History Recap / StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E4SchoolSpirit

!!Tropes

* PoorCommunicationKills: Marco admits that Star turning the football field into a dangerous mine field could have been avoided if he had bothered to look and explain to Star that football is just a game instead of a actual battle.

* KillerRabbit: Star's take on the Kitty Cat Offense, which is composed of stray cats magically mutated to turn into massive, demonic, and [[IncendiaryExponent flaming]] cats.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Marco admits that Star turning the football field into a dangerous mine field could have been avoided if he had bothered to look and explain to Star that Football is just a game instead of a actual battle.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Star's take on the Kitty Cat Offense, which is composed of stray cats magically mutated to turn into massive, demonic, and [[IncendiaryExponent flaming]] cats.

* OpposingSportsTeam: The Silver Warriors, those monsters...except they're not bad as ''these'' monsters.

* TooDumbToLive: Ferguson, it's probably not a good idea to carelessly run through what's essentially a mine field. While it's exploding. And when you are fully ''aware'' of the surrounding explosions.

!!Tropes

* WeirdnessCoupon: Marco does not look strangely at Star hanging off live electric wires to catch stray squirrels, or her request for highly flammable liquids. In the end, this is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] with Star's dangerous antics; Marco admits fault in that he should have been looking out for her.

* WeirdnessCoupon: Marco does not look strangely at Star hanging off live electric wires to catch stray squirrels. In the end, this is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] with Star's dangerous antics; Marco admits fault in that he should have been looking out for her.

* WeirdnessCoupon: Marco does not look strangely at Star hanging off live electric wires to catch stray squirrels.

-->'''Marco:''' ''This is why you only have two friends!!''

* FluffyTheTerrible: The Kitty Cat Offense, which is composed of stray cats magically mutated to turn into massive, demonic, and [[IncendiaryExponent flaming]] cats.

Echo Creek Academy's football team, the Awesome Opossums, has an upcoming game against the Silver Hill Warriors. The team's mascot, an opossum, has recently died, so Marco's friend Ferguson dresses up as one to support the team (he's really doing it in an attempt to pick up chicks, thinking he's impressive even through he's dorky and clumsy).

When Marco describes how every year the Warriors "slaughter" the Awesome Opossums, Star takes it literally and thinks football is like a ritualized war. She asks Marco for advice on how to prevent the slaughter. Marco, who admits he has no real clue about football, spouts some random natter involving throwing bombs and offense. Star tries to join the cheerleading squad to coordinate them into defending the team, but the head cheerleader thinks she's a weirdo and ban her from the team. So she decides to do it herself.

As the game begins, Star reveals that she rigged the entire field with booby traps to destroy the Warriors. Horrified, Marco explains that football is just a friendly game. Star realizes she made a mistake, but its too late. The Warrior trigger the traps, which include bombs, trap doors, and mechanisms that release monsters. Star and Marco leap onto the field to help them. As soon as they do this, two Warriors grab Ferguson and try to drag him away, but are stopped when they get attacked by monsters.

Star and Marco defeat all the monsters. The Warriors are terrified of what just happened and run away, causing the Awesome Opossums to win due to the other team forfeiting. Star, Marco, and Ferguson are cheered by the school.

* AlphaBitch: The Head Cheerleader. She dislikes Star because she's a magical princess, from another dimension, unable to be brought into line by typical mean girl techniques, and therefore potentially a threat to her popularity.

When Marco describes how every year the Warriors "slaughter" the Awesome Opossums, Star takes it literally and thinks football is like a ritualized war. She tries to join the cheerleading squad to coordinate them into defending the team, but they think she's a weirdo and reject her. So she decides to do it herself.

Star and Marco defeat all the monsters. The Warriors are terrified of what just happened and run away, causing the Awesome Opossums to win by default. Star, Marco, and Ferguson are cheered by the school.

Echo Creek Academy's football team, the Awesome Opossums, has an upcoming game against the Silver Hill Warriors. The team's mascot, an opossum, has recently died, so Marco's friend Ferguson dresses up as one to support the team (he's really doing it in an attempt to pick up chicks, thinking he's impressive even through he's dorky, obese, and clumsy).

* ProperlyParanoid: Marco thinks the Silver Hill Warriors are going to kidnap Ferguson as the mascot because they once stole the live opossum the school used to have. The minute Marco leaves Ferguson's side, the Warriors do just that.

Star and Marco defeat all the monsters. The Warriors are terrified of what just happened and run away, causing the Awesome Opossums to win by default. Star, Marco, and Ferguson are cheered by the school.

Meanwhile, since every year the Warriors steal the opossum before or during the game, Marco suspects that they will try to kidnap Ferguson. He insists Ferguson stay with him at all times and won't allow him to go home, so his chagrin.

As the game begins, Star reveals that she rigged the entire field with booby traps to destroy the Warriors. Horrified, Marco explains that football is just a friendly game.

It's Spirit Week at Echo Creek Academy, which means one thing: the school gets to watch their football team, the Opossums, get destroyed by their rivals, the Warriors.

Star, being unfamiliar with both the event and football in itself, horribly misinterprets sports slang ("slaughter," "destroyed," and even the purpose of a trophy cabinet, mistaking it for a memorial wall) and think that the Opossums are going into actual combat, rather than a sport. She attempts to get the Spirit Committee's help, but when head cheerleader Brittany Wong bans her, she goes out on her own to create the "Kitty Kat Offense," mostly by wrangling stray and wild animals.

Marco, meanwhile, is guarding his friend Ferguson, who has become this year's Opossum mascot. (The real one died recently.) The Warriors make it a tradition to steal the opposing team's mascot, and while Ferguson thinks Marco's just being paranoid, the latter is taking no chances.

Game night arrives. Star has booby trapped the entire battlefield with rainbow mines, laser-wire traps, and a hidden pit of magically mutated monsters. Once Marco finds out, he then frantically explains to Star that football is a ''game'' not a form of combat.

Cue OhCrap from Star, and the whistle that starts the game.

The Warriors and the Opossums kick-off, unaware of the traps until one of the Warriors is blown up by a mine. Pandemonium ensues as bystanders and players alike scream and run for safety while Star and Marco try to save them and defuse Star's traps and monsters.

Worse still, Ferguson really ''does'' get kidnapped, appropriately during the one time Marco didn't have his eyes on him.

Eventually, the Kitty Cat Offense is (mostly) neutralized, and the Warriors flee for their bus and effectively forfeit the game. The Opossums cheer on Star and Marco for their first victory ever, a celebration cut short when Marco's kidnapped by a giant mutated chicken-pigeon Star forgot about.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: You'd think something called the Kitty Cat Offense wouldn't be this [[BringMyBrownPants bowel-evacuating-ly terrifying,]] you'd be wrong.
* OhCrap: There's a good few seconds devoted to Star's expression as she quickly realizes she messed up ''badly.''
* PoorCommunicationKills: Star does not understand sports slang, which leads her to misinterpret the football game as an actual, lethal battle.

Star, being unfamiliar with both the event and football in itself, horribly misinterprets football slang ("slaughter," "destroyed," and even the purpose of a trophy cabinet, mistaking it for a memorial wall) and think that the Opossums are going into actual combat, rather than a sport. She attempts to get the Spirit Committee's help, but when head cheerleader Brittany Wong bans her, she goes out on her own to create the "Kitty Kat Offense," mostly by wrangling stray and wild animals.

* FluffyTheTerrible: You'd think something called the Kitty Cat Offense wouldn't be this [[BringMyBrown Pants bowel-evacuating-ly terrifying,]] you'd be wrong.

Eventually, the Kitty Cat Offense is (mostly) neutralized, and the Warriors flee for their bus and effectively forfeit the game. The Opossums cheer on Star and Marco for their first victory ever, a celebration cut short when Marco's kidnapped by a giant mutated chicken-pigeon Star forgot about.