History Recap / StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS3E38Conquer

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mina is nowhere

* AdultFear: Eclipsa's situation at the end: having to be the only one who can stop her daughter from doing something monstrous and finding said daughter is too far gone to be reasoned with. Doubly so as Meteora is about to kill Star, who's basically Eclipsa's adopted granddaughter at this point.

-->'''Glossaryck:''' No, no, no! Eclipsa's monster love, Globgor! She's going off to be with him. I've been trying to tell you for ''months''!

-->'''Star:''' No... keep it. This wand was ''yours.'' It belongs to ''you.'' Things haven't been right since my family took the kingdom. The best thing I can do as queen is return what my family stole from you.

* RealityEnsues: Star and Eclipsa may have the same potential, but Eclipsa is an experienced, skilled adult who's had a lifetime to ''reach'' that potential. While Star fares better than anyone else against Meteora, Eclipsa is still ''far'' more powerful and is able to defeat her where Star couldn't.

-->'''Star:''' No...keep it. This wand was ''yours.'' It belongs to ''you.'' Things haven't been right since my family took the kingdom. The best thing I can do as queen is return what my family stole from you.

** Eclipsa before was willing to protect her daughter, up until Meteora drained Moon of her soul. This time, after Eclipsa fails to talk down, she Meteora shoots her before the latter can kill Star.

** Star, feeling guilty that her ancestors robbed Eclipsa of her birthright and [[CreateYourOwnVillain ultimately]] [[ShootTheDog forced her]] [[OffingTheOffspring to kill her own daughter]], lets Eclipsa keep the wand and become queen again. Once she sees Meteora was actually just reduced to infancy, Star feels less guilty and realizes she gave enormous magical and political power to [[WildCard a very morally dubious person]]--which is especially worrying once Glossaryck explains Eclipsa is about to reunite with her monster husband.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: At first, it looked as if Marco was going to pull a YouShallNotPass to Meteora, so that Tom can escape, Marco decides to accept his fate with no resistance. Of course, Tom ''still'' won't allow it and decides to [[TakingTheBullet Take The Bullet]]. But, since that didn't work for Meteora, Marco still loses his soul anyways.

* IronicEcho: Again Eclipsa replies to one of Star's questions with the worlds 'what I had to'. Only before it was an admission of her own selfishness in doing what she had to for herself, it's now about her killing her daughter (or so she believed) to save Star and Mewni, an act which clearly devastates her.

* MamaBear: Eclipsa, but this time, towards Star. By now, Eclipsa has wholeheartedly accepted Star as her honorary granddaughter, and wastes no time protecting her from Meteora.

** Eclipsa wanted to save her daughter, as any mother would. When she realizes that Meteora will destroy all of Mewni as well as its inhabitants, Eclipsa takes down her daughter before she can do more harm. She's not happy about it. Though one could debate whether Eclipsa did it for the kingdom itself or just Star's sake.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Eclipsa, established as capricious to the point of selfishness, takes down her beloved daughter to save Star and the rest of Mewni.

* SadisticChoice: Eclipsa ends up in one: her adopted granddaughter and biological daughter are in a battle to the death and Meteora is too far gone to ever listen to reason. Eclipsa can either let Meteora live and kill Star, or kill Meteora to save not just Star's life, but the people of Mewni. Eclipsa ultimately chooses saving Star.

* ShootTheDog: Eclipsa has no choice but to put Meteora down despite loving her as her daughter. Fortunately, she wasn't completely destroyed, just reverted to an infant, but that wasn't what Eclipsa was expecting.

* SympathyForTheDevil: Star outright tells Meteora she completely understands why she's so angry, gives her magic willingly, and shows sadness at her apparent death.

* WhatNowEnding: Eclipsa defeats Meteora (seemingly fatally), and Star lets her keep the wand and become queen again as an act of contrition. Eclipsa then discovers Meteora was reborn as an infant, and takes the wand and her child to her imprisoned monster lover, her ultimate goals unknown. Glossaryck reveals he's regained his coherence and follows after her. Moon is still unaccounted for.

* DumbStruck: Meteora's rebirth leaves Star incoherent: She lets out an "uh..." when she first hears the crying, a FlatWhat when she sees the baby, [[ComplimentBackfire stutters an acceptance to Eclipsa's thanks]], and tries to ask her something--most likely for the wand back--only as she's already flying away and doesn't respond.

** Glossaryck delivers a major one at the end of the episode.
-->'''Glossaryck:''' No, no, no! Eclipsa's monster love Globgor! She's going off to be with him! I've been trying to tell you for months!

* KarmicJackpot: Eclipsa faces off against her daughter and defeats her to save Star and stop her reign of terror. For this, Star gives her the wand back, Meteora is regressed into an infant again and she gets a chance to [[RaiseHimRightThisTime give her a better childhood]], and she and her daughter are free to reunite with Globgor, her monster husband.

* RaiseHimRightThisTime: After Meteora is reverted to infancy, Eclipsa goes off to find her husband, to raise her daughter with her father.

* SweetAndSourGrapes: Eclipsa accepts that Meteora is too far gone, and tries to kill her to save Star and the rest of Mewni. Then she discovers Meteora was reborn as an infant, letting Eclipsa [[RaiseHimRightThisTime raise her daughter as she always wanted]].

* BelatedHappyEnding: Eclipsa gets to have everything she ever wanted at the end of the episode. She's once again in possession of the wand. Her daughter she assumed she killed was actually reverted to infancy, so she can now be a proper mother to her.

* BittersweetEnding: Meteora is defeated, and the people whose souls she sucked out are restored to normal, but Moon is still missing, and there's still the question of how the people of Mewni will react to Star giving up the wand, and what Eclipsa plans to do with it and with her crystallized monster husband Globgor.

* ButNowIMustGo: Eclipsa decides to leave after the battle ended, with Glossaryck going with her, likely because he's tied to the wand instead of the book.

** Eclipsa before was willing to protect her daughter, up until Meteora drained Moon of her soul. This time, Eclipsa when she fails to talk down Meteora shoots her before the latter can defeat Star.

** Star, feeling guilty that her ancestors robbed Eclipsa of her birthright and [[CreateYourOwnVillain ultimately]] [[ShootTheDog forced her]] [[OffingTheOffspring to kill her own daughter]], lets Eclipsa keep the wand. Once she sees Meteora was actually just reduced to infancy, Star feels less guilty and realizes she gave away her main source of magical power (something she'd need as acting queen in Moon's absence) to [[WildCard a very morally dubious person]]--which is especially worrying once Glossaryck explains Eclipsa is about to reunite with her monster husband.
-->'''Marco''': What did you just do?

* HonorBeforeReason: Star gives the wand to Eclipsa [[MustMakeAmends as a way to return what was stolen from her]], despite the wand's importance to ruling and protecting Mewni--especially when Star (who can't do magic without the wand) is acting queen in her mother's absence. That's not even getting into what Eclipsa might do with it. It doesn't take long for Star [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone to have second thoughts]].

* MustMakeAmends: After Eclipsa (seemingly) kills her own daughter, Star lets her keep the wand as a small way of giving back what was stolen from her. It doesn't take long for Star to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize]] that this attempt to atone for her family's misdeeds [[HonorBeforeReason could endanger the entire world]].

* WhamEpisode: A doozy of a season finale. Star gives the wand back to Eclipsa and it's revealed that Eclipsa's monster husband has been imprisoned in the monster temple.

* WhatNowEnding: Eclipsa defeats Meteora (seemingly fatally), and Star lets her keep the wand as an act of contrition. Eclipsa then discovers Meteora was reborn as an infant, and takes the wand and her child to her imprisoned monster lover, her ultimate goals unknown. Glossaryck reveals he's regained his coherence and follows after her. Moon is still unaccounted for, leaving Star the acting queen, minus her wand.

* BelatedHappyEnding: Eclipsa gets to have everything she ever wanted at the end of the episode. While she seemingly rejects the abdication of the throne back to her, she's once again in possession of the wand. Her daughter, who she assumed she killed was actually reverted to infancy, so she can now be a proper mother to her.

* ChekhovsGag: Tom's soul consisting of several evil spirits was the anticlimactic punchline of "Demoncism", but ends up being an important plot point here as it allows Tom to survive Meteora's attacks.

* WhamLine: Glossaryck delivers a major one at the end of the episode.

* DeusExMachina:
** The only reason Star and Moon are not still trapped in the Magic Realm is because the Firstborn teleported them away because they don't belong there.
** Additionally, Glossaryck reveals he was fully cognitive through-out the entirety of the season, and "Globgor" is the name of Eclipsa's monster husband, putting the entire plot point to a jarring halt. Though given Glossaryck's TricksterMentor traits, it's not the most surprising.

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Averted with Star. She tries to imitate Moon's alligator speech to reach the healing temple, but it just ignores her.

* DumbStruck: Meteora's rebirth leaves Star incoherent: She lets out an "uh..." when she first hears the crying, a FlatWhat when she sees the baby, [[ComplimentBackfire stutters an acceptance to Eclipsa's thanks]], and tries to ask her something--most likely for the wand back--only as she's already flying away.

** Eclipsa wanted to save her daughter, as any mother would. When she realizes that Meteora will destroy all of Mewni as well as its inhabitants, Eclipsa takes down her daughter before she can do more harm. She's not happy about it.

* TakeOurWordForIt: Exactly ''what'' happens inside the barrier Eclipsa's Black Velvet Inferno spell creates isn't shown (as the barrier is opaque), but it seems very deadly and ''very'' painful.

* WhatNowEnding: Eclipsa defeats Meteora (seemingly fatally), and Star lets her keep the wand as an act of contrition. Eclipsa then discovers Meteora was reborn as an infant, and takes the wand and her child to her imprisoned monster lover, her ultimate goals unknown. Glossaryck reveals he's regained his coherence and follows after her. Moon is still unaccounted for, leaving Star the acting queen.

* MeaningfulEcho: Marco asking Star "What did you just do?" after the latter gives away her wand to Eclipsa may be a CallBack to "Moon the Undaunted", where Rhombulus asks the same thing to Moon after she defeats Toffee. The difference is that while Moon immediately answers ("I did my job."), Star ignores the question altogether, showing that she's still uncertain about the path she's going to follow from now on.

* HonorBeforeReason: Star give the wand to Eclipsa [[MustMakeAmends as a way to return what was stolen from the past Queen]]. However, Star [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quickly realizes]] the long-term consequences of giving Eclipsa so much power could be disastrous.

* HonorBeforeReason: Star's decision to give the wand to Eclipsa. It's her way of trying to return what was stolen from the past Queen, but there's the implication that this will have bad consequences later on.

* MustMakeAmends: