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Main Cast
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Voiced by: Anouck Hautbois (FR), Cristina Valenzuela (EN)
One of the two titular protagonists of the film, alongside Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir.
- Adaptational Nice Girl: Lacks the rather infamous Stalker with a Crush tendencies of her series counterpart, with her crush on Adrien being far more subdued and less obsessive.
- Adaptational Wimp: Lacks her Lucky Charm ability from the series.
- Affectionate Nickname: "Kitty" for Cat Noir.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: A ladybug.
- Brought Down to Badass: Hawk Moth steals her Miraculous, making her lose all her powers, but she still risks her life to save Cat Noir with a Diving Save.
- Cowardly Lion: She's shy, anxious, and reluctant to become a superhero, but never hesitates to intervene when others are in danger.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Is constantly causing accidents all around her.
- Easily Embarrassed Youngster: She's initially very embarrassed by her dad's affections, and doesn't want him to take her to school out of fear of being made fun of. But by the end of the movie, she is perfectly fine with her parents driving her to the ball.
- Friendless Background: Her anxiety stopped her from talking to other kids or making friends. Her friendship with Alya only starts because Alya approaches her and decides that they're now friends.
- Grew a Spine: She starts out terrified of Chloé, but learns to stand up for herself after gaining more confidence.
- The Power of Creation: The power provided to her by the Ladybug Miraculous. At the end, she gains control of it through The Power of Love and uses it to repair all the damage done to Paris. This even extends to Creating Life, as she makes destroyed plant life regrow.
- Shrinking Violet: Walks through school avoiding everyone else and tries her best to be invisible.
- Socially Awkward Hero: She's fine running into traffic or fighting supervillains, but is terrified of talking to other kids. She does improve as the movie goes on though.
- Supporting Protagonist: The movie does bring attention to her struggles with her social anxiety and development as a superhero, but the actual plot revolves more around Adrien and his strained relationship with his father.
Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
Voiced by: Benjamin Bollen (FR), Bryce Papenbrook (EN)
One of the two titular protagonists of the film, alongside Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While his show counterpart lost his mother a few months before the series's beginning, he is pretty in terms with it. In the movie, she died when he was a little boy and he never got over it, resulting in him becoming sad and lonely. This is unlike the show version, who is sociable and popular at school.
- Adaptational Badass: Can use Cataclysm more than once per fight, something his series counterpart only managed by Season 5. He also lacks the Extreme Doormat tendencies he had in the series, being more than willing to call Gabriel out on his Parental Neglect. Something his series counterpart was physically incapable of doing due to Gabriel possessing his Amok.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: As Cat Noir, he lacks the undercurrent of entitlement towards Ladybug that he rather infamously had in the original series, lightly flirting with her but never pushing beyond that. The closest he comes to acting like his series counterpart was the result of him acting on Nino's terrible relationship advice, and he immediately stops when Plagg alerts him to the disaster at hand.
- Affectionate Nickname: "Watermelon" for Ladybug.
- Animal Lover: He is shown being kind to stray cats at several points in the movie.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: A black cat.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Has the Power of Destruction, but is entirely heroic. He only tries to use his Cataclysm against Hawk Moth in a desperate situation.
- Cat Boy: Naturally, as a cat-themed superhero. He especially acts cat-like in Notre-Dame, as he immediately starts jumping around, acts like he owns the place, and knocks stuff over.
- Defiant to the End: When Hawk Moth injures and nearly drowns him, Cat Noir uses the last of his strength to claw him in the face when he tries to take his Miraculous, despite the situation being pretty much hopeless.
- Endearingly Dorky: As Cat Noir, he tries way too hard to come across as cool, and is constantly making puns. Ladybug at first finds him annoying and ridiculous, but she quickly warms up to him.
- Friendless Background: He's avoided getting close to anyone since the death of his mother. Nino is friendly to him during this time, but Adrien still pushes him away.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: He wears earbuds in public to drown out everything else. He stops wearing them after Ladybug makes him want to be more open again, but he briefly reverts to this when he's heartbroken following her rejection.
- Missing Mom: His mom died when he was a little boy. He was so hurt by this that he tried to avoid loving anyone else, for fear of feeling pain like that again.
- Pungeon Master: He says just about every pun he can think of in any situation, even (or especially) during a fight.
- Safety in Indifference: He keeps to himself and hardly has any friends because he's afraid of experiencing the pain of losing someone he's close to again.
- Stepford Smiler: He puts on a smile whenever he's with Nino and acts like a dorky superhero during his first few outings as Cat Noir, but in reality, he is a deeply lonely kid who's been keeping everyone at arm's length out of fear of going through the pain of losing someone he loves again.
Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth
Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth
"I would give every moment I have left...for just a glimpse of you in that dress, Emilie."
Click to see him as Hawk Moth
" Voiced by: Antoine Tome (FR), Keith Silverstein (EN)
The main antagonist of the film and the Arch-Enemy of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed, but his greater emotiveness in the movie makes him appear much warmer and more approachable compared to his incredibly stiff and cold counterpart from the series, at least when he's in civilian form.
- Adaptational Karma: In the show he lets go of Emilie and performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save Nathalie's life, but otherwise gets away with all his crimes and abuse of Adrien via Ladybug making all of Paris and Adrien himself think he was a good man to his last breath and hiding his identity as Hawk Moth from everyone ending with him immortalized with a statue in his honor. Here, Gabriel willingly surrenders his villainy like in Canon but doesn't gets a Heroic Sacrifice nor a posthumous Karma Houdini treatment as he is arrested for his crimes and exposed as Hawk Moth, inevitably and irreparably tainting his reputation and name for the rest of his life and beyond.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Gabriel in the show didn't hesitate much to akumatize Adrien upon discovering he was Cat Noir in various Bad Futures that were only barely averted and was horribly abusive to him through the show's first seasons. Here, Gabriel is much less callous and abusive and when he discovers his son has been Cat Noir all along, he willingly quits his villainy and gives himself over to the police.
- Animal Motifs: Like in the show he is a butterfly-themed villain who employs special butterflies as his akuma-inducing minions.
- Archnemesis Dad: To Adrien/Cat Noir, though neither are aware of it. He willingly surrenders to the police after he finds out Cat Noir is his son.
- Big Bad: He is behind all other supervillain attacks in Paris and he is seeking out the Miraculouses to bring his wife back to life.
- Childhood Friend Romance: He and his late wife, Emilie, first met when they were children.
- The Empath: He can sense people who are vulnerable to Akumatization. During the climax, he comments that he can feel Ladybug's fear.
- Excessive Mourning: He still hasn't let go of his wife years after she died (Adrien couldn't have been older than 6 when it happened), spending a portion of that time instead obsessively trying to find a way to bring her back.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: In the past, his hair was neck-length and neatly parted to the sides. In the present, his hair is shorter and swept back, showing how lost in his own business he has become after his wife's death.
- Knight Templar: All he wants is to bring his wife back to life, but he's willing to burn the world to do so.
- Motive Decay: By the climax, Gabriel's been driven half-mad by his hatred of the heroes, and rather than simply take their Miraculous and be done with it, takes his sweet time torturing them first. He later attempts to straight-up kill Cat Noir after beating him, and only stops once he realizes it's Adrien behind the mask.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When he discovers that Cat Noir, who he had just tried to kill, is his son, he is overcome with remorse and stops everything.
- Parental Neglect: He refuses to have dinner with Adrien on Emilie's birthday, and it's made clear that this is business as usual for him. He doesn't even think of Adrien except when he's in danger of an imminent supervillain attack. Gabriel does show concern when Adrien was gone for a night and was unreachable, but Adrien points out that he never worried about him before and this is too little too late.
- Parents as People: Compared to how he was overtly abusive to his son in the original series, he's more this in the movie despite his descent into villainy. It is clearly shown that he does love his son, but he's so trapped in his grief over the death of his wife that he ends up neglecting him. He's so desperate to bring Emilie back because he believes he isn't good enough to keep the family together.
- Person of Mass Destruction: After akumatizing himself, he quickly lays waste to the city, and turns the Seine into lava.
- Sanity Slippage: Goes more and more off the deep end as his losses pile up. This culminates in him Akumatizing himself to go after the Miraculous himself.
- Seriously Scruffy: After the Time Skip, he looks tired, messy, and unshaven due to his relentless obsession with getting the Miraculouses.
- Super-Empowering: He creates akumas, which provide magical powers as well as corrupt people. Hawk Moth eventually uses an akuma on himself as a last resort.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: After Adrien rejects him over his years of neglect, he fully commits himself to hunting down the Miraculouses at all costs, believing he's failed to keep his family together in Emilie's absence.
- Tragic Villain: At the end of the day, he's a man who just desperately wants his wife back because he feels his family has uncontrollably fallen apart since her death.
- The Unfettered: When Nooroo warns him that being Hawk Moth will cost him everything, he responds that he has nothing left to lose. But he eventually realizes that he does have something to lose, when he comes very close to killing Adrien and gives up as a result.
- Would Hurt a Child: He not only puts countless children in danger through his supervillain attacks, but in the climax he viscously and carelessly injures and nearly kills the two teenage superheroes. He draws the line at killing his own son after he finds out his identity.
- You Should Have Died Instead: Inverted. He believes he should have been the one to die instead of his wife because he doesn't think he's good enough to keep the family together.
Supporting Cast
Master Fu
Master Fu
An old man who takes care of the Miraculous.
- Delighting in Riddles: Speaks quite cryptically to Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Miniature Senior Citizen: He's around Marinette and Adrien's height.
- Non-Answer: When Cat Noir asks who he is, he replies they must first discover who they are.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Ladybug and Cat Noir never see him arrive, he's just suddenly there. He then leaves by walking behind a tree and disappearing.
Tom Dupain
Tom Dupain
Marinette's father.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Disguises himself as a candy apple seller during the carnival to spy on Marinette and Adrien. Marinette is unamused, to put it lightly.
- Doting Parent: Is very affectionate and protective of Marinette.
- Foil: To Gabriel Agreste. Tom wants to be close with his daughter, but Marinette is embarrassed by his attempts. Gabriel is cold and distant with his son, ignoring Adrien's attempts to spend time with him.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The huge guy to Sabine's tiny girl.
Chloé Bourgeois
Chloé Bourgeois
Marinette's bully.
- Adaptational Nice Girl: ZigZagged. Unlike the main series, Chloé knows when to rein in her bullying, if only to avoid getting in trouble. However, she's much more physically aggressive than her show counterpart, who mostly resorted to cutting remarks and verbal abuse.
- Alpha Bitch: It seems that everyone at school is afraid of her, except Alya.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Violently threatens Marinette after having a single drop of coffee spilling on her sweater. It wasn't even Marinette's fault, Nino bumped into her.
- Drama Queen: Freaks out over her sweater being "ruined" by one drop of coffee.
- Friendly Enemy: By the end of the movie, she seems to have gained a level of respect for Marinette. She wishes her well, despite promising to continue to bully her.
- Never My Fault: Convinces (read: emotionally blackmails) Sabrina into coming with her onto the Ferris Wheel, and during the Akuma attack, she blames Sabrina for getting her on the Wheel.
- Oblivious to Her Own Description: Accuses Sabrina of being selfish.
- Rich Bitch: She clearly comes from money, and is cruel, spiteful, and selfish.
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Claims that she and Adrien are meant to be, but never actually talks to him onscreen.
- Terms of Endangerment: "Marinella" for Marinette.
Alya Césaire
Alya Césaire
Marinette's Best Friend.- First Friend: To Marinette.
- Intrepid Reporter: After barely surviving being flung around in a rollercoaster, she immediately goes to interview Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Shipper on Deck: She encourages Marinette to ask Adrien out, and calls Ladybug and Cat Noir "couple goals" after seeing them for the first time.
- Ship Tease: With Nino. He clearly has a crush on her, and she later asks him to the ball, though they don't quite appear to be an Official Couple by the end.
