What Became of Ludo's Rat Army in Star vs. the Forces of Evil
The rat army—hundreds of small, identical brown rats with red eyes that Ludo enslaved using his corrupted wand fragment (influenced by Toffee)—was a major force in Season 2, helping him steal corn, rebuild ruins, and conquer Butterfly Castle in the Season 2 finale "Starcrushed."
Canon fate:
Their loyalty was tied to the wand's dark magic and Ludo's control (possibly amplified by a rat leader who delusionally believed he was Ludo after a head injury).
In "Starcrushed," the Magic High Commission (led by Rhombulus) storms Ludo's stronghold; Rhombulus crystallizes/freeszes many rats on-screen while searching for Glossaryck.
After Toffee possesses Ludo and is defeated in "The Battle for Mewni" (Season 3 premiere), Ludo loses the wand, his kingdom, and all control.
The rats are never seen again after Season 2. With the loss of magical influence, they likely abandoned Ludo, scattered, or reverted to ordinary wild rats (similar to how other minions deserted him previously).
No explicit on-screen resolution—it's an unresolved "What Happened to the Mouse?" element, like Ludo's original monster army after their castle's destruction. The show shifts focus to bigger threats (Meteora, Mina, magic's destruction), and Ludo's arc becomes more personal/isolationist.
By the finale "Cleaved," Ludo is shown rebuilding his family castle with his siblings (including Dennis), living a quieter life—no rats or army in sight.
In short, the rat army disbanded after Ludo's defeat and loss of the wand, with many possibly neutralized by the MHC. Their disappearance marks the end of Ludo's "king" phase.
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Star and Marco’s friendship is now on thin ice following the events of “Face the Music” and Star decides not to attend Marco’s end-of-school party as Moon and the Magic High Commission find Ludo in the castle but faces off against an old enemy possessing him. The Season 2 finale, “Starcrushed,” premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.
Jenny came to get me
She'd been gone for several years
Aging motorcycles purr like cats when they grow near
I was crying, I could barely make the frame out through my tears
She did
Long before we did
-Jenny III, The Mountain Goats
So this is primarily my AU blog, but of course there’s going to be other Star vs related things I’ll post. There are a lot of small nitpicks I have about the show that I haven’t seen anyone else talking about. Here is one of them:
Star and Moon’s interaction at the end of Starcrushed (S2E22), specifically, when Moon says this:
How does Moon know that Star knows who Toffee is? Moon obviously kept a lot of things in her past secret from Star, specifically anything surrounding her mother. Moon would’ve never had any reason to bring up the man who killed her mother, that would lead to too many questions. Why would Moon just assume that Star knows who he is? There is zero context for her knowing that Star would know this information.
Star never told her mom she ever dealt with Toffee beforehand. To this day, Moon has no idea about their confrontation during Storm the Castle. Star never told her about it, Marco shushed her before Star could tell her mom. Moon is absolutely clueless.
Granted, Moon could’ve assumed Star saw her tapestry, but even then that wouldn’t make sense with Moon’s character. Star is called “The Underestimated” for a reason. Moon doesn’t know Star went into her wand and according to Star in the episode Into the Wand she hadn’t been inside the Grandma Room since she was a baby. Also, TOFFEE WAS CALLED THE IMMORTAL MONSTER, NOT BY HIS NAME.
And thus leads to my next point
Why… why is Star scared about this…? Immediately, once Moon utters that Toffee’s back, Star is taken aback and seemingly terrified and worried about the threat of Toffee.
You see, it makes sense for viewers to react this way about him being back. We just saw him completely decimate the entire Magic High Commission with no effort. Which, at this point in the story, was who we were supposed to be rooting for. Star has no knowledge of this, Moon came into her room and demanded she leave with no explanation other than, “Toffee, who I’ve never mentioned to you and have no idea about your previous interactions with him, is back so we gotta go.”
^^This is the last time Star actually saw him. Star interacted with Toffee once, in this scene, and the only really threatening thing he did was use Marco as a bargaining chip. She knows he’s a bad guy, but overall she was never really intimidated by him enough to stir this reaction that convinces her to leave all her friends behind. He never truly scared her, he was calm and rational when speaking to her, and he kept his word about freeing Marco (another topic for another day).
THANKFULLY the next episode somewhat fixes this, bringing back Star’s cocky “I can totally beat his ass” attitude. But it still doesn’t excuse her out of nowhere and out of character fear in Starcrushed.
If Star had never met Toffee It’d be like:
Moon, dramatically: Toffee has returned
Star, confused: Who?
Imagine if instead, Moon disclosed to Star about how an enemy has returned, possibly informing her that this enemy has defeated the Magic High Commission and is coming for them next. Star would’ve been reluctant but her guard would’ve been put down enough to go with her mom.
The next episode could’ve been about Star trying to uncover who this enemy is rather than whatever else happened that episode. Could’ve finally had Moon find out about their interactions during Storm the Castle, heightening her fears which were already high.
Star: Who is this.. enemy? And why is he so important that I had to leave ALL my friends behind!!
Moon: I- he-
Star: JUST TELL ME MOM
Moon: His name is.. Toffee…
Star: Toffee… you mean that old musty lizard guy you blasted off in your tapestry? Yeah I met him a while back, wasn’t that bad, a little intimidating but he doesn’t scare me
Moon: WHAT!? You MET Toffee!?
Star: He was the one who had me destroy my wand. Look mom, it was either the wand or Marco… and… *tears up* I wasn’t going to let him get killed over a stupid wand.
Moon: Star— I can’t believe you didn’t tell me you had a dealing with Toffee!! This just makes things worse… oh no…
Anyway, thank you for coming to my StarTalk, I have a lot more of these tiny nitpicks that I’ll totally talk about later ;)
I’ve rewatched “Star VS The Forces of Evil” episodes 21-22 season 2. Big Plot, I guess? The first episode is about “Song Day” – Star needs to help a bard to write a song about her (it’s a Mewni custom to write a song about any future queen). She doesn’t want to because she thinks that “Princess songs” are stupid and unnecessary until she finds out that the bard thinks so too and wants to write a good song about real Star. They perform it – at first, the song sounds usual, then turns out to be more of a pop-rock and then they reveal the secret that the book of spells and Glossaryck are gone and then he sings about Star’s crush on Marco, even though they didn’t agree to it. Before the Song ceremony, Queen Moon wants to find Ludo (and the Book with him) so, she goes to Ludo’s family only to find that they disowned him and don’t know where he is… all except one of his brothers – Dennis who takes the Queen to Ludo but she’s afraid of what she sees, so she returns to the palace. In the second episode, the whole Magic High Commission went to Ludo’s place, took the wand and the book, but Glossaryck is nowhere to be seen (and Ludo says that he’s gone). Then Ludo becomes possessed by Toffee and almost beats the commission but Moon saves then and goes to Earth to take Star to Mewni. At the time, on Earth Star tries to pretend that she has no romantic feelings for Marco and even still has a crush on Oskar. But when her mother comes to take her, she decides to confess her feelings to Marco. The season ends. It seems that I decided to take a pause in one of the most important moments of the series, but I don’t care.
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UPDATE! Beach Day photo is a clue from the future!
In ending "Butterfly Follies" episode, Star shows a 'Beach Day' photo Marco in the bunk beds at the Monster temple. As proof, Star presents the photo of herself and Marco having a happy day at the beach. The photo was a gift to Star from Father Time and depicts a future event, and Star reasons that she would not be as happy as she is in the photo.
Oh, really? No way, I'm waiting to see Star and Marco will be appearing in the future "Beach Day" episode.
This was my old image two years ago.
