I have a lot less sympathy for the Mewmans and Star's group than most people who watched the show probably do. The simple fact is that Mewni was a Kingdom founded on genocide because Glossaryk felt like being a dick.
If I were Toffee, I'd be pissed too.
Literally the only reason I didn't vote to take the deal was because the utility loss from losing our sole occult hero would have been too big. . .
The problem is, Toffee being
legitimately pissed off (and he is, indisputably) doesn't make him more trustworthy or safer to deal with. He's still working with people from other settings (such as the envoy who visited us) whose goal is 'terrorize and kill all humans.' And we can be pretty sure that the card he gave us was some kind of tracking/teleport beacon given that his man was able to come to us without any of the normal activities that would be required to schedule a meeting with us. And he has a history of betraying and killing his associates, even associates who are of the same oppressed race(s) as himself.
Marco is a kid whose in way over his head because like most teenagers he fell hard for a girl with baggage.
Do I think he's in a shit situation? Yeah, but honestly? Toffee is kind of in the right here. . .
In the right about
what?
Presumably conquering Mewni? Yeah, sure, he can make a good case of "screw you, it's our dimension anyway."
Seeking Star to kill her? Not so much- Star
personally has no real interest in perpetrating genocides. Toffee may desire to kill her to wrap up a loose end, but that's not nearly as good a reason to kill someone as "in order to liberate my people."
Killing Star's
friends? Not justified- they're not even Mewmans.
And we don't know what other goals Toffee may have. He may be planning to blow up the Earth as a whole, just to make sure no magic-wielding humans ever come back to his home dimension. I don't think he's justified in doing that, and even if we were, we'd have a right to defend ourselves. Or Toffee may just want to settle for destroying magic to deprive humans of a tool that could be used against his people, which is more sympathetic... but
still something we have a right to defend ourselves against.
If Toffee wipes out magic, I'd just like to point out that it puts us in a much better position than like half of the other kings. Remember, we will always be better at super science than at magic because we don't have a predisposition for it like we do Super Science.
As to Humanity, I'm not sure if that was actually confirmed or not, from what I've seen his grudge is mostly with the Mewni Royal Family
There's a lot of intel we still don't have, but OOC we know he uses as an envoy a very anti-human supernatural creature. I don't
blame him for being anti-human; the human offshoot group that went to Mewni did his people a lot of harm. But as I said, we have a right to defend ourselves if he's trying to attack us.
Your point being? She still benefits massively from it just by being a Royal Princess of Mewni
At this point its institutional
Toffee's armies have presumably already reconquered Mewni by this point. Star can't derive benefits from being part of a monarchy that's been toppled, mostly killed off, and whose surviving scion(s) ire in hiding.
While we don't strictly
know that Toffee's won his campaign in Mewni, it seems likely. And correspondingly it seems
unlikely that killing Star is actually a necessity for "monster-"peopled and dominated Mewni to be secure from the Mewman royal family.
Aaaaaaand opinion permanently disregarded because you believe in sins of the father
Look.
If Mewni were still a powerful kingdom ruled by the Mewmans and the royal family (of which Star is a part), it would be
TRUE that Star enjoys great benefits from being a princess of the royal family. Toffee, who has a valid reason to seek the destruction of the royal family, would have an understandable reason to want Star dead. Granted, Star's young, but she still has more than enough magical power and willingness to fight; she's a very real threat to his plans and to any attempt by the "monster" natives of Mewni to reclaim their dimension in that situation.
BUT.
That's not what's going on here.
What's going on here is that Toffee's forces have presumably reconquered Mewni. they own the place, or they wouldn't have all this free corn to throw around. As such, Star, even if she is free and outside Toffee's control, instantly becomes FAR less of a threat. Her friends, still less so. And random miscellaneous people on Earth, still less so.
Toffee would have reason to attack Star because of her family affiliation, given that she IS willing to fight for that family... but he would have this reason
because that family was still a threat to him and his cause. That is no longer true.
