This is a fan theory and meant to be for fun to share with other fans. Theories can be proven right or wrong easily even as early as an episode after the theory is posted. I respect the creators of the show and whatever they deem to be canon. Making a theory is meant as a compliment of how much thought and care is put into the series and to show that I care about it as well.

SPOILERS

This theory is made up of evidence from various episodes ranging all the way up to Season 2 Episode 3 “Star on Wheels/Fetch” July 25 2016, the most recent episodes released before the theory was posted. If you wish to not be spoiled on any plot points of Star vs. the Forces of Evil please go and watch the show before reading any further in the blog.

SPOILERS

So after that last theory I watched all of the first season again, and was going to post this sort of general thought theory before the next week but… life sometimes just keeps you busy. While watching season 1 again I noticed a lot of little details that you wouldn’t think anything about watching it for the very first time, like Glossaryck appearing several times before his official introduction, including watching star playing with the wand before being sent away to earth, or Toffee muttering Buff frog’s real name under his breath a good number of episodes before the finale, or even a certain page about what to do if you revive the dead being seen inbetween the pages of other ‘what to do if’ in the book of magic when star was looking up ‘what to do if you freeze time’. Once you realize how much continuity is kept between episodes and not just completely random, they actually did a really good job of introducing concepts an episode at a time.

So general praise out of the way, I’d like us to think about the monsters of Mewni. Obviously they’re an important faction for the show at large. In fact the only other major source of recurring antagonism outside of lone named enemies is St. Olga’s. Why is this? Well, because it doesn’t appear Mewmens are really at war with or have been at war with other kingdoms or dimensions, or at least if they have it has not been stated and even if it will be probably will be downplayed and only effect the episodes it’s mentioned in (I mean, it’s totally possible for them to write in a new enemy faction and whole big story arcs with it but, from info we have this is not currently the case). Mewni Monsters are the ones who were attacked during the great monster massacre, and the only ones we generally see attack Star for her wand.

One good thing did come out of not getting around to this theory until now, and it is the episode ‘Fetch’, which seems to subtly introduce the concept of people not able to transform the wand into their own or even able to use magic at all from it. Considering the unicorn on a treadmill thing is canon through and through and not just a one off joke, I think the wand reacting in this way… or not reacting at all, is a crucial element. We have obviously seen the wand change when it went from queen to princess, and we have also seen the wand change when a monster had a hold of it TWICE. All transformations have occurred whenever a Mewnian has held the wand, which means if this non-Mewni dog woman could do nothing with it then maybe Mewni wands are only usable by Mewni based life forms. This might imply Mewmens are closer to ‘monsters’ than they’d like to admit but at the very least it would mean that humans getting the wand would do nothing, or any other dimension except for Mewni itself could do nothing with the royal Mewni wand. Which means only Mewni monsters would even have a use for it when it comes to antagonists.

Makes you wonder with all the different creatures between dimensions that are all sorts of different things why it seems why it’s mostly/only Mewni monsters that are called monsters. But after 3 long paragraphs let’s talk about why I set this whole thing out. Mewni monsters are in terrible living conditions. Ludo in the wild was honestly probably how a lot of monsters are living more or less. Before we go into evidence of just how bad off monsters are by looking at monsters, let’s look at their oppressors.

The kingdom of Mewni seems to be a somewhat stereotypical magical fantasy kingdom leaning towards PG/feminine styling (which might be due to the women of the kingdom royal line possessing the wand and thus being the more powerful of the monarch pair). It follows a more traditional style of kingdom where they are violent to their enemies and apathetic or downright oppressive to the lower classes of civilization. There does seem to be a lot of ‘castle’ space and Star only claims to live in the highest level, but that doesn’t mean that there’s a bunch of higherups actually living in the lower castle areas and could be all servants and/or extra non-living areas for the royals. Even if there is secondary elite classes within Mewni, it seems aside from the royal family and their servants, the other Mewmens are mostly dirty and poor peasants. From what I’ve seen of the royal family this is probably more likely from a case of just not caring about lower class citizens rather than specifically oppressing them, but in any case it shows just how badly the ruling class of Mewni is willing to let it’s own people live in. If this is how their own kingdom, which they should care about is treated, then imagine their enemies.

So how do the monsters on Mewni live exactly? Well, we only see a few of them in the castle and don’t really see where any others live so we’ll have to go off of little things said here and there. It’s amazing what a one off line can hint at for world building. Earliest records of monsters shown on the show heavily imply that the Mewmens drove the monsters into the wilderness and promptly set the forest on FIRE. This was the children’s book version of the story, the Mewni version of a golden book, imagine how terrible the actual events must be. We don’t see any ‘intelligent’ monsters near the forests right out the Mewmen kingdom any of the episodes, with the exception of Ludo who is the only speaking monster we see in the whole episode when he’s in running distance of seeing the kingdom. Toffee offers Ludo some swamp water during the interview, and later Ludo mentions saving Buff frog from a fate of living in a swamp. The subtext so far seems to point to the Mewmens not only driving the monsters back away from the kingdom but basically forcing them to live in the worst possible places in the country/planet. When trying to stop the rebellion Toffee starts, Ludo states that he saved pretty much all of his minions from terrible living conditions.

Further on, living in the swamps isn’t the only thing the monsters have against them. In such kingdoms as Mewni only the rich, elite, and royal can afford to have any sort of education. This seems to spread to the Mewnian monsters. We can assume Ludo is ruler of the castle not by any sort of blood but by taking over/finding the castle and even if the monsters had any royalty that their sad state of things didn’t lend itself to teaching even the upper class, but with how childish Ludo is he probably just managed to usurp the place and assert dominance over any monster who wished to have a nicer place to live. In fact from all the monsters we’ve seen, both Ludo’s forces and the monsters that showed up for an interview, the only two who have proven themselves to have an intellect and maturity level above elementary school children seem to be Buff frog and Toffee.

So between the lack of education, the terrible choices for living areas and the possibility that half of monsters don’t even have a house to live in, it’s almost no surprise at all that the only group of monsters attempting to take away the wand was mostly incompetent with a leader who’s only function to lead was the ability to climb the ladder over the average man. We’ve only seen Ludo and his underlings attack Star and there hasn’t been mention of any other groups of monsters doing this. Toffee infiltrating Ludo’s castle to carry out his plan makes so much sense with this line of thinking. It’s the best army the monsters have, because it’s the only army the monsters have. On a personal level I’m still rooting for Star and Marco but as for class battles I’m pretty much on the monster’s side at this point.