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Sometimes your biggest threat is right under your nose. |
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Surprise! |
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Toffee is the main antagonist of the Disney XD animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
He is a septarian warlord who wants to rid Mewni of magic including the world, He is also the archenemy of the Butterfly family, particularly both Queen Moon Butterfly and Princess Star Butterfly.
He was voiced by Michael C. Hall, who also played Dexter Morgan in Dexter and Ken Castle in the film Gamer.
Appearance[]
Just like most of the Septarians. Toffee is a humanoid monster with a lizard-like appearance. His skin is bluish-gray, his eyes are yellow and hair is black and neatly slicked back. He has four fingers on each hand (with the exception of his missing middle-finger).
He is notable for wearing a tuxedo - complete with a red tie - that Marco comments makes him look like a lawyer. After possessing Ludo, his eyeballs turn a glowing yellow-green and the wand made from his right hand morphs into Ludo's arm, forming Toffee's original hand still sans the finger, with the crystal half embedded in the center.
Personality[]
Unlike many of the more comedic and wacky villains - the harmless Ludo among them - presented on the show, Toffee stands out from most due to his competency and serious nature. Toffee is always in control of his situation, and is incredibly duplicitous and manipulative, using psychology and practicality to gain the trust of Ludo and his men, and then finally control of the castle and Ludo's army. Toffee's voice actor described his character as a "megalomaniacal, reptilian, slithery, infiltrating, flattering, backstabbing bad guy".
No matter what situation he is in, Toffee presents himself a gentleman through and through. He puts up with Ludo's idiocy with no complaint, offers a sandwich to Marco when he holds him prisoner and even holds his end of the bargain when Star agrees to his terms. However, it is implied that Toffee is hiding a personality significantly more unhinged under this, evidenced when he briefly grows a massive smile when he orders Star to destroy her wand, before returning to his stoic nature in a literal second. He also displays some sociopathic and obsessive tendencies, manipulating Ludo's men into abandoning him, threatening to kill Marco in front of Star without flinching and even giving a momentary glimpse of amusement to Star's confusion.
Biography[]
Past[]
A tapestry representing Toffee's defeat by Moon, the Undaunted.
As revealed in the film "The Battle for Mewni", before the start of the series, Toffee (also known as "The Lizard") was a general in the monster army of Archduke Batwin fighting against the Mewnans. However after his king decided to sign a peace treaty with the mewmans, he and his group split off to fight on their own. When Archduke Batwin and the then queen of Mewni, Comet Butterfly were about to sign a peace treaty, he murdered her, making Comet's daughter Moon Butterfly (then only a child) the new queen. Using a dark spell given to her by Eclipsa, Moon approached Toffee and his equally immortal army to kill him, but realizing the magic was making her dark and that Eclipsa would be free if she did (which was part of the bargain she made with Eclipsa), she simply used the spell to separate the middle finger off his right hand. When Toffee proved unable to regenerate it, his army ran away scared of Moon's powers, forcing Toffee to withdraw begrudgingly, beginning a lifelong grudge against Moon.
Season 1[]
Toffee on his first apparition.
Years later when Moon has grown up and had her own daughter Star Butterfly, Toffee first appears in the series as an "evil efficiency expert" who is first hired by Ludo in the season one's episode "Fortune Cookies". Discovering that Star took fortune cookies seriously, he had Ludo's minions give Star a fortune cookie that said "Love is always the answer," so that she would refuse to fight back against the monsters, giving them hugs instead. However, when the two-headed monster told Star the truth, she blasted the monsters away, foiling Toffee's plan.
In "Mewnipendence Day", Toffee replaced Ludo's right-hand man Buff Frog, who did not trust him, with an electronic eye to spy on Star. He also introduced a mace with a portal hidden inside it and sent Buff Frog to use it to get Star's wand to Ludo. However, he sabotaged the device so it would not work for Buff Frog, resulting in him failing his mission. Toffee then convinced Ludo to fire Buff Frog.
Toffee and Ludo's minions turn against Ludo.
After Ludo's attempt to take Star's wand when the house became a labyrinth of Marco's beard was foiled, Toffee told Ludo's minions that Ludo was incompetent as a leader, and told them to choose between the two of them. The monsters chose Toffee as their new leader, and Ludo was kicked out of his castle.
Toffee's evil grin as the wand is about to explode, knowing he will enter the wand.
In the Season One's finale, Toffee captured Marco and held him for ransom for Star's wand. Star, Ludo, and Buff Frog joined forces to defeat him, during which Star blasted his left arm off, but he regenerated it and threatened to crush Marco, revealing that he wanted Star to destroy her wand rather than give it to him. Star used the Whispering Spell to destroy her wand, which caused an explosion that blew up Ludo's castle, presumably killing Toffee; however, it is later revealed that the explosion caused by the Whispering Spell could absorb any nearby body inside the wand, and Toffee knew all about that, as it was just another part of his plans.
Season 2[]
In the Season Two's second episode "Ludo in the Wild", after being banished to another dimension by Star following the Season One's finale and the destruction of his castle, Ludo discovers a dark wand made from the right half of Star's wand and Toffee's skeletal right hand which he continues to use from that point on. It is also revealed that the wand "speaks" to him, hinting that Toffee's ghost is manipulating Ludo from inside the wand.
In the episode "Into the Wand", Star tries to fix her own wand and discovers Toffee's finger inside of it, so she removes it and places it inside her secrets closet.
In the episode "Page Turner" Toffee is pictured in a crystal ball while trying to find the source for the universes depletion of magic. At some point the wand, Toffee tells Ludo where to find an ancient monster temple to live in.
Toffee in Ludo's body.
In the episode "The Hard Way", it is confirmed that Toffee is indeed inside Ludo's wand: when Ludo becomes tainted by the dark magic of Queen Eclipsa's chapter in the Magic Instruction Book, this allows Toffee to take possession of his body. Toffee tells Glossaryck that he'll never get Ludo on his side, but Glossaryck says he doesn't have a side. In response to this, Toffee laughs and says, "Excellent."
Toffee fuses himself with the wand while he defeats all the Magic High Commission members.
In "Starcrushed", Toffee completely takes control of Ludo's body and his skeletal hand regenerates onto Ludo's arm fusing the magic crystal to his palm. He then proceeds to beat and drain the magic of all the Magic High Commission members, leaving Hekapoo, Rhombulus, and Omnitraxus Prime in a comatose state. Chancellor Lekmet uses up the last portion of his life energy to revive Moon and dissolves into dust, leaving behind a single horn. Moon rises to take on Toffee but is easily defeated, and grabs her allies to escape. Before Moon leaves through a portal Toffee tells her to tell Star he will be coming for his finger.
Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni[]
Toffee possesses Ludo again after the latter has burned the Book of Magic.
In the movie "The Battle for Mewni", it is revealed that Toffee instructed Glossaryck to stay hidden during the events of "Starcrushed" in order to initiate a scheme to absorb the powers of the Magic High Commission. After Ludo furiously throws the Book of Spell into a fire, Toffee re-possesses Ludo and says while he did not intend for Glossaryck to disappear, it still works to his advantage. Toffee's manipulations prove successful to the point where Ludo overthrows King River and takes over his position.
Toffee restored, saying that Star is gone.
Star then uses the Whispering Spell and lets it absorb her into the wand crystal where Toffee appears and emerges as an enormous slimy version of himself and takes her on, all the while convincing Moon to give him back his finger through Ludo. Moon finally agrees and as the finger merges with his hand, he says goodbye to Star and leaves her trapped inside the now-inactive as his true body emerges and forms around Ludo before spitting him out and declaring Star to be gone, crushing the wand's remnants from his hand to reaffirm this fact.
As he leaves, an enraged Moon uses the Darkest Spell taught by Eclipsa, but is surprised when it does nothing to him. Toffee easily defeats Moon and Marco and prepares to leave them behind forever, having both recovered his finger and fulfilled his revenge on Moon. However, Star successfully breaks free from the inside, causing the wand halves to merge together and allowing Star to gain a new Mewberty form, in which she uses to burn the villainous lizard and sear his skin clean off, leaving him as a horrendous black ink-like creature with part of his ribs showing.
He merely laughs and says that it's not over and states that he made all the plans and only himself knows how everything will turns out before Ludo pushes a pillar onto him, destroying most of him and leaving only part of his destroyed hand and his eyeballs, the rest of his body having melted into sludge.
Toffee's final moments before his death.
Ludo proclaims that it turned out that Toffee is dead. With his destruction and Comet Butterfly avenged, Eclipsa's prison begins to crack due to Moon's bargain with Eclipsa being finally fulfilled. However, Toffee's last words about more unknown plans still remain a mystery, especially with his claim that he is the only one who knows the plan. Furthermore, based on the fact that he already has all Magic High Commission members' power which were powerful enough to rule Mewni as well as to kill Moon easily, he instead chooses to walk away calmly after getting his finger back rather than ruling Mewni suggesting that ruling Mewni or getting revenge on Moon are not his end goals. As of the show's final season, it seems likely that Toffee's actions were ultimately at the behest of a higher power.
Season 4[]
A younger version of Toffee appears in the season four episode "Meteora's Lesson", after Glossaryck and Meteora time-travelled to an unknown point in the past, it is revealed that Toffee was once a "bad boy" teenager and he had broken Glossaryck's arm due to the latter making a leaf hat. However, when Toffee was about to break Glossaryck's other arm, Meteora shoots green beams from her eyes at the Septarian, surrounding him with green-colored energy and making him unconscious for a quick moment. However, as soon as he regains consciousness, Toffee states that magic is the reason that there is a war going on between the Mewmans and the Septarians.
The last apparition of Toffee, saying "surprise" to Star, after she realized that he was right.
In "The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse", Star develops a hatred towards magic which is similar to Toffee's motives and that she thinks destroying it is the only way to defeat Mina Loveberry and her Solarian Warriors. Inside Glossaryck's magic eye, Star even admits that he was right, looking at the tapestry where he is defeated by Moon. Suddenly, the pictured Toffee comes to life and yells out "Surprise!" in a similar manner to in "Storm the Castle". This startled Star and thus she is sent out of Glossaryck's eye. After the end of the show and seeing what Star did, it seems that Toffee ultimately and posthumously succeeded in his objective of destroying all of magic.
Powers and Abilities[]
The extent of Toffee's powers are never given, but it is clear that he is very dangerous when provoked. He has a firm grasp of magic and technology, having access to both with the wit and knowledge to use them to their fullest potential.
He seemingly has the ability to teleport, appearing in different places instantaneously with no visibly shown method as to how. Not unlike actual lizards, Toffee is able to regenerate whole body parts, such as when Star blew his entire left arm off with her wand, only to regenerate it within seconds. Despite his regenerative abilities, he is still missing his middle finger. It is revealed that it was separated from him with a powerful spell, so perhaps very strong spells can permanently injure him and his species as a whole.
According to the verse in the episode "Into the Wand", Toffee is immortal.
After taking over Ludo's body and fusing the wand into his arm, he proves himself to be easily the most powerful threat in the series, his magic being powerful enough to defeat and drain three Magic High Commission (Hekapoo, Rhombulus, and Omnitraxus Prime) members, rendering them either temporarily dead or unconscious and in a coma (although they can be revived). He drained Moon of all her energy forcing Lekmet (the fourth Commission member) to sacrifice himself to restore her.
Once Moon transforms into her winged form to battle Toffee, she is still easily defeated by his giant green energy blade. Even after burying him in rubble, he rises out unscathed and she is forced to recover her defeated teammates and escape. Toffee is also skilled at hand-to-hand combat as shown during his final battle with Moon in Battle for Mewni. Moon has demonstrated several times that she's a capable and powerful warrior. Yet, Toffee easily counters all of her attacks and subdues her with no effort. He also throws Marco hard enough against a wall that it cracks upon impact. This level of strength and skill most likely stems from Toffee's experience as a monster general.
Quotes[]
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Trivia[]
- It was speculated by some that Toffee is a son or descendant of Eclipsa, Queen of Darkness, a mewnian who took a monster for her love interest and left the kingdom due to an image of Eclipsa appearing among clips of him in "Into the Wand". However, it is since revealed that their only connection is that Eclipsa gave Moon the spell that beat Toffee. Ironically, during the event of Monster Bash, Heinous is revealed to be Eclipsa's daughter.
- In Daron Nefcy's book The Magic Book of Spells it was confirmed that Comet, the mother of Moon, was defeated and killed by Toffee, who is also named as the prince of the nation of dark monsters.
- Due to the information shown in The Magic Book of Spells, it is speculated that Toffee is part of Seth of Septaris's faction that dedicated themselves in vanquishing Mewni, as the book reveals that Seth opposed the peace treaty between Mewmen and Monsters and sent his force to kill Comet. Much of Toffee's more mysterious actions are brought to light if viewed from the perspective that he was ultimately serving Seth and his agenda.
References[]
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