The Sexy Asstronaut (formerly Blackcatula)

Don’t have a whole lot of time to get into detail, so here’s the quick highlight reel!

IN SHORT: I’m super excited by the prospects of this new season, and the long, long, LOOOONG wait was worth...well, the wait! I’m super excited!

Umm...I’m sorry, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what Mewnipendence Day was about. There is no mention of a Master Race, the settlers were transformed into knights (not blonde-hair-blue-eyes), and the obvious parallel they were making with the whole story was not a Nazi or even a World War 2 reference. It was a parallel to that time in American history when the English sent people across the Atlantic to “lay claim” to the land already occupied by Native Americans - specifically, the Plymouth people.

Let’s break it down a little:

Every year, the Mewmans (the people who inhabit the big castle on Mewni, including Star’s family) celebrate the day their ancestors arrived on the shores of Mewni (Star reads from a pop-up book that literally depicts this as a ship arriving on an island) and defeated the Evil Monsters, so they could “peacefull” follow their pursuit of “Life, Liberty, and Corn”. It’s a pretty clear parallel to how the English stole the land from Native Americans, then villainized them in the history books to justify what they did.

The pop-up book justifies the Mewmans’ obvious genocide by saying the battle was about the Monsters wanting to “re-steal” the land of Mewni away from Mewmans, much like how a lot of early American media depicted Native Americans as “savages” who tried to kill settlers and cowboys in an effort to re-take the land and the resources and the lives that had already been stolen from them (it’s carefully phrased in a way that makes it sound like the Native Americans [or Monsters in SVTFOE’s case] were aggressive for no reason, or because that’s just “how they are” all the time). The book glosses right over these facts so that it can prove - using basic propaganda techniques - that the Mewmans were totally justified in beefing up their warriors to an absurdly overpowerful state so they could CRUSH the Monsters, and the ceremony has become so deeply ingrained into Mewman culture that the people hardly even question it anymore, because that’s just the way it’s always been, even though the propaganda aspect is pretty much paper-thin as a disguise.

This also makes Toffee’s ambitions as a “Bigger Bad” much clearer. Re-watching the episode, I noticed that he is watching the re-enactment very intensely, while not speaking. There is a deliberate moment where he clenches his fist as Ludo comments “...what a MASSACRE.” There is also some carefully framed shots that linger on Toffee’s missing finger hand at some very critical moments - we see later that Toffee can effortlessly regenerate appendages, but he for some undisclosed reason, he’s chosen to keep his finger severed. It’s possible he was either AT the original Massacre (who even knows how old Toffee is at this point), or maybe he was involved in a re-enactment and lost his finger to a Mewman, or something like that. We still don’t completely understand his motive either (revenge? justice? using both of those as a way to leverage himself into power? or is it something even deeper?).

But yeah, no, it definitely was not a Nazi reference. Not from where I’m sitting, anyway.

To any uninitiated still lingering out there, Star Vs The Forces of Evil is awesome and you all should be watching it! (You can watch the episode in question here).

Didn’t he also previously have a ring on that finger? Could have been due to a curse or something...or maybe it’s an equivalent exchange kind of thing? :o