History Characters / TheKarmaOfLies

* FairWeatherFriend: Played straight with Marinette, whom they abandoned once they thought she was the less benefitial option between her and Lila, but ironically they avert this later; perhaps because it wasn't as gradual as Lila's slow enticement to alienate Marinette, they are very resistant towards the idea of abandoning [[spoiler:Adrien. Which makes TheReveal that he knew Lila was manipulating and stealing from them the whole time so much worse]].

* VoiceOfReason: He tries to give Adrien advice on how to help himself out of the situations he's in, avoid the karmic backlash that's coming, and mend bridges, remind Adrien of where others have stated where their positions are on matters, and make clear where Adrien's [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality fantastical idea of how the world works]] differs from necessary reality, but Adrien doesn't listen.

* AscendedFangirl: [[spoiler: Because Marinette needs all trusthworthy hands on deck for the battle with Mayura, Rose is entrusted with the Pig Miraculous in the second-to-last chapter]].

* AscendedFangirl: [[spoiler:Because Marinette needs all trusthworthy hands on deck for the battle with Mayura, Juleka is entrusted with the Tiger Miraculous in the second-to-last chapter]].

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Finally out of patience with Adrien, he drives this home in a magnificent TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that takes careful pains to point out that the troubles Adrien faces could have been avoided had he listened to Plagg at all, revealed Lila at any point [[spoiler:before he himself was robbed]], or at least had not tried to protect her, and that the situation Adrien winds up in is the result of his efforts [[GoneHorriblyRight going horribly right,]] just as Plagg had warned him they would.

* VoiceOfReason: He tries to give Adrien advice on how to help himself out of the situations he's in, avoid the karmic backlash that's coming, and mend bridges, remind Adrien of where others' have stated their positions are on matters, and make clear where Adrien's [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality fantastical idea of how the world works]] differs from necessary reality, but Adrien doesn't listen.

* EmergencyBroadcast: Nadja reports a very important one in chapter 3.

* EasilyForgiven: {{Averted}}; while Ladybug is forced to request Chloé's aid, she makes ''very'' clear to Chlo&eacute& that this is purely a matter of necessity, and not a sign that Chloé will get to become Queen Bee again or gain any recognition as a hero. Chloé, however, accepts this and is willing to help Ladybug for nothing in return to make amends and become a better person. Chloé also, without ever telling Ladybug, goes to the people she hurt and asks if there is any way she can help them to make up for what she did. If they accept her offer, she quietly performs the tasks desired to the best of her ability. Because of this, Ladybug forgives Chloé, gives her a second chance to be a superhero, eventually becomes friends with her, helps her with her relationship with her mom, and by the end, even gives Chloé the public recognition she's always desired, because after all the work Chloé's put into being a better person, Ladybug decides Chloé's ''earned'' it.

** In the same chapter, after Marinette leaves the party, Alya chases after her and questions why Chloe is being given a second chance after everything she's done while the rest of the class isn't. Marinette retorts that Chloe was trying to become a better person ''before'' [[spoiler:she knew there was something to gain from being on Marinette's good side]].

** Chloe accuses him of being this in all of her bad behavior throughout their shared history. She takes responsibility for her actions but directly calls him an enabler.

* {{Foil}}: To Marinette, Lila, Juleka, Chloe, and Luka, as detailed on [[Foil/TheKarmaOfLies the story's foil page]].

** A notable reoccurring example: rather than holding Lila, Chloe, [[spoiler:or Hawkmoth]] responsible for their actions, Adrien downplays their misdeeds, demands their victims cope because "it's not a big deal," expects their victims to make things easier for them by forgiving them instantly when they need it, and judges the ''[[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming victims]]'' when they don't accept the mistreatment with grace. Of course, [[spoiler:when ''he's'' the victim, [[{{Hypocrite}} he demands that Lila "suffer."]]]]

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Chloe accuses him of this, arguing that his refusal to 'rock the boat' and challenge her bad behavior enabled her to become even more of a SpoiledBrat.

!Chloe Bourgeois / "Queen Bee"

* DisappointedInYou: Seeing how disappointed Ladybug was by her betrayal caused Chloe to realize that not everything she did could be brushed away with an apology or her father's money, motivating her to actually try and change her ways.
* EasilyForgiven: {{Averted}}; while Ladybug is forced to request Chloe's aid, she makes ''very'' clear to Chloe that this is purely a matter of necessity, and not a sign that Chloe will get to become Queen Bee again or gain any recognition as a hero. Chloe, however, accepts this and is willing to help Ladybug for nothing in return to make amends and become a better person. Chloe also, without ever telling Ladybug, goes to the people she hurt and asks if there is any way she can help them to make up for what she did. If they accept her offer, she quietly performs the tasks desired to the best of her ability. Because of this, Ladybug forgives Chloe, gives her a second chance to be a superhero, eventually becomes friends with her, helps her with her relationship with her mom, and by the end, even gives Chloe the public recognition she's always desired, because after all the work Chloe's put into being a better person, Ladybug decides Chloe's ''earned'' it.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: [[spoiler:{{Averted}}. Chloe works ''very'' hard, without any recognition or prompting at all, to be of service to the people she's harmed in the past in order to make right the damage she's done and learn from her mistakes. She's unexpectedly rewarded by Marinette with being allowed to join the other Miraculous holders in the spotlight, being recognized for all of her efforts to help others and be a better person.]]

-->'''Chloe:''' I'm done with that, and I'm done with you. I'm going to stick with Marinette and the others, because as annoying as Dupain-Cheng can be sometimes? I know that she'll be honest with me and demand I do better when I screw up. You won't.

* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:With the exception of Chloe, Juleka, and Rose]], the class as a whole simply don't concern themselves with what they put Marinette through, and breeze over Marinette's feelings when they're brought up by deflecting blame to Lila [[spoiler:and later Adrien]]. Even when trying to make up with her, they do so by trying to make her feel empathy for ''them'' and ''their'' suffering, never once showing remorse for how they hurt her. They even treat the distance between them as ''Marinette's'' mistake, for which Adrien advocates for ''kindly'' forgiving her and Alya never wants to let her live down.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She's not a pleasant individual and is an outright terrible parent to Chloe, but Audrey treats her workers well and ''reviles'' Hawkmoth for using her to terrorize innocent people.

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* ControlFreak: One of his {{Fatal Flaw}}s, which backfires massively [[spoiler:when he's arrested and his contingency plans fail, leaving everything he had been controlling in disarray and dysfunction since he ensured that as little as possible could function without him.]].

* ControlFreak: One of his {{Fatal Flaw}}s, which backfires massively [[spoiler:when he's arrested and his contingency plans fail, leaving everything he had been controlling in disarray and dysfunction]].

* TalkShow: Hosts one and invites the Miraculous Team as guests [[spoiler:after they defeat Hawkmoth]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon Nadja has been quite disrespectful and prying towards the heroes' boundaries and personal lives. Here she behaves quite even-handedly to Team Miraculous; she never tries to spin the narrative in a particular direction, and while she does occasionally ask scrutinizing follow-up questions regarding the heroes' answers, these questions are almost entirely about the heroes' public-facing roles and behavior, [[spoiler:even when everyone knows Ladybug's, Viperion's, and Kitsune's identities as citizens]]. Nadja's one personal question (about whether Chat Noir and Ladybug are dating) is only asked to clear up confusion in response to Chat Noir explicitly saying they are dating, which contradicts Ladybug's prior statements. It's implied by her uncomfortable mention of Prime Queen that this difference is the result of offscreen CharacterDevelopment.

!Nadja Chamack

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!Audrey Bourgeois
Fashion icon. Awful mother. Surprisingly good boss?
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: PlayedWith; one of the reasons that Lila makes far-fetched lies about knowing various celebrities is that the students who ''do'' see through them will think that she's not as smart or as good at deception as she thinks. This makes those students easier to fool later when Lila comes up with smarter and more subtle lies. When dealing with Adrien, this ends up working out far better than expected, to the point she's completely shocked and thrown off when [[spoiler:he foolishly allows her to watch him enter this banking information, allowing her to up her con from making him lose few thousand euros (that she would have had to give most of to charity to maintain her image) to being able to steal an additional ''tens of millions'' that she can keep for herself with no consequence.]]

* MajorityShareDictator: Her deal with Agreste Fashion's board of directors gave her 51.7% of the company.

* MissedTheRecital: Adrien's downfall starts when he misses the final fight with Hawkmoth. While Ladybug doesn't include him in the rest of the team's planning due to his refusal to take things seriously, she does specifically tell him to keep his schedule as clear as possible for the next two days because there will be a big fight and she'll need him. He promises to do so. Immediately afterwards, he offers to host a party for Lila at his mansion in order to kill time, which of course is going on right when the big fight breaks out.

* FromBadToWorse: His life steadily falls apart over the course of the story. [[spoiler:First his father is exposed as Paris' resident supervillain, then his display of callousness during a media interview costs him his public reputation as Chat Noir, then Lila swindles him out of his emergency funds and flees the country, then his attempts to get the police to pursue her make him look like he's an accomplice to Hawkmoth, then his father loses control of the company and the family mansion, then he is put under the thumb of his just-as-cruel aunt, then his friends abandon him after they learn he let them be scammed, then he is expelled from school due to his association with Hawkmoth, then he's put under effective house arrest on pain of being shipped off to military school, and then he accidentally blunders the Cat Miraculous away during a last attempt to take back control of his life, costing him the closest thing he had to a remaining lifeline.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Adrien advises Marinette to accept that Lila deliberately alienating Marinette from the class and stealing from their classmates isn't really a problem and she should let Lila be because [[MoralMyopia stopping her from hurting others would hurt Lila's feelings]], implicitly telling Marinette he expects her to suffer in silence for Lila's benefit. [[spoiler:Marinette gives him what he wants: she stops trying to oppose Lila and, from that point on, maintains a silence with the rest of the class, not answering their texts, avoiding addressing them when she sees them in school, and departing the class entirely so as to (hopefully) have no further contact with them. But it turns out Marinette isn't the disposable person her friends treated her as, and with Marinette no longer willing to get involved, there's little chance of saving Adrien when Lila puts ''him'' on the chopping block.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Adrien has equated what's best for him with what's right for everyone, and seemingly cannot fathom that other people can value things differently than him. Marinette is fine regardless of her admitting she's in pain because from his perspective he judges that she can endure it and if she does then everything's easier ''for him.'' Lila's actions are forgivable [[spoiler:up until she robs him personally]] because from his perspective everything she steals isn't worth much ''to him.'' What do you mean you can't replace your dozens of handmade garments, expensive athletic gear, and years of dedication and hard work? [[InnocentlyInsensitive Surely the fruits of your labors weren't worth ''that'' much?]] [[DeconstructedTrope Why are you all suddenly mad at me?]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler:After being unmasked and defeating Hawkmoth, Marinette becomes Paris' biggest and most beloved hero, and basically untouchable by Lila... directly.]]

** Initially Inverted: [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating Marinette's]] refusal to be associated with them [[spoiler:after being outed as Ladybug]] makes everyone who knows them come to unflattering conclusions about them as people.