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* Marinette and Adrien are plenty more snarky and more relatable in the first season, with Adrien even giving Chloé a "Chloé, seriously?" and Marinette having less of a problem standing up for herself and others. Later seasons water this down and they're a lot more passive.

** PlayedForDrama in [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS04E21DearestFamily "Dearest Family"]], when Tikki's craving for candy gets so out of control that she uses her creation powers without her holder to create the biggest galette to satiate her hunger. This puts everyone at risk as the gigantic object threatens to crush a sizeable portion of Paris when it lands. Plagg comments that, in a similar incident far in the past, Tikki summoned an 8-day rain of chocolate mousse.

* MascotsLoveSugar: Tikki very much loves macarons and cookies; sugary treats are, in fact, her preferred food to recharge her magic after a transformation. It's convenient for both the plot and Tikki's sweet tooth that Marinette knows how to beak all sorts of pastries because her parents run a bakery. In contrast, Adrien's kwami Plagg prefers chunks of pungent Camembert cheese, making him an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion.

* MindRape: Hawkmoth forces akumatized victims to accept their powers, between his words and his will, more often than not with extreme prejudice as the series progresses and more people become truly wary of him.

* ForWantOfANail: The two alternate timelines in which [[BadFuture everything goes to crap]] are both a result of [[spoiler:Adrien blowing his cover in front of his father]]. Episodes like "Cat Blanc" and "Ephemeral" show just how close the heroes are to the edge of disaster by operating (unknowingly) right under Gabriel's nose.

* GenderRestrictedGear: Feasibly anyone could use any Miraculous, it appears that some of the jewels typically go to either men or women. Of the fourteen confirmed Ladybug Miraculous holders, only two are men, and one of those two (Mister Bug) is a temp. Similarly, of the four known Cat Miraculous holders, only one is a woman. In addition, of the various types of jewellery that the Miraculous take the form of, some are stereotypically for women; earrings, hair combs, brooches, anklets and hair clips. Despite this, there are just as many gender-neutral Miraculous; a watch, bracelets, glasses and necklaces.

** In "Revelation", Lila Rossi duped two women into believing she is their daughter. The following episode "Confrontation", reveals that "Lila Rossi" was just another false identity she used.

** In "Psychomedian", The extreme emotions enforced onto Ladybug not only remains when she detransforms, but also carries over to Tikki. This suggests that the inverse could be possible as it becomes a plot point in "Dearest Family".
** Shadow Moth managing to overcome Ladybug’s advantage of Magical Charms by creating Megakuma hints towards him exploiting the heroes by stealing all the Miraculous and using them with the Alliance network.

** In "Timetagger", events in the present affect the future, unintentionally caused by the lead characters. Marinette forbids a child she is babysitting from playing a tablet game results in him growing up to become an Akumatized protege of a future Hawk Moth. When Cat Noir suggests a frequent Akumatization victim to find another animal to care for, he chooses rats and it is implied this leads to him becoming the supervillain Monsieur Rat.

* FoodBasedSuperpowers: The Kwamis can confer extra abilities to their wearers to help them operate in challenging environments such as underwater, outer space, or freezing temperatures. They are able to do this if fed the appropriate potion, which Marinette often puts in the Kwami's preferred food, be it cheese or macarons.

** In ''Lady Wifi'', Adrien's Miraculous ring comes off just from him being hit by one of the titular villain's attacks. This serves the plot of the episode by allowing him to be trapped in the freezer powerless, but for the rest of the series, deliberate effort if not human hands are shown required to remove Miraculuses, likely to avert the WeaksauceWeakness of the heroes potentially losing their source of their powers from getting hit with attacks [[NighInvulnerable their bodies shrug-off.]]

** Why, oh why, Nathalie waits for so long before [[spoiler: choosing to show to Gabriel Émilie's last message]]? Probably because of RuleOfDrama, but internally that doesn't make much sense. She tries multiple times to convince Gabriel to let go of his plan for the sake of Adrien's well-being. [[spoiler: Émilie's last message]] would have given a powerful leverage to her pleas. Notably in their calmer shared moments when Gabriel is more vulnerable after a defeat. Maybe she believed Gabriel would be able to realize by himself the errors of his ways, or unconsciously she wanted Émilie's resurrection too.

** In "Timetagger", events in the present affect the future, unintentionally caused by the lead characters. Marinette forbids a child she is babysitting from playing a tablet game results in him growing up to become an Akumatized protege of a future Hawk Moth. When Cat Noir suggests a frequent Akumatization victim to find another animal to care for, he chooses rats and it is implied this leads to him becoming the supervillain Monsiuer Rat.

** Why, oh why, Nathalie waits for so long before [[spoiler: showing Émilie's last message]]? Probably because of RuleOfDrama, but internally that doesn't make much sense. She tries multiple times to convince Gabriel to let go of his plan for the sake of Adrien's well-being. [[ spoiler: Émilie's message]] would have given a powerful leverage to her pleas. Notably in their calm shared moments when Gabriel is more vulnerable after a defeat. Maybe she believed Gabriel would be able to realize by himself the wrongness of his ways, or unconsciously she wanted Émilie's resurrection too.

* {{Magitek}}: The Miraculous tools or weapons are all inherently magical in nature; appearing when the transformation is initiated and disappearing when it's done, however all are confirmed by WordOfGod to function as communicators as well. Interestingly Ladybug's yo-yo is seen to access the Internet and can be used as a GPS. As confirmed in "Furious Fu", these features were not available to previous Miraculous holders.

* TheMovie: ''Ladybug & Cat Noir Awakening'', which is slated to release either late 2021 or 2022.

** In many episodes, Gabriel is shown to twist his ring on his hand when he tries to control Adrien such as when he wanted to kiss Marinette (in Adoration) or wanted to do something with his friends. "Representation" shows that [[spoiler:Adrien/Cat Noir is also a Sentimonster]]

*** Gabriel is distressed to learns from Timetagger that he loses his Butterfly Miraculous to another with Nathalie assuring him that he might had suceeded and had no more need to Hawk Moth. The scene then transitions to Lila bonding with the child that gets akumatized to Timetagger.[[spoiler:Then in "Re-Creation", Gabriel dies after losing the Butterfly Miraculous and it ends up with Lila.]]

* FoodBasedSuperpowers: The Kwamis can confer extra abilities to their wearers to help them operate in challenging environments such as underwater, outer space, or freezing temperatures. They are able to do this if fed the appropriate potion, which Marinette often puts in the Kwami's preferred food, be it cheese or cookies.