#ms. heinous

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I’m thinking of drawing these 2 together like TKO & KO and have them sing Escapism

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The Ending of Star

So, with the final episode of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, I have to say that my disappointment with the lack in quality the show went through is astronomically high. Keep in mind, I am not a “shipper” in this show, so my opinions on it aren’t related to “who ended up with who” (though like others have said, I do have some issues with the pacing of the end game pair, however pacing is what I’m mainly going to be talking about here).

So, there are a lot of things I could mention about the ending of Star, but I’d like to take this time to say that Star vs the Forces of Evil (along with a certain other show), really is unable to like, execute having a villain in the story. In this post I’m going to be discussing the “major” villains that have been seen through out the arcs. 

Before I begin, while I am not including Ludo in this list, Ludo shows some of the greatest character development along with Buff Frog as far as “Villains” in the show go. However, Ludo is never portrayed as himself as the main dangerous villain of the show. Ludo is usually used for the more comical aspects of the show, thought there are instances like with his family where he is portrayed as a more sympathetic than evil character.

The characters I’m going to be talking about are Toffe,

Ms. Heinous (Meteora before rebirth)

And Mina Loveberry 

Toffee

Toffee is the first major villain that we are introduced to, all the way back in season one. Firstly, out of all of these villains, Toffee is the best one that was implemented in the show in both his arc and his “first death”. At the point in the series that Toffee is introduced, we are unaware of the past Mewmin’s have had with the monsters until Mewnipendence Day, and even then we’re just given a slight glimpse into the problem of monsters and Mewni. The episodes prior to Buff Frog and Ludo being kicked out of the castle as Toffee takes control of Ludo’s minions is a great set up to Star’s first interaction with Toffee, and Toffee’s first death. I will add too, that if Toffee was only a minor villain in the series, and this was his permanent defeat at this point, I feel that this would be a satisfying ending to his arc. However, Toffee is a major villain so the arc continues, and again, I think this is great. Toffee lives inside the other broken half of the wand’s star, and throughout the season, Toffee takes possession of Ludo in order to regain his form, trap star inside her wand, and destroying the other half of the wand. I appreciate the build up to all of this, until he actually dies forever. Now this isn’t a decry saying that “Toffee shouldn’t have died”, because I think he totally should have. Despite that fact that the monsters had a right to feel angry over their treatment from the Mewmans, Toffee’s way of trying to achieve vengeance and freedom for his people was the wrong way of doing so. My issue is one of the first examples of pacing in Star vs not being so great. The fight between Star and Toffee was nothing, and by the time Toffee returned to his original body, he was only alive for a couple minutes afterwards. If the arc would have finished off with more of a fight, then I feel like people wouldn’t have been hoping for, and imagining that Toffee was probably going to be returning before the series is over. Over all, I think that while Toffee has some of the best villain character moments, the execution of his character at the very end fell on deaf ears as far as pacing and subtly goes. 

Ms. Heinous (Meteora)

Now we move on to a villain that I am definitely not crazy about what happened to them. I don’t really see the appeal of baby Meteora. I appreciate the fact that now Eclipsa and Globgor have a chance of raising her as a family, however, I feel like the execution of her character ended up really sloppy. 

Heinous is set up as the result of the whole world being against Eclipsa, and it shows the cruelty of Mewmans and the High Council. I understand the purpose of Heinous losing control of her monster powers when she comes back to the castle because of all of the years of repressing and not being able to express herself. Additionally, Heinous is tired. She’s tired of having to repress what she is, especially when she actually learns who she is. Unfortunately, because of her inexperience with her monster abilities, she loses control of them quite easily. Now here’s where I completely disagree with the decisions being taken towards the character of Ms. Heinous/Meteora. Instead of reaching a conclusion with Heinous’ character arc here, the character arc is merely stopped in its tracks. By making the decision to turn Heinous back into an infant, it not only “erases the damage” that was done to Meteora, but it also means that all the previous issues raised are topics that will never be discussed further. To make it short, Instead of any kind of character development, they just reset the character. Heinous and Meteora are no longer the same person, only really Meteora’s dislike of Marco stays the same. 

Mina Loveberry

Oh boy, Mina as a final villain. 

So Mina started out fine enough, she was seen as a warrior and a fighter. We learn that she’s a Solarian warrior and no one can defeat her. I wont get into my issues with “destroying the magic”, but regardless; Mina’s “defeat” was not only a let down, but it was the one moment in the show were she wasn’t really “defeated”. She lost her abilities, sure, however she still is same old Mina and no one is willing to do anything to stop her. Again, it’s slightly harder to talk about Mina’s ending arc because some of my issues involving the Solarian warrior army stem from other characters and events in SVTFoE, however the amount of “dead time” in the episode that could have been used to fill up the fight with something was frustrating to say the least. Lastly, I’m not saying that I wanted Mina to turn good, but even after watching as her former Queen’s ghost refused to help her, Mina seems to have learned nothing. There isn’t a sign of anything indicating that she has any sort of feelings of being betrayed by Solaria. Sure on one hand you can say that “Mina is crazy, so she wouldn’t change her ways”, but I counter “Mina is forever loyal to someone that she cherished more than her own life, and her response to that is nothing?” Sure this all would have worked out better maybe even if there were a few extra moments dedicated to the actual fighting in the episode.

All of this being said, the main issue with Star has ALWAYS been its take on pacing. I understand that this last season particularly was rushed in certain points, however this has never been a new problem with Star. The thing that frustrates me the most with SVTFoE, is that every time a compelling story element appears, it is wither resolved in the most anti-climatic way possible, or it’s thrown to the side, never to be heard from again. I really wish that there was an expansion or rework done on certain villains, but at least I can say that some individual characters had the ability to grown nicely throughout the seasons. I will always have much love for Tom, and I’m happy with the direction he slowly traveled in. 

[abowlofmoe]

This episode... :O

[judedeluca]

Did anyone else cheer when Meteora punched that robot bitch across the room after she said Meteora should be “Thanking her?”

[spatziline]

She’s joking lol.....ISN’T SHE????

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[aut2imagineart]

Probably will be outdated soon but after seeing the most recent episodes of Star vs the Forces of Evil I had to draw Meteora in a monster hybrid butterfly form.  Let me know what you guys think.

Star vs the forces of evil belongs to Daron Nefcy

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I might have liked Meteora way too much

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Svtfoe

I have to admit, having watched the other episodes up to the midseason finale, My opinion is starting to return to “positive” on this season.

While it was a shame that Jarco ended (especially with how it did), and while the subliminal Starco arcs are starting to become annoying, this season is starting to become more and more interesting.

Eclipsa seems to be, well kinda, a red herring here, and i still don’t know who the evil character is supposed to be (as opposed to how obvios the second season was about Ludo being under Toffee’s control).

The High Commission is starting to get a more relevant role, though I suppose that’s because we’re in the place where it starts becoming relevant, and It might be just my guess but the ‘twist’ about Ms. Heinous being a Butterfly (and, the actual twist with her being, probably, elcipsa’s daughter) has made the season interesting.

Also, butterfly form ftw! (WHY DIDN’T SHE USE IT IN THE FINALE THO)

suggestions, though, more Jackie moments. or Janna moments. or practically more characters that aren’t particularly star and marco, (Like the last Season. though it’ll probably be an important plot point in the future)