River Butterfly

“	We all— Ow! Okay, I deserved that. Look, if the queen were here, she'd fix all this with her magic! Well, she's not here! But that doesn't mean we should cower in fear. We still have each other, and together, we can defeat this monster! ...You're right. I stink at this. But right now, I'm all you've got and you're all I've got. We don't need magic to do extraordinary things. Dentist! Construction worker! Remember when you two worked together to dislodge that tooth-shaped rock in the road? Blacksmith! You worked with the turtle sanctuary to make iron shells for the turtles in need! And you two weirdos hold the record for the longest staring contest! We all can do something unique and helpful, and that's Mewni's greatest strength! And it's what Queen Moon loves the most about all of you! So what do you say? Let's show that monster what happens when it messes with Mewmans!	„
	~ River in "Marco and the King"

Background

River Butterfly (né Johansen) is the former king of the Kingdom of Mewni, ruling alongside his wife Moon Butterfly, and Star Butterfly's father. Born into the Johansen clan of barbarians, River was crowned King of Mewni through his marriage to Queen Moon Butterfly.

After Eclipsa assumes the throne of Mewni, River now helps his wife in maintaining a society of Mewman refugees.

Codex Statistics

Key: Season 1-2 | Season 3-4

Tier: High 8-C | 8-B

Name: River Butterfly

Origin: Star Vs. The Forces of Evil

Sex: Male

Age: Should be in his 40s

Classification: Mewman, Ex-King of Mewni

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Large Building level (Leveled a good chunk of a forest just by landing. Which was calculated at this) | City Block level (Aided in the battle against Meteora which should make him comparable to Season 3 Star Butterfly & Marco Diaz)

Durability: Large Building level (No-selled the landing) | City Block level

Striking Strength: Large Building Class | City Block Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Ran 10 miles in 5 minutes and remarked he'd be able to do it in 4 when he was younger) | Superhuman

Combat Speed: Relativistic+ (Can tag Marco) | Relativistic+

Reaction Speed: Relativistic+ | Relativistic+

Stamina: Very High

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Spear, Hundreds of Meters with Staff, Multiversal+with dimensional scissors

Intelligence: Below Average regularly, Genius combat and survival wise (River possesses above-average physical prowess. He is able to fight monsters and wield a spear in "Diaz Family Vacation", wield a club in "Royal Pain", and survive for extended periods of time in the wilderness and run ten miles in five minutes in "Camping Trip". In terms of survival he taught Star what she knew along with the guards. He has also taught Star about her rash actions in "The Bogbeast of Boggabah")

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Skilled in H2H, Weapon Mastery (Proficient with spear & club), Animal Taming (Can tame animals like eagles), Lightning Manipulation (River wields a staff with a crescent moon-shaped crystal ornament at the tip that is capable of firing off lightning blasts), Space-Time Manipulation, Portal Creation, BFR, & Dimensional Travel (Type 2; Can create portals with dimensional scissors that lead to other Universes)

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Equipment

• Spear: Weapon River uses in combat to fight large monsters has the general long reach capabilities of a spear.

• Staff: River wields a staff with a crescent moon-shaped crystal ornament at the tip that is capable of firing off lightning blasts.

• Dimensional Scissors: Dimensional scissors are used for traveling between dimensions. By cutting anywhere in the air with the desired dimension to travel to in mind, the scissors create a portal. The portal itself usually reflects the designated dimension, like the portal to the Amethyst Arcade being pixelated and the portal to the Scum Bucket looking like blue waves. After someone passes through the portal, the portal either closes by itself or it can manually be closed by someone. The scissors can also be used as weapons, as demonstrated by Hekapoo. As revealed in "Deep Dive" and "Ludo, Where Art Thou?", if a scissors user does not have a specific destination in mind when using them, the portal that they open leads to a dead end.

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Other

Standard Tactics: River bases his instincts on survival instincts, making sure to camoflague himself, hide in his surroundings and strike or have a full calvary attack with animals he's tamed firing his lightning staff.

Weaknesses: None notable

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