Marco Diaz

Full name Marco Ubaldo Diaz Other names Safe Kid Earth Turd Wild Man Barfo Diaz Mess Up Twin Dr. Marco PH.D Karate Boy Rule Boy Princess Marco Princess Turdina Muscles Marco Sr.

Occupation Echo Creek Academy student (formerly) Tang Soo Do student

Likes Star Butterfly, nachos, video games, karate, action and danger in his life, Jackie, organization, fanny packs, tacos, Mackie Hand, Love Sentence, hoodies, hot chocolate with cinnamon, board games, Kelly, the colour prussian blue

Getting hurt, being called "Safe Kid", some of Star's spells, oysters, Jeremy, motion-sickness, wet socks, being kidnapped, shopping, jam bands, the words "tasty" and "mucus", pictures of people's lunches, his middle name

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Karate: Marco is a student in the Tang Soo Do discipline of karate, promoted from green belt to red belt in "Red Belt". He is very capable of using karate chops, kicks, and punches to battle monsters as effectively as Star. He is able to use karate with potentially lethal force as demonstrated when he cuts off Tom's hand with a karate chop and punches a hole through Toffee's chest. In "The Knight Shift", Marco defeats four knights, including experienced knight Sir Stabby, with minimal effort - using only his feet. Culinary prowess: Marco is good at making nachos. In "Pizza Thing", he makes a pizza with Pony Head, which had too many mushrooms for Star's liking. In "Baby", Marco prepares an entire spread of food for Baby. Academics: In "Match Maker", it is shown that Marco has good math skills, getting good grades (including an A in psychology) and in "Quest Buy", using the metric system to find a charger for Star's wand at Quest Buy. However, he admits in "Naysaya" that he doesn't know how to do long division. In "Britta's Tacos", Marco reveals that he got his equivalent of a high school diploma and finished his high school education early. In "Mama Star", he demonstrates his academic prowess further by piecing together ancient archaeological clues from the strange hieroglyphs depicting Glossaryck. Strategic mind: Marco has somewhat of a talent for coming up with strategies, as demonstrated in "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" when he plans out Pony Head's rescue and in "Toffee" when he leads a resistance movement against Ludo. In "Divide" and "Conquer", he plans out ways to slow down Meteora's advance on the castle. Weapon-wielding: As of "Running with Scissors", Marco has become proficient at wielding a one-handed sword. As shown in "Divide", he can also skillfully wield an axe, a spiked flail, and a two-handed broadsword. He also wielded the Royal Magic Wand in "Deep Dive" and "Cleaved", albeit briefly, and was even the last person to do so. Survival skills: Sixteen years of experience hunting Hekapoo has turned Marco into a hardened survivor and warrior. "Divide" shows that he has retained these skills, even being able to fight on par with Star. Magic: Marco very briefly makes use of magic in "Deep Dive" and "Cleaved". In the former episode, he uses the magic wand to perform the All-Seeing Eye spell to find a missing Star. While using the spell, he temporarily gains crescent moon-shaped cheek marks. In the latter episode, he uses several of Star's spells and makes up some of his own while fighting Tom. Also in "Cleaved", he uses magic with Star (without the aid of the wand) to fuse the dimensions of Earth and Mewni together.

Marco is kind, responsible, very organized, and supportive of others. He has a reputation at his school for being the "safe kid" due to avoiding danger and being cautious, though he insists that he is a "misunderstood bad boy" and lives for danger. He prefers keeping his possessions neatly organized. Marco is smart, gets good grades in his math and psychology classes, and figures out how to find a replacement for Star's wand charger using the metric system. Because he likes it when things go his way, he can become unstable when they don't, like when he snaps at Star for ruining his room and insanely trying to live in front of Stop & Slurp. Although he isn't used to the kind of craziness that Star brings, he admits that he would like a little danger in his life and finds fun in fighting monsters with karate.

He often struggles with self-confidence, afraid of being ridiculed by others, and can become nervous easily. "Naysaya" reveals that he has many insecurities and emotional hang-ups. He has an occasional temper and can get frustrated and/or annoyed with others, such as with Star when she intrudes upon his life, or recklessly drags him into overly dangerous situations. However, he soon makes amends with those who cause him grief, like thanking Pony Head for saving him in "Party With a Pony". He cares deeply for those he is close to, attempting to save Ferguson from being kidnapped in "School Spirit" and trying to cheer up Star whenever she is feeling upset. Marco also has an urge to occasionally protect Star and keep her safe, as depicted in "Sleep Spells" and "Blood Moon Ball".

Over the course of the series, Marco becomes less overly cautious and more confident, especially in his romantic pursuit of Jackie Lynn Thomas in "Freeze Day" and "Naysaya". He progressively takes more risks as a result of his friendship with Star, but he sometimes still struggles with self-confidence. After Marco moves into the Butterfly Castle, he usually tends to prioritize his wants over his responsibilities which can cause him to mess up his important duties such as him wanting a job higher up so that he could see Star or keeping Star's sleep-portaling a secret from Hekapoo so that they can continue to work together and go on adventures. Whenever he realizes this, he does his best to make things right.

In his role as Star's squire, Marco takes his responsibilities seriously and carries them out as best he can, as shown in "Trial by Squire", "Is Another Mystery", and "Divide". However, his intense focus sometimes causes him to ignore other people in his life, such as his parents in "Marco Jr."

Marco is a Latino-American teenager of medium height with a slender build, tan skin, dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a mole on his right cheek. He usually wears a light gray shirt, a red hoodie, dark gray skinny jeans, and olive and white sneakers.

As an adult in Hekapoo’s dimension, he is taller and muscular, with shaven facial hair, multiple piercings in his right ear, and a scar on his left eye. As a result of Hekapoo's constant searing smacks to the back of his head, he has an occasional bald spot, but his hair always grows back.

In "Deep Dive", Marco has glowing, apricot-yellow crescent moon-shaped emblems on his cheeks while casting the All-Seeing Eye spell. These cheek marks appear again briefly at the end of "Booth Buddies" in the photo booth picture Star grabs, and are from now on colored pinkish-red.

When Marco first meets Star, he initially wants nothing to do with her, terrified by her magical abilities (or lack thereof) and frustrated by her suddenly intruding into his life, especially because she is only paired with him because of his reputation as the "Safe Kid". After their first fight with Ludo, however, Marco realizes how amazing of a person Star really is and accepts her into his home.

Marco cherishes her company and soon comes to see her as his best friend. He thinks her skills with fighting monsters are impressive, and he likes joining her on her adventures. With Star's help and adventurous ways, Marco is learning how to be less cautious and instead make the most of his life. In turn, he makes sure that they do not get into too much trouble. If she is upset, like in "Cheer Up, Star", he does what he can to make her happy and feel better.

While Star's bubbly, helpful, and reckless personality can sometimes cause Marco a lot of trouble, irritate him, or even cause him physical pain, he appreciates having her around, even calling her the coolest girl he knows. He can be a little overprotective of her at times and underestimates her ability to handle things on her own, which often infuriates her. "Sleep Spells" also shows that he sometimes feels inadequate compared to her, as he is just a normal kid, and Star is a magical princess. Despite this, he is willing to help her where required and they are usually fast to make amends whenever they end up in a fight or disagreement.

Ultimately, their friendship is steadfast and unbreakable; in "Gift of the Card", when the two were facing imminent death by the gift card Star had gotten him, Marco told Star that they should hug, so whoever found their "charred skeletons" would know they were best friends.

In "Blood Moon Ball", Star and Marco briefly dance together under the light of the Blood Moon, which according to legend binds their souls together for eternity.

In "Storm the Castle", despite the argument that they have after returning home, Marco shows no sign of anger or annoyance when Star comes to rescue him, and they hug after Star throws Ludo into a portal.

In "Face the Music", Marco learns that Star has a crush on him, causing constant awkwardness between them in "Starcrushed". At the encouragement of his father, Marco talks with Star about these feelings, which she initially denies, and they manage to work through the strain in their relationship and remain best friends. After Star finds out she has to return to Mewni, she confesses her feelings to Marco and runs away before he can respond, leaving their relationship uncertain.

In "Return to Mewni", Marco is shown to have fallen into a depression following Star's departure. In "Marco and the King", he visits Butterfly Castle to see Star and give her a box of Captain Blanche's Sugar Seeds (her favorite cereal), and he asks her father if she is in any danger since she left Earth in a big rush. When Marco later rescues Star from a castle dungeon, they reunite with a hug, indicating they care a great deal about each other regardless of the circumstances of their separation in "Starcrushed". Near the end of "Toffee", when it appears that Toffee has killed Star, Marco attacks him in tears by punching a hole in him, which indicates how much he has grown to care for Star.

In "Scent of a Hoodie", when Star doesn't have a reason to go back to Earth and stays on Mewni, he and Star share a tearful goodbye hug before they part ways. He later receives his missing hoodie at the end of the episode and, after noticing that it smells like Star, he sniffs it.

Following his return to Earth in "Sophomore Slump", Marco begins constantly talking about his experiences on Mewni, which Jackie interprets as him having developed feelings for Star. At her encouragement, Marco returns to Mewni in the hopes of becoming a knight and spending more time with Star. In "Lint Catcher", Marco is appointed as Star's royal squire so that they can hang out again.

In "Lava Lake Beach", Tad makes Marco finally realize that his feelings for Star are romantic. Though he initially tries to deny it, after seeing Star and Tom kiss, he becomes depressed and has no choice but to accept they are true. In "Deep Dive", his concern for Star is so great that he risks wielding her wand, and he blushes when Star hugs him in the end.

In "Stump Day", Marco throws a surprise birthday party for Star on Stump Day; though she is initially conflicted due to her devotion to the Stump, she later thanks him for the gesture.

In "Marco Jr.", Star is shown to be the only one who can properly fill out Marco's essence test in his stead, showing that, due to their interdimensional travels, she knows him better than his own parents.

S3E34 Star and Marco kissing Marco and Star kissing.

In "Booth Buddies", Marco works through his feelings for Star and how much their relationship has changed since the end of "Starcrushed". This results in him confessing his feelings for Star, much to her surprise. In a moment of emotion, they kiss each other, leaving them both in a state of complete shock and regret, and both attempt to forget the moment ever happened.

In "Divide", Marco tries to comfort Star after she is declared acting queen of Mewni and the pressures of responsibility get the better of her. When they make a plan to find Moon and keep Meteora distracted, they confide in each other how scared they are and share a tender hug, also blushing when trying to hide such affection. At the end of "Conquer", when Marco and the rest of Meteora's victims regain their souls and return to normal, he and Star share another embrace.

In "Curse of the Blood Moon", Marco concludes that he still likes Star to the point of unnaturally liking every single thing about her, and with Eclipsa and Janna's guidance decides to re-confess his feelings. Learning that Star has feelings for him as well, they wonder if their budding feelings for each other are only the result of their souls being bound at the Blood Moon Ball. With Tom and Relicor Lucitor's help, they have that bond severed, and they lose their memory of that evening. However, during the soul-severing process, they wonder if their feelings for each other were actually not the Blood Moon's doing.

In "The Knight Shift", when Marco reveals that he plans to go back to Earth someday to be with his family and go to college, Star is sad at first, but the two agree to never stop having adventures together when that happens, and he gives her a cape like the one she made for him.

In "Britta's Tacos", several of Marco's friends on Earth mistakenly believe that he and Star bore a child together (actually Marco's baby sister Mariposa). Marco is also encouraged by Jackie, and later Tom in "Jannanigans", to start a relationship with Star and to not mess it up. In the latter case, though Marco still tries to deny his feelings, Tom remains convinced that their bond is stronger than that.

S4E34 Star and Marco share a passionate kiss Marco and Star sharing a real kiss.

In "Mama Star", Marco tells Star he loves her while under the memory-erasing influence of the Realm of Magic. In "Here to Help", Star talks to Marco about this, much to his mortification. Marco reveals he's had feelings for Star since the very beginning that slowly grew into love and he tried to suppress it for the sake of their friendship, only for Star to confess her love for him as well. They kiss and begin a romantic relationship, with Star referring to Marco as her boyfriend in "The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse".

In "Cleaved", despite his initial misgivings, Marco eagerly goes along with Star's plan to destroy all magic. After they succeed in doing so, Star and Marco hug even as the Realm of Magic collapses around them, believing they belong together with or without magic. The remaining magic within them creates a dimensional rift; when the rift explodes, the dimensions of Earth and Mewni merge into one, allowing Star and Marco to be together.

Marco loves his parents, but he is sometimes annoyed by their cheery and optimistic personalities. He can also be embarrassed by his mother, such as when she said the "Ph.D" in "Doctor Marco, Ph.D" stood for "pretty handsome dude". In "Starcrushed", Marco takes his father's advice of talking with Star about their situation. In "Heinous", he is annoyed when they take Miss Heinous' side during her home invasion. In "Sophomore Slump", Angie tries to help him readjust to Earth life by recalling how she became arrogant and condescending to others after a summer in France.

When Marco prepares to depart for Mewni, Rafael shows concern, but Angie declares that Marco needs to go. In "Marco Jr.", his parents are upset with him for not visiting often. Upon finding out that they don't know as much as they thought about their son, Rafael and Angie are deeply saddened. After Star restores Marco's distorted appearance, the family resolves to spend more time together. In "Lake House Fever", Star states that Marco is making dinner for his parents. In "Doop-Doop", Marco moves back to Earth to be with his parents as well as his new baby sister Mariposa.

Star Butterfly (best friend/girlfriend)[26] Click "expand" for full list

Jackie Lynn Thomas (ex-girlfriend) Ferguson O'durguson Alfonzo Dolittle Pony Head River Butterfly Janna Ordonia Sensei Brantley Hekapoo Ruberiot Mime Girl Foolduke Moon Butterfly Kelly Tom Lucitor

Ludo Avarius Ludo's army Toffee Mina Loveberry

Rafael Diaz (father) Angie Diaz (mother) Mariposa Diaz (younger sister)[24] Linda Diaz (grandmother) Enrique Diaz (uncle)

Diaz Household, Echo Creek Butterfly Castle, Mewni (formerly) Monster Temple, Mewni (formerly) Earth/Mewni

Season one In the pilot episode, Marco was chosen by his school's principal to guide and show Star around the school due to his reputation. As he discovered upon returning home on the same day (after having discovered Star's bizarre background at the end of the tour he had given her), his home had also been selected to be Star's own, though the person or persons who made this decision and the means by which it was reached remain unknown.

Immediately following his interactions with Star, Marco ran away from home, abhorrent of his new roommate. Star managed to find him afterwards and acknowledged the hardship she had put him through. Prior to the closure being fully reached, the two were ambushed by the villain Ludo and his thugs. After having helped to ward off the assassination attempt, Marco expressed a change of heart toward Star and a preference for her to remain a resident of his home. The two-headed back to Marco's house following this reconciliation.

Marco spends much of the season acting as a straight man to Star's foil. He gets caught in a variety of situations such as getting a monster arm and growing a beard. He also unknowingly becomes connected to Star after they dance underneath the Blood Moon. At the end of the first season, Marco is kidnapped by Toffee but is rescued by Star, only to witness her wand getting damaged.

Season two Marco starts to try to expand his ability to help Star such as getting a red belt and wondering about his future. He also slowly but surely becomes friends with Tom Lucitor, Star's ex-boyfriend who had initially tried to kill him when he thought they were together. He also begins to openly pursue Jackie-Lynn Thomas whom he has had a crush on since he was in kindergarten. They finally begin dating in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown", but he becomes oblivious to Star's feelings towards him. He befriends Kelly, a girl with large turquoise hair, and Hekapoo, a member of the Magic High Commission who bequeaths a pair of dimensional scissors to him after he chased her in the Neverzone for several years.

Marco also gains the ire of Miss Heinous after getting her kicked out as the dean of St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses, though he views her more as a nuisance than an actual threat. Marco eventually discovers that Star does indeed have a crush on him, but after accepting her denial of it, becomes broken when she is forced to leave earth and head back to Mewni to face Toffee, leaving him dejected.

Season three Marco follows Star to Mewni and aids her in defeating Toffee and restoring order. He returns to earth afterwards, but will not stop talking about his adventures to his friends. Jackie-Lynn politely breaks up with him and, in a reversal of the series beginning, decides to go to Mewni as an exchange student. His meeting with Star ends up being awkward, especially when she reveals that she is dating Tom again, but soon the two of them resume their friendship and begin going on more adventures with Star dubbing Marco a squire.

Marco begins to partake in side missions so that he can be promoted to a knight and even reveals his identity as Princess Turdina who had viewed him as an idol for princesses. Eventually, he begins to feel miserable when he realizes that he may have feelings for Star, but cheers up when he stays in Kelly's presence; starting a slight relationship with her.

When Miss Heinous discovers that she is Meteora, the long lost daughter of Eclipsa, she goes on a rampage to destroy Mewni. Marco uses himself as bait to defeat her, but has his soul sucked out. Eventually, Star and Eclipsa defeat Meteora by turning her back into a baby and Marco's soul is restored.

Season four Marco begins the first half of the season continuing to help Star with finding her mother Moon, who had disappeared. After finding her, Marco decides to pursue a relationship with Kelly, whom he refers to as a "break up buddy", though they later break up off-screen. He and Star decide to be rid of the Blood Moon curse which Tom obliges by using a Severing Stone. Convinced that it worked, Marco continues to the rest of the half becoming a knight before returning to earth with Janna. Star decides to stay with him and his family (who have welcomed a baby girl named Mariposa) after she realizes that she does not know what to do with herself.

When all teleportation facets to Mewni cease to work, Marco, Star, Tom and Janna decide to look for a well that can transport them there. Tom, who had recently broken up with Star, tells Marco that he should be with her regardless of the curse. Upon arriving in Mewni, they learn that Mina Loveberry has started an uprising and take part in the final battle. Marco and Star finally admit that they still have feelings for each other and begin a serious relationship.

Star decides to destroy magic completely by heading straight into the magic realm and performing the whispering spell. This succeeds, but Star learns that she and Marco cannot be together as once the spell is performed, everyone goes back to their respective dimensions. Marco and Star embrace each other as the magic realm closes for good. However, their magic proves to be so strong, that earth and Mewni fuse together and the series ends with Marco and Star reunited for good.