Characters / Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Butterfly Family

Main Character Index | Mewni | Butterfly Family (Moon Butterfly, Meteora Butterfly) | Earth | The Forces of Evil (Ludo's Forces, Septarsis) | Saint Olga's Reform School | Other inhabitants of the Multiverse (The Magic High Commission)

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The Butterfly family is a royal dynasty that rules over Mewni. They contain some of Mewni's highest authorities, and are completely matriarchal, as only women could inherit the throne and wield powerful magic. The men can have royal positions but can only be king under the most desperate of circumstances, as shown with Jushtin the Uncalculated; the only way for a man to gain political power in Mewni is if they marry a Butterfly queen. Past queens have their accomplishments immortalized in the form of tapestries, which are held in display in their castle's "Grandma Room". In addition to ruling their kingdom, the Butterfly queens are members of the Magic High Commission, where they oversee and regulate all magical activity in the universe.

As a whole, all members of the Butterfly family are posh, elegant, and reserved, though most of them tend to behave in an uptight and arrogant manner towards those who don't fit their standards. They have a longstanding grudge against Mewni's monster population, who they believe has been antagonizing them since the founding of their kingdom. The only monsters they don't hate are the Pony Head and Lucitor kingdoms, who became their strongest allies during the reign of Queen Solaria the Monster Carver.

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General

• Action Fashionista: The Butterflies are all as ruthless as they are posh.
• Adopted into Royalty: Festivia and her descendants; Festivia was originally a peasant girl that was secretly put on the line of succession for the throne after Eclipsa's elopement with a monster, making every Butterfly queen from then on the descendant of commoners. But, as Eclipsa still regards Moon and Star as family even after the fact, their adoption is even more official. "Meteora's Lesson" shows Eclipsa's ancestor technically went through a similar process in terms of inheritance; she was also of humble origins until she inherited the wand from a higher being (Glossaryk), who created it and randomly selected her to become the first queen of the first dynasty.
• Agent Peacock: While less focused on, the Butterfly men are shown to be as capable as their female relatives. Prominent examples are Star's uncle Heartrude, who was willing to threaten the life of his niece in order to win a game of flags, and Jushtin the Uncalculated, who proved to be a very charismatic and effective diplomat once he abdicated the throne.
• All There in the Manual: More information on some of the previous queens can be found in the show's merchandise, mostly in The Magic Book of Spells.
• Asskicking Poses: Some of the royal tapestries in 'the Grandma Room' depicted past queens posing dramatically or actually doing something awesome.
• Baby Factory: Implied; according to Eclipsa's chapter in The Magic Book of Spells, Queen Solaria is of the opinion that kings are only "throne candy", good for nothing but sitting and looking pretty next to the queen while siring her female heirs. Further suggesting this is the fact that the queens' husbands are barely mentioned, with Comet's husband being divorced, and few queens display an active interest in men save for a way to secure a successor. It's also mentioned in "Game of Flags" that a queen can dissolve a marriage anytime she wants.
• Badass Family: The Butterfly-Johansen royal families of Mewni. Star is a Pretty Princess Powerhouse who has battled monsters since her childhood, long before she received the family wand. Her father regularly sneaks off to hunt the most dangerous monsters he can find, as it's the only thing that keeps him sane. Her mother, Moon, is the previous holder of the wand, and even without it she is capable of incredibly powerful magic. As shown in "Game of Flags", every single member of her family on both sides (save perhaps Star's toddler cousins) count. As a pastime, they all happily take part in an unrealistically violent and dangerous game, which is about scaling an incredibly dangerous mountain and getting the most flags while doing whatever it takes to win against each other.
• The Beautiful Elite: The females of the Butterfly Royal family are shown to be cute or gorgeous-looking. Celena the Shy embodies this the most, as she was claimed to have been so beautiful, she could disarm even monsters with a sublime glance.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: The women are the rulers of Mewni due to their skills in magic. Many of them weren't so benevolent to monsters, but some genuinely were.
• Bigotry Exception: Some of them were very racist towards monsters - despite being allies with kingdoms ruled by non-mewmans who are implied to be monsters whose wealth and status protects them from discrimination. It's especially jarring for some of the more racist queens like Solaria, who wanted all monsters killed.
• Boomerang Bigot: Most queens hate monsters, but they can transform into butterfly-like creatures.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Generally, the people end up freaking out if their matriarchs turn out to be less than perfect, which is partially some of their more villainous deeds are washed over to make themselves look heroic. Because of this, some queens end up very unhappy as they are forced to keep a facade that is impossible to wear 24/7.
  • In "Mewnipendence Day", Star learns that it was her own family's ancestors that started the war with the monsters to begin with, forcibly stealing their land and oppressing the monsters to make themselves look superior. This is what starts her Character Development as she becomes more empathetic towards the monsters.
• The Chains of Commanding: Their people expect their rulers to take care of their every need and responsibility and refuse to do so themselves. The Queen's have to act as though they are utterly perfect 24/7 without as much as a single flaw, and are never allowed to show how stressed they are. The Queens of Mewni are less rulers, and more a line of babysitters for their kingdom.
• Cycle of Revenge: According to Mewman folklore, the Butterfly queens were trapped in this with the hateful monsters, because of what their ancestors had done to protect their own people. However, the truth was that the Butterflys themselves who started the cycle by seizing the monsters' lands, and perpetuated it with racist propaganda and their own superiority. The result was a Vicious Cycle and a Forever War between both sides, with everyone suffering; Eclipsa was the first to try breaking the cycle by falling in love with the monster Globgor only to be imprisoned by the Magic High Commission, and her hybrid daughter abandoned and stricken from all records, leading to Mewni being besieged when Festivia became queen. Comet tried advocating for mewman-monster equality, only to be murdered by Toffee, causing her grieving daughter Moon to become an anti-monster bigot. Star initially hated monsters, but is currently trying to break the cycle once Character Development hit her.
• Deader than Dead: After Star destroyed the magic, the spirits of all her dead ancestors went with it.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of The High Queen. The Butterfly queens were originally depicted as benevolent heroes who saved their people from extinction by eradicating the barbaric monsters with their magic. But as the series progressed, some of the Queens' actions became more and more villainous and xenophobic, casting the queens in a morally dubious light. Reconstruction with other queens who genuinely were The High Queen such as Comet.
  • Its deconstructed further by the revelation that the next heir to the throne was switched out with a peasant hundreds of years ago. There is no blood difference between royalty and the peasantry and there's nothing particularly special about the royal family that makes them worth of ruling. Nonetheless, the system is maintained only because the people want a Mewman on the throne who will keep the xenophobic status quo rather than a Half-Human Hybrid.
• Divine Conflict: Downplayed in that while neither side is godlike, the Butterfly family is led by their women, who are powerful mages, while the monsters are led by Toffee, who has a very powerful healing factor that makes him very hard to kill. Meteora had a combination of both Butterfly and monster abilities. She had peak physical abilities and lesser innate magical abilities, like soul stealing and magic absorption.
• Emotional Powers: It's heavily implied that the Butterflys' brand of magic get super-charged when they're under extreme stress. Skywynne blew up another dimension after venting her pent-up rage over dealing with lazy, ungrateful subjects; and Rhina accidentally killed her abusive husband when she tried using a heartbreak spell on him while she was upset.
• Evil Uncle: In "Game of Flags", Star's Uncle Heartrude thinks nothing of throwing away the lives of his servants and even killing his own niece to win at Flags, but he does it with style.
• Facial Markings:
  • In "Game of Flags" it's shown that other women of the Butterfly family have cheek markings, and that they're not limited to playing card suites, with Star's great-aunt Etheria having very pale pink stars.
  • In the Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension book, Star states that their markings is due to long exposure to magic.
    Star: It's something that's been in my family for ages; when you're around magic as much as we are, it leaves a mark.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: "Butterfly Trap" reveals that the Mewni family line past Eclipsa's daughter Meteora are illegitimate heirs. Eclipsa's ex-husband, not wanting to raise a monster infant, traded her away for a peasant girl who would become Festivia the Fun. The Magical High Commission kept this fact secret. "Escape From the Pie Folk" reveals that not only was Festivia a commoner, but she came from a notorious clan of liars and thieves.
• Family Theme Naming: Star, Moon, Celena, Eclipsa, Estrella, Crescenta, Solaria, and Meteora all have Stellar Names.
• Fantastic Racism: While a few queens have genuine reason to hate monsters (Rhina's monster husband was abusive, and Toffee killed Moon's mother when she was a child), most of them don't bother to hide their disdain for monsters in general, save for their allies, the Pony Heads and the Lucitors. Naturally, they tried painting themselves as heroes for future generations, but the whole Butterfly-Monster war started when the royal family stole the monsters' land. Star isn't happy when she finds out the ugly truth.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Butterfly royal family was heavily inspired by England during the Elizabethan era, due to their British-sounding accents, their tendency to wear Regal Ruffs with their fancy clothing, and the women wearing heart-shaped hairstyles. The fashion and certain parts of the culture trend also reflect that of what the current queen chose. For example, not only did Festivia picked Ancient Greek/Roman-looking clothing, she also demonstrated the phrase of "party like the Romans did" like there was no tomorrow, mirrored the religion and mythology of Dionysus/Bacchus and his penchant for wine and celebration.
• Fisher Queen: The wand's appearance changes from owner to owner. So no queen has the same looking wand. Mewni also tends to look scenic while under their rule, when Meteora conquered Mewni everything turned dark and cloudy.
• Force and Finesse: As seen in "Game of Flags", the Johansens are brutal barbarians, while the Butterflies are extremely cunning and manipulative, which Marco found out the hard way.
• Forever War: The reasons for the war against the monsters vary from queen to queen, it started when the mewmans first came to the monster-infested land and conquered it with advanced weapons and armor. While some Queens have genuinely been much nicer to the monsters, some like Toffee refuse to accept peace and restart the conflict right as peace is nearly reached.
• Gender-Restricted Ability: The queens and princesses of Mewni display more magical abilities than Kings and Princes. This is justified since King River is from a different kingdom, and abilities from men directly from the Butterfly family tree are not shown or elaborated on. As such, only those with magic usually have the right to rule. Males within the Butterfly family inheriting magic is considered rare, as the only man from the Butterfly family to display magical abilities was Jushtin. In The Magic Book of Spells, Skywynne's chapter talks about how she saw great magical potential in her son and tried to encourage it by giving him the Magic Wand and the Book of Spells, only for Jushtin to end up with weaker magic because of his disinterest in learning spells.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: While the Butterfly queens are portrayed as benevolent, powerful mages who are protective of their subjects, the monsters see them as racist, oppressive rulers who want them dead. Subverted with some queens, who actually are as they were portrayed.
• Heel Realization: As ghosts, the past queens seemed to have realized how they had abused their power, and are willing to support Star in destroying magic.
• Heir Club for Men: Inverted, the wand is passed on from mother to daughter due to Mewman society favoring magic, a gift only held by females. Jushtin's inheritance of the wand was a result of Agnatic-Cognatic Succession since there was a succession crisis. Skywynne looked past that and saw a lot of potential in him, but both were ultimately forced to make Jushtin abdicate due to societal pressure favoring female monarchs. Mewni has been and always will be ruled a woman.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: The queens of Mewni sanitized their history to depict the monsters as barbarians and lionize themselves as the rightful and righteous rulers.
• Holier Than Thou: What many of them are beneath the surface.
  • Some of the Butterfly queens fabricated stories about monsters because they saw themselves as more civilized and orderly, which automatically gives them the moral high ground. This is partly why the Avarius family was set up as a puppet monarchy, because Queen Crescenta believed the monsters needed Mewman interference to improve their lives.
  • It's also implied in their relationship with the Johansen family that the Butterflys also look down on those who don't fit their standards. Moon's relatives can't understand why she married someone from a brutish, uncultured family, or why she keeps rejecting their suggestions for better suitors.
  • Averted with people like Jushtin, Eclipsa, and Comet. Eclipsa was fond of monsters and even eloped with a monster lover and had a hybrid daughter with him; Comet actively advocated for peaceful mewman-monster co-existence and nearly succeeded, until Toffee killed her out of hateful bigotry; and Jushtin was a Nice Guy who included an elderly man, Whizzbag, in his group of friends despite the latter not being royalty or rich, and allied the Butterflys with the Pony Heads and Lucitors despite the rest of his family being anti-monster bigots.
  • Ironically, it turns out that all of the queens after Eclipsa are pretenders with no royal blood at all due to Festivia and Meteora being switched at birth. In fact, they are descended from The Pie Folk, a clan of notorious criminals and con artists.
• Human Aliens:
  • They are Mewmans, so they largely resemble humans except for having small butterfly wings, their unusual hair colors, and their mewberty transformations. Also, due to Rhina's marriage to Lord Roachley the last five generations of queens are also part demon.
  • In "Meteora's Lesson" the first Mewmans are shown emerging into Mewni through the lake above Glossaryck's magic sanctuary covered in liquid magic from the Realm of Magic. They have more common human hair coloration and are shown wearing clothing typical of American pilgrims, suggesting that they were originally humans who passed into Mewni from Earth though the Realm of Magic.
• Hunter of Monsters: The Queens of Mewni defended their kingdom from the legion of monsters who attacked them. But, it's eventually revealed that the mewmans started the war by invading their land.
• Insect Queen: Mewmans are more insectoid than they appear; as they have butterfly-like super forms once they undergo mewberty. Only the Butterfly queens and princesses can do this until it's revealed that one of the queens, Festivia the Fun, was originally a peasant, showing that mewberty is not restricted to full-blooded royal women.
• Interspecies Romance: Due to arranged marriages or situational needs, the Butterflys have some genetic lineage with demons and various other species; Celena the Shy was half-demon thanks to her mother marrying a Lucitor and the only hybrid to legitimately hold the throne, unlike Meteora. This makes their anti-monster racism rather hypocritical.
• Irony: The Butterfly family looks down on most monsters and anyone who don't fit their standards, with Etheria shouting at the Johansen family in "Game of Flags", "You Johansens spoiled my appetite like you spoiled the Butterfly family tree!" Not only are they allied with monsters, but their ability to turn into butterfly-like creatures technically makes them monsters. And they let the Magic High Commission "spoil" the Butterfly lineage by swapping out the half-monster princess with a peasant girl from Pie Island out of racial disgust.
• Lamarck Was Right: Both Comet and Moon have an affinity for baking, which turns out to be Foreshadowing that they are Pie Folk, not Butterflies.
• Long-Lived: Being Mewmans, they can live for centuries.
• Magical Girls: All of the queens and princesses that wielded the royal magic wand, but especially Crescenta the Eager◊ with bunnies for Facial Markings. The sole exception was Jushtin the Uncalculated, who was the only male ruler of Mewni.
• The Magnificent: The hall of former wand-wielders gives each of The queens a title or epithet to reflect their accomplishments or personality.
  • Soupina: Soupina was called "The Strange" due to her madness. Soupina's eyes got stuck in her Mewberty form and she saw into the other dimensions. She left the throne and became a subject of ghost stories to the other queens.
  • Skywynne: Skywynne was called "Queen of Hours" due to her mastery of time manipulation and how she convinced the mewmans to build a kingdom in only a few hours. When, in reality, it actually took a few years.
  • Jushtin: Jushtin was called "The Uncalculated" because he was the first and only male heir to the magic wand. This title also reflected his proficiency in mathematics.
  • Solaria: Solaria was called "The Monster Carver" because of her war with the monsters.
  • Eclipsa: Eclipsa is called "The Queen of Darkness" because she chose to elope with a monster, who was called the "Prince of Darkness", and dabble in the dark arts.
  • Festivia: Festivia was called "The Fun" because of her hedonism. This was evident when she created parties for her people to boost morale during the monster war.
  • Dirhhennia: Dirhhennia was called "The Heaped" because she was strange by mewman standards. So, she was heaped with undiagnosed psychological disorders.
  • Crescenta: Crescenta was called "The Eager" because of her sweet demeanor. She was also known to be sympathetic to the monsters.
  • Rhina: Rhina was called "The Riddled" due to her love of riddles and puzzles.
  • Celena: Celena was called "The Shy" due to her shyness and overall mousy nature.
  • Estrella: Estrella was called "The Drafted" due to her obsession with artistry.
  • Comet: Comet was called "The Chef" due to her love of cooking and personal philosophy with cooking.
  • Moon: Moon is called "The Undaunted" due to her ascension to the throne during the war with the monsters after Toffee had killed Comet.
  • Star: Star is called "The Underestimated" because nobody expects much from her, yet, she surprises them with her abilities.
• Mark of the Supernatural: Magic-capable members of the Butterfly family (usually the women) have brightly-colored marks on their cheeks. Interestingly the marks can change in response to their mood, such as Star's heart symbols temporarily turning to skulls in "Friendenemies" and Moon's diamonds turning black when Toffee appears to kill Star right before her eyes.
• Matriarchy: Of the "Original" flavor, with elements of "Patriarchy Flip". Mewni is always ruled by a queen, though the rest of their government seems to be mixed gender. In "Mewnipendence Day", it is revealed that the land was conquered through the power of the Queen's wand. In addition, it is revealed in "Game of Flags" that husbands take their wives' names when they marry and apparently the Queen has the right of repudiate her marriage if she desired it. Despite Star being an only child, there is never any hint of a succession crisis. Plus, part of it may be due to the fact that their unique brand of magic is a Gender-Restricted Ability, as none of the male members are shown having magic. The sole exception of this was Jushtin, the only male ruler of Mewni, and even then Jushtin had to give up his claim to the throne when Skywynne became pregnant with his younger sister Solaria (and pretended to rejoice because of this fact). Eclipsa's chapter in The Magic Book of Spells also implies that kings in Mewni are little more than glorified "throne candy", their only roles being to sit and look pretty next to the queen while bearing her female heirs.
• Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: The women of the Butterfly family are more proficient and powerful than the men. They are also chosen as leaders due to their abilities in magic since the men lack this ability and can only perform magic through the use of artifacts. The only male Butterfly to inherit the Royal Magic Wand was Jushtin the Uncalculated, but he was magically inept compared to his female relatives, and as soon as Solaria was born, he was forced to abdicate. In "Game of Flags", this trope is shown in their design; the female Butterflys including the Queen are more colorful and varied, while the male Butterflies like Uncle Heartrude look dull and muted.
• More Deadly Than the Male: Justified; the Butterfly women are magnitudes more powerful than their male relatives due to longer exposure to magic, and Mewni society being matriarchal. The only male Butterflys to use magic are River, whose magic only comes from his staff, and Jushtin, whose magic level was lesser compared to his mother, sister, and niece. To be fair, Skywynne attempted to subvert this trope by encouraging Jushtin to learn magic and increase his potential so he'll become a powerful mage like her, but Jushtin's disinterest in ruling combined with being superseded as heir in favor of his sister, Solaria, resulted in him gaining very weak magical abilities. This ironically brought a violent era in the case of Solaria, however, as she was a warmongering monster murderer during her reign compared to the potential of the more charismatic and diplomatic Jushtin.
• Morph Weapon: In addition to taking a new shape to match the personality of each bearer, the wand can be temporarily transformed into another weapon such as a mace or a bow. It is not clear whether this enhances the wand's abilities or is just a cosmetic transformation. In "Butterfly Trap", the wand could also change to fit the user even during infancy; after baby Festivia was swapped to replace Meteora as heir to the throne, she finds Eclipsa's discarded wand, which magically changes from a parasol to a baby rattle for Festivia to nibble on.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: The women of Mewni are more potent with magic than the men. They also known to marry or, at least, have children with non-magical men. "Meteora's Lesson" reveals magic runs in both genders, due to their predecessors having long-term immersion in magic. It just manifests in men and women differently.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: The Butterfly queens are the "Master" of this trope. The mewmans will always obey the queen no matter what. But the queens must keep appearances since the subjects will panic or rebel at any sign of weakness. Skywynne secretly regretted making her son supersede his claim the throne in accordance to matriarchal traditions. And the formerly happy-go-lucky Moon was forced to mature after losing her mother to assassination and inheriting the throne too early, straining relationships with her daughter Star. On the other hand, this trope made it easier for the queens to spread anti-monster propaganda to make themselves look good.
• Never My Fault: The origins of the mewman-monster wars. When the early Butterfly queens seized the monsters' lands, they used propaganda to make themselves look good and blame everything on the monsters, who were actually oppressed and forced to live in dire poverty. While a few queens didn't believe it, others did and encouraged it.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: The Magic Book of Spells shows that some of them have fathers (and, somehow, maybe mothers) of a different species. However, for some reason they don't appear to have inherited any of their features. It could be justified if they used magic to make themselves more human-looking, but that just makes the Commission's reluctance to let the hybrid Meteroa rule and the things they did to prevent it even more hypocritical.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: The Johansen family sees them as rather uptight and arrogant people with superiority complexes. The feeling is mutual, as the Butterflys detest the Johansens for being uncultured barbarians with no manners or taste.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: The past queens of Mewni exist as ghosts tied to the wand. They only fade away once the wand is destroyed and The Magic Goes Away.
• Our Mages Are Different: It's implied that Butterfly family members with innate magic, usually the women, are the result of long exposure to magic.
• Playing Card Motifs: Star Butterfly has Facial Markings shaped by Hearts, her mother, queen Butterfly has similar diamond-shaped markings, Ms. Heinous, the headmistress of St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses, has club-shaped markings and Eclipsa, one of the former queens of Mewni, has spade-shaped markings.
• Proud Warrior Race: In "Game of Flags", practically everyone in Mewni's royal family except Moon is obsessed with winning, conquering, and taking what they want. The revelation that Mewni's soldiers forcibly took away the monsters' land in "Mewnipendence Day" doesn't seem so much of a stretch now.
• Puppet Queen: As it turns out, the Queens of Mewni have more or less been thralls of the Magic High Commission, who in many ways are the ones ruling Mewni behind the scenes. The current Butterfly dynasty was a result of them putting a peasant girl on the throne. Moon was not happy when she discovered she and her predecessors were victims to their conspiracy.
• Rags to Royalty: "Meteora's Lesson" shows that one becomes royalty by inheriting the wand; the wand was gifted to the first queen by a time-traveling Glossaryck seemingly at random. Festivia, who was also born a peasant, became royalty in this manner.
• Red Baron: Each of the queens in the Grandma Room earned their own title through a specific deed that they became popular for. Special mention goes to Solaria, whose extreme methods against monsters earned her the name "Monster Carver".
• Royally Screwed Up: It's subtly implied that Mewni's Royal Family is one.
  • Skywynne had a tendency to overwork herself in pleasing her subjects, even letting their expectations get in the way of her beloved family; she was initially happy to let her son, Jushtin, succeed her in ruling Mewni as its first King, but her subjects pressured her into having a daughter. When Solaria was born, Skywynne rejoiced in public in front of her son, but in private she deeply regretted dashing her son's dreams and letting her people sway her.
  • Solaria became a deranged, genocidal killer who sought to kill all monsters, not knowing (or caring) that her actions would eliminate her family's monster allies.
  • Crescenta was a cute-looking Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who used her sweet appearance to manipulate her subjects, and threw people in the dungeon if they disagreed with the rules she put in place.
  • Crescenta's older sister, Dirhhennia, had untreated mental disorders (such as her obsession with balls) and depression.
  • Rhina married an abusive man and her attempt to curb his behavior led to accidental murder, which deeply affected her and had massive negative repercussions for Lucitor-Butterfly alliance.
  • Celena was born from a loveless, abusive marriage between the previous queen and a Lucitor demon, was very reclusive, and kept dark secrets.
  • Estrella inherited her mother's shyness, as she was selectively mute, and preferred to draw instead of ruling Mewni. Ironically, the lack of changes during her reign made her popular among the mewmans, who hated change.
  • Eclipsa was free-spirited and a tad rebellious and selfish. While she was married to King Shastacan, she ran away with a monster lover.
  • In "Monster Bash", it's revealed that Eclipsa had a half-monster child out of (legitimate) wedlock, and the Magic High Commission hid her away and erased all mentions of her name and swapped her out with a peasant girl because they were disgusted by her existence and terrified by the possibility of a monster-mewman hybrid using magic.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: In Mewni, the Queen is expected to take a major role in defending her kingdom from attack by using her magic to drive away invaders. Justified because the queens are mages who are usually several orders of magnitude stronger than their subjects. However, it's subverted with Estrella the Drafted, who became a very popular queen because she didn't do anything during her reign.
• Royalty Superpower: The only mewmans that are shown to have innate magic are members of the Butterfly family, specifically ones with Facial Markings, with the exception of Mina Loveberry, a Solarian. The royal Magic Wand also counts as an example of this trope, being an heirloom that's always been used in the hands of queens, and passed down when a princess turns fourteen. Despite the magic users being Butterfly women, the only Butterfly male to use magic and inherit the Magic Wand was Jushtin the Uncalculated, indicating that male Mewman royals can learn magic despite it being against matriarchal traditions. Subverted as of "Butterfly Trap" with the reveal that Festivia was a completely ordinary Mewman girl who was Switched at Birth with Meteora. This implies that anyone could learn to use magic with the proper training, though it would take generations to reach the skill level of a full-blooded Butterfly. The fact that Marco briefly gains Facial Markings while using the wand despite him being neither royalty nor mewman is foreshadowing of this.
• Rule of Symbolism: The Facial Markings on many of the Butterfly family members typically foreshadow something about their bearers.
  • Star's heart symbols signify that she "follows her heart". Her adolescence is marked by periods of infatuation and heartbreak, first with Tom, then Oscar, and eventually with Marco. She is also the child born from the true love between Moon and River. The heart suit is associated with childhood, fitting Star as the youngest member of the Butterfly dynasty.
  • Moon's diamonds symbolize her Silk Hiding Steel nature. "Moon the Undaunted" reveals that Moon adopted her no-nonsense personality to deal with the pressures of becoming queen at a young age, similar to how diamonds are formed under intense pressure. The diamond suit is associated with maturity and responsibility, which fits with how Moon had to "grow up" early to fulfill her responsibilities as queen after her mother was assassinated by Toffee.
  • Festivia the Fun's cheek marks could either be sparkles or four-pointed stars. Since she led Mewni in a time of conflict and in an effort to keep her people happy she made revelries for them, the sparkles could represent the color and splendor she covered her people with to make them forget about the looming war or if they are meant to be stars, even in the dark time she reigned, her star kept on shining.
  • Eclipsa's spades could reflect a desire to discover things ("digging up" magical knowledge) or that she kept her secrets "buried". Sure enough, her escape from her crystal prison unearthed dark secrets about the Butterfly family and the Magic High Commission. The spade suit is associated with wisdom and experience, fitting since Eclipsa likes to learn by experience and her motto is "all knowledge is good knowledge". Spades are also associated with darkness and death, reflecting Eclipsa's epithet and affinity for dark and lethal magic. Combine these meanings, and a lot of Eclipsa's spells came from experimentation with a lot of them can be pretty much torturous if not fatal. Two of her spells include the capability of killing immortal beings and the other being the completion of her mother's annihilation spell.
  • Moon's mother, Comet, had purple butterflies on her cheeks. Butterflies are commonly seen as symbols of change and fleetingness because of the metamorphosis they undergo and their short lifespans. Unfortunately she did not grow to see old age, and her death at the hands of Toffee forced Moon to become The Stoic and paved the way for the return of Eclipsa.
  • Skywynne had hourglass-shaped markings to symbolize her power over time.
  • Solaria's lightning bolts likely represent her speed and power, as well as her warmongering tendencies and her willingness to bring down her wrath upon the monster populace. It also refers to her Karmic Death - for trying to commit total genocide against the monsters, she was fatally struck down by the monsters she tried to kill.
  • The club suit is associated with intelligence and education. Fittingly, Miss Heinous was the headmistress of a school for hundreds of years.
  • Jushtin has markings shaped like four-leaf clovers, which are symbols of luck. While he was never able to become king due to Mewni being matriarchal (to his mother Skywynne's regret), he was able to become a great diplomat due to his charisma and kindness, and allied the Butterflys with the Pony Head and Lucitor kingdoms. He's the reason why Star is best friends with Pony Head and Tom Lucitor.
• She Is the King: Inverted. The inclusion of Jushtin the Uncalculated shows the reason why Mewni was never ruled by a king; "King" isn't classed as a title or part of the ruling hierarchy, as Queen is the official leading title.
• Silk Hiding Steel: The Butterfly queens are mostly graceful, refined women who will magically blast their enemies the moment their kingdom is threatened. The only exception was Solaria the Monster Carver, who was violent even by Mewni's standards and adopted a masculine appearance for battle.
• Sins of Our Fathers: The new queen always inherits the problems of the previous, due to the war with the monsters. Both Skywynne and Solaria are examples of this but with opposing results. Skywynne brought prosperity to Mewni because she aspired to best her incompetent mother, whereas, Solaria believed her predecessors were too weak in the war with the monsters and that genocide was the only solution.
• Stealth Pun: The society of Mewni is ruled by a monarch. A monarch is a type of butterfly.
• Stepford Smiler: This trope seems to be an unwritten requirement for a Queen, since Mewman society has a habit of dissolving into rioting chaos if their monarch is less than perfect:
  • Jushtin believed that Skywynne celebrating the news she was going to have a daughter to be the future queen her son never would, was her trying to keep up appearances with her subjects. Skywynne was in turn being this trope, as she genuinely regretted it and was only doing it because she had to.
  • Festivia's entry in the Magic Book of Spells indicates she used magic to make herself the "perfect host" for her endless parties, leading to at least five years without sleep. It was all to distract from the wars outside.
  • Before she met her "gal pal" Emily Kelpbottom, Crescenta often cast a spell on herself that got rid of her negative thoughts and emotions.
• Succession Crisis: It's implied with Jushtin that royal Butterfly men can inherit the throne, but only if there's truly no female heirs. When Skywynne turned out to be pregnant with a daughter, she celebrated and forced Jushtin to abdicate; in private, however, Skywynne deeply regretted cutting off her son's potential for greatness because she always believed in him since the day he was born.
• Super Mode: From what was seen of Moon and Star, all Butterfly members undergo a Mewberty phase that gives them access to a very powerful, butterfly-like form that enhances their magic and lets them travel through dimensions without the Dimensional Scissors. Only women and girls have access to this form.
• Strength Equals Worthiness: The rulers of Mewni are chosen through their power with magic. Queens are the governing leaders because women are more potent with magic than men. Jushtin the Uncalculated was the first king of Mewni because of a succession crisis and he had lesser innate abilities with magic.
• Technicolor Eyes: As with colorful hair, this seems to be a thing for some of the Butterfly family.
• Unexplained Accent: They have upper-class American and British accents or speech patterns.
• Vicious Cycle: The war between mewmans and monsters has been going on for centuries, with Mewmans attacking the monsters and the latter responding in kind, further fueling anti-monster prejudice. Only the kinder Butterfly royals such as Comet, Jushtin, Star, and Eclipsa have somewhat broken the cycle by interacting with monsters on a respectable, even friendly level, and in the case of Comet, a monster, Toffee, refused to have peace and murdered her for it.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Inverted; daughters are more valuable than sons because Mewni is ruled by a matriarchal system, and girls are expected to have powerful magic in order to rule. In The Magic Book of Spells, Queen Skywynne's chapter implied that she was initially fine with having her son being heir to the throne, but her subjects pressured her into having a daughter. Skywynne couldn't restrain her joy after she discovered she was pregnant with Solaria and immediately wanted Jushtin to abdicate... but in private, her joy was a public facade, as she believed that Jushtin was destined for greatness and was incredibly saddened that she had to make her own son abdicate to please her subjects. Even Glossaryck scoffed at the idea of having Jushtin on the throne.
• Women's Mysteries: The women of Mewni are potent with innate magic and deemed as rulers of Mewni for their magical efficiency. Men, on the other hand, are restricted from royalty, save for marriage. As shown by Jushtin the Uncalculated, it's not impossible for Mewni men to be innate with magic, but they are weaker than the women and Mewni will never respect them as royalty, since they stand by tradition and tradition states that their ruler should always be a woman.
• Women Are Wiser: Subverted and inverted.
  • Because of Mewni's matriarchal traditions, women are expected to be benevolent and powerful mage queens who always seem to make the right decisions for their kingdom. However, not every queen succeeded expectations during their reigns, and whatever they did in life were washed down for future generations to present them as more heroic. Not to mention, the Butterfly queens are rather hypocritical in their biases, as they are allied with monsters and are technically monsters themselves.
  • It's inverted with Jushtin and his younger sister Solaria - Jushtin saw the strength in interracial friendships and allied the Butterflys with the Pony Head and Lucitor families. On the other hand, Solaria was a racist warmonger who advocated for monster genocide, which later got her killed by the monsters she persecuted. This makes the Succession Crisis between them rather ironic, as Jushtin would've been a far better ruler had Mewni not been matriarchal.
• Written by the Winners: See individual entries for the specific details. Eclipsa was deemed Ambiguously Evil for this reason. Solaria advocated genocide, Celena harboured many secrets and Crescenta was an anti-monster crusader. Festivia was also a puppet queen to hide Meteora's existence. She wasn't even part of the Butterfly bloodline, originally being a peasant child. In general, they were responsible for watering down the history of the Butterfly kingdom, portraying their people as desperate immigrants who fought in self-defense against their monster aggressors, rather than being the ones responsible for instigating the rift between Mewmans and monsters. It's also implied that no one celebrated or officially recorded Jushtin the Uncalculated's accomplishments as a prince and diplomat because they wanted to forget the Butterfly dynasty ever had a male heir to the throne.

Star the Underestimated

See her entry here for tropes regarding Star Butterfly.

Star's Parents

General

The parents of the titular heroine and the current rulers of Mewni.

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• Aerith and Bob: Moon's surname "Butterfly" is a lot more exotic than "Johansen", which was River's before they were married.
• Ambiguously Evil: In "Mewnipendance Day", we learn the spotty history of Mewni that was clearly Written by the Winners, and these two definitely had a hand in covering up the lies. That and the fact they do next to nothing to help the poor peasants in their kingdom, and King Butterfly's love for killing monsters may be seen in a new light. It's made even worse in "On the Job". It is shown how the monster population of Mewni are all starving because the mewmans hoard all farming land and monsters who approach are killed on sight. The royal family, or the King at least, even uses magic barriers to keep huge crops of corn all for himself, and do not ask him to share.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Even though Moon is depicted as having a tight grip on her family and her husband has to keep his monster fighting a secret from her. In "Face The Music", River is entirely concerned about Moon going alone to the Forest of Certain Death and she reassures him by kissing him on the cheek. In "The Battle For Mewni", Moon organises clothes for River whenever she is away from the kingdom and when Moon is away River packs food and other items for her with affectionate puns (i.e corn with a note saying "I corn't wait to see you again") and seductive images of himself. Moon is disappointed by this since River didn't pack anything useful but does tell Buff Frog that she deeply misses him.
• Characterization Marches On: They are introduced as very cold, stern and not very sympathetic to their daughter. As episodes take time to expand their actual personalities and backstories, they show more sides of themselves, which includes their heartwarming marriage and romance, Moon's tragic past and the difficulties they faced together, as well as the fact they aren't nearly as cold as they seemed and River isn't actually that stern.
• Childhood Friend Romance: River has loved Moon since they were kids and after several years, she came to love him too and they got married.
• Foil: To the Diaz parents. Both sets of parents are the parents of the two main protagonists, the Diazes are from Earth and the Butterflys are from Mewni. While the former are more laid-back and open-minded, the latter are stricter and stiffer. As an added bonus, the Diazes wear warm color clothing, while the Butterflys wear cool color clothing. The Diazes also have two children as of "Marco Jr.", while the Butterflys only have one child.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: King River is a monster-fighting, Blood Knight warrior, and Queen Moon was the previous wielder of Star's wand.
• Happily Married: Despite the occasional spat, both Moon and River have had moments that show how deeply they love and cherish one another, as shown in "Face The Music". Of course, that won't stop Moon's relatives from trying to suggest more "potential" suitors for her, since River is from the uncultured, brutish Johansen family. That said, there are still some hints that further imply they may not be this trope. River doesn't just love Moon, he's blindly devoted to her and never questions anything she does, to the point he's practically unable to function if she's not around. He also fears Moon (as well as Star) don't have any respect for him and believe he's a joke. Moon, for her part, kept River out of her plans to usurp the throne back from Mina Loveberry, either because she was protecting him from it or felt he would've hindered her plans it's not been said but it does show a lack of faith in River's abilities.
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • On a tapestry shown in "Into the Wand", Queen Moon is depicted looking awfully similar to Star in her youth, including displaying a similar expression of emotion. Of course she has grown older and wiser since then. However, we later find out Moon was far more mature than Star when she was her age, because after the death of her mother, having to take the throne at such a young age have pushed her to wise up and be more responsible.
  • King Butterfly is just as bloodthirsty as Star, but hides it from his wife by disguising his monster hunting trips as "lecture tours".
• Like Parent, Unlike Child: They are stodgy, deadpan, and display a tiny bit of strictness (although, her father is secretly as boisterous and adventurous as Star). In contrast, their daughter Star is upbeat and energetic to the point of being almost hyper. In any case, Star stands between them because she's not as stuffy as her mother, and not as reckless as her father.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: River is the Male Might due to his use of brute force, whereas Moon is the Female Finesse due to her use of magic in "Game of Flags".
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Moon is the Action Girl whereas River gives moral support such as packing affectionate items for Moon when she needs to leave the kingdom. However, it's been shown that River goes out to fight monsters in secret, and has shown he is willing to jump into the action when needed.
• Musical Theme Naming: Their names call to mind the oft-covered song "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: The second half of Season 3 has their credibility damaged due to The Battle for Mewni with those less informed finding it laughable that their kingdom was taken over by giant rats while those more in the know are critical of them allowing Toffee to rampage across the land once more.
• Parental Neglect: Zigzagged. They had the royal guards babysit her as a child, but most likely realized it was a bad idea. Queen Butterfly herself makes sure to call Star every single day to see how she's doing, but her messages just wind up putting more and more pressure on Star so much so that her calling her mother up in return is a rarity in itself. Later on, it's clear that Moon doesn't always listen to Star's problems.
• Parents as People: While the show affirms that they genuinely love their daughter and want only the best for their kingdom, it also does not shy away from showing their flaws. Namely, Moon's protectiveness towards Star can lead to her becoming very overbearing, while River's recklessness can enable Star's own destructive tendencies. Also, both are heavily biased against monsters and conditioned their daughter to share the same beliefs, until Star sees the negative effects of monster racism and starts questioning her parents.
• Rescue Romance: Averted. River once saved Moon from an assassin back when they were childhood friends, but this didn't advance their relationship past the platonic.
• Retired Badass:
  • Moon Butterfly is a given, since she was the previous wielder of Star's wand and first "dipped down" at age nineteen.
  • River is only partially retired and secretly fights monsters for sport.
  • As depicted on a tapestry in "Into the Wand", Queen Moon Butterfly fought Toffee long ago, even being the direct cause of his severed finger. It's the reason she's known as "Moon the Undaunted".
• Ruling Couple: They apparently rule the Kingdom of Mewni together, though due to Mewni being matriarchal, it is Moon who has the real political authority, even though River was already royalty himself long before he married Moon.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: How King and Queen Butterfly enter Star into Echo Creek Academy.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • It's implied that they know more about the situation that led to the destruction of Star's wand than they let on.
  • In "Raid the Cave", they become Star's Secret Keepers regarding Ludo's kidnapping of Glossaryck and theft of the Book of Spells, which lands them in deep trouble in "Face the Music" when Ruberiot's Princess Song about Star reveals their complicity in the coverup to all of Mewni and the Magic High Commission.
• Shout-Out Theme Naming: Downplayed. Their names together actually form a reference to the song Moon River.
• Slobs Versus Snobs: Moon and River's respective families have this relationship. The Butterflys are more elegant, uptight, reserved while wearing suits and royal dresses. In comparison, the Johansens are louder, messier and wear clothes similar to barbarians. This is exemplified during a family picnic in "Game of Flags" - the Butterflys rely on their own guards to feed them and give them drink, since they're too self-important to do it themselves, while the Johansens display Jabba Table Manners by behaving rowdily and eating messily, much to the Butterflys' great disgust. Despite King River being more "civilized", he's still a Johansen at heart, and it was his untidiness that gets him kicked out of the castle by Moon in "Royal Pain". Moon's relatives cannot fathom why she married into a brutish family, with Moon's aunt Etheria trying to persuade her to dump River for Lord Mildrew, who's "still single".
• Strong Family Resemblance: They both passed down some of their traits to their daughter; Moon was Star's splitting image except in cheek marks and hair color when she was younger.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Queen is a good one foot taller than her husband. Even Star, their daughter, is taller than the King.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: In their youth, Moon and River were both adorable-looking. In the present day, Moon has aged much more gracefully than her husband, though the latter got an impressive beard as a tradeoff.
• Unnamed Parents: Only referred to as their titles. King Butterfly's name was revealed to be River in "Storm the Castle". Daron Nefcy confirmed on Twitter than Queen Butterfly's name is Moon.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: When they were children. Moon genuinely cared for and relied on River in spite of how testy she was in general. River's brash buffoonery was underscored by a deep admiration for the girl who would eventually become his wife.

Moon the Undaunted

See her page here

River Butterfly (née Johansen)

Voiced by: Alan Tudyk
Young River Voiced by: Sonny Ashbourne Serkis

Star's father, the king-consort of Mewni. In front of his wife, he acts like a regal and proper king, but he has a wild, adventure-loving side that he has trouble containing.

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• Action Dad: Though officially retired, he occasionally goes on trips to monster hunt and part of the reason Star is such a badass is because of the Training from Hell River subjected her to in her younger years.
• Animal Motifs: Eagles. He got into a staring contest with one, tamed a species of Mewni (who he later used in the battle with Meteora), and the tips at the end of his beard resemble an eagle's head.
• Badass Normal: In contrasts with his wife and daughter, River has no magic, but makes up for it by being an incredibly strong and skilled warrior.
• Barbarian Hero: Being a Johansen, River still identifies as being a proud barbarian, and he even fights in a loincloth like a barbarian.
• Berserk Button: Do NOT take his corn, or any of his food in general.
• Big Eater: Whenever there is a meal present, King Butterfly will most likely get a good heaping of it. Marco refers to him in the episode "Butterfly Follies" as the "hungriest guy I know."
• Blood Knight: King Butterfly carefully keeps this side of himself a secret from his uptight wife. He claims fighting monsters helps keep him sane.
• Boisterous Bruiser: The Johansen family all tend to be rambunctious, loud Blood Knight barbarians. Despite the well-mannered, uptight Butterfly influence, River is still much like his brethren at heart, and it shows.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: River may love fighting, but he's also a loving family man.
• Bumbling Dad: Sorta. He can come off as childish and irresponsible sometimes, kinda like his daughter, or less so.
• The Chains of Commanding: King Butterfly admits to finding his responsibilities as king exhausting, and regularly sneaks off to go monster hunting to, in his own words, "keep me sane".
• Character Development: As with most Mewmans, River was quite racist against Monsters in general and held Queen Eclipsa in great distaste because she fell in love with one. By season four, with him and Moon no longer ruling Mewni and having a community of their own (albeit, by accident), he mellowed out. When Moon reveals Mina's plans to overthrow Eclipsa, River is genuinely worried for the Queen of Darkness and he comes to defense of Globgor, the King of Monsters, when Rhombulus is about to recrystallize him.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He can fall up a waterfall, run 150 mph, and carry Star and Marco on his shoulders while doing so. Heck, if he's to be believed, he was able to run faster than that when he was younger. Later in season two we see that he comes from a whole family of inhumanly strong people.
• Commonality Connection: Invoked in "Game of Flags"; he settles a picnic dispute between the Butterflys and the Johansens by having them compete in the titular game, something that both sides clearly enjoy. Moon is not pleased.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: King Butterfly has a massive and nigh-genocidal grudge against a fellow king for shooting an amorous glance at his wife. Justified; he spent years trying to court Moon in their younger days, and eventually succeeded. Thus, any other man who makes advances towards his wife will make his hard work pointless.
• Cuddlebug: Star got her own Cuddlebug tendencies from him (and, by extension, the rest of the Johansen half of the family).
• Dented Iron: Used to be a lot more fit during his youth and bemoans his dwindling (if still substantial) physical strength.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed. Years of trying to win Moon's hand and ultimately succeeding has made him a little possessive towards his wife, and loathes any guy who tries to make advances.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he has own field of corn that he refuses to share, he was shocked when he accidentally lights the field on fire, nearly burning to death some monsters that tried to steal from it.
• Fire-Forged Friends: He and King Pony Head became friends after the former mistook him for a Greebeast (based on very flimsy evidence) and tried to wrestle him to death while they were teenagers.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Neither his first or last name can adequately prepare you for how gung-ho and violent he is.
• Gender-Blender Name: Traditionally, while "River" is a unisex name, it's used more commonly for women than for men.
• Generation Xerox: His friendship with King Dave is very similar to Star and Tom's relationship; it's incredibly bumpy, but they manage to make up in the end. Star and Tom in particular just take it one step further.
• Henpecked Husband: While he can be quite boisterous and loud at times, he often caves to his wife's demands with a single word from her.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He seems to have developed this with Marco, since Marco is shown to be really casual with him (even calling River by his first name without a title). Heck, the same episode has River outright refer to Marco as his friend, as opposed to him merely viewing him as "Star's boyfriend" in a previous appearance.
• I Was Quite a Looker: He was a short and pudgy, yet adorable-looking teenager when he was younger. He aged less gracefully than his wife, but he got an awesome beard as a bonus to make up for it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: River can be quite rude at times, and in other occasions, crack rather mean-spirited jokes, but he does mean well.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He has absolutely nothing to do with Moon and Mina Loveberry's scheme to overthrow Eclipsa because it seems he has no idea what Moon's done. The fact he's willingly trying to save Globgor from dying while evading Mina's forces further imply he's innocent in this mess.
• Loophole Abuse: In "Game of Flags", Moon requests that he settle the picnic dispute between their respective families. Since she didn't specify how to, he decides to suggest the titular game of flags, which pleases everyone but Moon due to how dangerous and barbaric it is.
• Luminescent Blush: When he was younger, he would blush like this whenever he interacted with Moon, due to having a crush on her. It makes him look adorable.
• Made of Iron: He was able to survive a massive fall that's powerful enough to cause a crater, and he was able to survive being boiled by the scalding geyser that launched him in the first place, minus his beard and looking like he got horribly sunburned.
• Magic Knight: His family is composed of a clan of deceptively brutish barbarians who are quite adept at the mystical arts.
• Papa Wolf: Defends his daughter's honor after King Dave accuses her of club-snubbing Tom, and the arguments escalate from there to the point where they both fight each other in front of the other royals.
• Shared Family Quirks: King Butterfly likes to sneak off to fight monsters once in while, just like Star. Also all his strength and toughness is a family trait on his side.
• Shipper on Deck: He assumed Marco was Star's boyfriend, and was perfectly accepting of the two being together.
• Shock and Awe: River's staff can shoot lightning bolts out of its head.
• Shorter Means Smarter: The shortest adult in his family and the most marginally intelligent/clever of the Johansens. Presumably he's the one to settle family disputes should the Johansens and Butterflys find reason to argue with each other.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Like his wife, River wore the standard attire for a King, symbolizing how he had to be leader, even if he was chafing under it. By season 4, he ditches the look to wear a loincloth, becoming more relaxed, comfortable, and happy in his new life.
• Staff of Authority: King Butterfly carries a cool staff that has an ice/diamond carving of the moon.
• Took a Level in Badass: As a preteen, he was immensely incompetent despite his great strength. In the present, he's much more well-trained on how to expertly apply said strength.
• Took the Wife's Name: He was born River Johansen and took his wife Moon's last name Butterfly. This is apparently tradition for the Butterfly Family; since the throne is matriarchal and most of its born members are female, the husband of a queen or heiress apparent always takes the Butterfly name so they can continue the lineage.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Like most Mewmans, it's corn. He has a large stash of the stuff reserved for himself. God help you if you mess with it.
• Verbal Tic: Whenever he tries to give a long-winded explanation, he gives off a strange whistle in his teeth.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Star may share a lot of traits with River, but even she can get exasperated with him because River tends to be careless and does a lot of embarrassing things, which Star points out especially in "Escape From the Pie Folk".
• "Well Done, Dad!" Guy: Besides worrying about his dwindling strength in "Camping Trip", River also worries that Star wouldn't admire him anymore because of him becoming less fit.

Past Queens of Mewni

The First Butterfly Queen

Voiced by: Kari Wahlgren

The first queen who held the wand. An amnesiac woman who was given the wand by a time-travelling Glossaryck.

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• The Chosen One: Played for laughs. Glossaryk, time-travelling with Meteora, created the wand with one of Meteora's rattles and gave it to a random woman in the boat heading to the land that would become Mewni. How did he choose her? By playing a game of Eenie-Meenie-Minie-Moe.
• Facial Markings: Her cheek marks were circles.
• Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about her, but it's implied that she was a North American settler and, on her way to what would become Echo Creek, her ship fell into the Realm of Magic and ended up in Mewni with none of her memories.
• Shrouded in Myth: Glossaryk chose her at random and gave her a hastily made wand. Since then, the mewmans believe that only women can develop magical powers and men are somehow unable to develop magic. When, in reality, they were all standing in the magic river and Glossaryk just chose her so he can get on with teaching Meteora on how to Dip Down.
• Stable Time Loop: Glossaryck gives her a wand transformed from Meteora's rattle. She becomes queen and sets up the Butterfly Dynasty, which eventually produces Eclipsa and Meteora and the all the messy family drama that ends with Meteora as a baby again and given the very rattle that would become set up the dynasty that produced her in the first place. Meteora travels to the past, Glossaryck gives the rattle to the first queen, rinse and repeat.

Soupina the Strange

An ancient queen whose eyes became stuck in Mewberty mode. Unable to stop viewing multiple dimensions at once, she went mad and left Mewni, never to return.

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• Black Sheep: Soupina is apparently a sore spot for the Butterfly family, as Moon once told River she was afraid Star would end up like her. Likewise, Dirhhennia was told by her mother that she would end up like Soupina, though Dirhhennia didn't think she was real.
• Blessed with Suck: Being able to see into other dimensions would be a blessing... if it wasn't multiple at the same time and Soupina could turn it off.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Seeing into multiple dimensions at once for long enough caused her to snap.

Lyric Butterfly

Skywynne's mother. Not much was known about her, except she was a fashion-obsessed queen of Mewni who ruled for a short time.

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• Abdicate the Throne: She had a short reign as queen of Mewni because she abdicated the throne after she got bored.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: Subverted; she abdicated the throne after a short reign because she was bored, contrasting Jushtin and Dirhhennia, who were forced to abdicate the throne for being male and mentally unstable, respectively. When a major fire broke out, she saved a book on fashion instead of the original Book of Spells, causing hundreds if not thousands of useful spells to be lost forever.
• The Fashionista: Implied, given how she prioritized a fashion book over the Book of Spells.
• Flying Broomstick: Her wand was a broom that she can use to fly.
• The Ghost: So far, she's only been mentioned in her daughter's chapter of the Book of Spells.
• I Want Grandkids: Implied. Skywynne's chapter in The Magic Book of Spells talked about her throwing a party for princes, specifically so she could find her daughter an eligible husband. Skywynne got out of it by magically fast-forwarding time.
• Irony: Her selfishness and short-sightedness is the reason that the original book of spells was lost in a fire, meaning that she will not be remembered like her daughter.
• Skewed Priorities: She believed a book on fashion was more important than the Book of Spells, and rescued that during a major fire, forcing her daughter to write a new one.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears as an off-handed mention in Skywynne's chapter, but her foolishly leaving the magic book of spells to burn in the castle is the reason no queens before Skywynne are documented. Her casual and selfish attitude is also a big part of the reason that Skywynne became The Determinator.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The fashion-obsessed wacky parent to her studious daughter's serious child.

Skywynne, Queen of Hours

"Ticktock the clock talks
but secret are its powers.
The only one to break its spell
is Skywynne, Queen of Hours."

A scholarly monarch, Skywynne was famous and respected for adding a plethora of knowledge to the Book of Spells, most of which involved space-time manipulation. Has the dubious distinction of being one of the few past queens Star deigned to be familiar with before the events of "Into the Wand". Her wand was topped with an alarm clock.

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• Anti-Hero: Skywynne is a very morally ambiguous figure. On one hand, she was very dedicated to her kingdom, saving it from famine and homelessness while in her later years supporting the arts, and was a very loving mother. On the other hand, she endangered the public with crazy experiments, sometimes abused her power for personal gain or to make things easier, and kicked off a trend of Mewman expansionism that would cause wars for generations to come.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Her revised Warnicorn Spell allows the user to summon multiple Warnicorns at once. But as this page◊ showed, the incantation for the spell is very complicated to pull off.
• Badass Bookworm: Her chapter in The Magic Book of Spells is one of the most detailed and informative in the tome and she created even more spells after she learned how to "dip down" without her wand as a member of the Magic High Commission.
• Cast from Lifespan: Her time-skipping spell causes you to age the same amount as if your experienced time normally. This means it doesn't save you any time, it just lets you skip past unpleasant experiences.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After releasing her pent-up anger in trying to please everyone, Skywynne became more assertive, and taught her subjects how to provide and fend for themselves without relying on her to do everything for them. She also got together with her crush, Sir Gem-robin, after he divorced his first wife, and had two children with him, Jushtin and Solaria.
• Emperor Scientist: Skywynne had a very experimental and meticulous view of magic, with which she discovered things like how to spontaneously create enough food for the whole kingdom. Unfortunately, she's pretty much a low-key Mad Scientist whose experiments including removing gravity for the whole planet and raising the dead. She even destroyed an entire planet/dimension by accident, though it was uninhabited.
• Evil Colonialist: Though she had relatively altruistic motives, Skywynne annexed and deforested even more territory from the monsters for farmland just to spare herself the hassle of making their food herself.
• Facial Markings: Skywynne has cheek marks shaped like hourglasses on her cheeks, symbolizing her talent with time magic.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Did not believe in the Stump.
• Follow in My Footsteps: She wanted her son, Jushtin, to succeed her as Mewni's first King and become a powerful mage like her.
• Friend to Bugs: When Glossaryck returned, she was happy to meet the family of bugs he brought with him.
• Good Parents: Loved both of her children, and initially wanted Jushtin to succeed her as King of Mewni, which explained how he got his own chapter in The Magic Book of Spells. Even when Jushtin was little, Skywynne let him hold her Magic Wand, despite it being traditionally passed down from mother to daughter. She also did not tolerate Glossaryck's ignorant dismissiveness of her son, Jushtin, and reminded him that she knew the difference between a boy and a girl. She deeply regretted letting her people sway her into forcing Jushtin to relinquish his claim to the throne after a short time as heir, which she hid with joy over having a female heir in public. In turn, Jushtin's chapter mentions how much he loves his mother, and implies that she always believed he was destined for greatness from the moment he was born.
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Her dress has large, round sleeves.
• Greater Need Than Mine: She wanted Jushtin to be king because she believed he was destined for greatness. However, when she became pregnant with Solaria, she had to pass the crown to her from Jushtin. She was torn up about it but had to keep the kingdom happy. Jushtin doesn't blame her, as he was disinterested in ruling anyway.
• I Am Not My Father: What motivated her to be a better queen than her mother, Lyric. Lyric was a ditzy and foppish woman who preferred fashion over ruling, abdicated the throne because she was bored, and saved a book on fashion instead of the original Book of Spells after the family castle caught fire. Skywynne vowed never to repeat her mother's mistakes; ironically by being the good queen her people wanted, she ended up making a lot of decisions she personally wasn't happy about, like superseding her own son in favor of her daughter due to Mewni being a matriarchy.
• Irony: Skywynne being a beloved queen was motivated by her desire not to repeat her foppish mother's mistakes. She ended up sacrificing her own happiness for the sake of her people, including making Jushtin give up his claim to the throne because male rulers wouldn't be accepted in a matriarchy like Mewni.
• Mama Bear: When Glossaryck asked Skywynne to introduce him to her daughter, only to find that she had a son, Jushtin, he acted as if having a male child was utterly baffling. Understandably, Skywynne wasn't pleased with this and told him that she knew the difference between a boy and a girl.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Dimension 811 was destroyed by a fit of Skywynne's rage, though it thankfully had no intelligent life.
• Miracle Food: Skywynne discovered she could blast clouds with magic to make them rain food. This kept everyone fed, though it wasn't perfect (it was influenced by the caster's appetite and Glossaryck won't even acknowledge the products as "food"). Unfortunately, this turned Mewni into a society terminally-dependent on her, so Skywynne decided to find a way for them to grow their own food.
• Necromancer: One of the spells Skywynne developed allowed the caster to temporarily raise the dead from the Underworld. The only thing she advised against while using necromancy is raising "Monster Clowns", which she deemed the worst kind of undead.
• Parents as People: She wanted her beloved son, Jushtin, to become the first mage king of Mewni, but she let her people's opinions sway her into having a daughter. She also took no pleasure in forcing her beloved son Jushtin to give up his claim to the throne, but had to do so in order to keep her people happy.
• Parental Favoritism: Because Mewni is a matriarchy, she favored her daughter Solaria over her son Jushtin. After she came to take his wand away, she laughed and jumped for joy over having a female heir... right in front of Jushtin who spied on her through a keyhole. It's also subverted; it's implied that in private, she loved her son and always believed he was destined for greatness, but had to keep up appearances since her subjects would never accept a male ruler in a matriarchal kingdom.
• Point of Divergence: Had Skywynne refused to let the public sway her into giving birth to a daughter, Solaria the Monster Carver wouldn't have existed. Her son, Jushtin, would've become Mewni's first King and the first male Butterfly mage like she always hoped he would be.
• Rage Breaking Point: In her chapter in The Magic Book of Spells, the final straw after dealing with lazy, ungrateful subjects as well as monsters who were attracted by the overabundance of food... was learning that her crush, Sir Gem-robin, had a girlfriend. The result was one dimension completely wiped out while she magically dipped down.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Skywynne had some spectacularly loose ethics when it came to using her magic. She conducted extremely dangerous experiments that ended up flinging people into space and destroying an (uninhabited) dimension. She had the castle rebuilt by putting her subjects into a "Groundhog Day" Loop where they thought five years was one day. On a personal level, she even froze time to smell the clothes of a man she was infatuated with.
• Shout-Out: Her dress design might be a subtle reference to Princess Peach.
• Space Master: One of things she was most knowledgeable about was space-time manipulation.
• Stalker with a Crush: She often used her time magic to sneak into the house of her crush, Sir Gem-robin, so she could sniff his shirts. Not creepy at all.
• Summon Magic: She's the creator of the Warnicorn Stampede spell, altering its progenitor to produce many Warnicorns instead of just one.
• Time Master: Based on the events of Freeze Day, she not only created the spell that could bring time to a standstill, but was capable of performing it in such a way that it wouldn't free Father Time from the Wheel of Progress. The inscription on her portrait implies that she pioneered this particular type of spellcraft. She also used time magic to escape a party her mother, Lyric, threw so she could find Skywynne a husband.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: She dipped down during an extremely upsetting point in her life, and her pent-up anger provided the boost her magic needed to blow up another dimension.
• Unrequited Love: Skywynne's chapter in The Magic Book of Spells mentioned her huge crush on a mewman noble, Sir Gem-robin. After dealing with lazy, ungrateful subjects as well as monsters attacking her kingdom for food, she considered the last straw to be learning that Gem-robin had a girlfriend. Fortunately, after gaining some assertiveness, she married Gem-robin after he was single again.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Her mother was a ditzy, foppish ruler who abdicated the throne early because she got bored of ruling. Also, when the castle was burning she rushed back in to save a book of fashion instead of the Book of Spells. Skywynne's successful rule was motivated by her desire to be a better queen than her mother.

Jushtin the Uncalculated

"He was just a boy,
but he could dream.
So goes the sad tale
of Jushtin the un-queen."

True to his title, Jushtin was never crowned queen, as he was superseded in favor of his younger sister, Solaria. He was the only son and first-born child of Queen Skywynne and the older brother of Queen Solaria.

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• Abdicate the Throne: Due to Mewni being completely matriarchal, he was superseded as heir to the throne in favor of his sister, Solaria, after his mother, Skywynne, announced she was having a daughter. Jushtin doesn't blame her for doing so since she was keeping up appearances, and he was rather disinterested in ruling anyway. Ironically, Solaria proved to be a worse ruler than he would have been.
• Aerith and Bob: With the Butterfly queens all named after stars and other cosmic-related things, "Jushtin" seems rather normal in comparison, even with the extra 'h' put in to make it sound more exotic.
• Agent Peacock: He reaped the benefits of being queen and certainly looks the part. He was one of Solaria's diplomats to ally the Butterfly family with the Pony Head and Lucitor families against the monsters in the Mewman-Monster War, despite Mewni being deep in anti-monster prejudice.
• All-Loving Hero: He was able to make friends with different kingdoms and races, as shown with the Butterfly family's strong alliances with both the Lucitors and the Pony Heads. This is represented by his magic wand having a sentient alligator head that acts like an affectionate pet, whereas in the hands of other Queens, the magic wand appeared as inanimate objects. Even his inner social circle included an old man who came from a poorer background and suffered from arthritis.
• Animal Motifs: His folder image has shapes that resemble scallops. Scallops can refer to any species of saltwater clams, and when their shell is opened, juicy meat and/or precious pearls can be found inside. Like a clam, Jushtin has untapped potential as both a King and a powerful mage, which his mother wanted to nurture. But because Mewni is extremely matriarchal, people chose to dismiss him for being born a male Butterfly instead of giving him a chance, resulting in him fading into obscurity.
• Befriending the Enemy: For all his flaws, Jushtin was definitely a Magnetic Hero. In contrast to his warmongering sister, he made long-lasting alliances and had hopes that he could end the monster-mewman war peacefully. Too bad Mewni couldn't make an exception for him due to his gender.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: Subverted. He fits the "Benevolent" part, as his ability to make friends from different kingdoms and races with ease would've made him an ideal King of Mewni. However, Mewni being a queendom meant that he was unfit to rule and once his mother became pregnant with his sister, Solaria, he was superseded in favor of her.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Despite being a fop who was more interested in hanging out with his "crew" than ruling or (presumably) learning magic, he was also a mathematics prodigy. And if his time as diplomat was to go by, he is very charismatic with astounding social skills that netted his family two powerful allies. His "crew" were also the children of some of Mewni's most prominent families, meaning that he was making connections that would've been quite useful had he actually gotten a chance to rule... but that seems to have been a coincidence and he simply befriended them because he liked them.
• Camp Straight: Was very flashy and flamboyant, but had a crush on his math tutor and eventually married a Spiderbite duchess.
• Classy Cane: His magic wand took the shape of an alligator-headed striped cane, befitting his former title as a Butterfly prince. The alligator head was somewhat sentient as it tended to bite people, except for him.
• The Dandy: He's quite a fop, and has probably the most flamboyant outfits out of the book's holders. His sister describes him as "strangely fabulous".
• Facial Markings: His are shaped like four-leaf clovers, which are seen as symbols of luck.
• Follow in My Footsteps: The reason why Jushtin was made heir to the throne was because his mother, Skywynne, wanted him to succeed her and achieve great things, including becoming a powerful mage like her. Ironically, he ended up failing both expectations because Skywynne was pressured into having a daughter and superseding Jushtin's claim of succession in favor of the "rightful" heir.
• Goal in Life: His initial goal as the official heir to the throne was to turn Mewni into a tourist destination for both mewmans and monsters. Sadly, he never got to, since his claim of succession was superseded in favor of Solaria.
• Good with Numbers: He is well-versed in both physics and mathematics, and his entry is sprinkled copiously with complicated mathematical equations. His card assigns him a 20+ "Math" skill.
• Hot for Teacher: Implied; his chapter had a photo of his math teacher, who was an attractive woman. The photo also had hearts doodled around it. This trope might be why Jushtin became so good at math.
• Hot Teacher: His chapter included a photo of an attractive woman who was his math tutor, which may explain how he became so good at math.
• Improbable Weapon User: While he doesn't have anything on Rhina, Jushtin's wand appears to have been topped with the head of a lizard that's somewhat sentient; it's known to bite people.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Jushtin had the makings of a great king but he had to give up his claim to the throne because of his sex, since Mewni has always been ruled by a queen and the Mewmans were deeply intolerant of any changes in tradition.
• Irony:
  • His cheek markings are four-leaf clovers, which are symbols of good luck and fortune. He would have been the first male ruler in Mewni's history, although he was superseded in favor of his younger sister, Solaria.
  • He turned out to be a much better person to have had on the throne, because he was a talented negotiator who was able to make friends with monsters, such as the Pony Heads and Lucitors. On the other hand, his sister Solaria was a warmongering, racist queen who advocated for monster genocide, and was killed by the monsters in turn.
  • His mother, Skywynne, wanted him to succeed and achieve great things in his life. He ended up being known as the only Butterfly "un-queen", whose dreams were dashed because of his gender.
  • Skywynne also wanted Jushtin to be a "mighty magic wielder" like her. He ended up with weaker magic than his female relatives' because of his preference for hanging out with his friends instead of studying, as well as having the magic wand taken away from him for being a boy before he could learn anything else.
• Large and in Charge: Subverted. Jushtin was one of the taller members of the royal bloodline, standing at 6 feet, one inch shorter than Festivia whose height was 6'1". Because Mewni is matriarchal, he was superseded in favor of his sister Solaria after Skywynne became pregnant, and Solaria became even taller than him, standing at 6'3".
• Magic Staff: His wand took the form of a red and white-striped cane with an alligator head.
• Magnetic Hero: Implied and justified; despite his card listing his charisma at a 4, Jushtin had better social skills than Solaria did, and his friends consisted of princes and nobles from different kingdoms. When he became a diplomat during Solaria's reign, he was able to ally the Butterfly family with the Pony Heads and the Lucitors. It's saying something when the alliances manage to stay strong in the present day, despite Mewni's rampant monster prejudice.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Jushtin is the foppish Feminine Boy, while his younger sister Solaria is the warmongering Masculine Girl.
• Meaningful Name: While Jushtin has the Odd Name Out in his family, it still has meaning. It's a variant of "Justin," and all signs point to Jushtin having the potential to be a wise and just king if he were given the chance.
• Momma's Boy: Implied; he deeply loves his mother, Skywynne, and his writings have notes like "LUV U 2 MOM". He also doesn't resent her for superseding his claim to the throne in favor of his younger sister, Solaria, as he was rather disinterested in ruling, anyway; he suspected that Skywynne was only putting up appearances for her subjects, and his only request was for her to take off her public mask and grieve with him.
• More Deadly Than the Male: In Jushtin's case, he's the "Male" part of the trope. His innate magic was abysmal compared to his mother, a chronomancer, and his sister, who weaponized magic to new levels. This trope may be justified as Jushtin was more interested in hanging out with his friends than ruling or learning magic, and is partially why he was forced to give up his claim of succession to Solaria.
• Nice Guy: Implied. One of Jushtin's friends was a poor, elderly man named Whizzbag, whose arthritic knees motivated the creation of the Creaky Knees Spell, which created comfortable seats for people to sit on. He also included Whizzbag in his "Boy-Prince Cru" entourage, despite Whizzbag not being royalty or rich. The sentient alligator head on Jushtin's Magic Wand, which he called "Gator Agate", refused to bite him "cuz he luv his dad". In his diplomatic career, Jushtin managed to ally his family with the Pony Head and Lucitor families, which stayed strong in the present day.
• Pimp Duds: Wears a wide-brim hat covered in multi-colors feathers, a bright-red jacket with fur lining, a large jeweled ring, and heeled shoes while carrying around a fancy cane. The similarity is even more obvious when you look at the similarly-dressed members of his entourage.
• Point of Divergence: Had Skywynne refused to let the public sway her into having a daughter, Jushtin would've fulfilled his mother's expectations of becoming Mewni's first King as well as the first male Butterfly mage.
• Raised as the Opposite Gender: As Skywynne's successor, he was expected to be a girl but he was born a boy. Skywynne loved him either way and saw a lot of potential in him as her successor. However, her subjects refused to acknowledge him as king and he was still regarded as queen. His old title was to reflect this, as he was originally called "the boy queen" in promotional material.
• Shared Family Quirks: Jushtin and Star have a few in common despite not being related by blood. For one, they both preferred to have fun with their friends rather than be saddled with a royal position they wouldn't be satisfied with. And they're both compassionate to people of different races (once Star gets her Character Development, that is).
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Jushtin is a Magnetic Hero who built long-lasting alliances with the other kingdoms. His sister Solaria was a warmonger who nearly destroyed those kingdoms in her war with the monsters.
• Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Skywynne wanted Jushtin to succeed her as Mewni's first King and become a powerful mage like her, so she named him her heir. However, after she was pressured into becoming pregnant with Solaria, Jushtin was superseded in favor of his younger sister. Then he was demoted to Solaria's diplomat during the Monster-Mewman war; while he managed to ally the Butterflys with the royal Pony Head and Lucitor dynasties, his accomplishments are only a footnote in history compared to his female relatives and successors, and were never celebrated or officially recorded, either.
• Spare to the Throne: Because Mewni is a matriarchy, he was never intended to be queen, although his mother, Skywynne, wished for him to succeed her and named him her heir, giving him the royal Magic Wand and the Book of Spells. Despite this, when Skywynne became pregnant with his younger sister, Solaria, Jushtin was superseded in favor of her; Skywynne took the wand and the book back from him and then gave them to Solaria when she came of age. His tapestry's story even refers to him as an "un-queen" who was barred from the line of succession simply because of his sex. While Skywynne was overjoyed to finally have a daughter as her heir in public, she deeply regretted cutting her son's time as heir short in private, because she always believed that Jushtin was destined for greatness from the moment he was born.
• Socialite: As a teenager, Jushtin mostly spent his time living loud while hanging out with his "crew". He eventually grew out of it, and became a diplomat.
• Spare to the Throne: Skywynne was initially content with having a son and wanted Jushtin to become a great king. However, the Mewmans hated this deviance from tradition and pressured Skywynne to have another child, as Mewni had always been ruled by a woman. As a result, Jushtin lost his Magic Wand, royal spellbook, and claim to the throne, which were then given to his younger sister, Solaria.
• Stealth Pun: Jushtin is a mathematical genius who was able to make friends with different kinds of people, even the Pony Heads and Lucitors. He's a social butterfly.
• Sweet Tooth: Like many teenagers, Jushtin likes soda.
• True Companions: Implied with Jushtin's "Boy-Prince Cru" group, as he spent more time hanging out with them than ruling Mewni. Prince Sazmo was his "BFF", and a poor, elderly, arthritic man named "Whizzbag" was also included despite not being royalty. He also had the uncanny ability to turn other people into this, as the Pony Head and Lucitor families continued being allies of the Butterfly family long after his death.
• The Unfavorite: Skywynne favored his sister Solaria over him in accordance to Mewni's matriarchal traditions, but it's subverted as it was only a public facade. In private, she deeply loved her son as well, and was saddened that he was superseded in favor of Solaria as she had had high hopes for him.
• Unluckily Lucky: His chapter revealed that his astrology sign in Mewni was the Bog-Slug, an animal associated with bad luck. He was the first and only male heir to the throne in the history of Mewni, but as soon as his sister was born, he was superseded in favor of her. He's also said to be disinterested in ruling Mewni, and after Solaria was crowned queen, he served as a diplomat and allied the Butterflys with the Pony Heads and the Lucitors. He's the reason why Star Butterfly and her father River have close friendships with members of the Lucitor family.
• What You Are in the Dark: Despite having every reason to hate his mother and sister for superseding his claim to the throne by virtue of his sex, Jushtin blames neither of them as he was rather disinterested in ruling. He was more concerned with his mother's public masks and wanted her to be more open with her feelings, while he had a presumably decent relationship with his sister.
• The Wise Prince: Everything points to the fact that he would have made a fantastic example of The Good King had he not been treated as the Spare to the Throne.
• With Great Power Comes Great Perks: For the brief period he had access to magic, Jushtin used it for minor conveniences and parlor, like making his chariot fly or giving his elderly friend a comfortable seat.

Solaria the Monster Carver

Voiced by: Gemma Whelan

"A castle stormed is a hero born
with might as strong as steel.
Kneels the void before her
and the crushing force she wields."

A queen that fought monsters just like Star did, only with a lot more killing involved. Her wand was a Laser Blade with a red-hot lightning bolt.

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• Abusive Mom: Downplayed; she did love her daughter Eclipsa, but pressured her into completing the Total Annihilation Spell and marrying Shastacan, despite her disgust at the former and openly objecting to the latter.
• Action Mom: Flashbacks show her charging into battle against monsters even with a baby Eclipsa strapped to her chest in a pouch.
• Aggressive Categorism: More so than most queens. She hates monsters with a burning passion and wants them all annihilated.
• Alliterative Name: Her Magic Wand's millhorse was called Bartholomew the Brave.
• Amazonian Beauty: Solaria's muscular compared to the other queens, but that doesn't hinder her looks.
• Ambition Is Evil: Her goal to conquer all the lands around Mewni both consumed and destroyed her.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Seen from above, the pteruges on her skirt fan out in waves resembling Solaria's namesake, the Sun.
• Atop a Mountain of Corpses: See that picture up there? That's her, standing atop a pile of monster skulls.
• Bald of Evil: Solaria's royal tapestry in the Grandma Room depicted her as completely bald, though flashbacks and her entry depicted her with a braided undercut hairstyle. She was among the worst of the Butterfly Queens; while a deadly Magic Knight whose talents lay in combat and war, she was also a genocidal warmonger whose campaigns worsened relations between the Mewmans and the monsters they saw as their enemies. One of her last acts as Queen was to pressure Eclipsa into creating a Total Annihilation spell that would render all monsters extinct... including the Butterfly Family's own monster allies.
• Bald Head of Toughness: Rather surprising for a Queen of Mewni, since most of them have long elegant hair. While she initially had an undercut hairstyle that she turned into a long braid, she would later shave her head completely. She is also far more aggressive than other queens, bordering on Blood Knight status, and outright disdains queens she thinks are too weak.
• Believing Their Own Lies: She went to war against the monsters because she believed it was the only solution. Over time, she started believing that the monsters were welcoming of death and even made a guide on how to kill them.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: Subverted, as she's an example of why someone as racist as her shouldn't be in charge at all. She desired the deaths of all monsters, and disdained the other queens for being too soft. Eventually, her extremism caused her to be killed by the monsters in turn.
• BFS: Her wand was a large Laser Blade that was called the Wand of Aggression.
• Blood Knight: While Mewmans are a Proud Warrior Race, Solaria stands out in the Butterfly line of queens because she was not a Lady of War. This is deconstructed as final entries in her chapter reveal that her talent became less needed when battles began to decrease. Despite the decline of monster retaliation, Solaria still wanted the monsters exterminated rather than choosing a peaceful resolution to cease the bloodshed.
• Braids of Action: She once had long braided hair with a shaved top before cutting it all off entirely. Then again, she could always use magic to switch between hairstyles.
• Brawn Hilda: At 6'3", Solaria was the tallest of the Butterfly Queens, with a notable muscular physique compared to her daintier relatives and successors. She was also a brutal Magic Knight who constantly waged wars with Mewni's monster population, seeing them as threats to be exterminated regardless of their innocence.
• The Brute: She was never much of a spell-caster, preferring to use her wand as a close-combat weapon. And the few spells she created herself were all intended to be used in her war against monsters.
• The Caligula: Solaria advocated genocide and created an army of bloodthirsty mutants to do so.
• Confirmed Bachelor: Solaria personally had "neither time nor interest in taking a king". When she wanted to conceive a heir, she simply named her councilor Alphonse as her Chosen Conception Partner.
• The Corrupter: Solaria's experiments transformed Mina into a super soldier with an uncompromising bloodlust to match.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Solaria started out trying to peacefully resolve the conflict, but repeated failures resulted in her going the violent route. By the time it was over, she'd become a complete genocidal nutcase. She even hoped that Eclipsa would finish her annihilation spell, despite Eclipsa wanting nothing to do with Solaria's agenda.
• Death Equals Redemption: It seems in death (or after it), she accepted the ruin the Butterfly Family has caused with magic, and she actively took part in the Whispering Spell, dispelling Mina when she tried to call out to her. She ends up silently reconciling with Eclipsa and accepting Meteora as her granddaughter before fading away for good.
• Defiant to the End: Solaria died fighting in a monster ambush.
• Destructive Savior: Solaria was seen as a hero by her subjects for her wars against the monsters, but in reality she was a genocidal warmonger who became increasingly unhinged as time passed. In the last years of her reign, she planned to use her monster annihilation spell to exterminate all monsters, despite the possibility of killing the Pony Heads, Lucitors, or Magic High Commission in the crossfire.
• Determinator: One of her defining traits in her card is called 'Cold Determination', and it's very high.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her plan to create a Total Annihilation spell that kills all monsters doesn't seem to account for how nebulously Mewni defines "monster". She may have endangered every sapient non-Mewman on the world, even Mewni's allies like the Magic High Commission, Lucitors, and Pony Heads. Luckily for everyone, she died before she could carry it out.
• Disappointed in You: Her ghost glares at Mina when she calls out for her help, showing that she dislikes how far her former top soldier has fallen.
• Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Solaria fully thought that if Mewmans didn't kill all the monsters, they themselves would be conquered and enslaved.
• The Dreaded: Her methods in dealing with monsters were so extreme that even Glossaryck admits that Solaria scares him.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Solaria may have been a monster, but Eclipsa loved her mother and mourned her premature death.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Solaria had a few people close to her heart despite having a huge hatred for monsters to the point of wanting them all dead.
  • She was fond of her daughter, Eclipsa, and was either oblivious or in denial about her dating a monster. One of Solaria's most treasured possessions was a childhood drawing Eclipsa did of herself and her mother when she was seven-years-old, and she would often carry it to battle with her. It's ultimately deconstructed; Eclipsa grew sympathetic towards the monsters and thus strongly disagreed with her mother's racist viewpoints, even refusing to obey her order to finish the "Total Annihilation" spell.
  • Her Magic Wand's millhorse, Bartholomew the Brave, was personally described by her as "the finest millhorse any queen could ask for", and that her love for him is "unconditional loyalty above all else!"
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Solaria was enraged and ashamed when she discovered the relationship between Globgor and Eclipsa. She went as far as to arrange a marriage between Eclipsa and Shastacan and hope that Eclipsa would finish the Total Annihilation Spell.
• Evil Colonialist: Solaria continued where her mother left off, expanding Mewni into monster territory, which inevitably led to widespread war. Her goals eventually got even worse.
• Evil Genius: She created invincible mecha warriors, replicated her wand effect as anti-magic weapons that slowly poisoned any wound and found a method for her trusted cadre to obtain super strength and live for centuries. She may not have been good with actual spellcasting, but her creations far outstrip what we have seen from other queens.
• Evil Is Bigger: Solaria was 6 feet and 3 inches tall, making her the tallest ruler of Mewni, and was the most ruthless.
• Facial Markings: Solaria has ones shaped like lightning bolts on her cheeks.
• Fallen Hero: Solaria initially wanted peace with the monsters but eventually decided that peace was no longer an option. By the end of her chapter, she was working on a genocide spell that would kill all of the monsters and her own allies in the crossfire.
• Fantastic Racism: Taken to an extreme, compared with other Queens. She only believed the worst about monsters and wanted to eradicate the entire species from the face of Mewni. She even thought monsters were better off dead, with her descriptions of how to dispatch them ending with assurances that the monsters will be happier once they've been killed.
• Fiery Redhead: She had red hair before shaving it off entirely, and she's a rather aggressive, warmongering character.
• Final Solution: Even when her army successfully drove the monsters back to the Forest of Certain Death, it wasn't enough for her. In addition to her being less needed in battles, Solaria decided to create a spell in secret, called the "Total Annihilation Spell" - this would transform her wand into a weapon of mass destruction that she would then use to finally kill all monster kind. Fortunately, she failed^noteThis may have something to do with "monster" being an ill-defined term in-universe associating many unrelated species., but hoped her daughter Eclipsa would finish her incomplete spell.
• Flaming Sword: Her wand resembles a flaming sword.
• Follow in My Footsteps: In a pretty horrifying example, Solaria wanted for Eclipsa to continue developing a spell to kill all monsters, despite nothing being farther from her interests.
• Freudian Excuse: Her reason for declaring war on all monsters is that unlike Jushtin, she did try resolving things the peaceful way, only to fail horribly every time. She was also essentially thrown onto the throne the very moment she was of age and more or less sent directly into an ongoing war with the monsters.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: We know surprisingly very little about the relationship between Solaria and her brother Jushtin except for him working for her. Justified due to their huge age gap and growing up seperately may have prevented them from developing a natural sibling relationship.
• General Ripper: She devoted herself to war and founded the "Solarian Army" to fight the monsters.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Solaria was a bloodthirsty and ruthless ruler who wanted all monsters dead.
• Genocide Backfire: Her attempts to kill all the monsters on Mewni got her killed when the survivors of her actions ambushed and killed her.
• Go Out with a Smile: As the Whispering Spell is completed, she happily accepts her fate, knowing that she put an end to her brutal legacy.
• Greater-Scope Villain: It was because of her that countless people like Mina Loveberry were brainwashed and mutated into racist super soldiers. It's also because of her that the Mewmans became even more prejudiced against monsters.
• Heart Symbol: On her armor.
• Heel Realization: Death seems to have mellowed her a lot when she witnessed all the suffering her daughter and granddaughter went through, and how Mina, a member of the Super Soldiers that she created, nearly destroyed all of Mewni.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe example. Her tapestry portrays her as a valiant and determined hero who'd defend Mewni from invading monsters, while still looking ruthless. In actuality, Solaria was a racist extremist who battled with the monsters, who only wanted to reclaim their stolen land—intending to eradicate them all.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Solaria only went to war with the monsters because she believed it was the only option after repeated attempts at peaceful diplomacy failed. Over time, it devolved to racism and insanity.
• Improbable Weapon User: The first Butterfly queen to weaponize the wand itself, turning it into a powerful Laser Blade once she got a hold of it.
• In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race: Invoked, she planned to massacre every single non-mewman being with her annihilation spell. Fortunately, she was killed by surviving monsters before she actually went through with it.
• Irony:
  • Solaria's older brother Jushtin turned out to be a better candidate for the throne despite the line of succession being strictly matrilineal because he had the social skills and charisma to potentially bring the anti-monster wars to an end. Solaria on the other hand, only made things worse by advocating monster genocide, the repercussions of which would be felt by future Butterfly queens long after her death.
  • Symbolism-wise, the sun-themed Solaria was treated as a hero for her monster racism, but is actually a representation of the darkest aspect of both the Butterfly dynasty and Mewman history. Her darkness-themed daughter Eclipsa refused to follow in her footsteps, and is perceived as a two-faced villainess and "monster lover" for wanting peace with the monsters (and for hooking up with one, Globgor).
• Karmic Death: She was slain by the very monsters she sought to kill in her genocidal mission.
• Kick the Dog: After one of her battles, she ordered her people to burn the bodies of the monsters and proceeded to dance around the pyre with her fellow soldiers.
• Knight Templar: She believed that monsters were a menace to Mewni and that the previous Queens were too soft when dealing with them. She even created 'The Solarians' by experimenting on her people to gain the advantage in the war against the monsters, and her last entry stated she was attempting to create a Total Annihilation Spell, which was intended to wipe all monsters out. She failed.
• Laser Blade: Her wand took the form of an energy sword with a red-hot lightning bolt (called the Wand of Aggression).
• Large and in Charge: Solaria's card states that she's 6'3" tall, making her the tallest Queen of Mewni. She was taller than even her older brother, Jushtin, symbolizing how she overshadowed him in both deeds and legacy as the ruler of a queendom.
• Light Is Not Good: Solaria is themed around sunlight, and she was devoted to war.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Eclipsa, the notorious "monster lover", was the daughter of Solaria, Mewni's most ruthless monster hater. Symbolism-wise, the sun themed Solaria was considered the worst of the Butterfly family and a representation of the darkest aspects of Mewman history, while her darkness-themed daughter Eclipsa refused to follow in her footsteps, but was perceived as a two-faced villainess for wanting peace with the monsters.
• Madness Mantra: Solaria's chapter in The Magic Book of Spells includes a guide on how to kill monsters, along with her concluding (multiple times) that the monsters are "happier this way".
• Magic Knight: Solaria was more a physical fighter, with her Magic Wand turning into a laser sword to represent this, but it meant that her talents were geared towards combat and war. Notably, she created the "Solarian Metamorphosis" ritual, which turned ordinary people like Mina Loveberry into an entire line of magically-enhanced super-soldiers. During her reign, she devised various ways to kill certain monsters, which were detailed in her entry in The Magic Book of Spells, and her royal tapestry in the Grandma Room showed her battling hordes of monsters by herself.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The warmongering, genocidal Masculine Girl to contrast her older brother, who is the foppish yet intelligent and friendly Feminine Boy. Looks like she overdid it on the masculine part considering her title.
• Meaningful Name: Derived from Solaris, meaning "of the sun" in Latin. Fitting for a Light Is Not Good-type queen.
• Mirror Character: To Toffee and the Septarians. Just like the Septarians believed all Mewmans must be killed, Solaria believed all monsters must be killed for the good of her people. Like Toffee, her negotiations were little more than a front to kill the enemy. Her extremist actions and unwillingness to make peace ended up bringing more hardship to Mewmans and resulted in her being killed by the enemy she helped create. Toffee assassinated Queen Comet right before a peace treaty in favor of war - all for nothing as he was killed by his enemy anyway.
• Missing Mom: In "The Battle for Mewni", Eclipsa mentions how she lost her mother at a young age like Moon. The Magic Book of Spells reveals that she was Eclipsa's mother and that she lost her life during a nighttime monster ambush.
• A Mother to Her Men: She had strong leadership skills and developed a fondness towards Mina.
• Motifs: Sunlight. Her name comes from the Latin "Solaris", meaning "of the sun", and she prefers to burn her enemies. She also burned the corpses of her enemies and danced around the pyre with her allies.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She's not called "The Monster Carver" for nothing.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Solaria thought her race deserved dominion over the entire planet, and that most others must be subjugated or destroyed (increasingly favoring the latter as her reign went on). Her Facial Markings are even a pair of lighting bolts, possibly a reference to the logo of the Schutzstaffel.
• Never My Fault: In The Magic Book of Spells, she believed the monsters were at fault for the problems that happened, even jealous of the founding of the Butterfly Family, rather than seeing them as victims of her family's misdeeds. This was also why her relationship with Glossaryck was strained.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her actions created Mina Loveberry. An uncompromising, genocidal super soldier so devoted to the mission Solaria gave her that she wouldn't hesitate to turn against the Butterfly family to carry it out.
• Nice to the Waiter: When she first met Mina Loveberry, she showed her nothing but compassionate and support, despite Mina being a lowly rag vendor at the time.
• One Riot, One Ranger: Her tapestry story depicted her as a One-Man Army who made her enemies kneel before her with brute force and magical power.
• Our Founder: She founded and empowered the Solarian Army to combat and eradicate the monsters. The first of them was Mina Loveberry.
• The Paladin: In-universe, she was portrayed as a stalwart defender who devoted her duties to slaying the monsters, but was ultimately revealed to have been a genocidal psychopath when she was alive.
• Parental Obliviousness: Solaria never caught on that her daughter was sympathetic to monsters, much less romantically interested. Even to her last days, Solaria full expected Eclipsa to continue her efforts to make a spell that would wipe them out.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Solaria was a force to be reckoned with and her annihilation spell would have eradicated all monsters, Pony Heads and Lucitors if she had succeeded in making it.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Had her "Total Annihilation Spell" been finished, the whole landscape of Mewni would be drastically different.
  • Had Skywynne refused to let the public sway her into having a daughter, Solaria wouldn't have existed at all. Instead, her older brother, Jushtin the Uncalculated, would have ruled in her place as Mewni's first Butterfly mage king.
• Predecessor Villain: While the other Queens would apply to this, Solaria is the reason why the war with the monsters has escalated so badly. More directly, she gave Mina her power and taught her everything she knows. Her quest for a Total Annihiliation Spell is also the genesis of Eclipsa's Spell With No Name that threatens to destroy the whole Multiverse.
• Rage Quit: To begin with, she attempted to negotiate for peace with the monsters. After her attempts all met with failure, she decided to dispense with diplomacy and go for all-out war instead.
• Red Baron: "Monster Carver", earned for her warmongering and extreme methods against monsters.
• Red Is Violent: The only Butterfly queen to wear red, and is a genocidal, warmongering extremist.
• Revenge Before Reason: She refused to compromise and chose to create a Final Solution spell.
• Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Solaria saw genocide as the only solution the monster and the war eroded her sanity enough to a point where her annihilation spell would have killed all non-mewman beings.
• Sanity Slippage: Solaria initially wanted peace with the monsters but after failing repeatedly, she devoted herself to war and genuinely came to believe that monsters were happy to die. She also created the Final Solution spell which would have killed her allies in the crossfire.
• Screaming Warrior: Implied; her tapestry shown in her folder image shows her uttering a battle cry while in the middle of slaying monsters.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Implied. She was more or less thrown straight into a war from the moment she got the wand and ascended to the throne, and by the end, it's clear her sanity didn't come out intact.
• She Who Fights Monsters: Her war against monsters made her far worse than them.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: She's a serious, warmongering queen who hated monsters with a passion, resulting in her death by monsters when she took her racism too far. Her older brother was a dandy whose intelligence was hidden by a foppish veneer and was more interested in hanging out with his friends than ruling, yet was capable of making friends from different races.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Solaria was already a proud imperialist to start with, but was open to solving issues diplomatically and having monsters as her subjects. Over her three decades of waging war, she came to see the extermination of all monsters as a necessity, even refusing peace treaties herself against her generals' advice.
• Stellar Name: Her name is derived from Solaris, meaning "of the sun".
• Tomboy: She was a sword-wielding, relentless queen who is almost always shown wearing her battle armor and had no problem with shaving her head bald. Out of all the Queens she is definitely the most masculine of them all.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In "Cleaved", her ghost seems to have realized the mistakes that she made in life, glaring at her former soldier Mina and reacting positively to her half-monster granddaughter Meteora.
• Tragic Villain: While a racist psychopath, the way she got that way prevents her from being completely unsympathetic. She was handed the wand and throne the moment she was of age solely because of her gender, during a time of war, and her attempts to make peace failed completely. Things with the monsters did legitimately get out of hand, as they even overran the Pony Heads' kingdom. By the time the war ended, it's understandable how she turned out a monster-hating psycho.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: She believes the monsters should be extinct for the prosperity of Mewni, despite her monster annihilation spell being a threat to her allies as well.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Her war against monsters did not discriminate, as it included monsters who were totally innocent. It's taken farther with her Total Annihilation spell, which would've killed every monster on Mewni, both good and bad. Naturally, this resulted in her being assassinated by monsters who wanted the persecution to stop.
• Villain Protagonist: Of her chapter in the The Magic Book of Spells. She has a guide on how to kill various types of monsters, and genuinely believes that all monsters welcome death.
• Villainous Legacy: Played straight, and Inverted, as Solaria has both a villainous legacy and a heroic legacy. To the Mewmans, she was a devoted protector of Mewni and considered one of the most heroic queens. Whereas, the monsters saw her as the stuff of nightmares and the worst of the Butterflys.
  • Mina and her Solarian warriors, which she made, end up being the final antagonists in season 4.
  • In a sheer act of irony, in the afterlife she actively took part in ending what she started.
• Villain with Good Publicity: She was a genocidal warmonger who was lionized as the heroic defender of Mewni.
• Warrior Princess: Back when she was a princess, presumably. It is worth noting that, unlike the rest of the Queens, her version of the Wand was a Laser Blade instead of, well... a wand.
• Women Are Wiser: Inverted; at the end of the day, her warmongering, genocidal actions naturally deepened the monsters' grudge towards the Butterfly family, which resulted in her death. Her older brother, Jushtin, was compassionate enough to see the strength in forming interracial friendships, earning the Butterfly family two powerful monster allies, the Pony Heads and Lucitors.
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": She sought the extinction of all monsters, and even created a line of super-soldiers and a genocidal spell just to achieve this. In her chapter of the Magic Book of Spells, she claims they were "happier this way".
• The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: By merit of Mewni's matrilineal descent and their respective sexes, Jushtin was superseded in favor of Solaria. He grew up to be an effective diplomat. She became a genocidal psychopath.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: In Mewni, she was regarded as a great warrior queen who sought to protect her people from the monsters who wanted to eradicate them. In reality, she was an uncompromising monster who revelled in genocide and sought to destroy any non-Mewman who crossed her.

Eclipsa, The Queen of Darkness

Eclipsa Butterfly, the Queen of Darkness

"I did what I had to do for me. If the Magic High Commission and your mother think that's evil, call me a villainess."

Voiced by: Esmé Bianco

"Eclipsa, Queen of Mewni
to a Mewman king was wed,
but took a monster for her love
and away from Mewni fled."

Originally thought to be Star's ninth great-grandmother, Eclipsa was revealed to be the last queen of the original Butterfly dynasty before being succeeded by a line of usurpers. Eclipsa garnered a reputation for being quite rebellious and was even believed by many to be outright evil, due to her unapologetic use of taboo dark magic, and for having rejected her arranged marriage to a nobleman, abandoning her kingdom to elope with her monster lover, Globgor, whom the mewmans greatly feared. Eclipsa and Globgor had a daughter together before the forbidden couple was crystallized a full three centuries before the start of the series, with their daughter being given away, growing up to become the villainous Miss Heinous. Eclipsa has since regained her freedom through a bargain struck with Moon, which set in motion a series of events that eventually led to Star willingly surrendering both the wand and the throne of Mewni to Eclipsa.

Eclipsa's wand is a parasol.

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• 0% Approval Rating: At the beginning of season 4, almost every Mewni citizen dislikes Eclipsa mainly because of her treating Monsters as equals. Even some monsters dislike Eclipsa due to mistaking other Mewmans' prejudice as her own. In fact, many of them purchased yada yada berries to turn her into stone. Over the season, her reception to her people begins to be more positive and has achieved the admiration from her subjects as shown in "Cornonation" and the beginning of "Doop-Doop".
• 11th-Hour Superpower: In "Cleaved", she takes on her butterfly form for the first, last and only time (an impressive feat, considering she once admitted to never learning how to use magic without the wand).
• Advertised Extra: Eclipsa's return and her participation in the plot was heavily advertised during the brief hiatus between the Battle of Mewni and the rest of season 3, with her being a constant presence in teasers and promos, hinting at her being a key player in the season. She is, but not until the second half of the season, after another hiatus.
• All-Loving Hero: Despite her negative reputation, Eclipsa turns out to be this. While the act of abandoning Mewni has painted her a selfish woman, she has shown to do acts of great selflessness (i.e., attempting to kill her enraged daughter to protect Star and save the kingdom), holds no grudge over those who hate her, and is willing to help those in need, especially her loved ones.
• Always Save the Girl: After finding out what had happened to her daughter Meteora, Eclipsa wanted nothing more than for her to return safe and sound. When Meteora went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Eclipsa interferes with Moon's attack meant to stop her (to keep her from going overboard with said attack). Though she regrets doing so because Meteora refuses to stop destroying buildings and stealing souls until she's seized the Mewni throne (which by all technicality, was stolen from her) and is ultimately willing to risk killing Meteora herself.
• Ambiguously Evil: Eclipsa is preceded by a terrible reputation, but from questionable sources—the most specific and repeated "crime" attributed to her was miscegenation. Once freed, Eclipsa practically turned herself in and showed a lot of goodwill to Star and others, but doesn't care if people consider her evil. Later on, she is shown to be a hero at heart and is trying to be a good queen.
• Anti-Regeneration: One of her spells is capable of killing an immortal. Even if it doesn't score a killing blow, it will inflict a Wound That Will Not Heal. She taught it to Moon to kill Toffee, though Moon used it to blow off his finger instead. According to The Magic Book of Spells, this spell was created specifically to kill Septarians, the race Toffee belongs to, and that she had made it after Globgor expressed his concern over the Septarians amassing an army of sorts.
• The Archmage: Considered the most powerful of any Mewni Queen by far, and infamous for The Dark Arts. She finally shows what she's capable of by easily trouncing season 3's villain in the season finale.
• Arranged Marriage: Her marriage to King Shastacan was her mother Solaria's idea of a diplomatic move. Eclipsa refused at first, but acquiesced when Solaria died and specified in her will that they marry.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • In "Lint Catcher" She asks Star "Do you want him to stay?". Through the episode Star has been trying to distance herself from Marco and it seems that she is angry about Marco arriving unannounced and uninvited. However her response to Eclipsa seems to suggest that there's more to this than she lets on.
  • An even better example of this trope is used in "Butterfly Trap" when she asks the Magical High Commission about her daughter.
• Awesome, but Impractical: She's an immensely powerful magic user and the spells she demonstrates are absolutely devastating against Meteora. However, its implied she doesn't know the consequences of what every spell does given her surprise Meteora turned into a baby and, as mentioned below, she never learned how to cast spells without her wand. Given that the wand is Star's inheritance, Eclipsa's magical powers are essentially gone for good. Until she gets it back in the Season 3 finale.
• Awful Wedded Life: From her disgusted reaction when seeing Shastacan's hologram during her trial, it can be assumed that they didn't have a happy marriage. Further reinforced in Magic Book of Spells, where he was condescending to her opinions.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Even though her reputation for being a dark witch is not undeserved at all, she swore to herself to never use one of her mother's (Solaria the Monster Carver) spells out of fear of turning into a psycho like her until she had to use the "The Spell with No Name" (the "Total Annihilation Spell") against a giant Solarian battle armor.
• Big Good: Despite her abysmal reputation, after she's released from her prison she goes on to prove herself easily one of the most benevolent and powerful forces on the side of the heroes. Her undeserved reputation comes from the fact that she's a All-Loving Hero who completely went against the Fantastic Racism that was so rampant in Mewni (to the point that she fell utterly in love with a monster) and said actions made her a Hero with Bad Publicity. As an ally to Star and Marco, she's nothing but an incredibly loyal ally and her relationship with both heroes is almost maternal.
• Black Mage: In what might be a case of Crippling Overspecialization, many of her spells are either stupefyingly destructive or inflict Status Effects capable of inducing Anti-Regeneration, creating emotional distress, tying people into a pretzel and even an Unholy Nuke so dangerous that it has to be locked away in the Spell Dimension for fear of it destroying the entire universe. It's even worse when you realize that many of her spells she either invented purely for experimentation and she doesn't even know how to undo them.
• Black Sheep: Eclipsa became infamous for practicing dark magic and running off with her monster lover.
• Brought Down to Normal: She's powerless without her wand, being crystalized before even learning how to dip down. Having no acess to the wand during season 3 makes her powerless, but she is back with it in season 4.
• Casting a Shadow: Most of her dark magic spells are dark in a literal sense, being focused on manipulating darkness or purple flames.
• Character Development: Eclipsa has a shown a great love for family, especially for her monster husband and her daughter. This gets deconstructed in "Tough Love", when she chooses to save Meteora from Moon's deadly attack which leads half of the latter's soul being taken. Come "Conquer", Eclipsa was ready and prepared to kill her daughter to protect Star and the kingdom. And while she does resort to some underhanded methods to free Globgor in "Swim Suit", she ultimately stops because of Star's influence. And "Surviving the Spiderbites" shows Eclipsa now trying to recreate the Magic Book of Spells not to free Globgor but to learn spells for her kingdom, though she ends up trying to free him, she backs down when talked out of it by the man himself.
• Child Prodigy: Something that she apparently has in common with Star, having a deeper understanding of magic because of her curious tendencies and not in-spite of them. With that said, unlike Star, she Incompletely Trained and never learned how to use magic without her wand due to circumstances.
• Childhood Friend Romance: The Magic Book of Spells reveals that Eclipsa and Globgor have been secretly friends since they were kids, the two would leave messages around the kingdom for each other to find, and eventually they fell in love.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Eclipsa is quite odd and eccentric. When she is freed, her priority is wanting some sweets, she speaks with pigeons, makes musical instruments out of bones, and so on.
• Cold Ham: When casting spells, Eclipsa enunciates them in a perfectly calm and clear tone of voice, as opposed to Star, who prefers to shout her attacks.
• Combat Pragmatist: Eclipsa doesn't mess around in combat. Her spells are designed to be lethal, compared to Star's largely incapacitating arsenal. The Magic Book of Spells even explains that she developed her Body Swap Spell as a means to force her enemies to kill themselves.
• Conflicting Loyalty: The top priority for Eclipsa upon learning that Meteora had been erased from Mewni's records was to find out what happened to her. Along the way, she becomes quite attached to Moon and Star, even after discovering they aren't related to her. These feelings come into conflict when Meteora goes on a rampage and sets out on a vengeful quest to reclaim the Mewni throne and tries to kill Star, but are ultimately resolved when Eclipsa sides against her, realizing that there was nothing more she could do for Meteora.
• Connected All Along: Heinous turns out to be Meteora, Eclipsa's daughter with her monster husband.
• Cool Old Lady: While Eclipsa isn't visibly old thanks to her crystallization, she's certainly not of the current era. She's also charming and gives a lot of sound advice to Star and develops a nice relationship with Moon, though they aren't really related.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Despite being an incredibly powerful sorceress, she does not know how to "dip down" and use magic without a wand. Justified; since Eclipsa was imprisoned at the peak of her power for 300+ years and she never had to learn how. Glossaryck noted in The Magic Book of Spells that not all queens further develop their magic and learn how to use magic without the wand. "Swim Suit" shows that she also doesn't know how to reverse her own spells and she needed Star to coach her on how to do it, and in "Surviving the Spiderbites" she states that all of her spells are all either combative or can only be used for herself (in spite of the fact that others can use her spells for their own benefit, such as Moon and Star), requiring Star and the Book of Spells in order to improve her skills and learn more spells.
• Crystal Prison: She's spent the last few centuries as one of Rhombulus' crystallized prisoners.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: She dishes one out to Meteora, who had just taken everything Star can throw at her with nary a scratch.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother died when she young thus having her become Queen at the same age. She was then arranged to marry Shastacan. Eclipsa ran off and married her monster lover, Globgor and the two had a daughter. At one point, the Magic High Council discovered their home and imprisoned her and Globgor. And then took away her daughter.
• The Dark Arts: Infamous for it, and her epithet is Queen of Darkness. However, Star disagrees with it, saying that after reading her chapter of the magic book, she found nothing particularly mind-blowing about it, which Eclipsa mentions that she never names her chapter "The Dark Chapter", but it was the Magic High Comission who did. However the spell to kill an immortal seems to be indeed evil, Eclipsa made it with the intention to protect the kingdom from the threat of Septarians and even she feared that spell, deciding to never name it or put it in the Spell Book.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite creating quite a few dark spells in her chapter and being Ambiguously Evil for a long time, Eclipsa is really just an eccentric ex-queen who desperately wants to find out what happened to her daughter, while having a nice relationship with both Moon and Star. And in the season 3 finale, when Star fails to defeat Meteora, Eclipsa takes up the wand and strikes down her own daughter in order to save Mewni, before being pleasantly surprised that the spell somehow reverted Meteora back to infancy.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Her mother was Mina's boss, Solaria the Monster Carver, who probably didn't approve of her dating monsters.
• Dead Man Switch: She managed to create one through the deal Moon made with her, stating that if Toffee is killed, she will be set free. Since Ludo killed the last bit of Toffee, it weakened her prison.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Eclipsa Butterfly ends up being a deconstruction of the Sealed Evil in a Can and the charming Card-Carrying Villain. Eclipsa is described as the Queen of Darkness and a dangerous villain that manipulates anyone that listens to her long enough. Queen Moon making a deal with her risks the safety of the entire kingdom and puts the Magical High Commission onto high alert. Eclipsa herself cops to being a selfish villain who "did what was best for me." Yet no one can explain exactly what Eclipsa did, except that what she did was evil because she was the Queen of Darkness. Ultimately, Eclipsa proves to only be considered a villain because she married a monster. The only threat Eclipsa poses to the kingdom is that she threatens the racist status quo and hierarchy of Mewni that the Magical High Commission uphold. Eclipsa's Card-Carrying Villain traits result from the fact that she's given up on convincing people she isn't evil and indulges in selfish behavior because its likely the only chance she has to be happy before she's attacked again.
• The Dreaded: Her spells and additions to the Butterfly family spellbook are constantly referred to with caution at best, and outright fear at worst, with implications that most Butterflies have never even seen said chapter. Noticeably, Hekapoo and Lekmet of the Magic High Commission flip out when they see Star about to read one of her pages. Considering what they did to her and her daughter, along with the fact they never bothered to even read her chapter, it's hard to tell how much of this is warranted.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • When Star grabs Toffee's severed finger, several images flash on the screen, including one shot of Eclipsa's face, implying a connection between the two of them. As it turns out, it was her magic power that severed said finger to begin with.
  • In "Crystal Clear", the large collection of imprisoned rogues that Rhombulus has captured over the years has a crystal containing Eclipsa in the background.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In the series finale she finally gets her happy ending with her monster-hating mother accepting Meteora beyond the grave and with Mina and her army depowered, she is now able to live a happy and peaceful life with her family.
• Energy Ring Attack: Her "Midnight Shriek" and "Black Velvet Inferno" take the form of energy beams surrounded by rings.
• Energy Weapon: Her "Midnight Shriek" spell allows her to shoot a blast of dark magic from her wand, powerful enough to stun even Meteora in her monster form.
• Establishing Character Moment: When a young Moon unthaws her from the crystal prison and the audience meets her for the first time, the first thing Eclipsa asks for is a chocolate bar from the vending machine that happens to be behind them. She is then sympathetic to Moon losing her mother and being torn between two suitors, and offers to teach her the magic she needs, but for a price. Even then though, she makes it clear this magical contract isn't to be taken lightly. All of this provides hints that she may not be as bad as the rumors about her would have you believe.
• Exact Words: Her contracts appear to work on this. She gives Moon a spell capable of killing Toffee in exchange for her freedom after Toffee is destroyed. Moon manages to evade this by crippling Toffee instead of killing him, but the contract comes back into play when he is killed by Star and Ludo. Of course, this works against her because she never specified permanent freedom, which means recrystallizing her is still possible.
• Facial Markings: Eclipsa had ones shaped like spades on her cheeks.
• Failure Is the Only Option: In Season 4, Eclipsa will never free Globgor (at least not by her own efforts anyways), even accepting that it's just not the right time to do so (He ends being freed by Rhombulus in an attempt to frame Eclipsa, and gets to stay free).
• Family of Choice: Despite finding out that she isn't actually related to Star and Moon, she continues to treat them like family members anyway. She offers Star and Marco a place to stay in her castle and she even cries Tears of Joy when she sees Moon return safe and sound. Even Marco she treats like her own son.
• Flower Motifs: Roses. Eclipsa's favorite place in the Mewni Castle was the rose garden and her first scene in season 4 was her decorating her new castle with a number of them.
• Foil:
  • To Moon. Eclipsa is a carefree woman who is always calm and joyful despite what happens around her; her advice to Star tends to follow the theme of doing what's best for herself, focusing on self-discovery and self-empowerment; she also believes that all knowledge is good knowledge, which leads her to meddle with dark magic; she was known to empathize with monsters and even fell in love with one. Moon carries herself sternly and proudly; while advising Star, her focus is in self-improvement so Star can become the best queen possible; she tends to keep things hidden from others when she notices it might cause trouble and has loathed the dark magic chapter Eclipsa wrote; she also subscribes to the same Fantastic Racism as the rest of her family. In regards to motherhood, Eclipsa was unable to be there for her daughter's (Miss Heinous/Meteora) life, while Moon has always been there for Star's.
    • Their differences are highlighted again in season 4 with Eclipsa, now as Queen, improving to be a better one and doing selfless actions at the cost of her own happiness. On the other hand, Moon is content to live a quiet life in the yurt village with River, but plans a coup against Eclipsa out of anger for Eclipsa accidentally sending her to the Realm of Magic, thus putting her own feelings ahead of others' safety.
  • To her mother Solaria, who in many ways was her opposite. While Solaria was fanatical in her hatred of monsters, Eclipsa understood and related with monsters more than she did with mewmans, even to the point of marrying and having a child with a monster. While Solaria preferred to rule alone, only taking a lover to secure an heir, Eclipsa loved Globgor and hoped their relationship would change Mewni for the better. While Solaria was influential enough to reignite anti-monster bigotry in mewmans that lasted for over 300 years, Eclipsa has a 0% Approval Rating among the mewmans of Mewni but is generally well-liked by the monsters. Solaria was a butch Action Girl who's wand took the form of a Laser Blade that exuded light, Eclipsa is more of a Lady of War who's wand is a parasol that blocked sunlight and reflected her affinity for The Dark Arts. Even their names are total opposites to one another; Solaria's name evoking the sun, Eclipsa's evoking an eclipse, or the blocking of the sun.
• Forgiveness: Holding grudges isn't really her thing. Even after Moon betrayed her by siding with Mina and forced her to give back the wand, Eclipsa is more than willing to work with her to stop Mina, and encourages Moon to repair her fractured relationship with Star.
• Girls Love Chocolate: She demands chocolate immediately after being let out of stasis. When released, in "Stranger Danger", she shows to have eaten a bucket worth of chocolate and admits self-control issues.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her tapestry portrait has them at least. It's especially noticeable because the top half of her face is cast in shade from her hat.
• Good All Along: When she was first mentioned, Eclipsa was presented as a regrettable part of the Butterfly Family's history for having betrayed them to take on a monster lover and was said to have done all sorts of horrible things to the point she was crystalized. Slowly, once she was properly introduced, she appeared to be a Noble Demon who might've been manipulating Moon to gain her freedom and later tried to manipulate Star into thinking she was innocent. It's eventually revealed that while Eclipsa dabbled in some dark magic and was a "monster lover", she was truly a decent woman who was unfairly stigmatized for wanting to end monster persecution and for escaping an unhappy marriage that she was forced into to be with someone who respected her, believing that their union could bring lasting peace between monsters and Mewmans, and having a child with him. All talk of Eclipsa's supposed "evil deeds" were lies and hearsay spread by the Magic High Commission and her vengeful ex-husband Shastacan. It's telling that despite how many people have called her a villain, she never holds a grudge against them and has been known to show concern for her enemies despite being perfectly justified in hating them.
• Good Parents: When Eclipsa is given a second chance of raising Meteora, she proves to be an attentive, doting mother who instructs her daughter, as seen in "Cornball!", to not "prey on those weaker than her".
• Hairstyle Inertia: As shown in "Pizza Party", Eclipsa has had the same short, poofy haristyle since her infant age.
• Happily Married: It's implied her relationship with her monster husband, Globgor, was loving, sweet and very heartwarming. She even blushes upon seeing an image of him in "Butterfly Trap", and wonders how anyone could not fall for his smile.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Eclipsa is preceded by a reputation of being a user of dark magic who abandoned her kingdom to be with a monster. Eclipsa is very honest about her use of dark magic and she openly admits to learning it for her own sake. However, without Eclipsa, Mewni would have been taken over by Meteora and the monsters wouldn't have been allowed access to Mewni. Tensions with Eclipsa are still high to the point that they perceive her as a Falsely Reformed Villain and the level of distrust towards her and Globgor are yet to be warranted. Star has made it her goal to prove everyone wrong and redeem Eclipsa in their people's eyes.
• Heroic Bastard: The Magic Book of Spells mentions Eclipsa's mother had no interest in a husband, and only saw men as "baby factories", so she simply "went out to sea" with one of her councilors to sire an heir. Solaria was the queen, though, so despite Eclipsa's later reputation, no one held her parentage against her.
• Hidden Depths: She's a capable guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and she has surprisingly modern taste in music for someone who has been Taken for Granite for centuries. She and Globgor are also revealed to be masterful culinary artists, having baked a disturbingly lifelike cake resembling a Mewman as a gift for Star and Tom.
• High-Class Gloves: Wears a pair of long gray gloves. They hide the corruption on her lower arms from using dark magic.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Similarly to Tom's parents, it's unknown how exactly Eclipsa was able to produce viable offspring with a monster that was at least 20 times her size. She was willing to give some details in "Total Eclipsa the Moon", but Moon preferred not to know that. In The Magic Book of Spells, Eclipsa states that her beloved Prince of Darkness, Globgor, is a type of monster called a size shifter. When the two do interact, it's shown he spends most of his time with her in a state of being about just a head taller than her.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Eclipsa's monster lover was so big and muscular that she could use his forearm as a seat. He is later revealed to be a size-shifter and spent most of his time only slightly taller than Eclipsa, though he often becomes so tiny she can carry him in her shoulder.
• I Am Not Your Father: She is not Star's actual ninth great-grandmother, as initially believed. Star is saddened by this, as she genuinely bonded with her. However, their lack of relation had not gotten in the way of their bond as shown in the season finale when she saves her from her own daughter.
• I Did What I Had to Do:
  • When asked by Star if she used dark magic, Eclipsa ambiguously, but honestly responds that she did what she had to do for herself, and asks Star to call her a villainess if it makes her evil.
  • The Magic Book of Spells reveals that this is the reason she created the Darkest Spell. It was made to specifically kill Septarians, who did not want peace between Mewmans and monsters and couldn't be killed in any other way because of their regeneration abilities. She didn't even give it an official name because of how dangerous it was towards both the victim and the caster of the spell.
  • Played tragically when she steps up and kills the insane Meteora (or so she thought) to save Star and Mewni. When Star asks what she's done, Eclipsa has the same response, only this time it's clear she would've wanted anything but that.
• Innocently Insensitive: When Eclipsa first meets Moon, she comments on how Moon is too young to be queen unless her mother was dead. Moon's reaction quickly confirms Eclipsa's fears and she immediately apologizes for stepping on that emotional land mine.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • She fell in love with a monster, Globgor (who was a Size Shifter), and left Mewni with him.
  • The Magic Book of Spells reveals that she dated many kinds of monsters, and even had a rating system of dateability written down. She also has had a friendship with the Prince of Darkness, her eventual husband, since she was a child, and the two would leave messages around the kingdom for each other to find.
• It's All About Me: Eclipsa abandoning her kingdom and Mewman husband to run away with her monster lover (whom she had a daughter with) made her appear to be a selfish person. In "Stranger Danger", Star says that Eclipsa abandoning Mewni was "super selfish". Averted in The Magic Book of Spells where it reveals that her monster lover was the one who insisted she run away with him for a brief period to elope in an attempt to save both their people, a decision she initially refused to make because she didn't want to betray her kingdom. She acknowledged how her eloping with Globgor and leaving Mewni make her seem selfish, but believed that her union with Globgor would create lasting peace between the monsters and the Mewmans, hoping save to both species, and hoped her actions would later be seen as just. To top it all off, she clearly went out of her way to reform Globgor who used to eat people.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Downplayed, as Eclipsa was Ambiguously Evil rather than a jerkass. In "Tough Love", while talking with Meteora, Eclipsa makes a comment about how she was imprisoned and tried by "backwards, maladjusted people", meaning she was talking about the Magic High Commission and Moon (who is offended). But despite the unwarranted comment, Eclipsa's description wasn't incorrect given that the Commission unfairly imprisoned her because she fell in love with a monster and Moon backed out of their deal and initially agreed with the Commission's decision.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. Eclipsa is played up as "evil" by others, including the Magic High Commission, but her conversation/deal with a young Moon shows her an empathetic individual. Her subsequent appearances show that she is by no means "evil" and hardly qualifies as a straight up "jerk".
• Karmic Jackpot: In the season 3 finale she defended Star against her own daughter, then was willing to give up the wand after the fight. Not only did Star give her back the throne and the wand, but it turned out her daughter had been reverted to a baby, allowing Eclipsa to raise her right this time.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Subverted. In the season 3 finale episode, "Conquer", Eclipsa attacks and, ultimately, kills her daughter, Meteora. But given how her daughter was sucking the souls out of Mewmans, causing rampant destruction, and was about to murder Star, Eclipsa's decision was the right one. And she was bereft with what she had to do. And even more happy when Meteora somehow survived and reverted back into a baby.
• Lady of Black Magic: Eclipsa is an expert in dark magic, wears dark purple and a wide-brimmed hat reminiscent of a Wicked Witch, but she is still an attractive woman with an air of sophistication. She's also said to be one of the most powerful queens in Mewni's history and only Star has as much magical potential as she does. This is proven when she takes back the wand to defend Star from Meteora in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: After being a spectator for much of her time onscreen Eclipsa takes up the Wand once more to defend Star and Mewni from Meteora's wrath, delivering a Curb-Stomp Battle in the process.
• Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Her mother was Solaria the Monster Carver, Mewni's most ruthless monster fighter, who only believed the worst about monsters and thought they were better off dead. Eclipsa is able to see the monsters as people, and eventually married one. Eclipsa's mother was a warrior queen while she was a dark magic mage.
• Love Across Battlelines: She dated Globgor while her mother was on her mission of genocide.
• Loved I Not Honor More: What Eclipsa decides to do in season 4 thanks to Character Development. Initially, she was willing to take over Rhombulus' body in order to free Globgor, but Star's insistence that she doesn't, otherwise no one (Star included) would trust her, reaches Eclipsa. She decides that the kingdom's well-being must come first, no matter how much Eclipsa misses her trapped husband.
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Most likely the reason why she fled Mewni. Mewni has a strong prejudice against monsters, so Eclipsa leaving her Mewman husband to take a monster for her lover probably was source of some outrage.
• Mama Bear:
  • Eclipsa drops her usual cheeky attitude to give a Death Glare to the Magic High Council when they lie about what they did to her daughter.
  • Deconstructed in "Tough Love", when Moon and Meteora are in a fight and Moon is about to kill her daughter Meteora, Eclipsa intervenes... which leads to half of Moon's soul being drained and Meteora continuing her rampage to Mewni.
  • Deconstructed again in "Conquer". This time Eclipsa is this for Star as she battles Meteora to protect her and ends up almost killing her with a powerful dark spell. Eclipsa is devastated.
  • She unleashes the Spell-With-No-Name against the Solarian warrior Doug-Doug when he's about to kill Star.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Her name comes from 'eclipse,' a phenomenon where a celestial body, like the Sun or Moon, is obscured in shadow. All signs point to Eclipsa's reign, and the woman herself, invoking Dark Is Evil.
  • "Eclipse" also literally means "to abandon", in reference on how ancient times believed the sun abandoned the earth during a solar eclipse. Eclipsa abandoned her people to run off with her monster lover.
• Missing Mom: To Miss Heinous aka her long lost daughter, Meteora. At some point, they were forced away from another due to Eclipsa's imprisonment and Meteora being brainwashed into forgetting her identity.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Her eyes are oval-shaped, whereas a majority of the humanoid characters have round eyes. Also, more subtle, her pupils are tiny while her iris is large, an inversion of how a majority of the other characters eyes are drawn.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: A lot of her actions are sympathetic, and those accusing her of evil deeds, mostly the Magic High Commission, are bigots against her husband and not really the epitome of good morals they claim to be, leading Star to believe Eclipsa to be this. She basically mentions this when asked about the her chapter in the Magic Book, she was never the one that named her chapter "the evil chapter", it was the Magic High Commission.
• Odd Friendship: Glossaryck of all people is the only one to respect Eclipsa and have a form of friendship with her. After Eclipsa's battle with Meteora, Glossaryck leaves with her willingly (although "Swim Suit" has him laugh him her request to reverse the spells she cast on Rhombulus, claiming that he doesn't work for her).
• Odd Name Out: Most of the other queens have the names of celestial bodies, but Eclipsa's refers to a cosmic phenomenon. Fitting for the Black Sheep of the Mewni queens.
• Offing the Offspring: Not at first, as she wanted another way to stop Meteora, but only after Moon and Star were endangered did she resort to killing her own daughter. She even looked close to breaking down after doing the deed. Fortunately, Meteora was magically regressed to a baby, giving both her and her mother a second chance at life again.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Despite being mostly a Mellow Fellow, she showcases a lot of emotions in "Butterfly Trap". She makes a blushing face when seeing her husband, anger and resentment towards the Magic High Commission and grief over seeing how her daughter was treated when she wasn't there.
  • In "Conquer", she cries when she's forced to fight and defeat her rampaging daughter.
  • In Ready, Aim, Fire, the normally cheerful Eclipsa enters a state of Tranquil Fury and genuine fear when a Solarian Warrior attacks.
• Parasol of Pain: Eclipsa's version of the Royal Magic Wand is a pretty parasol that she uses to fire devastating spells against her enemis.
• Parental Substitute: It's becoming evident that Eclipsa is this to Star, due to Star and her mother not seeing eye to eye. Even though she isn't biologically related to Star, she still treats her as family and Star otherwise reciprocates. In Season 4, Eclipsa has also become one to Marco, even helping Marco with his conflicting feelings between Star and Kelly, and gives him a hug. The trope is further enforced once Moon reveals she was the initial Big Bad before being displaced by Mina, Star all but disowning her for her actions, even attacking her at one point, and choosing to help Eclipsa rather than side with her mother. Incidentally, Star's experience with Eclipsa allowed her to put that incident in perspective, making her realize her own mother is no less flawed than Eclipsa, because there will come a time mothers make bad decisions in life.
• Perky Goth: She dresses in black, wields powerful dark magic and fashions a guitar out of a skeleton, but is generally a quirky, cheerful individual who acts more like The Gadfly than anything else.
• Perpetual Smiler: Fittingly for her Cloud Cuckoolander persona, she rarely changes expression. Even when held hostage by Omnitraxus Prime. It adds an unnerving tone for her character.
• Playing Card Motifs: She had spade-shaped cheek markings. Her entire room has spades-like symbols too and even the door to Meteora's room has a huge Spades symbol in it. In playing cards, the spade suit represents darkness and death.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her eyes are a grayish shade of lavender, and suit her status as one of the mightiest spell-casters in Mewnian history.
• Rebellious Princess:
  • After her release, she's shown to possess a few of the stereotypical mannerisms of a mildly rebellious teenager, such as a habit of sneaking out of her room after dark, giggling at ancient crawlspaces being 'dirty', and playing an instrument that looks and sounds like an electric guitar. Her love for the Prince of Darkness, Globgor, is implied to have a hint of Dating What Daddy Hates not just towards her mother, but also towards the whole of Mewni.
  • The Magic Book of Spells shows that Solaria thought her daughter was being kidnapped by a monster when she was a child. In reality, Eclipsa had snuck out of the castle when she wasn't allowed to come to a parlay and met with him instead. She kept this friendship going for many years in secret, and eventually they fell in love.
• Red Herring: Built up as the likely Big Bad of Season 3. It actually turns out to be her daughter, Meteora.
• Red Right Hand: Her gloves conceal her hands have been blackened by dark magic. It's implied that the marks came from the use of her darkest spell, which Moon has also gotten after using it.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Eclipsa is largely overshadowed by her reputation. She's returned to the throne, gave homes back to the monsters and even saved Mewni from her own daughter. Yet the Mewmans and Magic High Commission refuse to trust her. The commission were also quick to arrest her and Meteora when Globgor escaped, without even investigating the crime scene.
• Sad Clown: Admits to Moon that she uses humor to hide her feelings sometimes.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Eclipsa has very questionable ethics regarding her magic. Her immediate suggestion upon getting caught breaking into the royal archives is to Mind Wipe the guard. Taken a step further in "Swim Suit" when she uses a "Freaky Friday" Flip spell on Rhombulus in an attempt to free Globgor. Star convinces her to abandon this plan, as no one is going to trust a queen who uses her powers like that.
• Seeker Archetype: Most of Mewni consider Black Magic better off forgotten, but Eclipsa researched it heavily under the belief that "All knowledge is good knowledge." The same attitude may well be why she familiarized herself with monsters enough to fall in love with one.
• Seen It All: Her life has been one huge disaster after another, between her mother being a genocidal warlord, getting locked in crystal and separated from her husband and daughter for more than 300 years, and being branded evil for having the decency to treat monsters as people. She's so desensitized to being kicked around that she readily forgives Moon for staging a violent coup against her with Mina and the Magic High Commission, as she treats being reunited with Globgor as a silver lining.
  Eclipsa: So, what do you say, Moon? Want to get into a quick game of pool?
  Moon: How can you even think of that at a time like this?
  Eclipsa: My whole entire life has been a "time like this", Moon. You learn to enjoy these moments.
• Shipper on Deck: For Star and Marco, ever since "Lint Catcher" (shortly after she met Star and before she'd actually met Marco yet). In the series finale, despite the dire situation she's quite happy to learn that Star and Marco have become a couple.
• Shoot the Dog: Her Offing the Offspring moment. She's definitely very reluctant in doing so, shedding tears even as she prepares the spell, and breaking down crying after the deed.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Eclipsa preferred Globgor over Shastacan because he was apparently nicer and a better husband than Shastacan. This gets murky when we see Globgor's questionable background, suggesting Eclipsa thought she could make him a better person—even if that meant turning a blind eye to his previous misdeeds. When we finally see them interact in Season 4, he's revealed to be a Nice Guy who really did go vegetarian for her, though he likes to joke about eating Mewmans a little too much for her liking.
• Sinister Surveillance: Created the All-Seeing Eye Spell which allowed her to spy on anyone she wished.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Averted. Eclipsa wouldn't be wholly wrong to be furious with Star and Moon's family for usurping the royal bloodline, striking her daughter from the record, and for going back on their word to free her. But Eclipsa is ultimately warm and cordial to both of them, considering them part of her family despite not being related to them at all (it helps that Star and Moon's family were actually puppet rulers, and thus not actually the usurpers, but the Magic High Commission was.) Both of them also go to great lengths to help Eclipsa out and neither are happy to find out the truth. She's also horrified when in trying to protect her daughter, she causes Moon to lose half her soul, begging her to come back, and ends up attacking Meteora to defend Star and save Mewni.
• Solar and Lunar: Her mother Solaria's name is derived from "solaris", meaning "of the sun" in Latin, while Eclipsa is named after an eclipse.
• Sphere of Power: Her "Black Velvet Inferno" spell creates a large black sphere around the target, which generates an explosion on what's contained inside, which then shatters.
• Stealth Expert: Besides knowing secret passageways in the Butterfly castle, she also describes herself as "sneaky".
• Stellar Name: Named after the astronomical term "eclipse".
• Supernaturally Young Parent: Due to being crystallized for 300 years, she ends up looking younger than her daughter Meteora in the present day, but it's subverted in that Meteora's default appearance is just how she looked even when she was younger, resulting from her stealing the emotions from students at St. Olga's.
• Sweet Tooth: The first thing she does after being semi-released from her prison is ask Moon for a candy bar. She also says she wants her freedom to buy her own chocolate or the little cling-wrapped muffins at the bottom of the vending machine.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: From what little we see of her genuinely heartwarming interactions with her monster husband and how much of a jerk is her Hate Sink Mewni husband, it's not hard to see and support her decision to leave the latter for the former, especially when his involvement in Meteora's fate is revealed.
• Tainted Veins: Her forearms are horribly tainted, with her hands being fully dark. She wears High-Class Gloves to hide the fact. Just like with Moon, being exposed to the pure magic of the Magic Realm washes out the taint in her arms in the final episode.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: While not a Card-Carrying Villain, by the time she's freed from Rhombulus' crystal, she has since given up on convincing others that she isn't evil and will sometimes play into their expectations for a little harmless teasing.
  Eclipsa: Are you afraid I'll get my "evil cuties" on you?
• Trademark Favorite Food: Snookers candy bar. It's the first thing she asked for from a young Moon and she was eating a large amount of them after being freed. She has eaten a bucket of them since her release.
• Tritagonist: A role she shares along with Moon during the second half of Season 3. Her desire to find her daughter Meteora and Moon and Star's goals of proving her innocence drive the deeper Myth Arc of the Season. In Season 4, her struggle to adjust to ruling Mewni and winning the love and trust of her subjects with Star's help is also a large part of the Myth Arc.
• Turn the Other Cheek: In spite of being unjustly imprisoned, having her family taken from her, Moon reneging on their deal, having to kill her own daughter, most of Mewni hating her, and so much more, Eclipsa never holds a grudge.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Averted. Though as far as the Mewmans are concerned they see it as being played straight. Despite doing nothing that could really be called 'evil', her people despise her because she bucks tradition and, unlike her grandmother Skywynne, refuses to bow to their demands, gave monsters back land that Mewmans stole from them, and expected them to take responsibility for their own lives like functioning adults.
• Unholy Nuke: Her most powerful on-screen spell is "Black Velvet Inferno", a spell that envelops the target in impenetrable darkness and shatters them.
• Unskilled, but Strong: As per her own admittance, she never learned how to cast magic without a wand. That said, she has access to powerful Dark Magic that can slay immortals.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to find information about her without coming across lots of spoilers regarding the end of The Battle of Mewni and the truth about the Butterfly family's legitimacy to the throne.
• What You Are in the Dark: She has many opportunities to betray Star and Moon, either by simply remaining silent, allowing someone else to kill them, or attacking them herself when their guards are down. This culminates in the season 3 finale, where she grabs the wand in order to defend Star from Meteora when the rest of the kingdom has already been defeated, and then offers Star the wand back when the job is done.
• World's Strongest Woman: Baby and other things point towards her having been the most powerful of the Butterfly Queens to ever live. The only other Butterfly to ever have sheer magical power comparable to her is Star, and due to being much more experienced, Eclipsa is still way stronger.
• Would Hurt a Child: Downplayed. Eclipsa admits that she has hurt teenagers before, but only psychologically, and she claims that they deserved it.

Festivia the Fun

"When the threat of monsters at the gate
has darkened out the sun,
let the kingdom find some peace and joy
in Festivia the Fun."

Festivia is Eclipsa's successor, and ruled Mewni during a war so terrible that her people were confined to the city surrounding the palace. She lifted their spirits with soothing revelries and protected their lives with devastating spells. Her wand was a goblet.

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• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
  • Instead of the posh-looking Requisite Royal Regalia most of her family wears, her royal dress resembles a simple chiton toga worn by women. It's likely a callback to Greek society, hailed by many as the birthplace of modern democracy. Or, how Festivia is the progenitor of the second generation of new Butterfly queens.
  • On the other hand, her simple dress is a clue that she came from a simpler background. She was later revealed to be a peasant girl who was put on the Butterfly throne by the Magic High Commission out of disgust and fear towards having Eclipsa's half-monster daughter rule Mewni; Festivia could be unconsciously paying respects to her commoner origins. It's later revealed where she came from: Pie Island, home of the Pie Folk, a clan of pie baking con artists, liars and thieves.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She was called "Festivia the Fun", and was famed for her throwing wonderful parties for her citizens. Incidentally, she also had a "pretty wicked wand blast". While Festivia was partying with her people in the castle, she had Mina Loveberry leading the Solarians on a half-decade campaign to drive the monsters away.
• Bread and Circuses: Instigated benevolent examples of this trope so her subjects wouldn't lose hope.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: For a queen whose entire shtick was how hard she worked to keep her people happy during one of the worst wars in their history, Festivia surprisingly showed little effort in helping with her daughter Dirhhennia's morose attitude and depressed thoughts.
• Cozy Catastrophe: She kept the people of Mewni protected from the monsters that were trying to kill them all while making sure they were happy.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Initially only appearing in side-material, Festivia is revealed in the show to have been a part of a cover up in which she was put on the throne rather than Eclipsa's legitimate daughter, Meteora.
• Eye-Obscuring Hat: While it's mostly a dramatization, "Butterfly Trap" showed her as a baby inheriting Eclipsa's Magic Wand, as well as a crown that's clearly too big for her to wear. It resembled the high expectations for her to become queen right from the start, since the Magic High Commission didn't want a monster-mewman hybrid like Meteora on the throne.
• Facial Markings: Festivia had ones shaped like four-pointed stars on her cheeks.
• Foil: On the surface, she and Moon couldn't be any more different what with their attire and surface attributes, but they both used their wands to fight in horrible wars that threatened to destroy their kingdom, put on facades of strength and confidence to make their subjects feel secure, and possess similar Facial Markings.
• Foreshadowing: Her clothes are rather simple and more Greek-influenced than the usual poofy princess appearance. She came from a family of peasants, so she might've been unknowingly channelling them. It gets worse when it's revealed she's a child of the Pie Folk, a clan of pie baking con artists, liars and thieves.
• Fun Personified: It's in her title.
• Happily Adopted: She was raised by the Magic High Commission. Despite them lying about her supposed parents, Festivia considers them her loving family.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Subverted via Hidden Depths. Yes, her title was Festivia the Fun, and yes, her wand was a wine goblet, but she was still a brave and noble ruler who led her subjects through a tumultuous point in Mewni's history. Even better, her lavish parties became associated with symbols of hope and the ability to weather almost any kind of disaster.
• Hope Bringer: Even with armies of Monsters literally at her doorstep, Festivia refused to allow herself, or her kingdom, to fall into despair. This is symbolized by her cheek marks, which resemble shining stars.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her wand took the form of a goblet which she used to perform magic and drink out of with equal vigor.
• Irony: While she endeavored to keep her subjects happy and content, she would later be incapable of so much as recognising her first daughter's depression, much less aid her in treating it.
• Lady Drunk: While the use of alcohol isn't shown or specified, Festivia is known for hedonism and for throwing parties for her subjects, and goblets like her wand are typically used for wine.
• Life of the Party: According to Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension, she was Mewni's "original party girl."
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Gender-inverted. Festivia was a celebrated queen who loved to throw parties and spread joy. Her oldest daughter, Dirhhennia, was a morose, melancholic woman who was obsessed with balls, and was superseded in favor of her younger sister, Crescenta.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Festivia lived her whole life without ever discovering that she was never Eclipsa's daughter and not a trueborn Butterfly, just a random peasant girl raised to the throne by the Magic High Commission because they didn't want a half-monster hybrid like Meteora to rule Mewni.
• Meaningful Name: "Festivia" is an appropriate name for a queen who liked to throw parties and bring joy to her kingdom.
• Missing Child: Not only was she one of the Pie Folk, she was also accidentally left behind on the way to the Pie Carnival. The Magical High Commission found her and raised her to be the next Queen of Mewni, not knowing and probably not caring who she really was or where she came from.
• Modest Royalty: Compared to the other Butterfly queens, Festivia's dress is a simple chiton toga. This served as Foreshadowing to her commoner origins and the conspiracy surrounding the original Butterfly family.
• Moral Myopia: Festivia never considers that the monsters attacks on Mewni were incited by the Mewmans expanding into their territory.
  "Monsters burned down another Mewman village we rightfully stole from them! #monstersarevil #somean"
  "Omnitraxis Prime thinks I should try to make peace with the monsters. I say no way! #theystartedit"
• Mundane Utility: While a powerful mage-queen, most of her spells were designed to help her throw wonderful parties.
• Mythical Motifs: Festivia's design appears to be based on the Orphic version of Dionysus, a Greek demigod turned god of wine. She carries a goblet, is known for partying and hedonism, wears a headband with goat horns (Dionysus was interpreted as a faun or at least having goat-like features) and Greek-style clothes, and has grapes in her hair, a key ingredient of wine.
  • Interestingly, Festivia's connection to the throne correlates with Dionysus. It's said that Dionysus became an Olympian after Hestia, goddess of the hearth fire, gave up her position as the 12th Olympian to Dionysus to establish his godhood. However, it's uncertain if Dionysus supplanted Hestia or she gave up her throne since both are never in the same picture and there are conflicting stories of how he became an Olympian. This is very similar to how Festivia got the throne in the first place; Eclipsa gave up her position to be with Globgor, allowing Festivia to unknowingly supplant Meteora in the process.
  • Orphic Dionysus is also associated with death and rebirth. Festivia's placement as queen caused the "death" of the original Butterfly family and the birth a new generation of royals. The cult of Dionysus was formed as a way of rebelling against society, and Festivia lifted the spirits of her subjects by creating parties to help them cope with the war against the monsters.
  • With the revelation that Festivia is descended from Pie Folk, Festivia's design references the Greek god Pan, god of the forest, shepherds, and the flock. Pan is described as a satyr, a hedonistic trickster, and a friend of Dionysus. Fittingly enough, the Pie Folk are described as an untrustworthy clan of scammers, slavers, and tricksters, and Festivia was known to have organized parties for her subjects. On a minor note, in the myths, Pan was abandoned by his mother for being a satyr and was brought to Olympus. Festivia was accidentally left behind by the Pie Folk during a Pie Carnival, allowing the Magic High Commission to find her and adopt her into Butterfly royalty. Pan was worshipped outside of society (Arcadia specifically), and The Pie Folk possess their own island and travel from place to place to make money.
• Nurture over Nature: Festivia was actually born amongst the Pie Folk, a clan consisting of thieves and con artists. Despite this, the evidence points towards Festivia being a noble and just queen, at least by Mewni standards.
• Odd Name Out: The name "Festivia" doesn't seem to fit the past queens' Fantastic Naming Convention of celestial and light-based phenomena. This is a hint that she wasn't born royal like them.
• Our Founder: She unknowingly is the start of the new Butterfly bloodline that leads right up to Moon and Star. This is because the Magic High Commission and King Shastacan erased Meteora Butterfly's existence and replaced her with a peasant girl out of racial disgust towards mewman-monster hybrids. Worse still, Festivia was actually the daughter of a family of Pie Folk, a clan of pie baking thieves and liars.
• Parental Neglect: Dirhhennia's chapter implies Festivia was not very attentive or observant of Dirhhennia's depression and did next to nothing to really help her out.
• Rags to Royalty: "Butterfly Trap" reveals that she was born a commoner but took Meteora's place as the heir to the throne because both King Shastacan and the Magic High Commission refused to let a half-monster child become queen. Later it's revealed she's one of the Pie Folk, a clan of pie baking thieves and con artists. You can't get much more raggedy than that.
• Sad Clown: Her demeanor and actions were not the result of ignorance, but of defiance towards the dangers plaguing her kingdom.
• Shared Family Quirks: Festivia's love for fun and excitable energy would be later passed down to her many-times-great-granddaughter, Star, though initially the latter lacked the maturity and experience to accompany said traits.
• The Siege: Mewni was under a heavy one during her rule, but she was evidently very good at keeping the monsters out.
• Statuesque Stunner: Festivia's card states that she's 6'1" tall.
• Switched at Birth: She was born a completely ordinary peasant girl but she was swapped with Meteora as a baby.
• The Usurper: "Total Eclipsa the Moon" reveals that Festivia was installed as the queen in place of Eclipsa's real daughter, Meteora. Eclipsa didn't even recognize Festivia's name. "Butterfly Trap" has the High Magic Commission reveal that Eclipsa's Mewman husband refused to have anything to do with his ex-wife's daughter, so the MHC exchanged the infant Meteora with a random peasant child. Despite her dubious claim to the throne (which she did not know of), Festivia is remembered as a respected leader.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Really, what was she thinking when she named her older daughter Dirhhennia?
• Womanchild: She spent most of her life having fun and partying with her subjects. This unfortunately left her ill-equipped to be an adequate mother to her daughters (Dirhhennia in particular).

Dirhhennia the Heaped

"For some the troubles come in doubles,
in sadness greatly steeped.
And drawing balls upon the walls,
is Dirhhennia the Heaped."

Due to her oddness and obsession with balls, Dirhhenia was deemed unfit to rule Mewni and was superseded in favor of her younger sister, Crescenta. Her wand was topped with an 8-ball.

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• Abdicate the Throne: She was deemed unfit to rule because of her ball obsession, low magic ratings, and mental oddness, and was superseded in favor of her younger sister, Crescenta. Her mother, Festivia, took the wand and the Book of Spells back from her and then gave them to Crescenta when she came of age.
• Admiring the Abomination: She kept a wanted poster for Bobipsa, the infamous baby-eater, and admired him for being "darker" than her.
• Broke the Rating Scale: It's mentioned below in Hidden Depths that Dirhhennia's stats showed she was surprisingly charismatic, but this is an Understatement. Out of all the stats given for the Mewni queens, Dirhhennia's charisma was measured not with a number, but with a heart symbol, implying she had so much charisma it couldn't be measured in numbers. This is the one area she seems to have outshined everyone else, including her sister and mother.
• Butt-Monkey: She was very short, she had by far the lowest stats of any queen (most of them being N/A), the only magic she seemed to create was ball-related, she was passed over for the throne in favor of her sister, and judging by her picture, she seemed rather depressed.
• Call-Back: Her chapter contains a wanted poster for Bobipsa, the baby-eater Rhombulus confused with Eclipsa during her trial. Dirhhennia admired Bobipsa for being darker than her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Her writing in her chapter give off this impression as she seems to have little illusions about her lot in life.
• Emo Teen: Her mood, dark clothing, spiked bracelet, and wanting to paint her room black all suggest this.
• Expy: Her attitude and appearance give off a vibe not dissimilar to Darlene Conner.
• Facial Markings: Hers were simple circles. Her mother Festivia insisted they were "Shade Moons", but she didn't seem to believe it. Notably, she shares the shape of her marks (but not the color) with Mewni's first queen, despite the fact they're not related.
• Forced Transformation: She kept talking about "being a lone wolf," which annoyed Crescenta to the point that she turned her into an actual wolf, though the spell either wore off or Crescenta changed her back some time after.
• Hidden Depths: Dirhhennia was apparently quite charismatic as it was the only one of her stats that wasn't N/A.
• Inadequate Inheritor: She was queen for a while but she had to pass the wand to her sister Crescenta. The reason why she had to do this was because of her mental health, her weak magic and unnerving strangeness.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is a portmanteau of two possible names. "Dir" was a surname given to someone who lived on or near muddy land. Hennia could originate from "henna", an anglicized version of the Arabic name "Hanna" (حَنَّة meaning "blessed"), it can also take from the Biblical meaning of "hena", which means "troubling". Together her name can mean "Someone troubling lived on muddy land" or "Someone blessed lived on muddy land".
• Messy Hair: Her hair is very long, untrimmed, and messy, and resembles either a black rain cloud or a pile of sludge. It adds to her having an uglier appearance than the other queens and showing another sign of being depressed.
• Only Friend: Her boyfriend Chad's the only person she had a connection with, and the one time she's mentioned being happy is when she was hanging out with him in the rose garden.
• Sibling Rivalry: Dirhhennia flat-out stated that she couldn't stand Crescenta. Then there's the fact that Crescenta magically turned her into a wolf for annoying her.
• Shout-Out: Among her ball drawings are pictures of the Death Star.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Had one in Chad, the one person in her life who made an effort to get to know her.

Crescenta the Eager

"When the one before her proved unfit,
Crescenta the Eager took the role,
and along with her gal pal, Emily,
kept the monsters under Mewman control."

A queen with a ballerina-like appearance. Her wand was topped with a heart and angel wings. She was named heir after her older sister, Dirhhennia, was deemed unfit to rule and was crowned queen after her mother, Festivia, abdicated.

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• Ambiguously Gay: It's all but stated that she and her "gal pal", Emily, had a romantic relationship. She also states that she didn't go boy crazy during Mewberty, which could also imply she's not attracted to men. This was confirmed by Daron Nefcy herself during a book signing.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: She once got so annoyed by Dirhhennia's ranting about being a "lone wolf" that she magically transformed her sister into an actual wolf. Dirhhennia also states that she can't stand her, further implying this.
• Big Little Sister: Was a foot taller than her older sister Dirhhennia.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Crescenta was clearly adorable, with her megawatt smile and Tutu Fancy wardrobe. She was also an anti-monster crusader and used her sweet demeanor to manipulate her subjects and family. This is probably why Glossaryck couldn't stand her.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: Crescenta's Facial Markings are bunnies.
• Condescending Compassion: Establishing the Avarius family as puppet rulers for the monsters comes off as her stepping in because the monsters supposedly couldn't look after themselves, rather than a genuine attempt to improve their lives.
• Dainty Little Ballet Dancers: In her tapestry, she's dressed like a beautiful ballerina.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed. Despite being a control freak, Crescenta was close to her daughter Rhina.
• Expy: Her bright, chipper demeanor mixed with her go getter attitude and bitchy tendencies mixed with her appearance bring to mind a more cheerful version of Becky Conner.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She appears as a cute and sweet ballerina-themed queen who enjoys scrapbooking, but behind her cheerful writing and façade hides an egotist who's condescending and manipulative to almost everyone.
• Facial Markings: Hers are shaped like bunnies.
• Fantastic Racism: Believed the monsters were at fault for their horrid living conditions, and made the Avarius family their puppet rulers.
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Her dress has these.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Downplayed. While not a tyrant, she threw anyone who didn't follow her new rules into the dungeon.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Despite her superior attitude, she was jealous of her older sister's ability to find happiness in something as simple as a date in a tent with her boyfriend.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Subverted. She has blonde hair but is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Magical Girl: While it's a requirement for all Butterfly queens to be powerful mages, she embodies this trope the most, with her tutu-shaped gowns and heart-themed magic wand looking like they came straight out of Cardcaptor Sakura.
• Older Than They Look: She was in her twenties when she inherited the throne, yet due to her cutesy facade and her ballerina gown, she looks like a young girl.
• Parody Sue: If one were to take her chapters in the Book of Spells at face value, then she was a beloved, perfect queen who created hundreds of thousands of spells and introduced many laws and changes that made Mewni better. Scratch the surface, however...
• Pink Means Feminine: It's essentially the only color she's wearing.
• Prim and Proper Bun: She's always depicted with her hair in a bun. She's a controlling and manipulative queen, and one of her dislikes is "chaos".
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Well, Queens in her case. The dress she's wearing in her tapestry is predominantly pink.
• Quantity vs. Quality: Crescenta created new spells constantly, even compulsively, not really caring if they were useful or safe. The spell that turned Marco's arm into a tentacle monster, for instance, was her creation.
  • The way she describes some of the spells with negative side effects—such as a spell that ties your shoes and sets fire to the room you're in, or another that lights up a room and makes everyone around you feel itchy afterwards—as being for "the rare instance" seems to imply that these side effects were unexpected results, and she was so focused on creating new spells that she would move on instead of trying to improve or even complete ones she was working on.
• Royal Brat: She had a tendency to throw anyone who disagreed with her rules in the dungeon and was a bigot towards monsters. Glossaryck thought she was obnoxious and preferred her sister over her, and Dirhhennia also stated she can't stand her.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: For all her faults, even before becoming Queen, she was part of the Junior Castle Guard and helped improve the lives of the Mewni peasantry. She also founded the Future Leaders of Mewni club, which was populated by other princes and princesses like her.
• Sibling Rivalry: Crescenta believed she was better than Dirhhennia in every way and that her sister was lazy and never meant to be queen.
• Spare to the Throne: Crescenta is the only queen of Mewni to supersede her older sister, Dirhhennia the Heaped, due to the latter's oddness and obsession with balls.
• Stepford Smiler: Crescenta was obsessed with keeping up the appearance of a shining leader, which lead her to regularly use a spell to erase her own negative feelings. After meeting Emily, however, she seems to have found actual happiness.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She certainly has the look and personality of one.
• White Man's Burden: She established the Avarius family as puppet rulers for the monsters because she believed the monsters were too uncivilized to look after themselves... which didn't work, as in the present day, many monsters are still in poverty, and Ludo's parents are shown to be terrible rulers and terrible people in general.

Rhina the Riddled

"Seven came before Rhina
(if you subtract the boy)
Add four more reigns to her domain
and then what gets destroyed?"

A mysterious monarch with a knack for riddles and powerful spells. Her wand was topped with a Rubik's cube.

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• Accidental Murder: She accidentally killed her husband by casting a spell to break his heart, which went a bit too literally.
• Absent-Minded Professor: Rhina was very smart and studious, but her chapter of The Magic Book of Spells is loaded with notes to herself reminding her of various things.
• Awful Wedded Life: Being asexual, she had to cast a love spell on herself so she could marry Roachley. Roachley turned out to be abusive, so eventually she decided to end things by casting a heartbreak spell. She ended up murdering him by accident instead.
• Disappeared Dad: She doesn't mention a father or her mother's gal pal Emily.
• Domestic Abuse: It's all but said that her husband Roachley was abusive. She had to cast a heartbreak spell to end his cruelty. His death was an unforeseen consequence that only caused more trouble for the Butterflys and Lucitors.
• Expy: Possibly. She's a redhead in glasses associated with the symbol for infinity, not unlike Tulip.
• Facial Markings: Hers are shaped like lemniscates (the infinity symbol). They also resemble two pairs of glasses, much like the ones she wore in life.
• Foreshadowing: The riddle poem in the beginning of her chapter of the Book of Spells ends up foreshadowing a major plot point in the series finale. Namely, the answer to the riddle is magic; destroying all the magic in the multiverse was the only way to stop Mina's Solaria army.
• Gone Horribly Right: Twice.
  • She tried to make a spell that would cause Reynaldo the Bald Pate to appreciate her riddles more. It worked a little too well, to the point where Reynaldo was compelled to speak only in riddles, forcing him to step down as a member of the Magic High Commission.
  • She got together with John Roachley via an Arranged Marriage, only to discover her husband was every inch the monster he appeared to be. While she was pregnant with Celena the Shy, she tried using a heartbreak spell so the abuse would end, except her magic took it literally and killed Roachley.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her wand seemingly took the shape of a rubik's cube. It required multiple millhorses at the same time because of it.
• Riddle Me This: Rhina, as her epithet suggests, was inordinately fond of riddles. Her wand reflected this by taking on the shape of a rubik's cube, a 3-D puzzle.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: She was quite smart, she liked to solve riddles and create new ones, and she wore glasses.
• Sympathetic Murderer: Her accidental murder of her husband Roachley had massively bad repercussions for both her family and the Lucitors. But since Roachley was abusive to her in life during their marriage, it's hard not to feel sorry for her.

Celena the Shy

"What hides behind the golden fan
her hand does sweetly hold?
A trove of cosmic secrets
that never will be told."

Star's great-great-grandmother, and the only child of Rhina the Riddled. She's known for her extreme shyness and secrecy, to the point of hiding her wand behind a fan.

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• Aborted Arc: She's focused on alongside Solaria and Eclipsa in "Into the Wand", but unlike either of them, she doesn't turn out important to the current plot or backstory.
• Apologizes a Lot: Her chapter mentions that her shyness is such that she apologizes to even inanimate objects if she bumps into them.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
  • She wears long robes with draping sleeves that hide her body, has extremely long hair with bangs, and often hid her wand and part of her face with her fan. She's an extreme Shrinking Violet who kept many secrets about herself.
  • She also bears elements of female Wiccan practitioners - women usually wear long, flowing robes, wear circlets on their heads, and let their hair down, giving themselves a mystical appearance. She also has moon-shaped cheek marks and a moon-shaped wand, and practices tarot card reading, charm-making and potion making, all trademarks of Wicca.
• The Beautiful Elite: Out of the queens, she embodies this trope the most due to being the World's Most Beautiful Woman. Moon described her as being so beautiful that monsters were disarmed with just a sublime glance.
• Cards of Power: Implied; Glossaryck mentions that she knows many ways to read tarot cards, indicating a skill at fortunetelling.
• The Charmer: Implied; Moon claimed that she was so beautiful that a single glance from her made monsters pause.
• Costume Porn: She has rows and rows of flower circlets decorating her hair.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied; she's the product of a loveless marriage between her mother, the previous Butterfly queen, and her demon husband John Roachley. Her father died before she was born, after her mother cast a heartbreak spell on him in an attempt to end his cruel abuse, only for her magic to take it literally. It's no wonder that Celena became so shy as an adult.
• The Faceless: Downplayed. Her portrait doesn't show her covering her entire face, but she's the only one hiding her Facial Markings.
• Facial Markings: While they are hidden behind her fan, her playing card reveals that hers are shaped like crescent moons.
• Foil: To Tom Lucitor, another hybrid with a Lucitor parent.
  • Celena is the picture of regal beauty and grace in Mewni, wearing long robes, having long hair, and being so beautiful that she could disarm monsters with a glance. Despite being royalty, the short-haired Tom usually dresses like a punk rocker and often acts like a Royal Brat with anger issues and the need to control others (pre-Character Development, that is).
  • Celena was born from a loveless, abusive marriage between her Mewman mother and Lucitor father, the latter who was accidentally murdered by a heartbreak spell before his daughter was born. Tom's parents are presumed to be Happily Married, with a Mewman father and Lucitor mother.
  • Celena dealt with her problems and insecurities by withdrawing into herself, ironically attracting more people who wanted to hear her secrets. Tom drove almost everyone away with his Hair-Trigger Temper despite not wanting to turn out like his similarly-tempered father, until he went through Character Development with some help.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She wears purple robes, her eyes are purple, and has pink hair (at least in the show; her playing card depicted her with orange hair). She's also the World's Most Beautiful Woman, and adorably shy.
• Hidden Depths: She's a talented potion/charm maker and tarot card reader. Her chapter in The Magic Book of Spells is lined with poems and songs that she wrote herself.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covered her left eye to reflect her shy nature.
• High-Class Gloves: Wears a pair of white gloves.
• Hikikomori: Implied and justified; her tapestry depicted her being isolated in her room, away from the people who tried badgering her into revealing her secrets.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Her hair color. She has soft pink hair in her tapestry, while later depictions of her has a more orangey hue.
• In-Series Nickname: Star calls her 'Great-Great-Grandma Shy'.
• In the Blood: Her daughter Estrella is equally shy and soft-spoken, yet she inherited her talent in the creative arts.
• Irony:
  • She was an extremely shy and reclusive person in life, and never felt comfortable around people. But this just made people try to get close to her in order to learn her secrets, presumably because she was so beautiful and adorable-looking.
  • The Magic High Commission erased all mentions of Meteora because of her half-monster heritage. Celena was essentially half-monster, but since her father was specifically a Lucitor, this goes completely unquestioned.
• Meaningful Name: "Celena" is Gratuitous Greek for 'the moon' and she has crescent moons as Facial Markings.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Her mother Rhina was already pregnant with her when Rhina's demon husband, John Roachley, died from literal heartbreak, making her an apparent half-demon half-mewman hybrid. Unlike Tom, you wouldn't think she was anything but a Mewman from looking at her—at least, not the parts of her that she showed anyone.
• Perpetual Frowner: Her card depicted her with a shy, withdrawn expression, assuming that's how she feels by default, since she often kept her mouth hidden with her fan. She's smiling in one of her daughter's sketches, but the way Glossaryck points it out makes it sound like it's out of the ordinary.
• Pink Means Feminine: She has very long pink hair and is shy.
• Purple Is Powerful: Wore mostly purple, and was said to hold powerful secrets. She's also good in potion making, tarot card-reading, and creative arts like poetry and song-writing (which her daughter Estrella would inherit to a degree),
• Secret-Keeper: She kept many secrets in her lifetime, including ones about herself. And judging from the long line of people bearing gifts outside her bedroom door on her tapestry, everyone wanted to get close enough to her for her to spill. And to Star's apparent disappointment, her chapter in The Magic Book of Spells further implies this as it wasn't full of secrets as Star thought. A piece of encoded text in her chapter indicates that like Star would later do, Celena physically traveled to the Realm of Magic.
• Shrinking Violet: Her tapestry referred to her as "The Shy", and also depicted her hiding her wand and the lower half of her face with a fan. It's also likely that she was putting up an act. We may never know. Her shyness is even listed as a prominent trait in her chapter, being ranked at a staggering twenty.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Celena was described as being so beautiful that she could disarm monsters with a glance. However, Celena was extremely reclusive and private - she couldn't handle the attention from suitors and those who wanted to learn her secrets.
• Stellar Name: Celena is a Greek/Latin name that means "Goddess of the Moon".
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: So much so that she didn't even show her mouth.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: According to Moon, she was so sublimely beautiful that she could disarm monsters with a single glance. However, her beauty also attracted unwanted attention from both potential suitors and everyone who wanted to learn her secrets - so much that she became a reclusive shut-in.

Estrella the Drafted

"She cannot write, she cannot sing
But she can draw, her only thing.
Sketching late until the night...
But will she ever draw it right?"

Daughter of Celena the Shy, and a studious, artistic monarch. Her wand took on the form of a pen.

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• Badass Bookworm: Studious and presumably a powerhouse in her own right. Her card showed that her intelligence and wisdom were her most prominent traits, with both of them rated at 16.
• Disappeared Dad: The portraits of her 'loves' had her husband, mother and daughter but not her father.
• Facial Markings: Hers were shaped like flowers.
• Happily Married: One of the few queens who even mentions her husband in her chapter, and lists him as one of the three great loves her of her life (along with her mother and their daughter).
• Irony: Her extreme focus on art during her reign would've been seen as a sign of incompetence as a queen, but the mewmans loved her because they hated changes to the status quo.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: She inherited Celena's shyness, but like her mother, she's also very talented in the creative arts.
• Modest Royalty: One of the modestly-dressed queens; she wore a flapper-style dress with a purple feather boa.
• The Pen Is Mightier: Her wand took on the form of a pen and sometimes a paintbrush.
• The Quiet One: Estrella rarely spoke aloud, and instead communicated through writing and her paintings. Her chapter in The Magic Book of Spells was instead written by Glossaryck.
• Stellar Name: Much like her mother and her daughter, she's named after a cosmic body; Estrella means "star" in Spanish. While she didn't do much during her reign, she was a talented artist in life, and she was very popular among her subjects due to the lack of changes.
• So Proud of You: In public, she disapproved of her daughter, Comet, for making both the Magic High Commission and the war generals of Mewni fall asleep for four days after feeding them pie. But in private, she praised Comet's decision in making sure everyone was properly fed.

Comet the Chef

"No magic on Mewni was greater
than Comet and her kitchen creations
but she was defeated by Toffee,
lizard prince of the dark monster nations."

Moon's mother, and Star's grandmother. A masterful chef and loving mother, she was adored by her daughter and her subjects. Her wand took the form of a rolling pin.

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• All-Loving Hero: Implied; as a Supreme Chef, she believed that monsters deserved to sit at the same table as mewmans because they both savor food. This is why she advocated for monster-mewman co-existence.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: In life, she was The High Queen and a Supreme Chef who believed in racial equality as long as everyone ate at the same table. Alas, she died too soon.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Her death caused Moon to ascend the throne too early, forcing her to mature until she became the queen Mewni wanted, and created a deep grudge towards monsters. It also caused Moon to be overprotective towards her daughter, Star, fearing that history would repeat again.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Moon adored her, and her loss affected her deeply. Moon's father, on the other hand, is estranged from her due to being divorced, not even showing up for her wedding.
• Dog Got Sent to a Farm: Star grew up believing that her grandmother was sent to live on a "grandma farm" with other grandmas because Moon didn't want to tell her that Comet was murdered by Toffee.
• Facial Markings: Hers are shaped like butterflies, symbolizing the fleetingness and fragility of life.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Comet genuinely wanted peace with the monsters, but Toffee killed her out of distrust and vengeance.
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Her gown has these.
• Good Parents: When she was alive. Whenever she's shown together with Moon, the latter always looks so happy. Her folder image depicted her looking adoringly at a baby Moon who's tugging at her dress.
• The High Queen: She was this before her death. Unlike the queens before her, she tried to see monsters as equals and make lasting peace with them. However, Toffee put an end to that.
• In the Blood: Her affinity for baking turns out to be, at least in part, from being descended from Pie Folk.
• Meaningful Name: A "comet" is a rock that flings through space, leaving behind a trail of ice and cosmic dust as it disappears. Queen Comet was only alive for a short time before she was assassinated by Toffee when her daughter, Moon, was just a teenager. Her title "the Chef" is also a hint to her true lineage: the Pie Folk.
• Missing Mom: To Moon, as she was murdered by Toffee when her daughter was still a teenager.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Her attempts to bring racial equality to Mewni resulted in her death as Toffee killed her out of vengeance and hateful bigotry.
• "Not So Different" Remark: She believed that both monsters and mewmans have the ability to savor food, so they deserved to sit at the same table as each other.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Her death at the hands of Toffee indirectly caused her daughter to seek out Eclipsa for help, Toffee to lose his finger, and so on.
• Point of Divergence: Had someone stopped Toffee from killing Comet or tried to follow her example in ending the Mewman-monster war, many of the problems Moon and Star faced wouldn't have existed, as the monsters and mewmans would have been united.
• Posthumous Character: She was killed by Toffee during the war against the monsters.
• Rolling Pin of Doom: Her wand took the form of a Gem-Encrusted rolling pin. This is a sign for who she truly is: a descendant of the Pie Folk.
• Supreme Chef: As expected of someone with the title "The Chef". Her chapter in The Magic Book of Spells has a few recipes, and she believed that everyone could be equal as long as they ate at the same table. Her card even shows a picture of her holding a baby Moon, who's eating a cupcake, presumably made by her. Glossaryck loved her because she always made food for him. It is also a sign of her true lineage as one of the Pie Folk.
• Sweet Baker: She loved to bake and often did so with her daughter as Moon was growing up. She was a also a genuine example of The High Queen (as opposed to many of Mewni's other queens who publicized the image to reassure their citizens but had personal failings and rarely lived up to it) as well as the one who tried to end conflicts with the Monsters going against centuries of prejudice and hate, and almost brought about a new world that would benefit all. Unfortunately her kind-hearted and trusting nature led to her underestimating how hate-filled Toffee of the Septarians was, enabling him to murder her.
• Teen Pregnancy: She went on a journey across dimensions in search of adventure in her teenage years, during which Moon was born.
• Through His Stomach: Downplayed; she believed that she could end racial inequality and bring monsters and mewmans together with food (and pie). This is also what she did to both the Magic high Commission and Mewni's war generals; they were so hungry that they fell asleep for four days after eating her pies.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: One of the more compassionate Butterfly queens who advocated racial equality between mewmans and monsters through food, during a time when monster prejudice was still deeply entrenched. She was murdered for her efforts by Toffee.

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