History Recap / MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution

--> '''Audrey:''' Because of you, we've lost face! You've ruined our name and our reputation! You had all the powers in your hands, and you foolishly lost them! Bourgeois do not raise losers. You think you're going to London on vacation? Dream on! ''I'm'' going to take control of your life again, starting with your education.

--> '''Marinette:''' Be quiet, Chloé! I already know your little ''secret''. ''I'' know it because ''Adrien'' told me. I also know that ''he'' loves ''me.'' And there's ''nothing'' you can do about it. '''Nothing!''' You've lost ''any'' and ''all'' power over us. ''You're'' the one who's ridiculous, Chloé. '''Utterly ridiculous.''' Enjoy your trip.

--> '''Audrey:''' Because of you, we've lost face. You've ruined our name and our reputation. You had all the powers in your hands, and you foolishly lost them. Bourgeois do not raise losers. You think you're going to London on vacation? Dream on! ''I'm'' going to take control of your life again, starting with your education.
** Marinette's response to Chloé's final attempt to bully her over Adrien's departure, completely shutting her down and telling her that she already knows about it (having just witnessed it after the two shared their first kiss), adding that she knows Adrien loves her, and finishing that Chloé no longer has any power over anyone or anything anymore, and that she is the "utterly ridiculous" one. This ends up shattering Chloé's spirit and makes her realize that she has finally hit rock bottom as she breaks down in tears.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Marinette's response to Chloé's final attempt to bully her over Adrien's departure, completely shutting her down and telling her that she already knows about it (having just witnessed it after the two shared their first kiss), adding that she knows Adrien loves her, and finishing that Chloé no longer has any power over anyone or anything anymore, and that she is the "utterly ridiculous" one. This ends up shattering Chloé's spirit and makes her realize that she has finally hit rock bottom as she breaks down in tears.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In Chloé's Detention Center, the hallway has blood red lighting while video clips of herself yell at the prisoners for being ridiculous. Her last scene shows her crying on the plane, which has the same red lighting, after Marinette calls her utterly ridiculous.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The very climax of the episode is Ladybug and the Resistance encouraging the Parisians to stand up and go after Queen Mayor angry mob-style. Also, as a HistoryRepeats, it reflects the most famous event in France's history where normal people openly rebel in response to an apathetic queen and forced her out of power.

* PowerfulAndHelpless: Since most the havoc Chloé is wreaking in the episode is done without an akuma, Ladybug and Cat Noir aren't able to do anything about her authoritarian antics. They draw the line at her kidnapping people, however, and choose to intervene despite not realizing she ''has'' been akumatized by then and is using Miraculous powers to do it.

** Gabriel's plan to use Chloé as a pawn to capture the heroes ultimately only makes them ''stronger'' by placing them in a situation where they have to overcome their limitations.

** Gabriel's plan to use Chloé as a pawn to capture the heroes ultimately only makes them ''stronger'' by placing them in a situation where they have to overcome their limitations. It also provides an opportunity for Lila to swipe Tomoe's laptop and gain access to the secrets contained therein.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Gabriel tries to gaslight Adrien into thinking leaving Paris for London is something his mother would have wanted for him. Adrien tearfully rebuts the idea, saying he knows his mother would have just wanted him to be happy.

* CallBack: This is the second time that Chloé has been taken down by [[BadassNormal normal people]] in an Akumatized form, but this time the event is shown and immediately BroughtDownToNormal. Chloé lampshades the Sole Destroyer incident in her brief hesitation to be akumatized by Monarch.

* ImpossibleTask: Chloé's Detention informs the prisoners that they can get out by finding a corner and sitting in it. The entire area is a long, looping path with rounded edges so they can never do so.

--> '''Marinette:''' Be quiet, Chloé. I already know your little ''secret''. ''I'' know it because ''Adrien'' told me. I also know that ''he'' loves ''me.'' And there's nothing you can do about it. '''Nothing!''' You've lost ''any'' and ''all'' power over us. ''You're'' the one who's ridiculous, Chloé. '''Utterly ridiculous.''' Enjoy your trip.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Stripped of her power, exiled from her hometown as the most hated person there, and stuck under the thumb of her controlling mother, Chloé thumbs through her contacts and stops on Sabrina, seemingly intending to reach out to the one person she could have called a friend. But that moment doesn't last, as she lets on a look of regret and can't bring herself to call her, out of undecipherable feelings (pride, shame, remorse ?), and she instead scrolls to Marinette with an evil grin on her face, intending to make one parting shot of cruelty on her way out. It doesn't pan out that way, but it demonstrates that, even at her lowest point, Chloé's first instinct is to make someone else suffer to make herself feel better. She's done it for so long, with Marinette as her victim of choice for at least 4 years, she doesn't know how to do otherwise. She ends up pathetically sobbing on her knees. Either [[LaserGuidedKarma delicious]] or frankly [[AlasPoorVillain heartwrenching]].

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Stripped of her power, exiled from her hometown as the most hated person there, and stuck under the thumb of her controlling mother, Chloé thumbs through her contacts and stops on Sabrina, seemingly intending to reach out to the one person she could have called a friend. But that moment doesn't last, and she instead scrolls to Marinette with an evil grin on her face, intending to make one parting shot of cruelty on her way out. It doesn't pan out that way, but it demonstrates that, even at her lowest point, Chloé's first instinct is to make someone else suffer to make herself feel better.

* BreakTheHaughty: Chloé ''officially'' hits her rock-bottom by the end of this episode: she has been stripped of every bit of power she has (political, super, and otherwise), the entirety of Paris now despises her, her only two friends (Adrien & Sabrina) have cut ties with her, her allies (Gabriel, Tomoe, and Lila/Ceriese) have abandoned her, and her father sends her off to live with her mother, who blames her for the ruin of their family name and reputation and vows to come down harder on her like she used to do with her father. And finally, her attempt to regain some kind of control of the situation by taunting Marinette over Adrien's departure completely backfires due to Marinette shutting her down and tearing into her with cold hard truths about her. This last instance finally breaks Chloé's spirit, and all she can do is break down in tears as it finally hits her that she truly has lost '''everything'''.

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Ladybug's Lucky Charm produces the bottom half of a swimsuit, and naturally is Ladybug-themed as all her Lucky Charms are. Cat Noir gets a good laugh out of it, dubbing it a "mirakini". Since the object winds up destroyed, how this would have defeated Chloé is left to the viewer's imagination.
** Then again, it's possible it could have been a {{Foreshadowing}} to the Resistance leading the revolt against Chloé's rule, since Kim is the first one to jump on the stage to confront her, and in a swimsuit too.

** Then again, it's possible it could have been a {{Foreshadowing}} to the Resistance leading the revolt against Chloè's rule, since Kim is the first one to jump on the stage to confront her, and in a swimsuit too.

--> '''Marinette:''' Be quiet, Chloé. I already know your little ''secret''. ''I'' know it because ''Adrien'' told me. I also know that ''he'' loves ''me.'' And there's nothing you can do about it. ''Nothing!'' You've lost ''any'' and ''all'' power over us. ''You're'' the one who's ridiculous, Chloé. '''Utterly ridiculous.''' Enjoy your trip.

* VillainousBreakdown: After Marinette throws her final bullying attempt right back in her face, Chloé sits staring in utter shock for a few moments before breaking down in tears as the reality of her situation finally hits her dead-on.

* BreakTheHaughty: Chloé ''officially'' hits her rock-bottom by the end of this episode: she has been stripped of every bit of power she has (political, super, and otherwise), the entirety of Paris now despises her, her only two friends (Adrien & Sabrina) have cut ties with her, her allies (Gabriel, Tomoe, and Lila) have abandoned her, and her father sends her off to live with her mother, who blames her for the ruin of their family name and reputation and vows to come down harder on her like she used to do with her father. And finally, her attempt to regain some kind of control of the situation by taunting Marinette over Adrien's departure completely backfires due to Marinette shutting her down and tearing into her with cold hard truths about her. This last instance finally breaks Chloé's spirit, and all she can do is break down in tears as it finally hits her that she truly has lost '''everything'''.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: It's always been a consistent rule that only grown-ups can use the Miraculous without having to transform back eventually. While this remains true, Marinette and Adrien's power-up implies that, for the purposes of his rule, being a "grown-up" is more of a state of mind than anything to do with physical age.