around like he would a puppet.
* LoveableRogue: She's ConvertedFanboy: He pretends to be a known troublemaker and she often teases Mackie Hand fan in order to convince Marco but it doesn't lessen her friendship to spend time with him.
* MagicSkirt: Janna's skirt
him, but he actually hates Mackie Hand movies and calls them garbage when the ruse is never effected found out. He later expresses genuine impressment at Mackie Hand's martial arts while he and Marco are watching the guy's zombie fight security guards.
* CostumeEvolution: From "Blood Moon Curse" in Season 4 onwards he wears a maroon jacket, a torn red t shirt, black jeans, and brown boots.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He starts BurningWithAnger when he thinks Star and Marco could be a thing and "Naysaya" reveals he put a curse on Marco just in case he tried to ask Star out. He grows out of it
by the environment. This was best shown in "Junkin' Janna", where she was unaffected by the wind while riding Sebastian the crow.
* NightmareFetishist: She likes all things that
time he and Star are "witchy" and she even once outright said she wanted Marco's monster arm dating again.
* DealWithTheDevil: He tries
to be her boyfriend. In "Interdimensional Field Trip", her idea of a fun field trip is going to a morgue, and she briefly dates a skeleton vampire. In "Cornonation", she tells Eclipsa that she "gets it", upon meeting Globgor.
* NoodleIncident: In
trick Oskar into selling him his soul in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', Dimension'' in exchange for success as a musician.
* DemonicPossession: He has thousands of tiny, angry souls living inside his body. While it does make him immune to the effects of soul-stealing like what Meteora did in the Season 3 finale, they're also the source of his anger issues, which makes him try a demoncism on himself to try get rid of his "inner demons".
* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: As a Devil Prince, Tom possesses an incredible amount of pull and power in the underworld, to the point that he was able to dramatically alter the demons' most beloved holiday in ways that aggravated the rest of them, just to impress Star. He likewise possesses incredible magical powers, being able to alter reality, summon objects and teleport between realms.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: His attempt at HeroicSacrifice in the finale made Meteora more powerful, since, while he could resist her powers, she could still drain energy and get stronger from him. He even admits to it.
* DishingOutDirt: He can open up huge fissures in the earth which presumably lead to the underworld.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Tom had a brief cameo in "Match Maker"
when Star interviews accidentally called him on her about her experience mirror. He made his actual debut in "Blood Moon Ball".
* ElementalPersonalities: He has fire powers, and he's a hothead
with dating Bernardo the vampiric skeleton from "Interdimensional Field Trip", she speaks fondly of the brief relationship, yet gives an immediate "NO" when Star asks if she'd ever date him again, a HairTriggerTemper. It's also subverted; Tom acknowledges his anger as a serious problem and has been trying to control himself so he could be a better person, with no explanation for what happened between them that caused her adamant refusal varying degrees of the idea.
success.
* OddFriendship: Janna and Marco do hang out now and again, though it takes until the final episode for her vocalize that this ExhaustedEyeBags: Meteora's soul-stealing may not be a OneHitKill to Tom, but if his appearance is what she views their dynamic as, with Marco almost shocked to hear her acknowledge him as anything but a plaything. They to go by it's having ''some'' effect on him.
* ExorcistHead: Inverted. Tom holds his head still so he
can occasionally be seen hanging out, such continue to give Marco a Death Glare while his body rotates as her he and his anger-management counselor "walk it out".
* FantasticRacism: He admits in "Is Another Mystery" that despite his wealth and status as an Underworld prince, he still gets funny looks and treated badly outside his kingdom because he's half-monster, and has to hide his tail to avoid receiving more prejudice.
* FatalFlaw:
** Tom always takes things to their logical extremes, and will not settle for less. He stops
being a StalkerWithACrush? He acts like Star doesn't exist. He wants to be kinder and less temperamental? He insists on a ''very'' painful ritual to remove what causes his bad behavior and is hinted will effectively lobotomize him in the process.[[note]]Though Tom doesn't seem to have realized this at the time.[[/note]] It doesn't behoove him to just give Star space in the former, or to just control his temper like a normal person in the latter, but that doesn't sound like fun for him.
** His HairTriggerTemper. Being a demon
with incredible political and magical power, having a short fuse could jeopardize him in both areas. Moreover, it's something that he got from his father, and Jackie in "Rest in Pudding" or playing a card game with him he doesn't ''want'' to become like him. He does have an anger management coach and his friends in an earlier episode. The oddities are mainly shown in her constantly pick-pocketing his stuff to help him, but whenever he gets angry, something's going to be set on fire.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts calm
and flirting polite throughout "Blood Moon Ball", but it turns out to be a ploy to get Star to dance with him, him under the light of the Blood Moon, which will bind them together as soulmates. He gets much better in his later appearances.
* FieryRedhead: A pink-head, but Tom is definitely fiery in more ways than one, both in his early seasons temper and his fire powers.
* {{Foil}}: To Meteora, as they both represent the [[ForWantOfANail opposite options]] of society and family accepting a half-monster hybrid, especially those born into royalty. Where as Meteora is the daughter of a Mewman with a monster, a group of poor creatures that is hated by society, she suffers from it and has the throne taken from her. Tom on the other hand is largely beloved, if still suffering from FantasticRacism in minor ways among Mewmans, he's still a royal who is the son of a Mewman with a demon that grants him a palace and the right to eventually govern the underworld.
* ForWantOfANail:
** The reason why he failed to dance with Star was because he wanted the dance
with her present to him in "Sophomore Slump" being be absolutely perfect and he had left her alone for a brief moment so he can change one of the songs which allowed Marco an opportunity to have a moment alone with Star but Marco ends up becoming her soul mate instead of Tom.
** He could have also got
his social security card.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Janna is a well known NightmareFetishist. So, when she decides that she
wish in stopping Star and Tom should run away from a crow (Sebastian) that can turn Marco going into a monstrous form, then something is ''wrong''.
** [[spoiler:Janna ''screams''
relationship, if he had inflicted the Naysaya curse on Star rather than Marco since "true love" applied to crushes. In "Blood Moon Ball" Star was the one with her heart on her sleeve and displayed an obvious attraction to the masked stranger.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In "Is Another Mystery", he gets captured with a burlap sack put over his body and doesn't once use his demonic powers to free himself or Star, instead opting to run around aimlessly until he gets his horns stuck in a tree. Made more glaring because
after Quirky Guy dies he's freed and goes on to have a discussion with the monsters who captured him, he does actually display some of his demonic powers as part of the conversation. Partly justified in front that the burlap sack caused him to discover that he's [[{{Claustrophobia}} claustrophobic]] and he was possibly having a full on panic attack, and therefore wasn't thinking clearly.
* FriendlessBackground: He confesses in "Frenemies" that he doesn't have many friends. It's implied his temper and possibly his status as a demon prince drives people away.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Tom's eyes glow when he gets ''really'' angry. They're usually accompanied with a VoiceOfTheLegion.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: When he finds out Marco kissed Star. He initially didn't believe him and tried to sacrifice himself for Marco. When Marco confirmed the kiss and was incapacitated by Meteora, he chooses not to mention it again and protects Star.
* HairTriggerTemper: Despite his attempts to swallow his rage in "Blood Moon Ball", it's made obvious that the slightest things can set Tom off. It's all but stated that this was the major factor in Star's decision to break up with him.
* HeelFaceTurn: In "Mr. Candle Cares", Marco manages to convince him to give up his obsession with Star, and the three
of her.them part on civil terms. In "Friendenemies" while it turns out his wanting to spend time with Marco was part of his anger management training, it's shown that [[ItMeantSomethingToMe he did enjoy it]] and [[BecomingTheMask started to like Marco more than he used to]]. By the next time he shows up, Tom reveals to have been hanging out with Marco offscreen and is a much nicer person.
* HelpingHands: Tom can still control his limbs after they've been severed and even reattach them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' heavily implies that Tom desires a "bromance" with Marco and is a little hurt that he's not all that enthusiastic with the idea when the topic comes up. Later episodes do play them up as such.
* HiddenDepths:
** While his bedroom in "Mr. Candle Cares" does have a torture wheel, everything else is what a wealthy teenager would have, including arcade machines, a ping-pong table, and posters on the walls.
** According to Manfred and Star in "Club Snubbed", Tom is one of the best dancers on Mewni. They aren't lying - by the time Tom dances with Star, their dance ends up with a beautiful combination of fire and butterflies.
** "Is Another Mystery" reveals that Tom himself has been subjected to FantasticRacism, due to being half-monster. The fact he insists on being referred to as a demon and hides his tail indicates he has a fear of being treated as different, lesser than others or in the same camp as the mainstream monsters. It also explains that the treatment he received in "Starfari" was not a case of being mistaken for a monster; he ''is'' one, but he had to pull rank to save face.
** He's also a huge fan of Love Sentence, a BoyBand, and even has a shrine dedicated to them. This is what allows him to start bonding with Marco, a fellow fan.
* HollywoodGenetics: Tom has pale violet skin; however his mom has dark red skin and his dad has human-like pale beige skin, presumably making Tom's a combination of both.
* HornedHumanoid: They resemble those of a bull.
* HotAsHell: Many of the female students at Echo Creek Academy seem to find him attractive, one of them even whispered that "He's hot" when seeing him.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Despite initially hating Marco out of petty jealousy and paranoia, Tom has matured greatly because of his interactions with Marco.
* HybridPower: Is noted as being the strongest demon in the underworld and it'd take ''decades'' to properly remove all the demonic energy inside of him. He's also apparently half-Mewman, and given the only other known Mewman hybrid in the series is also immensely powerful, that is likely the cause of his abnormal power. Though he's not nearly as powerful as Meteora, however.
* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''demon'', not a monster, which is a huge difference. In "Is Another Mystery", he admits he's a monster--a ''rich'' monster to be exact, but the title of demon heavily reduces the amount of FantasticRacism he'd be subjected to.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tom was in a previous relationship with Star, a Mewman. Downplayed, since it appears he's actually half-demon and half-Mewman. He is also the product of one, since his parents are a male Mewman and a demon Queen.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After his HeelFaceTurn, he accepts that he can't just force Star to love him, so he tries to give her space, even if she won't be with him. Ironically, this makes her want to restart her relationship with him. [[spoiler:Ultimately this is part of why he breaks up with Star 2/3 of the way through the final season, though he also feels they're just moving in different directions and are no longer right for each other.
]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: He (with Pony Head) rightly point out to Marco in "Stump Day" that celebrating Star's birthday on Stump Day would be a bad idea, and they tell him he should've at least asked Star what the preexisting conditions are for celebrating her birthday.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tom is a violent ControlFreak with serious temper issues, but he's not so bad underneath all that. All his appearances post-"Blood Moon Ball" have him realize where he's gone wrong and try to make amends or, in the case of the Naysaya, where he can't do anything to fix it, at least tell Marco what will make it run its course.
* JustFriends: [[spoiler: After their second breakup, Tom tries to deliberately [[DefiedTrope defy]] this, saying that he doesn't want to make Star unhappy by being around her and reminding her of what she lost. Later episodes imply that they'll stay friends anyway, though.]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Tom has a shrine that is dedicated to the boyband Love Sentence, and this is what causes him and Marco to genuinely bond.
* LackOfEmpathy: It's in his nature as a demon, so he really can't help it. Even when he wants to do the opposite of wrong, he still ends up doing the wrong thing anyways. He's trying to overcome it, however.
* MadeOfEvil: Why a demoncism is very painful--he's made up of ''countless'' evil, angry souls that it would require a ''thirteen year regimen'' for a complete treatment, and the process would either rob him of any personality whatsoever, or kill him. But, he does realize he doesn't have to ''be'' evil because of that.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: As mentioned above, he tries to get an "Inner demon" removed, only to find he has ''thousands''. It becomes useful against [[YourSoulIsMine Meteroa]], as it prevents him from being rendered OnlyMostlyDead like the others who got soul-sucked since he has so many, giving him enough time to escape.
* MindOverMatter: In "Mr. Candle Cares", Tom is able to undo Marco's chains without touching them and levitate ping pong balls.
* ModestRoyalty: While he does wear formal suits for ceremonial events, his usual outfit (as shown in his folder image) makes him look like a punk rocker. His bedroom even reflects his tastes, resembling that of a teenager on Earth.
* {{Necromancer}}: In "Friendenemies", Tom displays the ability to resurrect the dead as zombies, reviving the martial arts movie star Mackie Hand.
* NeverMyFault: He claims that his lack of friends stems from others judging him by appearance instead of his many, many, many other glaring flaws that are completely his own doing. {{Subverted|Trope}} as he gradually starts to take responsibility though.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When he invites Star to the Blood Moon Ball in an attempt to restart his relationship with her, he leaves Star alone for a moment to go and change the song, but Marco unintentionally steals the dance from him which results in Marco and Star becoming soul mates.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Tom's father is a Mewman while his mother is a gigantic demon.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: After everyone else in the Marc-nificent Seven has been drained of their souls, only Tom and Marco are left. Marco tells Tom to run while he holds the line, because someone needs to [[BringNewsBack tell Star what has happened]]. Tom refuses to leave without Marco, sincerely telling him that he's his best friend, and even attempts a HeroicSacrifice to save Marco from Meteora. This backfires since Tom has many souls, and the more souls Meteora absorbs the stronger she gets, so he only succeeds in making Meteora stronger, plus being in a continuous loop of getting successive souls sucked out with no time to react forces Marco to be the one to pull the HeroicSacrifice, freeing Tom and telling him to run.
* OddFriendship: He and Marco. Initially Tom tried to outright kill him more than once due to his jealousy over Star, over time the two become close friends, with Tom outright admitting that Marco is his best friend, and Tom pretty much being Marco's best friend, after Star.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: She split her As a demon, it turns out that Meteora's soul-draining attack is of limited effect against Tom because each of his [[ManySpiritsInsideOfOne thousands of anger spirits]] counts as a separate soul. Though Tom failed to account for the fact that Meteora would still gain strength from each soul she sucked out of him. Also, the gaps between each soul-sucking were too short for Tom to move or counterattack.
* PlayingWithFire: As is typical for a demon, he has fire powers. He can even use them to fly!
* PointyEars: Has a set of almost elf-like ears.
* PowerFloats: Can pretty much fly at will, and does so
in half displays of power.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: He hides a fierce temper beneath his affable demeanor. He tries to improve himself, though, and becomes nice enough for Star to get back together with him, [[ReformedButNotTamed even if he does occasionally slip back]].
* PyrrhicVictory: However Tom gets things, he just will never be satisfied, but thankfully he never reaches that point. In one instance, Tom wants to torture and then kill Marco for preventing him from getting Star back as his girlfriend, but Marco points out that even if he does the former, he will end up not succeeding
in "Curse the latter. And in "Demoncism", Tom considers treatment to get rid of the worst part of himself, but it would be ''very painful'' and he would've become an EmptyShell as a result.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Courtesy of Meteora. It's also a One Hit K.O.
* RealMenWearPink: He's a massive fan of Love Sentence, a BoyBand. He also has a fluffy pet bunny.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A clear sign that he's lost it.
* RedOniBlueOni: With his girlfriend Star as he is more connected to voicing his anger whereas Star is more collected about her thoughts and actions. In "Monster Bash" Star was the one that was trying to take a logical approach to handling the Mewman and Monster prejudices whereas Tom was more emotional by trying to spend time with Star. Extra points go to their respective kingdoms, Mewni's crest color is a light shade of blue whereas the underworld's crest is red.
* ReluctantPsycho: Even before his HeelFaceTurn, he is making genuine efforts to deal with his AxCrazy tendencies. This seems to have been motivated by his desire to get Star back [[https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2015/07/20/creator-daron-nefcy-guides-us-through-tonights-star-studded-episode-of-star-vs-the-forces-of-evil/ and not wanting it to define his identity]], but in his defense, he is still trying to improve even after having given up on her.
* RoyalBrat: He's Underworld royalty and for very obvious reasons, has way more minions than actual friends. He also had a sense of entitlement, especially when it came to his ex-girlfriend, Star, whom he tried to control. However, he's [[CharacterDevelopment come along way since his introduction]].
* RousingSpeech: An interesting take on the trope: After Marco's plan to trap Meteora fails, everyone else seems to give up hope and ponder running away and hiding out. Tom then seems about to give a RousingSpeech, and starts out by saying that [[{{Subverted}} of course the plan was going to fail]], and that Marco's next plan would probably fail too. But that [[{{Determinator}} Marco keeps coming up with plans anyway and doesn't give up]], and that's why [[DoubleSubverted Marco is the leader]], because one of his plans will always be CrazyEnoughToWork. This works to rally everyone behind Marco again.
* ScaryTeeth: All of his teeth are sharp. It's subverted later on as he tries to become a good person.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Tom has unintentionally caused Star and Marco to develop poorly timed and unrequited crushes on each other. Despite his former attempts to stop the pair from getting together, for example The
Blood Moon".
* OutOfFocus: {{Downplayed|Trope}}
Moon Ball was organized to make him and Star soul mates but Marco unintentionally took his place in comparison to the other human characters. Although Janna had dance to privately talk to Star when Tom left to change the song. On a significant amount of screen another note, by the time given to that he and Marco have moved past their animosity and Tom gets back together with Star, Marco realizes he has a crush on Star when he sees her and Tom together.
* ShadowArchetype: To Star. They are both teenage royalty who possess great amounts of magical power, they are both charming and a lot of fun to hang out with, and they have serious problems with impulse control. However, while with Star this usually manifests with her [[LeeroyJenkins acting before thinking]], Tom has problems controlling his temper and preventing himself from lashing out when mad. Tom's displays of aggression are not so different from Star's own extreme tactics and reactions. They likewise have the habit of using their magic when emotionally upset, with devastating consequences.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: HairTriggerTemper (father) and emotional PowerIncontinence (mother).
* SharpDressedMan: He is sometimes seen wearing a suit. In fact, he's wearing it when he visits Star
in Season 2, she only appears a small handful of times in Season 3, "Mr Candle Cares" despite having been [[PromotedToOpeningTitles promoted to a more prominent spot]] wearing his usual outfit in the opening sequence. Reversed completely in Season 4, where Janna becomes a core member of the main cast.
* PerkyGoth: Is quite upbeat and cheerful, and also a lover of all things macabre.
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, she reveals she can shut down her pulse
previous scenes, implying that he dressed up just for 60 seconds]].
* SecurityCling: Does this with Jackie in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", hiding behind her as she fends off rats.
her.
* ShipperOnDeck: Implied. When she finally meets Globgor face-to-face, she takes a picture of him After he and states, "I get it, Eclipsa". She then urges Globgor to join in Eclipsa's song.
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: She has stolen Marco's house keys and has a list of all of Marco's personal information, including his SSN and fingerprints, among other invasions of privacy. It's also revealed in "Naysaya" that she keeps some personal items such as a book on demonology, witchcraft, and curses behind a secret panel in ''Marco's'' locker. When asked how she has the combination to his locker, she says that obviously she got it from reading his diary. There's no explicitly stated reason as to why she does this, but she most likely does it to tease him and to entertain herself. Her somewhat flirtatious behavior toward
Star break up, Tom gives Marco could indicate that she has feelings for him or has a playful attraction towards him. Whether she chose Marco specifically as her target is because of a crush or just because his reactions are more fun is up in the air.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Her behavior towards Marco is usually PlayedForLaughs. Star also sees Janna's behavior as innocent and non-vindictive.
* TheTease: Towards Marco.
-->'''Janna''': I think we all know who ''I'' have
blessing should he want to pursue a crush on, don't we, Marco?\\
relationship with Star.
-->'''Tom''': We're cool!\\
'''Marco''': Uh...Wait...! Were we not?\\
'''Tom''': Well with Star and I broken up now, I'm just saying it's cool if...
\\
'''Janna''': [[BaitAndSwitch Eighteenth-century poet John Keats]].
'''Marco''': If what?\\
'''Tom''': I mean, if you and your best friend, ''(motions to Star)'' ended up being something else, I wouldn't be mad.\\
'''Marco''': What?!? Tom the Blood Moon's Curse has been lifted. You were there.\\
'''Tom''': Come on Dude, I think we both know what you two have is something better than a curse.
* TheTeetotaler: She states SignificantWardrobeShift: Partway through the fourth season his regular outfit changes from shorts and a t-shirt to a new shirt, pants, and jacket. While this was likely the result of Eclipsa's "Low Self-Esteem Nightmare Dream" spell from "Swim Suit" it does look more mature than his original outfit.
* SinisterSurveillance: Parodied. Tom gloats to Marco
in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' that she he cast a curse on him that would alert the demon prince of every time he says Star's name. Since Marco says Star's name all of the time, it's functionally useless and Tom's had to outsource the job of monitoring Marco's uttering of the word to one of his minions (lamer than it sounds) so he's only informed if it comes up in a romantic context (which, by the time the Guide was written, has only happened once). Given that Tom mistakenly thought that Marco and Star were dating after the events of "Face the Music" and never found out otherwise until Star told him in "Club Snubbed", it's likely that Tom deactivated this particular curse sometime around the end of season 2.
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only member of the Marc-nificent Seven to not get taken out during their fight with Meteora. Luckily, they were all revived upon her defeat.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: He writes his full name as "Thomas" in "Death Peck", but it's spelled "[[MyNaymeIs Tomas]]" in ''Literature/TheMagicBookOfSpells''. Either the book's spelling is a continuity error, or Star really thought it was spelled that way.
* SplitPersonalityMakeover: Subverted. As much as he ''really'' wants to change himself for the better, it
doesn't drink because happen overnight, as he ends up falling into his old ways to some degree. In "Demoncism", after he tries to get rid of his anger problems by doing the titular ritual, he learns that would desecrate there is no quick fix for his anger and the occult temple result (becoming an EmptyShell or worse) isn't really worth the trouble.
* StoryBreakerPower: Tom ''is'' a demon with a truckload of powers
that could end battles right then and there, so to mitigate this, Tom is her body. Why a fourteen-year-old would be drinking alcohol subject to TheWorfEffect many times in the first place Season 3.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He's essentially his Mewman father Dave with demonic features, three eyes, and pink hair.
* SupernaturalSealing: Tom tries using a BlackSpeech incantation to seal Mina Loveberry in a runic stone box. It doesn't work and Mina takes out Tom herself.
* TameHisAnger: Tom acknowledges that his HairTriggerTemper
is a mystery, but at least serious problem and sincerely wants to overcome it, however, so far his attempts to get better have all ended in failure, and what he thinks will be a quick solution to his anger issues is actually more trouble than it's confirmed that she ''doesn't'' do that.
worth.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed. ''Evil'' is pushing it, though she is associated with the occult and is ThirdEye: Has a frequent troublemaker whose common target for mischief and thievery is Marco. In school, she is a frequent attender of detention.
third eye on his forehead, much like his demon mother.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the Tomboy to Star's Girly Girl.
* TomboyishVoice: She's tomboyish and has a low-pitched, gravelly voice.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's nowhere near as girly as the likes of [[GirlyBruiser Star]] ([[RealWomenDontWearDresses and outright admits to hate "contributing to gender stereotypes"]]) and takes a liking to macabre things and pranking, yet she wears a skirt and confessed in one episode that her favorite color is {{pink|MeansFeminine}}.
* {{Troll}}: Janna is a good friend to
ThreesomeSubtext: With Star and Marco but she enjoys teasing Marco more. Janna's interactions at the end of season 3, with him being extremely close with both of them, and even being relatively OK with Marco can range from annoying (constant pick-pocketing), kissing Star in the season 3 finale.
* TomTheDarkLord: Tom is ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]) a RoyalBrat whose anger issues match the political (and literal) firepower he wields. Bonus points for actually being named "Tom". Possibly justified as Mewni men tend
to flirtatious, to down right unsettling (creating an army have more normal names than the women, and when their son was named, Tom's parents didn't expect how he would turn out later on.
* TookALevelInKindness: His major form
of evil Marcos). Janna displaying CharacterDevelopment is how Tom has become a very supportive and loving boyfriend for Star and a good friend for Marco.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Tom
doesn't always appear ''want'' to be on Marco's side (like stealing like his possessions, breaking into temperamental Mewman father, who also happens to be the King of the Underworld, and has been trying to control his wallet and even hypnotising anger issues.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: {{Gender Inverted|Trope}}. Tom is an attractive humanoid with slight demon features while his mother is a gigantic BigRedDevil. His father appears to be a Mewman, so Tom clearly took after
him for laughs), but does care about him the most part.
* VisualPun: He has fire powers, which show up in his appearance
and roots for him during their adventures. In "Sophomore Slump", she's the only one who cuts Marco a break during their tabletop role-playing game. In "Curse of the Blood Moon", Janna renders Marco unconscious to help him remove his feelings for Star. Finally, she was aware of Marco's crush on Jackie-Lynn Thomas but she did nothing and said nothing to Jackie about it, only laughing after Marco embarrassed himself hair when attempting to ask Jackie out on he's angry. He's a date.
''hothead''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite the trouble she likes causing for Marco, and his bitterness (and minor fear) While they lean slightly more towards her for doing so, the vitriolic part, this is his and Marco's dynamic as of the conclusion of "Friendenemies". Subverted later on, where they do value each other drop the vitriolic part altogether.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When he's particularly pissed, he starts speaking this way, until the inevitable "burn something to a crisp". Possibly justified
as friends.
he's the vessel of many angry souls inside his body.
* VocalEvolution: Her voice WeakButSkilled: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; Tom's magic is seemingly weaker than Star's, but he is still incredibly powerful. Nevertheless, he is noticeably raspy in "Mewberty", but by more skilled than Star is, with his casual ability to perform feats of power contrasting with Star's inexperience and manic attempts to control her next major appearance, wand.
* {{Yandere}}: Towards Star when he was introduced, having a twisted desire to make
her voice settles love him again. Since them he has grown into what it will be a very loving boyfriend for the rest of the series.her though.



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->'''Voiced by''': Dana Davis

A friend of Pony Head's. A humanoid being called a Woolett with bush-like hair that doubles as a sort of PocketDimension.

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[[folder:Kelly]]
[[folder:Flying Princess (Lilacia) Pony Head]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Dana Davis

A
Creator/JennySlate

An aptly-named flying, talking, disembodied pony head who is also a Princess. Pony Head is an old
friend of Star's that comes for a sudden visit not long after Star is sent to live with the Diaz's. While her wild and reckless behavior is pointedly shown to ''not'' be a good influence on Star, Pony Head's. A humanoid being called Head does show a Woolett with bush-like hair that doubles as a sort of PocketDimension.more honorable side, it's just hidden deep down. ''Really'' deep...



* ActionGirl: She's a skilled sword user, and in fact has several of them.
* BloodKnight: Loves to fight. "Kelly's World" reveals that this trait is typical for her entire species, and that her home world's culture is based around fighting.
* BlushSticker: Kelly's cheeks have permanent pink blushes on them.
* EmoTeen: After her final breakup with Tad she has random points where she sulks, becomes more sullen and emotionally sensitive.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Downplayed. She and Marco become "breakup buddies" as they kiss and hold hands while dealing with their respective heartache. By the time of "A Boy and His DC-700XE", Marco has gotten over his pain and broke up with her.
* HammerspaceHair: As gigantic as her hair is, it is BiggerOnTheInside. It's to the point the inside of her hair is practically a cave that Marco can easily walk around in, even though Marco is taller than Kelly without Tad.
* HopelessSuitor: Zigzagged. If Janna's comment in "Stump Day", and Kelly's fumbled reaction is to be believed, Kelly has developed a crush on Marco who either doesn't reciprocate her crush on him or is too busy pining for Star to realize it. Though, we do see Marco regards Kelly as more of a consolation when dealing with his confused feelings for Star. Come "Kelly's World", they become [[FriendsWithBenefits break-up buddies]] to deal with the fallout from their respectively relationships for a few episodes until Marco breaks it off, much to her annoyance.
* HumanAliens: Kelly looks like a human but has mint-green hair, [[TheNoseless no nose]], and her hair is like an apartment/pocket dimension on the [[HammerspaceHair inside]]. "Kelly's World" reveals that her species are called "Wooletts" and they all have extremely long hair that's worn like fluffy coats; Kelly just happens to like tying hers back. We don't see what any others look like under the coats, but some are implicitly much less humanoid than Kelly, and some are beings that split into smaller beings if they get hit real hard. Others, like her mom, are building-sized and act as homes for their families.
* InterspeciesRomance: Downplayed. She (a Woolett) and Marco (a human) become [[FriendsWithBenefits break up buddies]] before the latter breaks it off.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her face has a much more simplistic design than any other character in the show, with her having no nose, small pupils with no irises, and her eyes not being separate from each other.
* TheNoseless: One of the indicators that she isn't quite human.
* PlanetOfCopyhats: "Kelly's World" reveals that her entire species is very hairy and obsessed with fighting, up to and including having an economy based around punching each other.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk much before revealing that Goblin Dogs are real. She's more vocal in her subsequent appearances.
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Apparently it's common for her and Tad to break up only to get back together. This happens multiple times a week. Kelly eventually got tired of it and decides to end it for good. This is what makes Tad so unwilling to accept it and move out when they break up for real in "Lava Lake Beach". By "Kelly's World", it turns out Kelly herself isn't ready to break off entirely, hence why she keeps accepting his calls, in spite of him being even more arrogant now than ever.
* RomanticFusion: When she and Tad are together, Tad spends most of his time blending into Kelly's hair. Right around when Kelly and Marco becoming "breakup buddies", they learn a fighting technique where both of them are covered by Kelly's hair and fight in tandem.
* ShoutOut: Her face resembles that of [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Kero Kero Keropi]], to an extent.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Tad seems like a pretty chill dude. He willingly listens to Marco as he pours his heart out (though Marco didn't know), and, despite being a vegan, he willingly accompanies Kelly to a hotdog stand because he just likes to hang.
** Kelly later starts getting some ShipTease with [[NiceGuy Marco]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: A tactic she uses against Meteora in "Divide".
-->'''Meteora:''' You could've put out someone's eye!
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Tad, as he is barely a foot tall while Kelly is average size for a teenage girl.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Goblin Dogs.
* WalkingTheEarth: Or in this case, travelling the multiverse is what Kelly does on a regular basis, fighting monsters and all.

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* ActionGirl: She's a skilled sword user, Pony Head has shown to be very effective in kicking butt.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In Daron Nefcy's original webcomic, Princess Pony Head was just as gaudy
and sparkley as she is in fact has several of them.
the show, despite being an actual decapitated horse head, complete with glazed eyes, stuck-out tongue, and viscera leaking from her neck hole.
* BloodKnight: Loves AffectionateNickname: Called "cupcake" by her father.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide
to fight. "Kelly's World" Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals that this trait is typical for her entire species, first name as Lilacia, and that she has 12 younger siblings. "Ponymonium" eventually confirms all those things.
* AscendedExtra: Only appears in two episodes in the first season, but for the second and third seasons she's been upgraded to recurring character.
* BestFriend: Star calls Pony Head
her home world's culture is based best friend on Mewni. Pony Head at first wasn't happy with the idea of sharing the position of Star's best friend with Marco, but later opens up to it.
* BigSisterBully: Her sisters claim that she's this towards them in "Ponymonium", and there certainly seems to be some truth to that considering how she bosses them
around fighting.while introducing them to Star.
* BlushSticker: Kelly's cheeks have permanent pink blushes on them.
* EmoTeen:
{{Brainwashed}}: Courtesy of St. Olga's. After the conditioning sets in, she speaks in [[CreepyMonotone a dainty, high-pitched "princess" voice completely drained of joy]] and can do naught but recite the mantras the school has drilled into her final breakup head and look as vapid as possible.
* BullyingADragon: Ponyhead often gets herself into trouble by overestimating herself. The best example being when she stole dimensional scissors from Hekapoo.
* TheBusCameBack: Forcibly sent to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses in her introduction episode "Party
with Tad a Pony". She comes back in "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" and has appeared in a few episodes of the second season.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Pony Head left St. Olgas because the other princesses started to see her as their leader.
* CharacterDevelopment: Subtle, but unlike how
she went into a {{Yandere}}-like fashion when Star introduced Marco as her friend, "Sleepover" has random points her matured enough to not do the same thing when [=StarFan13=] expresses her extreme liking of Star.
* ChildhoodFriends: She and Star have known each other since they were toddlers.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Pony Head becomes jealous of Star hanging out with Marco. She even threatens to ''impale'' him and almost "[[BlatantLies accidentally]]" [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident knocks him off]] the cloud they were on. Judging from Star's reaction to Marco telling her this, this isn't the first time she's gotten "possessive".
* ConsummateLiar: Has a nasty habit of lying, sometimes for legitimately planned reasons, other times just on the fly. Why she's hanging with Star in her introduction, what happened to Marco,
where she sulks, becomes more sullen got those Interdimensional Scissors, claiming to have eaten a Goblin Dog, or reasons why she'd be a non-flaky girlfriend, and emotionally sensitive.
the list goes on from there. It usually doesn't take long for her web of lies to unravel, after which HilarityEnsues.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Downplayed. She and DefrostingIceQueen: Goes from ditching Marco become "breakup buddies" as they kiss and hold hands while dealing with their respective heartache. out of jealousy to willingly (without provocation) going to save him from being tortured. By the time end of "A Boy "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses", she actually considers him a friend, and His DC-700XE", "Goblin Dogs" is a (misguided) effort to do something nice for ''both'' of her "besties".
* DeliberatelyBadExample: Pony Head serves as this for Star. Pony Head is extremely overdramatic, insanely spoiled, and not to mention a loose cannon at times. Star may not like rules and wants to do whatever she wants, but even she's put off by Pony Head's (along with her her siblings') behavior.
* ADogNamedDog: Played with; her real name is Lilacia, but [[DoNotCallMePaul she doesn't like being called that]] so everyone refers to her as "Princess Pony Head". It gets weird when even her family addresses her as such, despite them all being Pony Heads and thus every one of her sisters is also "Princess Pony Head".
* DoNotGoGentle: Even wild horses couldn't drag her away from partying with her best bestie on the eve of her trip to St. Olga's Reform School.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Lilacia.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Enforced. She wants to be referred to as THE Princess Pony Head as she's none too fond of her first name. Luckily for her as the firstborn and heir to the throne, she ''is'' properly referred to as "Princess Pony Head".
* FireForgedFriends: Her dynamic with
Marco in a nutshell.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** She acts antagonistic towards Marco for no valid reason except for petty jealousy, and Star states that this wasn't the first time Pony Head
has gotten jealous.
** She has contempt for all of her younger sisters except Azniss, who she has particular disdain for. It's implied that this animosity is due to how Azniss gets along really well with Star when it comes to her more tomboyish proclivities and the fact that as a capable magic warrior, she doesn't let herself take any guff from Pony Head.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: She has shades of this. "Sleepover" implies that she's killed before, and it's played for laughs. The same episode shows her to have a great ego when she proudly admits that her crush is herself. In "Goblin Dogs", Star admits that "Pony Head doesn't mean bad, she's just a liar." In "Running With Scissors", Star scolds her for stealing dimensional scissors from Hekapoo (who left them in the bathroom), to which Pony Head responds, "More like... finding?" and also is quite nonchalant when suggesting that Marco is "probably dead" after being dragged into Hekapoo's dimension, despite actually considering Marco a friend by this point. In "The Bounce Lounge", her idea to get everyone to leave Club Null is to set the place on fire (expressing surprise that this wasn't also what Star had in mind). And in "Bam Ui Pati!" she exploits her ex-boyfriend by pretending to get back together with him in order to escape from her sisters and watch her KoreanDrama uninterrupted, then immediately dumps him once she's
gotten over his pain her depression over her broken horn despite him having just given her an even better prosthetic replacement horn.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Star; "Freeze Day" shows that the two have been friends since they were toddlers.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: While Pony Head is happy to insult her sisters, she won't let anyone else do it, even Star.
* IChooseToStay: She decides to stay at St. O's, so she can make sure what happened to her doesn't happen to other princesses. Which turns out to not be that much of a sacrifice, since Pony Head
and broke the other princesses tossed Miss Heinous out entirely and took over, turning St. O's into (in Pony Head's own words) "a total party school". She later ditches the place when some of the responsibilities of being a leader started to catch up with her.
* HammerspaceHair: As gigantic InsistentTerminology: Even after she accepts Marco, she demands Star acknowledge him as her hair is, it is BiggerOnTheInside. It's "best bestie ''on Earth''", as opposed to her "best bestie overall".
* InvisibleAnatomy: She's able to eat despite, by her own admission, having no stomach.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She does what she wants with very little concern for
the point wants and needs of others, with Star being the inside of her hair is practically only (possible) exception.
* JerkassToOne: She's mainly
a cave that jerk towards Marco can easily walk around in, due the latter being dubbed as Star's other "BFF".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In general, she is the one making insensitive remarks. In her introduction, she comes off as selfish, petty and possessive of Star. She antagonizes Marco out of jealousy, going as far as to ditch him in another dimension and leave him to be tortured by the guards that are after her just so she could have Star all to herself. When Star calls her out on being a jerk to Marco, Pony Head understands how much Marco means to Star and willingly (without provocation) goes back to save him,
even if it means letting herself be captured and taken to St. Olga's Reform School.
* KarmaHoudini: As revealed in "Running with Scissors", the dimensional scissors that Star got from Pony Head were actually stolen from Hekapoo,
though Pony Head suffers no repercussions for this, but Marco had to.
* LastNameBasis: She's addressed by her family name. By her own insistence.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As revealed in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', Pony Head
is taller one of King Pony Head's Thirteen Daughters. Also revealed is how she's his heir because her siblings are unfit due to being too weird, too young, or outright worse than Kelly without Tad.
her. Even her youngest sister (who's still a baby) is already sociopathic enough to make Pony Head seem well-adjusted by comparison.
* HopelessSuitor: Zigzagged. If Janna's comment in "Stump Day", MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has ''twelve'' younger sisters.
* ManipulativeBastard: "Ponymonium" shows that she is one. She invited Star for dinner
and Kelly's fumbled reaction is then pretended to have a fit so Star would be accepted by her sisters. She then waited outside their door as they tried to involve Star in their plan and was recording it on her phone to foil it.
* {{Narcissist}}: Pony Head really, really, ''really'' thinks highly of herself. In "Sleepover", when the Truth or Punishment box asks everyone who their crush is, Pony Head pretends
to be believed, Kelly reluctant to admit that she has developed a crush on Marco who either doesn't reciprocate her crush on him or is too busy pining for Star to realize it. Though, we do see Marco regards Kelly as more of a consolation when dealing with his confused feelings for Star. Come "Kelly's World", they become [[FriendsWithBenefits break-up buddies]] to deal with ''herself'', which the fallout box confirms is true.
* ProjectileSpell: Pony Head can shoot beams
from their respectively relationships for a few episodes until Marco breaks it off, much to her annoyance.
horn.
* HumanAliens: Kelly looks like a human but has mint-green hair, [[TheNoseless no nose]], and her hair is like an apartment/pocket dimension on the [[HammerspaceHair inside]]. "Kelly's World" reveals that her species are called "Wooletts" and they all have extremely long hair that's worn like fluffy coats; Kelly just happens to like tying hers back. We don't see what any others look like under the coats, but some are implicitly much less humanoid than Kelly, and some are beings that split into smaller beings if they get hit real hard. Others, like her mom, are building-sized and act as homes for their families.
* InterspeciesRomance: Downplayed. She (a Woolett) and Marco (a human) become [[FriendsWithBenefits break up buddies]] before the latter breaks it off.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her face has a much more simplistic design than any other character in the show, with her having no nose, small pupils with no irises, and her eyes not being separate from each other.
* TheNoseless: One of the indicators that she isn't quite human.
* PlanetOfCopyhats: "Kelly's World" reveals that her entire species is very hairy and obsessed with fighting, up to and including having an economy based around punching each other.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk much before revealing that Goblin Dogs are real.
ReallyGetsAround: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] She's more vocal in got a very flirtatious nature is the most likely one among Star's friends to chat with Star about boys, but given the show's target audience they the writers keep the details intentionally vague. Especially since the actual mechanics of any relationship a disembodied unicorn head might get into are better to not think about. She also once left the Silver Bell Ball with four guys, one of which was a ''sentient pigeon''.
* RebelliousPrincess: Her father had a hard time controlling her, which is why she was sent to [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses"]], where Miss Heinous promptly sucked the spirit out of her.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sometime between St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses and the writing of ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', she abandoned
her subsequent appearances.
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Apparently it's common for her and Tad to break up only to get back together. This happens multiple times a week. Kelly eventually got tired of it and decides to end it for good. This is what makes Tad so unwilling to accept it and move out
fellow princesses when they break up started to turn to her for real actual leadership, in "Lava Lake Beach". By "Kelly's World", it turns out Kelly herself isn't ready to break off entirely, hence why she keeps accepting his calls, in spite of him being even more arrogant now than ever.
* RomanticFusion: When she and Tad are together, Tad spends most of his time blending into Kelly's hair. Right around when Kelly and Marco becoming "breakup buddies", they learn a fighting technique where both of them are covered by Kelly's hair and fight in tandem.
* ShoutOut: Her face resembles
matters that of [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Kero Kero Keropi]], to an extent.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Tad seems like a pretty chill dude. He willingly listens to Marco as he pours his heart out (though Marco
didn't know), and, despite being a vegan, he willingly accompanies Kelly to a hotdog stand because he just likes to hang.
** Kelly later starts getting
involve partying. Like how some ShipTease of them still wanted a genuine education system, then there was the matter of paying the building's electricity bill and the fact that they were quickly running out of food.
* ShipperOnDeck: She "called it" that Star has a crush on Marco.
* StickyFingers: Pony Head tends to steal things quite a lot, like Hekapoo's dimensional scissors, gold and jewelry (and Prince Rich Pigeon) from the Pigeon Kingdom, and it's implied she stole a Truth or Punishment cube from the Magic High Commission.
* VitriolicBestBuds: While she hasn't gotten over calling Marco "Earth Turd" (and labeling his disguised alter ego as "Princess Marco Turdina"), she does eventually consider Marco one of her "besties" after their adventures in St. Olga's.
* {{Yandere}}: A platonic version in her debut, for Star--Pony Head's pretty possessive of her status as Star's best friend and is initially very jealous of Star's friendship
with [[NiceGuy Marco]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: A tactic
Marco (even making some not-so-subtle attempts to get rid of him). But she uses against Meteora in "Divide".
-->'''Meteora:''' You could've put
eventually grows out someone's eye!
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Tad, as he is barely a foot tall while Kelly is average size for a teenage girl.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Goblin Dogs.
* WalkingTheEarth: Or in this case, travelling the multiverse is what Kelly does on a regular basis, fighting monsters
of it, ultimately accepting Star and all. Marco's friendship and eventually accepting Marco as one of her "besties."


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[[folder:Janna Ordonia]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AbbyElliott

A student at Echo Creek Academy and one of Jackie's friends. She like to dabble in "witchy" things and seems to have an interest in Star's Magic Instruction Book. In Season 2, Janna later become one Star's closest friends after "Girls' Day Out" and frequently takes part in her and Marco's adventures.
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* AffectionateNickname: Star calls her "Janna Banana" on occasion.
* AffectionatePickpocket: Pickpockets Marco for his house key while offering to "make some magic" with him via Star's book.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' reveals that her last name is Ordonia.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Much of Janna's dialogue with Marco is laced with plenty of innuendos such as "let's make some magic with it" when Marco finds Star's spell book and when she says that she wants Monster Arm to be her boyfriend. A more direct example is in "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown" where she slaps Marco's butt while he's wearing nothing but towels and tells him, "Ain't nothin' wrong with that!" after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he got cologne on his backside]], then sniffs the hand she spanked him with.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin tone is similar to Marco's, but her race is never mentioned. Her last name, Ordonia, is never mentioned in the show, but it suggests she's of Filipino descent. "Jannanigans" all but confirms this when Star, Marco, and Tom meet Janna's parents; the couple has Filipino accents and decor, and Janna's mom, Tala, shares a first name with the Tagalog goddess of stars.
* AscendedExtra: The character was originally created purely to serve as an obstacle for Marco to deal with in "Mewberty". [[https://youtu.be/7UbQPpioOV0?t=6916 The crew ended up liking the character enough]] to give her a more prominent role in the second season, having her befriend Star in "Girls' Day Out." In the last two seasons, she is the only Earth character besides Marco that continues to serve a role in the series, with characters questioning her regular appearances on Mewni serving as a ChekhovsGag in the final season.
* BreakoutCharacter: During the first season, Janna was a RecurringExtra who would be lucky to have more than two lines per episode. Her only relevant role in that season was in "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E11Mewberty Mewberty]]", but even in that episode she disappeared at the middle of it. Strong fan reactions towards the character turned her quickly into an EnsembleDarkHorse and she became one of Star and Marco's most recurring allies throughout the series. Although it wouldn't be until the final season that she would officially become a main character.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite being a NightmareFetishist and being somewhat unsettling when she teases Marco, she is a valuable ally and highly useful in some episodes.
* CelebCrush: She has one on Creator/JohnKeats.
* ChickenJoke: Most of the alternate timeline versions of Janna in "Mathmagic" have only a different punchline to this joke and a particular silly hat as the distinguishing features between them. The original Janna gives the classic AntiHumor punchline when telling this joke to Star.
* ComedicSpanking: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", Janna spanks Marco while he's wearing nothing but towels after he trips over her in the bathroom and spills cologne on his butt.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Girls' Day Out" featured her in a prominent role.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: She claims to have made herself a demon after splitting her soul in half in "Curse of the Blood Moon". When Tom says it doesn't work that way (it's still the same 100% human soul, just split in half), she amends her statement to half-demon, which he further refutes.
* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: Janna is often seen with partially lidded eyes, fitting her devil-may-care attitude.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Janna appeared as early as the first episode. Specifically, she appeared in Marco's first scene, sitting behind Jackie, with her head bending backwards and a pencil in her mouth. She then appeared as one of Jackie's friends in "Monster Arm", before getting a larger role in "Mewberty".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** "Hey, [you] guys wanna see a dead possum? ''[...]'' Hahaha! I'm just messing with ya."
** Prior to her proper introduction in "Mewberty", she made a brief appearance in "Monster Arm" in which her only line was expressing her [[NightmareFetishist desire for the titular arm to be her boyfriend]].
* FigureItOutYourself: She was already aware of Star's crush on Marco in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", but she never brings it up with either of them or Jackie.
* TheGadfly: Towards Marco. She steals Marco's house keys, wallet, and other bits of personal information just to annoy him. One episode reveals that she's even hypnotized him so he'd instantly fall asleep whenever someone says "chicken butt".
* HiddenDepths:
** "Sleepover" reveals that her favorite color is pink, but she won't admit it to others because she hates contributing to gender stereotypes.
** In "Jannanigans", she admits that her weirdness is at least partially an act that she puts on to help her feel in control, and she is actually very stressed out by unexpected strangeness.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", she fends off Ludo's rats with a hairdryer.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Janna's mischievous and trollish tendencies almost means that she has good insight into whatever situation she's involved with.
** Her annoyance at Tom for constantly calling Star in "Junkin' Janna" is mostly self-interested, but also is because he's focusing too much on Star when he specifically came to hang out with her to learn how to stop doing so.
** When Globgor is injured by Mina's Solarian sword in "Ready, Aim, Fire" and is ashamed of not being there for Eclipsa, Janna rightly points out that Globgor is too hurt to do anything.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She is a constant tormentor to Marco and can be careless and snarky, yet she has shown concern with Star and Jackie's well-being. She's even been willing to help Marco on some occasions (albeit usually because she gets some schadenfreude out of it) and even tries to comfort him during the series finale, finally saying out loud that they're friends.
* LoveableRogue: She's a known troublemaker and she often teases Marco but it doesn't lessen her friendship with him.
* MagicSkirt: Janna's skirt is never effected by the environment. This was best shown in "Junkin' Janna", where she was unaffected by the wind while riding Sebastian the crow.
* NightmareFetishist: She likes all things that are "witchy" and she even once outright said she wanted Marco's monster arm to be her boyfriend. In "Interdimensional Field Trip", her idea of a fun field trip is going to a morgue, and she briefly dates a skeleton vampire. In "Cornonation", she tells Eclipsa that she "gets it", upon meeting Globgor.
* NoodleIncident: In ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'', when Star interviews her about her experience with dating Bernardo the vampiric skeleton from "Interdimensional Field Trip", she speaks fondly of the brief relationship, yet gives an immediate "NO" when Star asks if she'd ever date him again, with no explanation for what happened between them that caused her adamant refusal of the idea.
* OddFriendship: Janna and Marco do hang out now and again, though it takes until the final episode for her vocalize that this is what she views their dynamic as, with Marco almost shocked to hear her acknowledge him as anything but a plaything. They can occasionally be seen hanging out, such as her being with him and Jackie in "Rest in Pudding" or playing a card game with him and his friends in an earlier episode. The oddities are mainly shown in her constantly pick-pocketing his stuff and flirting with him, with her present to him in "Sophomore Slump" being his social security card.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Janna is a well known NightmareFetishist. So, when she decides that she and Tom should run away from a crow (Sebastian) that can turn into a monstrous form, then something is ''wrong''.
** [[spoiler:Janna ''screams'' after Quirky Guy dies in front of her.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: She split her soul in half in "Curse of the Blood Moon".
* OutOfFocus: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in comparison to the other human characters. Although Janna had a significant amount of screen time given to her in Season 2, she only appears a small handful of times in Season 3, despite having been [[PromotedToOpeningTitles promoted to a more prominent spot]] in the opening sequence. Reversed completely in Season 4, where Janna becomes a core member of the main cast.
* PerkyGoth: Is quite upbeat and cheerful, and also a lover of all things macabre.
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, she reveals she can shut down her pulse for 60 seconds]].
* SecurityCling: Does this with Jackie in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", hiding behind her as she fends off rats.
* ShipperOnDeck: Implied. When she finally meets Globgor face-to-face, she takes a picture of him and states, "I get it, Eclipsa". She then urges Globgor to join in Eclipsa's song.
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: She has stolen Marco's house keys and has a list of all of Marco's personal information, including his SSN and fingerprints, among other invasions of privacy. It's also revealed in "Naysaya" that she keeps some personal items such as a book on demonology, witchcraft, and curses behind a secret panel in ''Marco's'' locker. When asked how she has the combination to his locker, she says that obviously she got it from reading his diary. There's no explicitly stated reason as to why she does this, but she most likely does it to tease him and to entertain herself. Her somewhat flirtatious behavior toward Marco could indicate that she has feelings for him or has a playful attraction towards him. Whether she chose Marco specifically as her target is because of a crush or just because his reactions are more fun is up in the air.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Her behavior towards Marco is usually PlayedForLaughs. Star also sees Janna's behavior as innocent and non-vindictive.
* TheTease: Towards Marco.
-->'''Janna''': I think we all know who ''I'' have a crush on, don't we, Marco?\\
'''Marco''': Uh...\\
'''Janna''': [[BaitAndSwitch Eighteenth-century poet John Keats]].
* TheTeetotaler: She states in ''Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension'' that she doesn't drink because that would desecrate the occult temple that is her body. Why a fourteen-year-old would be drinking alcohol in the first place is a mystery, but at least it's confirmed that she ''doesn't'' do that.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed. ''Evil'' is pushing it, though she is associated with the occult and is a frequent troublemaker whose common target for mischief and thievery is Marco. In school, she is a frequent attender of detention.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the Tomboy to Star's Girly Girl.
* TomboyishVoice: She's tomboyish and has a low-pitched, gravelly voice.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's nowhere near as girly as the likes of [[GirlyBruiser Star]] ([[RealWomenDontWearDresses and outright admits to hate "contributing to gender stereotypes"]]) and takes a liking to macabre things and pranking, yet she wears a skirt and confessed in one episode that her favorite color is {{pink|MeansFeminine}}.
* {{Troll}}: Janna is a good friend to Star and Marco but she enjoys teasing Marco more. Janna's interactions with Marco can range from annoying (constant pick-pocketing), to flirtatious, to down right unsettling (creating an army of evil Marcos). Janna doesn't always appear to be on Marco's side (like stealing his possessions, breaking into his wallet and even hypnotising him for laughs), but does care about him and roots for him during their adventures. In "Sophomore Slump", she's the only one who cuts Marco a break during their tabletop role-playing game. In "Curse of the Blood Moon", Janna renders Marco unconscious to help him remove his feelings for Star. Finally, she was aware of Marco's crush on Jackie-Lynn Thomas but she did nothing and said nothing to Jackie about it, only laughing after Marco embarrassed himself when attempting to ask Jackie out on a date.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite the trouble she likes causing for Marco, and his bitterness (and minor fear) towards her for doing so, they do value each other as friends.
* VocalEvolution: Her voice is noticeably raspy in "Mewberty", but by her next major appearance, her voice settles into what it will be for the rest of the series.
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[[folder:Kelly]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Dana Davis

A friend of Pony Head's. A humanoid being called a Woolett with bush-like hair that doubles as a sort of PocketDimension.
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* ActionGirl: She's a skilled sword user, and in fact has several of them.
* BloodKnight: Loves to fight. "Kelly's World" reveals that this trait is typical for her entire species, and that her home world's culture is based around fighting.
* BlushSticker: Kelly's cheeks have permanent pink blushes on them.
* EmoTeen: After her final breakup with Tad she has random points where she sulks, becomes more sullen and emotionally sensitive.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Downplayed. She and Marco become "breakup buddies" as they kiss and hold hands while dealing with their respective heartache. By the time of "A Boy and His DC-700XE", Marco has gotten over his pain and broke up with her.
* HammerspaceHair: As gigantic as her hair is, it is BiggerOnTheInside. It's to the point the inside of her hair is practically a cave that Marco can easily walk around in, even though Marco is taller than Kelly without Tad.
* HopelessSuitor: Zigzagged. If Janna's comment in "Stump Day", and Kelly's fumbled reaction is to be believed, Kelly has developed a crush on Marco who either doesn't reciprocate her crush on him or is too busy pining for Star to realize it. Though, we do see Marco regards Kelly as more of a consolation when dealing with his confused feelings for Star. Come "Kelly's World", they become [[FriendsWithBenefits break-up buddies]] to deal with the fallout from their respectively relationships for a few episodes until Marco breaks it off, much to her annoyance.
* HumanAliens: Kelly looks like a human but has mint-green hair, [[TheNoseless no nose]], and her hair is like an apartment/pocket dimension on the [[HammerspaceHair inside]]. "Kelly's World" reveals that her species are called "Wooletts" and they all have extremely long hair that's worn like fluffy coats; Kelly just happens to like tying hers back. We don't see what any others look like under the coats, but some are implicitly much less humanoid than Kelly, and some are beings that split into smaller beings if they get hit real hard. Others, like her mom, are building-sized and act as homes for their families.
* InterspeciesRomance: Downplayed. She (a Woolett) and Marco (a human) become [[FriendsWithBenefits break up buddies]] before the latter breaks it off.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her face has a much more simplistic design than any other character in the show, with her having no nose, small pupils with no irises, and her eyes not being separate from each other.
* TheNoseless: One of the indicators that she isn't quite human.
* PlanetOfCopyhats: "Kelly's World" reveals that her entire species is very hairy and obsessed with fighting, up to and including having an economy based around punching each other.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk much before revealing that Goblin Dogs are real. She's more vocal in her subsequent appearances.
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Apparently it's common for her and Tad to break up only to get back together. This happens multiple times a week. Kelly eventually got tired of it and decides to end it for good. This is what makes Tad so unwilling to accept it and move out when they break up for real in "Lava Lake Beach". By "Kelly's World", it turns out Kelly herself isn't ready to break off entirely, hence why she keeps accepting his calls, in spite of him being even more arrogant now than ever.
* RomanticFusion: When she and Tad are together, Tad spends most of his time blending into Kelly's hair. Right around when Kelly and Marco becoming "breakup buddies", they learn a fighting technique where both of them are covered by Kelly's hair and fight in tandem.
* ShoutOut: Her face resembles that of [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Kero Kero Keropi]], to an extent.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Tad seems like a pretty chill dude. He willingly listens to Marco as he pours his heart out (though Marco didn't know), and, despite being a vegan, he willingly accompanies Kelly to a hotdog stand because he just likes to hang.
** Kelly later starts getting some ShipTease with [[NiceGuy Marco]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: A tactic she uses against Meteora in "Divide".
-->'''Meteora:''' You could've put out someone's eye!
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Tad, as he is barely a foot tall while Kelly is average size for a teenage girl.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Goblin Dogs.
* WalkingTheEarth: Or in this case, travelling the multiverse is what Kelly does on a regular basis, fighting monsters and all.
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* HumanAlien: Kelly looks like a human but has mint-green hair, [[TheNoseless no nose]], and her hair is like an apartment/pocket dimension on the [[HammerspaceHair inside]]. "Kelly's World" reveals that her species are called "Wooletts" and they all have extremely long hair that's worn like fluffy coats; Kelly just happens to like tying hers back. We don't see what any others look like under the coats, but some are implicitly much less humanoid than Kelly, and some are beings that split into smaller beings if they get hit real hard. Others, like her mom, are building-sized and act as homes for their families.

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* HumanAlien: HumanAliens: Kelly looks like a human but has mint-green hair, [[TheNoseless no nose]], and her hair is like an apartment/pocket dimension on the [[HammerspaceHair inside]]. "Kelly's World" reveals that her species are called "Wooletts" and they all have extremely long hair that's worn like fluffy coats; Kelly just happens to like tying hers back. We don't see what any others look like under the coats, but some are implicitly much less humanoid than Kelly, and some are beings that split into smaller beings if they get hit real hard. Others, like her mom, are building-sized and act as homes for their families.
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* CostumeEvolution: From "Blood Moon Curse" in Season 4 onwards he wears a maroon jacket, a torn red t shirt, black jeans, and brown boots.

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