History Literature / StarDarlings

* GrumpyBear: Scarlet is usually broody and snarky all the time.

The official ''Star Darlings'' website is [[http://characters.disney.com/star-darlings here]].

Due to a positive wish energy crisis, it's decided that 12 young female Starlings, called Star Darlings, will take up the difficult task of granting young Wishlings' wishes. It's hoped that doing so will provide greater amounts of energy. But finding what, or who, is behind the crisis may prove more difficult than granting wishes, and keeping Starland safe from danger afterwards may be even harder.

* RealIsBrown: When traveling to Wishworld, the Star Darlings' hair and eye colors changes to more realistic colors to blend in.

* SecretIdentity: The girls have to keep their mission as the Star Darlings a secret from others, to avoid risk against the negative magic.

* SkunkStripe: While disguised on Earth, Star Darlings retain a streak of their natural hair color.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Each Star Darling has a different, usually impossible hair color.

* ProphecyTwist: ''Stealing Starlight'' contains a revelation that a Dark Starling will rise and decide the fate of Starland. The cast assumes it's Vivica, but had the series continued [[spoiler: Sage leaving Vivica behind on Earth would have made ''her'' the prophesied Dark Starling, and Vivica forgiving Sage would save her and Starland]].

* TimedMission: Every wish-granting mission is timed by a Countdown Clock.

* UnfortunateNames: When trying to think of a fake name, Libby gives herself the last name Liverwurst.

* {{Constellations}}: Each Star Darling has traits associated with a constellation, as well as their birthday's corresponding Zodiac sign. Of note is Ophelia, the SixthRanger who is revealed to not actually be a Star Darling. She is associated with Ophiuchus, the 13th Zodiac constellation, which is the only one to lack a star sign.

* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: In ''Astra's Mixed-Up Mission'', it is implied that a thumbs-up is the Starland equivalent to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar giving someone the middle finger]].

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The second book ends with Scarlet's dismissal from the Star Darlings, which isn't fully resolved until the fifth book.

''Star Darlings'' is a Creator/{{Disney}}-published franchise created in 2015 by Shana and Ahmet Zappa. The franchise focuses on the inhabitants of Starland, who live on a star and grant human wishes. To them, Earth is Wishworld and we're Wishlings.

* FlintstoneTheming: They sure do love their star-based puns. '' A lot ''. So much so that there’s a glossary section at the end of every book to explain what they mean. A major example being oh my God/OMG becoming oh my stars/OMS. The web series uses this so much that it becomes annoying.

* {{Smurfing}}: Several Starland terms and expressions have the word 'star' in them to the point that there's a glossary at the back of the books.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: Sage has this happen by mistake. Since she pursued the wrong Wisher at first, even when her mistake was corrected, she didn't collect as much Wish energy as she could have.

** Glowfur songs are passed around to every glowfur that hears them, and can calm and relax Starlings, and the Song of Secrets can reveal deep truths. In Gemma's book, Lady Stella and Indirra compose a song this way to reach Itty, who alerts the other Star Darlings to where they are.

* DeusExMachina: Unlike the other Star Darlings, Adora, Clover and Gemma discover their special powers only in time to save their Wish Missions.

* WishUponAStar: Wish-on-a-star motifs are common throughout the franchise, particularly in how the Star Darlings get to Earth as well as the songs.

* CassandraTruth: Cassie tries repeatedly to warn everyone about the flowers, but isn't believed until she gets Starling botanists to look at them.

* FantasticSlurs: They call humans "wishlings" and Earth "Wishworld", which could be a shout out to racism and ethnic slurs, and it is basically an ethnic slur.

* CutShort: The books were canceled in January 2017 with three planned books being shelved, the webseries last aired in late 2016, and Jakks Pacific has ceased producing the toys. The books that were canceled, ''Star-Crossed Summer'', ''Dark Starling'', and ''One Star Too Far'', would have continued dangling plot threads from ''Stealing Starlight''.

* {{Uncoffee}}: Starland has [[MeaningfulName Zing]], which is brewed from leaves like tea according to the official guide, but serves all the purposes of coffee.

* CutShort: The books were canceled in January 2017 with three planned books being shelved, the webseries last aired in late 2016, and Jakks Pacific has ceased producing the toys. The books that were canceled, ''Star-Crossed Summer'', ''Dark Starling'', and ''One Star Too Far'', would have continued dangling plot threads from ''Stealing Starlight''.