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- Abandon Shipping: Star/Marco got a lot less fans as time went on, whether due to simple Arc Fatigue, losing interest in what was increasingly seen as a Romantic Plot Tumor or not appreciating how other potential love interests were tossed aside.
- Accidental Aesop: Sometimes, the mature thing to do is to simply remember that I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
- Anvilicious: Oh is history Written by the Winners? You'd never get that from watching the show.
- Arc Fatigue: The Will They or Won't They? dynamic between Star and Marco caused the show's downfall, due to it overshadowing the show's main story involving Mewni's discrimination of monsters.
- Continuity Lock Out: Steadily so. The show starts out pretty decently but by mid-Season 2, it expects everyone to be caught up.
- Designated Hero: Star got some of this right from day one, being perceived as a Never My Fault Static Character. Her destruction of magic in the Grand Finale didn't do much to deter this viewpoint, nor does the fact that her main concern about it was never seeing Marco again. In fact, some fans outright compared it to Thanos' actions in Avengers: Infinity War.
- Ear Worm: "I'm From Another Dimension."
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Quite a few, but Mariposa Diaz is the standout.
- Esoteric Happy Ending: The Grand Finale. At best, Star's destruction of magic has crippled any society in the Multiverse that relies on it. At worst, she's caused multiple extinction-level events.
- Fan Dumb: There are some fans who believe that the male lead, Marco Diaz, is a closeted trans girl, based solely on the fact that he doesn't mind crossdressing and doesn't conform to gender roles; what's more is that those same fans will often bash anyone who doesn't agree with them (even actual trans people). While there is nothing wrong with creating Fanon content where a character is trans, attacking people for not agreeing with a piece of Fanon is just going to make them turn them away from it rather than support it.
- Fandom Rivalry: Has one-sided rivalries with Steven Universe and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. That is to say, the Star fandom considers themselves to be Dueling Shows with both properties, but most fans of the latter two do not return the sentiment. Mind you, there are people who like all three shows, so it's rather YMMV.
- Fanon Discontinuity:
- There are quite a few fans who like to pretend that the show ended after "The Battle for Mewni."
- Fans who like the plot involving Eclipsa and her monster husband Globgor like to pretend that the show ended with "Coronation."
- Franchise Original Sin: The Romantic Plot Tumor that was Star/Marco, see below, that led to the latter half of the show's Seasonal Rot was around since day one, it's just that the first two seasons had more focus on the Myth Arc.
- Friendly Fandoms:
- Given the presence of the Multiverse and a lead character of questionable morale bent, the show is on good terms with Rick and Morty.
- Its magical mystery themes led to a lot of overlap with Gravity Falls.
- A surprising amount of overlap with The Loud House. Lincoln/Star is a semi-popular Crossover Ship.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show is insanely popular in Latin America.
- It's Short, So It Sucks: A big complaint about Season 4, the finale in particular, is that all the potentially good ideas were crammed into a very short amount of time.
- Never Live It Down:
- Ludo was an absolute joke of a villain in Season 1, but he Took a Level In Badass in Season 2. To some, however, he'll be nothing more than a walking punchline.
- Star destroying magic in the Grand Finale. Even years after the show ended, it remains one of the most talked about things and ample fuel to paint Star as a Designated Hero.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: The divisive fan reaction to the Grand Finale was so loud that even people who have never seen the show are aware of what Star did and the debate it sparked, said debate being a defining trait of the show in online discussions.
- Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: Ludo in Season 2. After being a complete joke in Season 1, his increased badass cred along with the revelations of his Dark and Troubled Past won him much more fandom love.
- Romantic Plot Tumor: The romantic subplot between Star and Marco wasn't too bad in the first half of the show's run, but it began to swallow up the non-romantic aspects after "The Battle for Mewni."
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Your parents may have done bad things that had very bad consequences, but that doesn't mean that they're bad people. Star even acknowledges that Moon and Eclipsa had good intentions when they enacted their controversial decisions.
- Take That, Scrappy!: "The Ponyhead Show!"
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