Well, The Battle for Mewni certainly was a rollercoaster of emotions. A lotta stuff happened in it, but I’m going to focus on what’s likely to be the most contentious thing: Toffee’s apparent death. Okay, it’s not so much apparent as it is kinda-confirmed by staff, and the story itself (Eclipsa’s crystal cracking) but there’s still a lot to unpackage.

At first, I wasn’t sure if Toffee was truly dead, and while I certainly want him to come back as a cameo or something, I’m pretty sure he’s actually dead-dead (at least physically, cough cough). Now, a lotta folks (including me earlier) think that the “Toffee can regenerate” thing means the demise is pretty open-ended, for good reason. Characters with regenerative powers, especially powerful ones, are notorious for not actually dying, and Toffee himself has escaped situations where he’s apparently died (Storm the Castle).

But I hypothesize that when Toffee reforms his body, it’s not his original body. It’s a body made out of the black goop that’s Star’s corrupted magic. By doing this, Toffee loses the bulk of his regenerative abilities and/or is vulnerable to Star’s (new?) magic, which is the antithesis of Toffee’s literal being. Toffee is then mostly destroyed/neutralized by Mewberty 2.0 Star’s magic blast, and had his physical form finally finished off by Ludo. Oh, and Star might now be made up of magic.

There are several pieces of evidence that support this hypothesis, so let’s start from the beginning.

The first time we see Toffee get injured is in Storm the Castle, when Star blasts his arm off with an unnamed spell.

Notice that Toffee’s wound is flesh-coloured. Oh, and the pink butterflies surrounding it. Toffee takes it pretty well all things considered.

This is the first time we see Toffee regenerating. It’s his real body, and we see that the arm growing back is very flesh-colored, similar to the stump it comes from. After most of it grows back, the arm returns to the natural grey-blue tone Toffee has.

This is also what we see with Rasticore and his arm growing back.

Now let’s contrast that with what we see happen when Toffee is injured in his titular episode.

In a great emotional moment, Marco, thinking his best friend is dead and gone, punches straight through Toffee in a fit of rage. Given the location of where Marco punched Toffee, it’s clear that Marco was trying to kill Toffee by punching through his heart.

But wait, where did Marco get this strength from?

Punching through someone’s body is not easy at all, and in that very same episode, Marco is unable to free Star by breaking the metal restraints with his bare hands (and hurts himself instead). Something’s fishy, and even Toffee notices it.

Look at Toffee’s facial expression. He’s pretty shocked by what happened. He knows Marco is a regular human, and he knows Marco has some martial arts skill. Why did Marco suddenly get strong enough to punch through Toffee? Or did Toffee actually get weaker?

Look at what’s on Marco’s hand. It’s not blood, it’s not any fleshy bits you’d expect given that we’ve seen Toffee’s original body have what looks to be flesh and blood. It’s the sludge we see inside Ludo-space.



It’s the same sludge that Toffee is made of when he’s possessing Ludo.

It’s Star’s magic, even though Star doesn’t recognize it (and Toffee does…HMMM).

Only Toffee has corrupted it.

Remember, something was draining magic from the universe. We didn’t know what that would look like, and a lotta folks suspected it was Toffee. Turns out that’s correct, and we can literally see all the magic that Toffee has corrupted, and it’s lots.



We see when Toffee makes the deal with Moon that his sludge form gets sucked up and out of Ludo-space, and it goes….somewhere, notably leaving behind a ton of it.

And it manifests on Ludo’s body in this gruesome sequence.

Notice how the sludge is becoming not only Toffee’s skeleton and body, but even the suit. Toffee’s body is literally being made out of (Star’s) corrupted magic.



And when this corrupted magic-made body is injured, the wounds look different than the one’s we’ve seen on Toffee’s original body. There’s no flesh-colored wound, there’s not even internal organs. The wound is made of goop which we see on Marco’s hand, and the hole just gets filled up.

But what are the (practical) implications of this? For one,Toffee is less durable than before, because the black goop is just that-goop. It’s not too tough given that Star can swim around in the stuff, but it is pretty viscous. Another possibility is that Toffee might not have the same regenerative powers he used to. Remember, this new body is not an exact replica of his original body-we don’t know if it can regenerate to the same extent as earlier.

But Toffee isn’t the only one rebuilding a body out of magic.

When Star dives down and has her talk with Glossaryck (who appears to give her the magic seed), she dips down into a cauldron. Now, the specifics of that are for another time, but the important thing for this whole spiel is the color of the cauldron when Star dips down into it. Namely, golden.

Much like this. Yes, it’s Star’s magic.



And this time, Star’s magic is purging (or overwriting, or just outmassing) Toffee’s corrupted version of Star’s magic.

This culminates with Star being reborn in a golden (Mewberty) form.



Compare the sequence of events that lead up to the rebirths of Star and Toffee.

Toffee became stuck (intentionally) in Ludo-space after the Whispering Spell blew up Star’s complete wand in his face. He eventually gets out and rebuilds his body using Star’s corrupted magic, which is seen in the form of black goop.

Star uses the Whispering Spell to blow up Toffee’s half of the wand and gets stuck inside Ludo-space too. She eventually gets out and rebuilds her body using her own, golden magic goop.

The fact that Star’s yellow magic is overwhelming/purging Toffee’s corrupted magic comes up in the final sequence. When Star fires this spell-a spell she’s never used nor known-we see that it’s the same color as her magic-that distinctive golden hue.



When Toffee gets hit by this, he immediately starts reverting to his goop form. We see this happen to his suit and flesh and skeleton, which are made up of corrupted magic.

By the time the blast finishes, Toffee is left with a mostly-melted upper torso with black goop dripping off of him.

Notice how Toffee’s skull looks all warped and melted. It’s not bones that have melted, it’s the corrupted magic that makes up Toffee’s skeleton falling apart/being degraded due to Star’s own golden magic.

I believe that while Toffee successfully corrupted Star’s magic, with Star’s rebirth, she was able to undo that corruption and restore her magic to its proper (golden) state. Star’s golden spell similarly undoes/purifies Toffee because it’s once again her magic undoing Toffee’s corruption of Star’s magic (which is what literally makes up his physical form).



Toffee is on his last legs after the blast. Er, metaphorically speaking. He’s made up of corrupted magic, not flesh and blood. Star’s rebirth and spell are antitheses to Toffee’s very being, and he’s falling apart. Toffee can’t regenerate because there isn’t enough of (Star’s) corrupted magic left (making up his body at least), due to her rebirth and the spell itself. Ludo toppling the pillar splatters what’s left of Toffee, who at this point is degenerating into more and more goop (possibly having a harder and harder time maintaining physical cohesion as he nears death). All that’s left of Toffee is a goopy pulp under a pillar and an eyeball.

And so a great villain finally meets his (likely) demise. Hopefully, my explanation of Toffee’s demise makes some sense, but feel free to chuck constructive criticism and feedback and alternative theories at me!

Oh, and here’s some food for thought. Yes, Toffee’s physical form was destroyed, again. But what happened to the rest of Star’s Toffee-corrupted magic? Was it all purged and returned to being Star’s magic?

Or did some of it remain, somewhere-and if so…is Toffee’s essence or even mind still in it?