#Star vs. the forces of evil divide series#
However, Nefcy later adjusted the character's age to fourteen during the time she made her series proposition to Disney rather than Cartoon Network originally. Nefcy originally placed Star in the fourth grade, reflecting on a time in her own childhood when she held a self-described obsession with the animated series Sailor Moon. However, due to the network's stance on not greenlighting girl shows, her vision for the show at Cartoon Network never got made. Nefcy began pitching the show to Cartoon Network during the time when she was in her third year of college, when the network was actively soliciting the creation of pilots for The Cartoonstitute. In this earlier version, Star did not have any actual magical powers she instead would approach and solve problems primarily through the force of her determination alone. Nefcy said she originally created Star as a girl who wanted to be a magical girl like Sailor Moon, and Marco as a boy who was obsessed with Dragon Ball Z and karate they would be enemies instead of friends. Several secondary protagonists also appear more prominently or join the series in subsequent seasons, including Star's Mewman best friend Pony Head (who is a floating unicorn head), Star's half-demon ex-boyfriend Tom, the mischievous Janna, and Magic High Commission member Hekapoo Queen Moon also takes on a bigger role. Several mysteries about the past of the Butterly royal family are also unveiled, mostly revolving around Eclipsa Butterfly, the "Queen of Darkness" and the most infamous member in the Butterflys' family history. The plot shifts from the defence of the wand from Ludo to a bigger and more complex narrative focusing on the various conflicts revolving around prejudice against monsters, the rulership of Mewni, Mewni's origins, and the very nature of magic itself. Going in a series of misadventures using "dimensional scissors" that can open portals, Star and Marco must deal with everyday school life while protecting Star's wand from falling into the hands of Ludo, a half-bird half-man creature from Mewni who commands a group of monsters.Īs the series progresses, new, more threatening antagonists appear in the show, including the mysterious monster Toffee and former Queen Eclipsa's half-Mewman, half-monster daughter Meteora Butterfly. She befriends student Marco Diaz and lives with his family in suburban Los Angeles while attending Echo Creek Academy. After she accidentally sets fire to the family castle, her parents, King River and Queen Moon Butterfly, decide that a safer option is to send her to Earth as a foreign exchange student, so she can continue her magic training there. As per tradition, she is given the family heirloom wand on her 14th birthday and was known to be the most braty child through the royal family. Star Butterfly is a magical princess from the dimension of Mewni and the heiress to the royal throne of the Butterfly Kingdom. Reruns air occasionally on Disney XD in multi-episode marathons, and single each week on the free.
The series ended on May 19, 2019, with the episode "Cleaved". The fourth and final season premiered on March 10, 2019, in its return to Disney Channel, with two new episodes airing every Sunday. Greenlit for Disney Channel in 2013, the first episode aired there on January 18, 2015, as a preview, then the series moved over to Disney XD on March 30, 2015, where its premiere on Disney XD became the most-watched animated series debut in the network's history. The fourth season has a few more half-hour episodes than prior seasons. the Forces of Evil typically follows a format of two 11 minute-long independent "segments" per episode for the first three seasons. As the series progresses, Star and Marco meet new friends, take on new enemies, and travel to even more weird and wild dimensions. Throughout the first season, the two travel to exotic dimensions using dimensional scissors while preventing the Mewman monster Ludo ( Alan Tudyk) from stealing Star's magic wand. There she befriends and becomes roommates with human Marco Diaz ( Adam McArthur) and begins a semi-normal life in Echo Creek, attending school and meeting new friends. The series follows the adventures of Star Butterfly (voiced by Eden Sher), the young turbulent heir to the royal throne in the dimension of Mewni, who is sent to Earth to mellow her reckless behavior.
It is the first Disney XD series created by a woman, and the third overall for Disney Television Animation (following Pepper Ann from 1997 and Doc McStuffins from 2012). the Forces of Evil is an American animated magical girl television series created by Daron Nefcy and developed by Jordana Arkin and Dave Wasson, which aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD.