History Recap / StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS4E15GhostOfButterflyCastle

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** For most of the show, it was PlayedForLaughs that most of Mewni was helpless without Queen Moon to organize everything for them. This episode shows how society literally collapses without her to guide them, and Moon herself eventually gets tired of always taking care of other people.
** A society built on the suppression of monsters doesn't know how to function without monsters to lord over. What's more, they'll blame said monsters for becoming equal rather than themselves for their own refusal to coexist with monsters.

** Several background details in ''Literature/TheMagicBookOfSpells'' are shown: Mina mentions her backstory as part of Queen Solaria's SuperSoldier program. Among the tapestry's are alternate images of the Queens, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Jushtin]], including [[BadassBookworm Estrella]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Crescenta]], [[BreadAndCircuses Festivia]], [[ShrinkingViolet Celena]], [[TimeMaster Skywynne]], [[AxCrazy Solaria]], and [[AllLovingHero Comet]].

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* RealityEnsues: Even though Mina was able to tame the crows, the berries still turned them to stone because they weren't gentle enough while holding them. Their beaks accidentally punctured the berries and the berry juice turned them to stone. Fortunately, according to Eclipsa, the petrification wears off over time so the crows will be fine. As long as they don't get smashed to bits.
** For most of the show, it was PlayedForLaughs that most of Mewni was helpless without Queen Moon to organize everything for them. This episode shows how society literally collapses without her to guide them, and Moon herself eventually gets tired of always taking care of other people.
** A society built on the suppression of monsters doesn't know how to function without monsters to lord over. What's more, they'll blame said monsters for becoming equal rather than themselves for their own refusal to coexist with monsters.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: While discussing whether the Butterfly castle is haunted or cursed with Moon, River suggests that it's actually a ghost who ''curses'' at people.

* DisasterScavengers: Ever since the Butterfly Kingdom has been ruined by Meteora's ramgage, the people who remained behind have resorted to becoming shameless scavengers and selling people's personal belongings. Of course Mina has been hiding in the Butterfly Castle to prevent people from looting it.

* FantasticRacism: Mewmans are so racist against monsters that they'd literally rather live in squalor away from town than live beside monsters as equals. In other words: if they're not the ones getting preferential treatment, they'd rather live like vermin by the river. [[NeverMyFault And then blame Eclipsa for granting monsters equal rights, rather than themselves for refusing to live beside monsters as equals.]]

** A society built on the suppression of monsters doesn't know how to function without monsters to lord over. What's more, they'll blame said monsters for becoming equal rather than themselves for their own refusal to coexist with monsters. Taken further, people raised to believe in a binary hierarchy of superiority and inferiority cannot accept an underclass rising to equality, because when they hear that they're no longer the dominant class they automatically assume they must be a persecuted underclass, and the person who rose the monsters to equality must be trying to make the monsters the new dominant class with the Mewmans as the new persecuted underclass, when the reality is that ''they themselves'' choose to perpetuate this old binary system.

** More specifically, Mina is shown to have fallen to her lowest. Who was once the strongest of the Solarian's and Mewni's greatest champion has become an extreme nationalist attempting regicide, intent on stopping at nothing to get rid of Eclipsa and restore the Mewmans to power.

** The Tapestry's in the "Grandma Room", destroyed by Meteora back in "Conquer", have all been stitch up by Mina.

* AnimalMotifs: Crows, Mina has started giving herself a crow motif by training them as part of her new army. A crow also becomes a mark of Mina's presence.

* BittersweetEnding: Moon has retrieved the schedule book for her people so they can organize themselves and finally learns to relax and think about herself for once. But it's treated somberly, given she's resigned herself to being a [[BystanderSyndrome bystander]] who [[StoppedCaring no longer has Mewni's well-being at heart]]. What's more, it ends with crows flying overhead, hinting that Mina may be a bigger threat than Moon is giving credit.

* ScoobyDooHoax: Mina had been scaring people away from Butterfly Castle as a BedsheetGhost, leading to rumors that it’s haunted (or cursed; no one is quite sure which).

* DoubleMeaningTitle: TheReveal of Mina being 'The Ghost of Butterfly Castle'. In a literal sense, she disguised herself as a ghost to scare away potential looters and keep Butterfly Castle safe. In a figurative sense, Mina represents the past of the Butterfly regime by embodying their BloodKnight creed and unwavering racism towards monsters.

* RealityEnsues: Even though, Mina was able to tame the crows. The berries still turned them to stone because they weren't gentle enough while holding them. Their beaks accidentally punctured the berries and the berry juice turned them to stone. Fortunately, according to Eclipsa, the petrification wears off over time so the crows will be fine. As long as they don't get smashed to bits.

** Its further enforced just how far the Mewmans have fallen once Eclipsa took the throne. In addition to the many Mewman refugees being TooDumbToLive without Moon to guide them, the Mewmans that have remained by the ruins of Butterfly Castle have descended into total lawlessness without Moon, Eclipsa being too focused on restoring Monster rights and mending relationships with other kingdoms to do anything about it.

* BookEnds: The episode begins with Moon sitting in a hammock, gazing at a sky full of birds. The ending has her return to her hammock and gaze at the sky. Only this time, crows fly overhead.j

* BookEnds: The episode begins with Moon sitting in a hammock, gazing at a sky full of birds. The ending has her return to her hammock and gaze at the sky. Only this time, crows fly overhead.

** Why does Jushtin have a tapestry if he was ruler nobody wanted to remember?

* LastOfHisKind: Mina is the last of Solaria's {{Super Soldier}}s, the rest either dying from battle or [[TheSpartanWay the process that empowered them]]. She is [[DissonantSerenity quite glib about the situation]], just taking her survival as [[TheSocialDarwinist proof that she's the best]]. Mina even repeats the scenario with a bunch of crows, being proud that she trained Sebastian but not caring about all the other crows she petrified.

** More specifically, Mina is shown to have fallen to her lowest. Who was once the strongest of the Solarian's and Mewni's greatest champion has become an extremely nationalistic attempted regicide, intent on stopping at nothing to get rid of Eclipsa and restore the Mewmans to power.

* SoleSurvivor: Mina is the last of Solaria's {{Super Soldier}}s, the rest either dying from battle or [[TheSpartanWay the process that empowered them]]. She is [[DissonantSerenity quite glib about the situation]], just taking her survival as [[TheSocialDarwinist proof that she's the best]]. Mina even repeats the scenario with a bunch of crows, being proud that she trained Sebastian but not caring about all the other crows she petrified.

* AllThereInTheManual: Mina's backstory and Queen Solaria's SuperSoldier program, alluded to in this episode, were detailed in the Book of Spells.

* TheBeastmaster: Mina tamed crows for her uprising. [[TooDumbToLive Too bad all but one have petrified themselves by eating Yada Yada berries.]]

*** Among the tapestry's are alternate images of the Queens, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Jushtin]], detailed in Literature/TheMagicBookOfSpells, including [[BadassBookworm Estrella]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Crescenta]], [[BreadAndCircuses Festivia]], [[ShrinkingViolet Celena]], [[TimeMaster Skywynne]], [[AxCrazy Solaria]], and [[AllLovingHero Comet]].
** Mina continues to follow the anti-monster beliefs instilled into her as a Solarian, as detailed in Literature/TheMagicBookOfSpells.

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Mina only lives to serve mewmans and ''only'' mewmans.