Money and privilege don't always make your life better.
Really loving someone means treating them as a person, not a prize or ideal.
There is a fine line between wanting the best for your kids and controlling them.
Just because someone raised you or is your family doesn’t mean they can make all your choices for you.
Regardless of your circumstances, only you are responsible for your own actions.
Disciplining children can be hard but is necessary because you need to establish boundaries and they need to understand what they did wrong.
Looks aren’t everything, as your personality also plays a major role in how attractive people find you. Colette and Paulina are very lovely girls but it’s their ugly personalities that repulse Danny. Also, despite Star’s beauty, Danny didn’t start to fall for her until she showed redeeming qualities and eventually changed herself for the better.
You cannot force someone to like or be with anyone and trying to do so will only make them hate you.
Danny punching out Donovan after he hit Star, knocking out some of his teeth. After how far over the line he went, it's nothing but glorious to watch Danny let him have it.
Stella finally calling her mother for being a horrible parent and grandparent. Given that Beatrice's parenting is one of the main reasons Stella turned out so vain and spoiled, you will be cheering through the whole verbal beatdown she unleashes.
Donovan getting cut off by his father will certainly bring a smile to your face after all of the Jerkass things he has done.
Colette getting the absolute snot beaten out of her in "Empowered" was long overdue and all too delicious to watch.
Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: The most hated characters in the series aren't Team Phantom's rogues gallery (even Vlad) or any of the supernatural threats they face but Colette Bevier, Beatrice Traville, and Donovan Loadman for being snobby, unbearably unpleasant sociopaths with little to no redeeming qualities that go out of their way to ruin the main characters lives out of petty spite and a warped immature sense of entitlement.
Stella Bevier. She's a Rich Bitch and difficult mother who continually causes grief for her daughter and tries to excuse her family's abysmal treatment of others. However, it becomes obvious throughout the later stories that she's mainly like this because of a very demanding and controlling mother who Stella was forced to obey no matter how much she may disagree with her. Thanks to Character Development, Stella is increasingly aware of just how awful the family members she tries to defend and care for really are, and is even uncertain if they truly care for her in return at all.
Chip Franco in "Traveled" was a bully to Johnathan back in high school but it's not hard to feel sorry for him since his life went downhill after since them because of his own mistakes, which even he acknowledges. He has seriously let himself go since his days of being an athletic star quarterback, is a gambling addict with debts to pay, lives alone in a rundown apartment with barely any running water, works in a dead-end job as a restaurant waiter, and his even more horrible ex-wife, Heather St. Cloud, has custody of their kids, Audrey and Chip Jr, and constantly hassles him for alimony and child support while threatening to get their lawyers involved. It helps that, unlike Heather, Chip has at least matured over the years enough to give up his bullying ways, accept his own failures, and try to be a good parent to Audrey and Chip Jr. (certainly better than Heather).
Kwan becomes this in "Blackmailed". Sure, he's a Peer-Pressured Bully and was a terrible boyfriend to Star, but he genuinely cares about her and is the least horrible member of the A-Listers as he doesn't bear Team Phantom any true malice despite being jealous of Danny dating Star since he's accepted that she is happy with him. Also, he's become so horrified and disgusted by the lengths Colette is willing to sink to just to ruin Star's life and steal Danny from her that he absolutely refuses to be involved in any of her schemes to split the couple up... until she blackmails him with an embarrassing secret. Kwan is then forced to help Colette frame Team Phantom for crimes they didn't commit and then blackmail Danny into dating her. He only grows more miserable and guilt-ridden with time while being constantly treated like dirt by Colette, and even when he decides to disregard her threats and come clean, he's now Trapped in Villainy due to the risk of going down with Colette due to his history with the A-Listers despite his fear and remorse. The harmful impact his unwilling assistance in Colette's actions have had on Team Phantom leaves him conflicted on whether he should try to stop Colette and risk getting in trouble, along with Star possibly hating him forever, or keep quiet and be forced to watch the girl he loves suffer.
Memetic Loser: Colette is becoming this because not only do her schemes backfire and turn everyone against her, but NOTHING she does can get Danny to like her regardless if he’s single or dating Star. Even when he had total amnesia, it only took a few hours for him to get completely sick of Colette's rotten personality and ditch her.
Colette Bevier was always shown to be a two-faced, stuck-up brat who wants to make her stepsister Star miserable for no reason and steal Danny from her. While in many ways, she is worse than what Star used to be like and Paulina currently is, she was still just another spoiled bully Star and Danny had to deal with. However, Colette crossed the line when during Virgato's attack at the country club, she pushed Sam into the ghost, sacrificing Sam's life to save her own. Danny, Sam, Star, and Tucker were disgusted by her actions, though Sam and Star were not surprised.
Beatrice Traville spends her debut showing how much of a Rich BitchSocial Climber she is with every breath she takes and considers everyone not of the same status as her to be lesser than dirt. But she fully crosses the line when she demands that Star apologize to Donovan for a fight that he started by hitting her in the first place. At that point, she stops being an obnoxious elitist and starts being an Abusive Parent who only cares for getting her way no matter who gets hurt for it, even her granddaughter.
Donovan Loadman is an Abhorrent Admirer who makes Dash look like Prince Charming with how much of a louse he acts like, but he crosses this in "Visited" when he tries to kiss Star against her will and then hits her for refusing.
Star Strong. She starts out as a Jerkass Woobie, but soon her jerkass qualities fade away as Danny gets to know her better. Her mother left their family for a womanizer from France, causing her to seek companionship with the A-Listers to combat the loneliness. During her stay on the island, she finds herself in life-or-death experiences that force her to see past what her terrible friends made her think of Danny Fenton. Even after that, she finds herself in more trouble when she's locked inside the school with him by a monster and her views on herself and her supposed friends are challenged once more.
Her father Johnathan Strong seems to be a bigger one. Seriously, this guy had to go through his wife leaving him for another man and his career grants him very little time to spend with his daughter, whom he obviously loves very much. In each story, Star goes missing or is in some other form of peril and the poor guy has to go through a huge case of parental worries each time.
Star's grandfather Richard. Unlike his wife, he's a Nice Guy who tries to act cordial with everyone, loves his daughter and granddaughter dearly, and makes an effort to try and reel Beatrice in when she acts up. Unfortunately for him, he's a Henpecked Husband who can barely make any difference given how horrible Beatrice acts and suffers some bad Guilt by Association from the rest of his family.
