History MiraculousLadybug / TropesAToD

** "Miraculous World: New York -- United [=HeroeZ=]" reveals that America has many adult superheroes operating in it, who certainly aren't all useless...until every one of them gets afflicted from an akumatized villain which leaves it up to four young superheroes (well three, and [[ArtificialFamilyMember a robot which acts as another superhero's daughter]]) to save the day.
* AnAesop:
** Throughout the series, [[HonestyAesop lying is presented as an awful flaw]] and that's why [[ConsummateLiar Lila]] is one of the most dangerous characters, and wastes little time becoming a full-blown villain. Well, [[BrokenAesop as long as you don't lie to protect your secret identity as a super hero, of course.]] [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in season 4 where Marinette's constant lying is causing trouble with her life and relationships, and is clearly wearing on her - if remaining just as necessary.]]
** Money apparently corrupts every time, with a few exceptions ([[SpoiledSweet Adrien]] and Jagged Stone who zig-zags between being sympathetic and ThePrimaDonna). The [[{{Greed}} avaricious]] Bob Roth is one of the most unsympathetic characters and others wealthy characters are either villains (Gabriel) or [[RichBitch rich bitches]] (Chloé and her mother).
** The slightest act of selfishness coming from the heroes is immediately and [[DisproportionateRetribution severely]] punished, especially [[PersonalGainHurts when their powers are used for personal gain.]] When Marinette changes into Ladybug to deliver a present to Adrien, it triggers [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]] and has to be undone via TimeTravel. When she chooses Kagami over Chloé as a miraculous wielder to [[GreenEyedMonster interrupt]] the date the first had with Adrien, Chloé turns [[FaceHeelTurn against Ladybug]]. When Adrien tries to abuse the snake powers to woo Ladybug, he just [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fails to save her]]. It can concern others characters as well. Kagami knows that pursuing Adrien will cost her her only friend, Marinette, but she is ready to take the risk if it means having Adrien all for herself. [[spoiler: They break up only three episodes later, [[HiddenDepths Adrien]] not being at all the [[LovingAShadow kind of boyfriend she had in mind.]] Kagami would have lost Marinette's friendship as well if it wasn't for the latter's good nature.]]
** Expecting a "perfect solution" to your problems can hurt others. Gabriel wants the happy family he had back, but believes that the only solution is to bring his wife back from the dead with what is essentially a human sacrifice. This mentality is reflected in all his akuma victims, who become villains when they get caught up in a problem and think accepting superpowers in a deal with Hawk Moth is the only solution. However, Ladybug and Cat Noir usually help the villain come up with a more grounded solution after the fight is done, teaching viewers that what you ''can'' do is work with others to find a solution that, while not always perfect, is much more realistic and benefits everyone. In "Re-creation", [[spoiler: Marinette ultimately spells this out to Gabriel when he asks her to make the wish, telling him that he should have just tried to appreciate what family he had left instead of chasing a wish that would have ultimately cost someone else their life.]]
* AesopAmnesia: Chloé. Quite often it's her own actions that result in the MonsterOfTheWeek appearing, and she needs Ladybug and Cat Noir to save her. No matter how many times this happens she never seems to learn her lesson. One notable episode sees her literally begging for help and swearing to be nice forever, only to have her immediately rescind her vow to be nice once Ladybug saves her. Her attitude has a temporary upswing in Season 2, but by the end of Season 3 she's backslidden hard into her previous AlphaBitch characterization.

** Adrien also attracted [[ConsummateLiar Lila]], who he finds hard to rebuff because she's so [[NoSenseofPersonalSpace pushy]] and lies about being friends with Ladybug.

** Kim gets rejected by Chloé in "Dark Cupid". In a later episode, he accidentally rejects Ondine's attraction before she could confess. [[spoiler:By the end of this episode, Ondine and Kim do start dating.]]

* AllMythsAreTrue: There's implications that a lot of mythological or even famous historical figures just had a Miraculous. For example, Herakles had one and Joan of Arc had the Ladybug Miraculous. Also, Atlantis and dragons both used to exist but [[NoodleIncident Plagg somehow]] managed to cause their total destruction. They can also neatly explain myths which aren't true - the Loch Ness Monster doesn't actually exist, because it was an illusion Trixx did for a prank.

* AlphaBitch: Chloé is an exaggerated Type 1, but it's played-with in that even though she is powerful, she is also very unpopular. She is also responsible (directly or indirectly) for most of the akumatized villains.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The work has two pairs of identical twins: Alya's younger sisters Etta and Ella, and Adrien's Emilie and aunt Amelie. Following the latter, Amelie gave birth to a cousin, Félix, who [[UncannyFamilyResemblance very strongly resembles Adrien]].

* AnachronicOrder: How the Season 1 storyline come off, because of each broadcaster airing in [[OutOfOrder a different order]]. There ''is'' a timeline to the show that can be gleaned from minor details (e.g. dates on news broadcasts), but for the most part, the episodes are pretty self-contained except for relationship and CharacterDevelopment between episodes. This is most apparent with Jagged Stone's appearances, as his last episode in Season 1 was presented as if it were his introduction despite him being akumatised one episode prior. The Christmas special is set somewhere in the middle of season 1, i.e. two months before the Valentine's Day episode. Nathalie mentions that it's Adrien's first Christmas without his mother, and the Origins episodes take place in September at the beginning of the school year. On Creator/{{Netflix}}, the episodes are placed in a rough chronological order with the [[OriginsIssue Origins episodes]] now placed in the middle of Season 1. Season 2 seems to return to a more linear story order.

** [[https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_Secrets_(card_game) The Miraculous Secrets trading card game]] includes character facts that haven't come up in the show yet, such as Adrien's bodyguard's name being [[spoiler: Placide I.T.]] and Zoe's friend in New York being [[spoiler: Jessica Keynes]]. These facts include things that have since been confirmed in the show proper, like [[spoiler: Gabriel's real name being Gabi Grassette]] and [[spoiler: Lila's real name not being Lila]].

* BefriendingTheBullied: "Origins" reveals that Marinette, who had been bullied by Chloe for years, was defended by new student Alya on the first day of 9th grade. The two became fast friends, and Alya ends up being the reason Marinette took up the Ladybug mantle in the first place.

** In "Oblivio", the MonsterOfTheWeek is actually Nino and Alya, who desired to make everyone forget after getting caught by their teacher sneaking away from a field trip to... play "Super Penguino", which is apparently a very fun game that just happens to require two people who are in synch with each other. Rose mentions that she and Juleka play it ''a lot''. Sabrina also blurts that she and Chloe like to play it, but Chloe shushes her. Given that a flashback shows that Alya and Nino were found in a closet together, it's not hard to think that "Super Penguino" is code for something much more mature.

** In "Oblivio", the MonsterOfTheWeek is actually Nino and Alya, who desired to make everyone forget after getting caught by their teacher sneaking away from a field trip to... play "Super Penguino", which is apparently a very fun game that just happens to require two people who are in synch with each other. Rose mentions that she and Juleka play it ''a lot''. Sabrina also blurts that she and Chloe like to play it, but Chloe shushes her. Given that a flashback shows that Alya and Nino were found in a closet together, wel...

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Perfection", Kagami believes she has no friends left at all, and upon receiving an offer from Monarch to "end [her] suffering", transforms into a ghostly cloud giant to cut off all interaction with everyone she knows, actively shunning their various attempts to communicate with her, and is only stopped from dissolving herself into thin air when all her friends gather to send her a sign in no uncertain terms that they all care about her. This all can be read as a group of friends staging an intervention to help someone with suicidal depression.

* BrokenAesop:
** In "Copycat", Marinette bluntly tells the villain that liars are the real losers. In the slice of life half of the episode, she breaks into Adrien's locker, steals his phone, never owns up to it, and her grand plan to wrap this deceit up (''after'' giving the villain a telling-off, mind you) is to feed him the classic fib that she simply found his missing phone by happy circumstance.
** The episode "Rogercop" is supposed to be conveying the message "don't be quick to point fingers," but the way it does it is flawed. When Chloé accuses Marinette of stealing her bracelet, Marinette starts pointing out evidence connecting some of her classmates to the bracelet, to which Marinette's father tells her she shouldn't be making accusations like Chloé is doing. However, that's not what Marinette was doing. Rather, Marinette was pointing out that in the absence of solid evidence, EveryoneIsASuspect, and she thus deserves to be treated the same as everyone else instead of singled out. Even her agreeing to having her bag searched along with everyone else's and innocuously stating that the thief must be someone in the room is treated as her making kneejerk accusations that are no different than Chloé's. Then, when the titular MonsterOfTheWeek tries to arrest the mayor for abuse of power, Ladybug gives a MeaningfulEcho by saying Rogercop shouldn't be making accusations, [[DesignatedVillain except he wasn't doing that, either]]; the mayor was clearly abusing his powers (and some that he doesn't even have) by having Roger fired for not arresting Marinette without sufficient evidence, something that took place in full view of a classroom filled with students, their parents, and the teacher.
** When Marinette expresses interest in trying out for in a video game tournament to spend time with Adrien in "The Gamer," she gets called out on it by Alya, who stresses how the tryouts are meant to select the two best students to represent the school in the tournament. Marinette then proves she ''is'' the best video game player by getting the highest score of everyone who tried out and thus securing one of the two tournament spots. However, she then gets called out for this as well, this time for being selfish and not thinking about how her friend Max cares about the tournament so much more than she does. Her later offering to drop out and let Max take her place in the tournament is portrayed as her doing the right thing, even though it goes against the earlier emphasis of how the tryouts are meant to select the ''best'' students to represent the school since Max only came in third behind both Marinette ''and'' Adrien.

* BigGood: The role the holder of the Butterfly Miraculous is supposed to play, giving powers to make heroes and using their mind link as their MissionControl. It's only Hawk Moth ([[spoiler:Gabriel]]) twisting the powers, as Nooroo pointed out, that necessitates using Miraculous against Miraculous.

* BerserkButton: Cat [[BrainwashedAndCrazy gets mind-controlled by akumas with worrying frequency]], but he rarely suffers any physical harm. Any time he does, the offending akuma ends up on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, courtesy of Ladybug.

* DiedInIgnorance: [[spoiler:Gabriel/Hawk Moth/Monarch dies to the EquivalentExchange of his wish without learning that his son Adrien was one of the superheroes who opposed him. (He had previously learned this two different times, but both times led to the destruction of the world followed by a CosmicRecon to undo the events that led to this discovery.) Also, he had no idea that Lila was plotting against him to get his Miraculous for herself and suceeded.]]

* DiedInIgnorance: [[spoiler:Gabriel/Hawk Moth dies to the EquivalentExchange of his wish without learning that his son Adrien was one of the superheroes who opposed him. (He had previously learned this two different times, but both times this led to the destruction of the world, leading to time travel being used to undo the events that led to this discovery.)]]

** Mouse: "Mullo, get squeaky!"/???

** Lila is a worse case even when not a Akumatized villian as she responds to Marinette refusing her offer of friendship by turning her friends against her at times with her scheme of keeping her expelled by faking an injury being among the highlights.

** Many of the villians are created as a result of Chloé's actions. The most noted are Lady Wifi as result of Chloé demanding Alya to be suspended for taking a picture of her open locker, Evillustrator when she hurt Nathaniel's feelings while insulting his artwork, Frightningale by having her father shut down a music video shoot simply because she didn't her ideal part in Clara Nightinggale's music video, and Kung Food when Chloé sabotaged Master Wang Cheng's soup in competition for being insulted by his niece (and not liking soup).

* ClingyCostume: When Lady Wifi attempts to unmask Ladybug, she finds that her mask is fused to her face.