- “I’m a magical princess from another dimension!”
- ―Star introducing herself to Marco[src]
Star Butterfly, also known as Star the Underestimated, is the main and titular protagonist of Star vs. the Forces of Evil. She is a teenage princess of the Kingdom of Mewni (located in another dimension) sent to Earth by her parents in order to learn how to use the royal magic wand, with supervision from Glossaryck.
In seasons 1-2, she lives with her Earth hosts, the Diaz family. In season 3, she returns home to Mewni. As of season 4, she lives in the Monster Temple following the destruction of Butterfly Castle. She was also the 37th Queen of Mewni for four days[11] before giving the kingdom to Eclipsa Butterfly.[44] As of «Doop-Doop», she is back to living on Earth. From «Here to Help» onward, she is Marco’s girlfriend.
Appearance
Body
Star is a fifteen-year-old girl with a height of 5′ 2″ (1.57 m).[11] She has fair skin, light blue eyes and long blonde hair that goes down to her knees. Most of the time Star’s bangs overlap her eyes and eyebrows, possibly due to how large her eyes are drawn.
Her cheeks normally have light pink hearts on them. The heart marks on her cheeks sometimes change into other things to reflect her emotions:
- Hourglasses when she is bored[39]
- Grey skulls when she is pumped for battle[45]
- White skulls when she is depressed[46]
- Light bulbs when she has an idea[46]
- Stop signs when in danger[47]
- Broken hearts when heartbroken[48]
- Blooming roses when awestruck[49]
Considering that her mother Moon’s cheeks have magenta diamond-shaped marks and other queens of Mewni have borne similar marks, it is logical that this is a genetic trait, though as of «Cleaved», Star no longer has cheek marks, suggesting that these marks may instead be magical in nature.
When going through mewberty, purple hearts appear on Star’s skin (including her forehead and ears), although she is able to peel them off. Eventually, she turns completely purple and acquires an insect-like appearance. Her hair turns pale lavender and is twisted into two buns. Her eyes are replaced with glowing hearts, and she gains four extra arms and large purple butterfly-like wings. At the end of her mewberty phase, she reverts back to normal but with a small pair of «mewberty wings».
In her second mewberty form, Star’s eyes become yellow four-pointed stars, her skin becomes a lighter shade, and she gains an extra two pairs of arms like before along with large fiery gold wings. Her hair also appears as a lighter shade of blonde in two long bun braids. After she gains full control over the form, her eyes appear as their regular blue, and she doesn’t glow.
Clothing
- For a comprehensive list of Star’s outfits, see List of Star Butterfly’s outfits.
Star’s wardrobe consists of a wide variety of colors. She usually wears a red or magenta hairband with devil horns and lets her hair down, but she sometimes uses her magic wand to change into other hairstyles like pigtails or ponytails (and on one occasion, to change her hairband into other kinds of headgear).
While Star has many different outfits, she mainly wears five recurring outfits:
- A sea green short-sleeved dress with a white collar, white lace on the sleeves and skirt and a cute pink octopus on the front. She also wears pink and orange stockings, dark magenta boots with a rhino design, and a little yellow star-shaped side bag with a face.
- A teal sleeveless dress with four colorful stripes on the chest, white lace on the bottom, and a white bear face on the left side towards the bottom. She also wears pale light sea green and white striped leggings, pink boots with white bunny faces and dark pink bottoms, and a silver bracelet with spikes.
- A sky blue sleeveless short dress with a tied string at the neckline. Around the waist, the dress has a peach-colored belt and a red belt that is slanted towards the right. She also wears a little gray cloud-shaped bag with a face, striped blue leggings that are dark blue at the top and become lighter with each lower stripe, light blue sneakers with white tips, and fuzzy light blue leg warmers.
- A dark green-blue dress with a mint green trim, with pink striped leggings, a spider necklace, and white boots with yellow stars on the heels, hot pink bottoms, and pale pink tips. Her devil horns headband is magenta instead of red.
- A turquoise sleeveless dress with frilly light-blue shoulders, purple belt, puffy white trim, and a picture of a narwhal on the bottom left side, blue and purple striped leggings, grayish plum boots with pink tips with faces on them and dark blue soles, a magenta headband, and a silver spiked bracelet on her left wrist. Shares similarities with Star’s other recurring dresses.
Personality
Star is a very friendly and energetic girl who loves having fun and usually has an optimistic outlook on life. She loves to help others and whenever she sees that someone is upset, she does her best to cheer them up. Strangers, in her eyes, are just friends she has not met yet, and she feels bad if she hurts someone’s feelings, whether intentionally or not. Star has a happy-go-lucky attitude and always tries to put a smile on everyone’s faces. She also works very hard towards her goals, so much so that she will sometimes end up greatly sleep-deprived, such as in «Monster Arm».
Owing to her rather sheltered upbringing, Star’s optimism and enthusiasm can border on recklessness, to the point of endangering the people around her with her madcap antics. She has rather simplistic views on concepts such as leadership and responsibility, believing that prioritizing fun above all else matters the most. All this, coupled with her lack of understanding of Earth customs, often puts her and Marco in strange, dangerous situations. While rarely ever angry, she does express annoyance towards people who do not take her seriously or give her the attention she wants. Although she treats her friends kindly and rarely holds grudges against them, she is usually brutal towards her enemies.
In earlier episodes, she also holds a prejudice against monsters, believing they are «born bad», though this opinion softens a little as of «Mewnipendance Day». As the series continues her prejudice softens more and eventually dissipates completely, shown by her being friends with Buff Frog and his tadpoles and her disapproval of her mother’s own prejudice in Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni. By «Starfari», Star has started advocating for fairer treatment of monsters in Mewni.
Because of her initial naivete and irresponsibility, Star shows several times to be incapable of being an effective ruler. In «Sleep Spells», it is revealed she is aware of this through her having issues with her mother and taking over for her one day. This is further insinuated when she is made acting queen in «Divide», during which she does not know what to do and constantly turns to others for advice. After discovering she is not a true member of the Butterfly family in «Butterfly Trap», Star begins to doubt her place as royalty. Because of these reasons, she ultimately feels compelled to return the royal magic wand to Eclipsa at the end of «Conquer».
As the series progresses, Star becomes less prone to resorting to magic to fix a situation, and she shows a willingness to become stronger and more serious and not run away from her problems, despite this sometimes resulting in her underestimating her enemies. After Toffee’s defeat, she decides to focus on becoming a better princess and starts to act more serious, mature, and responsible as a result. She also hopes to bridge the relationship gap between Mewmans and monsters, wanting the prolonged discrimination between them to end one day. As of «The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse», after her mother’s use of a magically-created army backfires horribly, Star outright hates magic, believing it only causes problems and that those who use it are «idiots». She even believes magic to be the cause of all of Mewni’s problems and that destroying it will solve everything.
In season 4, Star demonstrates determination through her relentlessly searching for her missing mother all the while helping Eclipsa be accepted as queen over a period of several months. However, all of this puts a noticeable strain on her. By «Cornonation», Star cites she is tired of all the politics and just wants to return to being a normal teenage girl, further stating she had forgotten what exactly that means.
Early on, Star has somewhat of a nervous tic where she chews on the top of the wand.[50] She also has a habit of kicking in doors.[51]
Relationships
Marco Diaz
Star and Marco hugging.
When they first meet, Star sees Marco as a true friend right away, but she offers to leave when he views her as an intrusion. After he comes to accept her and her presence in his life, however, she declares him as her best friend on Earth. Star, valuing and cherishing their friendship, loves hanging out with Marco and battling monsters with him. His more responsible outlook helps to keep them from getting into too much trouble, and she encourages him to be less cautious and more confident. When she upsets him, she tries her best to make him feel better, though sometimes it makes things worse. She listens to him whenever he tells her something concerning, like when Pony Head threatened him.
Star appreciates Marco’s help, advice, and kindness whenever she needs it, and she always finds ways to help him out when she sees she can. However, she has been shown to be resentful whenever Marco thinks she can’t handle something herself and has on several occasions clashed with Marco over the differences between her adventurous personality and his cautious tendencies up to the point where she questions their friendship. Nonetheless, their friendship remains unbreakable, as demonstrated in «Gift of the Card» when they are prepared to die in each other’s arms. They also are usually quick to make amends if they end up in a fight or disagreement.
In «Blood Moon Ball», Star and Marco briefly dance together under the light of the Blood Moon, which according to legend binds their souls together for eternity.
In «Sleepover», Star’s feelings for Marco are implied to be something more than just friendship, as when she yells out his name in frustration, the Truth or Punishments Box remarks «Truth. Star Butterfly has a crush on…» before being, ironically, crushed.
In «Naysaya», she is extremely happy that Marco finally managed to ask Jackie out and continues to be happy for them when Jackie does the same in «Bon Bon the Birthday Clown», but after seeing them together, she becomes dismayed and jealous. During a dead clown séance with Janna, she is constantly distracted by thoughts of Marco and Jackie’s date. She tries to call Marco repeatedly and even resorts to using a dark magic spell to spy on him and Jackie. When Star sees Marco and Jackie together, her jealousy causes her spells to go out of control. She is further shown to be jealous of Marco and Jackie’s relationship in «Just Friends».
In «Running with Scissors», Star is briefly enamored with Marco’s adult physique, barely being able to speak.
In «Face the Music», Ruberiot’s song for Star’s Song Day reveals that Star harbors a secret crush on Marco. This creates a strain in their friendship, upon which they start avoiding one another. In «Starcrushed», Star struggles with her growing feelings for Marco, and with the threat of Toffee looming closer, she confesses that she indeed has a crush on him before tearfully leaving Earth.
In «Return to Mewni» and «Toffee», Star is casual about referring to Marco several times as «cute», uses the All-Seeing Eye spell to see him from afar, takes one of his hoodies to wear as a cape, and uses skills that he taught her in order to survive in the Mewnian wilderness. When Marco later rescues her from a castle dungeon, they reunite with a warm hug, indicating they still deeply care about each other despite the circumstances of their separation in «Starcrushed».
In «Scent of a Hoodie», with Star no longer needing to go back to Earth, she shares an emotional goodbye with Marco and holds onto his unwashed hoodie after he returns to Earth just so she can have something that reminds her of him. At the end of the episode, however, she learns to let go of unhealthy obsessions with material objects and simply cherish the memories of her and Marco’s time together.
Believing she would not see Marco again for a long time, Star tries to move past her feelings for him, focusing on becoming a responsible princess and getting back together with Tom. As such, in «Lint Catcher», Star becomes briefly upset and angry at Marco for dropping in on her unannounced and showing ingratitude when she gives him a job in the castle. At the end of the episode, though, she makes a new room in the castle for him and appoints him as her royal squire so they can hang out again. In «Sweet Dreams», Star trusts only Marco to help her with her sleep-portaling. In «Deep Dive», Star calls Marco her lifeline, and when he uses the All-Seeing Eye to find her, she gives up staying in the Realm of Magic for him. When they reunite at the end of the episode, Star hugs him and thanks him for saving her.
In «Stump Day», Marco throws a surprise birthday party for Star, much to her dismay; she never celebrates her birthday on the actual day in order to honor the Stump. Later, she gets frustrated when Marco begins to fight Tom over the party, but the group later reconciles.
In «Marco Jr.», Star is shown to be the only one who can properly fill out Marco’s essence test in his stead, showing that, due to their interdimensional travels, she knows him better than his own parents. Additionally, once she restores his normal appearance, she embraces him and says that he is «beautiful again.»
In «Booth Buddies», Star and Marco get trapped in a photo booth together while trying to take best friend pictures. As they work through the issues of how much their relationship has changed since «Starcrushed», they kiss each other, leaving both of them in a state of complete shock and regret.
In «Divide» and «Conquer», Star and Marco share several tender moments with each other before the battle, and each of them blushes heavily. Star entrusts Marco with delaying Meteora while she searches on finding her mother. When Tom later presents her with a soul-drained Marco, Star despairs, loses all focus on the battle and flees to try and heal him at the Magic Sanctuary. When he, along with all of Meteora’s victims, regain their souls and return to normal, they share a tender embrace.
In «Curse of the Blood Moon», Star and Marco wonder if their budding feelings for each other are only the result of their souls being bound at the Blood Moon Ball. With Tom and Relicor Lucitor’s help, they have that bond severed, and they lose their memory of that evening. However, during the soul-severing process, they wonder if their feelings for each other were actually not the Blood Moon’s doing.
In «The Knight Shift», when Marco reveals that he plans to go back to Earth someday to be with his family and go to college, Star is sad at first, but the two agree to never stop having adventures together when that happens, and Marco gives Star a cape like his.
Star and Marco kissing.
In «Mama Star», Marco tells Star he loves her while under the memory-erasing influence of the Realm of Magic, unaware that the real Star heard his saying and was even touched with his confession. In «Here to Help», Star seeks solace from her situation in Marco, and tries to decompress with him. While discussing Marco’s confession from «Mama Star», Star confesses her love for him as well; they kiss and begin a romantic relationship, with Star referring to Marco as her boyfriend in «The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse». She is initially heartbroken to learn that if she destroys all magic, she’d never see Marco again, but she comes to accept it’s the price to pay for defeating Mina and returning peace to Mewni.
In «Cleaved», despite his initial misgivings, Marco eagerly goes along with Star’s plan to destroy all magic. After they succeed in doing so, Star and Marco hug even as the Realm of Magic collapses around them, believing they belong together with or without magic. The remaining magic within them creates a dimensional rift; when the rift explodes, the dimensions of Earth and Mewni merge into one, allowing Star and Marco to be together.
Pony Head
Star and Pony Head dancing together.
Star and her other best friend Flying Princess Pony Head love having fun and doing crazy things. They have known each other since they were children, and Star considers Pony Head her «best friend on Mewni». Star knows Pony Head is possessive of their friendship, but she does not realize to what extent she is until Pony Head ditches Marco in the Amethyst Arcade and lies about it to Star. Star forgives Pony Head after she saves Marco while being doomed to go to St. Olga’s.
In «St. Olga’s Reform School for Wayward Princesses», Star shows that she cares enough for Pony Head to break her out of St. O’s, the place she fears most, for her best friend’s birthday, even when she seemed too broken by the school’s harsh teaching. In «Pizza Thing» Star invites Pony Head to «Friendship Thursday», a regular event that she enjoys with Marco, and wanted Pony Head to be a part of too.
In «Scent of a Hoodie», Pony Head helps Star get over Marco, despite Star’s initial resistance. In «Ponymonium», she invites Star to dinner at her castle, though she later reveals to have done so in order to get proof of her sisters trying to steal her claim to the throne. After Star vents her anger over this deception, Pony Head says Star is like a sister to her, and they make amends. In «Bam Ui Pati!», Star helps Pony Head move on after Meteora breaks her horn, and she feels honored to put in Pony Head’s new artificial horn.
In «The Ponyhead Show!», Star asks Pony Head and her family to help make Eclipsa more popular, but quickly becomes irritated by Pony Head making the show all about herself. In «Queen-Napped», Star is appalled to learn Pony Head pretended to abduct Eclipsa, considering such an action morally reprehensible. In «Here to Help», Pony Head’s encouragement is what gives Star the strength to defeat the Solarian Warrior. In «Cleaved», while Star is glad to see Pony Head fully recovered from the wounds the Solarian inflicted on her, she still manages to be annoyed by her flippant attitude.
Ludo
Star battling Ludo.
Star and Ludo are bitter enemies, apparently knowing of each other before the events of «Star Comes to Earth». Ludo is always trying to steal Star’s wand away from her, and Star is always fighting with him and his army because of it. While disliking Ludo, Star does not see him as a huge threat that she can not defeat. She finds a lot of his plans ridiculous, and she does not appreciate it whenever Ludo and his army are making trouble or ruining things for her.
Despite the dislike she holds towards him, she is willing to cooperate with him when necessary, such as in «Toffee» when she tries to help him get Toffee out of his wand and when she tosses him into the void at his request. She even sends him on his way with a bag of Gold’n Crispz and wishes him good luck.
Moon and River Butterfly
Star talking to her parents.
Though Star loves her parents, she feels burdened by their watchful eyes. She seems to like River’s less scolding personality, being grateful for not being sent to St. Olga’s right after she fails to handle the wand. Though Star often believes that her parents are boring, discovering that her father also likes fighting monsters in «Diaz Family Vacation» causes her to realize her father is cooler than she originally thought. Her father finds out about her going to dimensions outside of Earth, while she learns he lied about his lectures, so for one time, River promises not to tell, and the two embrace over it. Star and her father share a reckless and playful personality (as shown in «Royal Pain» and «Camping Trip») as well as a need to fight monsters. However, Star cannot stand her father’s messiness in the aforementioned «Royal Pain».
Star has a harder time getting along with her mother. Not fond of her mother’s strict rules and traditional sensibilities, Star liked being sent to Earth, which allowed her to get some space from her. In her journal, she included an entry that stated «Mom’s a poophead», further showing how much she doesn’t like her mother’s restrictions. In fact, in «Sleep Spells», Marco identified Moon’s overbearing nature as the crux of Star’s emotional problems. At the same time, Star fully knows the danger of her mother finding out that she is being too reckless with the wand or exploring other dimensions without permission, which would lead her to be sent to St. Olga’s Reform School for Wayward Princesses. Regardless, the two love each other immensely.
By season two, Star and Moon’s relationship is much stronger; Star is more comfortable approaching her mother with personal problems, such as in «Mr. Candle Cares», and Moon is more appreciative of what makes her daughter special, as shown in «Game of Flags». Star has also shown herself to be more willing to stand up to her mother, initially refusing to return to Mewni with her in «Starcrushed» until Moon informs her of Toffee’s return and wanting to face Toffee in «Return to Mewni» until Moon reveals that Toffee and his army killed her mother. She also convinced Moon to give Eclipsa a fair trial after she broke free.
Star and Moon briefly argue over their conflicting views regarding monsters in «Starfari» and regarding Eclipsa and Meteora in «The Bogbeast of Boggabah». However, they still manage to work together to expose the Magic High Commission’s lies in «Butterfly Trap», and she goes to find Moon in the Realm of Magic in «Divide».
In «Pizza Party», when Moon reveals that she is conspiring with Mina to remove Eclipsa from power, Star calls her a traitor and even attacks her out of anger, kick-starting a whole new level of distrust for her mother. This continues in «The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse», with Star refusing to even let Moon talk to her and demanding that she stay away from her.
In «Cleaved», after Star and Moon work together to destroy magic, Moon expresses how deeply sorry she is for everything, and Star forgives her, hoping to create a new age without magic where «moms make mistakes» and make up for them.
Rafael and Angie Diaz
Star winning over Marco’s parents.
When Star first arrives at the Diaz Household, she immediately wins over Marco’s parents with her bubbly personality. The three get along well and enjoy all the time they spend together, demonstrated in «Diaz Family Vacation» (where Star calls the two of them «cool»). Star also seems to enjoy their lovey-dovey behavior. In «Hungry Larry», Star summons Hungry Larry to help Rafael make his haunted house scarier. In Star and Marco’s Guide to Mastering Every Dimension, Star says she considers Angie as her second mom. In «Doop-Doop», when Star returns to the Diaz Household, Rafael and Angie welcome her with open arms and introduce her to Marco’s newborn sister Mariposa.
Tom Lucitor
Star dancing with Tom.
Tom is first introduced as Star’s ex-boyfriend. In his initial appearances, he still has feelings for her, but Star does not feel the same way and often pushes him away. However, she is willing to at least give him a chance to prove that he had changed and dealt with his anger issues in «Blood Moon Ball». When it becomes clear that he had not, she responds by freezing him when he tries to attack Marco.
In «Mr. Candle Cares», when Tom uses Mr. Candle to tell Star that all she is good for is being queen, he later realizes that he cannot win Star’s affections by force (with Marco’s help), and apologized for trying to manipulate her. Although Star is on better terms with him after this, she still balks at the idea of spending time with him, as seen in «Friendenemies».
In «Club Snubbed», Star misinterprets Tom’s wishes to give her space at the Silver Bell Ball as blatantly ignoring her, which causes them to argue. However, after they share a magical dance, they start over on much friendlier terms. In «Demoncism», Star and Tom hold hands on their way back from the demoncism, hinting at their rekindling romance. In «Lava Lake Beach», Tom calls Star his girlfriend, and they share their first on-screen kiss.
In «Monster Bash», Tom tries to spend time with Star, but she is too preoccupied with the Mewman/monster party to pay attention to him, causing some minor tension in their relationship. However, after the threat of Mina Loveberry is dealt with, they reconcile.
In «Is Another Mystery», it is shown that Star defaults to Marco, rather than Tom, when investigating Buff Frog’s disappearance, something that Tom is noticeably disappointed at. However, she is grateful to Tom for his attempts to convince monsterkind to stay in Mewni.
In «Lake House Fever», she spends time with Tom and his family at their beach house, revisiting past memories of the first time she and Tom were dating. At one point, she finds out that Tom is aware of the kiss she and Marco shared in «Booth Buddies», and had told his mother about it, leaving Star upset that he didn’t tell her he knew. When Tom is almost swept away by a lava riptide, Star saves him and decides to stay with him and his family a little longer.
In «Junkin’ Janna», Star texts Tom on her phone while waiting to meet with the Magic High Commission, finding his silly antics adorable. In «Doop-Doop», Tom and Star begin to drift apart when Star is unable to decide whether or not she wants to go on a vacation with him.
In «Sad Teen Hotline», after going on a trip by himself and doing some soul-searching, Tom breaks up with Star when it becomes clear her life is taking a different direction than his. Despite the heartbreak from this, Star is willing to remain friends with Tom afterward. In «Cleaved», the two share a hug after reuniting.
Oskar Greason
Star talking to Oskar.
Star develops a crush on Oskar in «Cheer Up, Star.» She is highly impressed that he has «a record», and she fantasizes about being with him, much to Marco’s annoyance when he is having a flashback. She gets upset when he doesn’t call her, but she is happy again when he eventually does.
In «Mewberty», Oskar is the focus of Star’s new found attention on boys. After her transformation into a purple butterfly-like humanoid, she kidnaps both Oskar and his car and lifts him up to the sky. Unexpectedly, she then drops Oskar and his car back to Earth, before returning to her normal state.
In «Star on Wheels», Oskar helps Marco save Star from a runaway bike ride. In the end, Star apologizes to Oskar about his broken car and offers him a ride home on Marco’s bike. In «Girls’ Day Out», Star is unable to even speak with Oskar without becoming incoherently lovestruck.
In «Starcrushed», they both attend a party on the roof of the Stop & Slurp. While there, they share a conversation and connect in a small manner. Star’s revelation of her crush on Marco is an indication that she is no longer interested in Oskar. When they meet again in «Britta’s Tacos», Star treats him like she would any other acquaintance of hers.
Alfonzo and Ferguson
Star dozing next to Alfonzo and Ferguson due to exhaustion.
Since Star is friends with Marco, she has also befriended his other two friends Alfonzo and Ferguson. In «Monster Arm», they help wake her up so she could change Marco’s mutated arm back to normal. In «Pixtopia», they accompany her and Marco to the pixie dimension, where she ends up having to save the two of them.
Star seems to have drifted apart from them after the first season. In «Collateral Damage», she admits that she hasn’t spoken to them «all year». In Deep Trouble, Star is weirded out by the fact that they regularly sneak into her room and play with her magical items while she and Marco are away on adventures.
StarFan13
Star high-fiving her fan.
As her name suggests, StarFan13 is a huge fan of Star Butterfly, as she gets excited whenever she sees her idol. In return, Star is friendly towards her, even wallpapering her locker with pictures of StarFan13, and inviting her to take part in the Mewnipendance Day Reenactment, making her one of the «heroic» Mewmans battling against the «evil» monsters. In «Sleepover», Star invites her to her first slumber party. In «Collateral Damage», Star declares StarFan13 «the second best [Star] there is», and in «Starcrushed», Star includes her in her circle of close friends.
Brittney Wong
Brittney being annoyed by Star.
For the most part, Star is oblivious to the extreme dislike Brittney holds for her. She often acts as if Brittney is her friend (even trying to do fun things for her at her birthday party), but Brittney is always rebuffed and annoyed with her presence. Despite this, there are occasions when Star is actually put off by Brittney’s poor behavior, like when Brittney hair-whips a laser puppy Star had conjured for her birthday gift; she declares the act «not cool».
In «Collateral Damage», Star declares that Brittney is judgmental and mean, but suggests that she acts as such in order to encourage her fellow students to continue being better than possums.
Janna Ordonia
Star and Janna hanging out.
Star and Janna are friendly towards each other at first (enough for Star to invite Janna to her Mewnipendance Day re-enactment and have her play a Mewman), but they develop a stronger bond in «Girls’ Day Out» after Janna proclaims her «mayor of detention». The two have hung out together regularly since, such as in «Sleepover» and «Face the Music».
Janna is also included in Star’s circle of close friends in «Starcrushed». She also reaches out to Janna for help with her dilemmas in «Rest in Pudding» and «Deep Dive». In «Out of Business», when Janna unexpectedly shows up on Mewni, Star is happy to bring her along on her and Marco’s trip to Quest Buy. Star also shows concern for Janna in «Jannanigans», despite believing earlier that she was deliberately wasting her and her friends’ time.
Jackie Lynn Thomas
Star and Jackie talking.
Star and Jackie are friendly with each other, but Star is initially more interested in trying to get her and Marco together. Several episodes show them getting along, such as «Sleepover» and «Just Friends», but in «Bon Bon the Birthday Clown», she gets so distracted by thoughts of Marco and Jackie’s date that she spies on them, and her jealousy unintentionally causes their skateboard ride to crash and mess up her Mystic Room Suck Transform spell.
In «Sophomore Slump», Jackie bears no ill will toward Star when she breaks up with Marco, understanding that his friendship with Star is stronger than their relationship.
In Star and Marco’s Guide to Mastering Every Dimension, Star seems to speak a little passive-aggressively about and toward Jackie. In Jackie’s bio, Star describes her as «pretty rad» and «supercool»,[52] but she acts uncomfortable during Jackie’s interview about her feelings for Marco, and she awkwardly ends the interview afterward.[53]
Glossaryck
Star explaining her situation to Glossaryck.
As Glossaryck is her magic instructor (and a long-time advisor to the Butterfly family), Star is on generally good terms with him, though his teachings often go over her head, and she can even become frustrated with his methods. She does care about him though, assuring him that he is her friend in «By the Book», and becoming distraught when Ludo kidnaps him in «Bon Bon the Birthday Clown».
In «Raid the Cave», Star tries to rescue him, but he refuses to go with her, which she harbors some resentment over in «Crystal Clear». She holds onto that resentment and expresses it towards him in «Toffee» when she reunites with him in purgatory. Regardless of this, Star comes to grips with Glossaryck’s apparent passing in «Rest in Pudding» and admits that she appreciates Glossaryck for always being there for her and trusting her to figure things out on her own. After his restoration, she becomes his caretaker due to his impaired mind.
In «Butterfly Follies», Star turns to Glossaryck for help in finding her mother, despite the irritation he typically causes her.
In «Cleaved», Star shows concern for Glossaryck when he chooses to stay in the collapsing realm of magic, and hears him admit that he’s proud of her.
Mina Loveberry
Star and Mina training to be warriors.
Star first meets Mina Loveberry in «Starstruck» and idolizes her as a hero of Mewni, despite her apparent insanity. Mina agrees to teach Star how to be a warrior, deeming the two of them «Mud Sisters», and Star follows her every word. However, when Mina later wants Star to help her take over the Earth, Star refuses, and Mina leaves before a serious fight starts. At the very end of the episode, Mina appears heartbroken over her falling-out with her «Mud Sister».
In «Monster Bash», Star and Mina end up in direct opposition to each’s ideas other when Star’s desire to unite Mewmans and monsters clashes with Mina’s prejudice toward monsters. When Star protects Miss Heinous—revealed to be a member of the Butterfly family—and frees the monsters that Mina captured, Mina declares her a traitor, and a battle breaks out between them before Mina escapes. Their opposing views come to a head again in «Here to Help» when she presumed it was Mina fighting Eclipsa. In «Pizza Party», she sadly and shamefully recalls how she used to look up to Mina. In «The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse», Star becomes so desperate to defeat Mina that she is willing to destroy magic to do so.
Eclipsa Butterfly
Star and Eclipsa viewing the garden.
Star first learns about Eclipsa in «Into the Wand», calling her a bad girl after learning about her past. When Star meets her in person in «Stranger Danger», the two strike up an instant friendship. After learning the truth about why Eclipsa was imprisoned, Star convinces her mother and the Magic High Commission to give her a fair trial. Though Star is still a little distrustful of Eclipsa, she confides in her about her problems in «Lint Catcher» and «Sweet Dreams».
In «Butterfly Trap», Star works with Eclipsa and Moon to find out what really happened to Eclipsa’s daughter Meteora. Though she becomes upset to discover she isn’t related to Eclipsa, Star sets her free despite the trial’s guilty verdict. In «Conquer», as a result of both being stressed from queenly duties and not feeling like a true Butterfly, Star relinquishes her wand to Eclipsa, in the hopes of making amends for the damage caused to the latter’s family.
In season 4, Star becomes Eclipsa’s informal confidante and advisor, helping her out in times of need and guiding her when she comes close to performing actions that would make her subjects lose trust in her.
In «Surviving the Spiderbites» and «The Monster and the Queen», Star begins to doubt her trust in Eclipsa after learning Globgor ate King Shastacan and after Eclipsa invades Star’s mind to find the piece of the Book of Spells she had in her closet. Her faith is further tested in «Cornonation» when it is suspected that Eclipsa released Globgor from his prison, but her faith is restored when it is revealed that Rhombulus had released him in an attempt to frame Eclipsa.
After Moon revealed she had Mina working for her and created the Solarian Warriors to overthrow Eclipsa in «Here to Help» and «Pizza Party», Star chooses to side with Eclipsa over her, demanding that Moon stay away from her.
Powers and abilities
- Royal Magic Wand: Star wields the Butterfly family’s royal magic wand which grants her multiple magical powers, though she does not fully understand them yet. She can summon many different creations or change anything she wants with the wand just by saying spells and pointing it. Star can also transform her wand into other things, like a mace[45] or umbrella.[54] In «Conquer», she returned the wand to Eclipsa.
- Hand-to-hand/armed combat: Star also knows how to fight without the wand, either fighting unarmed or using a weapon. As a toddler, she was taught how to break a neck with her bare hands[45] and the art of swordsmanship[55] by the Mewni royal guard.
- Agility/dexterity: Star demonstrates tremendous agility and physical prowess throughout the series, such as sprints, mid-air flips, and perfect balance.
- Mewberty form: In «Mewberty», Star goes through mewberty and develops a «half-butterfly» form that grants her flight and web-shooting powers. As of The Battle for Mewni, Star’s mewberty form becomes considerably more powerful after she gains a new wand. In «Sweet Dreams», Star can also travel between dimensions in this form without dimensional scissors. Star gains full control over this form in «Deep Dive». As seen in «Conquer» Star’s mewberty form also increases the power of her spells exponentially to the point where her attacks are able to hurt an empowered Meteora.
- Innate magic: In «My New Wand!», Star learns to «dip down» and access the innate magic within her own body and amplify her wand’s magic. According to Baby, Star is the strongest innate magic user since Queen Eclipsa. In «Toffee», Star proves powerful enough to restart magic throughout the universe by using her innate magic to birth a new Millhorse from the last fragment of magical energy in the universe. By season 4, Star has become very proficient in casting magic spells without a wand.
- Flight: In «Mewberty», Star grows a pair of small wings and can use them to fly temporarily. She is shown using these wings to cross over a sinkhole in «Star on Wheels». After gaining full control over her Mewberty form, she is able to fly freely and practically effortlessly.
- Creativity: Star has also demonstrated a talent for paper cutting,[39] painting,[56] and drawing. She also makes up her own spells using her imagination.
- Equestrianism: In «Star Comes to Earth», Star states in narration that she tames wild unicorns as a hobby. In «Raid the Cave», she briefly engages in combat while on horseback.
- Diplomacy: Star has shown great charisma in her goal to achieve equality between mewmans and monsters. She was able to garner respect and admiration from the monsters and was able to bring momentary peace between mewmans and monsters during «Monster Bash». In «Is Another Mystery» Buff Frog tells her that he and the other monsters will return, once Star becomes the ruler of Mewni.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Translation |
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| Cantonese | 星星蝴蝶 Xīngxīng Húdié |
Star Butterfly |
| Mandarin Chinese (Mainland) | 星蝶 Xīng Dié |
Star Butterfly |
| Czech | Star/Hvězduše Motýlova | Star Butterfly |
| Dutch | Star Vlinder | Star Butterfly |
| Greek | Σταρ Μπάτερφλαϊ | Star Butterfly |
| Hungarian | Pillangó Csillag | Star Butterfly* |
| Hebrew | סטאר באטרפליי | Star Butterfly |
| Japanese | スターバタフライ Sutā Batafurai |
Star Butterfly |
| Korean | 스타 버터플라이 Seuta Beoteopeulai |
Star Butterfly |
| Norwegian | Sarah Sommerfugl* | Sarah Butterfly |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Star Borboleta | Star Butterfly |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Star Butterfly | Star Butterfly |
| Russian | Звёздочка Баттерфляй Zvyozdochka Butterflyay** |
Little Star Butterfly |
| Romanian | Stea Fluture | Star Butterfly |
| Swedish | Ester Fjäril*** | Ester Butterfly |
| Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan) | 星星蝶舞 Xīngxīng Dié Wǔ |
Star Butterfly Dance |
| Spanish | Star Butterfly | Star Butterfly |
*using Hungarian name order as «Butterfly Star»
**Was referred to as Star Princess in Flash games and other media.
***Addressed this in character dialogue but called Star in the series title and synopses.
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Trivia
- Besides the opening and ending sequences, Star has appeared in every episode except «Is Mystery», «The Hard Way», «Moon the Undaunted», «Book Be Gone», «Marco and the King», «King Ludo», «Sophomore Slump», «Holiday Spellcial», «Tough Love», «Down by the River», «Kelly’s World», «Princess Quasar Caterpillar and the Magic Bell», «Ghost of Butterfly Castle», «Meteora’s Lesson» «A Spell with No Name», and «A Boy and His DC-700XE». She appeared in «Ludo, Where Art Thou?» only by proxy as a doll created by Ludo. In «Skooled!», only her voice is featured.
- At the beginning of the series, Star is 14 years old. As of «Stump Day», she is 15.
- In earlier conceptual versions of the series, Star was a grade school student who didn’t have magic powers but believed she did. After someone suggested that she make Star older and have real magic powers, Daron Nefcy changed her into a princess from a different dimension.[57]
- In an early concept of Star, she had a pet cat named Cashew.[58]
- According to series creator Daron Nefcy, Star’s favorite color is yellow.[59] This is supported by the episode «Sleepover», although Star later states in the same episode that her favorite color is constantly changing.
- In earlier conceptual versions of the show, Star and Marco were enemies instead of friends, and Marco was named «Sol».[60]
- Star herself has confirmed in «Mewnipendance Day» that she and the other people from Mewni are not humans. Rather, they are a humanoid species called «Mewmans».
- Although it was revealed in «Mama Star» that the first Mewmans were human settlers who had found their way to Mewni.
- Star has the tendency to open closed doors by kicking them, which annoys her mother.[61]
- In «Ludo in the Wild», Star is shown jumping extremely high. However, this could be because she is on Mewni, she is a Mewman, or she is merely a hallucination of Ludo’s.
- Star Butterfly’s character was influenced by many anime heroines that Daron Nefcy admired, such as the female leads of Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Revolutionary Girl Utena.[62]
- In season 1, Star’s tongue is dark red, but in season 2, it is a lighter shade of red.
- In the Korean dub, Star yells out, «샤방샤방! (Shabang Shabang!)» prior to casting a spell. It means «Sparkle Sparkle!» in Korean.
- In the Japanese dub, she (as well as many characters from Mewni) speaks with Kansai/Osaka dialect.
- In the Filipino dub, she (as well as the majority of the characters) speaks with a slight Batangueño dialect.
- Star’s birthday falls on Stump Day. However, Star doesn’t traditionally celebrate her birthday on Stump Day so that she can observe the holiday and not anger the Stump.
- For this reason, it is likely that Star’s 14th birthday was postponed to January (according to the mewman calendar), considering that when she moved to Echo Creek, the school was open.
- In Star and Marco’s Guide to Mastering Every Dimension, it is revealed that Star chews on her wand because it tastes like caramel corn. The book also says that the wand tastes different to each wielder.
- «Butterfly Trap» reveals that Star, along with any other queen who ruled after Eclipsa, is not a true-blooded member of the Butterfly family due to Festivia the Fun, the replacement heir for Eclipsa’s half-monster daughter Meteora, being a peasant.
- However, because her father River was a prince of the Johansen family and her 5th great-grandfather was Prince Musty Mountains, she is still a princess by birth.
- «Lake House Fever» reveals that Star got her horns on her second date with Tom. Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells supported this as she states in the book that she bought them herself while on said date with Tom.
- According to Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells, Star has at least some ancestral ties with demons due to her third great-grandmother Rhina Butterfly’s marriage to John Roachley, a second cousin to the Lucitor family.
- Star had the shortest reign as Queen of Mewni, right after Lyric Butterfly, who abdicated the throne early to her daughter Skywynne because she was bored.
- In the Big City Greens episode «Present Tense», a doll of Star can be seen in the claw machine at the arcade.
- Star’s Butterfly form bears a stronger resemblance to the swallow-tailed moth rather than a butterfly.
- This is possibly hinting to the fact she is not a true descendant of the Butterfly lineage, but rather of Festivia’s lineage.
- Star speaks the first and last lines in the series.
- Star appears in the Disney Broken Karaoke musical short «Sidekicks» (a parody of the song «Kicks» from the 2022 Disney+ film Sneakerella),[63] and she is set to be featured in the crossover animated series Chibiverse alongside many other Disney Channel characters.[64]
- According to a Q&A session with the show creators, when asked what the main characters are doing since the series ended, they said Star would be traveling the globe, exploring herself, and learning to do things without magic. They also suggested that she may discover that magic isn’t actually dead.[65]
References
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- “’Forbidden’? Is that what they’re calling my chapter?”
- ―Eclipsa Butterfly[src]
Eclipsa Butterfly, also known as Eclipsa the Queen of Darkness, is the 29th and 38th Queen of the Kingdom of Mewni.[5] Once presumed to be Star Butterfly’s sixth great-grandmother and Moon Butterfly’s fifth great-grandmother, she is later revealed to be the mother of Meteora Butterfly. She is first alluded to in «Into the Wand».
Eclipsa unofficially regains her status as Queen of Mewni after Star gives the wand back to her in «Conquer», and she officially regains her status in «Cornonation», up until she returns the wand to Moon in «Pizza Party».
Appearance
Eclipsa has pale skin, poofy teal hair, mauve eyes, and raspberry red spade-shaped marks on her cheeks. She wears a long, dark purple Gothic-themed dress with a brown ring at the waist, a large black sun hat with gray and white feathers and a thorny branch, a white cravat with a blue crescent moon on it, long mauve gloves, and black flats with pale purple socks. Eclipsa also has maroon-colored lipstick and black mascara and purple eye shadow. Underneath her gloves, her hands are dark purple with purple veins sprouting out on her arms. Eclipsa also wears a wedding ring on the middle finger of her left hand. She is 5′ 2″ (1.57 m) tall.[5]
In «Stranger Danger», it is revealed that, without her hat, Eclipsa’s hair reaches down to her waist. She does not wear the cravat around her neck.
In «Sweet Dreams» and «Total Eclipsa the Moon», she wears pink-and-white pajamas with spades, a purple bandanna, and white furry slippers.
In «Butterfly Trap», Eclipsa dons a red dress with a red coat and red flats along with a white beaded necklace and cuffs alongside her usual purple gloves, wedding ring, and her hat. In the same episode, it’s revealed that as queen, Eclipsa wore a long grey dress with translucent fabric over the shoulders and a black broach around the neck, grey flats, and a gold crown very similar to Moon’s. Her hair also appeared a bit wider.
In her Butterfly Form in «Cleaved», Eclipsa has six arms, large purple wings, and two furry antennae, and her hair stands up slightly. As of this episode, her arms are also cleansed of their black veins (due to being plunged into the liquid magic), and she no longer has cheek marks (due to the destruction of magic itself).
History
According to Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells, Eclipsa was born to Solaria Butterfly. When she was still young, she snuck out of the castle and its here that she seems to have first met Globgor. During the next round of negotiations with the monsters, Eclipsa snuck out again and met Globgor there. However, her mother saw them and, believing Globgor had kidnapped her, attacked him, causing Eclipsa to cry. Over the years, Eclipsa and Globgor would continue to meet up in secret and their relationship eventually blossomed into a romance.
As Solaria’s only child, Eclipsa was to be designated the heir apparent and as such, her mother passed the royal wand onto her when she turned 14. A few years later, when Eclipsa was still a teenager, Queen Solaria was killed in an ambush and Eclipsa inherited the throne. Throughout her rule, she secretly worked with Globgor to secure peace with the monsters. However, in her will, Solaria demanded Eclipsa marry Prince Shastacan from the Spiderbite Kingdom for political reasons. Eclipsa complied with her late mother’s wishes, despite Shastacan’s repellent personality and sole interest in marrying for status. At first the two gave each other space, until Shastacan wanted her to bear his children to continue the royal line. This caused Eclipsa to reveal her love for Globgor and henceforth she became known as the «Queen of Darkness.» Eclipsa eventually left the kingdom, believing it to be for the best.
Details on what happened next are sparse, but Eclipsa seems to have moved in with Globgor at the Monster Temple where the two had their child, Meteora Butterfly. However, at some point Shastacan and the Magic High Commission found Eclipsa and her family, now believing she was evil due to her loving a monster. While the exact order of what followed is unclear, Eclipsa and Globgor ended up being crystallized by Rhombulus and held in the Crystal Dimension and Monster Temple respectively, while Shastacan took Meteora and gave her to St. Olga, before being eaten by Globgor.
In the episode «Into the Wand», Star Butterfly travels inside her magic wand and learns about some of her royal ancestors via the tapestries in what she calls the «Grandma Room» of Butterfly Castle. According to a passage inscribed on her tapestry’s pedestal, Eclipsa was wed to the Mewman king Shastacan, but she took a monster named Globgor as her lover and ran away with him.
During her life, Eclipsa developed a number of spells that were (or would later come to be) associated with dark magic, including the All-Seeing Eye.[6] These spells were recorded in the pages of the wand’s Magic Instruction Book, and her entire chapter was deemed «forbidden» and sealed behind a skull-shaped lock (which could only be opened by Glossaryck) to prevent others from reading them. She is also the only queen who never questioned Glossaryck’s teaching methods.[7]
According to Baby in the episode of the same name, Eclipsa had a very high affinity for magic compared to other queens, rivaled only by Star herself. It is also presumed from a remark by King Butterfly that Eclipsa harbored sympathy for Mewni’s monsters, a sentiment shared by very few of her fellow Mewmans and royals.
In «Crystal Clear», Eclipsa is seen among the various interdimensional creatures that Rhombulus has imprisoned in crystal.
In Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni, Eclipsa appears in Queen Moon’s flashback. Rhombulus briefly unfreezes part of her body so Moon can make a deal with her in order to defeat Toffee. Upon being unfrozen, Eclipsa asks Moon for a chocolate bar from the nearby vending machine, having gone for several centuries without any food, and she sympathizes with Moon, since they both lost their mothers at a young age. When Moon asks Eclipsa to teach her a spell that can kill an immortal, Eclipsa agrees in exchange for her eventual freedom, and they form a magical contract. As soon as they strike the deal, however, Rhombulus immediately freezes Eclipsa again. In the present, following Toffee’s defeat and a brief visit from Moon, part of Eclipsa’s crystal prison cracks, hinting at an eventual escape.
In «Stranger Danger», Eclipsa meets Star Butterfly after escaping from her crystal prison, and the two strike up a friendship. However, once her escape is discovered, the Magic High Commission put her in a dungeon. Although she is revealed to have committed several questionable acts in the past, including eloping with a monster, the Commission is unsure if she is truly evil, and Star convinces them to give Eclipsa a fair trial.
In «Lint Catcher», Eclipsa appears to be under some form of house arrest until her trial, chained by her ankle to a tree with dragon shackles as she feeds the local birds, and helps Star with her troubles concerning Marco. Eclipsa warns Star that, contrary to popular opinion, attending to the laundry is the most dangerous job in the castle, prompting Star to rescue Marco.
In «Sweet Dreams», Eclipsa saves Marco and Star from being lost in the void. When Marco reacts to her presence with hostility, she playfully mocks his karate stance. After Star ejects Marco from her room, she and Eclipsa talk, with Eclipsa revealing she managed to escape her confinement in her tower through the use of secret passages. Eclipsa encourages Star to embrace the dreams she’s been having and see where they lead, telling her «all knowledge is good knowledge». Eclipsa then goes back to her tower through a passageway behind a picture on Star’s bedroom wall.
In «Monster Bash», Eclipsa is revealed to be the mother of Meteora Butterfly, the true identity of Miss Heinous.
In «Total Eclipsa the Moon», Eclipsa helps Queen Moon solve a mystery involving the true identity of Eclipsa’s daughter, with Moon reluctantly allowing Eclipsa to accompany her to the Bureaucracy of Magic’s royal archives. Inside the archives, Eclipsa discovers that all records of her daughter Meteora were replaced by Festivia the Fun. After escaping detection by the Magic High Commission, Eclipsa is distraught at the erasure of her daughter’s existence, but Moon believes that her daughter is still alive.
In «Butterfly Trap», Eclipsa’s trial is held, which reveals that her daughter’s erasure from the Mewni records was orchestrated by the Magic High Commission on orders from her ex-husband King Shastacan. Despite being found guilty of «crimes against Mewmanity», Star nonetheless sets her free.
In «Tough Love», Eclipsa works together with Moon to find Meteora as she wreaks destruction across Mewni. Upon reuniting with her daughter, Eclipsa tries to reason with her using tough love. When that fails, Moon attempts to capture and incapacitate Meteora by force, but Eclipsa intervenes, resulting in an attack that leaves Moon in a vulnerable state and forcing her to escape through a portal.
In «Divide», Eclipsa informs Star of everything that happened during the events of «Tough Love», and Star confines her to her chambers to prevent her from intervening during the upcoming battle against Meteora. In «Conquer», Eclipsa escapes her confinement and is forced to once again take up the royal magic wand to defeat Meteora once and for all. After Meteora is reverted to a baby, Eclipsa takes her and leaves Mewni to be with her husband Globgor again.
In «Butterfly Follies», Eclipsa becomes the new queen of Mewni after Star relinquishes the throne to her. As queen, she forbids the wrongful imprisonment and mistreatment of monsters. She also has the monsters to help her free Globgor from his crystal prison, only to no avail.
In «Moon Remembers», she is overjoyed to see Queen Moon safe, and the two greet on friendly terms, bonding over guitar-playing and chat at the royal dinner.
In «Swim Suit», she engages in a battle with Rhombulus after he refused to free Globgor from his crystal prison, and attacks with several dark magic spells, including a body-swap charm in hopes of freeing her husband herself. She is eventually persuaded by Star to stop, and shows remorse for her actions.
In «Yada Yada Berries», Eclipsa learns of a plot by someone in the kingdom to turn her to stone and that her popularity among Mewmans (and even some monsters) is very low. Despite this, she seeks to turn public opinion of herself around, going on Pony Head’s self-made talk show in «The Ponyhead Show!» to do so. In «Surviving the Spiderbites», she hosts a gathering at the temple with the Spiderbite royal family, eventually gaining their favor, and she reveals that she wants to restore the Magic Book of Spells so that she can learn more advanced spells. In «Curse of the Blood Moon», Marco talks with Eclipsa regarding his feelings for Star.
In «The Knight Shift», Eclipsa holds a knighting ceremony for several new Knights of Mewni, including Marco. In «Queen-Napped», she is part of an elaborate social media hoax pulled off by Pony Head and her sisters to increase her popularity. In «Junkin’ Janna, Eclipsa meets with the Magic High Commission to discuss a potential new threat to Mewni.
In «The Monster and the Queen», Eclipsa uses her magic to go inside Globgor’s mind and spend time with him. When he learns that the kingdom is still scared of him, he chooses to remain trapped in crystal until they accept him.
In «Cornonation», Eclipsa’s official queen coronation is held, but the festivities are interrupted by Globgor’s sudden release from his crystal prison, and the Magic High Commission immediately suspect her. After Globgor runs away to try and protect his family and Star convinces him to return, it is revealed that Rhombulus released Globgor to prove he’s nothing but a monster. However, the Mewmans witness the love Globgor has for his wife and daughter, the Mewmans come to accept him, allowing Eclipsa to have her family together again.
In «Ready, Aim, Fire», Eclipsa defends the Monster Temple when it suddenly comes under attack by Mina Loveberry in a giant suit of armor. In «The Right Way», Eclipsa uses the Total Annihilation Spell to destroy Mina’s suit of armor. However, it is revealed that it was not Mina inside the armor and that Mina was on her way to the Monster Temple with an entire army of newly-created Solarian Warriors.
In «Here to Help», Eclipsa gets into a confrontation with Moon when it is also revealed that Moon conspired with Mina to remove Eclipsa from power. When Moon demands that Eclipsa step down as queen and leave Mewni with her family in exchange for calling off Mina’s attack, Eclipsa begrudgingly acquiesces. However, Mina betrays Moon and carries out her plot to wipe out all monsters, causing Eclipsa to flee with Star, Marco, Moon, and Meteora (with Hekapoo’s help) in «Pizza Party».
In «The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse», Eclipsa consoles Moon after Star disowns her for her actions, and offers to play pool with her, holding no grudge regarding Moon’s actions at all.
In «Cleaved», Eclipsa helps Star destroy all magic. While doing this, the ghost of the previous queens appear before them, including her mother Queen Solaria. While initially shunning her, after accomplishing their goal, the two have a brief heart-to-heart and seemingly reconcile when Solaria accepts Meteora. After Globgor is healed of his wounds and the family is together again, Eclipsa decides to enroll Meteora in kindergarten.
Personality
When introduced in «Moon the Undaunted», Eclipsa is portrayed as calm, approachable, and sympathetic to young Moon’s loss of her mother, despite her reputation as a queen of evil. Her demeanor toward Moon, however, provides little indication towards her true nature and motives, and she was initially hesitant to teach Moon her darkest spell. In «Stranger Danger», she bears no ill will toward her jailers, despite her long time in crystal captivity, and she displays a carefree, fun-loving attitude similar to Star’s own. As of «Sweet Dreams», she maintains her calm demeanor and is more than willing to help Star, from warning her about the dangers of the castle laundry room to rescuing her from being trapped in a different dimension. She also has a playful side to her, casually telling Star to «call [her] a villainess» for her perceived crimes, then later responding to Marco’s hostility with light-hearted teasing when the two of them first meet.
Unlike most magic users in the show, Eclipsa takes a more academic approach to magic, exploring «dark magics» for the sake of knowledge rather than malice. She notably encourages Star to ride out her unconscious Mewberty transformations to discover what they mean, and states her opinion is that «all knowledge is good knowledge».
Even after three centuries, Eclipsa has no regrets about abandoning her own kingdom and lawful husband, King Shastacan, for a monster. She cares deeply for her monster husband Globgor and is determined to discover the whereabouts of their daughter, Meteora. When she finally does locate Meteora, she attempts to convince her to halt her rampage, and prevents Moon from killing her. But when it becomes clear that Meteora cannot be reasoned with, Eclipsa, with a heavy heart, attempts to do the job herself. She is initially heartbroken when she appears to succeed, then overjoyed to learn that her attack only regressed Meteora back to her infant self.
This sense of doing what is best for the people over what is best for herself is evident again in «Surviving the Spiderbites» where she expresses a resigned willingness to sacrifice her attempts to reunite with Globgor if it means putting her allies at ease. Her love for Globgor was most notably shown when despite how dangerous Mewni was, she demanded the dimensional scissors from Hekapoo to go back and help him anyways.
She has a fondness for chocolate bars and roses, consuming a whole bucket of Snookers bars over the course of an afternoon.
In «The Ponyhead Show!», Eclipsa shows a strong sense of self-pride, stating that she would rather be hated being herself than be loved and adored pretending to be someone else.
In «Junkin’ Janna», she has an intolerance towards people being tardy and prefers punctuality, evident by how she complained about the Magic High Commission being late with annoyance.
She has also shown to be quite impulsive at times, such as when «negotiating» with Rhombulus in «Swim Suit», and is shown to resort to using dark magic to achieve her goals when desperate. By the end of the episode, however, she comes to realize this aspect of her personality only further deepens the huge degrees of mistrust people have for her, and she strives to change her ways.
Eclipsa also demonstrates a great willingness to forgive others; she forgave Moon for her coup in «Pizza Party», and she also reconciles with the ghost of her mother Solaria in «Cleaved».
Powers and abilities
- Royal Magic Wand: As a queen of Mewni, Eclipsa once wielded the royal magic wand, taking the form of a parasol in her possession. Although Baby claims that she had the greatest magical potential she had ever seen before Star, Eclipsa never learned to use magic without the wand, though in «Tough Love» she used magic without a wand against Moon. After retaking possession of the wand in «Conquer», Eclipsa demonstrates incredible power with its magic, being able to overpower and defeat Meteora as well as duel and incapacitate Rhombulus. This is further demonstrated in «Ready, Aim, Fire», when she battles against a Solarian Warrior.
- Creativity: Eclipsa is infamous for her creation and use of dark magic, creating many dark spells that would be logged into the Book of Spells and some of which never made it into the final draft. She has also displayed her creativity by making a guitar out of a skeleton.
- Music: Eclipsa displays a talent for singing and playing the guitar in «Total Eclipsa the Moon», «Moon Remembers», «The Ponyhead Show!», «The Monster and the Queen», and «Cornonation».
- Ultimate Magic Form: In «Cleaved», Eclipsa briefly gains access to her butterfly-like mewberty form.
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Trivia
- Eclipsa was designed by Jushtin Lee.[8]
- Eclipsa is voiced by Esmé Bianco, who is best known for her recurring role as Ros in Game of Thrones.
- Like the hearts on Star Butterfly’s cheeks, the diamonds on Queen Butterfly’s cheeks, and the clubs on Meteora’s (Miss Heinous) cheeks, the marks on Eclipsa’s cheeks are also themed after one of the four suits in playing cards — in Eclipsa’s case, spades.
- When in Eclipsa’s possession, the royal magic wand resembles a closed parasol with a long handle, the wand’s head has black wings, the bell resembles an orb, and it has a black crescent on top.
- Due to the possibility of Rhombulus having imprisoned innocent people, it is unclear whether Eclipsa was frozen for being evil or merely under suspicion of being evil.
- Due to Eclipsa’s «black sheep» status in the Butterfly family, Star did not know about her existence until «Into the Wand».[9]
- Eclipsa’s dark veins are a very common trait in many media with dark-embodied creatures, indicating that darkness (or similar form of dark magic) is devouring its host. The signs can also symbolize death, if not treated (e.g. Star’s mother feeling pain on her arms as an adult rather than at a young age when she had no pain), however, they usually are just a physical trait that symbolizes evil.
- Until «Butterfly Trap», Eclipsa doesn’t know anything about Festivia, who replaced Meteora as her daughter in the Butterfly records.
- In «Total Eclipsa the Moon», Eclipsa reveals she does not know how to «dip down», or use magic without the wand.
- Eclipsa and her daughter, Meteora, are the last living true-blooded members of the Butterfly family.
- From «Conquer» to «Pizza Party», Eclipsa is the owner of the Royal Magic Wand.
- Eclipsa is the last true-blooded member of the Butterfly family to wield the Royal Magic Wand.
- Eclipsa shares some similarities with Sailor Saturn and Sailor Pluto from the Sailor Moon series, including her reputation as a terrible person who dabbled in dark magic, whispering the names of her spells,[10] and her Black Velvet Inferno spell, which shares its effect with Sailor Saturn’s Death Reborn Revolution.
- According to the book Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells, Eclipsa was forced to marry King Shastacan as ordered in her mother Solaria’s will. In life, Solaria had been trying to set them up for some time.[11]
- Solaria described Eclipsa as being very intelligent and clever for her age, and loved how she liked to explore the castle’s secrets and passageways.
- «Swim Suit» reveals that Eclipsa doesn’t know how to reverse her spells, having never needed to do so before, though she learns how to with help from Star.
- It can be assumed that Eclipsa is born out of wedlock since her father is never stated as her mother’s husband in the first place.
- As of «The Monster and the Queen», Eclipsa may have had her ears pierced, as it was a requirement for her to free Globgor with the Crystal Pulverizing Spell from the Book of Spells.
- In Eclipsa’s own words in «Here to Help», she’s a «nervous eater».
- A flashback in «Pizza Party» shows that Eclipsa shared her love of Snookers bars with her mother, Solaria.
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- “’Forbidden’? Is that what they’re calling my chapter?”
- ―Eclipsa Butterfly[src]
Eclipsa Butterfly, also known as Eclipsa the Queen of Darkness, is the 29th and 38th Queen of the Kingdom of Mewni.[5] Once presumed to be Star Butterfly’s sixth great-grandmother and Moon Butterfly’s fifth great-grandmother, she is later revealed to be the mother of Meteora Butterfly. She is first alluded to in «Into the Wand».
Eclipsa unofficially regains her status as Queen of Mewni after Star gives the wand back to her in «Conquer», and she officially regains her status in «Cornonation», up until she returns the wand to Moon in «Pizza Party».
Appearance
Eclipsa has pale skin, poofy teal hair, mauve eyes, and raspberry red spade-shaped marks on her cheeks. She wears a long, dark purple Gothic-themed dress with a brown ring at the waist, a large black sun hat with gray and white feathers and a thorny branch, a white cravat with a blue crescent moon on it, long mauve gloves, and black flats with pale purple socks. Eclipsa also has maroon-colored lipstick and black mascara and purple eye shadow. Underneath her gloves, her hands are dark purple with purple veins sprouting out on her arms. Eclipsa also wears a wedding ring on the middle finger of her left hand. She is 5′ 2″ (1.57 m) tall.[5]
In «Stranger Danger», it is revealed that, without her hat, Eclipsa’s hair reaches down to her waist. She does not wear the cravat around her neck.
In «Sweet Dreams» and «Total Eclipsa the Moon», she wears pink-and-white pajamas with spades, a purple bandanna, and white furry slippers.
In «Butterfly Trap», Eclipsa dons a red dress with a red coat and red flats along with a white beaded necklace and cuffs alongside her usual purple gloves, wedding ring, and her hat. In the same episode, it’s revealed that as queen, Eclipsa wore a long grey dress with translucent fabric over the shoulders and a black broach around the neck, grey flats, and a gold crown very similar to Moon’s. Her hair also appeared a bit wider.
In her Butterfly Form in «Cleaved», Eclipsa has six arms, large purple wings, and two furry antennae, and her hair stands up slightly. As of this episode, her arms are also cleansed of their black veins (due to being plunged into the liquid magic), and she no longer has cheek marks (due to the destruction of magic itself).
History
According to Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells, Eclipsa was born to Solaria Butterfly. When she was still young, she snuck out of the castle and its here that she seems to have first met Globgor. During the next round of negotiations with the monsters, Eclipsa snuck out again and met Globgor there. However, her mother saw them and, believing Globgor had kidnapped her, attacked him, causing Eclipsa to cry. Over the years, Eclipsa and Globgor would continue to meet up in secret and their relationship eventually blossomed into a romance.
As Solaria’s only child, Eclipsa was to be designated the heir apparent and as such, her mother passed the royal wand onto her when she turned 14. A few years later, when Eclipsa was still a teenager, Queen Solaria was killed in an ambush and Eclipsa inherited the throne. Throughout her rule, she secretly worked with Globgor to secure peace with the monsters. However, in her will, Solaria demanded Eclipsa marry Prince Shastacan from the Spiderbite Kingdom for political reasons. Eclipsa complied with her late mother’s wishes, despite Shastacan’s repellent personality and sole interest in marrying for status. At first the two gave each other space, until Shastacan wanted her to bear his children to continue the royal line. This caused Eclipsa to reveal her love for Globgor and henceforth she became known as the «Queen of Darkness.» Eclipsa eventually left the kingdom, believing it to be for the best.
Details on what happened next are sparse, but Eclipsa seems to have moved in with Globgor at the Monster Temple where the two had their child, Meteora Butterfly. However, at some point Shastacan and the Magic High Commission found Eclipsa and her family, now believing she was evil due to her loving a monster. While the exact order of what followed is unclear, Eclipsa and Globgor ended up being crystallized by Rhombulus and held in the Crystal Dimension and Monster Temple respectively, while Shastacan took Meteora and gave her to St. Olga, before being eaten by Globgor.
In the episode «Into the Wand», Star Butterfly travels inside her magic wand and learns about some of her royal ancestors via the tapestries in what she calls the «Grandma Room» of Butterfly Castle. According to a passage inscribed on her tapestry’s pedestal, Eclipsa was wed to the Mewman king Shastacan, but she took a monster named Globgor as her lover and ran away with him.
During her life, Eclipsa developed a number of spells that were (or would later come to be) associated with dark magic, including the All-Seeing Eye.[6] These spells were recorded in the pages of the wand’s Magic Instruction Book, and her entire chapter was deemed «forbidden» and sealed behind a skull-shaped lock (which could only be opened by Glossaryck) to prevent others from reading them. She is also the only queen who never questioned Glossaryck’s teaching methods.[7]
According to Baby in the episode of the same name, Eclipsa had a very high affinity for magic compared to other queens, rivaled only by Star herself. It is also presumed from a remark by King Butterfly that Eclipsa harbored sympathy for Mewni’s monsters, a sentiment shared by very few of her fellow Mewmans and royals.
In «Crystal Clear», Eclipsa is seen among the various interdimensional creatures that Rhombulus has imprisoned in crystal.
In Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni, Eclipsa appears in Queen Moon’s flashback. Rhombulus briefly unfreezes part of her body so Moon can make a deal with her in order to defeat Toffee. Upon being unfrozen, Eclipsa asks Moon for a chocolate bar from the nearby vending machine, having gone for several centuries without any food, and she sympathizes with Moon, since they both lost their mothers at a young age. When Moon asks Eclipsa to teach her a spell that can kill an immortal, Eclipsa agrees in exchange for her eventual freedom, and they form a magical contract. As soon as they strike the deal, however, Rhombulus immediately freezes Eclipsa again. In the present, following Toffee’s defeat and a brief visit from Moon, part of Eclipsa’s crystal prison cracks, hinting at an eventual escape.
In «Stranger Danger», Eclipsa meets Star Butterfly after escaping from her crystal prison, and the two strike up a friendship. However, once her escape is discovered, the Magic High Commission put her in a dungeon. Although she is revealed to have committed several questionable acts in the past, including eloping with a monster, the Commission is unsure if she is truly evil, and Star convinces them to give Eclipsa a fair trial.
In «Lint Catcher», Eclipsa appears to be under some form of house arrest until her trial, chained by her ankle to a tree with dragon shackles as she feeds the local birds, and helps Star with her troubles concerning Marco. Eclipsa warns Star that, contrary to popular opinion, attending to the laundry is the most dangerous job in the castle, prompting Star to rescue Marco.
In «Sweet Dreams», Eclipsa saves Marco and Star from being lost in the void. When Marco reacts to her presence with hostility, she playfully mocks his karate stance. After Star ejects Marco from her room, she and Eclipsa talk, with Eclipsa revealing she managed to escape her confinement in her tower through the use of secret passages. Eclipsa encourages Star to embrace the dreams she’s been having and see where they lead, telling her «all knowledge is good knowledge». Eclipsa then goes back to her tower through a passageway behind a picture on Star’s bedroom wall.
In «Monster Bash», Eclipsa is revealed to be the mother of Meteora Butterfly, the true identity of Miss Heinous.
In «Total Eclipsa the Moon», Eclipsa helps Queen Moon solve a mystery involving the true identity of Eclipsa’s daughter, with Moon reluctantly allowing Eclipsa to accompany her to the Bureaucracy of Magic’s royal archives. Inside the archives, Eclipsa discovers that all records of her daughter Meteora were replaced by Festivia the Fun. After escaping detection by the Magic High Commission, Eclipsa is distraught at the erasure of her daughter’s existence, but Moon believes that her daughter is still alive.
In «Butterfly Trap», Eclipsa’s trial is held, which reveals that her daughter’s erasure from the Mewni records was orchestrated by the Magic High Commission on orders from her ex-husband King Shastacan. Despite being found guilty of «crimes against Mewmanity», Star nonetheless sets her free.
In «Tough Love», Eclipsa works together with Moon to find Meteora as she wreaks destruction across Mewni. Upon reuniting with her daughter, Eclipsa tries to reason with her using tough love. When that fails, Moon attempts to capture and incapacitate Meteora by force, but Eclipsa intervenes, resulting in an attack that leaves Moon in a vulnerable state and forcing her to escape through a portal.
In «Divide», Eclipsa informs Star of everything that happened during the events of «Tough Love», and Star confines her to her chambers to prevent her from intervening during the upcoming battle against Meteora. In «Conquer», Eclipsa escapes her confinement and is forced to once again take up the royal magic wand to defeat Meteora once and for all. After Meteora is reverted to a baby, Eclipsa takes her and leaves Mewni to be with her husband Globgor again.
In «Butterfly Follies», Eclipsa becomes the new queen of Mewni after Star relinquishes the throne to her. As queen, she forbids the wrongful imprisonment and mistreatment of monsters. She also has the monsters to help her free Globgor from his crystal prison, only to no avail.
In «Moon Remembers», she is overjoyed to see Queen Moon safe, and the two greet on friendly terms, bonding over guitar-playing and chat at the royal dinner.
In «Swim Suit», she engages in a battle with Rhombulus after he refused to free Globgor from his crystal prison, and attacks with several dark magic spells, including a body-swap charm in hopes of freeing her husband herself. She is eventually persuaded by Star to stop, and shows remorse for her actions.
In «Yada Yada Berries», Eclipsa learns of a plot by someone in the kingdom to turn her to stone and that her popularity among Mewmans (and even some monsters) is very low. Despite this, she seeks to turn public opinion of herself around, going on Pony Head’s self-made talk show in «The Ponyhead Show!» to do so. In «Surviving the Spiderbites», she hosts a gathering at the temple with the Spiderbite royal family, eventually gaining their favor, and she reveals that she wants to restore the Magic Book of Spells so that she can learn more advanced spells. In «Curse of the Blood Moon», Marco talks with Eclipsa regarding his feelings for Star.
In «The Knight Shift», Eclipsa holds a knighting ceremony for several new Knights of Mewni, including Marco. In «Queen-Napped», she is part of an elaborate social media hoax pulled off by Pony Head and her sisters to increase her popularity. In «Junkin’ Janna, Eclipsa meets with the Magic High Commission to discuss a potential new threat to Mewni.
In «The Monster and the Queen», Eclipsa uses her magic to go inside Globgor’s mind and spend time with him. When he learns that the kingdom is still scared of him, he chooses to remain trapped in crystal until they accept him.
In «Cornonation», Eclipsa’s official queen coronation is held, but the festivities are interrupted by Globgor’s sudden release from his crystal prison, and the Magic High Commission immediately suspect her. After Globgor runs away to try and protect his family and Star convinces him to return, it is revealed that Rhombulus released Globgor to prove he’s nothing but a monster. However, the Mewmans witness the love Globgor has for his wife and daughter, the Mewmans come to accept him, allowing Eclipsa to have her family together again.
In «Ready, Aim, Fire», Eclipsa defends the Monster Temple when it suddenly comes under attack by Mina Loveberry in a giant suit of armor. In «The Right Way», Eclipsa uses the Total Annihilation Spell to destroy Mina’s suit of armor. However, it is revealed that it was not Mina inside the armor and that Mina was on her way to the Monster Temple with an entire army of newly-created Solarian Warriors.
In «Here to Help», Eclipsa gets into a confrontation with Moon when it is also revealed that Moon conspired with Mina to remove Eclipsa from power. When Moon demands that Eclipsa step down as queen and leave Mewni with her family in exchange for calling off Mina’s attack, Eclipsa begrudgingly acquiesces. However, Mina betrays Moon and carries out her plot to wipe out all monsters, causing Eclipsa to flee with Star, Marco, Moon, and Meteora (with Hekapoo’s help) in «Pizza Party».
In «The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse», Eclipsa consoles Moon after Star disowns her for her actions, and offers to play pool with her, holding no grudge regarding Moon’s actions at all.
In «Cleaved», Eclipsa helps Star destroy all magic. While doing this, the ghost of the previous queens appear before them, including her mother Queen Solaria. While initially shunning her, after accomplishing their goal, the two have a brief heart-to-heart and seemingly reconcile when Solaria accepts Meteora. After Globgor is healed of his wounds and the family is together again, Eclipsa decides to enroll Meteora in kindergarten.
Personality
When introduced in «Moon the Undaunted», Eclipsa is portrayed as calm, approachable, and sympathetic to young Moon’s loss of her mother, despite her reputation as a queen of evil. Her demeanor toward Moon, however, provides little indication towards her true nature and motives, and she was initially hesitant to teach Moon her darkest spell. In «Stranger Danger», she bears no ill will toward her jailers, despite her long time in crystal captivity, and she displays a carefree, fun-loving attitude similar to Star’s own. As of «Sweet Dreams», she maintains her calm demeanor and is more than willing to help Star, from warning her about the dangers of the castle laundry room to rescuing her from being trapped in a different dimension. She also has a playful side to her, casually telling Star to «call [her] a villainess» for her perceived crimes, then later responding to Marco’s hostility with light-hearted teasing when the two of them first meet.
Unlike most magic users in the show, Eclipsa takes a more academic approach to magic, exploring «dark magics» for the sake of knowledge rather than malice. She notably encourages Star to ride out her unconscious Mewberty transformations to discover what they mean, and states her opinion is that «all knowledge is good knowledge».
Even after three centuries, Eclipsa has no regrets about abandoning her own kingdom and lawful husband, King Shastacan, for a monster. She cares deeply for her monster husband Globgor and is determined to discover the whereabouts of their daughter, Meteora. When she finally does locate Meteora, she attempts to convince her to halt her rampage, and prevents Moon from killing her. But when it becomes clear that Meteora cannot be reasoned with, Eclipsa, with a heavy heart, attempts to do the job herself. She is initially heartbroken when she appears to succeed, then overjoyed to learn that her attack only regressed Meteora back to her infant self.
This sense of doing what is best for the people over what is best for herself is evident again in «Surviving the Spiderbites» where she expresses a resigned willingness to sacrifice her attempts to reunite with Globgor if it means putting her allies at ease. Her love for Globgor was most notably shown when despite how dangerous Mewni was, she demanded the dimensional scissors from Hekapoo to go back and help him anyways.
She has a fondness for chocolate bars and roses, consuming a whole bucket of Snookers bars over the course of an afternoon.
In «The Ponyhead Show!», Eclipsa shows a strong sense of self-pride, stating that she would rather be hated being herself than be loved and adored pretending to be someone else.
In «Junkin’ Janna», she has an intolerance towards people being tardy and prefers punctuality, evident by how she complained about the Magic High Commission being late with annoyance.
She has also shown to be quite impulsive at times, such as when «negotiating» with Rhombulus in «Swim Suit», and is shown to resort to using dark magic to achieve her goals when desperate. By the end of the episode, however, she comes to realize this aspect of her personality only further deepens the huge degrees of mistrust people have for her, and she strives to change her ways.
Eclipsa also demonstrates a great willingness to forgive others; she forgave Moon for her coup in «Pizza Party», and she also reconciles with the ghost of her mother Solaria in «Cleaved».
Powers and abilities
- Royal Magic Wand: As a queen of Mewni, Eclipsa once wielded the royal magic wand, taking the form of a parasol in her possession. Although Baby claims that she had the greatest magical potential she had ever seen before Star, Eclipsa never learned to use magic without the wand, though in «Tough Love» she used magic without a wand against Moon. After retaking possession of the wand in «Conquer», Eclipsa demonstrates incredible power with its magic, being able to overpower and defeat Meteora as well as duel and incapacitate Rhombulus. This is further demonstrated in «Ready, Aim, Fire», when she battles against a Solarian Warrior.
- Creativity: Eclipsa is infamous for her creation and use of dark magic, creating many dark spells that would be logged into the Book of Spells and some of which never made it into the final draft. She has also displayed her creativity by making a guitar out of a skeleton.
- Music: Eclipsa displays a talent for singing and playing the guitar in «Total Eclipsa the Moon», «Moon Remembers», «The Ponyhead Show!», «The Monster and the Queen», and «Cornonation».
- Ultimate Magic Form: In «Cleaved», Eclipsa briefly gains access to her butterfly-like mewberty form.
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Trivia
- Eclipsa was designed by Jushtin Lee.[8]
- Eclipsa is voiced by Esmé Bianco, who is best known for her recurring role as Ros in Game of Thrones.
- Like the hearts on Star Butterfly’s cheeks, the diamonds on Queen Butterfly’s cheeks, and the clubs on Meteora’s (Miss Heinous) cheeks, the marks on Eclipsa’s cheeks are also themed after one of the four suits in playing cards — in Eclipsa’s case, spades.
- When in Eclipsa’s possession, the royal magic wand resembles a closed parasol with a long handle, the wand’s head has black wings, the bell resembles an orb, and it has a black crescent on top.
- Due to the possibility of Rhombulus having imprisoned innocent people, it is unclear whether Eclipsa was frozen for being evil or merely under suspicion of being evil.
- Due to Eclipsa’s «black sheep» status in the Butterfly family, Star did not know about her existence until «Into the Wand».[9]
- Eclipsa’s dark veins are a very common trait in many media with dark-embodied creatures, indicating that darkness (or similar form of dark magic) is devouring its host. The signs can also symbolize death, if not treated (e.g. Star’s mother feeling pain on her arms as an adult rather than at a young age when she had no pain), however, they usually are just a physical trait that symbolizes evil.
- Until «Butterfly Trap», Eclipsa doesn’t know anything about Festivia, who replaced Meteora as her daughter in the Butterfly records.
- In «Total Eclipsa the Moon», Eclipsa reveals she does not know how to «dip down», or use magic without the wand.
- Eclipsa and her daughter, Meteora, are the last living true-blooded members of the Butterfly family.
- From «Conquer» to «Pizza Party», Eclipsa is the owner of the Royal Magic Wand.
- Eclipsa is the last true-blooded member of the Butterfly family to wield the Royal Magic Wand.
- Eclipsa shares some similarities with Sailor Saturn and Sailor Pluto from the Sailor Moon series, including her reputation as a terrible person who dabbled in dark magic, whispering the names of her spells,[10] and her Black Velvet Inferno spell, which shares its effect with Sailor Saturn’s Death Reborn Revolution.
- According to the book Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells, Eclipsa was forced to marry King Shastacan as ordered in her mother Solaria’s will. In life, Solaria had been trying to set them up for some time.[11]
- Solaria described Eclipsa as being very intelligent and clever for her age, and loved how she liked to explore the castle’s secrets and passageways.
- «Swim Suit» reveals that Eclipsa doesn’t know how to reverse her spells, having never needed to do so before, though she learns how to with help from Star.
- It can be assumed that Eclipsa is born out of wedlock since her father is never stated as her mother’s husband in the first place.
- As of «The Monster and the Queen», Eclipsa may have had her ears pierced, as it was a requirement for her to free Globgor with the Crystal Pulverizing Spell from the Book of Spells.
- In Eclipsa’s own words in «Here to Help», she’s a «nervous eater».
- A flashback in «Pizza Party» shows that Eclipsa shared her love of Snookers bars with her mother, Solaria.
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