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is an animated series on Disney Channel and Disney XD. It was created by Daron Nefcy, former storyboard revisionist on

, and the first woman to create an animated series for Disney since Sue Rose\'s

A teenage Magical Girl princess named Star Butterfly (Eden Sher) receives a Magic Wand for her fourteenth birthday and, due to her extreme enthusiasm and extreme inexperience, almost destroys the kingdom with it. Her parents decide she\'s not ready for the responsibility. She fears they\'ll send her to "St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses", but they just want her to have someplace that isn\'t their own home to learn and practice, so they send her to Earth to live with the Diaz family.

Marco is a safety-minded boy who is immediately a little freaked out at being assigned the new "foreign exchange student". But his family loves her. Unfortunately, Star\'s wand is a powerful item, and there are many evildoers who want its power. Thanks to a free-spirited friend of Star\'s, though, they end up with a pair of dimension-cutting scissors, allowing them to dimension hop and have adventures at will.

The first episode aired on January 18, 2015 as a preview on Disney Channel. The show officially began on its sister network, Disney XD on March 30, 2015.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Star has a crush on Oscar, who "has a record". Given her

ex Tom, it may not be the first time she\'s had a crush on a bad boy.

Aluminum Christmas Trees: Marco\'s "Space Unicorn" ringtone sounds like it was made up for the show. It was not.

Marco\'s father gets a laser pulse to the eye thanks to Star\'s adorable laser puppies. He ends up winking it closed and continuing to coo over the cute puppy.

Marco himself usually gets them at least Once per Episode, usually due to Star\'s magic.

Animesque: Though the character designs are definitely more western, the series involves a princess from another dimension with a magic wand that looks straight out of Sailor Moon, there are Anime references and Gratuitous Japanese strewn throughout (a picture taken in the photobooth with Star, Marco, and Pony Head reads "SO KAWAII!"), and the ending theme\'s animation may as well be taken from an anime in its design.

Another Dimension: Mewni, where Star is from, which is one of several. It\'s right there in the Theme Song. Magic scissors are used by several characters to move between them.

Anything But That!: Star pleaded her parents not to take her to St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses.

Appeal To Vanity: Star\'s ex-boyfriend Tom gets her to go to the dance with him by saying she\'s been nominated for Demon Prom Queen.

Artifact of Doom: Star\'s wand could become this in the hands of evil. Star herself destroys an entire village not five minutes after receiving it, which leads to her being sent to Earth.

Badass Adorable: Star. Also, the litter of puppies that shoot lasers from their eyes she summons in the first episode.

Girly Bruiser: Star wears lots of different dresses, likes adorable creatures, and highly enjoys fighting evil monsters. Her attacks are cute and destructive.

Back-to-Back Badasses: Star and Marco do this briefly when Ludo and his minions attack them for the first time.

Badass Normal: Marco Diaz. Star used to be this before getting the magic wand.

Be Careful What You Wish For: 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 room she summoned and wishes he had one of his own, Star tries to give him one and creates a black hole instead.

Berserk Button: Do NOT interrupt Star when she\'s on the phone with her crush, lest you want to be covered in a tidal wave of syrup.

Big Bad: Ludo is the ruler of a dark kingdom who wants to get his hands on Star\'s wand to control the universe.

Black Comedy: Merges in this territory sometimes.

Bland-Name Product: Quest Buy, where you can find almost anything, is a clear parody of Best Buy, right down to the style of the sloth employees\' uniform.

Star began fighting monsters before she even got her wand. The footage released so far suggests that she really enjoys it.

Blush Sticker/Facial Markings: Star has pink hearts on both cheeks, while her mother has diamonds. It\'s quite possible that they may be genetic.

Boarding School of Horrors: St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses is made out to be more like an

It\'s also infamous within the princess community, as both Star Butterfly and Pony Head greatly fear the place.

Brick Break: Marco is training in karate and is seen trying to break boards in the opening. In "Monster Arm" he accidentally hits the part of the board over the cinderblock he was using to prop up the boards and breaks his arm.

Broken Aesop: It\'s pretty easy to see the moral of "The Other Exchange Student" as "If an apparently homeless person is welcomed into your household and makes everybody in it happy except for you, it is totally okay to blackmail them into leaving so long as they owe you a favor."

Butt Monkey: Marco, though he\'s one that can defend himself.

Calling Your Attacks: Star shouts the names of her spells out loud.

The Chew Toy: Sabrina, the brunette cheerleader with a ponytail.

Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Star may seem a bit like a ditz with hardly any control on 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.

Deconstructive Parody: Of the Magical Girl genre, as well as the associated Magical Girlfriend and Action Girlfriend tropes. With a wrecking ball... filled with dynamite and fiery rainbows.

"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The ending theme is performed by Star\'s VA, Eden Sher. Bonus points because it feels like an anime ending (both visuals and song-wise). Also only watchable on Disney Channel airings, not so much if on Disney XD.

Doorstopper: The manual for Star\'s magic wand. Justified as it\'s a giant collection of personal notes from centuries of past users, and has not been organized nor cared for that much. When Star pulls it out of her bed, the pages are worn, dusty, and some of the notes appear to have been added with Mewni scotch-tape.

Embarrassing Nickname: Everyone knows Marco as the "Safe Kid" because he once wore a helmet in the gym showers.

End of the World as We Know It: What could happen if Star\'s wand fell into evil hands, not that she\'s really any better with it outside of combat situations.

Everything\'s Better with Princesses: 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 Destructive Saviour nature of Star.

Badass Princess: Star may be a princess, but she\'s certainly no pushover when it comes to fighting.

Everything\'s Better with Rainbows: Star frequently makes rainbows appear from her wand, sometimes helpful, sometimes

Everything\'s Better with Sparkles: Star Butterfly enjoys things that sparkle and has at least one spell that includes the words "sparkle" and "glitter" at the same time.

Evil All Along: Hey, what do you know? The Monster Arm isn\'t so bad after all-wait, no, it\'s actually worse.

Eye Beams: Star summons a litter of puppies that constantly fire lasers from their eyes.

Eye Scream: One of said puppies fire a laser into Marco\'s dad\'s eye.

In "The Other Exchange Student", Star hitches a ride on the roof of the Diaz\'s car to chase after them on their way to a camping trip, and magically produces a rainbow to buckle herself up.

In "Brittney\'s Party", when Ludo and his minions hijack a bus, the minion who takes the wheel spends time to buckle up and check the mirrors before driving. Ludo complained that it took so long.

Fish out of Water: During her first day on Earth, Star treats a light switch as if it was magical, mistakes a drinking fountain for a hostile creature, and fails to see a connection between Mr. and Mrs. Diaz and Marco, despite knowing his surname, because she just assumed that all earthlings had the same surname.

The principal introduces Star as this. This is because of copious amounts of cash trading hands, namely from her parents to the principal to ignore just how ridiculous the whole "magical princess from another dimension" thing sounds.

The Diazes have apparently played host to many of these in the past. One called Gustav visits in an early episode.

Foreshadowing: At the end of the title sequence Ms. Skullnick appears as a troll.

Freeze-Frame Bonus / Chekhov\'s Gun: At the beginning of "Quest Buy," if you look closely you can see Marco accidentally vacuum up Star\'s wand charger while straightening up the bathroom. The characters don\'t figure out where it is until the very end of the episode.

Pony Head can shoot a laser from her horn.

The puppies Star summons shoot laser pulses from their eyes — uncontrollably.

Full Name Ultimatum: In "Cheer Up Star," Star, annoyed by how Marco is dodging her question on how they were attacked by Ludo\'s forces, finally yells out "Marco Diaz!" in frustration.

Genki Girl: Star is usually full of energy and excitedly examines her surroundings while waving hello to strangers.

Getting Crap Past the Radar: There are quite a few in the

Gilligan Cut: In the first ep, after Star gets the wand. She assures her parents she\'ll be responsible with it. Cut to Star in front of her kingdom which is on fire and general chaos behind her.

King & Queen Butterfly: "She can\'t handle it."

Go Mad from the Revelation: The fate of all those who try to decipher the labyrinthine Quest Buy mall\'s cryptic organization system. Save Marco.

Gone Horribly Right: Star boobytraps the football field, thinking it was an actual battle instead of a game.

Marco tried to lure some of Ludo\'s monsters in order to cheer up Star, who was bummed because Oscar wasn\'t calling her. Unfortunately, he underestimated how many would show up.

Green-Eyed Monster: Pony Head becomes jealous of Star hanging out with Marco. She even threatens to

him and almost "accidentally" 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".

Hair Decorations: Star wears a hairband with devil horns.

Hipster: Marco occasionally shows signs of being one, such as his "ironic" "Space Unicorn" ringtone.

How Do I Shoot Web?: Implied to be a problem with wielders of the magic wand in general. The wand never explains what words are necessary to cast the desired spell. A slight change the spell\'s incantation can have dangerous and possibly fatal consequences. Even Star\'s Book of Spells is just a catalog of notes from previous users who awkwardly scrawled down incantations without any regard to organization or legibility.

How We Got Here: "Cheer Up, Star" has Marco explain to Star why the situation is all his fault.

Humiliation Conga: Marco suffers a heroic one to start the events of "Cheer Up, Star". He chases after the bus, gets hit by the Stop sign, gets his shirt stuck in the door that rips, revealing a humiliating T-shirt. To top it all off, it\'s Picture Day, and Jeremy was going to humiliate him but got beaten to it, and because Marco was distracted, he break\'s Jackie\'s skateboard.

I Don\'t Like the Sound of That Place: Isolation Point, which the Diazes think is a great place to have a picnic!

I Know Karate: Marco uses karate to help in battles.

Imagine Spot: Both Star and Princess Pony Head have identical nightmarish imaginings of going to St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses.

Improvised Armour: In-between flashbacks in "Cheer Up Star", Marco uses objects in the tool shed he and Star are holed up in to make armor to wear against Ludo\'s mooks outside. Once he put finishes has both him and Star put them on, he is simply pulled out of it by a Mook.

Interdimensional Travel Device: Characters, both good and evil, use magic "Dimensional Scissors" to cut open portals to other dimensions.

In the Blood: King Butterfly is just as bloodthirsty as Star, but hides it from his wife by disguising his monster hunting trips as "inspection tours"

I Resemble That Remark: 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 around the school.

Killer Rabbit: Star can be sweet and lovable... when she feels like it.

Star also creates a litter of cute puppies... that, while nice, innocently and uncontrollably fire lasers out of their eyes.

Knotty Tentacles: Star and Marco defeat a Hydra with quick maneuvers to tie its necks up into a knot.

Know When to Fold \'Em: Ludo leaves without any trouble when his henchmen are defeated by Star and Marco.

Like Parent Unlike Child: The main pair have this with their parents.

Star is hyper, unfocused, and energetic. The King and Queen of Mewni are stiff, stodgy, dignified and strict.

Though it is later revealed that she gets her desire to fight monsters from her father, who hides it from his wife.

Marco, despite his insistence he is not a "safety kid", is very safety-oriented. His parents, however, are free spirits, who take Star in stride, even when a laser pulse from a conjured puppy hits his dad in the eye.

Marco: I like red. I like hoodies. So I bought a dozen of them.

Star, meanwhile, is an odd variant. She changes outfits every in-episode day, the only character to do so, but never crosses into Unlimited Wardrobe.

Magical Girl: Star\'s backstory has elements of the original definition of "magical girl"—that is, she\'s a princess of a magical kingdom in another dimension who\'s sent to live on Earth. However, it isn\'t because she\'s doing any kind of Magical Girl Queenliness Test, but because she nearly destroys her kingdom with her Magic Wand and her parents send her away for her own safety.

Magical Girl Queenliness Test: Parodied; Star is sent to Earth precisely because she\'s proven she can\'t handle the inherited wand very well. This is more for her education than anything.

Magical Girl Warrior: Star doubles as this, since she fights evil before and after she receives her Magic Wand.

Magical Incantation: Played with. None of Star\'s spells are poetic lines of incantations, nor as simple as an "Abracadabra". Star tends to shout her intent with whatever words pop into her head. She doesn\'t always think ahead (or at

Marco: "Wow. I wish I had a room like this."

[A vortex opens in the center of Marco\'s room, that forces them to flee and lock the door. One of the laser puppies doesn\'t make it.]

Star: "I don\'t know! It just came out that way!"

Magic Skirt: In "Brittney\'s Party," Star lies upside down on a couch, with her skirt remaining perfectly vertical.

Magic Wand: Star\'s wand is incredibly powerful and could potentially destroy the multiverse in the wrong hands. It also seems to change its form depending on who uses it; it looks more like a royal scepter at first, but when the Queen gives it to Star it changes to look like something Sailor Moon or Sakura Kinomoto would use.

Mister Big: Ludo. All his mooks are several times bigger than he is, yet he intimidates them just the same.

Mixed Ancestry: Marco is half Latino on his father\'s side.

Mix-and-Match Critters: The peasant village in Mewni boasts stables full of part-pig, part-goat creatures.

Morph Weapon: The wand zigzags on this trope. First of all, the wand changes to match the personality of the wielder. In "School Spirit", we see Star had turned it into a mace, implying it could take other forms if needed.

Mundane Object Amazement: Star is fascinated by a light switch, thinking it\'s operated by magic. Later she examines a water fountain, considers it a menace, and tries to maul it to death.

Mundane Utility: Star can use her wand to give her ponytails or pigtails at the blink of an eye.

The Napoleon: Ludo only goes up to Star\'s knees and has to have a tall stack of pillows on his throne in order to look even remotely intimidating. In the Imagine Spot where he gets Star\'s wand, he gets his "big boy body".

No, Except Yes: King Pony Head tells his daughter not to worry so much about St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses

King Pony Head: "It\'s reform school, cupcake, not jail. Although, admittedly, it is a lot like jail."

Noodle Incident: There are several incidents mentioned that we don\'t know much about yet.

It\'s implied that Ludo and Star have fought each other before, and they\'ve certainly met before.

Star briefly mentions that Pony Head has gotten "possesive" before.

No OSHA Compliance: The "Bounce Lounge" has no railings, yet is situated directly over a

of spikes, with a(n apparently living) skeleton impaled on them.

"Quest Buy" is poorly managed by sloth workers, people tend to get lost and go insane trying to navigate in the store, and it has working death traps on its booby trap department.

Not This One, That One: In "Diaz Family Vacation"; Shortly after their arrival on Mewni, Mrs Diaz asks Star if it\'s where she grew up. Star tells her that she grew up in a castle. She points upwards, and the Diaz family gasp with awe at a fancy castle. Star tells them to look higher, and the camera pulls back to show an even bigger, fancier castle behind that one. Star tells them to look even higher, and her actual castle is shown, towering over the second one.

Oral Fixation: Star has a tendency to nibble on her wand whenever she gets particularly excited.

Orcus on His Throne: Averted, when told that Star is unguarded on Earth, Ludo joins his men on the attack.

Ordinary High-School Student: Star is sent to Earth in order to be this. Marco actually

one, but wishes his life was more exciting. He gets his wish and then some when Star shows up.

Perp Sweating: The thugs from St. Olga\'s try this on Marco in "Party With a Pony".

Personal Raincloud: Star tries to create a sun over Marco\'s head to cheer him up, but it immediately turns into a raincloud.

Photo Booth Montage: Star, Marco, and Pony Head go into a photo booth because Star wants them to be friends. As soon as Star leaves, Pony Head threatens Marco while still taking friendly pictures.

Place Worse Than Death: St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses.

Power Incontinence: Star\'s wand is most dangerous when she tries to use it for non-combat related purposes.

The Power of Creation: Seems to be the main power of Star\'s wand, since she can make small creatures appear from nowhere and turn a butterfly into a monster. The problem stems from the fact that Star has trouble getting the incantations right to make what she wishes, which, therefore, doesn\'t always come out right.

Precious Puppy: In the first episode, Star conjures up a litter of adorable puppies...that indiscriminately shoot Eye Beams.

Princesses Prefer Pink: Zigzagged. Star likes pink well enough, but her wardrobe is made up of the entire rainbow, and she seems to prefer sea green dress as a signature color.

Properly Paranoid: Marco believes that the Warriors are gonna kidnap Ferguson despite everyone else thinking that it\'s crazy. Guess what happens the second Marco leaves him alone to talk to Star.

Psycho Ex-Boyfriend: Star\'s ex is a demon who threatens to destroy the world if she won\'t go to the Demon Prom with him.

Rapunzel Hair: Star\'s hair goes down to her knees.

Read the Freaking Manual: 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 then after she had started blasting.

Rhetorical Question Blunder: When Ludo finds Star on Earth.

Ludo: "Well, Buff Fro—HEY! I don\'t have to tell you ANYTHING!"

Whenever St. Olga\'s Reform School for Wayward Princesses is brought up, it\'s always followed by lightning, said character who doesn\'t want to be sent there screaming, and a shot of them being "sucked" into said school (by a strangely out of place conveyor belt) with the gate closing behind them.

Flying creatures spawned by Star swooping down and taking people.

People, and a puppy, being sucked into Black Holes.

Sanity Slippage: Marco in the first episode after Star accidentally sucks his room into a black hole and she unwittingly gives him a raincloud. When he leaves the house to try to get a slushie but is turned away because of said raincloud, he starts losing it.

Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: How King and Queen Butterfly enter Star into Echo Creek Academy.

Screw This, I\'m Outta Here!: Marco tries to ditch Star twice in the opening episode.

Star advises Marco to be "relaxed and kinda confident" like he is with her when he\'s worried about talking to his crush Jackie. Star becomes angry enough for her surroundings to catch fire

when he says he doesn\'t care what she thinks about him.

Daron Nefcy went full Teasing Creator and engaged in this cosplay

Star\'s wand is a blatant mash-up of Sakura Kinomoto\'s and Sailor Moon\'s wands.

Also, Star\'s spells don\'t go right because of what keywords she uses (and she didn\'t mean it). Sounds familiar?.

In "Matchmaker", when Star accidentally turns her teacher into a troll, she has a pink gem for a belly button. Alternately, this is a reference to the troll dolls popular in the 1990\'s.

is topped with a Moon & Star headpiece that\'s identical to Sailor Moon\'s wand with the Imperium Silver Crystal attached to it

The music during the fight sequences is based on the battle music from

Slapstick Knows No Gender: To a much lesser degree than Marco, but Star meets her fair share of Amusing Injuries, too. Also, Sabrina the cheerleader ends up in the hospital a couple times.

Swallowed Whole: Star is briefly eaten by the multi-headed Mewni dragon. Once defeated, several townspeople are freed from the stomach.

She\'s briefly eaten by a giant catfish-like creature in "Cheer Up Star."

Teens Are Short: Sort of. Star and Marco are both 14, and while most of the adults on the show are taller, quite a few are around the same size or slightly shorter than them.

Today X, Tomorrow the World!: Ludo wants to conquer Mewni, and then the universe. "And then... actually, the universe should do it."

Those Two Guys: Marco\'s friends, Alfonso and Ferguson.

Turn the Other Cheek: Despite Pony Head having ditched, threatened, and attempted to kill him out of jealously of his friendship with Star, Marco still comes to her defense when it looks like she\'s about to be abducted.

Unrealistic Black Hole: When trying to expand his room like she did her own, Star ends up creating a black hole in the middle of Marco\'s room instead (and it sucks up one of the eight puppies she summoned earlier, too).

Unskilled, but Strong: Star Butterfly is strong in her own right. Give her magic she hasn\'t entirely learned how to use yet via a wand of great power, and you get a magical princess who excels at summoning puppies (even if they happen to shoot lasers out their eyes) but sets rainbows on fire and creates magical vortexes by accident.

Unwanted Assistance: Marco\'s on the cusp of freeing himself from being tied to a chair, only for Star to come in and try to help him anyway (despite his protests). The result? Marco gets covered in snakes.

Star tries to cast a spell to set Mrs. Skullnick up with someone. She turns into a troll instead. It worked, sort of.

Villains Out Shopping: Ludo, quite literally, in "Quest Buy".

Vomit Discretion Shot: During "Brittany\'s Party", Marco has been constantly holding back his sick. Once the bus crashes, Marco and Ludo take turns throwing up into a garbage can.

We Sell Everything: Quest Buy stocks pretty much every item any transdimensional citizen could ever want. Good luck finding exactly what it is you\'re looking for, though.

We Will Meet Again: Ludo attempts to do this after being defeated, but his portal home closes on his head, cutting him off.

What the Fu Are You Doing?: Marco tries to do "Praying Mantis" style complete with Funny Bruce Lee Noises. Star politely asks him to stop.

Pony Head and her father both have stars for pupils. Sometimes, Star gets them when she\'s excited.

In the first episode, when King and Queen Butterfly offered a chest of jewels in exchange for enrolling Star into Echo Creek Academy, Principal Skeeves got dollar-bill signs in his eyes.

You All Look Familiar: Quest Buy is staffed entirely by anthropomorphic sloths with identical voices.

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