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"Collateral Damage" is the first segment of the thirty-third episode of Star vs. the Forces of Evil. It premiered on February 22, 2017, and is the first segment of the twentieth episode in the second season.

On February 24, 2017 the episode premiered alongside "Just Friends".

Synopsis[]

Star must restore Echo Creek High's spirit after destroying the Possum statue.

Plot[]

At Echo Creek Academy, Janna is out picking up trash from the school grounds as part of her detention sentence. Star is helping out as well, but her service is voluntary, because after losing Glossaryck and her spell book she is trying not to mess up again. However, while in a state of distraction, Star accidentally throws Otis, the school's possum statue and mascot, into the dumpster and destroys it. Her act of carelessness is witnessed by dozens of students. Star is called into Principal Skeeves' office, and Skeeves is particularity broken up about the statue's destruction. In addition, the whole school has fallen into depression. In an effort to fix this, Star tries to replace the statue with a brand new one, but the students and school faculty refuse it, citing it being in too pristine condition and lacks the scratches that made the original statue distinct.

As the students descend into further depression-induced madness, Star seeks out Marco for an explanation and finds him hiding in a locker. Through a flashback (and a southern accent), Marco explains to Star that, in 1846, a group of danger-prone settlers called the Bonner party settled in Echo Creek and found it overrun with possums. In order to claim the land for their own, the Bonners went to war with the possums, killing or driving them out. The last possum remaining, known as Otis, was driven into the forest, and the Bonners built a statue of him as a reminder of Echo Creek's first true victory. Since then, Otis served as a source of inspiration, good luck, and even ritualistic worship for the school. Without the statue, the school's students and teachers feel lost and hopeless, and Star sympathizes with them after losing the spell book. But then she comes up with a new plan to really make things right.

Using the P.A. system in Principal Skeeves' office, Star makes an announcement to everyone in the school saying a possum statue does not define who they are. With her words of inspiration, Star convinces the school that they do not need a statue to feel Echo Creek pride, and she rallies them together to destroy the possum statue like their ancestors did in 1846. Soon after the rally, Star helps Janna clean up the mess outside the school while talking in a southern accent. Janna tells her to stop, but she tells her "Not today, Janna. Not tomorrow. Not ever."

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Trivia[]

  • Mr. Candle makes his third appearance in this episode, followed by "Mr. Candle Cares" and "Red Belt".
  • The story of the Bonner party is a parallel to/parody of the real-life Donner Party, a group of pioneers whose migration to California in 1846 was fraught with misfortune and tragedy.
  • Marco's southern narration of the Bonner party is a reference to the famous Ken Burns Civil War documentary.
  • Star makes a meta joke about not talking to Alfonzo and Ferguson all year. She is referring to the fact that the two have hardly been seen or heard throughout most of season two and for that matter the rest of the series.
  • On May 13, 2017, this episode and "Just Friends" was removed from Disney XD's television schedule and website.
    • As of May 23, however, it has returned to television reruns.

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StarVTFOE Logo
Media
Star vs. the Forces of EvilStar and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every DimensionComic Books
Characters
Star ButterflyMarco DiazPony HeadLudoRiver ButterflyMoon ButterflyGlossaryckFerguson O'durgusonAlfonzo DolittleJackie-Lynn ThomasJanna OrdoniaBrittney WongMr. and Mrs. DiazOskar GreasonMiss SkullnickTom LucitorLaser PuppiesJeremy BirnbaumBuff FrogBuff Frog's TadpolesMonster ArmPrincipal SkeevesPrincess SmooshyToffeeMeteora ButterflyMina LoveberryEclipsa ButterflyGlobgorHekapooOmnitraxus PrimeRhombulusLekmetKellyLove SentenceMariposa Diaz
Episodes
Season One: "Star Comes to Earth/Party With a Pony" • "Match Maker/School Spirit" • "Monster Arm/The Other Exchange Student" • "Cheer Up Star/Quest Buy" • "Diaz Family Vacation/Brittney's Party" • "Mewberty/Pixtopia" • "Lobster Claws/Sleep Spells" • "Blood Moon Ball/Fortune Cookies" • "Freeze Day/Royal Pain" • "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" • "Mewnipendance Day/The Banagic Incident" • "Interdimensional Field Trip/Marco Grows a Beard" • "Storm the Castle"

Season Two: "My New Wand!/Ludo in the Wild" • "Mr. Candle Cares/Red Belt" • "Star on Wheels/Fetch" • "Star vs. Echo Creek/Wand to Wand" • "Starstruck/Camping Trip" • "Starsitting/On the Job" • "Goblin Dogs/By the Book" • "Game of Flags/Girls' Day Out" • "Sleepover/Gift of the Card" • "Friendenemies/Is Mystery" • "Hungry Larry/Spider With a Top Hat" • "Into the Wand/Pizza Thing" • "Page Turner/Naysaya" • "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" • "Raid the Cave/Trickstar" • "Baby/Running with Scissors" • "Mathmagic/The Bounce Lounge" • "Crystal Clear/The Hard Way" • "Heinous/All Belts are Off" • "Collateral Damage/Just Friends" • "Face the Music" • "Starcrushed"
Season Three: "The Battle for Mewni" • "Scent of a Hoodie/Rest in Pudding" • "Club Snubbed/Stranger Danger" • "Demoncism/Sophomore Slump" • "Lint Catcher/Trial by Squire" • "Princess Turdina/Starfari" • "Sweet Dreams/Lava Lake Beach" • "Death Peck/Ponymonium" • "Night Life/Deep Dive" • "Monster Bash" • "Stump Day/Holiday Spellcial" • "The Bogbeast of Boggabah/Total Eclipsa the Moon" • "Butterfly Trap/Ludo, Where Art Thou?" • "Is Another Mystery/Marco Jr." • "Skooled!/Booth Buddies" • "Bam Ui Pati!/Tough Love" • "Divide" • "Conquer"
Season Four: "Butterfly Follies" • "Escape from the Pie Folk" • "Moon Remembers/Swim Suit" • "Ransomgram/Lake House Fever" • "Yada Yada Berries/Down by the River" • "The Ponyhead Show!/Surviving the Spiderbites" • "Out of Business/Kelly's World" • "Curse of the Blood Moon" • "Princess Quasar Caterpillar and the Magic Bell/Ghost of Butterfly Castle" • "Cornball!/Meteora's Lesson" • "The Knight Shift/Queen-Napped" • "Junkin' Janna/A Spell with No Name" • "A Boy and His DC-700XE/The Monster and the Queen" • "Cornonation" • "Doop-Doop/Britta's Tacos" • "Beach Day/Gone Baby Gone" • "Sad Teen Hotline/Jannanigans" • "Mama Star/Ready, Aim, Fire" • "The Right Way/Here to Help" • "Pizza Party/The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse" • "Cleaved"

Objects
Royal Magic WandDimensional ScissorsMagic Instruction BookStar's Notebook of Spells
Songs
I'm from Another Dimension Closing ThemeShining StarSpace UnicornAwesome FeelingToo Little Too LateWaiting for MeJust FriendsThe Ballad of Star Butterfly
Locations
MewniEcho CreekEcho Creek AcademySt. Olga's Reform School for Wayward PrincessesDiaz House
See Also
Mewberty
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